Show ROOKIES CONSUME quantities OF POP also they have great appetite for ice cream cones and other sweets take it from capt paul D bunker in charge of the post exchange stores of the training camp at fort sheridan the selected soldier in training for service in uncle sams overseas army has an infinite capacity for refreshments besides doing full justice to the bountiful mess served three times a day the rookies in camp here manage to sto stow away a prodigious amount of delicacies and to burn up ul a lot of weed in a day average receipts from the sale of tobacco ice fee cream cones cookies etc at the post stores are per day da Y the boys consume from sixty to eighty gallons of ice cream dished up in cones each day they wash this down with from 2400 to acm bottles of pop ginger ale root beer and similar nonalcoholic potations rotations ions and when this composite sammy lights his dally daily smoke he burns up 00 cigarettes no one has fig figured ared up the number of cigars or the quantity of makens makl ns that is burned at the camp each day in a period of slightly more than ono one month receipts at the exchange stores from sales of tobacco and refreshments amounted to while the tha tot total I 1 receipts from sales of all kinds were only just to prove that they do something besides eat the Sam mies require an average of sheets of letter paper each sunday to write to their home folks so many of them take their pens in hand that it frequently Is necessary to borrow drawing boards from the senior instructors office to furnish the soldiers a smooth surface on which to write |