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THE WASHINGTON TBIES. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1918. . S. SENDS THREE MEALS DAILY 3,000 MILES TO SOLDIERS JThe greatest caterer in the world tfday Is the United States Govern ment It ships food 3,000 miles to more than a million and a half men, strvea three meals per day. and exem plifies the truth of Napoleon's blunt axiom that "An army marches on its blly." An army In training equally ax large Is fed in this country. tFeedlng the American fighter Is now at exact science. Transportation of vist quantities of food across the At lantic proceeds with the dispatch and system one might expect with the gro cer wh6 delivers to a customer on the ntxt block. Everything frorn"a can of sardines to a carcass of beef Is pur chased and Inspected in America, given the right of way on railroads and titeatnshlps. and delivered promptly sad In sound condition to the Amer- can soldier on the western front ("Not since the army has been In Franco has a single man had to wait ajminute for a meal that was due," re. a4ntly declared the Secretary of War addressing the civilians and officers of the quartermaster general's depart-oj-rrt Jn Washington. The subsistence branch of this great department is amending billions annually to feed American fighters, and apparently is citing the Job remarkably well. . j 3Vo Food Scandals. jThls war has produced no embalmed btef scandals. There is no complaint fffom American soldiers that their raeals are poor or unwnoicsome. Meal ttpie in the army is regarded as im portant almost as the zero hour wpen well-fed Americans go over the . rhe army's meat bill lone covers That Guiltiest Feeling Copyright 1111, by the Tribune Association. By Briggs the meat for the American Expedition-1 ary Forces cdmes from the packers ofj the United States. Only a few cattle are killed In France. When requirou. shipments from South America, supplied through the great packing organlxations of this country, supplement the tonnage from the United States. The army system of handling beef shipments from the packing centers is one of remarkable efficiency and care. Purchases cover great quantities of fresh meats, running into millions of pounds. There Is minute Inspection of every piece, for the United States Gov ernment takes no chances. Shipped Froiea Hard. The meat leaves the packing centers frozen hard and solid at a temperature of about 12 degrees. It is placed In cold storage refrigerator cars and sent across country to the port of em barkation on the Atlantic coast. When it reaches this- port It Is still frozen and is rushed Into great cold storage vaults awaiting ships. Cold storage again Is used aboard ship. From the time the meat leaves the packinghouses in Chicago, Omaha or Kansas City until It Is unloaded In France Its surroundings are of ice. There is no chance of a thaw or de terioration. Not infrequently prac tically the entire cargo of a ship Is frozen beef In refrigerated storage rooms, and the ship Is used essentially for food and not the transportation of soldiers. Again .a transport with thousands of soldiers aboard will also. have enough meat aboard to feed them for a considerable period on the other side. As meat shipments reach the other side they are promptly unloaded at a French port of debarkation. The T million pounds per month. froren beef ,a put ,nto in,uiRted cars he computation is simple but aston ling when It Is figured that every dldier Is entitled to aonroxlmately t (pound or beef per day. Shipments of meat undergo rigid Inspection. Officials of the Quarter master Department say the rejections Hve been very small considering the lkrge quantities of meats purchased. .' fnerlca's great packing industry has rpet both in quantity and quality the abnormal demands of war times. The industry's observance of Inspection rdles and the necessity of a steaay fUw of fresh, clean meats to the American fighter have produced -a ijh average of Inspection reports. Ih has not been found necessary to cancel contracts, or otherwise to tike disciplinary action. fThe packing industry of America, confronted like other Industries with lli peculiar task, has met the emerg ency and thousands of cattle axo i)flng daily slain to satisfy the food requirements of a great American fmy. jj Inspection Continuous, j Inspection of army meat is a some what continuous process. It begins before tke animal la killed, and fol lows the carcass from the slaughter ing pen across continent and across ocean to the moment the frozen meat ik delivered to the company cook in SV-ance. (These inspections cover soundness, quality, trimmings. weight. and handling. Absolute soundness and dlcanliness arc squired, and when tfje mess call sounds the solaler lipon-f he nerd not fear ptomaine poisoning or stomach disorders. IVhen meal time comes in the army all sorts of men form In the company lln. The farmer boy who unhitched his ujpw when trio, sun reached a certain .jxt In the heavens, the clerk who (tit-bed a