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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-01-16
Special City Election

For the Annexation of Contiguous Ter
ritory, Tuesday, February End, 1915
POLLING PLACES:
FIRST WARD-North Room, Shiloh
Tabernacle, West entrance door.
SECOND Southwest corner,
Elijah Avenue and Shiloh Boulevard.
THIRD WARD-Zion College Build
ing.
FOURTH WARD-3O14 Gilboa Az
enue.
POLLS OPEN FROM 700 A. M. to
500 P. M.
All Zion MEN and WOMEN should vote
at this Special Election.
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Positive Pasteurization

A general review of the years report
will show more and more cities passing
pasteurization ordinances. That there
existedareal necessity for this no candid
person can deny. The microscope tells
true story and when health authorities
saw what some milk contained and how
effectively proper pasteurization did its
work, there was no longer any reason
for opposition. The health of commun-
tiles concerns too much the welfare of
the nation to be disregarded by few
who cry eve will be ruined in bust
ness way" Conditions today demand
pasteurization-iti is not an experiment,
a hobby or a fad, but an absolute neces-
sity. Why not meet things squarely!
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much to feed and care for a hen that
lays one hundred eggs as for one that
lays two hundred year.
To get into a good strain of layers
will cost little more at the beginning,
but one can very soon increase his flock.
This may be rather slow way of begin
ming for persons who want to become
large breeders and work on a large
scale. If you know how to breed chicks
and raise them, you can buy baby chicks
by the hundred, very often, as cheaply
as Matching them. If man is prepared
to handle them, and is able to buy them.
he can go into the market and buy
flock, and begin operations at once on
as large a scale as he pleases. Unless
he has had considerable experience in
the business, the chances are against
him for coming out on the right side of
the ledger, when he takes into account
the high price of feed, building, and
losses.
(To be continued.)
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cites of Leghorns, Minorcas, and several
others. They lay quite as large eggs,
however, as many of the larger breeds.
The larger breeds are better for meat,
when you want to put them on the mar
ket and sell them by the pound. Many
of them are excellent layers, and they
make better mothers, which is important
if you do not use an incubator.
Now, you have decided the breed you
want to use: the question then comes,
HOW WILL YOU START?
"Shall buy some hens or some chicks,
or buy some eggs and raise my own
chicks?"
If you are going into the business to
stay, you had better get good stock, even
though it costs you much more.
There is a vast difference in hens,
even among those of the same breed.
All Leghorns do not lay the same, by
any means, nor all Rocks, nor Wyan-
dottes. There are laying strains.
In laying contest of one thousand
hens, it was found that some hens never
laid an egg during the twelve months.
They varied from none up to two hun
dred eighty-six eggs, laid by a champion
White Leghorn. The pens of the same
breed varied greatly, so that from two
hundred eighty-six, the highest record,
IL.
hundred fifty-nine eggs by one hen for
the year.
The best poultry men trap-nest every
hen and know her record before they
put her into the breeding pen. This is
an important fact for one to know when
he is about to get his first stock. 1t will
pay him to buy good laying strain from
a reliable breeder. It costs about as
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-01-16
Titles Staggering Statistics

This is the land of big figures. Our
crop values run into billions. Our
manufactured products, our annual i'm
ports and exports, our population
everything with statistical side in the
United States furnishes it's staggering
totals.
Even the cattle are living up to the
national standards in this respect. Take
the case Of Title Alcartra, a Woodland,
CAL, cow. According to a dispatch from
Woodland, Title, who is 5-year old
Holstein- Tristan COW, has broken the
worlds record for milk production with
a trife over 10000 pounds during the
last year.
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Program
ZION LITERARY DEPARTMENT
Thursday February 4, 1915
500 P. M.
IT, Go11oo.o Doa.4o1 IIo11

