St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 14, 1917

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hate! as oe ag 22 . att we (Copyright, 3 by E. A. Rum 1911 25 „ ee und It is not always pos- \dvance which she is ee oledo Blade. —— little things she tells bout her husband. a ag e 1 which Broadway can mess call: * day of Civil War hard- a and Spanish War embalmed It tor a woman: o NN * 3 ee ee n — CEE GE YE, te Ping, vet eee ey 2 bu ut n War Department 1 | 3840 Hotel s to Open Kitchens at Can tonments, Army s Still Are Built on Dunne’s 1909 Model, ” While Hotel Menus Are eee. By Wallace 3 * WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. FEW weeks 1 the . General’s Department, faithful to its complicated task of supplying everything from shoes to sugar ai y forming army of over a million men, telegraphed an ap- d leading hotel proprietors throughout the country asking the loan and expert cooks to teach the science of gastronomics to the our 16 new cantonmeuts. hé- browned-in-the-oven old q volume of official recipes is about a its of our regular army f dosen years old. It has been collect- ig schools—ot which e bee eee tor men adorned with years are 8 uniforms and dacked · by general orders; but its originated in the instinctive intim- itable methods of Aunt Diana, who concocted her champion waffles dy “jes’ tastin’.” In fact, a large majority of the ‘good and fine points in Uncle Sam's daily menu for his Sammies is due to an old Commissary Ser- _geant of Fort Ri- ley. His name was Dunne, and he was one of those “born to the grid- dle,“ who has the same advantage over the ordinary as- pirant to kitchen honors that Kubelik had from birth over the little girl next door. | , He was not a man of education in rat ‘the Hotel McAlpin, |the ordinary acceptance of the word, = 12 6 _was “loaned” a While] but he was a first-class army cook. bac * order to gain sufficient/On scraps of writing paper or old ledge of army cookery to in- bills he kept a copy of every recipe t national guard kitchens in va- he had ever tried. These were edited | New York armories. M. Pan- , r two days at Washington at Fort Riley, and published in a lit- ‘where he studied the cui- f tie book called “Methods of Hand- we enlisted men; he went back ling Army Rations,” which was de- ‘New York with his observations, veloped into the Manual for Army ether with a copy of the month’s Cooks,” the text book in the army n Today the McAtpin serves {schools for cooks and bakers started p the enthusiastic recommendation f in 1900 by Com.-Gen. Sharpe, now M. Panchard—a “military lunch- Quartermaster, General. And a. pe- a which is a duplicate of the rusal of its contents, after ‘sampling meal which Uncle Sam dishes the results of its counsel, ledves one b for his boys. The price of this {jittie sympathy’ with the words fitted is 50 cents; and it is the high- years ago to the bugler’s regular :army’s camp and field mess. Soupie soupie soupie, Without a single bean! Coffee, coffee, eottee, Without a drop of cream! Piggie, ‘pi¢gie, piggie, Without a streak of lean! There is a legend to the effect that 1 ef is “long gone.” Emergenc. , of course, the soldier must) to tide him over bad situations the enemy fire is -hotter than he bake ovens behind the line. But there are several ainusing musical t feeding his armies in barrack ] giatribes against the army food, but Bd trench, Uncle Sam has become a questioning of officers and men at de scientist, who think. the Washington Barracks School does 8 of nutritive values and 2 per-) not reveal: them: ‘One sergeant one ist who realizes that the stom-{of the three “noncoms” in line for et digestive juices will not re- their commissions—said that when unless the palate telegrapha the food was bad the men “got the to the brain. growl” and wouldn't sing at all, and ms Always Ready. when it was good they “felt fine and t before in the world’s history] sang the prettiest songs they knew.“ ere commanders of troops realized{ The Portable Bakeries. OW absolutely an army moves on estomach.” It would not be going‘ that the men can have the same food Dunn to say that a unit in motion is in the field as they do in barracks. It is rather heartening to think fed around the commissariat. ) This is accomplished by the bakeries than the artillery to the in-( which are portable, easily taken , or the aviation division to) down ahd set up, and by the very + Comes the group of “rolling {remarkable rolling kitchens,” which Which, their great kettles cook a meal as the army marches, merrily all day, go mule having lunch or supper ready when 8 1 SHEE S. TOUIS, SUNDAY 3 MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1917. = > 8 : Bie 8 r 88 i 7 ae . 