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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-03-14
BACON N BULLETS

Are you a soldier clad in khaki?
If you answer no, then you are not
worth your bacon. This is not meant
to disparage you but ii does mean that
are quite as important in fighting this
war as guns or ammunition, and bacon
is one of the chief sources Of fat. Fats
supply energy to the body, and pork
fat is more used in the army than any
other because it is more readily
shipped and it is the meat best liked
by the men working at hard manual
labor. Without fats, people weaken
and waste away. The armies must
have fats to keep up the fight. But
the American people as a nation nceu
not worry about their own lack OF
fats. for the average consumption per
person in this country Is 3h ounces
a day, while 2 ounces Is quite adequate
to sustain health and yigor, and in all
probability better health and vigor will
result from a diminished use Of fats.
1t is our soldiers, sailors and allies
about whom we need worry. France
and England are short Of fats, terrib-
ly short, and America must make up
that shortage, out of her W oyer-
abundance. If every person in Ameri-
ca V n ounce Of fat q day we
can ship fats enough for our soldiers,
sailors and allies. One-third of an
ounce of fats measured in bacon
amounts to just about two thin slices
OF bacon. Giving up two slices of ba'
con a morning does not seem much OF
a hardship when We realize what a
vital necessity it is to keeping up the
the guns, yet those two slices of bacon
is onethird of the ounce you are try.
ing to save. But don't make the mis-.
take Of thinking you are saving animal
fats for the soldiers when you don't
have bacon for breakfast, if you would
not have had it anyway Saving
means the actual giving up of some,
thing you are actually in the habit OF
using.
Bullets and bacon! If you are no
using bullets, send your bacon to SOM
one who is using them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-03-14

understanding that speak louder than
words or huzzahs. In their quiet de-
meanor and on their faces were vol
umes of history already made. From
their eyes, windows of the soul, flash
ed the spirit Of determination that
makes for more than shouting multi
tudes and blaring bands. Nothing hap
pened, yet everything was happening.
Between the men flashed the mute,
secret sign of the soul of France.
And so they passed, and some add.
tional grasp of the Thing came to me.
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ONE DISH MEALS

One-dish meals will please the whole
family. They will please mother be-
cause they are easy to prepare, they
will please brother because they will
because it will not take so long to do
the dishes, they will please father be
cause they 90 lightly on the pocket
book, and they will please the U. S.
Food Administration because they are
food conservation meals.
Potted Hominy and Beef: Hominy is
excellent to use as part Of a one-disn
dinner, If you have a fire in your stove
so that you can cook 1t for a lone
time, or IL you use a fireless cooker.
Heat ~ quarts of water to boiling,
add / teaspoon of salt and two cups OF
hominy which has been soaked over
night. Cook in a double boiler for -four
hours or in a f~ireless cooker owe night
This makes five cups. This recipe
may be increased and enough cooked
in different ways for several meals.
Hominy is excellent combined with
dried, canned or fresh fish, or meat
and vegetable l%eft-overs may be used.
Here Is one combination. 2 table
spoons fat, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 cups
milk, A potatoes. 2 cup carrots, 5 cups
cooked hominy, l teaspoon salt. 4 o
pound Of dried beef. Melt the fat. stil
in the flour, add the cold milk and mix
well. Cook until it thickens. Cut the
potatoes and carrots in dice. mix al
the materials in a baking dish and
bake for one hour.
Shepherds Pie: l tablespoon fat, |
onion, l pound raw meat or leftover
meat cut up small. 2 cups tomatoes, Z
teaspoon salt, y teaspoon pepper,
cups mashed potato. Melt the fat, ado
the sliced onion, and if raw meat Is
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-03-14
STATE M MEET

Mrs. +. G. Perisho, state chairman
of the woman's liberty loan committee,
announces a state conference of cOun-
ty chairmen at Huron on March Il. at
the Presbyterian church. The speak
ers will include Mrs. Cordenio A, Sey-
erance. chairman of the liberty loan
committee for the ninth federal dis
trict. st. Paul; Mrs. John l.. Pyle,
Huron. vice chairman Of the woman's
committee of the state council of de.
Tense; II. A. Oldham. or some other
representative of the mems liberty
lean committee. and representatives
of various women's fraternal organiza,
tions.
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LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE

America is a good cook, but an eX-
travagant one. She is apt to throw
away perfectly good food, she is apt
to make a good loaf of bread or lemon
pie on one Thursday and a poor one on
the next Thursday. When the pie or
bread is good, she boasts hat she
never measures anything, when il "a
bad she boasts not, neither does she
apologize; she accepts ii as one ac-
cepts a rainy day-philosophically.
But America should this day chang"
her habits, boast less and measur
more, and make nothing but good PIE
and good bread. A good cook is what
is known in the artistic and literary
world as a good craftsman. And a good
craftsman in any art means an lntelll-
gent worker who accomplished his
aim most exactly with the least effort.
An artist must know his proportions
before he can correct errors and so,
too, our h~ousekeeper must know exact
ly what she is doing, else on one
Thursday she may make a good lemon
pie and on the next Thursday a poor
lemon pie.
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WOMEN!

We are hearing much these days of
the duty of women to their country.
Surely every woman should do her
best to answer her country's call. But
there is another call, loud and insis-
tent, the call of our sisters il faraway
lands for our Christ and the blessings
of Il great Christian civilization.
Shall we answer this call also?
For fifty years the women Of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Of the Methodist Church have been
making heroic sacrifices TO answer
this call, but their numbers have been
all too small for the task.
Now w are putting on a big drive
for new members all over Methodism.
We now have 81, 9O7 members. Our
goal in this drive is for 400. 000. We
now have 925 women missionaries
our brightest and best-in the field
and We hope as the result of this
drive to be able to increase the num-
Der to 1000. How glorious! a thou
sand women telling the Good News
to Moslem. Hindu and Pagan.
Too many of our women have lived
in a beautiful garden surrounded by a
wall. filled with warmth. light and
sheltered from all that could hurt or
harm. They have been so absorbed
in their W pleasures and pursuits
that they have hardly glanced owe
the wall to behold the plight of those
other sisters for whom Jesus died who
have neither warmth, light nor CON-
fort. No flowers bloom in their path
and their way is rough and hard and
dreary.
Jesus said, Go spread the Good
News" We have been so slow that
countless multitudes have died never
having heard.
Let US simply not do our bit but our
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ing of awe. There is a look in their
eve that fascinates, a tone III thelr
voice that thrills, a something in their
quiet demeanor that is compelling. we
know they have come from their Geth-
semene; we know many of their COM
rades went on to Calvary. We kno"
there has been revealed unto them
things not given to other men to under
stand.
TODAY 7 saw two groups of these men
pass on the street, the n group ON
ing from the front, the other return
ing; the one bedraggled and limp, the
other alert, tidy, soldier bearing. 1t
was lust the difference between a tired
man going to his bath and his rest and
a rested man going to his work-that
was all. It was one shift coming out,
another going in. 1t was a matter or
course sort Of thing. The bath and the
rest are here at home, the work and
the fight yonder at Nerdun, or on the
Alsatian front. This changing OF
shifts has been going on for over forty
months. Folks get used to things in
that time. When we do the same
things today that we did yesterday,
and we know we are to do them tomor-
row, world without end, We're in a rut.
Europe is in the rut of fighting and
dying; its become a habit and is taken
as a matter Of course without co'n-
plant or explanation or evidence that
anything unusual is going on.
Apparently there was as little inter
est manifest between the passing col
umns, the one coming out of the tren-
ches, the other going in, as there
would be between two groups of labor
ers. And yet there was a difference.
While between the men there was 40
greeting. no saluting, yet there was
that mute, mysterious recognition and
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-03-14

any nobler thing than to have it said
of him, "He fought at Mons!"
| have said that the French soldier
is not a braggard, and in this he is
unlike the German. Never shall |
forget the bombastic air, the swagger,
the c~ontemptious shrug of the shoulder
Of the Germans as they stood about
the large maps exposed in the win
dows in the streets of Berlin. These
maps showed the red heart of Europe,
from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf
ia possession Of Germany, with a deep,
or red line running through it marking
the trail of railroads from Berlin to
Pasdad.
In color and boundary lines the con
QQered territory was annexed to Ger
many and her allies, and the whole
constituting the very heart Of Europe.
tnd before this map the Germans
warmed and strutted, boastful, AFRO
CANT, insulting. shall not forget how
they came about us denouncing Ameri-
ca. defying the world, nor how their
spies followed US Dragging of their
victories and their ability to hold on.
The Frenchmen do not brag. They
ilst hold on. Every day we see them
coming home for their short vaca-
tons. They are a little stopped; they
ar, not as debonair as the United
states soldiers; their uniforms are old
and faded. They drop from the trains
and quitely and a~ffectionately greet
their home folk. Some of them have
not come back, and the mothers and
relatives Of these are there with eager
inquiry. A brief explanation, a shake
OF the head, or a message delivered,
a tear on the face of a mother. such
a tear as the Peri carried to the gates
of heaven, and the crowd disperses.
We watch these men with a feel
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HUNS WILL NOT BREAK THROUGH

