Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1921-02-27

therefore apt to cause mold in the
course of lengthy transportation.
Damage due to moisture has frequently
been cause of complaint in the COM
paratively small shipments of corn
which we have sent to Europe
Water can, however, be baked out of
the corn by a kiln drying process,
after which it will keep for a much
| longer time. This precaution is to be
taken before the gift corn is shipped
abroad in the form of meal, grits and
honiny. Preparing the corn will mean
some delay, but special machinery
which would not be generally avail
able abroad is needed A first ship
ment is expected to reach China in
April. and it will then be ready for I'M
mediate consumption.
As distribution of the corn is to be
directly in the hands of relief COM
! mittees no difficulty in getting the
people to eat the corn is anticipated.
| In China where thousands of people
have been trying to live on bark and
MOSES, there will be no caviling over
| the American corn being pigs food.
And the committees believe that the
grain will be equally welcome in Ar
menia and Hungary. Corn was used
to some extent in Austria during the
war Europe has never liked it very
much, however, and generally preferred
/ Americans have felt that this dis
like was due mainly to ignorance-not
many Europeans know much about
| corn, and those who have tasted it
more often than not were prejudiced
| by bad cooking.
There is a story along this line about
Carlyle and Emerson Emerson wrote
/ to his friend, Carlyle, recommending
corn as a food and saying that he had
sent package so that the Ca-lyle
10 mi liz lit -
back politely to thank Mr.. Emerson,
| but TO say that after several expert
ments they really did not find the
| flavor of corn meal agreeable The
| correspondence stopped here until Mrs.
| Emerson could copy off some of her
best recipes. Then the Carlyles were
asked to try again. They did. and
wrote back enthusiastically to know
where they could get more of the
American delicacy.
Carlyle Ate Corn
This incident, from the letters of
| Carlyle and Emerson, is one of the
grounds on which Americans base
| their conviction that Europe would like
| corn if it could ever be persuaded to
| give it fair trial. The department of
| agriculture once sent demonstrators
| and lecturers over to Europe to en-
tighten the different countries as to the
possibilities of Indian corn. Neither
guised in griddle cakes, mullins. GIN
gerbread, or corn pone aroused any
| enthusiasm Mostly, those present did
not even come forward to get the
samples.
Because of such experiences, when
the food shortage began to afflice Eu
rope, the United States did not send
corn to the rescue. You NAV remem Der
that Herbert Hoover urged us to eat
more corn and save wheat because Eu-
rope could not very well be taught to
eat a new kind of food in so critical a
4 period.
Now the situation is different, and
Hoover accepted the offered corn glad
ly. About 100000 bushels it is an
nounced will be fed to children of
of it will be prepared by the relief
organizations and served to the chill
dren at feeding centers.
What goes to adults may or may not
be cooked before distribution. Where
it is not prepared for eating directions
Will doubtless be given to insure suf-
ficient cooking.
With adequate cooking, the nutritive
value of corn is about the same as that
OF wheat Corn contains large
amount of sugar and starch which sup
ply the body with heat and energy. 1t
also has a good deal of protein which
builds up the body tissues. 1t is not,
however. rich in minerals, needed in
bone formation. Experiments nave
shown that corn is about as digestible
as wheat and that 80 per cent of its
dry matter is absorbed in the process
: of digestion.
Possibly it does not become America
to be too impatient with the European
lack of appreciation of corn. The high
nutritive value of corn is realized all
over this country and we have been
eating it ever since the Pilgrims by
accident dug up some seed corn buried
by the Indians and got them to ex-
plain the growth and uses of the grain.
Further back than that, Columbus is
said to have found corn growing over
here, and the Aztecs in their great
civilization used it. This country has
had plenty of time to study corn and
its uses. Yet it is estimated that less
/ than 10 per cent of our big corn crops
is eaten by people. whereas practically
all of the wheat it turned into flour
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