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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
II. F. HOWELL
Tax Commissioner.
W. S s..

Harry Refs, who has been employ
ed by the c. & o. r. r. as draughts-
man, with headquarters at Rich
mond, Va, for several months, has
enlisted in the Navy, and has been
ordered by the Government to go to
Hoboken, N. j.. for a six months
training in steam engineering. Mr..
Refs is a son of Mrs. E. T. Refs, Of
this city, and for the past year has
been attending the University IF
Kentucky at Lexington. Mr.. Refs is
a splendid student, very efficient and
especially gifted in the line of work
to which he has been assigned. His
many friends are much pleased to
hear of his assignment to such work
in Uncle Sans service.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
STATUS OF NEWSPAPERS

Editorial Birmingham, Ala. LEDGER
So important does the Government
regard the newspapers of the coun-
try as factors in winning the war
that they have been put in the essen
tial class and priority given to the
delivery of the materials needed in
newspaper publication. The Govern
ment realizes that it cannot dispense
with the millions of newspapers go
ing into the homes of the nation
every day bearing to them the facts
which acquaint them with the stress
Of the nation and pleas that arouse
their patriotism to meet the situation
and provide the means with which to
whip the Hun and save the country
and themselves.
The free sapce given by the news
papers to patriotic causes runs into
millions of dollars daily. 1t would
strain the Government itself to pay
the bill. 1t would break any govern
ment on earth to attempt the equiva-
lent of this free newspaper adver-
Using in circulars, posters, bill
boards and other mediums of public
ity. None of these mediums have the
intimate place in the family which
the newspaper possesses. None meets
as many eyes, ears, minds and
hearts at the same time. This is why
newspapers are in the essential
class.
But being in the essential class
has not helped the newspaper meet
the constantly growing cost of publ
cation and circulation. Every item
entering into the getting out of a
newspaper has scared in price. Pa
pers can save themselves only by
charging higher advertising rates
and higher subscription rates. The
public, which has seen the prices of
everything else raised is, in meas
ure, prepared for the advance in the
newspaper schedule, but probably is
not fully aware of just how hard the
publishers of newspapers have been
hit.
For instance, The Ledger has
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

A bright sunshiny face makes fine
weather in the world any day in the
week.
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

The Advocate for printing.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
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Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
huenced by constitutional conditions, and
In order to cure il you must take an
internal remedy. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. 1t is COM
posed of some of the best tonics known.
combined with some of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
cine is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props, Toledo, o.
All Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

paid out for white paper during the
first six months of this year just
twice as much as it did during the
last six months in 1916 prior to our
entrance into the war. On June 25,
the Federal Trade Commission al
lowed the paper manufacturers to
advance the paper $22 per ton, eff
fective April l. Not only this, but
June 25, the new freight rates went
into effect and it cost The Ledger
Just that much more to get this pa
per, which is a very heavy freight,
delivered in Birmingham. On top of
all this comes the Federal Trade
Commission and, although an in
crease in the price of paper has just
been granted, has accorded the pa
per makers another hearing in which
they will ask for a further advance
on account of the increases allowed
by the commission to paper mill
labor, increases in cost of assemb-
ling raw materials and other increas-
ed costs incident to the raise in
freight rates.
But the chapter does not end here.
On July l the government increased
postage rates on newspapers 20 per
cent. In six months there will be an
other % per cent increase, and so on
for every six months until there is
o total increase in postage rates Of
125 per cent. The enormous increase
in newspaper publication reflects
Government activity and is incident
to the war in winning which the
newspapers are taking such a prom
inent part. The priorities granted by
the Government in the assemblage of
materials for newspaper publication
is official recognition of the news
papers as a war winning asset.
The Government realizes that the
newspapers must continue as nee
essary item of the war schedule, and
in order that the supply of paper be
not exhausted has issued orders re-
stricting the amount of space to be
devoted to reading matter and taken
other steps to curtail any waste of
paper.
Advertising rates and circulating
rates must advance and will be adj
vanced by those newspapers which
survive the increased cost of paper,
ink, metal, labor, type, acids, Svery-
thing that enters into newspaper
The newspapers do not
expect to fully realize ON the in
creased cost of publication, but they
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
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ACCEPTS POSITION

