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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
OvERMAN BILL NOW IN HANDS
 OF PRESIDENT

Washington, May Is - President Wilson had before him today for his signature the Overman bill, giving him blanket authority to reorganize gov ernment departments. Passage of the measure by the House yesterday end ed the long struggle in Congress over the question of delegating additional powers to the executive and cleared the way for the President to effect such changes in government war agencies as he desires.
 Just what changes under the law are contemplated by the President have not been indicated.
 The bill passed the House una mended by vote of 295 to 2, Rep resentatives Sterling of Illinois and Gillett of Massachusetts Republicans, casting the only negative votes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

While the conservators are about it they might save all that broad ex- panse of four in hand necktie that is so carefully concealed under your vest.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
"They Are Our Boys; Get
 Ready, Everyone, for a Rush!''

py, smiling women might be tired, nor were they tired then, even though all day long they had been serving train after train of French and English troops, literally thousands of them. Yet what did that matter? For these boys that came at the end of long day-these boys are "ours."
 If your boy is in France you may be sure he has song Of praise for the fine women at work in the railway canteens of our own Red Cross, for at every important railway junction there is one of our Red Cross canteens and at each canteen there are IS women real, true American women.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

The long train of freight cars whined and grumbled as it strove to stop. In the doorway of a great low building a white capped and gowned woman re- leased sunny smile and, turning so her voice carried into the building, called out, "They are ours; get ready for a rush."
 Just how she could tell they were 'ours" would be hard to explain, for at the moment she spoke hundreds of the dirtiest, grizzliest men a woman ever saw came fairly tumbling out of the freight cars A moment more she was welcoming this muddy rabble with a laugh and cheering words.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

Inside the building there were more women, all spick and span in white, with faces beaming, handing out good ''home cooked' food over spotless tiled counters. Some of the boys fairly ran for the food others went into the long batteries of baths, throwing out their vermin ridden clothes to be sterilized while they scrubbed their bodies back to a healthy glow.
 What luxury it all was-food, tables, chairs, things to read, games to play, paper for writing, a barber shop, a movie theater and good, clean beds!
 No one ever thought that these hap
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
Getting Food Army
 Started In City

L. M. Johnson of Danbury, leader of the Junior Food army movement was in Bridgeport today where he at tended a meeting held this afternoon in the office of the Bridgeport Home Garden committee for the purpose of getting the food army movement started in this city. Mrs. David S. Day, is in charge of this work in Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
PAVED WAY FOR
 RED CROSS DRIVE

The Four Minute men of Bridge port, speaking last night in the thea tres of this city paved the way for the opening of the big Red Cross drive which will take place next week. The speakers aroused great enthusi- a.zm among all the. theatre Eoers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

Lord Courtney of Penwith, polit- ical economist and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1886 to 1892, died in London.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

| Deputy Leboucq visited the front and handed the French gunners, wno destroyed the German long range gun purse of $500 francs.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

Elimination of German from the high schools of Philadelphia was vot- ed by the Board of Education.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

Five thousand Chicago teamsters and chauffeurs struck for an increase of $3 a weeek. Union leaders expect 15,000 more men out to-day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

A break in the old Erie Canal near Durhamville, IN. Y, may block the opening of the canal tomorrow.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

John Grass, chief of all the Sioux Indians, died at Fort Yates, N! D. He was 79 years old.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

The men are taking hold to help make surgical dressings in many places, and several casualties are re@ ported among those that attempt tG handle their wives sharp scissors
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
EatMoreRice
Nutritious Food That is a
Good Substitute for Wheat
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture) 4.

