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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
Farmers and Amateur Farmers.

Apprehension lest too much foodstufi
will be produced this year under the
pressure of great general endeavor may
be dismissed without any worry at all
The world will want all that is raised.
Nor need we worry about the thousands
of amateur agriculturists who will
farm" very bravely until the weeds be-
gin to grow and the cutworms begin to
rage and then will give it up. That
sort of farming and failure is always CO.
ing on. If every three out of four gar
den-plot hustlers fail to produce any
thing, the fourth man will produce a
great deal More power to his ARM
This is to be said, OF course, that by
tilling one new acre for every ten that
they titled last year, the real farmers of
the country can add more 10 the sgri-
cultural production of the United States
this year than all the amateurs, all the
city men, all the golf links of America
can produce in twenty years. Well and
good; let the farmers shame the am
steurs in that way if they will. 1t will
all rebound to the worlds good Let us
hope. that the farmers OF the country
will have sufficient scorn for the ana
teurs to induce them not to desist from
any of their own planting for fear the
amateurs are going to glut the market.
Meanwhile the sun is getting higher ev-
cry day and the ground is drying out.
Speed the plough and the spade!-Bvston
Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

Gates lifclessness OF the skin and means
should be employed to stimulate it. \
Turkish bath is very beneficial to the
skin. Dip a folded Turkish towel into
hot water and wiring out by twisting in
dry towel and apply to the face as hot
as is endurable. Leave it on the face
until it becomes cool, then repeat the
process four or five times. After drying
the face lightly with soft towel, yigor-
ously massage good cold cream into the
skin while the flesh is still warm. After
five minutes of massage, apply towel III
the same manner, allowing it to remain
on only until the skin is warm, then fol-
low with a towel wrung out of very cold
water, or massage with a piece of ice in
soft cloth. After this treatment the
face will be all in glow and the cir
culation greatly improved.
A cup of hot, unsweetened lemonade
taken before breakfast each morning will
improve the general health as we'll as
the complexion if the latter is afflicted with
sallowness. Buttermik is whitening, if
used after bathing the face in warm wa
ter and allowed to dry into the skim
Woman's World for April.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
INCREASE CORN PRODUCTION.
Secretary of Agriculture Urges Attention
to This Cereal.

The secretary of agriculture on April
Is issued the following statement:
Corn is Americas most important ee-
real. 1t can be grown successfully over
wider area than any other and fur
nishes nutritious food for man as well
as the staple grain feed for cattle and
draft animals. The production of corn
should be increased this year 10 the full
est extent, taking into consideration
seed, labor and existing conditions, and
the availability of good land in corn
growing regions not needed more urgent
ly for other crops The acreage may
well be increased in most of the country
east of the Tooth meridian, as corn, in
general, thrives in this region.
An appreeisble increase in the corn
crop is most feasible, however. in the
sections of highest corn production. Fs-
vorable growing conditions exist in such
regions; farmers there are familiar with
corn growing; they have the necessary
equipment available, and have adapted
corn production to prevailing economic
conditions. Farmers in such regions,
through many years Of experience, have
learned methods of successfully combat
ing adverse conditions. They know that
the planting of virile, tested seed in we'll
titled, friable soil, immediate replanting
of missing hills. and early and continued
cultivation of the fields count for much
in the ability of the plants TO produce a
bountiful yield. This knowledge should
be put to good use during the coming
season in order that however unfsyOrable
conditions may be production of an ex-
ceptionslly large crop may be assured.
In practically every county in the
country in which experience has shown
that corn may be produced successfully,
the possibilities Of increasing the corn
crop without encrosching upon other i'm
Portant crops is at least worthy of con
sideration, if land, labor and seed are
available.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
BRUTALITY
OF GERMANS
In Conduct of Affairs in Bel
GUM Told by Brand
Whitlock
REPORT WAS HELD UP
TILL HE WAS SAFE
State Department in Wash
ington Makes Docu-
ment Public

