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Bellefonte, Pa., May 11, 1917.
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A MISTAKE.
A tadpole sat on a cool, gray stone,
And sadly thought of his life;
“Alas, must I live all alone!” said he,
“Or shall I espouse me a wife?”
A wise old frog on the brink of the stream
Leaned over and said, with a sigh:
“Oh, wait till you're older, my dear young
friend, :
You'll have better taste by and by!
“Girls change you know, and the
wog slim,
That takes your fancy today,
May not be the polly at all you'd choose,
When the summer has passed away!”
But the tadpole rash thought he better
knew, :
And married a pollywog fair;
And before the summer was over he sat
On the brink of that stream in despair.
polly
For, would you believe it? His fair, young
bride
Proved to be but a stupid frog,
‘With never a trace of beauty or grace
Of young Miss Pollywog.
And although the tadpole himself had
grown
Stout and stupid, too?
He only saw the faults of his wife,
As others sometimes do.
To all young tadpoles, my moral is this:
Before you settle in life,
Be sure you know without any doubt,
What you want in the way of a wife.
—Mary H. Olmstead, in Golden Days.
REPORT OF CENTRE COUNTY
CONFERENCE AT BOALSBURG.
The spring meeting of the Centre
county conference of Women’s clubs
and affiliated societies was held at
Boalsburg, Saturday, April 28th. The
weather was perfect and the roads
good, making possible a large attend-
ance—125 being registered.
The ladies of the Boalsburg club
received their guests in the Lutheran
church, which was beautifully deco-
rated with spring flowers.
The morning session was called to
order at 10:30 o’clock by the presi-
dent, Mrs. J. T. Mitchell, and opened
with an invocation by Dr. Beach, of
Bellefonte. In her greeting the pres-
ident spoke of her appreciation of the
spirit of unity and co-operation in
the conference,
Following a song entitled, “Taps,”
sung by Mrs. Miller, came the report
of the winter's work by the various
clubs. In the twenty reports given,
all showed increasing activity in
practical work. A number had intro-
duced and were conducting sewing
classes in their public schools. Sev-
eral had undertaken the support of a
Belgian child for a year; one had es--
tablished a visiting nurse in the com-
munity. Nearly all had done Red
Cross work; one, special work for a
French hospital, another for an Ital-
ian hospital. Clean-up and “Better
Baby” campaigns are still to be car-
ried through.
Listening to these reports, one was
impressed with the scope of the work
and the earnestness of the workers.
The session closed with a recita-
tion by Mrs. Frank Brown. :
At 12:30 o’clock the Boalsburg club
served a delicious luncheon to their
guests, after which most of the ladic
accepted the invitation extended to
them by Lieut. Leitzell, of Boal Troop,
to visit the camp and see the mount-
ing of a machine gun.
At two o'clock the meeting re-con-
vened; listened to the reading of the
minutes of the morning session by
the secretary, Mrs. John S. Walker.
To recitations, “The Horror of the
Woods,” by Miss Goheen, and “The
" School Entertainment,” by Mrs. Kel-
ler.
No convention of thoughtful wom-
en could be held todoy without the
war and its problems having a prom-
inent place on the program. An ad-
dress by Dr. Beach, “Why America
is at War,” held the close attention of
all. “It was the cause of Democracy,
the great ideal,” Dr. Beach said,
“which has brought us to fight shoul-
der to shoulder with the other na-
tions; that in coming years there may
be freedom for all men to shape and
live their lives in safety.”
Prof. Fletcher discussed the food
problem: “What can the women of
Centre county do to help? Not bul-
lets, but bread, will win this war. We
must not only support ourselves but
contribute largely to the other na-
tions.”
What Centre county can do, Prof.
Fletcher handled under three heads:
First—Take immediate steps to or-
ganize a campaign to get the larger
boys to work on the farms,
Second—Better and more gardens,
“Is a home garden a good financial
Proposition? It hag been demon-
strted that a garden 50x60 feet, cost-
Ing not more than $15.00 to plant,
iid] yield $75.00 in vegetables, More
winter vegetables gh
and stored.” P04 Us grown
_ Third—Preservation ang utiliza-
tion of products which otherwise go
to waste. “Organize canning and
drying clubs; save everything which
has a food value.”
