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“Old Glory” Means a Life Saved From the Graveyard i%1 3855 P. * V* : « Dr. AAM1Y, -wtV’h. Teach Europe Corn Is Food OPEN NEW EXPORT MARKET Previous Attempts to Teach People of Cid World That Corn Is a Health ful and Appetizing Cereal Have Resulted In Failure. Carnegie Corporation Supplies poration will provide a fund of $700,- 000 for its support for a period of ten $700,000 for Study at Leland years. “James R. Angell, president of Car- Stanford University. One Alm Is to Avert Waste, and Mar keting and Distribution Will Be Studied—New Institute Will Begin Work in July. The most impressive of all the varied means employed by the European relief council to boost Its funds for the relief of Europe's starving children, is this “cemetery," built In the very heart of San Diego. Cal. For each $10 contribution made a tombstone Is taken from the ground and an American flag set in its place—symbolizing that the life of another child has been saved. Must Be Induced to Eat Grain That American Farmers Offered as Gift. Big Fund for Food Research WAS SUGGESTED RY HOOVER g ferred rye when wheat was not to be had. Americans have felt that this dislike was due mainly to Ignorance—not many Europeans know much about corn and those who have tasted it more often than not were prejudiced by bad cooking. There is a story along this line about Carlyle and Emerson. Emerson wrote to his friend. Carlyle, recom mending corn as a food and saying that he had sent a package so that the Carlyle family might try it. Car lyle wrote back politely to thank Mr. Emerson, but to say that after several experiments they really did not find the flavor of corn meal agreeable. The correspondence stopped here until Mrs. Emerson could copy off some of her best recipes. Then the Carlyles were asked to try again. They did, and wrote back enthusiastically to know where they could get more of the American delicacy. Believe Europe Would Like It This Incident, from the letters of Carlyle and Emerson, Is one of the grounds on which Americans base their conviction that Europe would like corn if it could ever be persuaded to give It a fair trial. The department of agriculture once sent demonstrators and lecturers to Europe to enlighten the different countries as to the possi bilities ot Indian corn. Neither elo quence nor samples of corn disguised In griddle cakes, muffins, gingerbread or corn pone aroused any enthusiasm. Mostly those present did not even come forward to get the samples. Because of such experiences, when the food shortage began to afflict Europe, the United States did not send corn to the rescue. You may remem ber that Herbert Hoover urged us to eat more corn and save wheat because Europe could not very well be taught to eat a new kind of food in so critical a period. Now the situation Is different and Hoover accepted the offered corn glad- ly. About 1,000,000 bushels. It Is an nounced, will be fed to children of the famine areas, and probably most of it will be prepared by the relief organi zations, and served to the children at feeding centers. What goes to adults may or may not be cooked before distribution. Where it is not prepared for eating, directions doubtless will be given to insure suffi cient cooking. Good Nutritive Value. With adequate cooking the nutritive value of corn is about the same as that of wheat. Corn contains a large amount of sugar and starch which supply the body with heat and energy. It also has a good deal of protein which builds up the body tissues. It Is not, hovever, rich In minerals, need ed In bone formation. Experiments have shown that corn is about as di gestible as wheat and that 90 per cent of Its dry matter Is absorbed In the process of digestion. Possibly it does not become America to be too impatient with the European lack of appreciation of corn. The high nutritive value of corn is realized all over this country and we have been eating it ever since the Pilgrims, by accident, dug up some seed corn bur ied by the Indians and got them to explain the growth and uses of the grain. Further back than that, Colum bus Is said to have found corn grow ing over here, and the Aztecs In their great civilization used It. This coun- | try has had plenty of time to study corn and its uses. Yet it is estimated that less than 10 per cent ot our big corn crops Is eaten by people, whereas practically all of the wheat is turned Into flour.—Frederic J. Haskin in Chi cago News. Teaching Others How to Smile. Fairmont, W. Va.—Little Kosie Sa- | sola, aged ten, has 150 mothers. Rosie lost both her arms at the shoulder | when she swung on a live wire near 1 the Catherine Coal compAny’s plant last July. Later she became the hero- ' ine when she submitted to a skin grafting operation at the hospital that another little companion might get well. She volunteered for the ordeal, | too. She has been adopted by the, | Young Women’s Business and Profes- | sional club of Fairmont and will be educated and supplied with artificial aims. Washington, D. C.,—Can Europe and Asia be taught to eat corn? Thin momentous question has been raised again by the gift of a million bushels of corn which American farm ers are sending to starving Europeans and Chinese. You must know that In practically no country outside of the two Ameri cas has maize, or Indian corn, been used to any extent as human food. It has been regarded as food for live stock only. The un-American world has simply never learned to eat corn. But now large sections of that world are starving. This would seem to be a most unusual opportunity to teach Europe and Asia to eat corn to the ad vantage of all parties concerned. Europe would have a new food, and America would have a new export market for its growing corn crop. Last season this country produced 3,282,367,000 bushels of corn, consider ably more than the average for the last five years—2,760,000,090. But the big crop has not brought prosperity to the mid-western farmers. Instead, corn prices have fallen to less than half what they were last year and many farmers have harvested their corn at a loss. Illinoisan