Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05

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1t struck all minds. you under
stand?-prepared and convinced
them for other sides Of the same
affair. The boys saw that It was the
Same affair.
At an early British veterinary hospi-
tai there. before 1t was fully esta biished.
many horses and mules were dying. and
as no arrangements had been made to
utilize the carcasses. they buried them
In an old clay pit, seventy-ave feet
square and twenty feet deep-l.0o dead
animals. old tin cans and bale wire.
An American wondered II the gas
might not be ipflammable. They sank
perforated barrel. laid pipe line thirty
yards to four one-inch jets and NJ up.
Grand. 1t burned, In June. 1918. the
gas had been flowing continually LOT
eight months and furnished enough
heat to operate the tank boiler In which
they rendered the fats from all current
Carcasscs of the station.
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1t was just the idea--the fruitful,
illustrative idea. Our American boys
are still talking about it up and down
all France.
t1eTG is aVOlntT. .hS aux -NthSii
cans experimental, they took all the
blood from carcasses OF dead animals.
boiled it in double boiler, then pressed
out the moisture TO form htsd OF
hard cake. The meat of the clJnsSes
was boiled, equally, and tho fats being
extracted for, soap and explosives, the
meat part was dried and chopped up
and this dried meat and dehydrated
blood is now, currently, the tonic food
OF our best war horses.
THE horses are crazy about it, says
Maj. Holden, They recover flesh on it,
astonishingly. The proportion used IS
about three pounds Of meat and blood
10 nine pounds of grain"
Our soldiers In France know all about
these things.
They know that 100 pounds Of waste
fat from company butchers and kitch-
ems will produce ten pounds OF glycerlh
for explosives (whose price during the
war became fahu)ous) and thirty
pounds of laundry soap (Which is a good
thing to have at any timed, Out of 900
American Army rations they ought to
get the following byproducts: Ihlrty
pounds of marrow bones, ~ pounds
cooking bones 80 pounds white drip
pings and 30 pounds brown drippings,
and this quantity of saving on the day
the armistice was signed was producing
the propellant explosive of twenty-five
eighteen pound shells,
It's the same thing economically
dead mules or kitchen waste This war
has walked us up--you. over there. and
the boys here The fighting soldier no.
toriously disnclined to kitchen work or
any kind OF dirty work, is. cheerfully
convinced that Clones for victory" and
"Glycerin from the slop tank. really
helped the British and would have
c1inched our victory had we needed it,
AS 1t Is. this kitchen salvage kept Amer
lean camps clean and hygienlc, while
soap.
And there's a lot more to 1t. These
things have got into the consciousness
of the boys, They have personal expe-
rience OF the general Army salvage, Or
ganized on factory basis by civilian spe-
cialists, heads of great firms at home.
who took officers commissions out of
patriotism. They have seen their soiied
and half-worn uniforms, shoes and
equipment go periodically to the laundry
and remaker and come back new. Every
shipped patch is realized byproduct.
nothing being wasted. Why, the Army
even washes refuse rags, to get the high
wool price from shoddy manufacture!
salvage.
The man who saw it through in
detail was this Maj. Holden. Before
we came into the war; he was Clinton
G. Holden of company operating
hotels in Waterloo, Charles City and
Clinton, Iowa. but his American
reputation was made principally in
the club business of the middle west
For fifteen years I think. he was
secretary or business manager of the
Union Club in Cleveland. His biggest
task was probably the business
organization of the University Club Of
Chicago. There he remained five
years. He knew the back of the
house as well as the front" Later.
he was to operate the Detroit Athletic
Club. but ] think that he merely
furnished It. Then the war came o..
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