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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25
HELP IN $3.50
WHEAT PROGRAM
Thousands of Retail Gr0Cers Sup
port Food Administration
Rules.
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY.
New Wheat Saving Program Demand
cd - Allied Food Shortage IN
creases-America Must
Feed Fighters.

Explaining the United States Food
Administrators new 5000 wheat reg
ulntions is war time task the Afneri-
can grocer has gladly shou'uereo'
Mnnv stores are already displaying
their Food Administration wheat saw
ing pledge cards. that they have sign
ed. agreeing to carry out the ne"
wheat program.
Each -four customer Ia now reauir-
ed TO buy one pound OF cereal supsh-
tute for every pound OF wheat Hour.
The substitute may DO OF one kind or
assorted. This $3.50 sale Is made by
weight and not by value or the com
modIties. There Is, of course, no reg
ulation demanding the consumer to
buy wheat -four at all.
A wide variety Of substitutes mas
been provided: Cornmeal corn hour,
edible cornstarch, homlny, corn grits,
barley -four, potato -four. sweet potato
-four. soya bean flour, Feterita hour
and meals rice, rice -four, oatmeal,
rolled oats and buckwheat flour.
Graham and whole wheat flour con
stitute an exception to the national
regulation. Either of these cOmmodi-
ties may be sold at the ratio OF three
pounds to five pounds OF wheat flour
that is. Ave pounds of graham or
wheat -four counts the same 8s three
pounds Of the usual wheat -four.
ton. Where any -four contains ~
per cent or less Of wheat It may be
sold without any substitutes. Where
the flour Is mixed at the rate OF GD
per cent. wheat and 40 per cent. Of
other ingredients an additional 20 per
cent. of substitutes must be purchased
by the consumer.
Where necessity il shown specially
prepared Infants and invalid's food
containing -four may be sold.
That the approved substitutes may
be assorted Is fact many grocers
and housewives overlooked for time
For instance, II a customer wishes to
buy "a pound sack of -four the nee
essary substitutes might be assorted
as follows: Cornmeal, 8 pounds; corn
grits, 4 pounds rice. pounds; buck
wheat. 2 pounds; cornstarch, l pound
hominy, pounds; rolled oats,
pounds.
None of the substitutes should be
| considered as waste purchase
There are many household uses fol
! each. The eight pounds of cornmea
can be made into cOrnbread, corn muf
fins or used In the baking Of whea
bread.
Cornstarch Is useful In making Gus
tard, thickening gravy or may be uset
In cake baking. Corn grits fried lik,
mush forms delicious dish, or II may
be used In baking corn bread. ROLLED
oats are used largely as breakfast por
| ridge or In oatmeal cookies or II
making mullins.
Buckwheat -four may be used II
bread making, forming an excellen
substitute for one-quarter OF tn,
wheat -four, but Is especially choice II
the form OF buckwheat cakes To-
breakfast
! With II wheatless meals needed
each week in America to provide
enough wheat for the allies, the Foo
Administration believes the substitute
will all be used to advantage.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25

C;oslinu rood and com petcpt Witnesses
who have signed these presents win
the said incorporation snd me, No's'y'
after due reading OF the whoie.
w. w. Carver, sso shares
II. w. Carver. snare
by w. H. Carver.
f. II. Dupre, snare
by w. H. Carver.
NJ. Berlinger, SnA's
by w. Ii. Carver.
l.. J. Barrow, snare
Da.ao,A ssndoz share
All New Iberia P. O., La.
Witnesses:
II. y. Sealy.
". G. Gosling.
NATHAN DAVIS. Notary Public.
State Of Louisiana. Parish Of iberia.
III Gonsoulin, Clerk OF Court
and e1. Oficio recorder Of mortgages
for the Parish Of Iberia, State OF LOU
is,apa. do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing charter OF CAK-
vER's TECHE RICE MILLING
COMPANY, Inc. was filed for record
in my Office on the 26th day Of the
month Of April A y. 1918. ana tnat
same has been duly recorded IN omar :
ter Book No. /, nj folio and ina!
the above and foregoing IL true ana
correct copy Of the said charter
In faith whereof. witness my sigma
ture and seal of Office on this Goth day
of April A. ID. 1918. -
J. A. GONSOUL1N.
Clerk. 18th Judicial District Court,
Iberia Parish. Louisiana.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25

