Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — Page 2

Shall We Kill the Calf?

By. J. OGDEN ARMOUR.

There is a calf problem in thia country and it has not been solved by the pleft to the American housewife to stop buying veal. Nor would • law stopping the butchering of calves present the solution. More calves were slaughtered during the past year than any previous year. Thousands upon thousands of young animals capable of being developed into good beef at a profit were vealed. Millions of pounds of meat were thereby wasted. Whether the waste was actual or theoretical, this fact stands out and stares us in the face: The present world meat shortage ynight have been considerably alleviated had a wiser policy in the handling of calves prevailed during the past years. <, There are two general kinds of calves and they require totally different treatment. There is no excuse for the slaughter of beef calves and there is no justification for the maturing of all? dairy calves. The problem is to raise all beef calves to maturity and to prevent the waste of food by extended feeding of excess dairy calves. It is a waste of food to raise dairy calves that are not to be kept for dairy purposes. There is just as much need for slaughtering excess dairy calves when they reach the veal age as there is for encouraging the farmers to mature their beef calves. It is difficult to discuss calves without touching on baby beef. Baby beef is economic from every angle. A great many of the beef calves which were sent to the Fort Worth and Kansas City markets during the past year were of the type that would pay if matured as baby beef. They average around three hundred pounds, and in the hands of capable farmers who had the necessary feed available, they could have been made into eight hundred to one thousand pound meat animals before they were two years old and at less cost than three years olds, because young animals will make flesh out of a greater proportion of their feed than will older animals.

Spring Typhoid

By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON

Connimooer of Health of Petuuylrania

The news of the loss of our transport reminds us of the way in which we are to be robbed of our young people during this war and should

the banks of the streams. With the melting of the snow and ice in the spring, all of this filth will be washed into the streams and carried to our waterworks. This will test the filter plants to their capacities, many of which have too small a margin to care for an excessive flow of filth. Breakdowns will occur and the people must be prepared to protect themselves by boiling water for domestic purposes upon the first indication of trouble with their local water supplies. In view of the above, the question ought to arise in the people’s minds, with-all the money that is being spent in the beautifying of our cities, whether or not It would not be wiser to use this money for the enlarging and improving of the purification plants so that our waters may be safe, and wait a little longer for our boulevards and parkways. We certainly must use all known ways, and where possible, devise new ones, to protect the health of the young population and to conserve what we now have from unnecessary destruction.

American Soldiers Buried in Special Cemeteries in France, Each Grave Marked

Word having come from Washington that a new organization was being formed, known as the Purple Cross association, a body of undertakers who are anxious to go to France to assume charge of the bodies of the dead, the actual arrangements of the army are worth mentioning, writes a war correspondent. s The new association wishes to be allowed to follow the troops to the front line to receive the body of every man who is killed or dies from natural causes and after embalming it, ship it back to the States. This arrangement is impractical, as it would mean that many ships probably would be needed for this work. The American expeditionary force has a grave registration service, which Is a division in the chief quartermaster’s department. At the head of this department is a major of the regular army, who is responsible for the proper burial of the American soldiers who die in France and for the registration and marking of their graves. Two officers and 50 men in each division do this work, and these units will be increased later on. Two American cemeteries have already been laid out in France and several smaller ones have been plotted nearer the front. Each grave is marked with an iron marker and in each is deposited the soldier with proper identification. In addition photographs and descriptions of the spot are made and sent to the soldier’s relatives at home.

Chairman Food, Fuel and Conservation

Committee. Illinois State Council of Defense

awaken us, who remain at home, to the necessity of guarding our lives and protecting ourselves against disasters no less dangerous. From now on typhoid must be carefully watched as an enemy. Old winter has stored the. filth of the season on our hillsides and along

Washington’s Death Was Caused From Diphtheria According to Physicians

In most histories it is stated that George Washington died from pneumonia or quinsy, but Dr. J. A. Nydegger of the United States public health service sends to the Medical Record a letter written by Dr. Cullen Dick of Alexandria, Va., on January 10, 1800, which shows that “he undoubtedly died of diphtheria.” The letter recounts the circumstances of Washington’s last hours, the consultations of the physicians in attendance, of whom Doctor Dick, the writer of the letter, was one, and tells how Dick urged that the sufferer’s trachea (windpipe) be cut open so as to permit him to breathe. The other doctors would not consent to this. They had bled their august patient in vain, and not even give a name to the disease from which he was dying. It appears that Doctor Dick was reluctant to acknowledge that there had been an outbreak of croup in Alexandria, and he would use only the term “Inflammatory quinsy” for that with which Washington was afflicted. Doctor Dick’s description of the disease, to w’hich he proposed to give the name “cynanche laryngea,” was one of diphtheria; he did not use that word perhaps because it had not yet been invented.

