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Newark post., 1918-12-25
PACK A BASKET FOR EUROPE

You are planning it now, that first
dinner when your boy comes home.
There will be chicken, and hot biscuit
and chocolate cake. And that first
breakfast; how your eyes will watch
him as he devOurs buckwheat cakes
and sausage! Not a word will he need
ed, for YOU have placed before him
the best you can cook, and you know
he will understand this common lam
guagr Of all mothers.
This is the first instinct of women
to minister to the needs of others.
Where is there woman in America
today who does not long to pack a
buShel basket and follow our Ameri-
can Army as it advances to the
Rhine? You know Just the little cot
tage you would seek out-the weary
mother and wan little ones-the table
so bare of food. Then out of that
basket would come a wonderful roast
chicken, l0aves OF white bread sweet
butter and thick cream, and little
cakes for the children-all those
things that this good housekeeper has
not seen for four long years. You
have no French nor she English, but
you two wOmeN would understand,
I for YOU would speak this universal
/ language of women the world over
the language Of ministration.
But that dear son has not come
home. He is perhaps with the Army
of Occupation on the Rhine. He and
other boys are distributing tons of
food in those little towns swept bare
by the retreating Germans. They,
too, need no interpreter for they are
speaking this universal language.
wherever they go, even across the
border, they find the Stars and Stripes
flying, for they carry their welcome
with them.
So that bushel basket of yours is
going along. 1t is not packed as you
would pack it, but food is being dis
tributcd, and your boy is doing the
best J." can with what he has, and in
his hov:sh way he speaks your wo-
man language of miniStration. He
speaks, too, the language of his cOun-
try in healing old wrongs. He repre-
sents America and is. truly the agent
, Of all American women in this work
And this is the meaning of the food
pledge-20 million tons. The new
. work of women in food saving is tc
keep these agents Of America supplied
with the kind Of food that can be
shipped and handled abroad. They
must save food that America may con
tinue to speak this universal languag
of solace to a distracted world. Thi!
is the great mission of our countr,
and this the blessed opportunity O.
: every woman.
Newark post., 1918-12-25
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By order of Fire Chief WILSON

saw you last, and this year is differ
ent from any that you or | have ever
known-different, perhaps from any
that we shall ever know.
You know of course that for long
time | have owned the greatest shops
and the biggest stores in all the world
and that more people work for me
than for anyone else in the world.
do not even know how many there
are, but it is millions and millions and
they are scattered over all the earth.
What you cid not know is that |
have never paid them any wages
that is in money. They never ask for
money and they would not take it if
| offered it to them; but everyone who
works for me carries home with him,
when his work is done, little golden
casket full of happiness that no one
can steal or break or take away and
that lasts him all his life.
In other years my shops and stores
have been full of happy workers who
brought me whatever they made. All
| had to do was to take the gifts at
Christmas and carry them to my
friends.
But now all that is changed. The
great war took my helpers and made
soldiers of them. They have not yet
come back to me; so | have had to
find others. Many of those who work.
ed so long for me are now themselves
in need of help, and / must give 1t to
them. They need warm clothing ana
good food and hundreds of other
things; but if / give them all that
thew need, / can not do all that l
should like to do for you. II give
the little French girl the one lump OF
sugar day she needs to keep her well
I NAV not have enough left to make
YOUR Christmas candy.
It is because of all these things that
7 am writing to you this letter, to ask
YOU to help me. am an old, old man
now, and perhaps the grown-up people
are getting tired of me; but you nave
always been my friends and l kno"
that you will not deny me now.
There are two ways in which you
can help me. One is by not asking me
for anything this year. | know, my
dears, what you want without your
asking, and you shall have it II ole
Santa Claus can get it for you. II not
remember that he has taken the money
that your present would have cost ane
snent if for something that the poor
neople or the little children over here
!, France or in Poland and Serbia ant
Belgium and Armenia need more
Trust your old friend this once an'
he sure that he will do his best.
The other way in which you cal
holm me is this. "If you know Of an!
boy or pirl whom l forgot last year
or for whom left no present, go t.
. him or her at Christmas and tax
something of your own-some HUI
oft no matter how small-from me
This letter shall be your warrant TO
saving that the gift is from me; AM
Newark post., 1918-12-25
A Town in France,
November 20, 1913.

