For. Pancake
Time
We hv just your IdnJ of rrr
buckwheat nd pncak flours,
right front from tie milk
No flour yield nor clean,
pure sweet, ppetizing nltes
than ours. They contain all
t!,c raal nutriments 'of wW, aJ tliey go tar
dier tlian tK ordinary 10008.
A cuf of our frsgrsnt coffee. som crisp
tsson snJ cakes witt our tUcious new maple
fyru) for your breakfast tomorrow, will make
your fiirunoon work pleasure.
Come in and order today.
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AMERICAN FOGS)
SAVINGS LARGE
United States Sent to Allies
.141,000,000 Bushels
of Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Allies Got 844,600,000 Pounds Mors
Meat and Fats In 1917-18
Than In Year Before.
.
AMERICAN FOOD SHIPMENTS
TO ALLIES
Plasa Gfocey Telephone 78
K. V. OITH'I I PAPER
DISCONTINUE SPOUT PAGE
The real reason w liy the Stars and
Etr'pes, t!:e official now riitupor of the
American cxpeditioniry forces pub
1'shrd In Paris, abolished it sport
page, are explal.ieJ tit I-:isth ir. a late
Isrue of the paper.
The reason will c.u.e every 100
per cent American to agr-H with the
editors of the sheet. They are a nice,
hank-handed slap at th" athletes who
nrc still 0:1 this (.id J of the cree.it,
taking things eaay.
Tho article follows:
"This Is tho last spotting pagi tho
Stars and ."tripes will print until an
iillled victory brings hack peace.
'Tho reasons for tho decision to dis
continue an ancient institution are al
most as numerically great as allied
shells cashing Into Herman lines.
"They arc at least siitflclcnt'y
thick to pulverise or blot out any
'ejections that might he offered by
those who have yet failed to see the
I'ght.
'This paper realizes tho great aid
f port has given iu the past In devel
oping physical stamina and enduring
morale anions thousands of those
now making up the nation's army.
"it recognizes the value of such
it
training In the future. It was spot
that first taught our men to play the
C.ine, to play It out, to play It hard.
It was sport that brought out tho
vuluo of team work, of Ions, hard
fainlng, and the knack of thinking
quickly nt a vital point of the contest.
"But sport as a spectacle, sport as
an entertainment for the side liners,
has passed on and out. Its glamour
in a competitive way has faded. Its
leading stars are either In the Iron
hnrncss of war or forgotten until
Germany Is beaten.
"The Stars and Stripes appreciates
in full Bport's abiding value and the
countless thousands of well-trained
men it has sent into line. But these
men have given up the glory of tho
sporting page boost and the old ac
tion snapshot. They are not to bo
Mentioned todiy because their job
has taken aaa.her hue.
"There are tennis and golf chain
pirns, fcotoail players gloro, track
r-tara without number, liox?rs and ball
licy:s who havo traded the easy
f.lcry they knew at home for the
Jir.rJ. unglorU'ied grind of the S. O
S. or tho bloody heritage of the
vebtern front. And their fame here
belongs with the mass, not with In
dividual mention.
"Neither Is there space, entertain
r.ient or policy in attempting to ban
die tho scores of hundreds of ball
Karnes played all over France. A 40-
page paper would not make a begin
Jilng. And those left out would re
member an offenae lunger than those
included would remember the space
H'ottod to them.
"What then is left, In the main, for
n sporting page printed In Franco
within hearing of tlia guns? Such
headlines as these: 'Star Players
:ive for Shipyards or ?arra to Es
cape "Work or Fight" Order, 'Cob')
i.i Thinking of Enlisting Thl3 Fall
' .md ho on through tho countless list
that doe:,n't make any too heroic an
1 1 rpeal to these grinding away upon
1 1 lie job bad; of the lines or to thos;
! living end dying In tho mud and dirt
, if the front iiO'O miles away from
home.
"The Stars and Stripes Is printed
fe-r the A. K. F., not to help perpetu
ate tho renown of ablo-bodied stars,
who, with unusual qualifications for
war or useful work, elected to hear
only the 'Business as Usual' slogan
iiiiovo the country's call for help in
the greatest war she has ever known.
"There Is but cna big league toda;
for this paper to cover and that
league w inds Its way among tho S. O,
S. stations scattered throughout
France and ends at the western front.
Any work that is part of tho big Job,
tither In the lines or back of It, from
Chateau Thierry to San Francisco is
of utmost value. But 'entertaining
the people back home" Isn't part of
fie big job. nor oo we believe the
bulk of them want to Tie entertained
i.i any such way.
