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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-21
MADE.IN.GERMANY LIES
CIRCULATED IN CANADA

Canada IL also having trouble with
Made-in- Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation &C.
cording to an Official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con-
troller by the United States food ad-
ministratiOn.
The stories bothering Canada are
OF the same general character as those
the United States food administra-
tor recently denounced in this coun-
try, such as the ridiculous salt ana
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives stocks Of home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller est
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power Of destruction that lies
in battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even \ vestige OF
foundation have been scattered broad
cast" said the Canadian statement
.Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously In
different parts Of the country and In
each instance have been calculated to
arouse public Indignation.
"They are insidious, subtle, persist
emit. Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the great essential In the WORK
Of food control.
at lies with every individual to for
hear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to cooperate In work which Is going
to mean more than the majority o.
people yet realize"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-21
Results Will
Stdrfle Leon

People report quick results from
pure Lavoptik eye wash. girl
with weak, strained eyes was helped
by one application. Her mother
could not sew or read because of eye
pains. In one week her trouble was
zone. A small bottle of lavoptik is
guaranteed to help every case weak,
Strained or inflamed eyes. One
wash starties with its quick results.
A1uMinun eye cup freo. Bell,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-21
!. j WILL WIN
81: s: e: :::$;|$::$;;;i6|jCRACY'SW War
Americas Greatest Cereal Crop
Is Now Moving to
Market.
4MAINsTAY IN NATIONS CRISIS.
i9urpius Wheat o. the United States
! Has Been Sent to Famine Threat.
!, ened Europe.

! Americas great corn crop, exceed.
Ing 5000, 600. 900 bushels. will save the
worlds food situation, officials Of the
United States food administration be-
lieve.
Corn is the nations best food cereal.
housewives are beginning 10 realise.
It contains all the elements needed to
keep the body in state Of health and
when used according to the scores OF
tried recipes, especially when com.
bined With An added portion of oil or
fat, viii sustain life indefinitely. In
dian warriors in colonial days lived on
parched corn alone for many days at q
time, and at Valley Forge parched
corn was at times the sole ration OF
the Continental soldiers.
Owing to transportation difficulties
caused by the war the corn crop moved
more slowly to market this year than
ever before. Now, however, the cereal
10 reaching the millers and consumers.
In the meantime the nations surplus
wheat has been sent to Europe.
Today there are approximately 80
bushels of corn for every American.
This quantity Is greater by five BUSH
els than in former years
Corn has become the nations MAIN
stay in the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
American cOlonists from famine on
many occasions, just as 1t served as q
staple food during the War Of the Rev
olution and during the Civil War, King
Corn has again come to the front In
the nations battle with autOcracy
Corn meal is finding greatly increas-
ed use in the making OF ordinary white
bread. Hundreds ct housewives and
many of the larger bakers are mixing
20 per cent. corn meal with wheat
-four to make leavened bread. This
kind OF mixture Is worked and baked
iii the same recipes and with the same
methods that apply to straight wheat
bread.
Corn bread-usinE corn meal entire
ly-is gaining a greater popularity
than ever before. Housewives are
coming to realize that every pound OF
wheat saved in America means pound
Of wheat released for shipment TO- the
nations with which America is associ-
ated in the war.
There are score of corn products
that today possess unusual Importance
for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet
oninp corn cakes and -buckWheat cakes
and for use in the kitchen instead OF
graduated sugar is one Of the leading
products made from corn.
Corn oil. excellent for frying and for
every other purpose filed by salad oils.
10 appearing on the market in large
quantities. 1t comes from the germ OF
the corn.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30

