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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Army Grows from lO7, 64l
To | sol, Az Since June, 1916

strength 5oe5 officers osls enlisted ms4
regular numbered 095; August 26C9 Sep
1917 1920; February, March, 74a2.
Officers about 6l25 enlisted
men, 12O262; total l233S7.
Guard units Of nine Columbia numbering 10000
Two departments created by 'nOdydine Eastern
MARCH &C. -Twenty-fvo Of eighteen
states called Federal service.
MARCH 30 1sl7-Four Guard ordered
making a total Of about $4,000
APRIL Department National Guard units mustered
Federal
APRIL Isl7-Presdent elecve draft
9congres declared war against Germany Enlisted strength
Enlisted strength Of National Guard was ll' and the Number " "
APRIL Retired officers called into active service
IL seloctve dn; BILL
MAY l. 1s-Nsfonal Federal this date 8's4
officers and 6s566 men,.
IS seece service law and Sc. June as day
this law and directed ezpeditOnory force under
Pershing proceed to France at earliest moment
MAY 81 Federal 1852
National Guard in Federal service 3ls4 officers
cs566 Grand total Of 1916 officers and ll97 men
969382 reported &i79 white citizens 053S9o
coored other
12a natura Germans including "de'arants and
JUNE TO- 1871 Strength Of National
to 62H officers and l4c744 men
JUNE 12 g-cary engineers artillery
regular brought strength Call issued for
$4,000 complete regiments infantry and field artillery and
order that strength Of sOoOoo'men may be
maintained
JUNE 49, l97-cenera Pershirg arrives
selection Of sites for sixteen
National Army cantonmenta
JUNE 49, Regular army
JUNE 81 10000 regular
National Guard o: fifteen
ates Federal
proclamation calling Federal
on July 49, July and
JULY Quota first Army numbering
AUGUST l. army approximately
number enlisted
37742O
enlisted enlisted $685. total
AUGUST s. isr7-Naaonal Guard mustered into Federal service
AUGUST
AUGUST commits
and approximately
AUGUST companies
gained Medical companies
l24
Generals
cersg graduated from training
AUGUST National Army announced
AUGUST 81 officers
44o7
between which
the draft of $4,000
brings the grand total strength Of Americas
draft OF $4,000 has
toa vlre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Coast Commands Assigned

WASHINGTON, Sept s Assign.
ments of coonels, lieutenant colonies
and majors of the Coast Artillery
Corps to command various coast artii-
lery districts were made to-day by the
War Department
Colonel Charles A. Bennett, now at
Fort Constitution, New Hampshire, has
been assigned to command the North
Atlantic District.
Colonel Willoughby Wake, Fort
Wright, New York, 10 command Middle
Atlantic District; Colonel Morris K
Barroll. jr.. Fort Moultrie, to command
South Atlantic District; Colonel John
F. Haines 10 command the coast de-
fences Of San Francisco; Colonel AL
fred VI. Hunter, now in Hawaii to COM
mand the South Pacific Coast District,
and Colonel George f. Landers, to
command the Panama District.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Solution of Shipping
Problem Remains

All the machinery has worked to-
Ccther for the production and equip
ment of this army with no more than
the ships that are humanity 10 be ex-
pectcd when any vast movement in
volvinC more than a million men is I'm
der way. We shall be a couple of
weeks behind the schedule in getting
these men into camp. a few thousand
caps or shoes may be wanting. Some
men or some bundles of clothing may
be sent TO the wrong environments.
Beyond this, nothing untoward is eX-
pected By the War Department.
The problem Of getting the new army
to France remains unsolved. There are
fifteen divisions Of the National Guard
ahead of 1t in fitness and experience.
And at present we can only move men
i'm the ships that are available. The
need 10 get the men over may lead TO
the finding Of means. If shipbuilding
were only attacked with the same bold
ness. the same disregard for precedent
involved in selective CONSUMPTION, there
would be ships.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