"When it finally came to a point
where any number of aide-bodied men
were rushing into various occupations
r1: the point of the boot, when the
cecretary of war was forced to pro-
duco a ruling that would make hun
dreds of these men 'work or fight'
MEAT.
1910-17.. . . I. . . .2,ir,(;,.-,00,000 lbs.
1017-13 15,011,11)0,000 lbs.
Increase. SII.COO.OOO lbs.
CEREALS.
1910-17 2r:),!K)0,0'!0 bu.
1017-18 31O.SO0.0O0 bu.
Increase... 80,000,000 bu.
B
IBS!
With a
LLER HALF
Q)LE
at the
Ashland Vulcanizing Works
Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction
COME AND SEE. THE
TtuliuiiUdJ
The restiferous house fly is on his
way. Soon he win urtea ana uiuoiu
by the million and attack the food
and milk of the younger generation
Why not beat him to it? Screens
are absolutely the greatest preven
tive against this enemy, the greatest
death-dealing animal known to sci
ence Screen every door, window,
and porch.
We'll send a man who will measure
your eutlre building and give you
the exact cost of perfect fitting
screens. There Is no obligation to
buy.
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Awa "nearest to
Everything" Itttfl
HOTEL MANX
Powell SU at OTarrell
San Francisco
In the heart of the
business, shopping
and theatre district.
Running; distilled ice
matce in ovprv nincn c.ia
Our commodious KH$
lobby ,fci.escrvice,and
nomeiiKC restaurant
will attract vou.
e ri - tail
turopeau nan rates hijjj
$!.U( up.
Ashland Lumber Co.
Phone 20
tis the squabble and scurry grew day
after day, this paper felt that it no
longer had space left for such activ
ities not with so many events of far
greater interest taking place within
tight and hearing of its working
ctaff.
"There Is no space left for the
Cobbs, the Ruths, the Johnsons, tho
Wlllnrds and the Fultons in the ease
and safety of home when the Ityans,
the Smiths, the Larsens, the Bern
trins and others are charging ma
ihtue guns and plugging along
through shrapnel or grinding out 12
hour details 200 miles In the rear
"Back home the sight of a high fly
drifting Into the late sun may still
have Its thrills for a few. But 'over
hero' the all-absorbing factors arc
rbrapnel. high explosive, machine
'tun bullets, trench digging, stable
cleaning, nursing, training back of
fie lines and other endless details
throughout France from the base
rorts to and beyond the Marne.
"Sport among the troops munt go
rn--for that Is part of tho Job. Sport
r.mcng the youngsters back home
hiust go on for that, too, is part of
the training Job.
"But tho glorified, the commercial
Lied, the spectatorlnl sport of the
psat has been burnt out by gun fire.
The sole slogan left Is 'Beat Ger
many.' Anything that pertains to
that slogan counts. The rest does
n't. And that Is why this Is tlie last
sporting page the Stars und Stripes
fill print until an allied victory
I rings back peace."
In suite of a subnormal food supply
In this country the American people
have been able to ship to the Allies
us well ns our own forces overseas
1-1 1.000.000 bushels of wheat, besides
81-1,000,000 pounds of meat, during tho
year ending June 30 hist. This has
been mnde possible by the whole-
souled co-operation of the penplo,
who, besides practicing self-denial,
have speeded tip production and re
sponded nobly to tlie appeal iroin
abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in a
letter to President Wilson, gives a
brief summitry of the results of food
conservation In the United States and
of tho activities of the Food Admin
istration to this end. The conserva
tion measures have been put through
practically on a voluntary basis which
Is regarded ns a splendid tribute to
the patriotism of the American people.
Meat shipments were increnseu oiiv
000,000 pounds during tlie first fiscal
year, as compared with our meat ex
ports during the year before America
entered tlie war.
"The totnl value of these food ship
ments," Mr. Hoover wrote rresmeni
Wilson, "which were In the mum pur
chased through or with collaboration
nt the Food Administration, amount
to, roundly, $1,400,000,000 during the
fiscal year."
In 1910-17 the United States sent
tlie Allies 2,100,")00,000 pounds or
mont In 1917-18. with voluntary con-
urvat!on practiced In America, and
aided by extra weignt or animais, w
sent the Allies 2,011,100,000 pounds of
meat, aa Increase or 844,000,000
pounds.
Wheat Saving Enormous.
whpn tlii Food Administration be
gan operations In the summer of 1917,
this country was facing a large deficit
In wheat Counting in all carry-over
wheat from the 1010 crop, we hnd at
the beginning of the 1917 harvest year
Just enough wheat to timo cure oi
America's normal consumption, not a
bushel of surplus.
