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l-jjiin • i; i i ngine v\ i111 I Ik work <i
th* \i:i• • t m an lb *1 Cm- . writes Mr
Itehi - nt Till.my "I New York, to Itei
(To oft'ieia Is in \rnerica. “I onl
wish .Ymeriea « ould realize tin* «*>
tent of work as \\ ♦ • 11 as Fraurr doe>.
she added Mrs. Tiffany has been en
gaged in organizing rest stations fo
American troops at railway station
in I’rance
“Never have ! been happier, neve
have 1 liked work more nor felt tha
1 was so useful,’' she wrote in a rc
cent letter. “Kver since I came abroac
I have had before my eyes a visioi
of lathers, mothers and sisters of tin
soldiers in audiences in many state
from Maim* to Texas. They will hea
and know about out* great, beautiful
hospital? with th** host surgeons, doc
tors and nurses, working under th
i»*s' pos 11 * I ♦ conditions with the bes
pos il.l- material.
“All these things are expected o
th* lli'd t ro.-s and taken for grunted
but I wish them to know too, tha
when their boys are well they hav*
i r**luge and a home as they pas:
alone I want them to think of then
as writing ami ringing in the gay
blight room, while waiting for theii
train and eating their good, warn
meals or being sent off with sand
wielo* by American girls.
“When an American mule train came
in at one station, tin* men said that
they wanted nothing, which seemed
very unusual Krom one of the offi
eers we learned that then* had been
no pay day lately When the men
were told it was ‘on the Red Cross
e\i ry pitcher and basket was emp
tied over and over again So fresh
milk. menu, milk and bread and but
ter or jam sandwiches should be
serv'd Ire** to tin* traveling men.
\H»t that the mule trains and the
troops went out cheering lustily and
in • very much gayer mood
- “The first night we opened at l> -
w* had ilsu men at 1 a. m. They ate
us out ol house and home though it
.sc ini'll n strange hour to eat. they
tarried off every magazine and paper
we had: they drank coffee and cocoa
and milk: they ate bread, butter and
jam and cakes and chocolate; their of
ficers were fed. too, and finally the
major eanie and shook my hand over
and leer again and said they were
all happier and less homesick than at
tiny lime since they had left Amer
ica anil when the train pulled out the
whole unit went out tit sec them off.
They nearly fell out ol their carriages
it n.ikc hands once more and they
went off cheering the Red Cross, the
President and the lr. S A. Bless
them! Such babies and such dears.
No :; we had a lot of marines
In. .Hir house wanning, they were
tin i , :ipo ol them, for two hours.
All • i supper they insisted on helping
us wash up and clean, and of course
we tell as if they were old friends
and nearly wept when they left. Be
sides all this Unveiling, shifting
i ’ i tele there are also the regular
i-u. minerall the military police.
C -it-.n:i 1 corps men, engineers and
traffic regulators.
•Mow one loves them all and how
good and kind they are to us! The
moment they find that I have a boy
ot my own here they talk their old
heads off to me and it is my bet that
in halt an hour or less they will al
be sure to show me their best girl s
picture 'back home' anil their mothers
ton. Mothers, I may say, become very
valuable people out here
' Major Batten asked me to go home
for a few weeks just to tell the peo
pie of what is being done Here,
could not go because the state depart
ment says 'mother' may not conn
over any more, but if 1 had gone then
was just one thing the 1 would havi
said:
•'The work is bigger and better am
finer than even I with all my dreami
ever dreamed of. I never knew then
were so many altruistic, selfless inei
and women in the world. Not a penn:
is being wasted, from the fact tha
even the majors themselves have m
motors and use no gas for them i
they have them, down to the met
sage placarded everywhere, 'Do no
waste u bingle scrap of paper, It i
too valuable In France,’ the whole po
icy is the strictest economy with out
selves and the greatest generosity t
our armies and dependants
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Madam Volva will give sclentif
from 7 p. in. until 10 p. in, ov<
card readings for a short time onl
Hogg's storo.
w \ S: HMS'I i )N. .!wl> ! s Willi *'
f popula t inn (.1 tin* world in«*f
lashr limn tin* growth in the in
! supply. government « \ >erts force
,- serious problem to be solved in ll
- not tar-distant future.
'The situation in the Culled Stal
lias reached an Interesting stafj
• Within the last ten years, the pop
• lation bus increased about is per re:
while the herds of the nation w lib
• brought the meal industry to its pr«
t out high development have deelim
- 2<» per cent. In Kurope the com
I lion is even more serious because <
i depletion due to the war. Austral
• and New Zealand continue to prodm
i great quantities of meat, but the dl
r tance to the congested centers of pn
illation adds much to the expense
marketing. South America’s vast fieb
• and splendid herbage, therefore, a
being loked to as the source o| u
l ply now a swell as after the war
Argentina is today the most iuijm
taut heel producing country in ll
world, according to a review of me;
• parking in South America by the Lati
American division of the bureau
foreign and domestic comnirn e. Cr
, guav also is becoming a center of tl
industry, and Hrazil. Colombia, af
Venezuela to a less extent (hit <
a total of f♦ 17.f*4*.♦ tons of heel, mu
loll and lamb produced in 19 Id. A
gentina produced 4*b»,347 onts. Ne
Zealand and Australia litJL’.17*» ton
the Cnited States gn.r.L'L* tons, Cr
guny 4;’..897 tons. Hrazil .*17.771 ton
Canada 21.7LT5 tons and other countrh
the remainder
Development of cattle breeding i
South America lias been a direct r
1 suit of the discovery of ret'rigeratioi
Cntil the practice tif freezing me;
i merer in meal was negligible. belli
confined to the shipment of low grad
smoked nr salted beef, for which thci
I was little sale. When American an
British capital established plants i
Argentina and Uruguay, and later i
other countries for freezing and chit
ing meat so that it could bit shlppe
fresh across the oc.eira, rnmmimlin.
high prices and being in great d
mand. native ranchmen began to in
prove their stock by the introduetio:
of thoroughbreds.
As a result, millionaire ranchmen i
Argentina and Uruguay are aJinos
as plentiful as millionaire oil me
in Oklahoma Frozen incut is liein
! used extensively by the allied armie
land tin-' flow of gold in the world’
commerce lias been showing an ii
Creasing trend Inward South Amertc;
Meat packing in Argentina has line
so successful because il was spare
the hardships which a new industr
usually encounters. Profiting by th
American experience, the plants wer
established along modern lines wit hot)
'costly experiment. A market alroad
had been created in Kurope by ih
-hiument ol irozeu meal from th
1 i
United States. Argentina is now seel
mg to increase her herds to keep par
l with the capacities ol Ihe puck in
| houses, w hile Hrti7.il o endeavoring I
augment the number of packing house
t.. handle the plentiful supply of stocl
| The Brazilian government is givin
every encouragement to breeders l
| improve the strain ot their cattle
Colombia has offered a subsidy i
'ten thousand pounds to Ihe tirst pad
I iog house established ill that cou:
try. Colombia has approximately 1
i nnu.unii head of cattle, which can I
I exported now only on the hoof Ante
I lean. British and Swedish farmers at
! reported to he investigating the su
j sidy offer.
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