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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-14
STRICT RULES To
Be ENFORCED UPON
ALL EATING PLACES
FOOD ADMINISTRATORS GETS
RIGID REGULATIONS. SIMPLI
FLED SERVICE AND LESS FOOD
TO BE REQUIRED

The county food administrator has
received the new rules regarding food
conservation on the part of all eat
ing places, and announces that the
new regulations will be enforced here
to the letter, effective at once. The
orders call for greater saving in
foodstuffs than ever before.
These orders prohibit the serving
of any bread that does not contain
at least 20 per cent of wheat flour
substitutes, and of this Victory bread
no more than two ounces may be
served to a patron at one meal; if
no Victory bread is served, four
ounces of other breads, such as corn
rye -four. No bread is to be served
bread, mullins, Boston brown bread,
etc, may be served. Bread served
at boarding camps is exceSted, as IS
bread containing at least one-half
rye flour No bread is to be serv-
ed until after the first course is on
the table, and no bread or toast may
be served as a garniture.
Bacon is also barred as garni-
ture and only one meat may be
served to a patron at a meal. In
cluded in the definition of meat are
beef, mutton, pork and poultry. Not
more than a half ounce of butter is
to be served to one person at meal,
and Cheddar (American) cheese is
limited to the same amount. Double"
cream is banned.
No sugar bowls will be on the ta-
bles. A teaspoonful is the limit for
meal, and then only when asked
for. Two pounds is the allowance to
be observed for each ninety meals
served, including cooking.
No waste food may be burned, but
all must be saved to feed animals or
reduced to obtain fats.
Attention is specially directed
toward the conservation OF bread and
butter, cereals, meats, fats, sugar,
coffee, cheese and ice to fresh vege-
tables and fruits, which should be
served when possible, and to un-
necessary suppers, teas, luncheons
and banquets, which are condemna1 j
as fourth" meals The food admin
istration desires as few fried dish
es as possible.
Simplified service, with meats and
vegetables on one plate instead of in
side dishes, and only necessary sill
verware, and simplifcation of the
menu and the menu cards are urged
as means of saving not only food,
but labor and paper The general
bill of fare should be abandoned, be
cause the great variety of dishes
listed makes waste throughs poilage.
Simple bills for breakfast, luncheon
and dinner with limited dishes
changed from day to day for variety.
are recommended, also the use of
hors d'oeuvres, vegetable salads,
fruits, sea foods, made-over dishes
and animal by-products, which save
staples and utilize many available
foods.
The war program discourages the
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-14
The Official Order.

The Commissioner of Health, and
Acting Assistant Surgeon United
States Public Health Service advises
the closing of schools, churches,
moving pictures and pool rooms as
preventative measure against in
fiuenza and colds" and asks par
ents and the public generally to CO.
operate with the health authorities
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-14
CITY SCHOOLS
AND THEATRES
ARE SUSPENDED

in siuppressing this malady that is
causing So many deaths in other
cities. and with serious complications
within our city.
With limited number of physi-
clans and nurses and more than one
hundred cases and additional new
cases daily the condition is consider
ed serious.
Parents are requested to keep their
children from the streets. Isolate
sick members of the family, and at
tendants to use special care not to
infect other members of the family.
Drug Stores, Cafes and public eat
ing and drinking places are ordered
to protect their patrons by the ster-
ilization of ala drinking sups, glasses,
cutlery, tableware and napkins, (ster-
iIization by boiling or other effective
methods.)
Some preventative measures: Avoid
violent exercise. Don't spit on the
floor. Don't crowd. Don't allow Q
person sick with 'cOld" to talk or
spit" in your face. Sneeze and cough
in your handkerchief. Sleep in well
ventilated rooms. If sick go to bed
and send for a physician and try to
avoid the serious complications of
influenza.
The Commissioner of Health ex-
presses his thanks to the members
of the City and County cards of
Health and especial gratitude to the
physicians of the City for their un-
firing efforts and hearty cooperation.
The public has knowledge of the
presence of influenza within our city.
They know that it is catching "
They are asked to cooperate with
the health authorities and avoid a
strict quarantine.
B. T. BOND.
Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.
PHs Commissioner of Health.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-14

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Oct. 14.-Loan, the last OF
the group of obstacles forming the
seystone Of the German defense in
France, has been taken without
fight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
Over tie Toh
N Penxo.