At the close of the 1917-13 harvest
year the Food Administration's olllclal
reports showed that our total wheat
shipments to the other sldo had been
141,000,000 bushels. kvery ousiiei
shipped was wheat saved by tne
American people from tneir normm
consumption.
In cereals and cereal products re
duced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations were
310,800,000 bushels, su,tw,u;w dushci.
more than the amount sent in luio-n.
ti,i.i in thesn Dirures are 13.900,-
000 bushels of rye and the 141,000,000
bushels of saved wheat. In addition
wo sent the neutrals dependent on ui
10,000,000 bushels of prime breadstuffs.
"These figures tto not iutty cuuve
the volumo of tho effort and sacrlfict
o.ia rtnrinir the tiast year by th
whole American people," the Food Ad
ministrator wrote. "I am sure tnat
all the millions of our people, agricul
tural as well as urban, who have con
tributed to these results snouiu ieei
In
a very tletinite saiisiaeuun mm iu -
year of universal food shortages in
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tlie Northern iiemispnere, uu ui u.
people Joined together against Ger
many came tnrougn io iue new ui-
vest not oniy wttii uvuuu mm bui-ubu.
fully nialntulncd, but with only tem
porary periods of hardship.
"It Is difllcult to distinguish be
tween various sections of our people
the homes, public eating places, looa
tmiia urban or agricultural popula
tions In assessing credit fors thesa
results, but no one will deny the uonj.
Innnt part of the American women.
& Q Q Q f $?! GQ 'e
i SOLDIEItS' LETTEHS '
$JS S Q s $ if b 'S" - $
Miss Mary Spencer received the
rebuilt some time later. tut and briers with fallen trees,
Well, In regard to your efforts at cvtised by tlie hurricane of 1916.
llooverlzlng, from my own account jt was very hard traveling, but
c-cr here, I would say that the '- tte Bt i,uck at 2:40 a. m. O. 1C The
ninnln n-lin ll fl Vf 1 InH VPV- ' .. 1 -..I .t.w.o nr., Il'lt-n In f II 1 1 ftllt f O t
following letter from her brother,! .., v,, u-n.,1,1 . ',.., -r,,., ti i ti.t is. the
Private J. M. S;encer, who Is In , MM at thc d,ftcrcnce t,ie,..,v aflHr ,0 , .," for once.
Franco with the oHth ensmnars: . ,,., nninM,rn n,n,tp. ,.,, , rflu :.n(i co to
France Is very far from starving to- tUip when reveille went.
July 27, 191S.
Dear Sister: Well, here we are
another week nearer to Berlin, and
iiome, not that we have advanced to
v.urd the front, because we are still
r-t the same old place but somo work
has been accomplished and that Is
vhat we are here for, it seems In this
nar. Weeks are awful long here.
One fellow said the other day: "We
have been here 20 days." Imme
diately there was a howl from th
gang, "twenty days, nothing!
twenty years!
day, and also Franco seems to be( answer your questions. I
well clothed. Yes, on tho whole, tho . -ls!i you would ask them all along,
real heroes of the war arc tho cooks i.ecause It helps me to write. There
at homo, whoso dinners wo sorelys tQ mo of not.- here, at least
r.lss. Yes, we have good eats, btitj it seems so to me t hat I have a hcad
ic far from home, therefore, mostly jucho after every letter I write,
canned and cold storage. HavewhltOj There are four companies on thii
I rtad all tho time, pie once or twlco, itiand, the llCth, SOtlt, and 35th,
I a' week. V.'o can get somo French j tottrchlight platoon and signal pla
! f..it mnat nt the time, but it does ; toon, hcadouarters detachment, tho
. . i r.ot compare with home products, hast three making one company, al
; mri I nrottv dear. Today good to-i iiicukIi different organizations. Tho
Even nt that there Is some com-1 .... 1S nound; , . .. . . .... ,a
we got a trip auoul , reachPg a)0ut ti,e size of walnuts go the Soth company, known as Marine
oss country in motor: and orangc3 a ikUo Corps reserve, fellows who didn't en
omc timber. Thecoun-,. c ,,, p , ... -.,,.,. .,,, ,,,. t,.vn
nintoes are to be had from the camp, ..'Hows nrc like all marines, good
pensation now.
