TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1916.
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falling off less in proportion, from
$6,300,000 to $2,240,000. More than
onehalf of the latter sum consisted of
the value of furs and Ekins.
The texile industry suffers from a
shortage of raw materials, especially
cotton, even though it is no longer
used for the manufacture of high ex
plosives. The impossibility of export
ing aniline dyes has caused these fac
tories to limit their production, and
they are 'also worrying about their
loss of control of the foreign market,
where new competitors are spring
ing ' up. Aix'la Chapelle's great
needle and pin industry' has' been
saved from destruction only by the
increased demand in Germany itself,
due to the manufacture of uniforms,
! saddlery and harness. The list of im-
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IGNORANCE AND
HEALTH
CHILD-
The battle against ignorance is slow
and often discouraging. Things
about which we should know most are
among the ones concerning which we
know least. Children have been born
into the world since the human race
began, yet we are just beginning to
Jlnd out bow to care for them in var
ious crises in their Jives.- That the
child death-rate In the p&t must have
been enormous is attest pf .tne fact
that the earth is still nowhere nej-r
.. limit of population, and by history, '"
which records vast destruction, of
life by plagues, as well as by wars of
the most cruel descriptions. In Amer
ica, thanks to widely-disseminated in
formation, scattered by the press
rather than the school, infant mortal
ity: is decreasing at a rate which
measures with fair accuracy the in
telligence of the community. And
the fight has only begun.
, the '.bulletin of th New York
liealth departmttnt, which is warring
' ugaihSt the Worst epidemic of infan
tile paralysis in the country's history,
warns parents: "Do not give your
children jpatent medicines or buy
charms of any kind to ward off the
disease." New York has a large for
eign population which still believes
that sacred relics and fragments over
which incantations have been pro
nounced will scare away germs. That
ignorance is largely responsible for
the continuance of the epidemic is
shown by the number of cases among
Italians in the poorer quarters of the
city. The children who survive, when
they grow up, will know better,
Thanks to the New York schools and
newspapers.
grain of all kinds, lard, butter, meats
and lumber, for building purposes.
Everything else the resourceful Teu
ton either has, or has been able to find
substitutes for. Substitutes for cop
per, brass and bronze in certain uses
lhave been made of iron amalgam.
Something "just as good" has re
placed leather. Toys formerly of
metal are now made of papier mache.
Thus Germany still fights on undis
mayed and the end of the war seems
about as far off as ever.
IS HOMINY GONE, TOO?
GERMANY AND THE BLOCKADE.
NOW FOR THE S
THE Date of the Big Excursion approaches. Down
at the beach the sea breezes are cooling and the
water is fine for bathing. 7
You're going to have just one big time. And
since a happy glorious time means you're dressed
right; this store is especially prepared to supply your
needs with greater assortments,' lower prices and
superior service. -
Reports of our consuls in Germany
show how the empire is being affected
by the 'British blockade. Exports for
the United States invoiced at the
consulate decreased from $16,000,000
in 1914 to $4,000,000 in 1915. Ham
burg's exports to this country fell
from 18,800,000 to $1,268,000; those
of Cologne from $4,325,000 to $794,
000. Leipsiz, which has been able to
secure a partial outlet, evidently,
Another fHghtf ul revelation has
been made by e scientist whose dis
covery of thp e3a.Vctn ot potato
seed caused WVU HfiVfn,,t n?lonK
ago. He asserts, In the magflZln 0
which ihe is the editor The Guide id
Nature (Sound Beach, Conn., July)
that old-fashioned hominy is no more.
One may, it is true, buy in any gro- J
eery something that goes - tf that
name; but vt s,s a poor, pale sort of
food beside the golden delight that
our grandsires ate. "In all the corn
fields, in all the grist-mills, in all the
kitchens, hominy," he assures us, "is
only a memory to the older members
of mankind. During a correspond'
ence extending over more than three
years in all parts of the country in
search of this lost hominy, Editor
Bigelow has yet, he says, to find the
first particle of the real thing. He
writes: . .
"I have been deluged with letters
letters telling of innumerable places
where one might obtain hominy, and
into these places I have chased the
fleeing will-o'-the-wisp, only to find
something entirely different what
every New England boy knew half a
century ago as hulled corn, or the
monstrosity that any self-respecting
New England 'boy would have been
ashamed to know, a pale-faced,
blanched, Japanese-like form of corn,
known as hominy-grits. Now, it is
neither hulled corn nor this so-called
hominy-grits the loss of which I am
deploring, but real hominy from yel
low corn.
"Good old Noah Webster and I
have no doubt that Daniel, too
knew what hominy was, knew that
the original was common, yellow, In
dian corn broken by the Indians. Of
course, when tliey pounded it with a
pestle in the hollow of a stone, their
breaking was somewhat irregular.
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LA GRANDE, OREGON
CapiUl 1200,000.00, Surplus $60,000.00, Resources $1,000,000.00
Fred J. Holmes, President; C. C Pentngton, Vice President; F. L.
