{ title: 'The Nassau post. (Freeport, N.Y.) 1914-1918, May 31, 1918, Page 6, Image 6', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn95071434/1918-05-31/ed-1/seq-6/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn95071434/1918-05-31/ed-1/seq-6.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn95071434/1918-05-31/ed-1/seq-6/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn95071434/1918-05-31/ed-1/seq-6/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Long Island Library Resources Council
. TUB llASSAU POST. FMtBPOAT, H. T , FRIFFAT. WAT 81. 1818 ; P«# f 8 1 [A! BEEF STEW WITH A RELISH American Soldiers Enjoy Plain Army Cooking. APPETITIS ARE ALWAYS KEEN Men Like the Life end Have No Hank ering fer Elaborate Menue of Big Hotel! at Home—Men Are Alwaye Hungry and Are Never Late for Meee—Find Romance o f War la Largely a Myth. Judging by rrnult* here Ht the front, e man la better off with plpln army rooking than w ith the elaborate mennn o f Delmonlco’e and the Rltz to choose from. The officera* messes are s lightly more varied than those of the enlisted men, b u t both are very good, ami there Is no complaint anywhere along the line. The men have meat, sugar and butter and all the condiments usually found on a chop house table, writes Don Mar tin In the New York Herald. Here Is what I had the other day at an officers’ mess very close to the fro n t : Reef stew, mashed potatoes, lettuce salad, coffee, cake, canned peaches. The next day, beans of very good quality, generously soaked In a tomato sauce, took the place of the beef atew, and rice pudding was sub stituted for canned peaches. No one w ill get thin on fare like that, and It may be authoritatively stated that the men are by no means growing emaciated. They are the healthiest looking lot of men to be seen anywhere. Thin ones are filling out and fat ones are thinning out. Cheeks which once were Inclined to be chalky now ore tanned. Hollows un der cheek hones have puffed out. Men Like the Life. The men w ith whom I have talked lik e the life although It Is by no means nn easy one. So long as food condi tions remain good there w ill he no grumbling from the men. The army has been here long enough now to fur nish added proof of the truth of Napo leon’s statement that nn arm y fights “ on Its stomach.” A t luncheon at nn officers’ casual mess recently I saw men well known at the lending hotels In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Roston. One o f them Is considerable of nn epicure find his messmates sny he was Inclin ed at first to balk at the rough army food. It Is all changed now. He eats beef stew with the same relish he once ate terrapin, ami beans he enjoys ns thoroughly ns he once enjoyed a de licious curry. I asked him if he would like to sit down with n F ifth avenue menu to order from and, pausing In the midst of a course of turnips and mashed potatoes, he said: “ This will do fo r me, thank you.” O f course, the matter of appetite has a great deni to do with it. No one of all the enlisted men mid officers lacks nn nppetite. When dinner time comes nt noon the men are there on the spot, and they are right on the Job again nt six o’clock In the eveuing. It m ight also be said that they are always hungry. One officer, a major, who Is n very notable figure In the life of a middle Western city, leaned hack from his dinner the other day, lighted a cigar and said: ‘‘This life here Is doing more for me than any vacation I ever had.” And he looked It. He said he suf fered from Insomnia and loss of ap petite at times, but that he 1ms had neither since hi' got out In the open w ith the tinny. There are a good many men of great wealth In the various American divisions and they are shar ing equally with all, of course. In an officers’ barracks, about five miles from the front, I saw n man from riilludel- phin who was accustomed to every kind of luxury. Here he was sharing a tin y room w ith another man who, the Philadelphia man said, snores tre mendously. “ B u t I don’t mind It. I don’t mind anything now when I lie down for a night’s sleep,\ Can Sleep Anywhere. The hoys In the ranks have already hud fa r more soldiering than they ever got In the training camps at home. They have trumped on roads fo r many hours or days nt a time, have slept In motor trucks, on crowded trains, have been billeted In barns and In barracks, have slept In fields and by the roadside. Yet there Is very little Illness and the men look In the pink of condition. They eat regularly and plentifully, and the only complaint I have heard from them Is that they would prefer fight- to constant training. The romance o f war ns pictured by the boyish mind Is said by the soldiers to be largely a myth. For Instance, In a muddy roadway I saw a brawny pri vate pacing up and down In a driving ruin, rifle In position, guarding some thing (even he didn’t know what It was) which was piled up nearby. He had becu on guard for ten hours. I asked him how he liked It and he made no reply. The sentries don’t talk to any one. In a camp on the American sector I saw a soldier scrubbing mud o ff har nesses. “ T h is Isn’t quite my Idea of what war was going to be,\ he said, “ but (with a touch o f genuine American humor) I have found In my short but varied career that things are seldom what they seem.