20 miles across
trucKs, alter some t.mt.er. ine coun-, R or 9c Th morc , 8e(( .8t uiU1 re,,ruary fl.1(1 Uley havo
.iy uui .ul.. ..... uu - more ,.m Btuck ou the ; done r.o soldiering. Ti:ey ore begin-
pecting to see. 1 ms part is ratner , , ,- to think thev n
thinly settled and rather dry. Seems ,
to be a poor soil, although
look fine wherever there are any
:i!ng to think they are soldiers, which
Went last Sunday with Don and tt n . an () a. makpg ,hem
""l":..!- tl.n rnthPilral n ChateaurOUX. !,!., , i.
could never describe it, ana pictures
andle 80iiKti:iie3. They al-
I ways want to argue over an order
its mostly rorest and meadows. i m uUcrly t0 gvc one ncy idea of It. . B,vt.n (hem Tie Lord (lellver m9
Paw some fine, fat cattle, pure;The ght throllgh Ule stained Klws from a recru!t:
white in color, tnat took my eye.; windows and every thing anout u is .
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111. A l.lnni fnn. I. In vnlll... nvnn t.-Aa'mnei Wntlrtprflll
drawing an American-made binder. V.,
catting grain with a cradle. And
.1 France.
These Islands were bought solely
for their military value. The har
bor of St. Thomas I.i the best in the
West Indies, and cvn be U3ed as a
yet another, an old rake reaper,
was operating, and women and kids
were tying the bundles with wisps of
straw. Saw a team of oxen being
hitched up, and it was some novel
bight. They do not use a yoke like
'it. home, but a pole laid across the
horns and a padded block of wood
fits on the horns and forehead reach
ing well down the nose, and they
O'lll or rather push with their hea i
Instead of their shoulders.
All the French cattle I have seen
are best strains. No Jerseys, Hol
i telns or Ayreshires. Think we have
them heat In that as well as In most
a'.! else. !
. The scenery about here Is not as
nice as at either of our previous
camps. It looks like Kansas or Ne
braska. -Now and then we come on
to some pretty scenes. There was
a fine chaueau on the road several
miles out from town, but It was so
hidden by a grove of trees that as
usual we could see little of it. I
thing it Is modern, by modern I mean
not over two or three hundred years
old, which, for this country, Is mod
ern. Thoro's a chateau In Chateau
oux built in 927, and another was
l uilt longer ago than that by the
Romans. It was destroyed once and
i !., Main i r.r.val base for the defense of the
Mrs. J. C Baughman of Last Main
hie reep ved the following in-
Ot.VI-1. ..MM
tprrHtlne letter from her brother.
Corporal J. II. Halght, who Is with
the 35th company. U. S. M. Co , now
located at St. Thomas, V. I.:
August 11. 1918.
DearVella: So at last you re
crived a letter from me. I Just re
telved your letter today telling of
it, with list of questions enclosed. It'3
been two weeks since we have had
tiny mail and probably would not
l.n.ra trnl finV fni mintlinr Week but
a w ni Aft n .rBi,in hmn-M it nvpp brought the paper along. As I have
from San Juan. Porto Rico. It usu- raid, the island Is really very well
nn .nmi from Now York to Porto civilized. Of course, newspapers are
buy them to keep Germany from do-
!n'4 It, aa Denmark was going to sell
I hem to the kaiser. It was a case
of the highest bidder and money
down.
The Islands of St. Thomas and St,
Ji'lin have practically no agricultural
value, although St. Thomas did have
1 efore the hurricane. St. Croix, how
ever, has large sugar plantations and
is comparatively rich.
There Is no Y. M. C. A. here. I
Kico, then here by a small boat that
makes weekly trips. Sometimes a
ship bound for South America brings
It direct. This is a port of call for
nearly all ships running to South
America from New York or Europe.
I Just came off another guard this
looming. On Tuesday night I had
the Island patrol. I took four men
out at 9:30 p. m., and made a trip
covering 12 or 14 miles over the
hills,. The hills are very steep, there
belna scarcely any level country, and
v-ry much undergrowth, mostly cac-
rnther old when they get down here.
Fvery day there Is the U. S. Navy
Press News sent by radio, and never
nore than a day old from New York.
Jt contains all the principal news
items, baseball scores and stock and
loud quotations. Also a more com
plete press by cables posted every
day. It contains all war news.
One of the tropical showers has
lust come up that last for five min
utes and approach a cloudburst.
I will close for- fliis time for fear
I won't have anything for next week.
SUGAR SHORTAGE HITS
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
In Stmln and Portugal sugar nrleei
nrc soaring. Both countries have been
seriously affected by the short beet
sugar crop In Europe and the lack of
ocean tonnage to move stocks of can
jugar Isolated In far awny pons.
Granulated sttpir, home grown, was
being sold In Barcelona, Spain, during
the curly summer nt 19 cents a pound.
The price of brown sugar' In Lisbon,
Portugal, fixed by governmental order,
was $1.04 to $1.12 a pound.
By comparison the price of beet
iugar In Sweden Is 14 cents a pound;
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