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"Second to None."
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her in January or
Value."' We use
rings in our store.
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eciate our way a
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it to excel that re -
tart to achieve this
f at any time you
a. We want you to
men & Girls
kirts
re doubt if You can
garment offerings
h what you simply
to the store and see
arments
ice of furs of every
successful the Mac-
e season and what
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Winter if the value
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!ability, ventilation,
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Standard -pattern.
n(ar(1 Patterns fit
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0 one who is thinking right and acting accoiti
ingly, can afford to be dilatory in the matter lot
looking into and carefully considering w s
and means ot meeting conditions, not only as we cl
them now, but also as we are likely to find the 4n
future days of Ftill further contusion and 'world -w e
strife. Bad enough- now, we are inforthed thro h
mostauthentic sources, there is every iodication of in-
creased demoralization in industrial operations in 11
countries. It is the particular concern of this storeJo
pilot people along- safe channels in regard to tittk#1y
buying of wearing apparel. Prices in 1917 were ad-
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yanced above the prices of former years. .11!
But look out for 1918 Prices.
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For Summer and Fall Goods let us urge you to tiny
all you can NOW and make a very substantial sayip' g.,
A comparison of prices may help you as to whek er'
buying now or later will ue the most profitable to 3#31.t.
Prices for
$28.00
$35.00-
100•00.18.00
$18.00
$18.00
$29.00
$4 00
1$ 10.00
$1.00
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NOW , Prices for Fall,
Black Dog Coats $40.00 to $5
China Beaver Coat $45.00 ' to 5.00
Goon Coats $150.00. to $ 00.00,
=Good Ulster Overcoat . $3Q.00 -to 40.00
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Fine Dress Overcoat $30.00' to ' $40.00
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Extra Fine Suits Ready-made $30.00 $5.00
Extra Fine Suits Made t� Measure $38.00 10L00
Extra Fine Trouers $7.00 to 0.00
Heavy waterproof coat $18.00 to. 5.00_
Good Warm Cap
$1.25 to $2.25 Heavy Wool Underwear
50c to 75c Heavy Wool Sox
$3.00 to $5.00 .Extra :special Goat Sweater
50c to $1.50 Heavy Mitts and Gloves
$1.00 to $1.75 Heavy Shirts $1.50 to $3.00-
$15 00 to $25.00 dies' Cloth Coats 4 $30.00 to e50.00
• $10.00 Laclies'Meffs $20.00
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$12e0 Fur Shoulder Pieces $24.00
The above is only a small portion of our large and well assorted stock.
Early choosing is always= the best.
$1.75 to '3.00 -
$2,00 to *4.50
V..00 to 1.50
$7.00 to 12Am
$1.50 to $3..50
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rite 'ilea. from last week.)
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plete follow-up system is in,
in every department. What!
a workroom -progress return
eilweek is issued every Thursday
. On this sheet YOU can see
ber of garments dispatched,
a es paid,.and the exact:cost per
e t of every item salvaged. You
, forinstanee, that the exact
ost peegarment of salvaging
pairs of:pantaloonswas nine -
n centimes; or about twenty
On the same sheet I observed
e cost per gareneet of salvaginglts was 297 centiines, ,or about
ents. So it went. - The total
ants of all kinds handled was
and the average Wages bill
h article was about seveuty-
atimes only Mteen coette
Now take a final look at the books.
of the Paris depot and I you discorer
:that fter deducting all 'expenses, in-
cluding civilian labor, cost of material,
coaltransport, rent, machinery and
wear ad tear, the profits for one per-
iod of months Were $5,2e2i1540. This .
average was more than sustained= dive; ,
ing 1417, when the. total estimated
saving 'for the year was about
000,9 One unromantic but useful
item 6ii the income side of this salvage
ledgd is rags. Every she months this
depot sells not lees' than 500 tons at
$250 a ton. i
Aside from this huge saving in act-
ual money tthe reclamation at the
Paris _Ordnance sDepot--bafore the
Government establishe:d its *mil con-
trol -had a very decided effect in
keeping d'own the price of Wool. If
the British Government had been re-
quired to go into the 'open Market and
e millions of Woollen' garmente
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K. J. Francis &Miss Niabelle Gould
- OF TORONTO
and .a diiSt. of Seaforth Players,. presents
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"thin the Law"
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New York's Greatest Sensational Drama
IN. FOUR ACTS.
