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The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
CORN WILL WIN
DEMOCRBCY'S WAR
Americas Greatest Cereal Crop
Is Now Moving to
Market.
MAINSTAY IN NATIONS CRISIS.
Surplus Wheat Of the United States
Has Been Sent to Famine Threat
ened Europe.
MAINSTAY IN NATIONS CRISIS.

Americas great corn crop, exceed
ing 5000, 100000 bushels, will save the
worlds food situation, officials of the
United States food administration be-
lieve.
Corn is the nations best food cereal,
housewives are beginning to realize.
1t contains all the elements needed to
keep the body In n state of health and
when used according to the scores of
tried recipes, especially when COM
blned with an added portion of oil or
fat, will sustain life indefinitely. In
dian warriors in colonial days lived on
parched corn alone for many days at a
time, and at Valley Forge parched
corn was at times the sole ration of
the Continental soldiers.
Owing to transportation difficulties
caused by the war the corn crop moved
more slowly to market this year than
ever before. Now, however, the cereal
is reaching the millers and consumers.
In the meantime the nations surplus
wheat has been sent to Europe.
Today there are approximately 30
bushels of corn for every American.
This quantity is greater by five bush
els than in former years.
Corn has become the nations main
stay in the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
American colonists from famine on
many occasions, just as it served as a
staple food during the War of the Rev
olution and during the Civil War, King
Corn has again come to the front in
the nations battle with autocracy.
Corn meal is finding greatly increas-
ed use in the making of ordinary white
bread. Hundreds of housewives and
many of the larger bakers are mixing
20 per cent corn meal with wheat
flour to make leavened bread. This
kind of a mixture is worked and baked
in the same recipes and with the same
methods that apply to straight wheat
bread.
Corn bread-using corn meal entire
ly-is gaining a greater popularity
than ever before. Housewives are
coming to realize that every pound of
wheat saved in America means a pound
of wheat released for shipment to the
nations with which America Is associ-
ated in the war.
There are a score of corn products
that today possess unusual importance
for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet
ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes
and for use in the kitchen instead of
graduated sugar is one of the leading
products made from corn.
Corn oil, excellent for frying and for
every other purpose filed by salad oils
is appearing on the market In large
quantities. 1t comes from the germ of
the corn
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
need BIG HERDS
Europe's Meat Supply Must Come
From America.
Warning Nations Have Depleted Live
Stock at Enormous Rate, Even
Killing Dairy Cattle For Food.

American stock breeders are being
asked to conserve their flocks and
herds in order to meet Europe's ire
mendous demands for meats during
the war and probably for many years
afterward.
The United States food admins
tration reports. that American stock
raisers have shown a disposition to
cooperate with the government in In
creasing the nations supply of live
stock.
Germany today is probably better
supplied with live stock than any 9th
er European nation. When the Ger
man armies made their big advance
into France and then retreated vir-
tually all the cattle in the invaded
territory - approximately 100000
head-were driven behind the German
lines.
But in England-where 100000
acres of pasture lands have been turn
ed into grain fields-the cattle herds
are decreasing rapidly. One of the
reasons apparently is the declining
maximum price scale adopted by the
English as follows: For September,
$17.76 per 100 pounds October, SIPS;
November and December, $16.0S; jan
larry, $14.4O. The effect of these prices
was to drive beef animals on the mar
ket as soon as possible.
In France the number of cattle as
well as the quality have shown an
enormous decline during the war.
Where France. had 14,S07 900 head of
cattle in 1913, she now has only b.
341, 90O a decrease of 1876 per cent.
And France is today producing only
one gallon of milk compared to two
and one-half gallons before the war.
Denmark and Holland have been
forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef
because of the lack of necessary feed.
Close study of the European meat
situation has convinced the Food Adj
ministration that the future problem
of America lies largely in the produc-
ton of meat producing animals and
dairy products rather than in the pro-
duction of cereals for export when
the war will have ceased
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Helps PAY FOR BREAD

There has been much mlsunder-
standing about the bread program in
England. 1t is true that the English
man buys a loaf of bread for less than
an American can, but it is poorer
bread, and the British government is
paying $2oO000,00O a year toward the
cost of it.
All the grain grown in Great Brit
ain is taken over by the government
at an arbitrary price and the imported
wheat purchased on the markets at
the prevailing market price. This is
turned over to the mills by the govern
ment at a price that allows the adul-
terated war bread loaf of four pounds
to sell ut 1S cents, the two pound loaf
at cents and the one pound loaf at D
cents.
In France, under conditions some
what similar, but with larger ex-
traction, the four pound loaf sells for
16 cents.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
IN-GERMANY lies
CIRCULATED IN CANADA