THE Colonel is very polite"
His politeness was hard put 20 it
to-day, however"
How was that?"
He tried to hold a revolving door
open"
Blowing out the gas has been a
Standing joke so long one would
never believe that it could be done.
BUT George Hess, q farmers heiper
living at Gum Tree, Chester county,
registered at the Imperial Hotel in
Lancaster the other night and died
in this fashion. The coroner said
there could be no suspicion of
suicide.
Any Pennsylvania housekeeper
VINO fancies that prices are exor-
bitant in this country should read
the following scale of prices in Ger
many: Woolen cloth, which used
to be ~ cents yard, is now $3.50
a yard. Half wool stuff, formerly
rs cents yard, is now $5.76. Vel
vets, formerly $1.44 q yard, is now
S12. Sugar, formerly 20 cents, is
now sass. Wash voile, formerly 10
cent is now about SO. Machine
cotton, formerly 4 cents per large
SPOOL is now 22 cents. Cotton socks
for infants, formerly 72 cents a
dozen, are now $1152 a dozen.
Ladies' wooden stockings, formerly
sc cents, are now $500. Shoe laces
are twenty times as much as before
the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
MORE GERMAN LIES

T HE German liar is at it again
in Harrisburg.
This time he, or she, is telling
1t about that the local Red Cross
officials are being paid princeIy
salaries for their services.
And the worst OF. 1t is that somo
people are foolish enough to be-
lieve this outrageous lie.
Nobody serving the Red Cross in
Harrisburg is paid. All are volun-
teers - working patriotlcally day
after day and giving their money
as we'll as their time.
Why do the Germans persist
In telling such falsehoods?
Because they don't want American
soldiers to have the benefits of the
Red Cross. They want them to die
miserably of wounds and sickness.
They don't want sick or injured
Americans to get back into the
ranks, That is why they try to
keep people from giving to the Red
Cross,
1t is all very brutal and very
crude, Next time you hear a story
like that say that's a lie" and il
more is needed make your in
formant go along to Red Cross head
quarters and prove what he, or she
has said,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
The Truce of the Bear

Yearly, with tent and rifle, our care
less white men go
BY the pass called Muttianee, to
shoot in the vale below,
Yearly by Muttianee he follows our
white men in
Matun, the old blind beggar. ban
daged from brow to chin.
Eyeless, noseless, and lipless--tooth
less, broken of speech,
Seeking dole at the doorway he
mumbleS his tale to each;
Over and over the story, ending as
he began;
Make Se no truce with Adam-zad,
the Bear that walks like a man.
There was a flint in my musket--
pricked and primed was the
When went hunting Adam -zad-
the Bear that stands like a man.
1 looked my last on the timber,
looked my last on the snow,
When l went hunting Adam -zad,
fifty summers ago.
Il knew his times and his seasons, as
he knew mine, that fed
BY night in the ripened maizefleid
and robbed my house of bread ;
knew his strength and cunning, as
he knew mine, that crept
At dawn to the crowded goatpens
and plundered while 1 slept.
up from his stony playground
down from his well-digged
Out on the naked ridges ran Adam
Zad the Bear,
Groaning, grunting, and roaring
heavy with stolen meals,
Two long marches to northward and
was at his heels!
1.-TWO full marches to northward, at
the fall of the second night,
/ came on mine enemy Adam-zad all
painting from his fight.
There was a charge in the musket-
pricked and primed was the
My finger crooked on the trigger
when he reared up like man.
Horrible, hairy. human, with paws
like hands in prayer.
Making his supplication rose Adam
zad the Bear!
I looked at the swaying shoulders, at
the paunch's swag and swing,
And my heart was touched with pity
for the monstrous, pleading
thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05

