Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1918 — Page 3

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Mrs. Haittie Wasson and daughter went to Lafayette today. Attorney John Dunlap went to Indianapolis today. Mrs. John Phillips returned to her home in McCoysburg this morning. Mesdames C. H. Porter and J. W. Williams went to Lafayette this morning. Roy Stephenson returned to his work in Chicago today, after spending Sunday at home. Mrs. Jessie Bringle, of near Brook, took the train here for Monon, this morning. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wells returned to their home at Williamsport, after a visit with relatives here. J. H. O’Neall returned to Lafayette after an over Sunday visit with Ms daughter, Sarah Alice. Mrs. Kenneth Allman came from Indianapolis this morning for a ten days’ visit with her parents. > Mrs. J. J. Montgomery went to Rockford, Hl., for a few day’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Sophia Wemple. Mrs. O. D. Hefner, of Minneapolis, left today for Chicago, after a visit here with her mother, Mrs. Shephenson, and other relatives. For quick results advertise in The

You may have noticed that the people who are not satisfied with this world are doing everything they can to keep from leaving it. There must be a heap of Sons and Daughters of the Revolution in Mexico. There have been as many battles fought there as there are Mexicans. If all the can openers in this country were to disappear tomorrow morning, there are a whole lot of married men'who would have to get their dinners down town. O. A. Yeoman, who has been visiting relatives and friends here for the past month, went to Morris, 111., to visit before returning io his home in Kingman, Kansas. A man is a queer cuss. When his first baby comes along he will get mad if you ever hint that the cMnless, flatnosed, bald-headed, idioticlooking child resembles anyone but himself. Gaylord Nowels who has been here for a visit with Ms parents, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Nowels, went to Gary Sunday for a visit with Ms sister, Mrs. Lawson Meyers. Today he joined his mother, Mrs. Riley Nowels, his sister, Mrs. Albert Alters, of Forest, and her daughter, Dorothy, at Hammond, and the party started for Longmont, Col., Mrs. Gaylord Nowels’ home. - - Advertise in the Republican.

THB EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENBNEKABR, k<T>.

FOOD CLUBS AN INDIANA IDEA

Five Thousand Will tfe (Jrgan- . ized by Hoosier Won?en to Aid Nation in War. • HOUSEWIVES TO CO-OPERATE First Branch Formed Near Rockport and Will be Known as United States Food Club bio. 1. (By Don Herold.) In your neighborhood there soon will be a United States food club. It may be No. 3or No. 3333. Whatever its number, it will be one of about 5,000 such clubs, which will cover every inch of Indiana, before long. The purpose will be to make fbod do its part toward winning the war. “Great heavens!” you say, “another organization?” Yes, another organization. But wait. This organization already has 400,000 members in Indiana, which is a pretty good nucleus with which to start. That many persons in the state signed the food saving pledge card during the food pledge campaign in November. Individually, each of them pledged himself or herself to help make food win the war. But wars aren’t won by individual good will or individual effort. ~The food clubs which the food administration is forming will enable these 400,000 persons, mostly women, to get acquainted. They will help them to do work as a team. When 400,000 persons push together the same way the resultant force is noticeable. Incidentally, the food clubs will enable the 400,000, each representing a family, to learn the 300,000 families in Indiana who did not sign the food saving pledge card. And that in itself is of some importance just at this time.