CARDNO1 PPERA HOUSE, SEAFORTH
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Tuesday; -febrility 5th, 1918
At 8 'o'clock p.m. -sharp.
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No on i m11114404 during acts.' .1 All seats Reserved
Small 'childreti. not admitted. .1 • 50c
Plan opens at C, Aberhart's Drug. Store ,
MOnday, January 28th, '4,t x2.0'Clock. noon.
Proceeds to be donated to the RED CROSS
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represented by the number salvaged, arme, shoes mad, be like • iron -are of them are wise enough to realize
there • would have been a I very' am. done by hand. , that, following this unique experience
preci ble increase in the price of the , Every shoe salvaged is blocked for they will not only be alive but much
raw naterial. • , several hours so as to guarantee the more efficient when the war ends.
eIn Paris you can also see the rub- exact size. After these ,blocks or , At this German -run shop $25,000
ber salvage factory. This is run en- .lasts 'are removed the heels are inked. worth of spare parte are salvaged ev-
tirely on its own accOunt--that is eep- the size is stamped on the sole, the ery week. When you consider the
tboot is again oiled and goes into the immense need of automobile and truck
• limed. Like spares, the great difficulty in securieg
;
id in Paris them, and the scarcity of steel you
ore popular can understand how essential this
new ones, - branch of reclamation becomes.
There are three alternatives in me-
chanfeel transport retrieving. The,
first is to repair the article -as, :kir
arate and distinct from the ordnance
depot that I. belie just described. This
plant has a peculiar significance be-
cause rubber these days is hnost as
valuable aajewels and every ounce of
it is carefully conserved. 1The chief
iteme salvaged are thigh boots used
in the trenches, papas, coats, and
groued sheets upon_ which. the soldiers
-slee .- i • i
T usual story of eeonornyi is
,
repe ted here. A pair of rubber boots
that at wholesale costs ten dollars in
4 k '
Din:• iiii are redeemed bete for, 'sixty
;vat eta• salveged:',,,eapeA Aos,cor.
don . is timed outeas g :..00. rwri. •soli:dike Ofte Inge of aeroplane engine marts. te i-
,
for urteen'cents., You get a hint of 1 day iai young ' Abe en i \sergeant, More than 3000-Leeparate motor -
the real saving effected f in rubber wounded. at Mons and who was -still vehicle parts are repaired and issued
standing by the colors by acting as for immediate use., .each week. They
fermi -mu in the shoe 'shop; decided include --complete engines ,radiators,
,
that these uppers should be saved. ball bearings, axles and wheels, ac -
.Almost on the spot he invented a ma- cessories and fittings, like lamps, bat -
chine that converts the unrepairable tales, wind screens', magnetos, mner
uppers into shoe strings. : It is a eir- tubes, spark plugs and speedometers,
cular knife operated at hieh speed. All together, 50,000 spark plugs and
With great dexterity the French girls 2000 •Magnetos have been reclaimed
hold' the upper in front of the knife since the 2 work began. The Veal
and pull opt the lace by the yard.
All toldi more than a million pairs of
shoes were salvaged in 1916, and the
record for last year was considerably
over this'number. At the rresent high
price of leather the saving rune into
millions of fdallore
Isjo detail of British armv se a
quite so striking in its human aspect
as the retrieving of automobile "spare
bares, To observe thiawe• will Pio back cast and made into new ones. Aboet
•to the empire of mechanical transpert fifteen. hundred such earts are made
and establish (mashies at one of its and remade each week. A.bsolutely
largest base depots. Here, in an ine. nothing is permitted to go to waste,
Even the solder used comes from the
setae. heap.
. Like nearly every other important
war activity, reclamation of auto -
It is nothine more or less than twelve mobile spare parts is doing its part.
hundred German, -prisoners, sail clad
in their fatigue uniforms, working
at lathe and hiench, under the foreman-
ship of British sergeant -majors who
were skilled mechanics before the war.
The German. prisoners represent the
combing out of the teeny thoesands of
Huns now in British hands. When. it
was decided to salvage damaged auto-
mobile parts there rose at once that
most persistent of all war questions: ing in operation and was installed by
Where is the skilled labor to come one of the temporary officers station-
farboimei ?abieB_abcokdiedin ThEegelhaanndiceywearys i;vaareildt ed at the factor.
