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Show ' Ships and Airplanes, Rai- r Ctj xSP . road Ties and Telegraph i OTi155SPg WU4JfM I : nl1- "( " Poles, Camp and Hospital mMWMh- WW ftfi Ulfii BuiidingsJrenchWailing t t if md Dock Piles, Artificial M.-y.Jl MWMIlf Ml Limbs and Wire Entangle- one ewSSS n Mm&mf 1 1 W )' ? tWlff , meni Stakes - a Few of Jsf WU :tWS uses or w ooa in war Copyrl-ht, 10JS, by Tbc International Syndicate gRASH, down falls an ancient monarch of tho forest This one Is In Orcgan. that one in tho yellow yel-low plno belt of Louisiana, an-. an-. lhcr In the forests of France. All ro Intended for use In the war. Stretching away half way around the globe American foresters and lumber Jackles arc cutting and sawing logs, driving spikes and shaping tlm-J tlm-J bcrs, guiding them to the mills and ' trough tho mills, and turning them Into all s,orts and sizes. They are Setting the material needed for ships and for aeroplanes, for railroad ties and for camp construction. Tor trench falling and for dock pllc3, for artificial artifi-cial limbs and for wire entanglement stakes, and Tor a thousand other iiscs jo which forest products aro being put to help win the war. Thcro is no other substance that is being utilized In such" a variety of ways In the war as wood. Both here in tho United States and m Franco strong, stalwart, untiring American workers are foiling tho trees, hurrying them to tho mills by , stream and wagon road, rail and rck; aqd rapidly whipping them "Uo the desired shape. Order Quickly Pilled "Send us somo cntanglcmonL stakes lm'' was the wire which was "ashed recently from "Up Front," to an American contingent" of forestora . 'o had just arrived In France. The sorted in. They tackled tho job ,JJIth mighty llttlo equipment: wagons, worses and motor vehicles were lack: c lng; but no mattor, a standing order was Issued that no man should return to "mess" without all tho stakes he could pack on his back. In short'or-dcr short'or-dcr stakes wero pouring out of the woods In endless ant-Uke streams; stakes were moving forward from every ev-ery quarter. That tho Job was well done was told in the wire which soon came back from the front:' "Stop sending stakes; can't use any more." This was before tho rest of the American Amer-ican Expeditionary Force know what tho forestry troops wore capable of doing. The samo thing happened when an ordor came for poles. The boys started to beat ,thc Kaiser with poles; and after about two days of the deluge, the dispatch came: "Flooded with poles, cancel further shipments." Colonel Henry S. Grave.-:, Chief Forester of tho United States, who went to France to organize tho American Amer-ican forestry forces and who spent eight months there, said of tho Forest Roglments upon returning to this country: "They aro working to win the war. Nothing olso enters their thoughls. I can't say too much for the spirit of the officers and tho men. Wo aro going to unify our every effort ef-fort and do our part in tho inevitable victor' for freedom." To show tho spirit of these men "Over There," they tell of ono group of twenty-five men of ono of tho companies, com-panies, who went t out one evening without orders and on their own free Inltlatlvo and cut one hundred and twenty-five lies. That Is tho way in which the "mon behind the nxo" aro working to help win tho war with wood. j ICulscr May As Well Call Quits "If lumber will win tho war, the Kaiser may 'as well call It 'quits,' writes Lieutenant Colonel W. B. Grcc-loy, Grcc-loy, who succeeded Colonol Graves In France. "Tho American lumberjacks arc on the Job In France, barring the ninety-five who wont down on tho Tuscanla. Their April drive nottod 11,S00,000 feet of lumber, 153.000 standard railroad tics, 103,000 tics for light railroads and 31G.00O ploccs of piles, poles and small round products; and wo have hardly gotten started. Already Al-ready the shipping oincc which has the hardest car supply Job a lumberman lumber-man ever tackled. Is working nights to keep the loading ground cleared. As a business concern wc have an organization which might draw tho envy of a Minnesota line yard company." com-pany." As to the great variety of material which they must supply, oloncl Greeley says: "They range from 100 foot poles to fascines of six foot twigs; from bills of dock and bridgo timbers totaling five million foot to basswood cants for the manufacture of artificial limbs by tho Red Cross. Construction lumber for barracks and warehouses, standard gnugc ties, and cordwood are the great staples, of which wc cannot produce too much. Then como tho heavy plank for artillery roads, telephone tele-phone and telegraph poles, short ties or light railroads and corduroy and wire entanglement stakes by the hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of plecos. It Is a strenuous game, whero