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The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26

faultfinding! Call man a sharper
because he Is willing to show you
how to make a small fortune. Mrs.
Bowser. II you are going to do the
usual thing you will drive me into
leaving this houseW
II hope 1t won't be as bad as that.
but there is certain thing you have
not posted yourself about. The land is
covered with hardwood trees. You
can't make woodpulp out of beech or
maple or oak. or hickory or any trees
that list mentions. You can make Ak
handle, wagon spokes and veranda
chairs out of hickory. and you can
make furniture out of other hard
woods. but you can't make woodpulp.
You can steam some of the wood and
bend In most any shape you wish,
but you can't soften them into wood
pulp.
"Why-why-I thought" STAN
mered Mr.. Bowser.
you thought that woodpulp could
be made of any tree" interrupted
Mrs. Bowser.
"And / thought rightl I tell you.
woman. If a mistake has been made
here you have made 1t. What right
have you-a woman-to claim to be
so well-posted on a matter that you
surely know nothing about2 Why.
with all my experience have never
been Inca paper mill. And you talk as
II you have been In twenty"
But q woman can read as well as
a man." protested Mrs. Bowser. zone
need not go near paper mill to un-
The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26

England, accepting men Of nineteen
to forty-one. inclusive. has 100000
soldiers in the field. Germany. accept
ing men Of eighteen and forty-five, In
elusive. has 100000. Germany's per-
manent disablements are said to be
$4,000 or at the rate Of 100000 a
year.
King George rules over more Mo-
hammedans than the sultan Of Turkey,
over more Jews than there are in
Palestine and over more negroes than
any other sovereign who is not q ma
tive of Africa.
The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26
COTTAGE CHEESE LUNCHEON.

First course-Astonlshm
Cream of Cottage Cheese Soup
Croutons.
Second course-Interest.
Cottage Cheese Sausages-creamed Pota-
toes
Mustard Pickles
Graham Munins-Coree
Whey Honey.
Third Course-Admlration.
Cottage Cheese Salad
Waters
Whey Punch
Fourth course-Devotion.
Cottage Cheese Tart
Mints.
Five women demonstrators started
the campaign In Cleveland, o., few
days later. The others will go to other
big cities, small towns and rural com
munities. Women will be taught how
to make cottage cheese. Its food value
and how to use 1t. Regular home
demonstrators and county agents of
the states relation service will help
the cottage cheese force and experts
from the bureau of markets will en-
courage and assist food dealers to
make cottage cheese one of their
regular staples. Representatives Of
the state extension forces also will
The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Owing to difficulties in transporta-
tion from India, Great Britain is suf-
fering from shortage of cottonsee6, and
oil cake for dairy cows is steadily
rising in price.
The large sugar estate owned and
managed for some years at Calamba
by the Dominican friars has been pur-
chased for $1,000 900 for Japanese su-
gar capitalists. This Is the largest
project yet undertaken in the island by
Japnnese business men.
The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26

A London cat, officially know as the
"King's cat" is the only one In the
Kingdom to. receive an allowance from
the treasury. He inhabits the Record
office and Is cents week Is spent for
his meat.
For the unit of woman telephone op-
orators to be sent to France dis
tinctive uniform Is being provided.
Salaries range from SEQ to $125 a
month, with allowance for rations and
quarters. Successful applicants must
speak both Freach and English with
ease.
The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26

