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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
THE WHEAT HABIT.
By H. Addington Bruce

~ some time, as everybody knows, the
II United States department of agriculture has
=, been urging economy in the of wheat,
and the substitution Of other cereals as bread
stuffs sc -2,
Against this campaign for wheat economy as a
war measure has been the popular feeling that
wheat Is indispensable. But lately facts have
come TO light suggesting that the prevalent use of
wheat is more of habit than anything else.
These facts touched on in recent issue
of the Journal of the American Medical association,
in editorial deserving wide publicity. Here
have space for only those parts of it which are
why it may properly be asked, should
much emphasis be placed on wheat, among all
the cereal crops?
wheat not provided in comparable degree by other
available products?
Would the substitution of other cereals to
greater less extent impair the health or COM
fort of the needy nations?
ITO these questions the psychologist of to-
day must, think reply that the demand for
wheat represents psychologist and traditional i'm
pulse rather than any non-replaceable need"
More than this:
I'm criticising the prevailing popular view
that among cereal grains wheat is of superior
nutritive worth Hart, Halpin and SteenbQck have
pointed to numerous experiments on mammals to
the contrary. These leave little room for doubt
that the wheat grain contains a mildly toxic
material.
"In addition, the Wisconsin investigators just
mentioned state that the wheat problems are o:
inferior quality and may be responsible for some
served when wheat has been fed excessively
Excessive wheat feeding to cattle or swine
ultimately induces pathoogic changes in the ner-
vous tissue.
1T has also been ascertained that young chick
ems tolerate excessive wheat feeding poorly, and
then only when the mineral content of the ration
is adjusted the proteins of the wheat improved
by the addition of casein, and more liberal sup
ply of fat soluble vitamine furnished"
But:
1t would be obvious exaggeration or
misstatement to declare that wheat flour is
undesirable nutrient. The experience of genera
tions contradicts this; and science makes such
unwarranted claim except for an exclusive diet in
which wheat plays the chief role
Properly supplemented, wheat flour, like
other cereals, becomes admirably adapted for use
a food. =
THE point to be emphasized is that great
physioogic deprivation is entailed by restriction
in the daily intake of wheat flour and substitu-
ton of other more abundant appropriate sources
of energy and protein
Ponder these statements. They certainly sug>
gest that it would be distinct gain, rather than
a loss to break ourselves in some degree OF the
wheat habit.
Not abandoning wheat altogether, we may use
in larger proportion than at present such cereals
as corn, rye oats, and rice. By so doing we shall
help our country in time of need, and help 1t
with direct benefit to ourselves.
Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12

pendents. both during the and afterwards.
Each of these and sundry other appropriations rep
resents not simply great sum of money but
great idea and each represents incalculable
amount of hard and able thinking. The tax and
bond measures passed at this session of Congress
authorize the raising of twenty-five billions Of dol
lars and provide for raising that vast sum by meth
DDS economically sound and altogether fair to the
people What towering tribute to American devo-
ton and insight as well as to American resources
There partisan divisions at this war
session: Democrats and Republicans worked as
comrades and soldiers of a common cause. Indeed,
there were no considerable divisions of any sort.
A lean and laggard minority, it is true, opposed
many OF the important measures; but that opposi-
ton was always futile. The great majority or
Representatives and Senators came back to their
home States and districts with record of stanch
loyalty to the President and to the nations inter
ests and ideals For the few who faltered and
failed. there who went unwaVerlngy
forward. Theirs is the priceless satisfaction or
having served their people worthily and we'll, ana
of having made their nation within six short
months the most powerful factor in the world war.
Theirs is the glory of having made democracy as
efficient for the storm and shock of battle as for
the ways of peace. Theirs will be the gratitude Of
American hearts so long the blood of freedom
runs warm and red and the principles of the re-
public endure
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
Potash in Plenty.

If the expectations of the United States Geo
logical Survey realized shall never again
be dependent Germany for potash. According
to the Survey, Searles Lake, in San Bernardno
county, California contains enough of that valuable
mineral, and in a form easily available to supply
the needs of the entire country. Machinery for
exploiting this vast store is already in place; and
under the terms of recently enacted legislation
providing Government supervision for the develop
ment of this and other deposits, the work will pro-
coed with the utmost expedition.
What this will to the nation, and par
tcularly to the agricultural South is suggested by
the fact that potash which sold in the neigh
borhood of twenty dollars ton has risen the be-
ginning of the TO high as five hundred
dollars a ton. The Albany, Georgia, Herald inter
estngly points that per cent of free potash
in fertilizer adds dollars to it's price and that
potash fertilizer has doubled the yield of corn in
Indiana beans in Michigan and sweet potatoes in
South Carolina"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
WHEN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
COMES OF AGE.
By DR.. Frank Crane

