The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-25


requests for application blanks have
Fbeen 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 ana
about 100000 other graduate and prac-
tical nurses.
+ The equipment of no soldiers is COM
A&lete without emergency food rations.
States troops are supplied with
lee different parched maize-meai
81 Jackets and three chocolates. The
former is a revival Of the maiZe-meal
of the American indians, on which they
@uld exist for days while hunting or
on the warpath.
The "chain-Shot" ration furnished
Belgian, French and Teutonic soldiers
is a winter food of compressed meat.
There are more than dozen varieties
of compressed teas used by the Rus
sian commissary.' Compressed rice and
macaroni. is supplied Oriental forces.
0at bread in sausage form is used by
some of the north British troops.
A curious ration is the compreS
fig coffee of the central powers, which
may either be utilized for food as it is
or converted into coffeelike drink.
Smoke-dried pears are used in the
same armies. The Swiss soldier re-
s&eives 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
goes into beef membrane.
& Up to December 1, $29,S24,655 had
been paid out to farmers on per cent
longtime loans, according to a report
+. covering the operations of the II fed
eral land banks. The total Of loans
approved, including those closed and
Rthose awaiting verifcaticn of title and
9gther formalities, is S105, 136,529.
The interest rate under the farm
AJoan system has been increased from D
"a 51A per cent, to apply to all applica-
bns which have not yet been ap-
6roved.
Borrowing is done through co-opera-
tive farm-loan associations organized
by farmers, each association being
composed of ten or more farmer bor-
rowers and each group borrowing at
least $4,000. Up to December 1 the
farm loan board had chartered 1889
such cooperative associations.
From the annual report of the secre-
tary of the interior:
. 'In this department we have during
ythe past year had glimpse of the ex-
banding romance of chemical study.
We have found adventure in the search
for the hidden secrets of petroleum.
natural gas and coal tar, of coal smoke
and the refuse from d hundred fur
naces and smokestacks. We appear to
have suddenly driven into chemical
age or perhaps it would be more ac-
curate to say that we have suddenly
realized that we are such an age. New
explosives, new fertilizers, new sources
of power, of food, new materials for
construction and destruction, new
preservatives of life, and new agencies
&xor the sweetening and wholesoming Of
ife-these are to the credit of the
modern chemist, and as by-Droduct
hi this war we are to have higher ap-
preciation of this branch of science,
and our genius for discovery which has
so greatly been applied to problems OF
mechanics will find in analytic and
synthetic chemistry field Of oppor-
tunity subject to almost infinite ex-
p&nsion.'
All wooden Christmas boxes for SOL
liers of the eXpeditionary forces re-
ceived too late for shipment will be re-
turned to the. senders if return postage
is mailed to the superintendent, rail-
Ayav mail service, New York, \. Y.
! To aid in supplying suitable material
With which to illustrate sermons, lee
lures and school work, the division of
pictures, committee on public informa-
ton. is preparing official stereopticon
slides showing Americas participation
in the war.
These slides will be made available
soon Tor general use, at a nominal
charge to cover actual cost.
An embargo has been placed on the
expectation OF butter, except TO nations
ncsocintnd with the United States in