1'AtiE SIX
LA GRANDE EVEivDv G OBSERVER
22 Million Families
in the United States
J.F EACH FAMILY saved on cup of wheat flour it would amount to
5,500,000 pounds, or mors than 28,000 barrels. If this saving was made
three times a week, it would amount to 858,000,000 pounds, or 4,377,000
barrels in a year.
You can do your share in effecting this saving and really help to win
' the war by omitting white bread from one meal today and baking in its
, place muffins or corn bread made according to this recipe:
Corn Meal Muffins
& cup corn meal
'3'
2 tablespoon turn
; cups flour No ec?
-1 teaspoon salt 1 cud milk
4 teaipoon Royal Caking Powder 2 tableipoons shortening
' Sift dry ingredients together Into bowl ; add milk and melted
shortening and beat weiL Bako In greased muffin tins in hut
oven about 20 minutes. So mo batter may be baked as com
bread in greased shallow pan. -
Our new Red, White and Blue booklet, "Best War Time Recipes' containing many other
recipes for making delicious and wholesome wheat saving foods mailed free address
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., DEPT. H., 135 William St. New York
inch gone to the ft-uiit
thousands of refugees, foreigners und
, workmen from the provinces. Be
i sides, the men cent to the front repre-
tonm I HELP 'FRENCH MORALE
; sent the healthiest portion of tlie popu- ; General Pershing Asks Encour-
lutlou, while the proportion of those
li'Kt able to resist Ultra?, children ;
and old persons, to say nothing of ref-
agement for the Poilus.
ngers, often much weakened, bus been Nation His Kept Up Its Heroic Fight
Increased. ,. (ha p... -.. i
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THURSDAY
There fere also certain restrictions
not of an alimentary nature that mast j
lie considered in accounting tor tne .
betteruteat of the general health. The
decrease In means of locomotion, (e'
er cabs, private automobiles, omni
buses and street car has made peo-
i pie walk more. The reduction In
i-1 rot' t lighting and the closing of the
restaurants und cafes at 9:30 have ,
been responsible for more home life, '
will i'Ii means that much less time spent
In cafes, theaters and less going out
nt night, consequently to other places .
which with some persons leads to al-;
cuholli: excesses and for others offers
numerous chances of contracting con
tagious diseases such as grippe and
pneumonia. !;
More Daylight a Benefit. j
Finally the putting back of the clock i
one hour during more than half of the
year has had the most beneficial ef-1
feels. 1'eople have stayed longer out !
in tlie sunlight the great purifier of
the nlr of cities and the destroyer of
noxious germs, which work best In
shadow and darkness.
The direct results of tlie food re
strictions, which have affected nearly
FRENCHWOMEN
Mi 1,000 TASKS
Girls Help in Mending of 30,000
Pairs of Soldiers' Boots
-Nv.-. a Week.
DO ALL KINDS OF LABOR
! Bin COTS
DOWN FAT MEN
Old and Young Rendering Good 8rv
t 'ce In the War Industries Only
s.. 30 Per Cent of Waste Is'
Ever 8alvaged.
( Paris. French women, , old and
young, arc nobly performing their
tasks In war industries, thousands
working In nil kinds of industries
within the soma! of German guns.
i They itro praised for their lutein
.genco and industry, from the little
girl from the lyceo to the old woman
who hns come buck to work bocutiso
'she wants to see the Bochu punished
for what ho Old to France !n 1870.
j The French workers formerly hud
been luceiuukers, and u few of thorn
fisher girls. Of tho former there were
n few who were tho children or grand
children of English people from tho,
great, English, Inci). centers nt.Notliug
hnm, Who had settled In France many
years before and been absorbed Into
tho lift) of the French people. .
In the salvage centers at on ord
inance base I saw them working In the
biggest boot repair shop In the world,
where 80,000 pairs of boots are re
!plred a week ; und here I saw old up
pers cut Into disks, which in their turn
were made Into boot laees. Thcso sal
ivagedi boots, swept up from the debris
int the front, emerge finally In throe
Iclneses : 1, those that can be used again
iby men nt the front, and are often
preferred to new, us they are softer In
Iwear; 2, those for men on file lines of
'communication; and, 2, for prisoners
and colored laborers.
