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9 TO STOP WASTE OF SILVER SOME REASONS WHY WHEAT MUST BE SAVED “THE LIBERTY BOND IS VICTORY’S WAND” —By H. Allan, Hlllahnro TMFY ARF GIVING THEIR ÜVXS Wll.L YOU LEND YOUR DOLLARS ■ 9 x ¿></ / fo b * ' *r r \ H*. * tC trÀ p »tr/ c /C £ & SUBSCRIBING (or Liberty Bonds done not mans giving anything. It dona not mean even sacrificing—unions m call it that to spend morn needfully hors and use more heed fully there. It means safe, sane, sensible, substantial IN VESTM EN T, backed by the best security In the world— our whole United States, and from which you will receive reasonable Income In INTEREST. Compare this degree of patriotism with the kind that Is taking our sons, brothers, husbands and fathers s press the seas to probable hardship and possible death ~ too Balance la is In in their I The balanes favor If you were to mortgage your entire financial future In order O a t they may be booked up with those supplies su| which represent the mean* for both PREPAREDNESS and PROTECTION. The third Liberty 1 Loan Is at band. Don’t wait to be personally solicited for your subscriptions. Go to your tS9fr and VO LU NTEER TO U R DOLLAJtS. LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE VICTORY RESTEO WITH BOY CUSYOM MAKES HIGH PRICES (ru ts Citizen No M atch for Bon of M sroury in Kxohangs of Sulphur- | ous Compliments. \ i A messenger boy and his bicyds We Americans do not eat enough mobilized with a robust pedestrian fish, and the fisheries bureau says it at Ohio and Pennsylvania streets. is largely because o f the fish-on-Fri- When ttte ensemble had bqen dis day habit. The average housewife, banded, the man proceeded to h u rl; having acquired „the habit, will not epithets at tbs boy, talking faster buy fish on any otheHMay o f the than a Lewis machine gun. week. “ Blankety — blank— you— blink- This means that the individual ety blankety young whelp— y o u !" consumer must buy when everybody tbs large party sputtered. else is buying, thus enhancing the “ Do your best, mister, do your price. And the dealer must obtain b est!" the boy yelled, displaying a from one d a y ’ s sales enough to cover good humor that caused the irate six days’ expenses. This also makes citisen to gasp. prices go up. “ Don’t you g it impudent to me, The fisherman is up against the you— blankety-blank little In d ia n !" same difficulty. Hia business is gov the man began again. erned largely by wind and tide— “ D o your beat, mister. Y ou ain’t conditions over which he has no con doin’ your best,” the kid shouted, trol. H e must catch fish whenever having withdrawn himself and bi he can, and by expensive icing hold cycle to a ten-foot handicap for the them until the- dne fish day o f the getaway. The man continued to'pour week. Here again is a cause o f high forth his rarest thoughts and when, er prices. at last, he gasped a final word the Every day ought to be a fish day. boy stood erect, and, imitating a Let us try to drop the fish-on-Friday , corner policeman, waved hia hand habit. Tt is oqe way to help win the and said: war.— New York Herald. » “ Come on. Oct out o’ there. What C A 0 A L 8 VA LU A B LE IN W AR. business you got in the street, any w a y?" The numerous canals which cross Then the son o f Mercury was and recrosa much o f the territory gone.— Indianapolis News. back o f the French lines have been put to good use by the military au SUGAR SOAP. thorities, not only for the transporta The discovery is announced o f a; tion of supplies and floating bat method o f manufacture o f soap from i teries, but as a fairly rapid means sugar instead o f from oil. In the o f travel between different points. By equipping pontoons with de v past it has been possible to use sugar ; tachable engines the French army only in -soaps that had little value. has secured a fleet o f fairly fast and By the new method, it is claimed, very serviceable motor craft for the soap produced is not fine and : ferry service on the canals. Officers, delicate, hut it acts as efficiently i men and prisoners are transported in salt water as in fresh— a fact that may make the soap valuable for the from place to place in these com navy. Articles that formerly had to fortable boats, and it goes without be sent to chemical laundries can be saying that this ferry service has washed with this new kind o f soap. proved o f great value as an adjunct The finest kinds o f silks, it is al to usual transportation means. The leged, not only are not harmed by K, i power plants are usually o f about hut th^ir colors are brought out bril twelve horsepower r a tin g and in liantly as if new. In addition, the clude the engine and accessories, sugar-soap seems to he responsible propeller and rudder, all in one unit, for a minimum o f the wear and teaT fastened to the stern o f the pontoon. occasioned by old-fashioned cleans — Scientific