Canada is also having trouble with
Made-in-Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation ac-
cording to an official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con-
troller by the United States food ad-
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
of the same general character as those
the United States food admlnistra-
tor recently denounced in this coun-
try, such as the ridiculous salt and
bueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives stocks of home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti-
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power of destruction that lies
in battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even a vestige of
foundation have been scattered broad
cast" said the Canadian statement.
"Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously in
different parts of the country and in
each instance have been calculated to
arouse public Indignation.
"They are insidious, subtle, persist
ent. Bit by bit they dlssipate public
trust, the great essential in the work
of food control.
ut lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; TO refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to cooperate in work which is going
to mean more than the majority of
people yet realize"
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
Permit cannerIes to Increase Output

Permit Cannerles to Increase output.
As a result of ruling of the ma
tional food administration the several
canneries of the state of Colorado will
increase their output and a large
number of additional employees will
be given work. Robert ]. Grant, in
the office of the food ADMINISTRATION,
received telegram from Washington
to the effect that the canned food di-
vision had secured a release from the
tin plate conservation committee of
tin. Permits have been given can
neries allowing them to can rs per
cent of their pack.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
MAKING MEATLESS
DAYS PERMANENT.

In the meatless menu there is fer
tile field for developing new and nour-
ishing dishes. according to e. III. Niles,
writing In the Hotel Gazette, who be-
lieves that the present shortage of
meat and fats will not end with the
coming of peace, but may grow more
acute and continue for five or six
years, thus making it worth while to
develop menus of grain, vegetables
and fish on a more or less permanent
basis. Meat can be replaced by cereals
and other protein foods. or may -
served in very small portions as iia-
voring for other food. In making up
meatless menus this author finds our
American Creole and southern cuisine
n broad field for investigation.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
MILLION NOW OUT IN GERMANY.
Kaiser Opens War on Strikers, Who
Hold Hunger Demonstrations.

Amsterdam, Feb. 1.-The military
commander at Hamburg has ordered
cessation of the strike there, says the
Cologne Gazette. The dispatch adds
that the commander also ordered that
future strikes be avoided.
The strike has been extended in dis
tricts near Berlin, especially in Tegel,
Aldershoof, Spandau and Mariendorf,
where 100000 men have quit work. A
similar number of workmen are on
strike in the remainder of the empire.
A great number of Socialist leaders
haye been arrested in various German
towns.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
PINTO BEAN DAY NAMED
ONE POUND WORTH 1876 EGGS IN
FOOD VALUE.
Governor Gunter, in Proclamation,
Urges Substitution of Product for
All Meat on Tuesdays.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-The increased consump-
ton of Colorado pinto beans as sub
stitute for meat on meatless days is
urged upon the people of the state in
proclamation issued by Governor
julius c. Gunter. The following is the
proclamation:
Inasmuch as the United States food
administration, of necessity, has desig-
mated Tuesday of each week as meat
less day; and.
Whereas, the Colorado pinto bean
is the best and most available sub
stitute for meat Of all kinds and
should be used by Colorado people,
because
1. A pound of Colorado pinto
beans is the equivalent Of 1.63 pounds
of sirloin steak, 2.01 pounds of round
steak, or 1876 eggs.
2. Careful analyses by government
and state authorities show the food
value of Colorado pinro beans to be
equal to and even superior to navy
beans.
3. The Colorado pinto bean has
been developed as most successful
crop under dry farming conditions.
4. Colorado raised in 1917, in re-
Spouse to the plea for increased food
production, five times the quantity
produced in 1916 and there are now
in the hands of the growers 100000
pounds seeking market at price
much less than that at which navy
beans are sold
5. The use of this excellent article
OF food by all Colorado will relieve the
necessity of importing other foods and
therefore release for government use
rolling stock needed for other pur-
poses.
6. The greater use of Colorado
pinto beans will raise the price to the
grower; will reduce the price of east
ern grown beans to the consumer and
will, at the same time, encourage the
greater production of this staple
article of food in response to war de-
mands.
Z. Coloradoans should encourage
the use of pinto beans as home pro-
duct because the crop Is capable of
greatly increased production in this
state.
s. The growth Of this crop will put
the ground in excellent condition for
the planting of wheat rye and furnish
valuable by-products for live stock.
9. Pinto beans are easily stored
and handled, are non-perishable and
do not depreciate with age.
Now, therefore, all Colorado fam
lilies. hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses and dining cars are asked in
aid of the general war campaign to
use Colorado pinto beans as substi-
tute for meat on Tuesday of each
week.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
PRESIDENT TELLS U. S. FARMERS
IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE
AT UR9ANA, ILL.
WE MUST AND SHALL WIN
PRAISES PATRIOTISM OF GROW
ERS FOR GREAT EFFORT TO
INCREASE PRODUCTION.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-"The eliminating cri-
sis of the struggle has come. The
achievements of this year on one side
or the other must determine the is
sue"
Thus President Wilson warned the
farmers of the country in making pub
lie an ddress he had planned to de-
liver at Urbana, Ill.
"And in facing this crisis" he said,
at has turned out that the forces that
fight for freedom, the freedom of men
all over the world as well as our own,
depend upon us in an extraordinary
and unexpected degree for sustenance,
for supply of the materials by which
men are to live and fight.
"And it will be our glory, when the
war is over, that we have supplied
these materials, and supplied them
abundantly, and it will be all the more
glory because in supplying them we
have made our supreme effort and
sacrifice.
I'VE are fighting" the President
continued, as truly for the liberty and
VI IhC OhibSN chOSNS
as if the war of our own revolution
had to be fought over again; and every
man in every business in the United
States must know by this time that his
whole future fortune lies in the bal
ance.
Our national life and our whole
economic development will come I'M
der the sinister influence of foreign
control if we do not win.
1--WE must win, therefore, and we
shall win. l need not ask you to
pledge your lives and fortunes with
those of the rest of the nation in the
accomplishment of that great end.
81 will not appeal to continue and
renew and increase your efforts. l do
not believe that it is necessary to do
SO; / believe that you will do it with
out any appeal from me, because you
understand as well as l do the needs
and opportunities of this great hour,
when the fortunes of mankind every
where seem about to be determined,
and when America has the greatest
opportunity she has ever had to make
good her own freedom, and in making
it good to lend helping hand to men
struggling for their freedom every
where. You remember that it was
farmers from whom came the first
shots at Lexington that set aflame
the revolution that made America
free. / hope and believe that the farm
ers of America will willingly and con-
spicuously stand by to win this war
also. The toll, the intelligence, the
energy, the foresight, the self-sacrifice
and devotion of the farmers of Amer
lea will, l believe, bring to trium-
plant conclusion this great last war
for the emancipation of men from the
control of arbitrary government and
the selfishness of class legislation and
control, and then, when the end has
come, we may look each other in the
face and be glad that we are Amer
lean and have had the privilege to
play such a part"
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
New Gains Made by Italians.

