The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-11-27


TIiIs WEEKS I GOD FAcTs.
December Ito lis to be. observed
As Conservation Week for World Re-:
lief athroug ughout the country. Conser-
svation Week will open with Consery-
alton Sunday on December J, when
q special message by Herbert Hoover
viii be read from the .pulpits Of the
country. On Wednesday, December.
4 the various wo1nen's organizations
of the state will gather for q special
program and pledge for future.
conservation and on Friday, Decem-
;ber s, a conservation program will
he given in the schools. Conserva-
stion Week for: World Relief is the
effort Of the food administration to
carry to all the people Of the coun-
try the message that. in this day
when anarchy is rife in Europe con-
Eservation for world relief is as ne
Ecessary to the safety Of the world
Eas conservation has been for our
lighting forces. History points to
the: fact that hunger has played a
big role in the revolutions Of the
past. America with it's plenty must
not fail to meet this danger, which
threatens. Before the war our ex-
ports amounted to 100000. tons of
food stuffs. The newly liberated. peo-
pies must have 20,000,00O tons from
rs this year instead. p.
[I Herbert Hoover, United States
food administrator, made a. state
ment recently to the effect. that he
fears 40,OO0,000 Russians in the
northern confines Of their country
will be shut away from transporta-
tion before food can reach them for
winter. They face starvation in its
most tragic form.
Miss Mildred Weigley, home econ
o1nics director of, Minnesota has is
sued new recipe for date pudding
for Thanksgiving dinner. Here it is:
IL cups flour, II teaspoon soda, l
teaspoon salt, u teaspoon cloves, u
teaspoon allspice, y teaspoon nut
meg, u teaspoon cinnamon, u cup
sweet milk, l egg, u cup molasses,
3 tablespoons butter or other fat, u
pound dates. Sift together -four, So
da, salt and spices, Add milk, we'll
beaten egg, molasses, and melted
butter or other fat, Stone the dates.
tetat> into pieces and. addssto aaaixture.
Turn into a well-oiled mold, cover it
tightly, and BOIL two hours or steam
two and one-half hours. This fills a
one pound coffee can two-thirds full.
Serve with hard sauce or with ice
cream. \
Conservation by those who remain
at home is the history of wars. We
who are living today need not feel
that we are the first to whom the
appeal has been made. Recently
there was unearthed a bit of a let.
ter said to have been written by Ju-
Llama Smith to "Dear Cousin Betty
telling of. the Thanksgiving dinners
of 1873. The letter reads: "Every-
thing was good, though we did have
to do without some of the things
that ought to be used. Neither love
nor (paper) money could buy raisins
but our good red cherries, dried
without the pits did almost as we'll
OF course we could have no roast
beef. None of us have tasted beet
this three years back as it all must
go to the army, and too little they
get, poor fellows. But Nayquitty.
maw's hunters were able to get US
a fine red deer, so that we had g
good haunch of venison on each ta
ble."
"Count your blessings" says A. D
Wilson, federal food administrato,
for Minnesota. IF never before thu
American as an individual and citi
zen has stopped to tabulate thu
things for which he should be thank
full, let him do so this year. Peace
which we did not value until W.
lost it, has returned. Millions o1
people are sharing with us liberty K
which we have grown accustomed
but which is to them new: living
The horn Of plenty has been emp
titsda nd :: upon America that our peopl,
may share with those who are starv
ing. This is real season Of Thanks
q giving. Be thankful. !. 5:sz.s 81 !.