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The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-23
THE FIGHTING SPIRIT,

viii your Kentucky people eat
cornbread for week." asked a State
Food Administrator at recent Wash
ington conference.
My people, replied the Kentuck-
AN. would eat cornbread from now
now until harvest if it would help win
the war" There spoke the fighting
spirit, and it is this spirit that is RUM
.ng like flame through America.
A New York woman read in the
daily paper that millions of bushels
OF Russian wheat had fallen into Ger
man hands. She leaped to her feet
with shining eyes and cried, 1.-THE
Germans rob the helpless Russian
farmers Of wheat. but l am robbing
our helpless Allies when l eat wheat
bread. ! will eat no more wheat bread
until harvest The flame of battle
had scorched her soul.
Again the fighting spirit speaks
from California in the phrase Lets
eat milo When the $3.50 flour rul-
ing caused CONSERVATION among the
non combatant women, one fighting
spirit in Californiaexibited in store
window a coffee mill, sack of milo
maize, loaf of milo bread and a re-
oipe-this is the fighting spirit and
she had fired the kind of shot that will
be hard around the world before this
war is over
A brave woman writes from a midi
lie western state, Il can buy no SUBJ
stltutes at the store and have no
money TO send off for substitutes, but
have made two weeks supply of
flour last three and half weeks.
She too substituted the fighting spirit
and tackled the problem.
= A Kansas woman writes, I'VE use
cornmeal or some other wheat SUBJ
stitute twice a day We grind our
own cornmeal and also grind kafir
for pancakes and gems
from the PHILIPPINES comes the re-
port that the consumption of wheat
-four has been cut in half; They are
eating rice instead. Thus from East
to West, from North to South the
women are rising.
These soldiers of the commissary
viii supply America with daily bread
without cutting the loaf they offer
the Allies. They will eat cornbread,
or any other wheatless bread, or no
bread at all twentyone meals in every
week and prove to Germany that the
women of America fight with those
who fight for them. Soldier comrades
they are of their brothers at the front.
News Bulletin.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-23

y teaspoonful salt
/ cup milk.
/ egg (beaten
tablespoonfuls melted buntter or
lard.
slit together ali dry ingredients;
add milk, beaten egg and butter in
the order given, and bake an hour in
a quick oven.
This is an old, much used recipe of
Mary ]. Lincoln.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-23
SALE OF SERBIAN GIRLS

Eight thousand Serbian girls under
Is years of age were sold to the Turks
for "a each by the Austrians. This
statement was made by S. S. Mcclure
in the course of a talk upon the war
delivered at the Arts Club Of Wash.
ington.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-23

A recent survey brought out the
fact that Michigan women are not
spending their surplus earnings for
clothes. Even the younger girls en-.
ployed as clerks at small salaries are
buying Liberty Bonds.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-23

l cup wheat -four.
y cup yellow corn meal.
l rounded tablespoonful sugar
(white or brown
teaspoonfuls baking powder.
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
The Milk Question Elsewhere
What Boston and San Francisco Are Doing to Keep
Down Prices

More days have passed and babies have died Tor
lack of food and NOTHING has been heard as to the
regulation of the price Of milk in the District OF Columbia
any Of the committees appointed have reported their
findings evidently not deemed interesting to the public
If the advertised conferences have resulted In anything
those results evidently not favorable to the consumers
any definite action has been taken it must have been
the determination that the present price of milk and the pro-
specve INCREASED price of milk is not to be opposed by
the Food Administration
It is interesting and Illuminating note what Food Ad
mnsttions in other parts of the country doing to
ect the public against the everncreasng price burden
which is being placed upon this necessity.
At one end of the country Boston where milk sells for
15 cents quart the Food Administration will shortly have
completed thorough investigation of the absolute cost Of
production handling and distribution of milk to the people
of that city.
It is believed that this investigation is going to show
that there reasonable basis for any increase in the
cost of milk Boston, and expected that any increase
win be FORBIDDEN.
At the other end of the country in San Francisco,
the Federal food commissioner is about to put into effect
the system of distributing milk dealers handling
$4,000 gallons of the daily distribution of $4,000 having
willingly agreed to participate in the delivery plan
It is confidently believed that with the Inauguration
Of this time and money saving program there will be no
necessity Of increasing the price of TWELVE CENTS
quart which the present figure for home delivered prod
ucts in the Pacific city.
Why the milk problem in Boston and in San Francisco
and in many cities between should be much eff
centy handled than it is in Washington merits and even
requires some sort of an explanation.
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
Speed Mania Means a Slow
Brain
Brain
The Man Whose Mind Creeps Must Hur His Body
Through Space.
What is the matter with the speed maniac?

