Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1917 — Page 3

THE NEED OF A NEW PATRIOTISM

By PROF. W. D. HENDERSON

We must have a new patriotism. The great factors tending to patriotism are the home, the school, the chu'fch, ,the and, last, the trained woman of leisure. No nation can live without home life. The damnation of American people today is their lack of efficiency and education. We must have schools with a deeper purposeour churches must have nobler purposes, taking in the people of all classes. Newspapers will soon come into their own, as is shown by the editorials and in the interest shown in editorials! and, last but not of least importance, is the woman who has leisure to attend clubs and afternoon teas, etcc Thesefacfors are dominant in shaping public opinion. - Club women are women of leisure. Many have been educated on an equal with men and more are being educated every day on this basis. Why should the women who have this education spend their leisure hours doing nothing for the good of their community, while their husbands,-with the name education, work. It is said the work of the woman is the home, the churcK~ahd in the~Boeial world. It ia true,r-but every year- the home is becoming less, and more sdcial duties appear. I hold it the duty of my wife and women of education to get behind the community and keep it up. See to the things that the men do not have time to see to or that .they cannot do as women can. Look after sanitary conditions, food, paving, water supply apd such things that have to be gone after. *

Indigestion and Its Causes

By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON

Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania.

The teeth are the first factor in the process of digestion. They represent

sential to normal digestion. Teetji wpich are diseased or artificial teeth held in place by settings which retain foodstuffs are Injurious to health because they provide places In which dis-

“Canned” Telegrams, All Ready for the Wire, New Boon for the Busy Man

Hereafter when the busy citizen enters a telegraph office to comply with the twentieth century" rule H * the sooner the thing is done the -tter, he will not have to go through the agony of saying much in 10 words or 20, nor will he have to knit his brows and lose valuable time putting what" he knows he wishes to say into actual words His case has been attended to by the same kind of genius that evolved the complete letter writer of other days. The new i nventionJs the complete telegram writer, remarks the Indianapolis News. It is well stocked with, all kinds,of telegrams, long and short, sorrowful and gay, , witty and dull. For the person who believes In going straight to the point there is the outspoken “Best wishes for a happy New Year.” There is nothing new about this greeting, nor does it mean anything in particular, except that the, sender has thoughtfully remembered someone. The very conservative person who dislikes plain statements will naturally turn away from the unmistakable meaning of this greeting. He will want something more pompous, and being a conservative, it is likely that he can pay for it. He will therefore select, “What the coming_year_ may hold we can none of us foresee. It is my earnest wish that for you it may bring forth a generous harvest of happiness and good fortune.” This statement is open to any construction the recipient happens to care to put upon it. In addition to 26 varieties of New Year’s greeting and 8?- varieties of Christinas greetings,"Tßere are model messages for many occasions. Easter, Thanksgiving, birthdays, births of babies, graduation, weddings, deaths, etc. The sender is relieved of almost the entire burden of saying what he has to say. He has merely to run through the book until he finds what he expects to say, check it off, pass the money and an address and signature on to the company, and his work is done. Thus is life simplified. The trouble is that some persons may have difficulty finding friends to fit the canned greetings, but in that case perhaps someone will find a way to make friends to order. . A New York inventor has obtained a 27-foot motorboat whichdraws only seven Inches of water when empty and three inches more when loaded to capacity. This draft includes the propeller blades, which aie housed amidships. . ’

the millstones that cut and grind the food. As they do so, alkaline secretions are given out by glands in the mouth and mix with the food to mst k e the first change it undergoes- in the process of being absorbed by the system. -Good teeth are es-

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ease-producing germs grow and multiply. If you have diseased teeth or false teeth noj: easy to keep dean, have them attended to. The germs they foster are .producing poisonous substances that interfere with the normal functions of vital organs, such as the heart - arid kidneys. If you are interested in your digestion, you will avoid incongruous mixtures of foodstuffs made up solely to tickle the taste. Potato salad in the American style is a good example. The potato is composed chiefly of starch. That is digested in the second stomach, where the secretions are alkaline. If you soak the potato in vinegar, you have something whose nature is strictly opposite to the alkaline, which it fights. Therefore you are materially delaying the digestive process. Poor cooking nften makes proper food either difficult or Impossible to dlgest. The hard-earned money of the household goes to the purchase of good food, which is often ruined by the house ignArant of the art of cooking. Good cooking is not a matter of whim or flattering the palate. It is an absolnte essential to health. —Therefore the art should be taught in our public and parochial schools. If you eat too fast when the body is overtired, heated or chilled, you will often suffer distressing indigestion.

