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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31

Many causes have contributed
to create the necessity for
more intensive effort on the part
of our people to save food in Or
der that we may supply our asso-
ciates in the war with sustenance
vitality necessary to them in these
days Of privation and stress. The
reduced productivity of Europe,
because of large diversion of
man power to the war, the par
tial failure of harvests and the
elimination of the more distant
markets for. food stuffs thru the
destruction of shipping, places
the burden of their subsistence
more largely on our shoulders.
The food administration has
formulated suggestions which, if
followed, will enable us to meet
this great responsibility without
real inconvenience on our part.
In order that we may reduce
our consumption of wheat and
wheat products by 80 per cent
a reproduction imperatively nee
essary to provide the supply for
overseas = wholesalers, jobbers
and retailers should purchase and
resell to their customers only 10
per cent of the amounts used in
1917. All manufacturers Of
pastes, biscuits, crackers, pastry
and breakfast cereals should re-
duce their purchases and con-
sumption of wheat and -four to
10 per cent Of their 1917 re-
quirements and all bakers of
bread and rolls to 80 per cent Of
their current requirements. Con-
sumers should reduce their pur-
chases of wheat products for
home preparation to 70 per cent
Of those of last year, or when
buying, should purchase mixed
cereal breads from the bakers.
To provide, sufficient cereal
food, homes, public eating places,
dealers and manufacturers
should substitute potatoes, vege-
tables, corn, barley. oats and rye
products and the mixed cereal
bread and other products of the
bakers which contains an ad-
mixture of other cereals.
In order that consumption
may be restricted to this extent,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
War Flour Looks
Good; Not Dark Color
New War Flour Can Not Be Told
From Old by Democrat Reporter.

"Bet you can't tell which is old
flour and which is war -four, said
Manager Lydick of the Equity Ex-
change, as he handed the reporter
two small jars filed with flour.
We took the jars, looked wise
turned them over several times, but
were afraid to venture a guess as to
which was which. They just looked
alike to US, so Mr.. Lydick looked at
the mark on the top Of the jar and
told us which was the war -four.
The ladies who imagined their
angel food cake would look like gin
ger bread can now rest easy.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
COST OF LIVING INCREASES
70 PER CENT IN ONE YEAR

According to the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics Of the Department of La
Dor, in the year from November 15,
1915, to November Is, 1917, prices
of food as a whole advanced % per
cent. Potatoes is the only article of
diet that shows a decline, in price.
Corn meal advanced 81 per cent; ba-
con, so per cent; pork chops, 4S per
cent; beans, 80 per cent; salmon, 3S
per cent; milk, 33 per cent, and lard,
27 per cent.
Food as a whole was 48 per cent
higher on November 15, 1917, than
on November 15, 1918, and 46 per
cent higher than on November 16,
1914. During this four-year period,
corn meal advanced 1877 per cent;
-four, 100 per cent; lard, 1o4 per
cent; bacon, n per cent; sugar, rs
per cent, and potatoes, 72 per cent.
No article declined in price.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
Conditions Ideal at
Funston, Says Holland
Good Eats, Pleasant Surroundings
and Satisfied Soldiers in
This Camp.

@. P. Holland returned last week
from visit with his brother, Leslie,
at Camp Funston. While there he
ate with his brother at the barracks
and says that the soldiers are fed
better than patrons Of Liberal res
taurants, which he considers pretty
good feeding.
, Camp Funston is as near an ideal
camp as there is in the country. The
men are a high class and take pains
that their camp is in the best of con-
dition.
Mr.. Holland says Leslie is well
pleased with army life and likes his
work fine.
While Mr.. Holland was at Funston
Mrs. Holland visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Roggensees near
Bucklin.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
Painter and Decorator
to Make Home Here
J. Frank Harvey of Utica, Kansas
Decides to Locate in
Liberal.

