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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
SHARE OUR SUGAR
With THE ALLIES
British Get Two Pounds a Month.
French Pound and Half,
Italians One Pound.
GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL.
All Nations Permit Use of SWeeteninp
for Home Preserving Purposes.

Americas new sugar ration Of two
pounds a month per person is equita-
BILE when compared with the sugar ra-
ton enforced by rigid governmental
order in England, France and Italy, ma
tons with which we are sharing sugar.
Each Allied nation-in the matter of
sugar consumption-is sharing on near
est possible equal terms the hardships
imposed by greatly altered conditions
In the world sugar situation.
Formerly classed as a luxury, sugar
is now a war time essential. The fair
and just division of this essential is
in the hands of the various Allied
food controllers.
The United States Food Adminlstra.
ton has asked this nation to observe
q voluntary sugar ration Of two
pounds per person a month.
In the other countries at war with
Germany sugar is one Of the scarce
articles on every menu-whether in
the households of both rich and poor,
or In the hotels.
England today has sugar ration
Of two pounds per month per person
In France the ration is pound and a
half and In Italy 1t Is one pound q
month. And the prices In allied cOun.
tries are from two to three times as
high as in America.
If you go to hotel In England or
France these days and order tea OF
coffee they serve absolutely no sugar
with 1t. II you want sugar you must
bring 1t with you.
In England 1t is allowable to use
one-seveHth OF an ounce OF sugar n
the preparation of each luncheon. In
France many persons carry little sac
charine tablets about with them for
use in hotels and in England rich and
poor must take their sugar with them
II they wish to have sweetened tea
while visiting friends.
Before the war started France had
625,000 acres devoted to sugar produc.
ton. By 1917 the French sugar acre
age had decreased to 10000 acres.
Today the French man or woman with a
sugar card has no assurance whatever
that he or she will be able to actually
buy sugar. To buy 1t, one must first
find 1t.
Italy Has estate Sugar."
Especially drastic regulations govern
the use of sugar in Italy. Its manu-
facture, distribution and sale are close.
" controlled, and in part actually
taken over by the state.
Saccharine Is permitted to be sold
and used as substitute for sugar and
the government manufactures a mix.
ture Of saccharine and sugar called
"Smte Sugar" which is largely used
German Sugar Ration Adequate.
Germany, before the war, produced
a great surplus Of sugar and exported
large quantities. Today the Germans
have virtually gone out of the export
business, but have plenty Of cheap
sugar for home use.
Wholesale prices prevalent In the
Allied nations, according to informa
ton received by the United States
Food Administration are as follows
England, 10 cents pound; France
u cents; Italy, 20 cents.
While these high prices are being
paid abroad the American wholesale
price Is being held at IN cents.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
To Whom It May Concern:

This is to notify all persons,
firms or corporations that they
shall not give credit to the Mead
ows-Lightner Coal Company, a
partnership doing business at
Redwine, KY, unless there is an
order given signed by j. T. Light
ner.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS COAL Co.,
424-4 BY j. 7. LIGHTNER.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Buy W. S. S.

Good roads eventually! Why
not now?
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Government Sends
An Urgent Call

The President of the Civil Ser
vice Commission recently wired:
Need for stenographers and
typists at Washington grows
more acute daily. Increase eff
fort all possible.
The Government and business
concerns are short five hundred
thousand bookkeepers and stem
ographers, and are offering be-
ginners salaries never before
heard of.
The Government drafted our
Civil-Service Bookkeeping Set,
and about EIGHTY-FIVE per
cent of the Governments stenog-
raphers write the Shorthand sys-
tenn that we teach-THE BEST
evidence that our courses are
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Take, BY MAIL, our eight
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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Notice.

| have just returned from
the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music where l have taken a
special teachers course, and will
open a music class on monday
August IL, 1918. | am prepared
to teach all the up-to-date me-
thods.
All pupils desiring to enter the
class will please call and see me.
Terms So. so per month, paya.
BILE at the end of each month,
KATHLEEN PHIPPS.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
GUMPTION, ~#H~
Which is plain Common Sense, in United States
language, without Educational Furbelows.
BY /. II. HOVERMALE.

