Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-13 | Page 18 | The Eighth Wonder

1- - The Eighth VVonder t YOU remember the good old days when . you could buy a fine meal for a quarter. The army is doing better than that, it will feed each of the 3o,ooo young men who attend the citizens' military training camps this summer at a cost of 70 cents a day for three meals.- The quartermaster general says he could give them the regular army chuck at 45 cents a day apiece. But an additional 25 cents has been provided, to furnish fancy eats, such as the 30,000 may happen to be accustomed to in civilian life. Each man daily will get, In addition to the regulation menu, a sint of frch milk nr huttf rmilk a tili.-l far dinner, and cereal and fresh fruit for breakfast. To the person wh o ea ts in restaurants or Joes the market basket shopping for the family, fam-ily, fthe low cost of feeding the army is the eighth wonder of the world. And yet ifi a marvel only by contrast. In the first place, the army gets the advantage of cooperative buying big orders at wholesale prices. The middlemen are, to considerable extent, eliminated. elimi-nated. Then, comparing with restaurant prices and management: The restaurant ,,has high overhead which the army in most cases avoids high rents, insurance, semlcompulsory charitable char-itable donations, titchen waste which in the army would be punished, higher priced "help," cost of soliciting business, more fragile equipment, equip-ment, and probably the expenses of orchestra or other alluring entertainment The restaurant restau-rant man will point out that one of the most vital of these sterns is 4hat the army's "70 cents a day per man" doesn't include ay labor charges.