be a PhilGdelphian and the other
place depends upon what develops
at Pittsburgh after the Armstrong
dinner. City Treasurer w. d. Nc
Coach is generally picked for the
Philadelphia place.
THAT always interesting district,
Hanover township, Luzerne county,
is to the front with a new election
fraud charge.
-Lackawanna county lawyers
yesterday endorsed Judge Porter.
There have been nine counties for
him.
Reports are that Clifford Pin
chot may make a visit to the Pitts
burgh district to confer with labor
leaders about his gubernatorial can
:1idacy before the Armstrong dinner,
which will be the big thing in State
politics next week.
Friends of Representative Asa
A. Weimer, of Lebanon, say that he
is full fledged candidate for Gov
ernor and that he will be consider
ably heard from in the next few
weeks.
-Mayor-elect Alex T. ConneIl, of
Scranton, yesterday made official an
nouncement of his cabinet. The
selections are: City Treasurer, Mark
K. Edgar; City Solicitor, Rudolph
P. Houck; Director Public Works,
Robert w. Allen; Director Public
Safety, Arthur G.. Davis; Director
Public Health, DR.. S. P. Longstreet.
Mayor-elect Connell takes office
Monday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
LAW BRANDS ABSURDITY
detroit Free Press |


A. Bonar Law. British Chancellor
of the Exchequer, destroys effec-
lively rumors that his government
may undertake to repudiate a part
of the national liabilities. He makes
the absurdity of such rumors quite
obvious by pointing out the repu-
diatlon would be ruinous to tho gov
ernment attempting 1t and disas-
trous to the nation permitting 1t,
Nothing after the war will be more
important than to preserve and but
tress the fabric of the national cred
It," he SAYS. land nothing would so
easily undermine IL as the refusal of
the government to honor its debt"
The chancellor of the exchequer
further points out that IL would be
impossible for q government which
had destroyed its credit ever to bor-
row again. In other words. Mr. Law
takes the position that Great Britain
is no fiy-by-night institution, but a
permanently established enterprise
which expects to be at the old stand
after this war is over, Good busi-
ness II nothing else demands main
tenance of it's credit on q 100 per
cent, basis, and this Is especially
necessary since large portion of
its securities are held by persons not
of Its own household, Also, it is
Enthusiastically British that such
sensible view will be taken of the
situation and that any and every
sacrifice will be made tn prevent
impairment of the national financial
rating
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
CITY WILL COOPERATE

" HERE will be no lack of Coop
Grafton between the State off,
Gals and the municipal au-
thorities in a further working out of
plans for the proper development of
tho Capitol Park improvements
Mayor Daniel L. Keister has ap-
rofnted, on the authority of q reso-
luton of City Council, q committee
comprising Commissioners w. H
Lynch and L. u. Gross to meet with
City Solicitor Fox with a view 10
carrying out the wishes of the State
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings in the matter of q mutual under
standing regarding the part which
the city must play in the develop
ment of the comprehensive scheme
of treatment suggested by the dis
tinguished experts employed by the
Commonwealth.
Mayor Keister is particularly in
terested in this matter, inasmuch as
he happened to be presiding in the
4, house of Representatives on the day
d the bill providing for the extension
of the Capitol Park was passed in
1911. He is entirely familiar with
this important piece of legislation
and as an official and citizen of fIar-
risburg is deeply interested in the
final steps necessary to develop the
plans for the landscape treatment
of the park district.
He believes that Harrisburg will
do it's full share in anything and
everything which will contribute to
the definite fulfllment of the pur-
pose of the Legislature in this mat
ter.
1t is the plan to have the state
and city officials confer as frequently
as necessary so that there may be
entire harmony in whatever is done.
1t is likely that it will be necessary to
submit to the people some of the
problems involved in the whole plan
of treatment, but there Is no doubt
the city of Harrisburg will keep step
with the state in the gradual devel-
opment of the various plans which
have been considered by the state
authorities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
THE CoALLEss COLD SNAP

