The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-11-28
U. S. FOOD FACTS

December l to z is to be observed
as Conservation Week for World Re-
ief throughout the country. Conser-
walton Week will open with Conser-
walton Sunday on December 1, when
special message by Herbert Hoover
will be read from the pulpits of the
country. On Wednesday, December
A, the various women's organizations
of the state will gather for a special
program and pledge for future con-
servation and on Friday, December 6,
a conservation program will be given
in the schools Conservation Week
for World Relief is the effort of the
food administration to carry to all
the people of the country the mes
sage that in this day when anarchy is
rife in Europe conservation for world
relief is as necessary to the safety of
the world as conservation has been for
our fighting forces. History points to
the fact that hunger has played big
role in the revolutions of the past.
America with its plenty must not fail
to meet this danger, which threatens.
Before the war our exports amount
ed to 100000 tons of food stuffs.
The newly liberated peoples must
have 20,O0O,000 tons from us this year
instead. a.
Herbert Hoover, United tates food
administrator, made statement
recently to the effect that he fears
100000 Russians in the northern
confines of their country will be shut
away from transportation before food
can reach them for the winter. They
face starvation in it's most tragic
form.
Miss Mildred Weigley, home econ
omic director of Minnesota has issued
new recipe for date pudding for
the Thanksgiving dinner. Here it is:
l IL cups flour, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 1
teaspoon salt, 1-2 teaspoon clovels,
IL teaspoon alspice, 1-2 teaspoon of
nutmeg IL teaspoon cinnamon, 1-2
cup sweet milk, egg, 1-2 cup molas-
ses, teaspoons butter or other fat,
IL pounds dates.
Sift together flour, soda, salt and
spices. Add milk, well-beaten egg,
molasses, and melted butter or other
fat. Stone the dates. Cut into pieces
and add to mixture. Turn into we'll
oiled mold, cover it tightly, and boil
two hours or steam two and one-half
hours. This fills one pound coffee
can two-thirds full. Serve with hard
sauce or with ice cream.
Conservation by those who remain
at home is the history of wars. We
who are living today need not feel
that we arc the first to whom the
appeal has been made. Recently there
was unearthed a bit of letter said to
have been written by Juliana Smith
to Dear Cousin Betty" telling of the
Thanksgiving dinners of 1779. The
letter reads: Everything was good,
though we did have to without some
Of the things that ought to be used.
Neither love nor (paper) money could
buy raisins, but our good red cher
ries, dried without the pits did almost
as well. Of course we could have no
roast beef. None of us have tasted
beef this three years back as it all
must go to the army, and too little
! they get, poor fellows. But, Nayquit-
tymaw's Hunters were able to get us
a fine red Deer, so that we had a good
haunch of venison on each table"
County your blessings says A. d.
ilson, federal food administrator for
Minnesota. never before the Am
erican as an individual and citizen
has stopped to tabulate the things for
which he should be thankful, let him
do so this year. Peace, which we
did not value until we lost it, has re-
turned. Millions of people are shar-
ing with us liberty to which we have
grown accustomed but which is to
them new living. The horn of plenty
has been emptied upon America that
our people may share with those who
are starving. This is real reason of
Thanksgiving Be thankful. =
Malcolm Hanson who is stationed
at Fortress Monroe, Va, recently met