THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year in Advance.
Phone: 40
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
JUNE 7, 1918
FARMING HINTS
The United States and the
Allies using the proceeds of
the Liberty Loan and Savings
Stamps are the largest pur
chasers of the Amercian Agri
cultural products. In buying
Savings Stamps the farmers
are enabling their best custom
ers to purchase their goods and
at the same time they are se
curing one of the best invest
ments in the world. Buy War
Savings Stamps.
With an increase in Ameri
can tonnage, Mr. Edward
Brown, English Poultry Com
missioner, says that a new and
. very profitable egg market will
open up for the American far
mer. According to his state
ments, eggs are selling around
$1.35 a dozen in London and
that because of the great need
for this kind of food in the hos
pitals, American ships will be
carrying thousands of cases of
eggs to the continent within
the next year. Increase your
flocks as soon as possible, pro
duce infertile eggs and pre
serve the surplus in water
glass.
Water glass solution . one
part water glass to nine parts
boiled water, will keep fresh
infertile eggs until next win
ter either for home use or bet
ter prices. Keep jar covered
and in a cool place. Eggs can
also be kept in lime water
solution. Use one pound air
slacked lime to a gallon of
water. After making, let the
solution stand two hours, then
drain off the milky part into
which put the eggs. Keep
jar in cool place.
Fats used in the making of
munitions are also used in the
manufacture of soap; conse
quently it is necessary for us to
save all the scraps of fat on
our farms and make soap out
of them. Fat left over after
frying will good ordinary soap.
It can be clarified by boiling
with slices of raw potato; by
doing this the scum will rise to
th° toD and can be taken off
and the fat strined through a
good piece of cheese cloth after
which it is ready for soap
making.
THE RED CROSS
By EDGAR A. GUEST.
I AM too old to share the fight;
Too many years have come a-d gone
Since first I saw the morning light.
My youth has been and traveled on,
I am too old to join the line,
Far-flung today that truth shall live;
I may not die for what is fine.
But I am not too old to give.
I am not yet so old that I
Have drifted from the world apart
I still can hear the helpless cry,
And mercy still can reach my heart.
I sti 11 can share f-on day to day
The burden that cur youth must bear,
And I thank Gcd that I can say
The Red Cross is my symbol there.
I am too old to bear a lance,
Across the shell-torn Flanders’ field *
I may not go where troops advance
And death’s grim terrors are revealed; '
But I can hear the helpless call,
And I can serve them while I live;
And I thank Gcd that through it all
I shall not be too old to give.
CAM? PIKE NOTES
“To raise garden sass or
flowers” is the burning ques
tion just now at Camp Pike.
Each unit of the many branch
es of the army is busy this
spring fixing up the grounds
adjoining their quarters and it
will not be long until the camp
will blossom out as a pla^e of
beauty—if the hopes of the
landscape gardners are fully
realized. But shall these door
yards grow only flowers, or
shall they serve as garden plots
and grow onions, and radishes
and turnip greens for the mess
tables? Ground suitable for
gardening purposes is mighty
scarce at the camp. In fact,
some sections would make bet
ter rock quarries and fences
and monumental gateways
have been built from the sur
face rock that was right at
hand. We doubt very much
whether it will make much
difference what they plant in
some of the yards for the re
sult will be the same.
Editors and newspaper cor
respondents who visit Camp
Pike are invited to call at the
Y. M. C. A. headquarters build
ing, the first one you see as
you enter the camp at the main
entrance. Make'yourself known
and the secretaries on duty
there will be glad to furnish
you with all information at
their command. A table and
writing material may be had
and they will make you at
home. The Red Triangle build
ings all invite you to call and
inspect them.
In ye olden time, tliere was a
saying that “In the springtime
a young man’s fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love.”
Perhaps it was true then, but
this spring at Camp Pike the
uppermost thought is, “Where
do we go from here boys;
where do we go from here?
And when?” There is much
shifting of men all over the
country this spring, getting
ready for the next draft and
no man is able to say with any
degree of confidence just
where he will be a month hence
With the warmer weather
I there has been a corresponding
! increase in the spirits of the
men and they are putting more
pep in their work and more
spring in their marching.
! It wasn’t a new idea but it
came with double force when
it fell from the lips of one of
the Camp Pike boys the other
day. He was asked by a visit
or as to his opinion of the great
est work being done by the
Red Triangle. And the an
swer was: “It keeps the home
fires burning.” Expound on
the subject as you will it is
hard to tell the story of the
army Y. M. C. A. work more
clearly.
One cause of the dearth of
war songs is said to be the fact
that it is mighty hard to find
words to rhyme with khaki or
olive. When the boys were
wearing uniforms of blue it
was a snap for the rhyme mak
er but he is up against it now
good and plenty.
One of the officers has asked
that I register a protest against
the pitiful letters that come
from the folk back home who
are not really suffering from
anything except lonesomness.
There is at least one man in
the camp who has been driven
insane by the complaining let
ters from home, and in the
various camps a number of
suicides have been traced to
that source. The men are go
ing to worry enough about the
matters at home without hav
ing their troubles aggreviated
by whining and nagging letters
Crying is not going to bring the
men back home but it is going
; to weaken the nerve of the
; strongest. So brace up and
I write cheerful letters to your
! soldier boys in the camp. Make
! light of your own troubles in
stead of magnifying them. An
encouraging report each week
to the boy in the camp is one
I of the finest ways in which you
can help win this war.
Keith Carson and W. W.
Raney were Cotton Plant visit
ors yesterday.
Suarfo&iCQst an&flmteM/*
vCKlES in the Amert
can navy are classed
as the best fed body
of men In the world.
In the ship’s galleys
every effort Is made to
eliminate waste.
In the upper photo
one of the cooks on the
North Dakota is oper
ating a meat slieer that
cuts bacon with the
least possible wastage.
Kui is iuei for fighters. Racon is
badly needed In the allied armies and
j navies The allied needs In pork prod
| ucts are 150.000,000 pounds monthly,
three times as much as before the war.
Anotherwasteeliminator on the North
Dakota is the potato peeler, shown In
the lower photo. Nothing Is lost ex
cept the actual potato skin.
There Is a sufficient quantity of po
tatoes in America for greater use in
every home and for all needs of army
and navy. Elat more potatoes, eat
less wheat