If yoq signed the food pledge card you will automatically become a member of your neighborhood food club when it is formed, or if any member of your family signed the card your whole family will be entitled to membership in the club. If no one in your family signed the card, the fact will be recorded on the books of your neighborhood food club, and an effort probably will be made to ascertain why. These food clubs are an Indiana idea. The food administration at Washington seized on the plan and has recommended it to the other states, and similar organizations already have been started in perhaps a dozen states other than Indiana. Be- f fore Ipng there will be, not a standing army, but a fighting army of food fighters throughout the United States representing practically every family in the country. Get this fundamental fact Into your head: That while food is a cpiiet and prosaic and everyday thing, it is a far more effective agent in the winning of a war than all the bayonets on one side or the other or all the busiest of the busiest Berthas. That’s a pretty hard thing for us to imagine over here. Hunger is slow and gnawing, and works from the inside out. Bullets are swift and noisy and cause the loss of brilliant red blood. So, as usual, we look at the spectacular and get the habit of thinking of war in terms of steel. Wheat has won more wars than steel. The German submarines are not after boats, or even men. They do not case about boats, or care much about the men on the boats. The submarines are after—food. The Aibmarines are, primarily, starvation instruments. When the home fires go out, soldiers at the front had just as well givfe up. Now the United States food administration, on whose shoulders at this time rests practically the entire food problem of the world, does not propose to be content with “putting pieces in the paper” about the seriousness of the food situation and trusting the people to respond to the complex demands of the complex situation in any way their individual consciences happen to dictate. There is no doubt that the public means well. But response, now, must be quick, unified, consistent. It must be the same kind of response all over the United States, from every neighborhood. It must have punch. It must not be a hit-and-miss response, a today and tomorrow response, an will” and “I will think it over" response. It must “click," as they say in the army.

So the food dubs. By all means you must join—and push—in your neighborhood. The clubs will be formed around schoolhouses and other central meeting places. It is expected that from 100 to 200 families will constitute each club. There probably will be monthly meetings. There will be a county president of clubs in each county (about sixty of which have already been appointed), township presidents, ward presidents, precinct presidents and local club presidents. And each dub will be divided into squads of fifteen members each, with a lieutenant for each squad. Communicating Organisations. .. The dubs will be, fundamentally, communicating organisations. They will constitute a gigantic and simplified grapevine telegraph wire over which Herbert Hoover, the United Stat** food administrator, through H. E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, through the various presidents, down through the local lieutenants, can get word to

AMERICAN NAVY ELIMINATES WASTE

a OKIES in the Amari* can navy are classed I as the best fed body I °* men ln the uW Cl In the ship’s galleys m every effort Is made to J 5 eliminate waste. kWpF/i in the upper photo ■teamriftg one of the cooks on the North Dakota Is oper* J atlng a meat slicer that cuts bacon with the ■ lectat possible wastage. Fa i *■ ruei for fighters. Bacon is badly needed in the allied armies and navies. The allied needs in pork products are 150,000,000 pounds monthly, three times as much as before the war. Another waste eliminator on the North Dakota is the potato peeler, shown in the lower photo. Nothing is lost except the actual potato skin. There is a sufficient quantity of po-

every family in Indiana almost over night. The first club in Indiana was formed the other day near Rockport. It will be known as United States Food Club No. 1. In territory it will cover, for' the present, about two square miles of Ohio township, in Spencer county, and the “clubhouse” will be the Silverdale schoolhouse, in which the charter will be hung. The first county president to be appointed in the new movement is Mrs. Howard S. Cottey, of Kokomo, who will head the clubs in Howard county. The food situation changes, in some of its phases, very rapidly, and the food administration will often find it necessary'to change its recommendations quickly. Just a few days ago it was decided that it would be wise to eliminate “porkless Saturday,” and the one-meatless-meal-a-day rule and reduce the meat conservation program to “meatless Tuesday." On account of the success of the meat conservation program and because of certain transportation conditions the storehouses were becoming temporarily overfilled with meat. At the same time the wheat shortage was becoming more acute, So the food administration said, virtually, “Eat a little more meat and save still further on wheat.” Some day the word must be passed around again to go back to a stricter program of meat saving. Through the food clubs such hints may be given without loss of time, and given in such a way as to insure an immediate and universal response. The food administration has many pamphlets, leaflets, receipts and conservation circulars to pass out, and all these will be distributed to members of the food clubs. At the monthly meetings, demonstrations will be given of best ways to prepare foods that are plentiful and save foods that are scarce, neighbors will exchange conservation receipts and ideas, slackers will be dragged out into Hie limelight, store keepers and restaurant keepers who show unpatriotic tendencies will be discussed, profiteers will “get theirs,” patriotic gardens will be encouraged; papers from the national and state and county food administrators will be read, patriotic lecturers will speak, a question box will be conducted, and ways and means to further production and conservation will be thrashed out. The clubs may serve as a labor exchange, and perhaps later, even as a produce exchange. City and rural clubs may co-operate in this respect. A spirit of battle and of standing together will be put into every club. “Fight with food” will be the slogan. Slackers will be lined up or scorched. Germany will be out-Germanied here in effectiveness and solidarity of organization. * Joining your neighborhood food club is just one of the patriotic things there are to do, it is true (joining and pushing), but it is one thing that you should positively not neglect to do. For “food will win the war."