It has been truly said that when
one once visits Liberal it is hard to
get away.
]. Frank Harvey, painter and
decorator, secured the contract to do
the painting and decorating on the
Larrabee and George residences and
the interior work on the Frank Sum-
mers residence, and after having
been here a short time has decided
to make this his home. !
He is temporarily located at 32 S.
Lincoln, where he may be found until
such time as he can secure house to
his liking. Mr.. Harvey is highly rec
ommended as workman and his
services will no doubt be in demand.
He started out right by subscribing
for the Democrat and having a nice
order of stationery printed.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
Conserving Food Is Patriotic Duty;
President Asks All Citizens to Help

Mondays and Wednesdays should
be observed as wheatless days
each week and one meal each day
should be observed as wheat
less meal.
In both homes and public eat
ing houses, in order to reduce the
consumption of beef, pork and
sheep products, Tuesday should
be observed as meatless day in
each week, one meatless meal
should be observed in each day;
while, in addition Saturdays in
each week should further be OBJ
served as a day upon which there
should be no consumption of
pork products.
A continued economy in the
use of sugar will be necessary
until later in the year.
It is imperative that all waste
and unnecessary consumption of
all sorts Of foodstuffs should be
rigidiy eliminated.
The maintenance of the health
and strength Of our own people
Is vitality necessary at this time,
and there should be no danger
Gus restriction Of the foodsupply;
but the elimination of every sort
of waste and the substitution of
other commodities of which we
have more abundant supplies for
those which we need to have, will
in no way impair the strength of
our people and will enable US to
meet one of the most pressing
obligations of the war.
I, therefore, in the national in
terest, take the liberty of call
ing fully to heart the suggestions
which are being circulated by the
food administration and of beg
ging they be followed. / am con-
fident that the great body of our
women who have labored so 10y
ally in cooperation with the food
administration for the success of
food conservation, will strength
en- their efforts and will take it as
a part of their burden in this
period Of national service to see
the above suggestions are OBJ
served thruout the land.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, Jan. 18, 1918.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
BIG REVIVAL
STARTS FEB. 10
Will Be Held in Taber.
nacle Centrally LO-
Gated.
RAYBURN LEADER
The Evangelist Will Have Charge.
The Churches of Liberal Are CO.
operating in the Preparations
for the Big Meeting.

The details of the big evangellstlc
campaign have been worked out and
the meeting will start February 10 in
m big tabernacle to be erected for the
: purpose.
Evangelist Rayburn and party will
have charge of the meeting and the
churches Of the city are working to-
gether to make the meeting the
greatest of its kind held here.
Interest in the meeting is increas-
ing daily and the project has the
hearty endorsement of the churches
of the city, the minister Of each de-
nomination assisting in every possible
manner.
Evangelist Rayburn is at the pres
ent conducting great meeting at
Newton, and from that place comes
the news of wonderful success.
Both Rev. Rayburn and his assist
ants are highly recommended and it
is confidently expected that the meet
ing to be held here will be far reach
ing in it's influence and its work for
good.
Evangelist Rayburn and his party
are having splendid success at New
ton, Kansas, where the campaign is
drawing to a close. The reporter, for
the Newton Republican, who covers
the revival meeting, begins his ac-
count Of the Sunday meetings as fol-
lows: "The reporter a. . throws
up his hands," He is helpless on the
job of trying to give report of the
activities of Sunday. Beginning Sat
urday night any one Of the four ser
mons would ordinarily be good for
a couple Of columns. The reporter is
going to try to merely "hit the high
places"
The Newton tabernacle has been
enlarged twice and it was packed full
Sunday night in spite Of the bad
weather.
Wichita people are planning to
charter car to come to hear Mr..
hayDurn.
An audience of about 800 men
heard the Sunday afternoon address
on Manhood"
Prof. Wickland has won a warm
place in the hearts of the lovers of
good music in Newton. He has a
splendid we'll trained voice. The
Junior Booster Choir under his direc-
ton has been one Of the drawing
cards at the meetings. The children
sing like veterans.
Mr.. Rayburn is preacher of pow
er. He breaches gospel Of reason.
His campaigns are noted for their
constructive features. One might
say that his work is educational, in
fact this is one Of the outstanding
characteristics. Liberal will have
one of the most sane and practical
presentations of the gospel that the
city has ever enioyed,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
ARCHIE SWEET WAS
DENIED REHEARINc

