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New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
BY MARTHA M. STANLEY

TT is astonishing, when one considers the
large percentage of children who live in
small quarters, how very few know of the
public Fairgrounds are at liberty to avail
themselves of them
This is due, in part, to the scarcity of play
grounds and their distance from the tenement
or apartment district, which district is no
longer segregated one, sprinkling, as it does,
all parts of nearly all cities
There is movement on foot at present
of the high schools for child recreation. So
long there is tendency to initiate the
seeming delights of the grown-ups, just so
long the child will be entertained in doing it.
If this mimicry tends to establish the idea
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

I'VE can never tell until we try what VIC
can do" was told at the Wadorf-Astoria
just look, madam, at the case of the brown
sugar. We said it is impossible to use it
except for very, very few varieties of pats
serle-then came the shortage of white sugar
and VOLTA. We make the experiment and we
md the brown sugar tres excellent 1t will be
all the same with the wheat substitutes al
ready we make very fine patisserie from the
rye and the corn fours"
recently made the rounds of all our large
hotels, and it was astonishing to see how con-
sclentlously every one of the chefs was living
up to his pledge The fact that these mon are
almost without exception French, or French
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
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the only available play space becomes the
hall stairs.
The landlady mother is not unmindful Of
this method of play being obnoxious to her
boarders, but she endures it as one with a
purpose and that purpose is education. She
does not, as rule, encourage neglect of the
home lesson or truancy from school, Often
she conceives the idea of keeping boarders
for no other reason than to permit her to
educate her family.
So much has been said about the grasping
1andlady, the stingy one, the exacting or care
less one, and so little mention has been made
Of the self-sacrifcing one.
On the top floor of this apartment house
an enterprsing French woman serves dinner
to about ten boarders. The children from the
lower apartments creep up to the top floor
and ask for an opportunity to assist in serving
the dinner. Once in long while madam per-
mits them to do so. BY this means and by
catching word or two in the hallway they
acquire vernacular of every trade and pro-
fession that comes to dinner.
A large percentage of the boarders are
theatrical people, and it affords them no little
amusement to see their characteristics, even
to their intonations, mimicked by the chill
dren of the stairway playground.
Joe, the eldest child of the family of the
top floor, wrote play, and Willie Bowers, Of
the second floor, approved and agreed to act
as press agent. 1t was stirring melodrama
wherein the heroine, Joe's little sister Blanche
eight, was to be thrown by her brother the
villain, over a terrible cliff, designated by the
five steps which led to the turn in the first
landing, going down.
Tony, the BARRIERS son, who lived on the first
floor and who played the lover, was directed
to swing the banisters and catch the
unfortunate Blanche in her fall, while Willie
Bowers sister Anne, who was to essay the
role of mother, was obliged to portray sim
cere agony on short notice.
To the remaining two children belonged the
role of audience
Willie Bowers had brought his school black
board up from the floor below, and after
careful scrutiny of the advertisements wrote
the following bill, giving the opinion Of vari-
Gus dramatic critics about town, using their
names and the papers they represented freely
and without license
Mr.. Joe Mounet presents his sister
Blanche
In the soul-stirring drama, entitled
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
By ALISSA FRANC

