Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — Page 2

Service Flag Regulations

No Official Rriot But Thh Plan Hat the Approval of the Adjutant I General of tbe Army

While there are no official rules or regulations covering the use of the service flag, because the service flag itself is unofficial, the following, prepared in the judge advocate general’s departinent, has the approval of the adjutant general of the army: “Entitled to a Star—All officers end enlisted men of the regular army, the regular army reserve, the officers’ reserve corps, and the enlisted reserve corps; of the National Guard and National Guard reserve recognized by the militia bureau of the war department; of the navy, the marine corps, and the coast guard; of the naval militia, naval reserve force, marine corps reserve, and national naval volunteers recognized by the navy department; officers only of the public health service, detailed by the secretary of the treasury for duty either with the army or with the navy; personnel of lighthouse service and of coast geodetic survey transferred by the president to the service and jurisdiction of war or navy department; members of the nurse corps, army field clerks, field-clerks of the quartermaster corps, civilian clerks and mili- ’ tary employees on duty with military forces detailed for service abroad in accordance with the provisions of existing law; members of any other body who have heretofore or may hereafter become a part of the military or naval forces of the United States. , „ “The term ‘military service* as used in this definition, shall signify active —service In any branch of service heretofore mentioned or referred to, but reserves and persons on the retired list shall not be included in the term persons in military service’ until ordered to active service. “Men attending officers’ training camps of the United States army or navy at cantonments, camps or forts are in the active military service. “While it is not intended to minimize the work done by persons connected with, or of assistance to the military or naval service, but not a part of it, members of the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., K. C., Jewish welfare board, and like organizations are not to be represented on the service, flag. “No objection is seen to extending the service flag honor to those in the service of our allies. '“Meaning of the stars—(a) A blue star is used to represent each person, man or woman, in the military or naval service of the United States. “(b) For those killed in action a gold star will be substituted for the blue star, or superimposed on it, entirely covering it. 1 “(c) For those wounded in action a silver star will be substituted for the blue star, or superimposed on it, entirely covering it Use of this star would be limited to those entitled to the official wound chevron, which is awarded to those receiving wounds in action with the enemy or disabled by a gas attack, necessitating treatment by a medical officer. “(d) For those who subsequently die from such wounds or gas disablement the gold star will be superimposed on the silver, leaving a margin of silver around the gold. »' “(e) For those disabled or invalided home by injury or disease incurred in line of duty, a silver star will be superimposed on the blue, leaving a margin of blue around the sliver. “(f) For those who subsequently die as a result of such accident or disease contracted in line of duty, a gold star will be substituted for this silver star, or superimposed on it, covering the silver star entirely, but leaving the margin of blue. / • “(g) Men reported missing are presumed to have been taken prisoner and should continue to be represented by the blue star. “(h) Men discharged, not for the good of the service or on request or resignation, but from wounds or physical Incapacity contracted In the line of duty, shall continue to be represented by the silver star. When discharged for other causes they would appear to be thereafter no more entitled to representation than others not in the'military service.”

POULTRY CATECHISM AND CRITICISM

Do you keep chickens? If not why not? If so, are they approved breeds? What kind of fowl are kept in your neighborhood? Are they just “chickens,” or are they real, working hens, earning their grub? Can you name five or six of the best breeds of hens and describe the outstanding qualities of each? Do turkeys, ducks or geese possess any advantages over hens? Under what circumstances might this be so? How long does it take to hatch a hen’s egg, a duck egg, a goose egg, a turkey egg? Do you sell more eggs than you eat? How many eggs did you sell last year? Did you calculate the average price? Do you know what your hens cost to feed? wTiich sells for the most—a Plymouth Rock, a Leghorn, a Brahma? A goose, turkey or duck —per pound? Whose fault is it if the hens are not laying? Are you calculating on having laying hens next winter? Do you know that hens can be made to lay under scientific conditions and that “chance” doesn’t make poultrykeeping profitable? Has the hen as much right to complain of her housing, feeding or medical care as you have about not getting more eggs? Reverse this question. Does the hen 'feel cheap? Seventy-four per cent oS an egg is writer. Do you expect eggs from thirsty hens? Nix. Fifteen per cent of an egg is protein. Protein -is the food that makes muscle and lean meat. Hens get protein from worms, bugs, grasshoppers and meat scrapsr Can your hens get enough of these summer and winter? You can’t have sausage if you have no meat to grind up, eh? Rabbits, squirrels, buttermilk and butchers’ offal make good egg-produc-ing diet An egg is ten per cent fat. Fat is made from starch. Grain, especially corn, Is rich in starch. An egg is one per cent mineral matter, mostly lime. This forms shell. See that the hens get enough. Can’t sell soft shell eggs, can you? Some people might as well expect the cat to lay eggs as the hen when one compares the care they both get

Painting Proves Original.