Suggested Gift. In view of these tacts, a young Illi nois farmer suggested the gift corn project, which has grown to such pro portions. The offer was made to the committees for relief In China and the Near East. They considered the diffi culties of transportation and decided to try to overcome them by obtaining donations of money and help. Some money has already been collected and (KAAA trainmen have offered their services MI free in carrying the grain across coun try. With this much of the ways and I means problem worked out, the corn is beginning to be collected at rail road centers and the first cargo has been shipped to Constantinople. An attempt Is to be made to keep track of Individual donations so that a report can be rendered to the giver, showing when and by whom the corn was used. Shipping corn Is a much more com plicated business than shipping wheat. There Is about 12 per cent water In corn and the moisture In the grain Is therefore apt to cause mold In the course of lengthy transportation. Dam age due to moisture has frequently been a cause of complaint In the com paratlvely small shipments of corn which we have sent to Europe. Water can. however, be baked oui of the corn by a kiln drying process after which It will keep for a much longer time. This precaution Is to be taken before the gift corn Is shipped abroad lu the form of meal, grita and hominy. Preparing the com will mean some delay. ' ut special ma chinery which would not be generally available abroad la needed. A flrat ship ment la expected to reach China In April and It will then be ready for Im mediate consumption. They Won’t Reject it. As distribution of the corn la to bi directly in the hands of relief com mittees, no difficulty In getting the people to eat the corn is anticipateti In China, where thousands of people have been trying to live on bark and mosses, there will be no caviling over the American corn being pig’s food And the committees believe that the grain will be equally welcome In Ar menia and Hungary. Corn was used This Is the south portico of Ex-President Wilson's new home at 2340 8 to some extent In Austria during the war. Europe has never liked It very street. Washington, where he may continue his almost daily sun baths. The much, however, and generally pre “portico overlooks a spacious garden with a fountain in the center. Mr. Wilson’s New Sun Parlor =—we—• =============== YYi) : FRANCE’S STRONG MAN New York.—A food research Insti tute for the study of all problems of production, distribution and consump tion Is to be established at Leland Stanford Jr. university at the sugges tion of Herbert Hoover, with an en dowment of $700,000 provided by Car negie Corporation. This announcement was made by the corporation here. “The need for such an Institute was first suggested to Carnegie cor: ra tion by Herbert Hoover,” said the an nouncement, “and the selection of Le land Stanford Jr. university as Its home was due In part to the fact that It Is the point at which the great unique collection of documentary mate rial relative to the economic side of the war, gathered by Mr. Hoover dur ing the war. Is deposited. “The value of such an Institute as it is now proposed to establish also was emphasized by experience .during the war, when the study of food sup ply In its different phases was neces sary in order to attain maximum effi ciency in the nutrition of the “nations involved. The knowledge thus acquired clearly indicates the great Importance of continued research effort. The gen eral field of the Institute will be the problems arising after food has left the farmer’s hands. Efforts to Reduce Waste. “A special feature of the work of the institute will be the scientific study of the marketing and distribution of food products. The objects of the institute, however, are thoroughly practical, and will, it is hoped, con tribute to the welfare of the producer and consumer by eliminating present wastes in the process of marketing nearly all kinds of food. The objects of the institute are not only impor tant from the standpoint of the farm er, but have a direct effect on the question of proper nutrition of the nation. “In every nation at war, and in neutral nations as well, much of the previous data of production, distribu tion and consumption of food was found to be inaccurate. Faced with the necessity of securing immediate re sults, governmental authorities In charge of food programs were fre quently compelled to grope in the dark for long periods before they could ac complish the end sought. “Under the terms of the agreement with Carnegie corporation the univer sity agrees to establish a research or ganization under the name of the Food Research Institute of Leland Stanford Jr. university and to appoint three men of science to be known as direc tors of the institute. These directors will have authority to determine the scientific policies of the Institute and the problems to be studied. It is the hope of the Carnegie corporation that eventually the new organization will be known as the Hoover institute. “There will also be an advisory com mittee made up of men of national prominence, representing agricultural, consumer, economic and other groups of the community, one of whom will be Mr. Hoover. The university will ippoint seven members of this hndy, who, with the president of the uni versity ex officio, and the president of rhe Carnegie corporation, ex officio, will make the committee number nine nen. To Begin Work July 1. "The Institute will begin its work on July 1 next, and the Carnegie cor negio corporation, who has Just been called to the presidency of Yale uni versity, announces that Leland Stan ford Jr. university has agreed to make its scientific laboratories available to the institute. It Is not Intended to duplicate the equipment of research laboratories working In the field of nutrition, but as far as it Is practica- ble to have the institute co-operate with other agencies working in the general field. “The directors to be appointed will head three separate divisions. One will be an expert in the field of phys iology and chemistry