York, Neb, Dec. "a. To the Ed
itor Of The Bee: There is no COM
parison between Ireland and the
south, either during the civil war.
since or now. The south helped
form, and Of their own free will and
with duly accredited representatives,
the United States. They were bound
for all time to come by their action
and not for term of years or until
some time when they took the no.
ton that they preferred to go by
themselves. Ireland, I mean Of
course, Irish Ireland, had no part
in the act Of union between England
and Ireland. Seven-tenths of the
Irish people were not represented In
the corrupt parliament that voted
away Ireland's liberty. English
statesmen from Burke to Gladstone
and from Gladstone down to Lloyd
George have denounced the act Of
union as one Of the most damnable
and monstrous crimes against the
rights Of a nation, the oldest in
Europe, ever perpetrated on any peo-
Pile.
Mr.. Wooster should bear in mind
that Ireland is not asking for any
"favors" Of England. She is de-
handing her rights, rights that were
paramount to the claims Of any Of
the allies, for she had been the
longest sufferer. had in the centuries
Of brutal English rule, sacrificed
more, suffered more. lost more of
her sons and daughters through
murder, starvation and forced emil
grafton, than Belgium, bad as was
her lot under the heel Of Germany;
and Ireland was justified, as Bel
GUM was justified, in calling to her
aid whatever power she could enlist
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
State Hail Insurance Report.

Operations of the state hail insurance law,
as disclosed by the report just made for the cur
rent year, show that the experiment has not as
yet advanced far enough to determine its value.
1t is true that the sum collected for premiums
has been more than enough to meet all ex-
penses, including losses, balance of $2l 1881
remaining in the state treasury. The season
lust passed was notable for its freedom from
disastrous hail storms, and so in favor of the
treasury to that extent. The comparison ofrisk
assumed with loss incurred is far more satsfac-
tory as a basis for insurance calculations than
the balance between premiums collected and
amount disbursed. Six thousand policies were
written and ia losses sustained. At the aver
age rate of loss 100 more would have more than
exhausted the premiums collected, leaving def
icit to be supplied from another source. The
fact that so few farmers took advantage OF the
law shows that the men most interested are not
inclined to abandon their mutual or other pro-
lection against hail and storm losses for the
state plan Time may settle the real value of
the state hail insurance law, but the mere fact
that its operations show favorable balance for
the year is not proof of its entire stability or
usefulness. A bad year may provide better
test
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
Inland WATERWAYS Program.

All the agitation of recent years in favor of
utilization of the great water courses of the
country as commerce carriers has failed to bring
out the definite program expected, and which
must be adopted before success will attend the
effort. Until the federal aid gets beyond the
status of the annual rivers and harbors pork
barrel" the great necessity of the country will
be unreazed. Certain unrelated projects have
been put into operation; the Ohio river i'm
provement, for example, and some similar work
done in the south, but the connected system Of
waterways that will supplement the railways
has not progressed beyond the dream stage.
Its possibility is established, its desirabity APP
parent and the benefits that would follow are
admitted. As workable method for extending
federal aid to highway construction has been
found, with encouraging stimulation of state
and local effort in construction, solution for
the other elements of the national problem of
transportation must be forthcoming. Congress
will have to deal concretely with the railroads
very shortly, but it is not too much to suggest
that great service can be performed by work.
ing out plan that may develop into general
system whereby the highways, the waterways
and the railways may be eo-ordinated into one
servieeable whole.~
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
Education and Realities.

Perhaps because 50 much of our national life
depends on the quality as we'll as the quantity
of education we give to Our youth, and for the
reason that all the springs of our existence have
been Jared by the war, our school system is
coming in for unusual consideration just now.
1t began with the proposition emanating from
the Office Of the secretary of interior, that the
schools be nationaized in effect at least, by the
great extension of authority and powers of the
commissioner of the bureau of education. This
plan has encountered serious opposition from
those who are wise enough to note the dangers
that would flow from federal control of all edit
cational effort.
Another and more persistent danger comes
from that group who find in the German system
of industrial education something extremely de
sirable. Its application will provide manufac-
turers with we'll trained factory hands, and,
therefore, it should be adopted. Opposed to
the advocates of this system is the group that
devotedly clings to the purely cultural ideal Of
school training, while a third division of educa-
tors is honestly seeking the way by which the
cultural effort of the one may be blended with
the practical OF the other, and real advance
made in the school work of the country.
- Observers who have the subject at heart are
agreed that much time is wasted at present i'll
= American schools; too much is attempted with
the inevitable result that not enough is accom-
pshed This is pointed out by an eastern
writer, who believes that method may be
worked out whereby industrial or vocational
training may be carried along side by side with
the purely cultural. He would go farther than
the Gary method by making the factories and
workshops serve as laboratories to supplement
the school room.
While the production of wealth is not the
supreme aim of our life as a people, earning a
living occupies most of us to the exclusion of
everything else Therefore, the days spent at
school, which are short enough, should be so
occupied that the coming men and women be
fitted for the task of self-support, but even this
is secondary to the training that equips them
for the duties of citizenship. Sound and liberal
instruction in the responsibilities and amenities
of life should precede training in mechanical or
commercial routine if we are to realize our ma
tional opportunity
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
NATIONS IN ACCORD.

