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Show LEHI FRESS PRESS. LEHI. UTAH NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed fcjr Men in U. S. Army Best Fed in Nation With Meals Carefully Planned by Experts l "" at By HOPE CHAMBERLJN one-quart- er "one-quart- er one-thir- ANY DELAY IMPORTANT But there is another side to it, which has little to do with percentages. It may be very interesting to know the exact percentage in any given case, but a war is a contest in which one side usually wins, and the other loses. It is not a case of whether either of the combatants makes a passing mark, as in an academic course. To make the point clear in this case, let us assume for a moment that the possible invasion of the United States about which so much has been said does come about, and that the Gettysburg of this contest would be an air battle. Let us further assume that this air battle was desperately close as indeed Gettysburg was and that when it was over the winner had only a few score of planes left, and the loser none. Now let's go back to this strike situation. Suppose there is a strike in a factory making airplanes, or a plant producing the engines for them, or the aluminum, or whatnot. And suppose as a result of that strike this country has 100 less airplanes on the day of that battle than it would have had had there been no strike. It might easily make the difference between this country's being conquered and its emerging triumphant, and yet that strike might not of 1 per cent of figure as our national defense production at the time it was raging. one-tent- h Building Cargo Fleet Was Long Delayed Perhaps the most curious failure to take time by the forelock in the whole defense situation has been the length of time it took the administration to come around to building a fleet of cargo ships. The shipping problem was realized in September, 1939, more than a year and a half ago. It was known then, by both British and United States officials, that there was nothing more certain than that Germany's most effective weapon would be the destruction of shipping, with the hope of ultimately starving Britain out. At that time no one, of course, foresaw the collapse of France, nor the seizure of Norway and Denmark, though the fate of Belaim was anticipated. Folks were instinctively following the pattern of the last war in their minds. It was not realized that, with the collapse of France, and the seizure of Norway, the Nazis would have such favorable bases for both submarine and airplane attacks on shipping. SHIPPING BECOMES ACUTE But everybody knew that sooner or later the persistent sinking of merchant ships, just as in the last war, would bring Britain face to face with the danger of starvation. Shrewd observers called the attention of this writer to the certainty that the shipping problem would become acute and these dispatches dwelt upon it in 1939. At that time it seemed inconceivable to these particular observers that this government would not do everything possible to get merchant ship construction going immediately. This writer made a very bad prediction in these dispatches in 1939. He predicted that this would be done. It was not done. In fact, it has just begun to get beyond the planning stage, with the passage of a bill by congress authorizing the "start" on such a program. This bill provides for 200 ships. It is admitted that it will have to' be followed by many other appropria tiona for ship construction. i . . J THIS (Reie&aed by Western Newspaper Union.) FT. SLOCUM, N. Y. America's rapidly growing army will be on display April 7 as Army Day is observed throughout the WEEK nation. Whether visiting civilians know it or not, they will be watching the best fed army in the world. They will see men (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) whose diet is watched so careWASHINGTON. The newspaper fully that even the number of men who attend President Roose- calories and vitamins they eat velt's press conferences are getting in far advance. are planned a little tougher, as time passes, on the importance to national defense of the labor troubles in industries working on U. S. or British war orders. The President's retort about of one never more than per cent of the defense production being tied up by strikes at any one time did not end the questioning at a recent conference. Putting their heads together afterwards, one group of reporters deof one cided that this per cent" was much more deceptive than anything the newspapers had One reporter figured out printed. that the Allis Chalmers strike alone d was tying