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preserved fruits, the choicest speci- mems from the housewife's pantry shelf. Mouth organs, checker boards, electric torches and games were also included. Other societies sent books of all kinds including scrap books in which were pasted few short stories, little bits of poetry and a, batch of jokes. Many of these were clipped from old magazines Sending these out of date magazines would not at tract the soldier, yet the stories are good and so are the jokes and by past ing them in a scrap book they can be made to appear as interesting as they did when the periodical first appeared. Some of the stories are pasted on cards so they can be easily held by men who are in the hospitals. From one west ern city alone several hundred cases of books have been sent with the Good Cheer boxes.
 Many of the newspapers have raised a soldiers Christmas fund and have already shipped thousands of dollars worth of smokes and candy. Charit- dD1y ulSpOSOu pdII1Ol1Ci pCA 41e~t v undertaken to supply certain num- Der of men with Christmas cake, candy and tobacco and 1t is safe to predict that the American soldier wherever he may be will have much more than he can use on this Christ mas day.
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 Both the Camp Recreation Society and the Y. M. c. A. will aid in fur nishing the Christmas amusements and there will be. "something doing all the day long at the various Y. M. c. A. buildings at the cantonments and in France. Any number of musicians and entertainers of various kinds have volunteered their services. Many the atricaI people will assist in the morn ing shows and vaudeville performers will come in the afternoon as soon as their turns at the theatres are over. All day long the boys will be enter tained.
 The Knights of Columbus too will furnish Christmas entertainments in the camps Although this is a Cath olic society the shows will be open to all soldiers for at no time in the history of our country have the re-
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is directing the sale of Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certificates.
 q suppose we have several times over wasted more than we are about to spend," the President went on to say. we have not known that there was any limit to our resources; we are now finding out that there may be if we are not careful"
 The interesting thing about this latest method of saving money for the wars expenses is that millions and millions of United States citizens, men, women and children, will save their spendthrift quarters to buy Thrift Stamps and their prodiga1 dollars for a War Savings Certificate without feeling the strain in the very least They will do this largely because they are patriotic Americans and want to do their part in the great war for righteousness, but those same saved quarters and dollars lent to the Gov ernment for five years will be earn ing a fair rate of interest, and five years hence those same millions of American men, women and children will arise on New Years day, 1923. to find themselves the owners. of just so many matured certificates payable in the coin of the richest and most gen. erous realm in the world.
 The Committee which was selected to manage the War Savings campaign which is to raise .2.Ooo, 100000 dol lars for the Great Cause during the year 1918, is composed of fnanciers from all sections of the country. MT. Frank A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank, of New York, is chairman of the committee. The oth- CT members are Frederic A. Delano, of Chicago; Henry Ford, of Detroit;
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Loan campaign I gave out my daily news reports on the progress of the loan just as they came to me. If sales were bad the report made public showed this fact If they were good the report showed that At no time throughout the four weeks intensive campaign was any effort made to mis- lead the public in order to speed up sales, or otherwise affect the cam paign-
 1.-The attitude of this bureau in the War Savings campaign and every other campaign with which have to do will be the same as it was in the second Liberty Loan"
 The value of the war savings plan is being set forth at every opportunity l by the Secretary of the Treasury. At a recent dinner in honor of the di-s rectors of the present campaign he said:
 '"The value of the war savings plan consists not alone in the amount of States may lend their Government upon the certificates which are sold, but also in the lesson which will be: taught, in the habits of thrift that will be inculcated as a result of it. What this will mean in conserving the resources of America is inestimable.'' It is just as well for the people of | the country to realize that this wealth, which is being collected to win the war is nearly all spent in their own country. It goes for food, for cloth ing, for munitions and other war sup plies produced in this country, and accordingly places vast deal of money in circulation.
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turkey alone to say nothing of the bushels of potatoes and other vege- tables.
 The Christmas tree is of German origin. but this is one of the German customs that will be retained all over the world, and there will be Christ mas trees at all the camps for the pine tree laden with gifts is a national in- shtution in America.
 Only. necessary work will be done about the camps, drills will be sus- pended and so far as the Government is concerned the men will be given a genuine holiday. This will be with our troops in France as well as at home unless the exigencies of war should require them to do duty in the trenches at that particular time.
 Boxes From Home.
 For some weeks the post offices of France have been overburdened with Christmas packages for our men and the mail clerks near the front, many of whom are women, are busy sort ing the bundles and getting them in order so, that each and every one may be in the hands of our men on Christ mas morning. No Christmas package for the men at the front was received after December fourth. The rules pro- vide that parcel post packages were to be under seven pounds and packed in wooden boxes, also that express packages must be so boxed and not exceed twenty pounds in weight and that the covering of each box so fitted as to facilitate inspection, for each package has to undergo a thorough
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17
Buy Thrift Stamps and War-Savings Certificates and Your Thrift Will Pay
 the Wars Expenses-An
 Opportunity forBoth Pa t1iotism and Sane, Profit able Investment.
ble Investment.
Copyright, 1917. by The International
 Syndicate.

