Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-05

feet But in order To travel OH his ieet
he must have caloric force, and caloric
70. &c must come from his stomach and
his stomach must be given force properly
prepared. The army ration Is an iron one
even when it does not come IN cans. The
meat is probably tough and the bread
fintlke The man who cannot mastcate
bolts his food and loses strength and en-
DURANGO. Elk their teeth, said the high
command, but fix them Mt the front
| The soldiers morale is impaired by alb
| sencc from the line, and he loses that hard
! iatallsm he must have to he a good sol
der. He becomes n civilian IN uniform.
| Gallicni, tho late Minister of War. realiz-
ed this On February 26. 1916, he suggest
ed to President Poincare, after his OBJ
servation of the usefulness of dentists for
something over year, rendering aid To
their comrades in an off hand way, that
they be taken from the lines, regularly
appointed a part of the medical service,
and be gwen the rank of Sous adult
ant" GODDARD Chef of the service de
Sante. concurrcd with Gallienl suggestion
and IL became an order on March J, 1916.
LEARN TO CARE FOR THE TEETH.
The average military tooth Is a sad af-
fair. and the French tooth Is httle better.
Probably no average inhabitant oi thirty,
who IL now a soldier behind the lines, ex-
poets to have more than a quorum OF the
teeth that he began life, with, and he
knows less about their care. He may never
have used n tooth brush in his life He
used To getting along with the toothache,
and TO chewing on a tooth and n half.
II seems to him the normal order Of things,
and. onc, his teeth are IN order, If is quite
xx.,IrrS,rI hn he -
and the pride he takes IN them, and the
care he gives them after he Is taught to do
so. When We visit hospital these days,
constantly we see IN the soldier little
personal kit or on the little grey or white
table at his cots side, a tooth brush
The dentists who have been sent To the
front have demonstrated their useful
ness The division and half, which
would have otherwise been sent home ex-
cept for them, is evidence Thousands
have been relieved from pam and have
been gwen better masticatOry outilts.
Practically every soldier needs some
dental care. '@fhe dentists have never
been given a chance TO demonstrate their
good will towards France as the physicians
have" said MIR L. Piatt Andrews, who
directs the transportation service OF the
American Ambulance Their Willingness
to help Is shown by the abundance OF
materials and equipment which they ac-
cunrlate and take With them
The American ear IS the eleventh car
20 take the field for France. Two of the
others are English gifts u France, and the
rest are of French design and equipment,
II is interesting TO know and 70 show the
manner in which France is using her
damaged human material. that these
cars, /. e., the French, were very largely
built by this same damaged human
material" | saw a carpenter, who had
wooden leg, working upon one, and an
other ex-soldier, who had but one arm
painting. The English cars are heavy
They weigh four and one-half tons. The
French cars are somewhat lighter. The
American ear, which is mounted on a
three quarter Buick chassis, weighs but
two tons,
All the cars carry a large stock OF sup
plies slowed away In lockers. They have
sterihzer fastened To the inside OF the
car, and the water IS boiled by means of
gasoline burners. They all have water
tanks, little stationary wash stands, the
usual engine and chair, and a lathe for
grinding IS st the rear, m all three types
OF cars The French, for emergency night
work, use s gasolln torch, the English.
carbide, such rs WAS used with our first
automobiles The American car has an
electric dome over the chsir and uses the
stored up current from the battery of the
car The particular advantage OF an am