2 t 2 * * * * * tt de 4 * ¥ we 4 * — 2—— oi meso ; WHERE HE — 2— 2 oe was » Tellers: From American Air Fighter in France — 2 — 2— — 2 “joe se — DECORATED en * Fon | BRAVERY To His Mother, Describing His “ee Front. In These Communications, Almost as Intimate in Their Recital of His Deyelopment From — an Inexperienced Though Adventürous Youth, Into One of the Brilliant Allied Air- men, as a Diary, Walter S. Rhino, Tells Just How Men Are Trained’ for War Back of thé Lines and How He Fought With the German Birdmen When Finally Sent to A i. * Though Only 22 Vears Old, He Has Proved Himself Such a Reliable Man in Combat That Some of the Most Trusted Assi ents on France’s Defense Line Are American Forces Has Been Or- dered. — S WALTER S. RHINO. HE POST-DISPATCH presents today ex- cerpts from the letters written by Wal- ter S. Rhino, of the American Escadrille or flying corps, with the French army, to his mother, Mrs. Clara M. Rhino, who lives in Vine- yard Haven, Mass. Rhino, who is only 22 years old, went to France last December, intent upon entering the French air service. The excerpts from his letters cover his experiences from the time of his arrival in France to September last, when he expected to be shifted to the American army for service immediately. We read much of war these days. But what we read is of the earth fighting or the sea-fight- ing. Our reports of the air fighting are brief. Guynemer dies over Flanders; but of his com- bats in the air we know little—how he fought, what tricks he played, what acrobatic stunts he did. The glory of Guynemer lives after him. The world will remember him, because he played so fearlessly the game which few aviators ever win, the game with life and death as stakes that is hourly waged thousands of meters above the bat- tlefronts. ‘Rhino’s letters to his mother tell in detail the whole story of an aviator’s life. From the time that Rhino arrived in France to the time when he alone fought the giant Albatross, sent spin- ning to their deaths the crew that manned it, and by Col. Holbrook, then in command returned to receive the Croix de Guerre and one palm (later to be supplemented by another palm for a similar deed), his letters came frequently to his mother, telling her in detail the whole ‘course of his life. Starting above the Pyrenees, he talks aloud to his sister’s picture, which he carries with him, to his beloved machine, and to himself. Hour after hour, alone and miles high, he is thrown upon the resources of memory. The earth he finds beautiful beneath him—the spring time of Southern France when the trees first ‘show their’ green harmonies, and the flowers of the fields welcome a warmer sun. Or 20,000 feet above the trenches he hovers like an eagle, wait- ing for a foe to appear; he sights a hostile plane. ‘He dives, ‘nose’ down, with speed incredible— such speed as none in this country Know any- thing about. His “Spad” plane, the most power- ful one-place war plane, is capable of 140 miles an hour. Driven downward with the capacity of such a speed—how fast did Rhino shoot when he dove to strike with a hail of W > bullets the ill-fated. Albatross? Or sent forth on a more dangerous érrand, he flies with seven aeronauts to protect his advance Ja@ainst the .Teuton. ‘sausages”—<the ungainly ob- servation’ balloons which hang high above the guns that vomit death. Reaching forward low above the battlefield, braving shrapnel and the fire of the deadly anti-air craft guns, he seeks to set in flame by his rockets these sausage bal loons. Or he spine and dives and soars and “loops the loop” as he strives to get above an aeronaut as killed, perhaps, as he, to pour in the death-hail from his machine gun. Rhino’s letters to his mother, therefore, are a chronicle of the war in the air. They are here published as he wrote them, except that his let- ters are condensed and certain repetitions in con- tents omitted. They are given to the American public with the certainty that in them every pa. triotic American will find a new source for pride —pride that this young Lafayette has returned the compliment to France which she paid us dur- ing the Revolutionary War. And Rhino, brave as he is, but one of the many. His exploits, true, have raised him in fame above most of the others —but he represents the vanguard of that vast host which by a similar daring will soon prove to the German Kaiser the unconquerable might of America. | The. Young Adventurer Arrives. PARIS, Dec. 21, 1916.