Washington, D. c., April ga bite
indictment of German brutality in tn
deportation of conquered Belgians TO
forced labor, written from behind tn
German lines by Brand Whitlock, Amer
lean minister to Belgium, was made pub
lie Saturday night by the state depart
ment. 1t came in confidential repor
hst January when the United State
was vainly protesting to Berlin against
The treatment of the helpless people, bu
Ghe department did not dare publish it a.
that time or until Mr.. Whitlock was safe
on French SOIL
The report begins with story of what
happened Immediately after the German
army overran Belgium, of arrangements
by the Belgian government to continue
the wages of civilians thrown out OF
work, and of the conquerors' determine
tion to put these men to work for them
"In August, Won Hindenburg was ap.
pointed to the supreme command" says
the report ''He is said to have criticised
Won Bissing's policy as too mild; there
was a quarrel; Won Kissing went to Ber-
lin 10 pIoltsl, tiiedbtHtu W itSiSH, bue
did not. He returned, and German
official here said that Belgium would now
be subjected to more terrible regime,
would learn what war was. The proph-
ecy has been indicated.
"The deportations began in October in
the etappen German military depots)
ut Client and at Bruges. The policy
spread; the rich industrial districts of
Hainault, the mines and steel works
about Charleroi were next attacked, now
they are Selling men in Brabant, even in
Brussels, despite some indications and
even predictions of the civil authorities
that the policy was about to be aban-
doned. As by one of the ironies
of life the winter has been more exces-
sively cold than Belgium has ever known
it, and while many of those who present
ed themselves were adequately protected
against the cold, many of them were
without overcoats. The men shivering
from cold and fear, the parting from
weeping wives and children, the barriers
of brutal uhlans, all this made the scene
a pitiable and distressing one.
"The rage, the terror and despair ex-
cited by this measure all over Belgium
were beyond anything we had witnessed
since the day the Germans poured into
Brussels. The delegates of the commits
sion for relief in Belgium, returning to
Brussels, told the most distressing stories
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
Looks After 1000 Women.

A new profession for women is mother.
! ing big Office buildings, and in the Equit.
able building in New York City, &c
stories high, a young woman. Miss Marie
L. McComb, looks after the physical com
fort and welfare of 1900 women occu-
pants of the building, heads of depart
ments, stenographers, business women
and cleaning women. Every woman con-
nected in any way with the work of the
big building comes under her influence.
When the building was erected suite
of rooms was set aside for the offices of
this department, and it is the only build
ing in the world where so complete prep
aration has been made for the welfare of
its workers.
There are restrooms, classes in bust
ness English, noontime lectures, con-
certs, dances and other popular features,
and over all these Miss McComb has the
charge. There are also first aid equip
ments and silence rooms, where the
weary or i'll may be cared for.
The place that such a welfare depart
ment fills in the life of the tenants is
shown by the fact that last month some
1926 visits were made to the restrooms
and over 1000 to the silence rooms, 400
people were given first aid, including
stray office boys and now and then a
forlorn business man.
Sallow complexion is caused by some
internal arrangement. such as indiges
ton or a sluggish liver. First of all try
to overcome that condition, for you can
not expect to have bright, glowing skin
until that is done. Occasionally, how
ever, sallow complexion simply indi
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

