The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., February 08, 1918, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

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Digest U. S. Food
hoover h
— U "A rtide
Cora,” that ovary won
and every man who aat
far as their nutritive value is eaa-
cerned. Cora, to be aura, has been
shown to be somewhat, less rich in
bodybuilding
elements
(protein)
than the other cereal grains; but te
offset this, corn is a more abundant
source of bodily energy than tba ear-
eel grains mentioned above, owing te
the feet that it contains nearly twice
as much fa t as they."
Maay Ways ta Cook Cara.
"Thera are a great number of use­
ful ways in which corn-meal may be
easily and palatably used in cooking.
Cora broad is probably tba moat
widely practical and popular of all.
But in addition tbsra era hasty pud­
ding or mush, hoe-cake, com pons,
corn giddla-pakoa, and Indian pud­
ding. AtxPthero am away sacra To­
day, one o f tba moat important uses
for com-msal is its mixture with
wheat flour in broad staking. An ad­
mixture as high a* twdhty-llv# par
America’* Greatest Cereal Crop
la N o * Moving to
Market
them la a wortd ebortage whlcb kaa
redueed Ibis nation's cagar aUotmant
le 7 » per cent o f norma).
TUrough thè efforta of thè United
Statee food adori» latration thè sugar
market bas been mgulated sa far ss
thè producer, mflner aad wholesaler
(a concerti ed. The food sdnrin latra tioa
bas no power to regalate retali prisca
except by pubi le opinion. Bven though
more than 80,000 tona of sugar bava
been ahlpped to Franco In thè laat
to what they need. Already in their
bread they am using all the com
asaal possible.
They e annot grind
com, for they have not the milk.
They cannot use corn meal instead
of wheat in their daily diet, ae we do,
because neither their cooks nor their
appetites am adapted to it/ Wheat
they must hava And wheat wa can
give them—if wa will eat corn. And
wily then. There isn’t enough whegt titration waa organi xed the price of
in the country for us to have it, wad auger rose suddenly -to 11 cents a
pound. During tha Civil War sugar
cost the consumer 80 cents a pound.
By regulation of the sugar market and
“ Many of the possible uses of com
hi your family bava bean outlined in
this article. But its biggest use to­
day—the biggest use of all—ti to
many uses far com-starch, but tha
possibilities of dora sirup are leae
widely" known. Not only can it be
used on the table aa other sirupa but
A fter reading this article we feel
like pledging ourselves to use na
bread except com broad for one meal
a day aad no sirup except corn sirup.
And wa believe that" com oil ought
to be substituted to a large extent for
the animal fat* we are using now.
What do our readers think o f it. Try
aB tba corn products you can and let
ua know about i t Wa are using com
sirup ou our breakfast buckwheat
cabas; has anyone tried corn oil aa a
substitute for butter with such
eakesY
Lost wa convey a wrong impression
and keeping It from advancing to 20
tents tba food administration has sav­
ed tha American public at least *180,-
*00,000 In four months, according to
a statement mede by Herbert Hoover
the other doy.
"It la sur atara daty to toed the al­
l e a to maintain their health and
strength at any cost to oumelvoa"
Mr. Hoover declared. "Thera has net
been, nor win be as we see It, enough
auger for even their present meagre
and depressing ration uníaos they send
Ships to remote markets for tt. I f Wt
ana year. These ships If used to
tranaperttog troops—would take
160,000 te 2Q0JQ0 men to Franca*
Reason for World fihertaga
As Mr. Heaver pointed put, the
United States, Canada and England
Wem sugar Importing countries before
the war, while France and Italy wem
very nearly self supporting Tha main
sources of the world's sugar supply
was Germany and neighboring powers,
tba West Indies and the la st Indies.
German sugar IF no longer avallaMa
as It tt used entirely In Germany,
Which also absorbs auger of surround-
tog countries.
England can no longer buy 1 , 400,000
long toaa of sugar each year from
This is only one of the many letters Germany. The French sugar produc­
moved to Tahtoquah, Okie. I would
Postmaster
McLain is daily receiv­ tion has dropped from 750,000 to 210,-
like vary much to gat batter acquaint­
*00 tons. The Italian production has
ed. Thanking you to advaaca I to-
ing, but it certainly looks like the
real thing, though the signature “ Lil­
lian" should have bean attached.
That "bard" laat asms though, waa
a due that enabled tha Sentinel scribe
to find the full name Mr. McLain bas
so sedulously guarded, without mov­
ing from his office desk.
