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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-03-07

ANE of the many food problems
" facing the American people at
this time is how to conserve the limit
ed wheat supply. The army and ma
Wv must be fed. The cries for food
from across the seas must be answer
ed.
The housewives part of this prob
lem is to find out what she can do
in this respect in serving the three
meals day for her family. She can
then proceed to do "her bit" by ap-
plying this knowledge.
The housewives of America, if they
want to, can make the 120,000,000
bushels of small potatoes largely
wasted every year, take the place Of
and do the work Of one-third of our
wheat crop used for bread in this
country. Potato bread means two
and one-third wheatless days week /;
ten wheatless days month, four
wheatless months year. How much
would that be worth to the cause of
freedom?
Save Food and Serve
Read the home card of the United
States Food Administration-care-
fully, thoughtfully, Understandings.
Put the advice given into practice in
your daily life.
You are not asked to starve-or
even underfeed your family. The
food administration bids you eat free
ly and plentifully of the foods that
are abundant, nutritious and satisfy
ing.
Some food stuffs are easily export
ed and transported for our overseas
forces. Why not save such foods for
them?
Many articles are readily perish
able. Why not increase our use of
them?'
Potatoes as Wheat Savers
There are nearly 120,000,000
bushels of small potatoes wasted in
the United States every year, all of
which could be used in making bread
This enormous waste of potatoes
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-03-07
SPECIAL STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING

There will be special meeting Of
the stockholders of the Liberal Equi-
ty Creamery and Produce Company,
held at the court house, Saturday,
March 9th, at 2 o'clock. The purpose
of the meeting is to elect new d.
rector to fill the vacancy made by
the death of Will Graham.
JOHN L. BOLES, Secretary.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-03-07
WAR BREAD FROM
SMALL POTATOES
Use One-Third Potatoes and Save
Millions of Bushels of Wheat

(By Lottie ]. Carroll, Agricultural
Extension Department, 1. H. G.. In
the Harvester WORLDLY
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Consolidating the Two Roads

By EARL GOODWIN.

The Washington Railway and Electric Company asks
to be consolidated with the Capital Traction Company
WHYi
The is plain. The Capital Traction Company is
welmanaged street railway which has profitable exist
railway. 1t has paid dividends without Juggling
its assets the peoples rights 1t is railway pure
and simple and a good
The Washington Railway and Electric Company as a
railway is not bowling success
1t cannot earn its dividends.
If it did not the bulk of the stock of the Potomac
Electric Power Company it would not be able ito pay any
dividends to its stockholders 1t DOES pay dividends but
not because earns the street service 1t gets
the dividend money from the Potomac Electric Power Com
pany If it should be separated from the PEPCO it would
be about much good financially expired transfer
Washington Railway and Electric Company stock has
been ugged up and down the scae-while the juggers
hoped to do the odfashoned hat trick and produce
soidatOn between the two companies FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE JUGGLERS The public be damned. Unfortu-
nately, the trick has not worked.
Physical consolidation is thing financial consoida-
tion is another.
If the two roads equally solid foundations there
might be chance to talk about consolidating under private
management but is rock and the other water and
they will mix The only solution for the entire traf
fc problem in Washington is ONE road under GOVERN
MENT OWNERSHIP.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Making the American Dollar
Worth a DOllar-AbrOad
Prompt and Excellent Work by Secretary McAdoo and
Good Work by Senator Owen

This newspaper has pointed the fact that the pro-
lection of the American dollar abroad is part of the duty
Government.
American citizens spending money in Spain get only
Seventy-fve cents for dollar.
The Spaniard buying here is able to get dollar
and twenty cents worth of American goods for one dol
lar in Spanish money
This in spite Of the fact that balance of trade be-
tween Spain and the United States by of millions of
dollars in our favor.
The same condition prevails and has prevailed other
neutral countries but thanks to the agitation of Senator
Owen and the prompt and vigorous action of Secretary Nc
Adoo, the situation is changed-for the better.
Senator Owen has made in Congress an intelligent and
successful fight for maintaining the value of the American
dollar and consequently the purchasing power of the Ame
can business in neutral countries.
He secured amendment to the bill for issuing bonds
which reads as follows:
Such bonds shall be issued in terms of foreign
money and sold to American importers par to the
extent necessary to cover their importations from
and credit transfers to countries whose currency is
at premium"
for merchants and the saving of millions for the United
States.
Mr. McAdoo who has given consideration to the cues
on of maintaining the dollars value in neutral countries
including South America will United States Govern
ment bonds, payable at par in foreign money
The American merchant who buys a thousand dollars
worth of American bonds payable in peseas therefore buys
from this Government the American peseta its par value
Instead Of getting only rs cents worth of Spanish
Continued in Last Column
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

