1917 CRUSADERS TAKE HOLY CITY WITHOUT POMP Description of the British Entry Into Jerusalem. COMMANDER ENTERS ON FOOT Ceremony It Full of Dignity and Sim plicity, the Significance of Which Was Not Lost on the Population- No Soldier Shouts of Triumph Over Defeated Foe—People Show Evi dence of Delight. The first detailed account of the British entry into the Holy City was received by the London Daily News from W. T. Massey at Jerusalem. He Bays: "This central site of sacred history is liberated from the thralldom of the Turk without a British bullet or shell being directed against its walls, or so much as a stone being scratched. The Turks were forced to withdraw by Gen eral Allenby's strategy and the valor of his army. The Turkish artillery fired from a position quite close to the city, and enemy guns thundered from the Mount of Olives, but of our fire the inhabitants could make out nothing more than a distant rumbling of guns and the bursts of musketry. No Display Entering City. "General Allenby put the sanctity of the holy sites before every other con sideration and approached the city only when the pressure of his troops In the mountains west and northwest the enemy to yield. "I write this after witnessing the official entry of General Allenby and his staff and military commanders of detachments of French and Italian troops. There was no great pageantry of arms, no display of pomp. With the commander in chief and his small staff was a guard of less than 150 all told, including allied troops. There was a quiet ceremonial of reading the proclamation of military law, of meet ing notables of the city and heads of religious bodies, and the official entry was over. "There were no *ags hoisted and there was no enemy flag to haul down. There were no soldier shouts of tri umph over the defeated foe, but just a short military procession into the Mount Zion portion of the city, 200 yards from the walls. People See New Era Open. "The ceremony was full of dignity and simplicity. Its significance was not lost on the population, who saw In it an end of Turkish regime and the beginning o£ a new era of free dom and justice for all classes and creeds. Right down into the hearts of the people, who cling to Jerusalem with the deepest reverence and piety, there was unfeigned delight. I learn that prayers were offered up in almost every house in Jerusalem that our arms would be successful. "At eight o'clock in the morning the mayor and chief of police came out under a flag of truce. The mayor, who holds his high civic position as a. member of the Hasseln family which possesses documentary proof of its di rect descent from Mahomet through the prophet's daughter, offered the sur render of the city. The formal surren der was arranged at noon December 8. Turks Fight Stubbornly. "Between the offer and the formal acceptance, there was sharp fighting on the outskirts, the Turks fighting more stubbornly than at any period of these operations and meeting bay onet with bayonet. The London troops were heavily attacked and strong ma chine-gun tire was poured into them from the Mount of Olives, but by noon the Turks were pushed back so far that we occupied ground 7,000 yards north of the city walls. The Welsh troops were operating from the soufh and east, and drove the Turks from the Jericho road. This was the mili tary position at noon, December 9. All Wear Best Robes. "It was a picturesque throng that from the outskirts of Jerusalem flocked In to greet the conquering general. Armenians and Greeks and men of all nationalities, somber clad, stood side by side with Moslems dressed in the brighter raiment of the east. The pre dominance of Tarbush in the streets added to the brightness of the scene. "All obviously regarded the day as Important, for they wore their best robes, and many of them, abandoning their natural reserve, joined in vocal expressions of welcome. Their faces lighted up with pleasure at the gen eral's approach. The fiat-topped roofs and balconies held people crying aloud their welcome. General Enters on Foot. "General Allenby entered the town on foot. Aside the Jaffa gate he was received by the military governor and a guard of honor formed by men who have done their full share in the cam paign. Drawn up on the right of the gate were men from English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh counties. Opposite them were fifty men afoot representing Australian and New Zealand horse men. Inside the walls were twenty French and twenty Italian troops from detachments sent by their countries to take part in the Palestine operations. "Inside the walls was a crowd, dense ly packed in the narrow streets. The commander in chief, preceded by his .. le camp, had ou his right the com mander of the French detachment and on his left the commander of the Ital ian detachment. Following were the Italian, French, and American military attaches and a few members of the general staff. Guards of honor marched in the rear. "The procession turned to the right into Mount Zion and halted at EH Kala citadel. On the steps at the base of the tower of David, which was stand ing when Christ was in Jerusalem, a proclamation of military law was read in four languages in the presence of the commander in chief and many not ables of the city. Mayor Is Presented. "Reforming, the procession moved up Zion street to Barracks sqnare where the mayor and the mufti were presented and likewise sheiks with charge of mosques and the moslems belonging to the Khaldees and Alaraieeh families which trace their descendants through many centuries. Patriarchs of Latin, Greek, Orthodox and Aremenian churches and Coptic bishops had been directed to leave Je rusalem by the Turks, but their rep resentatives present were introduced to the general as were also heads of the Jewish committees of the Syria church, of the Greek Catholic church, an Abyssinian archbishop and a rep resentative of the Anglican church. The last to be presented was the Span ish