Here in the United States it Is diff
cult to- realize that there is no other
edible product, except perhaps meat,
upon which more people in the world
are dependent for food than rice, and
that we might advantageously con-
sumo much greater quantities Of this
nutritious food and grow the increase
in our own rice fields. An increased
production and consumption not only
would expand a profitable industry,
but the eating of more rice in the
place of wheat would release a great
er quantity Of the bread grain for
shipment to the allies.
The average per capita consumption
of rice for food in this country is
scarcely 6 pounds year, and most
of this is consumed in the Southern
states. The high esteem in which rice
Is held in other countries is indicated
by their per capita consumption. Nor
way and Sweden consume over 8
pounds per capita; Russia over IL
pounds; England, u pounds; France.
"a pounds; Italy, over 1O1 pounds, and
Germany more than 90 pounds. But
even these European countries do not
begin to eat as much rice as Japan
and China. There, rice is the most
important article Of diet. Each man,
woman and child in Japan, on the
average, consumes 147 pounds of rice
each year, and those in China, 15S
pounds. 49,,
The placing of such dependence
upon rice as q staple food certainly
proves beyond q doubt that it is high
" nutritious; analysis of rice supports
this proof. Pound for pound rice is
about as nutritious as wheat. Every
100 pounds of cleaned rice contains
ST. pounds Of nutriment, Of which 3
pounds are protein, O.3 pound fat, 70
pounds carbohydrates, and o. pound
ash. The analysis of wheat flour
shows that it contains ST. pounds of
nutriment in each 100 pounds, of
which 1913 pounds are protein. IL
pounds fat, 74.S pounds carbohy
and o. pound ash. Thus the total
nutriment in rice is q trifle greater
than in wheat. Wheat has the advan-
tage in protein and rice in carbo-
hydrates.
Although rice is the great foodstuh
of the Orient, it is not used there In
making q raised bread. In this coun-
try dieticians have made excellent
bread by substituting as high as 70
per cent Of rice for wheat -four, and
have obtained white yeast bread of
excellent flavor.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Mushroom Growth of Some
German Cities Formerly Of
Very Little importance

The predominance Of war industries
in the German empire has given a
mushroom growth to a large number
of German cities which formerly
boosted of little commercial impor-
lance, according to a London CORE
spondent.
Munich, instead Of occupying third
position in population and Importance,
now ranks seventh. One of the most
remarkable examples of war-boom
towns is Bochum, situated in the rich
iron ore district of Westphalia. Be-
fore the war it had a population of
IS, 600; now the official census gives
it 764,774.
The newest list of important Ger
man cities and their population fol-
lows:
Berlin, 3,3S6,624; Hamburg, 1914
654; Bochum, 764,774; Leipzig, 1884,
$50; Cologne, 81, 220; Luisbdrg. &c.
800; Munich, COS, 124; Dortmund. $685.
O55; Essen, 562,5O7; Dresden, $751;
697; Breslau, 519,947;' Dusseldorf,
449,643; Recklinghausen, 444,16O !;
Frankfort, 414,578; Konigshutte, 49,
7S6; Hanover, 4O7, 800; Kiel, 37O,353 {;
Chemnitz, 35s.7s6; Unremburg, $751;
al; Stuttgart, 34O.354; Slberfeld,
33339, 400; Bremen, 299,526.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
PLAN AHEAD FOR !,
BETTER POULTRY

OOOoOOOOOOOOOoO
One must plan ahead in order to be
successful in any line of endeavor.
Poultry keeping is no exception, writes
an authority. If you do not have the
breeding birds you need for the seas
on of 1913, now is a good time to get
them. There Is a countrywide scare
ity Of good birds for breeding purposes,
and one must expect to pay somewhat
higher prices than in past years. It
will not pay to get inferior birds in or
der to save a little of the purchase
price.
If you are just starting, or If you
want new blood, you can buy either
stock or eggs for Matching. Men are
more likely to buy stock because they
do not usually handle eggs so care.
fully as women and also because usu-
ally they have more money to spend.
To buy stock is the safer plan, of
course, and on the whole is better, but
it costs more money. For both stock
and eggs prices are high and will con-
tinue so. One cannot, expect to buy
eggs for Matching in 1913 in quantities,
at S. per hundred. Such low prices
are now absurd for eggs from stock of
any decent quality at all.
Most poultry breeders, except those
who have large number of birds of
superior quality, are compelled to re-
plenish their flock with new blood al
most every year. Our flOcks either
go up or go down. Just because prices
careful to get good quality in what
we buy. This is time when poor
stuff will not pay. There never was
a time when it was so true that ''the
best is none too good" It does not
pay to keep inferior fowls now.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Another German Atrocity.

