The Benson signal., 1918-03-30


ing visit. I have long been interested
in hospitals, and if I were to have a
personal illness which required hos
pital treatment l should be perfectly
content to be sick in the base hospital
at Camp Meade, satisfied that l would
receive the attention necessary and
under comfortable conditions"
In England priority must be given to
the manufacture or wartime boots
over all but government work. The
boots must be made of classes Of
leather and to specifications approved
by the director of raw materials; the
manufacturer must stamp on the up
per his registered number and on the
sole the retail price, together with the
words "war time"
The following are examples Of styles
and prices per pair: Mems heavy
shoes, $3.50; city clerks shoes, $4.87 to
$3.50; women's stout shoes, $3.16 to
$4.2O; women's frst-grade glace shoes,
$3.50 to $5.96; boys shoes, 81 up;
girls shoes, $1.87 up. Altogether there
will be 80 types of wartime boots. The
heels of women's shoes are not higher
than IL inches, but it is understood
that wartime shoes represent in all
particulars the manufacturers ideas
of what the public desires.
Small stocks of corn in the hands Of
dealers in New England and other
Eastern and Southern states, with the
exception of Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia, where surpluses were pro-
duced, are indicated by reports to the
department of agriculture. Actual
available supplies in the Southeastern
states are said to be greater than ever
before, although the amount of corn in
the hands of distributors and other
dealers is much below normal.
Most districts in the Southeastern
states have sufficient supplies for local
! needs, while dealers in many places.
especially Mississippi, Alabama, GeOr.
gia and Florida have shipped large
quantities Of corn to the larger mar
kets.
No commodities may now be export
ed from the United States nor import
ed, without license. According to q
| statement by the war trade board the
| military and tonnage situations have
| made increasingly apparent the neces-
sity of instituting a complete and thor
ough- h-going control Of all exports and
| imports.
Licenses for the export or import Of
coin, bullion, currency, evidences Of
debt of ownership Of property and
transfers Of credit will be issued by
the treasury department; licenses for
all other exports and imports, includ-
ing merchandise, bunkers, ships sup
plies, ETC., will be issued by the war
| trade board.
The director Of athletics at one army
camp has arranged a program as a
means of determining the relative ath-
letic caliber of the companies in the d.
vision. Each man is required to pass
in eight of the following tests to obtain
| positive mark for his unit:
Jump 8 feet from standing posi-
! ton; chin 10 times; clear bar at 4
feet 2 inches; throw a 12-pound shot
33 feet; climb 2O-foot rope in Is Sec
onds; dash so yards in 7 seconds; run
a mile in minutes; lift 6O-pound
weight over the head with one hand ;
sit up from a supine position with a
| 5O-pound weight suspended from the
back of the head.
There is no standard recipe for "vic-
| tory bread" the only requirement be-
| ing that it must contain not more than
80 per cent of wheat -four, the remain
ing 20 per cent being composed of corn
meal or corn -four, rice, potato flour, or
other cereals recommended by the
food administration. 'Victory" pies
and doughnuts, which contain not less
than one-third nonwheat flour, may be
sold on wheatless days if the same
! recipes are used throughout the week.
The limit Of time for filing income
tax returns has been extended to
April l.
In order to assure prompt and accu-
rate identification, the war department
has adopted a system of numbering en-
listed men Of the army. The system
provides for one series Of numbers,
without alphabetical prefix, for all en-
listed men. The number assigned to a
soldier will become a part of his OFF,
cial designation, and will never be
changed nor assigned to another man.
It will be entered on Identification tags.
The annual expenditure Of the Unit
ed States for candy Is approximately
$4OO 100000.