i FACE the FACTS
IT ET us face the facts. The war situation is critical.
-Lrf 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—
1| less than a quarter of what we ate last year—we can
support those who are fighting our battles. And we
jj 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
;j surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
I'1 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
j; 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'* 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
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 bails.
Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamales.
The recipes are in Farmers' Bulletin 566, “Com
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.
Mrs. J. S. Haggard returned
from Wynne Thursday where
she visited her daughter, Mrs.
Walter France.
Died: If you need anything
in the mouument line, call on or
write W. H. Jimerson, McCrory.
He represents Morris Brothers
of Memphis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Heath and
daughter, Annie, left today, Fri
day, for Camp Beauregard, La.,
to visist their son, Joseph, who
went as a volunteer with Com
pany A.
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I ARMY MEALS COOKED IN AIR
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Food for Italians in Alpine Fighting la
Heated En Route on the Thor
mos Principle.
The most novel commissary in the
war i9 that employed by the Italians
in the Alpine fighting against the in
vaders. The kitchens are oftentimes
1,200 feet below the men, writes an
Italian correspondent, yet the sol
diers get their meals steaming hot.
Aerial tramways are the only
thing that makes the brilliant defense
of the Italians possible, for without
warm food and drink constantly ar
riving they would be unable to with
stand the cold in their high posts
where they command vital passes I
i and hold the invaders back.
It is impossible for the troops on
! these high ledges to have fires, lack
of space and secrecy making a stove
or smoke impractical. The cooking
therefore is begun far below in i
kitchens, finished in thermos bottles
and fireless cookers that bear the
food aloft.
Huge cuts of meat and thick vege
table stews are placed over roaring
fires down at the timber line where
there is fuel in plentitude and then
before finished put into vessels which
apply the thermos principle so that
by the time they have reached their
destination high overhead they will
be cooked through and palatable.
WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHS.
A young inventor by the name of
Leishman has devised a ^stem of j
transmitting writing, drawings and
photographs by wireless and also by
telegraph. If the system proves
practicable for commercial purposes,
notes an exchange, there may be
wireless photo stations all over the j
country in the near future.
IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK.
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“Do you ever stop to think about
how much you might save if you
were to stop smoking?”
“Look here, friend, I’m one of
those chaps who never touched to
bacco, and I am $11,000 dollars in
debt. How do you account for it ?” .
WOULD NOT STAY DEAD
Having sent Tommy out to play,
mother anticipated having a little
spare time for herself. However, he (
had scarcely been out fifteen min- j
utes when he indignantly pounced
back in again.
“What brings you back eo soon ?” ,
inquired mother. “I thought you
were out playing with Billy.”
“I was, but Pll never play with
him again as long as I live*” em
phatically declared Tommy.
“What did he do?” anxiously
asked mother.
“It’s notVhat he did do, but what
he didn’t do. We played war, he was
a German, and I killed him, and he
admitted it, and now he won’t stay
dead.”
SAFETY IN THE FORESTS.
Mrs. Flatbush—“Does your hus
band believe in the protection of our
forests?” Mrs. Bensonhurst—“Does
he? Why, say, if ever we had an
other war over here that would be
the first place he’d make fort”—
Yonkers Statesman.
Tills Is Our Winter
of Test
SERVING food Is a lo
cal problem for each
k community. Prices
f 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
oealthy 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 that the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
A LONG-FELT WANT
Josh—Do you think there will
ever be any radical change in the
style of men’s hats ?
Bosh—Not unless somebody in
vents a hat that will cover the bald
spot on the back of the head.
KAISER'S EQUERRY AIRMAN.
Raron von Richthofen, Germany’s
star airman, who is at home on long
leave, has just been married to Frau
lein von Minkwitz, the millionaire
heiress, daughter of the duke of
Saxe-coburg’s master of horse. On
the occasion of the marriage, the em
peror appointed Richthofen his
“equerry airman,” and it is said that
in consequence of this appointment
he will hencforth devote his time en
tirely to the training of new fighting
squadrons.
DIFFERENT DAY8.
“When I was a kid the poorest
boy could have fun making a snow
man. You remember we used lumps
of coal for his eyes ?”
“I remember. I suppose making a
snow man is now a pastime for chil
dren of the very rich.”—-Louisville
Courier-J oumal.
THE CURB.
Cannibal King1—What have we
here?
Slave—He appears to be ft raw
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King—RawP Very well; cook
him.