ITO our way of thinking the "old-
fashioned winter" will have to
take a seat in the extreme rear
along with the year of the big wind"
and the summer OF the Johnstown
Hood," yielding claim as a topic of
Weather conversation to the coal
Tess cold snap of 1917-1S."
Round about the year 1895, along
in January, say, when some brash
youngster, cussing out the electric
company for not turning on n few
more amperes, or kilowats-or what
ever 1t is that electric companies do,
or do not, turn on to make the elec-
trio radiator heat up a bit to meet
a steadily dropping temperature. for
there will be no such thing in those
days as a coal-fed furnace; WE'LL
along about that time, as we were
about to say, when some brash
youngster remarks to his grandsire:
Pretty cold to-day, Grandpa"
Grandpa, condescendingly will re-
ply:
"Oh. yes, a little brisk. but nothing
to speak of. and talking of cold, you
ought to have lived back in the
'coalless coldsnap of 1919 Those
were the days'-and then he'll be off,
spinning along something like this:
why, l remember when Mayor
Keister used to lock up the coal sup
ply of the entire city in his safe over
night In those times a man who had
a ton of coal in his cellar was richer
than many millionaire and when
the neighbors got wind of 1t he sat
UP all night nursing a shotgun. You'd
take a wagonload of dollar bills
down to the coal yard and bring back
a pocketful of coal, and then, like
as not there wasn't heat enough in
the coal to keep the coffee pot from
freezing UP when your Grandma
tried to get breakfast, Was it cold ?
Why say-Mr. Domain had to get
extensions on his Thermometers, the
mercury went down so far" Etc,
etc.
And the worst of 1t will be that
grandson won't believe a word of 1t.
That's tho trouble about this "old-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
RED CROSS WoRKRooM

(From Los Angeles Times)
Stitch, stitch, stitch!
Knit, knit, knit!
For there Is q lot of work to do
And love and duty must sec 1t thro':
Humanity calls for 1t.
Matrons and maids are at work to-
day
Plying their needles in skiifui way,
Congresses and bandages by the
Scarfs and mittens and sweaters.
Are few of the many things they
do.
Some of the matrons this work en-
ploys
Have already sacrificed their boys,
And sent them away with a heavy
heart,
In the cause of Freedom. to play
their part,
And strong wills triumph Ger the
And the clicking needles allay their
fears.
And many a soldier youth has sway
ed
A joyous lass to somber maid,
But she, too, stiles an anxious mind
And with her needle leaves grief be-
hind,
For the lever will come when the
war Is DER,
And needs her now more than e'er
before,
In every city-in every town
The maids and matrons are trooping
down
To the Red Cross rooms to do their
share
In the work that women find every
where.
And those brave young lads who
have gone to war
Will know, forsooth, whom they're
lighting for.
Stitch, stitch, stitch
Knit, knit, knit!
For there is lot of work to do
A work for me and work for you.
Let. do our share of it.
LESTER j. SKTDMORE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05

fashioned winter" business. Nobody
believes what he hasn't seen. No
weather was ever so severe as what
he, at the present moment. is ex-
periencing. That's the way we used
to feel about 1t, when folks talked
about the days when six-horse
sleighs crossed the Susquehanna on
the ice, and now here comes along
belated brother of past cold waves
to plague us, and to prove that our
modern heating systems are all
right in mild winters when coal is
plentiful, but nothing, absolutely
nothing, to compare to an old-fash-
ioned template stove backed up by
woodpile high as the kitchen roof
and a woodlot in the near of1ins
where the man of the house has but
to ply his ready AK to insure a fuel
supply that not only would keep
the home fires burning until the boys
come home" but mighty sight
longer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Harry M. Laughlin, secretary OF
one of the big Pittsburgh clubs, has
gone into the Naval Reserve.
e. G. Brown, one of the promt-
ment men of Cambria county. is
critically ill,
A. j. County, new vice-president
of the Cumberland Valley. has spent
most of his life in the Pennsylvania
service,
The Rev. Irwin A, Blackwood,
Pittsburgh clergyman, has been ap-
pointed editor of the National Re-
form Associations paper,
ID. T. Martin, Dushore business
man, has been appointed food ad-
ministrator for Sullivan county,
"A. II. Kretz, active in Reading
affairs, has been appointed a mem-
Der of the CITY Planning Commis-
sion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05

