WHY LEAGUE COMMITTEE j
BUYS KNITTING MACHINES
♦ MY ROWS AWRY. ♦
♦ (With Apologies to the Author of ♦
♦ a Famous Song.) ♦
♦ The hours I spent in sweater art, ♦
♦ Are as a string of purls—I sigh ♦
♦ To count them over every one ♦
♦ apart, ♦
♦ My rows awry—my rows awry. ♦
♦ ♦
♦ Each hour I purl—each purl take ♦
♦ care, ♦
♦ To drop no stich lest 1 be stung, ♦
♦ 1 count, yea count unto the end,
♦ And there a sleeve is hung. ♦
♦ ♦
♦ O, memories that bless and burn, ♦
♦ Of raveling out at bitter loss, ♦
♦ 1 drop a purl, yet strive at last to ♦
♦ learn ♦
♦ To knit across, sweet art, to knit ♦
♦ across. ♦
♦ -—Red Cross Clippings ♦
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—To keep)
pace with the demand for woolenl
socks for sailors and soldiers, the
comforts committee of the Navy
league has placed an initial order for
ten sock knitting machines, which will
be installed in the Washington head
quarters. These machines will turn
out in an hour a pair of knitting socks
which require the most expert worker!
two days to make by hand. Ordinar-;
ily from four to seven days are spent
in making one pair of socks. The
comforts committee has found it im
possible to supply all of the requests
for socks and has decided, therefore,
to suppliment with machines the work
of the thousands of women now en
gaged in knitting socks. If the ma
chines prove successful they will be
installed in comforts committee of
fices as quickly as they can be bought.
At the present time women come
to the Navy league shops, buy wool,
and take it home with them to make
the garments. Henceforth, when they
come to the Washington shop, they
will be told that if they desire, their
wool will be put on the machines for
them and their socks for the fighting
men will be provided just that much
quicker. Machine knitted garments,
it is true, are not quite as good asi
those made by hand. It is said thatj
the hand knitted ones will last three
times as long as those made by ma
chines, but at the present moment,
with thousands of men in need ot
socks, it is obviously not expedient to
try too much for quality. Quantity
production is the thing most neces
sary. Moreover, the machine made^
socks are in standard sizes and are
.generally quite satisfactory to the
men.
Workers are now being trained for
the comforts committee to operate the
knitting machines. For the present
the work will only be done in Wash
ington, but any women not living in
Washington can send either wool or
money in payment for wool to the
Washington office of the comforts
committee, 1416 H street, and socks
will be knitted on the machines for
their order.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
GIVES SOME COON FACTS
Let us face the facts. The war situ
ation is critical. Unless the allies
fight as they never yet have fought,
defeat threatens. Hungry men can not
fight at their best; nor hungry na
tions. France, England and Italy are
going hungry unless we feed them.
They must have wheat. It is the
best food to fight on. It is the easiest
to ship We alone can spare it to
them. By saving just a little—less
than a quarter of what we ate last
year—we can support those who are
fighting our battles. And we can do
it without stinting ourselves. We have
only to substitute another food just as
good.
The Corn of Plenty
Corn is that food. There is a sur
plus of it. Providence has been gen
erous in the hour of our need. It has
given us corn in such bounty as was
never known before—tons of corn,
trainloads of corn, five hundred million
bushels over and above our regular
needs. All we have to do is to learn
to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic
duty made so easy? And so clear?
Corn! It is the true American food.
The Indians, hardiest of races, lived
on it. Our forefathers adopted the
diet and conquered a continent. For a
great section of our country it has
long been the staff of life. How well
the South fought on it history tells.
Now it can help America win a world
war.
WHY WE FIGHT AGAINST PRUSSIAN AUTOCRACY
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Study this remarkable picture and you cannot fail to understand why we a \ '
lighting the Prussian autocracy. You will see how truly the criminal spirit that m
moves men in the German army and navy to commit outrages against humanity ' "
s embodied in the German kaiser. Here the artist has shown the autocrat and his tf
warriors as they really are. In their effort to put the hobnailed heel of Prussian N
ism on the necks of free nations the Germans plunder the homes of innocent non- 1
combatants, use the white flag to lure their enemies out Into the open to be shot ?
murder women and children, cut off the hands of babies, and introduce into war r
fare poison gas.
Learn Something About Corn
Corn isn’t one food. It's a dozen.
It’s a cereal. It’s a vegetable. It’s a
bread. It’s dessert. It’s nutritious;
more food value in it, dollar for dol
lar, than meat or eggs or most other
vegetables. It’s good to eat; how good
you don’t know until you’ve had corn
bread properly cooked. Best of all,
it’s plentiful and it’s patriotic.
How much do you know about corn?
About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And
what you miss by not knowing more
about it? Here are a few of its uses:
Corn Dodger.—Two cups corn meal,
one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons fat,
one and three-fourths cups boiling
water. Pour the boiling w'ater over
the other materials. Beat well. When
cool, form into thin cakes and bake
thirty minutes in a hot oven. Make!
fourteen biscuits. These crisp little1
biscuits are good with butter or gravy.'