- ~ HIS NEWEST PLAN of Uncle
 se Sam to raise money among his
 people to finance the war, ac-
 cording to authorization of Congress. calls for the issue of s2,ooo,- 0O0.000 of war savings certificates. Each of these certificates has a place for pasting on it twenty $500 war savings stamps; and each stamp bears per cent. interest from the date of it's attachment to the certificate. So, if today you purchased twenty war savings stamps for $S2.40, in five years they would bring you in S1oo.
 The following should be noticed with particular interest: You may purchase a war savings stamp any time during the month of December, 1917, and January, 1918, for $4.12. In January, 1919, the certificate stamp is worth SABA; January 1, 1920, it is worth $4.36; on the same date in 1921. it's value is $4.4S; twelve months later, 1t is worth s4.6O: and on Janu- ary 1, 1928, which is five years after the investment, it will bring you in $500, its face value.
 Bear in mind also that there is an additional charge of 1 cent added each month to the cost of each stamp. For example, if you buy a $50 stamp prior to the last day of January, 1918, 1t will cost you $4.12; and if you buy It in February it will cost $413; in March $4.14 and so on until the end of the year 1918.
 Begin With A Modest Quarter.
 But Uncle Sam realizes full well that not every one can afford to pay S4-12 for stamp to paste in his war savings certificate card; so he has also issued a 25-cent thrift stamp and thrift card. on which the thrift stamps can be pasted, and then when the patriotic American has accumulated s4s00 worth of these thrift stamps he may take his card to any post office, bank, trust company or other au- thorized agency ands on payment of the additional number of cents, regu- lated by the month in which they are purchased, he exchanges his thrift card with it's sixteen 25-cent stamps affixed for a $5.00 war savings stamp
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BaSS, or CnlCaSo.
 An Unusual Opportunity For
 Investment.
 In making a statement about the meaning and purpose of the work which he is directing, MT. Vanderlip said recently:
 Entirely aside from the patriotic element, the investment feature of the new war savings plan appeals strong ly to me. How anyone even though he were not desirous of aiding his country-if we might conceive of such a person at this time-could re- fuse to embrace this unusual oppor- tunity for investment is beyond my comprehension.
 'The first consideration in all in- vestments, of course, is their safety. Could anything be safer than some thing with the entire wealth of the United States behind it? The second consideration is the return on the in- vestment. Is not $17.60 for the loan of $S2.40 for five. years attractive enough for anyone? Finally, one al ways must consider his ability to con- vert an investment into cash on short notice. What more liberal arrange ment than the one offered by this plan return upon ten days notice of the investment could be asked?"
 Mrs. Bass was chosen to become a
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~ HIS NEWEST PLAN of Uncle
 Sam to raise money among his \ people to finance the war, ac-
 - cordiIlg to authorization of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17