There good suggestions in the above quotation for
fathers and mothers The greatest Of all the artists Michael
Angelo was poor boy. With two exceptions he is the
worlds greatest genius
Next to him the greatest painter is Leonardo d Vinc
His mother was peasant girl not married to the
father Leonardo giant in body and brain. He had
power In his bare hands to break horseshoe He the
first man with intelligence to know what the fossil remains
Of giant animals meant Everybody before him thought that
the Lord had experimental with clay and made giant
creatures deciding not to breathe life into them because he
didn't like them after they made. Leonardo said
They lived and died out" No had guessed it.
Ninety nine and ninetenhs per of all those that
succeed artists otherwise from the poorbecause
wealth spoils children and makes them not worth while
Study your children at least carefully as you would
study race horses you had stable full of young
The thing that won't amount to much is the thing like
everything else
Don't up your energy, your authority, and your
good right hand trying prevent your child from using his
brain.
Let each child develop, have many children as you
and out of the number you don't interfere with them
and make impossible you may have be proud
Of
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Dignity on $40 a Week
AND ALSO ON $3.50 a WEEK
Beatrice Fairfax Compares the Girl
Who Won't Be "BOssed" and
The Woman Who Succeeds
By Beatrice Fairfax.
By Beatrice F airf x.

Last week the girl from the Of
fec across the hall came TO me to
discuss her position and the bet
ter one she thought | ought to be
willing to help her secure.
Said Mabel: 81 want $l5 week
and | won't be satisfied until ] get
it. They only give me $40 now,
and / know | could earn more.
I'm generally alone where | am
and about all have to do is an
swer the phone and make appoint
ments for Mr.. Clarke with the
people who drop in while he is
away. Now, if you told Clarke
that you thought | was worth
more, I'll wager he'd give it to
me-"
"But, Mabel, is what you are do
ing-answering the phone and
m aking appointments ort h
more than $40? Couldn't S6-a-
week office boy do your work >"
/ asked. "If you want $l5, why
don't you study the Help Wanted
Columns or 90 TO one OF the ac-
credited agencies and put in your
application for regular stcno-
graphic position? There are Gov
ernment positions fairly crying
for able stenOgpaphers-and most
of them would start you at several
dollars more than the SIS a week
you want"
Mabel's eyes flashed. 81 can
see you aren't going to help me.
'spose could get SIS or
SIS a week if ! would 20 to some
office where | had to take orders
from some other girl or from an
office manager. But don't want
to be bossed around and have to
punch a time clock and be a regu-
lar slave. I'm free Ameri-
can and want a job where | can
get out my work the way think
best"
OF course. you see why | was
helpless to help Mabel!
This is the way she ended her
plea for help; "Mr. Clarke calls
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Net Catches a Meteor
HOW 1T WAS LOCATED
Garrett P. Serviss Tells How Scientist
Found Where Body Struck
the Earth
By Garrett P. Serviss.
By Jarrett P. Serviss.