" AShA.NN'N ''
NJ has Just begun the movement
w Of our new National Army
nth eamp. In few days one-third oil
II will gather in the environments 'ne
wooden cities that have sprung up All
over the country for its sccommooa-
ton In a fortnight or thcreabouts an
other third will take the trains as inns
third IS doing, and be rushed 10 'he
training grounds Two weeks later OF
a, soon as the railroads can carry tncm
without conflict with the needs OF 'ne
industries on which the life OF nou-
I'm army depends, the rest of the hrs'
rbciee Of the selective draft will be IN
nrNprm learning the difficult "f' o.
nresent-day warfare.
When all are gathered together 'here
will be 100000 men in arms. larger
force than ever before we're IN the he'u
Gov this Republic. The Revolutionary
War was fought by only 100000 men,
taking the total for the whole contiet'
The War Of 1912 employed q total OF
1000 men, and tho Civil War total
Of 100000 Union men. of whom It Is
certain that q million were never IN
arms at once And behind this 1850
600 stand hundreds of thousands, wait
ing to be called as soon as the prob
lem Of finding or building ships to
transport them to the field Of battle is
solved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

KANSAS, ll7th Supply Train (Texas),
ll7th Sanitary Tram, lst, I'd, Sd and
9Th Ambulance companies respective
" the 1st Ambulance companies of
Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee and
Oklahoma), LIST, I'd, Sd and 4th Field
Hospital companies respectively the
LIST Field Hospital companies Of the
District of Columbia, Nebraska. Colo
RADIO and Oregon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

know wnat was transplring at recruit
Ing stations, and the apparent iudiiTer-
ence OF the city deceived them till the
red lis. bearing the names of those
called IN tire first detachment was post
cd a: exemption headquarters through
out the city. The way suddenly became
a popula. institution. During the last
TWO days exemption officials. according
20 Mr.. Conkl!ng. Nave done nothing but
argue with conscripts pressing their
claims 70 20 with the first contingent
TO Camp Upton.
Yesterday morning man entered
Mr. Corklin's Office and said that he
had u good claim for being sent away
with the first lot Of drafted men.
II am a cook" he said. land what
they will need first AZ Camp Upton are
cooks. There are only eleven men
posted in my district Cor the first call.
J know every one Of them. and none
Of them i a cook"
Mr.. Conkling told him that ne would
have to wait until the next contingent
LETT ten days hence. The list IN his
district had been selected, he said, and
could not be changed.
well, | am going, anyhow" said the
visitor. III pay NY own way to Yap-
hank"
They'll put you in the cooler" said
Nj. Conkling.
That's all right, so long as they take
me in. I'll give the officers demon
stration of my cooking, and they'll let
me out in hurry"
Another man told Mr.. Conkling that
ne had thrown up his job the day after
he had been accepted by his exempt
tiCn district board.
Spent His Bankroll
Now, have been taking vacation
since, and living high, and have just
about reached the end OF my roll" said
the laphank candidate.
There will be no shortage OF men"
said Mr.. Conkling. I'VE could send the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

Only . per $50 men-of the
city's draft quota will march of TO
camp al Yaphank tomorrow, but Il Is
10 fault OF the men OF fighting age. Sc
lected for the nations war service,
tina: q larger number will not go. The
government has determined the size Of
the detachment o. drafted men, but II
The men themselves had their own way
in the conduct o. this war, Yaphank
tomorrow night would look like a
Western mining camp suffering from
ar acute attack OF gold fever.
In localities where peace sentiment
was strongest & few weeks sgo, ano
where the most determined efforts were
made 10 limit Americas participation
II the war, exemption boards reported
tina. they could send the full quota Of
their districts 20 Yaphank in the morn
ing In districts where the greatest
number Of exemptions had been filed,
and whore slackers did not have to suf-
fer from lack Of congenial company, ex-
emption officials have lately been be-
seged with applications for Yaphank
tickets.
Men Eager to Go
That there had been change in SEN
timent from opposition or indifference
70 the war TO enthusiasm was manifest
in so many ways that conscription off .
cials, the men closest TO the publics
war pulse, expressed establishment.
Since the date of the first call was an
nounced the Office of Deputy State At
torney General Roscoe S. Conkling, in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
ANFRNA AS FIRST REAL NATIONAL ARMY MASTERING Al
Fighting Units, Raised on Principles
Differing From FederalandS tateForces,
Stand for Wider Conception Of De-
mocracy at Home and Is Reliance Of
Europe Against Triumph Of Autocracy
Bv c. w. Gilbert