JUST TO LAUGH

j Nautical Companions. ' “Noah was out in the rain for 40 days!” “It was easy work,” replied Chesapeake Bill. “All he had to do was to stay inside the ark and let ’er float. Now if Noah had been compelled to fight the ice in an oyster boat for two or three consecutive months, he’d have had something to talk about.” Why His Head Is Bandaged.

“John” queried his wife, “if some bold man were to kidnap me, would you offer a- reward?” “Certainly,” he responded. “I always reward those who do me a favor.”

Hoped It Would Go. Redd —Going to the automobile show ? Greene —Oh, yes. “Are you going alone?” “Well, I want my car to go if it will.” Thought Herself Qualified.

' Most Considerate. “I don’t mind lending you this money, Clippings, but Pm afraid you won't pay it back.” “My dear and only friend, I insist on your letting me worry about that.” His Wife Knew Him. Congressman-Elect Bill Smith wants me to get him a job—says that he voted for me. Wife—And how can such a bonehead expect to bold down a job?'

“Whatever induced youfio think you wwe an actress?” “The reporters alluded to me as one,” replied the young lady stiffly, “throughout my testimony in a murder trial.”

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The Woman of Forty and What She Should Do and Not Do to Hold Her Job

The woman of forty and over must learn to obey orders In an office. The woman of forty and over must forget the rules of her former employment and yield to those of the new job. The woman of forty or oyer should bejieat. The woman of forty and over must demand no especial consideration because of her years. These are just a few of the warnings offered the middle-aged woman seeking employment by Mrs. Alice McBride of the Woman’s Association of Commerce of Chicago. She has given them to Miss Elizabeth Bennett, temporarily of the employment bureau of the women’s division of the state council of defense, and applicants for work will be with all due delicacy informed that these be good rules to follow. “Too often I’ve seen-the middle-aged woman lose track of herself, as It were, when she is employed, and I know employers put up with her just so long and then she is dismissed. “Men like a neat woman in an office. She need not be a raving beauty if only she be neat and prepossessing. And she need not think that a bit of cosmetic, a bit of powder or a good cream are only the young woman’s prerogative. The older woman needs to look well and must see to it that she does. “But most of all, the middle-aged woman finds it difficult to adhere to rules in an office, and too often she irritates by saying, ‘At my last place we did so and so.’ “Now, then, all the employer cares about is having his own rules carried out and the woman employed will do well to take his viewpoint.” Mrs. Mcßride is a—well, she will not tell her age, her weight or her financial standing. “I am old enough to know,” she says, and those who know her say she most certainly does know from the top of her glossy white hair and perfect complexion to the tips of her perfectly shod feet. Mrs. Mcßride is a stenographer.

APPEALS TO ALL TO RAISE CHICKS

In line with the big campaign to conserve .food that is being conducted by the food administration, the United States department of agriculture 19 making a direct appeal to every family to produce food in so far as it can. J. W. Kinghorne of the federal department of agriculture is in charge of the middle Western states in the government’s nationwide campaign to stimulate poultry production, with headquarters in Chicago. In an interview Mr. Kinghorne made the following statement outlining the nation’s needs and the big aid city and suburban dwellers can give in supplying them: “In hundreds of ammunition plants in various parts of our country skilled mechanics are working day and night, turning out shells to pave the way for democracy. “Contrast this with the possibility of every city and suburban family that has the available ground establishing another form of munition plant to produce shells filled with a most valuable and nutritious food. In other words, producing eggs. “The part that the American hen can play in winning this war can be materially increased by the establishment of thousands of backyard poultry plants all over this country. That “food will win the war” is brought before our attention daily, and the reason why food can and will play such an important part is because it is just as necessary and important as ammunition to obtain ultimate victory. “That poultry and eggs can be produced more quickly and by a larger number of people than any other form of animal food is the all-important reason why Uncle Sam Is making a national effort and a strong appeal to every city and suburban dweller to produce poultry, and especially eggs. “The equipment for such an enterprise need pot be laffge or costly. A lot 25x30 feet is ample to accommodate a flock of twelve to twenty-five hens, which should produce sufiicient eggs for the average family. By building a simply constructed ,poultry house out of dry goods or piano boxes, and supplementing the regular feeds with table scraps, eggs can be produced at but little cost. Thus the backyard flock will not only help in reducing tl>. cost of living and make possible strict ly fresh eggs, but at the same time it will fill a national need as a source of food production.”