Tim next chapter le the story of
up to munitions making or some other, war salvage takes us across the chan-
' nel to air ancient citadel of British ord-
nanee, long the centre of treasured
military traditions. Here you see an
entirely different class of work. It
deals for one thing with wee and
centres equipm:ent This ineludes
packs haversacks and cartridge belts.
store ready to be Mita
the leather jerkins saly.
these repaired shoes are
with the soldiers than t
for the simple reason at, they are
broken in for wear and never pinch
the feet. _a, • .
So Much for *eau:neer§ that can
standinew soles and. lieel*.• What be-
comes of the upper # that are frayed
and torn.? Once mire.* it -thrift
heti come to the 1, an saved the
,day. .When, the .isehetige
, „.- .f
AO, Wag; ;first - mau all the
damaged upriereavieae
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Igrew at such treniendous pace the
web stuff was substituted for the hide
and is proving to be just as efficient
and much more easily salvaged.
duds as the army calls them. Before
economy get its grip on the fighting
hosts eery little attention was paid to
therm They were allowed to remain_
At this arsenal John Bull's War the fielde where they dimmed. Up
laundry goes at full swing. All the near a battered_ village that had re -
web and, canvas. eqiiipment is washed cently been captured I saw this sign
in huge tubs and is darned by ena- in the midst of the ruins:
"Save Shells. They are for Fritz
-Not for Waste.
chmery. It is restered to the men
as good as new.
But it is 'with Jeatehr _ equipment
that the real mieacle is -wrought. Hun-
dredsl of saddles coine in from the
front every week. Many of them are
shot full of holes and nearly all have
the, mud. of the French roads still
1 clinging to them, A new officer's
saddle represents' an outlay of $50, to
$100. In this process of salvage if
can be remade for a few dollars.
i So, too, with the leather trench -tool
carriers, which represent a very con-
siderable item of expense. This pro!
declines discloses one of the many. il-
lustrations of war utility. In the oica
days before this war, wen no one
thought of husbanding raw material,
• the -British troops' that -went to India
and Egypt nsed huge leather bags to
contain the spare bedding., They re -
In a, French town take rt by the
British forces last summer, which
had been under severe bombardment
for a long time, these signs are posted
everywhere:
Pick Up a Nail and Save* Horse
Under these sign.s are empty biseeit
boxes, into which' the men throw the
-nails that litter the streets. One
reason for this injunction, aside frerri
the fact that it haves actual nails, is
that it prevents many an =ilea
horse from. getting them in his Roofs
and going lama
The salvage of wood' and more es-
peciany the timber taken out of cap.
turee or abandoned German trenches
-is eanied on on a very large scale.
Each 'army has a miniature eawmill
present acres of hides. All these now •
AS a part of its equipment. One Brit -
unnecessary bags have been called. in
and converted into containers for
trench teols.
One significant adjunct of the leath-
er restoration is a schdol for saddlers,
which is operated in connection with
the salvage. work. Here then men are
trained to do repair work in the field.
They get a ebmplete coarse of instruc-
tion under experienced saddlers In
the -workshop you see dummy horses
equipped with every kind of .leather
kit used in the army. - Every man
meet serve his time in the leather -
salvage departnient, Which gives him
practical experience.
When he goes to Fraeee or one of
the other theatres of war he can tackle
ish army supplied an its wood•neecis ,
for six months ont of the supports -
and walls obtained from German posi-
tions, This did not include the thous-
ands of poplar trees -that had once
lined,the roadsides andtthat had been.
slaughtered by the retireatitig Huns
with • characteristic 'wantonness.
This panoraina of reconstruction,
ranging from redeemed biscuit CMS
to restored .nine -inch howitzers, is
merely the approach to the most sig-
nificant of British salvage proceitses•
For now we come to food economy, to
Lthe cans reation of the one eoramodity .
that in° than any other, not even
eXCeRtilkk CUTIS and ammunition, will
help -to turn theof conflict. At
any sort of leather -repair job. a when he foo ston is loom- i
'tide '
No evidence of the coMpleteness of time t d que 1 '
the army -thrift crusade is more strik- wineigekkirgisoafg :it' pernereati iwntaereefeaettnter this
ing than the treatment ite, carcass whole American petiati
cloths. It deals with the large pieces
of white linen used to cover the car- The greatest army waste was with
food 'and be the 'same token fotid is
casses of beef that come from South
Arneriea, the United States and Aus- now the basis of the imost remark-
trallas In ordinary times and in. or- able of all 'salvage activities. at furn-
ishes the,leSSQ/1 in thrift thakreaches i
dinary wars these bloodstained sheets 1
as I from. the domain of battling armies i
would have been thrown away
worthless, To -day you see them lit- straight into every melee home. It
its Original form; the second is to melt the voyage has impregnated' theim with i IS She eniversal theme. . • .
zen anywhere, growls about the high
cost of living and contemplates the
erally cooked down in large vats.