Mr.. Wilson's speech at the Guild Hall recep-
ton in london on Saturday is the most notable
of his utterances in Europe. In this he, for the
first time, announces the accord of the great
nations as to program for the establishment
and maintenance of peace. This is to rest on a
concert of nations, the outworn principle of
balance of power being discarded To give this
concert vitality, it must have the consenting
presence of the United States Great Britain
and France as leaders and this awakens curiosity
as to what obligations each will assume. IN
America the league of nations has long had sup
port, and now it is fast becoming reality, but
so far the responsibilities membership incurs
are but hazily outlined.
All discussion so far, has been in terms of
abstraction, but the hour when the peace con-
ference opens its session will bring the time
when concrete statements must be given That
is what we want to know. All are willing to
subscribe to the princpe even the Central
powers of Europe eagerly seized on the prin-
ciple as straw that might save them from the
fate that engulfed their military autocracy. 1t
has developed that wide difference of opinion
prevailed between England and Germany as to
the practical application of the theory.
1t is gratifying, and encouraging as we'll, to
know that the great nations look ahead, with
unity of purpose at least, to the conference at
which all vagueness and uncertainty will be
dspelled
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
The Jolt Of Silence

When those fearful German ladies made
their appeal to entente womanhood for an anne
Iteration of the armistce conditions no women
of prominence on this side of the water troubled
to answer But in France Madame Jules Sieg-
fried, president of the National Council Of
French Women, by way of reply, reminded the
German women of few bitter truths that had
escaped their memory. She pointed out that
when asked to protest against the violation of
Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania the
president of the Council of German Women re-
piled:
I'VE are entirely in accord with our govern
ment and our people; the men who have as
sumed responsibility for Germany's policies are
just as dear to us as those who shed their blood
on the battlefield"
To all appeals for help against deportation
Of women and young girls, to all warnings that
"a reversal of fortune might leave. German
women without the sympathy of their French
sisters feminine Germany gave forth no reply.
aWhy should we intervene nowl" asks Madame
Siegfried. Our pity, first of ALL goes forth to
our own unhappy prisoners, cruelty decimated
BY starvation and typhus; to our rescued popu.
-lations. shainesully paged and maltreated. Let
Gerrnany's women think, back bit, and then
they viii understand our silence."-New York
Post
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
Editorial SNAPSHOTS