A franchise granting New Iberia &
Northern Railroad Company the right
to intersect Main Street 1T q point be-
tween Lewis Avenue and the property
OF the iberia Cypress Company, Ii
mited. tor a period Of twenty five
years.
Section One: Be IL ordained by the
Mayor and Board Of Trustees Of the
City Of New Iberia, that conformably
to Section Ten Of the Charter Of the
City Of New iberia, q franchise 10 here.
BY granted unto New Iberia & North
ern Railroad Company, q railroad cor
poration domiciled In the City Of New
Iberia, to cross and intersect Main
Street with railroad spur or track at
point between Lewis Avenue and the
property Of the Iberia Cypress Com
pany, Limited, which spur track Ii
designated more especially to serve
IN industry or Industries that might
b located on contiguous property or
properties.
Section Two: Be IL further ordain-
ed, etc., that this ordinance take ct.
feet from the date OF its passage, thirty
days publication hereof having been
given confofmsbly 70 Section Ten OF
the Charter Of the City Of New Iberia.
H. 8. 6EALY. Mayor.
Il. r. VILLERMrN, Clerk.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25
USE LESS WHEAT.

The allied nations have made
further increased demands on
US for breadstufYs - demands
that Americans are obligated to
meet.
In the meantime Americas
meat supply has been grently
increased for some months to
come by the unprecedented
shipping to market of hogs that
averaged 232 pounds each In
stead Of 2O3 pounds--the nor
NAL.
The United States Food Ad-
ministration. endeayoring to ad.
just the International food bal
ance, promptly removed certain
restrictions In this country on
: the use Of meat and at the same
time asked for a smaller con-
sumption Of breadstuffs.
We are asked to observe only
one meatless day each week
Tuesday. We will have larger
meat stocks for awhile. But
our bread ration must be held
to a minimum.
In altering Its food conserva-
tion program the Food Admin
istrati0n emphasizes that the
food situation is Of necessity,
subject to radical changes,
caused by crop conditions at
home and abroad and by the
precarious transportation prob
lem, both in overseas shipping
and In Americas overwhelmed
transportation system.
The Food administrator will
keep the American people fully
and frankly advised Of each
change In the developing sItua-
ton that they may know def
nitely the part their food &C
riflces play in the world war
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25
MILITARY CUP.

Crate the rind from On orange
into q large pitcher, add four table.
epoonfuls ofsugar, or to taste. Make
one cup of strong tea with freshly
boiling water and pour 1t - hot %
possible over the orange rind.
Add the strained juice OF two
lemons and leave al to get quite
cold. Slice the orange thin, TAX
ing care that oil the white part Of
the skin 10 removed, and put the
slices into . glass pitcher. Pour
the liquid, we'll strained, over
them, and serve very cold.-The
Peoples Home Journal.
Patriots: get your dollars into
thA trAnehAa.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25
New Ibsria. Aprii 9Th. 1918.

New Iberia. April Sth, 1918.
The following application from the
New Iberia Il Norther K. r. Co., was
read and ordered spread on the min
utes, and the Franchise a. prayed for
was ordered published Thirty days as
required by the Charter Of the City of
New Iberia, on motion Of Mr.. Viller-
min. seconded BY Mr.. Sealv and car
ried unanimously, which Franchise
and application follows, to-wit:
To the Honorable the Mayor and
Board of Trustees of the City Of New
Iberia.
This, the application and petition OF
New Iberia & Northern Railroad Com.
pany, with respect represents:
l. That II desires to obtain fran
chise to cross and intersect lower Main
Street With q railroad spur track to
serve more especially the rice mill
! IS known ~ the Koch tract In East
end Of the city Of New Iberia, which
tract is bounded bv Main Street. Bay
GU Teche, Lewis Avenue. and the pro.
perty Of the Iberia Cypress Conn any,
Limited. Said Franchise being for a
period Of (25) twenty-five years.
2. Your petitioner and applicant
shows that IL desires to construct its
track along q strip adjacent the pro.
perry Of the Iberia Cypress Company.
Limited. thus intersecting Main Street
at q point opposite the eastern limit
of the Koch tract.
3. Your petitioner and applicant
hereto annexes copy Of the fran
chise which II respectfully solicits
from Your Honorable Body.
Respectfully,
NEW IBERIA & NORTHERN r, r,
Per PoRTEUS K. BURKE, vP.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25