in rapid, startling action when
the forger rises to the sublimity
of sacrificing himself to save the
husband of the girl that he, too,
loved; the police is thwarted and
chagrinned; the father chastened
and humbled, and the lovers
live happily ever afterward."
Moreover, Germany must be
destroyed.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
FACE the FACTS

EFT face the facts The war situation is critical.
~ Unless the Allies fight they yet have
fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight
at their best; nor hungry nations France England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we teed Them
Wheat Savings-They must have wheat. It is the
best food to fight on. 1t the easiest to ship We
alone can spare it to them. By saving just little
less than quarter of what we ate last year-we can
support those who fighting our battles. And we
can do it without stinting ourselves. We have only
to substitute another food just as good
The Corn of PIenty-Corn is that food There's
surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
hour of our need 1t has given in such bounty
was known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of corn Five hundred million bushels over and
above our regular needs. All we have to do is to
learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made
easy? And so clear?
Americas Own Food-Coml 1t is the true American
food. The Indians, hardest of races, lived on it.
Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered
continent For a great section of our country 1t
has bong cen the staff of life. How we'll the South
fought it, history tells. Now it can help America
win world war.
Learn Something-Cornl 1t isn't one food It's
dozen. It's cereal. It's vegetable. It's bread.
It's dessert. It's nutritious; food value in it,
dollar for dollar. than meat or eggs or most other
vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't
know until you've had corn-bread properly cooked.
Best of all, it's plentiful and it's patriotic.
Corn's Infinite Variety-How much do you know about
corn2 About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways Of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing more about it, Here are few
Of its
There are at least fifty ways to use corn meal to
make good dishes for dinner, SUPPER lunch break
fast Here are some suggestions:
HOT BREADS DESSERTS
Boston brown bread. Corn-meal moasses cake.
Hoecake. Apple corn bread.
Mullins Dumplings.
Biscuits. Gingerbread.
Griddle cakes Fruit gems.
WRffles.
HEARTY DISHES
Corn-meal croquettes. Con-mea hsh balls.
Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamaes.
The recipes are in Farmers Bulletin SOS, "Corn
Meal as Food and Ways Of Using It," free from the
Department Of Agriculture.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Notice Of Dissolution.

The Wrigley Grocery Company,
formerly composed of Ollie Blair,
Sam Brown and ]. Gullett is now
wholly owned by j. Gullett, and
Blair and Brown are no longer
partners in the business.
424-14 ]. GULLETT.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED The ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi.
dent America Conserved 14l-
100000 Bushels Wheat
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased BY
s44,soo,ooo Pounds.

