Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-29

Will come unless America puts forth all her ener-
gies to supply them.
But 1t is most essential to feed America first.
Even now a large class of our people are feeling
the weight of food shortage. Food riots and par
tial famine threatened by crop failure in the
United States. So 1t is up to the American farmer
to do his best.
Many conditions have contributed to bring about
the situation In which there are hunger riots in a
land rich naturally. Much of the shortage of
food is primarily due to costly habits of eating
which for many decades have been holding all
classes in their clutch The time is at hand when
the nation will appreciate the many valuable
tices which before Columbus came the Indians
developing. There many food products
native to the Western world which have been unac
countaby neglected.
The most striking examples of unused value in
foods is the crop Every other nation in the
world is eager for American corn and yet this
cheap and highly nutritious cereal is neglected in
the land which Is its main source of supply. What
wheat was to the armies of old, corn could be to
the forces of the United States.
The legons of Hannibal and of Caesar sub
sisted the whole wheat; Gaus cOnqueror in his =.
commentaries" tells how soldiers chewed fru-
mentum as they marched. To this day Roman and
Punic skeletons are unearthed on the old battle
fields of Europe and the skulls firm and hard
because of the valuable salts and BODYBUILDING
constituents which came from the wheaton diet of
the ancient sOldery.
Corn is no less valuable builder of brave
and sturdy men. The favOrite ration of Davy
Crockett parched and ground corn. which he
carried with him into the depths of the forest. 1t
was a saying of his that If man had gun and
ten pounds of parched he could easily live a
year. His diet a trick learned from the In
dams who able to withstand the fatigues Of
warpath and hunting trail because of this simple
and quickly assimilated food. The corn, rich in
starch and protein. parched until 1t was made
quickly digesble, mixed with water. A cup
full of this most simple of all the elxirs had the
effect of almost instantly strengthening the tired
body.
The government of the United States urges upon
the people of this country that at least onefourth
part of cornmeal be added to wheaton -four in the
making OF bread. As matter of fact, corn has
been used In the form of fine flour for centuries
by various tribes of Indians, and when well enough
ground It is fully palatable the wheaton
product.
The coarse cornmea bears little resemblance To
the impalpable powder of corn which the primitive
races of this continent made by grinding between
stones and that by hand. The outer covering Of
the kernels is scraped off after soaking them in
hot water TO which a little I've has been added.
This Hour is mixed with water at times. and the
white liquid resulting is quaffed with much relish.
1t emergency ration of the highest food value
Whittier has sung the praises of the dish of
samp and milk by homeSpun beauty poured The
hominy block in the time of Daniel Boone
adjunct of the cabin of every settler. Ii stood at
the edge of clearings a mark of the diet 10
which those stecl-thewed pioneers looked for
strength.
The johnnycake and the pone Of the
hardy mountaineers of the South bear abundant
testimony 10 the bodybuilding qualities of the
simple from which they are derived.
Corn enters into the composition of patent break