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
hour of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty
as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of corn. 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 Food—Com! Jt 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
fought on it, history tells. Now it can help America
win a world war.
Learn Something—Corn! It isn't one food. It's a
dozen. It’s a cereal. It's a vegetable. It’s a bread.
It’s 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
of its uses:
There are at least fifty ways to use corn 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,
j 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.
Cow election Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Save a scoop of coal and help
move a ship.
Dr. Westbrook, dentist, of Lit
tle Rock, will be in McCrory
March 1.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Perkins
and children of Argenta are
visiting friends and relatives
here and at Grays.
| The Home News goes to its
large list of readers this week
behind schedule time, but we
are sure they will bear with us
when we tell them that the de
lay has been caused by the of
fice force having had to give
the most of the time this week
to the installation of a modern
typesetting machine at a cost
of several hundred dollars.
| EARLE L. KITTRELL *
\ Graduate Veterinarian
^ (Deputy State Veterinarian)
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Augusta, Arkansas
Office Phone 16 :: Home Phone 40
HUSBANDS NOT SUCH BAD LOT
Stormy Days Cause Hubbies to Be
Thoughtful of Wives Who Contem
plate Shopping Expeditions.
Cold days stir up warm reactions
in the heart.
Remember that cold Saturday
morning when rain and snow swept
the streets ?
A young married man plowed
through the gale to his office, and,
once there, bethought himself that
his wife had declared her intention
of going down to Center Market to
purchase a rabbit for dinner that
evening.
Looking down upon storm-swept
Pennsylvania avenue, relates the
Washington Star, the loving hus
band immediately decided that his
wife would be foolish to go out on
such a bad morning, and that he
wouldn’t let her go.
“I’ll just call her up and tell her
it is too bad a morning for her to
go out, when she doesn’t have to, and j
that I’ll bring the things home my- |
self this evening,” he thought.
Cynical reader, this story doesn’t
turn out the way you think. Truth
must often disappoint the cynic.
Fair wife did not insist on going
to market through the snow to bring
home the nice rabbit for husband to ,
devour. She was pleased that hus
band was so thoughtful.
And what is more:
When the husband went to a
phone to call up his wife to tell her
to stay at home, he found the phone
already in use. I
“Hello, Mary,” said the man on
the phone. “It’s a mighty bad day,
and I think you had better not go
down town this morning—”
The young husband went to use ;
the phone in another room. As he
walked in, he saw a comrade at the
phone already.
“Helen,” the man on the phone
was saying, “I think you had better
stay at home this morning. It’s a
mighty bad day—”
Husbands are a pretty decent lot
after all.
IT WON HIM
Frances—I am afraid you don’t
like my game of bridge.
Francis—I am bound to like any
thing that costs me as much money
as that.
MAIN RESULT.
“I heard Billy had a bad smaah
up when he took his fiancee out in
his automobile for a joy ride.”
“Yes; even the engagement wu
broken.”
This Is Our Winter
of Test -•
SERVING food Is a lo
cal problem for each
| community. Prices
and definite rules for
every one cannot be
formulated. It
is a duty for
each one to
eat only bo
much as is
necessary to
maintain the
human body
irecumj tuiu oiruiig. inis winter
of 1918 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 is the pur
pose of the organization of the
United States Food Administra
tion—by voluntary effort to pro
vide the food that the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
PRUSSIAN JUNKERS.
The Prussian junkers have always
been the loudest and most influential
voices in the German empire. Ger
man militarism owes everyhing to
them. It is through them that Ger
many achieved her irresponsible gov
ernment, which survives as such an
anomaly among constitutional mon
archies today, notes a writer. Their
dominance has been the cause of the
growth of German socialism. Junk
erthum or junkerdom is the real seat
of German autocracy; junkerei is the
predominant characteristic of Ger
man military behavior; junkerhaft
is the German description of the
junkerish behavior. The junker can
not be defined; he must be seen,
heard and his hand felt.
WILL NOT GET AWAY.
“My telephone operator is a natu
ral humorist.”
“Yes, but Central has a good line,
too.”—Lampoon.
THE BIG TOUCH.
“John let me take a dollar will
you?”
‘mat for?”
“I’ve got to buy a lot of stuff I
don’t need so that the grocer will
sell me a pound of sugar.”
A GOOD REASON.
Teacher—Why has the giraffe
such a long neck ?
Charlie—Because its head is so
far away from its body.
CONSTITUENTS GOT BUSY.
“They went over that candidate s
career with a rake.”
“I heard he was an unusually
well-cultivated man.”
ONE IDEA.
Howell—What is the millennium
from your viewpoint ?
Powell—It is the' period when
there is no time between drinks.
HER GUESS.
Edith (with magazine)—What is
meant by the dark ages ?
: Marie—The ages that we keep
,dark, I suppose, my dear.