An oil painting of Queen Anne of Austria presenting her son, Louis XTV, to the court of France, which has been hanging for many years in the mayor’s parlors of the city hah at New Orleans, Is declared by art experts to be the original picture, painted hi 1687, by Nicholas MJ guard, court artist of ytv "

First Major League Player to Reach the Century Mark in Hits the Present Season

Frank Baker is the first player in the major leagues to reach the century mark in hits this season. This accomplishment has been greatly instrumental in helping the New York Yankees toward the leadership in the American league. Baker, when he left the Athletics a few years ago, was thought to have lost

Frank Baker.

his slugging ability, but he has proved conclusively in the present race that his eye has not lost its sharpness. He has hammered out a lot of extra base hits in acquiring his total of 100 bingles. New Yorkers have made him a greater idol than he was in Philadelphia, and if the team wins the championship much of the credit will go to Baker and his trusty bludgeon. <

President’s Cabinet Members; Their Previous Occupations.

The names of the president’s cabinet, their residence and occupation previous to appointment follow: Secretary of State Robert Lansing of New York was a lawyer and authority on international law; Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo of New York was a lawyer and railroad manager; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker of Ohio was a lawyer and had been mayor of Cleveland; Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory of Texas, lawyer; Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson of Texas, lawyer; Secretary > of the Navy Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, lawyer and newspaper man; Secretary of the Interior Franklin k. Lane of California, lawyer and newspaper man; Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston of Missouri, teayher and president of an agricultural college; Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield of New York, business man connected with large corporations; Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, mine worker, president of local miners* union and secretary of national union.

THE FVBNTNQ REPTHRLTt 1 A TNT).

CHILD AND MOTHER

O Mother-my-love, if you’ll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a beautiful land— The Dreamland that’s waiting out yon- ■ der. “ We’ll walk" in a sweet posle garden out there Where the moonlight and starlight are streaming And the flowers and birds are filling the air With fragrance and music of dreaming. There’ll be no little tired-out boy to undress No questions or cares to perplex you; There’ll be no little bruises or bumps to caress, j Nor patches of stockings to vex you. For I’ll rock you away on a silver dew stream, > And sing you asleep when you’re weary, And no one shaU know of our beautiful dream, But you and your own little dearie. And when I’m tired I’ll nestle my head In the bosom that’s soothed me so often And the wide-awake stars shall sing in I my stead A song whieh our dreaming shall soften. So Mother-my-love, let me take your dear hand, ■ • And away through the starlight we’ll wander— Away through the mist to the beautiful land— The Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder! —Eugene Field.

Mother’s Cook Book

In life’s universal garden We have each to hoe our row, And to make life worth the living. We must hoe, hoe, hoe. —Caroline L. Sumner. Seasonable Recipes. A most delicious dessert very simple and easy to prepare and one that is most attractive to look at is junket, served in sherbet cups, topped with a spoonful of raspberries or any sweetened fruit and over this a spoonful of sweetened whipped cream. To prepare the junket take a junket tablet and dissolve it in a tablespoonful of cold water. Warm a pint of milk until just luke warm, like new milk, add the dissolved tablet and .stir well to mix it thoroughly through the milk, flavor and sweeten to taste and pour into sherbet cups. Let stand in the kitchen until the junket is firm, then set oh ice. Fresh berries, of any kind when crushed and mixed with equal measures of sugar will keep indefinitely when carefully sealed and kept in a cool place. Junket tablets come in a small wooden box and will keep well until used. Canned frffit may be used for this dessert but it is not as good as the fresh.

Barley Flour Sponge Cake. Beat the yolks of five eggs very light; gradually beat in one cupful of granulated sugar, then the grated rind anfi juice of half a lemon. Fold in one cupful of sifted barley flour and the whites of the eggs beaten very light. Bake in a tube pan 50 minutes. Corn flour or potato flour may be substituted for the barley, using half as much. Rolled Jelly Cake, Potato Flour. Beat two eggs without separating the whites and yolks; gradually beat in seven-eighths of a cupful of sugar, a half teaspoonful of lemon' extract or a grating of lemon rind, two tablespoonfuls of butter substitute and onehalf cupful of hot water; then add a half cupful of potato flour, a half teaspoonful of salt, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with the flour. Bake in a shallow pan 15 minutes. Turn on a cloth wrung out ofi warm water, trim the edges and spread with fruit jelly. Roll, keeping the damp cloth between the hands and cake. Remove the cloth as soon as rolled. One cupful of barley or onehalf cupful of corn flour may be used in place of the potato flour.

