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Show iiSBTIONOFFOOO CBII1ES TO BE S NECESSITY An interesting letter concerning the feeding of soldiers, and the almost unbelievable un-believable amount of food necessary 4o feed the entire United States army for one year, with a view to encour-. uing conservation of food, is being clrculaled by the National Woman's Liberty Loan committee. Extrncts from the leUer, which has been received by Postmaster W. W. Browning of Ogden, reads as follows: "Feeding a soldier is no cold-blooded matter To do it successfully it Is necessary to study carefully his habits hab-its in tho matter of eat.ns. The food that would make a. British soldier happy would fill an American fighter with gloom. The American ration was developed only after careful study of the average American family. The food supplied to the army must bo such as approved by the American civilian! population. Scientific experiments are not made on our soldiers. They prefer pre-fer a stomach full of food to a stomach stom-ach full of calories or vitiminos." The letter continues to state Ihnt it is up to the quartermaster's department depart-ment to face the problem of makinjr the vast purchases with :ho minimum reaction on the markets of the country. coun-try. An inevitable drain is bound to occur and it is the duty of that department de-partment to uso its best judgment, i The table of consumption quoted in the letter gives figures showing that for one year, there was 47S,515,000 pounds of beef consumed by our army at a cost of $109,627,736.50.' There were 7S2, 925.000 pounds of potatoes at a cost o $14,014,357 and 61,320,000 pounds of coffee at $9,265,452. utilized during the year by tho 3,000,000 men in the service. And this Is just a relative rela-tive example of the enormous amount of food which must be accounted for In some manner, and that is food conservation con-servation by those persons, who are managers of their own small households. oo BROTHER AND SISTER DEAD OF INFLUENZA SPANISH FORK, Dec. 9. Two former for-mer residents of this city, Mrs. Catherine Cath-erine Thomas Prodsgaard and her brother, Benjamin I. Thomas, have died at Thistle, Utah, in the last three days. Death In both cases was due to influenza and pneumonia. Cathering Thomas Prodsgaard was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Thomas, well known residents of Spanish Fork. She was born here fcwenty-five years ago and had 'lived here until her marriage two years ago to Orlando Prodsgaard of Payson. The husband was a bollermakcr and tho young couple soon went to Thistle, where he was employed by tho railroad rail-road company, to make their home. A 5-raonths-old baby girl, besides the husband, survives Mrs. Prodsgaard. Tho body was brought here yesterday and open-air services held at tho cemetery. cem-etery. Bishop Loveless of Payson was in charge and mado a short address. Charles W. Booth was the other speaker. William Frost offered the invocation in-vocation and Bishop Loveless pronounced pro-nounced the benediction. Benjamin I. Thomas, a brother of Mrs, Prodsgaard, died at ThisUe last night after an illness of four days. He was bom at Spanish Fork twenty-seven twenty-seven years ago. Six years ago ho married Louise Frost, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Frost, ard she with two little children, Jennie May, aged 5. and Benjamin, aged 6, survivo him. Mr. Thomas was a member of the Boilermakers' union and members of that organization brought the body here yesterday and acted as pallbearers. pallbear-ers. Mrs. Prodsgaard and Mr. Thomas are survived by the following brothers and sisters: John R. and Lorenzo Thomas of this city, Mrs. Lizzie Christiansen Chris-tiansen of Lake Shore, Mrs. Florence Jex of Rigby, Idaho, and Mrs, Joseph Binks of Mapleton, Utah. |