-example, a inagneto-and restore it to Their long contact with the beef oo ' Wham: ohn. Jones, the average citi-
down the metal -and use it for raw considerable fat. In the boiling pro- hole that kitelten -extravagance makes
material; the third is to scrap it. All cess this grease domes fel the surface,
scrap fronl the meehankal transport is skimmed off .and used for what is in lii8 ilteiMi4 he thinks he is a'MUCh-f
Veil( tO the viiiiisertt of munitions. called "dubbing," an excellent leather abused person. Be is struggling'with t '
These same rules aPlAsi to theadvag.t.- softeher.• • The tEigs- thimiseiveE- are a i'reb ent” t'44 affects °Ta•Sr tits "'In
few people. ; Consider then the aro- '
geneial -eleaning purposes. This top -
4:r
!cat into trail pieces and employed lee h°wIelwial at itilifitt eolaPittativelet
ngsition. that confre the Bridal
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L st year this depot saleaged 450,-
000 rubber boots alone. It is in
cha p of a 'temporary efficer who took
a th be months' course of iinstruction
in o 'e of the largest rubber factories
in • gland and who later established
a se ool of instruction foe the. hun-
dred of women employed.: • •
1 Ater clothing, the item af personal
wea that represents the i•largest a-
mou t of salvage is shoes.' The Brit-
ish overnment not only makes its
shoe -since the outbreak "of the war
24,5 0,000 pairs have been issued --•-but
it h gone into sale savina on a tret
men uous scale. The shim salvage,
whic began very Modestly at a north-
rench port, has grown to such
e tent that the --original' plant now
• 1, huge 'branch inehe East End of
n.
h of these plants hay the same
syste of operate The ranch es-
tabli liment however, has e ements of
disti t human, interest t employs
morethan a thousaed Fren and Bel-
gian girls, whe sin -as they work des-
pite he ungodly mell th t comes
from the battered footgear, plastered
as it is with the mud of = road and
ft'enc and sometimes filledi with rot-
ten s raw or the old socks Which the
weare marcher has stuffed ar to ease
his filling feet.
salve
see t
"Is it
foul
it is
To -
the av rage Frenchwoman. •who works
with h r hands are not quite so sensi-
tive a yours. She not only sees
salvati n for a great many of the soil-
ed sho s but a eighty satisfactory rate,
I tell emu that before the Paris
r factory was started the British
rnment got a bid from French.
actors to restore thigh boots at•
dollars a pair! That- was -the
t bid sent in.
a
hs
Lond
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All hoes in the army arrive at the
1e depot in sacks. Whee you
contents dumped out you ask:
umanly possible to. repair this
ass of tattered leather?" But
nd in amazing fashioa.
gin with, the susceptibilities of
of comeeesation•for herself in the
salvagi
fingers
they d
service
-those
carded.
for fur
g. These sorters hae nimble
and keen eyes. In e second
cide whet shoes are fit for
again and what ones -II -usually
'eh bad appers-mest be dis-
If one shoe of a pair is unfit
er use the other is sailed, and
. .
since the sizes are standardized it is
linked a with another oed one and the
two go n their way of serviee.
