Middletown transcript., 1918-08-17
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 Service-An-
ctent Armor Supplies Models for
Modern American War Equipment.
Nutrition officers are to be stationed
In every National army environment
Nnd In every National Guard camp, as
we'll as In every camp where 10000 or
more soldiers are in training, the war
department announces. These men are
food specialists. Before they joined
she army as members of the division
IF food and nutrition of the medical
department they were connected with
colleges and public bodies as physiOlO-
gists. chemists. economists, food in
spectOrs and experts in other special
>zed work relating to food.
Since last October these officers
Aave gone from camp to camp, studied
he food served how it was inspected,
stored and prepared, and made recon-
foundations resulting in many advan-
<ageous changes. They gave instruc-
ions in the principles Of nutrition, the
proper selection Of foods and the con-
structiOn Of dietaries 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
,Otnling LBS men with which to try
out an anti-waSte plan. The average
edible waste was found to be liz
pounds per man per day. The nutri-
tion officer gave the mess sergeants
and cooks instructions in food and
ness economy with the result the aver
age edible waste was reduced to DAB
pounds per man per day, a saving Of
n69 pounds. This saving amounted to
SGT Is per day for the seven messes, or
So $40 per year.
Sixty new officers are to he commits
,ioned in the division Of food and nu-
.f1tiOn to handle the additional work.
All will be food specialists similar to
chose already in the service. They
will advise about the composition and
cutritive values of all dietaries, make
inspections for authorizations, spoilage
md deterioration and cooperate with
The mess officials,
Armor for the American soldiers,
helmets, shields and breastplates, is
being modelled in the workshops of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, the war department announces.
The hest of the types used by the SOL
.licrs of former days is being wrought
!nto shapes for present warfare, some
pieces on ancient anvils and by ham,
Mers that were actually used centuries
ago.
In direct charge Of the workshop
where the work is being done is
French artisan whose skill has been
known to arEor collectors the world
,ypr, and whose forbears for genera
tons back have kept alive the dying
trade of the armOrer.
This war in Europe has brought
hack into use many discarded weapons
and practices Of medieval warfare.
There has been the adoption Of steel
helmets by all the warning powers,
2,rc:,stplateS. armored waistcOats and
trench shields. This necessitated an
Overhauling and new study Of ancient
nr,Aor. with the result that experts de-
clare that scarcely technical idea has
a,een brought. forward which was not
worked out in elaborate detail by the
Old-time arrsOr makers.
The Metropolitan museum collection
Is among the seven great collections Of
ancient armOr. 1t is an incident to this
collection that there was established
ut the museum an armorer's workshop.
So far as known it 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.
Arsaor models are being turned out
there i'm accordance with the SuggeS-
tons of General Pershing and the ord
nance department. Twenty-Five diff
ferent types of armor 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 eff
<Ncy of armOr protection for the SOL
<liers is indicated by reports that more
than 40 per cent of the hospital cas-
s,aities suffered were leg wounds and
,,l.ex1t 81 per cent arm wounds, the legs
s,M1 arms Of the fighters being free
from Armor cover.
While Y. Nj. C. A. workers in bat
ing taeiicacies to American soldiers in
the front line trenches they left their
:sto.phouse deserted. French soldiers
entered the storehOuse to guard the
supplies. They found chewing gum,
Thought 1t food. stuffed whole pack
nges into their mouths. masticated it
for q time and then tried to swallow
It. Some succeeded in getting it down.
There were no casualties, but the
French soldiers were inspired with
high regard for American digestive ap-
paratuSes
About 1000 tons of first-grade sugar
stored in a French warehouse for