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Show Men in U. S. Army Best Fed in Nation Willi Meals Carefully Planned by Experts non: ciiamhukun Wf'lrrn Niwup.iprr I'nMn Hy Oirli- - FT. SLOCUM N Y. Americas rapidly prowinp . , nrrnv will he on display April 7 as Army D.iv is observed throuchmit the nation Whether vi- Mine civilians know it or not tin will hr watchinp the hi i fed anriv in the world. 'Hun will see men whoce da t is watched so can fullv that even the number of cal-or- a and vM unins th v rat 1! ArJ 1 f'stfUr tfi'ii , ,ni' i s i'll f, UN f. nut (I Its M " of V ' tis of jx .lord r'" , hut-ic.ill- vitamin A, 1,173 of vitamin II, 40 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 1911 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 mote than 50,000 men, split into given units, the 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 eaeh camp will he tremendous Camps of 25,000 men require more food than cities of equal sire. The army will be about the biggest food buyer and distributor in the country, exceeded in sire only by A & P and 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 centrnlired purchasing is the only logical answer. Regional Markets. g d New York offices will buy all sugar, coffee, tea, spices and other manufactured items. Chicago will buy all canned vegetables, canned . V , ' A rr f X, J '1 ci'f 4. , 4 , v 7",', W, i ' rtf' A J' hv . $ i rir iti li ' , , t' y - s are now snenlifu nlly planner! by experts, army cooks llunoth look the same as they did hark in 'll. I his field kill hen staff is hard at work will probably be l try hungry. preparing for "mess," beiause the soldiers B vlta- the market offprs, lambs up to 60 fled by the morale-buildin- g will authorities which, claim, until will be April mins, acceptable pounds is well make them better fighters. 30, when the new group Strain on body and nerves which along. Heifer meat will he acceptable for boned, frozen field supplies. modern warfare brings about with tun 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. Allis Chalmers strike alone that the 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. fin-ul- Smaller Fans Ived. 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 hold.ng doggedly to only those cans large enough to feed a battalion Also, six ounce cans of emergency rations will be bought in large quantities SoJdie! generally pet meat for five dinners, five suppers and four breakfasts a wtek. 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 anny. Without good food arid nutrition, all other preparation, no matter how carefully planned, will not be brilliantly or efficiently executed. one-hal- f The collapse of Oeimany 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 eltect the preeeoding 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 1915-191- 6 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 wuth 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 represents only Ohi 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 And it fed the Colonial Army. 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- nerve-shatterin- d one-quart- er one-thir- d I)ena Jacobsen places a valuable skein of pure imported silk on a wooden spindle, before winding on uniform size spools. Right: J. U . Uood-ion- , plant manager and g mayor of Petaluma, in- spects a battery of utwistern and layer machines in action. The former' twists any number of desired strands together, while the latter picks up and lays three of such strands together. Left: Ruth standing in front of a line polishing unit displays an armful of treated lion-deli- oil fly and e, ta- pered lines on her right. On her left arm are oil-treate- d bait casting lines. Relow: A battery of 300 braid-ingmachine- resenting s, repthe lat- est method of eonverting raw materials into Tuberculosis Death sturdy lines. Rate Found II idlest AntoniP YoungCj Girls Girls between and 25 years of age have lagged far behind young men of the same of food. ages, in the improvement of the tuberculosis death rate Maintain Cooking School. 