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New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
Men Threw Away
What Was Left

Every detail Of this cooking had
been introduced by the women pioneers
OF the movement. and Mrs Leach eX-
plained wherein il differed from tie
mems way They had sliced meat with
Knife. and had cut IT thickly. not 70
say wastefully aad this waste had
been really wasted. for they had
thrown il away. Under the women's
management IL was all turned 10 some
useful purpose. Mrs. Leach gave me
q summary Of just what was done.
The scraps from the mems plates are
separated and all fats reduced and
ultimately made into third class drip
pings for munitions. The scraps Of
bread left over or the tables are
roasted and crushed and put into sacks
This is sold 20 the Farmers Assoca-
ton az $50 ton for horse and cattle
food. The fats are taken over by the
munitions and the glycerine is c.
tracted. after which process the re-
naming bulk is sent 10 soap and
candle factories. The fat is extracted
from the bones for the same purpose.
The dry bones. after the fat is eX-
tracted. are sold for fertilizer. Differ
ent kinds OF articles arc also made
out OF them. One Of the camps took
in $3.50 $1,000 in one month by thus
disposiug Of by-products. At the same
camp they saved on the very moderate
ration allowance as much as fl.l00
, 25.300l In one month.
In the first year OF the war. when the
culinary departments were under the
management Of men, all Of this repre-
scented waste and loss. Another eX-
trayaganee eiimin-ted by the women is
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streets they throng every Saturday
afternoon-a half holiday TO which
they have been accustomed in the
South for several generations. Some
Of the white officers who were assigned
TO the training OF colored troops were
g. little chagrincd no first. Now they
are especially proud Of their COM
mands. The negro troops are quick at
drill, any rhythmic motion coming
easy 10 them, and besides the fine
show they make at retreat and guard
mount. they are developing into excel
lent shots on the rifle range. About
thousand OF them, deemed abnormglly
stupid, were made laborers for Uncle
Sam and sent as steyedores to Norfolk.
which is a small pointer showing what
the government can do for itself in
supplying labor for essential tasks if
the extremity comes.
The negro non-coms. were enthusi-
1stic about the generous provision the
government is making in the way of
allowances. a compensation and insur-
ance. When the news is spread il will
De difficult TO escape matrimony with
Columbia's dusky daughters. Negroes
like TO invest in insurance. though
them because Of the uncertainty that
exists about their filling their con-
tracts and the consequent expense. A
negro bishop of South Carolina once
devised an excellent scheme OF com.
bining business with religion by in
surfing his various hocks, requiring
small weekly payments Of premiums.
ard. in case Of death. preaching the
4. - q. ,s a oh no
rasion the amodnt of the policy would
be paid TO the beneficiary before the
congregation. gathered in the presence
Of the corpse, and much new insurance
was written Immediately. But now
the soldiers have chance TO get large
insurance IN large amounts at the
cheapest possible rates, with premiums
automatically taken care Of through
allotment. by the government. and
with Uncle Sam backing the whole
business as an insurance company hlm-
self | should not be surprised If the
average amount of insurance in the
1st Provisional Regiment did not ex-
ceed that of the native white regl-
ments Of the Carolinas. There IS one
Columbia University graduate among
the non-commissioned officers OF the
negro regiment.
Query: viii the private citizen,
after the war is over. noting that the
government never goes out OF busl-
ness, that the premiums paid are so
much less than he can secure ana
that the soldier is thus given special
privileges in the matter Of insurance;
demand that the government extend
its insurance functions so as 10 IN
cludc himself? Or will socialism nave
become so identified in the public mind
with folly and treason in America and
folly and anarchy in Russia that u
will be enough to damn any scneme
of this sort 10 dub il 'socialls'ic
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
Women Cooks Happy
To Render Service

A FOR the cooks themselves, they are
happy in rendering this particular ser
vice 20 their country. IL is something
that thcy know they do we'll. and they
feel themselves 20 be Of use. The work
has moral value for them. Their pay
is l26 lSl30) year, including quar-
ters and subsistence
The regulation for their uniform is
as follows:
In the case Of women who receive
an annual grant OF 81 the uniform
will include: One coat-frOcs, one great
coat. three collars. one pair shoes. ono
pair CATERS. two pairs stockings and
one hat.
The apportionment Of women cooks
and rates Of pay for the kitchen STATS
are as follows:
Up TO twenty-five offlcers--One head
cook at $40 year, one assistant cook
az e2G a year, one vegetable woman at
e26 year and one serubber at $50 a
year.
For ISL 20 200 officers-0ue head
cook at ESQ a year. four assistant cooks
at go year. two vegetable women at
s26 year and two scrubbers at $50
wear.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
Government Assumes
Extra Hazard of War

