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mo UUUliUilCU OtiUCO luvv“Your captain, then,” suggest? the wise friend, coming down several ranks.Aw, he’s all right and we’re always there to salute him, bat there’s others,” says the private.How about your top sergeant, a veteran 'noncora' with rough talk and n strong right?” asks the friend, losing confidence.“We're all for him, but there's others just as good as him too,” insists the private.‘Tut us next, who’s the boss of the company?” the first questioner Insists.“The cook, who else?” chorus half a dozen.That's the hero—the company cook, writes Junius B. Wood, In the Chicago Dally News. The cook may be hot and grouchy, his uniform greasy and his eyes red from smoke, but he Is the most respected man In the mess. That Is, If ho Is a good cook. Even If he Isn’t a good cook, indeed Is a very poor cook, which Is unusual for our army, nobody bawls him out” to his face as they might even do to n sergeant major who isn’t much of a scrapper. Any kicks or grumbling against oven the worst cook are made In prtvute and out of his earshot.Say, cook, gimme another helpin' of the 'slum gulllon?’ ” asks a soldier, coming up with his tin mess kit scoured clean with a hunk of bread of all traces of the first helping of stew.No seconds, tonight,” replies the mess sergeant.Aw, be k good fellow, I’m nearly starved,” befes the soldier.his cooks to seo that everybody gets his share of everything and that nothing is left over. That means closo figuring with only his eyes and a big spoon to measure by.For each Infantry company of 204 men there are a mess sergeant and three cooks. Under the old organization there were a sergeant and three cooks for a company of 1G3 men and officers. Tho way It works out up to a brigade unit Is:Bat- Regl-Company, talton nient.Brlgadc. Officers and men.201 766 2,736 6,401Meta sergeants... 1 i 14 2SCooks ............. 8 11 38 77Rolling kitchens.. 1 4 IS 30Ration wagons... 1 4 28 6SIn tho field, officers eat the same food os tho men. If they want to pur-ehaso some extra dainties thut Is their affair. Any man can do the same. The government issues sugar for the coffee, and Jam or preserves or dried fruit. At mess time, the men, each carrying his kit, line up In front of the kitchen. As the line passes along, the sergeant dishes up the stew and beans or other vegetables, oua of the cooks, doles out the bread, another fills the coffee mugs aad the third Is sweltering over tho fire, After all the men have been served, the sergeant fills tho officers' tin dishes and carries them to where they are waiting. That Is all the extra service they get. It Is the same with the marines. It is a wise government regulation. The officer knows what food tho mon are getting, for ho has the same.
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Algona Courier
Algona, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1917
Page 16
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