Anything like a romance always
interests the Sentinel, aad so when
we learned iro n a Bay pa par that
Postmaster McLain, of Marshfield,
had received the foregoing loiter from
a Portland young man wo waited with
interest to learn hew tiris story would
be “continued in our next," and
WHl Gut Too Anyway.
whether the enamored Portland youth
was going to get track o f the“ airy,
fairy Lillian” who had bewitched him,
when he came down to Cooe county
must tell, whether he wants to er
shortly after or perhaps at the time
not.
of the Railroad Jubilee in August,
One section o f the War Income Tax
Law, exhaustively comprehensive to
Hem is the next chapter as pub­
scope, requires ovary parson, without
lished in the Cooe Bay Timas Tues­
exception, aad
corporation,
day, in the shape o f a letter from the partnership, aaaodation, and inaur­
“ party of the other part” in this ro­
ane. company, in whatever capacity
mance, who is said to ha a North acting, who paid *800 or mom to an­
other person, corporation, partner­
Mr. H. McLain,
ship, association or inaurane, compa­
Marshfield, Oregon.
ny, as interest, rent, salaries, wages,
Doer air:
premiums, annuities, compensation,
In reading "Tuesday's Times," I
remuneration, emoluments or other
came serosa your article regarding
Axed or determined gains, profits and
the young man in Portland who Is
incorna to report the name and ad­
trying to locate and find out tha name i i aa* o f th# person, corporation, ate.,
of a certain young tody whom ho mot io whom the payment waa made, to­
in your city mom than a year ago. i gether with the amount of the pay­
would like vary much if you would
ment, to the Commissioner of Intern­
send him the address I give, as I
al Revenue at Washington, usine- •-
think it will be o f jnterost to him if form proscribed for the purpose,
he proves to be the young man whom
Form 1090, now to be had from all
I think he is, as the details o f his tot
«•Hectors’ offices. Tim forms must be
ter to you correspond ae to certain
filled out aad returned on er before
things that hava happened to me tap»
March t, 1*18, accompanied by Form
past year. My toot naata is a hard
10M, which is a totter o f tranaayttal
one. and very few people can reaeem-
and affidavit certifying tha accuracy
ber it er know how to »pell R, and of Form 1099.
when this young man asked for it
nnd wanted to write, I refused as 1
had only amt Mm a faw days before
and known him fo r ah hour.
ltehiag these limits on October 1, and
anything over this amoont to be agreed
extortionate under the law.
"In the coarse of these Investiga­
tions it was found by canvass o f the
Cuban producers that their sugar had,
daring the first nine months of the
pant year, sold for aa average of about
* 0 4 per hundred t a b . Cuba, to
which duty and freight added to the
refiners’ coot amount to about *5.0«
per hundred. The «verage sale price
Of granulated by various refineries, ac­
cording to our Investigation, was about
*TJX> per hundred, er a differential of
M AINSTAY IN NATION’S CRISIS.
maintain the
.
human b o d y
oealthy and strong. Thla winter
of lfilfi is the period whoa Is to
bo tested here In America wheth­
er our peoplo are capable of vol­
untary individual sacrifice to
save the world. That la the par-
pose of the organisation of the
United Statee Pood Administra­
tion— by voluntary effort to pre-
ride the food that the world
America's great com crop, exceed
lag 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the
world's food situation, officials of the
United States food administration be­
lieve. .
Corn Is the nation's beet food cereal,
housewives am beginning to realise.
It contains all the elements needed to
l a reducing the differential to *180
keep the body In a state o f health and
them waa a saving to the public o f 04
Ü. R FOOD ADMINISTRATION
when used according to tbs scores of
conta por hundred. Had ouch a dif­
tried recipes, especially when com­
ferential been la use from the 1st of
January, 1017, the public would have
bined with an added portioa^of oil or
saved la the first nine months of the
fat, will sustain life Indefinitely. In­
year about *24 800.000.”
dian warriors in colonial days lived on
Next Year.
parched cprn alone for many, days at a
With a view to mom effldent organ­
time, and at Valley Forge parched
isation o f the trade in imported sugars
corn waa at times the sola ration of
east year two committees ham bean
the Continental soldiers
formed by the food administration :
Owing to transportation difficulties
1. A committee comprising repre­
caused by the war the com crop moved
sentativas of all of the elements of
mom slowly to market this year than
American cans refining groupa The Warring Nations Have Depleted Live aver before Now, however, the cereal
•took at Enormous Rata ffva.t
principal duty of this committee la to
la reaching the millers and consumers
divide the sugar importa pro rata to
Killing Dairy Cattle Far Feed.
In the meantime the nation’s surplus
their various capacities and aae that
wheat baa been sent to Korops.
absoluto Justice la dans to ovary re­
Today them are approximately 80
American stock breeders am being
fluer.
bushels of cam ‘ for evert American.
