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The Colfax chronicle., 1918-05-04
Parish Food Administrators.


How American Red Cross Met Italian
Up to the time of the great
Italian disaster. the American
Red Cross was operating in Italy
only through an advisory com
mission and had undertaken little
of special Importance. A teIe-
gram from the American ambas-
sador at Rome for food and cloth
ing reached the American Red
Cross in Paris in the middle Of
one forenoon. By evening of
the next day they had bought in
Paris markets "a carloads of sup
plies and had started these sup
plies toward Italy. Within one
week after the disastrous retreat
the American Red Cross was in
the field with physicians, nurses.
and ambulances, ministering to
the refugees. Twenty-three ann
balances were dispatched from
France alone early in November
for service with the Italian army,
and it is planned to increase this
number to 200. No agency other
than the Red Cross was in posi-
tion to answer so instantly such
q stirring appeal. Nor would
the Red Cross be able to meet
such emergencies were it not for
the American people who provide
the funds. That is another rea-
son behind the appeal for a hum
dred million dollars for war fund.
Every dollar of this money is
spent in actual war relief and re-
lief which is sorely needed and
can not be had from any other
source. The Italian work is an
example.
The Colfax chronicle., 1918-05-04
Use of the Official Bulletin.

10 Qu fQTfSH COHHcttS " 0cjeHCo-
We have received from the
Committee on Public InfornE-
uion the following statement con-
corning the Official Bulletin. The
Committee would like to have it
brought to the attention Of all
war workers:
Owing to the enormous IN
crease of government war work
the governmental departments
at Washington are being flooded
with letters of inquiry on every
conceivable subject concerning
the war and it has been found a
physical impossibility for the
clerks, though they number an
army in themselves now. to give
many of these letters proper at
tentioh and reply. There is pub
lished daily at Washington. under
authority of and by direction Of
the President. a government
newspaper. The Official Bulletin.
This paper prints every day ali
of the more important rulings.
decisions, regulations, proclama-
tons, orders, etc., etc., as they
are promulgated by the several
departments and the many sPe-
cial committees and agencies
now in operation at the Nafioeal
Capital. This official journal is
posted each day in every post Of
ice in the United States, more
than Sc, 600 in number. and may
also be found ON file at all libra
ries, boards Of trade and cham
bers OF commerce, the officies of
mayors, and governors and fed
eralofficials. Byconsulting these
files most questions will be found
readily answered; there will be
little necessity for letter writing;
the unnecessary congestion of
the mails will be appreciably re-
lieved; the railroads will be call
ed upon to move fewer CORES
pondence sacks, and the mass of
business that is piling up in the
government departments will be
eased considerably. Hundreds
Of clerks now answering CORES
pondence will be enabled to give
their time to essentially impor-
tant war work, and a fundament-
ally patriotic service will have
been performed by the public. =
Will you kindly transmit this
statement to your parish repre-
sentatives? We should also ap-
preciate It's publication in all State
and Parish Council bulletins or
periodicals.
JOHN MARSHALL,
Sec. La. State Council of Defense.
The Colfax chronicle., 1918-05-04
The New Grand Jury ImpannelIed.

Judge w. F. Blackman and
District Attorney T. A. Carter
were here on Tuesday. and a new
grand jury was impaneIed, as
follows:
-. w. O'Quinn. Foreman.
E. ID. Grappe. Gus St. Andre,
]. G. csndler NJ. H. Nugent.
d. L. Kitterlin, J. H. johnson.
]. L. Kent, Hy. C. Kelsoe.
Will Jarvis, T. b. Morgan,
a L. j. Harrison.
After charging the grand jury
the court attended to a few mi
nor matters and adjourned.
The grand jury finished their
labors Friday morning, and upon
telephoning the judge at Alexan-
dria, he and the district attorney
came up and received their re-
port. which will be published in
our next issue.
The Colfax chronicle., 1918-05-04
Judge Walter Guion has been

appointed to succeed Senator
Broussard for the unexpired
term. In the mean time it ap-
pears that Hon. John Overton
and Judge L. E. Hall will be as
pirants for election to the SEM
torship for the next term.
The Colfax chronicle., 1918-05-04

Notice.
/ am applying for ; pardon.
T. O. IRBY.
The Colfax chronicle., 1918-05-04

PROFIT.