help. Meanwhile the commercial
dairying experts of the department
are working with the big creameries
to turn their skim milk Into this prod
uct to meet the big demand certain to
develop.
Here is how to make some Of the
new cottage cheese dishes:
Cottage Cheese Sausage.
cupfui cottage u teaspoonful pow.
cheese dered sage
/ cupfui dry bread n p o o n =
crumbs, or n cup fui thyme
full cold cooked teaspoonfui salt
rice and Y cupfuI u teaspoonfui pep
bread crumbs per
u cupful peanut Y teaspoonful soda
butter or more
cupfui chopped Tablespoonful of
peanut meats chopped onion
Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly
with bread crumbs. Blend peanut
butter and onion with the cheese, and
mix them with the bread crumbs.
form into fiat cakes, dust with bread
crumbs or cornmeal, and fry delicate
brown In little fat in a hot frying
pan.
Cottage Cheese Tart.
11-3 cupfuls of cot 2 teaspoonfuls lemon
tage cheese juice
whites of esxFew gratinsS of lem
beaten stn on rind
Is cupful of heavy to tablespoonfuls
cream. whipped sweet milk
Ia cupful sugar
Soften the cheese with the milk. Add
part of the whipped cream. and the
havoring, which should be very deli
whites. Heap lightly Into ready
cooked. delIcately Drowned pastry
cases, made by baking pie crust in
muffin tins or on the bottom of In
verted pie tins. Garnish the top of
the tart with the rest of the whipped
cream. and with fresh or canned fruit
II desired. This makes a large one
crust pie or tart.
Conservation Crust.
X cupfui cornmeal. Y teaspoonfui bak-
cornfiour or other ing powder
substitute tablespoonfuls OF
cupful Of wheat shortening
-four Cold water to mix
/ teaspoonful salt about v cupfuD
Sift together the dry ingredients, cut
in the shortening. blending 1t thor
oughly with the dry materials. Mix
with very cold water to a rather stin
dough. Roll as thin as can be handled.
Line two pie tins and use the trim
mings to cross-bar the tops II desired.
This crust may be baked before the
pie, II the nature Of the filling makes
1t desirable.
Cottage Cheese Salad.
Cottage cheese lends itself especial
ly well to salads. II enough Is used.
the salad may serve as the main dish
of the meal. French, mayonnaise and
boiled dressing all 60 well with cheese
salad.
Cottage Cheese and Peanut Butter
Soup.
,cupfulA milk tablespoonful but
2itablespoonfuls 2 of ter
flour cupful of cottage
tablespoonfuls pea cheese
nut butter Y teaspoonfui soda
Few drops of onion or moro
Juice Cayenne pepper
Bit of bay leaf and teaspoonful salt
ground sage
Heat the milk with the bay leaf.
salt, pepper and onion juice In q double
boiler. Soften the butter and blend
with it the flour. Pour hot milk grad
ually on this paste and beat until
smooth. Bring to n boil and cook over
hot water for ten minutes. then cool
slightly. Blend cottage cheese. soda
and peanut butter, softening with a
little of the warm sauce to a smooth
thick cream. Add the cream to the
sauce and reheat carefully. Avoid
boiling the sauce. for this will tough
en- the cheese. Serve with croutons.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Too Much Power for Tammany

Home rule is an excellent thing With
out it the accurate measure of municipal
itys capacity for democratic government
cannot be obtained. Nevertheless, when
one Of the insiders of Tammany Hall pre-
sents ''home rule bill such as Senator
Foleys, just introduced, which would give
to the local aldermen and the Mayor power
to reorganize and readjust departments
and Jobs broadcast, without much, if any,
regard to the Civil Service regulations and
the Civil Service law, the politically wise
must be pardoned if they exhibit a certain
temporary lack of enthusiasm for this
home rule principle
In this case it is to be surmised that
home rule would cover q penitude of job
grabbing. The Hylan administration has
already shown a notable impatience with
the restrictions which the Civil Service sets
up to hamper the appointment Of "deserv-
ing Democrats" to the jobs they want.
Over in Brooklyn, for instance, Borough
President Riegelmann calmly removed
more than a hundred borough employees,
after, it has been alleged, having submitted
lists of employees to the various district
political leaders for their suggestions as to
which should go. To be sure, he back
tracked when the attack on him became
hot and restored the men to their places
But the episode, not yet ended, does not in
dlcate much more respect'for the Civil Ser
vice than Mayor Hylan's backing and fill
ing about the appointment of a Chief Med
] ical Examiner
Under the circumstances, it would be
questionable wisdom to place at the dispo-
sal of q Tammany administration whole
sale power of removal and appointment in
the city service, even in the sacred name
of home rule. If Tammany were beyond
suspicion; if the present administration
even, had given evidence of desire to pro
mote the city's welfare without regard tc
politics and patronage, the case would be
different. But it is am old rule of law that
plaintiff in equity must come into court
with clean hands. And wherever Jobs arc
concerned Tammany's hands arc not clean
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Where Are the Folks?