doughnut and a clip of coffee in, we city a dairy mncn. me laDorer ac and hurriedly dispatched to the battle front. These cars are not of the cold storage type, but insulation and the short Journey prevents loss. It re quires only about a day to get the meat from the port of debarkation to the army warehouses built by Persh ing's men. Meat Cornea from Home. Only in cases where some body vot the Pershing army Is away from the warehouse centers Is the meat sup ply obtained In France. When these cases of comparative Isolation occur the quartermaster officers arrange for the killing of sufficient cattle In France to supply that particular con tingent of the army. The main army is fed daily with meat from home. There Is a steady flow across the ocean of vast shipments of meat from Americtfh packing houses to the very battle lines In France. The system of refrigeration and Inspection has been reduced to an exact science. The army receives Its fresh meat dally Just as the butcher in Washington or New Tork. Uncounted tons of Ice are used in the long journeys of the meat trains and meat ships from the Interior of the United Spates to the interior or France. The army also ships to France mil lions of cans of corn, peas, Firing beans and other vegetables. Most of the potatoes and onions required are purchased fresh in France, and at prices somewhat cheaper than those prevailing here. rtelirac Kitchen. Actual feeding of the army Is done from a rolling kitchen. There is lean one big rolling kitchen to every company of 250 men. The soup and stew makers, the bakers and the cof fee boilers operate behind the lines tA before- i waw fftS-EET A,T1 P-WsJl' cSskss'3 ynimr slc6 '-"EJIjCn .1 ' r I ( Fije start- , :.wv i.mMiw ,'im m. -"" " "r'-; sv w, " n SAYS TWO BILLION '5AVv I I X M M 1 'I "''.. ..-&. aS . ......VIZ VM .SB C . M bl T aft. PouRSOMe anu Uuh Your fMRSr Tfta 3mt"''v iwro Tne kooGm amp Your tmrbb com' fANIOMi MAvb AU. MAUE GoOO LOruG DRI1C3 COWiri TH FAlKWAV - AIMt It 5 A ZUUOKY M0(?NINC OKJ A CROvuDei OOHSb . 4f t tfetomsd to the "full dinner pall." and! and move up with the army. The ific rich young man who bad his break-1 kitchen is Just as necessary as the frrts served In bed, are on a parity: munitions train. ijbcn paying a call on the army cook. 1 (Back and forth, between the United Spates and France, officers of the Quartermaster General's Department cttutantly move. They follow the food situation from the purchase of the food Ih," America to the moment It Is served gleaming hot behind the lines on the Western front. -KaflDBT. KIchllne. and Happy." jhie of these traveling specialists has jlift returned to Washington. He lert "tr army eating, fighting-, and happy. The rations were fine; so were the ap- natltes. irHow Tnurh mat An vnn ii.a nr,A l.n qo you get h merer' This officer was ' has a supply of soluble coffee to be aed. I used In a pinch and sometimes cold jrFlgure It out." he replied. "Each! coffee is better than none. At other -4dier is allowed 't of a pound or beef! times the soldier away from the com i;er day. I believe the War Department! pany cook builds a little charcoal fire las recently announced that wc have and makes his own coffee. ippre man l.sw.ao men overseas. This' would mean a meat consumption of well over a million and a quarter pounds of hjeef. The American soldier Is alto u lowed .3.C ounces of bacon dally." It-was explained that practically all of When the men are at a rest camp they gather about tables and eat rnurh as they would at home. If they are on active duty eating Is a sort of stand-up proposition, with every man passing by the company cook for his "helping." Thousands of fireless cookers are In u-se to get food hot to men In the front trenches. When these men can not quit fighting or watching to visit the company cook their food Is placed In the fireless cookers and passed along to the firing line. During Intensive action It is some times Impossible to get hot food to the o1dler under fire. However, he Get an extra pair of glasses NOW. Read DR. RAXOiYS Message Page 2, CoL 1. I Kmersrrney Ttatlons Issued. Each soldier Is also given an emer gency ration, to be used in extreme cases when he becomes Isolated ami out of communication with the regu lar food upply. The army purchases green coffee both In France and the United States. It docs Its own roasting. The roast ing of coffee for the armies in the field Is one of the comforting con cessions of modern warfare. Great coffee roasting machines are In use both In the cantonments In this coun try and in. Pershing's army in France. 