Zion College Recital Hall
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POULTRY TALKS
By
ELDER O. L. Tindall
HOW TO BEGIN THE POULTRY
BUSINESS

write these notes for those who have
had no practical experience, or but very
little,-who are thinking of following
it for a business, and not merely as a
pastime or side-line in connection with
some other business.
If you have never tried it, you had
better not risk your whole living on it
the first year, nor the second. If you
do, the chances are that you will fail.
Do not go into the chicken business
with the quite common notion that any
one can raise chickens and make sue
cess of it.
Do not think you can succeed in it as
business if you follow the old farmers
method-of letting them shift for them
selves, eat corn at the corn-crib, roost
in the trees all winter, steal their nests
in the fence-corners, and fight their own
way with the wild beasts. If you do,
forty to fifty eggs to the hen will be the
result with one-half to two-thirds Of that
number Of chicks; and no eggs in the
winter. That is the way the wild
prairie hens do.
The old farmer does not keep books
on poultry; he does not know how much
the chickens eat, nor how many eggs
they lay, nor the value of either. The
chickens are by-product, left to the
children and the women-folk.
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FIELD WORKERS

The following workers have recently
been placed in the field; six leaving Zion
City today, Friday, January 18th.
Kansas City, Missouri.
Elder Frank Robinson
Mrs. Hester Robinson
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Deaconess Helen Buhmann
Deaconess Belle Schelhorn
Houston, Texas.
Deaconess Louise Zweizig
Deaconess Clarissa Anderson
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mrs. Sophie Svendsen
Miss Mamie Snow
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Mary O Brown
Mrs. Lydia Wilson
Richmond, Virginia.
Miss Flora Brink
Mrs. Della Kresge
Memphis, Tennessee.
Miss Katherine Reid
Miss Christina Reid
Birmingham, Alabama.
Miss Harriet Underwood
Miss Lucinda Orr
Others will leave next week: two to
Atlanta, Georgia; and to several other
cities yet to be selected.
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January 10Th, Tuesday, 800 p. M, Con-
servatory Recital, Recital Hall, College
Building.
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Mr.. D. A. Biddle, who arrived in Zion.
City recently from Boise, Idaho, is now
EMPLOYED in the Financial Department,
Administration Building.
Next week will be busy week at the
Zion Conservatory of Music & Art. On
Monday the class in the Department of
Expression will be resumed; the Ladies'
Physical Culture Class, which meets
from GAS to 7:45 P. M; and also the
Public Speaking Class, which will meet
at 8 100 P. M. The public is cordially
invited to these classes.
Mrs. A. NJ Wilson and Mrs. S. IL.
Brown, left Zion City on Tuesday morn
ing for Philadelphia They left Chi
cago at 10 100 A. M. Tuesday and arrived
in Philadelphia Wednesday evening.
They began Restoration Work yester-
day.
Tuesday evening is the date set for
the Second Conservatory Recital to be
held in the Recital Hall, College Build
ing. Conductor Thomas states that this
will be an exceptionally fine recital. A
very interesting program is being ar
ranged and the public is cordially in
vited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses, of Chicago, re-
Gently arrived in Zion City, and have
made their home at 3O05 Gilboa Avenue.
Mrs. D. M. Kresge and Miss Flora
Brink left Friday morning for Rich
mond, Virginia, to do Restoration Work.
They expect to be gone three months.
On Tuesday, January 10Th, there will
be an Art Exhibit held in Room 106,
College Building. There will be many
paintings and drawings placed on ex-
hibitiOn for public inspection. The
room will be open from 200 to 10s0C
P. M, with Miss Morries in charge. This
exhibit ought to appeal to every lover
of the beautiful in art.
Mr.. D. G. Vull1off, of Chicago, was il
Zion City on Thursday and Friday at
ending to some business matters.
Apostle A. Darms conducted the ser
vice in Chicago last Lords Day. The
Apostle tok for his text lions motto fol
the year 1915.
Arts and Crafts Department Hold Their
First Meeting for the Year 1915
The meeting of the Arts & Crafts De
partment, which was held in the Con
servatory room, College Building, OF
Tuesday evening was attended by about
forty persons.
1t was the first meeting for the season
of 1915 and special interest was shown
in the various books and periodicals or
Arts & Crafts, which were to be founC
on the table. Special interest was taker
in the demonstration of basket weaving
given by Mrs. E. Sach and others. Miss
Ruth Phil exhibited a sandwich baske1
which she made recently.
Mrs. Phil, in her opening remarks, re
viewed the work done by the Arts &
Craft Department during the year 1914
She said that she thought they would be-
gin the season with basket weaving as
Mrs. Sach had done some of that work
and was willing to show others how il
was done.
On Monday afternoons and evenings
the room set apart for the Arts & Graf
Department will be opened for the mem
bers and the public.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-01-16
What are You Doing for the Exten
sion of the Kingdom of God