American. ing soaps. “ French wardogs are not the only ones that could be taught to do great service in the world struggle,” re marked H. B. Turner, a Kentuckian, discussing the marvelous feats per formed by some o f the dogs on the battlefields o f France, at the Willard, according to the Washington Post. ‘T h e dog o f America commonly called a ‘cur* has instinct for such service. H is sense o f direction is as tonishing. Some patriotic women in the West have undertaken to train dogs for Bed Croes work, and they have found that the ‘cur* dog is pos sessed o f all the natural qualifica tions fo r war service. But, in my judgment, the Kentucky hunting dog is better adapted fo r this work than any other because o f his won derful instincts. A few years ago a sportsman o f Iowa had a hunting dog bred in Kentucky. I t was an un usually fine dog, and during the ‘rac ing’ season in Kentucky he sent his dog back to Kentucky to take part in the fox chasing. A ftec the sport was over the friends to whom the animal had# been sent lost him. They were much perturbed because they had promised they would see that the dog was sent safe back home to Iowa. A fte r many days o f search ing, however, they sent word to the owner that the animal had disap peared. Sixty days afterward they ware informed that the dog had re turned to hia home in Iowa.’’ “ T fiey must be very rich?” “ W hy » r “ T heir house ia filled with period furniture.” “ And mins is full o f periodic fur niture.” "W h at kind ia that?” “ I t was paid fo r at thirty-day in tervals.’’ HIS INHERITANCE. Father— When I was a small boy I was le ft an orphan. Tom my— What did ybu do with it? — Tit-Bita. WHEAT CRISIS FORCES ' CHANGESJN RULES Methods Recommended That Will Put an End to Lose In Photo-Engraving , “ A Man Cannot Think. Work or Flgh* * Establishments. Whon Ha la Hungry“— We Must Food Our SoldldrS. Households, Eating Houses and A greater amount o f pure silver is “ W e bavo the preservation of the used each year in this country in world on our hands. Every single Bakers Must Decrees« photography and photo-engraving living human being In this republic, Use of Wheat than any other purpose except the from ocean to ocean, should make tt his or her apeclal purpose to save coinage o f the United States. By food.” Urgant military necessities of the the methods in general use only These are the words o f E. F. Cullen, United States and the Allies has about 10 per cent o f the silver con personal representative of Herbert C. farced a more drastic restriction In sumed in these industries is actually Hoover, In n recent address. the wheat conservation program. “ Men will resist any power but the Coupled with an ssrnsst appeal ta all utilized. The rem in der is simply power of starvation.” said Mr. Cullen. Individuals, households, public eating wasted in the solutions which are "Hunger in the final analysis. Is the thrown daily into the sinks to go out only force that can weaken a nation places and bakers of bread and pas tries far their co-operation and sup through the drain pipes. and demoralise an army. Food la port, Herbert C. Hoover has Issued a Several schemes for conserving strength, and without a perpetual sup new set of rules designed to further ply of strength, the world can stand reduce wheat consumption in this this waste are now being considered. in danger of tottering, weakening and country until the next harvest One consists in saving the solutions falling Into uttar chaoa. A man can Thaos rules and Mr. Hoover’s per in jars and barrels to be refined or not think, work or fight If he is bun- sonal appeal are given out through evaporated to regain the silver. An Mr. W. B. Ayer, Federal Food Admin “The allies today ara practically istrator for Oregon, in the following other method, which is really quite Wholly dapendent upon the United practical, is to utilize the silver States for food. Upon this nation message: " I f we are to furnish the Allies with wasted in the fixing bath for silver rests the responsibility of preserving the necessary proportion of wheat to the world from Prusslanism. This la ¡dating. maintain their war bread from now - the task of the people of this nation— The process is so simple that it until the next harvest (and this Is a to produce and save food enough to can readily be carried on even by an keep a steady stream of essential sup military necessity) we must reduce amateur. T h e liquid is strained or plies moving towards the front so our monthly consumption to twenty- one million bushels a month ns against filtered and placed in a hard rubber long as it shall be neefessary to wage our normal consumption of about this war. I f at any time we fail In box. An ordinary galvanic cell is at forty-two million bushels or fifty par this, we must inevitably go down, with tached by copper wires to a copper the allies, to defeat. This is no ex