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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-07-13

Copenhagen, July 13.--"What we
precisely wanted, as expressed by us
last February the Chancellor de.
cared "ls that after the war, restored
Belgium shall live with us in good
: lfrIendly relations.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-07-13
PELLEY FAMILY
IN MOUNTAINS
OF COLORADO
Cross-Country Automobile Party
on Continents Backbone.
GLAD TO LEAVE PRAIRIE
"Bilr Writes That Some Of coorado's
Wdely-Touted Sights Are not up
TO the Advertisements.

Below is published second letter
from William Dudley Pelley, the mag
azine writer who with his family is
making transcontinental trip to San
Francisco whence he Will sail shortly
for a nine-months tour OF the orient
In his FIRST letter 'Bill' was wrestling
with the mud of Kansas. The second
letter was written in Colorado where,
according to the former Banner EN-
ploye, there Is something to see.
'Eill' Is sadly peeyea over some Of
the much-adyertised sights of
Colorado but otherwise is in a nor
NAL frame of mind. His letter fol.
lows;
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-07-13

Amsterdam, July 13.-Violent inter.
view said to have occurred May six
Keen. This was followed by an apop-
lcctic stroke which ultimately result.
ed in death.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-07-13

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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
Americas Food Policy Saved the
Allies, Says Lord RhOndda

Even the most ardent admirers of the United States-nd
what the American people have accomplished in their first
year in the When America came in we all realized
that her potential of men, money and material
were unequaed either by friend foe but we also
that these resources unoganzed her unframed
and her shipping facilities undeveoped In one wear the
United States has done most of the things have not done
yet.
AS Food Controller of the United Kingdom can say with
out hesitation that had not been for the establishment by
President Wilson and Congress of Food Administration
and for the superb generahp of Mr. Hoover Food Ad
mnstrator the outlook for the Allies would be very black
indeed Neither American allied troops fight on
empty soachs and the civilian populations in their
cannot provide them with money, munitions moral sup
port unless they have maximum of essential food where
with to maintain output and efficiency The wonderful
ganzation behalf of the Allies and of Americas
military effort of the food of the United States
although only legaized eight months ago, has far
bled us to defy the menace Of famine.
But if we to fight through to the finish compulsory
restrictions Of ratonng which have imposed may i'm
pose and no sacrifices which people here may make will
be Of avail unless the American people keep up full head
OF steam and continue to provide to the utmost of their pa
osm and their capacity these food supplies upon which
victory depends. (Signed) RHONDDA.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
ALASkA'S SHARE IN
WINNING THE WAR

1t took her longer to get to Wash
1ngton to learn more about the worlds
food needs than it takes the food you
save to get to Europe, yet Mrs. Allen
Shattuck came all the way FROM Ju-
neau, Alaska, to take part in the con-
ference in home economics directors
of various States at the Food Admins
tration in Washington.
Mrs. Shattuck told most interest
ingly about the way food conserva-
ton had spread in Alaska. Conditions
are vastly different there = dwelling
places are so far apart, getting about
in winter is so difficult. But these
are reckoned with in advance, and
are not even considered in the pro-
gram of work.
I'VE are doing our work in Alaska
through the United States Food Ad-
ministration alone" Mrs. Shattuck
said, for we have no other agencies
to help us. The women who conduct
ed the campaign worked during the
cold weather in spite of the distance
and difficulties in getting about
"Our actual saving in food has real
ly been very large considering our
population. Of course, it would not
great numbers of people SO close to-
gether. One thing that makes a differ
ence with us is that practically all our
women are homemakers. Such WON
en-, | believe, are far more ready to
see and to help work at the food
problem than are apartment dWellers
or those who live in hotels. We han
die the problem directly. 1t is taken
care of in each home, and that is why
we have a high percentage of food
conservers in Alaska.
1T would be an exaggeration to say
that we have almost as many types in
Alaska as we have people. Yet that
statement would at least indicate the
diversity of our population One thing,
however, that has proved to me that
patriotism and humanitarianism make
universal appeal is that all these
different types have responded with
equal readiness to the demand of food
conservation
when navigation opens we expect
to carry our work far and wide, and
we hope that there will not be a fam
lily in all our great territory that is
not doing something for the war, that
seems so far away, but that is SO close
to us because it vitality affects the
right of every man to carve out his
destiny, unhampered by the. demands
of despotism and militarism."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
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my OPPORTUNITY TO HELP VIM

