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Williams news., 1918-10-11
The Very Stuff of Victory

The maeras has said buying Liberty Bonds signifies nothing.
 He looks upon each issue representing investment which has equal today in all the world.
 Consequently, he views their purchase involving sacrifice deserving of credit As far his vision lets him he is right But unfortunate Is be- indeed, who look beyond the simple action and recognize the full power of the motive
 That these bonds the investment the world may rightly be laid the feet of good because they sOor backed by the the world Such however, is the great overwhelming and mpe- ling that millions and billions of dollars of Liberty Bonds and in this Fourth Liberty subscribing for billions
 The motive Is far deeper It transcends all ma teria considerations and its fabric the stuff of victory For Liberty Bonds the great host of American and work accomplished, thrift acquired and devoted without limit that greatest pose which shall finally achieve victory organized force inimical to the peace of the world.
 So when your dollars invested in United States Gov Bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan, though they invested in the Uondul Ovord they come than ordinary dollars because they then the expression of haowed purpose and dedicated achievement, the very stuff of victory.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
KEEP POULTRY
IN BACK YARD

The department of agriculture has a
campaign in full swing for the estab-
lishment of small flocks of poultry in
back yards of city or suburban dwell
ings. In every household, no matter
how economical the housewife, there
is a certain amount of table scraps and
kitchen waste which has feeding val
ue, but which, if not fed, finds it's way
into the garbage pail. Poultry is the
only class of domestic animals which
is suitable for converting this waste
material, right where it is produced in
the city, into wholesome and nutritious
food in the form of eggs and poultry
meat.
Though the value of the product
from each city flock is small of itself
the aggregate is large. A small flock
of hens, even as few as six or eight,
should produce eggs enough, where
used economically, for family of four
or five persons throughout the entire
year, except during the melting period
of the fall and early winter. By the
preservation of surplus eggs produced
during the spring and early summer
this period of scarcity can be provided
for. The keeping of pullets instead of
hens also will insure the production
of eggs. Not only will the eggs from
the home flock materially reduce the
cost of living, but the superior fresh
ness and quality of the eggs are in
themselves well worth the effort ex-
pended. Eggs are highly nutritious
food and are so widely used as to be
almost indispensable, and an occasion
al chicken dinner is relished by every
one.
Where conditions render it feasible
and cheap small flocks of poultry
should be kept to a greater extent
than at present by families in vii
lagos and towns and especially in the
suburbs of large cities. The need for
this extension of poultry raising is par
ticularly great in those sections where
the consumption of poultry products
exceeds the production, with the result
that prices are high.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Home Grown Sweet Corn Is
Best-Good Advice on How
To Grow Your Roasting Ears

To have sweet corn at it's best, says
the U. S. department of agriculture, it
should be on the fire within 10 minutes
after being pulled from the stalk. 1t
loses quality very rapidly after being
picked because it's sugar changes into
starch. This is fine argument for
having this crop in the home garden,
if space will allow. Those who wish
to grow their own roasting ears will
find the following advice useful:
Corn does best in a fertile soil, but
is able to adapt itself to all textures
from sand to clay. To grow it in suf-
ficient quantities for the average fam
lily requires more Space however, than
for most garden vegetables. 1t should
not be planted until after danger of
frost is past.
The rows should be spaced not clos
err than three feet apart, and for the
larger-growing late varieties the dis
lance had best be three and One-half
feet. Stalks should be thinned to
stand from Is to Is inches in the row.
In planting, the seed is covered with
one or two inches of soil. Cultivation
must be thorough, frequent, and shall
low.
It is possible to use the ground occu-
pied by early corn for a fall planting
of such crops as spinach, turnips, and
kale. Large, late varieties of corn,
however, will occupy the ground for
practically the whole season.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
FireIess Cooker and How to
Get Best Results From Use
of This Convenience

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agricultural
The time which each kind or food
should stay in the fireless cooker de-
ponds both on the nature of the 1000
and on the temperature at which 1t re-
mains inside the cooker, and before
recipes for use with the tireless cooker
can be prepared one must have some
means of knowing how temperatures
are preserved in it. In experiments
made in the office Of Home Economics
a 6-quart kettle was filled with boil
ing water and put into the cooker, the
packing of which happened to be news
paper. The temperature of the water,
which was 212 degrees #. when put
into the cooker, was found to be III
degrees f. after four hours had elapsed
and 155 degrees Il. after eight hours
had elapsed. This shows the advisable
ity OF the common custom of allowing
food to remain undisturbed in the cook
err for at least six or eight hours, or
in some cases overnight. If soap
stone, hot brick, or other extra source
of heat is used less time will be re-
quired. Materials which are denser
than water (sugar strip as used in
cooking dried FRUIT, and therefore can
be heated to a higher degree, will keep
up the temperature longer when put
into the cooker. Thus the density OF
the food material, as well as the
amount and the length of time that the
apparatus retains the heat, must be
taken into consideration in determin-
ing how long different materials must
be cooked in the cooker.
The recipes for dishes to be prepared
in the f1reless cooker differ somewhat
from those for foods cooked in the or
binary way, chiefly in the amount of
water or other liquids called for. Less
liquid should be put into the food to
be prepared in an ordinary fireless
cooker, since there is no chance for
water to evaporate. The cook must
be guided largely by experience in de-
Gliding how long food should be heated
before being put into the cooker and
how long it should be allowed to re-
main there.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