} HE UPPERM0ST THOUGHTeif
 the mind of the American peo-
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The Governments Part


 se The Governments Part. 7E Whether our soldiers are in the can comments in the United States or in the training camps or trenches in France they will be well remembered both in gifts and entertainments for theI day. First, the Government will play it's part with the dinner it will serve. For many years turkey has been the king of the soldiers Christ mas feast and will continue to be de- spite the fact that Uncle Sam's family of boys has grown so much larger than heretofore. Approximately nine teen ounces of turkey will be allowed for each man besides all the trim mings of celery, mashed potatoes and gravy and vegetables that go with the American Christmas dinner. It will require about two million pounds of
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~ HE UPPERMoST THOUGHTein in
 the mind of the American peo-
 pie today is about our boys who - are going forth to uphold the standard of humanity and civilization. Their welfare will have our best at tention and assistance at alIe times ana nothing will be spansd to make their tremendous task as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. But there are certain seasons when special efforts will be put forth to. con- kfbute to their happiness and not only sumIno them of the occAslo1l. but also 0f the fact that In spirit at least those at home are joining with them in the celebration of the festival. This will be true of the Christmas time and the boys who are ral1ying around the Stars and Stripes and all it stands for VIII be remembered by friends and family, so that the day may be spent and enjoyed amid surroundings which
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Ways andMeans of Our Soldiers Enjoying the Yule tide As Planned By Our Government, the Red
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Copyright, 1917, by The, international Syndicate.

may tighten the. horrors of tlfe ter rible conflict of which they are now a
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Eugene Meyer, of New York; Charles L. Paine, of Boston, and Mrs. George Bass, of Chicago.
 An Unusual Opportunity For
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
Daily Hoover Hint

(No. 610, Miller Shoe Companys
contest-the second best recipe.
Peanut Loaf Meat SubStitute).
Serving for Six Persons)
/ cup shelled peanuts -
2 cups cold mashed potatoes, rice
or hominy gifts
Il cup milk.
eggs
Little chopped onion for flavor
Salt
Pepper
Celery salt
Put the peanuts through the meat
chopper, then combine with the pota-
toes, rice or hominy grits Qeft-overs
are very good and if not enough of
each alone, combine what you have).
Combine the above mixture with milk
and well-beaten eggs (yolk and white
beate ntOgether). Add onion and fla
vorings. Bake in oblong pan, in me-
dunn oven.
Serve over the loaf brown gravy or
tomato sauce made by melting table
spoon butter, stirring in 2 table
spoons flour and then cup of tomato
Juice. This loaf is rich in protein
carbohydrate and fat, hence forms
the principal dish for a meal.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
PERTINENT FOOD PARAGRAPHS

(By the Federal Food ADMINISTRATOR
The waster of butter, wheat, meat
and sugar is the worst Stacker OF all
he stabs his country's soldiers in
the back.
Some traitors blow up ships; more
empty the sugar bowl into the coffee
cup.
Every spoonful or lump of sugar
you save is a shot for you across NO
Mans Land" at the enemy.
This is a wartime Christmas. The
sugar, wheat, meat and fat you save
will be your gift to the boys over
there"
Do not overload your Christmas
dinner table; there are men fighting
for you across the Atlantic who need
the food. Don't waste it.
You will benefit yourself and help
others by eating less sweets at
Christmas time Sugar is needed
"over there.
The war can never be fully felt un-
til it is brought into your own home.
This is your war as an American
citizen; bring it into your home by
saving food.
You are the guard over the SOL
dier's rations: he will attend to the
enemy. Don't betray your trust.
Can you stuff yourself with food
at Christmas time when your neigh
bor's son may soon need that food to
help win your war? Serve smaller
portions. Don't waste any food.
Cornmeai is a Made-in-Alissouri
product. We should eat more of it
and save wheat for the soldiers.
Christmas candy that requires little
or no sugar is a gift to our Allies as
well as to the receiver.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
THE OPEN COLUMN
Concerning Candy.