of the scenes of cruelty and sorrow at
tending the seizures. And daily, hourly
almost, since that time, appalling stories
have been related by Belgians coming te
the legation. 1t is impossible for us to
verify them; first, because it is neces-
sary for us to exercise all possible tact
in dealing with the subject at all, and
secondly, because there is no means OF
communication between the Occupations
Gebiet employment Department. and
the Etappen Gabiet.
"The well known tendency of sensa-
tional reports to exaggerate themselves,
| especially in time of war, and in situa-
tion like that existing here, with no
newspapers to serve as a daily clearing
house for all the rumors that are avidly
believed as they are eagerly repeated,
should, of course, be considered, but even
if modicum of all that is told Is true,
there still remains enough to stamp this
deed as one of the foulest that history
records.
81 am constantly in receipt of reports
from all over Belgium that tend to bear
out the stories one constantly hears of
brutality and cruelty. A number of
men sent back to Mons are said to be in
a dying condition, many of them tuber
cular At Malines and at Antwerp re-
turned men have died, their friends as
sorting that they have been victims OF
neglect and cruelty, of cold, of exposure,
Of hunger.
Il have had requests from the burgo-
masters of 10 eommunes from La Lou
l., hnt ~ aHt of
to send to the deported men in Germany
packages of food similar to those that
are being sent to prisoners of war. Thus
far the German authorities have refused
to permit this except in special instances,
and returning Belgians claim that even
when such packages are received they
are used by the camp authorities only
as another means of coercing them to
sign the agreement to work.
ut is said that in spite of the liberal
salary promised those who would sign
voluntarily, no money has as yet been
received in Belgium from workmen in
Germany.
"one interesting result of the deporta
tions remains to be noted, a result that
once more places in relief the German
capacity IoT DluHuerlHS, dlInost as great |
as the German capacity for cruelty.
"They have dealt mortal blow to
any prospect they may ever have had Of
being tolerated by the population Of
Flanders; in tearing away from nearly |
every humble home in the land hus-
band and a father or son and brother, /
they have lighted fire of hatred that !
will never go out; they have brought
home to every heart in the land in way |
that will impress its horror indelibly on
the memory of three generations, a real
zation of what German methods mean,
not, as with the early atrocities in the
heat of passion and the first lust of war,
but by one of those deeds that make one
despair of the future of the human race,
4 deed coldly planned, studiously ma
tured and deliberately and systematical
" executed, a deed so cruel that German
soldiers are said to have wept in its ex-
scution and so monstrous that even Ger
nan officers are now said to be ashamed"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
Dainty Cakes and Frostings.

Golden Pound Tea Cakes-Wash and
work until creamy onehalf cup butter,
add gradually while beating constantly
one-half cup sugar, the yolks of tour
| eggs well beaten three and one-third Ia
blespoons medium cream, one cup Aour
mixed and sitted twice with one half tea
spoon baking powder, one-fourth tea
spoon mace and one half tablespoon lem
on juice Bake in buttered and Toured
| individual tins in very slow oven. Upon
removing from tins sprinkle with pow
dered sugar.
| Mocha Cake--Cream onefourth cup
butter, add gradually one cup sugar, two
| squares Bakers bitter chocolate melted,
] two eggs well beaten. one half cup milk,
( one and one third cups -four mixed and
sifted with one-half teaspoon salt and
three teaspoons baking powder Flavor
with one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in lay
or cakepan and put between and on top.
For frosting--Wash and work until
creamy one-fourth cup butter. Mix >one
and one fourth cups confectioners' sugar
with one third cup breakfast cocoa, and
add to butter alternately with three la
blespoons heavy cream, then add one half
Fall River Orange Cake-Beat yolks of
five eggs and whites of three until thick,
add gradually two cups sugar and one
half cup cold water; then add two cups
flour mixed and sifted with one teaspoon
soda, two teaspoons cream of tartar and
the grated rind and juice of one orange
and one-half lemon. Bake in shailow
buttered and Toured cakepans. Cover
with orange frosting made like this;
Boil one cup sugar and one-third cup wa
ter until it win spin thread; pour slow
ly onto the white of egg beaten slightly
and beat until mixture begins to thick
en-; then add one teaspoon lemon juice
beaten until little sitter, then cover
and let stand a few minutes. Add two
orange marmalade.
Fudge Squares-Melt half cup but
ter. add two squares chocolate, three
beaten eggs, one cup sugar and three
fourths cup -four mixed and sifted with
one half teaspoon each baking powder
and salt; then add one cup chopped Eng
lish walnut meats and one teaspoon va
nilla. Spread in shallow pans, bake
a bout 10 minutes and cut while warm.
Christmas Macaroons-Break one-half
pound almond paste into small pieces
and mix with the hand, adding gradually
a cup of sugar less one tablespoon, and
scant one-half cup egg whites. When
perfectly blended stir in onethird cup
powdered sugar. Shape, using pastry
bag and tube. onto sheets covered with
hin paper and bake in slow oven Re-
move from oven, invert paper and maca-
-oons. and wet with cloth wrung out of
old water, when macaroons may be cas-
lv removed Frost and decorate with
caves in the form OF wresths and tie
yreaths with a red bow or ornamental
resting made the same as orange frost
ng. emitting the marmalade and coloring
ed and green. Dorothy Dexter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
fine FOR RHEUMATISM!
Musterole Loosens Up Those Stiff
Joints-Drives Out Pain

