UNCLE SAM'S PARTNER of Planting home gardens, producing more food, and saving food are all war-time efforts of this government in which the women of America have co-operated loyally. We are all m the home army; the home army here must help the fighting forces and home armies over there; 120 million Allies must eat. mi " " — l l HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP .4 A food map of Europe today shows not a single country in which the fu ture does not hold threat of serious difficulties and only a small part which is not rapidly approaching the famine point. With the exception of the Ukraine only those countries which have maintained marine commerce have sufficient food supplies to meet actual needs until next harvest, and even in the Ukraine, with stores accu mulated on the farms, there is famine in the large centers of population. Belgium and northern France, as well as Serbia, appear on the hunger map distinct from the rest of Europe because they stand in a different rela tion from the other nations to the peo ple of the United States. America has for four years maintained the small war rations of Belgium and northern France and is already making special efforts to care for their increased after-the-war needs, which, with those of Serbia, must be included in this plan, are urgent in the extreme and must have immediate relief. The gratitude of the Belgian nation for the help America has extended to her during the war constitutes the strongest appeal for us to continue our work there. The moment the German armies withdrew from her soil and she was established once more in her own sent of government the little nation's first thought was to express her grati tude to the Commission for Relief in Belgium for preserving the lives of millions of her citizens. Germany, on the other hand, need not figure in such a map for Ameri cans because there is no present indi cation that we shall be called on at all to take thought for the food needs of Germany. Germany probably can care for her own food problem if she is given access to shipping and is enabled to distribute food to the cities with dense populations, which are the trou ble centers. England, France, the Netherlands and 'Portugal, all of which have been maintained from American supplies, have sufficient food to meet immediate 1 needs, but their fututre presents seri ous difficulties. The same is true of Spain and ihe northern neutral coun tries —Norway, Sweden and Denmark —whose ports have been open and who have been able to draw v> some degree upon foreign supplies. Most of Russia is already in the throes of famine, and 40,000,000 people there are beyond the possibility of help. Before another spring thou sands of them inevitably must die. This applies as well to Poland and practically throughout Baltic re- gions, with conditions most serious in Finland. Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and Montenegro have already reached the famine point and are suffering a heavy toll of death. The Armenian p»pula tion ts falling each week as hanger takes its toll, and in Greece, Abania and Roumania so serious are the food shortages that famine is near. Al though starvation is not yet imminent, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur key ar*e in the throes of serious strin gencies. In order to fulfill America's fledge in world relief we will have to <xport every ton of food which can b« han dled through our ports. This meins at the very least a minimum of 20,(00,000 tons compared with 6.000.000 tois pre war exports and 11.520.000 tois ex ported last year, when we were bound by the ties of war to the Eu'opean allies. If we fail to lighten the blacl spots on the hunger map or if we all<W any portions to become darker tin very peace for which re fousrht hi« will be threatened. Revolt mid " inevitably follow f happen we will v Europe :• " j bade • ! win i HOW 111 WAR IS OVER, WE ARE API TO SPEND UNWISELY Need For Thrift Is Greater- War Saving Stamps Are Best Medium for Sys tematic Saving Now that the war is over, what? Will the bonanza times for business keep up? Will we keep a-going along the high plane on which we have been sailing—wages up for the working man. prices up for the business man? The Saturday Evening Post in a re cent editorial holds up a finger of warning to us. It says that it has been easier to do business at a profit in the United States these last few months than at any other period in this generation. "Pretty nearly from end to end it is a sellers' market," the editorial goes on; "whoever has goods finds a buyer at his elbow. All the haggling is to get goods, not to dispose of them. Rapid circulation of money makes collections easy. ♦ * ♦ "Now, no matter what else anybody may think about the future, it is cer tain that this condition cannot last. No tree ever does grow to the sky. Whatever else may happen, there must sometime come a period of stationary and declining prices and decreasing margins. "This is as certain as two times two makes four. It means an anchor to windward. Every