65 per cent more girls Fach year Because there has been difficulty in the past in obtaining enough good die from the disease than their brothers, bov friends and husbands cooks, the army even mainfams in the age bracket, according loof schools is which (one cooking cated m every aimv corps area) to a study by the Northwestern Nawhose facilities may be severely tional Life Insurance company. In the United States tuberculosis tested by the rapid growth of our citizen army. The best cooks, it is does its deadliest work nowadays When it comes to buying food, the said, are Negroes, Frenchmen and among women of ages, army is far more finicky than the Italians. the population segment most vital average housewife. Old army rules The ration (food provided for one to America's present and future, the read that a packer could deliver on study points out. an army contract no lamb weighing man for one day) being used by our citizen army for its one year of Biological differences the greater mAre than 45 pounds, and the solin the female rais the changes called Garrison organism at training diers mess tables used to be guardadolescence make girls and young 39 items, such as tion of It consists ed against all but steer beef. But women naturally more susceptible 10 ounces of beef and 8 ounces of thats all changed now. to tuberculosis. 10 ounces of potatoes other meats, Because tire army cant be guided 11 and ounces of other fiesh vegeThe male death rate from tuberby what the book says, but by what tables: 12 ounces of Hour; ounces culosis overtakes that of women at of rolled oats and a little more than about age 30, and thereafter runs 10 ounces of rice and dried beans; steadily higher, but in the child20 ounces of butler; 'f'r egg; lls bearing ages from 20 to 35, 22 per ounces of lard, 8 ounces of fresh cent more women die of tubercu' ' nnlk and 10 of evaporated, 5 ounces losis than do men of corresponding If . of sugar; 5 ounces of fruit, 20 of ages. The greatest number of coffee and smaller amounts of vadeaths from this cause among any r rious others, such as jams, jellies, group occurs peanut butter and condiments. The among young women aged and of this food is 54 the second largest group of fataliweight shipping k"-'ties occurs among young women pounds every dav for eaeh man The cost' $730 000 a day for a nnl aged 25 to 29 k lion and a half soldiers Since girls first reach maximum This Gatrison ration, however, is susceptibility to tuberculosis in their not limited to these 39 items, which early teens, the report suggests that This is all h gh schivls should conduct might become monotonous health classes in which effects of prevented by a svstem of substitu"fad diets, tobacco, alcohol, insuftion. which permits the mess officer to substitute other items n the same ficient sleep, and scanty clothing are genera! ilass of foods of about equal graphically taught. It also recommends that parents nutritive value That is. in place of the 10 minces of beef each day, he of teen-agand older girls should mnv an of act substitute amount equ,.l upon observing unv promptly I kill hen patrol A. ain't It hat it symptoms of lassitude, even slight used to be. These giant spud feete ri lamb, mutton, veal, liver, or pork. on jHiper tubes, ready to Latest news for army d.ets is the elevation of temperature, or loss of run eat h peel a btishtl of potatoes a be wound on fishermans rrcl. plan for feeding soldiers bread forti- - appetite minute A tuberculin test should be made chest exam Covcrnment Huy? Auto Trailers for Defence Workers supplemented by meats, cereal. Hour 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 MacKoachic, food purchase MINNEAPOLIS 15 15-2- 1 I . five-yea- age-se- x iSSMf 20-2- ! .. w . line trout lines are minutely inspected. This girl line for lint. feels the ' y WASHINGTON M.re than 2 000 automobile traders are being purchased bv the government t furnish stoj g.q housing u crowded defense aieas These trdirs are expoitod to absorb viitunlv the entle mipnt if the largt si manufHetui er m t e tra hr bpstus-- fir some tone, according to c B L i! in, Fo! tl . .v Sc-e- i r admm's'i it, i Hie trailir c ami will be cst m lished as pait of the emergency de 1 fonse housing program to provide shelter for fannies if industrial workers m ureas win re the piriod ui defense emphvnent is expected to be relativclv shn Ii ad i Poll the trade! s, karri Me,r.ty will bud i dorr ,tei ,rs f r ,nii,i 'rnilv 3 "on sine !e men w t i k in Mich m- - t' '. dus'ra s in there HKi'C K'ss m class or elsewhere, should atwavs be made A cne of pleurisy witho. t memo the np.it warns. h me i, a g il or yotn; woman mi !et ed t N i eeosij. u"i def-- ' r n e etl'i rv so If ppoer s ,s lieiccte i in c e a !v i sos t IS ( l h'i ;'v begun and c.irnei through, a cure is usually assured I a tl n t e i r, can be n :i r l v i d t tnurgency luuis. 0 reed I Minis 'lenis. ' t d 1 - ? ' Fieer Ww I Miles Capt , . t mcr In 1, r ' hermar takes a salmon from the uorld famous Rogue in tlu Redwochl Lmptre of southern Oregon. 