pie was going down. Holidays you
must remember were abandoned and
the strain was beginning to be felt.
| The government set up committee
composed of employers, trade union
representatives and government Off
Gals, an impartial tribunal. They
came to the unanimous decision that
long hours and Sunday labor were dis
astrous, not only to the health of the
men and women, but to the efficiency
of the service and they were unani-
nous in cOndemning long hours. And
we say without hesitation, having re-
gard to that experience, that it is I'M
economical, it is unwise and it is bad
management to work men or women
abnormally long hours because 1t does
not pay in the end"
Proper regulation of hours alone,
however, will not solve the problem.
The. ordnance department knows that
it will not help production to limit
hours if the men and women who work
these hours are not secured in the
fundamental necessities of life-if they
are hungry, poorly clothed and inn
properly housed. Therefore, it is
urged that standards of wages "al-
ready established in the industry and
in the locality should not be lowered, y
"that minimum wage rates bear con-
! slant relation to~increases In the cost
of living" and that, in the case of re-
placement of men by women, there
should be equal pay for equal work.
In Justice to our soldiers at the front,
the standards of the jobs they have
! left behind must not be lowered by
| these new recruits, who will, in in
creasing numbers, take their places in
| the industrial army.
British official estimates state that
since the war began, some 100000
women have directly replaced men, ana
some 100000 are employed directly on
munitions. The replacement of men
| by women has, comparatively, not
been extensive in the United States as
yet. But day by day we hear of new
| occupations entered, and old ones ex-
| tended. Women are the reserve labor
power Of the nation, and, If the war
goes on, will inevitably be called into
industry in greater and greater num-
| bers. Increasing demands will be made
upon them, unwise sacrifices will with
out doubt be demanded, short-sighted
attempts will be made to break down
labor laws. But because, in the light
of England's experience, and of our
own best industrial practice, we know
| that exhausted workers mean de-
creased production-and because in
! the case of women workers, they
mean, too, deterioration of the race,
! the people of the country must be N
| guard with that vigilance" demanded
| by its chief of ordnance "lest the safe
guards with which the people of our
/ country have sought to protect labor
should he unwisely and unnecessarily
| broken down."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Boy Scouts Duty in the
Great War Garden Movement

The food production and garden
campaign of the Boy Scouts OF Amer
lea is well under way, says Boys
Life, the boy scouts magazine. Every
scout, and indeed every troop and
every local council, according to re-
ports, is definitely interested in some
way. This year every scout is asked
to be responsible for securing one
adult to agree to work with him on
the scouts individual garden or on
the troop garden or on the local coun-
Gil garden. The adult might be
scouts father, his brother or his sis
ters best fellow, his uncle, or indeed
any man who will faithfully stick to
the job until the crops are harvested.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

Dor should be unwisely and unneces-
sarily broken down."
This sentence sounds the keynote
of the industrial policy of the two
great divisions of the United States
army-tOday placing numberless con-
tracts of fabulous size and value
the ordnance department and the
quartermaster's department. In Gen
eral Orders No. 49," from which this
sentence is quoted, issued not long ago
by the ordnance department and later
adopted by the quartermaster general,
are set forth in some detail the prin-
ciples of this policy and in no uncer-
tain words the reason for its existence
at is "a fair assumption" it goes on
10 say, that for the most part these
|, safeguards are the mechanisms of eff
ficiency. Industrial history proves that
reasonable hours, fair working condi-
tons, and a proper wage scale are es-
sential. 20 high production" Enlight-
ened patriotism, in other words, de-
mands not that the workers shall work
, long hours at top speed for the least
possible, wages, but that for the sake
of output they shall make a steady
reasonable expenditure of strength for
reasonable length of time under prop
.er conditions. We have long heard
these things demanded for the good of
the workers, but now new partner
ship has been formed Efficiency and
humanity go hand in hand.
From the time of our entrance into
the war, the Importance of conserving
labor standards has been emphasized
and re-emphasized by important Off
Gals in the government. The presi-
dent himself, in welcoming at the
White House the British labor COM
mission which visited this country last
spring, said that nothing would be
more deplorable" than "to set aside
even temporarily the laws which have
safeguarded the standards of labor and
of life," when we are fighting in q
cause which means the lifting of the
standards of life" Secretary Baker.
as chairman of the council of defense
in April of last year, stated In let
ter addressed to the governors of the
states resolution passed by the coun-
Gil, "That the council of national de-
\ Tense urge upon the legislatures of
the states. as well as all adminiStra-
tive agencies charged with the enforce
ment of labor and health laws, the
great duty of maintaining the existing
safeguards as to the health and well
fare of workers, and that no departure
from such present standards in state
laws or state rulings affecting labor
should be taken without the declara-
ton of the council of national defense
that such a departure is essential for
the effective pursuit of the national de-
Tense" The council has since strong
" reaffirmed this stand, and the wom-
ans committee of the council has
taken, as its official standards for the
employment of women. the standards
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Accidents Can Be Avoided
by Observing Safety Rules

