The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-18
work of S. 0. S. in France Ex.
GELS All History Of Mil.
Larry Feats.
QUICK SERVICE IS Tine RULE
Army Uses 100000 Pounds o, e.,.,,
Grated and Fresh Beef Each n,v
Immense Supplies Needed to
Feed Yanks-Works Llk.
a Machine.
~ CHARLES N. WHEELED

Is an epic story. 1t is truly of heroic
proportions. '''e
just now II requires about 1900, 900
pounds OF refrigerated and fresh haaf
20 1eed the army in France each dav |
besides the hundreds of thousands a, |
pounds OF bacon. mutton. ham. cornad |
Deer. canned salmon, and dried and |
picked meats and fish. More than 100
uOO cans of tomatoes. corn and meas
help to make up one days rations.
Something like 100000 cans Of lam
S,OOO cans of peaches, 5000 lars Of
pickles. 5000 bottles of catsup. car.
loads OF canned lobster and other sea
FOODS. more than 1000 boxes of choco-
late, fresh white bread made OF Amer
lean hour and all the boys want, even
the good old corn bread served hot be-
sides the immense quantities Of pota-
toes, beans. prunes, coffee, sugar. milk.
pepper, salt, vinegar, cinnamon, sirup,
and about everything found In a well.
stocked farmers pantry In the United
States are laid before the American
army In France every day-and 1t is
all there right on the dot.
| Works Like a Machine.
| 1t Is there in every section Of France,
from Scissors and TOul to Marseilles
and from the Swiss border to the Bay
OF Biscay. All France Is great In
dustrial place and there is hardly
spot in the whole country, including
the sections under heavy shell fire.
where the S. o. s. Is not standing at
attention when the dinner bell rings.
Meantime, men and munitions, and
all manner Of supplies are moving up
to the front continuously. and the
fighters are coming back for a little
rest. The L.achinery works smoothly
and efficiently. There are side lines
Of great interest. One of these is the
travelling bathroom. An outfit that re-
Quires only three trucks is now sent UP
to the lines to greet the boys as they
come out of the trenches and give
them fine scrubbing. Each outfi
will wash 500 boys an hour.
Meantime the s. o. S. is filling orders
from the front. 1t may be few thou
sand infantry, an artillery regiment
or several such regiments, machine
gun companies, and SO on through the
list. They are delivered Immediately
The wounded have 10 be brough
back to the hospitals. The trains ant
ambulances are ready and they mov'
like Acknowledgement that gettini
back from the first-aid stations at time
Is not quite as slow as clock. Tn
wounded are sent to all corners o
France and the big machine works oil
almost faultlessly.
Whole armies of the mobile section
now are transported quickly from sec
tor to sector. It Is up TO the s. O.
, to see that all this equipment is pre-
vided.
Salvage Work Important.
The S. o. s. besides doing an enol
: nous business in the manufacturer
line, conducts large salvage plant.
. plants. into which flows a stead
/ stream of battlefield wreckage. In IN
| clothing branch of the work alone the
| are saving the taxpayers back hon
| So 500, 600 a month. More importar
than the money saving is the saving
| tonnage.
At one station mammoth America
locomotives are assembled "whie yo
wait" Six of these leviathans are pl
together every day and are doing the
bit the next day.
II was found advisable TO operate
special train for American miitai
men between two widely separate
| no,nts in France. As soon as the niece
sitv presented itself the train was !
stalled. II Is called the America
| Special" 1t is manned by Pullman Ct
| norters-negro boys who have nj
/ long training on the de luxe trains ph'
home, They are rated as trst cha
wagon men here American rallW'
conductors have been assigned 10 IL
train. or trains. one running each WI
every "a hours.
i or one thing the mothers back nor
may be thoroughly assured ana 'lA'
tbot not one of their boys wants Tor
| single thing In the way Of suosisteh
| and medical and surgical attention
army ever took the field better p'
vided And while the appropriations
: being passed around il Is not ou'
b. Mace 10 observe that the subslsteh
3. division of the war department
: washington is entitled to decorate
IS for the efficiency it has achieved.
IS Something over 10000 enlisted m
and about o5.Oo0 women comprise
"belp" In the $, Q. ). organization.
large number of officers, Of course
u required for the supervising positlo
but practically all of the workers
men In khaki who have been term
o. the ammunition passers
'. Employs Army Of Women.
OF the 25.OO0 women in the We
!. most of them are French women.
L. arhtaypd in the utiIi