Weird and wonderful are the mix
lures that pass as tobacco in Germany
now that the government has decreed
that anything is tobacco that contains
not less than 5 per cent of that weed.
The rest may be dried leaves of beech.
cherry, chicory. hops. beetroot, sorrel,
potato, rhubarb or coltsfOot. One Ger
man writer says that the result is "a
rank offense, it smells to heaven
Cigars made from this tobacco" 60 by
the appropriate popular name of I'm
famia ScandalOsa."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Why They Are Called Tumblers.

About 100 years ago the Saxons In
England used drinking vessels that
were made Of horns Of cattle or oxen.
They were shaped like cones. AS their
bottoms were pointed they would not
stand erect. When man had his drink
ing horn filed he disposed of its con-
tents ut a single draught and did not
lay it down until he had drained it.
These horns were tumblers in the sense
that they would not stand upright. AL
though our modern glasses do not have
this Objectionable quality, the name
that originated in early Saxon times
still persists. =.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
THE BEST POLICY

Would you win eternal fame
And immortalize your name?
Do you 'covet praise and pelr and SELF
esteem? ,''t
Then give your utmost best
And do it with a zest--
To the job that's yours, however small
it seem,
And when you've set your mark on high.
pursue it;
For it's not the thing you do. but how
you do it.
Would you find the pot of gold
With its blessings manifold,
But with it have your conscience FREQ
from blight?
Then cut your wants in half.
Make thrift your daily staff.
And keep your credit and your honor
And when the tempter offers graft, for
sake it;
For it's not how much you make. but
how you make it. IT,,
Would you build your monument
Ere your busy life be spent;
Or would you the applause of men COM
mand?
Then purge your soul of greed.
Hear every call of need
And scatter blessings with an open
hand.
If money easy comes do not abuse 1t,
For it's not how much you save. but how
you use 1t.
William Davenport in Forbes Magazine.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Government Appeals to /
Patriotism Of Sportsmen

The United States department Of
agriculture appeals to the patriotism
and true craftsmanship of all persons
to cooperate with 1t in the enforce
ment of the federal law for the pro-
lection Of migratory birds, especially
at this time when the problem Of con-
serving the food supply Is taxing the
ingenuity Of the world. It II crafty
ing to know that the majority Of
sportsmen have observed the federal
regulations and this fact has con-
tributed largely to the successful 10.
suits accomplished. A sense of pa
triotic duty should impel every one to
conserve this natural food asset, thuo
perpetuating the species and incfeasisg
the supply for the benefit Of ali the
people.
The department has planned to h.
crease greatly its force, Of wardeoAL
who will be actively engaged durinG
the spring migration In securing esi-
dence upon which to base prosecutioa1
AGAINST those who ~ violate tt lAW.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
The Concrete Ship.

Faith, the new concrete ship. mas the
appearance of concrete cellar founda-
ton. This may be the very thing some
unseen and unknown barnacie mas oeen
waiting to cling to. Our bold experf-
ment vii. bring out some surprising
discoveries, no doubt. II 1t shows q
new way to use cement there viii De q
boom in cement stocks. We have NO
end of raw material for cement max
ing and no conservationist can tell us
when we shall be shy OF the stun tnat
makes ships II the Faith ID . winner
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
No Established WheatIess
Days, but Pound and Half
Should Be the Very Limit

The United States food administra-
ton has made wheatless days, and
wheatless meals optional in private
homes. But that does not mean the
lid has been taken off. 1t only means
that the question of which day or meal
shall be wheatless is left to the tndi-
vidua1 household.
ton has made the reduction of wheat
consumption a test of good citizen
ship. Each citizen in the land is
asked, as a good American, to cut his
individual wheat consumption to a
pound and q half week. That means
to cut the ordinary, peace-time con-
sumption in two. It doesn't matter on
what day or what meals that is done,
just so it is done. In that regard the
food administration says:
I'm making optional the observance
Of wheatless days in private homes
the food administration lifted no re-
strictions upon the consumption of
wheat products. It is merely asking
the American people to reduce their
per capita consumption to not more
than ~ pounds per week,
"This is an absolute military neces-
sity. The method of saving is being
left entirely to the individual. II it
can be done without foregoing the use
of wheat at any specified meal or. on
any day, the food administrations ur-
gent plea for further conservation will
be carried out to the letter"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Old Age Cannot Wear Out
Its Shoes as Reck|essly
As Does the Gay Youth