darting In a straight line through
the sky with a downward trend
owing to perspective Careful
comparison of the observations as
10 brightness. situation in the
heavens, APPARENT length OF path,
etc, showed that the mysterious
body. while descending at a con-
siderable angle to the horizon, was
also moving from northeast 10
southwest.
II is evident that the line of de-
scent must have been steep. owing
to the diametrical reversal of the
apparent direction of fight as seen
from stations only one or two hun
dred miles apart.
Some known Facts.
Bv study and combination of
observations the height Of me-
teors. at various points in their
course. can be inferred with con-
siderable accuracy. The height at
which they usually make their
first appearance, which depends
upon the incandescence caused by
their friction with the air, varies
from so to 100 miles. Their aver
age speed is twenty-six miles per
second before they strike into the
atmoSphere.
This speed shows that they are
revolving in orbits about he sun,
and are accidentally encountered
by the earth. The great mystery
about them concerns their origin.
Some are almost solid iron, with
always a small percentage of
nickel. and others are of a stony
nature. All are hard, dense bodies.
The puzzle is to account for their
density and for other peculiarities
of their constitution. Although it
cannot by any means be regarded
as demonstrated fact, yet there
are many considerations WI ten
support the supposition that they
are fragments OF an exploded
planet" They seem to bear the
stamp of a world that was once
massive enough to compress their
minerals into the state in which
they are found when they fall
upon the earth. Astronomers were
once disposed to believe that they
had discovered the former location
of such a world. between the orbits
of Mails and Jupiter, but that the
ory has never been generally ac-
cepted-which. however. is no
proof that it may not be subStan-
TALLY true.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

me his office manager. He ought
to pay me salary to match that.
I'm not going to leave this posi-
tion of dignity and go where Pm
just one of the stenographers."
How much chance for success
has the snob who, for the sake Of
feeling "dignified," will permit
herself to stagnate in a position
which demands nothing of her,
which makes no test of her pres
ent ability and opens no vistas of
a worthwhile future?
A respect for your work is
much more of an asset to the busi-
ness woman than that overween-
ing vanity which she likes to call
"self-respect."
1t is hard for most women to
get d perspective on their own
dignity. and what is and what is
not beneath it.
Nothing that keeps the machin-
cry Of your office or factory, your
profession or trade, going can
possibly be beneath your dignity!
The other day I'went into the
office OF a woman who handles
ten statesmen wisely and well as
New England sales manager of
national corporation. Her salary,
As | happen to know, is $4,000 Il
year. She had an apron and rub
ber gloves on and was busy pol
ishing the office furniture.
"The janitor has the grip and
my poor old scrubwoman has
enough to do. So you won't think
il beneath your dignity to call on
me while | do little housework
in the office, will you said she,
with a friendly twinkle.
And yet when you ask the cook
to polish the silver, oh, Mrs.
Housekeeper, has she not been
known to reply in this wise: an
deed and won't. Annie's sup
posed to do that, and it is not me
that'll be doing the work of a Sc
4 week waitress at all"
We laugh at the cook-but most
Of US are sadly like her!
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
HI E ARD AND SEEN

AS no satisfactory designation
has yet been made for the watch
man tub, allow me TO suggest
"RrossiH0 Ropjs," the last, as you
know, meaning q small hill or ele-
walton, besides playing upon the
word Cop"
ALFRED B. DENT,
Washington Loan and Trust Co.
Mr. COLE. Of the Health Ottcs,
says it's the Fifteenth Street Look
out" a name which can be trans
ported to any crossing and used
there-such as ''U Street Lookout"
Seventh Street Lookout"
BILL HART, SR.. with q twinkle
in his eye, calls II
The Traffic Stage"
He says that's where the -Mertz
Bros. do their turn.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Making the American Dollar Worth a
DOllar-AbrOad,
Continued from First Column }

Continued from First Column.)
for an American dollar he gets in the shape of bond one
dollars worth of Spanish money for American dollar
and the transaction applies in the other countries for
which Mr. McAdoo will issue bonds payable in foreign
rency
This American business from great hardship
and unfair discrimination.
It gives this country which is financing Europe the
least which is entitled full value for its dollar in for
eign countries.
The Government runs no risk. For long before the
bonds shall have become due the American dollar will again
worth all of these countries its full face value and very
probably more that those buying the American bonds
payable in foreign currency will probably prefer take their
pay in American dollars when the time comes-they will
have the option
The who believes that the strain of war can impair
the value of American obligation American dollar
is unwse the distinguished caroonist in Punch who
showed Abraham Lincoln and JEFF Davis the North and the
South hopelessy tied in rope of debt from which they
never could free themselves.
This action of Mr. Owen in the Senate and by Mr. Nc
Adoo the exercise of his authority for the protection of
American business men, is deserving Of high praise.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Have You q
SOn-in.LaW.
Once OUers
CCepyrIEht, 1917. Int

