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CaIories of the Egg.

The nutrftive value of foods is meas ured in terms of calories. The white of an average egg weighs about 2S.5 grams, consisting of water, proteids and mineral matter. The protelds of the white contribute about 15 calories to the total nutritive value of the egg. The yolk of this same average egg weighs about 15 grams including wa ter, proteids and fats. Its protein fur nishes about 9.S calories, its fats 43.7 calories. or total of 53.5 calories from the yolk. Scramble your egg and you will have about 6S.4 calories.
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Consumers Can Help Prevent Shortage Next Winter by Buying Now, Says Fuel
 Administrator.
GARFIELD SOUNDS WARNING.
Better Borrow Money Now to Buy Than Do Without Later, He Says-lf Your Storage Space Isn't Large
 Enough, Enlarge 1t.
By HARRY A. GARFIELD,


 Every householder, every public util- ity and every industrial user or coal engaged in work essential to the prose- cutiOn of the war are earnestly ad- vised and urged to place without de- lay their orders for coal to cover their needs for the F months beginning April 1.
 During the past F months there has been suffering among consumers and curtailment of essential production by industries through inability to obtain necessary fuel after the beginning of winter. A year ago consumers were led to believe that they might safely withhold their orders until later in the year. They labored under the impress sion that coal could be bought and se- cured as well at one time as another. They were told that there was plenty of coAl for everybody and that there would be plenty of coal cars to move the coal in also.
 This advice and its acceptance by consumers was one of the contributing causes to the coal shortage, with It's consequent suffering among domestic consumers and lessening h production of commodities needed In our war ac- tiviticS.
 The Fuel Administration was not then in existence and did not begin Its work until August 23. It was then al- ready too late to undo the harm which had been done. The Fuel Administra-
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Time Is Valuable.

1ablt accustoms us to doing most sk the everyday things in particular ways, and we think of them only when they chance to be done differently. We sometimes get the habit of being late in keeping engagements. and feel that the ioss, If any. is our own affair. It A also the affair of the one we keep waiting, as he may consider his time of much value. Oniy the Idle and careless, whose time Is of the least value, can afford to waste 1t by care lessness in keeping engagements.-Ex- change.
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Ennlish, You Know.

"An' so you're goin' to teach French at the school Mir. CanewellT said the grocers' wife. "Well, it's as we'll that some folk can teach people, for often think 1t must be shockin' difficult for furriners who come here. For instance, take the word air for example. There's the lair on our 'eads, the hair of the hatmosphere, the are they 'unts. an air you quite well? Yes, 1t must be aw. ful confusin'."
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Fate and Fancy.

Many of us feel that Fate has not treated us fairly-that If we had had such and such an opportunity how full and satisfying life would be, says a Is pretty accurate. after all. If we only look around us we will discover and all too quickly, that those whom we consider more fortunate" have as much and even more to contend than we have.
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Can You nol It7

you were to esk an average cigar Aer 1T ne gould smoke cigar right usn In steady, consecutive puffs nout once taking 1t from his mouth "ouiu probably smile at the sim 'y or the feat. You, are fairly safe wager him that he cannot do it.
 cigar generally consumes itself 'e held in the fingers of the smoker paced on an ash tray.
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mated that over 100000 extra acres of potatoes were planted last year. The United States Food Administration Is endeavOr- ing to push the nations big po- tatO stocks into channels of trade and has placed potatoes on the list of substitutes that may be bought along with wheat flour.
 Potato soup has become a war dish. Here is a recipe that has been tested by United States Food Administration experts. h. gredients needed are three pota- toes, one quart of milk, two slices onion, three tablespoons butter substitute, two table spoons flour, one and one-half tablespoons salt, one-quarter teaspoon celery salt. one-eighth teaspoon pepper, few grains cay enne and one teaspoon chopped parsley.
 Cook potatoes in boiled saIted water. When soft run through a strainer. Scald milk with on- ion, remove onion and add milk slowly to potatoes. Melt the fat, add dry ingredients, stir until well mixed. then stir into boiling soup. Cook one minute, strain and sprinkle with barley.
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Thousands of Retail Grocers Sup- port Food Administration
 RIIleS. s1>- '--r-
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY.
New Wheat Saving Program Demand < ed Allied Food Shortage in- creases-Ameriea Must lA, Feed Fighters.