Preparing for easy old age is one OF
the spurs that has transformed q
wholesome ambition into "vaulting
ambition that o'erleaps ITSELF" Many
a man has shortened his life overwOrk-
ing to take care of the old age that no
thus snuffed out, observes a writer In
the Minneapolis Journal. Any man Is
remiss who does not prepare against
old age, but nature has also. taken a
hand in this preparation.
Old age cannot wear out its shoes as
recklessly as does youth. The normal
old man finds better entertainment in
meditation than he could in expensive
amusement. Memory is his movie
Society does not ask old people to burn
expensive midnight oil nor to appear
on dress parade. Thus normal and
gratifying reduction of outgo is equiva-
lent to an addition to the income.
Feverish preparation for old age i'm
plies the belief not only that the appe-
tite will not decrease with old age, but
that old age will be wholly helpless to
sustain itself. As matter Of fact.
but a small proportion Of the old are
totally disabled for gainful labor. And
few, If any, old people are as happy
when idle as when occupied with such
work as they are fitted to do.
The wise old man has learned what
as a foolish young man he failed to
see. that enough is as good as
feast" and that after all 'man wants
but little here below" Sensible corn:
fort in old age does not come very
high,
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
How President Kruger Decided
Problem for Two Brothers

That very canny person, President
Kruger, was once called upon, as King
Solomon before him, to pass Judgment
In a matter Of ownership. The case
was that Of two brothers, who had
been left a farm and could not agree
as to the division which had to be
made. They agreed that. rather than
take the matter to the courts, they
would let President Kruger decide.
President Kruger appears to have he's.
itated about as little as King Solomon
did. He Instructed the cider brother
to make what he considered a fair d.
vision. and then he gave first choice
to the younger brother. A solution.
ike Solomon's both mastery and sim.
Christian Science Monitor.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Our Army and What it Costs
Most People Figure Expansion Much Less and
Cost Much Greater Than Facts Warrant

been
America been at All have seen ne
watched 60 away have written
packages to the boys $1,000
increased
in Washington snow
April 1917 the total strength OF an
National Guard ana eseVes) was
and 2O2,51O ~,
grand strength OF Tue Amy
branches) and 152S924 men,
old and the armies whlcn are worth
follows:
) Ohcers Men
Ree,lar 1911 12197 1O69S 5tSl4S
1888 76S l6s9s 431'ooo
service) 4ooo 9"@lo .o'ooo
Total 1924 2O2J51O 123SO1 152SS24
Of the is thing that Is
think of billions
expended
things not properly to
the $685. 76, 9O715
That sum does not include depart
already served There
expenditures that would
detailed official OF depart
Since made the following appropra-
department.
'4do'oo4ooo
pvors ond horbors 34,731,15OOO
March 1918 follows
Pivors and horhors 1S63,1O26O
$3OO6761, 9O715
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23

man who makes Il slip. He is also a
nervous person, and becomes enrap-
tured on the bench while he Is watch
ing a game, and plays the whole con-
test over, solo, as he sits on the play
ers' coop.
Stallings is merciless in calling down
a player and criticizing his work.
"A fellow made bObble once while
Stallings was watching from the
bench" said Mitchell. "LOOk at that
boob said Stallings. What a bone
head! No, he isn't bonehead; his
head is made of Krupp STEEL"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Consumption Of Sugar Goes
Up to a. Pounds Per Capita :.
Since Revolutionary Period

