“Old Glory” Means a Life Saved From the Graveyard
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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
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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
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trainmen have offered their services
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.