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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 191H MEAT PRODUCERS DID FULL DUTY Increase in American Hogs Will Help to Meet World Fat Shortage. FARMERS SAVE SITUATION. ^ Government Justified In Stimulation of Pork Pioductlon?Sevenfold Increase Over Pre1 War Exports. Throuirh Increased production and conservation we will ho 111>l?> this year to export seven times our pro war tivoraco exports of pork products. \\ 11ti the heavy demands added in carina for the * .Minns who have heen freed from tierninn oppression, the 1 'epartnient of Agriculture and the Food A'luilnlstration are Justified today In our every action of stimulation of hoj; production. In the coinltiK year .... i i-.iurn worm snortnge will bo in fills, niid pork will help to save tills situation. Tlie efficacy of the policy of stimulated production lias Iniilt up In tills country supplies which will enable us to supply a very large part of the fat deficiency of the world. In beef there must lie a shortage In Europe, due largely to limited refrigerator ship capacity. All freezer ships available, however, will he filled by America, Argentine and Australia. The contribution made by the producers of this country to the war program ns applying particularly to animal food products Is Illustrated by the following: Reports compiled by the U. S. I>epartment of Agriculture Indicate an Increase In cattle of 10,2.'lS,0o0 head and 12.441.0(H) bogs. These figures were compiled to January 1 last. In this period there was a decrease in sheep of 819,000 bead. The indications are that this decrease will show an Increase, according to recent reports. Since January 1 unofficial Information indicates an Increase in hog.- < f not less than 8 per cent, and not more than l.r> per cent, ns compared wlih one year ago, with an increase iu the average weight. Following the request of the U. S. Food Administration for an increase is hog production for marketing in the fall of 1(118 and (lie spring of 11? 1 i> the Increase may yield not less than 1,000,000,000 pounds more of pork products than were available Inst year. Without this Increase the shipping progrnm arranged by Mr. Hoover regarding animal food products would have beeu Impossible. The dressed hog products during the three months ending September 3(>, 1017, amounted to 003,172,000 pounds, while for the corresponding montiis of 1018 tin* dressed hog products totaled 3.277,."?SO 000, an increase of over 374,000,000 ; numls for tlte quarter. During the same period for 1017 the records of Inspected slaughter of dressed beef showed 1,203,<N 10.003 ]...unds ns against 1.4."VI,000,000 pounds 1 or the three month period ending HCJilVIHWUl I, III1J* Our food Gospel eat less ' serve less waste nothing America's Pledge of Food Gave Heart to the Allies In Their Darkest Hour Whatever Is necessary Aniprlrn will Vend. That was Amerlca'R pledge to the Interallied food council. And heeanse the American food army had hitherto made good they took heurt and went forward. Farm enterprise and much soft corn Increased pork supplies, food conservation Increased exports?total shipments doubled. * * FAITH JUSTIFIED + BY EVENTS. * ! do not believe tbnt drastic + 4? force need be applied to main ? tain economic distribution and sane use of supplies by the ? prent majority of American peo ?fr pie, and I have learned a deep + and abiding fal'h In the Intelli- + pence of the a \ crape American fr business man, whose aid we an tlcipate and depend on to rente- + ?> (Iv the evils developed by the * + war.- Herbert Hoover, August + ? ? 11), 1H17. + + i? I Patriot's Plenty =n^== Bqy less - Serve less Eat only 3 meals a day Waste nothing \bur guests will cheerfully snare simple fare Be Proud to be a food saver \ SHE KEPT THE Masai? T' < -iia <im< Hoiin i PROVED SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY Voluntary Basis of Food Saving Showed Heart of America Beat True for Freedom. To the voluntary service and sacrifice of the American people must he attributed the continued health, strength and tnoruie of the Allied armies and the civil populace. Upon this spirit of service and sacrifice will depend Kun>pe's fate in the months to come. In tin ms! year we I have curried out an export progrum. the magnitude of which Is almost he yond comprehension. Hut with tinnew demands thut have come, with the llherutlon of nations freed from German oppression, our exports must he almost doubled. Instead of 11,820,000 tons, we must ship twenty million tons of food to Europe in the coming year?ns much as euu be pushed through our ports. If the Allies had not been, fed by America, It would have been Impossible for them to maintain their defense ugulnst Germany. Meeting this world need on n purely voluntary basis, the American people have conclusively proved that democracy is a success ana that in time ot need It will rise to Its own defense. If there were no other accomplish ment to Its credit the very fact that It hus shown the strength of democracy has In Itself more than Justified the existence of the Food Administration In the eyes of the world. I,ess than four months nfter the j United States declared war the United States Food Administrator expressed his determination to meet America's food problem on a bnsls of voluntary action and reiterated his confidence thai awakened democracy would prove