The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-20

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a mere lot Of individual. separate men
This way YOU will be utilizing the ma
chine you have. This will be system
when. YOU know, is hall the battle.
In our study IN peace we are con
cerned much about the names of things
the parts and divisions Of the advance
guard, the point. tna fankers, the ad
| Fanced party, the support and the re
/ serve; of the 0utposts the sentinels, the
| pickets, the supports. etc: of the a.
! tack or the defence. the skirmish line
! the fighting. the firing line and others
+ In real field service after but a little
/ while the names and parts Will
| trouble you no more. You Will learn
! that out to YOUR front YOU need some
! scattered men to use their ewes and
| warn YOU OF the enemy, and next to
these some more to meet and hold him.
and back of these more still to beat
aud force him. That 5 all there is to
all these parts and names and lines.
When YOU have met these ends what
ever Eour formation, it is enough and
right. 1t makes no difference whether
there 5 anv distinct line at all or pick
cts or supports or whether you know
their names withaI. The end of all is
accomplished
In the same way you will see IN The
pictures Of field trenches. lot of pretty
lines, shelves and steps. and it is a
puzzle and a sumner for the best Of US
to remember how to make anything
that looks like that trench. Gentlemen,
in service in actual war that need not
worry YOU. Then YOU will need not one
of those nice regular trenches but Just
a plain hole in the ground from which
YOU can and into which the other fell
low can not shoot That S all there is
to it. And you II Just dig it any way
YOU could with never thought of
lines and berms and shelves
Nourish, Not Nurse.
If, as I have said, you are not to
strain yourself to get lot of things
that you can do without, there is one
thing that Won must always make espe-
cial effort in campaign to have. 1t is
suitable GOOD for your men. There is
a tendency among all officers at the
very beginning of field service to re-
duce on the ration, to leave a part OF
it behind because it is hard to carry.
There is nothing more fatal. Then. more
then ever. the soldier will need it, for
then he has least sleep and most IA
tigue: then he has the greatest and
most incessant call upon his energy and
vigilance; then he puts forth his great
est effort Cut down his food supply
at this time, and you cut down his life.
at is both better and cheaper to nour-
ISL than to nurse him. In the crisis
of campaign you can not answer the
cry of hunger with an eXhortatlon to
patience ''Find food; get it, Nor
are emergency rations, food extracts,
reductions, compressions, dissieations
or essences, with the usual bulk, the
FODDER left out. real foods. They
are the mere makeshifts and stimulants
of a day. It makes no difference that
they are said to contain, or do contain,
all the assimilable ingredients of food
and that they are really assimilable.
The body of a man lives on nitrogen
and carbon, and we can obtain and
pump these pure and in proper quanti-
ties into man and kill him in day
or two, because we have left off the
- FODDER the concomitants. Nor can
we cut off the proper concomitant fod-
der, tighten ourselves, by taking only
effective ingredients, leaving the fod-
der behind and then, when we wish,
really succeed in substituting another
fodder for that we left behind, and
thus obtain real food. By adding water,
no teaspoonful of "extract' or ounce
of I" concentration will make a cupful
or a pound of real food. We have not
vet reached so creative a stage in chem
istry or dietetics. In real field service
the cry is for real food, and we must
answer it.
As. to the person on whom you are
to depend. not only for your food, but
for all other of your supplies. 1t is
yourself. Especially is this true at the
outbreak of hostilities and the opening
of operations in our country, always I'M
prepared and in confusion when war
comes. Never, if You can help your
self quit any place or source of supply
without an ample store. Never, unless
you know for yourself, accept assur-
ances that you will find "plenty' at
some place whittier you are going. I
knew regiment that did this at Tampa
in '9s and found itself in need. I
knew another that did it at Tvhee Is
land, off Savannah, in 80 and nearly
starved. | knew another that same
year, my own regiment, that was adj
vised to do it, but did not, to take one
days rations for a change of camp.
Instead, we took ten, and if we hadn 7
would surely have gone to pieces; for
we found nothing where we went. In
field service, never part with your grub.
Don t send it one way and 90 yourself
another. Keep it with you.
Odd-Looking Food Train.
In active operations at the front
what are We to expect of the supply
the commissary, quarter
master and others? In time of peace,
at home, they do it all for Us. In time
of war at the front they don t. 1t isl
important to know this, to have it i'm
pressed and bear it in mind, An old
officer of Napoleon said that he had
made eleven campaigns under that
great soldier and had never seen an
officer of the subsistence department
with the advanced troops. OF course It