. Bellefonte, Pa., November 9, 1917.
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FOOD CONSERVATION.
(Published by request).
‘Extract from a lecture on food con-
servation, given by one of the leading
Rabis of Philadelphia, before a club
of Hebrew women:
We all realize that our country is
at war, and there is not one of us who
does not feel a thrill when she sees
the. Stars and Stripes, and who does
not wonder how she can do her bit.
Some of us are working for the Red
Cross, some doing religious work
among the soldiers and sailors, and
ethers are confining themselves to the
purely social and economic problems
that arise in every country, through
war.
Most of these ways mentioned mean
hard work. Some of them are im-
possible for all of us to do, but there
is one thing that we can all unite in
doing, and one thing that will prob-
ably win this war, “SAVE FOOD.”
Food conservation is nothing more
or less than conserving or saving
food. This does not mean that we
should do without enough food, but
it does mean that we must not care-
lessly waste a crumb. “We must
stimulate in every manner within our
power that saving of our food, in or-
der that we may increase exports to
eur Allies, and boys of our own fight-
ing on French shores, to the point
that it may enable them to properly
feed their men, and their people, dur-
ing the coming winter.
Every man, woman and child in Eu-
rope is hungry. I do not mean that
they have no food, I mean that they
have not the food that their systems
crave.
They are short of fats, they are
short of sugar, they are short of
wheat. If we wish to win this war, it
is clearly up to us to help supply
them with these necessities of life.
The conditions that exist are almost
too horrible to mention. Imagine, a
mother coming down to prepare
the breakfast for her family, she has
no butter, she has no eggs, she can-
not get milk, and there is no wheat
bread, and probably no meat of any
kind in the house.
Suppose it was your mother, sup-
pose it was your little brothers and
sisters that would have to go hungry.
Would you not feel that other peo-
ple in the world who have an abun-
dance of food should be compelled to
supply them with part of it?
Can you imagine thousands of
mothers, unable to get milk, seeing
their babies die in their sight, be-
cause they cannot supply them with
the only food they can take, milk. If
you are grown up, and you are
healthy, don’t drink milk. Discour-
age your family from cooking with
milk unnecessarily. This does not
apply to the small amounts we use in
coifee or cereals, this
dicourage waste.
Prices must come down if the peo-
ple get what they need, but the peo-
ple must help. Every extra article
used, not necessary, reduces the
amount in the market, makes it that
much scarcer, and that much dearer.
Do not buy what you can do without.
The more food that is not bought,
the lower the prices drop. The more
food you buy at high prices, the high-
er the prices go. The people regulate
the amount of the demand and the
supply, and they alone can bring
prices down, by not overbuying or
overeating. When by overbuying,
you force food prices up, then the
people that are compelled to pay these
prices, must have increased wages.
When they get increased wages, up
goes the price of the article they
make, and again, you who have over-
eaten and overbought, and wasted,
are paying for your conduct. Do not
everbuy, do not waste, you, and you
alone, pay the bill. Less consumed,
lower wages, more food. Waste,
higher wages, and inability to buy
the necessaries. Which do you want?
Now for some specific things that
you can do to make democracy safe
for the world, and help win this world
war. You must stop eating young
meats, like lamb and veal, and thus
allow the young animal to grow up.
A calf slaughtered before it has
reached maturity, gives no milk, no
milk no butter, no butter no cheese,
so every time you people buy veal
you are helping to put up the price of
milk, butter, cheese, and depriving
fis Decl of thousands of pounds of
eef.
Do not cry about the prices of
woolen clothes; you are to blame, If
you eat lamb, you cannot expect that
there will be any sheep. ' If no sheep,
no wool, if no wool, up goes the price
of everything that wool goes into.
Be careful of sugar. France and
Italy formerly produced their own
sugar, while England and Ireland im-
ported largely from . Germany. Be-
cause of war conditions, France and
Italy is down to one-third of their
usual imports, and of course England
is shut off from her supply. We must
supply the amount necessary for
them to live.
Eat less candy, discourage the use of
icing on cakes. In that way you can
do your “bit.” Ask your people not
to buy veal or lamb. "Do your bit.
If every man, woman and child in
this country would save five ounces of
food a day, our allies could be fed,
and the war won. Take an ounce
weight and look at it. See how small
it is. Realize that you would hardly
miss an ounce from your food. Eat
an ounce less of meat, an ounce less
bread, an ounce less of fats or butter,
an ounce less of sugar and milk, and
then you will be doing your bit.