The insurance feature of the new act
gives convertible term insurance for a
period limited to five years after the
close Of the war 20 all soldiers and
sailors now or hereafter to be in the
service. For men enlisting before No
vember / the limit Of time for taking
this insurance is fixed at February II.
up to which time all are automatically
insured for something less than $4,000,
which brings TO "A dependent wife.
mother or child S25 month for twenty
years. Insurance can be taken out for
any amount. in multiples of $500. from
$1,000 10 $4,000. and the cost 20 men
Of draft ages varies from 90 cents per
month per thousand TO 10 cents. All
soldiers and officers now or hereafter
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
By "McGregor"

~ANP JACKSON. FIVE miles east Of
Columbia, s. c, is named not for
~ Stoncwall, but for Andrew Jack
son. who. boy in his teens, fought in
The Revolutionary Army against the
British in this section long before he
won his fame as q military commander
% New Orleans. achieving there the
only victory Of American troops in the
War or 1912 against our ancien. foes,
now and forever our allies.
It IS not 20 he presumed that the
War Department intended, in naming
f.6is camp. 10 settle the historic con-
,royc-sy whether Andrew Jackson was
borr in North OF in South Carolina.
The south Carolinian points TO Jack
sons own testimony in his appeal TO
.h, people Of his "native state IN the
natter Of Calhcun's proposed "nullif-
cation" But the Tar-Heel historian
replies that Jackson either did not
know the exact place Of his birth. or
was speaking in a general way and for
political purposes, and he has the adj
vantage OF being able to point to the
very SPOT. this being in Union County,
North Carolina, close 10 the South
F. Carolina line. as official deeds and con-
,emporancous testimony amply show.
The Jackson family did move to
South Carolina soon afterward, and
Jacksou's mother, a widow, died In
Charleston. of fever contracted by
rursirc American soldiers on the
prison ships, and was buried in an un-
marked and now unknown grave. Some
Red Cross monument might well be
dedicated 90 her memory as to piO-
rccr in the great profession Of healing.
And now the sons Of the men who
fought with Marion and Sumter and
P.ckcus and Sewer at Cowpens and
Camden and Kings Mountain, with
Greene a. Guilford Court House, with
Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. with
Scott and Taylor in Mexico, who fought
on both sides at Chickamauga, sons Of
the heroes of four wars, therefore, are
here marching and drilling and train
ing for the great conflict in which
civilization itself is at stake. They have
come from North Carolina and South
Carolina and Tennessee, a few from
Florida, where Jackson taught Span
.ards and Scmiuoles a lasting lesson.
And to-day a thousand men from Camp
Pike. Arkansas, have come in, with ff-
teen hundred more to follow, marching
20 their quarters, some with aristo-
cratic yaliscs and some with bulky blue
cloth bags mot carpet bags) swung
over their shoulders. Thus far the mon
o. foreign birth or parcntagc form less
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waived by the wife at her written re-
quest. in which case an investigation
determines whether the money is need
cd for her support With this allOt-
ment the War Risk Bureau grants
an allowance ranging from s. n
month for one child TO $50 for
wife, children and other rela-
tives. I'm the case of soldiers with
higher pay, say non-c n-commlssioned Of
iicers, the amount of this compulsory
allotment may be more than Sl5 a
month. but not more than half Of their
pay, the government making this
fifty-ifty proposition. In the case OF
other dependents. parents, grand
parents, brothers and sisters, these in
cluding those of half-blood and even
those adopted before April 6, voluntary
allotments may be made which the
government also supplements.
Thus a man who has been giving SIS
to the support of wife and one child,
voluntarily. now finds that they get
$40 a month, SIS from him and s25
from the government.
Compensation takes the place Of the
old pension system. Few realize that
the pension system. so far "a future
end on October 6 last. Pensions to
those Heretofore entitled to them
will continue. the administration Of
the funds being as before in the Pen
sion Bureau of the Interior Depart
mcnt. It is hoped that private pension
bills, that have done so much TO keep
the pension roll from being the roll
Of honor il should have been. will like
wise fall into "innocuous desuetude.'
to quote ponderous phrase from the
only President who ever had the
courage or the painstaking care to
veto private pension bills after investi-
CATION had shown them fraudulent. In
case Of death in the service of the
United States, military or naval,
mans wife is paid S25 a month for
life or during widowhood. with more
for children until they reach eighteen
years Of age. and $50 for a widowed
mother, the limit for all being S1j a
month. In case Of total disability. as
of the loss Of both hands or feet, 500
q month is paid to the man himself
during life; for partial disability, less
in proportion. And with this goes
plan of reeducation for disabled sol
diers which gives them chance to
earn living without impairing their
right to the compensation provided.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
Religious Side
Is Not Neglected