Things Worth Forgetting.

People in different parts of China do not speak the same language, and they wouldn't have anything interesting to say if they did. Croesus, once richest man in the world, didn’t have enough kale to back the present war more than forty minutes. .' There is a dispute on by Egyptologists as to whether Cleopatra was a good looker or a fright During the glacial period ice could be had for nothing as far south as Durango, Mexico.

Magnetic Storms Interfere With the Flight of Pigeons.

One of the many explanations that have been offered to account for the fact that migrating birds are able to find their way by night and in cloudy or foggy weather is that they are sensitive in some way to currents of terrestrial magnetism, and therefore direct their flight by the magnetic meridians. This suggestion was put forth by M. A. Thauzies, a French pigeon fancier, who declares that carrier pigeons , make poor flights during the occurrence of magnetic storms. He also asserts that the general use of wireless telegraphy , has diminished the reliability of the birds to a surprising extent—Popular Science Monthly.

Drying Plants Save Food

C/wnmnnity Establnhment Provides Simple and Convenient Method of * Conserving Perishables

Establishment by municipalities from municipal funds of drying plants for fruits and vegetables where conditions are favorable is a most important way of preventing waste of perishables; according to the United States department of agriculture. i In municipal plants the work should be supervised by the city council or other town authorities. If the plant' is not a municipal plant, it is best to place it under the guidance of some association already in existence, such as a civic improvement Club, commercial club, home-school garden club, or a special community club organized for the purpose. i As an example of a club that can be formed for the purpose, a department bulletin tells of one community that has a drying plant'and in which a special community club of approximately 60 farmers has been organized primarily

The Convenient Home-Made Fruit and Dryer, Made of Lath and Wife Netting.

to look after the operation of the drying plant. The officers—president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer —constitute the executive committee and are intrusted with power to act. A simple form of constitution and by-laws has been adopted; and meetings of the dub are held monthly or oftener, usually at the drying plant, which in this instance is in a room of a church Municipal or government-owned drying plants have been in successful operation in European countries for years. Such plants provide village communities with a convenient and simple method of drying all sorts of produce of the home garden and orchard, as well as the vegetables and fruits shipped to the community, which might be allowed to go to waste at the stores, and market places. The drying plant described in the bulletin follows closely the specifications of a community plant at Lincoln, Neb., and 11 others in that general section, aU of which were operated successfully during the summer and fall of 1917. - The advantage to the busy farmer’s wife in the country community cannot be overestimated, says the bulletin. Her work is heaviest in the summer when vegetables and fruits must be saved for winter use. The establishment of a community drying plant at a consolidated school, country church, or cen-trally-located farm home would offer a great relief from heavy kitchen duties.

Tin Cans to Aid in Winning War

Garbage, Too, Will Arast, But Fancy Articles Not Deemed Neceaaaiy by U.S.

Jade carving, lacquered shrines and carved wood jewel boxes will not help win the war, in the opinion of the American government, but tin cans and garbage will. In its steady progress toward elimination of the great American waste, the government has put the three former items on the restricted imports list. The latter Items are being looked after by other departments of the government. Tennis rackets, tennis, golf, base, ping-pong and bowling bails; almond flour used in cosmetics.; metal vases and similar luxuries also are on a newly Issued restricted imports list. The department of agriculture announces that if you do not throw away, your tin cans, but save them to can the kaiser, you may make some money. If you gather 7,000 or 8,000 of them, free from rust, you may get sl2 for them, according to quotations furnished by a smelter. So worried has the government become about the sinful waste of garbage in this country that the food administration has Issued an appeal to the housekeeper, saying: “One ton of garbage contains; “Sufficient gylcerine for 14 75-mllli-meter shells. _ “Sufficient fatty add for manufacture of 100 12-ounce cakes of soap; suffident fertilizer elements to grow eight bushels of wheat; a score of other materials valuable in munitions making. "If used as hog feed it will produce: “Onq hundred pounds of good, firm, first-quality pork. “Can you afford to destroy these valuable products when your government needs them to help win the war? “Put less in your garbage pell and take more out. But what must go in should be kept separate from other household refuse so it can be used. “Remember ! Garbage is valuable. Keep it clean I”

SCIENCE NOTES

A simple typewriter attach- < ment has been invented for re- * inking ribbon at little cost. < Concrete bases to give longer , life to worn-out fence posts are < a New: York inventor’s idea. , Sand of different colors can be • fed through a new pencil for , children to enable them to draw * outline pictures. To save labor and space in J large post offices, a New Jersey < man has Invented a letter-sort- ; ing cabinet In which the letters . are dropped into narrow slots \ and fall down chutes into larger . compartments. !