Why are there no folks, only Just ten
ants, IN New York apartment house?
We take the query from the lips of Mid
die Western exile, now marooned, against
his will, upon Manhattan Island Out in
Iowa, when he gets up of a morning he
meanders out on his back porch and waves
to his friend Bill next door. Bill shouts
back That is friendliness, neighborliness.
Here he makes an engagement days ahead.
packs a bag and takes a long trip out
somewhere to visit friend-or rather to
get acquainted again with friend that
he hasn't had time to sec for months.
There can't be real friends under such
handicaps of time and place and business.
The odd part is that, superficially, there
is no earthly reason why New York
apartment house shouldn't house more
nelghborincss than an Iowa street. Your
best friends always do happen to live on
Washington Square if you live on Morn
lngslde Heights; or in Montclair if YOU
live in New Rochelle. But that is only
part of our whole scheming lack of neigh
borllness. If neighborhood feeling count
ed for anything in New York We should
assemble choice collections of souls under
one apartment house roof and have a little
Iowa street all our own. Only it would be
more intimate than the original. for apart
ment house dwellers share the same cle
vators and front halls and front doors and
the same view and the same dumbwaiters
and the same smells-to say nothing of
the same sounds. On the score of pro-
pinquity, the chance for folksiness. the
apartment house offers marvellous oppor-
tunitles. 1t stands right next door 20 COM
plete community living.
But the opportunities are never, never
seized TO the contrary, there is a studied
ignoring OF ones neighbors in an apart
ment house that is one of the gorgeous
humors of New York. Mr.. Jones, of ,hc
sixth floor, and Mr. Smith, of the seventh
floor, will ride up and down in the same
elevator for seven long years without bat
ting an eyelid of recognition 1t is a sort of
game, children's game, of elaborate pre-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Love, Not Hate
Christian Science Doctrine Applied
to Germany


10 the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir The discussion in YOUR columns of the
subject of whether or not hate should be a
factor IN our war against Germany is highly
interesting. 1t occurred to me that the Chris
tian Science view of this problem might be
interest to your readers This view was
set forth by DR.. Walton Hubbard, Of the
Christian Science Board Of Lectureship. in
his recent lecture at First Church of Christ.
Scientist when he said:
we need to be very careful in the months
that are to come that we do not get to
hating Things may occur which may make
1t very easy for us 20 entertain this wrong
thought The Master has said that the
only way that peace can come to the
world is through loving one another.
The greatest love which we could show to
neighbor who had become so convinced.
so mesmerized in wrong thought that he
undertook to impose mis- will on all the rest
of his neighbors and to take away that lib
crty for which they had struggled for years
would be to go forth and restrain him.
"lo-day we have nation which through
education and environment has become con-
vinccd, become mesmerizcd in wrong
thought, and is undertaking to impose its
will on all the rcst Of its ncighbor nations.
taking away that liberty for which they have
struggled for centuries. And the kindcst
most loving thing which do is to
go forth and restrain that nation-and it
only lets us do it in way. But we need
to be very careful that we do not hate After
all, the only peace that can come to the
world must come as the Master has said
through loving one another, and we can only
make that demonstration of love for our
neighbor recognize the fact as taught
in Christian Science that principle and idea
perfect God and perfect mans tho basis
of thought and demonstration rScience and
HEALTH D. 259). Let then undertake to
so recognize mans relationship to God that
we shall be able to make that demonstration
of love for our ncighbor which Will enable
US to say as the Master said of His perse-
cutors in His last earthly moments, Father
forgive them, for they know not what they
do'" ALBERT B. GILMORE,
Christian Science Committee on Publication
New York, Feb. 49, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Not This Kind of Contraction Wanted