Washington Post: The grown-up
nations will have to administer q
sharp box on the ears of the little
ones that are trying to, grab terri
tory from one another.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat 1t ia
true. perhaps, that the world owes
every man a living, but 1t is neces-
sary to find where the Jobs are given
out.
Washington Post: Bill Hohenzol.
lern now knows what the ancient
Americans were driving at when
they inscribed on their flag, Don't
tread on met
New York World: With more
than 4,75O,O00 Prussian casualties
out Of total OF 6,066.769 in all Ger
many, that former stronghold of APP
piled militarSm paid "A staggering
price for its distinction.
Philadelphia Ledger: Whatever
the reason, those who have had oc-
casion TO write TO the soldiers abroad
will agree that the Postoffice and
War departments have revealed
amazing incompetcncy in delivering
their letters.
BROOKLYN FaGle; We trust Amerl-
cans will carry off no bric-a-brac
from. the kaisers summer palace al
Coblenz, which they are occupying.
Teuton crown princes must be ed.
ucated by example in the principles
Of the DecaloEue.
Kansas City Star: Germany has
delivered only 2,000,0 900 Of the $780,
900 tons of shipping the armistice
terms required her to hand over to
the allies for the provisioning of that
country. But that shouldn't present
a very knotty problem to the allies.
Germany will merely get that much
less food.
New York Herald: Here IL At.
torney General Gregory with an
opinion that the period Of ten days
after adjournment Of congress, which
the constitution gives the president
in which to sign or veto bills, does
not begin to run until an engrossed
copy actually reaches him. This con-
tributes to the comfort of an alb
sentee president. Who can say when
the official text of a bill may reach
him? Great are the interpreters Of
the law
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
FLAG SONG.

Oh dark the night and dim the day,
Where first our flag arose:
It fluttorcd bravely in the fray
To meet Overwhelming foes.
Our fathers saw the splendor shine.
They dared and suffered all.
They won our freedom by the sign
The holy sign the radiant sign,
Chorus
All nail to thee Young Gloryl
Among The flags OF earth
Well neer forget the story
or thy heoric birth
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
%Ree}ns,;
&Aw9@X
Service Cheyrons.

Union Station, Omaha, Dec 20.
To the Editor Of The Bee: While
waiting for a train | happened to
read your reprint from the New
York Times under the title. "a De-
tested Chevron."
Originally, the gold chevron. at
which so many cast longing eyes.
was to be worn only TO designate
service in~the Zone Of Advance" or
fighting zone. The ruling extending
it to include all overseas service
came as a direct result II a howl
which went up from the rear:
and this new silver chevron is the re-
suit of a further howl from still
further to the rear.
Speaking from my own standpoint,
of man beyond the draft age who
enlisted as private in April. 1917.
leaving business as well as an aged
mother and a fiance. I would like
to state thai it didn't require any
political pull, either TO get into the
army or to get to France. There
was no mob at the recruiting office.
although there was quite a lam of
applicants for officers training
camps.
This matter Of chevrons is a petty
affair. Decorate yourself with all
the gold chevrons and wound stripes
you can pile on, and If down deep
yoV know you don't deserve them,
all the army regulations in the world
won't make you enjoy them.
If you really faced the boche you
don't need any chevrons to remind
you Of 1t. And don't let's hear so
many regrets. Look back and really
ask yourself whether you went after
these new specialties, aviation, motor
transport. artillery, etc, because you
really felt yourself peculiarly fitted
or whether your feet weren't a trifle
cool at ths prospect Of the infantry.
Really hum-drum existence, the
infantry. but If Won want TO fight you
can usually find it in that branch Of
the service. provided you don't wait
until the show is we'll started before
you decide to become an actor.
And it isn't necessary to label
yourself Officer" They'll find you in
due time il you get in the game early,
play it hard and forget promotion;
it will come fast enough.
You're the Judge Yourself as to
how you PLAYED vour part: YOU can't
fool Yourself with chevrons. Who
am |? Just first lieutenant that
served with some he-mnn in Alsare.
the Ourcq, the Vesle. Juvigny pla-
teau and was ordered home as an
instructor just before St Mihiel
Discharged the dav before Christmas
and on my way home. Forget it,
Keep your head and don't get t1erv-
GUS II you fail TO get your share of
hero worship. When the army asks
for men again. Just get into the in
fantrv If you want to fight. for, after
all. the modern improvements are
installed. it's still the old doughboy
who does the real hand o-hand
fighting and he's the real hero Of
this war Mr.. Buck Private Infan-
try. who Is equally at home in the
trenches amidst mud. rats and coot-
les, in the wheat fields and woods,
among machine gun bullets or in
some village in the rear writing to
his sweetheart at home or speaking
French f7uently to some charming
mademoiselle.
SOLDIER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
Full OF Meat.

