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MONDAY EVENING,
CHANGE IN FOOD
URGED BY DIXON
State Health Commissioner
Points to Advantages of
Corn and Barley
. .The shortage of wheat due to the
unfavorable condition of the crop
this spring in many sections and the
necessity of this country sharing its
grain with its allies should be the
occasion of Pennsylvania people
making changes in their food, says
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, the State Com
missioner of Health. People are eat
ing too much white bread and should
make it their business to see that
they not only eat less food made
from wheat, but they should learn to
like what is made from other grains.
The advantages of corn and of other
grains are pointed out by the com
missioner with observations on their
food value from a medical man's
viewpoint.
Dr. Dixon says very plainly that
the people of the State are eating
too much starchy food and that it
is not good for the children. In dis
cussing the situation Dr. Dixon says:
The yield of wheat this year can
not possibly meet the demand for
home and abroad. If we mean to
divide our crust with our allies con
servation must be observed.
Wheat bread is nutfle either of
whole wheat or the white starch of
the wheat. In the economic scheme
we must consider these two kinds
of bread.
Whole wheat flour will sustain hu
man life with its starch, bran, pol
lard and phosphate of lime, while we
would starve to death on white bread
made entirely of the starch, there
fore, those on a very restricted diet,'
such as prisoners, etc., are often de
pendent upon bread. They should
have the flour containing the whole
wheat.
Whtie bread, however, when taken
with soup made from n good stock
that furnishes the nitrogen and
earthy salts, is a cheaper food. It is
also full of nutritive when combined
with fat, meat and a little soup, the
base of which is soup stock. There
fore white flour bread with a general
diet is cheaper than whole wheat
bread.
A further conservation of our pres
ent supply may be found by observ
ing more moderation in the quantity
of bread and biscuit eaten. Most
people cat too much starch.
Those in charge ,of children seem
to be under the impression that
wheat bread made or white flour is
the "staff of life." This is a mis
take. When children have to depend
largely upon white bread they are
apt to be undernourished, shown by
their soft and flabby flesh. Under
such a starchy diet they are sus
ceptible to tuberculosis.
Too much bread made of white
flour (starch) often produces a ca
tarrhal condition of the mucous
membrane.
Another economic way to help
ourselves and our allies would be to
increase the crop of foodstuffs. As
it is not the season for planting
wheat, to make up the deficiency
caused by the foreign demand, corn,
a valuable foodstuff for Both man
and beast, should be sown.
This would be the best substitute
for wheat.
Maize or corn has a larger propor
tion of starch than wheat, and a lit
tle over one-half more of nitrogen.
Corn is much richer In fat than is
wheat.
Corn can be served in many
palatable dishes. Xhese are generally
known or can be obtained from
books on cooking.
Corn has a large geographical
range in the United States and an
average crop will do much to fur
nish food for our people.
Thousands of Belgians have lived
almost entirely on uorn for the last
year.
Barley and oats are also substi
tuted in a measure for wheat and
can be planted to yield this season.
During the Revolutionary War
maize was an important factor in
feeding our soldiers.
Husband of the Famous
Annie Besant Is Dead
London, May 21.—The Rev. Frank
Besant, who was the husband of Mrs.
Annie Besant, the widely-known the
osophist, author and lecturer on re
ligious, philosophical and scientific
subjects, died recently in the village
of Sibsey in Lincolnshire where, for
4 5 years, he was vicar of the village
church. The vicar was 76 years old
anil his famous wife is nearly 70.
The Rev. and Mrs. Besant attract
ed world-wide attention many years
when they separated and en
gaged in a long controversy over the
custody of their only child. They
were married in 1867. In 1873 a
judicial separation was arranged by
the terms of which Mrs. Besant was
to have the custody of her daughter,
Mabel. Mrs. Besant pursued a varied,
world-wide career, fighting in law
courts, addressing huge audiences,
leading strikes and defying govern
ments. She subsequently met
Charles Bradlaugh and took an ac
tive part in his propaganda.