S.-Thcrc military the world Al
NJ has just the movement to-day II +" the reliance oemo'"
Wv - for overt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
WHY WE RECOMMEND THE CARD BUDGET SYSTEM

One great aid to the use of the system was
the setting aside of one card for the budget it
self-the apportonment Of the income after
the plan suggested by Miss Gilbert in her pre-
liminary article, published on December 81. At
the top of this card was placed the regular
weekly income below, the division that must
be made in order 10 meet all expenses and still
leave little 'to the good" at the end of the
week This budget card served as a check by
which all the others might be measured. 1t
was apparent at a glance that only certain
fixed sum might be withdrawn to meet each
weeks expenses; the tendency was to keep
within that sum and TO put the remainder in
the bank TO meet the larger expenses that must
be provided for. Without such reminder the
temptation is almost irresistible to allow for
little expenditure this week upon the mental
promise to make it good next week and then
to spend little more next week, because after
all it does not matter much and there is plenty
of time ahead TO save money enough to meet
that bill which won't be due for a month.
We defy any but the most mathematical per-
son to keep an deliberately classified account
book for the whole year. 1t is too much trouble.
We know for we have tried it. If it lives for
three months before passing into the discard
the housewife feels herself almost professor
of economics Then she goes away from home
or something else interrupts and the book is
put aside, because she learned so well how to
manage her expenses that she thinks it is not
needed.
But card is such a little thing that it may
be slipped into the shopping bag and items
entered upon it at the moment of purchase.
And the card system is so simple that record
ing ones expenses ceases to be a trouble. Two
minutes or five at the outside serve for the
jotting down Of the days expenditures. The
budget card shows whether these expenditures
are bullying in one place or another; the month
ly checking up is proof positive that you are
living within your income with great pride and
contentment Of spirit or skirting around the
edge Of it a prey to subconscious uneasiness.
This has been our experience with our own
budget system. 1t will be yours if you try it,
Why not test it for yourself? We will send
you the whole system Of 207 cards in strong
box with hinged cover for $1.35 postpaid,
or we will send you the cards alone for Soc.
Address requests TO The Tribune Institute.
Tribune Building, l54 Nassau Street, New
York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
THE HOUSEKEEPER'S BOOKSHELF

a high fuel value Nor can olive oil be "eaten
through the skin" and directly converted into
tissues to any appreciate degree, and taken into
the stomach the degree of federation would be linn
tied. The slogan that "The appetite Is safer
guide to follow than science" we deem most dan
gerous. The appetite is not normal in diseased
conditions, when questions of diet most inn
portant and unhappily the nat iral appetite is
easily vitated and cannot be trusted at all-note
the aversion of children to the plain foods cereals
milk, etc, which thev most need, after sweets and
meats have been offered to them.
While cannot agree with the author these
and some other points, the book is in the main
practical and instructive, is entertainingly writ
ten and we'll adapted to the use Of the home
woman with no scientific training 1t gives both
general principles and specific recipes for the
utilization of the foods that are at once rela-
lively cheap and highly nutritious. Some good
advice anent the of spinach. cabbage, macaroni
and cheese and cheap cuts of meat Is given
There Is a large 30 cents worth in this little
treatise, albeit we cannot agree with many Of
the deductions drawn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