Meyers, Cashier; E. Zundel and H. E. Coolidge, Assistant CaebJera.
1 DIRECTORS
Fred J. Holmes, J. G. Snodgrmss, J. F. Conley, C. C Pentafftotk, H.
& Brown, F. I Meyen, A. Rostand, A. T. BUI, H. K. OootMf.
He broke the grains by placing the
grist-mill stones far apart, and then
sifted out the soft, mealy portion by
some process not known to the writer.
The thin skin covering the corn was
removable. Good old Webster tells
us that the word itself is closely as
sociated with the term 'rokohamin,'
used in Virginia, but the Virginians
parched the corn before they pounded
it. It seems that there was a variety
of processes, but the process that
produced the real material dear to the
heart of every New Englander is un
fortunately no more or is beyond the
researches of my three years' cor
respondence. "After something like a year's cor
respondence, an aged miller promised
that if he could evervfind the spare
time he would grind a bushel of the
real old stuff. I waited for six months
and then wrote inquiring if he were
not almost ready to find the time, but
a marked copy of a paper, mailed to
me by one of his relatives, told me
that he had passed on beyond time.
"There was another miller in the
eastern part of Connecticut. Oh, yes,
he knows all about it, and just as soon
as he can complete repairs on the
grist-mill he will supply all I need.
For a time he answered the letters,
especially when I enclosed a stamped
and self addressed envelop, but as it
is now a year and a half since he
made the last report on those repairs,
I judge that mill is either in a state of
collapse, or else that he has joined my
first miller in a conference beyond
time.
In the heart of the country, at an
old homestead, I found a man that
said, 'I know just what you want,'
and, smacking his lips, continued, 'My,
but I can remember those hominy-pics
even to this day.' 'That is it. You
have got it right, I said. 'Pies with
luscious raisins and a custard, all
made of the real old hominy.' 'Well,'
he continued, II do not know as you
can get it in stores nowadays. We
have discontinued it in the North, but
they are not quite up to us in the
South, and they still have hominy.'
You mean,' I said, 'they are far ahead
of us if they still have hominy and we
have not.' 'I will give you a few ad
dresses,' he said. I wrote to several,
including a famous old grist-mill in
Richmond, Virginia. One man was
kind enough to write, 'We have the
real hominy,' and to send me a liberal
package. Imagine my disappointment
when 1 found it was nothing but such
as is sold at department stores. .
"John Greenleaf Whittier, why do
classic fbowl and samp and milk,' as
a misuse of the name samp? It is
about as near what you had in mind
as huckleberries are to peas.
"Went to visit a man in New Jer
sey He said: 'We have here an old-
fashioned grist-mill. They have just
what you want.' Gleefully I alighted
from the automobile and accosted the
ma A at the desk: 'Give me a peck' of
hominy, will you?' The man at the
desk laughed and said: 1 know what
you want. We have not got it. I
have heard my grandfather tell about
it' Then I .realized that I lhad grewn
beyond youthful years when a full
grown man like that had to refer to
his grandfather!
"A young friend in the back coun
try of Connecticut, known as Colum
bia, tried to sing not only 'Hail Col
umbia,' but 'Hail Hominy,' as having
discovered the desideratum. She told
me where to write to get all I need
ed. Result, loss of another two-cent
stamp and the stenographer's time.
"Isn't it strange that the human
race will let drop out of use such a
delicious food? Where is the whole
sale grocer that will make fame and
fortune by putting up the real ma
terial and placing it on the market?
He need not try to palm off on us any
white hominy-grits for any hulled
corn similar to that made from lye
over wood-aahes. Nor reed he try to
convince any one that those white
particles are the real thing. I fear
that the making of hominy is a lost
art." ,
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THE FORUM
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Why Our Mountains Are Blue.
La Grande, Aug. 8. (To the Edi
tor) It pleases my fancy to see our
mountains when they emerged from
I watered depths and looked over the
great expanse of wind swept waters,
they were timid and cold.
The sky looking down saw and
pitied their condition, and spread over
them a silken blanket of blue, tucking
it carefully about the edges and in the
valleys.
When the waters were gone the
mountains in grateful remembrance
of the kind and loving act retained it,
and will until they shall meet with
fervent heat and time shall be no
more.
A GRANDE RONDER.
the committee sent to examine
Beaver creek dam be published:
T. C. Riddle
J. W. Van Fleet
George Bimie
J. C. Henry
W. C. Combs
J. A. Hills
' F. Ladd
: Chas. Hutchins ,
F. Binehoff
G. H. Baker
C. Miller
Mrs. H; J. Eckley
the
G. W. Allen
J. A. Oliver '
J. A. Baker
M. E. Crippen
G. W. Wagenor
T. M. Moore
W. T. Grider
Nearly fifty per cent of the pails
and tubs made in the state of Wash
ington are sent to the Middle West
for consumption.'
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