Archie Sweet, convicted Of the mur-
der Of Nellie Byers, a Grant county
school teacher, was denied rehear-
ing in decision handed down by the
supreme court. Sweet asked for a
rehearing on the grounds that hia
trial .wss irrsgulsr by sason-of the
danger Of mob violence at the time
the ease was heard.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
WORD CLOSE" MEANS
CESSATION OF BUSINESS

The word "close" in the closing
order means cessation Of business,
and must be observed is the idea Of
the local fuel administrator. No Gus
toner should try to induce business
concern to violate, the order for 1t
only means trouble for the business
concern, stated the local fuel admin
istrator today.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
GOVERNMENT URGES ITS
SOLDIERS TO INSURE LIFE

Has Provided Cheap Insurance for
Men Serving in theArmy.
A special campaign is being
launched to induce men who are serv-
ing in the army either by enlistment
or draft, to take advantage of the in
surance offered by the government.
$4,000 is the maximum that may be
carried, and the rate is reasonable
enough that anyone can afford to
carry it. al
Those who are subject to draft
should acauaint themselves with this
proposition and take advantage of as
much as they can carry. It is good,
safe protection to those left behind.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
Red Cross Ladies
Have Been Busy
Issue Statement Showing Amount of
Work Done Since July is.

To let the people of Liberal and
vicinity who are interested in the
work of the Red Cross know that we
are still on the line, we wish to state
that since July 18th, we have knitted
152 pair socks,
30 scarfs,
II sweaters,
40 pair wristlets,
helmets,
18 wifes.
This is the record of knitted ar
ticles alone.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31
MITCHELL BUYS ANOTHER
RESIDENCE IN LIBERAL
Gets the J. w. wilkins Property in
Southwest Part of Town.

A. B. Mitchell of the Palace Clean
ers has made another buy of Liberal
residence property, securing the j.
w. Wilkins property in southwest
Liberal. Itt
We have not learned whether Mr.:
Mitchell expects to occupy the prop
erty or has bought it for investment
PURPOSES.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-01-31

C. C. Isley Of Cimarrcn, a speaker
in the interest Of the Council Of Ma
tional Defense, was II the city on
business the first Of the week.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07

| But the Turks were not Us bad az
Fritz. They were just as good or bet
ter as fighters, and a whole lot winter
Often, when we were frying In the
trenches and not drop of water was
to be had, something would land or
the ground near us and there would ne
water bottle, full. Sometimes they
almost bombarded us with bottles
Then, too, they would not fire on the
Red Cross, as the Germans do; they
would hold their fire many times when
we We're out picking up our wounded.
Several times they dragged our wound
ed as close as they could to the barbed
wire that we might find them easier.
After Murray died / got to thinking
lot more than I used to, and though
/ did not have any bunch exactly, still
I felt as though I might get it, too,
which was something I had never
thought much about before. used to
think about my grandmother, too,
when I had time, and about Brown.
/ used to wonder what Brown was
doing and wish we were together. But
I could remember my grandmother
smiling, and that helped some. I guess
I was lonely, to tell the truth. I did
not know the other garbies very well,
and the only one left that I was
really very friendly with got his soon
afterward, though not as bad as Muir
ray. And then there was no one that
] was really chummy with. That would
not have bothered me at all before
Murray died.
The other lad spoke Of as having
been chummy with was Philippe
Pierre. He was about eighteen and
came from Bordeaux. He was a very
cheerful fellow and he and Murray
and used to be together a lot. He
felt almost as bad about Murray as
I did, and you could see that it
changed him a great deal, too. But he
was still cheerful most Of the time.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07
LIQUID LOGIC.