An Important Difference.

The gasoline situation in this country is not to be compared With that in Europe. England and France are almost entirely dependent upon |mports of petroleum products and the ability to import is limited by lack of ships. •It is for this reason that the use of motorcars for private use has had to be suspended except for the most urgent requirements. America, on the contrary, Is the world’s largest oilproducing country and is unable to export more than one-quarter of Its gasoline production. To the extent that gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil are used for power purposes the supply of coal is conserved.

Penalties for Profiteering Fall on Foodstuff Dealers.

Notwithstanding Hoover’s handicap in having to work with a volunteer and untrained detective force, more than 800 penalties for profiteering have been imposed on licensed dealers in foodstuffs during the last ten months. These are the “big fellows.” About 150 companies and individuals have been ordered to quit business for a limited period and more than 500 have voluntarily made a money payment, usually to the Red Cross, or have temporarily abstained from doing business rather than risk more drastic penalties.

Secret of Longevity of Indian Is That He Lives In Open, Eats Plain Food

Chief Manitoweg (White Wings), an Indian evangelist of the Siwash tribe, who has been preaching in churches in Harlem and in New Jersey, told his .auditors of the good health and longevity of the Indian. “The Indian,” he said, “who lives in his native-state on the reservation attains an-age that few members of the white race would bellete possible. I am aware that my. race Is rapidly becoming extinct, but this is because so many Indians have followed the mode of life of the paleface and the softening influences of civilization. I have a sister who is more than one hundred years' old, aridi I know Indians today on the reservations who are more than one hundred, and whose births are a matter of record. lam sixty nine myself, but my years trouble me not at alk I'once knew an 'lndian woman who lived to be one hundred and twen-ty-eight years old. . “I am often asked what is the secret of the longevity of these Indians. The answer filffinplersbas an lhdTan' will live in the open, drink pure water only and eat plain food.' Many such Indians are at their best physically at the age of fifty. The Indian at fifty still haa his .hair,, .ffis teeth and his eyesight,-and -can rah ten miles before breakfast without an effort. I was preaching recently tot a church in Newark, N. J., and after the service a man of thirty-four came to me and asked why it was that so many Indians had thick hair and were not afflicted -with baldness. He remarked that he had never seen a baldheaded Indian. This man himself was as bald as a billiard ball. “ ‘I will tell you, my friend,’ I told him, It is the trhth, although you will probably not believe me. When the Indian goes to bed he at once goes to sleep; it IS different with the white man, Who takes his troubles to bed with him, and always has something on ’MS 11 ? 3 -’ ” .

JUST TO SMILE

A Change of Linen. Husband —You have changed washerwomen, I see. Wise —Yes. How’do you know? Husband —Instead of getting Brown’® and Robinson’s shirts, I am getting some strange garments I never wore before. ' A Vital Question. She— Yes, I attended cooking school and I learned so much there. • He —Did you learn how to keep a cook? ui Not Customary.

that wouldn’t have been the thing to do at all.

Tact. She —When you go to ask papa the first tiling he will do will be to accuse you of seeking my hand merely to become his son-in-law. He—Yes, And then —?,” She—And then you must agree with him, He’s a lot prouder of himself than he is of me. Achieving the Impossible.

Traveller (a t door) —Madam, I have a vacuum cleaner. It — Mistress (loftily! t- Sorry, but we always send our vacuums out to be cleaned.

Courtesy. The diner who had Cleverly taken another man’s overcoat had just reached the door when the owner tapped him on the shoulder. “Pardon me, sir,” he said meekly, “but would you allow me to get another cigar from my coat pocket, in case I do not meet you again?"

French Women Tenderly Care For Graves of American Boys.

Aged French women in the villages / in the rear of the American sector in Picardy have asked and received permission tp take care of one or more graves of American soldiers. The affection with which the villagers regard the Americans is most pathetic. The difficulty of language is swept aside and the villagers share the American sorrows and joys. In the villages 'where American troops are billeted and which are in constant danger from enemy sheHh, the Americans share their gas masks with the peasants and teach them how to use them.

China May Use All Canals.

China, in its pressing need for transportation facilities, is considering the restoration of its old-time system of canals, of which there were at one time 60,000 miles within the empire. Centuries before the Christian era the great rivers of the Celestial empire were diverted from their natural courses to form these ancient waterways.

Alice —How did you feel while Fred was proposing to you? Mildred Two or three times I felt like supplying the words I knew he was groping i for; but, of course,