Miss Mary Grail, daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Grail, has accepted a posi-
ton at the Montgomery National
Bank to succeed Mr.. Jesse r. Hahn
line, who resigned to enter college.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

do expect to reimburse themselves to
an extent necessary to the preserva-
ton of their character and useful
ness in the nation. 1t would be alb
surd to attempt the same service
with the same prices.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
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 sweetenlnp
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 natlon-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 Administra.
ton has asked this nation to observe
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 II is one pound n
month. And the prices In allied coun-
tries are from two to three times as
high as in America.
If you go to a hotel in England or
France these days and order tea or
coffee they serve absolutely no sugar
with it. If you want sugar you must
bring It with you.
In England it Is allowable to use
one-seventh of an ounce of sugar in
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
If 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
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
ly controlled, and In part actually
taken over by the state.
Saccharine is permitted to be sold
and used as a substitute for sugar and
the government manufactures mix
ture of saccharine and sugar called
estate 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
~ cents Italy, 20 cents.
While these high prices are being
paid abroad the American wholesale
price Is being held at ia cents.
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A bright sunshiny face makes fine
weather in the world any day in the
week.
W. S. s.
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
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The Denver Jewish news., 1918-11-21
FRANCE

at is only natural that the
French Republic will sa e
guard the interests of the Jew
ish people and their ancestral
claims on Palestine as well as
the life and independence of
all the little nations. It will
also protect the ri ghts of
other nations and creeds to
the Holy places in Palestine
Monsieur Jausserand.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
for the Whole Wide World

FRANCE that is not already hers! = One
fine gesture we have had in this war,
when Pershing offered to Foch "All that
we are and have" Something like that
should be our gift to France still-to
France, the martyr of war which has
50 many martyrs. There are, however,
also a few material particulars |, for.
one. should like to see added to Frances
Christmas stocking-all those miles and
acres Of docks and warehouses, for IN
stance; of rail and engines and machin-
cry and material in France.
Who has stopped fairly to consider
what France must have suffered from
her second army of invasion--that of
her friends? The devastations of that
Army of Salvation cannot have been
small; trampling through fair valleys
and vineyards, tracking through her vii
lagos, trailing through her forests the
necessary but devouring axe-the heart
sinks to think of it on top of the other
Cash, of course, we have paid in abun-
dance, but who shall make whole the
lovely. ruined land? l trust a package
of everything worth while we have ac-
complished and done in France is already
somewhere, sealed and addressed to her
by the official authorit.esl To France
then-"all that we are and have" al her
need
To England-here I pause. What can
we give great England? Have we any
gift to give which England will prize
Yes! A great gift, one long craved, bnt
which Britain will never beg of US, the
gift of understanding; the gift of the
avowal of one deep kinship, kinship
of spirit as we'll as of tongue and
blood; avowal of our pride in that kin
ship, our purpose to let nothing lessen it:
the declaration of our trust in her, made
perfect through hundred years Of
peace. This is our gift to Britain
worthy of US both.
Last of all, like a tactful hostess, not
to distress others by our own giftless
state, let US hang for America one gift
somewhere, modestly, near the heart of
the Tree, where only America shall
find it.
What shall that gift be? What shall
we who are Americans give to America,
our country?
To that question there can only be one
answer: Ourselves.
And only tnat gift, made absolute,
unconditional, eternal, can make all the
! others possible.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
A Debt of Honor
Paid in Kind

We came late, "almost too late" into
this war, as Mr.. Kahn recalled to US the
other day; so late that we barely saved
the situation, and, instead Of glorying
that we did save it, are confined to giving
thanks in humility that the world was
not lost through US, and thanks, in which
some pride is permitted to mingle, for
the magnificent valor of our boys who
saved us both from the shame and the
consequences Of that failure.
Honor is not thing that can be paid
for in any cash, only in 'kind"-as at
Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel. But
one thing we can dove can take upon
ourselves a task and burden which our
long immunity has left US in a position
to fulfil as none other can, and out Of
our plenty--or even of our dearth-give
and give and give to exhausted Europe
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Cover and cook an hour then serve with
a border Of potato croquettes.
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In France trufIled capons were sure to
nave place on the Christmas menu be
fore the war" An especially fine fat
fowl must be selected and stuffed with
a forcemeat made by mixing one pound
of sliced trufles, two onions, some thyme
and suggestion of garlic, bay leaf and
two pounds of peeled, boiled and chopped
chestnuts, with, Of course, pepper and
salt Then the capon is larded, roasted
and served with cream sauce with
oysters and mushrooms cooked in One
is fairly tempted to vote this fair COM
pettor of our own turkey.
Strasbourg goose ought to be more
than ever appreciated this Christmas.
First the goose is nicely roasted and its
bones taken out. Then bones, gravy and
stuhing are all put into dish with a
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Our Christmas

