Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-08-22
FOOD Of SOLDIERS
GIVEN GREAT CARE
NUTRITION OFFICERS WHO ARE
EXPERTS BEING STATIONED
IN THE ARMY CAMPS.
EDIBLE WASTE IS REDUCED
Navy Department Sends Uniformed
Desk Men to Active Servlee-An.
Client Armsr Supplies Models for
Modern American War Equipment

Desk Men to Active Servlce-An-
Client Armsr Supplies Models for
Modern American War Equipment
Nutrition officers are to be stationed
In every National army cantonment
aud In every National Guard camp, as
well as In every camp where 10000 or
more soldiers are In training. the war
department announces. These men are
food specialists. Before they Joined
the army as members Of the division
of food and nutrition Of the medical
department they were connected with
colleges and public bodies as physiolo.
glsts. chemists, economists, food In
spectors and experts In other special.
lied work relating to food.
Since last October these officers
have gone from camp to camp. studied
the food served. how 1t was inspected.
stored and prepared, and made recon.
mendations resulting In many advan.
tageous changes. They gave instruc-
lions In the principles Of nutrition, the
proper selection Of foods and the con-
struction Of dletarles to mess officers,
medical officers and others interested.
They told how to avoid waste, gave
methods for judging and storing food,
and emphasized the importance Of
keeping kitchens and mess halls clean
and orderly.
At one camp seven companies were
selected from various organizations
tOtaling 1,l35 men with which to try
out an anti.waste plan. The average
a waste was found TO be liz
pounds per man per day. The nutri.
fion officer gave the mess sergeants
and cooks instructions In food and
mess economy with the result the aver
age edible waste was reduced to 0.43
pounds per man per day, a saving Of
O.69 pounds. This saving amounted to
$6l.75 per day for the seven messes, or
$22,542 per year.
Sixty new officers are to be commits
stoned in the division Of food and nu-
triton to handle the additional work.
All will be food specialists similar to
those already in the service. They
= will advise about the composition and
nutritive values Of all dietaries, make
inspections for authorizations, spoilage
and dafarioro tinp onI cnnparata i,h
the mess officials,
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helmets. shields and breastplates, is
being modelled In the workshops Of the
Museum of Art, New
York, the war department announces.
Tkebest of the types used by the SOL
oilers of former days is being wrought
into shapes for present warfare. some
pieces on ancient anvls and by ham,
mers that were actually used centuries
ago.
In direct charge Of the workshop
c&here the work is being done Is q
pErench artisan whose skill has been
skpewn to armor collectors the world
bvep and whose forbears for genera
MONS back have kept alive the dying
t1pfie Of the armorer.
fXhis war in Europe has brought
baeFlhto use many discarded weapons
lind practices OIL medieval warfare.
o9Aere has been the adoption Of steel
helmets by all the warning powers,
breastplates, armored waistcoats and
trench shields. This necessitated IN
overhauling and new study of ancient
armor. with the result that experts de-
clare that scarcely technical idea has
been brought forward which was not
worked out In elaborate detail by the
old-time armor makers.
The Metropolitan museum collection
Is among the seven great collections Of
ancient armor. It is an incident to this
collection that there was established
at the museum an armorer's workshop.
So far as known II is unique. In It
were cleaned, repaired and restored
pieces that were defective. Daniel
Tachaux, French artist, was In
charge. He Is working now under the
direction Of Major Bashford Dean Of
The ordnance department.
Armor models are being turned out
there In accordance with the sugges.
lions Of General Pershlny and the ord.
nance department Twenty-Five DIFF.
ferent types Of aruior defenses have
been made In various factories In ex.
detrimental lots, several In many thou.
sands Of pieces. which have won IA.
vor at army headquarters. The EN-
cncy Of armor protection for the sol.
dlers Is Indicated by reports that more
than 40 per cent Of the hospital cas-.
ualtles suffered were leg wounds and
about 80 per cent arm wounds. the legs
and arms Of the fighters being free
from nrmor cover.
While Y. NJ. @. A. workers In a bat
tle-torn region Of France were carry.
ing dellcacles TO American soldiers In
the front line trenches they left their
deserted. French soldiers
entered the storehouse to guard the
supplies. They found chewing gum,
thought II food, stuffed whole pack.
,ges into their mouths. mnsticated II
or time and then tried to swallow
I. Some succeeded In getting It down. |
There were no casualties. but the
French soldiers were inspired with a
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