cent of our normal consumption, re plate in one end o f the receptacle. aggeration, but a serfbus fa ct It la serving a margin (pr distribution to The article to be plated should be the purpose pf the United States Food the army and for special cases, leav ing for general consumption approxl-' well cleaned and placed in the solu Administration to bring the realiza mately one and one-half pounds o f tion of this fact home to every Ameri tion opposite the copper plate. The wheat products weekly per person. can man, woman and child, and to en silver will begin to deposit immedi list the Individual aid of our hundred Many of oar consumers ere dependent ately. Fifteen or twenty minutes w ill million people in producing and sav upon baker’s bread. Such bread most be durable and therefore requires a suffice for a thorough plating. In ing food. The Food Administration larger* proportion of wheat products most photographing establishments la not asking you to eat less; It only than cereal breads baked in the home. urges that you substitute one nutri enough silver solution is thrown ‘T h e well-to-do in onr population tious food for another equally nutri away each day to plate a couple o f tious food, thus saving the vital sta earn make greater sacrifices la the consumption of wheat products than ples needed by our armies and the dozen spoons, or forks. can the poor. In addition onr popu armies and peoples of the allies. 'W e lation In the agricultural districts, must, during the next three months, VISION OF SUMMER save wheat especially. Our surplus where the substitute cereals are abun dant,' are more skilled in the prepara has already been Shipped abroad, sad tion of breads from these other cereals | a hundred million bushels more ara than the crowded city and Industrial^ «needed. When you eat a slice o f bVeed lass, omit the crackers With your soup,, populations. With improved tr o u p e r ' or otherwise conserve on wheat prod tatlon conditions ws now have avail able a surplus of potatoes. W e also ucts, you are contributing towards the have In the spring months a surplus hundred million bushels needed o N r of milk and we have ample corn and there by our fighting men' and the oats for ’human consumption. The exhausted people of Bcdgtum. France drain on rye and barley as substitutes sad England who have for more than has already greatly exhausted the sup three years been bearing the brunt o f ply of those grains. < this war, which la our war. Keep this “ T o offset the needed saving of in mind, and bring it before the minds of your thoughtless friends sad neigh w h eA ws are wholly dependent upon the voluntary assistance o f the Amer bors.” ican people and we ask that the fol lowing rules shall be observedi - ™ — FOOD ADMINISTRATION FACTS. First— Householders to uss not to exceed n total o f one and one-half One ounce less of meat each day pounds per week of wkeat products for everyone means a saving o f 4,- per person. This means not more 404,004 n e a t animals a year. Save than one and three-fourths pounds of Mr. Bug— When the grocer told your ounce. The sacrifice ia small, victory bread containing the required but the result * for your country is percentage of substitutes and about me that soap would float it didn’t large. one-|sl( pound of cooking flour, mac take me long to dope out this scheme. aroni. crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, 1,184,000 tons of sugar will be saved wheat breakfast cereals all combined. the first year if each o f us uses one SEE BEARDS IN FASHION. ~ Second— Public eating places and ounce less each day. This will keep clubs to observe two wheatlese days per week, Monday sad Wednesday, as London newspapers are predicting sogar plentiful and cheap. at present, and In addition thereto not the fu ll beard will oome into fashion The Allies are all in the same boat,, to serve in the aggregate n. total o f both in Europe and America as a re a long way from shore and on limited more breadatuffa. macaroni, cracker*, sult o f the war. War has alwgya in rations— and Uncle Sam is running pastry, pits, cakea. and wheat break fluenced the style in whiskere, even the relief ship. It’s up to ns to save fast cereals containing a total of mors than two ounces o f whsat flour to any in the times o f Alexander the Great? t*»e cargo. one guest at any one meal. NO who required hia soldiers to ahave off Reduction, Production — the 1818 W H E AT PRODUCTS TO BE SERV their beards because a beard was a watchwords. ED UNLES8 S P E C IA LLY ORDERED. Public eating establishments aot to handle which an enemy could seize. Foo<k will win the Sava I t buy mors than six pounds of whsat The Crimean war in the fifties Produce i t products per month per guest, thus brought the fu ll beard into fashion conforming with limitations requested again. In that campaign British sol I f you run your household on three