Eat them wdth your meat and vege
tables.
Corn Meal and Meat.—Corn meal Is
good combined with meat. Such a dish
is a meal in itself. Try this one: Two !
nups corn meal, six cups water, one i
tablespoon fat, one onion, two cups to
matoes, one pound Hamburger steak.
Make a mush by stirring the corn meal
and one and one-fourth teaspoons of
salt into boiling water. Cook forty-j
five minutes. Brown onion in fat, add
Hamburger steak and stir until red
disappears. Add salt, pepper and to
mato. A sweet pepper is an addi-|
tion. Grease baking dish, put in layer i
of corn meal mush, add seasoned
meat, and cover with mush. Bake one
half hour. Serves six.
There are at least fifty ways to use
corn meal to make good dishes for
dinner, supper, lunch or breakfast.
Here are some suggestions:
Hot Breads—Boston brown bread,
hoecake, muffins, biscuits, griddle
cakes, waffles.
Desserts—Corn meal molasses cake,
Apple corn bread, dumplings, ginger
bread, fruit gems.
Hearty Dishes—Corn meal cro
quettes, corn meal fish balls, meat and
Born meal dumplings, Italian polenta,
tamales.
The recipes are in Farmers’ Bul
letin 565, “Corn Meal as a Food and
Ways of Using It,” free from the de
partment of agriculture.
Eat less wheat. Get into the corn
line.
-_A._
NEW EIGHT-HOUR LAW
TO BE TESTED ON APPEAL
In the commissioner’s court at Fair
banks the case of the United States vs.
George A. Coleman and the Northern
Commercial company came up for
trial. The defendants were charged
with violation of the eight-hour law,
passed by the last legislature.
Upon motion of the district attor
ney, the case against Mr. Coleman was
iismissed and the other matter went
to trial. The prosecution put in some
testimony and the company offered
no defense. The company thereupon
was found guilty of violating the
Bight-hour law and Commissioner Hei
lig fined it $250.
The case will now be appealed to
the district court and then, probably,
to the circuit court of appeals, or su
preme court, for a final decision.
TO CONSERVE MIN POWER i
IN LUMBER INDUSTRY
(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO. Calif., Feb. 5.—
Recommendation that some provision
be made to give the men engaged in
the lumber industry in California in
struction in first aid treatment with
a view of preventing the large loss of
time caused by injuries to men has
been made to the state board of con
trol by G. M. Homans, state forester
He said conservation of man-power of
the lumber industry in the state is es
sential for the production of 400,000,
000 feet of box shooks required by the
government this year. These are
boards used in the manufacture of
poxes. • 1
He urged the purchase by the state
from the federal government of 4,000
copies of the United States forest
service first aid manuals for field
parties and that some provisions be
de to meet the cost of keeping two
representatives of the state board of
health in the field during the lumber
ing season to conduct first aid courses
it the various camps. No funds are
ivailable at present to the state board
i>f health for this work, Homans said.
The state board of control has the
matter under advisement.
In making his recommendation Ho
mans presented statistics showing
that 3952 men were disabled in the
lumber camps of the state in 1916.
Fifty-seven of these suffered fatal in
juries, and 124 were injured perman
ently, while 3771 were disabled tem
porarily.
“The forestry office found many
mills where lumber workers were los
ing time unnecessarily because of a
lack of instruction in first aid andj
failure of those directing labor to im
part the necessary instruction because!
pf a lack of knowledge,” Homans said.!
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LADY WIMBOURNE
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As the wife of the lord lieutenant j,
of Ireland, Lady Wimbourne is, of
course, the moving spirit of official a
hospitalities, and is deeply Interested
In the welfare of the country. She is
the youngest daughter of Lord Ebury
and before her marriage to Lord Wim
bourne, In 1902, was known as Hon.
Alice Katherine Sibell Grosvenor.
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Special to Mothers
WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE to the MOTHERS of
Cordova and vicinity that we are adding
to our store an
Infants’ and Children’s Department
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And will give this department the same careful atten
tion and will carry only the most high class merchandise
that the market affords. Any suggestions from the
Mothers pertaining to this department, wouid be greatly
appreciated.
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“DO YOUR BEST’■ I
For the |
And Help
WIN THE WAR
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LICK YOUR PLATE
AND LICK THE KAISER” j
EL PASO. Tex., Feb 5.—The local j
>od conservation board claims the 5
redit of having originated a slogan j
)r the war which promises to be- ]
ome national in its use. It is: “Lick S
our plate and lick the kaiser.” The j
logan was suggested by a local news- $
aper man and was later modified for j
se in war stamp campaign. It is now 3
eing use for the thrift stamp cam- jj
aign as: “Lick a stamp and lick the 3
aiser,” and has been telegraphed to 3
tate and national headquarters.
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Don’t miss seeing our shoe line. We 3
ave a full line of them, as smart as 3
ny made, Clayson, The Clothier.
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It is an absolute sin to waste food,
ood has become sacred.
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