Patriots: get your dollars into
the trenches.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25

An Amsterdam abatement IL
that "0erman criminals will be en-
rolled to fight" That ought to
put the Kaiser himself in the
trenches.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25

In the City Of New Iberia, Parish Of
Iberia, State of Louisiana, on the day
month and year FIRST above written IL
the presence Of Marcus DeBlanc and
william Baumana Witnesses, who
have signed As such with said appear
ers and me Notary after due reading
of the whole.
E. A. McIlhenny
Three hundred and one shares
J. l.. Bayls
Three hundred and one shares
Lawrence Jones by J. l.. Bayless
Agent
Three hundred and one shares
Witnesses:
Marcus DeBlanc
William Badmaun
WILLIAM @. WEEKS
Notary Public
State of louisiana,
Parish Of Iberia,
I, the undersiened. J. A. 0onsou.
lin, Clerk of Court and ex-0fficlo r..
corder In and for the Parish Of Iberis
Louisiana. DO hereby certify that the
above and foregoing 10 true and cor.
rect copy from and Of the Charter oil
the Jefferson Island Company. incor.
porated, duly 6led for recordation In
my Once on the 18th day Of May 1918
and that the same has been duly 70.
corded Ia Charter Book at folio No
2S9 Of the records of my Once.
In faith hereof witness my sigma
ture and seal Of Once on this FIJI
teenth day Of May A. d. Ninstesr
Hundred aud Eighteen.
]. A. GONSOULIN,
Clerk 10Th Judicial District Ceurt
Iberia Parish, La.
|8 %
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-05-25
ARTNLE VI.

No stock holder of this corporation
shall ever be held liable or responsible
for the contracts or faults Of this cor
poration in any further sum than the
unpaid balance due the corporation
upon the stock subscribed for herein;
nor shall any mere informally in the
Organization have the effect OF render.
ing this charter null and void or Of ex-
posing any stock holder to any liabili.
fy other than that as herein provided.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
Fears For Our Economic Policy.

QEngineering and Mining JournaL)
Our economic policy is based on the
theory that initiation must be avoided
at all costs. We enter pro-
gramme of price fixing. Price fixing
checks production, and another arti-
flcal measure becomes necessary. This
is called eliminating the non-essen-
tails Then the blight upon business
spreads. The logical conclusion is
the happy state of the natives Of the
South Sea Island who lived by doing
each others washing.
But the natural law cannot be
ball<ed any more than water can be
made to run up hill. 1T will sweep
away the whole ce-fxing policy.
whether the administration wants 1t
or not.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
"A Bigger Baltimore.
(Cnl1nnrd Al omit nrl


Baltim ores success in getting
through the Maryland Legislature a bill
adding about so square miles of ter
ritory to the city and bringing it's
population up to an estimated figure
of nearly 100000 at the same time
that It doubles its physical size is be-
ing taken by some rival cities as an
unfair maneuNer. Some of the SUI
burbs annexed by Baltim ore protested
strongly, but Il body called the Nom
Partisan Greater Baltimore City Ex-
tension league effected its purpose.
Not long ago Pittsburgh also annexed
it's suburbs willy-nilly. In 1910 Bal
timore, Pittsburgh and Cleveland were
all neck -and-necl1 in the race for rank
as the sixth city, Cleveland leading:
the census figures gave Baltimore
55S,155 people, Pittsburgh 533, 905,
and Cleveland 560,66 Now Cleveland
sees its rival far understanding 1t I'M
less a half-dozen outlying suburban
towns are also brought into Greater
Cleveland. A bill designed to let the
majority in the Cleveland metropoli-
tan district determine the govern
ment's status of the whole was re-
jected by the last session of the Ohio
legislature, sticl1lerS for the right Of
Differentiation by small communi-
ties 1t is to be brought up again at
the first opportunity.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
AfIDianc Accidents