strues a reasonable profit on Su-
gar as follows: Not exceeding
25c per hundred pounds between
the price charged by the refinery
and the price charged to the re-
taller; of course, freight to be
added; the retailer is permitted
a margin of profit not exceeding
one cent per pound.
Flour-At wholesale from 60c
to 75c per barrel above the first
f. o. b. car cost destination. AT
retail from 80c to $1.20 per bar
rel in original packages. and not
exceeding one cent per pound
when sold in less than original
packages.
Corn Goods = Cream meal,
grits, etc., at a profit of not ex-
ceeding 75c per barrel between
he first f. o. b. car cost destina
lion and the retailer.
Other food and feed commodi-
Ties should be sold at not more
than a reasonable advance, not
exceeding the pre-war profit over
he actual purchase price of the
particular goods sold. without
regard to the market or replace
ment value at the time of such
sale.
QUANTITIES.
Sugar-To the retailer. in guam
titles not in excess of one thou
sand pounds at a time. The re-
taller should not sell more than
five pounds to consumer resid-
ing in towns at any one time, and
not in excess of ten pounds to q
consumer residing in the country
at any one time.
Extra amounts of sugar bought
exclusively for preserving pur-
poses, may be allowed undertakes
and Regulations to be provided
by the Food Administrator of
your Congressional District.
Wheat Flour Should be sold
on a basis of six pounds per per-
son per month, including bakers
bread. macarohi. crackers, etc.,
but not more than twenty-five
pounds to a consumer in towns
at any one time, and not in ex-
cess of fifty pounds to a consum-
er residing in the country at any
one time. OF course, wheat -four
should be sold at wholesale and
retail ONLY with an equal guam
tity of wheat -four substitutes,
each commodity at a normal pro-
fit. Food ana feed commodities,
with very few exceptions. should
be sold upon a basis of thirty
days. requirements. whether it
be a wholesaler, retailer, or con-
Sumer.
Substitutes Corn meal. Corn
Flour, Edible Corn Starch. Corn
Grits. Hominy, Barley Flour, Po-
tato Flour. Sweet Potato Flour,
Soya Bean Flour, Feterita Flour,
and Meals, Rice. Rice Flour. Oat
Meal, Rolled Oats, Potatoes, and
Buckwheat Flour.
Exception-Whole Wheat and
Graham Flour may be sold on
the basis of five pounds of -four
to three pounds of substitutes.
Potatoes four pounds against one
pound wheat flour.
The sale and consumption of
wheat -four should be discouraged
and suspended until -four from
the new crop of wheat can be OBJ
tanned.
Meatless Days-For the pres
ent discontinued.
Wheatless Days Monday and
Wednesday in each week and one
wheatless meal in every day.
On "wheatless days" and in
ssxr,b M flocc vsnoo1cO sc o<I -. 1o,,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

new discoveries and patents along the lines of chemicals. We have scores of
 rev dyes and hundreds of applications for improvements in explosives of one kind or another We have many new medicines. and the inventions to be used in connection with the rehabilitation of
 the wounded soldiers are legion. I talked at the patent office with Dr. Wilkinson,
 who has passed upon every patent grant ed by the government for artificial limbs
 during the past 50 years. He tells me
 that in normal times the number of pat ents of this kind pending was only seven or eight. but that now there are more than 80 under consideration. These deal with all kinds of inventions to enable
 the man who has lost a part of his arms or legs to do his work in the world. They consist of artificial hands and fingers, of artificial elbows and knee joints and Of combinations which do by machines and appliances of various kinds what was formerly thought to be impossible except through nature.
 Some of the machines are very inge- nious There is French patent, for instance, by means of which the man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

Washington, D. e. 5TNloR the past IS months the great tS American brain has been work l ing on inventions aplied to the
 waG- More than 100000 applica- tions for war patents have been asked of the government and thousands have been granted. There are 45 divisions in the patent office and of these 42 are now more or less busy with inventions connected with the fighting in Europe. Some of the Applications are important. Others are not worth the paper upon which they are written, but altogether they show that the brains of the na- ton have been mobilized for downing the Kaiser.
 There is no inventor like the Ameri- can inventor. Along the line of new discoveries and the creation of new forces he stands supreme among. the sons of man. have before me the recoN of all the patents issued by all the world The total Is between 3,000,- coo and 100000 and up to 1915 the United States had brought forth more than one third of this total. We are now turning out new inventions at the rate of 10000 or 5o,000 year, and in our output of patents granted we are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