Rome, Feb 1.-The Italians new
position west of the Frenzela on the
mountain front was improved, the war
office announced. The lines was adj
vanced slightly northeast of Col Del
Rosso. At Paris twenty persons were
killed and fifty wounded in Wednes-
day nights air raid, it was announced
officially. One of the German ma,
chimes which raided Paris was brought
down. The occupants of the aero
plane were made prisoners.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
Seize 800 Pints of Whisky.

Nine persons who aspired to make
life cheerful for visitors at the Denver
stock show through the medium of
bootleg whisky were charged with vio-
lation of the Colorado prohibitory law
in complaints issued by Paul Meow
ern, deputy district attorney for Den
yer county. Mr.. McGovern said that
300 pints of whisky, said to be worth
at the prevailing retail price more
than $1,000. were seized by state Of
fcers.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATOR SAYS

There is no royal road to food
conservation. We can only ac-
compIish this by the voluntary
action of our whole people, each
element in proportion to its means.
It is a matter of equality of bur-
den; a matter of minute saving
and substitution at every point in
the 20 100000 Kitchens. on the 90
100000 dinner tables, and in the
100000 manufacturing, whole
sale and retail establishments OF
the country.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02

London.-The broad features of the
news filtering in Thursday from Ber-
lin are, first. that the strike move
ment undoubtedly is extending, and,
second, that the German authorities
are endeavoring to minimize its i'm
portance The strikes in Hamburg
and Kiel have resolved themselves in
to hunger demonstrations.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
To RisidIy Enforce New Food Rules.

Rigid enforcement Of the meatless
and wheatless day provisions will be
undertaken throughout the state by
Robert ]. Grant, manager in the Colo
RADIO division of the food administra-
ton, and Leon M. Hattenbach, chief
of the retail trade division. Dealers
who violate the provision by selling
prohibited meats on Tuesday and Sat
urday will have either their license re-
voked or the source of supply Of food
stuffs cut off.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
State of Sieoe Declared.

Copenhagen-A state of siege has
been declared at Hamburg, Altoona and
Wandsbeck, according to the Ham
burg Echo, a Socialist newspaper.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
Assessors Raise Stock Valuation.