the Germans breaking through. H.
said:
THE boches will not break through.
That is what our poilus (soldiers) say
and think. They believe this, thesc
men who were at Nerdun in 1916, am
who but a week ago were relieved on
that same line. They are among tho,
who for two years have resisted tn.
fire. and from the memory of thosa
frightfully tragic hours and days and
months there m this truth that Il
luminous:
"The boches did not break through
then. They will never break through,
"Our poilus know that we are fal
better off in fighting equipment today
than we were in 1916. They know
what we can expect from our Britisd
allies. They were not helping so muCa
then. They know, monseiurs. that you
are here, and they believe in you
They know all this, but the real caus.
of their belief is confidence in them.
selves. and is drawn from the fac
that the boche did not break through
in 1916, nor in 1917; therefore, they
will never break through-never!"
And as we listened to this man who
fought at Verdun. his splendid conf
dence took possession of us. Listening
and its ~inviolate citadel rising like the
symboIical rock upon which the tide Of
Teutonic hordes are to be shattered
When the Americans now In Franc
soldier and civilian, fully n the
purpose Of the kaiser to force his le.
gions further southwark and complete
the rape Of France, every jaw snaps
and they adopt the French s%hibboleth
at Verdun: They shall not pass; by
the eternal they shall no pass"
"He fought at Verdun," "He fought
at Mons" This is the Introduction.
always, the veterans of these battle
receive. Their names do not coun;
nor their families. nor their wealth.
or poverty. Though their sins be a.
scarlet. they are washed white as
snow" if they fought at Nerdun, or thc
Marine, or at Mons. To have fought
valiantly on any of the famous BATH.
fields, to have gone owe the top, to re-
ceive a wound-these serve a former
French criminal better than a iudg'
ment of mot guilty" from the highest
court.
| met a French lad who had been
paroled from prison to enlist. He was
visiting our boys in camp. In intro
ducing him one of our captains said,
He fought at Mons" The lad
Strengthened a bit and there flashed
a something from his eye that showed
his courage and his recovered man
hood.
This particular piece of the old earth
to which the Americans have come on
our great adventure is SCARED W tn the
battles of more than twenty centuries.
Caesar had a camp at Mons and Charl-
magne and Attila led their armies
through it. Invasions and sieges mark
its history. 1t has b%eloneed TO the
French, the Spanish, the Flemish, the
Belgians, William the Silent of Orange
once headed an expedition to relieve
the Hugenots of Mons.
But the long story of battle and
siege a never bestow on Mons such
Immortality as did the retreat 20
splendidly maintained by the small
French and Belgian armies in 1911.
And a Frenchman cannot hope To have
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WRITER OF GOOD STORIES
Something of the Career Of Frank n,
Spearman, Author of MAN Of
Music Mountain"

Frank Hamilton Spearman has writ
ten better stories of railroading In
the mountain states Of the West than
anyone else. He might be called the
laureate of pioneer %railroading In the
Rockies and Sierras.
Nh. Spearman railroaded for n long
time before he decided to take up au-
thoring for a living. He knows the
game from the ground up. His first
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WOMAN AND THE HOUSEHOLD

used, add 1t and stir until the red color
disappears. Add the tomato and sea
soning. If cooked meat is used, add il
with the tomato and seasoning, after
the onion is Drowned and heat through.
Oil a baking dish. put in a layer Of the
potato. add the meat and gravy, and
cover with the potato dotted with fat.
Bake half an hour.
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best, remembering that ito whom
much is given much will be required
We extend a cordial invitation to
the women of Brookings and vicinity
to join this great woman's organiza.
ton and have a part in the vast, far
reaching work that they are doing.
Mrs. |. NJ. Hargett.
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novel, "The Nerve of Foley" was pub
nshed in 1900. and he has been at 1t
steadily ever since.
'Nan Of Music Mountain" which we
have been fortunate In securing for
our next serial. Is a love and adven-
ture story. 1t Is a fine, outstanding
tale of the high desert lands, and both
heroes and villains are real men
strong, reckless, brave. There's not a
dun paragraph In the story and we
en- guarantee that you will like It
Watch For Opening Chapter
II This Paper Next Week
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TARDY ADVICE