Mother’s Cook Book

He is happiest who hath power To gather wisdom from every flower And wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude. —William Wadsworth. Peanut Ways. Peanuts ttrecrrrerrfthe-richest-pro-tein nuts we have. Ten cents spent for peanuts will furnish twice as much pendlture for steak. The analysis of peanuts shows us that the edible portion contains 7 4-10 per cent water, 29 S-10 per cent protein. 43 5-10 per cent fat, 14 7-10 per cent carbohydrates and a little over 2 per cent of mineral matter. Being rich in fat and protein they furnish a valuable food. In the following recipes the roasted peanut is to be used.

Scalloped Tomatoes and Nuts. Butter a pint of crumbs and mix with a half cupful of chopped nuts.’Put a layer of the crumbs in a buttered pudding dish, add a cupful of tomatoes, then another layer of crumbs and another cupful of tomatoes. Finish th® top with the crumbs, season well and bake In a quick oven untH brown.

Potatoes With Peanuts. Take three pints of sliced potatoes, one cupful of chopped nuts, putting the potatoes in layers with the nuts in a buttered baking pan, pour over a cupful and a half of sweet milk, season with salt and pepper and cover with a pint of buttered crumbs. Bake slowly an hour in a moderate oven.

L Sweet Nut Sandwiches. Take half a cupful of grated ma pl a sugar, a fourth of a cupful of finelychopped peanuts and a tablespoonful of sweet thick cream.’ Mix tvell and spread on buttered bread or graham crackers.

Peanut Soup. Two cupfuls of shelled chopped peanuts, cooked in a quart of water; press through a sieve and add a pint of soup stock. Season with salt, celery salt and onion juice, add a cupful of flour and a fourth of n cupful of butter* cooked together and mixed with a pint of niilk, season and kerve hot. A sticewfonion* of celery -may be cooked with the peanuts for flavor, then removed; .... ;;

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

The Waste Basket.

These are some kinds of paper to save: White clippings and from book papers, and writing papers are especially valuable, and a steady demand for such material is always found. White rind colored writing papers are suitable for manufacture into many other grades after the ink and coloring matters are removed. Clean wrapping papers of all kinds are valuable for remanufacture into similar grades. Old books, magazines* periodicals, account books, etc., can be remanufactured into book papers of excellent quality. All material of this kind that is saved is of direct benefit to the forests of the country, as magazines and book papers are very largely made from wood pulp.

FAVORITE OF FILMDOM

Juanita Hansen.

Popular movie actress who plays the lead in “The Secret of the Submarine.”

Eating in impure or stale air will interfere —with digestion. If you are compelled to take a meal under such circumstances, the quantity of the food should be reduced to a minimum* Outside of some of these things which have been mentioned, all of which can be controlled to a greater or less extent, it will be found that certatn foods do not in themselves agree with certain persons' ' If you are eating sensible food in a sensible manner, and you find that some particular thing does not agree with you, the only thing to do' is to cut it off your list. »

Around the World.

