Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1920 — Page 3

NEW PROCESS KEEPS FOOD INDEFINITELY

Revolutionizes Feeding of Troops in War Time. NO CHANCE FOR PTOMAINES Add Water and Boh, Dishes Resulting Are the Same as Fresh Products, Exports Say—French Commission Calls It *a« Remarkable Discovery— Tried Out In Our Army—Produce Meals With Speed off Preetidigitator. Gone are the good old days when a woman is expected to spend four hours In a kitchen, wrestling with the problems of some new d|sh and struggling with the 'unintelligible jargon of the cookbook. No longer need a man wait in vain for his matutinal hash, only to discover after a goodly interval that wifle just couldn’t put the old chopping machine together and there must be a piece missing, or something. All this is as dead as the dodo. The resources of food specialists, dietitians, French chefs and medical men have been combined in a come-out-of-the-kitchen campaign for the housekeeper, enabling her to produce meals with almost, if not quite, the speed of the prestidigitator producing rabbits out of the traditional hat. Just add het water and boil a few minutes is the story. And cheap—well, here’s an example of the cost. Uncle Sam figured' that he could give his doughboys a full dish of vegetable soup and a fine ample portion of corned beef hash by using this new process instantaneous food, for the vast outlay of 3 cents per . doughboy.

William Eidward Fitch, late Major U. S. M. C., and M. D. in his own right, has devoted a lot of- hard work to product. He will prepare a cup of clam broth, while the Interested listener is trying to read the title of one of the doctor’s works. “Dietetherapy, Chemistry of Digestion, Classification and Analysis of Foods. Complete in three volumes. Published with the Permission of the Surgeon General of the Army,” is part of the title. But the clam broth is ready. Like Freshly. Prepared food. ■ First the major produced a manila envelope, something like the average worker’s pay envelope—decidedly small, Openlpg it, he displayed‘about a tablespoonful of fragments of brownish, dried substances. This and- a littie water boiled for less than five Donates produce the clam broth. The investigator Is asked to taste the substance which is strained off, and will find slices of clams, celery and other usual ingredients and nothing to indicate that they are any different from fresh food. If you should step and read two titles, the major explains, the consequent lengthened time of boiling does not spoil the broth. If curiosity is aroused as t;o why it was necessary to have the surgeon general’s permission, the answer is contained in the fact that about 150 pages of the work deal with army rations,,food economics in the war, etc. , But to return to the clam broth. The major is inquiring how you like it. He is also saying that usually the chef prepares it, but that he has gone home. Honesty compels the admission that, chef or no ehef, it has net seemed to suffer. ,' “Everything Is retained," says the major, “fodd value, flavor, etc. The foods are put up in little cardboard cartons, or in paper envelopes. There are no <tins ant! no glass. Moreover, no artificial preservatives are used, even the so-called most harmless ones. The package may be opened and part of the contents used. The balance may be set aside and used next week, next month or next year, and it will be as good as when first opened. Food Products Koop Indefinitely.' “Here is some lamb Stew, now,” continues the dietary expert, placing । on the table something resembling somewhat a section of brown nut candy, “It will keep indefinitely, if the mice will let it alone. I see one, has been nibbling here at this end. This is very old, but all I would have to do to put It in water anl let it boll for about twenty minutes and It would ha a most appetizing stew. It has. combined with lamb, onions, potatoes, and ether vegetables, also seasoning. “The soups containing a quantity of vegetables can stand about fifteen minutes* boiling and the. meat, products twenty to twenty-five minutes. We already have dear soaps, thirty-one creamed soups, twenty vegetable products, twenty fish product a—fish cakes., for Instance—and twenty-five meat products. , Coined beef hash, chicken, hash, roast beef haah stew, codfish cakes,cream•g flab, end lobster a la Newburg .are included in the list of dishes prepared by the new process, “It to nbt a dehydrating process and -it bears no resemblance to the canning process. Botulism, of which one is hearing sb much th&e days in connection with the fatal olive poisoning cases,- and ptomaine poisoning, are bdL impossible with this process. The fMer to not lost as to canning All tIL nutritive and palatable qualities f j the fresh food are retained." r //To the newlywed innocent of the Mt ct cookery, the new instantaMeos

food Is a booh. According to the major, it Is all prepared the same way—it is just put in water. Soup is wet, so the water |s saved. Domed beef hash is comparatively dry, so most of the water is allowed to evaporate passing off in the form of steam. If it is hubby’s birthday, or.time to ask for an Easter hgt, wifle mas treat the hash to a little frylng-up In a pan, making it a browned hash —but it isn’t necessary at all.