The life blood Of the nations vast in
dustrial and commercial organism is the
dollar and the check that ]1o'cs. And all
parts Of this organism must have a due
supply of blood, just like the organs of
the human body.
There has been complaint that the coun-
try banks have not taken on their share
of war financing. And so Secretary Nc
Adoo levics on the banks for 10 per cent Of
their gross resources, which is equivalent
to more than 20 per cent of their actual
loaning power.
But observe the effect When this
money is drawn from the great business
centres. and especially the industrial CEN
tres, it is either promptly rcdepositcd by
the government or paid out in checks
which go straight back to the banks
There is no impoverishment of funds.
With the country banks it is different
We know Of communities that raised their
three, five and six hundred thousand in
Liberty loans. And the banks found
that hardly dollar of this flows back
And it will be the same way with the new
Treasury levy 1t means a sharp con
traction of country bank loans. And this
bears heaviest on the farmer and those
who extend the farmer credit And this
means direct and unacceptable curtail-
ment of our food supply.
1t must not be done
We have here yet another of countless
examples revealing how extraordinarily
delicate is this vast organism of national
pered with rudely any more than the sin
gular mechanism by which we live and
have our being.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19

with estimates, Each ambitious spender
tries to get what he can. The President
stands aloof and let's Congress wrestle
with the appropriation hunters. Then
when Congress passes inflated appropria-
ton bills, drawn in detail by its own com
mittecs, the Administration washes its
hands. In spending the money it can claim
that it is only executing the mandate Of
Congress.
1T the President we're to transmit COM
pcte supply bills to Congress and Con-
grcss were to surrender the right to in
crease items, although reserving the right
to reduce them, the Administration would
become accountable to the country for
whatever waste there was in expenditure.
The issue could not be lodged, as it has
been so easily lodged in the past. Re-
sponsibility for laxty and extravaganza
would be centred in one man, chosen by
the nation at large, not dispersed among
more than five hundred men elected from
states and Congress districts.
Moreover to the extent that Congress
drops the work of preparing appropriation
bills it should enlarge it's supervision of
expenditure. 1t should become critic, an
auditor a controller. Now the Controller
of the Treasury and the various depart
mental auditors, all appointees of the Pres
dent supervise expenditure. Congress it.
self should supervise it, and thus supply
another check on administrative misman-
agement. If a standing committee of the
two houses had thoroughly audited all de-
partment expenditure there would have
been no necessity for calling Secretary
Baker for instance before a Senate COM
mittee to explain what he had done or
hadn't done in the way Of using appropria-
tions granted him for securing jigs, dies,
rifles, machine guns and artillery.
If the Administration is to present a
general budget, members of the Cabinet
ought to appear in the House and Senate
to explain and defend the estimates. They
should identify themselves with the plans
for expenditure which they ask Congress
to approve. They should go personally on
record on all questions of policy involved
in appropriations. And it is equally i'm
poi taHe IIdI .Hey SHould appear ana
answer questions on general legislation af-
fecting their departments. At present the
Executive and Congress are working at
arms length and often at cross purposes
There ought to be more intimate contact
and freer cooperation.
The Tribune heartily indorses what Mr.
Butler so we'll said about these two partic-
alar reforms. 1t has long advocated the
introduction of real budget system, and
it has also long been convinced that the
partici ipaton of Cabinet members in dis
cussions in Congress would be a step
toward more responsible and efficient gov
ernment
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Letters and More Letters!

Space for freight on our ships is pre-.
cious. goodness knows. 1t is just about
the most precious thing we or our allies
form Of freight so important that there
should be no limit on it, no discouraging
it, no attitude save that of falling to,
every one of us, and shipping just as
much of it as we can. We mean letters
from home, the most precious and essen
tial cargo our ships can carry over to
France
American boys in college and American
men away on business trips are not tbs
best correspondents in the world. They
usually hate to answer letters and so they
usually hate to get them 1t is taking
us all some time to learn that American
boys and men facing danger and death
in a strange country an ocean away from
home are another story. For them an en-
velope from home, with U. S. stamp on
it and q letter in it giving the news of the
family and the friends and the home town,
is just about the nearest thing to Peace
and Home Again that muddy, shell-torn
trench can provide SO we might guess
for the thinking, SO we know who have
written, and so now General Pershng
makes clear in his appeal for letters and
more letters.
Get the letter writing habit. Write to
your relatives, your friends or your
friends friends. Begin now. A soldier
in an American camp is only slightly less
lonely than he will be in France. And
you will not be without your reward. You
will learn much about our army, its wants
and it's needs--a letter from the front is
the nearest thing to going yourself that
there is. You can do your duty at home
far better for the first hand knowledge
letters home will give you.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
A Fire Menace
Coal Shortage Has Crippled Many
Sprinkler Systems in City

