The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-20
GREENWOOD, MISS, AUGUST 20, 1917.

GREENWOOD, MISS, AUGUST 20, 1917.
SUBSTITUTE CORN FOR WHEAT.
We do not know the relative nutrinlent value OF
corn as compared to wheat when made into bread,
cakes and other good things to eat, but we be-
lieve that the people Of the country have it in
their power to break up every alleged wheat and
-four combination in the world today, by ceasing
for a few months to use -four and substitute there
for corn and corn meal, says the Meridian Star.
In 1915 the United States produced approx
mately six billion bushels Of corn. The 1916 crop
was some smaller, but the crop this year promises
to about equal, or possibly surpass that Of 1916.
Corn can be ground into meal and the meal into
bread cakes and many other good things to eat,
taking the place of wheat as a table food. 1t can
be fed to cattle and hogs and sheep and turned into
meat. It can be used as food, directly or Indirect
ly, in many ways.
The people can get along without wheat flour
for a long period if they will, by substituting corn
meal, and discover that they lived as well and are
as healthy as they have been while living, more
or less exclusively, on wheat products.
If Europe won't eat our corn, let Europe have
the wheat and eat the corn ourselves.
> There ought to be more recipes for corn in the
cook books, more housewives who know the value
of corn and how to serve it as a table food.
The American people have too long turned up
their noses at corn food. 1t is time they pulled
themselves together and take advantage Of one
Of the best and most largely produced home
grown grains.
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FORD THE PACIFIST.
If the country had more paciists like Henry
Ford it would be decidedly better off. Having
failed to bring about peace by peaceful means, he
has redoubled his efforts but in different direc.
ton:
Peace being the end for which he is striving,
he is no stickler for the method by which it is at
tanned. Failing to talk peace into Europe, he is
now willing to shoot it into her, and is busy man.
ufacturng war material from which he is not de-
rivng a cent of profit.
The, Ford factory at Detroit is making 1000
airplane cylinders a day at exact cost by a new
process for the United States Government.
II would be glad to make 10000 daily without
deriving one cent of profit-even at a loss-if by
so doing l could insure a permanent peace and put
an end to militarism," Mr.. Ford said. "This war
is going to teach the United States a lesson in
economy"
The contract on which the Ford plant is work.
ing calls for 10000 of the cylinders. Mr.. Ford
said his company is also engaged in making trac-
tors for Belgium and for the British Government.
Henry Ford has often been called a crank and
a dreamer, but some how he manages to dream
the right dreams at the right time and crank up
the ideas that fit in where they will do the most
good, says the Jackson Clarion Ledger.
There is only one Henry Ford. and while he
may have some cranky ideas, he has put them
to magnificent use, and no one can question his
loyalty and devotion to his country.
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LATEST STYLE IN WATERMELONS.
Don't refuse to buy a water melon just because
the stem looks as if it had been dabbed with a
blush starch paste, is the advice the United
States Department of Agriculture is giving tc
housewives. Even if the melon is somewhat
srneared with the same substance it's contents are
not affected. Painting the stems of watermelons
with a paste made out of hluestone and starch is
Uncle Sans latest agricultural style. This treat
ment prevents sten-end rot OF WateTmeions which
in the past has caused vast losses in this fruit in
transit to market. The little dab Of starch paste
or possibly of Bordeaux pate, therefore, is to be
taken rather as evidence that the shipper to make
sure that the melons reached market free from
this rot. Some growers, in a hurry, smear some
of the paste on the outside rind of the melon but
this does no damage beyond ~lessening it's attrac.
tive appearance.
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The Mississippi Railroad Commission has or
dered all railroads in the State to obey chapter 81
Of the laws of 1908 which require that any mem
Der Of the family Of the person owning a mileage
book can ride on the book.