The courier-index., 1917-12-28

/ Ouc%PcSeCu Efficiency IN OOnScFVd
ton of Food Fools Camp Contractors
In some army and national guard
camps contractors who undertook to
dispose of garbage at a price based
upon the amount they expected to get
are threatening to throw up their
jobs because the amount is so small
The Surgeon Generals office and
! the Quartermaster's Department are
, cooperating to secure the best nu-
triton of soldiers with the least
waste. Officers of the food division
: give instruction in food values, bal
ancing of menues, and methods Of
cooking and serving. At one camp a
conference of this sort was attended
| by $50 cooks, mess sergeants and
mess officers.
The allowance provided by the
army regulations is liberal and per-
mits of considerable savings These
accumulate to the credit of the or
ganization if there is careful man
agement.
Editors of Belgian Paper Find Safe
Office in "A Cellar on Wheels"
La Liber Belgique, the publication
issued somewhere in Belgium"
which the Germans have been unable
to suppress, thus defines it's office
location:
1.-THE editorial establishment being
no place of repose, cellar on wheels
has been found more convenient.
Business being at a standstill
under German domination, we have
suppressed the page of advertise
ments and advise our readers to
save their money for better Tins"
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10000 Graduate Nurses viii Be Re-
quired in Army Hospitals
With continuance of the war, in
the next year at least 10000 nurses
will be needed in army hospitals at
home and abroad OF the $4,000
graduate nurses in the country only
$500 have so far been assigned to
duty in army service. and of this
number 1900 are in France
An army nurse must be graduate
of training school for nurses and
must have served for two years in a
hospital They are assigned to duty
in the United States or abroad and
preferences are granted when con-
ditions permit. Nurses who prefer
not to have service abroad will have
their preferences respected.
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Extracts from Diaries of German Sol
ders in New War Publication
The ga page booklet German War
Practices" published by the commit
tee on public information, devotes
one section to extracts from German
war diaries, among them being the
following:
A shell burst near the Eleventh
company and wounded seven men,
three men severely. At 5 o'clock
we were ordered by the officer in
command of the regiment to shoot
all the male inhabitants of Nomeny,
because the population was foolishly
attempting to stay the advance of
the German troops by force of arms.
We broke into the houses, and
seized all who resisted, in order to
execute them according to martial
law. The houses which had not al
ready been destroyed by the French
artillery and our own. were set ON
fire by us, so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. 1t is a
terrible sight when helpless women
and children, utterly destitute, are
herded together and driven into
France (From the diary of Pvt.
Fischer, Eighth Barvarian Regiment
of Infantry, thirty-third reserve di-
vision)
Copies of this book may be secured
free of charge by application to the
Committee on Public Information,
10 Jackson Place Washington, ID. c.
Post Exchange Furnishes Little Lux
uries Which Makes Camp Life Easy
Men at the cantonment buy many
articles at the post exchange for less
money than they would have to pay
in their home town stores. And the
post exchange manager is authority
for the statement that 10000 men