In Sweden they are producing il luminating gas from old railway ties. The Japanese make an imitation of silk from the hemp of New Zealand. Australia, it is estimated, contains two-elevenths of the world’s total of sheep. French surgeons - assert that boiled sea water is an excellent disinfectant for wounds. An immense churn in use in England can turn out 600 pounds of butter atone time. __ Names have been givph f 6 72T minor planets, and new ones are being discovered all the time—— ~~ (The normal yield of the sflx great cereals ranges from 16,000,000,000 to 19.000,000,000 bushels. Industries of the United States are advertised in Bolivia, South America, by means of motion pictures. One lowa college includes in its course for agricultural students, instructions in running an automobile. The chief American article sold in China is kerosene.. The value of this single product exceeds all other American imports combined. Aztec corn 1,000 years old, was recently planted in Kansas. It grows much faster than modern corn and the grains will be at a premium. The annual waste in the United States of .fdods available for cattle has been estimated at $100,000,000 by department of agriculture experts. Glasgow provides its policemen with warm food and tea when On duty at night by the use of electrically heated plates in signal boxes. The Brazil nut tree, does not begin to bear fruit until 50 years old. The United States government buys 1,250,000 electric lamps each year.

Pheasants in China.

United States laws prohibit the bringing into this country of the skins, feathers or any parts of wild birds, and this regulation has given a great impetus to the raising of pheasants in China. Direct shipments of the feathers to the United States are on the- Increase and a rapid development is expected. One of the farms on which pheasants are raised for their feathers has 200,000 birds, and the total annual Output of the 12 farms engaged in the industry is more than 300,000 birds a year. The birds are raised much as ordinary fowls, hatched in incubators and the chicks raised in brooders, though on the smaller farms hens are netted upon for hatching. The birds are worth about 50 cents each, of which half is represented by theskins and feathers and the rest by the value of the meat for food. -

FARM LOAN ACT.

I. The Co-Operative Banking ' System Established Under It.

(By Frank R. Wilson, federal loan bureau, Washington, D. C.) , i The federal farm loan act, adopted In June, 1916, and signed by President Woodrow Wilson shortly after, creates a comprehensive, co-operative banking system to lend money to farmers and prospective farmers for purposes of land purchase, farm development, and the refunding of indebtedness. The system consists of two main divisions; a money-assembling agency, through which the accumulation and savings of the country are gathered in, and a money-lending agency, through which this money ik distributed for agricultural uses. The farm loan act, in brief, pools the farm mortgages of the nation; issues a collateral trust security against these pooled mortgages, and sells these securities in the open market. The establishment of this co-opera-tive banking system was made necessary by reason of the fact that banks in most parts of the United States have net possessed tjhe facilities to properly take care of farm loans because these loans required too "long a time to run; because interest rates to farmers have been too high, ranging from 5 per cent per annum to 5 per cent per month; and because private money-lending agencies had not realized the reflex advantages to themselves of a long time, amortized loan to the farmers.

Machinery for Its Application. The machinery provided in the application of the farm loan act has three main divisions: First —The federal farm loan board in Washington, D. C„ composed of the secretary of the-treasury, William G. McAdoo, chairmanexnflieio;.George W. Norris, farm loan commissioner; Herbert Quick, Capt. W. S. A. Smith and Charles E. Lobdell. Second —The 12 federal loan banks throughout the United States. Third—The national farm loan associations, each composed of ten or more farmer-borrowers, which associations secure loans for their members from .the federal land banks. The federal farm loan board is in charge of the entire system. Its first important duty was to divide the country into 12 bank districts and locate one federal land hank tn each. This

board also provides the banks with temporary governing boards during the process of growth. Later a system of co-operative self-government will be inaugurated under which the associations of farmers will direct these big financial institutions, under the supervision of the federal farm loan hoard. Each of the 12 federal land banks starts business with a paid-up capital of $750,000, subscribed by the government, if private Investors do not subscribe it within 30 days after the books are opened. These banks have the right to lend to national farm loan associations up to 20 times the capital stock" of the banks. The lending capacity of these banks is automatically increased by requiring the farm loan associations to reinvest In the capital stock of the banks one-twentieth of the amount their members borrow. Thus the capital stock of the banks increases in the same ratio as their loans. The banks acquire additional money for lending by selling their own bonds to investors. Without Profit to Individuals.

