La Grande evening observer., April 19, 1917, Image 4

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 191?,.
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LA GRAiTDE EVENING ' OBSERVER.
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HOME PREPAREDNESS SERIES CORN AS A
MAJOR GEN EK AJj.
BY CARL VROOMAN
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Member National Emergency Food Garden Commission
(Written fbr the United Press)
Corn meal is a cheap and valuable food stuff which is
not in as general use in .the American home as it ought
to be. A pound of dry corn meal provides about five
times as much energy and tissue building protein as does
a pound of raw potatoes. Just now a pound or corn mea
costs. 1-3 to 1-6 as much.
When potatoes are scarce or expensive, cornmeal makes
an excellent substitute. It is not, however, a perfect sub
fititute for potatoes because, as it is prepared by modern
'milling methods, it contains fewer minerals and other
valuable substances. So when cornmeal is substituted
balance it with another vegetable, a salad or a fruit.
. Cornmeal mush for breakfast or supper is a standard
and palatable dish. Fried, it is an excellent substitute for
fried potatoes. There Jire dozens of cornmeal dishes in
addition to the various varieties of cornbread. What is
known in the north as Boston Brown Bread is composed o
about 1-2 rye meal and 1-2 cornmeal. Polenta is another
cornmeal dish extremely popular throughout Southern
Europe and in certain parts of the United States. Tamales
is another corn dish m high favor when properly made.
If speculators corner the potato crop or as was the case in
1916, if the potato crop should be short, cornmeal is the
next best thing. ' Kmc is a partial substitute tor potatoes,
but rice now costs more than cornmeal. Cornmeal is very
wholesome.
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PATRIOTISM AND PROFIT.
General farmers and live stock producers can do their
country no greater service than by seeking to make their
production reach the very limit of possibility.
Men who send to market immature and voting stocl
that could cany greater Aveight are wasting the country's
resources. In all human probability they are also sacn
ftcing profits they might reap. The unprecedented prices
have been and are a temptation to cash m while the cash
ing is good; but when a man sends to market underweight
n.id young breeding stock he is killing the goose that lays
the golden egg. lie is making it harder for himself and
others to replenish feed lots and pastures.
To be sure, no man can be expected to go out and buy
dear feed to make 1600- and 1700-pound steers or 350- to
4Ui)-pound lard hogs but it is little less than an economic
crime at this time to send in half finished 1000- to 1200-
pound and 150- to 180-pound hogs.
'Marketing of strictly dairy veal calves is excusable,
Savoy.
Yesterday's arrivals at the Savoy
were: John Couch, Wallowa; G. W.
Claggett, Enterprise; F. W. Smith,
Enterprise; A. Shaw, Summerville;
Geo. W. Marshall, Imbler; G. W. East
E. S. Foley, Portland; Percy End and
Geo. Donovan, Vincent; Lee Tipton,
City; A. R. Huffman, Joseph; E. Re
gairs, Pendleton; M. E. Stoop, Elgin;
E. G. Adcock and wife of Elgin; P.
M.' Davis, City; H. W. Hicks, O.-W.
R. & N. Co.; W. G East and William
L. Amos.
Foley.
Foley guests are: J. G. Horan, Jo
seph; H. C. Stokes, Spokane; Mrs.
John Montgomery, Pendleton; F. J.
Alex. Mayert Portland; E. E. Bon
bana, Perry; Jimmie Jances; R, W.
Wilson, J. Langley, F. A. Anderson,
W. Kay, Portland; J. L. Barr, Denver;
H. Goldman, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. G.
M. Winnie, PcndletoB; J. C. Glossan,
San Francisco; J. Risler, Minneapolis;
R. W. Fletcher, Pendleton; A. Gibson,
Pendleton; John D. Wells and J. C.
Gobel.
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For Women's
Convenience
Soma women tire just a trifle timid about going t a
bank to transact business. Why? Simply because
they axe not familinT with the rules of banking.
This bank is calculated to be of special conveni
ence to women; a placo where they can come and
.feel at home. Wo aim to make every transaction
so clear and so plain, that dealing with our bank
.soon becomes to them on easy habit.
Wo appreciate tho patronage of women. Their
.business with us is already large and steadily in
creasing. .If you are not already a pntron, then please con
sider this an invitation to become one.
La Grande National Bank
I. U. Lafferty of Hood River was a
Tuesday visitor at the home of C. W.
Noyes on Adams avenue.
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The Right Place For
Your Clothes Buying
You want to buy clothes m the right
place, of course; and with a number ot
different places to choose from, you
may not be sure which the right one is.
One important point in decid
ing this question is to ask your
self what you know about the
goods offered. Do you know
who makes the clothes you
buy? What do you know
about the maker? About his
ideas of quality, style tailor
ing? Do you know enough
about the' goods to feel sure
you're going to get real value
for your money?
When we mention Hart Sohaffher &
Marx clothes, we know that you know
they're good clothes. You know they're
absolutely guaranteed to give"" satisfac
tion. And we know that this store is
.the right place, because it's the place
where you get Hart Schaffner & Marx
clothes.