llfo-long training train-ing In buslnoss efficiency and economy must be subordinated to the one goul -)f speed. But tho American lumber- Mia g jacks are right on the Job." From tho eagles of the sky, the Amorlcan aeroplanes which nre now soaring In greater and grcator numbers num-bers over tho enemy lines, to the ships which aro transporting tho men and supplies to France"; from tho boards used In making trench "mats," which aro made Into walks, to the heavy poles for dock and railroad construction construc-tion work; from logs which weigh many tons to tho fine twigs which are fastened together for various uses, tht Amorlcan lumbermen aro dovotlnr themselves wholeheartedly to the task of winning tho war. A Mighty Work The vastnoss of the work Is almost Incomprehensible. When It is remembered remem-bered that for ono purpose alone, that of building warehouses In France which stretch for in 11 as, millions of foot of lumber had to bo cut; and that construction camps, hospitals, railroads, trenches and hundreds of other kind of construction require vast amounts of forest products, 'some Idea may bo gained of the Importance of wood. For shipbuilding In the United States alone during the present year, it is estimatod that more than 600,-000,000 600,-000,000 feet of fir from the forests of tho Northwest and raoro than 376.-000,000 376.-000,000 feet of yellow plno from the forests of tho South, will bo requlrod. f$ Mv$&s ,i 1 But tho men arc turning It out in record rec-ord quantities and in record time. Thoy aro "making the fir fiy" both In France and In America. A Race ) Speaking of the way "the boys" arc I going to It on the other side, Colonol J Greeley says; "Keen rivalry between j the different companies has put much I added punch into tho game. The A and B. Company mills of the ' Engineers, two of the first to begin ! running, wore both rated at 10,000 ! board feet In 10 hours. Onco shaken down, both were clipping off from 20,000 to 25,000 feet of lumber in two nine hour shifts. Then A Company put on throe seven hour shirts anu passed 29,000 feet B Company came back with a run of 35,600 feet of lumber and 1,200 feet of ties In two nine hour shifts." Much appreciation is felt by tho American foresters In Franco for the benefits they rccolve from tho Welfaro Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters, many contributions to which have been rocelved at the Washington headquarters of tho American For- TRENCH BUILT BY U. S. MARINES IN TRAINING AT QUANTICO, VA. Note the careful weaving of twigs called 'revetting". Tho trenches are built in zig-zag formation to prevent enfilading Arc, eslry Association. In a letter to the Association, Lieutenant Howard Y. j Williams, chaplain of tho Tenth Engl- JT ncers (Forest) says: "Tho Welfare Fund Is surely help- lng out a great deal. Have been able K to buy athletic equipment, etc.-, for Wt the men, mako short loans to men B going on lcavo and help In many lit- fl tie ways. Now that packages do not come over from the Stales such a fund W is oven more necessary, and wc thank W you very, very much for yo.ur energies S In our behalf." fl No Waste jB In the forestry work being done In Frnnco. thnrn la "ahsolutelv no waste. -H for all slabs and limbs are cut into n fuel- wood." according to Lieutenant R. II. Faulkner, who tolls of what the 20th Englnocrs (Forest) aro doing iBi there. mt "Could any operator today in the jH United States of America," he writes, 'jm 'mako a tour of tho lumbering opera- Jffll Hons of the Forestry Regiments, 10th ' and 20th Engineers, In Franco, ho I would sco economical operations car- j rled out to the minutest details. And j this Is not fantastical conservation. It Is not conservation that adds excessively exces-sively to the cost, but It Is duo to an entirely now spirit In lumbering, tho spirit of tho Amorlcan forestry troops, which taboos absolutely tho wasto of any material which can bo of use. And when this Is said, in France, It means the utilization of ovcry part of . the tree, down to branches only one and one-half Inches In dlamoter." j GRAYHOUNDS THE OLDEST DOGS Tho grayhounds of Altcar and Wa-torloo Wa-torloo Cup nre the oldest of domestic dogs, and they can bo traced back by IK sculptures and frescoes for thirteen fm conturles beforo the Christian era. A M fine group of grayhounds fondling Jb each other at the British Musoum Is jB claimed to bo more than two thousand 111 years old, and somo of the dogs do- m pictcd In hunting scones on tho Egyp ' tlan monumonts aro of tho greyhound M type. Grayhounds havo been popular 1 In England since King Canute's time. U but nobody but a "gentleman" or a ' freeholder was allowed to keop them. i 9j Even so recently as 1S53 a llcenso to keep a grayhpund qost six dollars In rjt England, which was nearly treble tho jll tax Imposed by the stato on other -m doga. ' B ij!' |