Show APING TO PROTECT A FIGHTING nw MA wit levow sarra 11 WW wa aya saw by ROBERT BOGERT H MOULTON 0 beneath a deceptive CONCEALED exterior simulating the vicinage S great r it destructive catch five A A ins of modern der warfare A art lie 1 la 1 wait it for far 1 an opportunity to spring out upon the illy enemy belching forth a breath fur far more are terrible and deadly 0 ly the than t that at of the fabled dragons I 1 itie to incautious I actions prey seeing nothing dun dungeons grons ap all pooai heg to too near car and ad 1 la lost C flags it is the military tel term glea gli me this art of mechanical deception 1 I it and a host beat of now new liters are a limited drafted 9 into the business of aging war thal lami pe artist and the scene painter now employ ene p toy their several abilities andi tn in I 1 re rendering ader pa IS death dealing devices device troches trenches antl and vantage a points point bocar from ob vim concen grated it led ingenuity ot of man la Is daily emu bilog nature at I 1 ill concealing tile true b being of deadly weapons Camou niKe A as though we had bad ill als love covered ed B raw new method of warfare and ad chus bed bad alwi again proven the super superiority i only of man mammoth steel mon monsters term sheathed in 1 lmar impregnable enable hides of if steel feel rush the he fee coc A over seemingly impassable barriers these lire are tire the tan tanks which me roan ties has 11 ird for the tion of man indestructible am moving n AS gir which house a score a of armed mon mm passing over ever hills If ditches telice rod and w ireen tangling barricades barricade that the enemy mav not ob tile the ADD approach reach of this deadly machine blue aard staled with plates let of heavy steel the artist he has balm urged lot into the berince sen ice to lo conceal the glistening sides 10 1 of I B tap look lank A put pt of paint renders leaders till this ally its al 1 most rt invisible as though we d found the invisible cap or e out coat of at myths t the tanks are pointed painted broken or gray and A white and ad tr rom a barol hundred vial yards yard or u so are am indistinguishable imil able from the ter rain ago again the Ine landscape dup artist list employs ld his interim 1 in no mo mans lord land alel placing a thicket over a trench or concealing concealing a ho wlter behind a ne new formed krall knoll of at green gree turf long gray files of oc armed me men ni on A wae s weeping sleeping toward it a low law bill and a uiki til ket the bill cung changes into a bristling fortification mounted puna guns and belching death to thousands thousand and ad the thic thicket kt be be comes a large armored tank inde at mowing down ranks of men like swathes of hay bay A massive b bowl 1 it turns out at to be a gigantic can cantlum clum idah crash crushes over let all 11 obstacles bs tIa III frencho ts pointed painted and covered tr to simulate tile the surrounding topography lure tile the prey into an unrelenting trap thus war has become bacon a great string 91 gle of concealment and deception day atter day the strife seem goes on man pit ting ring his ingenuity against in man in the abot barbarous ever waged kd we have found new davs to dat jaa and the an in d ile eloped do dav by day W ablat hat animal craft could be more subtle more deceiving than this 1 but 1 Is camouflage it a product of the mind blind of human bunion have he w we truly its dla covered a new method of f w gh q won war tare fare and ad preying up upon our fa foes from time immemorial be has IR bt en a coustant pro of preying the stronger get and more clever fa the weak all aliee Is a continual I 1 air strut gle gin amt between sa tho the different forms and el classes s large old and strong forms prey upon pon the or or 11 it de coli flum adaptive coloring loring al and hope are ara it hie lifman w weapons a fcc altered to avery alnas b ot of life plant and animal such huch 9 gifts 1 this i tire are in dished upon dumb life by n nature a tura with ill thre different obreen in view few protection attraction t aral and do dc im in examples example or of each class ediin be apted but only a few are to in bring to attan alien alne ary alon lieis alie more or less obvious fact that our 1 I flags Is animal hi imitation of this proclivity of nature we have ma succeeded eded in penetrating the he depths of the tn wa ec and ad the expands of the air in our car contention for far aam nod m progress lot but ti these A accomplish con alki monta me are or but of ct c t turf alon lie por pat tho thousands 1 of I years alet or 1 11 om i faial the be am adaa arte A ben inhabited b daily tn iii monsters tei and ad the it air b by winged 4 cd aora rhae durei are the subal oad and eipl I pl a are merely Ind imitations tat old and the very colors color and imps of these theme forms forma have biern been found to be the most moat protective in its lie glistening snowy casteg rise ot of th the A north life has haa taken upon itself through long BESS ages ot of trial and ad error a white unite raiment lunita imitative tive of the white it stretches tr taha surrounding the T this him la both pr teeth and ad 1 in its use lake galle for example it the polar bear be I 1 r swimming through lee ice broken adaa am sr III clambering ban g over snowy mountains mountain it Is enabled by its it a color to approach striding distances ol of its prey 0 ther other