LAS long as men go to the front at
the risk Of being shot," writes Lloyd
H. Nelson, a New Jersey farmer in a
letter to the U. S. Food Administra-
ton, sit is clearly my duty to risk all
possess. 1t is my duty to take full
risk in planting as many extra acres
as my means will permit. This l am
doing in 1918.
Having leased two extra farms,
propose making this year the supreme
effort of my life. If | make good
profit, it will be fully earned. If l but
make expenses and produce four times
as much food as last year, it will be-
my opportunity to give strength to
give courage to help win. | am plan
ming to farm to the extreme limit
Zone city man last year spent his
half holidays helping a taking
his pay in supplies such as potatoes,
vegetables and fruits. This plan COM
bines recreation with production and
should prove a popular form of war
work"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
The SPRING DRIVE

The spring drive begins, here as
we'll as on the other side of the world
Nature is helping in conservation as
we'll as in fighting. The spring that
opens the roads in Picardy is provid
ing transportation for the food Ameri-
ca is so anxious to send to the fighters
The month of March saw an encour-
aging increase in our exports. With
larger savings of food and the growth
of the total-abstinence" idea in
wheat, April will do better still. The
farmer could never plant with so much
certainty of returns, so much knowl
edge that everything he grows will
be Of use.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
PUTTING BUSINESS
INTO PATRIOTISM

The feature of the present war that
is peculiarly American is the way in
which the instrumentalities of bust
ness have been placed at the service
Of patriotism. The time is past for
discussion as, to whether the call Of
country is stronger than the call of
profit. 1t is now not a question Of
putting business above your patriot
ism; it is a matter of putting business
into your patriotism.
Though our Revolutionary ances-
tors accomplished great things in max
ing America free, they had not learned
as much about subordinating business
to patriotism as we have learned.
Writing to James Warren in 1873,
Washington censures severely the
business morality in this time "Our
conflict is not likely to cease as soon
as every good man could wish. Unless
we can return little more to first
principles, and act little more upon
patriotic grounds, 1 do not know what
may be the issue of the contest Spec
ulation, peculation, engorssing, fore
stalling, with all their concomitants,
afford too many melancholy proofs of
the decay of public virtue"
The moral principles of men change
but little from generation to genera
tion, but the ways in which these mo-
raj principles are put into practice
change radically.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
WHAT WHEAT CONTROL
HAS SAVED THE NATION

1t is estimated by E. NJ Fairchild, a
Cleveland, Ohio, miller of long expe-
rience and sound judgment, that near
ly $900,000,000 have been saved the
American people On flour since last
July by the United States Food Ad-
ministration. Mr.. Fairchild said re-
Gently in an interview, reported in the
American Grocer: ''It is an easy thing
for a person to criticize an official of
the Government, and criticizing seems
to be one of the traits of Americans
It is not difficult for us to recall that
a year ago, When~America had not en-
tered the war against Germany and
there was no Food Administrator or
regulation of the markets, flour was
retailing at $40 a barrel. This year,
with a smaller crop to work on and
the country in the midst of the war;
flour is averaging about $12 a barrel
1t has been estimated that the annual
consumption of -four in this country
is one barrel per person in normal
times. There are about 110,000,000
people in the United States, and the
saving effected by the United States
Food Administration has been about
20 per cent. Now, if it has managed
to save the country 81 on each barrel
consumed since it was founded, it is
readily seen that it has saved the peo-
pie $8S,000,000. By the same method
of figuring, if $40 has been saved on
each barrel the Food Administration
has saved us $SSO,OOO,OOO since July,
I am not content to believe, however,
that it has saved us dollar less than
$40 barrel, or $1,760,O 100000"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
FOOD CONSERVA1lONlSM