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Tho Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
but every calf that could grow into good beef should by
all means be kept. :
Sending to slaughter pregnant cows and heifers for
beef should be absolutely discontinued, at least for the
period of the Avar.
In our great national emergency every man should
consider how best he can help along. The easiest way for
every owner of live stock "do his bit" is to see that
every animal goes to market carrying as much weight as
it is practical to put on.
We are now drawing upon the May and June and July
supplies of beaf, pork and mutton.
Farming and live stock feeding is a good deal of a
gamble, but there never was a time since the American
Civil War when a. feeder could feel as sure of good profit
on bringing his live stock up to normal weight.
The higher the prices for grain, the more certain is
the feeder of a profit putting weight on immature stock.
From One end of the country to the other there is a
dearth of mature stock. Feed lots, East, W est, North and
South, are bare. Hundreds of thousands of sheep and cat
tie have been wiped out by tho almost unprecedented se
verity of winter in the West, and there is no spot on the
map where one can turn to find a surplus of young stock to
put m feed lots or turn on tho pasture.
Patriotism alone ought to be sufficient spur to induce
Jarmers and feeders to mature their holdings. At this
time it seems highly probable that such a course would
not only be highly patriotic, but handsomely profitable.
Chicago Live btock orld.
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CAKE OF THE CHILD.
BY MRS. MAX WEST
! ' . (Written for the United Press)
Washington, April 17. It is of great importance to the
child to train him to a good carnage ot bodv. Ihc power
to hold the body erect is wholly lacking at birth, and is
acquired, with some difficulty, at about two years of age.
hue the body is developing in overv part the mother
should take frequent note of the manner in which the child
stands, how he sits and how he carries his head. An erect
spine is necessary not only for beauty and grace but for
icalth. Slouching, stooping or crooked shoulders detract
much trom the appearance, and the curved spine allows
the upper part of the body to press into the trunk and de
prive the stomach, heart and other organs of some of their
proper space so that they must work at a disadvantage.
In order that a child may learn the habit of an upright
arriage, much exercise is necessarv, especiallv outdoors.
This will strengthen the muscles of the back and neck and
make it easier to hold the bodv erect later when growth is
rapid.
Sitting on the floor, bent over playthings and toys, sit
ing too long in a high chair or babv carriage, dandi'ner the
feet, carrying books or papers on one hip or shoulder are
some things which tend to twist the spine and distort the
ody.
The mother should watch carefully to see that such
troubles are arrested at this period, while the bones are
soft. If difficulties are encountered it must be remem
bered that they will sometimes disappear of themselves if
the general health is imporved.
The Germans firod the first shot and missed
a lucky omen of the war.
This is
WHAT THE PEOPLE CAN DO TO HELP THE
NATION II. I
BY WOODROW WILSON . t
(President of the United States) -
It is evident to every thinking man that our industries,
on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the fac
tories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than,',
ever and that they must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular requirements of our
task than they have been, and what I want to say is that
tho men and the women ..who devote their thought and
their energy to these things will be serving the country"
and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as
truly and just as effectively as the men on the battlefield
or in the trenches.
The industrial forces of the country, men and women
alike, will be a great national, and great international,
service army a notable and honored host encaged in the-
serviee of the nation and the world and the efficient friends
and saviours of free men everywhere. Thousands, nay,
hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable to military
service will of right and of necessity be excused from that
service and assigned to the fundamental sustaining work
of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as.
much a part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as
the men under fire.
I take the liberty, therefore, of addressing this word to
the farmers of the country and to all who work on farms.
The supreme need of our nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an abundance of supplies and
especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate
food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative.
Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the
peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which
we have embarked will break down and fail. The world's
food reserves are low. Not only during the present emerg
ency, but for some time after peace shall have come both
out own people and a large proportion of .the people of
Europe must rely upon harvests in America. .
"Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large
measure, rests the fate of the Avar and the fate of the na
tions. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step
that will increase the production of their land or that will
bring about the most effectual cooperation in the sale and
distribution of .their products? The time is short. It is
of the most importance that everything possible ho drme.
and done immediately to make sure of larp-e harvests T
call upon young men and old alike and upon able bodied
uuvs oi met iana to accept and act upon this duty to turn
in hosts to the farms and make certain that, nr -nnina arti
no labor is lacking in this great matter.
1 particularly appeal to the farmers of the smith tn nlnnt
abundant foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can show
their patriotism in no better or more convincing way than
by resisting the great temptation of the TvrpKflnt. Tvrire nP
cotton and helping, helping upon a great scale, to feed the
nation ana rne peoples everywhere who are fighting for
their liberties and for our own. The vnrietv nf their crona
will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their
national uuiy.
The government of the United States and the trovem-
rnonts of the several states stand readv to cooperate. Ther
will do everything possible to assist" farmers in securing
an adequate supply of seed., an adequate force of labor
ers when they are most needed at, harvest, time and th
means of expediting shipments of fertilizers and farm ma
chinery, as well as of the crops themselves when har
vested. 0
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