Only 30 Per Cent Salvaged.
! Wlillo I was going round these re
pnlring shops I noticed on American
lOflleer being tultcn round also, and
heard his clcerouo giving him lufor-
llvc close at hand, thus saving the n
for Importing English people for
skilled work.
The French woman's labor has one
characteristic that Is recognized by
the military employer. It Is u little
erratic. Six francs a day Is the usual
pay, and If tt woman does not choose
to work a consecutive number of days AfJlpOSe Parisian More N0Mial 35
sue stays away, ami no one says any
thing. They are also u mobile labor,
and if n group decide to move else
where owing to ulr raids ami other
causes, they depart with all their 1
goods and chattels. Always they please
themselves In purely personal matters
while remaining on the best of terms
with their employers. Of their strict
I Odds.
Chleng6. fieneral Pershing was,
asked by Dr. W. T. Foster, who was i
sent to France to Inspect the work of j
the American Red Cross, what this or-!
gunlzatlon could do during tho win
ter that would be the greatest help In I
the prosecution of the war.
"Assist In sustaining the morale of i
the French army," the commando of !
the American expeditionary forces re- j
piled without hesitation. j
According to Doctor Foster, who re
cently returned to the United States.
Iho Red Cross Is accomplishing this
purpose. In addition to aiding French
army hospitals with surgical dressings
and other supplies, the Red Cross Is
saving many civilians from starvation,
caring for orphan children and rebuild
ing the devastated areas.
"The Impression some have that
more supplies aro being produced In
America than there Is need for would
be quickly dissipated," he deelured,
"If every one could see as I did, the
record of surgical dressings supplied
to 1.8C0 hnspltnl8. I also saw one
French soldier so badly wounded a
Monroe Salisbury
and Ruth Clifford
In
Result of Rationing.
HEALTH ALSO IS IMPROVING
honesty I heard constant praise.
SELL COFFEE FOR LIQUOR
Negroes In Oklahoma Take Advantage
of Scarcity of Booze.
Several negroes here are taking ad
vantage of the extreme scarcity of
liquor of all kinds and are making n
good living selling coffee at the usual
liquor price, ?0 to S8 it quart.
The plan Is to get a stranger and
offer to sell hi in a quart of liquor at
a good price. The coffee is bottled
and wrapped lit a newspaper, anil the
purchaser thinks be has good liquor
until he takes n "nip,"
There l no redress In the luw, but
several men hnvo been heard to
threaten to punch u certain negro If
they catch hltn.
"DE LUXE" NOW CARRIES TAX
uintlon on the Importance of .salvage- j
nil of which ho was carefully noting,!
There were Frenchwomen cleaning :
France Has New Measure to Raise
Additional Revenue.
In tho latest supply bill voted by the
French chamber of dignities, which Is
Intended to raise ?a)O,000,()00 addi
tional revenue, tltero Is one curious
clause that creates ft distinct class of
purveyors of public comforts.
A tax of 10 per cent on nil payments
for lodging, accommodation, food,
drink In flrst-cliiss establishments of
any kind, In hotels, restaurants, cafes,
pastry cooks und teushops will he Im
posed. A list of such establishments
will be drawn up by local committees
appointed by the commercial tribunals.
As compensation for this tax all such
! establishments will have the privilege
I of Btyllng themselves "do" lure." No
other establishments will, by law, he
allowed to call themselves "de lure."
"WAR-SAVINOS STAMPS, mark
nil epoch In our NATIONAL. LIFE."
old web mid leather equipment by re- Hoorclury McAdon,
vulving brushes; trench girls sorting
salvaged ammunition, the "empties"
being sold to the Fi-ouch government ;
there were girls washing discarded
i haversacks, cleaning rliles, picking
-through musses of horseshoes to sec)
If there was nny wear left in them ; j
there were girls sorting out old hel- j
I mots and picking the few good ones
:to be washed, sandpapered uud "caiuou-;
'llngeil." All of these tilings had been!