Dear Children of America-Wheh
you get this letter it will be almost
time for you to look for me again, 1or
it is nearly a year since the last time
| slipped down your chimney and GU
the things that you found there the
next morning; but although 1t IS So
long ago | still remember the letters
that many of you wrote me before
Christmas telling me what you "lsneu
me to bring you, and the letters tna'
some of you wrote me after Christ-
mas thanking me for bringing theh'.
And remember, too, how l laugheo
because none of you heard the bells on
my reindeer or the runners OF my Dig
Sleigh when | drew close to your pea
and looked at you as you lay asleep
Isn't it strange that although your
eyes and ears are supposed to be SO
much sharper than those Of your Ia
Tiers and mothers, it is they alone
who See my reindeer and hear their
bells and catch the rustic of my frosty
coat?
But | suppose you are wondering
Why should be writing to you no"
When | have never before even an
Swered your letters. 1t is because
great things have come about since
Newark post., 1918-12-25
HIGHWAY WORK
MUST BE RESUMED
Would Furnish Employment
In Re-adjustment Period

Cooperative highway construction
under the Federal aid road act must be
resumed as quickly as possible in full
measure, the Secretary of Agriculture,
D. F. Houston, stated at conference
of editors of agricultural journals held
recently in Washington.
From unexpended balances of Fed
eral appropriations for the last few
years, from State funds beyond what
was necessary to meet the Federal al
lotments and from amounts available
during the current fiscal year, ap-
proximately $75,OOO,OO0 will be avail
able for expenditure during the calen-
dar year. Next year, if all the bal
ances should be expended during this
year, and we should have to rely
solely on the funds accruing next year
there will be about $20,000,000 from
Federal appropriations, and probably
more than this amount from State
sources, according to the Secretary's
statement. The States, in addition,
will expend sums in excess of what
they have assigned or will assign, for
federal aid road projects.
Would Furnish Employment.
at seems to me-" said the Secre-
tary. "that we should take a further
step-take this step not only because
of the Importance of good roads, but
also because of the desirability of
furnishing worthy projects on which
unemployed labor during the period
of readiustment may be engaged.
There will be many things suggested
for which Federal and State funds
will be sought. Some Of these will be
unworthy. Clearly such public works
as roads are worthy, and it would be
in the public interest to make avail
able larger appropriations from the
Federal Treasury to be used separate
ly or in conjunction with State and
local support.
Machinery Now Exists.
'There need be no delay in the eX-
ecution of such a program. The Ma.
ton has already provided the ma.
chinery in the Department of Agri.
culture and in the State highway com
missions. The Federal-aid road act
was fruitful of good legislation, anc
each State in the Union now has {
central highway authority with power
and funds to meet the terms of tht
Federal act. The two agencies, il
conjunction, have been engaged in de
vising well-considered road systems
and in making surveys, plans ant
} specifications. The task will be one o
, selection, and those roads should b,
| designated for improvement which ar
: of the greatest economic Importance
with due regard to such military an,
other needs as are proper for consid
; GRAFTON. There is no necessity for an,
, departure from this scheme. Tn
| suggestions made have been canvasse
t with the President, the Secretary o
! War, and the Postmaster General, an
they are in accord with the view tina
: additional funds should be made avail
. able to this department and that the
t should be expended through existin
D machinery"
Newark post., 1918-12-25
BANKS

FARMERS TRUST Co.-Meeting of Direc.
tors every Wednesday evening at 8
clock
Newark post., 1918-12-25
DI r e c T Q r Y

