Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-04-25
URGE AUDUBON COUNTY
FARMERS TO MAKE SOAI

Inquiry has come to the offices of
the Food Administration at Burling-
ton asking as to the disposition of
the fats which have been accumu-
lated by the farmers in response to-
the recent appeal of the government
The accumulated stores of fat can
be utilized most easily and profit
ably in the home manufacture of
soaps. the soaring prices of which
also furnish inspiration for the re-
newal of the home manufacture.
In the matter of the accumula-
tons of lard, this commodity is cas-
! lily marketable in the cities and the
| towns of the state. If the merchants
cannot buy it, it can be sold to the
consumers direct. in the judgment
of the Food Administration and to
the advantage of those who have
collected it.
Catherine ]. Mckay, of Ames col
| lege, head of the Home Economics
| department of the Food Administra-
| ton, also is in receipt of many in
! quiries on the subject of disposing
| of the accumulated stores of fats
and has been in conference with the
! Burlington headquarters of the Ad
ministration respecting it,
John A. Gregg, of the Tama bldg
! in Burlington, has called the atten-
! ton of the Food Administration to
the fact that there are thousands of
acres of so-called waste land along
the Mississippi river and elsewhere
| in both Iowa and Illinois which
could be broken up this spring and
made ready for very fine develop
ment and production of excellent
crops this fall and next year.
He has made special investiga-
ton of the situation in the Illinois
side of the river in this vicinity and
| has personally interested himself in
| getting large area broken up with
view to cropping it next spring.
! He believes that this activity could
be extended indefinitely in many of
the agricultural districts of the mid
die west at this time and a little
! later to the tremendous advantage
of the country and to the enrichment
/ of the farmers who will undertake
it.
There is period a little later in
the year, he says, falling between
planting and harvest, which can be
best utilized for this labor in be-
half of the enlargement of the food
supply. 1t could not be undertaken
with view to profit Immediately
or in crop this summer, but the
land could be gotten in shape for a
crop in a later season which would
be invaluable in the increase of pro-
duction next year.
The law enforcement division of
the Food Administration headquar-
tiers at Burlington is busy investi-
eating reports of violations of the
rules and regulations and laws rel
ative to food.
That many of the cases reported
turn out to be without foundation
does not modify the determination
of the Administration to investigate
every complaint and when violators
are found to impose severe penalties.
The Burlington headquarters is in
receipt of information to the effect
that the same policy is being adopted
all over the country. The A. +. TAX
anime Co., of Denver, has been put
out of bushes altogether for the
remainder of the war for violating
the fifty-fifty rule. J. F. Cullen,
cigar maker, strange to relate, of
Everett. Wash, has been indicted by
the federal grand Jury and put I'M
der arrest for boarding flour. He
was found to have put 100 barrels in
! his cigar store to await bulge in
the market. The license of the Wal
der Grain Co, of Valdez, Texas,
has been revoked and the concern
cannot longer deal in grain because
it has been specializing.
These instances from outside of
Iowa indicate that the Federal Food
Administration will follow the Iowa
plan along the line and will see that
the men who violate the food laws,
trying to profiteer or hoard or who
sell wheat flour without the substi-
tutes, will be vigorously prosecuted,
ii was stated at the Deems head
quarters today.
Information reaches Food Admin
istrator Deems that the formation of
Total Abstinence Clubs is going for
ward rapidly everywhere in Iowa
At Marengo. Iowa, a few days ago,
the Woman's Council took the pledge
and the movement will be pushed
in that county Immediately.
All over the country the total alb
stinence movement is gaining head
way. A few of the organizations
which have notified Food Admin
strator Deems that have Joined the
total abstinence movement are the
Rotary Club, of Montgomery, Ala,
the citizens of Ashland, Kentucky,
at mass meeting; the Manual Pres
| byterian Mission at Albuquerque, N.
M, the Theological Seminary and
the people at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, at a
mass meeting. The majority of the
parishes in Louisiana are on pledge.
/ The Ebell Club of Oakland, Calf,
and the Stanford University faculty
Woman's Club, have taken the
pledge. Valiant, Woodward and
Lava, Oklahoma, have offered all
their stocks except two pounds per
capita per month. At Monticello,
Fla, citizen mass meeting voted
to quit eating wheat products It'll
we whip the kaiser" The Woman's
Rotary Club, Des Moines, the Rotary
Club at Colorado Springs, Colo, the
women of Dane County, Wis, at a
mass meeting, the Fergus County
Mimi, Association of Hotel and Res
taurant Men, all have taken the
pledge. The Travelling Mems Blu
reau of the Chamber of Commerce
at Ottumwa has adopted the pledge
and Food Administrator Deems has
directed the attention of all other
civic organizations in Iowa to the
fact.
Food Administrator Deems has
been notified by Herbert Hoover that
the Federal Food Administration es-
pecially urges an increased produc-
ton of canned corn, peas and to-