r rs young yet, the twentieth century, but it's
growing fast
= Through the greatest catacylsms of his
tory the soul of the world is maturing rapidly.
Behind the cloud and storm the sun is shining.
Lift up your heads! At evening time it shall be
light.
When the twentieth century shall come of age
the world shall leap forward, touched by the
golden spur of truth.
went mad and attempted to assassinate mankind
she put the finishing stroke to war, for she made
us to see it in all its hideousness, its brutal self,
stripped of it's romantic paint and plumes.
Says H. G. Wells:
1T is only in the study of the gloomily mega
lomaniac historian that aggressive war becomes
large and glorious thing. In reality 1t is filthy
outrage upon life an idiots smashing of the fur
niture of homes, mangling, malignant mischief.
a scalding of stokers, disembowelling of gunners,
a raping of caught women by drunken soldiers"
In the twentieth century we shall have a school
house in every hamlet of the world, in Africa,
Mexico China and Russia, as thick as in America.
Every child shall be given his chance.
We have had the age of the warrior and the
age of the priest; the twentieth century shall be
the age Of the school teacher.
Every woman shall have equal privileges and
rights with before the law.
The lanes of the shall be free to all sails.
The barriers and impediments at national
boundaries shall be removed and commerce shall
be free.
The common sense of mankind shall crystalline
into world unity and international law backed by
the international police.
The Orient and the Occident shall clasp hands
in brotherhood.
The churches shall cease to contend and begin
to cooperate.
Jesus Christ shall cease to be fetch and be-
come the great inspiration.
-. The cause of the laborng shall become the
cause of humanity, and capital the concern of the
nation.
The unearned increment from all natural re-
sources shall go to the whole people.
The light from the torch of the Bartholdi statue
shall penetrate to Berlin and Constantinople
Humanity shall come to itself, shake off its
ancient decisions, and the prophetic words of Vic
tor Hugo shall be realized:
"In the twentieth century war will be dead the
scaffold will dead royalty will be dead, and dog
mas will be dead; but man will live. For all there
will be but country-that country the whole
earth; for all will be but hope-that hope
the whole heaven. All hail, then, to that noble
twentieth century which children shall inherit
Copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
The Worlds Best Paid Soldiers

The last thing in the minds of our boys with the
colors is their pay. They responded to their coun-
trys call, both volunteers and selectmen, for
the aIl-absorbing purpose of helping to whip the
Kaiser and to keep America free. They more
think of this service in terms of dollars and cents
than the country thinks of being able to compen-
safe them on any such basis 1t is nevertheless in
teresting to note that of all soldiers in all lands
and all times the American in this war receives
far and away the highest stipend. The Japanese
soldier receives about two and a half cents day,
as do also the Russian and the Austro- Hungarian.
The Sultan's fighters, when paid at all, draw each
the munifcent of ninety-two cents a month.
The French poilu receives between one and half
and two dollars a month, and the British dol
lars and sixty cents. The monthly pay of the
American soldier is thirty dollars.
This may be considered merely as spending
money or as the nucleus of a snug savings &C
count, because all of the private soldiers living
necessities are furnished him, in abundance and
of the best quality. Amusements also furnished
him. the Y. NJ. c. A, the he'd Cross and the Gov
eminent itself to it that he is freely provided
with wholesome diversion for his leisure hours
Furthermore, under the admirable system of war
insurance which Congress has inaugurated, the sol
der, by small investment, assure his depend
ents substantial income; and supplementing this
are special facilities for monthly savings Taking
into account all these opportunities, together with
the present cost of living, one may safely compute
the American soldiers monthly pay as being
equivalent to seventy-fve a hundred dollars. AS
compensation for his heroic service that sum is
utterly inconsderable; indeed, his only true com
pensation is his countrys gratitude and his own
consciousness of duty done 1t is a matter of we'll
warranted pride and satisfaction, however that
America gives her with the colors the largest
monetary allowance ever known to in the
ranks.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12