(swept un from the debris of the re-
icent fighting. Yet only 30 per cent of j
i waste is ever satvageu rrom tne ugiu
!lng lines.
j They were repairing nnd riveting
'spurs; they wero making wooden
Istlcks for Watson's signaling fans;
jthey were sharpening blades of horse- J
:c!ippers; they were repairing wheels j
'and cleaning the bolts and hubs of i
jthc wheels, nnd doing n thousand other!
curious routine things. Most of them'
isnng nt their work ribald little French '
isongs, which occnslonally changed to
Jthe defiant "Marseillaise" wheu they
! a stranger near them. Industry
i means happiness In France, where ull
Iwho eat must work, even the dogs.
! In the textile fuctory there were
girls handling over five tons a day of
old tents; others were repairing them
iiipstnlrs at the rate of hundreds a
week. They cut out aisKs ror signal
ing, nud the tabs for Boldlers' great
couts; they were making up the par
cels that go In Tommy s grentcout
pocket, buttons, thread, etc., each one I
at n great tuble Having ner snare in i
jthe process. I
Help In Clerical Work.
There are French girls also helping i
nni tho clerical section of ordnance,
working side by side with W. A. A.
iC.'s, filing papers, though they know
no KiiKllsh, by numbers, uud becoming I
kery skilled and quick at a monotonous .
Hob.
The pay Is that prevailing in tne
town in which they work and arranged i
with the French authorities. One or j
the great advantages of employing i
French women Is, In addition to their I
mJctuc uud skill. Uiu fuct that thvy j
Simpler Life and Curtailment of
Drink Having Beneficial Effect
Forcing People to Walk More
Causes Improvement In Health
Deaths From Tuberculosis Decreas
ing, According to Statistics.
It took a war nud restriction In the
consumption of food to demonstrate
that Paris was too fat and nte too
much, writes Milton V. Snyder In the
Xow York Suii. That formerly It
pampered Its stomach to such uu ex
tent that Its health was uffected uud
Its death rule swollen is shown by the
hgures published In the Weekly Bul
letin of Municipal Statistics. Un
doubtedly the suiiie conditions apply to
ull France, to a lesser degree, however,
as the provinces have not been as
greatly uffected by restrictions on
meet und Hour, being nearer thu
sources of production. But the, health
of the capita,! hn'sCdlsllhcfly" Improved
under thu war regulations affecting
diet and habits of life.
The figures in the Bulletin nro of
ficial and show that for the month of
June the deaths In Purls numbered
005, compared with un average of 903 ;
for July, rail!, compared with 81!; for
August, .185, compared with 700; for
September, IiS7, compared with 088.
In the winter the number of deaths
will more nearly approach flic aver
age, owing to winter maladies which
are less ulTected by food conditions.
Population Not Decreased.
The question will be rulsed Imme
diately: Does not this decrease til tlie
total number of deaths simply mean
that Purls uow has fewer people? The
municipal statistical service, although
an exact, census of the actual popula
tion of Pai ls, fixed nnd tlonttng, is Im
possible, says no, for the following ren-
1 sons: First, In the live preceding yours
' from which (he average figures were
every one. were due to the foiTowmg ; whole ens of dressings was used to
causes: The rise In the price of save him."
comestibles, the decrease In the con- Americans who think our army cx
sumption of bread: principally because! pension Is cutting deeply Into our
;he first war bread was unpalatable, civil Ilfo will find a eonifarison with
am: the rationing of sugar, meat nnd : the situation In France decidedly It
HANDS DOWN
A Drama of Love and' Adventure
7KIDAY AND SATURDAY
J. Stuart Blackton Production
'THE WORLD FOR SALE"
laminating. A Red Cross oUolal Just
back from France said:
"In a city of 15,000 people wklch I
visited only one man, an old doctor,
too old even longer to practice his
prnfessTdn, was left. I passed throng
20 French villages In which there whs
not n single able-bodied man remaining."
It Is stripping France In this manner
fish.
A curious effect, visible to every one,
was that many people grew thinner.