WAT enables so abused fes-.
~ tiva' IS Christmas to keep it's
W hold on the human heart?
r,s answer is easy. 1t is the
.;va, Of the child, and the child,
.s,o all is said is tho great centra! fact
,.ntc. the .hins wAlch coants-selfshly
,.ved because II IS ourso!ves' unselfishly
..,sratosi, because 4 is the future. at
). 10. for ourselves that we are fighting"
.,rvsere she tirsd men Of Europe were
.rr at is for our children-that
~. nay neva- lave 20 suffer this"
,oi oevcr surely. since Christmas was,
\ he worl6 such occasion and such
-, ,o mrn and refresh itself at the
..,r,s If tho spiri; consecrated to child
,o.,-xhirh is The future-as on this the
.os. amazing Christmas that the world
has ever seen.
For four terrible years there has been
:, Christmas worth calling such in
rurone. Muitudes Of little children
~ the first time in their lives will this
roa- know what Christmas means. in
rrance. in belgium. in Italy, in England,
!, Serbia, in Rumania. | was about to
I'd in Ps'and. but in Poland to-day
,Aerc are said to be no little children
- children under seven years of age.
That IS q consequence of war; another,
sss bearable. because not an inescapable
consequence. is that to-day in America
there are children of seven years again
q. work in factories. If there is anything
whatever in that principle in virtue of
which we have gone forth to fight for
the weak nations no other Christmas
dawn should ever break on which this
can be said of US.
No child anywhere is our enemy. The
first instructive act of a French poilu in
German town was to share his whittier
bread with a group of German children.
He had seen, he apologetically explained,
the stuff they had been eating and "was
giving them a little treat" Giving, in
deed is the natural, the inevitable SYM
bOic act associated with the festival of
childhood, all life being a gift to the
child
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
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pound of sugar. Line a pie dish with a
puff paste, arrange the apples inside, fill
the centres with orange marmalade and
a little chopped citron When the syrup
has been boiled sufficiently add few
drops of vanilla and pour over the
apples. Cover the pie with strips OF
paste. Bake and serve cold with or
without cream.
From Portugal we may borrow the
recipe of a delectabe frozen pudding
which is not difficult to make. Buy or
make a quart of vanilla ice cream and
stir into it a quarter of pound of NAL
aga grapes, two ounces Of chopped or
ange peel and a pint of whipped cream
Place in the freezer and when firm serve
Centuries ago, French cookbook as
serts, one Of the celebrated cooks of that
time was requested to evolve a dish to
celebrate a peace treaty. Following is
the recipe for "Peace PudGing":
Pare and slice two large, hrm apples.
Put them in 4 stew pan with an ounce
Of sugar and an ounce of grape juice
Cook half an hour very slowly, not to
break the pieces, then drain and dip each
piece in powdered nuts, roll in Jam, fry
IN hot fat and glaze with sugar. Serve
with a rich custard or cream sauce
Each one must decide for himself
whether this ending to a Christmas dim
ner would really make for peace" or
nOt
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

rather than of the heart. "Neutrality"
Is a hostile word--to the heart. Yet,
lest we forget, it was we, the great neu-
tral, who gave these weaker ones the
time to learn the full meaning of the
menace that was Germany, so, though
we may not love their neutrality, we are
forever disqualified from harsh judg-
ment Of it.
But it is not the Allies, and the neu-
trail nations, and the young, new coun-
tries only. "Feed thine enemy" is an
injunction we must be prepared to full
fiji if it prove either a counsel of hu-
manity or even Of humane expediency
Our Christmas tree at need will reach
even to this, and even of this we shall
not say sit is too much; only we shall
first demand to know that not one Of
Germanys victims is left unfed Neither
does feeding your enemy imply feasting
him. Harvests on which Germany might
have fattened lie at the bottom of the sea.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

thing Of the spirit of the child ;ts c,..co
It's spontaneity. it's irresponsiblitv even.
The rest of the year we give for one rea-
son or another; but on this day for the
pure pleasure of giving. And this remains
true through all the mear1Tlesses. banali-
ties, artliicialities that have grown up
aoout the custom as they tend fatally
10 90 wherever feeling becomes regular
ized, dated. stereotyped. Something still
escapes OF the finer collective spirit. sur,
wing the degradation to convention and
the PROSTITUTION to empty form: We do
still, consciously or unconsciouslv. under
go the influence of what we call "the
Christmas spirit" and feel and bear our
selves toward our neighbor more as we
might so easily and profitably bear our
selves all the time Also "our neighbour,
comes to connote larger meanings. GLOW
near must a person live to me to be nv
neighbor? Every person is near to Won
whom you can bless, he is nearest whom
you can bless most"
If this definition of neiehbor stands
then this superlatively, is Amer
lca's Christmas; potentially, perhaps, the
greatest Christmas she will ever have
For to her, beyond all others, falls this
year the generous and the joyous oppor-
tunity. She alone, out of world of
nations, has to-day the will and the
capacity to light for all mankind such
Christmas tree as, like Latimer's bon
fire, shall not be extinguished down the
ages Of the memory of mana Christ
mas tree which will take all the year
to deliver its gifts, and so be all the
better, the chief defect of Christmas hav-
ing always been that it did not last the
year round.
And that there are special reasons
why our hearts should leap to this oppor.
tunity let US remind ourselves.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