far ahead of any other nation on earth In round numbers. up to 1915, Austria Hungary had produced only S3.eOo pat ents, and Germany something like 300.- 900. This is the sum total of the fn- ventive brains of our enemies from the time when patents began to be granted until now. During the same period the United States has taken out consider ably more than ,o0O,0U0 patents. while 500, 900 were granted to France and a like number to Great Britain Little Belgium has always been noted as a nest of inventors. Up to the time of the war it's people had produced 277,- 900 patents. or only 23,0e0 less than the great empire of Germany, which is IS times-the size and has nine times the number of people.
 But it is not only in the number of inventions~ ~that the United States stands ahead. It is far in advance of all other countries as to the discoveries which have revolutionized the indus tries of the world. During the past 50 years man has produced something like 50 epoch making inventions, and of these 3S have come from the United States. Three have been made by the Germans. four by the English. two by the Austrians, two by the French and two by the Swedes. All of these inven- tens enter into the conduct of the great war in Europe, and without them it could not go on. Let me mention some of the more important of them. 1 shall take those of the foreign nations hrst Smokeless powder and electric steel came from the French, manganese steel and the cyanide processes for ex- tracting metal were invented by the English, while Nobel Swede, supplied the dynamite. and wirelessy telegraphy came from the Italian, Marconi. The Germans invented the Diesel oil motor and the Otto cycle gas engine, and the Austrlans gave us the by-product oven which has so much to do with making drugs. dyes and explosives. These are among the great things that have come out of Europe during the past half cen turn.
 Now look at the United States and see how it's inventive brains enter into every war movement. We have the tele- phone from Bell, the incandescent lamp from Edison, and the arc light diseov- cred by Brush. We have the split pha SC induction motor of Tesla which has such a great part in our electrical machinery. and electrical welding is brought forth by Thompson, which promises to take
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

bottfe of Dodson' ss Liver Tone for a few cents under my personal guarantee that it will clean your sluggish liver better than nasty calomel; it won't make you sick and you can eat anything you want without being salivated. Your druggist guarantees that each spoonful Will rstart your liver, clean your bowels and straightef you up by morning or you get your money back. Children gladly take Dodson's Liver Tone because it is pleasant tasting and doesn't gripe or |cramp or make them sick
 I am selling millions of bottles of Dodson's Liver Tone to people who have found that this pleasant, vegetable live CT medicine takes the place of dan- gerous calomel. Buy one bottle on my sound, sreliable guarantee. Ask your druggist about me.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
CalomeI Today! Sick Tomorrow!
 ] Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone
Don't take nasty, dangerous caomel when bilious,
 constipated, headachy. Listen to mel

Calomel makes you sick; you lose a days work. Calomel is quicksilver and it salivates; calomel injures your liver.
 If you are bilious, feel lazy, sluggish and all knocked out, If your bowels are constipated and your head aches or stomach is sour. just take spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone instead of using sickening, salivating calomel Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning because you will wake up feeling fine, your liver will be working, your head ache and dizziness gone. your stomach will be sweet and bowels regular. You will feel like working. You'll be cheer ful; full of vigOr and ambition.
 Your druggist or dealer sells you a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

Run Down writes: .Is it possible to find a medicine which by it's tonic or nutritive powers will bring the glow of health and ambition back to a man who has everything in the world put health and happiness2 am dull, Tor getful Respondent, weak, trembling, short of breath and suffer more or less with pain in spine and back of head"
 Answer Your condition indicates the need of a strong. harmless tonic nutri- tive to restore nerve equilibrium, which in turn fortifies and strengthens the blood and promoting new cell and tissue to take care of the waste forces. Three Grain Cadomene Tablets. packed in sealed tubes with full directions, are recommended in all such cases
 x X x
 Mrs F. writes: My husband Is sure- ly afflicted with someN l<taaey, disease. headache and pains in his back and groins. Pains are like Rheumatism. Ills ankles swell and his feet seem to be tired all the time. Some days he has chills and no appetite Please pre- scribe"
 Answer: The. symptoms indicate de- of kidneys and should not be neglected 1 would advise Balmwort Tablets. a compound Kell suited to such cases. Obtain in sealed tubes with di- rections for home use
 X x x
 Otello writes: My hair lis comb ing out, my scalp itches and dandruff is much annoying, and | want some thing to cure these conditions"
 Answer: For hair and scalp troubles have never found anything to equal treatment of Plain Yellow Minyol It is cooling, cleansing and invigorating. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
LEMON JUICE
 WHlTENS SKIN
Girls! Make beauty lotion
 at home for few cents /

csays..v llle Julce oI iwo lemons into bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best bleach- ing and skin whitening lotion. and com plex1on beautifier. at very, very small cost.
 Your grocer has the lemons and any three ounces of Orchard White for a few cents.~ Massage this sweetly fra grant lotion into the face. neck and tan, redness, salowness, sunburn and windburn disappear and how clear, soft and rosy white the skin becomes Yes! It is harmless.--Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

