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MUST CUT DOWN WHEAT. FURTHER REDUCTIONS ASKED THAT SUPPLY MAY LAST. Step Absolutely Necessary to Ward Off Famine From the Allies, Says Food Administration. Washington, March 23.?Further reduction in the consumption of i wheat was asked of the public tonight! by the food administration that the! scant supplies available before the next harvest may be stretched to meet the needs of the army, consumers and the Allies. Every American is urged to cut his average ration of wheat by 50 per cent, which would reduce the total normal consumption of 42,000,000 bushels a month to 21,000,000. That gives a ration of not more than 1 % pounds of wheat products weekly for each person. Flour sales will be cut to oneeighth of a barrel for a town consumer and to one quarter of a barrel for a country consumer, that retailers' stocks may be distributed to as great a number as possible. The wheat content of bakers' bread will be reduced to 75 per cent on April 14, which increases by 5 per cent, the amount of substitutes that must be used. Xo' Hardship. Sacrifice in the wheat ration will entail no hardship in the opinion of food administration officials, because the supply of potatoes, corn, oats and milk is ample to maintain health. The full seriousness of the wheat situation, and some of the difficulties with which the food administration has had to contend in warding off famine from the Allies became known with the announcement of the new plans. Cut to The Limit. , With food rations in France and England cut to the utmost, there has been constant danger that the United \ States could not meet even minimum demands because of the transport handicaps. The breakdown in the railroads upset the corn exportation schedule so that on March 1 there had been sent abroad only 14,000,000 bushels, against the 64,000,000 bushels of last year, and the 100,0,00,000 bushels which it was h,oped to send. Accordingly the foreign ^ . populations have been dependent on T Laugh at H. C. L. ,T ? ? XT^vlIJ^. Mnvia TiKhnffc O rPQl iVirbi iXClliC iuai xu x u. ?vw* ^Went of Kennebunk, Me., for the last Quarter of a century, who says she is ninety, told a Boston Post reporter yf< tha^ she had the "so-called high cost of flVing question" solved for the past dozen years, while State commissions and "lazy women clubs have been sweating and running around like red ants on a pantry shelf in the spring time trying to find out what HI the trouble is." Mrs. Tibbetts owns the only hotel in the town. !* A ' ."Say," she said, "I'd just like to have you go down cellar with me and lake a look around?will you?" Mrs. Tibbetts' marvelous cellar might have been the headquarters of the commissary department of a.n army. Foodstuffs were piled high everywhere, barrels, boxes, cases, cannv> ed stuff. "Why did you buy so much?" asked the reporter. "Got the right price," she answer . ed as she took the cover from off a| big washboiler. "See, matches away from the rats," she said The boiler was crammed with the old eight-day cards of matches?thousands of them. There were more in old crocks and pans. "Bought a couple of cords of these ten years ago and I'm using them yet," she explained. "Got them right." She went on to explain how she had purchased thirty barrels of flour, forty-five tons of coal, $200 worth \ v of canned goods, forty-eight jars,of v mustard, fifty pounds of rice, three gallons of vanilla extract, fifty pounds of cream of tartar, fifty pounds of soda," nine barrels of sugar, fourteen half barrels of lard. "Put something in the bank every week and don't get hypnotized with visions of interest," she advised. "After you get a little in the bank study the market. In a year food goes up and down. It always does this. Take your money out when some food is at a low price and buy generously of > it. Then you'll have it and you don't care a hang if it goes up to to 109 in the shade. It has got to come down again, but with a lot on hand you will j be able to get through the high i prices." < hi ? A minister came to the Episcopal church at Williamsport, Pa., to speak. "Do you wish to wear a surplice?" asked the rector. "Surplice!" cried the visitor. "Surplic'te! I am a Presbyterian. What do I know about surplices? All I know about is a deficit!"?New York Evening Post. ?' / CAROLINIAN YIMY RIDGE HERO. Wounded Three Times, One of Four Survivors of His Company. Aiken, March 16.?Private Henry C. McMichael, of the Fifteenth Canadian regiment, wounded at the battle of Vimv Ridge and invalided home with an honorable discharge, has returned to Graniteville, Aiken county, where he has lived since boyhood until six years ago when he entered the service of the United States army. Serving for three years with the United States army, during a part * * - -i-ii J of wnicn ne was siatiuueu un luc Mexican border?while Huerta held sway over the destinies of the land of the Montezumas after overthrowinp Madero?McMichael was discharged and in 1915 went to Canadian .overseas forces. He was two year's and three months in Europe, seven months of which he spent in England while his regiment was undergoing intensive training to fit the men for the strenuous work of hand to hand fighting with the Bodies. Private McMichael has a wonderful story to tell. He has been through the fire and though he came out badly scorched he has the distinction of being one of the four left alive out of his original company. Except for four ?himself and three other comrades ?all the brave Canadians