The last speaker was Mrs. LaDo-
meirs, of Chester, Pa., who came to
present the work ang needs of the
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Emergency Aid, of Pennsylvania,
with headquarters in Philadelphia.
This society is a clearing house for
Pennsylvania relief work abroad, do-
ing the work through special commit-
tees.
ticles for use in the foreign hospitals
which the women could make for the
society. In view of the fact that our
own boys may be in the French
trenches in a short time, the work ap-
pealed strongly to her audience.
With a rising vote of thanks to the
Boalsburg club ladies in appreciation
of their gracious hospitality, the con-
ference adjourned.
Securing Work for Federal Prisoners.
Chaplain A. J. Soldan of the Feder-
al prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, has
recently established an employment
bureau for prisoners who- have ended
their term, and has already had much
success in securing work for them with
firms in almost every part of the
United States and is daily receiving
more and more encouragement.
One splendid feature of Chaplain
Soldan’s plan of securing employment
for all men who want to work, has
been the thoroughness of his system.
Every effort is made to ascertain the
man’s. true capabilities before any rec-
ommendation is made to employ-
ers. Even prisoners themselves have
realized that their ability, if over-es-
timated, would only prove detri-
mental to their own best interests.
Consequently, conservative and not
exaggerated information is given to
all prospective employers, with the re-
sult that the men who enter upon the
duties provided for them, do so with-
out misrepresentation and with every
opportunity for advancement and
growth. This establishes firmer con-
viciton among employers that this
bureau’s sole purpose is to operate
upon the merit system; and they
readily stamp it in a more favorable
and reliable light.
More than a hundred applications
are now on hand from men who ex-
pect early releases. These are being
handled in their regular order, cor-
respondence having been opened with
employers in the various sections of
the country to which applicants desire
to go. Accurate records are being
kept, the prisoners’ capabilities are
tabulated and a digest of their pre-
vious experience is being systematic-
ally prepared. All information per-
taining to each man is submitted to
the prospective employer in detail,
together with recommendations which
are based on observation, habits, am-
bitions and associations during the
applicant’s incarceration. This serv-
ice is thorough and lays before each
employer (upon his request) all facts
entering into each man’s particular
case, as far as can be ascertained.
Employers appreciate this frankness,
and as a result, feel more friendly to-
ward the movement in general.
It is Chaplain Soldan’s idea to fur-
ther encourage enthusiastic co-opera-
tion in this work, by organizing spe-
cial interests in i
of the country in the near future. His
endeavor to form outside welfare as-
sociations‘with whom he can keep in
constant touch in an effort to enlarge
the field of opportunity for deserving
men, is worthy of serious contempla-
tion. In this manner, organized bod-
ies would take up the problems of
prisoners leaving there in advance of
their discharge and thus doubly as-
sures their being placed in lucrative
positions. In addition, a prisoner
would find earnest and interested
friends and advisers in the locality in
which he had chosen to enter. Every
effort will be made to put this plan
into effect, with but one object in
view to conscientiously and efficient-
ly help fallen humanity to rise again.
Bruce Ismay’s Submarine Plan.
Building of fast liners capable of
strong defensive armament against
submarine attack, instead of concen-
trating upon the construction of
tramp steamers of low speed, was ad-
vocated by J. Bruce Ismay, chairman
of the London War Risks Associa-
tion, at the annual meeting of that
organization.
Referring to the government's plan
of shipbuilding, he said:
“An association such as ours—rep-
resenting the liner interests in Liver-
pool, London and Glasgow—is war-
ranted in uttering a warning against
the policy of concentrating on the
building of nothing but tramp ton-
nage of low speed. It is the liners
which have carried and are still car-
rying the bulk of the Nation’s food
supplies, and of the cotton and wool
required in our factories.
“It is the liners who have proved
by their speed, manning and defen-
sive armament best able to meet the
submarine peril. There is no necessi-
ty and no desire to install at present,
passenger accommodation in new
ships, but it is of the first importance
that the building of the liner of great
carrying capacity and of good speed
should be pushed on as rapidly as the
building of any other type of vessel.”
Mr. Ismay said the premiums paid
on insured vessels had covered 95 per
cent. of the losses on all voyages
started since the beginning of the war.