Copyright 1917. serreeJ
You blaming she does
to do more for
Married? To be yourself ngene used
seek her society liked
mother table, she seldom invites either
living right in the town."
Don't blame Angene You know her life something
say about who shall be invited and how often
homesck disappointed that all
the her husband dnes the right
and mother to stay for a meal
how do father do to
with the young folk?
Keep telling how times have changed
up-my girl called her father DAD?
Fathers and mothers thing
who have married children
old folk
it.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

@N the first of October last,
at about l0:30 o'clock at
~ night, many people in
Texas were startled by a brilliant
meteor which flew blazing through
the sky and exploded, the explo-
sion being followed in a few min
utes by sounds like thunder, which
in some places made windows and
dishes rattle with the vibration.
At some points the light Of the
meteor was described by observers
as binding.
Science is still much in the dark
about meteors, or meteorites, but
if everybody who sees one would
adopt the course pursued in the
case Of this Texas phenomenon by
j. A. Udden, OF Austin, our
knowledge about them might be
rapidly increased. Mr.. Udden de-
cided to run this particular meteor
down, to catch it in a geometrical
net, and thus find out where it hit
the earth, for hit the earth it evi-
IDENTIFY did, even though reduced to
fragments before reaching the
ground.
Mr.. Udden briefly describes the
method he used and its results in
the periodical Science. He OBJ
tained from about three score OBJ
servers of the meteor. located in
all quarters of the States. notes Of
what they had seen. Among the
points covered by these notes
were the directions in which the
meteor appeared to move across
the heavens as seen by the differ
ent observers.
When these directions were
plotted on a map OF Texas, q most
interesting fact at once stood
forth. viz: that they all conyerged
toward certain part of the State,
in or near kimble county. Con-
sequently II must be somewhere
within that area that the meteor.
or its fragments, struck the earth
and there they may some time be
found.
Tracing Descent.
Observers In the western part
of the State saw the meteor mov-
ing eastward; those in the eastern
and central counties saw it NOV
ing westward: those in the north
saw IL moving southwark. and
those in the south northward.
Thus 1t betrayed It's true objeC-
tive point on the earth. although
TO each observer II seemed TO he
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

the poor child. He getg II direct
from q streak in your father or
your wife's aunt. or some other
legitimate ancestor.
To begin with. 1t will not do
the child any harm to gently
oppose its bent. This will show
you how deep it really is. II he
obstinately persists in drawing,
or playing on the horn, or TAX
ing his bicycle to pieces to the
last bit, in spite Of your scold-
ings. then there is a streak that
is worth considering, and It Is
time for Father and Mother to
wake up and get busy.
Be careful now and 60 slow.
With all our great national
capacity for taking. our country
is over-run with bogus schools
and theoretical teachers. In
deed. think the only two simon
pure good schools are West Point
and Annapolis; by the way. the
celebrated American artist,
Whistler, was a cadet at West
Point.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
St. AIMS Orphan Asylum

Asks you today to buy q tag
on the street. II you buy q tag
you will be doing something for
which you will be rewarded.
Remember, St AIMS has no
endowment.
'tIHdsmHch az ye hare done IL HHto
one Of the least Of these. my brssh-
rem. Ve hare done It unto He."-St.
MGttheU $50.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

Is Il possible that the Congress
that refuses TO pay living wages
and at the same time exacts
more work from Government en-
ployes Is the same Congress that
frequently has to quit work because
its members spend the afternoon n
q ball gamei
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

Twenty.sIx years ago today
William Jennings Bryan, then al
NEST an unknown, addressed the
House Of Representatives on the
subject Of free wool.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

My father did not particularly
think so, but he manfully did his
duty. One may at any time find
there is an accident in the fam
fly. 1t happens among the rich
in spite Of their money, al
though the poor are more likely
to suffer from 1t. as they cannot
30 easily distract a child into
something else when he is born
with a BUG. But the poor can
take comfort, as almost all the
Great Artists who have left a
name in the world came from
parents in very humble circum-
stances.
Now, admitting that something
Of this kind has happened to you.
and one OF the boys or girls
show signs OF some kind Of gen.
tus, in other words, that he or
she is kind Of queer" do not be
disturbed; If you only take pains
and steer it right, that child may
do the family more credit than
all the rest put together, but
it is up to you. Do not blame
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