Editor the Missourian: In the
queer upheaval which has followed
our entrance into war, more than one
theory of living has tumbled by the
wayside, to be replaced by one more
efficient and worked out more scien-
tifcally.
Now the old idea that homemade
candy should be preferred for chill
dren has been attacked. Miss Jennie
Snow, supervisor of household arts in
the Chicago schools, is the person
who has fired the bomb. She will be
saved if the candy is bought rather
than made in the home kitchen.
This seems to destroy pleasant
little pictures of home-life, in which
the entire family shifts hungrily while
mother stirs an appetizing mixture of
butter and sugar and chocolate on
the stove. But hear what Miss Snow
says:
Children need a certain amount
of sweets and if they try to get them
at home by making their own candy,
they will use more sugar than they
would if they bought it."-M. b.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24

Concerning Finland's needs and It's
causes. DR.. Ignatius said:
ain regard to food supply, Flnland
is worse off than any of the European
states whose sufferings have been
brought before the American public.
For months past. our people have
been eating bread made out OF -four
mixed with pine-bark and lichens, but
even with this expedient we cannot
hold out, as the flour reserve virtual
ly is exhausted, and even our hardy
population cannot eat unmiXed bark.
1.-The sufferings endured in the
summer were terrible, and since left
Finland in September they have be-
come much worse. Nothing can save
us except the prompt release by the
American Government of the -four
which we have already ordered and
paid for in the United States.
"All ] want is the release of enough
flour to save us from death and
hunger. Privation we have stood and
are willing to stand. We ask for this
concession and we base our demand
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

He does not pause to think; he
acts. He has no fear. The bigger
the task, the better he likes it. The
higher the stakes, the more heroic
his play. He never fears to put his
fate to the touch, and will cheerfully
risk his all on a throw" With these
words does a biographer describe
David Lloyd George, premier of Great
Britain.
Born and reared in a little Welsh
village between the mountains and
the sea, David Lloyd George from the
first stood out among his companions
as a born leader, one who was al
ways at the forefront of events,
whether it was a revolt against the
catechism or against the tyranny OF
the parson who refused the dying
wish of a Dissenter to be buried in
his child's grave. The whole charac-
ter and makeup of this small but
mighty man is summed up in the one
word -audacity.
AS his biographer says, Lloyd
George has the swiftest mind in poll
tics, a mind that carries with 1t no
impediments.' lie is the improvisor
of politics, laying his political plans
as he runs, thinking best on his feet,
never preparing a speech until the
crisis is upon him. Notwithstanding
his impulsiye nature, he is at bottom
the most subtle, the most resolute
and the most wiliful force in modern
politics, with passion that is always
controlled
But the big thing that stands out IN
the life of Premier Lloyd George is
the fact that he is always doing
things" And these are always big
things. When it came to the matter
of improving the English docks, ne
did not look in books for his informa-
ton but iourneyed to Antwerp ana
Hamburg to see for himself. Before
he brought in his Merchant Shipping
Bill, he took a voyage to Spain ana
learned about ships.
This, in a few words, is the man
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
THE VISION OF YOUTH

In the present conflict of peoples,
there often seems little to be thank
full for. The world is torn up by its
rootsT strong men have gone forth
to do battle and widows and orphans
are left to mourn their dead.
Yet there still remains one of the
most beautiful things the world has
ever known-the optimistic vision OF
youth. All over the land, young men
and young women have risen up,
radiant in their strength and beauty,
eager to fight the battle of freedom.
From far and near they have come,
not to promise, not to prate of their
sentiments, but to do the thing which
will bring their beautiful visions to
reality.
Tennyson might almost have writ
ten a portion of his 'Locksley Hail.
for the present time, so closely does it
fit conditions which prevail now. He
pictures the boy fresh from what has
been a period of study and seclu-
sion, facing the wonders of London
He shows how the heart leaps up at
sight of the throngs of men, every
one working and achieving in the
world.
He shows too, the young man as a
dreamer, dipping into the wonders of
what will be, gazing at the vision Of
the world and watching:
The heavens fill wItx commerce, argosies
of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping
down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and
there rain'd a CHASTITY dew
From the Nations airy nayieS graphing
in the central blue;
Far along the world wide whisper of the
south wind rushing warm,
With the standards of all peoples plung-
ing through the thunder storm;
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer,
and the battle flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation
of the world.
There the common sense of most shall
hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt
In universal law.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
PRESENT.DAY HEROISM


