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Show STRICT ECONOMY OF UNCLE SAM i j LOUISVILLE, Ky June 28. (Mail.) Some of the economics practiced by Uncle Sam in these spendthrift days would make a thrifty housewife envious. en-vious. The good old days in the army when the soldier -was allowed to overdraw over-draw his clothing allowance without an explanation are past. A ''busted" pair of trousers, and half worn-out shoes are rejuvenated at the army camps and cantonments and mado to serve again. Even the manes of army horseB are scrupulously saved and sold to upholsterers. Torn trousers and worn shoes must be produced before a like article in good order is issued. No limit is placed on the amount of clothing a man can get bo long as he wears out that which is issued to him. At camp Zachery Taylor, near Louisville and at every other training center in tho country no condemned article is allowed to go to the scrap heap if some part of It can be salvaged and used to repair some other piece of equipment. No waste of materials about the camp Is allowed to go unnoticed un-noticed or unchecked. Too many broken pieces of bread In a garbage can will bring to the commander com-mander of tho unit a notico from tho commanding general of tho camp to have his cooks issue bread in smaller slices so that none will be wasted. The , general has learned of the wasto through daily reports laid on his desk. Every pair of ahoes condemned as unfit for further use passes under eyes of skilled shoemakers In olive drab, drawn from the ranks. A surprisingly surpris-ingly largo percentage find their way back Into the quartermaster's stock to be reissued. Some of them arc practically practi-cally reconstructed. A soldier wears the seat out of a pair of khaki trousers, and gets a new pair. The soldier-tailor In the shops of the condemnation and reclamation division finds another pair which have faded to about the same shade and replaces re-places tho missing seat. The garment itself goes back into store and Is reissued re-issued for garrison wear. As with trousers and shoes so with every piece of personal equipment issued is-sued to a soldier. Nothing Is wasted, nothing is scrapped that possibly can be of use, and the scrap material itself is carefully conserved for sale. All horses used by the army havo their manes roached. White and grey hair is kept together while all sorrol, bay and black hair goes into another lot. Each kind of hair is also divided into two lots, that from southern horses and that from northern horses. Dark horses hair brings about 70 per cent more than light. Southern horses have coarse heavy hair In the mane which is not so valuable as that from the finer haired northern type. Besides tho condemnation and reclamation re-clamation division is ceaselessly at work in every training center pushing a campaign of publicity, and many of Uncle Sam's soldiers when they go back to civil life will go back better business men because they havo been trained to -watch the little "leaks." |