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More General Use
of Wheat Advised
Washington. Mahy persons have
not been able to understand why.
after they have adapted themselves
to a food regime in which wheat
flour was reduced to the minimum,
and corn used freely In its stead, the
■reguiations should be suddenly re
versed and the eating of wheat in
preference to corn recommended.
The food administration, in reply to
many inquiries, has issued a state
ment explaining that this, along with
many other changes and new adap
tations. is due to the situation
brought about by the armistice.
Last spring, the food administra
tion, being anxious about the wheat
shortage, asked the public to re
strict its consumption of wheat in
order o meet the needs of the Allies.
With a surplus of only 20.000,000
bushels of wheat, the people of the
United States, through conservation,
enabled the food administration to
Bhlpdll.ooo,ooo bushels of wheat. In
spite of this conversation, when the
1918 harvest was reached there was
less than a ten-day supply in Amer
ica.
When the new crop came in it
proved large, but not too large to
take care of the needs at that time.
The food administration did not
want to be caught another season
with a shortage of this most valu
able foodstuff, and with the belief
that it was necessary not only to con
tinue shipments of wheat to Europe,
but to build up a big reserve for the
1919 spring offensive, the food ad
ministration continued to ask the
people to use wheat sparingly.
The signing of the armistice
changed the situation as to wheat
immediately, as it did with all meas
ures taken with the needs of a con
tinning war in view. M heat sup
plies in distant countries were made
available by the ending of the sub
marine menace, and the assurance of
a good crop in 1919, undisturbed by
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A Few Suggestions .
Assorted Chocolates Hard Mixture
Chocolate Bon Bons Assorted Mixture Ty
Clear Toys French Fruits
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THURSDAY EVENING,
war, relieved the necessity of build
ing up as large a reserve as was an
ticipated. It is probable thai the
normal actual consumption of wheat
In the United States, implying elimi
nation of waste, a matter in which
Americans now have been thorough
ly schooled, will be permissible and
still allow people to keep the food
administration's pledge in the ship
ping of great quantities of bread- ,
stuffs to hungry Europe.
Last year's situation, with fodder
grains plentiful and wheat scarce, '
has been entirely reversed and the
necessity now points to a more care
ful use of the grains needed for ani
mal feed and a freer use of wheat,
riIPOSALS CAME EX MASSE
Miss Helen Bcsler, daughter of the
president of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, is probably the most
proposed to girl in Franco to-day. It
all came about because one night
in one of the American camps she
ran out of encores and sang a little
nursery song called "If No One Ever j
Marries Me." It goes like this:
If no one ever marries me, I
And I don't see why they'should, |
For nurse says lam not pretty, j
And I'm seldom very good, i
The direful fate of the little girl ,
in'the song was to be to buy a rab
bit hutch and live all alone in a lit
tle wood. But the American sol
diers saw no reason why Miss Bcsler
who is pretty and petite and a typi
cal American girl, should have ai
similar lot. After they had given
her the three cheers and a tiger
with which they usually thank the
Y. M. C. A. entertainers, they hesi
tated a moment and then added a
purely personal message
"Barkis is willin' " called the A. E.
as one man.
Since then the incident has been
repeated in every American canip
Miss Bcsler has visited. No censor
would allbw an estimate of the num
ber of proposals she received in that ;
way to puss.
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GERMAN PILLAGE
OF LILLE MUSEUM
Before Teutons Removed Val
uable Art Collections Mu
seum Had Been Struck
Pari* —The treatment accorded by
the Germans to the museum at Lille
|is the subject of an article In
L'Homme Libre. If it is true, the
; writer says, that the monuments of
Bruges are Intact and that the Ger
mans have not carried oft the Van
i Dygks anil the Davids from the Hos
pital St. Jean, or the communal mu
seum, which tyive been preserved In
a cellar for four years, the museums
at LiUc, Douai. Cambrai and no doubt
lat Valenciennes have undoubtedly
| been pillaged front top to bottom.