entrants ot of the fer north of 01 of no countries marba ilk like e the white fox the penguin the ptarmigan and the ile t white owl are a armed with till the same A adaptive la covering mg 1 in the tropics still and jungle regions are found the most astonishing examples amples of imitation and mical here Is a prof profuse Z specialization of color and pat ter tern to mun meds and ad f tube with the usual in I 1 older miler to render the bearer in indistinguishable distinguishable or to alm ina late with till fidelity some A particular ob AS jre th the potted skin maim of if the leopard dull orange and black is nature s way of if this animal from the aies of if the hunter tor for the colorafi colorations col orations are in h nv still the it mail ed debts find ad shades of tile the sun flecked bungles the tiger giraffe zebra zearn and other african wild trusts beasts are covered with stripes representing the barred lights light of safar lland lead the camouflage of the butterfly I 1 Is the most an astonishing 9 or if any creature mr ralf mottled win gay entered colored markings imitate bulletin the hues in of I 1 flowers A on which the butto butterfly rests and feeds A pass ins ing bird ever on the look lookout at t tor far some suh ill dainty morsel p pushes ases over seeing only a alid hued ca mass of petals bur nichea beetles panted painted dragon ole flies sir arpen lout edid lichen spiders and other forms forma of life chich la in matilt the plant sphere might be cited rr Eyer vone a 1 Is with the glass nua es sued sand snakes lue and ad fr tree snakes which hide easily in their respective spec tive environments how like some noine diaday snake is 14 tile the long 1119 smooth bar re meled led I 1 sun III lang AS in wait bell 4 a P prepared pl mound RI 0 surf art tor far ill the all enemy y to A appear CAmer concealing alim of trenches 1 Is but an ind ar ib he muce pa protection 1 pre pierce pared over m t the be burrows and holes bolea of at wild adouth NN when hen fight an in a desert laud land or ma an arid and country it the trenches are hidden with till ad emple cements fallt if till the vl 11 Is hooded or brush covered e el hur ar i lh I 1 dies 0 woven on withes I 1 mrs shiuli a her and ad hedge are arc coma employed 4 to hide the actions ul of it the opposing mg I 1 forces As tile the uniforms alch our or soldiers soldier shave have adopted are those which most readily I 1 fuse lot into the topography A compari em almris ion ot of the natural if fave e conci ahnert practiced by the hunt cr and limited hunted animal with 1 th i the ca ex among A of our at aale will il render were more clearly the imitation practiced by man OR I 1 I 1 in in the jungle a huge bug python lie lies hidden fr from its prey halting it re iem bles solve twisted fallen branch and Is unnoticed allied by the small it furred forced creatures he chich pats pa near car sudden suddenly 1 the pathon pithon strikes tile the captured ere crea lot ture 1 is c crushed bild lild pea disappears dp pears into A the gorge of the no hunter another in arta stance 1 Is the ter tree toad ad which clings like some gome green bough of t a in tree and ad seema seem to be a bout or ar luron A i la the wood through the entire dy day P it will hang there while flies files an and d bat butterflies batterill torill borer near car without fee fear only 7 to in be am bork snapped p up by a long forked 11 to tongue gas the prey of the wily hunter one ot at tile adap adaptable tall a and known know A forms Is the chameleon or salamander which changes its hue to fit the color at of the object A on which it rests rest floh ih I h ot of the stream and lakes ile or are F drooled or striped ritual t ft till coloration aih fuses into the beh bed or rush eov cov red ered depths of the water whereas the fish of deep seas area or are frequently dark I 1 in color to render them able from their enemies man bon he has ramat constructed ted the to acoursio the ocean cren depths imitating 1 in shape and dark hue the wa ven moa mail ile he has ha produced a winged roa b am ethic chine along the lines of a bird rd or but at aud and has pointed painted it white that he be may A speed among the clouds un no seen A Rece recently itly however a new mode of mimicry dam baa been used by the war ring nations jut just Is aa many of the bright plem plumaged ged birds and gay butter butte file flies use their brilliant bri Plant raiment ter for at traction squadrons of our war airplanes are being tenably lavishly coated with kaleidoscopic colors colora to attract the en emy into a danger danee zone where a su sit loch perlo ity rity of numbers lie the tha old way ot of fighting battles and and of 1 laying 1119 11 9 siege ing with 11 do due to acty Is past the weapons in 11 the prevent present day force the contending contend As na As alons to invent every manner maer of shut ahel ter and protection no longer do ar an adea meet armies on tile the open plain n necessitating sinming usually a stronger force pac e to win the battle sri science en la every ph phae he has at stepped crand I 1 into ati the h took ranks and ad forced the warriors to become biec on ms sapp sappers chemists invention todi today Is tile the mainstay ot at fighting rag rew and ad yet all what A 1 la our or invention hut but a in means a of overcoming ns as nature has taught ought ter her chil children dle tor for am afons 1 I |