You'll know why thousands use Nus
terole once you experience the glad re-
lief it gives.
Get a jar at once from the nearest
drug store. II is a clean, white ointment,
made with the oil of mustard. Better
than a mustard plaster and does not
blister. Brings ease and comfort while
it is being rubbed onls
Musterole is recommended by many
doctors and nurses. Millions of jars are
used annually for bronchitis, Group. stiff
neck. asthma, neuralgia. pleurisy. rheu-
matism. Iumbago, pains and aches of the
back or joints, sprains. sore muscles.
bruises. chiIblains. frosted feet, colds of
the chest ct often prevents pneumonia).
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
ROOSEVELT WARNS OF
u. S. FOOD WASTE
He Would Limit Amount of Grain Used
by Brewers and Distillers-Stop
"Joy Riding" to Save
Gasolene.

New York, April ,23.--Col Theodor,
Roosevelt, in forcefril address before
the Long Island Reserve Food battalion
and the Nassau county farm bureau at
Mineola Saturday, advocated that steps
be taken at once to limit the amount OF
grain nsed for the brewing and distilla
tion of intoxicating liquors.
He also advocated that the use OF aI-
tomobiles for JOY riding be stopped, SO
that the nations supply of gasolene can
be conserved for war purposes That the
government, in case of food shortage
should mobilize and conscript men for
tilling the soil, was his parting admon-
ton to the several hundred Nassau ooun-
ty farmers and real estate owners, who
cheered his every utterance. He said:
when we are threatened with short
age of foodstuf1s. as is apparent in the
countrywide crop reports to-day, and
when ii is our duty to supply food to our
allies to our utmost ability, we should
see that needed grain food necessities are
not diverted from proper uses to the
manufacture of intoxicants. Most OF the
belligerent nations in Europe have taken
up this problem and settled it; let us be-
gin at once to see to it that our grain is
kept for food and not put into alcoholic
beverages
There are many other sides to this
economy question. Joy riding should be
stopped. 1t is a waste of gasolene and
we are going to need more gasolene than
ever before in our war activities and also
should supply il to our allies in greater
quantities than ever"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
AFTER GRIPPE
vinol Restored Mr.. Martins Strength

Wapakoneta, 0hio--'T am farmer
by occupation, and the grippe left me
with bad cough and in nervous weak,
run down condition, and | could not seem
to get anything to do me any good until
] took Vinol, which built me up, and my
cough and nervousness are all gone, and
] can truly say Vinol is all that is
claimed for thames Martin.
Vinol is a constitutional remedy for
all weak, nervous and rundown conditions
of men, women and children, and for
chronic coughs, colds and bronchitis. Red
Cross Pharmacy, Floyd G. Russell, Prop,
Barre; also at the leading drug store in
all Vermont towns.--Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

! could not stand
it any longer. 1t
was all in my lower
organs. At times l
could hardly walk,
for If / stepped on .
little stone / would
almost faint. Ono
day / did faint and
m y husband W as
sent for and the doc
tor came. l was ia
ken to the hospital
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

of Cuticura Soap when was completely
healed" (Signed) Victor Parson, u
Pleasant View Ave, Everett, Mass.
Sept. Is, 1916.
In purity, delicate medication, con-
venience and economy, Cuticura Soap
and Ointment meet with the approval
of the most discriminating. Cuticura
is ideal for everyday use in the toilet.
For Free Sample Each by Return
Mail address postcard: "Cuticura,
Dept r, Boston," Sold everywhere.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

and stayed four weeks but when | came
home / would faint just the same and
had the same pains.
A friend who is a nurse asked me to
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable COM
pound. began taking it thatvery day
for was suffering great deal. thas
already done me more good than the
hospital. To anyone who is suffering
as was my advice is to stop in the first
drug store and get bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before
you go home. Mrs. w. C. BROWN,
1s44 W. 18th St., Cleveland, Ohio.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
Balfour's Hopes for Conference.