The man who wants to make money
out Of the war does not like the Food
Administration, for it interferes with
his profteering; but the people ap
preciate the Food Administration and
despise the profiteers.
Rules and regulations have been
promulgated by the Food Administra,
ton, after conference with all classes
interested regarding frozen poultry
and cold storage eggs. 1t is believed
that in this way the industries will be
stabilized, transactions be placed on a
just merchandising basis, and legiti-
mate competition be allowed, while
opportunities for unfair prices-raising
speculation will be restricted. The
consumers have been steadily in mind.
while the producers have not been
pressed below reasonable profit.
The Food Administration is teach.
ing a goodly number of business con-
Germs that honesty is the best policy
by putting them out of business for
dishonesty. The ak falls only when
cases are fragrant and clearly proved.
And the cases are very few compared
with the whole number of loyal deal
ers.
Ammonia is precious now In the
months of December, January and
February one large New York ice man
ufacturer saved 26,864 pounds of am
monia If this ratio can be followed
generally by the artificial ice produc-
ers the actual needs of the country
may be met without undue curtailment
of ice consumption Or refrigeration.
Domestic science teachers in public
in food conservation by the Federal
Food Administrator, who has sent
them a special communication asking
that they impress upon classes the
necessity for saving foods needed in
Europe, teach use of substitutes, re-
duce the consumption of sugar and be-
tween-meal lunches at school, and aid
In the creation of an American spirit
which will back up the Food Admins
trat1on program.
Pupils in the Medill High School.
Chicago, ILL.,, were told that their
cooking class must be discontinued on
account of the expense, whereupon
they organized to make the work
self-supporting, each pupil contribut-
ing lunch money to buy materials.
Twenty members give 10 cents apiece
daily, and a luncheon is planned to
come within 81, says the Chicago
Daily News. No sugar, wheat, meat, or
butter are used in this luncheon, bis
cults being made Of rice, barley, and
rye flour, and ice cream, favored and
sweetened with jelly which was put
up by the class last year. More than
200 jars of schoolcanned fruits, veg
etables, mushrooms, etc., are being
drawn upon for the luncheons. Some
of this material cost only q couple of
cents a jar when canned
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
TOTAL ABSTINENCE
FROM WHEAT

The war has been "sold to the
American people,. The German drive
and the thought of our own boys in
the thick of the fight have accom-
plished that. From all over the coun-
try are now coming reports of pledges
of total abstinence from wheat. Total
abstainers' clubs started in Mount
Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. The
movement covers the Nation. The
same spirit is shown as that reflected
in the Bible words ''If meat cause my
brother to offend, l will eat no meat
while the world standeth." Patriotic
Americans are now saying, eff wheat
is necessary to perpetuate all | hold
dear, l will eat no wheat until those
things are secured and guaranteed"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
Subdue the Subj arine by
Substituting

Economy for waste
Cooperation for criticism.
knowledge of prices for gossip
about profits.
Cornmeal and oatmeal for white
flour.
Fish for beef and bacon.
Vegetable oils for animal fats.
The garden hoe for the golf stick.
Performance for argument.
Service for sneers.
Patriotic push for peevish puerili-
ties.
Perishable for preserving foods.
Conservation for conversation.
Common sense for common gossip.
Marketing for telephoning.
Production for pessimism.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

Communal kitchens are being estab-
lished in England by the food control
Ter. The average charge per meal has
been 10 cents, and nourishing meals
are said to be sold as low as 2 cents.
Of course, there must be a Govern
ment subvention to allow this, but the
communal kitchen might well be tried
here.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
EAT
CORN
SAVE
WHEAT