Statistics show that in the United
States during the year 1916 there
were approximately $4,000 fatal acct
dents and 100000 serious injuries,
says the Magazine of Safety. One
half of this enormous number have
been classified as accidents occurring
to employees of the manufacturing
industries and public service com
panies throughout the country-50
per cent of which would have been
avoided if workmen had not been
careless, while another % per cent
may safely be attributed to thought
leSsness. Needless accidents can
only be eliminated by everyone prac-
ticing the rules of safety at all times
and in all places.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
z I'D

issued by the ordnance departmel-t as
part of General Orders No. IS. The
departments of women in industry of
the woman's committee throughout the
country are doing and will do all in
their power to put this Endorsement
into practical effect, with the cO-opera-
ton of the department of women in
industry of the woman's committee at
Washington.
What are these standards, and why
are standards for working women of
such prime Importance to the nation
at this time? Proper conditions Of
woman's labor have always been of
peculiar Importance to the state. In
peace times the United States Supreme
court held that, for the sake of future
generations, it was constitutional to
limit the working hours of women to
eight hours a day. Today in war
time limitation of hours it is important
for an additional reason. Modern war
fare is not fought in the trenches
alone. The army at the front is help
less if the second line of defense, the
army in factories, is not able to keep
up production of supplies. In empha-
sizing the necessity of rigid enforce
ment of existing legal standards, and
urging that "even where the law per-
mits a nine or ten-hour day, effort
should be made to restrict the work of
women to eight hours" the ordnance
department has in mind primarily the
output of munitions. In urging the
prohibition of night work, they state
that English investigators have found
that night work for women involves
proportionately larger costs for super
vision and protection" The human
cost of night work has long been
known to social investigators. A
world war has brought out it's pecun-
larry extravaganza.
The Saturday half holiday-"an alb
solute essential for women under all
conditions adequate meal and rest
periods, and one days rest in seven,
| also find place in this government list
of industrial standards. Even with
the best will in the world, and despite
the most ardent spirit of sacrifice, hui
man beings cannot do continuous work
without losing their efficiency. The
| English workers, who toiled such long
hours at the beginning of the war, did
so willingly for the sake of their sol
! diers. In the words of J. III. Thomas,
member of the British labor commits
sion to this country:
''We got reports of our lads being
moved down, unable to defend them
| selves simply like rabbits in hole,
| being moved down all for want of
/ munitions. You can quite understand
| that public sentiment was that we had
to give them some protection, and our
men and our women were working IA,
Is, 10 and all manner of hours, 100
hours a week, not so much because
they were compelled, don't get that
| into your heads. but because the very
| circumstances the moral Influence of
doing something for these gallant lads
to give them chance compelled us
all to forget hours and everything else.
"Now. as the war went on the sick
| ness returns showed an alarming in
crease The general health of the moo.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

billions
ball. The bell
the unken ship The largest 40
lifting
telephone carried in cable
is
propele and rudde give the ball lateral and
propeers
a miles hour.
of
wha
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

forth may be evidently heard" In al
luding to the black mulberry, Pliny OBJ
serves that there is no other tree that
has been so neglected by the wit of
man, either in grating or giving it
names. Oddly enough, this observa-
ton holds good to the present day, for
our nurserymen still offer for sale the
black. or common. mulberry, and we
are not aware of any varieties worthy
of varietal name, or even any varia-
ton from the wild type. We do not
think this can be said of any other
cultivated fruit.-Exchange
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
On the SkirmIs;, Line.