This led the Rev. Frank Besant to
begin proceedings in 1878 for the
custody of his daughter on the
ground that her mother's opinions
would be "detrimental to the future
prospects of the child in society, to
say nothing of her eternal pros
pects."
Mrs. Besant appeared in person
and argued her case with ability,
but the child was given into the cus
tody of the father. When Miss Ma
bel Besant was 21 years old she at
once returned to her mother, who
had by that time become a Socialist
and then a theosophist.
London's Latin Quarter
Does Without Spaghetti
London, May 21. —Soho, London's
Latin quarter, has passed through
a spaghettl-less week. The national
dish of Italy had long been placed
on the list of prohibited imports, but
the supplies on hand were not ex
hausted until a week ago. Then all
Soho mourned.
Now, however, this Is *ll changed.
A son of sunny Italy who conducts
one of the tempting table d'hote re
sorts In the Italian colony came to
the rescue by setting p a macaroni
factory. He has not been able to
make spaghetti, which requires spe
cial machinery to make the holes in
it, but he Is turning out miles of
the long, narrow ribbons called' Ma
caroni. This will have to suffice until
the spaghetti-making machinery ar
rives from his native land.
ALL BRIDGES GUARDED
Ilagerstown, Md., May 21.—With
the placing of two squads of ten men
each from the Fifth Maryland Regi
ment, of Baltimore, to guard the
bridges at Security and Williams
port, near this city, every bridge and
tunnel on the railroad between Bal
, timore and Myersdale, Pa., Is now
[under military protection.
COMPENSATION
RULINGS MADE
Chairman Mackey Hands
Down Decision in Regard to
[ Illegitimate Children
A posthumous illegitimate child
has no claim upon the estate of a re
puted parent under the State Work
men's Compensation act, according
to a decision given fey Chairman
Harry A. Mackey in a claim against
the State Insurance fund. In the case
decided the father was killed the day
before he was to have been married
to the woman who three months
later became mother of a child. "This
finding is supported by sufficient evi
dence to make it conclusive upon
this board," says the opinion, which
later on holds that, "we have no leg
islation which could by any possible
reasoning embrace an illegitimate
child." English decisions quoted in
the opinion award compensation
"to a posthumous child as a depend
ent of a deceased father." The de
cision which is a long one concludes
"In the absence of a statute declar
ing an illegitimate child a dependent
of a deceased father" it can not be
considered as entitled to compensa
tion.
In a Westmoreland county case it
is held that the widow of a man whb
broke his neck by falling from a
wagon while hauling sand was in the
course of his employment and that
the insurance company involved
must pay the compensation because
the employer recognized the liability
by insuring.
The board in a decision by Com
missioner Scott finds in favor of a
McKean county claimant, whose hus
band died from "dilation of the
heart produced by over-exertion in
heavy employment engaged in while
in the course of his employment."
There was no history of heart disease
prior to the accident and successive
strains brought on the heart condi
tion which resulted in death.
New Calendar to Replace
Old in Russia as Result
of the Czar's Overthrow
Petrograd, May 21.—Bringing up
to date of the Russian calendar will
be one of the earliest reforms of the
new government In Russia, although
opposition Is expected from eccles
iastical quarters.
Any alteration of the calendar has
always been regarded as an act of
impiety by a large section of the
Russian people. When the Gregor
ian calendar was introduced in 1582
as a correction of the Julian or Ro
man, three countries in Europe—
Russia, Sweden and England—refus
ed to come into line with the others.
It was not until 1752 that England
brought the calendar up to date.
Sweden followed the next year but
Russia has persisted in remaining
isolated up to the present.
The Julian calendar was eleven
minutes, ten seconds out of reckon
ing each year, and the accumulation
would now amount to about thirteen
days.
Have you
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G. A. Gorgas, J. Nelson Clark and all,
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