BOY CAPTURED THIRTY
GERMANS SINGLE-HANDED
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Kicliard Allen Blount, son of R. E.
Blount of North Carolina, who cap
tured 30 Germans single-handed while
fighting with the foreign legion at Ver
dun. Young Blount joined the foreign
legion over a year ago and has seen
heavy fighting. At the time he enlist
ed his father said he wanted him to
account for five Germans. The young
American has far exceeded his fa
ther's expectations and is still going
strong. He was awarded the croix de
guerre with palm for his heroic ex
ploit at Verdun.
DRUGGIST CLEANS PENNIES
He Thinks It Will Prevent the Spread
of Sickness.
R. M. Floyd, a druggist of Shelby-
Ville, Ind., cleans all of the pennies he
takes in during the day. Mr. Floyd
has been doing this for some time,
and says he will continue to do so. s|
"In these days of uncertainties,
when everything comes high and sick
ness higher than any other condition,
too much care cannot be taken," he
said. "Pennies come from all sorts of
people, just as do all other kinds of
money. There is a difference, however.
Hundreds and thousands of pennies are
spent by children —tots who want a
penny's worth of this or that. Many
of the children have the habit of put
ting the penny in their mouths. What
can happen to a coin when placed in
the mouth is well-known. A penny or
a nickel or a dime could carry a mil
lion germs. These coins pass from
hand to hand, and only too often from
mouth to mouth."
Mr. Floyd cleans his coins by rub
bing them with Spanish whiting, which
he says is the cheapest method. Any
substance that scours will do, he says.
COFFIN BLOCKS SPEEDERS
Victim in Road Gives Mute Protest to
Motorists.
Chinese coolies have devised an ef
fective means of protesting against
speeding automobiles. A few days ago
an automobile belonging to a promi
nent Chinese official killed a child near
the summer palace at Peking. The
driver was arrested, but released upon
payment of a very small fine.
In expression of their disapproval
of the court's action the parents of
the child and their neighbors erected a
mat shed in the middle of the road,
on the very spot where the child was
killed, under which the coffin was
placed. Inscriptions were frosted on
the sides of the coffin denouncing the
injustice of the court.
Since then the main road has been
abandoned by traffic, but olficials ap
parently have not dared to remove the
body, which is watched constantly by
friends of the bereaved family.
NEARLY DIED IN TRUNK
Little Girl Was Hidden There by Play
mates to Prevent Whipping.
Sadie, the five-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Topper of York,
Pa., nearly lost her life from suf
focation when her playmates, to pre
vent her from being whipped by her
mother, placed her in a trunk on the
second floor of the home of Mrs. Diejil.
Sadie, Mildred Diehl and Beatrice
Bookmyer, were in the To' ->er yard
helping themselves to peaches when
Mrs. Topper returned home.
Sadie became scared and the chil
dren placed her in a trunk, covering
her with a blanket and closing the lid.
When discovered three hours later the
child was unconscious.
BOY TRAVELS ALONE
Little Lad Made Long Trip to New
York City.
Eleven-year-old Christy Stigmaier
left Klamath Falls, Ore., the other day
for New York city, where his father
is awaiting him. The little fellow is
making the trip all alone and carries
a note with explanations regarding his
Identity and destination and request
ing the aid of the train officials in get
ting him safely to his father. The
boy came here two years ago with his
mother to visit his grandfather, James
Malone, postmaster of Langell Valley,
and the mother died some time ago,
so the boy has to make the return trip
alone.
PARISIAN IDOL
SEEKS CONVENT
Actress Tires of Vanities Amid
War's Horrors.
IS CONVERTED BY PRIEST
Eva Lavalliere, Late Star of the Vari
eties, Turns Over Her Wealth to the
Poor—Found Shallowness of Stage
Contrasted Too Strongly With
Boundless Sufferings of the Soldiers
in the Trenches.
Paris rubbed Its eyes and sat Tip
with a shock when it read in the
morning papers recently that Eva
Lavalliere was about to give up the
world and retire to a convent. Laval
liere, who for almost twenty years
has been the joy of Paris theatergo
ers; she whose verve and sparkle had
made of her one of the most popular
actresses of the capital—whose spe
cial talent always gave you the feeling
of biting into a sour-sweet apple with
its particular and delightful tang.