AT Camp Grant several kitchen po-
lice had considerable sport with a
rookie who was assisting in the peel
ing of potatoes for noon mess, when
they persuaded the chef to ask this
chap to go over TO neighboring bar
racks and borrow from the mess SER
geant several yards OF skirmish line
on which to dry some dish cloths Just
washed out. He returned with a neat
~ wrapped parcel containing some
white thread.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
First Street Lighting.

Gas for street lighting was first used
in Pail Mall, London, III years ago.
The first attempt to introduce the use
of gas in America was in Baltimore,
in 1916. The project was unsuccess-
full. In 1922 it was introduced in Bos-
ton, and in the following year New
York streets were lighted by gas. The
system did not prove successful, how
ever. until 1927. The use of gas spread
rapidly in other cities in the United
States and Canada. Rosin and oil were
used for producing gas in America in
the early days of the industry, but lat
er Newcastle coal and the Albert coal
of Nova Scotia, were employed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Fecundity of Bacteria. I

Bacteria reproduce with almost in
credible rapidity," says George w.
Hunter in "a Civic Biology" 1t is
estimated that a single bacterium,
by a process of division called fission
dividing itself into two parts) will
give rise to over 100000 others in
"a hours. Under unfavorable condi-
tons they stop dividing and form
rounded bodies called spores. These
are exceedingly difficult to injure or
destroy.-Popular Science Monthly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
TREE MAN HAS NEGLECTED
For Some Reason, the Mulberry Was
Never Given the Attention of
Which 1t Is Deserving.

Pliny says: "0f all the cultivated
trees, the mulberry is the last that
buds. which it never does until the cold
weather is past, and it is therefore
called the wisest of trees. But. when
1t begins to put forth buds, it dispatch
es the business in one night, and that
with so much force that their breaking
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Charm of the Impromptu

"W h a t S your
mules name?"
"He hasn't got
any regular name.
1t sort o. keeps us
both interested for
me to think up
what to call i'm as
t h e provocation
arises"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Business Before Pleasure

Never before did so many
Americans spend SO much money
in Europe, or for such a good
purpose.
Silence is usually the best as
set Of a good-looking woman.
Wonder if the cannibals were
informed of the dates of meat
less days.
1t is always hazardous for an
unattractive woman to shoot her
husband.
The man who eats garlic can
always attract attention if not
fame.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Not for That Reason.

The electrical expert was breaking
in a green man.
bare hands,"
81 see. Everything sanitary"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Reyond ALI Doubt

First Tramp-And are you very
tired, Bill?
Second Tramp Tired Gee whizz,
pard, I'm so tired that l could sleep
peacefully in bathtub.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Half Started.

June-Then you think he hasn't the
nerve to propose?
Jane-Yes; asking pas income and
mas disposition and my age seems as
far as he dares to go.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

'You seem to be later every morn
ing" said the manager.
"Yes," replied the meek-looking man;
"my wife seems to add a few more
buttons to the back of her waist ev-
cry day."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Great Britain, Early
in Conflict, Learned
the importance of
Maintaining Former
Labor Standards
(From Women of the National Council
of Defense)

\ VIEW of the urgent ne
cessity for prompt in
crease in the volume of
production of nearly every
article required for the
conduct of the war Wig
ilance is demanded of all
those in any way assOci-
ated with industry lest
the safeguards with which
the people of this country
have sought to protect la
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
JUST FOR FUN
Time Is Money.

IHIS is WOHeys
"You are charged with speeding.
What is yeur defense"
"My boss says that time is money.
Tells me to hit 'er up"
'"Time is money" assented the judge
"Ten dollars"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Very Much Tried

Bacon - Were
you ever tried by
a jury?
Egbert oh,
yes; / served on
one once, and
none of the stub
born men would
agree with mel
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-08-22
JUST HOLDING PALS PLACE
LaughabIe Reason for HE Presence
on That Particular Corner.

Professor Walker was standing at
the, corner of One Hundred and Tenth
street and Fifth avenue waiting for a
bus, when his attention was attracted
by the rattle of few coppers In tin
cup held by blind man who was squat
ted against the park wall, relates the
New York Times.
The professor was fumbling for q
small coin when the bus swung round
the corner and in his hurry to catch
1t he tossed the penny toward the cup
as he turned away. His aim not be-
ing good the coin was on it's way to the
ground when the beggar swung the cup
under it with all the skill and dexter
ity of a ball player.
The professor was so astonished and
indignant that he allowed the bus tc
go and approached the pretended blind
man.
'Here," he began, "you are not blind.
I saw you catch that penny. You are
a fraud"
"Yes, boss" admitted the beggar,
"you has it right. I amt blind myself,
but you see this here corner is good
stand and if the blind man that always
sits here was to leave it some other
blind man would see the place and
grab it. So you see, boss, I'm just
holding the place for the real blind
man. It's his afternoon Off. He's
gone to the movies"