of the householders. diers spent months in the trenches, pounds o f sugar a month per person, Third—Retailers to sell aot more where they had no chance to shave. when fall cornea the grocer won’t have than one-eighth of a barrel of flour sign “ No Sugar.” to any towa consumer at any one time T heir beards grew, and they wore to hang up and not more than one-quarter of a them when they returned to Eng The second helping is getting to be barrel to any country customer at land. The English papers say that bad form. any one time and in ho case to sell many soldiers coming home from the wheat products without the sale of an There’s lots of money to go round, equal weight of other cereals. trenches are bearded and, unless but bacon, beef and wheat can’t make Fourth— W s ask the bakers and precedents fail, the full beard is go ‘ he circuit. Save your share. grocers to reduce the volume of vic in g to come into fashion again. tory bread— sold by delivery of a Should our American troops return Waste and want are twin sisters three-quarters pound loaf- where one pound was sold before and correspond from the war with beards, we may and neithea beautiful. ing proportions in other weights. Wo look for that fashion to again become also ask bakers not to Increase the Potatoes fer Patriotism. prevalent in America >s it did after By eating potatoes instead of wheat •mount of their wheat flour pur the C ivil war.— Capper’s Weekly. the people of the United States can chases beyond seventy par cent of tho help win the war. We have not average monthly amount purchased in BLED FOR IT. enough wheat for the Allies and our the four months prior to March first. Fifth— Manufacturers using wheat selves. We have an abundance of po “ Would1 you give your lifeblood tatoes. Wheat flour is a concentrated products for non food purposes should food and therefore good for shipping; ¿-ease such use entirely. for your country?” Sixth—There Is no limit upon the “ S u re!” said a man who’s al potatoes are bulky and are conse use of other cereal flours and meals, quently not suited for limited shipping ways in a hurry. “ I ’ve done so al space, nor are the Allies so short of such as corn, barley, buckwheat, po ready. I was in such a hurry to get potatoes as of wheat. Next to cereals, tato flour, et cetera. Many thousands downtown this morning to buy Lib potatoes have been in this country of families throughout the land are erty bonds that I cut myself shav the mainstay of starchy food, which now using no wheat products what ever except a very small amount for supplies energy. ing.” — Buffalo Express. The more potatoes we eat. the less cooking purposes, and are doing so wheat we need. A medium-sized po in perfect health and satisfaction W ITH H O LD IN G A T IP . tato, weighing about 3V6 ounces, sup There is no reason why all of the plies about as much starch as two American people who are able to cook “ Are you going to make a garden small slices of wheat bread one-half in their own households cannot sub inch thick. In other reepecte also, sist perfectly well with the use of loss next summer?” wheat products than the one and one- “ Ijt’s a secret; but I ’ll confide in the potato measures up well with wheat bread and even has the advant half pounds a week allowed. W e spe you. I am, though I don’t want it age over it ia supplying certain salts cially aak the well-to-do households known. There’s no use o f starting in which the body needs vto. counteract in the country to follow this additional to boost the price o f garden seeds.’’ , the acidity resulting from the use of programme so that we may provide such foods as cereals, meat and eggs. the necessary marginal supplies for By exercising her Ingenuity the house those parts of the community leas able NOT TH E ANSWER. wife can prepare potatoes in many to adapt themselves to so large a pro portion of subetltutes and la order “ What would you do i f I should different attractive ways, thus increas that we shall be able to make the ing their proportion in the fkmily diet try to kiss you ?” a ad conserving wheat and other sta wheat exports that are absolutely de “ What would you expect d m to ples needed for ehipment abroad. An manded of us to maintain the civil Important uss of potatoes, also. Is ta population and soldiers of the Alllee do V * — Puppet. the mixing of breads. In which maah- and our own army. “ With ths arrival of the new harvest ed potatoes up to fully ten per cent SURE SIGN. we should be able to relax auch re may he sand without detracting from Its appearaaoe or tests; ta fact, many strictions, but until then we ask for “ How’s your father’s condition?” pgreons hold that potatoes properly the necessary .patience, sacrifice, and “ W ell, his temper is growing mixed In bread, improves both appear- co-operation of th e dfstrlbutlpn trades and pubtla." worse so his condition must be im proving.”