Bulls eye view Of = traffic. says
Louis ]. Simonton, Of the Willard
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

GEORGE P. CROSS, 1117 Yer
mont avenue, calls it NUISANCE.
ACR0POLIS. says Mrs. Harriet
Simms, Seat Pleasant, Nd.
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Have YOua Child "A Little Queer%
Don't Be Discouraged You May Be the Father of Some
thing Good Deal Better Than Yourself An
Interesting Letter from Carroll Beckwith

Here is part of an extremely interesting letter written
by an artist Carroll Beckwith and headed ARE ARTISTS
WORTH BRINGING UP?'
The Washington times., 1918-03-16
Naming the Tub

Cruel Man!
A. NJ. CARPENTER, from the re-
cesses of the library Of the House
of Representatives. calls it
"Fill-up-spacetub."
The Washington times., 1918-03-16

GEORGE NJ. ADAMS says it's a
MONITOR He suggested the name
to J. II. MCCLURE.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-23
by the German government for years
to be used in the manufacture of gun
cotton, and much Of this Is being
wasted in this country.
"A + / H +:
T H E "A I E r S
REX TONIGHT

.''By Right of Purchase" will he
the attraction here at the Rex thea
ter tonight and tomorrow. It is a
Select Picture directed by Charles
Miller, starring Norma Talmadge as
Margot Hughes, q society butterfly.
She marries Chadwick Hines, a rich
young man Of high social standing,
under an agreement to- be his wife
in name only for three years, At
the end Of this period, II he has not
succeeded in winning her love, she
will receive her freedom and a hand
some settlement in addition. She
comes to realize his worth, especially
in comparison with the worthless
ness Of Dick Derwent, a handsome
tspendthrift with whom she has long
been infatuated, but Hines restraints
any display of emotion. desiring not
to embarrass her by violating his
agreement. ll N
Es2 A Drew comedy will also be an
added feature. at. " ..=.:l S
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-23
HoW's This {

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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-23
5"The Zeppelin's Last Raid 2. .

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".The Zeppelin's Last Raid" the
new war spectacle just completed by
Thomas H. Ince. and revealing the
growth Of the democratic spirit of
revolution throughout the German
empire, was prompted by the declara-
tion of wara against the Teutons.
In 1.-THE 4Zeppelin's Last Raid" at
the Rex Thursday and Friday, the
dirigible is destroyed by its own
commander, who belongs to the Lee
gion Of Liberty, an organization Of
the common people striking recretly
to bring about the overthrow of the
ruling classes. His crew reyolts and
insists upon carrying out orders to
bomb the defenseless British coast
towns But the commander thrwarts
them by dynamiting hts craft and
dies as the dirigible goes to pieces in
midair. sI 81 $5 II If. .. s7.s,G I'll
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-23
Salvage Drive Spreads.

~ It will interest the people Of Be-,
midi to learn that Chicago sent a
representative to St.. Paul to obtain
information about St. Paul's salvage
drive for the Red Cross, similar to
the one to be held in Bemidji the
week of April 29-May 4, and the
same methods will be used in a big
drive to be inaugurated in Chicago.
There are many tons Of material
which are going to waste in every
city, which, if necessity arose, could
be utilized by the government in
making munitions of war. Scraps
of cotton cloth have been collected
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-23
New Coates.

Very becoming over black or some
dark-hued frock is a black chiffon cloth
or marquisette coatee pouching 10
'sacquelike manner just above hign
waistline, and edged with the WhiteA
and fullest swansdown. = s2s All: Ell,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-04-23
Children's Gowns.

The fashion for dressing children 10
velveteen has progressed apace, and and
few things lend themselves to little
peoples daytime clothes more happily,
The colors range through gradatlons
of pinks, reds, yellows, blues, greens q
and violets. Velveteen Is also adapted
to the hand embroidery which, In linn
tied quantity, is such a feature Of chh-
dren's frocks. Is u l.;5 $s y5