South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-06
SOLDIERS
I. So WELL FED THEY
ARE GETTING FAT
tommy Atkins is One of Best
PrOviSiOned Men Fighting in
Trenches Today = RatiOnS
Give Him Plenty tC Spare.
BY Herbert Temple.

LONDON. Jan. "a curious COM
laint about soldiers food in the
+eld has just been received. An Of
beer wril2s home 70 lament the num-
Per Of pounds he has added to his
Feight in the trenches, saying he
= eeds almost too we'll without suff-
tent exercise.
Napoleon. who said IAN army fights
4 n It's stomach, would be astonished
= the enormous demands upon the
4 Endurance OF the men in this war.
or he was never able to give his men
he Strengthening food well regulated
rmies receive nowadays.
i cali attention, for instance, TO the
battle OF Lule Burgas. The Turks
lost because they had been starving
or four days. The Bulgarians had
heir stomachs full The Turks were
willing. but could not fight and on
heir retreat many died of sheer
tarvatiOn. The Bulgarians and in
|nany cases the Germans in Belgium.
ave been weakened by lack of food
Though the German system in gem
3rai is excellent But the British
E0ldier has gotten his meals with
kreat regularity. Here is list show
ng what each British private re-
4eives every "a hours:
one and a quarter pounds Of fresh
neat. or one pound preserved meat.
one and a quarter pounds bread.
Four ounces bacon.
| Three ounces cheese.
Four ounces jam.
Three ounces sugar.
One-half pound of fresh vegetables
N two ounces dried vegetables.
Five-eighths ounce of tea, coffee or
'ocoa.
Two ounces of tobacco or so cigar
( Is per week.
Tommy Has Plenty to spare.
This allowance is the result Of
careful study on the part of the
|cientists They have found that
goo calOries or energy-making units
|re required To keep a man alive if
be is lying in bed without mental or
physical exercise. For a man march
Eng 90 miles a day 4 500 calories
Hay are necessary. The British SOL
|iier receives 5000 calOries so he has
BOO to spare.
/ In foruar British wars there has
|een enOT nous corruption and chaos,
|nd the soldiers have often some
hungry Luckily, for two years be-
Tore the war broke out the director
IL supplies and his staff had been
Studying every detail of the new
|nethOd so that when the great call
| ame the whole scheme was complete
Ind perfect both as regards supplies
|lnd transport.
The contractor or middleman. the
Source of much corruption, in the old
avs, has been removed and the war
Btfice deals directly with manufac-
iuTers.
Acting in connection with the local
Government board. tens of thousands
i health officers all over the world
Inspect the factories and analyze the
4 food to prevent adulteration, inn
purity or bad quality.
Thoroughly Inspected.
Another clever device is the meth
81 of delivery. The manufactures
| must send his stores to the railways
Without knowing their destination. If
T his were not SO he might be able to
! Oad inferior goods in ships for the
IOntinent. knowing we'll that the box
s would be opened mp too far away
sor inspection OF complaint Under
he new system these supplies must
- 10 the government food depOts at
liverpool or Leeds where they come
inder the eyes OF health officers and
.nalysists.
The army had large reserves of
food when war broke out but in 10
| avs these had been doubled. A stu
|,endOus plan was put into operation
ad II worked wonderfully. In France
| nd Belgium one sees the army serV-
&c corps and passes their convoys on
ne roads. Interminally, the motor
rucks hurry from the bases 10 the
ghting lines with Tommy's daily
|neals, with fresh bread baked on
. he railways and often even with
| elH no