Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — MEN IN FRANCE MUST EAT [ARTICLE]

MEN IN FRANCE MUST EAT

Army of Million Will Require 17 Ships Unloading One Hundred Million Pounds Daily. The American army in France will need spme transporting. Here are figures that are at least approximately correct, writes Charles H. Grasty i'n New York Times. It is\estimated that 100 pounds of freight a man each day must be unloaded at the port of debarkation. Therefore, when at the end of two years, we have, say, 1,000,000 men in France we must unload dally 100,000,000 pounds bf freight, or 50,000 tons. Three thousand tons can be unloaded daily from a good-sized ship; hence 17 ships at the wharves, each of them unloading 3,000 tons, will fill the requirements. In the United States 17 ships must be loading 50,000 tons a day. This makes a total of 34 ships at the docks. Taking as a basis ' a 6,000 ton (dead weight) ship, we see 17 ships must leave New York every two days and 17 ships leave some French port every two days in transit with army freight. Assuming ten days as the time of passage, there would be 170 ships (6,000 tons) on the way to and from the United States, which, added to the 84 at the docks, will make a total of 204 ships, assuming no loss or delay. With 1,000,000 men there will be approximately 200,000 animals. At 14 pounds of hay a day, there would be required for six months more than ! 456,000,000 pounds of hay, which must be imported, and also 360,000,000 pounds of oats. Rations will require, 815,000,000 pounds. Ammunition will run into the billions of pounds.