There were no superfuous headings to cross
out; there were none omitted that had to be
supplied. Several cards could be given, for in
stance, to the divisions that would come under
the heading of food. On the other hand, it was
possible to group on one card number of
items which called for payment only once
month, as rent, lighting bills, telephone, ETC.,
or perhaps quarterly payments of interest or
insurance premiums. In this way the system
could be expanded TO any number Of cards
where it was necessary, or contracted to one
which would show at glance number of re-
lated items.
sit happened, there were several individual
problems to be solved in the testing Of the sys-
tenn One person had the usual household
problems, which took very much the classified
ton suggested by Miss Gilbert. Another did
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

Economy in the use of meats will not be COM
pete, however, without suggestion as to the
advisability of always having on hand small
supply of rich stock-made from meat, bones,
etc. This idea comes to us from the foreign
housewife-and where will you find her equal
as a thrifty manager? With this stock on
hand rich meat flavor may be given to many
a nutritious but commonplace dish, rendering
it extremely paatable.
Try using little of this concentrated stock
with water that vegetables have been cooked
in, and see what very nourishing and deli
cately favored soup it will give; or use small
cupful of it with boiled cornmeal and few
chopped nut meats, and learn what delicious
and inexpensive breakfast dish you have dis
covered-when it is sliced and fried crisp and
brown in little hot bacon dripping.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

the experienced caterer who recognizes its
great value.
Where economy must be closely considered,
the whole shank should be purchased. Have the
butcher saw and crack the bones so that they
will fit into your soup kettle. Cover all with
cold water and stew t very slowly, adding
bay leaf, one sliced onion, diced carrot ant
few stalks of chopped celery. Cook until the
meat adhering to the bones is very tender, then
add salt and paprika to taste half an hour
before removing from the fire.
Take out the bones carefully, remove every
particle of meat and chop finely. Add to each
cupful one chopped hard-boiled egg, a tiny
pinch of summer savory, pepper and salt to
taste and little shredded parsley. Mix WELL
pack into an earthenware mould, and pour over
it sufficient of the strained stock, from which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

over the exterior of the meat with little hot
shortening. Then cover with a seasoned stock
or gravy about half the depth of the meat
and cook either in very moderate oven or
over the simmerer until the meat is tender.
casserole or deep pan with tight fitting cover
is best for this use.
"Buy the cheaper cuts of meat" is the advice
generally given for reducing the butchers bill
in these days of soaring prices; but to have
these the success they should be long, slow
cooking is necessary. Frequently, where gas
is employed solely for fuel this expenditure
counterbaances the saving on the meat, and
thereby illustrates this well-meant advice
Fortunately, with the advantages of the fire
less cooker, the difficulty of slow cooking is
overcome. It's use leaves no possible excuse
for large bills for either meat or fuel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

tested this method precisely
as we test every other new idea or INVENTION
that il presented to us. The result is that we
heartily indorse the card system for keeping
account of your expenditures.
in order to do this certain obstacles had TO
he overcome-notably the skepticism OF GER
tain members of our staff who were familiar
with the account book system and who chung
TO its clearly defined and elaborate classlflca-
ton as Offering the line of least resistance Tor
keeping track of the many and varied expenses
of the household.
The best way to find out was to try 1t. SO
each member of the staff made up card bud
get system on the plan recommended by MISS
Gilbert and used it to keep his or her own
accounts.
II took less than a week to create group
of enthusiasts for the card system, which
from that time became the Tribune Institute
Budget system of Household Accounting.
In The Tribune Institute pages of the issue OF
January 7 Miss Gilbert described in detail the
use of this system and the general classical
tions that would apply to most households. Inc
system consists of 200 ruled cards divided into
columns At the top of each one OF these cards
is printed simply Month Of" and "Day"
The columns allow for the date, the items and
the sums expended. The main divisions which
appear on the tab cards are Food, Clothing,
Shelter, Operating Expenses, Announcements,
Savings. In the divisions indicated by these
tab cards are placed the classified cards for
each month, and at the back of the box is the
summary card, which presents at glance the
total expenses under each heading for the
month and the grand total for the year.
In her article Miss Gilbert suggested the
fifteen cassifcations which would apply to the
average household, but in testing the system
we found that each individual varied these
classifcations more or less according TO in
dividual need. In this way the advantage OF
having the plain ruled cards with blank lines
left for the classification heading, the month
and the year made the system so flexible that
il not only could be moulded to any use, but
could be started any time Of the year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