q PLAINTIVE little cry is being
~ waited to US across seas
this happy Christmastide -
0'y that rises even above the noise of
we Sirens and the cheers of welcome
'ns' are the country's greeting to her
SERIOUS, homecoming troops. Listen
@nu see if you can distinguish the
words: "Have you a place in your heart
for u.s."
IL is the plea of the little children of
vance y, made fatherless by the great
"'fio War. In the midst of our JOY
~ 'ne victorious ending Of that war
"u III the return Of the men who
4Vaght side by side with the fathers of
.NOse httle children for great COM
'A0's cause, can we remain deaf to that
Can we enjoy what promises to
tue most wonderful Christmas in
many a long year (thanks largely to
.'se same gallant Frenchmen) if we
sa' INV That there are nearly two million
1SSsAeriess children suffering in that
;s'as'ated land across the seas and cry
"s to us for help?
a.a' - not too ate ~ven at this elev-
''ouf' to answer that call. We
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
G.
Z a t i n 2 3

Suppose, for example, that we substi-
tute for the proverbial oyster cocktail or
oysters on the half shell a Hawaiian
cocktail. In that case you cut an ALI
gator pear into bits. In a separate dish
you mix one-half pint of tomato catsup,
six drops tabasco one teaspoonful
Worcestershire, a tablespoonful Of chut-
ney pickle, the juice Of q lemon salt
spoonful of salt, and pour into the glasses
that have been half filled with the pear
cubes.
Of course, when it comes to soups no
cooks can make soups like the French,
and of all their infinite variety the clear
consomme suggests itself as most appro-
pirate for the ample Christmas dinner.
For the fish course there is Christmas
carp as it is cooked in Poland, though
strictly for the Christmas Eve supper
any white fish will answer. Cut two
pounds in pieces and fry. Add one-half
pint white wine and cook ten minutes;
then add one-half cupful each of dried
currants and chopped nuts and place in
a baking dish to cook one-half hour
If you prefer to draw upon Belgium
for the fish course there is its way with
shad, which any loyal Belgian will assure
you is the only way. Oysters and mush-
rooms are chopped together, not too fine
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The Main Course With
France and Alsace

And now for the turkey, or shall we
make it goose or chicken or duck? If tur.
key it shall be, then we are not willing
to concede honors in the matter of its
serving to any but our New England
cooks, who will roast with it sage or
oyster or chestnut dressing and serve a
great chicken pie as an accompaniment.
If duck is to be the chosen bird sup
pose, instead Of roasting it, you use it
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

MOOD played a masterful role in
L winning the war, SO it is only fit
ting that the most universally
observed of all feasts, the Christmas
dinner, should be an international feast.
And quite aside from the sentiment
involved in this suggestion, there is the
possibility that such a proceeding might
lead the American housewives to a great
er interest in other countries ways of
cooking and serving food, and thus
be the means of inducting some sem
Dlance of variety into the average Amer
lean menu, which, it must be admitted,
Is Unnecessarily monotonous.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Gifts of the Spirit
At the Heart of the Tree.

What gifts may America reserve for
these? Let us dare to name few:
To Belgium whom we did not feed,
but whose feeding, and SO whose very
life, we did, through Mr.. Hoover and
few others, make possible-to Belgium
undyng honor, place forever among
the names we read in light.
To our Eastern ally, Japan, let US
give what Japan will like best of all
a square deal and an attempt at COM
prehension. Wrong hath she had from
traitor tongue" Let US offer to Japan
this Christmas good Will and sincere in
tention.
To Italy-what Italy has long craved
and never yet received-justice: justice
and recognition. In her case the two
are one. All our sins toward Italy
have proceeded from ignorance. So
great are her achievements, SO noble
her history chat they have but to be
known to be loved. Let US make our
selves a little codeau of that knowl-
edge.
For France-but what can we give
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Belgium 1913

OVER the roofs of Flemish towns,
" Over the fields, over the dune,
Comes sound Of carlton pealing,
AS It set the girds a-whee.ing
Long ago with its tune.
Faint at first, now strong, now clear
Over the world it comes a-winging,
And oh! it is the children singing
The children singing as they Dance
The day ofs thoir de'iverance
Vance Armstrong,
The Nea0 York Evening Post