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M. to 4 P. 9L Ladles and maids In attendance. All work fullv guaranteed for 20 years. Kindly keep the name and location of my office In your mind. Dr.Wyeth 42729 7thSt.N.W. Oppoaltr I.an.hurxh A lira, and aver Grand Union Tea Co. longest and Host Thoroughly Rffnlpncd rnrlora In Wa.hlngt.n- Phone Main 4334. Tne coffee is-roasted just before it Is groud 'for brewing, consequently the dally supply is fresh and' has a frac rant aroma. Feeding methods in the various armies are different. The British, for Instance, have four meals a day an extra meal for "tea." The American soldier cares absolutely nothing about 5 o'clock tea and the British habit has no hold upon him. He'd rather have a bottle of "pop" before turning in at night The present army ration Is evolved from the study of the table of the average American family. No Experiments Tried. No experiments are being tried on the American soldier, and theorists may try out their theories elsewhere. Food experts are consulted, of course, but only foods which have stood In popular favor back home are fed to the American army. The fighting man In France wants good, wholesome food, and doesn't care a hang about the number of calories It contains. The army ration consists of twenty seven articles. It weighs about four and a half pounds, and costs approxi mately 45 cents per day per man. In France the soldier gets good, soft bread, made from pure wheat flour. Field bakers must work swiftly, and It Is not practicable to utilize flour mixtures. In the canton ments wheat-saving substitute rules are more or less used. The emergency ration of the soldier is that which is carried "over the top." It Is strapped in the pack used by each man, and is to be used only in cases of great emergency. It consists of ground meat and wheat compressed Into a cake, and a block of sweet choc olate. Preserve nation for Trenehen. There Is also a reserve ration for the trenches when they are under heavy fire and hot food If Impossible. This ration is prepared in a gasproof, camouflaged sealed container. anJ consists of enough food for twenty- live men for one day. The best of products Is put Into this ration, which contains soluble coffee for use with cold water when hot Is unobtainable. Here are a few army prices for the month of July, showing that the United States has somewhat the ad-' vantage of the housewife when Uncle Sam goes marketing: The base price for army beer was R23 05 per hundred pounds at Chicago. Hams and bacon were purchased at approximately 31 cents and 43"-J cents, respectively, delivered at campy or embarkation ports. Butter was purchased at an average of 4'J'i cents per found f. o. b. Chicago, and flour was purchased at $11.10 per barrel f. o. b. Chicago. The average price for sugar was J7.30 per hundred pounds at seaboard refineries. Potatoes were obtainable at an average price of J2.S1 per hundred pounds delivered In the East. Duy Vegetables In France. For cantonments In this country alone the army purchased for August requirements a total of more than 27,- 000.000 pounds or potatoes and onions. General Pershing's army obtains most of Its fresh vegetables In I ranee. Proving that the American army, at home and abroad. Is In excellent appetite here are a batch of figures covering purchases: For the eight months ending July 1. the army bought so much sugar that the vugar sacks would make a Mlttl wall four feet wide and flic feet high from Baltimore to Washington. Purchases from tlie 1017 pack of tomatoes were so great that If the cans were placed end to end the line woulu extend trom the army on the Marne to the Calirornla coast. About 75 000.000 cans or tomatoes were pur chased trom the 1017 pack. More than 60,000.000 pounds or ror ree will be consumed by the army abroad and at home during the year. The army In now puri-lmMng C00.- 000.000 cans or canntd vegetables. For the next year It is estimated inal 80.000.00 pounds or prunes, dried ap pies, snl dried pe.enc mil ie noMi.n In June and half or July general Shades of Movie Vamps! She Popped the Question Over His Wife's Bier CHICAGO. Oct C It takes a real vamp to make love to an other's husband over the casket' or her own. But this, according to Mrs. Hose M. Labadle. of Oak Park. Is what Mrs. Mattle Schwelzer, of 5317 Wayne ave nue, did and has been doing ever since. Mrs. Labadlc. already having filed suit for separate mainte nance, now wants $50,000 from Mrs. Schweitzer, the price she places on her husband's affections. U.S. GAS IK ARE BEST IN USE Forces more than three hundred car loads, each containing C0.000 pounds. This is one reason the American at home Is limited to two pounds of sugar per month. Approximately one hundred million cans of milk were bought ror the army during the first six months of this year. The Government bought more than a half billion pounds of Hour from Janu ary to August and used large quantities of substitutes besides. Official estimates are that an army of three million men will use within a year 7S3.0CO.00O pounds of potatoes . 2.130.000 gallons of vinegar. 27,00,000 pounds of salt. SS.000.000 pounds of lard and lard substitutes. 