Vitamins Content Not Lost. “An important feature of this new process,” according, to its sponsors, "Is that the fuel value and vitamlne consent of fresh foods Is not lost or reduced.” The necessity for_vitamlnes In. the dietary is admitted, and this feature is being emphasized in current medical literature. “While little understood by the profession and still less, of course, by the general public,” says Doctor Fitch, “vltamines, according to the consensus among research workers in this particular field, are o< definite, organic, chemical composition easily destroyed by prolonged exposure to heat. Patient research into the subject has established the fact that they possess toxic properties and that, even In remarkably infinitesimal amounts, they relieve the symptoms of deficiency disease in both man and animals. Clinical experimentation ‘established the fact that when vitamlnes are deficient in the dietary the body suffers and there are soon -developed symptoms of deficiency disease. Vitamlnes are essential for growth, development and the maintenance of life. Pellagra, berl-berl, scurvy and other deficiency diseases are to be controlled or prevented through the administration of the propel' foods, containing the ade quate vl£amlne content. "The vitamine content of fresh foods is greatest just when the fresh vegetables or fruits reach their highest state of perfection and in meats when the animal or fowl reaches maturity and is well fed and physically fit. All vitamlnes originally come from the animal kingdom. The cow receives vltamines from the green grasses and cereal foods she ingests and excretes vitamlnes in her milk; the hen receives vitamlnes from cereal grains and green herbs and stores them In her flesh and In the eggs sho' lays. The heart necessary to sterilize milk er to sterilize fresh fruljs, vegetables and meats in the canning process destroys tie vitamlne content. Contrasted With Dehydration.

“Especially abroad, extensive experiments have been made with the dehydrating process. Here is some of the foreign product,” said Doctor Fitch, indicating a little box of dried food. “It is most attractive in color, but it must be soaked 12 hours, and boiled for more than three hours, and then meat and stock and seasoning added to make it a vegetable soup, and It has not been found possible to keep the worm out-of it and preserve, all the vitamine contents. Sufficient beat used In the process of drying destroys the vitamlnes. Tn Hie new‘process the food Is not submitted tn such great heat, or for so long, but the worm floes not get In it because of the ( seaspnlpg. The vitamlne content is deficient in all dehydrated fruits and vegetables and in pickled and salted meats.” 1 According to Doctor Fitch, .cases, of debility In any body of troops should at once direct attention to diet. u “No troops can bp kept in condition indefinitely on canned foods alone," he said. “Tinned and preserved meats possess no aptlgpnrbntic., (antiscurvy) value whatever. Frozen meat, while more valuable than preserved meat, must be considered inferior to freshly killed meat. It will be seen that views as ip the value and effect of different foods have greatly changed In the last decade. Meat, considered at one time the best diet forsaking strong men, is shown to be inferior so far as vitamlnes are concerned to other foods once held in contempt by meat eaters. Vegetables of many kinds, whenjproperly cooked, are not only morfe economical but more beneficlal."The report of J. Delpit of the French conamlssjop on file new process halls it as a remarkable discovery that will literally revolutionize the process of feefling troops in war time. The reduction In volume and the reduction In weight, the absolute unchangeabilIty by cold, heat or cold water are among the features which recommend It to the commission. The difficulty of incorporating fresh vegetable products in the diet of the soldier under' all conditions Is touched upon by M. Delpit. He considers that the new process making possible “the provisioning of soldiers with food products actually consisting of a great variety of soups and vegetables will alleviate his hard lot to a 7 great extent and contribute to bls well being.” Hospitals at the front and behind the lines, be thinks, will find them' almost equally I ’