\ Miss Willie Duncan, n niece of Rep resentative W illiam I). Oliver of Ala bama, hopes to get to France by be coming proficient os a radio operator. She has made rapid progress In her study. RECLUSE HAD U-BOAT REMEDY Examination o f Effects of Brooklyn Phyaiclan Also Revealed Large Fortune. New York.— Hidden In a cupboard In the rooms occupied by D r. Robert C. Stedman of Brooklyn, who died sud denly, the police found a bundle of dust-covered bonds and stocks of a fnce value of almost $175,000. Three bank hooks which showed the physi cian had on deposit $20,000, also were found. Doctor Stedman, who, the police sny, was a recluse, lived nt the Fourth ave nue address two years. It was learned th a t he abandoned a lucrative prac tice In Manhattan more than twenty years ago. Ills friends lost track of his movements. He dropped dead at the foot of Twenty-first street, Brooklyn, while at w o rk on n boat he was constructing. In a pocket was found a letter ad dressed to Secretary of the Navy Dan iels, requesting a trial of an Invention he had, which he said would prevent torpedoes from destroying ships. GOTHAM BOYS BEHAVE BETTER W a r Has Tempering Influence on Youngsters, Says Settlement Worker. New York.—The hoys of New York have been getting hotter gradually for the last ten years. The annual report of the Union settlement, which de votes Its efforts to South Harlem, where the boys arc representative of the entire city, is authority fo r this statement. Dnylord S. W h ite, secretary of the settlement, has several theories. “ Thousands of hoys have been so bered by the departure of older broth ers for war service,\ said Mr. White, “ and the work o f the junior police in the tenement districts has quieted an other large detachment of potential mischief-makers. Things that were considered smart and amusing have lost their value in the hoys’ eyes with the burden of w a r reflected a ll about them.\ TRAVEL RULES IN FRANCE Safe Conduct System Extended to Ad ditional Departments by Gov ernment. Paris.—New regulations for travel ing and the extension of the safe con duct system to include certain depart ments of France, which hitherto had belonged to the interior zone and since the battle of Picardy have been placed in the arm y zone were made known this week to the public. F o r traveling in the departments of the Seine-et-Oise and the Seine for eigners now require a safe conduct from the police prefects. Frenchmen also need safe conducts for traveling by motor, whether on public or pri vate business. Starts Swimming Eighteen Miles— Is in Hospital Seattle, Wash.—When Jack Watts, twenty-four, a sailor on one of Uncle Sam’s torpedo- boats, dove off u pier here and started to swim to the training shipe Philadelphia, 18 miles away, he started something he couldn't finish. When fished out o f the bay he expressed his pleasure at having been saved the long journey. Jack took Into his system con siderable quantities of salt wa ter along with other liquids he hud been Imbibing and they didn’t mix well. He was tallt-n to the city hospital for balling purposes. MHURBIGfimiRIIST COMPART PAR OF HHCU SAM’S WAR WORK Making German Money Invested in This Country Work fo r the United States, Is Important Work Being Done by the Alien Property Custodian—Citizens Urged to Help by Reporting Any Enemy-Owned Property in Their District. RUBLE TO SHAKE AILED AIR ROLE German Language Banned. K lrksrllle, Mo.—The German lan guage baa been * discontinued I d the ward and high schools of this city. “The German text-books are tilled with German propaganda,\ declared Superlnteudeut Chaurles Banks. Washington.