—Arrived here safe, nine days from New York to Bordeaux. I reported to my headquarters yesterday afternoon and went through everything first_class. I shall be here for a few days and then 1 go to the Bleriot avia- tion field to train for a few weeks, and then I go to Pau to finish my training at the advanced al faviation field. 1 then go to the front for actual service, which will probably be by the first of March. Dec. 23.—Yesterday I received my aviation uni- Given to Him—Transfer to se 9 P n . 1 AO ela : 5 * 1 r 2 3 PPP . ANA AA — POE 1 : ney PPP wren a. “en n . ot N. PP ee 9 „ WALTER s. RHINO. Ameritan boys extraordinarily * for coming over voluntarily to fight for their country. Dec. 25.— This has been the hardest Christmas I ever put in. I have a hard time to get what I want to eat, for I do not speak the French tongue, but, after a while, I manage to get enough to keep me from starving. I can speak a few words in French. I hope to speak and understand it quite well in a month or two. Wish you could see me in my new uniform. If I do say it myself, I look quite nice in it. Thursday I go to X for my first lesson in flying. In the French Army at Last. Ecole d’Aviation, Militaire, X., Jan. 8, 1917.— Well, I am in the army at last. On account of bad weather conditions I have had only two les- sons in flying. We have many hardships to en- dure, but I am in the army now for the duration of the war. Of course, you know that I am no more an American citizen, for I have taken the French oath. When I come back home, after serving in the French army aviation corps, I shall come the same as any foreign person who migrates to the United States. I am in the American barracks, and find the boys very pleasant companions. We do nothing but learn to fly, which is more of a stunt than one would believe. There is a lot to it. We have many falls. Sunday morning two men fell and broke their machines rather badly, but no one was hurt. Jt is an interesting game. There are 17 American boys as pilots in my barracks. Fine chaps, too. They are sitting around reading while Iam writing this. Jan. 13.—Frederick Prince has visited the camp —a nice chap. This army life isn't what it is cracked up to be. We have many hardships to endure. If nothing happens and I go through in first class order, I will have the best training in the world, in the best army in the world. Promoted to Real Flying Machine. Jan. 18.—I have been promoted from a machine that wouldn't fly to one that will fly; so, from now on, I fly. I fly over the field for 15 or 20 minutes and then I fly for an hour or so over the country, before I have special work to do, We are going to be transferred soon to another school farther south in France, so we can have better weather to fly in. r We are going to be taken off the Bleriot ma- chines to train on the Codrome machine. We have to go in the air to learn to fly a Codrome. Here we are taught at first, “before flying,” to be able to control the planes while running along the ground. In these other schools, we are taken up in a double command Codrome with our mon- itor, and he teacher us the controls and then has us take the control and fly ourselves. He takes us up about 200 meters. After we are able to handle the machine in the air without assistance, and able to bank our turns, etc., we are given a single command machine and have to fly alone. ‘In this school we are able to get to the front on actual service in six or eight weeks. The fact ia that in the Codrome we can fly in almost any kind of weather, for it is a heavier ma- chine. ot eR ee ee eee many Wy 8 8 2 ee ** 1 Associated Press Told How Rhino Won War Cross { N Associated Press dispatch from Partie Aug. 23 last said that Walter 8. Rhino of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., the day before, single - handed, had shot down a German two- seated albatross, He thus