Explaining the United States Food Administration new 50-50 wheat reg platIons is A war time task the Ameri- ran grocer has gladly shouldered. Many stores are already displaying their Food Administration wheat saw ing pledge cards, that they have sign- ed agreeing to carry out the new wheat program.
 Each flour customer Is now requir- led to buy one pound of cereal substi- flute for every pound of wheat flour. FThe substitute may be of one kind or assorted. This 5O-5O sab Is nado .by weight and not by valus of tho ccm- modities There Is, of ceueges no reg |ulatlon demanding the cUnsd1aef to buy wheat flour at all.
 A wide variety of substitutes has been provided: Cornmeal, corn flour, edIble cornstarch, hominy, corn grits, barley flour, potato flour, sweet potato Hour, soya bean flour, Feterita flour bnd meals, rice, rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats and buckwheat flour.
 Graham and whole wheat flour con- btitute an exception to the national Regulation. Either of these commodi- lies may be sold at the ratio of three bounds to five pounds of wheat flour that is, five pounds of graham or wheat four counts the same as three bounds of the usual wheat flour.
 Mixed Hours form another excep- lion. Where any flour contains 50 Der cent. or less of wheat 1t may be bold without any substitutes. Where he flour is mixed at the rate of 60 Der cent. wheat and 40 per cent. of lther ingredients an additional 20 per bent of substitutes must be purchased y the consumer.
 Where necessity is shown specially prepared infants and invalid's food ontaining flour may be sold.
 That the approved substitutes may e assorted Is a fact many grOcers md housewives overlooked for a time. or instance, if customer wishes to uy "A pound sack of flour the nec- ssary substitutes might be assorted follows: Cornmeal, pounds; corn Fits, pounds; rice, pounds; buck Fheat. ? pounds; cornstarch, pound :; pminy, 2 pounds; rolled oats. 3 ounds.
 None of the substitutes should be phsidered as a waste purchase. here are many household uses for Rch. The eight pounds of cornmeal n De made into cornbread, corn muf- DIS or used in the baking of wheat lead.
 Cornstarch Is useful in making GUS rd thickening gravy or may be used
 cake baking. Corn grits fried like ush forms delicious dish. or 1t may
 used in baking corn bread. Rolled IS are used largely as breakfast DOT uge or In oatmeal cookies or in aking muffins.
 6uckwheat flour may be used in ead making, forming an excellent Dstltute for one-quarter of the peat flour. but is especially choice in
 form of buckwheat cakes for eakfast.
 "im II wheatless meals needed en week in America to provide pugh wheat for the allies, the Food
 aihistration believes the substitutes ii all De used to advantage.
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Using American Methods.

tnerlcans are introducing Amsri- ousiness methods into the jungies, 'es a correspondent. They find out ' the Germans paidifor certain ani- ana then give the natives the amount. They justify this meth. on the strength of the fact that natives get as much for the ani-
 as 1T they were sold to GermanA 4oush the Americans declare that uernans have been making hues
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fall to act. Again, IHeTeT0re, the FucI
Contributed by Frank Goodwin.

faIT to act Again, tnereI0re, the Fuel Administration urges every consumer to place his orders immediately. This should ordinarily be done through the medium of supply upon which the con- sumer has relied in the past. If this course Is followed it may be hoped that the suffering and loss of the past winter will not be repeated. If 1t is not done consumers will have them- selves to blame.
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IuccC.
 In the meantime Americas meat supp.ysahas been greatly increased for come months to come by the Unprecedented shipping to market ot hoes that averaged 232 pounds cach lns. stead of POS pounds the nots mal x
 The United States Food z ministration, endeavoring to N1 just the international food bal ance, promptly removed certain restrictions in this country on the use sf meat and at the same time asked for a smaller con- sumption of breadstnffs.
 We are asked to ol serve only one meatless day each week. Tuesday. We will have larger meat stocks for awhile. But our bread ration must be held to a minimum.
 In altering its food conserva- ton program the Food Admin istration emphasizes that the food situation Is of necessity. subject to radical changes, caused by crop conditions at home and abroad and by the precarious transportation prob lem, both in overseas shipping and in America's overburdened transportation system.
 The Food Administration will keep the American people fully and frankly advised of each change In the developing situa- tion that they may know def nitely the part their food sac rifices play in the world war.
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Little Skeptic.