Outside of the general decrease In the
usuul amount of food because of In
creased cost this loss of fat can be
logically attributed to the lessened
consumption of the foodstuffs which
nro the principal factors In putting on
fat bread and sugnr nnd pustry.
which Inst unites tlie combined effects ! that the nation has kept up Its heroic
of sugar and flour. This loss of fut ' n-'M against great oddR. Today the
will benefit the health of a city, as j French army Is larger and more efTec
those thus affected compose that part' ,lve tnnn pvpr, und hundreds of thou
of the population which each year fur- : sands of African nnd Asiatic workmen
nlshes the greatest percentage of j DI1V Dl'p" Imported to carry on the
ileal hs attributed to diabetes, arterlo j duties abandoned by the French to
sclerosis, heart and kidney troubles. "gilt for their country.
Plenty of Food for All. "r'"n a ""Hon be whipped that has
At the same time there Is nlonfv nf I s,,cn " sIimt s "."kcd the Red
food for all, the only hardships Im
posed by tlie restrictions being felt by
persons In delicate health who are de
prived of delicacies. Persons with nor
niul appetites one not affected by file
restrictions. The general result has
been nn improvement In tho general
heal'h.
As to the victim of n disease In
which loss of weight Is serious und a
generous diet necessary, for example,
tuberculosis, they too seem to have
benefited by the restrictions. This may
be only apparent nud due to the fact
that Invalids of this class nre largely
In hospitals wherejlicy Juck-for noth
ing nr. may have left Purls f of the
country where life Is easier. But sta
tistics, which do not He, show that the
number of deaths from tuberculosis
has been much less than tlie number
In preceding years.
It Is many years since so few con
sumptives died In Paris as this year.
There are months, as In August, for
example, where, as against the usual
average of 1.13 the weekly deaths have
been 1113, 135, 115 nnd 00. or for the
entire month n total nf 401, compared
with the average of 012.
Cross official.
AUSTRIANS WANT FLAG
Miners Refuse to Work Until Ameri
can Emblem Is Displayed.
Austrian miners in Crawford county,
Kansas, caused much apprehension n
few days ago when they threatened to
strike and tie up the coal mines. In
vestigation by federal authorities re
vealed that the miners refused to work
unless nn American flag was displayed
In each mine.
The mine operators quickly complied
with the demands. The Austrlaus then
returned, each man snlutlng the Stars
and Stripes as he entered the mouth of
the mine.
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Kaiser Changes His Name.
New Haven, Conn. "Is Mr. Knlser
in?" queried a busiiss acquaintance
of the traveling manager of a chain
of stores, as he entered the local
branch here recently.
"Sh!" warned the local manager.
"No such party here."
Then he confidentially Informed the
visitor that Mr. Kaiser was there, hut
computed there wero two and a half ,fr business and patriotic reasons be
years of war: second. In pluee of the hail changed his name to Kingdom
THE PATH OF THE HUN
By Clinton Scollard '
of The Vigilantes. ' nj-
Only a ravaged garth
Where the grass runs wild,
And un old bent woman there
With a little child.
Only n shuttered tower
Bereft of Its bells,
Where, with Its sealed Hps,
Cray silence d.vells.
Only n fresh-heaped mound
With its grim pntlios,
Ami a tilled soUlier.'s cap
tin n wooden cross.
Only the creeping wind
And the shrouded sun;
Only the pale gloom; this
Was the path of Hun !
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j Joseph llobhery.
i Sheriff F. I. Hinehnr: and Dis
trict Attorney Fnlrchlld were up
i Tuesday morning to Investigate the
house breaking affair wnlch occurr
ed just outside tho city limits or
Joseph about 7 o'clock Mondny ev
ening. Witnesses state that two
boys, Paul Vaughn, 17, and Frank
Cannon, 18, and an old offender,
having served two '. tonus In the
State Industrial school, just finish
ing his term last week, were seen
to enter tho house nnd wlien the
constable, J. A. Blevans, arrived,
thoy wore In tho net of opening a
trunk. Three locks were broken..