Great Wheat Stocks Isolated.

It’s the shortage in ships that is putting the allies and. the United States on wheat rations. Great stocks of wheat are isolated in India and Australia. At great sacrifice in sMp space and use the allies are forced to secure some wheat from Argentins. On January 1 Australia had stored 100,000,000 bushels of wheat that was ready for export—but there were no sMps. Then came the new crop with an exportable surplus of 80,000,000 bushels. Now Australia has approximately 180,000,000 bushels waiting for ship*. India, at the same time, had 70,000,000 bushels of wheat stored for export. During April 50.000.000

tatoes in Ameile* iur gie»ie* um in every home and for all need* of army and navy. Bat bmco potatoes, eat less wheat

ousnels more out of the new crop will be added to the pile. It is not a problem that the wheat does not exist in the world—it is entirely a problem of shipping, which has thrown on America the obligation of dividing dur stock with the allies.

ALLIED FOOD SHIPMENTS REACH LARGE TOTAL.

A general idea of the quantity of food sent to European allies by the United States from July lr/1914, to January 1, 1918, is given by figures just announced by the U. S. Food Administration. In that period the United States has furnished complete yearly rations for 57,100,933 people. In addition there was enough extra protein to supply this portion pf the diet for 22,194,570 additional men. The total export of wheat and wheat flour to the three principal allies is equivalent to about 384,000,000 bushels. Pork exports for the three and one-half years amounted to almost 2,000,000,000 pounds. Exports of fresh beef totaled 443,484,400 pounds. The amount of food exported to Russia is negligible compared with that sent to the western allies.

ONLY AMERICA CAN HELP.

“On your side are boundless 4 supplies of men, food, and ma- j terial; on this side • boundless < demand for their help. < “Our men are war-weary and *j their nerves have been strained by more than three years of < hard, relentless tbiL “Our position is critical, particularly until the next harvest, ‘ but the United States can save < us. . . < “You Americans have the • men, the skill, and the material ■ to save the allied cause.” SIR JOSEPH MACLAY. British Shipping Controller.

Pink Tea Workers Barred.

The head of the canteen department of the National League for Women’s Service has requested all “pink tea” members to resign from her division. “I would rather have one dependable woman than one thousand who can’t work because they have an engagement to play golf or because it is their afternoon at home,” she remarked, according to the Worcester Pqst. Red Cross workers and war workers of all types are up against the old-age problems of organizers—how to weed out the indifferent and inefficient worker, the person who enthusiastically enrolls under every new banner, attends a few meetings, throws a monkey-wrench or two Into the organization machinery —and disappears until a new “cause" or a brighter banner flaunts Into view. Such women are obstacles in the progress of any cause with wMch they see fit to play.

Gas May Help Win War.

Our illuminating gas plants may win the war for us. according to the American Chemical society. These experts say that the only way of quickly increasing the available supply of toluol is to extract it from the nation’s gas. Toluol is the basis of trinitrotoluol, the famous British high explosive T. N. T The production in this country is confined largely to by-product coke ovens and the entire present output is contracted for. However, by quick and energetic-action we can secure an immense supplementary supply of this vitally necessary substance by treating fiinminstlng gas without affecting the quality of the gas appreciably.-

