NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRQRY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
■VOLUMN 4
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, JANUARY 3, 1919.
NUMBER 24
SUGAR SHOWED
OORjACKBONE
American Willingness to Give Up
Luxury Demonstrated Na
tion’s War Conscience.
STAND WITH THE ALLIES.
By Reducing Consumption People of
the United States Averted a
Famine at Home in 8pite
of Low Supplies.
The fnct that the people of the
United States were able to reduce by
more than one-half million tons thetr
July, August, September and October
consumption of sugar proves conelu
pively that their war conscience was
thoroughly awakened and that the
country as a whole stood ready to fol
low tlie injunctions of the Government.
Our normal consumption of sugar in
the four-month period beginning with
JuJjV has been 400.000 tons per month,
a total of 1,600,000 for the quarter
year.
In July, wnen our sugnr stringency
began to reach its height, consumption
was reduced to 260.000 tons. In Au
gust only 325,000 tons went into dis
tribution and in September only 279,
000 tons. In October the distribution
fell to 230,000 tons.
If the general public had failed to
observe the injunctions of the Food
Administration this country would
have been in the throes of a sugar
famine before the end of August. Our
visible supplies were so low as to bring
great anxiety to those familiar with
the sugar situation. They feared that
it would be absolutely impossible to
reduce consumption to a point where
sugar would no longer be a mere lux
ury in the American diet.
Few accomplishments of the Food
Administration will stand forth so pre
dominantly as this reduced consump
tion of sugar. By it we have been able
to bridge over the period of stringency
until the new beet and Louisiana cane
sugar crops Wv.re in sight.
Now the nation is in a position so
that if we choose we may return to
our normal home use of sugar, and
Lurope, with the release of ships to go
far afield, can maintain its recent re
stricted rations. If, however, those
nations are to increase their use of i
sugar very considerably it must be by
our continued sharing with them
through limiting our own consump
tion.
AMERICAN SPIRIT
RELIED ON TO WIN.
In the light of succeeding events it
s interesting to recall the confidence
'Vlth 'vllicl1 the United States Food
Administrator viewed the gloomy out
(u,k in Ju'y °f 1917, when tills coun
had been in the war for less than
°UI ,llonths and the Germans were
steadily sending the western front
eJ'‘ei’ nnd nearer to P: rls.
“Ui'en though the situation in Eu
l)e gloomy today,” he de
.in a public statement, “no
^merican who has knowledge of the
u is alleady obtained in every di
tr<n>7 lu>e(l have one atom of fear
‘‘at democracy will not defend Itself
n thfeso United States.”
^ anted—To buy your Lib
,erty Bonds—See G. W. Bar
bev
adv 12-20 tf
Here is a familiar scene in any Y.
M. C. A. building at our army camps.
Ice-cooled water “bubblers” quench
the 'thirst of thousands of soldiers,
and during a “run” on the fountains
the “water line” often extends across
the building.
The Army Y. M. C. A. is the en
listed man’s club, where he may read,
write letters, buy stamps and post
cards, have bundles wrapped free of
charge, get money orders, play games,
and meet his comrades for a social
hour.
The bubbling cold water fountain is
one of the most popular advantages
offered the soldiers by the Army “Y”
in the Southern department, which is
composed of Texas. Arkansas, Okla
homa, Louisiana, TsTew Mexico and
Arizona.
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FAITH JUSTIFIED 4*
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4* sane use of supplies by (be 4»
4* great majority of American peo- 4*
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4* business man, whose aid we an- 4*
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\bur guests will cheer
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Food Will Win the World.
America earned the gratitude of al
lied nations during war by sharing
food. America und».r peace may win
the world's good will by saving to
share.
SAVE 16,000,000 BUSHELS
OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY
WAS LOST IN THRESHING
Farmers, Urged by Food Admlnlstra
tion, Provide Seven Extra Loaves
of Bread for Every American.
By adopting cleaner threshing meth
ods and by literally combing harvest
fields to gather grain formerly wast
ed, threshermen and farmers of the
United States this year saved fully
16,000,000 bushels of wheat, estimated
as equivalent to about seven one-pound
loaves of bread for every person in
the country. This result, accompanied
by corresponding savings of barley,
oats, rye and other grains, is shown by
reports from 33 grain states to the U.
S. Food Administration. Other states,
although not prepared to furnish defi
nite figures of conservation in the
grain fields, report greatly reduced
harvest losses.
This rural food saving achievement,
accomplished in scarcely six months’
time, was in direct response to re
quests by the Fobd Administration,
which asked farmers and threshermen
to reduce harvest losses from about
per cent.—the estimated average
In normal times—to the lowest possi
ble minimum. Country grain thresh
ing committees carried into every
grain growing community the official
recommendations for accomplishing
the results desired.
in numerous instances an vers oi
racks w ith leaky bottoms were sent
from the fields to repair their equip
ment and frequently bad order thresh
ing machines were stopped until the
cause of waste was removed. But In
proportion to the number of persons
engaged in gathering the nation’s grain
crop, cases of compulsion were com
paratively rare. The Food Adminis
tration freely attributes the success of
the grain threshing campaign to pa
triotic service by farmers, thresher
men and their crews. Incidentally
grain growers of the United States are
many millions of dollars “in pocket”
as a result of the grain saved.
NO ONE SUFFERED HERE.
The marvel of our voluntary food
saving, now that we are “getting re
sults,” is that no one ever actually
suffered any hardship from It; that
we all are better in healtn and spirit
and better satisfied with ourselves be
cause of our friendly self-denial.
Food control In America held the
price of breadstuffs steady, prevented
vicious speculation and extortion and
preserved tranquillity at home.
In no other nation Is there so willing
a sense of voluntary self-sacrifice as
In America—that was shown in the
abstinence from wheat
Find more wheat, ft came; more
bork, it came; save sugar, it was done.
So Americans answered the challenge
>f German starvation.
Good will rules the new world as
fear governed the old world. Through
sharing food America helps make the
whole world kin.
Food control made sufficiency from
shortage, kept the rein on food prices,
save the nation’s full stiength exer
cise.
Starvation by Germany challenged
ail the world; food conservation in
America answered the challenge.
Food conservation in America has
been the triumph of individual devo
tion to the national cause, w_