Losses sustained from the activities
of the German raiders Emden, Karls-
rhue, Moewe and submarines had been
heavy, but that they should be almost
covered by premiums at the rate of
little over one-half of 1 per cent. per
month was a magnificent tribute to
the navy.
Purity “Gives Power.
There are still many persons in the world
that need to be impressed with the fact
that the purer the blood is the greater is
the power of the system to remove disease
and the less the liability to contract it.
Persons whose blood is in good condition
are much less likely to take cold or to be
long troubled with it, or to catch any con-
tagious or infectious disease, than are
those whose blood is impure and there-
fore impoverished and lacking in vitality.
The best medicine for purifying the blood
is Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and persons suffer-
ing from any blood disease or any want
of tone in the system are urged to give
this medicine a trial. It is especially use-
ful at this time of year. 62-19
—For high class Job Work come
Mrs. LaDomeirs exhibited ar-
all the principal cities
| THE RED GODS AND THE Boy.
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The Chautauqua Reading Hour
| WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, PH. D. EDITOR.
i Yesterday I took a boy of 14 to
| church with me.
{ factory kind of boy. He was combed
{and gloved, truly a little gentleman.
ther boys of his age were present.
One was an usher. Another was the
| Sunday school librarian.
The minister’s text was about King
Josiah. He told us how this godly
monarch cleaned up Jerusalem and
Palestine and fought a war with
Egypt. He began to reign when he
{ working a revolution
| troops into battle.
THE BOY OF THE OLDEN DAYS.
This set me to thinking. If my lad
had lived a thousand years ago he
woud be gone on a ‘crusade by now.
If he had been alive in the days of
Elizabeth he would be exploring Cali-
fornia or settling Detroit. If he had
lived in 1776 he would be a scout un-
der Washington. If he had been born
rison.
eye on the minister and the other on
my neighbor’s daughter.
HE STILL REBELS.
Is he a young gentleman, or does
he, too, live in his own world of ro-
mance? Has he any desire to break
loose, “to strive to seek, to find, and
not to yield” before he becomes “a
desk-infesting animal” like myself ?
Thank God, he has. His mind and
his hair were both rebelious this
morning, his gloves are a forced con-
cession, and he confessed to me on
the way to church that the minister is
“a mummy.” His mind is divided be-
tween the detective story that I found
in his bed and the base ball game
that he is going to play tomorrow
night.
This lad is really in total rehellion
against the world in which he is liy-
ing. His indictment against it is that
it is monotonous. His daily objection
to his food, his clothes, good manners
and church is that they are always
alike. He dislikes school because it
told things, instead of being allowed
to do things. He scorns his text-books
because instead of teaching him ac-
tion they only give the histories of
persons who once acted.
All this is encouraging. It proves
that “bromides” are made, not born.
This boy, if he hadn’t always heard
“Don’t,” would really do something.
His legs are accustomed to the lock-
step in school, society, church, even
in “directed” play, but he would leave
the beaten trail if there wasn’t always
somebody, teacher, policeman, pestor
or parent, to shoo him back. Even yet
he is pretty likely some day to act at
least once on his own initiative,
THE NEED OF TODAY.
need men and women who dare? Can
it move forward if everybody follows
the same trail? Is there anyone wha
can prove that life is worth living but
the adventurous young ?
Our fault is this: the ereative child
makes more trouble than the conven-
tional one. It is easier to raise a child
who will live in quotation marks and
listen to life with a libretto. We fail
therefore to see, what Gerald Stanley
Lee so plainly sees, that “the mischief
in a boy is the entire basis of his ed-
ucation, the mainspring of his life.”
THE CALL OF THE WILD.
Jane Addams has told you what the
city boy and girl do today in their
pathetic quests for adventure. The
daring youth of old sought the sea.
Failing the sea, the modern boy seeks
the railroad, robbing, riding, consort-
ing beside the rails.
journeyed to other lands. The youth
of today finds his fairyland in the mo-
tion-picture show, the dance hall and
the “dope” joint. But the desire is
the same as of oid.
And perhaps because of the new
difficulties in attaining it, young peo-
ple today thirst for adventure inten-
sified, quickened and highly flavored.
Melodrama is enjoyed because of
its short-cut between cause and effect.
Coney Island, “the Tom-tom of Amer-
ca,” is crowded for its coarse excite-
ments and its readymade joys and
laughter.
HOW TO TREAT THE WANDER-LUST.
So the quiet old substitutes fail.
You can no longer calm a lad with a
lust for wandering by inviting him to
go and look over his stamp collec-
tion. Fret-sawing in the kitchen does
not satisfy the youth who aches to be
out with the gang. Baseball is effec-
tive as long as it lasts, because there
is exercise for the rooter, the pop-
bottle is a handy missile, and the game
itself resembles real warfare.
The only antidote known for the
passion for cheap shows is to allow a
boy to get up a show of his own.
This is why I hail the movement for
outings, hikes, Boy Scouts and trolley
trips, anything that makes a boy an
actor. I knew a lad once who had
been operated on so often by the
etherizing influences of city life that
I had almost given up hope that he
could ever show initiative of his own,
One summer he went away to a camp,
where the anuanl stunt was to walk
around a neighboring lake, a circuit
of 18 miles. This boy and another
decided to set up a new and glorious
goal. They would walk home to De-
troit, a distance” of 200 miles. Any-
body who knows what the interior of
Michigan looks like can appreciate
that there was little inspiration to
continue except what was generated
at the start. They finished their
stroll, footsore but triumphant, in ten
days. After
on this boy for anything.
A CLUB OF THEIR OWN,
In the Charlestown district of Bos-
ton in a ramshackle set of buildings
is the Bunker Hill Boys’ Club. Those
boys used to throw the burlesque
shows around Scollay Square, Satur-
day nights. After they started a Sat-
urday evening “amateur evening” at
the club the boys stopped leaving the
district. They preferred to act in a
show of their own.
Boys are born today as much as
ever with the pirate, the explorer, the
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And here he sits, sedately, with one |
Seriously, does not the world still.
The old-time lad
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and leading his | the people by the people, the aim be-
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but half a century ago he would have | ular department of the city’s “work.
met Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg or in i st
be. trying to dig his way out of Libby | ble in itself, but the most astonishing
is a place where he is always being | ped with sanitary beds, table,
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that I was willing to het Saf
crusader in their bosoms. Give them i
a chance to act it out, whether in |
camp or on the stage, and they will |
rise above more passive pleasures. |
Thus you save the spirit of adventure
for the real conquests of manhood.
A Public Playground on the Hills, |
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Public playgrounds are common— |
every enterprising city of any impor-
tance has them—but the playground
camp, located far away in the hills
where the clang of the street car and
the nerve-racking hustle of business
are not known, is new, at least so far
| as its general use is concerned. Such | to
la camp is now being
conducted by the |
It is strictly a |
being conducted for
ing to make it possible for residents |
of that city, who would otherwise be
kept at home, to secure a short stay
in the hills at a moderate cost. Al- |
though this municipal camp has been |
in progress for more than five years |
—this being the sixth summer—it is |
the only one of its kind in the world,
so far as is known. It has passed the
experimental stage and is now a reg-
The outing at the camp is remarka-
thing about these trips is their price
to the citizens. For a two-weeks’ stay
at camp a charge of $7.50 is made,
while for the single week $5.50 is
charged, these prices including
“feed,” transportation, baggage—
everything. The camp is located
about 85 miles from the city. Sixty-
five miles of this distance is made by
electric car, this being from Los An-
geles along the foot of the most beau-
tiful of foothills to San Bernardino,
at which place a change is made from
the electric cars to immense motor
stages.
At the camp the campers get
“three squares” every day, served in
cafeteria style in the immense dining
room overlooking the beautiful stream
and covered by immense pines. One
thing is required of the camper every
day and that is one hour's work, this
being spent in helping to keep the
camp clean, or in the kitchen. A trip
of this kind to the average camp—
and everything at this camp is up to
the standard—would cost between $30 |!
and $35 for the two-weeks’ outing. |
Each of the camp cabins is equip- |
chairs, |
ete. They are grouped a satisfactory
distance apart around the main lodge,
which is a large rustic affair. This |
contains a large living room with |
mammoth fireplace, where the resis]
dents” assemble in the evening for |
the office, |
completely |
good times; the library,
ete. Close at hand, and
; surrounded by trees, is the 50 by 100- |
ft. new concrete-lined swimming pool,
the baseball diamond, the croquet and
tennis courts, the exercising ground,
etc .—By Albert Marple, in the May
Popular Mechanics Magazine. |
Women to Take Place of Men Called |
to Arms. i
New York, N. Y.—Several big east- |
ern railroads have started making ar-
rangements to employ women in place
of men called to armes by the draft.
Among the roads taking these pre-
cautions are the New Haven, Lehigh
Valley, Erie, New York Central, the
Pennsylvania and the Long Island.
All roads made it plain that no men
would be displaced by women unless
actually drafted. The women will be
used in departments not actually en-
gaged in physical operation of trains.
At the offices of the Lehigh Valley
road it was stated that women are
now being given preference in the
hiring of new employees, in depart-
ments where they are able to do the
work, as the management expects
many men will be called to the colors
within a few months. The Lehigh is
already employing women as car
cleaners and has made ‘some experi-
ments with them as train dispatchers.
The New York Central also is em-
ploying women as car cleaners.
The New Haven offices declared
there was no doubt steps would be
taken to have women replace
drafted men. The Long Island is pre-
paring to employ a large number of
women in clerical departments. This
road has already given work to scores
of women.
Between 300 and 400 men employ-
ees of the Grand Central Terminal are
members of the National Guard and
are momentarily expecting a sum-
mons to duty. All arrangements are
being rushed to put women in their
places. Some have already left, and
women are doing their work. The
Erie offices stated that shortage in
male clerical labor was already being
faced. Women ticket sellers, ticket
collectors and telegraphers will be
seen in the men’s places.
Street railways in New York, Chi-
cago, Boston, Philadelphia and other
cities are considering the necessity of
putting on women conductors. Mo-
tormen will be replaced by conductors
ineligible for war service, and the
places of the latter be filled by wom-
en.
Gov. Brumbaugh Issues a Call.
To all members of the Public Safety
committee of Pennsylvania:
That we are facing a food crisis in
this Commonwealth and in the world
cannot be disputed. That the amount
of food produced in this country dur-
ing the present season will have much
to do with the success or failure of all
our war measures is manifest to all
thoughtful citizens. That in the next
thirty days the quantity of food pos-
sible for our people and for the na-
tions of the world will be determined
by the amount of soil plowed and seed
planted is apparent.
I, therefore, call upon you as a
member of the State or Local Public
ety committee to use your utmost
endeavor to mobilize upon the soil of
Pennsylvania the largest possible ar-
my of industrial workers. Let all
other considerations give way to this
paramount question in this emergen-
cy.
Let Pennsylvania answer the call of
our government not only with its quo-
ta of troops, but with a full quota of
food. This is our patriotic duty and
these our days of opportunity. Let
us not lose one of them.
Very Truly Yours,
M. G. BRUMBAUGH.
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Expert Blames Food Waste on Con
sumers’ Carelessness. '3
According to Secretary Houston,
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What Our Visitors May Learn.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
America may have a lot to learn but
America wastes seven hundred mil- | she has also a lot to teach,
lions of dollars’ worth of foodstuffs !
This is a large fraction |
At any time
every year.
of our annual food bill.
waste of so great proportion is eco- |
nomic folly, but when the rest of the i
world is subsisting on very scant r: -
tions and must look to us for food |
help—help which we cannot give by
instant large increase in food produc-
tion—it is worse than folly.
Some wastes are due to a failure |
guard against insect and disease |
! with so much storm
attack; others to failure to utilize low i
grade or local excess products. Home '
canning and evaporating, and com-
munity systems of storage and manu- :
facture, if planned in time, will save
much of this loss.
Some wastes occur through inferior |
storage methods used by the producer,
middleman and consumer. These can
be avoided largely by careful applica-
‘ample resources within
Our distinguished visitors from
lands long at war, the French and
British commissioners, are said to ex-
press frequently their surprise that
our country is so comparatively un-
disturbed by its entrance upon the
great war which, for them, began
and fury and so
many keen anxieties. Even though
we are so far away from the actual
scenes of war, have evidently so lit-
tle immediate reason for alarm and
no prospective peril such as they have
faced, it is difficult for them to real-
ize that we are at war, so tranquil is
our daily life and business and so pa-
cific nearly all oar occupations.
That teaches the independence of
the new world; the fact that it has
itself, quite
‘regardless of the old world, interest-
' ed, though it is, in all the world. All
tion of the well-known principles and |
agencies.
Losses in transit can be reduced.
tomed to
Through the aid of market news-col- |
umns and marketing advisers, losses
due to shipments to markets already |
well supplied, may be minimized.
In the long run the chief waste is
due to the lax methods of the consu-
mer. Much of this waste may be readi-
ly avoided without radical changes in
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the daily diet, but this may not be ac- |
complished without some changes in |
the manner of the preparation of food | nity,” but
materials and of food consumption.
A few important recommendations are
presented as follows:
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which the family will not eat readily.
Much will be wasted.
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the old world people, and the British
in particular, have long been accus-
consider the enlightened
States or Nations outside of Europe
provincial and dependent. British
“toploftiness” towards “provincials”
i has been hopelessly incurable but per-
haps this war has made some impres-
The French, though far
less informed, knowing and caring
little about anything outside of
France, are more ready with their
sentiments of “equality ‘and frater-
equally convinced that
their country is the centre and hub
of all enlightened life and that Amer-
ica, though it has profited by war
Do not buy the kinds of foods | trade, should be much more disturb-
ed than they find it. They don’t
now about our election nights. So
(2) Do not buy perishable foods they comment on American serenity
in
will consume unless you have a
for their proper preservation.
quantities greater than the family 'and calm common sense.
means But the greatest thing we have to
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ach and they to learn is that devel-
(3) Unless the members of the opment of generations of thorough-
family eat leftovers (and if the cook
is not unusually skillful in her prepa-
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inclines us to mind our own national
ration of leftovers, they will not be | business.
eaten,) cook and place upon the table
That national characteristic is now
only as much as will be eaten. We | exhibited in the declaration that our
pride ourselves upon our generous
dividual servings, but to serve just
the amount that the person will eat is | war but ;
Bread and butter will | be respected—assurance against mur-
| der and highway robbery. However
much better.
make up any deficiency due to excep-
tional appetites.
(4) Let the carver or server assist | into the war,
the housewife by avoiding the fault of
serving excessive portions. If too lit-
tle is given, a second helping corrects
the deficiency, but overserving means
either waste by overeating or by ac-
cumulating plate remnants no longer
acceptable for human use.
(5) There are parts of some foods,
especially meats, some members of.
the family never eat. Keep such parts
on the platter so that they may be
used in other preparations. When
there are leftovers of a kind suitable
for use, don’t postpone their use until
drying, staling, molding, fermenting
or putrefying spoil them. Don’t ex.
pect mother to do “the eating to save”
for the whole family.
(6) Save the kitchen and table
fats. They may be used repeatedly
for sauteing and frying. They are
better in shortening and gravies than
in the sink. Good gravy takes the
place of much butter and lard.
(7) Save exposed portions of can-
ned foods, jellies, preserves and fruit
butters by re-sterilizing by heat, be-
fore fermentation makes them unfit.
The diet should be adapted as near-
ly as possible to the family’s bodily
requirement. Food should be thor
oughly masticated, in which case one
does not easily overeat. y
The first rule of economy for the
consumer, according to Dr. William
Frear, in charge of experimental ag-
ricultural chemistry at The Pennsyl-
vania State College, is not that he buy
something other than he has been
buying, but that he eat all the edible
portions of the food he does buy.
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Sugar Panic Unnecessary, Says Re-
finer.
Earl D. Babst, president of the
American Sugar Refining company,
made the following statement:
There has been special illustration
in the sugar industry of what Baron
Devonport so sharply points out when
he says “that the competitive bidding
between the Allies and between differ-
ent departments of the Allied Gov-
ernments has been to a considerable
degree responsible for the high prices
of food to American consumers.”
The United States refiners have been
bidding not only against each other,
but against the Allied Governmental
commissions, aided by their Govern-
ment-controlled shipping.
The co-operative proposal (inter-
Allied purchasing and control) should
be considered of as much if not more
value to America than to our Allies.
