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—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
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
s 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
Boston brown bread.
Hoecake.
Muffins.
Biscuits.
Griddle cakes.
Waffles.
DESSERTS
Corn-meal molasses cake.
Apple corn bread.
Dumplings.
Gingerbread.
Fruit gems.
HEARTY DISHES
Corn-meal croquettes. Corn-meal fish balls.
Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamales.
The recipes are in Farmers' Bulletin 565, “Com
Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It/' free from the
Department of Agriculture.
Cow election Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Esq. L. B. Winfree is spend
ing a few weeks in Hot Springs
for his health.
Mr. J. H. Simmons of Fair
Oaks was a business visitor
here this week.
Judge Scott Mayo of Harris
burg spent Sunday in this city
the guest of friends “?.”
Messrs E. B. Wood, W. E.
Jelks and Berry Holder attended
the Southern Cattlemen’s As
sociation in Little Rock * this
week.
Mr. J. H. Miller and son,
Jack, and Dr. B. Brewster went
to Little Rock Thursday in com
pany with the former’s son,
Henry, who was operated on for
appendicitis.
* EARLE L. KITTRELL *
Graduate Veterinarian
(Deputy State Veterinarian)
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FOOD VALUE OF GRAF"! JUICE
Seven Ounces of Beverage Will Fur
nish About 200 Calories in the
Form of Sugar.
The rapid increase in the use of
fruit juices as beverages in this coun
try and the likelihood that this use
will become even more widespread
with the temperance wave that is
passing over the country, leads the
Journal of the American Medical
Association to a consideration of the
actual food value of these juices.
“In addition to organic acids
which lend a tart flavor to them,
these beverages, provided directly by
nature, contain a considerable por
tion of sugars which lend a food
value to the product. Thus a glass
ful of grape juice measuring seven
ounces will furnish about 200 cal
ories in the form of sugar, and
orange juice is about half as rich
in food value.
“Recently the juice of the logan
berry has begun to claim recognition
in this category. Analyses made at
the Oregon State Agricultural col
lege at Corvallis indicate that this
fluid likewise contains from 6 to 8
per cent of sugar in the acid juice.
This lends to it a fuel value of ap
proximately 300 calories to the liter,
presumably in the form of available
carbohydrates.”
MORE WAR WORK FOR WOMEN
England Is Preparing to Extend the
Assistance From Female Popula
tion, Relieving the Men.
The extent of England’s prepara
tions to give women a bigger part
in the war is indicated by the an
nouncement. says a British corre
spondent, that the national service
department wants to enroll 10,000
women a month hereafter for service
in the woman’s army auxiliary corps.
The corps is intended to provide
women for service overseas in doing
practically everything except actual
fighting. The increasing drain on
the national supply of men long ago
directed attention to the possibility
of employing women with the army
to do many auxiliary services for
merly performed by the men.
Outside of actual fighting, the
maintenance of a great army’s ac
tivities requires a multifarious
variety of duties to be performed,
driving transport, handling sup
plies, managing great storehouses
and depots, driving motor cars, cook
ing, sanitary work, all kinds of do
mestic service. In the earlier period
of the war these services were pre
sumed to require men.
MAN AND HIS APPETITE.
“Has your husband told you that
you must economize on the table?”
“Yes. But he never says a word
about it just before dinner.”
A VAGUE GUESS.
“What is this dollar diplomacy ?”
“I dunno. Seems to me I’ve heard
of schools where they give boys a
diploma for a dollar.”
ARROGANT.
“Arrogant, isn’t he ?”
“Very. A Prussian army officer
would seem humble alongside of
him.”
This Is Our Winter
of Test
|ERVING 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 go
much as is
necessary to
maintain the
human body
aealthy and strong. This 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 thfR the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
SHARK ARE QUITE PLENTIFUL
Steaks Promise to Be Ample to Sup
ply Demand and Price Should Be
Within Reach of All.
Harry Goukler, has written Pres
ident Leeds of the Atlantic City
chamber of commerce, to the effect
that when the Hoover propaganda
has created a market for shark steaks
as a substitute for meat, fishermen
will be in a position to provide a vir
tually unlimited quantity of this
latest addition to America’s emer
gency food supply.
“The ocean is literally full of
this kind of meat and it can be mar
keted to sell at a fair profit at from
four to six cents a pound,” declared
Goukler in his letter. “The kind of
shark which the federal bureau of
fisheries is recommending to the pub
lic for use as food is not the large
sharks now being used to a consid
. erable extent to replenish the leather
market, but small codfish sharks
weighing from eight to ten pounds,
which follow the cod in their move
ments along the coast. Their flesh
is very pleasant.
“They are very plentiful along
the coast when the codfish are run
ning. During the cod season last
winter fishermen pulled as high as
6,000 to 7,000 pounds of them a day
from their fishing gear and threw
them back into the ocean, because
there was no market for them.’
FIFTY THOUSAND AN HOUR.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for
a song is quite a neat, but not gaudy
Bum for a half hour's work. That is
what George M. Cohan earned for
his war song “Over There,” which
he dashed off in exactly 30 minutes,
says a New York correspondent. He
Bold it to a New York music pub
lisher for that sum. The price o
$25,000 represents $101 a word and
$138 a note. A complete opera such
is one by Puccini, for instancy, 0
frequently valued at $15,000. The
highest previous payments per worq
for writing were $1 to Kipling an
$2 to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, out
It took a war jingle, done in half an
hour, to run the price up to $161 a
word.