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EDITORIAL
"OLD G LOR \
"America For Americans
THE FOOD CRISIS.
Plant a Million More Gardens.
3y CHARLES LATHROP PACK.
President National Knoro nrv Food Gar
den Con-.ir.issioii. Maryland building.
Washington.
CII IR1.K3 LATH COP
PACK.
The work of the
national etner
gcncy food gar
den commission
alms to assist In
ma kbit? food more
pleuti fill In vll
huos. towns and
r-ltfes. There aro
a -reat many as
soiiatlous and
i-Iut>s througbout
the country Inter
ested In school
gardens, home
gardens, back
yard iiardens, va
cant lot gardens.
Arr.iiated witn iw flower gardens,
conservation If part- ,
ment of tha American „
Forestry Association. " e WlliVS that
this year all these
associations and a great many other
people should plant food gardens to a
greater extent th;;u ever before, and
flowers should in many cases make
way for vegetables.
The national emergency food garden
commission is undertaking to inten
sify this sort of i hinting by using In a
large way the mat hitiery that already
exists, by giving greater publicity and
efficiency to the movement and by co
ordinating the work.
The Americanization of our country
Is proceeding at a swift rate and with
the utmost thoroughness. Patriotic
■words are empty air. Patriotic acts
alone will help. Plant a food garden
and do your part toward the economic
Victory.
We expect to induce more thau
1,000.000 young people, women and
elderly men this year to plant a food
garden who have not done so before.
TTiis alone should add much more
than $250,000,000 to the food value of
this season's crop. Those who have
made such gardens before should in
crease their efforts.
You are anxious to do something pa
triotic because you feel that way.
Tou want to help your country. Tou
can plant a vegetable food garden.
Are you doing so? Start now!
The quality of your friends i9 the
quality of your thoughts. Think the
thoughts of a thief anil thieves will be
your companions. Think clean, helpful,
creative thoughts uud surely your as
sociates will be clean, helpful and cre
ative. You attract to you what belongs
to you.
Changed Idea*.
"Mrs. Smarty used to boast that she
never let her mind run upon Uttle
things."
"Well, does she?"
"I should say so! She can't talk of
anything but her baby."—New York
Times.
Circumatantial Evidence.
"What makes you think all women
hate each other?"
"Because a woman so seldom brings
up a son fit to be another woman's
husband."—Exchange.
To make knowledge valuable you
must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
—Emerson.
SOWING JE SEED
How Much Should Be Allowed For
a Family of Four.
LAYING OUT THE GARDEN.
Specialists Adviss the Making of •
Rough Plan of ths Garden Wharton
Spaoaa to Ba Uaad For Each Variety
of Vegetable Can Be Indicated.
[Prepared by United States department of
, agriculture.]
The home goruener will find It help
ful to make a rough plan of his garden
on o large sheet of wrapping paper.
On this plan he can Indicate the spaces
to be used for each variety and *lso by
means of colored pencils or symbols
show where a second crop Is to bo
planted or lnterplanted between crow
ing rows and also arrange for the sec
ond and third crops which are to fol
low those previously harvested. Such
s plan will enable lilm to keep ths gar
den busy ail season supplying fresh
vegetables during the summer and pro
ducing in the late fall root and other
crops for winter use. Once the heavy
preliminary spading and working of
the garden haTe been done it is about
as easy to raise two or three crops at
to keep the garden clean of weeds to
produce only one picking. The spe
cialists advise those who are not used
to gardening or wish to have their
children take aa interest In the garden
to hire a laborer to do the heavy pre
liminary spading or breaking up of the
soil. This heavy work frequently dis
gusts novices and children, who would
continue to take an Interest In the gar
den If their task was simply to fine
and cultivate soli already broken up.
The following amounts of seed the
garden specialists of the United States
department of agriculture say are
needed to plant approximately 100 feet
of row, or enough to supply vegeta
bles for a family of four:
Bear.s. snap. one pint.
Beans, pole lima, on9-half pint.
Beans, buah lima, •ne-haJf to one pint.
Cabbage, early, oi.e-balf ounce.
Carrot, one ounce.
Cauliflower. oae packet.
Celery, one packet.
Cucumber, one-half ounce.
Eggplant, one packet.
Kale, or Swiss chard, one-half ounce.
Parsley, one packet.
Parsnips, one-half ounce.
Salsify, one ounce.
Squash, summer, one-half ounce.
