12 RICE IS A CONVENIENT, STARCHY, HEALTHY AND V Washington, D. C., April 9.—Al though rice has been recognized 'as a good food In the United States Blnce early colonial times, and in some Xorm or other is generally liked in all l>arts of the country, it has not been iriven so important a place as a staple article of diet as it deserves, say specialists of the United States De partment of Agriculture. In some sections rice has been used for the most part as a breakfast cereal or as a foundation for pan cakes, croquettes, or desserts. In re gions where it is grown, however, it is used principally as a vegetable like potatoes; and in place of dishes like macaroni and spaghetti, combined "with chese, and similar foods. This use well may be extended to regions "where rice is now -sed chiefly for making puddings and other desserts. When rice is used In quantity in the diet, particularly as a substitute tor potatoes, care should bo taken to supply fruits and vegetables gener ously In order that the mineral sub stances which the body needs may he provided. Rice Is nutritious and palatable and digests well. It may be cooked quick ly, without the necessity of trouble some preparation, and without waste. Taking everything Into account, rice •well may be given a more important place in the diet at this time, since a greater crop was produced in the United States last season than ever hefore. Late statistics place the 1916 crop at 40,702,000 bushels, against 25,947,000 bushels In 1915, and 25,- 265,600 bushels for the five-year aver age, 1911 to 1915, Inclusive. The world crop of rice also Is greater than for many years. Rice ordinarily can be obtained at prices which make It, In comparison with other foods, a reasonably economical addition to the diet. With the present greatly In creased stock of the domestic product In the country, even a somewhat in creased demand should not alter greatly the relation of rice prices to those of comparable foods. As staple article of diet rice may m better still to get rid of the 9 Pi CATARRH? Catarrh is most often deep- j Iff seated, and local applications will not help El IW it very much in that case. You must have |JI ||| something that will reach the blood and get i 11 EE at first cause. This is what S. S. S. itg I For Catarrh m HP> Like manj other Jitetiei, Catarrh AM ''■ Hi is often more deep-seated than Jrrv IJI Bffg people imagine. Using S. S. S. Mr* W■■ *9 Hi will reliere the congestion because ||j MM VjL I it purifies the blood. After taking w K/tnklpi I I V P it a while you can dispense with B B(; gargles and atomizers. These lo- I WijS Mr cal treatment* are helpful for a H I/i Bi time, but they will not cure. You ccxirv rno IT I 119 Ek must get at the blood. i* T I Ifl m GUARANTEED PURELY ° u / r t'SfSt wm H 113 B VEGETABLE I 139 p . _ , booklets on blood B l|B V 5. S. S. is made of Nature's own troubles and with {TJ TS HI I herbs, barks and roots. It is made particular refer. ■1 jS EL of HT matter and not of dead mat- Write h£*22 |f| mm ter such At metals And minerals. your troubles and HI ■ Hjfl ■HI 't has been the standard blood *••* wi " , b ? H ■ [MI B| I lurifier for SO years. Likewise a H | Ml splendid tonic. Ask your druggist. you. Sand KjH fllfl R| 1 Insist on getting S. S. S. and taka ,n tb * cou - yjt/l ■JK no substitute. pon ' -Ipr mM & I SWIFT D.„ . Km . SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. |L 1 SPECIFIC CO. D TiTd?cl: fi Depa-tment I, Please send me jour booklet on Catarrh BB Atlxila Cm Blood aj advertised in ■F I I understand that this is to cost me nothing. R Name Address Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service By McManu 1 v - VHEm DO I <IT 1 WHAT Too I COT THKT STUFF- "OT So "I NOW LISTEN - TOO FAT-HE AO ' LL H'NETOU UNC€Rt>T*ND 1 1 RND FOR tHOV/IN VOU DON'T KNov, DO I C\T MY MONEY? , 1 VANT MONEY- AN | 1 AULOW ANYONE <, 1 NOV/ To Ron your ABOUT AN ~~^T —J- ' I TELU YOU - insect- TO rAl £ t O ME LIKE THAT J ; WEDNESDAY EVENING. be boiled In salted water and used like potato or sweet potato as a vegetable at a meal at which meat, eggs, beans, gravy or other foods rich In protein are served. Wholly or par tially cooked rice can be used with cheese, minced meat or poultry, fish, eggs, beans, etc., for a variety of made dishes, the combinations constituting dishes In which most of the needed food elements are present. It also may bo used as a major or minor In gredient in stews and soups. Instead of serving rice plain as a vegetable It may be stewed with to matoes, cooked in a double boiler with tomato juice, soup stock, or milk, or It may be seasoned with curry pow der, onions or other seasoning ma terials. By ustng skim milk In this way a particularly economical dish Is produced. As a cereal for breakfast, rice may be boiled in milk and sweetened, or eaten with butter and salt. If it Is de sired, dried fruits such as dates or raisins mav be cooked with the rice. Cold, boiled rice, mixed with pfincake or muffin batters of wheat, buckwheat or corn meal, makes a pleasing addi tion to such food products, reduces the quantities of other Ingredients needed, and