FACE the FACTS
LET us face the facts. The war situation is critical.
Unless the Allies fight as they never yet have
fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight
at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them.
Wheat Savings—They must have wheat. It is the
best food to fight on. It is the easiest to ship. We
alone can spare it to them. By saving just a little
less than a quarter of what we ate last year—we can
support those who are fighting our battles. And we
can do it without stinting ourselves. We have only
to substitute another food just as good.
The Corn of Plenty—Corn is that food. There's a
surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
iwOEr of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty
* as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of com. Five hundred million bushels over and
above our regular needs. All we have to do is to
learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made
so easy? And so clear?
America's Own Pood—Corn! It is the true American
food. The Indians, hardiest of races, lived on it.
Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a
continent. For a great section of our country it
has blong een the staff of life. How well the South
fough$ on it, history tells. New it can help America
win a world war.
Learn Something—Corn I It isn’t one food. It’s a
dozen. It’s a cereal. It’s a vegetable. It’s a bread.
It’8 a dessert. It’s nutritious; more food value in it,
dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs or most other
vegetables. It’s good to eat; how good you don’t
know until you’ve had corn-bread properly cooked.
Best of all, it’s plentiful and it’s patriotic.
Corn’s Infinite Variety—How much do you know about
corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing more about it? Here are a few
r of its uses:
There are at least fifty ways to use com meal to
make good dishes for dinner, supper, lunch or break
fast. Here are some suggestions:
HOT BREADS DESSERTS
Boston brown bread. Corn-meal molasses cake.
Hoecake. Apple corn bread.
Muffins. Dumplings.
Biscuits. Gingerbread.
Griddle cakes. Fruit gems.
Waffles.
HEARTY DISHES
Corn-meal croquettes. Corn-meal fish balls.
Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamales.
The recipes are in Farmers’ Bulletin 565, “Corn
Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It/’ free from the
Department of Agriculture.
Mr. G. D. Harris spent a por
tion of last week in Little Rock.
Mr. R. A. Cartwright returned
Monday from Hot Springs where
he spent several days on busi
ness.
Miss Eileen Phillips left last
week for Little Rock to take a
business course in Draughons
College.
For Sale: Plymouth Rock hens.
D. M. Huff, Route 2, McCrory,
Arkansas. Adv.2t-pd.
Mr. 1). H. Echols, Chairman
of the Woodruff County Demo
cratic Central Committee, and
Atty. Roy D. Campbell, two of
Cotton Plant’s leading profes
sional and business men, spent a
portion of last week in Little
Rock on business.
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EARLE L. KITTRELL
Graduate Veterinarian
(Deputy State Veterinarian)
0£
Augusta, Arkansas
Office Phone 16 Home Phone 40
IUDE-IN-GERMANY LIES
CIRCUUTEU IN CANADA
Canada is also having trouble with
Made-in-Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation ao
cording to an official statement re
ceived from the Canadian food con
troller by the United States food ad
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
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 famine fakes and the report
that the government would seise
housewives’ stocks of home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the 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 casually.
They have started simultaneously In
different parts of the country and In
each instance have been calculated to
arouse public Indignation.
“They are insidious, subtle, persist
ent Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust the great essential In the work
of food control.
“It lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to co-operate in work which is going
to mean more than the majority of
people yet realise."
A YOUTHFUL FINANCIER.
A neighbor gave Teddy and
Dickie, age five and three, respective
ly, a penny each. Teddy imniedi
ately assumed the role of guardian,
and took possession of his younger
brother’s coin.
Half an hour later he rushed into
the house, in great distress, and
called to his mother: “Oh, mother!
I’ve lost Dickie’s penny!”—Indian
apolis News.
A LIVELY 8HOW.
Mother—I want you to be good
little children today.
Eddie—What will you give us if
we are good ?
Mother—If you are really good
you can watch your father shave
himself tomorrow morning.
PUBLICITY UNSOUGHT.
"George Washington was a modest
and unostentatious man.”
"Yes. And it is ju6t his luck to
have his picture on more postage
stamps than any other personage in
history.”
TOUGH LUCK.
"So you’ve been rejected by your
girl as well as the army doctors.”
"Yes, after I got back she decided
that if I wasn’t good enough for
the army there must be something
the matter with me and she refused
to take any chances.”
MARKET REPORT.
Pens and paper are stationery.
Cutlery is very dull. Cheese firm and
fairly active. Butter strong and in
clined to be slippery. Whisky live
ly and unsteady. Hops lively and ac
tive. Gunpowder inclined to be ris
ing.—Exchange.
This Is Our Winter
of Test
SERVING food Is a i<>.
cal problem for each
j community. Prices
and definite rules for
•very one cannot be
formulated. It
la a duty for
each one to
cat only so
much as is
necessary to
maintain the
human body
ocalthy and strong. This winter
of 1011 Is the period when is to
be tested here In America wheth
er our people are capable of vol
untary individual sacrifice to
save the world. That la the pur
pose of the organisation of the
United States Food Administra
tion—hy voluntary eflprt to pro
vide the food that the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
ENGLAND NEEDS MORE TIMBER
Larger Consumption Must Follow as
Result of Postponement of Work
on Account of War.
Reports reaching the offices of the
National Lumber Manufacturing as
sociation in Chicago, indicate there
will soon be an increase in the use of
wood in England. When a timber
controller was appointed last Janu
ary as a war measure, consumption
of wood was restricted in nearly
every direction until an irreducible
minimum seems to have been
reached.
During the last two years England
has been living very largely on its
fixed capital so far as wood is con
cerned, and little has been done to
make repairs or erect new buildings.
Railroad companies put off neces
sary work in the hope of better con
ditions, but this cannot be longer
postponed.
Construction of workmen^ cot
tages must also go ahead since many
munition and other workers are
homeless, while the great increase in
shipbuilding and ship repairing is
bringing an inevitable demand for
more ship timber. At the same time
requirements of the British army for
packing boxes and cases, furniture,
light railroads, aerodromes and
other buildings, make a constant de
mand for lumber.
The conclusion of the English
timber firms is, therefore, that the
time has arrived when a larger tim
ber consumption must take place,
and the government will act wisely
if it allows a larger importation of
foreign stocks.
UNBTABILITY.
''Don't you find geography diffi
cult ?" „
"We don't study geography now,
replied the boy. "Teacher say8
might as well hold off for awhile an
wait for the map to settle."
THE CHANGE.
"How's your coal bin?"
"Say. It’s queer about that, a
little pile • few year* »8° th‘t u*^
to hide la the comer end »»fad w
to order more is considered a iuu
nowadays."