1 Standish a Pilgrim, he was brou for protection 2. Alexander Hamilton. 3. The trip takes 3S5 hours, 48 minutes and 4. Silicon. 5. War (guerra). 6. Calvin Coolidge. 7. Singapore. 8. No. A recent that eaeh pole of sunlight has per It, Bartt study 65 moi, hu A I jgi,ansf year equator. 9. The smallest of sH plants belong to the genut. They ere aquatic, have and produce flowers about and shape of the head of r M told have I to live 5 jjcently jd wal jh's cu 10. Because of the rotalt earth, a cyclone whirls c- the Southern counterclockwise hin jtted i hemup!-;- ; I in the the saa storms trsvti h a nor oases died Ute Th livi to WAY TO TEST 1HE BETTER Constipation dueidiayj DIETS PROPER BULK IN THE THE CAUSE CORRECT a delicious With CEREAL, KEU064S AIL BRAN. EVERY EAT DAY AND j DRINK PLENTY Of WATER d a 3ng me C hav who or take in son, cyclonic ward in the tropics and an in the middle latitudes. rr 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 f (b:i.,b-- congress authorizing the .Mart" on such a program. This bid provides for 200 ships. It is that it will have to be followed by many other ions for ship construction.appropriat- t1 him numl )ty For to Reflect side of our Time The solitary demands leisure for upon subjects on which whirl of daily business as its clouds rise thick forbid the intellect to fast Froude. o re-- 1 ta-an- DISCOMFORTS. e Stuff! smfft C MENTHOL' WNU W Is Hard? c is tough. It will Truth Truth like a bubble, at aJ you may kick it about be football, and it full at evening. Obver Holmes m J- of May Warn Aet Kidney hrtfnUr drinking 4 lion throw of tb b Uv .7 kidney- - Th, U ffwf nd and othar impur.ti orer-toxe- d ri -- .r, tired, nervov' t kidney r time burning. urinatioo. Try Dotrn't v 1 ! w lets 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 countrys 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. ping. e 1. Ansmeri none. Now 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 Germanys 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 Belgium was anticipated. s 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 ship- g The - d- 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 Building Cargo Fleet Was Long Delayed D-- j 1 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 one-tent- 5 child-bearin- t ame-tio- one-quart- er 1 130-od- jso r Aiihtiimh farm-thi'M urc t)ii' food-buyin- ;he . Irlirrs bet- - Si-rt- 'l ;tDK. i ut-ep0- ;, Tliomns I, prlvcr-ii In.'s of the U S Annv l'i hool f.n 1', ikt r s and Cool's (it It Slocum, N Y, And he fclmulil know! Proof of Sergunt IVlveorhio st.ilt mi nt comes from M.ij Haul Lo-p.food expert of tlie aririyit quar-- t t muster corps, who states em that the army is rind will con-- t line to be the best fed group of our population In averaging the nnalvses made of army messes throughout the country, it was found that the American soldier consumes 5,118 calories a day, ns compared to the 3,000 of the average American In vitamins, the soldier averages 5,700 units of v, v. , ;:e' S Burr In the 2. What is t c t fv. time taken bj ..eea ,Y abou' its revolution 'f and 4. Next to i b ty2tn chief elerner t . y 3 iust U. S. increases starvatKl' the earths cri.q reas 5. The won. tion threat to England. ain puerri from a Span.oj 0rJ4t--(Bell Syndicate WNU Servlca.) there what? n 6. What Pre. dent The newspaper WASHINGTON. of oMren i States was born on men who attend President Roose7 What Pl'i.t I, velts press conferences are getting Gibraltar elf tirs1 on of Fv East time as passes, a little tougher, 8. Is info there i. , the Importance to national defense than Industries equator In vldren c of the labor troubles 9. What I, orwar British S. U. , or on working aHgt mat ders. The President's retort about flowering pl&rtbb that ter 10. In what n of one never more than clone whirl? per cent of the defense production being tied up by strikes at any one plumed f.ir in advanct. 72 2. Who Shot Sal Queit I. Was Capt Defense tvorkage due to strikes probably exceeds estimates , . . Delay in building cargo ships in 1 an'"I'l'i-li- A Gena..!l The CARTER FIELD V I O Reviewed by are two important materia, used in Imrrtd silk and flax offiber of fish lines that hold the tg fm braiding und tu isting the kindlines of this hmd is one of he ones. The manufacture of quality north- industries in the Redwood Empire countries of take you though ern Calif!, rn and southern Oregon. These photos . 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