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Salvaging Old Scraps
Three months ago Captain Darnell,
head of tue Salvage Division, a
branch formerly known as the Con
servation and Keclamation Departmen
stood and gazed at a mountain of
what appeared to be ‘‘junk”; this was
the so-called waste mateiial at Camp
Greene.
Thousands of articles, made of
either urass, i on, copper, zink, rub
ber, wool, cotton, glass, leather, rope,
lead, steel or paper, were in the pile,
and there was a market value for
eve y oun:e of the 19G distinct types
and grades of the various materials
originally used in the manufacture of
these articles, and he started in to
get that value and did:
The details of this tremendous job
of classifying, each article, was given
to Lieut. Stlenfleld, who is in charge
of the balvage Warehouse and the re
sults were most satisfactory.
The gross weight of this 'uak, was
190,678 pounds and meant the classi
fying of 196 seperate articles, and
yielded a revenue of $1,297.99 certain
ly, great credit is due the Salvage Di
vision for this work.
Though the actual saving and con
serving of every article the army uses
Is most vital and important, yet the
reclaiming, is equally so, as the
“Bringing back to life’’ of say, scrap
iron, to use again in various forms,
not only saves time, money and
labor, but the Iron ore still in the
mines- the same with waste paper,
this is made into card board and
wrapping paper and helps relieve the
existing sho-'tage of raw material.
Wool scraps are made into a fabric
known as “shoddy’’ that save our
new wool; Rope comes back to us in
the form of tissue paper, tin cans are
made into window sash weights, and
that saves iron; burlap bags do
double duty, they being used for
“ove sea’’ shipments and on arrival
are then filled with sand and act as
breast works for our boys in the
front line trenches, and so on, goes
the endless chain. Keep this chain
. endless by saving, saving, saving all
possible. - '
The salvaging of even empty oil
barrels, play an Important role, as the
revenue derived f'om 9.60 wMch we-e
Cots which appearently are until
for use are thoroughly cleansed and
repaired and reissued p actically as
good as new, the salvage Division, re
claimed an average of 200 per day for
the past month.
DONT LET UP: KEEP ON SAV-
ROBERT H. btlARP,
THE GADUCEUS
NURSES’ NEWSLETS.
If t'ouble troubles you, why not take
the trouble to investigrte at the cii'
icnl moment? "So sorry you didn’t.
Captain.”
“Lights up,” night nurses. O. D. is
on his rounds.
Smrrt girl. Miss Denton, to be able
to wash your hands in the dark.
Can any one suggest a better name-
for the iiurres’ homo, behind A St. to
mark it^ indiviuuality ?
The, red light is missing"from t’-e
nurses’ home in A St.
Wi 1 some one pler.se n il down t! i
new furniture which will be placed in
the recejit on room, le’'t wing—new
nurses’ borne? Previous furniture
seems to have disappeared.-
“Life is rea ly worth living,” so
Miss B thinks, especially the hour of
bieakfast biscuits and butter.
Does any one know why Miss M.
S. nerds so much stationary from all
the flifferent or "anizrt'ons? We wouM
like to know! , '
DISMOUNTED
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THE END OF A CANTER.
KITCHEN POLICE
Sitting he-e in the kitchen, pealing
a bucket of spuds,
Wearing a diity apron to cover my
blue serge duds,
A hundred thousand in the bank, “So
ciety man”—that’s me;
Just because I. was late at roll call,
they gave me a weeks K. P.
Sitting here in the kitchen, with slops
all over my eans;
Picking rocks and splinters out of a
ba el of beans.
My thoughts have gone a-wandering to
what I used to be
Before I missed that last prst car apd
they ga' e me a weeks K. P.
I think of the nights I s'luandered do-
in the bar room stunt;
Gee what a sissy I was—what a hope
less, hopeless runtl
Oh, I was there with t’.e girls, boys,
and they called me a "lady’s man.
What would they say if they saw me
now scraping a g.easy pan?
The mess so goaut’s a slaver, he gives
a man no rest.
The first cook is a villian, but I hate
the second ibest.
Oh, sure boys, I've enlisted to march
away to war.
But they’ve got me here in the kitchen
doing the company chores.
A week policing the kitchen, watching
the biscuits browned—
Me, who used to older two thousand
men around.
I wonder what two thousand would
say if they saw me now,
Washing a hundred dishes ready for
6 o’clock chow?
Cartoonist Kelley has respectfully
submitted the above drawing which is
dedicated in admiration of the forti
tude of seve.al nurses who have ad
mitted a mild lameness as they went
about their ward duties on the day
following their fi.st horseback ride
Sergeant Kelley has never seen one
of the nurses thrown from her fiery
steed although there have been num
berless cases throughout the summer.
The PPU picture is only an example
of how it ml,ght happen, he insists and
he calls especial attention to the Caro-
lian setting of the nooding flowers
and the mighty tree, with the dove of
peace pe ched majestically upon the
single blasted limb.
Two months ago in a greenhouse, I
held Anita’s hand.
Told her that I had enlisted to fight
for my na,tive land.
She leaned her head on my shoulder,
said she’d be proud of me,
She’d be p oud, all right, if she saw
me now, doing a week’s K. P.
Dumping the slush in the hog pan,
sc ubbing the kitchen floor.
Swabbing the s’imy mush pan until
my hands are sore, ,
Fixing t’ e hash for supper, putting
ice in the tea—
Archibald Percival Knutty, “Society
man” that’s me.
TWO RETURN.
Millia-d Twiss and Gaston Glace
have lepo ted back for duty afte - ten
days’ l«ave of absence, the latter
now being a proud father.
The Flower Shop
Anytkng in cut Flowers, we have it.
203 North Tryon Street. Phone 1666.