15.530,000 pounds of butter and 7.G65.000 pounds of oleomargarine, 2.130.000 cans of molascs ; 4.C0O.00O cases or canned pork and oean- noo.iioo cases of canned tomatoes, 2,000.030 cases of canned salmon, and 50.000.000 pounds of dried beans. Which means that when the bugle blows for lunch, bicakfst or dinner In France and the "doiiKhboys line up with their plates and coffee cups and pay tribute to the company cooks, the ghost of Napoleon may attest that America believes what he said about a fighting army and Its stomach. PARI ORCHESTRA equip every soldier and to provide an ample military reserve. The mask Is put on with five motions of the arms. The American soldier must put on his mask In five seconds before he Is permitted to go abroad. One contingent has a record of four see' onds for the entire company. The mask Is uncomfortable, the re port says, but It may be worn for an indefinite period. American troops have served bat teries under hurricane fire for twelve hours without removing' their maskst Games of football, baseball, and soc cer have been played by the American troops abroad with each side wearing gas masks. COULD BE SAVEO SAYS ALLIES WANT BROWNING GUNS That an efficient system of making appropriations and of expending Gov ernment money 'in the departments would save the country at least :.000,000,000 of the expenditures which win be made this fiscal year. Is the assertion of Senator Kenyon of Iowa, who will soon address the Senate on the need for a budget system. Senator Kenyon said today the ap propriations and authorizations for this fiscal year would h nnt u..th.n I37.000.000.000 and would probably! n0,t bInf delivered In laree quant!- ciimD to $-10,000,000,000. He Is a member or the Senate Ap propriations Committee, and has been In close touch with the developments jMcRobcrts said. Trench mortars, ma- as to appropriations and likewise as to expenditures by the departments. "Senator Aldrlcb, when the expen ditures were about SI .500.000.000 a year estimated that he could save'stltutes for steel brass and copper. "The American Browning machine run has proved so successful In ac tion, that the British and French gov. ernmeats have asked that they be given any surplus produced for th use of their troops. This word was brought to Wash ington yesterday by Brig. Gen. Samuel McRoberts, head of the pro curement division of the ordnance de partment who returned from a two months Inspection trip In England and France. The Browning gun U ties to the American forces, he said. The United States 1017 model r.flt has demonstrated Its superiority over all rifles or Germaa make."- General chine guns and artillery capturrd from the enemy In recent drives show no new Idea nor any superiority over those of the allies. The captured pieces have many parts made of sub- ?300,000,000 If he could run the" Gov ernment He meant that under a properly efficient system an enormous saving could be made. If we could save that much then, how much more could be saved now by an efficient system? I am putting It very con servatively when I say we could save 12,000.000,000 out or this year's appropriations." Bonds Bar Food for Soldiers. Liberty Bonds. Buy General McRoberts- said. Indicating an acute shortage of these metals In Grmany. The morale of the American troops is excellent and no report of the good Impression made by them upon the peoples of Great Britain and France has been exaggerated, he said. The Paris to London leg of his return trip was made by aeroplane. Every Hundred Dollar Bond Slakes A Hun Dread' Store. German poison gas holds no ter rors -for American troops. There is not a single case on record or an American soldier falling victim to a gas attack when protected by an American gas mask. This Is the outstanding fact in an official report on gas warfare on the western front Just made, public by the War Department American trenches In the present advance are being drenched by the Germans with deadly "mustard" shells. These efforts to block the progress of the offensive have proved utterly futile, the re port said. The gas mask with which the American troops are equipped has been proved in field tests to afford twenty times the protection given by the German mask. All cases of gas poisoning are due to carelessness, the report said, and the victims should therefore be court-martialed, not dec orated. German masks will not gUe pro tection against a high concentration or gas. This was demonstrated when the British assembled a battery of projectors capable of putting 70 tons of Phosgene gas Into the air at once. "The consequences are qujte well known to the German general staff," the report added. On the other hand there is no concentration of gaa the American mask will not defy. Allied officers frankly admit It is the best mask in use on the western front. j Th. Amt Am,lj-9n tlnlt. polll!? abroad used British masks, but alnce'or working ror a commission later. He that time American masks have been is one of the wedthlest privates In the manufactured in sufficient numbers to service. I GOLD OUTPUT REDUCED TOKYO. Oct 6. The output of gold from mhfes in Korea for the first half of 1918 waa only Jl.600.000. a reduction of $300,000 from the same perlodf last year. The big American and European mines at Unsan. 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