The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-02-07
LIBERTY BONDS, ECONOMY :
AND A WHEAT SUBSTITUTE :
By MRS. o. M. WOODS
Chairman Women's County Council
of National Defense.

By MRS. o. M. WOODS
Chairman Women's County Council
of National Defense.
Our council has been called upon
to answer to a call for the benefit of
the colors again. This time to launch
our efforts forcefully for the Liberty
Loan drive which will occur some
time in March if conditions keep pace
with plans.
Mrs. McAdoo is National Chairman
of the Women's Liberty Loan Com
mittee and Mrs. Henry Ware Allen,
our State Chairman-and it was a
pleasure to recommend for chair
manship of Seward county Mrs. w.
E. Wilson of Liberal, Kansas. Sue
cess in this county's drive is assured
as Mrs. Wilson is both an efficient
patriot and a good executive.
In the March drive the United
States must raise eight billion dol
lars thru the sale Of Liberty Loan
bonds and two and one half billion
dollars by the sale of Thrift Stamps.
Women Of the county, will you not
promise some support and bit of
self sacrifice that inasmuch as we
shall jointly enjoy the heritage of
Liberty coming out of this way, so
shall we jointly respond to the many
appeals made to our better selves,
where personal ambitions give over
to something bigger and better, some
thing to profit all who are living and
all who are yet to live. Don't feel
you are too busy, remember if yours
is the Busy Badge, then all the more
your coordination is necessary to
your community, since the idly in
clined person who is wrapped up in
their own affairs at the cost Of their
future freedom cannot be expected
to cooperate readily. Don't wait to
see what your friend or neighbor
does-he may be waiting for you.
Consult conditions and dispatch pat
riotism thru your every move.
Always has it been the busy peo-
pie who achieve. No one questions
that he who absorbs all from the com
munity in which he lives and contrib
utes nothing thereto is another ques-
ton mark in democracy.
Do your bit. Make small and
timely sacrifice for your country once
a day, once week, and cease to graf
ify the pre-war whims of self indul-
gence along the line of all luxuries
that bring about no good result. AS
we all realize a reasonable expendi-
ture for personal diversion is neces-
sary as it always has been, to keep
the mind, body and spirit alert and
working harmoniously.
Save rather than spend, and loan
to your government when possible.
They need help and are soliciting it
from you. Can you afford not to do
your individual share, big or little?
Cut down on candy. How can peo-
pie of democracy tolerate the selfish
practice of people gorging candy, be-
cause it is palatable and good to taste
when our Allies who by reason OF
principles are our brothers in this
struggles and whose wives and chill
dren do not have enough to supply
their bodies with the proper amount
of saccharine nutriments?
Boys and girls, you can save in
threefold manner: when you save
YOUR nickel or your dime or what
ever denomination of money it might
be. that would have otherwise been
spent for candy, you are employing
a safeguard to health, you are re-
leasing a much needed food value for
YOUR less fortunate brothers and sis
tiers in Europe and lastly you have
saved some money with which you
can buy Thrift Stamps, thereby saw
ing your money, your health, and
helping to save Uncle Sam.
And so it is that we women as well
as the children can help. Save your
nickels, your dimes, and your pennies
too. Remembering that they go to
make a dollar-just as your families
90 to constitute the Nation. AS our
families, so our Nation. Be patriotic,
self reliant and not averse to co-or-
dination-since power comes from
unity. -
A Word About Corn
France has exacted of the United
States 122,O00,000 bushels of wheat.
This represents the total surplus OF
wheat we have for export. England,
italy and a million Americans in the
trenches must be fed. Experimental
evidence on scientific grounds accord
corn an equal significance in nutri-
tive value with wheat.
All cereals have general resemb-
lance in composition, however they
may vary widely in nutritive values,
wheat having larger percent protein
or tissue builder and corn a great
deal more fat. In substituting corn
for wheat, the practical question
from a diatetic point of view would
naturally arise, sis the abundance OF
fat in corn a recompense for the de-
ficiency of protein?"
Of all the vegetable oils and oil of
the corn germ comes nearest to being