This is in line with the new order giving free laundry service to all enlisted men, and at cost to officers, which will effect a saving of about $1,000,000 a year in Army laundry bills for the Government. It is estimated that it costs $2, a month to keep a soldier clean. A recommendation has also been made to the Secretary of War to purchase the post exchange laundry at Fort Slocum, New York, for $8,486. If taken over, this laundry will be operated as a Quartermaster Corps plant and considerably enlarged to take care of laundry work from neighboring posts in the vicinity of New York. The high cost of footwear is bound to fall sharply, if figures given out today by the Quartermaster Corps are any indication of readjustment in prices. When bids for 500,000 pairs of shoes for the Army were opened in April, 1920, the average price was found to be $6.73 a pair. Today, with bids calling for 250,000 pairs, the contracts have just been awarded at an average price of $3.43 per pair, a cut of practically fifty percent within twelve months. 