What is the matter with the speed maniac?
Why does human being want to risk his own neck,
also other and better neck rushing through public roads
at forty or fifty miles an hour?
The speed idiot is explained in various ways
First there is the craving for excitement and for ad
miration
Men want to be admired When they cannot earn Iegit
innate admiration with real ability they try other ways
A few jump of Brooklyn Bridge-rather good idea
Others try to swim the Niagara rapids Others eat glass
in museums. Women marry foreign noblemen and go to
court-or the divorce court
gets automobile and goes fast. He toots
his horn and that commands attention He false
face has chauffeur has for buying all kinds of
clothes, has something to talk about FEELS
IMPORTANT.
But why does the automobile idiot insist on going at
reckless speed?
he sends his body through space friousy because HE
rs UNABLE TO MAKE HIS BRAIN TRAVEL FAST
If the human brain is good for anything, it ought to
make all earthly physical speed aimess and not
worth while.
You could imagine man of real brain power and
brain speed wanting to speed automobile
Gould you imagine Calico Newton, great jurist
philosopher, Lincoln rushing crafty nowhere in
Nor 0 N'''-O'' 'N''-' 'ON '''-O
The crazy March hare puts his whole soul into speed
the elephant most intelligent of all animals is the slowest
and most deliberate.
Man Graves to exhibit power. If he can send his
thought through space investigating the distant nebulae
into the future foreseeng humantys growth he does
not need to travel maniacay this little earth
PEELED by exploding gasoene
IT, however his brain cannot give him the sensation
of quick movement and if he is lucky enough keep away
from the false limitations of mental speed which alcohol
gives he does the next best thing-f he afford -and
speeds an automobile.
It is simply the sluggish but egotistical intelligence
trying to make up with bodily speed for the slowness of
the brain.
The faster the automobile the slower the mind in it
be sure Of that a
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
From The Public To The Editor

rapidly assuming shape. So you see
your Government has "a bureau par
ticularly concerned with the future
OF these men and wholly interested
in making them self-supporting and
self-respecting members of society"
We hope to have your interest and
cooperation in this work. II is Of
Interest to every man who is drafted
for service, or who is likely to be
drafted, to know that whatever may
bstide him in the way OF injuries, II
he has his brain left, we will teach
him to use his remaining capabili-
ties so as to get 100 per cent efri-
cheney out Of them. We are going
to make these men self-supporting,
self-respecting. valuable members OF
society, and place them back in civil
life where they will be great and
valuable factors, both in commerce
and in industry. This is not confined
to manual trades. There is no career
for which a man is capable or At for,
and which he desires to follow, that
Is not open to him. The knowledge
should stimulate each man as he goes
to the front; it should comfort his
dependents and relatives at home.
We should greatly welcome you
into the ranks of the recruits whom
we are finding every day and en-
tightening upon this subject Your
paper can be Of vast help, and II is
a patriotic duty to help spread this
news. II you yourself, ordinarily a
man of most amazing information,
and whose writings / read with great
pleasure and profit, were unaware of
what the Government had done, GER
tainly the mass of the people need
the information put so they can get
IL. Very cordially yours,
c. A. PROSSER,
Director.
The Washington times., 1918-09-14