SAYINGS OF A SAGE

It is awfully hard to generate any respect for a man who wears a lot of rings on his fingers. Husbands and wives should remember that they married for worse as well as better and act accordingly. A woman declares that she has the best husband on earth, but that is no sign that she expects to meet him in heaven. A woman who is satisfied with her neighbor is never satisfied with herself —but who ever saw a woman satisfied with her neighbor? \

Fann Home Architecture

First Prize Awarded in Planning Contest Conducted by die University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture

Farmhouses designed with due consideration to the woman who must spend most of her time and energy in the fine art of home making are becoming more and more the rule. In order to stimulate greater interest In this line, the University of Wisconsin College <ff Agriculture recently held a farmhouse planning contest, open only to people who were living or had lived on farms. The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers’ association not only offered prizes for the best five plans, but promised to back the College of Agriculture in a move to erect a convenient and comfortable practice farm home on the university grounds. The best idea from all of the better plans in the contest will likely be drawn upon for suggestions in drafting the specification for the proposed building. Business and home needs are combined in the plan shown. The perspective of the plan shows it to be of a neat and attractive cottage type, with an extra wide cornice as an additional feature, of distinction. The

latter element Is, of course, a matter of exterior design and can be modified. The floor plan works for “sanity first.” On entering the front door, one can either pass into the living room for a chat with the mistress of the house or step aside to the office just off the entrance to the left, where father is busy with his accounts and sales records —but not too busy to stop and smoke a pipe with a guest. From father’s den a door to the left leads directly to both the outside porch and cellar. Note that father will get, as he should, light on his desk from over his left-hand shoqlder. The main stairway leaves the entrance hall just opposite the living room door—which, if desired, may be a “cased opening.” The living room, lighted by five windows and made cheery by a fireplace, is 18 by 13 feet in dimensions, giving plenty of room for the family and company. Just off the living room, relieved from stiffness by a “jog” which admits of a window opening to the rear, is the dining room. This room and the kitchen have many features of merit and are worth studying when planning a new farm home. The cup-

board In the wall between the two rooms is there, and the arrangement of the stove, Work table, sink, and other equipment tends to carry out the general scheme of convenience. Note the washroom and men a toilet on the rear porch, to save tramping and splashing indoors. The expense of building this house depends wholly upon labor and materials, of course, and it would not be safe to estimate from the designs submitted. • , . . . Crisp and clean-cut lessons on what the farmer’s family most needs to make a more ideal form of house design have been gleaned by glancing over a number of the suggestions sent to the Wisconsin home planning contest committcc 54 Almost without exception the womeh who submitted plans have hard and soft running water connections in the house as the most important of all farm-home comforts, followed by furnace heat, sewage disposal, and electric lighting Nearly all would'have dining room and living rooms separate The majority also seemed to want built-in china closets and bookcases and in some cases cupboards aS part of the equipment. Only a few of the women seemed to desire a small kitchen—that is, one less than 12 by 14 feet. Only three suggested 9by 14 feet or less.

Make Peanut Butter at Home by Grinding Nuts Through a Food Chopper

Delicious peanut butter—a highly nutritious food —may be made at home by grinding the roasted nuts in a food chopper, according to Miss Flora Monroe, director of the cafeteria in the Kansas State Agricultural college. The housewife may vary her uses of this food from the customary use in sandwiches. Puddings, soups, breads, and cakes are enriched by the use of peanut butter. It serves both as shortening and thickening and adds flavor and color. The true worth of peanut butter has never been realized, believes Miss Monroe. It has been generally considered a difficult food to digest, and consequently has been avoided in the diets. When properly masticated it is easily digested. A prejudice against peanut butter is often caused by Ignorance in its use. The butter should be combined with twice the amount of thin cream or milk, and stirred until it is of the creamy consistency of mayonnaise. The flavor can be varied by adding chopped pickles or olives, catsup, onion juice, cheese or fruits. Dates stuffed with peanut butter are appetizing. Whole-wheat muffins, drop cakes, and salads are a few of the numerous ways in which this food may ba used. It adds * delicious flavor to

Neat and Attractive Cottage Type.

Floor Plan Works for “Sanity First.”

tomato soup and increases its food value. Peanut butter is an Important food in creating bodily heat. Its fuel value is worth three times its weight in round steak, four times in eggs, seven times in potatoes, and twice its weight in bread. i

ARE YOU LOVING ENOUGH?

