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The oom of plenty—corn is that
food. There's a surplus of it. Provi
dence tts been generous in the hour
of our need. It has given us com in
such bounty as was never known be
fore. Tons of corn. Trainloads of
com. Five hundred millions bushels
and above our regular needs. .All we
have ter do is to leam to appreciate it.
Was ever patriotic duty made so easy?
And so clear?
America's own food-corn! It is the
true American food. The Indians,
hardiest of races, lived on It. Our fore
fathers adopted the diet and conquer
ed 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.
Leam something—corn! It isn’t
one food. It’s a dozen. It’s a cereal.
It's a vegetable. It’s bread. It's a
dessert. It’s nutritious, more food
value in it, dollar for dollar, 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, its plentiful and
it's patriotic.
The big com crop is now moving.
More than 3,000 million bushels rais
ed in 1917—gives big surplus. Sdves
world food situation. This mighty crop
raised in 1917—more than thirty bush
els for every man, woman and child
in America—is now rapidly moving to
the market. The actual increase is
about 500*miWon bushels. Thfb extra
store of grain is coming on the mar
ket in the nick of time, since the Amer
ican wheat surplus has been sent to
help famine threatened Europe. ^
Just as it happened in the Colonial
days, the war of the Revolution and
the Civil war, corn has acutally be
come -the nation’s mainstay.
in me satire trot ui Aiuenuit s ioou
commodities there is no item that is
better than corn. In puddings, bread,
corn pone, and as hominy combined
with meat or eggs, corn is without a
peer. Housewives are fast learning
the large number of delicious dishes
that may be made with corn and their
families are benefitting by an in
creased use of the cereal. Corn, more
than any other cereal, contains all of
the elements essential to maintaining
life and health.
In order that the fighting men
abroad and in the army camps at home
may be fed, and in order that actual
famine may be kept from the nations
associated with America in the war,
the citizens of America are finding
corn products delicious and palatable
on “wheatless days” and glory in the
fact that “wheatless days” here mean
more wheat for the war worn allied
nations of Europe.
England, Prance and Italy must be
fed from America’s great storehouse.
They will get some corn—especially
Italy—but most of their grain ship
ments must be wheat. Their ability
to use corn is small compared to the
facilities they have for using wheat.
And it is the opinion of officials in
Washington that the present is no
time to try and change the eating
habits .of Europe.
America’s greatest use of corn will
be in Che form of corn bread and' corn
meal, mixed with wheat in the making
of leavened bread. Mixed with 80 per
cent w'heait flour, corn meal can be
used in bread making, producing*a
loaf more nutritious than bread baked
with wheat alone. It is a fact corn
millers wifi verify that dozens of the
large American bakers have been suc
cessfully using a corn flour in bread
making for several years.
nvursuy ns. oorvcu. a.1 ureaKiasi
with a poached egg, or eaten at any
other meal with meats or gravy, is
another sise of corn that will become
unusually popular during the war.
Com syrup to sweeten com caHes,
and com oil for use in all kinds of
cooking, are two more products that
are already welcomed in thousands of
American homes.
Fact* Concerning the Price of Corn
The reason corn has maintained the
price it does—as much as wheat—is
b/eeause 82 per cent of the crop is fed
on the farm and only 18 per cent is
put on sale. Just stop and think what
would happen to the price of corn if
most of the farmers tried to sell their
corn crops as corn, instead of feeding
it. Instead of 18 per cent, or less than
one-fifth of the entire crop going on
the market, we would have three or
!'out times the amount that the trade
normally takes flooding the market
and corn would go to the price that
prevailed in the 90’s. The price of
corn depends^ on the fact that four
fifths of the crop is fed and never
reaches the market to break it.
The price of corn meal will mater
ially drop with marketing of the new
crop. However, the food administra
tion feels that the situation is not a
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question of price, But of getting edibles
to the peoples of the world that they
can prepare and eat. It feelfc that
wherever the individual American
pocketbook makes it possible, there
should be no question of tHe small
cash sacrifice, especially ih view of
the greater sacrifices tHat the Euro
pean peoples associated with’ us Ih
the war have been makihg for three
years.
Why We Cannot Send Corn Jo Europe
We cannot send our corn crop to
Europe and keep the wheat for a num
ber of reasons. The shipping space
required by corn is much greater than
that taken ‘by wheat, and' we haven’t
that space to spare. The heavy per
centage of fat in cornmeal makes' it
spoil much more rapidly than wheat,
both In the raw meal and ih the baked
product. Europeans know little about
cornmeal products. They have few or
no facilities for grinding it. Habit is
strong upon the peoples of the old
world. They do not take readily to
innovations, in commeat or anything
else. Moreover, they are using corn
to sffrae extent, and doing their best to
use more as It becomes available.
Value of Our 1917 Corn Crop
Our corn crop for 1917 represents a
cash value of $5,424,700,000. We raised
about 3,191,000,000 bushels. Each
bushel, at prevailing market prices,
has an average value of about $1.70.
It is hard to grasp its actual money
value—but it is worth every cent of
it, because it can help us defeat the
kaiser. If we eat more corn, we can
give the allies and our soldiers more
wheat. The more they get the better
they can fight. Victory is always dear
ly bought, but if that corn crop can
help us gain it, it will be five billion
dollars well invested.