person who does not take this time to lay up a surplus is inviting trouble." One of the surest, safest and most profitable ways to lay up that surplus is to get your money into government securities. We know these will be safe and we know that when we re deem them the money we take out of them will buy far more than that same amount of money would when we were putting it in. War Savings Stamps offer the ideal Investment for all classes. The man who is able to put by only a mite at a time can start that mite to earning an income for him the minute he In vests in the stamps. This county has not yet raised its quota in stamps. Most Uncle Sam argue with us to get us to do the thing we should be crowding each other tor an opportunity to do? Must oar neigh bors and our fellows who have done their share be deprived of the right of the bronze tablet on our court bouse because we have slacked? From the Court House the W. S. 5. Tablet Speaks No thundering voice is mine To tell you of heroes dying Up there in the firing line; I tell of no Yanks' wild flying O'er the Marne or Scheldt or Rhine. No paean is mine to sing To the eagle eye of the gunner; No praise is it mine to ring Of the death-defying runner Who cheats death of her fling. No gesture is mine to stress The deeds of the clear-eyed sailor Whose vigilance mothers bless — The undersea captain's jailor Who made the sea's dangers less. Of the heroes at home I tell, Those whom history has not reck oned — The rear line that held so well When its duty rose and beckoned, And Suff'ring the world befell. I stand for this county's folk Whose thrift kept the forces fight ing. The War Stamps they bought gave the stroke That led to autocracy's blighting And struck off the kaiser's yoke. Hundreds Plan to Make Christmas Gifts of Stamps Hundreds of persons in the coun ty, according to the War Savings Stamps organization, are buying J War Savings Stamps to send out j along with their usual Christmas j gifts. They are celebrating peace and j victory by a double Christmas j I present—the usual gift to the re- I cipient and the loan of their money j I to Uncle Sam. J And it's making it possible for j I Uncle Sam to discharge his duty to I I the boys who made this double I I Christmas possible by bringing I I them safely home. Acceptable? Who wouldn't be I I glad to have a War Stamp for I I Christmas? Many who are signing the new I pledge cards have told salesmen I they plan to put whatever money j gifts they receive into Uncle Sam's I hands for five years. Says Miss Speedy-- A word from our little Miss Speedy: "As long as our Uncle is needy Make War Stamps your present And shopping is pleasant." A hunch that you couldn't call seedy. ij FATE-AND BILLY | j[ By AGNES G. BROGAN. (Copyright, 191$. Western Newspaper Union..* Some one had sent to Billy, a local town paper, and four thousand miles from home, incidents heretofore con sidered unworthy of attention, were read with absorbing interest. Franc?, with its thousands of fighting com rades, its continued excitement and impending danger was a lonely place, lonelier than Bridgeburg had ever been. Seeming to stand out among the "personalities" was a familiar name, "Miss Elizabeth Brown," so the col umn announced, "was spending the summer with her aunt." "Elizabeth Brown," Billy wrinkled his brow perplexedly then memory came to him. "This was Betty Brown, of course, black-eyed Betty, his jolly companion of past vacations. Betty had come out from the city then to spend* her summers with her aunt. To Billy "somewhere in France," came a vision of the town of his child hood, the white house with its flowers and vines, where saucy Betty had held sway. What sort of a young person had Miss Elizabeth Brown become? he wondered. With the acquirement of her first long skirt, her visits to Bridgeburg had ceased. Following a sudden impulse, Billy drew a card to ward him. He would surprise her with a message from overseas. "Do you recall," he hastily wrote, "a youthful admirer, Billy West? Used to devote himself to you when you stopped in Bridgeburg. Well, this is from Bill. I'm fighting for Uncle Sam now, and a fairy has whispered your name to me over in France. Won't you send a line to cheer us along?" When the card was dispatched Billy wondered at his own temerity. "Oh, well, no harm done, she need not answer." But she did. "What do you know!" he murmured to himself, and perused the letter. Miss Brown honestly confessed that she couldn't recall exactly the identity of Bill West. But if he was the good natured boy (handsome, slyly inserted Miss Brown) who used to let her tyran nize over him when she visited at Aunt Lucy's, she'd be glad now to make amends by adopting him in a certain way, as her soldier, forward ing to him little things which might add to his comfort, and being as de sired, generally useful. "Of course," added Miss Elizabeth, "he must not consider her a foolishly romantic per son or anything like that, for she was merely trying to help, in a spirit of pure patriotism. And if Mr. West knew of any