XT<HERE are now just two things of
supreme Importance to the people Of
the United States," says P. P Clax-
ton, Commissioner on Education of the De-
partment of the Interior at Washington, "to
WIN the war for freedom and democracy, and
70 prepare ourselves and our children for life
and citizenship in the new era which the war
n bringing"
We often speak Of "the people, Of our ma
ton as if they were an audience in theatre
VINO paid for ticket and sat down with eyes
and ears open for everything that may be
offered them. Sometimes we find that "the
people" shut their eyes and close their ears
and insist on doing things in their own way
m spite of all the uplift and education we may
ny to feed to them. And this is especially
tue in New York City, Of which large areas
are in heart and spirit not part of the United
MATES at all, but group of foreign villages,
each with its traditions customs, prejudices,
language and religion, and its peculiar tastes
food, entertainment and dress In these
villages are people who do not read the Ameri-
can papers-who do not go to American
ehurches-who do not listen to American
'peakers-who probably hate mince pie and
never have turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
one thing, however, bands them together:
~ their children, or, if they have no children,
heir brothers and sisters or their neighbors'
saildren, must go to public school. And 80
planned to make every one of the COM
nunlties whose children attend the same
xnool little democracy by itself, and to
make the schoolhouse the capitol of this
ssmocracy. And in this capitol there will be
ne nucleus Of what is expected to become an
s"ciai nationwide organization, reaching into
As smallest communities to mobilize and mako
s'aiAoie the efforts of the whole people in
me prosecution of the war. The movement
sm promote community organization and
a4"an economy, and achieve government Of
- people, by the people and for the people
bsfore ~ '''' : -
Dut IN order to spread education there must
. teachers; and for education of this sort,
Nneh will be chiefly for adults, perhaps al-
.saoy crystallizcd in widely differing points Of
Nv, there are not nearly enough teachers
rev York So Columbia University has
ranged series of national service courses,
s. connection with its various departments,
rnen are being given in cooperation With the
sD1ncii OF National Defence, the United
sa.ss Food Administration, tho American
III cross end the United States Bureau OF
aueation. No academic credits are being
sns and the lowest possible fee is charged,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Why Not Use the School House All Around
the Clock?

be one man, too, at the head of the system Of
community centres, who should be the general
administrator or executive for all the local
organizations.
1.-The duty of this man should be to respond
as far as the machinery and funds of his
department will allow to the desires of the
people organized in the neighborhood groups.
He should be man of wide vision, a true
believer in democracy one ready to stand al
ways firmly on the principle that it is the or
ganized citizenship of each neighborhood that
should be in authority in the school buildings
of that neighborhood, and not the Board of
Education or any other body of governmental
agents of the people; and he must be left
free by the board to stand on this principle
"The people own the school buildings
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Therefore they have a right to assume COM
plete control of them while they are not being
used by the children, to whom, of course,
the people themselves have given the first
right there.
"There are endless ways in which the gov
crnment could serve the people and the peo-
pie the government if the people were organ
lied in some simple way. l know that it will
cost something, but wouldn't it be worth
while as foundation for truly democratic
action on the part of the citizens of New
York;"
Tho National Service Course at Columbia
University will continue Wednesdays and Sat-
urdays until May 3.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Stairway Playground
Wanted m Evening Play Place for Children
THE HEART OF A HERO.

THE HEART OF A HERO.
See what the New York press has to say:
81 have not been so stirred since 1 saw
Bernhardt." (Paper mentioned and critics
nancy
"The greatest play under the sun or moon"
UNLIMITED license with critics name)
"A most daring pitch and catch of lovely
heroine" with apologies to the sporting
editor)
Limited engagement, as the heroine is only
q girl.
NEXT WEEK!
Tracked by a Trail Of Blood! All Bows.
Seats, fifty cents and downwards.
The play while in progress was vivid to
the children and not little terrifying to the
hoarders coming up the stairs for dinner.
Usually, in the dining room, which between
dining hours is the child's home, he has but
one little spot for his books, and, maybe. a
box full of toys, crowded under writing
desk or placed on the top of folding bed.
The piece of furniture that served as a buffet
during dinner becomes the bed for one child.
and the ostensible family mirror is trans
formed into a bed for the Others The maid
unfolds cot and retires in the kitchen. The
mother turns out the light, opens the window
and walks, with tired feet, to her rest for the
night to single bed in a little side room
where the clothing Of the entire family is kent
and whose only ventilation is from an air.
shaft.
However physically cramped such living
may be. it does not give cramped outlook on
life. It is the beginning Of broad view,
born in sacrifice and nurtured by education.
1t is crowding the little bodies for time. that
the brain may develop along the line of
progress. This is hard on the boy who needs
plenty OF room in which to play and exercise
his growing body, but it is the method b,
which many rooms of unlimited space may be
made possible for him in later years.
In reality, the rent received for the room
that might be the children's goes to buy the
shoes that tread the way to the public school
Is it any wonder, under such conditions,
that there is tremendous agitation regard
ing the evening entertainment Of thousands
of such boys and girls?
After exhausting their ability to entertain
themselves 1t is not at all improbable that
their entertainment may be secretly sought ca I
tho menacing city street.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