Municipal Transportot;on
E. M. Thompson J. w. Brown
j. H. Hossinger c. E. Evans
Joseph Dean
Legislature Membership
>. +. Armstrong P. NJ. Sherwood
H. B. Wright John Pilling
VIM. H. Taylor
BOARD OF EDUCATION
President-C. A. McCue
secretary and Treasurer - Harvey Hof.
fecter, Robert s. Gallaher, Edward L,
Richards, Orlando X. Strahorn
NEWARK TOWN LIBRARY
The Library will be opened:
Monday to 5.45pm.
Tuesday 9to12.OO NJ
Friday 3to 5.45nm
Saturday 9 to IL M to 900 p. m.
FARMERS TRUST Co.-Meeting of Direc.
tors every Wednesday evening at 8
clock
BUILDING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION
Secretary-W. H. Taylor
Meeting first Tuesday night of each
month
LODGE MEETINGS
OPERA HOUSE
Monday-Knights Of Pythias, or K. of
P, 7.30 p. m.
Tuesday-Improved Order of Red Men,
7.30 p. m.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, or S. w. NJ,
7.30 p. m.
Thursday-Ladies' Circle, s. W. NJ.
! 7.30 p. m.
Friday-Modern Woodmen of America,
No. 1910, 7.30 p. m.
ODD FELLOWS HALL
MOnday-Jr. Order American Mechanics
7.30 p. m.
Wednesday-lst and 3rd of every month
White Clay Camp, No. 5, Woodmen OF
the World
Thursday-I. o. o. F., 7.30 p. m.
Sdturday-Knights of Golden Eagle
1.30 ?. m.
FIRE ALARMS
In case of fire call The following mum
bers in succeSSion:
Newark post., 1918-12-25
Prepare for Early Hatching

The U. S. Food Administrator has
notified the U. S. Poultry Division that
wheat may now be fed to poultry, re-
strictions having been withdrawn.
Newark post., 1918-12-25
A Letter from Santa Claus

Edward w. Frentz, in the Youth S
Companyion gives an interesting mes
sage to children from Santa Claus'
who, he says, never answers the many
letters he receives except by bringing
the things asked for by his little coF-
respondents. This is Santa's mes
sage
Newark post., 1918-12-25

BY order effective November 4,
syrup, molasses, honey, jam and mar
malade, will be rationed in Great
Britain to four ounces week with an
extra two ounces for children while
the supply lasts. This represents a
very real hardship, as the sugar ra-
ton is two pounds week and butter
four ounces.
There are about 27O0OO women
working on the farms in Great Brit
ain and 1900 as volunteer workers
In the Food Production Department
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
BRING IN YOUR BOOKS.
DEBORAH Public Library Wants Books
For Soldiers.

Ar intensive nationwide campaign
to collect 100000 books for the
camp libraries over seas and at home
will be carried on during the week
of March 18th by the library war
service of the American Library AS
sociation.
The service has raised S1,700,00
ard established thirty-seven free cir
culating Libraries at. the training
camps through which thousands of
of books are being supplied to small
Ter camps, posts, forts, naval stations,
and vessels, and through these
agencies to soldiers AID sailors over
seas.
The March drive will be called on
every Americarl citizen to aid in pro-
viding additional books, now Irgent-
ly needed, and then, to continue to
to give new books as soon as they
have been read.
Surprisingly few contributions, &C
cording to DR.. Putnam, have had to
be refused, though a file of the Ul-
dertaker's Review, Paley's Moral
Philosophy. The Postal and Tele-
graphic Code of the Argentine Re-
public, and a set of the Elsie books
were declined courteously.
The campaign is being conducted
by Herbert Putnam, Librarian OF
Congress.
These are the books the camp
libraries report the soldiers and
sailors are calling for:
Fictio1-Stories of the west, ad-
venture, business, love stories of the
best sort, detective stories, historical
towels.
Nonfiction--Military science, engin-
eering, agriculture, business, auto.
mobiles, electricity, mechanics
Tales from the Trenches" wireless
telegraphy, and telephony, arith.
metic, algebra, geometry, Frerct
conversation books.
Bring books to the DEBORAH Pub.
lie Library and they will be forward
ed to the proper authorities.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
AFTER FOOD HOARDERS.
Authorities Investigating Reports
at Clear Lake.

Clear Lake, Ia, Mch. 4.-The food
authorities are Investigating the re-
port that a Clear Lake man walked
into a local grocery store last week
and asked to purchase five sacks oil
flour.
When told that he would have to
buy an equal amount of substitutes
he is said to have answered that sub
stitutes were no good and he would
destroy them if he did get them.
A man living near Clear Lake last
week returned two sacks of -four to
a local elevator, saying that he heard
the government was going to search
for boarded -four and he didn't want
to get caught with them on his hands.
He had purchased the flour before
the substitute ruling went into effect.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
SAVE SOME SOAP.
Immense Amount Of Cleaning Com
pOSnd is wasted Between the
Washtub and the Bathtub