—Call It what you will, ihe biggest trust company, auction shop, or bargain counter sale, Uncle Sam has It among his war activities. Congress gave It Its charter, the goods dealt In are enemy owned, United States citizens are Its stockholders, and the title of the business manager Is alien property custodian. It Ig doing a trust company business because the hulk of the property taken over belongs to Individuals and has to be safely administered by Uncle Ham. It Is an auction shop because the great Industries here In the United States owned and controlled by Ger man trade harons which are seized under the trading with the enemy act w ill he sold putright to loyal citizens o f this country, Americanized, and Ger man control o f commerce and Industry In the United States o f America stamped out forever. It Is n bargain counter sale because many times In odd collections of Germnn owned prop erty here and there are small pieces that have to he quickly converted Into cosh to prevent loss either to the In dividual owner or to Uncle Sam. As such, they are passed across the coun te r In spot sales and the money turned Into Uncle Sam’s treasury. Rut whether earnings o r sales, this money is turned over by the alien property custodian to the treasury of the United States and there converted Inside the enemies' lines Is subject to Immediate seizure. Also all Interned aliens here In the United States are classed ns enemies and their property treated accordingly. Agents of the bureau of Investiga tion of the alien property rustodlnn, under the direction of Francis I*. Onr- vnn, an experienced assistant to, f o r mer District Attorney Jerome of New York, ore combing the country fo r enemy owney property and millions' of dollars' worth have been reported. But as much more la confidently believed still unreported. Some of It Is actively helping Germany’s deadly campaign of spying, bombing, and arson ; all of It Is potentially a menace. A. Mitchell Palmer, addressing him self to the citizens of the United States and shareholders In this, the biggest trust company on earth, said: “ T ho more of this property reported the more harmless It will be, the better the business of your tru s t company, the bigger the returns to the treasury, and the more powerful on the reckon ing day w ill be the U. S. A. I want the citizens to sentd this office Informn- tlon and reports on the existence o f any enemy owned property in their district. T h a t Information will be con sidered confidential. I want citizens who have custody of enemy owned property to report It. They will he given fair and square treatment. We A. Mitchell Palmer, Head of Biggest Trust Company on Earth. Into Liberty bonds. Thus Is German money made to work for Uncle Sam, to helii build ships, buy food and sup plies, and keep fields and factories nt home humming with industry against the Hun. Palmer Is Director. The alien prdperty custodian In whose hands the direction o f tills great economic force against Germany has been placed is n Pennsylvania Quaker. Ills name is A. Mitchell Palmer. Ills forefathers came to America In the same ship with William Penn, and the fam ily has lived for several genera tions within the lines of the original Quaker settlement. When appointed by the president, Mr. Palmer fo r several days carried his oath of office In his pocket. He could not find even desk room In crowded Washington. That was only five months ago. Today his force num bers over 400 employees In Washing ton alone, besides the hundreds scat tered across the country. The head quarters’ force is now established in nn eight-floor apartment house In one of the best residential districts of Washington w h ic h the government commandeered and took possession of before It was finished. From here the alien property cus todian Is today making pencils In New Jersey, chocolate In Connecticut, brew ing beer In Chicago, sawing lumber In Florida, mining metal In Mexico, run ning real estate stores and commission offices and public utilities In all parts of the country. This enemy owned property may he stock certificates, or bonds or debts, life Insurance premi ums, or cash, real or personal property, but to come w ith in the reach of this big government trust company It must be either owned In whole or In part by persons living within the enemy lines or by persons trading w ith Inter ests within tYie enemy lines. Safe I f He'e Good. I f a German citizen lives here in the United States, obeys Its laws, does not trade with Germany, and does not en gage In any pernicious activities against the government, his property and his business are free from any In terference on the part of the alien enemy custodian. On the other hand, the property of a cltdzen of the United States who maintains his residence stand ready and willing to co-operate in any way w ith any citizen who may w rite us for direction or advice. This is an opportunity to those of us who have to stay a t home and cannot fight in the trenches. Here we cun render u most powerful service. “ I want your help.\ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * $ WHEN U. S. GOT BUSY $ 5 MAN MADE CHECK GOOD $ 5 Bartlesville, Okhi.—D u r i n g * the Liberty loan campaign here, * n solicitor secured a sukscrip- * £ tlon from n business man who J * gave the worker u $5 check ns * ^ first payment on a $100 bond. £ * The cheek was turned down * * at the bank when presented. Re- * * pented calls by the collector * ^ found the man always absent. * * The solicitor turned the check * i f over to a federal agent. As a * * government receipt had been * * given for the check, the latter * ^ called on the business man and * * presented the check. It was * £ made good at once. i * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * } IS BRAVEST WOMAN IN WAR Officers’ Tribute to Miss Beaton, Just Returned After Two Years' Service. Denver, Colo.—Miss Eunice H. Bea ton. known to the officers o f the allied armies as “ the bravest woman of the w a r,\ has returned to her home In Den ver, after two years’ service on the western front In France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. A fte r a brief rest. Miss Beaton again w ill enter the service of the government In training women as ambulance drivers. Miss Beaton la known la the West as a typical outdoor girl. She excels In swimming, tenuis, golf, trap-ahoot- Ing, motoring and horaewomanahlp. On the western front Miss Beaton was under fire a score of times. Site helped carry wounded from No Man's Land and was driving an empty am bulance from a hospital tv the front when the car wsus wrecked by a ekaiL Entente Mc&hines Surpass Best Hun Types in All Branches of Service. In spite of the tremendous aviation efforts of the Germans, prompted by the entry of the United States Into the world conflict, and their threat to have thousands of aircraft available this spring, the enemy has been unable to even shake the allied air superiority anywhere. The single-seater machines, the Hanover monoplane and the Rfelz biplane do not compare with the latest models o f French and British fighting planes. For speed In climbing the Germans found the Fokker trlplnne Impractical end It was quickly discarded for a new type of monoplane. While this monoplane was fast It was unreliable and less speedy than the wonderful French Mornne. The I’fnlz biplane Is n little better, but it suffers continually w ith motor trouble. The Germans are now using a lig h t er machine, which carries a brace of machine guns. The enemy’s two-seater of the Albntroes-Avlatlk type is still the best machine they have. I t Is speedy and capable o f climbing to n great height, owing to Its large spread of wings. However, the Germans are obliged to use faster observation machines than the allied aviators, as their single- seater fighting machines are Incapable of protecting the two-seaters as the al lied machines are. The scout machines of the allies nre also used for guard duty, for regulat ing artillery fire and fo r photographic work. . It Is also noticeable that the accur acy of the enemy's antiaircraft guns Is falling qtT. This Is due to the fact that many of their best aviators have been drafted fo r machine gun service to re place those killed In the recent German offensive. LONG AND SHORT OF IT AT CAMP DEVENS, MASS. The original darky M u tt and Jeff are at Camp Devens. They are Nathan iel Singleton, 4 feet 11 inches, and Fred Mnder, G feet 8V& inches, both of Miami, Fla. Statisticians at the camp have figured out that It takes Fred just 3 H seconds more to get a drink of w a ter down than it takes his shorter pal to perform the same trick. Despite th e ir great difference in stat ure, the tw o men are Inseparable pals. FIND BURIED MONEY It Was Hidden Years Ago by P i oneer. While boring a post hole on his fnrm, located on the old Oregon trail, near the L it t le Blue river, a few miles northeast o f Deshler, Neb., William Beckman struck an obstacle which proved to be an old kettle In which were a number of pieces of money, how much and of what denomination the lucky finder refuses to say. The old kettle and a few of the coins were brought to town and placed on exhibi tion. The find Is thought to have been burled by a Mr. Jules, who owned the place years ago. He sold out to “ B u f falo Bill’’ (W illiam Cody) and Capt. Lute North, and was afterward killed by the Indians. Tradition says that before the Indians raided the place Mr. Jules secreted a large sum o f money, and treasure hunters have searched the place In vain for years fo r what M r. Beckman bored Into last week. $68.28 for Year'o Pbod. D. D. Dickey, engineer In a factory at Berbertou, O., spent ju s t $58.28 fo r food, or an average of about 16 cents u day, during 1017. Dickey worked a ll through the year, twelve hours a day, alx days a week and gained two pounds during the year. Dickey’s menu had no place on it f o r meat and m ilk for steady uae, although he had them occasionally. Fruit and baked dishes made up a large p a rt of the b ill t#Z fare. GIVIS LIFE 10 GIMRDSECRETS Flyer Wrecks Disabled Machine as German Flotilla Ap proaches Airplane. ORDERS OBSERVER TO ESCAPE Pilot Deliberately Blow* Himeelf and Hie Craft to Pieces With Bomb to Evade Capture by Huns. London.