Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-10
GREAT NUMBER o.
NuRsE.SI|Is !. NEEDED.
PRESENT ARMY CORPS MUST be
INCREASED NEARLY 1000 PER
CENT WITHIN YEAR.
! EMERGENCY Z ll l'' {: \ FOOD u RA1IoNs m
What is Furaished the Fighting Men
Of Various Nations-Federai Loans
Made TO Farmers Now Reach Almost
$4,000 600.

(From Committee on Public Information.)
Washington According to estimates
based on an army Of 1,500, 600 men,
81, 800 nurses will be needed. The pres
eAt strength Of the army nurse corps
Of the medical department is about
$500. To increase this number by
nearly 1000 per cent In 4 year is the
taak faced sby the corps. as
Hsspitals ii army camps and canton
naents still need nurses to bring the
quota for each up to the minimum Of
e5 considered necessary. although
since the urgent need for nurses was
made public in December nearly 1000
requests for application blanks have
been received.
In order to get the enrollments up to
the needed number some Of the re-
quirements heretofore imposed have
been waived. According to estimates
there are between $4,000 and $4,000
registered nurses in the country and
about 100000 other graduate and prac-
tcal nurses.
The equipment of no soldiers Is com
plete without emergency food rations.
i United States troops are supplied with
three different parched maize-meal
packets aud three chocolates. The
former Is a revival of sthe maize-me
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 q winter food of compressed meat!
There are more than dozen varieties
Of compressed teas used by the Rus
sian commissary. Compressed rice and
l 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
! fg coffee Of the central powers, which
may either be utilized for food as it is
( or converted into q coffeelike drink.
smoke dried pears are used in the
same armies. The Swiss soldier re-
.ceives 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
4 goes into beef membrane. Is
Up to December 1, S29s24, ,655s had
bsenpaid out to farmers on per cent
3 lonf time loans, according to q report
covering the operations Of the 12 fed
{ eral land banks. The total Of loans
approved, including those closed and
those awaiting verification of title and
other formalities, Is $1O5, 1876, 500.
The interest rate under the farm
loan system has been Increased from 5
TO 51z per cent. to apply to all applica-
lions which have not yet been APP
proved.
Borrowing is done through co-opera-
tive farm-loan associations organized
Z " farmers, each association being
composed Of ten or more farmer bor-
roWers and each group borrowing at
& least $2O. 600. Up to December 1 the
farm loan board had chartered 1883
such cooperative associations.
Jrsm the annual report Of the seere.
tary Of the interior: s s
IN this department We have during
the past year had : glimpse Of the ex-
panding romance Of chemical study
8 We have found adventure In the search
y for the hidden secrets Of petroleum
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