Irresistible. "Many thinking Americans," said Mr. Hoover, "and the whole world have been watching anxiously the last four months In the fear that democratic America could not organize to meet autocratic Germany. Germany has been confident that it could not he done. Contrary proof Is immediateh at our door, und our people have al ready demonstrated their ability to mobilize, organize, endure and prepare voluntarily and efficiently In many directions and upon the mere word of Inspiration aside from the remarkable assemblage of our Army and finances." The history of the Food Administration has clearly shown that the trust or tnose who put their r?itth In democracy lias not been misplaced. I be proud to be rood Saver j THE LANCASTER NEWS M ON THE JOB msm apesf&imttrframe 1) f v SAVE 16.000.000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT THAI FORMERLY WAS LOST IN THRESHING Farmers, Urged by Food Administration, Provide Seven Extra Loaves of Bread for Every American. By adopting cleaner threshing methods nnd by literally combing harvest fields to gather grain formerly wasted, threshermen nnd farmers of the United States this year saved fully 10,000,000 bushels of wheat, estimated an equivalent to ut>out seven one-pound loaves of bread for every person In the country. This result, accompanied by corresponding savings of barley, oats, rye and other grains. Is shown by reports from 38 grnin states to the U. S. Food Administration. Other states, although not prepared to furnish dollnlte figures of conservation In the grain fields, report greatly reduced harvest losses. This rural food saving achievement, accomplished In scarcely six months' time, was In direct response to requests by the Food Administration, which asked farmers and tliresherinen to reduce harvest losses from about 3V4 per cent.?the estimated uverage In normal times?to the lowest possible minimum. Country grain thresh[ ing committees carried Into every grain growing community the official recommendations for accomplishing the results desired. In numerous Instances drivers of racks with leaky bottoms were sent from the fields to repair their equipment and frequently bail order threshing machines were stopped until the cause of waste was removed. Hut In proportion to the number of persons engaged In gathering the nutlon's grain crop, cases of compulsion were comparatively rare. The Food Administration freely attributes the success of in*-* kkiiii 1111 rnuiiiK <-tiui| Illicit in patriotic service by farmers, threshernton ami their crews. Incidentally grain growers of the i'nlted States are many "d'.llona of dollars "In pocket" as a result of the grain saved. NO ONE SUFFERED HERE. The marvel of our voluntary foodsaving, now that we are "getting resit It t, is that no one ever actually suffered any hardship from It; that we all are better in healtn and spirit and better satisfied with ourselves because of our friendly self-deni?i. Food control In America held the price of hreadstaffs stendy, prevented vicious speculation and extortion aitd preserved tranquillity at home. fn no other nntlon Is there so wilting a sense of voluntary self-sacrifice as In America?that was shown in the abstinence from wl eat. Find more wheat. It ennio; more pork. It enme ; save sui'ar. It was done. So Americans answered the challenge of German starvation. Good will rules the new world as fear governed the old world. Through sharing food America helps make the whole world kin. Fond control made sufficiency from shortage, kept the rein on food prices, gave the nation's full sUeuglh exercise. Starvation by Germany challenged an ;ne worm; rooti conservation in America answered the challenge. Kood conservation In America ha? heen the triuni| h of Individual devu tlou to the national cause. ' ANCASTER, S. C. Famine and Hunger Know Ko Armistiu = America is Pledged, War or Peace, to ' Kurnish Pood to Millions of Allied Peoples Now in Misery, and the Only Way to Send it is to Save it America is Still to Feed Hungry World. A hundred and eighty million people In hungry lands are looking to America for food which no other people except the American people can give them. In their misery and famnie, Belgium. Northern France, Central Russia, Serbia. Montenegro, Poland, Kumania and Armenia are already crying aloud to America. From America food must go. What Is sent must be saved. Perhaps that is Vnjerica's mission. Poace or 110 peace, war or no war, the American people must keep on saving food. This is the message of the United States Food Administration, whoso leaders realize that the outcome of j the present situation will only In- i crease the responsibilities of the United States, no matter how events in ( Europe turn. Millions orf people in territory that has been occupied by the enemy ara 1 In misery. Famine stalks abroad. They must be fed. Under any circumstances, tbe American nation Is bound by the food nledce of Ane-iMt 1<11R Allies were told: "Make your plana for Victory." To this victory. America's contribution. anions other things, will he seventeen and one-half million tone of food. America is hound. The pledge 1 is not broken by the signing of the ' armistice. The char ? that has come in the situation has rather increased tho burden on American resources bocause the burden of feeding millions of hungry peoples who could not ha reached before now becomes the common hurden of the