thousands now use it regularly as hair and scalp tonic
 X x x
 Grace writes: Two years ago used your great prescription for kidney trouble, and it wholly overcome the trouble want medicine now for con- stipation and impure blood, for l am a- sight with .pimples that make oig, lumpy sores.
 Answer: I would advise the taking of Three Grain Sulpherb Tablets (not sulphur) for several months to purify the system.
 Mother writes; Can a sufferer from bronchial trouble be relieved? Doctors do not seem to help me, what would you suggest?"
 Answer; To relieve chronic cold. sore use of Concentrated Essence Mentho- Laxene. Purchase this at any drug store in 21a -oz. packages and mix ac- and you will very shortly be relieved of ali bronchial trouble. This will not only relieve. but wih correct. and Is very pleasant to take.
 NOTE: For many years pr. Baker has been giving free advice and prescrip- tions to millions of people through the press columns, and doubtless has helped in relieving illness and distress more than any single individual in the wor4d'ss history. Thousands have writ. ten him expressions of gratitude and confidence similar to the following: pr. Lewis Baker. Dear Sir:-I am glad [ was recommended to your prescrip- .4ion for medicine. I was pretty we'll run down. nervous and loss of ambi- ton; felt tired all the time; could not sleep loss of appetite. felt weak and trembled from weakness. find Three Grain Cadomene Tablets are helping me very much, was writing to my and she advised me to take your pre- scription of medicine, fer she was s,,;, as 5 bar nerves up and also restored her health 1 am more than thankful, etc.
 GEORGE SCHILLO,
 6206 Pear Ave.,e
 Cleveland, Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
5sPGsz0Tsl q o. Jews Bako,- 0S

The questions answered below are general in character. the symptoms or diseases are given and the answers will apply in any case of similar nature.
 Those wishing further advice, free, may address Dr. Lewis Baker, College Ridg., College Elwood streets. Dayton, Ohio. enclosing self-addressed stamped envelope for reply. Full name ana aa- or fictitious names will be used in my answers. The prescriptions can be filled at any wells stocked drug store. Any druggist can order of wholesaler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
THOUSANDS OF WAR PATENTS Frank C. Carpenter

opens and shuts his artificial fingers oy moving. his chin to the right or left ana wherein he crooks his eblow by raising it. Another patent enables a man 70 manipulate his artificial fingers by a bulb of ais under his armpit, and there IS another invention now actually in use by which the leading one-armed violin ist of a St. Louis orchestra moves ms bow back and forth across his fiddle with his artificial hand, the fiddle strings being manipulated by the natural hand. Other inventions enable men without hands to operate typewriters, and pat. ented tools make it so that any trade can be carried on by soldiers who have lost one or more limbs in the war. (Coprighted, 1918, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 In the JHigh-Salaried Class From the Boston Transcript.
 A signal corps officer tells of oyerhear- ing the following:
 Inquisitive visitor-How much do you boys receive?
 Bright private Thirty dollars day. once a month, ma am.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
Style A OAk or Mahogany Price 5000

 Height 42A inches; width 19A in c h e S; depth P 4 -i9che s. Adjustable tone-afm for playing all disc records; high grade silent Starr-made >motor i; 12-inch turn-table; tone regulator; speed cantrol 1; neckelplated h a r d ware ]; one sapphire needle; two packages of eteel needless; ample record filing space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-02-22
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES
Contributed by
MISS LOUISE AVER,
Secretary Olympia Chapter.

The supper given last week by the
Women's club and the Pioneers AS
ISOLATION to General Styre and the
British and French officers at Camp
Lewis was a tremendously interest
ing affair To see those gay, modest
young fellows and know that they
had seen more warfare than Grant,
Sherman, and Sheridan ali together
was an inspiration; one felt it an
honor to be allied with them. There
is only one thing would add to the
admirable report of the speeches
given by this paper last week; that
is, the tribute paid to the women of
England by Captain Mawdsley. With
out their work in a thousand differ
ent ways, he said, 1t would have
gone very hard with the British
army.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-02-22
CIVILIAN RELIEF.

Saturday the civilian relief COM
mittee called special meeting to
chat over the work with q delegate
from headquarters. You may not
know that you have one of the finest
committees on this branch of the
work there is in the country. 1t is
composed of two women of broad
minds, kind hearts and many years
Of experience in relief work; and two
young men, one a lawyer and the
other a newspaper man, both full Of
enthusiasm and vigor and with tech
meal training that is invaluable.
AS time goes on this committee is
going to be the hardest worked in
the chapter. Their province is to be
a first friend" to the dependents OF
all men who have entered the serv-
ice. The help they give is not char
ity-far from tit is a part Of the
pay we give the boys for their serv-
ices to the country. Just at present
the most determined effort Is being
put forth to see that every soldier
and sailor takes advantage of the
government insurance. Nearly two
months remain of the time in which
such insurance may be taken out. If
you know of anyone who has not
taken such insurance, notify the
chapter.
And If the young wife or old
mother of any soldier is in business
or domestic trouble of any sort, the
committee on civilian relief will
help her out. Already they have re-
lieved the necessities of and cheered
a considerable number of such wom-
en-. 1t is the finest work of the Red
Cross.
The commanding officer at Camp
Lewis has instructed his men to in
form their families that in cases of
urgent financial need or required
legal or medicinal aid. they should
at once get in touch with the home
service (civilian relief sections OF
their local Red Cross chapters.