up more than of 1 per cent of all national defense orders. Inasmuch as this one strike had been running for more than six weeks on the day the President made the statement, and inasmuch as there were quite a number of other strikes in national defense industries during that six weeks, it would seem that there must have been some rather extraordinary mathematics on the part of whoever gave the President that figure. NEWS f r as CARTER FIELD Defense uorkage due to strikes probably exceeds . . Delay in estimates building cargo ships in U. S. increases starvation threat to England. WHO'S ' f n "Uncle Sam feeds its soldiers 72 per cent of American families are fed." . . . these are the words of Sergt. Thomas L. Delvec-jhiboss of the U. S. Army School for Bakers and Cooks at Ft. Slocum, N. Y. And he should know! Proof of Sergeant Delvecchio's statement comes from Maj. Paul Logan, food expert of the army's quartermaster corps, who states emphatically that the army is and will continue to be the best fed group of our population! In averaging the analyses made of army messes throughout the country, it was found that the American soldier consumes 5,138 calories a day, as compared to the 3,000 of the average American. In vitamins, the soldier averages 5,760 units of vitamin A, 1,173 of vitamin B, 46 milligrams of vitamin C, and 2.3 milligrams of vitamin B2 all in greater quantities than the average American! Served Nutritious Food. "Come and get it" to the soldier of 1941 means a plateful of good, palatable, nutritious food. To food wholesalers and government men it means hard work behind the scenes. Before conscription, when the army had no more than 50,000 men, g split into given units, the d problem was simple. The camp quartermasters went personally to local markets. But the problem changed overnight. Not only will the army shortly have a million and a half men to feed, but the number of men in each camp will be tremendous. Camps of 25,000 men fequire more food than cities of equal size. The army will be about the biggest food buyer and distributor in the country, and exceeded in size only by A & perhaps one or two other chains. On certain staple items, such as canned goods, army purchases may well amount to from 10 to 15 per cent of total production. Food orders that used to require shipments will call for the shipment of many solid carloads. So, independent local buying is out of the question, and centralized purchasing is the only logical answer. Regional Markets. New York offices will buy all sugar, coffee, tea, spices and other manufactured items. Chicago will buy all canned vegetables,' canned meats, cereal, flour and similar foodstuffs produced on a nationwide-basis. San Francisco will buy canned and dried fruits, salmon and other West coast produce. By May 1, the date when the army will start issuing rations to local quartermasters in actual food, rather than cash, these new super offices will be ready to take over all contract letting, according to Douglas MacKeachie, food purchase coordinator. When it comes to buying food, the army is far more finicky than the average housewife. Old army rules read that a packer could deliver on an army contract no lamb weighing more than 45 pounds, and the soldiers' mess tables used to be guarded against all but steer beef. But that's all changed now. Because the army can't be guided by what the book says, but by what Rv LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated j A "&ik bet-ter'- 130-od- f Ik Eten though meals are nuw scientifically planned by experts, army cooks look the tame as they did back in '11. This field kitchen stalj is hard at uork preparing lor "mess," because the soldiers uill probably be very hungry. to 60 mins. which, authorities claim, will lambs the market up offers, pounds will be acceptable until April 30, when the new group is well along. Heifer meat will be acceptable for boned, frozen field supplies. Smaller Cans Used. The army has also stepped down its ideas on can sizes and will hereafter buy some of its spiced pork produces (such as Spam and Prem) in the cans of retail trade, instead of holding doggedly to only those cans large enough to feed a cans of battalion. Also, emergency rations will be bought in six-oun- large quantities. Soldiers generally get meat for five dinners, five suppers and four breakfasts a week. Allowances for the noon meal alone average around pound per man more meat than the civilian ordinarily engulfs, no matter how prosperous. The foregoing facts are probably adequate to convince the reader that military experts recognize the importance