The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-14
0. M. WANTS HELP
Stenographers Badly Needed at
Washington.
Funston Soldiers Can Aid In
Filling Demand.
SEND LIEUT.. RUCKER NAMES
Officer VIII Assist Applicants
in This Territory.
Camp Personnel Must Eat Mere
Apples Now.

It would be well If each soldier at
Camp Funston appointed himself
committee of one to help obtain need
ed civilian employees for the office OF
the uuartermaster general at WASH
ington. The office of the quarter.
master general is the business ana
supply department of the army &C
cording to a notice received by Major
Robere. sub-depot quartermaster here,
it is in need of additional civilian en-
ployes, particularly stenographers
and typists. The notice says that the
need for such employees is increasing,
"and unusual steps must De taken TO
meet the situation.
Lieut.. w. L. Rucker has been ap-
pointed by Major Boberg as the Camp
Funston officer to aid in securing
civilian employees for the quartermas-
ter generals office. Any soldier at
Funston. or any Individual sback
home" who reads this story, and
who knows of one or more civilians
possessing qualifications to serve in
the qUartermaster offices, particularly
stenographers and typists. should
communicate with such persons and
advise them to write Lieut.. w. L.
Rucker, sub-depot quartermaster de-
tachment, Camp Funston, Kansas, at
once. Lieutenant Rucker will advise
and assist applicants in every possible
manner.
1t is essential that the quartermas-
ter offices, which are in charge Of ra-
tioning, paying. clothing. housing and
moving the great American army, as
well as performing many other duties.
be adequately equipped with help at
Washington. fra soItli~r4 at Funston
tells his sister others he knows of
this opportunity, and thereby assists
the quartermaster department, he will
be performing an additional service
of value to the army. And it will be
avery creditable service, too.
6SNow, let's all make inquiries. sug-
gest names, and help Lieut.. W. L.
Rucker to forward to Washington a
larger number of applicants than any
other sub-depot quartermaster in the
United States will obtain.
Officers of the sub-quartermaster
depot detachment of Camp Funston
desire that the thousands of soldiers
at this cantonment bear the follow
ing saying in mind:
'An apple a day will drive the doc
tor away
The subsistence division of the sub
depot quartermaster is ready to pro-
vide an enormous number of apples
in cans-for this camp. On Monday 1t
received six big, carloads containing A.
600 cans. The cans are designated as
No. 10 in size and each contains nine
ty-four ounces of apples. Additional
shipments of $4,000 cans are on the
road to Funston. So. the soldiers in
training here can count on a supply of
$4,000 large cans of apples-enough to
drive many a doctor away.
While the soldiers here doubtless
admire the officers of the medical
corps, it is their duty to eat more ap-
pies. Who wants to be sick? Besides,
to eat the quartermaster apples will be
a matter of economy as well as health
preservation. If your mess sergeant
or the regimentaI supply officers put
in returns for so many rations, they
must, under a war department order.
purchase the quantity of the canned
apples which is designated as the al
lowance for that number of rations. In
other words, so far the apples are
concerned. it is not only a matter OF
health and economy, but a duty as
we'll.
According to compilations by the
subsistence division, each No. 10 can
of apples contains enough of the fruit
for 73.4375 rations. This means that
for every seventy-four days a soldier
is rationed at Funston under the new
apple order, he must consume one
can of the No. 10 apples. Or one can
for every seventy-four soldiers fed
daily at a mess. That's easy; in fact.
for the sake of health more than that
quantity should be consumed. There
is no maximum limit as to the amount
which may De purchased, out no one
can buy less than the minimum.
What started the apple order? The
correspondence received by the sub
depot quartermaster indicates that the
chief quartermaster of the American
expeditionary forces now running q
hot race after the Huns found it more
adyisa BILE to ship dried or evaporated
apples across the Atlantic and to use
the canned apples in the United, States.
The evaporated apples are more COM
pact and require less precious ocean
shipping space than the canned fruit.
So all the forces in the United States
are going to eat the canned fruit, save
ocean freight space and drive the doc
tors away.
Announcement has been made that
the designation of the office of the
camp quartermaster at Camp Funston
has been changed TO that of office of
sub-depot quartermaster. Instead Of
being camp quartermaster, Major b.
berg is now the sub-depot quarter
master of Camp Funston, and the
members of his organization are mem
hers of the sub-depot quartermaster
detachment. The change is in con-
forrnity with reorganization outlined
by the quartermaster general of the
United States army.
Remember Henry C. Butts of the
subsistence division? He applied for