Show AMERICA BUILDS 4 SALVAGE CITY soldiers clothes will be scrubbed and mended WASHTUB THE MAIN THING each battalion returning from the front will have its bath parade soldiers will discard their clothes enter the baths and come out in another room where clean dry clothes will be waiting for them uncle sara sam Is mon moving ing in his wash tubs to wash the undershirts and things that come back from the trenches Wash washtubs tubs are the main thing in the big salvage base which is just being finished in a city far back from the lines in france there are also shoe repair machines and machines for aarni darning ng socks and patching breeches the quartermaster took a broad look 1001 at the future in planning this base he visualized hundreds of thousands of cammies in the mud and filth of the trenches bat battalions tal ions coming out every day wearing the same clothes down to the last stitch that they wore when they marched in ile he saw that these battalions would need hot bathel baths and clean clothes as much as rest and recreation going to get em baths and clothes cities for repair back in the cities salvage denotes a careening red fere wagon piled high with waterproof blankets with helmeted salvage corps firemen clinging to the handrails hand rails ralls over here its something else again salvage indans means repair reclamation sav saving n g there T h e r e will be bath stations just back of the front and each emerging battalion will have its bath parade on coming out As they enter the building the will discard their duds jackets breeches shoes socks shirts and underwear they will go through gli the baths and come out in another room to find clean dry clothes and sound shoes waiting tor for them meantime the salvage folk will have gathered up the discarded clothing first off every garment will go through the delousing de lousing wagon where steam will kill em cra work to be inspected next nest the garments are plied piled into f freight cars which come up to the line with supplies and otherwise might go back empty at the base the uncle sam laundry thoroughly launders every garment and sends them on to other departments in the same plant tor for inspection and repair if a garment has been repaired several times before most likely it will go into the discard otherwise it will be patched and sent forward for th the e next man who comes out wets wet muddy and craving to be clean again |