The gallant deeds of the heroes OF
old stood out because such acts were
not then daily events. Bravery to-
day is a commonplace.
An Ontario aviator flew to an enc
my airdome and, finding nobody
there to fight, proceeded to another
airdome three miles further on,
twelve miles within the enemy terri
tory. He found seven boche machines
with engines running. He swoOped
and attacked from a height of about
than fifty feet, and when the first
machine rose to meet him he poured
in fifteen rounds and sent it to the
ground The second got off the
ground and received thirty rounds be
fore it fell Two machines then left
the ground and the Canadian started
upward, not to escape, but to have
more room. At 1000 feet he attacked
one machine and sent it to the ground.
The second machine started for him;
he emptied all he had left into it and
returned to his station, being a little
fatigued
A non-commissioned officer delib-
erately gave his life to blow up a
German mine and bury the boches
whom he surprised. His heroism is
commemorated by a monument at
Vimy.
A major descended into a German
stronghold and captured, single
handed, more than a hundred. He is
wearing a V. c. now.
A lieutenant was wounded in the
arm and shoulder. He started back
to have his wounds dressed, but com
ing upon two of his platoon buried
by a shell explosion, he stopped and
dug them out, although he was suf-
fering tortures and was under heavy
fire.
Another lieutenant showed gal
lantry in obtaining his objective by
routing an enemy force three times
his number; he then consolidated his
position and beat off two counter at
tacks. About that time he noticed
that the officers of the company on
his left had been killed or disabled
and he went over and took command
and beat off another attack.
These are a few instances OF the
hazards men fearlessly undertake
daily in this war. They bring in
wounded under fire, extinguish blazes
of camoufiage over ammunition
dumps, fight on though wounded Sc
verely and stick to their ammunition
wagons after they are afire.
This is an era of dauntless bravery
and sacrifice.
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who rose with rocket-like speed to
the position of premier of the greatest
empire in the world. Unconscious
of the roads and fences of his fore
fathers, recognizing only the living
present, this man among men guides
the destinies of Great Britain in the
struggle that means a continuance of
the splendid power and rule of the
Empire or its defeat at the hands of
Prussianism. May his audacity and
ability to act correctly not fail him
in this hour of trial.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24

upon Justice as regards the past and
upou policy as regards the future.
"Our population is not pro-German.
1t was, I admit, anti-Russian, or
rather anti-autocracy. 1t has always
been devoted to America, England and
France, from which countries in our
darkest hour we received sympathy
and moral support. 1 have myself
always championed the Allies cause
at home, and l do not desire to see
nv hungry fellow-countrymen throw
ing themselves in despair into Ger
many's hands. In order to gain Scan
dinavian support, Germany, month
ago. ostentatiously sold breadstuffs to
Sweden. Probably she would do the
same to Finland, but that is not the
kind of help we want.
I'VE want help from the Allies
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-12-24
U. S. FLOUR VITAL TO FINLAND
People Face Death From Starvation
Eat Bread of Bark.

Correspondence OF the Associated Pressl
NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.-Speedy
death from hunger threatens the
greater part of the population of Fin
land unless they can obtain -four
from the United States, asserts DR..
Kaarlo Ignatius, Commissioner OF the
Finnish government for negotiating
the release of food-tsuffs by the
United States Government. in a state
ment to the Associated Press. The
threat to Finland is not privation or
even chronic starvation, he declares