That there is somewhere between
1000 and $500 tons of soap being
wasted every year, which could be
saved and the fats used to good adj
vantage i'm winning the war, is the
contention of man who has been
studying the use of soap. This man
says that there are fully one hun
dred thousand rooms with bath used
daily in different hotels throughout
the country. n cash of these there
are placed two cakes af soap, one on
the washstand and one Ct the tub.
There is no reason why one piece of
soap should not be used for both pur-
poses, and this man has writteni to
National Food Administrator Hoover
and asked that conservation along
this line be given attention.
He says that all the hotel propri-
etors would have to do is to hang
small announcement in each bath
room stating that Mr.. Hoover had
suggested, on account of the desire
to conserve fats, that the patrons of
the hotel pass the soap from basin
to tub as desired. 1t is claimed that
there would be one crouch in a
thousand who would grumble, and
as the hotels themselves would save
the price Of the soap, they should
have MO objection. The statement
that between 1000 and 1900 tons
of soap would he saved, is based up
on an estimate of approximately one
hundred hotel rooms with bath per
one hundred thousand population,
which he considers a conservative
estimate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
CLAYTON MAN Is PUNISHED.
Captain David Henkes Found Guilty
Traitorous act-Court-M aItiaIed

Scores of Clayton county people
familiar with the name of David Her,-
kes read with amaZement the Wash
ington dispatch printed a few days
ago which told of the court-martial
and subsequent sentencing of Captain
David Henkes to Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, for a term of twenty-five years
imprisonment. Henkes had been ac-
cused of traitorous conduct and was
found guilty of having violated his
oath of fealty to the service.
David Henkes was thoroughly well
known in the vicinity of Farmers
burg, Ia, where he once taught
school His parents resided near
there and his father is today living
near Monpna, Clayton county. He
was not unpopular among a wide
circle of acquaintance during his
sojour1 in Clayton county. He left
in 1898 to join the army and has
since seen service in the Philippines
and with Pershing I'M Mexico. He is
thirty-eight years Of age. David
He1kes comes of German parentage
and to that alore can be attributed
the conviction that led him to re-
sign from the army. He first tender
ed his designations while in this
country, and then after it had been
ignored ard he had been ordered to
France with his company, he again
insisted in two letters to the war de-
partment. His summary recall to
face court martial followed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
Coffee for Soldiers in France.

The boys in France are not find
ing the foreign coffee to their liking
and so we have new movement
here, one to raise a coffee fund to
send over real coeffe. Foreign coffee
like foreign tobacco is apt to be eni-
tirely different from the American
thing of the same name. They are
not coffee drinkers over there I'M the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
FIX PRICES FOR SISAL.
Importers and Manufacturers Reach
Agreement.

Washington, ID. c., March, 4.
Under an agreement with manu-
facturers of binder Irvine and sisal
importers, the food administration to-
might announced the maximum ad-
vance over cost of sisal which may
be changed by the manufacturers,
the scale being based on the present
price of 10 cents a pound for sisal
fiber. q 1lg
Standard and sisal binder Irvine
containing 500 IT. to the lib. should
be sold in carload lots of 10000
pounds or at a maximum advance of
4 cents per pound above the cost Of
sisal. Lots of 10000 pounds or
more, but less than 10000 pounds,
are to be sold at an advance of not
more than Az cents per pound and
all lesser amounts are to carry an
advance of not more than AZ cents
a pound.
Twi1e that contains $50 feet to the
pound should he sold at maximum
advance of n cents above the price
for the standard Irvine; 900 feet to
the pound at an increase of cents,
and $50 feet to the pound at Az
cents a pound increase. Pure manila
Irvine containing $50 feet to the
pound should be sold at al advance
of not more than 6 cents per pound
above the price of standard Irvine.
All prices are T. o. b. factory.
-O-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06

sense that we are in America. The
English run to tea and half and half.
The French use wines more copiously
and the Germans use beer for all
social and recreative purposes. II
Holland, perhaps, they use coffee in
the American sense, but in 40 other
European country is that true
Cedar Rapids Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06

Chicago daily Tribune or Chica-
go Herald either paper for one year
with Public Opinion, only $5.15. II
you are already a subscriber of Pub
lie Opinion you can have either of
the Chicago papers for 1896 the
year. Better subscribe today. If
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06

DO not accept substitutes for
F'ARRELL'S. Al BRAND NUT
MARGARINE. Insist upon, the o.
rigi2al. Order through your grocer.
l0-4w.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06

charge as the battery is able to
take it.
Recharging is only one phase of
the battery service we're offering
car owners, but it's an important
one.
And don't forget that Still Better
Willard and Threaded Rubber In
sulation means less liability to bat
terry trouble of any kind.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
School of Dressmaking.