Gladys no longer feels very
much at home with these young
married people, their interests
seem such miles away from hers,
1t is hard to get on the same plane
with them even for conversational
purposes. She feels superior to
them in being "a society GIRL" and
yet they have a homely happiness
that she can't help resenting.
Somehow or other the world seems
to be passing Gladys by.
And yet she keeps right on being
helpless-and, like Mr.. McCaw-
Der, waiting for something to turn
up. Her mother continues to man
age for her, she still does much of
her sewing and mending. waits on
her and apologies for the delay
in the princes appearance.
Mother Feels Responsible for the
Prince.
Mother having begun the prince
ly legend. feels it is up to her to
make good with the mythical SON.
in-law, she feels responsible for
him and his failure to msterialize
is a source Of keen modification to
her.
To retrieve poor Gladys and her
hopeless prospects, her mother
would go cheerfully to the stoke.
Her maternal instinct warns ner
that 1t Is not too late to teach any
thing practical to Gladys, the time
had passed when a girl regards a
successful culinary flight in the
kitchen as an achievement. There
is no great adventure in a spoiled,
disappointed girls making a batch
OF doughnuts, or a cherry pie
these things have to be taught
young.
Gladys cake invariably turns to
dough; that is the history of her
type, but the great war has given
such as she a chance to redeem
their spoiled loaf. She may now
turn it into toast, or pudding and
serve it with sauce piquante and
convert what promised to be utter
failure into a partial success.
For it has given ''the society
girl" on nothing a year, a chance
to do honest work. To redeem the
utter folly Of her mother in try
ing to make Of her a product OF
elegant leisure, on an empty pock-
etbook.
She would have been ashamed
to embark on a career of useful
ness, without the magnificent ex-
cuse of a world war. That saved
her face, it enabled her to work
honestly, and not wholly abandon
the society" legend, because she
was working for patriotic reasons
Gladys is doing her bit.
And after the war the world
will be such a changed place that
she will never be obliged to 60 back
to that terrible niche she once oc-
cupied in the family, that Of so
cietyT Cinderella waiting for the
prince who never came
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
Beatrice Fairfax Writes the Problems Pitfalls the Workers
Especially for Washington Women

TT is curious, but the things a
mother appears to most highly
esteem in a daughter are the
qualities she is apt to be deficient
in herself.
II the mother is a good seam
stress, or a good housekeeper, or
a thrifty and economical admins
traitor OF the family fortune, she
regards these gifts as negligible on
the part of her daughter. She may
go even further and cherish a
vague, IL not a positive, antipahy,
to her daughters becoming pro-
ficient, in any of them.
81 don't wish Gladys to learn
how to sew" one of them once
said to me, "if she doesn't know
how, some one Will always do it
for her-I know" she finished
rather bitterly, because I've spent
my time sewing for all the incom-
petents Of the family"
Was Sent to a Finishing School
So Gladys was not taught to
sew, instead she went to "a finish
ing school," and took music lessons
and French, though she never real
ly learned either accomplishment.
The Spring Song" was her high
est musical flight, but she could
never play consecutively, and her
French would not have carried her
farther than ordering lunch in a
cafe where the menu was written
in that language. But her mother
persisted in the belief that If her
daughter did not know how to do
all the useful and uninteresting
things in which she excelled that,
somehow, life would be easier for
her child.
And doubtless there is one
Gladys, at least, to every three
families in the United States.
Sometimes the ratio is three
Gladys to one family.
The chances for the happiness
and usefulness OF such a girl are
being spoilt because her mother
would enjoy being the parent OF
"a society girl or a highly sue
cessful woman of the world, and
she begins an attempt to hoist her
daughter to the top Of the ladder
by cutting away the intervening
rungs.
The theory being that Gladys
must reach the top. because she is
entirely unacQuainted with the bot
tom.
There may be no money in the
family, no prospects, nor any con-
spicuous talent, but mother per-
sists in her fond delusion that if
Gladys pays as much for her hat
as Eunice Vanderpool, with whom
she went to school, and who is
heiress to a few millions, daugh-
ter's chances, somehow or other,
will approximate those of Eunice.
So the family goes without, and
Gladys gets the hat, but no mira
p Gle happens
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
Washington Gives $l2.791, ,96l
To The Government
Another Example Of Taxation Without Rspr
By EARL GOODWIN.

The Internal Revenue Bureau has compiled figures to
show what each State contributed to the Government this
year.
The tables show exactly how much special war taxes
paid to the Treasury for the upkeep of the army and
and the general for defeating Germany
1t is fine array of wealth, and each State will be
proud of its record.
taxes and other taxes paid in by the District Of
Columbia Special taxes paid by residents Of the Ma
tona Capital amounted to So 73 miscellaneous Federal
taxes amounted to $780, 1888; total, $12791 961.
With that amount of Federal taxes levied you might
think would be entitled to VOTE in this community
and mi ght have something to say about affairs
but we're not. -.-.
Just cast your eye this table, showing that the
District of Columbia leads sixteen sovereign States in tax
paying ability:
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
HEARD AND SEEN