Squash. Hubbard type, one-half ounce.
The following vegetables, the spe
cialist* say, will undoubtedly be plant
ad In lancer amounts than those Just
mentioned, and tho amounts of seed
given will be a guide for ordinary re
quirements. Some families may need
more of the various vegetables, and
others would need less:
Beet, four ouncea
Csibage, late, one-half to one ounce.
Corn, sweet, one pint.
Lettuce, one ounce.
Muskmelon, on* ounce.
Onion sets, two quarts.
Peas, garden, two to four qusrts.
Radish, one to two ounces.
Spinach, one-quarter pound In spring
and one-half pound in fall.
Tomatoes, late, one-quarter ounce.
Turnips, one-quarter pound.
Watermelon, one ounce.
The string beans, bush lima beans,
sweet corn, lettuce, peas and radishes
will not all be planted at one time, but
successive plantings two to threo
weeks apart will be made so as to
have a fresh supply throughout the
season.
Of early Irish potatoes one peck to
one-half bushel will be required and
of late potatoes one-half bushel to one
bushel or more, depending upon the
amount of ground available for this
purpose. If possible, enough Irish po
tatoes should be grown to last through
out the winter.
In the event that the family wishes
to raise vegetables to supply current
needs and also to supply a surplus for
canning the amounts indicated above
should be considerably increased.
USE FOR VACANT LOTS.
People Urged to Raise Vegetable* and
Prepare For a Lean Winter.
It is a world of lean years, says the
New York Times. Its food lies in this
year's crop. The reserves will be ex
hausted at the end of the crop year.
The outlook is not too roseate. The
English wheat crop is reported oack
<vard, the Dutch small. French wheat
will yield less than usual. Argentina
will have little wheat or corn to ex
port. The Australian wheat crop is
estimated at nearly 50.000.000 bushels
less than last year's. Our big winter
wheat states have not had moisture
enough. Early vegetables in the south
ern states have been nipped by frost.
80 the shortage goes.
Food prices are high already. This
careless, easy going America must re
member the ant and prepare for next
winter. One thing nearly all of us out
side the cities, and many urbans, can
do. That is to raise all we can of the
common vegetables, so easy to raise,
thriving almost everywhere, so large
a part of our food. We can't import
them. We must grow them; and they
should be grown in quantities unheard
of before, grown by the rich—and the
more they sell the better—by the poor,
by the great mass that Is neither.
Beans, onions, peas, potatoes and the
rest, these should be the crop of
everybody with land enough to bend
over in.
Selectmen, towtt committees, town
trustees and councilors, spy out the
vacant cultivable land and see that It
is tickled with the plow. Commuters,
who farm for exercise and pleasure,
or say you do, this is the spring when
you need to farm for business. More
ground for garden this year; and gar
den for vegetables, not for ornament
VALUE OF SKlMMlU
Muoh Cheaper and More Nourlkhlh^
Than Round Steak.
Skiinmllk is a very economical food
which should be move largely used. It
Is tbo same as wholo milk except that
the butter fat has been taken from It
In sklmmllk there remains all the sug
ar, about four and one-half parts ia
every one hundred, all of the mineral
salts, all of the protein. The protein
ts the most valuable constituent of
milk. It not only serves as fuel for
th« body us does the fat and sugars,
but supplies nitrogenous tissue build
ing material.
Sklmmllk should be classed, as whola
milk Is, with eggs, meat. flsh. poultry
and cheese. The government's food
experts praise sklmmllk and give us
these interesting figures to show its
value:
Two and a half quarts of sklmmllk
contain almost as much protein and
yield about the same amount of en
ergy as a pound of round of beef.
When sklmmllk sells for 4 cents a
quart, or about 2 cents a pound, and
round of beef for 20 cents a pound, a
dlmo spent for sklmmllk will provide
nearly twice as much nourishment ax
It will if spent for round steak.
When milk sours normally It still re
mains good food. It Is not suitable for
the baby, but it will make good smear
case, or cottage cheese, one of the best
of foods.—New York Mail.
THAT UPPER BERTH.
Getting Into It Sometimes la a Good
Acrobatic Stunt.
The asceut to an upper berth Is an
art in itself, and, as one would expect
of an art. It is long. 1 do not mean
the ascent by stepladder. There are
those who climb mountains by rail
road. who let minions put on their bait,
who require caddies to tee their golf
balls, who hunt with beaters to drive
the game toward them. There are also
those who reach their uppers on car
peted steps.