consul, who has in charge the in terests of almost all the countries at war. "The representations over, the pro cession returned to Jaffa gate. Thus ended a simple and impressive cere monial, the effect of which must be far reaching." •trO'itO'CrO-irO-irO-tiO-iiO-irO-irO-irO'iiOirO-fr^ | DEATH TO THE HUN. g o ? By Daisy Sanlal Gill o £ (of the Vigilantes.) o 9 Forward through pain and wrack q Till he is beaten back— jj, .ft Death to the Hun! O O Though low our dead men lie, Loud rings their charging cry 9 ® As life and love leap by— q Q Death to the Hun! # o 9 Speak not of right to be, & & Speak not of Liberty 9 9 Under the sun, £ O Till we can stand beside js. France—Belgium crucified, o . O And fling the glad news wide— $■ •fc Dead is the Hun! ° P % & o £ Till we can answer back ft Who braved that brute attack — O O "Father and son, j Tou have not died in vain, O j ? Fruitful your mortal pain, £ 1 q Hopes for the "Race remain— ft j .ft Dead is the Hun!" O j o "5* 1 •frO'fro&oftO'froaro-frO'frofto-frO'fro-CrOfto ! KING VICTOR LIVES WITH TROOPS AT FRONT Only Goes to Capital When Pres ence Is Required by Cabinet Meetings. Though King Victor is the only en tente ruler who has constantly lived at the front among his soldiers, yet very little is said and printed about him. His name never appears in the general staff communiques. The war corre spondents never mention the king's name and doings, except when allowed to describe official ceremonies connect ed with the visit at the Italian front of other entente rulers or high entente officials. Very few civilians have seen the king during the last two years. Even during his brief visits to the capital, when his presence here Is re quired by Important cabinet meetings, the king is never seen in the streets, as in former years. A few days ago the following sketch of King Victor, to gether with the descriptiot. of one of his experiences at the front, was dis covered In a letter of a soldier to his mother: "The king passed only a short dis tance from me and I saw him dis- j tlnctly. He was calm, smiled to every body whose gaze attracted his atten tion and spoke to every soldier near him, asking numberless questions. Af ter a while he resumed his ascent to ward the advanced trenches on the peak of a high mountain in order to shake hands with the soldiers and en courage them with fatherly words. After the visit he came back, took a photo of us and then boarded his car and sped away. Only two generals and a colonel were with him. While making the ascent an enemy plane happened to be heading for the same spot. The king, instead of seeking shel ter, continued to walk, and when our antiaerlals opened fire on the plane the king remained in the middle of the road, impassable under the hail of shrapnel bullets, following the duel with hi:? field glass. When the plane fled he congratulated the artillery men." PLAN TO TRAIN CRIPPLES Oregon University to Re-Educate Vic tims of the War. Re-education of men crippled in the war is a problem that the University of Oregon is anticipating and one for which preparation already is being made. A committee of representatives of the departments of psychology and education has been appointed to make a careful study of the most practical methods of re-education and to make recommendations for the establish ment of such courses of study as are deemed advisable. The special problem for the commit tee is to devise ways of educating men for new pursuits after they have b'-en crippled in such way as to make their former occuiai. - impossible. AMERICAN SUGAR SENT TOFRANCE American Price Rigidly Regulated by United States Food Administration. CONSUMERS HERE PAY 9c. Sugar Coat 35 Cents a Pound. During Civil War— Refiners' Profit* Now Curtailed. Sugar Is selling today throughout America at from 8% to 0 cents a pound to the consumer, even though there Is a world shortage which has reduced this nation's sugar allotment to 70 per cent, of normal. Through the efforts of the United States food administration the sugar market has been regulated as far as the producer, refiner and wholesaler is concerned. The food administration has no power to regulate retail prices except by public opinion. Even though more than 85,000 tons of sugar have been shipped to France in the last four months the retail grocer's sugar price is around 8 to 8% cents. He should sell this sugar at 8% to 9 cents, the food administration believes, and asks the American housewife to pay no more than this amount. Last August when the food admin istration was organized the price of sugar rose suddenly to 11 cents a pound. During the Civil War sugar cost the consumer 35 cents a pound. By regulation of the sugar market and reducing the price to 8% and 9 cents and keeping It from advancing to 20 cents the food administration has sav ed the American public at least $lBO,- 000,000 in four months, according to a statement made by Herbert Hoover the other day. "It Is our stern duty to feed the al lies, to maintain their health and strength at any cost to ourselves," Mr. Hoover declared. "There has not been, nor will be as we see it, enough sugar for even fheir present meagre and depressing ration unless they send ships to remote markets for it. ff we in our greed and gluttony force them either to further reduce their ration or to send these ships we will have done damage to our abilities to win this war. "If we send the ships to Java for 250,000 tons of sugar next year we will have necessitated the em ployment of eleven extra ships for one year. These ships— if used in transporting troops—would take 150 000 to 200,000 men to France." Reason for World Shortage. As Mr. Hoover pointed out, the United States, Canada and England were sugar importing countries before the war, while France and Italy were very nearly self supporting. The main sources of the world's sugar supply was Geri/any and neighboring powers, the West Indies and the East Indies. German sugar Is no longer available, as it is used entirely in Germany, which also absorbs sugar of surround ing countries.