FRANCE BARS FOREIGNERS

None but Frenchmen May Enter Hotel and Restaurant Buoinooa. By ti>e provisions of a bin introduced in French parliament by the government foreigners are absolutely barred from the hotel and restaurant business in France. The fact that many foreign hotels and restaurant owners were enemy agents during the war Jpd to this step, j ' The-blUalsoforbiw participation by aliens tn the customs transit or commission agency trade, information bureaus, employment agencies, munition. factories, flhemical worts affecting national defense and tho quarrying \*j $ -

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FOURTH RED CROSS ROLL CALL ANNOUNCED

Announcing the Fourth Red Cross RoR Call, tp be held between November 11 and November 25, Dr. Livingston chairman of the Central Committee, made known the fact that as a result of last year’s Roll Call, the American Red Cross has ten million members. The Red Cross has decided to make each anniversary of the ending of the world war the occasion for renewing allegiance “Greatest Mother’’ by means of the dollar membership. Thus the Fourth Roll Call will have fof* its purpose the maintenance of as nearly universal membership as possible and the support of peace time activities. -.j These activities are continuation of measures in behalf of America's veterans of the World War y particularly the disabled; service- to the peace time Army and Navy, development of a stouter resistence to disease through health centers, increasing of the country's nursing resources, continued preparedness for disaster relief, Home Service and community work and completion of relief work among the war-exhausted and diseaseridden peoples overseas.

QUESTIONNAIRE BRINGS MONEY FOR VACATION

to a certain Lake Division town, there’s a mother of a former soldier who has nearly SIOO extra to spend for herself this summer.

The Red Cross Home Service section in that community sent questionnaires to all ex-service men, asking them if all their war-time affairs had been satisfactorily settled. The particular soldier In question was discharged soon after the Armls- 1 tlce and had nevbr learned that some travel pay was due him. After he had read over the questionnaire he decided to look up the Home Service secretary- an find out about some of the things noted among the, queries As a result he just check for $96.48 that he didn’t kWw was due him until the Red Crbss questionnaire came. He gave the money his mother for a vacation. This Is a typical example of the service given by the Red Cross.

RED CROSS NURSES WIN SCHOLARSHIPS

Nine Red Cross chapters In the Lake Division have given scholarships for a four-months’ post graduate course In Public Health Nursing at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, to nurses in’their communities. On completion of their study Sept. 1, they will return to their homes and carry on the Public Health Nursing program of the Red Cross, which includes visiting nursing, school nursing, Instruction work, an<T general community service In caring for health. ’ Chapters which have awarded these scholarships are Richwood, Union County, Ohio; Lagrange, Ind.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio; Zanesville, Ohio; Brazil, Ind.; South'Bend, Ind.; West Alexandria, Ohio, and Bluffton, Ind.

TRAINING COURSES OPEN FOR TRAINING RED CROSS WORKERS

to the summer session at Ohic State University, Columbus, the Redi Cross, in co-operation with the university, is offering a six weeks’ course of training for persons who wish to j become Red Cross executive secre । tarles or chapter managers. This is designed to meet the demand for trained executives to promote the Red Cross peace time program. Instructors include prominent men on the university faculty. National and Divisional Red Cross leaders and others of national repute..

COMMUNITY INSPIRED TO INCORPORATE TOWN

Coke Otto, a small mining community near Hamilton, OMo, Isn’t content to be just a group <* people any longer-— Coke Otto wants to be an incor porated town- ” And It’s all the result of community meetings and activities inaugurated by the Rural Extension Secretary oi Hamilton Chapter of the Red Cross. When Hamilton engaged its rural worker, she went among other placet to Coke Otto, where perhaps 700 peo pie live. Sanitary conditions' wep very lax there, so one of the firm movements was the organization of a “tin can brigade." This was divided into eight sub-regiments and prizes were offered the group that kept thf most rubbish out of the community flor a specified length of time. • Subsequent community meeting* have shown the people of Coke Otte the need for street dean-ups, flood protection and sanitation. After the third meeting the community decided that better and quicker results could be, obtained through united efforts Hence the plan to become an incur porated town,.