Touched with pity and wonder, I
did not fire then
have looked no more on women
have walked no more with
men.
Nearer he tottered and nearer, with
paws like hands that pray
From brow to jaw that steel-shod
paw, it ripped my face away.
Sudden, silent and savage, soaring
as flame the blow
Faceless l fell before his feet, fifty
summers ago.
heard his grunt and chuckle-I
heard him pass to his den,
He left me blind to the darkened
years and the little mercy of
men.
Now we go down in the morning
with guns of the newer style,
That load q have felt) in the middle
and range q have hearO a
mile?
Luck to the white mans rife, that
shoots so fast and true,
But-pay, and lift my bandage and
show what the Bear can do!
(Flesh like Stag in the furnace knob
bed and withered and gray
Matun. the old blind beggar, he gives
good worth for his pay.)
Rouse him at noon in the bushes,
follow and press him hard
Not from his ragings and roaring
finch We from Adam-zad.
But (pay, and put back the hand
age) this is the time to fear,
When he stands up like a tired man,
tottering near and near;
When he stands up as pleading, in
wavering, man-brute guise,
When he wells the hate and cunning
of the little, swinish eyes;
when he shows as seeking quarter,
with paws like hands in prayer,
THAT is the time of peril-the time
of the Truce of the Bear!"
Eyeless. noseless, and lipless, asking
a dole at the door,
Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells
1t DER and DER;
Fumbling and feeling the rifles,
warming his hands at the fame.
Hearing our careless white men talk
of the morrow's game.
over and over the story, ending as he
began:-
There is no truce with Adam-zad,
the Bear that looks like n mani
BY Rudyard Kipling, 1898.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
NOBODY KNOWS

Absolute knowledge have I none,
But my aunt's washer woman's sis
ter's son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer in the street
That he had a letter just last week,
Written in the finest Greek,
From q Chinese coolie in Timbuetoo,
Who said the "niggers" in Cuba
knew
OF colored man in a Texas town,
Who got 1t straight from a circus
clown,
That a man in Kloniike heard the
news
From a gang of South American
Jews
About som ebody in Borneo,
Who heard of man who claimed to
know
OF swell society female rake,
Whose mother-in-law will under
take
To prove that her seventh husbands
sisters niece
Has stated in a printed piece,
That she has a son who has friend
Who knows when the war is going
to end,
"Fhs Gettysburgian.H
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
THE RAILRoAD SITUATION

THERE is nothing in President
Wilson's message on government
- contral of the railroads that was
NOT forecasted in his statement is
sued previous to the taking over or
the roads, save that he will leave
me transfer back to the owners a
matter to be decided by Congress
The President pays a very proper
tribute to the patriotism of the rail-
road executives and In a businesslike
way proposes that they shall be
guaranteed a return on their invest
ment and that necessary improve
ments and extensions shall be made
during the period of the war in
order that the roads may be the
better able to meet the strain that
has been put upon them.
The President says little on the
subject of government ownership,
but there is growing feeling that
the railroads will not so back to
the,r owners after the war without
a very bitter fight on the floors of
that when the time arrives the eX-
ecutive will give voice to his own
opinions, which are usually very de-
cided.
OF far more interest than the
Presidents message is the method
taken by the government to accom-
plsh what the railroads under pri-
late ownership found it impossible
to do. Pooling. preference orders and
all manner of short cuts to efficiency,
forbidden by statute and orders of
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion as bad practice, have been
adopted by the government as the
very means whereby railroad opera
tons can best be stimulated and
traffic promptly handled.
For example. there is the order
of Secretary McAdoo giving coal and
food shipments preference over all
other freight If this had been in
operation two or three weeks earlier
there would have been little trouble
or that score and the coal shortage
never would have reached the pro-
portions it has. This is proved by
the records of the coal operators,
which show that they produced
more coal between last April and No
vember than ever before and that
the railroads hauled and delivered
1855 $50 more carloads, or about 10,-
900 tons more, OF anthracite than
In the same months in 1916, or an
increase of Is per cent. over the
months the railroads hauled 925,691
more carloads, or about 100000
more tons, of bituminous coaf than in
the corresponding period for 1916,
or is per cent. increase. That the
railroads have not been able to haul
all the coal offered is admitted, but
this has not been due so much to
failure of railway lines to operate
together harmoniously as it has been
that the government itself set aside
food and coal in order to give pref
erence to the tremendous quantities
OF war materials, cantonment sup
plies, etc., passing over the roads.
1T is evident, then, that the demands
of government, which the govern
ment has Just set aside temporarily,
are responsible largely for the fact
that railroads have failed to deliver
fuel promptly and relief may be ex-
pccted as soon as higher tempera-
lures permit the more rapid move
ment of freight.