Conservation measures applied BY
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas ] H.
100000 bushels of wheat and S44,6.0,-
900 pounds of meat during the rast
year, valued in all at $1,4OO,OOO,OOO.
This was accomplished In the face OF
serious food shortage in this country,
bespeaking the whOleheartedness and
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in a let
ter to President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the plling
up of the millions Of bushels Of wheat
during 1918 and the shipment Of
meat during 1917-18.
The total value Of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to $1,400,000,000, all this food being
bought through or in collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year that closed June 30, 1918.
The shipments Of meats and fats
(includlng meat products, dairy prod
ucts, vegetable oils, etc., to Allied des-
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year 1851. -. 2, 1855, 500, 900 lbs.
Fiscal year 1918. ..3, oil, 100, 900 lbs
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Increase - =. =, 50. 800 900 bushels
OF these cereals our shipmenti Of
the prime breadstuffs In the fiscal year
1918 to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 1871, 100000 bushels and of rye
13,900,000 bushels, a total of 44,900,.
600 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1861 were:
Wheat 100000 bushels and rye
100000 bushels, total of 1877 100000
bushels. In addition some 100000
bushels of 1917 wheat are now In port
for Allied destinations or en- route
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our last harvest OF
wheat will be therefore, about 141, 600.
600 bushels, or total of 154,900,000
bushels Of prime breadstuffs. In ad-
dltion to this we have shipped some
100000 bushels to neutrals depend
ent upon US, and we have received
some imports from other quarters.
"This accomplishment of our people
in this matter stands out even more
clearly II we bear In mind that we had
available in the fiscal year 1851
from net carry-over and as surplus
over our normal consumption about
200, 100000 bushels Of wheat which we
were able to export that year without
trenchlng on our home loaf" Mr..
Hoover said. "Thls last year, however,
owing to the large failure of the 1917
wheat crop, We had available from net
carry-over and production and imports
only Just about our normal consump-
ton. Therefore our wheat shipments
to Allied destinations represent APP
proxlmately savings from our own
wheat bread.
"These figures, however, do not fully
convey the volume Of the effort and
sacrifice made during the past year
by the whole American people. De-
spite the magnificent effort of our agrl.
! cultural population in planting much
increased acreage in 1917. not only was
there a very large failure In wheat,
but also the corn failed to mature prop.
eriy, and our corn is our dominant crop
~ am sure" Mr.. Hoover wrote in
concluding his report, shat all the
millions Of our people, agricultural as
well as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel a very
definite satisfaction that In a year OF
universal food shortages In the north,
ern hemisphere all Of those people
Joined together against Germany have
come through into sight OF the coming
harvest not only with wealth and
strength fully maintained, but with
only temporary periods Of hardship.
ut Is diflicult to distinguish between
various sections Of our people-th,
homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural popula.
tlons-in assessing credit for these re-
suits, but no one will deny the dOmi
nant part Of the American women"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

is sent to prison for a term of
thGes year. EEieaaless money:
less. hopeless, convicted of a
crime Of which she is innocent,
her heart impels her to make an
appeal to her former employer to
pay the girls so that they won't
have to steal.
Mary is sent to prison and at
the sacrifice of the time given for
good conduct she stays straight
and serves the full three years.
Free, she thrice obtains employ
ment only to have the police
say "jailbird" to her employers
and procure her discharge. I'm
able to obtain the right to honest
ly earn her living and spurning
the easiest way" she seeks the
only door open to her-death.
Jumping from the bridge to
the river in search of freedom
from the persecution of those
within the law" she is rescued
by a notorious forger who takes
her to the home of a beautiful
and virtuous-w woman criminal
whose speciality is Matchmaking:
- ~
Wholesome food and rest bring
health, hope and plans of revenge
to Mary Turner. A capable but
inscriptions lawyer is found tc
keep Mary and her band within
therlaw" in their criminal opera
tons, just as big business" does
in its crimes, and the band live!
in luxury and snaps its fingers a
the police. Taking its cue from
''big business" Mary's band Sc
cures an injunction restraining
thefpolice from interfering will
its operations.
But Mary's plan for revenge i
against society in general blu
against the man who sent her t
prison in particular, and to thi
endshe lures the son to love he
and marries him, arranging tn
aenoument so that within tn
hour the proud father will b
crushed by the fact that his so
has married a "jailbird," an
then break the young man
heart by discarding him.
Bat Fate here takes the reir
andassumes control, The youn
man refuses to be discarded an
stands Loyalty by Mary, assun
ing the guilt of a murder to SAY
her, she claiming 10 have con
mitted it in order to save the 70
ger who saved her life. 81
finds that in winning the your
mans love she has learned
love him.
The climax comes at the Ell
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Increase ........... $4,000 900 lbs.
Our slaughterable animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs; they
we're probably less. The increase in
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight Of animals added by
our farmers.
The full effect Of these efforts began
to bear their best results In the last
half of the fiscal year, when the ex-
ports to the Allies we're 2,133, 100, 900
pounds, as against 1926, 500, 900 pounds
In the same period of the year before.
This compares with an average Of
sol 100000 pounds Of total exports for
the same half years In the three year
pre-war period.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms Of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been: ..
Fiscal year 1867. .259 900, 900 bushels
Fiscal year 1918. $40, 800, 900 bushels
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