Shoe eclamation, as you May well
imaginet is net fragrant. But the
omen. and their sister e in the
ctory buck up to the job with
atude. It is all part of the
rie ' 1
{
oes go through a systematic
' f 'overhauling. Onel group
clean the rough mua from
e, clear out all the foreign
;side and plunge thein into
ks of hot watei mixeil with
cid. Following this bate they
ed thoroughly, after i which
eied out on rate- and Coated
castor oil. Thee then ra-
p of amazons, chosen for
their phy cal strength, who pot the money n e or
pi -
boots on i 'on lasts and tear off the old legal tender at the army canteens,
sole e and heels. The shoes are now Where the boche prisoners can buy
sorted ou into sizes by pairs, ;enter cigarettes, jam, beer and their dearly
the doma of another group, who beloved sausage. ,Whether it is due
tack on t porarily the correct sized ieto the extra ,money or to the comfort
sole befor it is permanently nailed in which they work one thing is cer-
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on by the machine. The heeltipping, tain the German prisoners on the I
toeeplatin and hobriailing - these salvage task have made good. Most I
French
London
great fo
day's w
The s
process e
of wome'
the outs
matter i
great ea
carbolie
are seri
they are
with war
value of all the salvaged parts is more
than $2,500,000. t
-When a part is beyond repair the
material of which it is composed .is
frequently used for the reproduction
of that spare or for the repair of some
other.' Destroyed aadietors are melt-
ed down to make new ones; burnt-out
truck valves are machined into car
valves, worn out brass bushes al% re-
menee new concrete factory, which re-
presents the tlast word in time and
labor seeing construction, you will see
one of the strangest sights of the war.
in the permanent upl t of industry.
Its prize contribution is a new system
of' renewing iron or steel parts. For
the want of something better this
process is called electric steel, deposi-
tion.s, Any metal part tat needs build-
ing up can be restore to its original
form by this ingenious device, which
applies new metal electrically. It is
really a bath, resembling electroplat-
essentiel war industry. A long-head-
ed subordinate under the director of
traneport solyed the .problem by sug-
gesting that the artisan German pris-
oners be used. Every teeth contained
at least a. few competent workers. He
argued that they could earn their
board and lodging at a lathe much Originally all these articles were made
the demands of war
tbheetitrerk.eaenpdersretehdaenrbay bgaireiadtinr roads
or of leather, betas
icarrying sacks of oats at the supply
depots.
The net resul was that every pris-
oner -of -war company underwent. a
strict investigation.' It was an easy
task. These companies are. all in
charge of their own noncommissioned
officers, who, with characteristic Ger-
man' efficiency, keep complete records
of their men and their pre-war occu-
-oations. These N.0 . 0 e's were asked
to choose the most skilled of their
colleagues. • .1
When the factory was completed
twelve hundred operatives were ready
and more than willing to RO to work.
The big, warm, well lighted and per-
fectle ventilated plant was like heaven
after the roads, dilly ships and
cirafy warehouses, in which many of
them had toiled since their capture. ,
These prisoners proved to be so cap-
able and - industrious that the Brit -1
ish Government now gives them a
imoney allowance of three francs a
to a gee . day. ;This wage is paid in a special
tdf thispurpose.It is
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Automobile
Licenses
~srarriorsomma
IIMMINI11.411100
F. H. Wood
Issuerof
Automobile LicenseS
for Huron County
Remit by Money Order or
Marked Cheque. Exchange
must be added to all cheques.
1 cheques must be made
payable to F.. 11. Wood. Poet -
age for return of markers
within twenty miles fee=
Goderich five cents, over
twenty miles, ten cents.
Address;
- F. H. WOOD
Box 237
GODERICH :: ONT.
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eration represents salvage raised tie
the "nth" degree. It is like splitting
hairsi
No less drastic is the treatment to
which the empty flour sack's' at army
bakeries are subtected. -Flour always :-- As you well know, abbe Bull had no
clings to its cloth receptacle and it is time to think -of, much less to practice'
worth reclaiming. The bags therefore
are 'dropped into a hopper which re- food economy during the &1st year of
vnd extracts the wee. His job was to keep his new
olves at great speed a
their from the goods. and growing 1 armies fed, regardless
every particle of
of coneumption. But when the
The sacks are used for various mar- • great machine of supply struck its -
poses and the flour gees into army stride aed the armies were Shaken
bread, At one bakery m France the
saving in flour that would otherwise •
.down,, one of the first things that
-bobbed up for investigation anti poss-
ible supervision was the question of
food outlay. Already the menace of
famine brooded over the herizen. The
submarine danger was growing each -
Governnient, with ethoueariae tef
chens and millions of nieh to 'feed,
°and you realize the enormous dent
that waste in oohing and eating
made iii the national pocketbook.
have been lost in the sack is net less
than $250 a week.