The Y. N. c. A. is doirg q splendid
work FOR the men in camp. South Car
olina is doing its share In the raising
of the y. VI. G.. 4. fund this week.
And the Knights Of Columbus dedcat-
ed their new hall night before last. the
Bishop of Charleston. who was Dean
Russell Of the Cathedral in Washing
ton before his elevation, making the
main address. The religious side Of
the men viii not be neglected.
As | close this screed from far OF
10 the right single bugle is sounding
"taps." O6icers' watches have not yet
been synchronized as FOR the protec-
tion Of a barrage fire. Presently sn
answering bu2lc is heard. and now a
third and fourth chime in. Now five
or six are sounding az once. high notes
toward the last harmonizing with the
low ones Of the opening strain. II
there anything sweeter than the clear
note of a bugle at night Is there any
thing more thrilling than the call that
Is sounded each evening TO signify that
work and play are over and the time
for sleep has come. the same signal
that at the soldiers grave tells OF war
fare over, of rest achieved where NJ
bugle sounds reveille"2 A belated, soli-
tary bugler from far away to the left
plays TAPS. Lights OUT"
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
Officers Have Learned
To Praise Economy

As for the officers and men, recipi-
ents Of all Of this practical benefit.
they report 70 Mrs. Leach as a child 10
its mother. They are delighted with
their scheme for practical housekeep-
ing. No sooner had we arrived at Ep-
som than the commanding officer met
Mrs. Leach and began enthusiastically
to tell her about the chart they had
been making out to show how much
they had saved that month over all
others preceding. An officer with his
arm in a sling was waiting TO see her.
lie had foregone his days leave in
town because OF the urgency Of the re.
Guest which he put before her. lie and
some OF the other officers were going
CycT to = new camp, and he wished
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
One Death Among
$4,000 Men

