The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 28, 1918, Page 6, Image 6
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.
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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.
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."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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Take Grove's.
The Old Standard GroVe's Tasteless
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' High SscD Prices Atotjss
Interest in Home Made Soap ;
Women all over the country arc !
saving money by making their ov;n '
soap. Try this:
First, set a large can or jar in your g
kitchen; throw into it all meat shin, \
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chen scrap that has any grease in |
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When the can or jar is full, render [
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With Grease and Red Devil Lye
You will find home soap-making
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