- England can no longer buy 1,400,000 long tons of sugar each year from Germany. The French sugar produc tion has dropped from 750.000 to 210,- 000 tons. The Italian production has fallen from 210,000 tons to 75,000 tons. Thus three countries were thrown upon East and West Indian sources for 1,925.000 tons annually to maintain their normal consumption. Because of the world's shipping shortage the allied nations started drawing on the West Indies for sugar; East Indian sugar took three times the number of ships, since the dis tance was three times as great. Sud denly the west was called on to fur nish and did furnish 1,420.000 tons of sugar to Europe when 300.000 tons a year was the pre-war demand. The allies had drawn from Java 400,000 tons before the shipping situation be came acute. "In spite of these shipments," Mr. Hoover stated the other day, "the English government in August reduced the household sugar ration to a basis of 24 pounds per annum per capita. And in September the French govern ment reduced their household ration to 13 2-10 pounds a year, or a bit over 1 pound of sugar a month. Even this meairre ration could not be filled by the French government It was found early in the fall. America was then asked for 100.000 tons of sugar and succeeded in sending 85.000 tons by December 1. The French request was granted because the American house hold consumption was then at least 55 pounds per person, and It was consid ered the duty of maintaining the French morale made our course clear." Today the sugar situation may be summarized by stating that if America will reduce its sugar con sumption 10 to 15 per cent this nation will be able to send 200,000 more soldiers to France. Sugar today sells at seaboard re fineries at §7.25 a hundred pounds. ' The wholesale grocer has agreed to ; limit his profit to 25 cents a hundred plus freight, and the retail grocer Is supposed to take no more than 50 cents I a hundred pounds profit. This regu : lation was made by the food adminis tration. which now asks the housewife to reduce sugar consumption as much as possible, using other sweeteners, and also reminds her that she should pay no more than 9 cents a pound for sugar Control of Cane Refiners' Profits. "Immediately upon the establish ment of the food administration," Mr. Hoover said, "an examination was made of the costs and profits of refin ing and it was finally determined that the spread between the cost of raw and the sale of refined cane sugar should be limited to $1.30 per hundred pounds. The pre-war differential had averaged about 85 cents and increased costs were found to have been Impos ed by the war in increased cost of re fining, losses, cost of bags, labor, Insur ance, Interest and other things, rather more than cover the difference. After prolonged negotiations the refiners were placed under agreement estab lishing these limits on October 1, and anything over this amount to be agreed extortionate under the law. "In the course of these investiga tions It was found by canvass of the Cuban producers that their sugar had, during the first nine months of the past year, sold for an average of about $4.24 per hundred f. o. b. Cuba, to which duty and freight added to the refiners' cost amount to about $5.B < j i < LET US face the facts. The war situation is critical. j Unless the Allies fight as they never yet have j fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight ! at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England, !: and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them. j > Wheat Savings —They must have wheat. It is the !: ;! best food to fight on. It is the easiest to ship. We ; !; alone can spare it to them. By saving just a little— j 1; less than a quarter of what we ate last year—we can ;; support those who are fighting our battles. And we !; jj can do it without stinting ourselves. We have only j! to substitute another food just as good. The Com of Plenty —Corn is that food. There's a ' I jj surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the ;' !; hour of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train- lj loads of corn. Five hundred million bushels over and !! |; above our regular needs. All we have to do is to j! learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made jj !; so easy? And so clear? ;j \> < > America's Own Food—ComJ It is the true American jj !; food. The Indians, hardiest of races, lived on it. Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a I; continent. For a great section of our country it \\ has blong een the staff of life. How well the South fought on it, history tells. Now it can help America jj !; win a world war. jj j; Learn Something —Corn! It isn't one food. It's a j! dozen. It's a cereal. It's a vegetable. It's a bread. || It's a dessert. It's nutritious; more food value in it, jj dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs or most other ![ J vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't j! know until you've had corn-bread properly cooked, jj Best of all, it's plentiful and it's patriotic. Corn's Infinite Variety—How much do you know about jj corn? About how good it is? About the many jj delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss lj by not knowing more about it? Here are a few I; of its uses: j! There are at least fifty ways to use com meal to make good dishes for dinner, supper, lunch or break- j! fast. Here are some suggestions: HOT BREADS DESSERTS Boston brown bread. Corn-meal molasses cake. Hoecake. Apple corn bread. ![ Muffins. Dumplings. Biscuits. Gingerbread. Griddle cakes. Fruit gems. !; ij Waffles. i! HEART* DISHES Corn-meal croquettes. Cora-meal fish balls. Meat and corn-meal dumplings. Italian polenta. Tamales. The recipes are in Farmers' Bulletin 565, "Corn ;j Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It," free from the I; Department of Agriculture. J;