The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-11

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quifements heretofore imposed have
been waived. According to estimates
there are between $4,000 and 10000
registered nurses in the country and
about 100000 other graduate and prac-
teal nurses.
The equipment of no soldiers is COM
plete without emergency food rations.
United States troops are supplied with
three different parched maize-meal
packets and three chocolates. The
former is a revival of the maiZe-meal
of the American Indians, on which they
could exist for days while hunting or
on the warpath.
The "chain-shot" ration furnished
Belgian, French and Teutonic soldiers
Is a winter food of compressed meat.
There are more than a dozen varieties
of compressed teas used by the Rus
sian commissary. Compressed rice and
Eaacaroni is supplied Oriental forces.
Oat bread in sausage form is used by
some of the north British troops.
A curious ration is the compressed
fg coffee of the central powers, Shich
may either be utilized for food as it is
or converted into coffeelike drink.
Smoke-dried pears are used in the
same armies. The Swiss soldier re-
ceiyes an emergency ration of white
chocolate, made entirely Of cocoa but
ter and sugar.
An Italian army chocolate is in sau-
sage-length form, while their plum duff
goes into beef membrane.
Up to December 1, $29,S24,655 had
been paid out to farmers on per cent
longtime loans, according to a report
covering the operations Of the II fed
eral land banks. The total Of loans
approved including those closed and
those awaiting verifcation Of title and
other formalities, is sos, ,136,529.
The interest rate under the farm
loan system has been increased from o
to 51h per cent, to apply to all applica-
tons which have not yet been ap-
proved.
Borrowing is done through co-opera-
tive farm-loan associations organized
by farmers, each association being
composed Of ten or more farmer bor-
rowers and each group borrowing at
least $4,000. Up to December l the
farm loan board had chartered 1889
such cooperative associations.
From the annual report Of the secre-
tary of the interior:
in this department we have during
the past year had glimpse of the ex-
panding romance of chemical study.
We have found adventure in the search
for the hidden secrets of petroleum,
natural gas and coal tar, of coal smoke
and the refuse from hundred fur
naces and smokeStackS. We appear to
have suddenly driven into chemical
age or perhaps ii would be more ac-
curate to say that we have suddenly
explosives, new fertilizers, new sources
OF power, of food, new materials for
construction and destruction, new
preservatives of life, and new agencies
for the sweetening and wholesoming Of
life-these are to the credit Of the
modern chemist, ard as 4 by-product
of this war we are to have higher ap-
probation of this branch Of science
and our genius for discovery which has
so greatly been applied to problems Of
mechanics will find in analytic and
synthetic chemistry a field OF oppor-
tunity subject to almost infinite eX-
p&nsion."
All wooden Christmas boxes for SOL
diers of the expeditionary forces re-
ceived too late for shipment will be re-
turned to the senders if return postage
is mailed to the superintendent, rail-
way mail service, New York, N. Y.
To aid in supplying suitable material
with which to illustrate sermons, lee
,,l cohoo1 division of