It Is suspected that Vaughn is tho
nulhor of the four or more winter
robberies commit tod In Joseph nnd
ho Is to bo cross-questioned on this
score before sentencing. The boys
were taken to Enterprise for a hear
ing hut the evidence if bo strong
that both will probably be sent to
the reformatory.
a?oja Orejonans are Shroud of this
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The newly discovered disease, culled
"knitting nerves," may be nipped In
the bud before assuming alarming pro
portions, nnd the click of the busy
needles heard everywhere may be si
lenced, if patriotic American women
follow the example of their English
cousins, und substitute the "glove
waistcoat" for the sweaters they are
ore now s nimbly knitting for our
Sammies nnd Jackles.
Some of the udvantnges of the new
waistcoat over the sweater are:
It Is made of waste material dis
carded kid gloves and Is therefore
much cheaper to make.
Its lining costs only 35 cents.
' Only a day or two Is required In the
making.
It weighs a few ounces and when
not in use eun be carried In the pocket.
It Is wlndproof.'wnrm and, lust but
not lenst to the wearer, vermlnproof.
Thousands of old kid gloves have al
ready been made Into these garments
und it is certain that as soon as Amer
ican women discover how easily they
can be made many thousands more
will be used.
The photo shows a United States
marine wearing one of the new waistcoats.
A Bilious Attack
Wh'en you have a bilious attack your
liver fails to perform its functions.
You become constipated. The food you'
ent ferments in your stomach instead
of digesting. This inflnmes the stom
aehe and causes nauaen, vomiting1 and
a terrible headache. Take Chamber
lain's Tablets. They will tone up your
hvei', clean out your stomach and you
will soon be as well as ever. They
anly cost a quarter. Adv.
COt NTY TIIKASIUKIPS CAM,
FOR KOAD WARRANTS
Notice! The undersigned County
Treasurer hns funds on hand with
which to pay warrant; Issued on the
Road Fund nf Union County from
number 1051 to 1165 Inclusive. All
interest on tlie above warrants ceas
es on Feb. 28, 1018.
Date nf call Feb. 28, 1018.
JOHN FRAWLEY,
Treasurer of Union County, Oregon,
2-27 3-fi, 13, 20, 27.
For Hard-to-fit
Women -
Some women are hard to fit in
corsets; some just think they
are.
SONS UNDER THREE FLAGS
One Woman Has Four Engaged In War
( - Service,
i Mrs. Kntherlne . Hopf of Valley
j Fulls, Kan., bus not only given four
sous to tlie war, but these suns are
i following the lings of three nations.
: Two sons are in tlie (lertnan army, one
! Is In France, Interned nt the beginning
These Figures Show Our Marvelous and Ccntinuous Growth
Our Business is aii in Oregon. A!! Funds Invested in Oregon Securities
We Are Prominent Factors in the Upbuilding of a Greater Oregon
i of the war, nnd the other Is training
! with the Amcrlcuu army nt Camp
Kearny, Cat.
The son Interned In France Is in
I northern Africa, where be hns charge
of some garden. Mrs. Hopf hears
I from him occasionally, but has recclv
' ed no word from tho two sons In Ovr
I many since the outbreak of the war.
! She probably will not hear friii them
j again until Ihe war ends.
1 Adolf Hopf. wliii decided 1,1 follow
I the Shirs and Stripes, used to live In
' Valley Falls, lie enlisted lust spring.
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Find Mattoden Teeth.
Throne of curious persons nre path
er'ng nt the home of John IVnnK near
Arkansas City. Ark, to Inspect the two
big teeth fouml lii n mndiill near his
borne end satd to be the teeth of e
trrnlodoti. That a ninstoden. n huge
pivhMorlo aiilui.il. died In this Meln
Itv l the general belief and en ev
h.uMlvo invcutiMiInn will h made
under the dliivilon nf the VnlvcMty
of ArkniiMia family.
There are certain types of fig.
utes, howeverfull bust and
small hips, small bust and largo
hips, short atout figures that
require special designing in
corsets.
In MOrURT Frant tared Cor
sets there are special Bmi
models for just such figures.
We can give any woman, of
whatever aur or shape, the kind
of lyle ami fit she Miould have.
writ LIICOC'
PAULINE LEDERLE