Are you loving enough? There is some one dear, ——• >. Some one you hold as the dearest of al! In the holiest shrine of your heart. Are you making it known? Is the truth of it clear To the one you love? If death’s quick call Should suddenly tear you apart. Leaving no time for a long farewell. Would you feel that you had nothing to tell— Nothing you wished you had said before The closing of that dark door? Are you loving enoufh? The swift years fly— Oh, faster and faster they hurry away. And each one carries its dead. The good deed left for the by and by, , The word to be uttered another day. May never be done or said. Let the love-word sound in the listening o&r Not Walt to speak it above a bier. Ob; the time for telling your love is brief. But long, long, long is the time for grief. Are you loving enough? < —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Everybody’s.

Sixty-Eight Degrees Is Temperature Recommended In Heating of Our Homes

Up to now, Americans have befin a» wasteful of coal as of other resources, largely because coal has been abundant. It will be abundant no longer untill this war Is over, says Thomas R. Shipp, in the World’s Work. It Is clearly up to the domestic consumer to give time and thought to the conservation of coat Statistics are usually . hard reading, but some of the statistical proof offered by the fuel administration makes one think that perhaps, after all, Mrs. Partington might haver swept back the sea if she had only persevered. Here are some of the statistical epigrams : If every housekeeper in the country would save one small shovelful of coal each day at the end of a year the saving would amount to 15,000,000 tons. If every housekeeper during the six winter months would save one furnace shovelful of coal a day, it w’ould amount to 25,000,000 tons'of coal. These savings combined would amount to 40,000,000 tons, which would almost wipe out the national shortage of 50,000,000 tons. The fuel administration offers practical instructions for the economical use of coal In stoves and furnaces. Oil stoves and fireless cookers are recommended as coal savers. There you have the practical side of coal conservation during the war. But with that sort of economy the fuel administration has linked up the conservation of health. It has long been a source of reproach, on the part of visitors to us from other shores that we have always overheated our homes. The advice of prominent physicians and surgeons has been asked, and the consensus of this oplnon Is that we should all be healthier, hardier, and more comfortable if our houses were kept at a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit

Mother’s Cook Book

The Child's Lunch Basket. The filling of a lunch basket for a small child Is not an easy task If it is a daily one. For the growing child we must not only see that they have food for the daily needs of heat and energy but for Jthe growth of the frame and muscle. The average child is fond of peanut butter and a luncheon which may be used only in an emergency but which is highly nutritious may help out in time of stress; this is the college sandwich, two cakes of sweet chocolate put together with peanut butter. This with an apple or a glass of milk will afford a good meal. Baked apple with cream, plain bread and butter or bread and butter with a filling of a lettuce leaf dipped in French dressing or other salad dressing with a cupful of cocoa or hot milk is another good combination. The child’s love for sweets should be satisfied as often as possible with a date or fig or a little fresh fruit rather than rich cake or candy. Cottage cheese is another wholesome food, and when it is mixed with cream and well seasoned it is sufficiently sustaining to take the place of meat. Two slices or more of barley or steamed brown bread served with the cottage cheese with a banana or an apple will be a good lunch. The cheese, if rich with cream, may be carried in a small paper cup. These paper cups are useful for carrying custards of various flavors or jams and jellies to supply the sweet that a child enjoys for dessert. Chopped cooked egg, well seasoned and spread on buttered bread is a sustaining sandwich. A small cupful of rice pudding or tapioca or sago pudding will add variety to the luncheon. The best of cakes for little people are sponge cakes, as they are never too rich for them to digest. With the sugar saving which we are asked to make, frosted cakes and fancy filled cakes are not at all common, gave on state occasions when a birthday is to be celebrated.

Uncle Sam's Working Force Has Necessarily Increased To Achieve Country’s Aims

For every five helpers Uncle Sam had in 1916, he had ten and a fraction in 1917. This additional force was needed to achieve the government’s war aims. Workers will win the war. It is the business of the civil service commission to sort these for Uncle Sam," appointing to government jobs those which best answer his requirements. To Increase the government’s force, the commission was forced to increase its own. In reporting the busiest year in its history, it speaks of having had to use $250,000 of the president’s special emergency fund for national safety, in its man and woman hunt. Enough remains to tide it over till an appropriation can be made. One interesting thing found in the report is that a number of applicants and appointees for various positions found Uncle Sam’s pay too meager to accept his positions when the appointments were offered. Five hundred appointments were made without examinations in emergency cases, for the first time in the history of the commlsison. A retirement-with-penslon system was recommended at the foot of the commissioa's war storjr.