Some one worked out diagram on
the supposition that there was in the
world today just one Christian, and that
the passion of his life was to preach the
Gospel and get people saved. At the
end of the whole year, he succeeds in
bringing to Christ one person. At the
end of the first year, there would be two
Christians in the world
Then each of them go out, dominated
by the same purpose. At the end of the
second year, there would be four Chris
tians.
Now, keeping up this law of progress
sion, just see what could be done in a
few years.
If each Zion person will determine, by
Gods Grace, that the year shall not go
by until he is sure that he has been the
instrument, in Gods hands, of getting
at least one person saved and into Zion,
just see what the results will be; and
then, let this be kept up year by year,
and what marvellous things could be
done for God!
This table supposes that there is only
one Christian in the world. Now, fol-
low it, and see what occurs at the end
of thirty-one years: the testimony has
reached every man, woman, and child
in every country, in every land; and all
have heard of the Gospel of Jesus the
Christ!
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Scripture Observation-Disclosures.
Prayer observation-disclosures.
Reading Mrs. Frank Mole
Poem. "Zion Literary Dept"
Apostle Darms
Solo. Miss Dorothy Clendinen
Impromptu Speech. =. Deacon DePew
Paper. MISS Ellason
Speech Mr.. Bayler
Cornet Solo. Gerald Mason
Sneech Mr.. Mcneil
Piano Solo l.. Albrant
Essay. ...............M Miss MCKINNEY
Critics Report. ...... Deacon Forpy
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Calendar

Hereafter in every issue of "The
Theocrat" there will appear Calendar,
covering the next following three
months, giving all the dates of public
and special meetings, concerts, recitals,
programs, and the various departments
and all the activities in which Zion peo-
pie are interested.
Deacon Jasper H. DePew will be in
charge of this Calendar, and any changes
and additional dates should be tele-
phoned to him on phone 20.
January 10Th, Tuesday, 800 p. NJ, Con-
servatory Recital, Recital Hall, College
Building.
January 26th, Tuesday, 500 p. M, Arts
and Crafts Department, Public Pro-
gram, Recital Hail.
February 18th, Thursday, 800 p. M, Lit
erary Department, Public Program, Re
cital Hall.
February 9th, Tuesday, 800 p. M, Arts
and Crafts Department, Work Night,
Room 1906
February 18th, Wednesday, 800 p. M,
Concert, Shiloh Tabernacle.
February 18th, Thursday, 500 p. M,
Literary Department, Public Program,
Recital Hall.
February 23rd, Tuesday, 800 p. M,
Arts and Crafts Department, Public
Program, Recital Hall.
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At the end of 9years .512
At the end of 10 years 1924
At the end of II years .2,O48
At the end of II years .4.O96
At the end of 13 years 1892
At the end of IA years 1884
At the end of Is years .32.768
At the end of 16 years $3.50
At the end of II years =. .131, O72
At the end of 18 years 1862, LA
At the end of 10 years .524,288
At the end of 20 years 1890. .1,O48,57
At the end of Fl years .2,O97, 1852
At the end of % years a, 1914, 3O4
At the end of % years $3.50. g, 1888, 6O8
At the end of "a years .16, 777,216
At the end of Is years .33,554,432
At the end of 26 years ..... .67, 1O8,864
At the end of 27 years .134, 217, 728
At the end of % years 49,. .268, 435, 456
At the end of 20 years 80. $50, 87O,912
At the end of 80 years -. 1918, TAI, 1923
At the end of 81 years .2,147, 483, 648
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ODE ON SOLITUDE