Camp Jackson has an ideal site for
camp, especially training camp.
Every officer here hopes that the can
tonment will be permanent one.
There is comparatively little dust,
even in dry summer weather, as the
dust from sandy soil soon settles
down. But the more it rains the firm
er packs the sand, and there will hard
ly be day of wintry weather when
drill cannot proceed without discom-
fort. There is no mud in camp to
speak of. In mid-November the air is
as balmy as in late spring in New
York or early summer in New Eng
land. There was Il cool snap earlier,
when the men complained and colds
were fashionable. but that was before
all the facilities for heating had been
finished. There has been only one
death in camp of $4,000 men, pneu-
monia following measles. Yet even
in this balmy weather the negro la
borers, on the edge Of the camp, lit
their open fires before each tent and
the red light of the long-leaf pine
timber, reeking with turpentine. was
one of the picturesque sights of the
place. and reminded one OF the camp
fires Of long ago, before steam heat
was invented or wooden cantOnments
were dreamed of.
There were a plenty of rifles for
drilling purposes, but of three kinds
the Krag-J Jorgensen, the old Springfield
and the new army rife, the combina-
on of the Springfield and Enfield, with
Springfield ammunition. The officers
Ike the new rife, and it il now being
furnished in increasing numbers, the
hardest shooting, straightest shooting
rhe in existence. Perhaps General
Crozier was right, after all, in his con-
tantion. Before long and in ample
tine every man will have one Of his
own-more than one when he goes
across-and in the mean time it is
philosophically observed that when a
soldier learns to clean a Krsg he can
clean anything.
There are not enough guns and cais-
sons for the artillery as yet. But for
drilling purposes, in spite Of the fact
that there is a remount station at
tached to the camp, with thousands of
i've horses for use, wooden horses are
used for preliminary training. So
wooden caissons have been put to-
cether for drilling that serve the pur-
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and architecture, we were met by one.
She must have been all of four feet
high and young. She was the head
cook Of the camp, with fourteen as
sstants under her. and | presently be-
gan TO hear from the mouths of loyal,
grateful officers about how competent
she was.
We went Immediately TO the kitchens
and found them elaborate and busy,
like the kitchens OF hotels. 1t was the
moment before the luncheon hour
One girl. capped and in uniform, stood
at the soup vat. ladlc in hand. An
other sliced meat thin and even and
without waste to the very end Of the
Joint. Others were in control Of the
vegetables and fourth group com.
manded the sweets. At the hands OF
another bread rolled thinly sliced from
a machine. The only men about The
place were the walters, and these were
the boys in the uniform of the army.
who were fighting men. With trays
in their hands they stood before the
various dishes alertly, as if to make
quick getaway TO the dining quarters.
or in another tent the soldiers sat
waiting TO be served. But this Is rot
a story Of dining service in camp.
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than per cent OF the Dixie Division,
ss the S1st Division has been aptly
named. And, of course. this includes
tho 1st Provisional Regiment, Of negro
troops, 1000 strong, Americans all. for
be it remembered that some OF their
ancestors came to jamestown, Va. be-
fore the Pilgrim Fathers planted their
feet on Plymouth Rock.
Five French officers are here helping
in the training of the troops for trench
warfare on the Western front-earnest.
devoted. self-reliant. self-contained
men. knowing their task. Where did
VIC ever get and why did we so long
retain our traditional ideas Of the emo
tional and volatile French, who could
charge Callantly, but could not hold a
position when the first fury of Gallo
fire was spent? French conduct during
the whole Of this war has contradicted
that conception Of French character.
Only once at Camp Jackson has there
been any display OF emotion by a
Frenchman, and surely that was par
donab!e. A French officer. who has an
American wife and thereby perhaps
was better able TO understand what it
meant for this great, peaceful nation
20 enter the world war. was taken up
10 the top of the fire tower COM
manding view Of the whole camp.
And from every side, as far as the
spacious cantonment was spread, could
be seen the troops of the American
National Army, drilling, marching,
marching, drilling, by squads, by pla-
toons, By companies. by battalions, by
regiments, BY briGades. digging
trenches. practising on the rifle and
artillery ranges-for France. Il was
and is a moving spectacle, and the
Frenchman could not restrain his
feelings, but neither could the Amer
lean general in the tower beside him.
The man who wouldn't weep the first
time he saw that sight is a coward!
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
By Mary Brush Williams

iCc.gnsh. 1917. by Tho Tribune Association.
- Ne of the FIRST things I noticed on
arriving in London recently was
that Dcvonshirc House showed
signs OF unusual and unwarranted ac-
'iyity. ON other visits IL had looked as
II it had fallen asleep just as we were
emerging from the Middle Ages and had
Jailed 90 wake IN. The grind of Picca-
dilly seemed 10 wash up 20 its very
gates and hush.
Apparently It is the thing for tho
upper class families Of England not
oaly 10 own a town house, but to own 1t
G. the merest incidental possession--so
;rIAing that they never remember TO
live in IL. Sometimes they lend 1t for
charity and war benefits, and this is the
only way one ever sees the masses Of
rare art treasures boarded therein.
peyonshirc House faces on Piccadilly,
across the street from the Ritz Hotel
End the Green Park. ! was accustomed
20 use the latter as my front yard, and
the shadow Of the old, low, time-stained
mansion was therefore ever in my con
sciousness. Nobody came or went along
IS gravelled courtyard. No blind
Fitted, no strings Of life manifested
themselves in or about its environs, so
fgr as the naked eye could observe.
hat is 20 say, such was the situation
in former years.
Last summer tsxicabs swung into its
entrancc-way. Heavy wheels tracked
orescents between its double gates and
Is porte-cochere. Long-nosed, snort
'ng machines drove up TO It's doors
You would at least be justified in as
suming that they bore ladies" to the
stately mansion and that the doors
we're manned by buffers in livery. vet
TINS was not the case. The machines
had FOR their ehauTeurs pretty young
girls in khaki, and the passengers were
khaki-clad women, too. Women in uni
form received them.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30

