Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1918-03-14
SUGAR SUPPLY Isl
ASSURED PACKERS
FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURE.
EHS ADVISED THEY WILL BE
ABLE TO OBTAIN NEcES-
sARY REQUIREMENTS
EQUIPMENT OF WAR PLANES
Each Aircraft Needs Extra Material
and Staff of Skilled Men-RemovaI
of Officers From Medical Reserve
Corps.

Washington.-Ma Of es-
sential food products have been ad-
vised by the food administration that
they will be able to obtain their full
requirements of sugar for manufactur-
ing purposes during the coming year.
This applies particularly to packers
of fruit. condensed milk, such vege-
tables for the preservation of which
sugar may be necessary, as well as to
the housewives, for usage in preserv-
Ing purposes. As soon as the car
shortage is relieved, according to the
food administration statement, sup
plies Of sugar will be available for
these purposes. Shipments from Cuba
are steadily increasing.
All Gamers have been advised to
hold for war purposes such quantities
Of canned corn, peas, tomatoes, string
beans, and salmon as they may have
on hand. Such quantities as are not
wanted will be released within few
stocks on hand, which must be sub
mitted to the food administration be-
fore March Is.
After three years Of warfare the to-
tai number of airplanes able to take
the air at any one time on either side
of the western front has not been
over $500. Each plane In the air
requires force of 46 men, two re-
placement planes on the ground, and
one training plane for every pilot
who eventually reaches the front,
with an extra engine for each plane.
The life of plane is not more than
two months, and the engine must be
overhauled after each rs hours. Now
that American. battle planes are going
overseas, the great problem is to Sc
cure the thousands of skilled mechan-
ics, enginemen, motor repair men,
wood and metal workers needed to
keep the planes in perfect condition.
This engineering and mechanical force
at the ardromes, the flying fields, and
repair depots, both here and behird
the lines in France, is vital Industrial
link in the chain to air supremacy.
From the declaration of war to {.
February %, the surgeon general OF
the army has removed 1,050 officers Of
the Medical Reserve corps. In the
following table the reason assigned for
discharge does not isolate under 'in-
aptitude for the service" all those
whose dismissal was in considerable
degree due to inefliciency or incompe-
tency, since these reasons had weight
in many cases otherwise classified.
Discharged for physical disability,
All; inaptitude for the service, 154;
to join other branches, BOG; domestic
difficulties, 50; resignation, So; need
ed by communities, hospitals, schools.
80.
During the same period there have
been 2,265 promotions, including some
officers promoted more than once.
In the new school opened at Roches-
ter, N. Y. to train photographers for
the Signal corps, the primary train
ing will cover four weeks along high
ly specialized developments brought
out in the war. At its close the sue
cessful graduates will be sent on for
a months advanced training, after
which they will be organized into units
and sent overseas.
Men with the highest grades will he
given still further training for commits
sions as Photographic intelligence Of
ficers. first at school and then in ac-
tual flights at the flying fields.
During the month Of January $11,-
1851 were paid out to farmers Of
the United States by the federal land
banks on longtime first-mortgage
loans, according to a statement by the
federal farm loan board
On February \ the total amount Of
money paid out to farmers since the
establishment of the federal land
banks was $5O,7S2, ,432, covering 24,020
loans closed. The total amount of
loans applied for up to February 1
was $500 ,S91, representing 112,146
applications
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