When a bank lends money and takes first mortgages on farms in exchange, it Issues bonds against these mortgages. and seils- Jo produce more money to lend. "- .. T The bonds issued by one bank are secured by the assets of all the banks operating under this system, and the rate of interest on the bonds is adjusted by supply and demand. The rate o( interest charged to members of farm loan, associations for money which they borrow from the banks, cannot exceed by more than 1 per cent the rate of interest paid on the bonds. This margin is provided to pay the cost of operating the banks. So, if the bonds sell at 4 per cent and the cost of operating is 1 per cent, the interest rate to the farmer-borrowers will be 5 per cent. If the cost is held down to one-half of one per cent, the interest rate to the farmers vvould.be Wt pV cent. So, briefly, the members of the associations of farmers borrow from the the banks issue bonds against the farm mortgages and borrow money from investors; the farmers Invest an amount equal to one-twentieth of the amount they borrow, in order to p"O----vide an increasing capital for the banks, and the whole process is done under governmental supervision and without profit to any individual.

No Hihdrance.

“Pop, will you answer me one business question?" “Always glad to, my sob. What la itr

"When a community goes dry can a firm there liquidate?” _

Lucky Mermaid.

I *There goes a millionaire and his young wife. He first saw her in a diving tank." :~~7 ~ ■ ' .. ..J “Well! Well!” “Thanks to his money, she’s been in the swim ever Since.”

Art’s Main Point.

musician. They didn’t accomplish anything worthy of art at his organ recital.”, "Oh, yes, they did. They took up « r collection.”

Eating in New Orleans

O.NE of tlie most Interesting things in New Orleans is the delightful restaurants, some of them so quaint, and wholly Unlike anything in any other city. To the wanderer along the byways it will appear in the course of a few wanderings that a very large portion of the city’s population eats in most unconventional places and unexpected attitudes. It takes Its meals sitting on cotton bales, or sacks of coffee, or on a friendly step: or it goes about its work with a sandwich in one hand, munching contentedly. The noise and confusion of the streets confuse it not at all; it pays no heed to the dust that sifts down upon its food, and it brings tp the consumption of Its noonday lunch, especially, a happy-go-lucky indifference that should enable good digestion to wait on appetite, and health on both. The methods in which those unconventional meals may be supplied to the busy laborer or to the man-out-of-work and with a very few coins to rattle In his pocket are as numerous as are the viands served, says the New Orleans Picayune. There is no fancy cookery connected with them, but they furnish forth the means of staving off hunger in a more or less satisfactory fashion, and there is no complaint. All along <South Rampart street, from Poydras market to the Union station, is the habitat of the fried-fish vendor. In some mysterious manner the Greeks have taken possession of this particular business; and the descendants of Pericles und Themlstocles—perhaps—acquire a little corner of somer*iarger store, at the front; spread out a gas or . oil stove along one side of it, stretch a kind of shelf along the front, and then

proceed to fry fish. It is all very simple. There are no tables to straighten up, no dishes to wash, no napery to send to the laundry. Sandwich of Fried Fish. An applicant for fried fish appears on the sidewalk and shoves 10 cents -toward- the artio* inside; Two~sllces of bread with a slice of fried fish between them are, shove<l toward him. There Is no trouble about wrapping the sandwich, even. The purchaser stands ouK side and eats his fried fish sandwich or sits down on the curb, or walks along, masticating it at his leisure; and that is all there is to it. How much less red tape there is on South Rampart street than in the more formal restaurants further down I It is alorig the wharf, from end to end, that the eating places flourish in the greatest variety.- You "will find in one place a little open shed which has nestled up against the side of some larger building. The chef —perhaps a man, or it may be a woman —stands back of the long table and hands out sandwiches or pies or cakes, according to the demand, and there are liquid refreshments of a kind to be had on request and the payment of a denarius. Men are lined up in front, eating audibly, because it is said that the table manners at the little wayside eating shed are not always above reproach. And as some of them go. much refreshed, others come, for theye Is a big custom for the Improvised restaurants along the river. There are other restaurants which may be said to be perambulating, and which have this ad van t age— tha t they go to their customers, instead of waiting for the diners to come to them. Here is a negro with a basket of pies and cakes. He is very Indignant, for he has been delayed by a crcwd that were Intent on eating, It Is true, but were basely intent also on eating on Credit. He gathers up his basket haughtily and goes his way/remarking, as he goes, “Nothin’ doin’!” Perhaps he has had experience in providing meals for people who were going to pay for them next Saturday. From Basket and Cart. Making her way up and down the ‘long Bienville wharf is an old wopian, bending under the weight of a heavy basket. ”1 suppose she’s been selling along- the river 25 years, or maybe more,” says a bystander. -Truly she is very old. Her face is lined} and nose and chin (show a tendency tn

