The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-11-07

nishng Tuscumbia. Ala, say, Win
better milk. Actually. however, the
relation of one to the other Is SO
real and intimate that the chief OF
ordnance of the United States war de-
partment has approved plans whereby
not only Tuscumbia, But also dozens
of other cities and towns where ord
nance material is manufactured, VIII
get better milk and better living con-
diticns generally. 1t has been found
that where living conditions are Dad
and housing provisions inadequate,
ordnance workers become discontinued
and production lags.
Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Florence, |
Ala, contain the employees of the
three great government nitrate plants
located in the vicinity of Mussel |
Shoals. Like most small towns sud-
denly required by the present war to
accommodate huge ordnance enter
prises planted in their midst, these
three communities were wholly unable
to afford proper housing, and condi-
lions rapidly got beyond control. The
better and more desirable of the work.
ers, with their families, grew restless.
A transformation is now In progress
under direction of the community or
gunization branch. Vice centers have
been eradicated, the sale of liquor
has been placed under rigid control.
A public market has been established
for the three towns. Here farmers
from the surrounding districts take
their products and dispose of them to
representatives of the ordnance
plants. Wagons of the ordnance de-
partment then cart the produce to the
plants and sell Il at cost to the work
| ers.
Central bureaus for these three
| towns have undertaken the housing
problem. Parks and Fairgrounds are
being planned for the workers and
their families. The communities them
selves have been awakened to the
significant part which such improve
ments play in the business Of making
munitions and of winning the war.
Statistics gathered under direction
of Brig. Gen. r. e. Wood, acting quar-
termaster general of the army, show
that the cost of equipping and main
tanning a soldier overseas is $423.47 a
year. To equip and maintain soldier
In the United States costs $327.7S a
year.
Subsistence, figured at 50 cents
day, amounts to $251.S5 per man over
seas; figured at So cents day in the
United States, 1t amounts to $1S980
per man. The cost of the initial equip
ment for the soldier the first year in
the United States is S115.30. The cost
of the initial equipment of the soldier
overseas DIR the first year is 1924.
This cost of $42.41 is for articles
which are issued for overseas use only
and which are in addition to the regu-
lar equipment. Thus it appears that
IL the soldier going overseas did not
4 take with him a great deal of HIS
equipment already supplied him in the
United States, the contrast between
the cost of equipping and maintaining
a soldier In this country and abroad
would be much more marked.
The largest private telephone branch
in the world is the one that serves the
increasing needs of the war depart
ment in Washington. 1t fills special
BY constructed three-story building con
tanning "A "positions"-an Office bigger
than the central" in many consider
able city. Thirty additional posi-
lions" are I'm course of installation.
On July l this branch served 3,17'
extensions; on August 1. 1925. 1t re
quires 126 trunk lines for incomin,
,, calls; 70 trunk lines for outgoing
calls, local and suburban toll II PR
, vate toll lines to New York, Philadel
!, phia, Baltimore, Detroit (via Cleve
! land). Hoboken and Newport News
: and 105 tie lines to other government
stations in Washington.
! An average of four records take
during July shows 32,93S outward an
a 1864 inward calls in "a hours. In tn
! peak" hours the calls often run q
high as 1924 an hour. The operatin
force consists of 80 persons.
n The United States war industrie
: board has announced that agriculture
!. periodicals must reduce their col
, sumption Of print paper Is per Ger
a under regulations for the conservatio
= of print paper adopted by that boar
= The regulations were to become effe
: tive October 1, 1918.
/ A committee of publishers recon
| mended the use of lighter body paper
h discontinuance of subscriptions in a
# rears; free exchanges to be cut o
n and free copies to advertisers and a
r. vertising agencies to be restricted
Il abandonment of sales at nominal
r. exceedingly low price, of prize col
tests for subscriptions and special {
n holiday numbers except such as hay
# been regularly issued In the past
TO Establishment Of new papers durir
.s the war is to be prohibited unless II