The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-10

4UAAeueHIS heretofore imposed nave
been waived. According to estimates
there are between $4,000 and 10000
registered nurses in the country and
about 100000 other graduate and prac-
teal nurses.
The equipment of no soldiers is COM
pIete without emergency food ratiOns.
united States troops are supplied with
three different parched maize-meal
packets and three chocolates. The
former Is a revival Of the Iaaize-meal
of the American Indians, on which they
could exist for days while hunting or
on the warpath.
The .'chain-shot" ration furnished
belgian, French and Teutonic soldiers
IS winter food of compressed meat. |
mere are more than a dozen varieties |
OF compressed teas used by the Rus
.slan cOmmissary. Compressed rice and
macaroni is supplied Oriental forces.
Oat bread in sausage form is used by
some of the north British troops.
"A curious ration is the compressed
ng coffee of the central powers which
may either be utilized for food as it is
or converted into a cOffeelike drink.
s SmOke-dried pears are used in the
same armies. The Swiss soldier re-
ce1ves an emergency ration of white
chocolate, made entirely of cocoa but
ter and sugar.
An Italian army chocolate is in sau-
sage-length form, while their plum duff ,
goes into a beef membrane. ,
up to December 1, 29824,655 had g
been paid out to farmers on 6 per cent 8
long time loans, according to report n
covering the operations of the IL fed
eral land banks. The total of loans
approved, including those closed and /
those awaiting verification of title and q
other formalities, is sos, 136, 500. n
The Interest rate under the farm n
loan system has been increased from 5 t,
10 oH3 per cent, to apply to all applica- If
lions which have not yet been ap- 81
proved. q,
borrowing is done through co-opera- 81
tive farm-lOan associations organized b1
Oy farmers, each association being ii
composed of ten or more farmer bOr- Sc
rOWers and each group borrowing at p1
east $4,000. Up to December 1 the ell
farm loan board had chartered 1889 bN
such cooperative associations.
From the annual report of the secre- ar
airy of the interior: dr
In this department we have during Ike
ne past year had a glimpse of the ex- an
landlng romance of chemical study. er
We nave found adventure in the search sW
OF the hidden secrets Of petroleum, to
aturaI gas and coal tar, of coal smoke st;
no the refuse from a hundred fur FIRE
aces and smOkestacks. We appear to ace
ave suddenly driven into a chemical
ge or perhaps il would be more ac-
urate to say that we have suddenly ito
eaI1zed that we are such an age. New 8
Explosives, new fertilizers, new sources mes
power, of food, new materials for 500
obstruction and destruction, new for
reservatives of life, and new agencies nre
'r the sWeetening and wholesoming of sar
fe-these are to the credit of the Oh,
Odern chemist, and as a bv-nrodnct mo
this war we are to have higher an RIM
of this branch of science.
Id our genius for discovery which has n
greatly been applied to problems of oo,,
echanics will find in analytic and ~.
" H0lu VI OppOr- con-
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All wooden Christmas boxes for SOL ~
ers of the expeditionary forces re- hon
lved too late for shipment will be re- NOV.
49, ~ '"eiS Il return postage eacl
mailed to the superintendent, rail- hon,
" mail service, New York, N. Y, +orr
To aid in supplying suitable material
tn which to illustrate sermons, lee +o =,
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