rates down by starting its own insur-
snce bureau. and the ships have sailed,
submarines or no submarines, ever
since.
Upon the declaration OF war life
insurance companies grew unduly dis
turbed about the extra hazard Of the
soldiers life. They offered to insure
at the regular rates, plus mere trile
for the extra hazard ranging from
S37 to 500 per thousand a year. ac-
cording to the taste and fancy Of the
company. Indeed, before the war with
Germany was recognized as an exist
irg fact some companies had fore
stalled the risk to themselves by put
ting in q war risk clause, to the effect
that if the insured man went out of
The United States as n soldier, and died
in consequence, his beneficiary should
receive one-tenth the face value Of the
policy if death occurred in the first
year. larger percentage II the in
sured survived the second year, and
so on.
Therefore, as in the case OF marine
Insurance, the government took over
the business Of insurinc the lives of its
soldiers, and the War Risk Insurance
Bureau was ready to hand for the en-
larged work The act which was passed
just before the adjournment Of Con-
gress deals with three subjects -allot-
ments and allowances TO the relatives
Of soldiers and sailors. compensation
for partial and total disability and for
death. and the insurance of the lives of
officers and men. The act is somewhat
complicated, and it was suggested that
civilian experts (so-callcd) should be
sent to the camps, upon application OF
the commanding officers, to explain the
provisions OF the act with regard to the
three features above mentioned. This
experts experience consisted in the fu-
tile attempt many years ago to sell
accident insurance in a Florida town
where the only possible injury a resi-
dent could suffer was falling out of his
uptilted chair. Nevertheless, one who
has been an easy mark for insurance
agents and has suffered many things
Of many companies has acquired some
education in the business.
The relatives of the soldiers arc also
interested in the terms Of this act, and
social workers especially have been
asked to explain the rights sccruing TO
soldiers dependents. A brief account
of its provisions may be Of general in
terest.
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part, the applicants are sturdy, modern
girls, but occasionally an English
"lady" drifts along in sleazy costum-
ing and garden hat, with daphanous
scarf round her neck. She has put to
her some such questions as the follow
ing: "What would you do if there
were a ditch on one side and a mound
of dead mems bodies on the other and
4 pond Of mud in the road and your
car was filed with wounded"
The housekeeper was not interested
in that kind of talk She took me to
see the ballroom, with its crystal and
gilt and its mirrors, and she sadly pre-
pared me for the news that it was the
filing room to-day, The sitting room
Of the duchess, with its satin walls,
was set with desks. Typewriters
tapped in the sitting room Of the duke.
Girls sat in rows at desks reading
letters in the room which had belonged
20 the Earl OF Harrington before his
marriage he being the eldest son and
the heir TO the title of the Duke Of
Dcyonshire. The multigraph ran in
the room that had witnessed the bap-
tism Of Lady Anne. And in the sta
bic. which is annexed to the left wing
Of the mansion, swarmed women, most
ly in khaki, with here and there male
assistant in the uniform Of the British
army. They were conducting the work
Of manning the forces in the field with
female cooks.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
The Busiest
Woman in England

A wonderfully good looking Young
woman in the khaki uniform of an off
Ger, with garnishments Of pearl earrings
and sapphire bracelet, sat at a desk
in the middle of the room. They told
me that she was Mrs. Burleigh Leach
and that she was very busy. The latter
fact | could deduce for myself. A
stream Of women. with its source at the
foot of the narrow stairs | had Just
climbed. enptied into the area around
her desk. She was examining them in
turn. Every other minute the telc-
phone bell rang. and in the alternate
intervals girl subordinates dashed uD
10 her with questions that had 70 be
answered before they could proceed
further. A man in uniform undertook
to tell me something. and excused him.
self in the middle Of word on the
ground that he saw a chance for mo-
ment's audience with Mr.. Leach and
in his phraseolo.y shs was the busiest
New-York tribune., 1917-12-30
The Extra Hazard
On Soldiers Lives

This scribe came 20 Camp Jackson
"as special representative Of the Bu-
reau Of War Risk Insurance, at a sal
ary of - per year" with orders "to
confer and cooperate with the military
authorities FOR the purpose Of obtain
ing 100 per cent compliance with terms,
privileges and duties imposed by the
act'-known as the soldiers and
sailors insurance act.
The War Risl; Insurance Bureau was
created when marine insurance rates
had scared upward to an impossible
figure on account Of the submarine
peril. The lgovernment brought the