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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 29, 1919.
FOOD SOURCES
ALL PLAY PART
' IN LIVING COST
National Geographic Society
Traces . Staple Article of
American Dinner to Their
. Origin.
Z Washington, June 28. Why is
,'Jthe cost of food 10 high?
Most answers to that question,
'.Z according to a bulletin from the Na
tional Geographic society, go no
farther than the grocer, the whole-
' saler, or perhaps the cost of farm
labor.
But to trace to their sources
IS many staple edibles found on the
tt American dinner table one must go
!, beyond state, national lines and fre
w qnently across the ocean, it is point
. JE cd out. The bulletin quotes from a
communication to the society form
William Joseph Showalter as fol
! lows:
"Could we turn loose our fancy
j as we dine, we could see a great
W army of men and women working
m that we might eat.. The appetites
J ef men now levy tribute upon all
the continents and all the seas, and
where once all roads led to Rome,
now they come directly to our din-
tier tables.
Go Over Menu.
Si "Let us sit down to diner and go
fever the menu and try to list thoe
who have assisted in the prepara
. ,rtlion of our meal.
"At the top of the list come
. si- ol.'ves and salted nuts. The olives
51 mayhap are from Spain, the almon.ls
' from California, and the pecans
n from Texas. The salt on the nuts
was prepared in New York state.
Also we nave celery that came from
Michigan.
t "Then comes the soup. Without a
cookbook at hand, this writer will
C not Pse as an authority on the in-
gredients of soup, but it may be
Chesapeake Bay clam chowdr,
which certainly has some pepper
j from Africa in it and other in
. gredients from far and wide.
m Omaha Does Best
r "Our fish is salmon from Alaska,
fn and our prime ribs of beef came to
our table through the Omaha 'pack-
ing-town.' Our potatoes came from
Maine, our boiled rice from China,
;JJ our string beans from Florida, and
our tomatoes from Maryland.
I B "Next comes our salad, and it
1 J contains if a man may guess at the
contents of salads and dressings
Mexican peppers, Hawaiian pineap
1 pie, Sicilian cherries, Pennsylvania
. lettuce, Iowa eggs, Spanish olive oil,
JJ Ohio vinegar, California mustatd
j and Guiana red pepper.
:Z Many Aid Diner.
"When it comes to coffee, if wc
J ate fastidious we will have issued a
; draft on both Turkish Arabia and
V Dutch Java, or if we are only folk
fa of everyday taste we will content
j ourselves with the Brazilian prod
Is uct.
JJ "And so, when we eome to reckon
"-- tip those who have helped produce
. Ihf raw materials of which our
""foods are made, we find the clouted
--African savage and the American
MS
Traveled in Motor Truck
Over 10,000 Miles in Europe
American Navy Had Special Automobile Party Scour
ing Battlefields and Territory Occupied By Yankee
Forces for Photographs Just Truck No. 40,159; a
Dear Friend of Them All.
By LT. COM. WELLS HAWKS,
U. S. N. R. F.
The christening took place at
night, very late one night, and just
under the tali bridge that spans the
narrow, busy harbor at Brest It
was during- the unloading of an
American ship, and the giant crane
on the dock was swinging automo
biles and trucks out of the hold as
ii it were working on a mine of
vehicles.
One of these glistening gray
trucks was swung upward from the
depth of the ship, guided and sided
and pulled along, while the winches
and chains kept up a turmoil to a
chorus of French and American
warnings to "look out below."
Finally "she" came down on the
dock. A dungareed artist, U. S. N.,
placed a pasteboard stencil to her
starboard, amidships, and daubing
the ventilated spaces with his brush,
christened and commissioned her
"U. S. N. 40,159." What it all meant
we never knew, for in all our future
traveling we never came across any
of her relatives.
When next we met "40.1S9," she
had seen a bit of the world, and her
beautiful paint was polka dotted
with that variety of mud which ex
isted solely in France during the
war. They told us she had made a
fine .run from Brest to Pauillac, not
far south of Bordeaux, and now her
rather prosaic duty was that of haul
ing officers to meals and back again.
As the truck had been built pri
marily for reconnoissance purposes
and could house and carry 12 men
very comfortably (a rifle rack back
of the middle scats and plenty of
storing space underneath), it ap
peared to us that her sphere in Hie
ought to be extended, and, as we
were young men with a mission
that we were under orders to per
form, we asked, then begged until
"40,159" became our own. For four
months this truck was our home,
our faithful friend and carrier, and
before it was all over there were
10,000 miles to her credit, with only
two punctures and one break down.
The gob chauffeur worshipped and
loved her. I really believe he kissed
her and wept over her when they
parted for "No. 40,159" is still over
seas. Just to Take Photos.
All of this rolling about, was be
cause the navy wanted photographic
records of its varied activities in
France. We who live in the truck,
were the camera party. Two of us
stock grower; the South American
Indian and the California truck
farmer; the Japanese coffee picker
and the Virginia dairyman; the tur
baned Arabian and the New York
orchardistj the Chinese coolie and
the Dakota wheat farmer; the Mex
ican peon and the Chesapeake Bay
fisherman; the Porto Rican planter
and the Hawaiian sugar grower;
the Spanish olive packer and the
Alaskan Eskimo fisherman.
were at the christening, and all had
stood by until the finish and here
it may be noted, that these young
fellows were a fair illustration of the
kind of men that tackled navy jobs
when the war broke out; and who
had the real navy spirit, to go in,
take chances, and find out that in
the service every man can, by his
own initiative and energy, fit himself
into the task for which he is best
suited.