Seems to be some difference Of
opinion about who George Diamond
was. TOM BRADLEY says George
was a high-voiced darkey imperson-
ator, and not a dancing harpist"
While CHARLES W. HOFFMAN,
500 Cedar street, Takoma Park. re-
fers all hands to FRANK N. TAY-
LOR, 46 West Sixty-fifth street, New
York, who is believed to know all
about George. MISS CAROLINA
DIAMOND has inherited all her faith
ers' talents, I am told, and is now
on what the actors call the big
time circuit"
Great Heck! Who remembers
phen people 1Cere arrested for fast
driving of horses?
HARRY c. FISK makes a good
suggestion? He favors the universal
use OF tie expression OUR Gov
ERNIENT," instead Of the imper-
sonal and far-away sounding phrase,
THE GOVERNMENT. I'm for It,
and thank Mr.. Fisk.
The Washington times., 1918-09-14

But, as the years go on, the
prince proves to be rather a poor
Sherlock Holmes, he doesn't dis
cover Gladys or make any at
tempts to do SO, and she gets rather
peevish waiting for him to come
and find her.
She notices that the girls who
have gone into business, at the
same time she started her career
as "a society girl" on nothing a
year, have nearly all married
young men whom they met in
business. And these young people
are now wholly occupied in buy
ing a house in the suburbs, saw
ing for a Ford, or, pridefully
relating the baby's latest trick.
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
TODAY'S TOPIC
THE CAREER OF GLADYS

For the same reason Gladys,
after completing her course at the
finishing school, does not take up
a profession or go into business.
Her destiny is to be Ma society
girl" on fathers salary as book
keeper, departmental chief, con-
fidential clerk, or assistant some
thing or other.
It is a pretty Cinderellaish
business, but mother is sure the
prince is going to discover Gladys.
The girl is rather fed up on the
prince legend, as it has not been
so long ago since she stopped
reading fairy stories and taking
them seriously, and she is quite
willing to sit around, look pretty,
and wait till she is discovered.
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
Here's My Liberty Bond
Slogan:
Bet Your Money on the o. s. A.


D. r. BURHANS says, in answer
to HUGH A. ERNST: 81 recall
the St. Cloud Hotel, Ninth and F
streets (where the Washington
Loan and Trust building stands),
forty years ago; in fact, it was the
first hotel at which my parents and
| stayed after our migration from
New York city to Washington"
Saw PERCY FOSTER in a nice
pretty brown NEW motor car. All.
boy!
Ye Editor thanks ED CARING
TON for witnessing some legal pa
pers. Much Obliged. Ed.
DAVE LYNN is hoping to go to
France in khaki soon.
CAPT. ARCH MATTINGLY's new
uniform is a great success.
CHARLIE HAMILTON telephoned
that the account of his death was
greatly exaggerated. He is the
father OF GEORGE HAMILTON.
referred to in the quartet OF marine
officers who have distinguished
themselves. Mr.. McCambridge, who
knew about the quartet, said that
Hamilton's father, who was a prom
inent lawyer, is dead" The father,
who is a newspaper man and a
friend of mine and whole lot Of
others, phoned in that his death had
not occurred as far as he knew it.
GUS KARGER was in his office the
other day when WILLIAM HOWARD
TAFT called up. The former Presi-
dent said he had heard that GEORGE
.O'CONNOR vas sick at Providence
The Washington times., 1918-09-14
Information You Should Know. !
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATION
AL EDUCATION
OFFICE OF THE BOARD

WASHINGTON.
To the Editor Of THE TINES:
have just read with qualification
the editorial in your issue of July p.
in which you printed some pictures OF
some convalescent injured soldiers at
Walter Reed Hospital, and then went
on TO say:
The Government should main
tain a bureau particularly con-
cerned with the future OF these
men and wholly interested In
making them self-supporting and
selr-respcctinG members OF So
cicty.
France and England and Ger
many have taken advanced steps
in this great work and are re-
habilitating their wounded men
with promptness and success.
May I not call your attention to
the fact that on June 81 the PresI-
dent approved Senate bill No. Asst,
entitled IAN act to provide for vOca-
tional rehabilitation and return to
civil employment of disabled persons
discharged from the military or naval
forces OF the United States, and for
other purposes" A copy OF said act
is sent to you herewith.
Your attention is invited to the
specific designation of the Federal
board for vocational education, as
the means by which our disabled SOL
diers and sailors shall be given their
retraining and placement back in in
dustry and civil life.
This work will actually begin
shortly after the frst of next month.
II is a tremendous task to create the
organization to handle II as II should
be handled, and that organization Is
The Washington times., 1918-09-14