Yet the heroic breed is not extinct.
Luxury has not yet completely sapped
our national virility. Some of us are
made of sterner stuff. We climb un
assisted and alone.
We are off. Quickly we assume po
sition A, with both hands grasping the
horizontal bar and with our right foot
firmly planted on the chest of the old
gentleman in the lower. We push off
vigorously. If the old gentleman's
chest be of a proper firmness and resil
iency this push brings us to position
B, with the left knee in the sharp knee
hold on the edge of the upper berth
and the right leg at large. The right
leg is then brought convulsively up
ward and forward and laid carefully
in the upper berth, and the left leg is
at liberty to follow It. From this point
on all is plain squirming—Frederick J*
Allen In Century.
Tennyson's Vanity.
The intricacies of a gre#4 man's char,
acter are often simplicities to his wife.
Once, when the late Alfred Austin
had paid a visit to Tennyson, "his Im
mediate predecessor. Tennyson walked
with him as far as the gate which led
to the highway. There, says Alfred
Austin in his autobiography, while the
elder poet stood leaning on the gate,
a party of wide eyed sightseers ap
peared.
"What a vulgar people the English
are!" Tennyson exclaimed. "They coma
here to watch for me, and when they
see me they say quite loudly, 'There's
Tennyson!""
Mr. Austin afterward repeated this to
Lady Tennyson, who smiled tenderly,
but archly.
"IXy husband would be much mor®
annoyed if the people didn't come,"
she said.
Invented the Check System.
John Palmer, who died some years
ago In rather straitened circumstances
in a little town in Michigan, was the
Inventor of the check system. Palmer
was a fiddler and assumed responsibil
ity for the hats, coats and wraps of
those who came to his dancing parties.
In keeping things straight he gave
numbered checks for the articles com
mitted to his care. Some railroad men
who attended one of the dances noticed
how perfectly the idea worked, appro
priated it and In a short time it was
adopted all over the country. As la
often the case, the Inventor got noth
ing out of It—Philadelphia Press.
New England's Name.
The pilgrims bad nothing to do with
the naming of New England. That
name was coined by Captain John
Smith of Tocahontas fame and one of
the founders of the Virginia colony.
In 1014 ho explored and mnpped the
northern coast, then called North Vir
ginia. and renamed It New England.
The Mayflower pilgrims did not arrive
until i020. and the charter granted the
new colony adopted the name used In
Smith's map several years before.
Cheerful Surroundings.
Uncle Josh — Here's a letter from
Nephew Harry, that's gone to Africa,
and says that within twenty rods o'
Uls house there's a family o' laughing
hyenas. His Wife—Well, I am glad
he's got pleasant neighbors anyway—
that's something.—London Tit-Bits.
As Defined.
Little Mildred—What does "B. A."
stand for, mamma? Mamma—"Bache
lor of arts." my dear. Little Mildred—
And what is a "bachelor of arts," mam
ma? Mamma—Any bachelor who Is
trying to stay in the bachelor class,
darling.—Indianapolis Star.
Diplomats get more profit by ltoten
Ing than by talking even when they
talk well.—Hanotaux.
fraternal orders
©
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagwary No. li
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fourth.1 Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
m. ati^rp. Visltln® brothera oordi-il
ly -welcome. J. M. Tarnner, Arctic
W. B. Hargraves, Arotlc Re
corder.
Fraternal Ordtr
Entity—
Skagwuy Aerie
Jfo. 25, Frater
nal Order of
Kagleu meets UiC| first and third
Wednesday iii^lit of uach month at
tn»lr h»U an FLfth Avenue. Vlsit
Ir* bnxiiers cardtailjr invite*! to
J. M. Grelsbach, W. P.
J. V. Miller, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
Saturday Evenings
of each months. Visiting Brethren
art welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAMES WALLACE. Secretary.
•fiF&Mcfre
B. P. O. ELKS
Skogway Lodge
NO. 421, B. P. O.
E. meets every
1st and 3rd Thurs
day; night at 8:30
o'clock. Vlfliting
brothers cordially -welcome.
W. B. BATSON, E. R.
F. J. VJWDEWALO,, Secretary.
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* tn A. B. Hali first Monday in
OT"ery month at 8:80 p. m.
Vie! ting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. 8TBVENSON, Pres.
F. H. Doree, Rec. Sec.
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