of nutrition, one an expert In economics and food dis- tributien, and one an expert in chem istry of food manufacture and agricul ture. They will work co-operative from three avenues of approach upon fundamental issues of widest human significance. It is also provided that the Institute may receive from time to time such specially qualified stu- dents as it may be possible to instruct without dlsadavantage to the primary research purposes of the organization. “A small group of fellowships will be available for graduate students of high Intellectual promise. These stu dents will receive wholly unusual training for public service while at the same time contributing valuable assist ance to the work of the Institute. “Carnegie corporation, after the In stitute is once established, will ab stain from any attempt to direct or control Its work.” I I | I | ! ! ' j | I Seldlnger, a French master baker, who for exercise lifts 2,400 pounds of sacks containing flour. Seven men also add their weight to the load. He Is prominent in amateur athletic cir cles in bls town in France. This pho tograph shows a test In strength in lifting power, and Seldlnger chose this unusual method, wholly within the rules, of demonstrating he can ac complish the feat. School Children to Teach Aliens ------- Give Valuable Aid in Campaign to Americanize New York’s East Side Immigrants. SEEK CORRECTION OF EVILS Harry H. Schlact, Head of the Com mission on Immigration Aid, Has Unique Plan to Protect New- comers Against Exploitation. New York.—The scriptural dictum that “a little child shall lead them” Is being applied 10,000-fold In Amer icanization of New York’s east side immigrants. Its practical demonstration was de scribed by Harry H. Schlact, head of the commission on immigrant aid at Ellis island, who has conceived a unique plan to protect newcomers from exploitation by their unscrupu lous predecessors and radicals. Through the downtown chamber of commerce, membership of which Is limited to foreign-born merchants, bankers and other business men who have gained wealth in this country, Mr. Schlact has developed the Idea of placing each immigrant family— fresh from the bewilderment of offi cial red tape and the fantastic New York skyline—in the custody of an American, or Americanized, school girl. Ten thousand of such girls are spending their evenings and spare hours Infusing their charges with American ideas and the rudiments of the English language. Rewards for Teachers. Stimulated not only by innate in terest in the quaint, dejected and often victimized and disillusioned seekers for new homes, but also by rewards from the chamber of com merce for meritorious results, these Marine Outpost in Hills of Haiti A .9 • tpyr Senator Hiram Johnson has introdmere a resolution calling for a senate Investigation of the “invasion" of Haiti by the United States. The photograph shows an outpost of American marines in the hills of the island republic. girls can be seen every evening, by dim lights, spelling out c-a-t, r-a-t and other simple words to enraptured old patriarchs, scarcely aware that they are transplanted in a strange and yet not dissimilar country from that whence they came at such a sacrifice. “But before I tell you In detail of this Americanization work and Its re sults,” interposed Mr. Schlact, “let me tell you something of why they may easily fall prey to radicalism.” He then told of how he was aroused to the necessity for this work by some poignant experiences he had go ing through Ellis Island disguised as an immigrant. Mr. Schlact mingled with the immigrants throughout their trials at admission and learned, he said, that thousands had been induced to migrate by members of an organ ization which had swindled them of everything they owned before taking them on shipboard. Since he has been on the island Mr. Schlact said he had investigated these organizations, which he characterized as “professional fllm-flammers,” and has caused the indictment of several individuals, some of whom have fled the country and the cases of some are still pending. Numerous others, he said, who had luxurious offices In New York have scampered away and dis banded operations. He described their operations, while In full swing, somewhat as follows: They canvassed east side homes to learn If they had relatives on the other side whom they wanted brought to America. Invariably such was the case. These “friends” then told the east aiders they were going to Europe and, if they liked, would bring back the desired relatives. Delighted with this “kindness,” the eas: aiders would offer up all the money they could scrape together to help their loved ones on their voyage. Exploited by Radicals. Equipped with these foreign ad dresses, the only thing that really in terested the exploiters, these "agents” would set out for Europe to transfer their operations to new fields. But instead of turning over the money sent by anxious relatives, they would demand all they could get from the poor Europeans before taking the nec essary steps to place them on ships bound for America. If they could get enough they could do this through questionable methods with passrt bureaus and shipping companies. Mr. Schlact said. “So you see." he declared, “they swindled them both going and com ing. This wholesale exploitation." he continued, “is what makes it neces- sary to do intensive Americanization work among these poor families, who, through no fault of their own, land among us without educatio : and with out anything but a misconceived idea that America is a worse place to live In than their home countries. They are ripe for further exploitation by rad icals who enlist their willing aid In flaunting false Ideals of capitalism.” While it Is Imperative to correct this immigration menace at Its source, Mr. Schlact said, those who have been dumped Into this country through In fluences other than their own volition must be looked after. Titis is what the “Junior American Missionaries.” as these schoolgirls are called, are do ing successfully, be said. “Not a family placed in their care has failed to make good," be said.