furnishes a method for using the leftover cereal. Cold boiled rice also may be used with or with out a little meat, chicken, or season ing vegetable for croquettes; and with eggs, sugar, milk or other in gredients for making a variety of pud dings and other desserts, as an ex amination of almost any good cook book will show. BANKS TO BUY WAR IjOAX According to an announcement made yesterday by the Harrisburg Clearing House Association, all the banks and trust companies affiliated with the association will buy of the United States War loan without extra charge to the subscriber and will also advise them. There are sixteen bank ing houses in Harrisburg and three in Steelton which will co-operate. ENGLISH FIGHT FOR GRAIN SUPPLY Mesopotamia Campaign Waged on Hope of Obtaining Food Chicago, April A'.. —Possession of a source of wheat supply, capable of feeding the entire world, is one of the stakes at issue in the fighting in Me sopotamia and on the adjoining fronts, asserts Professor John Adams Scott, of the Northwestern University, Chicago, who is an international au thority on the Oriental countries. In describing the commercial and military possibilities in the country beyond Bagdad, Prof. Scott said: "There is no doubt that the English are now trying to close the door by which any new troops can reach Me sopotamia. It is computed that an cient Babylonia and the territory un der its control covered only about one-fifth of Mesopotamia, yet the soil was so fertile and free from defects which produce famine that it support ed in wealth a population greater than the State of New York now possesses. When Darius was defeated by Alexander, there was found In the vaults of Darius gold and sliver to the value of $650,000,000. Need One Government "If all Mesopotamia can come un der the control of one great nation so that there can be a comprehensive and unified development of reservoirs and irrigation, it is safe to say that it will be the richest land on earth, since no other land has soil made in alluvial deposits and which contains fifteen per cent, of lime. It is this lime be yond all else which makes this coun try so valuable, and which makes rust, mildew and kindred evils impos sible. Two harvests can bo garnered each year, one from rain and one from irrigation. The one from rain Is the only harvest now. "The movement from Egypt is in tended to shut oft all access from Eu rope by land, since the Russians are now in control of Armenia and the overland pass, so that the Turks are forced to send troops through the Is sus pass, or by the Alexandretta gulf. This is the route of the Bagdad Rail road. Asia Minor has a double series of most difficult mountain ranges, Taurus and Anti-Taurus, so that ar mies must skirt them to the north or to the south. Russia now closes the route to the north so that if England can close the one to the south, she will be as secure in Mesopotamia as she is in South Africa, since there is no avenue by which an army could come. The great difficult in com ing or or out of Egypt has been the intense heat of the desert south and west of Gaza, but the papers speak of a railroad having been built across this desert. This desert is cool at night, so that trains need run through it only by night, since the distance it not great. The English already have a naval base at Cyprus, so that they cpntrol the sea and can thus assist the army moving by Jand. The English are about 400 miles from their goal and must cross the high mountains of Lebanon or swing to the east where a railroad has already been built through Damascus. If they swing to the east they will withdraw from the protection of the fleet. They may have so completely demoralized the Turks that this protection is not nec essary. "This seems to me the hoard on which the game of the war is being played. Already Germany is helpless in Armenia and Mesopotamia and if English forces can get Aleppo then the power and influence of England will have been doubled by this war and the immense resources of Egypt and the entire valley of the Euphrates and Tigris will fall into her lap. This will mean a railroad from Capetown to Bombay and a future for the world which has never entered into the mind of the most enthusiastic dream er." Incidentally. It is pointed out that the British forces in their northward march through Palestine toward the ancient pass of Issus must cross the supposed field of Armageddon. Will Give Musicale and Literary Entertainment For Masonic Home Guests Miss Carrie S. Reinoehl, of this city, will have charge of a musicale and literary entertainment to be given at the Masonic Homes, Eiizabethtown, Fridav evening at 7 o'clock. Sunday the Middletown Methodise Church choir gave a song service at the Homes, under the leadership of Ira H. Behney. Miss Catharine Ettele was accompanist. The Rev. James Cunningham, pastor of the Middletown Church, delivered an address. After wards the song service was repated in the hospital. The series of lectures being given by Dr. Dallas M. DeHuze, chaplain of the Homes, on the wonders of the United States are greatly enjoy ed. His most recent talk