The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1918 Page: 5 of 8
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February 23, 1918.
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MESS SERGEANTS AND
COOKS AT SCHOOL.
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care and study; conditions that apply
to the kitchen today, are more than
useless tomorrow. If he does not see
to his particular duties who will? The
answer is “Nobody,” and the same
word expresses the number of his
men who are contented with the food
they get.
As instructor for this regiment I
have seen many things to criticize
but none more so than the policy of
feeding great quantites of beans and
bacon just because they are dishes
synonmous with mention of army life,
but principally, because they can be
easily prepared. To my way of think-
ing—and I’ll wager ninety-eight per
cent of the men think the same—they
constitute one of the principal reasons
for discontent with the army food.
No Cheap Food Stuff.
If just a little thought is given to
the cost of the dishes mentioned, it
will be seen that they constitute two
of the most expensive on the army
bill of fare. Beef steak costs consid-
things. Why, do you know, he actually
heard a mess sergeant remark, “My
captain is a little foolish about these
things. Why do you know, he actually
wants me to feed beefsteaks and
gravy occasionally.” And the man ac-
tually believed the feeding of beef-
steak impossible. This same sergeant
wanted to know of me, “if I did not
think he had better give his men cof-
fee, twice a day while out at the ar-
tillery range.”
There lies the reason for the school
and there can our greatest good be
accomplished. To take a mess sergeant
of that kind and either remove him,
or instill a few grains of “Food
Sense” into his head, will result in
good to the men of the rank and file.
He is the kind of man who buys can-
ned hash, corned beef and bacon at
prices ranging from 23 to 40c per
pound and then complains that the
ration is insufficient. What shall be
done with him?
Most mess sergeants know nothing
of the ration, its proportions, adapta-
bility or convertibility. Any one can
easily see that tenderloin steak at
20 cents per pound is more to be des-
ired than salty bacon at forty. Chick-
en at 30 cents is a better buy than
bacon. Liver is appreciated occasion-
ally at 12 cents, sausage at 17 is fine
for breakfast. Veal at 14 is superior
to corned beef or canned hash. Yet
the average mess sergeant buys twice
the quantity of the latter than he does
of the veal. The result is a quickly
dwindling allowance, dissatisfied men
and considerable “A. W. O. L.” Who
is to blame ?
And the Mess Officer.
Not the mess sergeant alone, for
the mess officer is usually a very im-
kitchen, but unless he is a very good
kitchen, but unles he is a very good
cook himself, he should be content to
see that the proper articles of food
are purchased, the accounts kept in
proper manner and the cooks and
kitchen clean and sanitary. A mess
officer is generally a nuisance, unless
he possesses the amount of common
sense that will permit him to cope
with unusual situations in' unusual
manners. I have seen mess officers
ignorant of the harm they were doing
go into a kitchen and order a complete
change of menu, after one had al-
ready been prepared and cooked. The
result was waste, the kind of waste
that helps Germany in her struggle
for supremacy and which is a far
more serious question than the aver-
age American realize.
A mess officer should make chan-
ges before the meal is started not
afterwards. He should supervise the
menu in order to ma.ite certain that
variety and quality were being given
the men. His greatest duty, is to see
that the mess sergeant devotes his
best energies to his duty, there ^ the
greatest good can be obtained.
15 Per Cent Bread Waste.
Then comes the matter of waste,
which in itself is the greatest factor
in army messing; The man most to
blame for waste, is the officer in
command of the organization. If he
is quick and drastic with punishment
for those who waste the ration, the
waste in his kitchen will always be at
a minimum. If lie laughs when in-
formed that someone in his command
has carried a loaf of bread or other
food to the garbage can, and lets the
guilty man off without punishment,
he and he alone must bear the blame
for the conditions confronting his
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troops. It is estimated that of all the
bread delivered in the regiment, daily,
at least 15 per cent of it is wasted.
The greatest waste is not in the
kitchen either. It lays with Big John
Private, and Bigger John Corporal or
Sergeant, who sneers at the thought
of eating his crusts and openly car-
ries them to the garbage can, while at
his home, his mother and sisters are
denied, in order that he can have and
enjoy.
Yet the same fellow will kick at his
food and especially at the quality of
it, when he is the greatest obstacle to
his having more and better food.
The ration is ample if handled prop-
erly; proper handling precludes waste
of one crumb of it and the man who
wastes in this day and time, is strik-
ing a mighty blow for Germany. He
is striking at not only our chances of
military success, but at the very life
of the people he has gone to war to
defend. The first to suffer the pangs
of privation in this war,J»as been the
folks back home. They live on a diet
that would cause a soldier to rush
back to his battery for more beans,
they have meatless, wheatless, heat-
less, and a few other kinds of “Less”
days. The soldier has been denied but
little in this war.
The Ration Juggler.
Now one of the first things being
taught the cooks and mess sergeants
in this course of instruction is The
Ration, It’s Quantities and Compon-
ents and How to Handle it, so as to
derive it’s full value for the tables.
Then comes the great question of
waste, it’s prevention and cure and
certain rules to be followed in order
to help in the work of food conserva-
tion.
Then comes the science of variety,
for it is a science and one that can
only be learned by experience. Varie-
ty in the sense we mean, is the art of
rotating the same articles of food, so
that they appear on the bill of fare at
wide intervals and in such forms as to
render them palatable and strength-
ening.
Tenderloin steak seven days a
week becomes monotonous, so would
anything else if deliberately eaten for
that length of time, and it is to pro-
vide against that monotony that this
school is trying to inculcate some of
the valuable knowledge of handling
the ration, that long years of exper-
ience have brought to others.
CAPT. VERNON CASTLE
WELL KNOWN IN CAMP BOWIE
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crashed to the ground. The other oc-
cupant and of the machine, Cadet R.
Peters, was only slightly injured.
The career of one of the most ro-
mantic figures the war has produced
ended with Captain Castle’s death.
His fame as a dancer needs no com-
ment. The fact that he had for so long
been the focus of the social spotlight
gave the incident a peculiar interest
when he answered the call of his na-
tive England and entered the flying
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service. Very speedily the world found
in guidingHn airoplane over the Ger-
man lines as was Vernon Castle in
executing a graceful dance step. He
carried into the sterner game the
dash and enthusiasm for which he
has been famed. Withal he was a
careful flyer, and was considered one
of the most expert in the service.
Captain Castle jvas a familiar figure
to many members of the 133rd Field
Artillery. While the regiment was
at the Artillery Range near Ben-
brook he often visited there, talking
with officers and enlisted men. ,Hjs
democracy was one of Captain Cas-
tle’s strongest characteristics. He ap-
parently saw no loss in dignity in
chatting with an enlisted man and
discussing his experiences in France.
ThreJ' officers of the 133rd Field Ar-
tillery took flights with Captain Cas-
tle the day before his death. They
were Captain Terrell, Captain Muse
and Captain Stewart.
Fort Worth and soldiers of all
branches of the service here paid a
splendid tribute to Captain Castle in
his funeral Saturday. Seldom has
there been such a throng in the city
as on the day when Captain Castle’s
body was borne through the streets.
The guns and caissons belonging to
Battery “A”, 133rd Field Artillery,
figured in the cortege. The body was
forwarded to New York.
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1918, newspaper, February 23, 1918; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846953/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.