Eat plenty, but waste nothing.
Have one wheatless meal a day. Have
one meatless day a week. Have three
wasteless meals a day. Cut no more
bread needed.
To conclude: We must help in this
Food Conservation because
1st: We are Americans and our
country is at war, and calling to us
for help.
2nd: Because this war will be won
by the countries that are the best fed.
3rd: Because we have been the
most extravagant eountry on earth
with our resources and must come to
our senses.
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4th: Because we must assist our
government in feeding our soldiers
abroad who are risking their lives in
their hands that democracy shall live,
and Freedom shall not perish from
the earth.
5th: Because what is asked of us
is reasonable; we are not asked to
starve, but only not to waste. We are
asked to refuse to eat young meat, be-
cause it will only .mean, that shortly
we will get no meat to eat, or it will
be so high that only the very rich can
buy it. The same thing will apply to
milk, fat, butter and cheese.
6th: Because we must win this
war, and only by feeding our soldiers
can it be done, only by feeding our
workers can the people live, and
without sufficient food, they must die.
7th: Because we have no right,
before God to waste his bounty, while
others starve for the need of what
goes in our garbage buckets.
8th: We are asked not to eat cakes
with icing; the icing wasted on cakes
alone, would more than give enough
sugar for one-third of our allies’
needs.
9th: It is only in a free country,
in a country where democracy is in
power, that there is religious free-
dom. Russia is an example of that.
Democracy and religious freedom
goes hand in hand. “There can be no
freedom for religion, where there is
no freedom of the masses.”
10th: We as Jews, protected in
our rights, given every legal right of
other peoples, in these glorious Unit-
ed States of America must show our
loyalty and our gratitude. Through
a little care, through a little self sac-
rifice will we make ourselves better,
and be instilling into ourselves a vir-
tue rare enough in this country, that
has had more than enough f.: years.
We only appreciate God’s oounties
when deprived of them. Let us be
thankful for what we heretofore con-
sidered ordinary, and realize how
thankful those abroad would feel, if
they had what we have had, and we
have never realized what we had, un-
til we see the contrast.
11th: Last but not least: While
it is our duty to help Food Conserva-
tion, it is as well self preservation,
self protection. We want freedom,
but we must not make it license. If
we do not help Mr. Hoover conserve
food, there is but one remedy. You
will be compelled to do it, whether
you want to or not. “Food cards,”
“Meat cards,” “Potatoe cards,” will
be issued preventing you getting, in
any shape or form, more than the al-
lowed amount. This is the law. Do
you want this?
12th: In conclusion, let us band
together; hold up the Torah of our
people, and bind around it the flag of
our country, and with upraised hands,
and uplifted hearts, pledge ourselves
to help our country in it’s hour of
need, for democracy and liberty; for
Judaism and our country.
Many Boys Will Adopt Fathers On
November 15th.
According to the program no boy
will be admitted to the Father and
Son banquets to be held in the
churches throughout the State, on
Father and Son day, Thursday, No-
vember 15th, unless he is accompa-
nied by a man, and no man will be ad-
mitted unless accompanied by a boy
—his or someone’s else.
Many fatherless boys are conse-
quently planning to “adopt” fathers
for that night in order to attend one
of the big banquets.
Thousands of banquets will be held
in the Sunday schools of the State.
The banquets will be of a patriotic
cast owing to meat being eliminated
from the menu.
The same general program will be
followed in all the banquets. The
theme will be “Success in Life—Some
Things that Eenter in to Make It.”
There will be talks by boys as well as
by the fathers. :
The outstanding feature of the pro-
gram will be the introduction of a
great wartime movement for teen age
boys and girls, to be known as the
“Bim-Wac Home Guards.” The pur-
pose of the movement is to challenge
boys and girls to safeguard the home
ideals while our soldiers fight for
these same ideals on the battlefields
of Belgium and France.
The observance of the day will
begin in the churches and Sunday
schools the Sunday preceding Novem-
ber 15th. In the morning service,
pastors will preach to parents a spe-
cial sermon on “Boyhood.”
In the Sunday school the day will
be observed by a special program
which will be largely in the hands of
the boys.
The climax will be reached on
Thursday night, the 15th, when thous-
ands of fathers and sons will gather
together in the churches in a great
series of meatless, patriotic Father
and Son banquets.
