Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-15
THE NATIONAL BIRD
FOR EACH NAN
Fifty Thousands Pounds OF Them
New Gorging Corn To Make
Camp sleade Feast
ls OUNCES IS THE RATION
Uncle Sans Army Regulators Pro-
vide ItAnOiher Treat Is
Coming Christmas.

key:
For Thanksgiving Day or Christ
man. when turkey COSTS more than
the regular meat ration. proper al
lowance viii be made on the ration
account by the Organization. the
product Of the number of men pres
ent on the holiday multiplied by the
excess cost OF turkey over the regu-
lar meat allowance. Should the ra-
ton of turkey cost less than the regu-
lar meat ration, the proper deduction
VIII be made"
Somewhere in Illinois there are to-
day 10000 pounds of turkey who are
deyouring corn at rate at which
they never before devoured it in all
their young lives, and the turkey glad
ness among them exceeds anythlng
ever known in turkey history IL
they knew the reason for the corn,
every one of the $4,000 pounds would
be weeping turkey tears They are
being prepared for the Thanksgiving
dinner OF the soldiers at Camp Meade
A few days more and-whacki The
heads of all of them will fall, and
they will start toward the 10000 men
who are waiting for them at Admira.
Station with appetities made cruel BY
expectation. Each man will eat 10
ounces of sheer bird, no bone or
gristle.
And these $4,000 pounds are only
part of the 100000 pounds and more
which Uncle Sam has bought to give
all his lighting men, on land or sea, at
home or in France, a genuine turkey
dinner Thanksgiving Day
It's all according to army regula-
tions.
TO BE Repeated At Christmas.
Morel
The same thing is going to happen
at Christmas.
For years the army regulations have
provided fo-turkey for the American
soldiers on Thanksgiving or Christ
mas. (There was a time, three or
four years ago. when they got it also
on New Years Day. Washington's
birthday ana the Fourth of July.
They get chicken on those days now.)
There were many persons who said
that that was all very well for a time
when the army and navy numbered
less than 100000 men, but that the
government would never attempt to
rive all its soldiers and sailors turkey
when those forces amounted to nearer
2000 000 Hence this news is some
thing of a surprise to the men in uni
form. it has convinced the men that,
after all, their Uncle Sam doesn't
need anyone to say to him Have a
heart!"
He's got tie heart ali right, for in
expanding the amount OF turkey he
stuck in his market basket he didn't
even cut a fraction OF an ounce off
that ration of 10 ounces to the man.
Shows Head Work, Too.
But he had to possess a head as
well as a heart to go into the market
and buy up all that turkey without
boosting the price to the skies He
showed the headwork H. f. waid-
ner Of Henderson. Linthicum & Co,
dealers in turkeys, said that he had
read in trade journal recently that
tho. United States Government had
placed a contract in New York for / =
100000 pounds OF the bird at prices
below the current market prices for
dressed turkey, which is somewhere
between 50 end 81 cents a pound
THE government was too shrewd to
watt said Mr. waidner. There are
some indications that turkey viii be
high and that the country people are
holding back their stocks The gov
ernment bought birds that were killed
last winter and that have been in cold
storage since. The fact that they have
been in cold storage doesn't hurt
them. They are fine food"
No Cold Storage Birds.
Nothing doingl" fairly shouted
Capt. A Berwick, of the Quartermas-
tiers Corps at Camp Meade Moth
ing doing IN the cold-storage bust
nessl The birds for which I con-
tracted are eating their heads off out
in Illinois now, getting all the corn
they can gorge. ] have seen to that
Swift & Co. to whom I gave the con-
tract, have just this minute called me
up to ask when the AK is to fall.
Il haven't given the word yet.
shall wait until few days before
Thanksgiving Absolutely everybody
here is going to get 10 ounces of tur-
key on Thanksgiving. If he cant eat
it at one meal he viii eat ii in two or
three"
There are about 10000 men at Camp
Meade at present. OF these about "a,
600 are white troops and about 6,000
colored troops. The latter get the
same ration as the former. If those
$4,000 pounds of bird with their
feathers still on them ont in Illinois