Caroline and Tom were five and two years old. An expedition to park had been planned when father brought home to Tom a picture book of wild beasts. Caroline was delighted. ''Be- cause, mamma, if we did not show pictures of the animals first to Tom he might see them in the park and say I don't believe"
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Settled Out of Court.

Muriel-"So Judge Merryman pro posed to Alice last night" Ethel--- "Yes, and he made an awful break. When she asked him for time to con- slider his proposal, he gave her 60 Judge.
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Not Acquainted.

,a' sh newspapers" complained the s'"n' are charging me with bow
 ne m Knee to Baal, and never met an 'n my ."-ABoston Tran
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spread tnrou9h tne entlFe country, IS the following:
 Weekly
 Allowance
 Per Person. Meat-Beef (fresh, salted, tin- ned and hashedD mutton, lamb and veal (mutton by preference) .............. 2Ha lbs Butter ................... 1a lb. Cooking Fats (margarine, lard, lard substitutes, vegetable O1lS) 12 ID. Wheat Flour (for use in cook ing gravies, etc, where corn starch, cracker dust or bread crumbs cannot be substituted) .............. h lb. Victory Bread (cOntaining at least 20 per cent. of sub- stitute for wheat fiOur) .... 1A lbs. Sugar (ncluding all sugar used on the table and in cooking and all sweatmeats and candies, but not that used for canning and pre- serving) "................ % 10. The items listed above are the only ones which are definitely limited. In the case of milk and cream, as much may be used as necessary, and chil- dren, of course, must have their full allowance of whole milk. Fish and poultry, any cereal other than wheat, vegetables and fruits and cheese may be used as freely as is desired. The above ration is in no wise in- tended to supplant the Home Card, but rather to supplement It. It has been published with the idea that It will be a very real aid to the Ameri- can woman In her splendid effort to carry out the great food conservation program.
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WOMEN ASK FOR
 RATI0NING PLAN
American Women Volunteer to Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat, Bread Flour, Sugar
 and Butter.
PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK.
Idea Supplements U. S. Food Adminis- tration's New Home Card Now
 in 10000, ,ooo Homes.

The women of America, who are anxious to do their great part in the winning of the war, are now, as a whole, familiar with the most impor- tant aspects of food conservation. The Home Card, both in its original form and in the revised edition for 1918, which provides for two wheatless days, one meatless day a week, in addition to wheatless meal every day, has been placed by the Food Administration aft CT vigorous campaign in 10,OOO,OO0 American homes. An intelligent and conscientious observance of the Home Cards requirements Is all the Food Administration asks of the housewives of the country.
 The Food Administration has had a great many requests, however, particu- farly from the homes of the well-to-do, that 1t should issue a worked out plan for voluntary system of rationing.
 This desire for voluntary ration springs from two causes-f7rst, be- cause 1t Is far simpler for the house. wife to save food when she has a con- crete working plan by which to pro- ceed, and, second, because the loyal women of America desire, unseIfishIy, to put themselves on the same basIs as the women of the Allied countries. The ration proposed by the Food Ad- ministration Is almost the same as that adopted In England for voluntary observance. All over the United King dol n, in hundreds of houses there 3h the front window 2 card with .1na nfn6S0n A1na haAha0w
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USE LESS WHEAT.

The allied nafions have nnG9 2 further Increased deman6o = - lU IT 1E1sf | - q . that Americans are obliGnt6n l
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USE MORE POTATOES.

FLIP consume the
 1917 record break ing potato crop.
 Govern m ent eX- perts have esti-
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The ration recommended by the Food Administration, and adopted first in New York city, whence the idea has spread through the entire country, Is the following:
 Tr1y
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
Your Bond Buys Explosives.

Many farmers here in America have
used giant powder or dynamite IN
blasting out stumps and rocks and in
preparing hillside for an orchard.
Explosives are dangerous to handle
and we all duck our heads and run
when the charge is to he set Off. over
in France today our sons are having
the stuff hurled ii them every minute
of the day and night with an OCCASION
II vollcy of gas shells that choke ana
s1ranslr to death and they don't dare
run. With the boys looking death in
the fl. % over there, we can do no more
than look the issue sQuarely in the
face here at home and buy Liberty
Bonds and see that they are provided
with ammunition to return the kaiser
lust as good as he is sending across to
nur trenches.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
SAVING THE INJURED