war was followed by reaction. Merchants found
that business falling off. People were not
buying the luxuries they should. So a counter
campaign was started for business usual
These conflicting lines of advice from high authori
ties have left that bIffeted and struggling indi-
vdual, the average citizen, in state of complete
bewiderment. This has been further increased
by ridiculous and wholly unfounded rumor that
the government would seize stocks of food in pri-
vate houses. Having been advised to food and
store food by his government, the startled house
holder now hears that il is all to be taken away
from him.
OF course, the government has no idea of sez-
ing food stocks in private homes, is there the
remotes possibility that the necessities of
will call for such measure Furthermore,
the preservation and storage of foods are very de-
sirable both from the individual and the national
standpoint. They add definite amount to the
nations food supply, because at this time of the
year, great quantities of vegetables and fruits
thrown out at all the markets, left to rot in the
fields and orchards. Every pound stored or pre-
served is a pound saved.
This is especially true of vegetables which
will keep through the winter for no labor OF can
ming preserving is needed for them-merely the
forethought to provide proper place for keeping
them.
t
Furthermore 1t is vegetables and not staples
which should be stored. The buying and storing
of flour and sugar is mistake, for by reducing
the retail stocks it automatically forces prices.
The present high price of food staples in small
measure due to such boarding.
AlmostSany one who lives in a house may store
vegetables successfully for winter use, for he will
possess either cellar, attic backyard. He
cannot do this, however, unless he knows how.
Sweet potatoes that will keep until March in a
place that is cool, dry and properly ventilated,
will begin to less than week If kept lin the
kitchen. A storeroom that would be entirely ade-
uuate in the Carolinas would not at all In
Massachusetts,. Experet advice is therefore,
absolute necessity The cost of making a store
room, however, need not be more than a few
dollars in most
For the apartment dweller the is different,
and generally hopeless. He usually has nothing in
the way of a commissary department except
kitchenette with the emphasis the diminutfve,
and he is necessarily paper bag dweller." Yet
as DIR. Corbett points out, it would be thoroughly
possibly to provide in the basement of the apart
ment house an ideal food storage locker for each
apartment. The real estate man who will build
an apartment with such feature, and advertise its
advantages, should ride to success on the present
enthusiasm for economy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
Liberty Bonds and Farmers.

The Townsville Times Enterprise makes this
cogent appeal for the purchase of Liberty bonds:
"A patriot comes to the aid of his country,
with his life, if that is necessary. This
is not required from many millions of men and
women, who can give their bit by lending
money to the Government. 1t should be the
pleasure as we'll as the duty of men, with
money, to take up five billions of the loan at
once. The farmers of the United States have
reaped a harvest that is enormous and by rea-
son of the fact that the war has caused their
profit, they ought to be willing to lend some
Off it to the United States. There are thou
sands of them who could lend ten thousand
each, and never feel the need for the
of, at the time getting four per cent on
tax-free Investment"
What the Times Enterprise says of the farmers
is particularly worth emphasizing. AS one of the
great agricultural States Georgia should be among
the most liberal subscribers to the second Liberty
loan. The first loan was offered at time when
our planters busy with their fields and needed
most of their surplus money for farm operations.
But now that the rich harvests have been gathered
and the State enjoys well-nigh unexampled pros
perity, there should be overwhelming response
to the nations call for Liberty bond buyers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

A young carrying small leather-covered box
the streets of upper New York a
window placard bearing the name John ]. Diogenes
touched bell button and presented to the hunky
who opened door his card:
''Dionustos Duxenberri Smith"
The funky bowed low and 'sas parakalokao-
cote"
Presently the portieres the of hall
parted and entered.
I the honor of addressing Mr.. ]. ]. Dogenes
descendant of the Athenian philosopher the caller
asked
Mr.. Diogenes bowed assent.
We'll" said Mr. Smith, 81 taking orders for an
electric lantern, guaranteed to be of from
candlepower 1t will burn for about forty hours with
recharging for the small sum Of
MY dear man." broke in Mr.. Dogenes as greenish
blue flashes glimmered through the openings of the
portieres. longer any o. lantern in
looking for a honest l just now X-raying
candidate for job bank cashier"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
What Wisconsin Thinks OF
I0FOTette

How La Follette's home State regards his atti-
tude toward the is revealed plainly enough In
the resolutions adopted by the Wisconsin defense
councils with but one dissenting vote in three
hundred requesting him to resign from the Senate
and asking that in the event of his refusal he be
expelled Loyal Americans that they are, the truly
representative citizens of Wisconsin unsparingly
condemn efforts to weaken the Governments arm
and divide the peoples mind in this fatefu hour OF
national danger and duty The fact that one of
their own representatives at Washington has pur-
sued that unpatriotic course makes them the more
intense in their denunciation. They declare to the
world that their State is longer responsible for
this politician who not only opposed the nations
assertion of its rights and protection of its citizens
but who also has done his utmost to prevent an
effective prosecution of the after hostil-
tiles began
La Toilette opposed the arming of American
merchantmen for defense against murderous sub
marines He counseled abject surrender to German
outIawry He tried to prevent the raising of an
adequate army when he fought the Seective Service
law He tried to prevent conservation of the
counry's of living when he fought the Food
Control bill. He has misrepresented our reasons
for entering the war, has undertaken to becloud
the vast issues that compel to fight it to an all
decisive and victorious end, has decried the cause
for which millions of Americans offering their
lives and for which all true Americans stand willing
to make the utmost sacrifice. No wonder the State
that sent La Toilette to the Senate repudiates him.
In asking that he be expelled If he will not resign
the defense councils of Wisconsin speak the senti
ment and sober judgment of the American people.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
LIBERTY BONDS.
BY John Wingfield GateWoOd