IThe museum at Lille was. M. Pierard
asserts, the premier museum of
France after the Louvre. It possessed
some hundreds of old pictures, among
I them some by Rubens and Van Dyek,
Flemish and German primitives.
Dutch works of the Eighteenth cen
tury. and Ghirlandalos, Bottlcellis.
Largilliefcs, Wntteaus and Goyas.
The special pride of the museum was,
however, the MVicar room, containing
.1 collection of 800 drawings by mas
ters with which the chevalier Wicar
had endowed his native town. No
table among this valuable collection
were some of Raphael's studies for
the "School at Athens," "Parnassus"
and other pictures, architectural
sketches by Michael Angela, earlca
ti res by Leonardo da Vinci and the
first sketch for the "Massacre of the
Innocents" by I*oussin. None of these
remalp In Li'le, M. Pierard declares,
for the Germans have taken them all
! away.
The keeper of museum, Mr.
Theodor, struggled for four years
with a truly Flemish tenacity. Sir.
Pserard asserts, against the removals
which took place, and in spite of
the affronts he had to put up with
he was always at his post. Like a
true citizen of Lille he gave proof of
a civic courage which cannot be too
highly praised. When in 1814 Lille
was subjected to an intense bom
bardment the museum was struck by
75 shells, which fortunately only
damaged the building and did no
harm to its precious contents. Dur
ing this bombardment M. Theodor,
with the help of his assistants, put
seme of the most valuable contents
of the museum in a place of safety in
the cellars.
When certain of the distinguished
Germans who visited the museum
saw the havoc wrought by the bom
bardment they imagined it to be the
Work of English aviators and often
aid: "You see, they call us bar
barians—what must be said about
your English friends?" M. Theodor
used to let them reach that point and
then, very politely, set them right
by saying: "I beg your pardon. This
danrr.ge was done in October, 1914.
by the German shells." This reply
was made to Prince Maximilian of
Baden, who thought it wise to change
the conversation.
The first picture carried away by
the Germans was one brought to
France from Germany in Napoleonic
times: this went in November,. 1914.
Some German soldiers forced ft .case
and took out two oins, but these
they had to restore. It was only in
1917 that the Germans began to take
the pictures and drawings away
wholesale. Their pretext was that
they wanted to put them into a place
of safety out of roach of the Eng
lish bambs and shells, but that this
was not the case was shown bj the
fact that they tools 487 objects .
,-rt during last September when they
were themselves preparing to loaVe
Lille definit.-ly. The removal of the
rks of art was supervised b> pv
cial art oflioc-s attached to the army.
M. Pierard describes some of the pro
ceedings of these officers who kept a
\ery close watch on M. Theodor.
Their great anxiety was to know
how they would be received by the
learned world after the war, and M.
Theodor did not spare them, but told
them they would not be able to do
without the Louvre and the "Brit
ish." He finishes his article by re
counting the story of the waxen head,
the most celebrated thing in the mu
seum. It dates from the time of the
Florentine renaissance and is a rela
tion of the "Flora" bust over which
Dr. Bode made himself such a laugh
ing stock. As'soon as they arrived
In Lille the Germans usked for her.
M. Theodor had hiddAi her in the
cellars with great care, and when
the Germans discovered her at last,
he contrived to substitute a cast for
the original and it Is this cast which
they have taken away with them.
Russia is estimated to have more
than 4,000,000 acres of land which
would produce cotton if irrigated.
A Paris dentist has developed a
method for bleaching and sterlising
teeth with ultraviolet rays.
A Rotherham (Englalnd) postman
has walked 153,000 miles during his
45 years of service, and recently cele
brated "his golden wedding.
Rene Viviani Assails
u German Kaltar"
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Former Premier Rene Viviani, of
France, in a recent speech, declared
that the German Republic is a mock
ery and cannot be trusted, according
to a report from Paris. He urged that
"German kvltur" .be suppressed in
French and American universities.
The former Premier praised Amerlann
efforts in the war and said that,
thanks to the United states, demac
, racy had defeated autocracj'.
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