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Show ARMY GARBAGE CLOSELYWATCHED Strict Rules Issued to All Mess Sergeants in Army Cantonments. SAN ANTONIO, Tex , April 1 The army garbage can formerly had a big maw but now a dog would starve if he depended on the bones thrown from the army kitchen. The plain fact is that bones don't get Into the garbage can they are .sold. According to re-port.s re-port.s gathered from army posts and stations in the southern department by Colonel Daniel E. McCarthy, department de-partment quartermaster, one can holds the garbage which formerly tilled three. Six gallons is the waste from the average army kitchen and goodly portion of this is potato peeling, with mighty little of the potato on the peeling. peel-ing. Mess sergeants at all cantonments have been cautioned about the waste of food and their diligence has, to a great extent, brought about the elimination elimi-nation of much of this waste. The mess sergeants at one Texas camp adopted I new set of "Ten Commandments. ' all dealing with food conservation. These were printed In red Ink on heavy cards and posted in every' mess shack. They read: 1. Don't allow a man to throw away or waste any edible food. 2. Don't make the first helping heavy. 3. Warn kitchen police tc serve food sparingly. I Don't help a man to any food he does not ask for. 5. Don't give a man more than two slices of bread at a helping. 6. Make each man eat all that he j puts on his plate 7. Watch your men while eatinc anrl M that no food Is left on the table. 8. Watch each man as he empties his mess kit at a garbage can. 9. Allow no man to take any food out of a mess hall. 10. Impress upon the men the im-DOrtanos im-DOrtanos of food conservation. It is estimated tbat It costs an aver age of 39 to 41 cents a day to feed each soldier In tho department The quar termaster department puts the figure at $12 a month for each man This Is for the food unprepared. It is estimated esti-mated that one-twelfth of a cord of wood is required for each kitchen ranee each day. otherwise there is no "overhead" expense. On 40 cents a day, officers say. "if the soldier's belt line doesn't swell It If the fault of the mes man " Colonel McCarthy in discussing the soldiers' food said: "It's remarkable to observe the change in the recruit, .the transformation of the undeveloped undevelop-ed boy into the round soldier. The . country boy changes expression quick -I v. hen he gets on army diet, and the City boy fattens, too. Then after they hae let their belts out several notch -as, they get sassy and complain about the army 'chow.' " The average soldier's breathing apparatus ap-paratus is almost perfect, according to Colonel McCarthy, and balanced died and well prepared food "makes I m n out of them." He attributes two j causes to the effectiveness of army food: First, i he .oldler has more time for eating, and takes his meal more leisurely than does the civilian; second, sec-ond, the food Is cooked on a more scientific standard, and the ration is more evenly balanced, while the civilian civil-ian seldom has a trained cook When the officers' reserve training school was opened at Camp Stanley, near here, the government allowed 75 cents a day for each man's food This was later reduced to 60 cents a day. This 00 cents not onlv feoils th stu dent olllcers but provides them with waiters. It Is estimated that 40 cents goes for food and 20 cents for help, the prospective officers preferring to use some of the appropriation for waiters rather than "pass the mess around." Their bill of faro is said to be equal to that of first class hotels, with plenty of extras on Sundays. Food surveys have been made at practically all of the southern camps and special attention given to the balancing bal-ancing of diet and cleanlln Sfesc officers and non-coms have been instructed in-structed as to the food values, nutritional nutri-tional percentages and the caloric units of different foods, the proper kind of food to give men doing certain cer-tain kinds of work, the right kind of food to serve in hot weather, and the proper way of preparing It so as to make for variety and reduce wastr oo |