Rumor has it that Lavalliere —like
her famous namesake —tiring of the
pomp and vanities of the world, has
decided to seek peace and solace be
hind the walls of a cloister. At all
events, the late star of the Varieties
said when asked if the report was
true:
Made Vow to Quit.
"When the war began I made a vow
that I would never act again. Then
managers begged me to change my
mind, and I consented. I played a
short season of "Carminetta," but the
shallowness and artificialities of the
stage contrasted with the boundless
sufferings of our soldiers in the
trenches sickened me and I gave up
the part.
"Last spring I went into the country
for a rest, and there one day the vil
lage priest called upon me and asked
me whether I would not come to mass
the following Sunday. I smiled—can
you imagine me at mass—but he was
such a delightful priest, and to please
him I went. I returned again and
again—and now I have decided to
give up the rest of my life to relig
ion."
Lavalliere looks strange without her
makeup. She no longer hides the fact
that her hair is white. She has given
up her handsome apartment, sold her
furniture, her furs and her jewels,
turned the proceeds over to the poor,
and has declared herself ready for her
new vocation.
Some skeptical persons insist that
the reason for this change of heart is
that the actress feels her powers are
waning and that she has lost her
looks. Some even declare that all this
is only the prelude to the announce
ment that she is to appear in a new
play this season.
The Soldier Understands.
But the soldier in the trenches un
derstands. Through three years of
war, side by side with death, he has
learned to look into men's hearts. By
his own descent into the darkness of
his fate he has discovered the shining
brightness of spiritual ties. He seems
to have grown antennae with which he
can probe into the mysteries of a soul.
He is not astonished that a woman,
finding her existence an empty one,
has gone boldly forth into the great
adventure of discovering a new and
finer life.
With the disappearance of Eve Lav
alliere from the world's stage it seems
as if a part of Paris had put on
mourning for the dead in sympathy
for the living, as if she had under
stood the terrible lesson of today and
had decided to expiate, to pay with
her devotions the fearful price ofl
blood. ,
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The American flag brings trade to
this tobacconist somewhere behind the
lines in a French village. A board
also • nnounces the fact that cakes,
chocolate are among the
• . telapt flush soldiers to buy.
This Is Our Winter
of Test
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SERVING food Is a lo
cal problem for each
i community. Prices
and definite rules for
: every one cannot be
formulated. It
human body
Qealthy and strong. This winter
of 1918 is the period when is to
be tested here in America wheth
er our people are capable of vol
untary individual sacrifice to
save the world. That is the pur
pose of the organization of the
United States Food Administra
tion—by voluntary effort to pro
vide the food that the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
NEED HERBS
Europe's Meat Supply Must Come
From America.
Warring Nations Have Depleted Live
Stock at Enormous Rate, Eve.i
Killing Dairy Cattle For Food.
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American stock breeders are being
asked to conserve their flocks and
herds in order to meet Europe's tre
mendous demands for meats during
the war and probably for many years
afterward.
The United States food adminis
tration reports that American stock
raisers have shown a disposition to
co-operate with the government in in
creasing the nation's supply of live
stock.
Germany today is probably better
supplied with live stock than any oth
er European nation. When the Ger
man armies made t*heir big advance
into France and then retreated vir
tually all the cattle in the invaded
territory approximately 1,800,000
head—were driven behind the German
lines.
But in England—where 2,400,000
acres of pasture lands have been turn
ed into grain fields—the cattle herds
pre decreasing rapidly. One of the
reasons apparently is the declining
maximum price scale adopted by the
English as follows: For September,
$17.76 per 100 pounds; October, $17.28;
November and December, $16.08; Jan
lary, $14.40. The effect of these prices
was to drive beef animals on the mar
ket as soon as possible.
In France the number of cattle as
well as the quality have shown an
enormous decline during the war.
Where France had 14,807,000 head of
cattle in 1913, she now has only 12,-
341,900, a decrease of 16.6 per cent
And France Is today producing only
one gallon of milk compared to two
and one-half gallons before the war.
Denmark and Holland have been
forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef
because of the lack of necessary feed.
Close study of the European meat
situation has convinced the Food Ad
ministration that the future problem
of America lies largely in the produc
tion of meat producing animals and
dairy products rather than in the pro
duction of cereals for export when
the war will have ceased.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
KELPS PAY FOR BREAD
Then* has been much misunder
standing about the bread program in
England. It is true that the English
man buys a loaf of bread for less than
an American can, but it is poorer
bread, and tlie British government is
paying $200,000,000 a year toward the
cost of it.