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serve Wheat
The United States present supply
of wheat is no more than enough for
our normal needs. Europe's present
supply is far below its normal needs.
There is no such thing as white bread
in all Europe. In Finland, for instance,
three and one-half million people have
been reduced to five and one-half
! ounces of bread a day. Aud such bread.
There is a very small percentage of
wheat flour, some other grains and
a sprinkling of ground birch bark.
This is extreme, of course. But Eur
ope generally is living on black bread.
And not very nutritious black, either.
That is why America sent wheat.
Why We Must Use More Corn
We can conserve wheat only by eat
ing substitutes. Corn meal products
are the most nutritious, plentiful and
logical substitutes we can eat. We
have been in the habit of eating about
bushel a year apiece from a nor
mal average corn crop of two billion
t:x hundred million bushels. That is
about a pound of/corn meal a week per
person. Every pound of corn meal we
substitute for a pound of wheat flour
actually helps that much to win the
war. That is practical patriotism
Corn's Infinite Variety 1
How nyach do you Know about corn?
About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And
what you miss by not knowifig more
about it? Herd are a few .of its uses:
Corn Dodger.—Two cups corn meal,
one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons fat,
one and three-fourth cups boiling
water. Pour the boiling water over
the other materials. Beat well. When
cool, form into thin cakes* and bake
thirty minutes in a hot oven. Makes
■fourteen biscuits. These crisp little
biscuits are good with gutter and
gravy. Eat them with your meat and
vegetables.
corn Meal and Meat.—Two eupa
corn meal, six cups water, one table
spoon fat, one onion, two cups toma
toes, one pound hamburger steak.
Make a mush by stirring the corn
meal and one and one-fourth tea
spoons salt into boiling water. Cook
forty-five minutes. Brown onion in
fat, add hamburger steak and stir un
til red disappears. ^ Add salt, pepper
and tomato. A \sweet pepper is an
addition. Grease baking dish, put in
layer of corn meal mush, add seasoned
meat and cover with a dish. Bake one
half hour. Serves six.
There are at least fifty ways to use
corn meal to tnake good dishes for din
ner, supper, lunch or breakfast, for
instance: Boston brown bread, hoe
cake, muffins, biscuits, griddle cakes,
waffles, corn meal molasses cake, ap
ple corn bread, dumplings, ginger
bread, fruit gems, corn meal cro
quettes, corn meal fish balls, meat
and corn meal dumplings, Italian po
lenta, tamales.
Eat less wheat. Get into the corn
line.
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WANTED—Woman cook. Apply this
office. 25-tf
MEN OFSECUND DRAFT
WILL FIND ALE READ!
(By Associated Press)
GAMP'LEWIS; Tacoma, Wash., P>b.
—Five- month’s have- elapsed1 sflwre
Gamp Lewis received! its first qsssta
of selective draft men, fresh from
civilian life, to be given tbe military
training necessary fto tHe building: of
an army. Ih that comparatively short
period the improvements ih both the
physical conditiOir of the menv and
their training camp have been merited.
It' is interesting to- compare the camp
of today with the partially completed
camp which greetetT the first contin
gents early ih September, 1917.
Officers who had* been assigned to
organise the first' units which the men
were to form*. were- present to con
duct' the- recruite to their regiments.
The first California contingent* for
instance* was. ta-ien to- the .T63rd In
fantry Regiment which was sabse
nuentlv entlw»lv Nllod miis *,-,*.*.
the Golden State-. From the master
ing tents to the 363rd the men walked
across a deserted prairie fringed with
pines The road was not even graded.
When the second draft arrives they
wilt find a military training camp com
plete- in every detail from the large
administration building down to the
horse corrals in theremoiint depot.
Even the grounds about the barracks
have been graded and beautified by
tlie present occupants. Paved thor
oughfares have been constructed,
scores of additional buildings erected,
a most efficient hospital system
created, places of amusement opened
for the«cn!isted men, a Hostess House
completed, a post laundry Is operat
ing and numerous other improvements
have been made.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion. the Young Women’s Christian As
sociation, the Knights of Columbus
and the Red Cross maintain institu
tions in the cantonment to brighten
the idle hours of the men and to re
lieve the minds of the soldiers re
garding home conditions. There are
five Y. M. C. A. buildings where the
me® gather evenings to write, read or
enjoy entertainments, and several K.
C. halls extending the same privileges.
The Y. M. C. A. also has an auditorium
capable of accommodating several
thousand where noted speakers, sing
ers and entertainers appear. The Y.
W. C. A. Hostess House provides com
fortable accommodations for relatives
visiting soldiers. The Red Cross hut,
under the management of a capable
field director, is doing a vast service
for the enlisted men and their fam
ilies. The Liberty theater, seating
2,50,0 gives nightly performances.
All of these institutions and im
provements, practically unknown to
the recruit of five months ago, are
important factors in the training of
the men who will fight in the Wild
West division for the cause of dem
ocracy.
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LARGE DONATIONS
BY CHICAGO MEN
In the recent Knights of Columbus
war fund drive in Chicago, the suc
cess of which surpassed all expecta
tions, the donations of some of the
leading firms are worthy of notice.
They were:
Armour & Co., $20,000; Swift & