The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-08-30
OFFICIAL NEWS OS AR MAR-
PENNIES

Items Published UnsEkk This Head
Are Authentic Bits lf HllESriatI6n
Furnished By The N0InnaitteG flll
Public Information.
Arf account of how soldiers ara EaA
at sea is given In the daily newspa-
per published On IA transport
Outside 0f providing 21 00O meals
at sea, tine mess officer XVIII EEle Bhip lias
very little to do Very AiftzR
HE IL only called upon Ab Provide,
by the regulations, $50 difKhrAnt Nart-
eties Or food. That's alH Every trE
to order $50 different things to- eat
Yet this ~ the authentic IiEEs
The food needed To feed several
thousand men at sea aIgRa beyond
the glutton's dreamS NON nat the
answer i'm the ship down below thH
water line, where $50 f0aVes 0f
bread have been baked in nne day,
and where you stumble over every
variety, from 60, 0,O00 pounds pf beet
to $4,000 eggs, or VA comna 4fnert of
brick Ice cream in tem-aegree-
above-zero vault Mi
And III This doesn't suit, YOU can
pump along into 4Ai224 pounds mM R@-
tatoes, 7,100 pounds III ham Hnd ba-
CON, 1900 pounds of butter, $500
pounds of sugar, and Gl 500 pounds
nf Hour
We you can't get " meal gIit W this
you cam fall back 0n 1000 Mounds OA
sausage, 1000 pounds 0fs sa1erkraut
10000 pounds Ut ApnlaSs l9. .G0 naViliha
on oranges, and G09 pgHHnfl u
onions And this leaves out l,6Al
pounds OF jam and 9.40O pounds OF
lima and navy beams A5'
The dental requirements of an
army of more than 5000, 900 rEen can
now be met BY the present force OF
the dental corps off the United States
army. Ex2mina ,;ons have heen
closed and NO further additions will
be made to the corps for some time.
The number of dental officers has &C.
panded since war was declared from
58 to 5,81O Commissions were offer
ed to 5,467 dentists in all parts Of
the country, and a1l but 271 were ac-
cepted.
An advertisement in a Berlin news
paper, reported by the information
Belges, shows some of the many uses
to which paper IS being put in Ger
Y Paper stuff for dresses and aprons.
Paper stuff for business suits
Paper stuff for manufacture Of
suits.
Paper stuff for upholstery and tap
estries-
Paper stuff for trunks and bags.
Paper stuff for bags, pillOwcases
and mattresses.
4'Splendidly assorted not FOR sale
Special attention is being given by
the medical department OF the army
In all camps to cleaning up spots
where mosquitoes and flies breed In
some cases it has been necessary to
lig channels in streams, drain
swamps, and put i'm elaborate ditch
Ing systems To- clean up stagnant
POOLS and streams.
The quarternaSter's department ia
low supplying gas-proof food con-
,ainers to the soldiers in the zone of
operations in France These con-
ainers prevent seepage on gas into
he containers and guard against con-
animation Oh the food. The men
s1l1g LAGLL EIASA @IA1y IGLA1LAS In LlG
containers and all food brought up
o the trenches il carried firm the new
ins.
There are now Az theatres, which
ost over 100000, in operation III
amps and cantonments throughout
he country. Nearly 100 vaudeville |
cts have been brought from the 4
arge circuits To play in these !
heaters only; about DO acts have |
cen secured from Chautauqua and
yceum bureaus; - comedy com
anies are playing in these theaters
xclusively- Some of these are origi- "
al New York companies, playing the
ummer season only, with expenses
educed about two-thirds. The
amps have been divided into two
ircuits. In one the Liberty the
ters seat 5000, in the other the
ouses are smaller, having a capa-
ity off about 1000 each It takes
-om IA to 25 weeks for production
, be staged in each house of either
ircuit.
tSmileage' books. sold throughout
le country under the direction of
A. commission on training camp ac-
vities, contain coupons good for ad-
lissiOn to all attractions in camp
ieaters.
ermany COmbing Out Every Avail I
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