of his company who crossed overseas with him and went into action so fearlessly in Flanders and Belgium lie beneath the lilies of France. Private McMichael was wounded three times in action. Twice at the battle of Ypres he sustained wounds, -which being slight, sent him to the hospital for only short stays, at the end of which he went back to the trenches. For 18 months he was in the front line, in the thick of the most fearful fighting that the world has ever known, in France and in Belgium. Then, at the battle of Vimy Ridge, he was shot down, and if the bullet that tore through his face did not incapacitate him for further fighting, the wound in his leg from which he will never fully recover brought him his honorable discharge. Back home among his own people, Private McMichael has little patience with those who grumble because of the hardships the war has brought to them, for, as he says, he has seen at first hand what the people of England, France and Belgium are forced to endure and it is nis opinion rnai the people of this country?especially of this part of the country?are today the most fortunate people in the world. He speaks Nin terms of the highest praise of the heroic endurance of the French people and of the undying valor of the French soldiery, which, he says, must be shared with the British Tommies and the daredevil Canadian troops, all first class fighting men. Private McMichael is to be married on Easter SHinday to the sweetheart of his youth, Miss Burnett, of Graniteville, who has been waiting for him through the years that he has been campaigning along the Rio Grapde under the Stars and Stripes and while he has been earning the king's shilling in France and Belgium. Bringing Up Father. "Father," asked Tommy the other J ? .. in it flio hnv ,'c caiH U<1) , W liJ 10 it tuat wn^ wvj ak>uiu to be the father of the man?" Mr. Tompkins had never given this subject any thought, and was hardly prepared to answer offhand. "Why?why," he said stumblingly, "it's so because it is, I suppose." "Well, pop, since I'm your father, I'm going to give you a ticket to the circus and half a crown besides. I always said that if I was a father I wouldn't be so stingy as the rest of them are. Go in, pop, and have a good time while you're young. I never had any chance myself!" Mr. Tompkins gazed in blank astonishment at Tommy. Slowly the significance of the hint dawned upon him. Producing a half sovereign, he said: "Take it, Thomas. When you really do become a father I hope it won't be your misfortune to have a son who is smarter than yourself."?Tit-Bits. i>> ? Lacked the Address. Pat had been intrusted to tane a fine live hare, carefully packed in a basket, to the station. His curiosity, however, was aroused and on his arrival at the station ! he determined to have a look at the animal. Accordingly he gently raised the lid of the basket and peeped inside. Just at that moment the hare made a sudden spring out of the basket and in a moment was running fill! speed along the platform. Not a bit discouraged, Pat gazec after his late charge, and. nodding his head sagely, lie exclaimed, "Oh ye little spaleen; yez can run like blazes if ye loike, but it doesn't mat ter; yez don't have the address."? Tit-Bits. Vast Amount of Food to Allies. Statistics compiled by the Food Administration show that the grand total of all food exported to the four allies?the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Russia?from July 1, 1914, to January 1, 1918, would furnish complete yearly rations for 57,100,933 adult persons, with a surplus of protein capable of supplying this portion of the diet for 22,1 94,547 additional men. Since the beginning of the war the United States has averaged to supply the allies with food enough each year tc support 16,314,552 persons, and with an excess of both protein and fats sufficient for several millions more. < The total exports of wheat and wheat flour to the three principal allies, Russia getting but a very small per cent of the whole, were equivalent to about 384,000,000 bushels, or an .average of about 110,000,000 buAels a year. Of this total amount the United Kingdom got 145,348,000 bushels of wheat and 8,512,000 barrels of wheat flour; France got 79,798,000 bushels of wheat and 5,462,000 barrel^of wheat flour; Italy 87,136,000 bushels of wheat and 1,895,000 barrels of wheat flour. Russia received only 130,000 bushels of wheat and 25,000 barrels of wheat flour. The total exports of pork products we're nearly 2,000,000,000 pounds, a yea rib" average of about 570,000,000 pounds. The total sugar exports were over 2,269,000,000 pounds, a yearly average of about 648,000,000. Of corn there were exported 23,332,000 bushels; oats, 207,981,000; rye, 3,407,000. The Ideal. * The energetic automobile salesman had just delivered the fair customer her new car and everything was lovely. He had scarcely entered the office, however, when he received a telephone call. She said: "I thought you told me this car was a self-starter?" "So it is" "Nothing of the sort; I have to push a button to make it go."?Exchange. THE HEN THAT LAYS is the hen that pays. If she does not lay, kill he,r, but before you kill her give her B. A. Thomas' Poultry RemeHc n rlnv fnr a week, and then you will not kill her for she will be paying you a profit. It not only makes hens lay but it is a remedy foi Cholera, Roup, and Gapes. We guar* antee it to cure or we refund youi money. C. R. BRABHAM'S SONS, Bamberg, S.. C. 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