The county assessors, in their meet
ing with the State Tax Commission,
decided to raise the 1918 live stock
values for assessment purposes, the
raising in some cases amounting to
rs per cent over values in 1917.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-02
Boards Demand Mothers Act Revision

The Colorado State Association OF
County Commissioners, in convention
at the Albany, reelected its president,
B. A. Banta of Colorado Springs; T.
w. Monnell of Montrose, secretary
treasurer; Sam Greenwood of Boulder.
first vice president; Neil Mckay of
Gilpin, second vice president; T. B.
Mcmahon of Telluride, third vice pres
ident. OF four resolutions passed, one
reads: "That the Legislature be asked
to define more clearly the mothers
compensation act, to relieve it OF the
many abuses from which it is now
declared to suffer"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-06
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.

There is natural ACCOMPLISHMENT the attempt of
the mayor o York abolish the educational
vities the city health department. The matter is
considered vital that the federal government has
threatened interfere and medical men everywhere
have fastened protest
Such a reacOnary move. writes the president of the
American Medical association would be "a catastrophe
any time. especially when, more than ever
before, is necessary safeguard and maintain the
health the citizens OF the United states"
The incident will probably result in good rather than
harm. 1t is inconcevable that the New York mayor
whatever his motive may be. put reaction
airy His attempt merely serves TO provide
widespread publicity OF the most promising
public movements Of modern times the education Of
the general public in matters affecting human health.
Thanks to the efforts along this line made by fed
eral, state and municipal governments, with the
operation the medical profession. knowledge OF the
fundamental rules Of hygiene is becoming common
az was once uncommon. 1t is coming 10 be under
health less matter II pills and hospitals
than o sensible living dependih, mostly such sim
pie factors food air. exercise and sleep. As result
average health Of American mmunities shown
by illness and mortality statistics greatly lessened
the few years There will be further improve.
exactly proportion the further education Of
men and children in the of taking OF
their own health
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-06
Il 9zA 2&f&@eze 5MGz
MAY o, 1913.


The German wonder gun" isn't such wonder after
ALL in comparison with an American gun beins
manufactured The German gun shoots about 76 miles
The gun calculated shoot ia miles and
though tried its designers have no
doubt as TO its range
The published details not very specific owng %
the censorship II stated. however that the
the Nidyale works and mounted by the
Baldwin Locomotive works. and weighs over 200 tons.
spite weight it is mobile. whereas
the German is stationary and requires a heavy
concrete enplacement. The first Of the been
completed and shipped the for final Nine
being built.
Needless TO this monster will not be used ,he
German guns are is not intended for Smelling de-
fenseess cities. demoIshng churches blowing up hos
pitfalls and killing and children in their homes
IL is meant primarily for defense
The military effectiveness Of such a weapon for any
purpose. still doubted by many experts AT so great
a sun necessarily be fired blindy. war
snip hundred miles off the half that distance
is necessarily invisible both misty
OF the the earth doubtful
whether avators could signal the position OF a ship. a
fort other object distance whether
the projecue could be aimed with any certainty II
the exact position of the target known.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-06
WHEN Will IT END3

II may he rash attemp; any answer to the grea.
question uppermost mems minds for nearly four
years When will the war nd?" SO many guesses
have proved But the decisive are now
fewer in number. and better known and the chances
Of figuring right guessing right. better than
ever before
A British war correspondent w. Beach Thomas. now
in this country, gives which rather con-
yincng He doesn't expect any great change posi-
zion OF the battle front from until the
There viii be oscillations he says victories and
defeats al this and that spot line. finally
day there viii be battle that really
thing. "a symptomatic defeat victory from which
any observer, whether he is no. will he able
deduce with certainty the progressive decline #
one side or the other"
ON that significant day. VINO will be the victor. and
who the vanuuished? 70 is nconceNabe to the mind Of
any leaders among the allies he says that the pro-
gressive decline indicated by defeat can come 10
them while America with her loo.ooooOO people and
resources that defy arithmetic is heart and soul in the
cause Neither is conceivable to any of us.
That symptoratic defeat will come to the central
powers. And will make unnecessary us to hght
on and drive the Germans Of Belgium and France
and beyond Rhine Thomas SAYS:
Germany will not wait-neither her popuia-
her army authorities viii permit it,
tin she tumbIes back in successive failures
upon her frontiers. and the targets for the
growing hordes of airmen come nearer and
nearer and the boom of the Liberty engine
at last plays foreign music over German cities"
Germany viii defeat and make quickly the
best terms she can.
And when will that be- Next year replies Mr..
Thomas The decisive battle may he expected in the
spring summer and the central powers will strain
every ehort to make peace efore the winter of 1919
Th' Is 10 be Americas year" the year OF victory.