earned his Sergeant’s stripes and a war cross at the outset of his career: N was considered a remarkable performance for so young a pilot. Rhino, with three others of the Lafayette escadrille, was flying low over the enemy lines when he sighted a Ger- man machine. Rhino left his patrol and climbed to 9000 feet. He then pointed the nose of his machine toward | the unsuspecting German and when within 300 feet of him opened fire with his machine gun, The German machine crashed to earth. something went Wrong with his machine. He looped the loop on the ground and landed up- side down. He smashed up his machine—but he was not hurt at all. We were then told to put up our machines, lest we have further accidents—for there is snow on the ground, which causes a deal of skidding when landing or running on the ground. Hardships of Winter Flying. Jan. 24.—Bitter cold weather has made flying on the field of Lecole Aviation a real hardship and the barracks are as cold as it is outside. To make matters worse, I am homesick. There have been many accidents and the boys are doubtless feeling blue over the misfortune Of a French lad who fell two days ago and broke his leg above the knee and was badly injured internally. There are falls every day, but it 18 rare that anyone is hurt. Jan. 27.—I am being transferred today to Pau, in the South of France. I shall be in a warm climate within 24 hours. I expect to get through this school at Pau in three or four weeks, for, in Pau, we shall have summer weather and can fly every day. I am peaking now, Peaking is flying to a height of from 75 to 100 feet and then cutting out the motor and at the same time turning your nose straight down until within 10 or 12 feet of the ground—then straightening the machine level with the ground and landing Hsht- ly, without the use of the motor at all. Burdeaux, Jan. 29.—I am some happy and con- tented in this swell part of the country. I made two flights this morning, and my monitor told me before the rest of the boys that I would be a li- ‘censed pilot in about two weeks. In about another week I shall be doir¢ acro- batic stunts on a Nieuport machine, such as loop- ing the loop, vaults, turning upside down for a few seconds, peaking, etc. When I finish those stunts, I go to Javezee to learn the ‘operation of machine guns while flying, etc. The French officers are very pleasant, and most of them speak English dere, which is a great | cost help. You can’t imagine how 1 enjoy aviation, and how much I enjoy this part of. the country. Our machines are very stable and very fast— anywhere from 100 to 147 miles an hour. baie have a very large military encampment here, and all kinds of level land to. come.down on. Smashes His Plane in Fall. Pau, Feb. 5.—I made several good flights this morning, but the last time I went up I fell about 60 feet and broke my plane all in pieces. My mo- i tor was not working right, and I lost control ok her—and came down, head first, to the ground. adm in istration, Dr. Mumford... said. 5 Instead of a fig the corner srocer what Me eges or cabbages, the food adminis- tration will un- mht publicity,”: Dr. Mumford said, “it is hoped to correct any ten- advantage of the situation. the retailer What be shall large tor a pan of production ai pout publicity vin bo given tp I was lifted out of the wreckage unconscious and | | im n came to my senses about half an hour later. When I hit—and I hit hard—the belt which c ee out of my seat into the wreckage. I was pleased, and so were both the French « Americans here, to see America break her tions with Germany. They think now that 2 he He 4 is near. I shall stay here and learn my aviation | ane completely and shall not return home until 2 the s war is over. from above. I am not a second-class pilot. ‘have nothing to do but 1 n ott bat all restau work of any kind. 7 Tarbes, Feb. A po nok i bed: te Oe center of France. I shall stay here for one month or six weeks and then return to Pau o to take . dency on the part of retailers America . what the) should. and distribution. * * a . . oa 42 Be Dr. Mumford Declares That, While He . ite Au | thority Over Provision Merchants, Profit Ting Will Be Crushed by Standardization of Prices „,n ß aa a a ts mili eee — eS. „ Dr. Mense ce . from Washington, where he was in co-operate with the food administra- — conference „ r Hon. We nn Oe: +