New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16

coming used to it.
The Second Regiment, however, has
one legitimate complaint. 1t is not
being fed properly or as we'll as other
regiments encamped here. Very little
variety of food supplies and insufficient
amounts of that scrawny variety have
been issued. Other regiments get all the
ice needed; we have only half as much as
they get. Surely such situation, which
can be remedied in our commissary de-
partment, is sufficient grounds for the
mutinous discomfort among our men.
Happily there has been a "shake up
and within few days we look for better
provisioning of the regiment.
Whatever other reasons for discomfort
exist will be included in another letter
home. Enough to say that as men adj
just themselves more completely to the
routine of duties and recreation object
to ordinary camp treatment.
From Worthington letter:
Will close for this time, as it is near
time for taps, and ive-fifteen comes
around awful quick in the morning.
Every man not out for reveille gets his
name in the good book" as the boys
call it, and that means he has extra duty
assigned to him. There is no place like
the army, but stay out Of it unless you
want to half starve.
From Major Nelson of Fairmont:
We have our brigade headquarters
now right between the First and Second
regiments, right close up to them. The
Third is further away so we have to
walk something like half mile to meals,
as we mess with the Third. They. have
a very good table. Think though that
little later I will try and arrange to eat
with the Second as it is handler and
know the officers better. OF course the
little flies and other insects are very thick
and we have to eat good many meat
portions not on the bill of fare but no.
body minds that.
Our water cooler is canvas bag hung
in the shade where the breeze strikes it.
BY this process the liquid becomes
possibly degree or two cooler than the
air and quite drinkable though it lacks
a good deal of crystal clearness.
Seems funny to have no long summer
twilight here like we have at home. The
sun sets early and it is dark right away
afterward. Old Mr.. Sun rises about six
and there is no daylight until his smiling
face appears. Too bad for the early
morning and evening hours are cool and
work would be comfortable at those
times if one only had light.
A Mankato man says:
Texas heat, of which so much was
heard, in the north is not causing any
great amount of discomfort. A ther-
mometer in Mercedes registered 1O1
degrees in the shade last Friday, but
the heat was not oppressive. In point
of fact, the men suffered more from the
heat the last day we were in Minnesota
than they have at any time since coming
to Texas.
Here is the army ration:
Parents of young men who are serving
in the National Guard regiments on
the border are much concerned over
some lurid tales of supposed hardships
which have been told and written by
certain sensational newspaper correspond
ents and disgruntled soldiers.
That the relatives and friends of those
at the front should be guilty of sending
out such ridiculous reports to worry and
alarm the people "back home" is in
conceivable. Yet it is a fact.
One story that is being spread is to
the effect that the men are half starved.
Let us dissect this story.
The government issues stated amount
of rations to each man each day. Here
is one days allowance per man:
Ia pounds of fresh meat.
l pound and 2 ounces of fresh bread,
or it's equivalent in flour.
One-eight of an ounce of baking
powder.
Two and fOur-tenthS ounces OF navy
beans, or rice or hominy.
l LA pounds of potatoes; or part
potatoes, part onions, part tomatoes, or
other fresh vegetables.
One and twenty-eight hundredths
ounces of prunes, or dried apples, or
peaches, or jam.
One and twelve hundredths ounces of
coffee, or tea.
Three and two-tenths ounces of sugar.
One-half ounce of evaporated milk.
Sixteen hundredths of gill of vinegar,
or pickles.
Sixty-four hundredths of an ounce of
salt.
Fom 'hundredths of an ounce of pepper.
Sixty-four hundredths of an ounce of
lard.