difficulty, but as yet the retail stores have not
put them all on sale. AS the demand in
creases, however, this must be remedied. For
instance, at one of our largest grocers we
found only barley, potato, rice and corn flour.
The only rye that they had in stock was in
packages and combined with SO per cent Of
wheat Oat flour seems particularly difficult
to find, but one can grind this at home in a
coffee machine or meat grinder. if necessary.
VI course 1t we are to save wheat the mills
will soon recognize that they must grind its
substitutes And if they do not recognize it,
Uncle Sam and Mr. Hoover should call it to
their attention in no uncertain terms
Cold mashed potato and cold boiled rice (the
latter cooked in the Oriental way for twenty
three minutes) are very commonly and very
successfully used in combination with the diff
ferent fours.
The following recipes were given bv M.
Edouard Panchard, Of the McAlpin; NJ. de
Dooven, head pastry cook of the Vanderbilt,
with permission of M Lecroche, head chef.
and the Hotel Martinique.
Better save these recipes, gentle reader, for
unless all signs fail the hotels are merely the
outriders of a procession which sooner or
later every. household must join. Every
day'll be wheatless day, bye and bye" and
preparedness" is the word.
Pastry Cream
1 quart milk egg yolks
/ cupful sugar 2 eggs (whole)
q ounces potato flour
Beat eggs, potato -four and sugar together.
Scald milk and add gradually to the egg MKT
ure. Cook over boiling water until thickened
and thoroughly cooked.
The Vanderbilt Hotel
Sponge Cake
4 eggs X cupful rice -four
/ cupful sugar IS teaspoonful salt
Lemon juice or vanilla.
Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon
colored. Add salt and the sugar gradually.
Beat until light. Fold into this mixture the
stifhy whipped whites and the sifted rice flour
and add favoring. Bake in moderate oven.
U. S. Food Administration.
Wheatless Pie Dough
Is cupful rye flour n teaspoonful salt
II cupful barley flour n cupful vegetable
IS cupful rice -four fat and lard mixed
teaspoonful baking Gold water
powder Small egg yolk
Mix baking powder, salt and flour, rub in
the lard, and egg yolk beaten slightly Mix
quite stiff with cold water Roll out on Toured
surface. Dot with remaining fat and sprinkle
with -four. Fold over and roll out again. Roll
like jelly roll, divide In two parts and roll out
to fit plate.
Hotel McAlpim.
Wheatless. Bread
/ pound rye II pound potato flour
" pound barley -four l ounce yeast
n pound rice flour ! ounce salt
X pound corn -four / quart water
Mix flour and salt together. add yeast and
water, and mix to stiff dough. Knead on
Toured board until elastic and light, set to
rise until double in bulk, cut down and form
into loaves, set to rise again, and when double
in bulk bake in hot oven.
Hotel Martinique.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Tony, the lover, swings over the banisfer to
catch the unfortunate Blanche, aged eight,
thrown by her brother, the villain, down a
terrible cliff of five steps leading to the land
ing. The mother, on the staircase, pOrfrays
sincere agony on short notice.
that ''the plays the thing" then, why not
train the child's mind along the lines where
it naturally wanders, in search of pleasing
recreation?
Here is a suggestion from the children
themselves. This might prove to be only one
of the many things, but it serves as an
example.
In an apartment house on one of the prin-
cipal side streets in New York, there live
three families. Each apartment has five rooms
and bath, and each tenant has two or more
lodgers. On the three floors there live, with
their respective parents, seven children. When
the Great Way becomes White these children
are called in from their play on the front
steps and told to amuse themselves wherever
they can find room.
The duties of the kitchen at the dinner
hour-6 :3O-make it impossible for the chill
dren to play there. The dining room is filled
with couches and folding beds, while the
remaining rooms are rented to dodgers. Thus,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