—British aviators and me chanics sometimes are compelled to destroy their own machines to prevent the Germans from obtaining n Jeal ously guarded secret about the new type o f airplane. Occasionally It !§ necessary for the aviator to sacrifice his own life together with his air plane. Such nn Instance Is described In &n official report of a brave avia tor, who deliberately blew himself and the airplane to pieces with n bomb to evade capture by a Germnn flotilla of destroyers. There were two men, the p ilo t and his observer, In one of the latest fly ing boats the British makers have turned out They had got well out to sea when a fog suddenly cut them off from the rest of their companions. The pilot bended for home, but a few sec onds Inter the engine “ died\ and the pilot brought the boat to rest on the water. He climbed up to the engine to see If he could make good the de1 feet. A glance showed him that only a repair shop and a squad of expert mechanics could hope to make the en gine run. His fnce was slightly more grave when he climbed down to the hull. “Are you going to make the works go around again, daddy?\ asked the observer. Machine Can’t Be Fixed. “Can’t be done, my son,” said thfl pilot. “ We shall have to wait on some one coming to pick us up.\ \I suppose the fog will lif t soon and give our chaps n sight o f us. Wake me up before they come,” and snuggling still further down Into his sent, the observer went to sleep. The night drew on. The p ilot sat up on the deck combing, and listened Intently for the slightest sign o f ap proaching rescuers, while behind him down In the cockpit slept the boy, dreaming of home. With the coming o f the morning the fog lifte d and the observer glanced eagerly over the shadowy waters. For on the horizon was a little black smudge growing steadily In size, and behind i t another smudge, and anoth er. It was a patrol Hutijla fast ap proaching them. \It Is German, my son,” said the pi lot. “ Is your life belt on securely?\ “Yes.” “ Well, get over the side and swim ns hard ns you can.” “ But don’t you want me to help—\ His Privilege to Die. “ Get over the side,” said the pilot curtly, and there was that In his voice which made the junior man Instantly obey. “ Good-by, sonny,” he added, as the observer slipped Into the water. “ It Is m y privilege, you know.” About 200 yards away the observer paused and looked hack at the disa bled plane. The p ilo t was crouching on the top of the wing underplane, Just above the bomb rack, w ith a heavy spanner In his upraised hand heady to strike a blow. A mile away the first German destroyer was tear ing the sen in twain in nervous haste to save the coveted trophy and get away before the appearance of the dreaded British patrol. The observer turned and swam away from the tra gedy which he knew was about to hap pen. There came the roar of a mighty ex plosion. lb- heard the swish o f the air blast along the surface waters and the rush o f the approaching wave from the sea disturbance. The wave en gulfed him just as he began to hear the splash and patter of the falling debris, and In the blackness o f its heart his senses swam Into uncon sciousness. He was still sobbing de lirious when the British patrol boat picked him up an hour later. YANK COOKS ROUSE FRENCH Amazed by Extraordinary Mixture, Salmon, Mashed “ Spuds\ and Pickled Cucumbers. Paris.— A t last a French correspond ent has found a weak spot lu the American expeditionary force. The man who bus ventured to strike this first discordant note Is the special rep resentative of Le Temps at the French front, who happened to be near the American section, which had the flret real fight with the enemy and so paid them a v isit. lie w rites: “There are certain practical point* in which our allies are uot yet pant masters, notably cookiug. At first scorning their own stews, they pre ferred to stick to canned meat entirely. “Our cooks showed them how td make soup, and they soon acquired a taste for It. It won’t be long before they will be making some good stu ff themselves, better any way then the extraordinary mixtures I saw them eating this evening, lik e canned sal mon with mashed potatoes and pickled cucumber* T* ^ , e