of good food in maintaining a high esprit de corps, morale and efficiency of an army. Without good food and nutrition, all other preparation, no matter how carefully planned, will not be brilliantly or efficiently executed. The collapse of Germany in 1918 was partially due to malnutrition of the German soldier; the rout of the Italians in Caporetto in October, 1917, has been traced to the drastic reduction in the Italian army ration put into effect the preceeding February; similarly, the defeat of the British at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles campaign of has been attributed to the failure of mind, nerve and muscle, caused by rations so unbalanced as to permit a high percentage of both beri beri and scurvy. Aware of the importance of food, the quartermaster corps, directly responsible for providing food, and plenty of it, has efficient personnel, highly trained in the science of nutrition, inspection, and preparation one-ha- lf 1915-191- 6 make them better fighters. Strain on body and nerves which modern warfare brings about with devits lightning speed, maastation and chines causes army nutritionists to feel that soldiers must be fed not only enough food of the right kind, but enriched foods. Dehydrated foods are also undergoing tests. These foods occupy little space, and therefore help the quartermaster corps in its continual battle to ship as much food in as little space as possible. Soldiers recently ate a test dinner prepared entirely from dehydrated foods, except for the meat and gravy. The menu included cream of, tomato soup, roast beef with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, cole slaw, cranberry jelly, apple and pumpkin pie. A pound of cranberry flakes, "gross weight," expands' to serve 109 soldiers, whereas a pound of canned cranberry jelly rep"resents only 6' servings. Food value of the dehydrated preparations is apparently equal to that of canned foods, but tests are now being conducted to obtain accurate information as to the vitamin and mineral values that the dried foods contain. All this planning is a far cry from the meager unbalanced meals fed the Colonial Army. And it proves that those in command are leaving no stone unturned in their effort to serve, in American Army camps everywhere, the finest mess on earth! whirl-win- d nerve-shatteri- Tuberculosis Death Rate Found Highest Among Young Girls MINNEAPOLIS. 15 and 25 15-2- - 5 child-bearin- one-ye- ar child-bearin- five-ye- ar age-se- x 20-2- 4, Jill e morale-buildi- ng X-ra- . y politics, government rather than a self- interested participant. Although he did gather a few more minions, as d said, speculator, as he has franklydetachit was in the same mood of ment with which he has appraised the social scene, and it is in this mood that he has been the adviser of every President since Taft. Each day in the news brings ' some new demand that the tall, Mr. Ba-- I pleasant, men, surely our elder statesman of such bottleneck urgency as that of today, be given a free hand, in the chartroom, or perto steer haps the our emergency defense course. Some of these nominations come from the established school of Baruch men, such as Gen. Hugh Herbert Bayard S. Johnson, Swope and George N. Peek; nthpre frnm those who remem ber Mr. Baruch's achievements as head of the War Industries board, and his alert, speculator's awareness of what has been going on in Europe for the last few years. j Girls between years of age have lagged far behind young men of the same of food. ages, in the improvement of the tuMaintain Cooking School. berculosis death rate. Because there has been difficulty Each year 65 per cent more girls in the past in obtaining enough good die from the disease than their cooks, the army even maintains brothers, boy friends and husbands cooking schools (one of which is lo- in the age bracket, according cated in every army corps area) to a by the Northwestern Nawhose facilities may be severely tionalstudy Life Insurance company. tested by the rapid growth of our In the United States tuberculosis citizen army. The best cooks, it is said, are Negroes, Frenchmen and does its deadliest work nowadays g among women of ages, Italians. The ration (food provided for one the population segment most vital to America's present and future, the man for one day) being used by our citizen army for its of study points out. Biological differences the greater training is called the Garrison ration. It consists of 39 items, such as changes in the female organism at 10 ounces of beef and 8 ounces of adolescence make girls and young other meats; 10 ounces