The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-09-13

Inc clothing OF others is so damage,
in strenuous fighting as to need re
placement.
To outfit the forty commissions,
Americans known to be in the German
camps and others who may be capture,
later, the Red Cross purchased a tail
or shop in Paris and moved tailors an,
outfit outright to Switzerland. Thi
shop is now turning out each week L
uniforms made to measurements sup
piled by mail by the various prisoner
in the various camps. The men ar
supplied also with undertaking, shoes
toilet articles, towels and food. TIL,
food is particularly necessary to sup
plement the meager prison fare TO
which the Germans make the captured
officers pay in money
The stripping of prisoners apparent
~ takes place only at the front in tn,
heat and confusion of battle. Camp
committees, appointed by the prisoner:
themselves, see that American prison
ers receive supplies sent them.
Experienced flying officers are bein.
returned from abroad to act as specia
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
IN the air with his instructor than here
tofore. The new plan is known as the
Gosport system or "All Thru" as il
is popularity called here, and insures
closer contact between the cadet and
instructor. When the cadets arrive al
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
to an instructor who stays with them
until they are qualified in elemental
flying. They are then sent to the spe
cial schools for final work and train.
ing in their particular line, as pursuit
reconnaissance, artillery control, OF
bombing pilots. The old practice OF
giving a cadet so much time in the ali
under instruction and then turning him
loose for his first solo flight, in "sink
Or swim" fashion, is being discontinued
and what is believed to be a 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 a
training brigade of three wings, on
Long Island, N. Y.
The base of this Long Island train
ing brigade, as now planned, will be
Hazelhurst field, near Mineola. The
squadrons will be quartered in groups
of four or nine outlying fields. These
SquadrOnS are to serve under field con-
ditions Stimulating, as nearly as prac-
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 the
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 in the most digestible
form. In spite of it's 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
pound, and eggs at 48 cents dozen,
should be priced at about 271s cents
a quart.
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 result of improper diet, are en-
gagged in campaigns to bring the i'm
pOrtance of milk to the attention Of
mothers and to make 1t possible for
them to procure enough milk to keep
their children strong and WELL 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 pure
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
tribution.
The total value of all imports into
the United Kingdom during the
first six months of 1913 were $3,173,-
S51, 129; of exports, $1,201, 211, OS6.
For the same period of 1916 the val
ues were: Imports, $3.50, 73O OBS; ex-
ports, $1,176, 75S,O33. The submarine
has not destroyed the. commerce of
Great Britain.
Camp Shelby, Miss, will be remodel
ed and converted from tent camp In
to cantonment with permanent quar-
tiers and camp utilities, at total cost
Of $5,467,378.
Brigade Commander.
Brigadier is of course from COM
mon stock with brigade and means a
brigade's commanding officer. The
source of brigade is the medieval