The tie that binds closer to the land,
Which gives to sweet liberty and life;
The means by which arm the soldiers hand,
To play a heros part in worldwide strife.
Our Country calls to him of boundless wealth.
The well-to-do, the humble and the poor
AS some have given all of life and health,
So you must give a part of your own store
High honor calls to men of sterling worth
Repay the land that made what we are
The freest souls that roam a fettered earth,
OF fettered earth-the brightest shining star.
Let each according to his means, then give
That tyranny shall die-and Freedom live.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12

pamphlet on how to store vegetables in
the home has been published by the United
States department of agriculture. 1t is thor
Oughly illustrated and gives complete and
understandable directions for making the
storeroom. You obtain it by writing to
The Atlanta Journal Information Bureau,
Frederic j. Haskin, Director, Washington,
ID. c. Ask for the booklet, Storing Vege-
tables, and enclose a two-cent stamp for re-
turn postage.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13
SCRAPS
the island

South Africa Is noted for Its beauti.
full flowers.
The smallest known bird IL a Cen.
tral American humming bird that Is
about the size Of n bluc.hottle fly.
Four hundred folk songs have been
collected from among the people Of
western North Carolina and Tcnnes.
see.
4 Californian has patented II ham
mcr 10 which nails are fed from paper
strips. enabling n man to nail lhths
Mt mnny times his usual speed.
Nitrogen, that most precious Of Ter.
tilizins elements, may be present IN n
soil In n condition unavailable MS plant
food, In peaty soits such n condition
often exists, though rich IN nitrogen.
Dwarf trees nrc suited 70 small ianr'
dens f: they occupy little space. arc
casyly cnrcd for, bear sooner than
standard Kinds, and they are easily
shaDed into bushes md pyramids. cr
en- N used In espalier forms tkninsd
q. bulldineas fencss n trslllS1ss sss
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13

Die by moving the arm in ou,cx circles
Q the head; ut this. the men of
each platoon or squad. as the case ma
w. advance. and moving to the right OF
ieit' lake their proper places In line.
Each unit assemblies on the leading
element Of the column and reforms In
line. Platoon or squad leaders con-
ouct Their units toward the point indi-
Gated by the captain, and to their
places In line. The company is re-
formed in line.
Another method whereby the ad-
vance may he accomplished by n "suc-
cession OF thin lines is as follows:
Tile captain points out in advance the
elected position To be- occupied, which
Is generally from 100 to $50 yards to
The front. depending upon the terrain
ana the character Of the hostile fire.
Inc captain gives the command,
-lSuch numbers) forward, march !"
The man designated by this number I'm
each squad--"NO. l" for example
moves to the front until he reaches the
new n In this line, the original In
tervals are preserved rs nearly us prac.
hcable. The next number In each squad
Is sent forward when the first has ad.
'anced II suitable distance-the dis.
fhnces between these thin advancing
lines are purposely made irregular
Each number halts upon arriving al
the new line.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13
Clay Figures for Movies.

In a new style of moving pictures
little clay models Of human figures
are used to represent the actors. The
result, when seer on the screen. Is
both startling and amusing, the tiny
clay figures seeming to walk, jump
and 90 through all the motions of
talking and singing, as If actually
alive. Such pictures are called ani.
mated sculpture. They owe their
origin to q woman sculptor Of New
York, whose clayfolk, as she calls
them, are photographed In a success.
sion Of slightly different poses, each
specially modelled to carry out the
action Of u regular scenario or film
story. The process Of molding the
figures Is slow and laborious, us 10
different poses are required to make
q foot of film. Thus II the action Of
the story culls for four actors In the
picture, n film Of ordinary length,
say 200 feet, requires the careful mold.
ing by the sculptor's hands Of ut lcast
1880 different poses for the clay
figures. In some scenes, however, only
slight changes are needed to give the
necessary animation, these being
quickly made by the def touch Of the
sculptor.-popular Mechanics Nigga
Zine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13

is the youth who doesn't want to go to war. He has '0m etoW Washington IN
herds looking for Il governmental position which Will exempt him from the
draft Compensation doesn't matter; what he wants il to keep out of war
Then there is the great hordes of men who have come to &c. fatg govern
mcnt contracts. Any day at ten in the morning you can lind half hundred
imInrtantlooking men, guarding fat bundles of documents waiting at the
doors of the state, war and navy buildings in hopes Of getting lin to see ome
II that Gun give them Il contract. They range froia the man who has come
to offer the government lumber for environments to the youth who wants TO
sell The army all its belt buckles.
Women haven't been missing in the "getme' class either. There are
great numbers of young girls and wonen who have come to the capital Ito
get positions. They are willing ITO fill the places OF men who car 60 to war
hut most of them have found the conditions of work altogether too strenuous
and they re thinning out rapidly.