Two were expert camera men.
whose pay in private life was more
in a week than in a month of serv
ice. They had enlisted and asked no
questions. One became a gun point
er on an ocean crossing "chaser"
and the other a graduate from the
coal pile at Pelham. A third left a
university in the west, became a
gob, and was digging post holes
for a barbed wire fence when he
was made chauffeur of "40,159." In
two weeks the latter knew France
like he knew Nebraska and whizzed
along the Rhine valley roads like an
R. F. D. cart on an every day trip.
All of which indicates the wonderful
adaptability of the American boy
to new surroundings. As a result
they did a piece of work that will
live.
It was a new experience to go
galloping all over the map in a
navy truck, ad lib, as it were; for
getting still and motion pictures
was something like chasing butter
flies. It was a new kind of thrill
for a motor truck to be the only
representative of the navy in the
interior of France. With "United
States navy" emblazoned on her
side curtains and a speed cone
suspended from the brass peak of
her radiator; the blue uniformed
crew, a rich note against the olive
and khaki of the surrounding army
-r-of course the gob chauffeur was
proud, and when, after he had
driven 26 straight hours from Brest
to Paris, tilting his little white hat
more jauntily over his Nebraska
chock of hair, he drove down the
Champs Elysee as if she were a
$10,000 touring car well even if it
wasn't, the boulevards knew "his
kind" and fusilladed him with "hallo
jack" all along the way.
Off For Germany.
When orders came to go info
Germany, very proudly the truck
rolled into Chaumont, to get per
mission to proceed. From then it
was night and day traveling; lunch
es and meals by the road side, by
day, in old court yards and in camps
by night. On it rolled, making more
friends every mile, eyed with won
der by every camp, then asked why
the navy was so far from water.
Beyond Hesperange, where the party
had its first German billet and where
an unwilling host had to have his
door battered down with a gun
before offering beds, we struck a
snow storm and steep hills, but the
faithful old car never faltered Then
came an interesting moment when,
at the junction of the Moselle and
Sauer Rivers on the German fron
tier, an Amercan soldier with a fine
old brogue challenged us for our
passes. Three more days and we
had rolled up to Coblenz and had
crossed the Rhine on that wonder
ful pontoon bridge, planked across
boat of iron and lashed together
with steel chains, which is just at
the foot of the hill crowned by the
famous fortress Ebrenbreitstein, and
from which floated the Stars and
Stripes.
Here began a series of receptions
for our truck party. The U. S. N.
was first sighted by marines oper
ating the v Rhine patrol, and was
greeted like a long lost friend, or
perhaps an indication that there was
something doing in the way of go
ing home. For three weeks "No.
40,159" rolled over Rhine roads,
climbing hills and finally mounting
the steepest of all to that last out
post where stood an American sen
try beside the sign "Verboten."
Car Breaks Down.
Once, on the roadway up in the
hills among snow-covered vineyards,
with the Rhine stretched out below
us, we hopped off our roller and
started out for a walk, to work
some of the stiffness out of our
joints. It grew colder, and we were
delighted when we ran across a
young German making a fire along
side the road. We gathered about
him, and understanding, he went off
for more wood and soon had it
blazing higher. We didn't exactly
fraternize, but we gave him our Y.
M. C A. chocolate and went on our
way. However, when the car caught
up with us, being all and entirety
American it evidently did not ap
prove, for part of her gear gave
way; and we had to make the fire
all over again, while our German
friend walked down the hill munch
ing our chocolate.
Once we met a party of 100 Amer
icans on grave registration splendid
fellows, who, while in performance
of their sombre tasks had found, in
a German dugout in the Argonne,
a fine Belgian piano. This they had
mounted on a Ford, and were carry
ing it with them from place to place.
We followed them into the shattered
ruins of Buzancy and there, in a
tumble down French house, the
walls of which decorated with Ger
man mottoes, we gave an impromptu
celebration, for it was the eve of
Washigton's birthday and of course
we all sang "The Army and Navy
Forever." To show us their appre
ciation, they filled old "40.159" with
gas before we took the highway.
At Verdun, we were just coming
down the hill by the ruined cathed
ral when the bluejacket chauffeur
stopped short, and jumping out of
his seat yelled "By jimimy, if they
ain't gobs." And there they were,
about a dozen, fresh from liberty
in Paris, so we exchanged reminis
cences of our adventure for cigarets
and fresh chocolate.
More days and nights we traveled
across the "No Man's Land" coun
try, finally passing through Virzy
and then to Chateau-Thierry where,
wonder of wonders, a submarine
chaser lay at anchor on the Marne.
We almost kissed it. Then past the
line of crosses and wreaths, to Bel
leau Woods, where the first leaves
of spring hum a requiem to the gen
tle breeze. Then the broad road to
Paris.
The last leg of it brought us to
Brest, and then, alas, a farewell to
"40,159." As we shoved off in a
motor sailer to board the U. S. S.
von Steuben, we couldi see it stand?
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ing on the dock just above the land
ing stage. It seemed to be sobbing.
We felt a pang at leaving it; and al
most on the site of its christening
but after having made its unique
record we said our goodbys to the
only navy truck that had a voyage
of this kind on its log.
SRomo Worked Only On
Pay Days a Highwayman
Junction City, Kan. Romo Al
onso, a Mexican, only works on pay
days ;that is, the other fellow's pay
days. At least a half dozen or more
of his fellow compatriots say so.
and he is now lodged in jail here.
Romo had the habit, the Mexican
railroad laborers said, of coming to
town on pay days, holding up the
Mexican laborers and making away
with their pay checks. Then he
vanished until the next pay day. He
had no trouble cashing the checks,
as one Mexican is the same as an
other to the average merchant.
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