The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-27
TENDER CARE FOR PRISON
ERS.
Americans Give the German Cap
tiyes Rations Identical With
Those of the United States
A rpou
Army.

Detroit Free Press: Many Ger
mans are captured by American sol
diers on the western front, writes
Phelan Fyne. American generally
NAV wonder how these captlves are
treated. 1t is natural to suppose tllat
these fellows are put on snort IA
tions and given indifferent shelters.
But such a supposition is as erron-
eous as William Hohenzollern
crazy notion that he could whip
dozen enemies as easily as one. Stars
and Stripes, the American army pa
per printed in Paris and circulated
everywhere, contains a report on
this subject which says:
The same food. in quantity and
quality, that is issued TO American
soldiers; the same housing ana
sanitary accommodations, the same
medical care, the same hours OF la
Dor as their American captors, the
same provisions for their spiritual
welfare and for recreation are the
lot OF the German prisoners OF war
taken bv the American forces and
held bv il in its own camps back OF
the lines.
Take typical prisoner OF war
pen. Save for the high fence OF
barbed wire about it and the sentrleS
pacing up and down outside OF H.
YOU would think it to be the average
set OF American barracks buildings.
Everything is neat, everything IS
we'll appointed.
There are the chlorinated water
bags, protecting the users against
possible infections from polluted
sources OF supply. There is the
mess shack, fitted up with all the
necessary contrivances for turning
the ample American ration into par
atable food. And there, under TIE
shade Of the barracks buildings, are
the prisoners themselves, rolling
their cigarets, for they get tobacco
ration from their captors OF three
sacks per man per week.
The varied types OF German you
see in the enclosure are not always
engaged in rolling their own, now
ever. To live and keep lit, they must
work; and work they do Tor nihe
hours day, Sundays excepted
which is the average normal time
put in bv the working soldier these
DAYS. According to their strength
according to their ability, they work.
some on road repairing and some on
railroad construction, more at their
own particular trades, such as cob
bling, tailoring, gardening, cooking,
at anv and all of the trades that
come in handy about a big base
camp.
81 connection with the cooking
il may be said that all the food eaten
bv the prisoners is dished up by
cir own cooks, so that there may
be no question of the army rations
not being handled in a way to ap-
pease the German appetite.
For each working day they put
in. the prisoners are entitled to
certain amount VI pay tliN H-N''N' ''''''
not vet being decided on. Arrange
ments have been made to have this
given TO them in canteen slips. eN-
changeable for goods at their own
canteens only. In addition to the
canteen privilege, arrangements
have been made to have them Wis
tied by chaplain of the Lutheran
persuasion, the creed OF the major
ity of them. and to have mass said
every Sunday in their enclosure for
those of them who are Catholics.
Each prisoner is allowed to write
two letters week, subject, of course
to the necessarily rigid censorship.
His bathing privileges and toilet fa-
cilities are the same as those of the
The salvation Army war workers
are operating at S31 IiTi'e II this