Allies: and that obligation can be lessened only by living up to it There Is hut one wav in which ser' teen and one-half million tons of food can he got to send to Rurope to save the lives of hundreds of thousI nnds who will die from hunger in a famine land nnless they get it. That wav is to save it. It means intensive saving of all food Just as wheat was saved In fhs wheat emergency. Just as sugar was saved In the sugar emergency There can he no greater folly Indulged hr 1 the American people than the Idea that because the fighting has ceased In Furore there t* no km^er any need America is pledged. The nation's pledge must he redeemed. war or no war. peace or no pocae. Suffering humanity and national honor demand it. NO MORE SUBSTITUTES REQUIRED WITH FLOUR Columbia.?The Food Administration rule, requiring the purchase of one pound of wheat substitutes with every four pounds of wheat flour, haa been rescinded. Wheat flour may now he used without substitute* This announcement was made hy the Food Administration, and the order is effective immediately 1'ntil a short time ago purchases of wheat ftour could he made only on the basis of pound for pound of substitutes and wheat flour. This waa known as the "flfty-flfty" rule. It waa auperoeded by the 'eighty-twenty" rule, requiring that one pound of wheat substitutes be bought with every four pounds of wheat flour. s ur: eiRin^-wwem*" rme is now ronHnded, and wheat flour may be purchased without any substitutes whatever. MERCHANTS ARE ASKED TO PICTURE WORLD'S HUNGER Columbia -Thanksgiving week thin m year in set anide for food conserva- fc tion, not for feasting The Food Administration in asking tho stores on every business ^treot in every city _ , and town in the Pnited StAtes to pic- I tore in their display windows, the ? prodigious task of feeding the A11 iod world through the coming year, if that should be necessary Posters and window cards of special design have been issued by tho Food Administration at Washington These are available to every retailer through the State Pood Administrations it in planned to make the picture of the 5?] necessity so real that nobody can escape it. and to this end the cooperation erf patriotic merchants through ...r. iioiiuii m hi?hi uunnp I naBKsgiving week It will he a message of j sacrifice and service. Merchants in South Carolina who desire to aid in this direction should immediately com- my municate with E H Moreom, State Merchants Representative of the no' Food Administration. Columbia. S C? ye{ and the material for der>ratinc their windows will be sent free on re- fix 'u""f did HULLS APE CHEAPER: 14 MEAL PRICE INCREASED pet Columbia On account of the arm- ^ t?fire and the cnnonquent cessation of demand for hull fibre hv munition* wa manufacturers, the nrlee of hul's has jro heen reduced hy the Fr?od Adminiatration to >11 f. o b mills or $ 1S deTlvered. and In order to equalise fhte 'til reduction in price of butts the pries of ^ meal Is Increased to The pries of seed will remain unchanced ? page three * "THAVE used Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and find it a most effective and pleasant laxative?one that is worth recommending to one's friends. I know that my health has been greatly improved since using it." /"Kroni a letter to Dr. Caldwell written bv\ * I Miss Alice Lombard, 22 Hoylston St., I V Springfield, Mass. J Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists l.vcrvwhere 50 cts. (sS) $1.00 A. mild, pleasant-tasting combination of simple laxative aerbs with pepsin. Brings relief without griping or ather discomfort. A trial bottle can be obtained free of :harge by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Wasbing:on Street, Monticello, Illinois. The Government wants tin So hereafter all three brands of WfctkSLEY'S will be wrapped in pink paper and hermetically RPnlerl *r? wnv vm JLJLJL V Look for WRSGLEYS in the pink-end package and take your choice of the same three popular flavors. Be sure to rO0$0f}^m get t jglJ WREGLEYS for quality '? and because ine 1g^B?3?s=?Flavor Lasts! Ip IVER DIDN'T ACT DIGESTION WAS BAD ft 65 year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Wat Relieved After a Few Doses of Black-Draught* deadorsvllle, Ky.?Mrs. Cynthia doses of Black-Draught" gglnl>otham, of this town, Rays: "At Seventy years of successful nse has age. whk-h is 65, the liver 4?? ma<,<> Thcll""-|i's Black-Draught a standard, household remedy. Every t act so well as when young. A few member, of every family, at times, irs ago. my stomach was all out of nee(1 tho hp]p thnf Blaok-Draught can I was constipated, my liver give In cleansing the system and reIn't act. My digestion was bad, and llovlng the troubles that come from took so little to upset me. My ap- constipation, Indigestion, lazy liver, Ite was gone. I was very weak... etc. You cannot keep well unless your decided I would give Black- stomach, liver and bowels are In good aught a thorough trial as I knew It working order. Keep them that way. s highly recompiended for this Try Black-Draught. It acts promptly, uble. I began tak.ng It I felt gently and in a natural way. If you ter after a few doses. My appetite feel sluggish, take a dose tonight, proved and I became stronger. My You will feel fresh tomorrow. Prlow vols acted naturally and the least 25c. a package?One cent a dose uble was soon righted with a few All druggists. J. 6ft 0