If you have a feeble-minded citizen
in your community, put him in the
proper institution and pay taxes cheer
fully for his support. Don't dodge the
issue by sending him to congress-
Courier-Journal.
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Sls.1la.2s. wins ret Of standard rerer-
ence work, donated by Welies Brothers
Publishing COMPANY, Chicago, 70 vol
uves of the Gateway Series, donated by
American Book Company. Cincinnati:
value, f<5.
23. Sarah Louise Hawk, Shelby. r. r..
u. No. g. Riohlund county; sales. Sls,-
t51Si. Wins Iiaro lamp, donated by the
Y. l.. White Company, Columbus.
value. s25
"a. Mary Helen Dennis, Toledo: sales.
s1s,6o1.O5 Wirs framed picture. donated
by Walter J.. Lille Columbus: value, SIS.
25. Frances Barbour, Maynard, Bel
mont county; sales. slSo2S.sl. Wins
walrus travelling bag, donated by the Nj.
c. Liley & Company, Columbus.
value, s35.
To tho high salesman In each county.
who did not receive one of the state com
mittee's prizes, Will he presented a bronzc
medal showing credit for service
Csrtfhca,ioa of the winners has been
made by these Judges: Judge Maurice II
Dcnahue Of the Ohio Supreme Court
Judge John f.. Safer. Federal Court, Co,
lurnhus, and r. b. Pearson State Super
intendcnt of Schools.
winners Of the prizes will he brought
to Columbus soon after the close of th,
i.iberty Loan campaign. when the pres.
rntation a. trcmouies will be conducted
l>etpils for this celebration are now he
ing arranged, '
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GENERAL ORDER 1. No public
eating.placs shall serve or permit to
- served any breed or other bakery
product which does not contain 1T
least " per cent Of wheat -four sub.
stitutes, nor shall Y serve or permit
to be served more than z ounces OF
this bread. known rs Victory Bread
OF II NO Victory Bread is served, more
than ounces Of other breads (such
rs corn bread. muiins, Boston brown
bread, 'etc.). Sandwiches or bread
served At boarding camps. and rye
bread containing % per cent or more
u pure rye -four, are excepted. F
GENERAL ORDER 2. No public
sa'5sg.plscs shall serve or permit to
be ssrved bread or toast ~ . gArni.
ture or r,sndsr meat.
GENERAL ORDER :. No public
eating. place shall allow any bread to
he brought to the table until after
the first course II, served.
GENERAL ORDER 4. No public
oetlns-piace snail serve or permit to
b served to one patron At any one
meal more than one kind of meat.
For the purpose Of this rule meat
shall be considered as including beef,
mutton, pork, poultry and any by.
products thereof.
GENERAL ORDER s. No public
Aating.nlaca shall serye mr. nermit IN
10 served any bacon a. . garniture.
GENERAL ORDER 6. No public
sating-place shall serve or permit to
b served TO any one person at any
enc meal more than Ons-half ounce
Of butter.
GENERAL ORDER Z. No public
ssting-plsce shall serve or permit to
be served to any one person at any
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one meal more tnan one-half ounce
Of Cheddar, commonly called Ameri.
can cheese.
GENERAL ORDER 8. No public
eating-place shall use or permit the
use of the sugar bowl on the table or
lunch counter. Nor shall any public
eating place serve sugar or permit II
to he served unless the guest so re-
quests, and in no event shall the
amount served to any one person II
any one meal exceed one teas poonful
or its equivalent.
GENERAL ORDER .. No public
eating-place shall use or permit the
use of an amount OF sugar In excess
Of two pounds for every ninety meals
served including all uses OF sugar On
the table and in cooking, excepting
such sugar as may be allotted by the
Federal Food Administrators to hotels
holding bakery license. No sugar
allotted for this special baking pur.
pose shall be used for any other pur.
pose.
GENERAL ORDER 10. No public
eating-place shall burn any food or
permit any food to he burned and all
| waste shall be saved to feed animals
| or reduced to obtain fats.
GENERAL ORDER IL. No public
| eating-place shall display or permit
to be displayed food on its premises
In am such manner as may cause its
deterioration SO that 1t can not be
used for human consumption.
GENERAL ORDER 12. No public
eating-place shall serve or permit ia
| be served what Is known as doubls
| cream or cream de luxe; and In any
event, NO cream containing over "a
! per cent OF butter fat shall be served
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of the bullets and the roar Of the
cannon fail to mar the eternal non.
worrying attitude Of the American
negro. t,
Their barracks at night are alive
with music. At least one man in every
squad has managed to bring banjo
along or made enough shooting craps
to buy one In France. Speaking of
craps, it's the great barrack room
sport of the negroes the first day
after payday. And every niche they
can get In out Of sight of their white
officers sees crap game going. Then
when one or two men in the regiment
have got all the money In camp they
go back to singing the old.time songs
and playing them. on their banj0s un-
til another payday rolls around.
II morale follows In the footsteps
OF music, then She cOlored troops must
he "jess full Of It. bose!"
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Vernon.
School was closed Monday on ac.
count Of influenza.
Mrs. Henry Van Wrinkle spent Sat.
urday with her daughter, Mrs Frank
Davis OF Gambler.
George Harris is doing carpenter
work for Earl Bnrch.
Mrs. Ella Nichols Is quite III with
gastritis
David Banghman and Mrs. Viola
Baughmap visited Mr.. and Mrs. Aus
tin Nicely Sunday.
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NF,,z||)N.