ODE ON SOLITUDE
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with
bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.
Blest, who can unconcernedly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night; study and ease,
Together mixed; sweet recreation;
And innocence, which most does please
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
Thus unlamented let me die,
Steal from the world, and not stone
Tell where | lie.
POPE.
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light green. Tho scarf n tied At the
top of the stoc in front and stands
ont at zach side of the chin IN two
wing ends, stiffcned by narrowly
corded edges. In dark oolor this would
be an eminently practical and good
looking trotting frock for any ono with
q long. slim throat.
Flaring little boleros multiply and
often will solve tho problem Of the
fitted waist line and fiarns skirt for
the woman to whom these lines are
not becoming. The loose holero car
be- made TO preserve the straight line
from shoulder to hip in tho back and
under the arms, and because OF its
fare the hip line may seem less ssser-
tive. On the other hand the bolero
is likely TO have n youthful air m IL
immensely ~unbecoming to many
women past youth.
A very jolly little bolero model in
deep ivory serge has It's short. very
loose coat. its three-quarter sleeve and
It's skirt yoke trimmed simply in lines
OF self-cording and relies for its elab-
grafton upon its clever waistcoat ar
rangement. over a loose little sleeve
less bodice waistcoat OF ivory satin
whose diminutive peplum shows be-
low the bolero all around falls a sec
ond waistcoat section OF clear onyx
green faille forming a sort OF deep
scallop or crescent between tho wide
open ronts of the bolero and trimmed
in two rows OF ivory buttons.
Quantities OF delightful models. hot1
imported n domestic, are developed
in white-white wool. white silk,
white linen. white cotton, and both the
oyster white and ivory white are fea-
tured as we'll az the clear whites. In
heavy creepy tussor Of oyster white
there are some admirable frocks and
three piece costumes, and the deep
ivory whites are combined in ospc-
cially felicitous ways with the old
blues and with hleu ciel.
There Is a Wedgwood blue too that
is happily used with clear white.
cream and ivory. and one clever eve
ming frock OF artistic simplicity is ~
white chiffon with blue and white
Wedgwood medallions painted by hand
on the chiffon and clasps Of Wedgwooi
holding the shoulder straps and lie
colletage drapery.
Apropos OF drapery the French de-
signers when opportunity offers like
to break tho ltn6 of the full faring
skirt by a touch OF draping. and clever
manipulation OF his kind affords
pleasant variety 20 the u~nden,able
monotony of the prevailing skirt lines.
II Is this feeling doubtless that has
somewhat to e~verybody's surprise pre-
served the tunic for us-a tuniC longer
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aCter because OF II strike In the art de
partment. The material OF the original
model was a soft yellow SILK in which
groups of black stripes a%lternated with
a band dotted rather largely IN black.
Reduced TO the small dimensions of a
newspaper cut the general effect was
so weird thai the art site compartment
halkcd at II aud the reader must needs
nh the black dots IN for herself,
The clover thing about tho French
Original waS not merely in the ma
terial and its handling hut ga thu way
IN which plain yellow and pla n black
chiffon were introduced upon the
bodice and in the more emphatic note
Of black given hy the stilfully posed
Rirdle Of y II black taifcta,
One cannot get away from stripes,
and rs a matter of fact one We hi not
ear" TO get away from them. for n
very considerable percentage of tho
prettiest mod Is show STRIPED material.
Usually more or leSs plain color is
used IN combination With tho stripe.
but often there Is only "a mere touch
of the plain material.
ono of tho PROTEST little frocks ~
the quaint or picturesque" type dis
covered Nm - tour Of exploration
had a. fun skirt of old blu and
WORK SILK an inch strip of the blue
with u narrow stripe Of blue on each
side Of tho wide one, then an inch Of
plain ivory, This skirt "a caught
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rim FROCK BOTH CHARMING MI WEARABLE
A Compromise Between Flaring Skirt
Bottom and Clinging Hip Folds
---Puzzle of the Collar