The American who during the
worlds greatest war must get along
with one lump of sugar instead of two
in his coffee will be interested In the
fact that the Revolutionary patriots
had much less or none at all or the
sweetening food material.
A century ago, says the United States
department Of agriculture, the people
of this country consumed less than
one-tenth as much sugar as they do
now. In 1791-1795, just after the Revo-
luton, the estimated annual cOnsump-
ton was rs pounds per capita. In
1821-1S25 the average per capita con-
sumption was 8.3 pounds and was prac-
tically the same 20 years earlier. But
in the five years ending with 1915 the
total consumption in the United States
was approximately 8,OOO,OOOOOO
pounds, a yearly average of about 81
pounds for each person, or 1913 pounds
for an average family as persOns).
Reasons for the increase can BIO
found not only in many new and e.
tended uses for sugar but also in nu.
merOus sources of the product. Do
nestle cane and beet fields supplied 23
per cent of the sugar we used in 1911
1915; the planters of Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines furnished 26
per cent; while Cuba, supplemented by
small amounts from other foreign
countries, furnished 81 per cent. Dur
ing these five years the sugar cOnsump-
ton of the United States averaged al
most 16O,OOO,OOO pounds per week. The
supply for q weeks came from foreign
countries. our island possessions fur
nished supplies for 13 weeks consurnp-
ton, while the product of the United
States proper was equivalent to II
weeks average consumption.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Manager George Sta'|ings
Is in the Game Heart and
Soul on the Ball Diamond

Fred Mitchell. manager of the Chi
cago Cubs, delights to tell stories of
his former boss, Miracle Man Stallings
of the Braves. When Mitch was STALL
ing's assistant in Boston he had many
a run-in with the manager, and he ad-
nits now that Stallings thinks more OF
q man who will answer him back on
occasion. 'a
Stallings is a firebrand In baseball;
never laughs. rarely smiles, doesn't
Jest, and rOasts the daylight out OF q
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Twenty Years Ago.

Bicycles were as common as
legs.
Automobiles and millionaires
were rare. = 3
Table board was s. q week,
or IS a week with the ''best
room in the house." - p
e Hotels had a "bill Of fare"
and the menu" with prices
marked opposite was almost
unknown. +.
Appendicitis had just been
discovered.
Nobody wore white shoes, and
palm beach suits were in the
alpaca stage" *
Jules Verne had a monopoly
on the Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
With the Inventors.

A glass bottle blowing ma
chine with a capacity Of 1900
bottles an hour has been invent
ed in Europe. ~
Electrical apparatus for tap
ping trees, which can be left
without attention for months,
has been invented.
~ Spring pads to be strapped to
the knees have been invented
for the comfort of persons
obliged to kneel at their work.
To prevent rubber ire hose
cracking while dry an inventor
has patented a reel that keeps
4 filled with compressed air.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
HAVE ALAUGH
His Temptation,

HE Temptation.
II hope my husband won't get in
veigled into any games with those card
sharks"
"Oh, he'll know when they are try
ing to cheat him."
I'm not afraid of that, but you
know, he's a, sharpshOoter."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
ENGLAND to Grow Sunhowers.

The production Of sunflowers IS
being encouraged in England. The
ministry Of food and production de-
p0rtment has issued Instructions on
how to grow sun1owers and advises
nll persons to grow them, explaining
that the seed is rich In oil and makes
an excellent chicken food.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
A Victim Of Fate.

" ASu OS6NA
business" said
plutocrat YEARLY.
II made q solemn
VOW that when l
had made an even
million I would
quit"
'B ut you've
made that many
times over" said
the other man,
land still you are
accommodating"
THAT'S tn e
curse of it. When
ever I think I've
made an even mil.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
4 Patriot.

"He's a real patriot, anyhow"
"What makes you thing SOP"
"He's taken a big government con-
tract for the Same profit he'd charge,
a private corporation"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
An Exeusjno Spirit.

didn't I see the grocer's boy kiss
you this morning, Susan7'
"Yes'm. But he amt to blame-
ma'am. Twas the iceman set him
the bad example,"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-23
Foods in Season.

Asparagus, beet green's, spinach
and all the other tender garden
things which are so wholesome are
now found in our markets.