was on Gla cier National Park. Central Publicity Bureau to Gather Labor News; Opens Office and Starts Work The Central Publicity Bureau has opened headquarters at 1600 North Sixth street. Plans for the bureau were made at a conference of labor repre sentatives of Harrisburg and vicinity here in March. The movement was first started by Labor's Open Forum, which holds meetings every other week to discuss matters of public interest. The Publicity Bureau will gather news of interest to the workers and public in general and then forward them to the press of this city for pub lication. HARRIBBTJRG #S6& TELEGRAPH TO OPEN OFFICERS TRAINING CAMPS Six Practical Schools to Get Under Way by Next Month By Associated Press Chicago, April 18. —Tho work of preparing camps In which tq train men as reserve officers for the first half million troops raised for the new army, was begun in earnest to-day, following the announcement last night of the plans by Major General Thomas H. Barry, commander of the central department of tho army. There are to be six camps in the central department. The object of each c\mp is the training and selection of officers for a division and one additional regiment of cavalry. Maximum attendance at each camp will be 2,500. The six training camps which are to be open on May 8, are expected to furnish about one-third of the ten II mm! Experience Is \l|j If mim Test °f Tires l| I //fl™ Every tire claims to be the lowest-cost-per-mile If you knew the experience of any considerable —that would help you decide which tire makes uifir///JM nt k n ° W a k° ut ot^er niakes of tires, but we —that motorists who have used United States Tires Hill Hill —that more and more motorists who used other illi/lrlilii / makes of tires are turning to United States Tires. WnuVfiflW If 111 H I These two facts are proved by the amazing sales IH Julill —sales increases that are vastly greater than even illlllill/ re^ ter natural increase in the number of automo llnfill ' —s! where tire service is. nllll Tift for Every 0 I _ iAa TP? United States Tubes ViMULI fl it united states urcs Wm IfJI 'Nobby' 'Chain' A m Worth and Wear that iLllll' || -jr ,c ';L-Are Good ures ffl thousand officers, majors, captains, I tirst and second lieutenants, required for an array of 500,000. $16,553 Report Presented at Hall Way Jubilee Meet of Methodist Women A report submitted yesterday at the Half-way Jubilee meeting of the Phil adelphia branch of the Woman's For eign Society of the Methodist Church, showed that J16.533 has been raised' in the last two and a half years. The meeting opened yesterday afternoon In the Grace Methodist Church and clos ed last night. The Philadelphia "branch of the so ciety Is comprised of all the Methodist churches in Pennsylvania, Delaware and designated places In New YorK, and yesterday's meeting was only one' of seventy held throughout the district in the United States. The meeting here was attended by one hundred delegates and congratulatory telegrams were re ceived from each of the other meetings. The reports showed the society to be in a flourishing condition and doing a good work. The afternoon session opened with devotional services by Mrs. 4 Conrad HofTsommer, of Stevens Memorial M. E. Church. The principal address was to have been delivered by Miss Elsie APRIL 18, 1017. Ross, a missionary worker of India, but she was unable to be present and her place was filled by Miss Catherine Max well, Chatnbersburg. At the conclusion of the afternoon session a luncheon was held In Camp Curtln Memorial M. E. Church. The toastmlstresß was Mrs. | George JCdward Heed, Ilarrisburg, and toasts were responded to by Miss Cath arine Maxwell, Chambersburg, "Jubi lee Justification:" Miss Nellie Nace, "Jubilee Juniors;" Mrs. Samuel Wilson, "Jubilee Joys." and Miss Anne Pllnder, "Jubilee Jottings." The evening meeting opened at 7.45 o'clock and the principal addresses were made by the Rev. Dr. Robert Bag nell, pastor jot Grace Church, and Dr. Frederick H. Wright, Italy. Mrs. J. Horace McFarland, of Har rlsburg, was general chalrlady of the committee in charge of the meeting and her assistants were: Chairlady of i publicity committee, Mrs. Clayton A. Smucker; chalrlady of finance commit tee. Mrs. W. B. Sloan; chalrlady of en tertainment committee, Miss Mary E. Gotta; chairlady of program commit tee, Miss Charlotte S. Maxwell. AUXILIARY EI,ECT9 At the bi-monthly meeting of Ohev Sholom Temple Auxiliary, last night, the following officers were elected: Walter Stern, president: Harry Rubin, vice-president; Miss Rhedna Mayer, secretary and treasurer. NOT ENOUGH TONNAGK London, April 16.—The nclieme for the limitation of freights to France and Italy which was planned to at tract increased tonnage for the trans portation of coal from England, has failed to bring into the service tho required number of steamers at th fixed rates and In compliance with requests from shipbrokers, tho thorities have agreed to make tne plan more elastic. The schedule rates of freights can now ' c adjusted in order to attract more neutral ton nage. *
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