There are too many fatal airplane
accidents at the training camps To-
days record reaches five in this coun-
try, and two deaths are reported from
Canada. There is a difference be-
tween the Canadian accident and our
own that may be Of sinister signifi-
canoe. The deaths in Ontario were
due to a collision and it is fair to con-
c1ude were purely accidental. But at
Fort Worth, at Lawton (Oklahomal,
and at Dayton, each of the planes
that fell, killing their pilots, dropped
from low attitudes, one from only $50
feet above ground, In one case it Is
reported that, "the engine stopped
when the men were doing q spiral"
Nor is this the first series of such
tragedies. Fort Worth has had SINH
lar experiences before. Why?
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17

region where no Important" towing
were held and occasion less alarm
among people at home than it causes
by retiring a few hundred yards and
giving up q place with a name.
AS matter of fact. most of the
towns in the war disintegrated area
are towns no longer. They are heaps
of dismal ruins and may have but
two actual strategic values They
may be centers of communication
and supply lines or they may have
Typographical features that lend
themselves admirably to purpose OF
defence. In this war of mighty shifts
by mighty organizations no army per-
mits itself to become dependent upon
any one canter or system of commun-
icaton and supply. An alternative
or substitute system is always i'm
readiness or can be prepared and
utilized on demand. Consequently
the real value of place with al
name is exactly that of place with
out name-topograp hical 1t is
either good killing ground or it is not
In the capture of towns" such as
Bai'leul, Neuve Eglise, Wulverghem.
the Germans have achieved little
more than a sentimental advance
and have paid an awful price for
that.
AS the British back slowly over the
battlefeids the streams run red to the
sea with the best blood of Germany.
The Kaiser and his people have paid
a price already that they cannot af-
ford to pay, and they must go on
paying-without gaining the victory
that Hindenburg promised for the
million young men slain.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17

There never was more hypocr1t-
cal phrase used in all the devious
parleyings of diplomacy than free
dom Of the seas" from the lips OF
German officials. What they mean,
and what they intend, is freedom of
the seas for themselves alone; what
other nations will share in the way or
freedom Is we'll indicated by their
marnanimous offer to the United
States. to allow one ship 81 week to
proceed from our shores to England,
if suitably striped and starred with
our national colors!
"Tne Atlantic Powers" are all those
whose shores or whose extensive IN
terests touch the .Atlaptic. The list
will include all those European ma
tons now at war with Germany, and
the South and Central American ma
tions as a whole, also all OF AFRICA,
most of which Is under the direct
sovereignty or the protection OF the
allied Powers. Their interests are
identical in the preservation or the
real freedom of this great common
highway for the free TRANSMISSION OF
their varied products, without toiiS
and restrictions or the ASA uits OF
modern piracy and the indiscrlmlnate
murder or their SUBJECTS. That Is
nerhaps the greatest issue which cam
not he lodged 1t must be decided. IL
will be.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
Good News About Russia.


We have had go much bad news
from Russia that we are loath to
credit good reports. The latest dis
patches say that the Soviet govern
> m ent is more and more realizing that
there can be no real peace with the
Germans, that the kaiser's govern
ment, of all the nations in the world,
Is their greatest enemy and the only
large power in Europe which covets
an inch of their soil. Germany Is re-
ported to be feeling nervous about
developments across her northern
frontier. -
At the same time, according to dis
patches, the Bolshevik rule is becom-
ing more and more firmly established.
Officials on strike are returning to
work. Army and navy officers of high
rank are helping in the development
Of the large Red army. The 1and3
owners and other men of means are
realizing the futility of their hostile
attitude and are reorgaflizing their
lives. -
Russia under the Romanoffs was de-
moralzed, as was France in the 18th
century. Russia was Frustrated by the
revolution, was France in 1892.
Russia will rehabiltate herself as did
France. 1t Will take time, and no
is certain. Red Russia and autocratic
Germany are so far apart politically
and so completely different in their
viewpoint that a conflict between the
two Is inevitable.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
PERSHTNG IN COMMAND.

The first official American daily
communicate has been issued from the
headquarters of our Expeditionary
Forces, and simultaneously with it's
publication comes the announcement
that along the sectors were American
troops predominant In numbers over
their French and British comrades,
American officers will be in command
Here are two more bits of evidence
that our men and their Allies are be-
ing welded closer and closer together
l nthe battle for freedom. The Amer
lean people have been waiting patient
~ for a separate American COM
munique and at last 1T has appeared
with weekly war statements issued by
Secretary Baker, and while these bull
letins kept us we'll informed as to the
trend Of events in the theater Of war,
should not have a special communion
ton from General Pershing just as
the French and British people have
their war news at breakfast from the
headquarters Of their respective ar
mics. And now that General Pershing
and his aides are to command con-
hngents including soldiers Of our AL
hes' there wiz be an additional inter-
est In his daily bulletins. Gradually
the Allies are oo-ordinating their
rorces and resources, and that means
that the day Of reckoning with Ger
many is no far off.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
Farmers and leadership.
(From the Milwaukee Journal.