Ukraine stocks Of wheat amount to
approximately 48 million bushels, &C
cording to information reaching the
Food Administration. The north ports
of Russia, however, are bare of sup
plies and the past winter has been
very unfavorable to agriculture.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
PITHY POINTERS ABOUT FOOD

The pro-German pessimist who says
the American people will not save
food for those who are fighting our
battles for us in France doesn't know
the American people nor in spirit be-
long to them. Food Stacker is his
proper name.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

Give up fried food; save the fats to
defeat the Kaiser A certain amount
of fat each day is necessary to human
life. Don't waste an ounce; it means
the life of someone somewhere in the
world.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
nONDAX
ALL MEALS IT. ~
USE NO BREAD cRAcKEHs WAXlIEtI1HsN
Pastry On EEEAFlEAST FOODS WfAkIX&H
CONTAINING WHEAT ANzZEI
Japan's Rice crop Declines.

Production of corn, rice and pota-
toes in Japan during 1917 was in all
cases less than in 1916. The 1917 rice
crop was about 100 million bushels
below normal, a decline of more than
one-ffth. Japan is now making eff
forts to increase her wheat acreage
greatly; also to build ships for carry
ing japanese and Australian wheat in
the Pacific trade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
Italy Grows Wheat on Melon Land.

Much of the acreage formerly al
lotted to melon growing in Italy will
be put under wheat this year, accord
ing to reports received by the U. S.
Food Administration. Native supplies
of wheat in Italy are light.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

If food conservation is not voluntary
now it will be involuntary by and by
The food must be had. There will be
no need of rationing in this country il
the people will be rational.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

Every farmer who talks maximum
profits instead of maximum production
is aiding Germany.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

The only legitimate ICON game" is
the con -serVatiOn game.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

If you have food conservation plan
or recipe pass it on to your neighbors
and your friends-be "in the service"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

All city, county, State and munic-
ipa1 institutions must make their pur-
chases according to the wheat-substi-
tute regulations, possible exceptions
being made for hospitals, asylums,
and sanitariums on a physicians re-
quirement. Private schools, colleges,
and universities using three barrels OF
flour and meal a month may have
baking licenses.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
E,OOvERITIS.

tOOVERITIS.
Each paper, book and magazine,
Spouts upward like a geyser
Recipes for saving things;
We're growing thin and wiser,
We salt down beans, dehydrate greens,
Store up foods like a miser;
We're going to preserve the world
Also can the kaiser.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

Sugar wasted in America would
keep many little children in the coun-
tries of our Allies from starvation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
THE PASSWORD
"WAR"

1--WE have got to reach the
place, each one of us, where we
define every decision in our
lives as an act of war policy.
'"Everything that we do, plan,
eat. wear, must be analysed and
measured from one single point
of view-will it contribute to the
carrying on of the war, or will it
contribute to its prolongation?
'"There is no other thing in the
world for US but to define every
thing in our lives as acts of mil
itary necessity or policy"
DIR. Alonzo Taylor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

That idle acre is German missile
oOr an American heart.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

quirement. Private schools, colleges,
and universities using three barrels of
flour and meal a month may have
baking licenses.
Skim milk makes excellent cottage
cheese and cottage cheese is an excel
lent food 1t seems hard to believe, but
in protein value l pound of cottage
cheese equals IL pounds of sirloln
steak On the basis of energy l pound
of cottage cheese equals 815 ounces of
sirloin steak, and, of course, is far
cheaper. Try it.
What does the enemy care whether
food is sunk in the sea, or thrown into
the garbage can? 1t is all the same
to the Kaiser.
Last year every business man in
Uhrichsville, Ohio, adopted the plan
of closing his shop at noon every
Wednesday and devoting the remain
der of that day working in a garden
either his own or community garden,
upon d uolSuUOlIl Idl LII.
Sugar sunk in the bottom of tea
cup or a coffee cup is the same as
sugar sunk in the bottom of the ocean
by a submarine-it's wasted.
There are always few people who
refuse to do what the Government
asks them. But this should not be an
excuse for the rest of us to do like
wise.
Reduce the eat,
In wheat and meat,
And toot the tute.,
In Substitute.
There is a work for every person to
do in this war-food is ammunition,
are you wasting it?
Sugar wasted in America would
keep many little children in the coun-
tries of our Allies from starvation.
If you have food conservation plan
or recipe pass it on to your neighbors
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16
Reduce the eat,
In wheat and meat,
And toot the tute.,
In Substitute.