meet, and her hair is twisted into the smallest little knot imaginable, you see when she takes off her sunbonnet; but she makes her way through the lines of merchandise very alertly, and sells and sells and sells. “I bet she’s got money!" declares another bystander; but everybody agrees that if she has money she has earned it and Wishes hes good luck with her day’s load. In and out through the throng goes a little boy with a pushcart, loaded with things to eat. Not far behind him comes a negro woman with her little boy helping her carry the heavy basket; and she, too, is selling as she goes. You would not suppose that all the multitude of vendors could Bell the accumulated horde of sandwiches and pies and cakes which make up nearly all the loads, but everywhere the men are buying—the wharf employees, who cannot leave their work to go out for lunch. .You wiII see in one place a group of 30 or 40 of them, sitting on long timbers that are lying there, ready for shipment, all of them eating with such looks of bovine content as many a rich man might well envy as he sits down to his cut glass and silver and his stalled ox. with the other accessortea. If you drive on down the line of the river, you will come to a flock of the little street restaurants, lined up by the sidewalk. They are mounted on wheels, seeming to indicate the method in which they reached that point in the first place, and in which they might be moved in case the location were not found satisfactory. . Diner* on the Curbstone. The diners are sitting, 50 or 60 of them at least, on the curbstone across the street; as many more are prone on

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the sidewalk, a wall at their backs, their legs extended straight before them; such pictures of contentment as few cities can furnish; and if you look into the flock of restaurants you will see that the cooking and slicing and the selling are stilt-going on—The hoard ofhea Ith has never invaded these charmed precincts, apparently. They ail look indescribably dirtv and the dust is terrific; but trade does not languish, and the smeii of cooking fills the air. Clear musical notes sound just around the corner; and here comes one of the well-known institutions of New Orleans —the hot-wafile Wagon. The wagon shines with paint and cleanliness; the occupant of the wagon is resplendant in snowy apron and cap. Is it that you desire a dozen waffles? Be- . hold, while you stand expectant he has poured the batter onto the hot griddles, has turned them, has taken them up, golden brown and sprinkled them with powdered sugar and deftly folded them in a paper, and they are yours! If you are In the residence portion of the city of course your respect the conventions and take those waffles Inside before you unwrap the bundle; but if you are downtown —well, things are different You eat them standing, and find them very good indeed. At certain hours of the day ornlght *—principally toward sunset and in the earlier hours of the evening—-the hot tamale man is abroad. He lugs a heavy basket and he might easily be a Mexi* can, judging froip his complexion; and he cries: "Ot tamale! Tamale Caliente! R-r-r-red hot!" all in the manner that should go with hot tamales. 1 But is he genuine, or only a base imitation? It is greatly to be feared that he is an imitation and would not know' a genuine tamale if he should See it. To be genuine, the tamale must be made of boiled corn, —not of corn meal! Perish the thought! The corn must be hulled and boiled soft, as for lye hom•iny; and then it must be rolled to a. paste on a metate board, and with a ! metate roller. It must be mentioned ' that both board and roller are made of stone. Having been rolled sufficiently, a little wad of paste Is flattened in the hands, covered .with meat that has been boiled to shreds an enormous, quantity of pepper —and then the tamale is wrapped in a corn husk, neatly folded over at the end, and ; steamed.