white cornmeal or rice flour, and no one knew
the difference. In fact, M. de Dooven, head
pastry chef at the Hotel Vanderbilt, declares
that after having used wheat substitutes for
pastry he will never go back to the use of
wheat, as he considers the other flours far
superior.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Swiss or Belgian, may account, in part, for
this Over the desk Of each hang pictures of
relatives and friends in uniform, picture
postcards from the front, or photographs Of
the devastated village which was once his home.
With these reminders of the great struggle
before him do you wonder that he cannot rest
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

but one excellent variety is made at the Ritz
Carlton of oatfour and mashed potatoes
When it comes, however, to the real sure
enough raised bread, it is quite another propo-
sition. Hundreds Of experiments have been
tried, several of which have been fairly sue
cessful. They make, for example, at the Hotel
Martinique, particularly good rye and potato
bread, which cuts easily and makes excellent
sandwiches.
Of course, no one of these breads is as good
as wheat bread or so white or fine in grain,
but goodness alive, we are at war, and it does
seem mighty small sacrifice to deny ourselves
the luxury Of wheat bread, doesn't it? It
seems too trihing to talk about, but, mind you,
everybody doesn't feel as you and do about
it. In fact, there are people living at one of
our smartest hotels who absolutely refuse to
eat the rolls and bread that are served to them
and send bellboy to the corner grocery for
bakers bread
You see, the bakers are still allowed to use
70 per cent wheat -four, and consequently
their bread still looks white and fine grained
There is no use denying the fact that the
various substitutes for wheat cost as much
and sometimes more than the wheat itself.
Not only that, but some varieties are difficult
for the housewife to obtain. The hotels buy
them in large quantities, and have very little
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
By ELENE FOSTER

HEER up, gentle reader, another
wartime bugbear has been re-
moved. In all probability we
shall never be called upon to eat
that horrid, black war bread
with which we have been threat
ened ever since the beginning of
tho x,,orN XIIn l..-. ......
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

are now just two things of
supreme Importance to the people Of
the United States," says P. P. Clax-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
CASUALTY LIST


 l Washington. June 7-The army casu- alty list today contained 4S names. divided 1 as follows:
 | Killed In action IT. died of wounds F; died of accident 6; died of disease q; wounded severely 6. Officers named were: Killed in action: Lieutenants Robert P Gather, Bladen. Neb., and Henry W. Clarke, Boston, Mass.
 Died of wounds: Lieutenants Lynn H. | Hartman, Concord, N. H., and We'll born S. Priddy, Chicago.
 Died of disease: Brigadier General Robert E. l.. Michie, Staunton, Va.
 Died of airplane accident: Lieutenants Livingston l.. Baker, San Fra sncisco; Duncan R. Grant, New York, and Earl Neville. Winona, Minn.
 Lieutenant Ralph M. Noble, Galesburg, IL, previously reported missing, is now reported by the German Red Cross as dead.
 The list includes the following men from southern states:
 hlllcu III dCNlOH. 1OipOIdl 0lldS lTip- lett, Hunting Creek. N. C.; Privates Ray mond E. cuthbertson, R. F. D. l, Nebo. N C., and Lewis T. Strickland, Cerro Gordo, N. c,
 Died of wounds; Privates William w. Gosnen. Greenville. Tenn, and Cabe Keen. R. F. D. l, Pinola, Miss
 Besides officers and southern men the foI ra in us1 nau Itxy list
 Killed in action: Corporals Joseph Dra- bin, Lodi, Cal, and Herman l.. Evans, Lebanon Junction, Ky; Privates Joe w.. Bouret, Cheyenne Wyo.: Clarence Henry Cav, St. Joseph, Mo; Doan Charles. Alger. Wash; Walter W. Hawk. Gin cinnati: George Olen. Brockton. Mass. 1; Mass B. Shaheen, Moorehead, Minn.; Guy W. Showers. Harrisburg, Pa; Mike Sinkevich Easton. Pa; Halle c. Smith, Middleton, N. Y.
 Died of wounds: Corporals Otto G. Abbott, Newkirk, Okla; Robert F1nne- gan, Pittsburg, Pa. Mechanic Herman Hansen, Erdmore Mich; Prvates Will liam L. Baxter. St, Paul, Minn; Mike Christianson, San Pedro, Cal. Leon R. Mathews, Springfield. Mass; Louis c. Saver, vergs. Minn. Arville c. Scoggins, Visalia, Ky.
 Died of disease: Sergt- Edward Reamer Agnew Carrick, Pa.; Band Leader Hiram I. Cole. Ingle Wood, Cal; Privates Chester Brisby, Jacksonville, Texas: Will liam H. Harris, Marietta, ILL; George E, McKenna, Far Hills. N. J.; Benjamin C. Wood I,ynu Mass
 Died of accident: Privates George E. Finicle, Huron. s. D.. George Jacob Fry mire, Monmouth. H.; Emmanuel G. Will
 liams Morristown, N. J.
 Severely wounded: Corporals Vester A. Benson, Creston, la; Ira M. Curtiss, Vir- ginia. Minn.: Privates Bernhardt Bottolf- son, Harrington. Neb.; Walter J. Nugent, Worcester, Mass; Oscar Olson, Wild wood, N J.; Robert o. Ruebe, Meriden, Conn.
 Prisoners (previously reported missing): Sergts. Joseph P. Nolan, Hartford, Conn; Frank L. Smith. Revere. Mass; Corp Henry E. Woods. Brooklyn; Privates George Norman, Newark, N. J.; Edward Patenaude, West Haven. Conn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
SMALLER ROADS
 ASK FOR RELIEF
Want Government Supervision or Establishment of Legal Status
 for Doing Business