of potatoes women naturally more susceptible to tuberculosis. and 11 ounces of other fresh vegeThe male death rate from tubertables; 12 ounces of flour; 1 ounces of rolled oats and a little more than culosis overtakes that of women at 10 ounces of rice and dried beans; about age 30, and thereafter runs 1 20 ounces of butter; egg; VA steadily higher, but in the ounces of lard; 8 ounces of fresh ages from 20 to 35, 22 per milk and 10 of evaporated; 5 ounces cent more women die of tubercuof sugar; 5 ounces of fruit, 20 of losis than do men of corresponding coffee and smaller amounts of vaThe greatest number of ages. rious others, such as jams, jellies, deaths from this cause among any peanut butter and condiments. The occurs group shipping weight of this food is 5 among young women aged and pounds every day for each man. the second largest group of fataliThe cost? $750,000 a day for a milties occurs among young women lion and a half soldiers. aged 25 to 29. Since girls first reach maximum This Garrison ration, however, is not limited to these 39 items, which susceptibility to tuberculosis in their might become monotonous. This is early teens, the report suggests that prevented by a system of substitu- all high schools should conduct tion, which permits the mess officer health classes in which effects of to substitute other items in the same "fad" diets, tobacco, alcohol, insufgeneral class of foods of about equal ficient sleep, and scanty clothing are nutritive value. That is, in place of graphically taught. the 10 ounces of beef each day, he It also recommends that parents may substitute an equal amount of of teen-agand older girls should lamb, mutton, veal, liver, or pork. act promptly upon observing any Latest news for army diets is the symptoms of lassitude, even slight K. P. (kitchen patrol) ain't uhat it used to be. These giant spud peelers can each elevation of temperature, or loss of plan for feeding soldiers bread fortified by the peel a bttshel of potatoes a minute. B vita- - appetite. A tuberculin test should be made, chest examGovernment Buys Auto Trailers for Defense Workers supplemented by inations wherever indicated. If WASHINGTON. More than 2,000 fense housing program to has been any exposure through there provide automobile trailers are being pur- shelter for families of industrial association with a case of tubercuchased by the government to furworkers in areas where the period of losis in class or elsewhere, tests nish "stopgap" housing in crowded defense employment is expected to should always be made. defense areas. be relatively short. In addition to A case of pleurisy without pneuThese orders are expected to ab- the trailers, Farm will monia, the report warns, should in Security sorb virtually the entire output of build dormitories for approximately the case of a girl or young woman the largest manufaaturers in the 2,900 single men working in such inbe considered tuberculosis until deftrailer business for some time, ac- dustries. initely proved otherwise. If tuberto C. SeB. Baldwin, Farm cording When they are no longer needed culosis is detected in its stages curity administrator. in the original locations, the trailers and modern treatment early is promptly The trailer camps will be estabcan be moved to other areas with begun and carried through,. cure lished as part of the emergency de- - emergency housing problems. is usually assured. ' f P of Defense Machine o, food-buyin- Service.) NU EW YORK. When he made his first million at the age of 30, Bernard M. Baruch said he would on by be-- . indulge himself from then . ing a sort of Soosf Baruch for doct0r or di- Driver of U. S. agnostician A '. Features-W- g ' snowy-haire- d Mf 1 Pattern THE A knitted 6902 jerkin-t- he welt dressed woman's standby for variety in her wardrobe. Add this one to yours it's in a simple pattern stitch that's quickly done. ; j wheel-hous- e, j i j Pattern 6902 contains instructions (or making the jerkin in sizes 1214 and of it and of stitches; ma rials needed. Send order to: Circle Needlecraft Dept. New York Eighth Ave. Enclose 15 cents in coins for PaSewing 82 ttern No j As to this business of being a spec- Address DON'T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIECONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY When you feel gassy, headachy, logy due to clogged-u- p bowels, do as millions at bedtime. Next do take morning thorough, comfortable relief, helping you start the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a doesn't disturb million! your night's rest or interfere with workths the chewing t, next day. Try gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it's handy and economical ... a family supply VE ulator, Mr. Baruch says, "I make no apologies. I am a speculator. The word comes from the Latin word 'speculari,' meaning to observe. I observe." Like all seasoned speculators, he never pounds his desk or runs a temperature or inclines to high He although he is 70. keeps fit by his own system of calisthenics, pragmatically arrived at, like his financial operations. As head of the War Industries team of board, he tooled the and labor, industry, government deftly through many a narrow defile and hazardous passage, and a large section of his public would like to see him again in the driver's seat. Naturally a skeptic as to the grand solution, like most speculators, he has stood at few, if He was a any false dawns. prophet of doom for the Dawes plan, from the first. In 1927, he predicted that it would be scrapped within two years. "A demand might be morally reablood-pressur- Name e, Feen-A-Mi- Feen-A-Mi- nt Feen-A-Min- FEEN-A-MIN- To J T le Virtue's Complexion ls sonable as a business proposi- Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy ; that is the complexion of virtue." Diogenes Laertius. rNemoDS Restless-- i Girls! Cranky? Restless? Can't sleep? Tlr easily? Because ol distress of monthly functional disturbances? ThenCom-try Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable pound. Pinkham's Compound is famous periods tion," he said. for relieving pain of irregular to such and cranky nervousness due As a foe of paternalism in busidisturbances. One of the most effective medicines you can buy today ness and a stanch states' rights for this purpose made especioiiy Democrat, he has insisted that a for women. WORTH TRYING means must be found to mobilize national en- Pragmatic, Never ora' - (n " ' t. Conscience's Sake Emotional, as the out taking on We do wrong so thoroughnever the crushing Good Speculator do overhead of ly and so heartily as when we Pascal. it for conscience's sake. bua crippling and reaucracy. He has expounded these and kindred subjects in many economic treaties in CAN'T YOU SLEEP? journals, for here is a Wall Street specu" If it weren't for heartburn lator who also wears the golden key you stomach, acid caused by of Phi Beta Kappa. He is an able Tablets might get some rest! ADLA evangelist of the school of pragCarbonates for and contain Bismuth matism in government and busfor quick relief. Ask your druggist inessagain the speculator, whose ADLA tomorrow. Tablets judgments, if he is a good speculator, are never emotional. Conditions Change His early definition of his attiIf matters go badly now, they tude as that of a diagnostician will not always be so. Horace. might have denoted a sympathetic identification with his distinguished father, Dr. Simon Baruch of South Carolina, a widely known surgeon and health authorPRODUCTION BRED, MOUNTAIN ity who took a leading part in BRED, AND ACCLIMATED... developing the Saratoga spa. Born in South Carolina, Bernard REUSES WHITE LEGHORNS M. Baruch took an earned deHIKES NEW II MI'S gree at the College of the City of BARKED BOCKS New York in 1889 and subseWHITE RChS quently six honorary degrees WHITE WYANBOTT" CORNISH GAMES from various other colleges. WHITE I.IAVTS BROWN INBORN! For the last few years he has been lk;ht Mfcaijga' calmly, but earnestly prescribing FRESH. preparedness. Returning from Eu- Hatched RIGHT. Delivered Intermonntsin f rope in 1937, he said, "Europe is night delivery to all Mammoth Bronze Turkey Poults hopeless." In January, 1939, he offered to supply from his own funds Priced 8e to 50e each delivered. $3,300,000 which the army lacked for Writ.. Wire or Call for FREE IIMM Cirrnlir. certain equipment. An adjustment of an appropriation bill made this A W 'S unnecessary. He has been friendly ERl UTAH PIONEER HATCH to the New Deal, but has chided and LAKE CITY. UTAH SALT warned it on many occasions. I - - dry-as-du- st and"full-ness- t A RAMSH Hp HIS reporter, on occasional trips to Washington, has noted that some of the heaviest hitters there are the least publicized. Here today is the amiable Harold N. Graves in charge of the new defense loan drive, which will start May 1. Mr. Graves, in his 33 years in the government service, has showed singular ability in getting things done without a lot of fuss and feathers. He is assistant to the secretary f the treasury, 54 years old, educated at Knox college and George Washington university."' that will save you you fail many aoo to read carefully w the advertising regularly local merchants in THIS PAgJEl |