BIG PROFIT FROM BIG WASTE

By-Products of Factory and Farm Put to Good Use Many people can still remember the great piles cf bwM? and carrion that* once greeted LHv eye on the prairies around tlio pac,Ai<ii( ce.utw of Chicago -—a gigantic .Wats e and a nuisance. Buzzard}. arvl were there by the thousand T ;-j 'sieadi was awfuL Then th) H'Ai c Kelt -prompted waysand, n»cu • i*. pro Li table disposal of the h n&s. Fertilizer was made from them—-;S c. goed profit. Then followed means for •aakb’g profit from the other w': let hoofs, horai, hair, etc. Now hundreds mmodifies are made from what. was t rmerly waste, and ti e di-ector.. 6? t. e gieat packing firms will Vd! yc i that i..eat is often sold at ih:» profit iroin the byproducts in.up for th. For aiiotac- - cxai-H-e, take the steel industry. Fr a t! '• blast furnace.? there used tn ”/ ■ « •>-■s» that were a menae to ' i-> lv.ih of the cornJEUnity. Tfwv d;- a. .1 iu>i helieavenj for miles v• 4« 'I a. - v l umcJ. Zfura waste of fuel that v,is, for nowaoiyj those same gasesj •■. 'in- ii-'.i course, furnish (:norn on-, i; .t >■ <■ >v, ;r in the w/.y of pai> for i!* s on: ifieo that macifinery of i'ae i ahut The Bit. o<» the F:.:r» There is a wasto i inhi; at hom<J tint might be tmiioi I profit.,-Ths next tim -tfou mive toorfrom town, notice th-. ?i! ■£ of nr imre -cither in the harny- ot cr on tl Wrt - wsithxg'« to be spre.’ > ' ro ? euob?!! those |.‘iles will bc£p.t?.j ■O-i ihm’lldo a 16» of good, but li't - im-io a htf :va£te if they're not •! s* m. *•!< the experiment st,it:>n. s t • il -is tl at exposure of the m uiure t ... wither for six months mcaiis a vl a ualf of the plant food in the n*. an uro. This me ms a trnger; (css than most of us realize. Th? average farm produces i'XJ tons oi maiiiiro iu i year. It Is worth at least s>.so a tmi in cropincreasing, accenting to the latest reports. So IGC Lor sL: w'-rth. Six months’leaching loses ore-hair. orffJjO worth. What’s tbe remedy V Frequent S reading. M anu re fipread on the field thor dries out.aod btops jcriaendng and losing ammonia, or else the plant food is leached into the soil where 16 belongs. But the job Is i'. n>d&tnce. Sure 16 Is—by hand. What about a spreader? That’s the idea. Make the job easier and it will be done ufteuer. The spreader will do the work twice as well, too, making the manure go much farther and breaking up the lumps. Some of thoce new wide spread machines beat the twice ami spread it ’way beyond th«fwheels. Spreader Save* 55365 on 16 Acre* The present high prices for farm Soducts make a spreader pay for itself ster than ever be f ore. One Nebraska farmer experimented and found a total gain of #122 for spreader oVer hand work on six acres of corn and ten of meadow. That was at a time when com was 50c and hay 610. The gain would be about three times #122 or #368 now—with prices as high as they are. Without a doubt the liberal use of spreaders would do more to boost crops in this county than any other one thing. They’d turn a big waste into a big profit—and mighty quick, too.

AMERICAN ARMY NOT TO BE USED NOW.

Ottawa, May 12.—50 confident is entente of its ability to withstand any drive the Germans can launch that it has been decided not to use the American army until it becomes a complete and powerful force, according to a cable summary of operations on the western front, received here tonight from the war committee of the British cabinet

MONDAY LOCAL MARKET

Oats, 67c. Corn, SI.OO. Rye, $1.75. Wheat, $2.00. Butterfat, $2.00. Hens, 20c. Old roosters, 12c.

Cold weather does’t improve the fool styles. A girl is supposed to hide her nose and her chin behind a high fur collar while her skirt is worn so high that her knees are almost bare. , Miss Nellie Doyle, of Richmond, Ind., came today to spend the rammer with her cousin, Miss Rose Remmek. The Jasper county council of defense meets Thursday afternoon, May 16, in the county commissioners room. The county commissioners are in session today, completing the May term. Subscribe for the Republican.

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