Hospital and wouldn't Gus go over
there with htm-on foot.
They walked over. Mr.. Taft said
he'd always liked George and that
George had made him laugh q lot
Of times, and now he was sick he
thought he would 90 over and see
how the boy was getting on.
Well, it tickled George a lot to
have Mr.. TAFT walk in to see him ct
the hospital. Also It made con-
siderable Of a stir around the hos
pital.
And best of all, Gus reports that
George is doing fine.
Gone But Not Forgotten.
Talking about old steamboats,, who
remembers the old SEUFFERLE
plowing beween Seventh street wharf
and Buena Vista every hour on the
hour loaded to her full capacity on
every trip with booze and human
freight TO attend the Dutch PICNICS
with its famous German band, hot
dogs and sauerkraut The Seufferle
whistle with its shrek heard all
over town must be kn6wn to all the
old boys. II l remember right this
whistle was sold to the American Ice
Company. Ask SAM KIMBERLEY
may know. II the sound Of that old
whistle could be turned loose just
once more no doubt it would bring
back remembrance Of many good
times to the old sports. l see faces
on the streets of Washington every
day and could mention names, but as
long as this town has gone dry ]
would not like to make them feel
bad by thinking when they had the
times of their life on the Seuferle
and at Buena Vista and no restriction
on BOOZE
A GOOD FELLOW THAT HAD
HIS FUN.
Talking to a soldier from Camp
Meade the other day, collected this
lHlOEHollOu IIOnl nlIns IL TeESnlnS
had on his front line all the men
for whom / have washed dishes this
past week he could break the linden
burg line to pieces in ten minutes"
Also Seems like Sherman was
tongue-tied."
'Twanted-one big-face clock for
the new bathing beach"
SONGS OF A DAY LONG DEAD.
There Is q charming RttIs seidoo
Who keeps a condv store
Where oil the eA1dren buy their eASO-
ing 0sHA
She sells to6y for a penny,
Her name 10 on The door,
There Is rnuSEo iB the rGes Of WidosS
DuHn.
AHeen AldH-Rdh
StGTTV buHHer,
Slavery doys, boys. ersry one,
She IodTbleS, dtsy, She'H surely pld=e ys,
There is music in the face Of UtS0a
DrhHA
The Washington times., 1918-09-14

Each of these sixteen States contributes less to the up
keep of the Government than does the National Capital
single city Yet the sixteen States send to Congress thirty
four Senaor-more than onethrd of the membership of
that body The sixteen States send forysx members to
the House. while the District of Columbia sends
ALL and actually dares not meddle in affairs Of state
d1es NEEDLE in its OWN cfvic affairs.
No year goes by without garing evidence of the need
of REPRESENTATION In Congress by the District Of
Columbia. This table of TAXATION merely adds to the
great volume of evidence already at hand.
The National Capital will send thousands of to war;
it will pay and has paid millions for the of liberty
In all Justice should not be the ONLY spot in the entire
land of freedom where the residents and taxpayers have
no voice in their government
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-01-24
Prohibition Almost Totally
Eliminates Crime

WIN. LANCER, attorney general
of the State of North Dakota,
says:
My experience in Morton coun
ty, which until recently WAS the
largest county in the state OF
North Dakota, concusivcly prov
ed that the strongest argument
for state wide prohibition, If en-
forced, is the almost total el'ni'
nation of crime. Since becon.
ing attorney general Of the state
of North Dakota and consequent
ly ex officio a member of the par.
don board have found that $3.50
Of the men applying for p'rdons
g 1t into the penitentiary because
they committed their crimes
while under the influence OF
liquor. Deer, ase of crime means
decrease of expensive lawsuits
and permits tile money saved to
be put into good schools. In my
judgment the entire elimination
# liquor has raised our citizen
ship to a much higher standard
than | believe can be found IN
any wet STATE.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-01-24
Obituary

Mamie w. Box was born Aug.
6, 1894, and grew to manhood,
beloved by all of his many
friends, in Wright and Webster
counties. He was called to the
defense Of his country Oct. 3,
1917, and located at Camp Funs-
ton; afterwards he was transfer
red to Camp Doniphan, Okla,
where he was a member Of Co. +,
Engineering Department; while
there he contracted measles. fol
by pneu monia, which
caused his d ath Jan 10, 1918.
Rev. Pleasant Davis conducted
the funeral Jan. II at the Box
home near Jericho and he was
laid to rest in the Newton GENE.
terry. j. N. Davis, who is also a
member OF the same company.
accompanied the remains from
sill to confer military honors
~ his departed comrade. No one
knew Mamie Box but 10 love and
admire him, and the father, bro
ther and five sisters who mourn
their loss have the sympathy of
all.--Ira b Holden.