The American soldiers are learning
from their French and British COM
rades to love wine and beer in France,
without which no civilized soldier can
and viii fight, much less gain victories.
And "when Johnny comes marching
home" he'll sound the death knell to
parson-made American prohibition
Brewers Journal,
The liquor journals would have the
people believe that success of Ameri-
can arms in France is due to booze |!
These boys We're trained In canton-
ments in the United States surrounded
by dry zones, were prohibited from
buying or receiving as gift, intoxi-
eating liquors. Total abstainers, ev-
eryone of them, and after they arrived
In France strong liquor was denied
them and even the use of light wines
and beer discouraged by declaration
of their commander in chief. And vet
the booze journals of America, by some
strange process of reasoning, figure it
out that it is booze that inspired them
to victory over the beer drinking Hun.
Great is the logic of booze makers and
booze apologists. Issue.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07
Night Photographs From AirpIane.


An Italian invention which permits
photographs being taken at night has
been submitted to the signal corps of
the United States army. According to.
the men who control the new DEVICE.
1t. will soon be possible to take excel
lent pictures 81 enemy positions from
airplanes flying ut a low height on
moonlight nights X il also claimed
atzthe IL Tentlgn can BIZ fitted Ii Fao.
tion-picturs cameras, which would per-
NIT the photographing for the screen
Of much Of the lighting III the air, the
greater part Of which takes place tn
the early morning hours. Up to the
present time the chief obstacles met
by the daylight aerial photographers
Is that the anti-aircraft guns force the
flyers to take pictures from great
height and much of the detail OF the
enemy lines is therefore lost. It is
held that flyers are in little danger from
artillery when flying at night.--Avi-
alton.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07
NO RUM RATION

In his new book on 1.-THE Warfare
of Today" Lieutenant Colonel Azan
Of the French army, testifies: II am
not in favor of the practice of dis.
tributing alcohol before going to the
attack. I have never given 1t out to
my men, and have never regretted
this policy; they have always done bet
ter without it. suppose that GER
tain number of soldiers. affected by
alcohol, without being actually drunk,
lose their sense of danger; they then
expose their lives uselessly in a way
they would not do had they all their
wits about them. Probably it is just
to remove this anxiety that they ask
for alcohol. In my opinion alcohol is
not needed for troops with finely
tempered morale"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07

up reinforcements nor retire. So we
went over and cleaned them out and
| took the trench. But then our guns
had to stop because we were in range,
and the Turks brought up reinforce
ments from other parts of the line and
we were driven back after holding
their trench all afternoon. It was
about fiftgffty, though. for when they
Es;sss part the line sUHIe
of our troops would break through In
another part.
That night there was a terrible rain.
storm. I guess it was really cloud
burst. We had all the water we
wanted then, and more, too. A great
many men and mules were drowned.
both Of our troops and the Turkish.
Trenches were washed In and most of
the works ruined. There were several
Turkish bodies washed into our trench,
and two mules came over together,
though whether they were Turkish or
French or British do not know.
A few days after the rain stopped
I was going along the road to the
docks at ''V" beach when / saw some
examples Of the freakishness of shells.
There was q long string of mules gc-
ing back to the trenches with water
and supplies Of various kinds. We
drew up to one side to let them pass.
Two or three mules away from us
was an old-timer with only one ear,
and that very gray, loaded to the gun
wales with bags Of water. He had had
his troubles, that old boy, but they
We're just about over, for there was
flash and the next instant you could
not see a thing left of Old Missouri.
He just vanished. But two of the
water bags were not even touched,
and another one had only little hole
In 1t. There they lay on the ground,
just as though you had taken the mule
out from under them. The mules next
him, fore and aft, were knocked down
by the conclusion but unframed; but
the third mule behind had one ear
cut to shreds, and the man behind
him was badly shot up and stunned.
A little farther on shell had struck
the road and plowed furrow two or
three feet wide, and just as straight
as an arrow for three Of four yards;
1t then turned off at almost
right angle and continued for a yard
or two more before 1t burst and made
q big hole. That Turk gunner must
haye put lot of English on that she'll
when he fred it. He got somebody's
number with that shot, too, and the
lad paid pretty high, for there was
blood around the hole, not quite dry
when we got to it.
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07