MT. ZION, Oct, 17-Born to Mr.
and Mrs. Cary Cottrell, twins, a hoy
and girl. on October 16.
Master Rose Butch had the misfor
tune to fall and break her arm Mon
day while climbing into "a buggy. *
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harris enter
tanned the following guests Sunday:
Mr. and Mrs. J. b. Johns, Mr.. and
Mrs. Grover Harris, Ray Harris and
family, Willis Johnson and family and
Cary Harris.
Mrs. Isabel Ebert of Newark spent
daughter, Mrs. J. h. Burch.
Mrs. l.. Donahey is moving to Mt
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HUN ACE KILLED
Try Associated Press To The BAN

Try Associated Press 10 The Bannerl
NEW YORK-Lieut. Loewenhardt,
foremost German aviator after the
death Of Baron l,ichthofen. has been
killed after having scored SO victories
in the air, says Berlin dispatch pub
lished by the Berlin Tageblatt
French aviatOrs previously reported
that. they had brought down Locwcn
hardt's machine in a fight over Ger
man lines, but his death WAS not con
frmed until now.
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Neb. II had been all,
ing for some time with
chronic constipation,
stomach trouble and
O terrible misery after
eating, when l was
taken sick with ab.
scess of the bowels.
We had some of the
bestdoctors in Lincoln
in attendance, and
they all said ] would
have to be operated on
right away. ] had
h e ard of Chamber -.
lain's Tablets, and we
got q bottle of them.
I began to take them
and in three days Twas
able to be mp and got
better right along. ]
am the proudest girl
in Lincoln IN find s,lch
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Sour Stomach

Eat slowly. masticate your food
thoroughly. abstain from meat for q
few days and in most cases the sour
stomach will disappear. II it does not,
take one of Chamberlain Tablets
immediately after supper! Red meats
are most likely to cause sour stom'
ach and you may find 1t best to cut
them out.
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PROGRAM BEFORE YOU Eat EFFECTIVE
..T.. ~. '...s s..s.. READ THE RULES ''Ts..' ..

THE UNITED sTATEs Foop ADMINISTRATION has issued
the following General ORDERS effective Oct 81
e Eating Place. Patrons SHOULD proprietos MUST know
the Rules, aWd live them BY doing will help.
Ing to feed the ares ans allies In EUROPE who
from seventeen half million Of food year.
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good medi cine as these tablets are. !
can hardly. believe myself that l am
strong and healthy now. They saved
me from q serious surgical operation. -