The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
ING UNITED STATES
EHTERS A HUGE JOB
1 SAM HAS Modified A
lcE OF $500 COOKS TO
|.RE FOR APPETITEs.

ZACH DAY NEARLY THREE
NDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
s,oartment Is Going to Provide
$4,000 Embryo Troopers.
| Soldier Will Be Fed For
stsen Cents a Meal.
RNier cannot train on an emp
mach any more than he can
ope. so behind the new Amer
biting machine, now gathering
training camps, an army of
cooks is preparing to wage
sal warfare against lusty APP
DAVIS assault on the mess
l. by 687,O00 healthy, hungry
soldiers will be met and re-
4 but only by a prodigious ex-
Are of munitions. The cooks,
Nav, will meet the oncoming
Mi mess plates with a half mil
Bunds of beef, reinforced by a
i of million pounds of other
hid three times as many pounds
Atoes. The ammunition used in
little will cost the government
/. 40 a day.
Hers of this defensive army of
numbering $500, have been
bed for service in the 16 Amer
santonments. The chefs will
10000 assistants to help them
BIZ those $4,000 plates three
each day. From restaurants,
and bakeries the chief cooks
been brought together. Some
n are merely borrowed" from
tels for a short period, just
hOugh to teach enlisted men
8rets of the stew-pans. Others
Dlunteered to stay in Uncle
kitchens until the war ends.
istants are enlisted men, most
are cooks or bakers in peace
vegetables and fruits will
the larger part of the daily
ture of $288,540 for food. In
in this figure will be thou
dollars spent for wheat and
and other thousands to pro-
morning cups of coffee. The
n addition to this bill of fare
st the American people vast
+ Of money.
j great expenditure, however,
t mean that the soldiers ra-
Il prepared on an extravagant
he cost for each man will be
day, or IA cents a meal.
y.seven Tons of Salt Daily.
les the vast quantities of
bd potatoes, 900 pounds of
Are among the daily require
#for the new national army.
fee and cereals need $3.50
evaporated milk and 1875 tons
pr Five thousand bottles of
Extract will be used to flavor
and q tons Of salt will sea-
rations. The tiny specks of
found in some dishes will
total weight of so pounds.
ban a half million pounds of
Il be used daily, and Sammy
Head $500 cans of blackber-
on his bread every "a hours.
ing together these mountains
lies is a titanic task for the
naSter's department. The
packing houses of the nation
asked to butcher right and
upply the needs of meat. The
the country will grind day
u to fill the army -four bins,
cereals will be purchased in
lots at the grain elevators.
case the middle men will be
out, the government buying
IRON the producers at rock
prices. Fruits, green vegeta-
TX and eggs will be bought
cantonments whenever pos
ION From Source to Kitchen.
Inspection will follow all sup
1000 back to the source.
Will be inspected before it
Y packing house and again
'aken from the cars at the
ynts. Millers will be pre-
rom selling defective flour
'lny' and grain dealers will
opportunity to unload mus
VOS on the government. Even
grs who supply dairy prod
we army will be subject to
eSt inspection.
"i'lion Pounds of Ice Daily.
.leSe supplies of food have
tle army camp, they are
nISt class condition by the
@n methods. Mammoth re-
Ua plants have been built at
comment. Each is capable