While we are on the subject of flour
I am reminded of still another unusual
piece of salvage. Nearly all the ovens
at one of the largest base bakeries clay, food ships were going downev-
ery week, England was in the grip of
in France, in which hundreds of thous- a food controller, The •conservation
of what -men and womere ate became a.
matter of vital necessify.
Of course food restriction bad to
'begin with the eiVilian. TV last per-
son with whom it couldpossiblybe
enforced was the fighting man. Yet
no one realizete rnore than the army
chiefs themselves that the wastage a-
tnong the troops was little less than
criminal. Sometbing had to be done.
It followed, therefore, that along
in the summer, a 1916 a. defleite move -
ands of loaves of bread are baked
every day, are merely reclaimed tray -
ding ovens that were originally part
of the cominiisary equipment of troops
in the field. On account of the rough)
usage they uspally show signs of de-
terioration in the outer casing after
six months of hard service. With
this decay caines a decrease in bread
output, because less heat istiretained.
This proved to be a serious handicap
in the feeding of troops-. It was el -
most impossible, to make adequate ment was inaugurated to , conserve
repairs and scores of the ovens had and control army ,food consumption,
to be scrapped. Since each one cost but most of all to put a cheek eh the
$950 to $1000, the loss to the public hideous waste that was _sacrificing un -
purse was very great.' told tons of supplies every year. A.
new wing of the Quartermaster -Gen-
eral's Departirient was set up and iied-
icated to the supervision, maintenance
and auditing of all mess services at
home and abroact It was techinally
called the quartermaster -general's in-
spection services.
Before thi$ new department had
been in operation twelve months it had
not only brought about drastic reforms
that saved million of dollars but had
stimulated industry, stiffened British
independence in one very essential
branch of munitionmaking, and es-
tablished a full-fledged and highly pro-
fitable business.
Since the kitchen. was the root of
the food -wastage evil it became the
goal of ' a great offensive First of
all the army cooks were put under
the microscope and carefully analyzed.
Up to this time most of them had been
drafted from civil life. The raajority
were incompetent. They looked upon
goverinent food as something devised -
for waste. In this idea they were
aided and abetted by the soldiers
theinselyea wha frequently there a-
way more of their rations than they
ate. This grand carnival of extrava-
gance at government expense WAS
adorned to a speedy finish.
"If we are going to censor the kit-
chen we must begin with the coelt,"
said the new watchdogs. -of the rneeses.
was to train them, so schools of cook -
was to trei nthem, so schools of cook-
ery -were' started -in ngland and
Scotland. They arin charge of tem-
porarviofficers, all experienced cater-
ers in civil life, who are called instruc-
tors in ceterhig. These sehools prov-
ed to be so successful in the United
Kingdom that scores were established
along the lines of communication in
France at every large infantry base
depot.
(To Be Concluded Next Week)
A bright young man in the Army
Service Corps -once more the ever -
ready and useful temporary officer -
suggested that these travelling ovens
could be bricked in. and made into
ground ovens. Two overs were ac-
cordingly installed in this, way, and
they proved to be so successful that
within six •months 'Tactically every
oven at the depot I am describing was
built out of abandoned field property.
In the field the traveling oven burns
wood.- This proved to be a very -ex-
pensive item foit the bakeries. Coke
was substituted, with the result that
a great saving in fuel was effected.
As a matter of exact fact, the saving
at this one bakery amoutns to $12,000
every month, and this includes the
transporting of fuel. More than this,
not a single travelling oven has been
scrapped sinde the scherhe was inaug-
uarted. To cap the climax of conser-
vation at this bakery 1 have only to
add that it is built on reclaimed
ground.
The system of salvage, extends ev-
erywhere. Nothing is immune. Ev-
ery gasoline can is used and re -used
until it is dilapidated, and then the tin
is sold. The wooden packing cases
are employed until they*fall to 'pieces
and the scraps become kindling. Hos-
pital dressings are sterilized and sold
as cotton waste. Small motor parte
are sent up to the front in empty
cigarette and tobacco tins • set aside
for the purpose. Damaged gas hel-
mets are washed in warm water so
that the chemicals used in them may
be retrieved, The 'British soldier is
taught that true economy, like the
wealth that accumulates from pennies,
is Tartly the sum of small things.d
The same mintt conservation ap-
plies to battle salvage. Wherever
you go in the zones of the armies you'
are likely to see unexploded shells, or
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