2. A committee comprising three rep­ asked to conserve their flecks and Thla quantity Is greater by five bush­
resentatives of the English, French herds ta order to moot Europe's tre­ els than In former years
aad Italian governments ; two repre­ mendous demands tor meats during
Cora has become the nation's main­
sentativas o f the American refiners, tha war and probably tor many years stay In tba crisis of war.
with a member of the food administra­ afterward.
Just as this carnal saved the first
tion. Only two of the committee have
The United States toed adminti- American colonists from famine —
arrived from Europe, but they repre­
tmtieo reports that American stock many occasions lust as It served as a
sent the allied governments. The du­
staple food during the War of the Rev­
ties of this committee am to determino misers hava shewn a disposition to
olution and during the Civil War. King
the moot economical sources from a «»-operate with the government la to-
Cora has again come to the front la
transport point of view of all the al­ creasing the nation’s supply of lira
the nation’s battle with autocracy.
lies to arrange transport at uniform stock.
* Oera meal is finding greatly Increas­
ratea to distribute the foreign sugar
Germany today la probably batter ed ase In the making of ordinary white
between the United States and allies, supplied with live stock than any oth­
bread. — mdreds of bouaewtvca and
subject to the approval of the Ameri­ er European nation. When tha Ger­
many of the larger bakers am mixing
can, English, French and Italian gev- man armies mads their Mg advance
20 per cent com meal with wheat
Into France and than retreated vir­ fiour to make leavened bread. Thla
L. This commlttea while bolding strong tually all the cattle to tha Invaded kind o f a mixture la worked and baked
views as to the price to be paid tor territory — approximately
1,900,000
Cuban auger, baa not bad the final head—wem driven behind the German methods that apply to straight wheat
volea This voice has mated to the
bread.
governments concerned, together with
Corn broad—using com meal entire­
tha Cuban government and I wish to
ly—tt gaining a greater popularity
state emphatically that all of the gen­
than aver before. Housewives am
tlemen concerned sa good commercial
coming to realise that every pound of
man have endeavored w(tb tie utmost
wheat saved In America means a pound
patience and skill to secure s lower
Of wheat released for shipment to the
price, and their persistence has re­
nations with which America to associ­
duced Cuban demands by 15 canto per
ated to the war.
hundred. The price agreed upon Is
Them i n a wore of com products
about *4.80 per hundred pounds. L a b .
that today possess until us I importance
Cuba or equal to about *0 duty paid
for American*. Com syrup for sweet­
New York.
ening com enter and buckwheat mfcee
"This pries should eventuate,"
and tor um In the kitchen instead of
Mr. Hsovar said, "te about *7.30
granulated sugnr tt one of the leading
per hundred tor refined sugar from
tha refiner« at seaboard points or
Corn oil, excellent for frying nnd for
should place sugar In tha hands of
every other purpose filled by anted olla
tha consumer at from t/t te •
tt appearing on the market In large
eenta par pound, depending upen
quantities It comes from the germ of
locality and conditions of trad a or
the corn.
at from 1 to 2 eenta below the
prices of Auguat laat and from ene-
half to a cent per pound cheaper
fnllcn from 210.000 tone to 75,000 tons.
Thus three countries wem thrown
Open Eaet and West Indian sources
tor 1,025,000 tons annually to maintain
their normal consumption.
Because of the world's shipping
shortage the allied nations started
drawing on the West Indies for sugar;
East Indian sugar took three times
the number of shlpa since the dis­
tance was three lime# as great Sud­
denly the west was called on to fur­
nish and did furnish 1.420,000 tons of
sugar to Europe when 900,000 tons a
year was the pre-war demand. The
allies had drawn from Java 400,000
tons before the shipping situation he­
roine acute.
"In spite of these shipments,” Mr.
Hoover stated the other day, "the
English government In Auguat reduced
the household sugnr ration to n basis
of 24 pounds per annum per capita.
And In September the French govern­
ment reduced their household ration
to IS 2-10 pounds a year, or a bit over
1 pound of sugar a month. Even this
meagre ration could not be filled by
the French government It waa found
early In the fall. America waa then
asked for 100,000 tons of sugar and
succeeded In sending 85,000 tons by
December L* The French request waa
granted because the American house-
held consumption waa then at least 58
pounds per person, and It was consid­
ered the duty of maintaining the
French morale made our course ctoar."
•urpltie Wheat of the United fitat
Hae Been gent te Famine Threat­
ened Europa
“Thera Is now an elimination of
01 , *
“ "V
speculation, extortionate profit., and
to tba refialng alone the American ndnlatrntlon that the future problem
people will rave over *25,000,00* of * AB,* ric*
,n
the refining charges last year A part !,on ot *"*•♦ P o u r in g animals and
of tbeee savings goes to tha Cuban.