There is work for every person to
do in this war-food is ammunition,
are you wasting it?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

We must conquer the whims of our
own appetites before we can hope to
conquer the German menace.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-16

There are always few people who
refuse to do what the Government
asks them. But this should not be an
excuse for the rest of us to do like
wise.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-15

BE the powers. that's the best
music I ever heard with me two ears. -
HE does pretty we'll for blind man,
doesn't heS
He does, indeed, but was just
thinking Of wan thing
Whats that?"
TT wouldn't make any difference to
him IL he wasn't blind"
why not"
well, I was watchin' him all the
evening, and he never looks at the
piano anyhow"
A retired naval officer tells a story
Of visit made by an American fleet
to British waters. Admiral EFben was
in command, with the late Captain AL
fred T. Mahon, the writer on naval az
fairs, as his flag captain.
One morning. it appears, Captain
Mahan came to his admiral with an in
vitation he had received to dine with
a duke.
II can't accept this" said Captain
Mahan. AS they forgot to invite you"
Il should say you couldn't" growl-
ed the admiral. TIL answer it for you. "
Whereupon the admiral wrote: "Ad-
miral Erben United States navy, re-
grets that Captain Mahan. his Tag
captain, cannot accept the invitation
Of the Duke Of Blank. Captain Mahan
Is on the sick list"
An hour or so later messenger from
the duke returned with invitations Tor
the admiral and the captain. This time
the admiral wrote:
Admiral Erben accept with pleasure
the invitation fer Captain Mahan and
himself. He wishes also to advise the
Duke Of Blank that he has taken Cap
tain Mahan of the sick list"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-15
RUMANlA GETS
FOES WARNING
DEMAND is MADE THAT LITTLE
KINGDOM ENTER PEACE
FARLEY At ONCE

Amsterdam, Feb. l3.-The Berlin
Tagebfatt says that the central pow
ers have addressed q demand to Ru-
mania to enter peace negotiations and
requested an answer by this evening.
The newspaper says the demand did
not take the form Of an ultimatum
with an inherent threat
Field Marshal Won Mackensen, says
q Berlin semtofnciA telegram, is ne
gotiating with the Rumantan army
command regarding the continuation
of the armtsdce. II is necessary to
clear up the armistice question. says
the message, owing to present rela-
tons between the Ukraine and Ru-
mania. 1t denies that Germany has
issued any ultimatum to RumaniA.
TI.ate last weak some OF the German
Newspapers printed reports that F1ald
Marshal .Mackensen had sent an uni
matnm to RumaniS on February & de-
manding that peace negotiations BE- be.
daysl
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-15

part, but a desire to be fair and to
command for the government and the
nation the maximum of strength
whether it emanates from sources
which may be identified as republican
or democratic. He is no less demo
crat for adopting this course; those
who assist him. are no less republicans.
All are loyal Americans, in the war to-
gether to win it with the least posi-
BILE delay and by means which will pre-
serve the greatest possible measure of
American resources on the une1pend-
ed side Of the balance sheet.
There is hope that man-to-man coun-
ellis such as the one called for today
will result in strengthening and coor-
dination of the war-mahng activities
of the government. 1t matters not
whether this bill or that one is passed
or who is its author, If only it is the
proper measure and productive of the
results for which the whole nation is
praying.