In order that the banquets are pur-
poseful in character, and that the
greatest amount of permanent good
may result, the Pennsylvania State
Sabbath School association, of 1511
Arch street, Philadelphia, has prepar-
ed a comprehensive program to aid
local church Father and Son day com-
mittees, in planning for the observ-
ance of the day.
In No Hurry : to Fly.
“John, you ought to get in the avi-
ation service,” a York man told a ne-
gro. “You are a good mechanic and
would come in handy in an airplane.
How would you like to fly among the
clouds a mile high and drop a few
bombs down on the Germans?”
“I ain’t in no special hurry to fly,
Cap,” the negro answered. “When
we's up ’bout a mile high, s’pose de
engine stopped and de white man told
me to git out and crank?”’—New
York News.
Her Curiosity Aroused.
Little Gwennie felt it her duty to
entertain a man who had been called
in to do some carpenter work, and
began by asking if he had a papa and
mamma. He said yes. Then she ask-
ed if he had any brothers or any sis-
ters. He replied by saying he had
three half-brothers and three half-
sisters. After looking at him for a
moment intently she said:
“Are you the only whole one there
was?”
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SUCCESS.
I hold that man alone succeeds
Whose life is crowned by noble deeds,
Who cares not for the world’s applause
But scorns vain custom’s outgrown laws;
Who feels not dwarfed by nature's show,
But deep within himself doth know
That conscious man is greater far
Than ocean, land, or distant star;
Who does not count his wealth by gold,
His worth by office he may hold,
But feels himself, as man alone,
As good as king upon a throne;
Who, battling ’gainst each seeming wrong,
Can meet disaster with a song.
Feel sure of victory in defeat,
And rise refreshed the foe to meet;
Who only lives the world to bless,
Can never fail—he is a success.—Ex.
Scrap Pile Now a Mine of Wealth.
In ordinary times the scrap pile is
a neglected evenue for the escape of
profits. Now that war has pushed up
the prices of raw material, the Amer-
ican plant owner and factory man
have begun to analyze their scrap
heaps. Usually they find large accu-
mulations of damaged or worn ma-
chinery, tools, “short ends” and other
material that represents considerable
profit thrown away. Face to face
with labor shortage, metal shortage
and the time factor, plant owners are
reclaiming these worn and damaged
machines and broken tools and put-
ting them back to work earning prof-
its, says the Engineering and Mining
Journal.
Recently an engineer for an oxya-
cetylene concern made an investiga-
tion in a western mining field. At
one big mine he found in the scrap
pile dies for drill sharpening worth
$9 each that could be welded and put
into service at a cost of about $1 each.
The mining company was on the anx-
ious seat, too, as to when it would be
able to get more material. It was
found that the scrap heap of one
year’s accumulation would yield a
three months’ supply of good materi-
al. At another time the engineer
found a year’s supply of tram buck-
ets, worth $40 each, with broken bot-
toms that could easily be repaired by
welding at a slight cost. The various
processes of welding have made it
possible to reclaim machines and
tools that formerly were sold as
waste and at a fraction of the origi-
nal cost.
Nowadays any kind of metal—
steel iron (both cast and malleable),
brass, bronze, copper, aluminum,
sheet iron and precious metals such
as gold, silver and platinum—can be
welded and brokén parts made as
good as new. At a heat of 6300 de-
grees Fahrenheit, produced by the
combustion of acetylene in oxygen,
any of these metals fuse and run to-
gether, a virtual remodeling of the
parts.
Dusty But Not Rusty.
The tramp sauntered up the garden
path and asked the old lady who stood '
in the porch for a drink.
She hurried in.
“Here, my man,” she said, return-
ing. “Here is a glass of iced water
for you.”
The tramp sighed.
“I daren’t touch
you.”
“Why ever not?”
“Well, you see, mum, I’ve got an
iron constitution, mum, and water
makes it rusty!”
it, mum,
| pounds); ammunition (220 cartridg-
| es; 100 worn in the belt, 120 in the
base of the horns before the opera-
thank
American Soldiers’ Equipment.
Rifle (this
alone weighs 8%
bandaleers slung over the shoulders); i
bayonet, bayonet scabbard, intrench- !
ing shovel (or pickaxe or wirecutter).
This would seem to be something of
a hardware store to start with, but
the list has just begun: Cartridge
belt, haversack, pack carrier (these
latter two items, with their suspen-
ders form the cylindrical roll, carried
on the back, commonly called the
pack); shelter tent half and rope
(each man carried one-half of a tent,
the halves buttoning together); met-
al canteen; padded canteen cover;
drinking cup, meat can, bacon can,
fork, knife, spoon, one extra suit of
unaerclothes, two extra pairs of
socks, extra shoe laces, comb, tooth-
brush, soap, towel, housewife (a
small handy sewing kit); identifica-
tion tag (a metal disk) and tape (to
fasten around the neck); whatever
rations may be issued.
All the articles mentioned above
the American infantryman carries up-
on his person—and he is. given fre-
quent inspections to see that he does
carry them and not a single thing is
missing. One tent-pin gone, a. comb
or tooth-brush or pair of socks not
there—and trouble results. But these
articles are not all. Each squad of
eight men has a squad kit-bag which
is carried in the wagons, and in this
bag each man must always have the
following things: An extra pair of
breeches, an extra flannel shirt, two
additional pairs of socks, an addition-
al suit of underclothes, a spare pair of
marching shoes, in good condition;
extra shoelaces.
Dehorned Cattle Bring Higher Mar-
ket Price.
Dehorned cattle ordinarily bring
about twenty-five cents per hundred |
pounds more on the market than
horned | cattle. Dehorning may be
done as soon as flies have disappear-
ed and before the weather becomes
too cold.” Dr. I. D. Wilson, of The
Pennsylvania State College, warns
against the all too common practice
of dehorning cattle in the spring. Cat-
tle which are slow in recovering from
spring dehorning will be attacked by
flies later in the season.
The best time to dehorn calves is
when they are three or four weeks
old. At this age dehorning may be
done at almost any season. Dehorn-
ed cattle are more congenial in the
feed lot, injure -each other less and
hence make better gains.
To dehorn, tie the animal securely
in stanchions. Clippers or a saw may
be used. While the dehorning opera-
tion is more quickly accomplished
with clippers, a greater loss of blood
results than when a saw is used. In
case hemorrhage continues longer
than an hour, saturate a piece of cot-
ton with tincture of chloride of iron
and bandage it over the wound.
Another method recommended is to
tie a strong cord tightly around the
tion. No after treatment is necessa-
ry provided the operation is perform-
ed at the proper season.
——An alienation suit dating back
to 1880, in which plaintiff and defend-
ant have become grandparents, was
recently dismissed in New Jersey.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
IF YOU NEED ANY
[MEDICINE
Perfumes,
Chocolates,
FIRST CLASS
Tooth Brushes,
Toilet Articles,
or anything usually found in a
you will be sure to get them at
Green’s Pharmacy Co.,
ass Lhe largest and oldest Drug Store in Centre County
Hair Brushes,
Rubber Goods,
DRUG STORE
HAS NOT GONE UP
IN PRICE
EVERYTHIN
All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing
this time last seascu.
MINCE MEAT.
We are now making our MINCE MEAT and keeping it fully up to our
usual high standard; nothing cut out or cut short and are selling it at our
former price of 15 Cents Per Pound. :
Fine Celery, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Apricots, Peaches, Prunes, Spices,
Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Cornstarch. The whole
line of Washing Powders, Starches, Blueing and many other articles are
selling at the usual prices.
COFFEES, TEAS AND RICE.
On our Fine Coffees at 25¢, 28¢, 30c, 35¢c and 40c, there has been no change
in price on quality of goods and no change in the price of TEAS. Rice has
not advanced in price and can be used largely as a substitute for potatoes.
All of these goods are costing us more than formerly but we are doing our
best to Hold Down the Lid on high prices, hoping for a more favorable
market in the near future.
LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER
and we will give you FINE GROCERIES at reasonable prices and give
you good service.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
A TRE NBR ANS.
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Shoes.
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE|
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3.00
I HAVE A FULL LINE OF
LADIES SHOES
to sell at $3.00. Made of Gun
Metal and Cabaretta leather
(Cabaretta meaning sheep skin).
The styles are lace and button,
high and low heels. Many of them
are on the English walking shoe
style.
These shoes are not of a quality
that I can conscientiously recom-
mend to wear, for honestly speak-
ing $5.00 will not purchase a pair
of Ladies Shoes made to-day, that
is absolutely solid.
I have these shoes for the people
that do not have the money to
purchase a good pair.
Yours for a square deal,
YEAGER'S,
The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Happiness of
Your Little Ones!
Any parent charged with neglect of his children naturally will be-
come indignant. Still there are some parents who, through carelessness,
neglect to provide for their welfare.
The little ones must be protected. There is no better protection than
a bank account.
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