found lots or dead Turks under pies
of rock, where our guns had battered
the walls Of the quarries down on
them.
We were lighting about this part Of
| the country one time when we saw
three motor trucks disappear over the
side of hill going across country.
The detachment from the Cassard was
sent over on the run and we came
upon the Turks from those trucks and
several others just after they had got
out and were starting ahead on foot.
We captured that whole bunch--I do
not know how many in all. They were
reinforcements on their way to a part
Of their line that we were battering
very hard, and by capturing them we
helped the. Anzacs a great deal, for
they were able to get through for a
big gain.
We held that position, though they
rained shells on us so hard oil that
day and night that we thought they
We're placing barrage for raid, and
stood to arms until almost noon the
next day. But our guns gave back
shell for shell, and pounded the Turk
ish trenches and broke shrapnel over
them until they had all they could
do to stay in them.
Finally, our guns placed shell after
shell on the enemy's communication
trenches, and they could neither bring
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07
The BUILDING of Life.

Life is a building. 1t rises slowly
day by day, through the years. Every
new lesson we learn lays block on
the edifice which Is rising silently with.
In us. Every experience, every touch
OF another life on ours, every influence
that impresses us, every book we read,
every conversation we have, every act
OF our commonest days, adds some
thing to the invisible building.-J. r.
Miller.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07
DglllpetatlCe
e 'NlotgS .
1.-THE NATION DRY NEXT JULY.n
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)

IT. NHit0N 1ny NEAt JULY
With prohibition for the period Of
the war and thereafter until the termi-
nation Of rehabilitation, and prohi-
bition by federal amendment in effect
early in 1920 Gas seems sure), it may
be said that John Barleycorn viii be,
after July list, 1919. forever banished
from these United States. So far from
wishing him onto other and less ia,
vored lands, the temperance hosts are
already engaged in worldwide often.
sive which will make him an outcast
from every corner Of the earth-the
man without country"-no abiding
place on sea or land.
AS for that particular unit of the
temperance army, the National W. q.
L. o., its occupation will not be gone
after 1t has reached the goal of nations
al constitutional prohibition. This
point is clearly set forth in an Official
letter sent by Miss Anna A. Gordon,
president. to every state W. G. T. q.
We quote:
Some Of our friends not close stu
dents of the temperance reform, are
short sighted enough to say that with
the securing of nationwide prohibition
through ratification of the federal
amendment, the work Of the w. G. r.
q. will be accomplished and our ac-
tivities should be directed into other
channels. On the contrary, we believe
I'VE may rightly claim that our greatest
constructive work will then begin. Our
educational propaganda under the new
conditions Of nationwide prohibition
viii become even more necessary than
In the past. All our educational lines
OF work that concern young people
and boys and girls should at once re-
ceive our whole-hearted, vigorous at
tention. The children of today must
hold the prohibitory law tomorrow.
The appetite for alcoholic liquors and
the ayarice of the would-be liquor deal
er will not become extinct when this
nationwide law becomes operative.
Locally we shall continue to be in of
fensive and defensive struggles with
the direst foe of the child and the
home; our best efforts will be needed
to help establish substitutes for the
saloon and to aid in the election Of
officials committed to the new law and
to its strict enforcement. Our pro-
gram of social service after the pro-
hibition law goes into effect will have
new and vital features and we should
be alert In our preparedness. With
added time and funds atsour command.
our fascinating and compelling lines OF
service among fnrei gn-spe sallEEiiag peo-
Pile; on behalf OF moral education:
child welfare; the welfare OF women |
In industry: the education Of women
voters; anti-narcotics, anti-vice and
many other important departments,
can be pushed with new zeal and help
fulness. True to Its character as pi-
oneer the w. G. T. q. will forge ahead
n the social service activities of the
new dry nation and in Its mighty ma
.ional and international program"