In defence Of the Farmers Nom
partisan league it is urged that what
ever the leaders have said or may be
saying now. the farmer members
themselves are patriotic. Enlistments,
bond subscriptions, increased acreage,
and support of the war in general
arc pointed out as proof of this
These facts are undoubtedly true.
And since they are, the query arises:
'Why the leaders? Why should pa
triotic farmers be marshalled by /.
w. WIS or soctalists?" In Revolu-
tionary days, when the farmer fired
the shot heard round the world" he
did not fight under the leadership of
Tories. Why. in the new revolt
against autocracy, should he be led
by the Tories of this war?
There Is more to it than the fact
that farmers are being misiudged be-
cause of the character of their lead
ers. In other periods, when farmers
had grievances such as they now say
they have. they were able to furnish
from their own ranks the leadership
which brought redress. Now 1t ap-
pears that they must so afar. among
those hostile to nearly all the prin-
ciples in which the farmer believes.
1t is to be hoped that this will not
long be the case; that farmers will
revert to the old-fashioned custom
Of rearing their own leaders on their
own soil and in their own communi-
ties. Far wiser and safer will they be
then than they are now.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
The New Haven Road.
(New Haven Journal-Courier


The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has at last listened to the appeal
of the New Haven railroad and has
granted certain increases in freight
and passenger rates. 1t has done so,
however, with a reluctance that bios
SONS forth in q caustic criticism of
the roads management This part Of
the finding of the Interstate Comm cree
commission sounds like old times; but
in view of the literature of the old
times, it is difficult to understand why
it was thought necessary to further
color the dropping lily.
The people of this section of the
country need no additional instruction
in the kind of railroad management
which resulted in the elimination Of
dividends and the consequent distrust
Of its owners. They know the whole
story Just as we'll as the members Of
the commission. We know it so we'll
that we are quite capa BILE of looking
after our welfare better than we did
before. What we are now interested
in is the future of the company, not
at all as stockholders. but as citizens
and producers Of New England. We
are ready to assume that 1T has
learned its lesson and is willing to
agree that the way to make it do its
best service is to concentrate on oper-
alton and not imitation. 1t is yet to
be proved that the plan Of organizing
the lines of transportation in New
England which was set forth by Mr..
Mellen is not the best adapted for New
England, which is an entirely different
question from that of the methods
which are employed to bring it into
existence. The evils of the past had
to do with methods, undertaking to
do the right thing in the wrong way.
There Is no reason to doubt the
future Of the New Haven railroad il
1T has a fair show, on the one hand,
and receives, on the other hand, the
conscientious attention Of those placed
In charge of it. 1t is Of vital interest,
or rather concern, to industrial and
agricultural interests Of this section
of the country, and to the country at
large, that it should receive both.
What IL needed, if anything be needed
from the. federal government. is con-
structive counsel, not destructive crit
icism.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
The Atlantic Powers.
( Boston TTerald)

A significant phrase was used re-
Gently by Roland Usher In referring
to the Allies as 'the Atlantic Pow
ers.' They must so consider them
selves, and so constitute themselves if
they are to exist fl &c from menace.
The report of the British naval au-
thorities on submarine sinkings by
Germany emphasizes this; the total
tonnage destroyed, inclu ding Brit
ish, allied and neutral, was given as
12,443,722, or more than one-fourth
Of the whole worlds supply of ocean
going craft. Germany got the jump"
on the rest Of the world by her de-
.velopmentrofe the new.weapun,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-17
Oid-TiIne Barley Bread.
Waterbury American)

We find more entertainment than
instruction in an editorial of tho
Hartford Courtant on the revived use
Of barley. It refers to it's use in BIZ
bic times and finds this verse in the
Book of Judges to give an idea of it's
quality:
"And when Gideon was come. be-
hold there was q man that told n
dream unto bis fellow, and said Be
hold I dreamed a dream, and 10, a
cake of barley bread tumbled into the
host of indian and came unto a tent
and smote it that it fell and over
turned it, that the tent lay long"
The Courant seems to approve Of
the use of barley flour though admit
ting some difficulties in preparing it
for bread, But it takes this Bible
verse as evidence that its density
you'd make it serviceable as a pro-
.ectile.