it. And still. II we can believe what
Tn" millcrS say. the American. woman
is asking that the -four be made finer
and Whittier.
America leads the world in the con-
sumption Of white flour nowadays,
and Il leads the world also in denta
and rvo Affections. Americans
used to be "A very robust. hardy people,
with wonderful capacity for cndur-
nee. they were rosy Of cheek and
hrawnv Of build and faced all obstacles
fcarlessly and rpsolutely. Then Eng
land set them eating that white bread,
and their checks turned pale, their
teeth grew soft and their nerves be-
came unsound.
Nowhere has the dental business
grown so rapidly as in America Ths
great amoun of practice tho dentists
have obtained in working on the
softcned teeth NJ Americans a mais
them very expert. The American dem
lists and dental colleges now lead tts
world in number and skill. Almost
"a much might be Haid OF American
nerve specialists and institutions for
treating ailments. These facts
are significant.
Nearly all tho mills Of America
have been forced 10 change their
/ methods that they might grind out
the substance OF tho wheat and mar
ket only the starchy part. In Dis
day there IL almost no sale for he
old fashioned bread that fed our hardy
forefathers. Housewives won't have
II when II won match tho table
cloth.
In bygonc DAYS our -four was made
of the entire wheat grpin, excepting
the outer husk or bran. Such was
the flour OF Biblical days. Such was
the -four that WAS very generally used
until tho time Of the %eventful white
bread dinner IN London.
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ir producing the desired resu.t by
selecting only the white, lif, cSs,
starchy portions of the grain and dis
carding all others. This being ac-
cOmplished, the epicurc was delighted.
The rect of the color scheme was easy.
As he had expected. his dinner proved
the novelty of the day, snd the bread
was IA tremendous hit.
That was the first white bread over
eaten in the history Of the world. As
the wheat grain vas dark, 80 bread
mad been dark from the days OF Ahra-
ham. To produce white bread would
have been considered Impossible I'M
less a white grain could be grown.
But the Hungarian miller's ingenuity
succeeded In bringing forth a white
-four from a yellow grain. BY making
tho -four from the starch cells ex-
traCed from the endosperin of the
wheat he Obtained a brcadstuf that
was of the color and nearly the o
sistency OF powdered chalk.
The white bread fad, as II was then
called, spread IKE wildhre. A! thr
smart set Of London took II up and
soon the bread made It's appearance
on the tables OF the ultra fashionable
all over England. No one liked i,
50 well as the old fashioned blood ana
bone producing bread. But people
often sacrifice very much Of taste ana
health for fashions sake, That was
the way Il was with white bread II
didn't taste 20 good ana It wasn't ~
satisfying a. the old time bread. But
il looked pretty, the whito slices oil
the white tabiecloth. and no other
kind OF bread was permitted Mt din
ner IN stylish London. -Four mills
had to be ~overhauled and recon
-tructed. New machinery had 10 Ne
installed with equipment especially
adapted for making -four from me
starch cells OF the wheat grain.
Now the main element OF nutrition
In wheat IL gluten, and gluten Is dark
The least nutritive part Of wheat l.
starch, and starch Is whit. II fol
lows, therefore. h "A the darker NJ
-four. within reasonable limits of
course. the more gluten II contains
and tho more nutritious II is, and IN,
whittier tho flour the less gluten n
contains and tho less nutritious 4 Is
The white -four contains a super.
abundance of starch. When YOU buy
white -four you pay your money fol
starch. When you buy dark four
by dark flour is meant -four of a rict
creamy color-you pay your money
for nutriment.
But to 10 on with the story Of white
-four:
England was looked up 10 n grea
Deal in those days. II was becoming q
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up just a trtfe on each side near the
bottom 10 show a transu aren't under
pctticoat Of ivory net around which
narrow bands Of old blue ribbon ran.
The bodice WAS ot old blue silk
draped IN softly TO the normal waist
line in front and ending there While
IN the back u fell straight perhaps
three inches below the waist linN in a
rounded point. The bodice b~uttoned
up the middle Of the hack and had a
shallow round decolletage finished
with a frill OF net and close short
sleeves Of zilk with double frills Of
net.
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7 6 the New York club wonan made
lazy by her club l.fc' This IS a
question that has been discussed
a good d"al Of late II r"frrs not 20
the club woman in the ordinary sonso
Of the word as Il has been accepted
recently. not to the club womau Woo
q q suffraEottN or who Is Interested IN
public questions, wat the type that
mieh+ be described az "A society club
oma
Housekeeping IS certainly becoming
more and more unpopular, and Il may
bo said unfashionnhlc, and 'he interest
taken by women IN social clubs il
extraordinary In contrast 10 the si'ua-
ton Of a few years ago when only a
limited number Of women, compare
lively speaking, belonged to such
organizations.
\ rather pathetic story that 10 50 4
20 be true WAS published n fow Ncars
ago whom one Of the f~ashionahl" m"r So
clubs built a new home and EaNo a
house warming TO which women were
invited A bride who was shown the
wonders Of the club. especially the
dining room and Kitchen. hurst .U'0
tearl and exclaimed that she under
stood perfectly well nov Why & vas
impossible for hen 20 pleas" her hVs
hand IN nor housekeeping on tine
limited means on witch they wcr"
Obliged 20 1--we
The same idea has certainly taken
, possession OF tho club wonan OF 20
day. Naturally with what she cor
-idera a limited income, say $40 oo'