1--WE sure got to hand it to those
men with the Red Cross on their arms.
They all worked like dogs in that hell
out there. They seemed to have but
one idea-tO do their duty-and appar-
emily cared nothing for their own lives
while doing it, They were game right
to the core"
In this connection it may be said
that there are certain number of
men who wear the Red Cross whose
names are on the casualty list. Ii any
one has thought that Red Cross
worker goes out on battlefield only af-
ter the firing has ceased and brings in
the wounded. this statement by a sol
der will correct the wrong impression
Stretcher-bearers work under fire-and
the Germans have not hesitated to fire
upOn Red Cross workers.
The knowledge that the Red Cross
workers will be at his side almost rs
ouicl<ly as he falls wounded. to take
him to the t;rstaid station and suhse
uuently to the hospitals. has glveI
great comfort to the American tro"ns
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
Thrilling Story of TrawIer Skip
per's Exploit.
Third Blow Of FIailIke Implement
Puts Out U-Boat's Eye and A.
lied Crew Escapes.

LOndon-When ones vessel is IN
danger from enemy submarines any
thing will do as weapon of defense,
as is shown by the story OF captain
of q British. trawler who used coal
shovel with good effect against Ger
man U-bOat. The trawler, according
to the story told by one of the crew,
was in the North sea in stiff breeze
when the skipper saw periscope
crawl through the breaking surface of
the sea about a hundred yards Off.
There was no gun aboard and the traw-
lcr's best speed was less than eight
knots.
"It was a situation to dismay most
men," said the seaman. Our skipper,
however. has a fighting spirit. touch
of the wheel sent the trawler's blunt
bows pointing at the submarines
wlr1leback. and we wallOwed menac
ingly toward the pirate.
"The U-bOat swung round to avoiC
+, the impact and the sides Of the traw
Ter scraped along the sides of the sub
marine. The periscope still was wei
out of the water but was beginning tt
slip down as the submarine dived.
1.-The skipper bawled for hammer
a crOwbar. anything that would hurt
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
cpapIane Has important Part in
Hunting Down German
U-B0atS.
SHARED WITH STEEL ROPES
enemy Is Given Five Minutes to Rise
and Surrender, Then Is Blown
Up-vivid Description by
English Writer.

London.-One Of the methods by
which as the first sea lord, Sir Eric
,;cddeS said recently, the submarine
menace is being held" is wildly de-
,,rlbcd 10y n writer in the Liverpool
Jourual of Commerce.
4 Seaplanc had spotted" Subma-
rine lying on the sea bed. Instantly
rhe Observers finger commenced to
tap a key. Ten miles away long,
lean destroyer and four squat trawlers
detached themselves like Il pack of
hounds working covert. and fastened
- the kill. Meanwhile the Seaplane
circled around. When the surface
ships arrived, her instructions, deliv-
cred by wireless, were curt and pre-
else.
Acting upon them the trawlers sta
toned themselves at the four corners
vt wet quadrangle, while the de-
>troyer kept her guns ready to talk tc
Fritz should he appear above the sur
face.
The trawlers at the corners got Ou
their sweeps-lOng wire hawSerS, Will
4 heavy kite" in the center to keeI
their bightS down on the seabed-ant
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
DESERTER RETURNS TO FIGHT
Says Country Needs More Men as 10
Surrenders to Police at Con-
nellsvi'se, Pa.

Connellsville, Pa.-Saying the "cor:n.
try needs more men," William V. Cur.
ry of Marysville, KY, gave himself up
to Police Lieutenant Thomas AlcDon-
aid as deserter from the United
States Marine corps.
Curry says he ran away from his
division at Newport News, Va, in An.
gust, 1916. Since the outbreak Of the
war with Germany he said that he has
been constantly tortured by remorse
and when he heard Of the sinking OF
the Tuscania he could stand 1t no long
err. '"The country needs more men
he said, land I might as we'll be back
if Uncle Sam will have me-"
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
WHO FIGHTS AT HOME? SAY |!
(By ROLAND c. USHER, Of the Wig
lantes)