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: New York is in grave danger of y
general contlagration, due to shortage of coal
and an excessive winter. This is not an
alarmlst statement but d sact stated by Fire
Chief kenloa, and proclaimed publicly BY
the Mayor.
1t IS doubtful whether this statement of
peril has been seriously taken, at least Sc
riously enough to bring results. 1t should be
reiterated until it brings a mental reaction
that VIII lead to greater care with the cigar
cite butt, the ovcrhot stove. the pile of rub
bsh IN the cellar and to the readiness of the
hand fire eXtinguisher, the stand pipe and the
sprinkler system.
But what has the shortage of coal and a
bad winter got to do with all this asks the
average man? Just thislack of coal to keen
buildings warm has crippled at least a thou
sand sprinkler systems in the warehouse
and manufacturing district, according to an
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Sweetening the Gate Money Tax

The baseball managers seem to have
decided to initiate the bad example OF
those motion picture houses which are
making a profit on the collection of the
war tax on admission charges. Since the
amusement war tax went into effect some
motion picture theatre proprietors have
been adding three cents to the cost of q
ticket formerly sold for % cents and 9TH
ers have been adding five cents. In the
one case the three cents go to the govern
ment; in the other three cents go to the
movie" box
1t is now announced that the baseball
managers will collect five cents on 25-cent
admissions, five cents on 50-cent adms-
sions, 10 cents on 75-cent admissions, 10
cents on 81 admissions and Is cents on
S1.25 admissions. This schedule shows
that on each 25-cent 75-cent and SIPS
ticket the management will take in two
cents more than the legal 10 per cent tax.
The excuse given is that it is incon-
ve'.lent to make change in pennies But
the big department stores and practically
all retail shops make prices which require
the use of pennies in change and they
always find way to supply themselves
with pennies The motion picture houses
which stick to the letter of the law are
also able to make exact change Why
shouldn't the baseball managers be able
to do it?
There is no good reason why The public
should be asked to pay baseball par!, or
"movlc" house boX-onlcs d 40 per cent
commission for collecting the amusement
war tax. The inconvenience of paying that
unnecessary and cXtra-legal commission
certainly overbalances the inconvenience
caused to the boX-offices in counting out
the correct change.
The law calls for a 10 per cent tax. But
five cents on 2o cents is a 20 per cent
tax. Ten cents on rs cents is a 1873 ner
cent tax and Is cents on S125 is 12 per
cent tax. This is a form of protiteerne
which the public has right to resent
The government should also resent if. The
Treasury Department cannot afford to
allow commissions Of this sort to be made
by agencies which it uses as Intermediates
IN collecting the war amusement tax.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-19

authority, and many stand pipes and even
ire extinguishers have been damaged by
freezing. And it is not generally known how
much the Fire Department depends on
sprinkler systems in certain districts
most dangerous districts--to prevent general
cont!agration.
Unfortunate then. is tendency of prop
erty owners. once having installed sprinkler
systems and other fire fighting apparatus. to
consider their duty done and everything else
up to the Fire Department and the insurance
companies
This letter is an appeal to all such to real
!ze that they alone responsible, and re-
sponsible all the time. to see that such ap-
paratus IS kept in condition for immediate
and effective use, to their own property
and indirectly that Of their neighbors:
We desire, therefore, as publicly as possi-
be, to reiteratc the fact and to urge the ne
cessity Of every prccaution by every person.
that another disaster be not added TO our
present troubles. VIM O. LUDLOW.
Chairman, Committee on Fire Prevention of
the New York Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects.
New York, Feb. l6, 1918