Unfortunately, we Americans, as compared
with other nations, pay too little attention to
small economies. This is especially true when
it comes to the consumption Of meats; we lose
sight of the great value of the natural meat
favor, and our penchant for putting artificial
relishes on even the best cuts of meat has de-
stroyed our discrimination on this most i'm
portant point
In the following tested recipes will be found
suggestions for preparing number OF de-
licious and inexpensive meat dishes that will
doubtless prove novelties to the majority of
housekeepers.
POSSIBILITIES IN A SHANK OF BEEF
In our present day markets shank of beef
is generally split up and sold as soup bones.
The entire shank is rarely purchased, save by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

Her housekeeping by proxy, simply setting
aside a fixed sum each week to cover such items
as food, laundry and service. Still another had
only board bill to consider outside of personal
expenses and obligations.
No account book would have fitted all these
cases. The card system adapted itself readily
to the requirements of each one. If an error
was made or a certain heading was found by
experience to be impracticabe the card could
be thrown into the waste basket and fresh
ore substituted
There was no obligation to begin on the first
of January, that each page might be filled out
in orderly fashion and the record so be kept
clean. The card system made it possible to
begin at the end of the year and in the middle
of the month and yet leave no blank pages or
loose ends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
TRITE FOOD VALUES AND THEIR LOW COST
BY W. s. Birge, M. ID.
SuIIy Kleinteich, New York. Price % cents.

"HIS optimistic title is hardly borne out IN
the textile present condition OF prices
being such that while some foods are
HIGHER than others none can be said TO be cheap
except relatively.
The beans and peas lcntls and cheese, even the
cheapest cuts of meat, have all scared in price.
Nor can we agree with the stand on true food
values, which starts out bravely, on Page !, with
n definition OF true food values as distinguishing
between tissue builders and fuel producers
rightly including fats among the latter-hnd on
Pages 81 and IS delivers n panegyrie on olive oil
Ms primarily a blood maker and tissue builder"
as distinguished from other oils such as cotton
seed As far az We know one considers "oliye
oil the highest in nutritiye value of all foods used
by man." though it is completely burned and has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

0 YOU know why a card system
Of household accounting is
simpler, more easily handled
and better in every way than
the rigidly classified account
book?
In The Tribune Institute we
tested this method precisely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11
Bv VIRGINIA CARTER LEE

.NE hears so much about Amer
!: :" ! !: I: !. !: !. !: 6. :: :.
Ill lea being a meat-eating nation
~ also Of the evil effects that en-
II sue from a diet of this kind
when carried to excess, that
the thinking housewife may be
Ill interested in acquiring knowl-
edge concerning a few hard
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-27
Deserved Promotion

jerome g. Harris, OF Mount Holly,
has received commission as second
lieutenant of infantry, which is mat
ter that pleases not only the young
man but all of his friends. He has
been at Fort Myer for some time work
ing hard to secure this commission and
he now has the satisfaction of knowing
that he is 'honor man." being number
one Of twenty out of class of ovel
sixty.
Lieutenant Harris is in class b, in
which those named are recommended
TO be commissioned eventually as pro-
visional second lieutenants in the reg
ular army. At the close of the camt
they will be commissioned second
lieutenants in the officers reserve corps
and attached to regular army regiment.
for duty, to be commissioned in the
regular army as vacancies occur.