J., 1 Armistice Day, November 11. tc Thanksgiving Day, November •—Mw 'Four&Red Cross Roll O'" ,

ALL HE COULD DO FOR HIM

According to Thia, Prospects of Thirsty Gent Getting a Drink Didn’t — Seem to Be Promising. “How can 1 go about It to get a drink In this town?’’ asked a recently arrived gent, who looked as if he needed irrigation. “Well,” replied the landlord of the Petunia tavern, “I’ll tell you what you mlght do: Go to thg second corner up the street,- pass around It and go to the alley about half-way, and you’ll come to a gate standing open, a crack in a fence made out of old billboard lumber. Go in through the gate and along to a cellar back of the shanty .standing In the lot, lift the cellar door and go down the steps, whistle three times, and a dirty feller will come with a lafitern. and look you over and tell you that there ain’t nothin’ doing in this dod-blasted town since the blankity-blank prohibitionists got so sizzle-fired active. This is the best I can do for you, Mr. Dryer.”— Houston Post.

KEEP TROUBLES TO YOURSELF

The World, as’ a Thing, Has Little Use for the Man Addicted to Self-Pity. The trouble with the* man in a little trouble Is that he is inclined to pity himself and imagine that he is the only man who ever had a trouble, i All he can see in thq, moment of his Irritation in his own burden. It seems not to occur to him that at the very moment he is wrestling with his difficulty thousands of people around him are fighting against far greater odds and in much greater danger. Trouble, anyhow, is a part pt the game of life. Nobody ever went anywhere or did anything worth while without meeting it in one form or another. Let others pity you If they will, but don’t waste any time pitying yourself. The chances are that your next 7 door neighbor would be tickled to death if such troubles as you have were all he had to worry about. —Exchange.

Nickel No Good.

A little girl walked into a confectionery one morning, placed a nickel on the counter and called for an Ice cream cone. “Ice cream cones are 7 cents, little girl,” the fizz clerk announced. “Well, then gimmee a soda pop.” “Six cents.” ‘J|Got any root beer?” “Yep, 6 cents, too.” The little girl sighed disappointedly and started out, leaving her nickel on the “Here, little girl, you’re leaving your nlckbl,” the clerk called to her. “Oh, that’s all right,” the child shouted back. “It’s no good to me —It won’t buy anything!”

She Knew.

The teacher was teaching the cases of personal pronpuns and had given the class a great amount of drill work on such sentences as “I struck him. He struck me. They struck us,"‘etc. The class was very glib and had repeated them in order until she, wishing to test them, asked: “Now, can any one give me a sentence In which the word him is used?” No one could for a long time. Then a little girl in one of the back seats put up her hand. And glibly she gave her sentence: “My mother put a new him In my dress laset night.”

History of Petroleum industry.

The story of the petroleum industry in the United States dates back to 1859. when, on August 28, oil whs struck in the Drake well, near Titusville, in northwestern Pennsylvania. When the pumping began the oil flowed in a tiny stream of 40, and later only 15, barrels a day; 5,000,000 barrels were produced In 1870, 26,000,000 in 1880, 45,000,000 in 1890, 63,000,000 in 1900, 209,000,000 in 1910 and 356,000,000 barrels in 1918. The output last year is perhaps 30,000,000 barrels in excess of the 1918 record.

Somewhat Spoiled Argument.

Recruiting Sergeant—Now, the army’s the life for a man—free grub and clothes, plenty of traveling about, and once you’ve jolnetK you’ll never want to leave. Possible Recruit—l’ll think it over, sergeant, and come to see you again in a day or so. ' . Recruiting Sergeant—You’ve got to make' up your mind on the spot, if there’s any business doing. Fm waiting every minute to get demobilized myself..

Her Wholesale Prayers.

Lucile, who is five, does not like to say her prayers at night when she is sleepy.l “Did you say your little prayer last night?” her mother asked her one morning at breakfast. “No,” said the little girl, “I was too sleepy last night, mamma, but Sunday night, when you put me to bed before I was sleepy, I prayed seven prayers —enough to last me all this

Hurt Twice.

“Are you hurt?” they asked of the man who bad fallen. “Hurt? I should say 1 anj,” lio reHurt by the tall I got. and hurt more | by the fact that I had my flask full in my hljf pocket when I fell.”

Sign of Thrift.

A garden patch Is just as good-a sign of thrift as any other kind of patch.—Buffalo Courier,

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