All the grain grown in Great Brit
ain is taken over by the government
at an arbitrary price and the imported 1
wheat purchased on the markets at I
the prevailing market price. This is |
turned over to the mills by the govern
ment at a price that allows the adul
terated war bread loaf of four pounds
to sell at 18 cents, the two pound loaf
at 9 cents and the one pound loaf at 5
cents.
In France, under conditions some
what similar, but with a larger ex
traction, the four pound loaf sells for
16 cents.
MAKING MEATLESS
DAYS PERMANENT.
in the meatless menu there Is a fer
tile held for developing new and nour- '
ishing dishes, according to E. H. Niles, i
writing In the Hotel Gazette, who be
lieves that the present shortage of
meat and fats will not end with the
coming of peace, but may grow more
acute and continue for five or six
years, thus making it worth while to
develop menus of grain, vegetables
and fish on a more or less permanent !
basis. Meat can be replaced by cereals
and other protein foods, or may be
served in very small portions as a fla
voring for other food. In making up
meatless menus this author finds car
American Creole and southern cuisine
a broad field for investigation.
CORN WILL WIN
DEMOCRACY'SWAR
America's Greatest Cereal Crop
Is Now Moving to
Market.
MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS.
Surplus Wheat of the United State#
Has Been Sent to Famine Threat
ened Europe.
America's great corn crop, exceed
ing 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the
world's food situation, officials of the
United States food administration be
lieve.
Corn is the nation's best food cereal,
housewives are beginning to realize.
It contains all the elements needed to
keep the body in a state of health and
when used according to the scores of
tried recipes, especially when com
bined with an added portion of oil or
fat, will sustain life indefinitely. In
dian warriors in colonial days lived on
parched corn alone for many days at a
time, and at Valley Forge parched
corn was at times the sole ration of
the Continental soldiers.
Owing to transportation difficulties
caused by the war the corn crop moved
more slowly to market this year than
ever before. Now, however, the cereal
is reaching the millers and consumers.
In the meantime the nation's surplus
wheat has been sent to Europe.
Today there are approximately 30
bushels of corn for every American.
This quantity is greater by five bush
els than in former years.
Corn has become the nation's main
stay in the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
American colonists from famine on
many occasions, just as it served as a
staple food during the War of the Rev
olution and during the Civil War, King
Corn has again come to the front in
the nation's battle with autocracy.
Corn meal is finding greatly increas
ed use in the making of ordinary white
bread. Hundreds of housewives and
many of the larger bakers are mixing
20 per cent corn meal with wheat
flour to make leavened bread. This
kind of a mixture is worked and baked
in the same recipes and with the same
methods that apply to straight wheat
bread.
Corn bread —using corn meal entire
ly—is gaining a greater popularity
than ever before. Housewives are
coming to realize that every pound of
wheat saved in America means a pound
of wheat released for shipment to the
nations with which America is associ
ated in the war.
There are a score of corn products
that today possess unusual importance
for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet
ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes
and for use in the kitchen instead of
granulated sugar is one of the leading
products made from corn.
Corn oil, excellent for frying and for
every other purpose filled by salad oils,
is appearing on the market in large
quantities. It comes from the germ of
the corn.
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MADE-IN-GERMANY LIES
CIRCULATED IN CANADA
Canada is also having trouble with
Made-in-Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation ac
cording to an official statement re
ceived from the Canadian food con
troller by the United States food ad
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
of the same general character as those
the United States food administra
tor recently denounced in this coun
try, such as the ridiculous salt and
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives' stocks of home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power of destruction that lies
in a battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even a vestige of
foundation have been scattered broad
cast," said the Canadian statement
"Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously in
different parts of the country and in
each Instance have been calculated to
arouse public Indignation.
"They are insidious, subtle, persist
ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the great essential in the work
of food control.
"It lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to co-operate In work which is going
to mean more than the majority of
people yet realize."
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATION SAYSt
There is no royal road to food
conservation. We can only ac
complish this by the voluntary
action of, our whole people, each
element in proportion to its means.
It is a matter of equality of bur
den; a matter of minute saving
and substitution at every point in
the 20 000.000 kitchens, on the 20.
000 000 dinner tables, and in the
2,000,000 manufacturina whole
sale and reta»l establishmen ia o
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