While unable to grant regular inter
view before presenting himself to Presi-
dent Wilson, Mr. Bslfour willingly con
sented to say few words as to his gen
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

burned and itched so /
could not sleep and ] was
dishgured.
"a friend of mine advised
me TO use Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. | used a sample
and my face began TO heal
so ] bought more and /
used two boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and three cakes
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
Warns Against Soil Wastage.

The colonel took fling at his wealthy
neighbors OF Nassau county, many of
whom were within his hearing.
Everything that does not count for
vital welfare should be reduced. BY that
! mean, among other things, the utiliza-
ton of ground in the cultivation of roses
and other gardens. Not only should the
soil not be wasted on such things at this
time, but the men now employed in such
work should be put to more useful occu.
pations.
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is in being
wise in time. We may be going into a
far greater trial than we think. Who
can tell whether the war will last one
year. or two years, or threel We should
guard and prepare our industries and our
agriculture.
"There should be universal obligatory
service outside of the army. Every man
and woman, without respect of age,
should have his or her activities utilized
in the most efficient way. / hope if Sc.
we're crop shortage threatens, the govern
ment will mobilize labor and use it so as
to prevent such shortage. In the next
few months, farm work will be Just as
necessary as any military work. The
work the nations farms, if such is neces-
sary.
There should be an appeal for the vol
untary cooperation OF all fellows who
can TO help in this farm work II they
volunteer, well and good; if they don't,
compel them"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

To keep celery fresh and crisp, prepare
it for the table, then wet an old piece of
clean linen in ice cold water and place
the celery on the ice. 1t will keep a
week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
BigRedPimples
DisfiguPedface
Large and Fierce-looking. Burned
and Itchcd So Could Not Sleep.
2 Boxes Cutieura Ointment and 8
Cakes Soap Healed. Cost $t.B.

II began to have big red pimples
break out on my face. They were large
and fierce looking and festered. They
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

After grating lemon peel or anything
that sticks to the crater, hold the crater
under the cold water faucet. rub with
your vegetable brush and everything is
removed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

To remove cocoa and chocolate stains
from table linen soak over night in cold
water, then pour boiling water through
the stains from good height
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

A very good filling for layer cake is
made by mixing a pound of finely minced
shelled almonds with two eggs, a cupful
of confectioner's sugar and teaspoonful
of vanilla
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23
four WEEKS
IN HOSPITAL
No Relief-Mrs. Brown Fin
ally Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Cleveland, Ohio. For years / suf-
fered SO sometimes it seemed as though
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

In one New Jersey city messenger girls
are employed by the Western Union Tele-
graph company. They are doing such
good work that more girls will be en-
ployed in the future. They wear their
own street dresses and wraps with the
uniform messenger caps of the service.
The girl messengers do not work at night,
nor are they sent to Objectionable places.
They are also learning telegraph operat
ing.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-23

Few housekeepers really appreciate the
cleaning properties of kerosene. A rag
saturated with it will clean stationary
washstands, bsthtubs and kitchen sinks.
A little used in cold water for wiping up
floors will remove the dirt and leave a
nice polish, 1t is good for floors made
Of southern pine and it keeps them in
good condition. Proportion, a table.
spoonful to half pail of cold water. 1t
is also excellent for cleaning linoleums
and can be used either with or without
water and in the water for cleaning
woodwork. If it is once tried by a
housekeper she will never be without a
bottle or can of it kept where it is ac-
cessible.