Omaha, Dec. 25.-To the Editor
of The Bee: Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year | think this next
year will be great, happy year.
don't you? We must all get busy
and increase the supply of food
and clothes above the demand One
reason there is so much bad health
is that people fail to realize that a
craving for sweet stuff is only call
for a kidney stimulant, About all
we need while on this earth is pure
food, pure water and why not music
and friendship?
l think in a year or two the pro
Germans will he back in Germany.
don't you? Did you ever notice how
many real friends you have?
AN ODD FELLOW FRIEND.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
Sink the Sims,

North Platte. Neb., Dec "a. To
the Editor of The Bee: 7 see by the
issue Of December % Mr.. Agnew is
protesting against the sinking Of the
German feet which has been turned
over to the allies. ! take it he only
wants to save. as our food admins
traitor has asked us to do, but he
evidently forgets that our U. s. did
not go into this war for gain. but for
the saving of humanity. Now, If
we take over these ships for use or
for the purpose Of giving to some
other country, 1t seems to me we
are going against the very thing we
have stood for, so ] say obey the
orders Of the allies and sink every
one Of them. Live up to our stand
ard az Americans and there will be
nothing to re"ret.
JULIA NJ. SIFROID,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
TODAY
Right in the Spotlight.

Today is the Goth birthday Of
Rachel Foster Avery, who, for many
years, was numbered among The
most active leaders of the women
suffrage movement in America. Mrs.
Avery was born in Pittsburgh, at
tended the schools in Philadelphia,
and later completed her studies at
the University of Zurich. In the
early SOS she gained a wide repu-
tation as a reformer and advocate
of improved conditions for women.
She was made corresponding secre-
tary of the National Suffrage asso-
citation, which post she held for more
than 20 years. From 1891 to 1894
she was corresponding secretary of
the international Council of Wo-
men. Mrs. Avery was also first
president of the Pennsylvania sui
frage association.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
n her struggle to free herself from

h her struggle to free herself from
de invader.
Toryism Is already at work to dis
credit Ireland before the peace con-
ference. This can readily be seen
in the tone Of the articles now being
sent to American newspapers by cor
respondents In Europe. England is
financing this anti-lrish propaganda,
but it is doomed to fail Of its pur-
pose. President Wilson has gone
too far in outlining the purposes of
the war and no senator would hardly
risk his political career in ratifying
a peace treaty which still leaves Eng
lands talons clawing at lrelands
vitals, even though Wilson declined
to carry Ireland's claim before the
peace conference.
J. T.. CARIIN
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
Large Loans Listed.

Final sanction to a bill granting
a credit to France of 100000 and
extending Great Britain's credit to
1000, 900 with the option OF increase
by another $4,000. 900, has been given
by the Uruguayan chamber. These
credits bear per cent interest for
two years and are renewable by mu-
tHal consent
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30

! A group of salesgirls in an Omaha depart
5ment store amused themselves during "bar-
gain day" rush hst week by placing fake pack
ages among the goods on SALE Six disappeared
during the afternoon, and not one was returned
This tale has no moral ~
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
One Year Ago Today in the War.

British troops in<Palestine took
possession of Birch.
British repulsed by Germans on a
front of two miles south of Cam
brai.
French forces on Italian front
stormed enemy positions in the
Monte Tomba region. .
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30
street, Mike McGrath, better known
as Red Mike" broke his leg.
IN Leary'

Professor Rigge of Creighton OBJ
servatory is all ready for the New
years eclipse, which is to be total
eclipse of the sun and visible at
this point.
Friends of Percye Ford are pleas
ed to know he has been promoted
to the position in the Omaha Nation
al bank, formerly filled by the late
w. S. Riggs. y
.
Owing to trouble with the power,
the bridge motor cars are running
only every 20 minutes instead of on
the l0-minute schedule.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-30

An Omaha boy writes from Europe the
Huns fulfilled their part of the armistice as to
ammunition by the simple expedient Of just
running away and leaving all material behind.
They were glad to get the chance. -