We cannot fight war and still do
business as usual. This means YOU
and not other neOple. You might as
we'll come to it first as last. The war
is unusual and we shall have to have
unusual business to deal with it.
The gist of it is this: The nation
has just so many hands and just so
much energy-juSt so much raw mate
rial and labor There are only "a
hours in the day and 365 days in the
year We can make only so many
things in given time with given
supply of time and material If we
make some things we cannot make
others. If we put sugar into candy to
| stuff idle women we cannot have jam
to feed the soldiers. If we make au-
tos for pleasure only, we cannot use
| that material. labor and energy for
tanks and airplaneS. If we burn the
gasoline on Sundays, the boys in
France cannot use it in battle.
The whole truth is that we mus
stop business as usual. And-this il
where you come in-yOu must StoI
spending as usual Do it now. Pu
your money into gunpowder and 10
face powder; into tanks and not limou
sines; into food for the trenches in
stead Of spending it in hotels and res
taurants. But you cannot buy directl,
for the army. The government mus
do it. Give the government the none
and BUY A LIBERTY BOND.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
We Are at War! Buy Bonds!

Do many farmers. far removed from
the war realize the seriousness of
our present predicament? The very
fact that the farmer is not Immediate
ly in touch with the war makes the
danger more imminent. Russia Is
made up Of farming population. proha,
blv three-four of which knew very
little of what the war over there
meant. AS result the army was not
provisioned and money not kept in cir
culation and the military machine col
lapSed. Support our army by buying
bonds.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
Red Cross Is Doing Heroic Work
in France.
Georgia Soldier Says, "They All Work
ed Like Dogs in That He'll
Out There"

WaShington.--"Test the nerve or
those Americans" evidently was the
order given TO the German soldiers
facing the sector held by our boys in
France, and gas shells and all other
methods were used. Completely re-
pulsed rs the Germans were, the test
must have been anything but reassur.
ms 10 Them
correspondent talked with some
=" the American soldiers wounded in
me stack. One youth. whose home Is
III savannah, Ga. and who looked to
!" not more than eighteen years old
,''"e the following highly compliment
ary reference to the Am ericnn Red
,'oN~ observation-disclosures and ambulance
drivers,
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
FOOD COSTS 9 CENTS MORE
Student Who Has Been Livino on 20
Cents Day Finds He Must
Pay More.

Greensherg. Pa.-Roy r. Mumma OF
jeanette. Pa, who while a student at
Carnegie Institute Of Technology has
been living on % cents day, has had
to increase his budget. He is now liv-
ing on 30 cents a day
Since he graduated from Tech last
June N1umma found job, saved $500,
took unto himself a wife and has lust
been accepted as private in the radio
mechanics branch of the aviation serv-
ice
Mumma's diet program includes
bread, milk, cereals, cocoa. rice, pea.
| nut butter. fruit, eggs, meat, gelatin
oleomargarine and even pie.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-19
SPOTS SUBMARINE
ON BED. OF OCEAN

commenced to steam toward each
other.
AS the pairs of vessels met, their
wires simultaneously engaged them
selves under the U-boats bow and
STERN and commenced to work their
Slnuous way between her hull and the
sea bottom.
Then the strange thing happened.
Two round. black objects seemed to
uetach themselves from her hull and
noat Surfaceward. to hover a second
ana then to commence bobbing down
the tide
"Minelayer, eh? called the sea.
planes observer.
That's It, lad" came the telephoned
answer, but her eggs can wait for
minute"
Then the trawlers crossed their de-
pendent cables and thus held the u
BOAT IN kind of wire cats cradle. She
seemed TO suddenly awake to her
danger. for with a bound she tried to
disentangle herself from the meshes
which held her. But it was no use
the trawlers had been too long ut the
game and the submarine was doomed.
Got him." signaled the seaplane
1hanks, responded the destroyer
The End Of the U-Boat.
At flag signal from the destroyer
the port foremost trawler and the star
board after one clipped small rec
tin of high explosive to the bar-taut
wire, and allowed it to slide down til
1t touched the U-boat's hull.
1t was the seaplane's turn to wave {
flag. and Immediately there followed
the fall Of two fists upon two firing
keys; the uprising of two gray mounds
Of water and rumbiing. muffled ex
plosion.
} The seaplane circled twice abov
the patch of rising oil. ascertaine'
that Fritz had been destroyed. an
notified the destroyer Then, with lie
observer slipping a drum of cartridge
into his machine gun. she sped on afte
:, hose objects bObbing down tide.
A burst of rapid flring-and the frs
# the devils eggs, its buoyancy can
Ser punctured. sank with gurgle
the second gave better show. for
exploded grandly-and harmlessly-s
the bullets reached it.