Reduce the H. G. L. by learning to
make your own clothes. For terms
apply to Miss M. Davidson, 404 JEFF
ferson St., DEBORAH. 1-tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06

DR.. Swezey will do general
practice during the period of the
war, making calls il both city and
country. CAPT. A. SWEZEY.
S-3w.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-03-06
Discharged--But Not Fired

Don't think your battery's
a "dead one" because it's dis
charged. With expert handling
a discharged battery can be
filled again with pep" and put
back on the job.
But it takes an expert to do
ito determine the proper
slow rate of charge to begin
with, then to speed up the
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KUMERALSKI. Andrew j.. corpo-
raj. Spring Valley, III.
SANBORN. Clyde e.. corporal. But
Ter. s. D.
ADAMS. Fred L.. private. Evart.
BAILEY. wufred, private. St Jo-
RALI;rpGE. Troy J.. private.
Woollswn. Ill.
BENEDICT. Elmer T.. private. New
York. T
BOWEN. William J.. private. Bridge
water. South Dakota. ID!
BRANCHARD. Horace F.. private.
| New Bedford Mass.
CARR. Leo o.. private, st. Joseph.
, CARRIER. Carl G. private. Park
CHALF.NT. Levi. O.. private, Con-
| rath. Wis.
CLARK. Arlo. private. Mckenzie,
DAMIANo, Louis. private. vacavine.
BER1o. Ralph Di. private. Rome,
gallagher. John Bernard. pri-
vste. Syracuse. X. Y.
Canada.
GRANDA, chals. private. Meadv;''e.
HAYS. Marvin NJ, privste. Sheldon.
lad.
HILL. Frank L.. private. Fitchburg.
Mass.
LENDlS. Erich. private, Meadow
lands. MINI.
McGEAW, Manning G.. private. Flat
Mckinney, 'Jeryl d., private. Geuda
Springs. Kan.
MARCONI, Louis. private, New York.
MARTIN. James, private. Chicago.
MOVERS: Lelon w, private, Cum
bingham. Ky.
PICH. Arnold G. private. Fort
Worth. Tex.
POTTS, Virgil: private. Paris. Ill.,
POtLTGR. Charles. private, Louis
vile.
ROSCOE FREDERICK. private. Detroit.
RUbDEf. Lero: T.. private Medora.
Ind.
R.EPEt Waller j., private. Buffalo
STEVENS. Porter A.. private. Cook
iS"e Tart
>TOLOMSK., Stanley, private. Chi
ago.
sTRADA. Frank, private New York.
''TCDL1EN. Ole n. private, Hoff-
man, MINI.
SULLIVAN. Richard private. Sal
TIFFANY, Claude, A., private, Chi
TRUSSELL, Walter D., private,
Honee Path. S. c.
WEAKLEY, Robert private, Mem
phiS.
WHITING. Harold F., private. Mar
-quette, Mich.
MISSING IN ACTION.
CHAPMAN. Charles w. lieutenant,
Waterloo. Iowa.
MCDOWELL. Robert Baker. lieuten-
ant. Jersey City. \. J.
BARNES. Edwin j., corporal. West
Haven. Conn.
CHAPMAN. Augustus f.. mechanic,
Colchester. Conn.
ANTKOEIk. Frank j., private, Web
ster, Mass.
-BARBEAT. Adellard, private. Dan
ie1son. Conn. g.
CHMIEL. Walter. private. Brooklyn.
ELLIOTT, Norman c., private, Web
ster. Mass. -
ELY. Raymond F., private. Haver-
hill. Mass.
PETERSON. Paul A.. private, Mid
dletown. Conn.
PIERCE, Walter r.. private, Haver-
hill. Mass. .
PITOCHELLI, James E.. private.
Pawtucket, r. J.
,TIEMAN. Carlisle, private. Dayton,
ny.
WEBB, Howard A.; private, Ansonia,
Conn. 80
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Pay Your income tax early and sober
the war-intoXicated Hun.