It would help to take the fever out of
the situation. It would be a bulwark
against sensational reports leaaing
to consumer panics, such as the su-
gar industry is struggling with today
in many parts of the country. There
is-consumer hoarding of sugar, which
is tending unnecessarily to raise pric-
es, and especially to embarrass the
manufacturing and preserving’ indus-
tries of the -country. Refiners have
had to suspend their export business
to meet the frantic and abnormal de-
mand. This scramble has been going
on for weeks, in spite of the assur.
ance that there are ample supplies
for normal consumption and for the
saving of the fruit crop.
This company has delivered to its
domestic trade as much sugar as in
the same period of last year, and that,
too, in spite of strikes and car short-
age. This company’s confidence in
its ability to meet the needs of its
trade is such that for more than two
months. it has been selling its output
at prices far below the prevailing mar-
ket. In this effort to allay the need-
less alarm of consumers, it has had
the full co-operation of the wholesale
and retail trade.
Last year the United States expor-
ted over 700,000 tons of refined sugar.
This country has refining capacity to
refine a million tons of sugar for our
Allies without skimping normal do-
mestic requirements. Housewives
can do their bit by paying no atten-
tion to sensational stories and by buy-
ing sugar in usual quantities and not
in advance of household needs.”
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country alone, of all the greater pow-
ers at war wants nothing out of the
assurance that our rights will
disinterested British motives in going
it is evident that they
will want to keep the conquered Ger-
man colonies. Exalted though the
patriotism of France, she will want
Alsace-Lorraine; Russia, though dem
ocratic, will want what remains of
European Turkey; Italy, Trentino;
Japan will keep Kiao-Chou, though
China, as well as Germany, wants it
back. We want only respect for our
rights and our flag.
Spring Care of Bees.
In view of the probable shortage of
the domestic sugar supply this year,
it is highly desirable that beekeepers
increase the production of honey to
the greatest possible extent. To this
end immediate steps should be taken
to insure the proper building up of
the colonies before the honey flow be-
gins.
Bees need just three things during
the spring, and all of these can be
readily supplied by the beekeeper.
These are
room for brood rearing, and plenty of
protection. The stores should have
been provided last fall, but in case
colonies are found which are not
abundantly supplied a syrup of gran-
ulated sugar should be fed. Small
quantities from day to day are usual-
ly less valuable than a considerable
quantity all at one time. This may be
given on any warm day, and should,
if convenient, be fed in a feeder en-
tirely inside the hive.
Room for breeding usually can best
be given by providing each strong
colony with two hive bodies as soon
as freezing weather has passed. The
one-story, 10-frame Langstroth hive
is usually not large enough for a good
queen during the spring, and, of
course, smaller hives cramp the colo-
ny still more. Extra room will be
valueless unless abundant stores are
Daovided and unless the queen is pro-
ific.
In any locality where the tempera-
ture drops to freezing in winter bees
need winter protection, but many bee-
keepers fail to realize this. If proper
protection has been given during win-
ter, this should be left on the hives as
long as possible. Even if colonies
have been neglected during the win-
ter, spring protection may help won-
derfully in permitting the bees to
build up in time for the honey flow.
Protection from wind is quite desira-
e.
If bees have been adequately cared
for, spring manipulations usually are
not necessary, but every beekeeper
should be sure that his bees are well
supplied with three essentials for in-
tensive brood rearing. It is not ad-
visable to spread frames of brood in
attempting to stimulate brood rear-
ing. .
Every beekeeper should bend every
energy this year to increasing the
production of honey. He will not on-
ly find it profitable, since prices will
doubtless be good, but he will be aid-
ing the country by providing a pro-
duct of high food value when other
sugars are scarce.
Plant Onions Early.
The first vegetable we think about
planting in the garden is the onion.
This crop should be started just as
soon as the ground is dry enough to
work. Onions are grown in quite a
number of different ways. In the
spring we all enjoy the crisp and ten-
der green onions. The best and most
common method of planting for early
green onions is to plant the sets or
small bulbs in rows about four inches
apart. It is always well to plant
more sets than are needed for spring
use, so that the surplus can be allowed
to form mature onions for winter use.
Where the soil is very fertile, mature
onions can be raised very successful-
ly from seed, but in most sections of
Pennsylvania the sets give the best
results. At this time some onion seed
should also be sown in drills, This
will furnish you with bunch onions for
later in the season as well as bulbs for
pickling and sets for next season’s
crop.
plenty of stores, plenty of