Hawaiian, Porto Rican and Lousiaalan dnrt,on
* ™r e iP°rt wh* °
| producer and part to the consumer.
the war will have ceased.
"Appeals to prejudice against the
food administration have been made
because the Cuban price la 94 eenta D K llla t l UU V L i i I i I t I l I i I
above that of 1017. It tt said In effect
u r in e R IV m o n n r t n
that tha Cubans am at our mercy;
that we could get sugar a cent lower.
______
Wa made exhaustive study of the cost
¿¡v-»
of producing sugar I d Cuba last year
T “ *re “ * b*en “ uc*1 «Maunder-
tbrough our own agents In Cuba, and * andln* • * » «
b " * « 1 program In
we find It averages *9.39, white many BnK,and- » *• » « •
th* Bngltth-
producers am at a higher level Wa man buys a loaf of bread for less than
found that an average profit of at “
American «ton, but It tt poorer
least a cent .per pound was neceasnry br~ d-
*°vernroynt to
to order to maintain and stimulate *****“ * ****,000.000 a year toward the
production or that a minimum price ot co* t o t **•
$4.37 was necessary, and even this
All the grain grown In Unset Brit-
would stifle some producer*.
oln u *akM> ®v*r •>/ the government
-The price ulttmatelv agreed waa 29 at an arbitrary price and the imported
cents above these figures, orabout one- " h*at
•»
fifth of a cent per pound to the Ameri- th* prevailing market price Thla la
can consumer, and more than this mmed ov.r tothe mill, by the g o v « -
amount has bean saved by our reduc- ' "**” ‘JM •
*h,ut
tbe A c ­
tion in refiners’ profits. If we wish to
» * r hrMd ,n* f « four P®-'“ **
Mill, production in Cub. w . could »
cent., the two p,,and loaf
take that coarse Jam at the time of all « * " ■ * ■ “ d ,he OTM‘ P®“ " "
•* 6
tirnu in oar hlotorj when we "Want cenu-
production for ourselves and the .»-
‘n
under condlUtma some-
lies. Farther than that, the state da- wh* ‘ * " » » « * . b®t with a larger ex­
periment will assure you tost such a ‘ to«*“ ’*-
P * “ * kmf asHa tor
course would produce disturbances In 18 eenta
Cuba and destroy .even our present
supplies, but beyond all them material MAKINE MEATLESS
mas an« la one of human Justice. This
DAY* PERMANENT,
great country has no right by the
- -
might of its position to strangle Cuba
^ M | t l n raeBU
to . for-
"Theratore tkir* *
Imposition ule
tor developing new end nour-
upon the American public. Charges taking dishes, according to H. H. Niles,
Ihro been made before this commit- writing ta the Hotel Os sett e, who bo­
tes that Mr. Holph endeavored to ben- tuvos that the present shortage of
•fit the California refinery of which he meet and tats will not end with the
DIMTlCil CAVCSklUCVT
H l u S PAT I UK BREAD
ta Cuban price. Mr. Rolph did not fix acute and continue for five or Mx
the price. It does raise the price to ' years, thus making It worth white to
the Hawaiian tanner about that develop Beaus of grata, vegetables
amoun t It 4mm not raise the profit o f * aad fish oa a room or leas permanent
tha California refinery, because their ' baste. Usat ton he replaced by cereals
charge tor rotating to, Uka all other re-1 and other protein foods, or may 9a
■sera, limited te *1 JO per hundred served la very small part!sue aa s fia-
pounda, plus the freight differential oa voting for other hied. la making up
the established custom o f the truda * imeatless menus this author finds our
"Mr. Rolpfi bas aat otte penny of la . American Creole aad southern cEtta*
IUDE-IN-GEKMANY LIES
CieCUUTED IN CHIUDI
Canada tt also having trouble with
Made-ln-Ocrtiiany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation ac­
cording to an official statement re­
ceived from the Canadian food con­
troller by the United States food aA-
minist ration.
The stories bothering Canada am
of the same general character as those
the United States food administra­
tor recently denounced In this coun­
try. such as the ridiculous salt and
blueing fnmlne takes and the report
that the government would anise
housewives' stocks of home canned
goods.
The Canadian fond controller esti­
mate« that when the people listen t j
and poos on such stories, each one
hna Ibe power of destruction that lies
In a battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even a vestige of
foundation have been scattered broad­
cast," said the Canadian statement
"Nor have they come to life caeUEIIy.
They have started simultaneously to
different part* of the country and to
< *'-|i instance have been calculated to
arouse public Indignation.
"They am lnaid:ou< subtle, persist­
ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the greet eeeenttal In the work
of food control