other lonely soldier, her assist ance could also be extended to him." Billy did not know of any. He has tened to tell her so. When he lay wounded in the hos pital, his first thought, strangely enough, was of Betty Brown. There were many anxious letters awaiting response from near friends and dear, but Billy turned painfully to the nurse. "Please write to Miss Elizabeth Brown of Bridgeburg," he begged; "tell her I'm going back on sick leave and will see her soon." Billy's injuries were not serious, the doctor assured him, but his mend ing would be long and tedious. "Yes," he answered the eager ques tion of the soldier's eyes, "you'll be back with us on the fighting line." Throughout his long homeward jour ney, Billy thought of the girl who had written him letters of inspiration and courage. "What a kind little soul she was!" Then Billy paused in his pleas ant meditations. "Little?" How did he know? She might be tall, neither had Betty been prepossessing in ap pearance. His boyish respect, Billy realized, had been won by her sheer domination. He had fallen in love, yes, there was no doubt of it, with Elizabeth Brown, on paper. And she? She had confessed that romance dwelt not in her, she had been unable to hon estly recall his identity. Billy sighed. "He wouM personally thnnk.his bene factress for her letters, then perhaps, |j that would be the end." His own sis ter added to the quandary. "Elizabeth Brown who used to visit next door?" She answered his ques tion. "Why she was married last week. They showed me the invita tions !" White faced and more shaken in dis appointment than he would have thought possible, Billy, the soldier, passed down the Bridgeburg street, then on, to his boyish haunt near the stream. A girl sat on the mossy bank, She was engaged in knitting, but she raised her blue eyes at Billy's ap proach, gravely regarding him; then she smiled. "I see you have followed me," said the girl. "I came away from home before you should call, in order to save you embarrassment. Last night only, I realized your mistake. When your return was mentioned, aunt re ferred to your boyish devotion to my cousin, Elizabeth, who has recently married." She laughed. "Probably my own visits escaped your notice, Mr. West, I was much of a child at that time. And so—" Elizabeth Brown arose to go, "we will consider the matter dismissed." Billy looked into the lovely face be fore him. It was of such a face he had dreamed, led on through nights of terrifying darkness, such a face, which had smiled promise through the light of his hospital window. "Fate sent to me the name of the woman 1 love," said Billy solemnly, aud though Elizabeth Brown flushed scarlet, the glance she gave him was neither startled nor displeased. Resurrection of Old Roman Port. Ostia, the harbor of ancient Rome, is once more, by decision of the Italian government, to become a port, and Rome therefore once more a maritime city. To the harbor at Ostia, when Rome was mistress of the world, came the corn from Sicily and Sardinia, which, after Tibet silt and national in dolence had let Ostia perish, was stored at Portus, the rival harbor, which also afterward fell into desuetude. It was the seizure of Rome's granary which enabled Alaric to impose his will on the Eternal city. Ostia began its exis tence in G4O B. C., and she seems about to add another chapter to her history. American Flyer*. This from Gen. William L. Kenly, United States director of military aero nautics: "There is no higher type of the aviator in the world than the American. The courage and the ability of the American flyer have won full recognition, and we may expect him to play a more and more prominent part in the war as it continues, be cause, after four years of fighting, the man power resources of our allies hare been largely dr?»"-n on." ' ' Food Lessons In Department Btore& Department stores In many of the large cities have called on home dem onstration agents to assist them In giving Instruction in food conservation to their customers and employees. In some stores special rooms have been equipped where demonstrations are giv en and literature distributed. Attrac tive booths have been set fn the aisles of others where exhibits of war cook ing are shown and recipes are given )ut The agents have window exhib ts. In many places wheat substitutes &ve been featured In demonstrations, nd each purchaser has been supplied rith recipes and Instructions for using Hem. Classes for employees after * jours have been arranged. —Agricul- tural Department News Letter. Wasting Money. Corporal Joseph Cohen of New York and a platoon of men were In shallow trenches under heavy shell fire. A lieutenant ordered the men to keep un der cover. % Cohen stuck up his head and asked: "Say, lieutenant, how much does one of those shells cost?" "Several hundred dollars. Whyr "Well, I've been thinking about all the money the Boche is wasting that we could spend." j OEM STUDIO ! 730 Phila. Street, - - Indiana, Pa. |l Opposite Moore Hotel j!
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