The Licking Valley Courier has made clubbing arrangement
with the Courerourna by which people of this section get
the day but Sunday by mail and the Licking
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The CourerJourna the most quoted newspaper in America
Its and views exceed by any publication anywhere
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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Startling News Is
Crowding the Telegraph
Wires Every Day
Undoubtedly We Have Entered
Upon the Most Momentous
Months in the History Of
The Universe

The World Revoves Around Newspapers You Want the
News and All the News While 1t Is Really News, YOU
Must Read the Courier Journal Every Day.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
within the Law"

THE ABOVE is the name of
! a melodrama that is one of
the strongest social problem
plays of recent years.
The heroine, Mary Turner, a
carefully reared girl finds herself
penniless at the death of her
father. For five years she tolls
in a department store at wages
that are barely sufficient to keep
her alive, and through it all she
stays straight.
The proprietor, an unctious
hypocrite who gives ostentatious-
ly to charity" while grinding
the lives of the girls in his en-
ploy out under the merciless heel
of discriminating wages, has a
son in whom all his hope is fixed.
To shield herself another girl
hides stolen goods in Mary Tur-
ner's locker and she is arrested
for theft, and convicted. The
merchant goes privately to the
judge and requests the highest
penalty in order that his other
underpaid girls may be deferred
from stealing. He is within
the Law" in paying poor wages
and driving to perdition the girls
whose grinding poverty makes
the easiest way" so hard to re-
sist.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-27
TEN PROSPEROUS YEARS
PREDICTED BY OFFICIAL

Chicago, Dec. 1S.-That the next 10
years will witness the greatest wave
OF prosperity the United States ever
has experienced, and that the nex,
three or four months will witness n
period OF business depression owing Ia
unsettled conditions. were the pre1ic.
lions of Prof. Charles f. Zueblin of
the United States employment service
IN nm address before the Illinois Man.
uiactnrers' Cost association here yes.
tertlay.
Prof Huehlin said that the problem
OF returning more than 5000 oo0
Americans soldiers and sailors 10 the,r
homes ana Industries could only be-
solved by capital and labor rettinc
together ON basis of better nrodnc-
ton. There Will he no Bolsb,v,l
movement in America" he added 80,
the Rolsheviki cannot live with pros
perity."
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-27
DECENTRALIZATION rlANS
REClTED BY GEN. MARCH
$1,000 Soldiers Have Already Sailed
for Home.-Releasing rs, 900
Men Daily

Washington, Dec. 20. - Demohilza
ton of the military forces Mt home Is
gaining momentum. General March.
chief OF staff. announced yesterday
with approximately half of the ZOO.
600 men In the home camps on Novem,
her IL specifically designated for earl,
discharge.
Reports to the war department. Gen.
erai March said. indicate n. rate oi
discharge Of about 1900 men n day.
which will be doubled when ,iemoh.
iliAhtlon Is In full progress. The list
OF designated troops MS given out hy
the chief Of staff shows, of the combat
divisions which are 10 he demohilized
NJ lenst 1900 men already have been
selected Tor early discharge.
In addition to the figures for the
troops nj home. General March said
a6As officers and iSa.e6a men af m,
eNpe''itionary forces up 10 December
l. had been designated for return. au,l
4" these i.sfs officers and 10. Tao men
already have sailed for home.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-27
PLAN BELGIAN TRIP.

Paris Dec. 2i.--It Is thought that
President Wilson may try to crowd his
visit TO Belgium into the time pre-
cedlng the conference.
There Is still much uncertainty as to
whether the sessions Of the Versailles
conference Will be open to the public
or be secret. The American diplomats.
however seem quite eager 10 have
them open as far as possible. for many
reasons. mmong these the declaration
Of President Wilson that the courses
NJ diplomacy should proceed In tire
open.
SIN. IL Is said. they are In accord
with the president IN that the discus
sions cannot he conducted Ms freely In
the open as would be possible In the
secret and quiet Of the council cham
Der.
The general opinion inclines 10 the
view that the conference may be mod
c.ed after the procedure Of the United
States senate, where the foreign rela-
tons committee considers information
nj affairs secretly and later reports to
the whole body.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-27
PEACE MOVES MUST ALL Be
IN OPEN SAYS NORTHCllFFE
Noted 0ritisher Says President vii.
sons Popularity 10 Due to His
Desire for Open Diplomacy

