Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-09-12

camps and others who may be captured
later the Red Cross purchased tail
or shop in Paris and moved tailors and
outfit outright to Switzerland. This
shop is now turning out each week 10
uniforms made to measurements sup
piled by mail by the various prisoners
III the various camps. The men are
supplied also with undertaking, shoes,
toilet articles, towels and food The
food is particularly necessary to sup
PIGMENT the meager prison fare for
which the Germans make the captured
officers pay in money.
The stripping of prisoners apparent
ly takes place only at the front in the
heat and confusion of battle. Camp
committees, appointed by the prisoners
themselves, see that American prison
ers receive supplies sent them.
Experienced flying officers are being,
returned from abroad. to act as special
instructors in the more advanced cours-
es OF aviation training which is being
developed by the air service
Recent practice in elemental train
Ing now gives the candidate more time
IL. the air with his Instructor than here
tofore. The new plan is known as the
Gosport system or "All Thru" as it
Is popularity called here, and insures
closer contact between the cadet and
instructor. When the cadets arrive at
a flying field from the ground school,
where they have learned much of the
theory of flight, engine control and re-
pair, radio, signaling and other kindred
subjects, several of them are assigned
70 an instructor who stays with them
until they are qualified in elemental
flying. They are then sent to the spe-
,ial schools for final work and train
ms in their particular line, as pursuit,
reconnaissance, artillery control or
bombing pilots. The old practice Of
giving cadet so much time in the air
under instruction and then turning him
'oose for his first solo flight, in "sink
Dr. swim" fashion, is being discontinued,
and what Is believed to be more safe
and sane system is being adopted.
Organization of forty air squadrons
has been authorized. Four will be To-
Gated at Houston, Tex, and So or
training brigade of three wings, on
Long Island, N. Y.
The base of this Long Island train
ing brigade, as now planned, will be
Hazehurst field, near NIineola. The
squadrons will be guartered in groups
OF -four or nine outlying fields. These
squadrons are to serve under field con-
ditions Stimulating, as nearly as prac-t
ticable the conditions behind the lines
| in France.
Information received by the chill
dren's bureau of the department of
labor seems to Indicate that every
where in the United States children
are receiving less milk than they
should have. Such decreases are I'M
doubtedly due in part to the high cost
OF milk. 1t is the poorest families
that have been forced to make tho
greatest reduction in the amount of
milk purchased. But that reduction
would perhaps not be so great, the
children's bureau says, If all mothers
fully realized the value of food in the
|. diet of their children.
Milk has been called the perfect
| food" Authorities agree that it sup
| plies the elements necessary to the
! growing child III the most digestible
form. In spite of its increasing cost,
! it supplies those elements also in the
| cheapest form. 1t is estimated that,
! on the basis of it's nutritive value,
milk compared with steak at 40 cents
q pound, and eggs at As cents dozen,
should be priced at about 271s cents
a quart.
4 Workers for Children's Year, to
whom the weighing and measuring
test for children under five years Of
age has revealed how many children
| in the United States are undeveloped
as Il result of improper diet. are en-
| gagged in campaigns to bring the i'm
/ pOrtlnce of milk to the attention Of
| mothers and to make it possible for
them to procure enough milk to keep
their children strong and we'll Many
| milk stations where mothers may re-
! ceive pure silk at nominal cost, or
free, If they cannot afford to pay for
| it, have been established in connec-
| ton with children's year work, and
| public measures for ensuring a5pure
| and adequate milk supply have. been
| undertaken in many communities.
Among these measures are the estab-
lishment of pasturization plants, the
inspection of the milk supply. and the
passing of regulations controlling dis
AiLAtion
The total value of all imports into
the United Kingdom during !. the
first six months of 1918 were S2.173,-
S5l, 100; of exports, S1,2Q1, 211,Os6,
For the same period of 1916 the val.
ues We're: Imports, S22,31o.73O, O3S; ex-
ports, $1,176,75S,033. The submarine
has not destroyed the commerce of
Great Britain.
Camp Shelby, Miss. will be remodel
ed and converted from tent camp III
to cantonment with permanesE quar-.
tiers and camp utilities, at total cost
of $5.467,37S.