Washington, June 7.--tspeeial. .)-owners of short line railroads throughout the United States are clamoring today in Washington for government supervision or the establishment for them by. the government of a legal status.
 Under the present arrangements, de- pendent as they are on hauling from rural points to trade centers, for connec- ton with government railroads, they are being frozen to death, they represent.
 The Alabama short lines have in Wash ington as their spokesman w, M. Blount of Union Springs. As result of his representation through Senator Bank head. Director General McAdoo today agreed by wire to give the problem thor ough consideration before taking action.
 Mr. Blount wants either government supervision under a contract or the es- tabishment of legal status or recogni- tion by the government in order that owners of these little roads may continue to do business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
MANAGERS NAMED
 FOR RAILROADS
WinchelI Gives Out List of Men to Handle Operations
 in This Territory

Atlanta, Ga, June 7-Federal managers of southern railroads were announced to- day by B. L. Winchell, regional director. The appointments, effective June s, fol- low:
 E. H. Coapman, for Southern Railway system, Georgia Southern and Florida railway, Alabama and Vicksburg rail- way, Carolina, Clinchheld and Ohio rail- way of South Carolina; office Washing ton.
 c. NJ Kittle, for Illinois Central rail- road. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail- road, Gulf and Ship Island railroad of flee Chicago.
 W. L. Mapother, for Louisville and Nashville railroad, Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis railway; office Louisville.
 R. V. Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio railroad Gulg. Mobile and Nohtrern rail road; office Mobile.
 w. A. Winburn, for Central of Georgia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08

Birmingham people, is that of MT. J. W. Shelton, who resides at No ITO South Thirtyfirst street Birmingham, who was formerly in the produce busi- ness and is now a special policeman. MT. Shelton is well known by the busi- ness people of this city and his in- tegrity and veracity is unquestioned. He said:
 T have been a great sufferer from stomach trouble for the past ten years. had indigestion and my food soured and I suffered from dyspepsia The gas in my stomach caused me to bloat; I had headaches; was nervous and dizzy and my kidneys were affected l was forced to give up my business owing to my suffering so much and being unable to attend to it. I have taken Plant Juice for only a few days now and I can eat any kind of food without distress. I do not have an ache or pain and sleep the night through I can most certainly recom- mend Plant Juice to anyone, for l know what it has done for me"
 Any one of the following symptoms may indicate a deranged stomach: In- digestion, dyspepsia, constipation. belching of wind bad breath, sour stomach gas or bloating after. meals. coated tongue, pains in the back or sides, poor appetite. lack of energy, or that all down condition.
 The Plant Juice Man is in Birming- ham at Nortons Drug Store, corner Second avenue and Twentieth street, where he is daily meeting the local public and introducing and explaining the merits of Plant Juice. Free sam- pies given--Adv.