Paris, Dec. 21.--LOrd N0rthcliffe,
chairman OF the London headquarters
of the British mission to the United
States. who Is visiting Paris, yester-
day gave to the Associated Press the
following statement regarding his
ideas NJ to the need Of open dlplo-
macy In conducting the peace negotia-
lions 80 that the people may know
what Is going on:
Nothing can be worse for the pros.
poets Of the coming conference" said
Lord Northcliffe. "thnn an atmosphere
Of secrecy and half truths. Yet up to
the present there hns been no official
statement that the momentous meet.
ings about to take place will he held
In accordance with President Wilson's
expressed views ON the question Of
open diplomacy.
THE days Of secret conclaves are
dead and gone. Clandcstine assem-
blles are the harbingers of intrigue.
suspicion and possible deception. II
would be intolerable that the fate of
whole nations--great and small
should be decided in secret. Shall the
destinies of millions of peoples in all
quarters Of the globe be left to the
tender mercles Of a comparative hand.
ful OF delegates. against whose enact
ments there Is no public appeal? Such
would be mockery of that principle
OF characterization of free nations
which has been fought for and won In
this war
"The British press and people may
be relied upon to support fully the
presidents enlightened expression of
opinion as to the need of publicity Mt
the momentous meetings expected to
begin In Paris on the sixth of January.
Surely the world has suffered enough
from secret diplomacy to realize that
medievaism Is totally Incompatible
with the conception of league of free
nations. A great part of the presi.
dents popularity Is due to the knowl.
edge that he Is the father of open
diplomacy. which Ii was understood
would be the course adopted at the
Forthcoming sessions
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-27
pNgsloENT HOLDS
MANY CONFERENCES

Paris. nec. 3i.-rresident Wilson's
day. yesterday, was crowded with Off
rinl conferences and visits. and In
making final preparations To proceed
90 American headquarters aud thence
to England immediately after Christ.
mas. sW
Mrs Wilson went about Paris for
the nrst time yesterday unaceomp,
anied by the president. With Admiral
Cary T. Graysoa the presidents per.
scnai physician. Mrs. Wilson visited
the hospital for blind soldiers, organic
81 by Wlnfred Holt ~ New YORK.
Announcement of the details of the
presidents trip 20 England have not
yet been made. However. about
oil that remains tn be- disclosed il the
route the president Will take aud the
program NJ his movements during the
three or four days of his stay In the
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-12-27
WILL PENALlzE PROFITS
EARNED BY CHILD LABOR
Twelve Senators, Mostly Southerners,
Vote Against Adoption Of
Tax Amendment

Washington, Dec. 19.--AdOptiOn OF
committee amendment imposing a
10 per cent tax on profits from child
labor products entering interstate
commerce was the only action by the
sennte yesterday on the war revenue
bill. The vote on the amendment was
30 to IL. the Democrats casting all the
negative votes.
Leaders hope for passage Of the bill
by next Monday with view to secur-
ing an extended recess over the holt
days.
The child labor amendment, drafted
Jointly by Senators Pomerene of Ohio.
LenroOt OF Wisconsin, and Kenyon of
Iowa. Is designed to replace the child
labor law declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court Senators Hard
wick of Georgia and Overman of
North Carolina led the fight on it, and
on the roll call these senators voted
against adoption:
Rankhead of Alabama, Beckbam of
Kentucky. Hardwick of Georgia, Mar
tin of Kentucky. Overman of North
Carolina. Pollock of South Carolina.
Simmons of North Carolina, Smith of
Georgia. Smith of South Carolina
Thomas of Colorado. Underwood of
Alabama and Williams OF Missippi.
The amendment, which will 90 to
conference when the senate passes the
revenue bill, is said to have President
Wilson's approval.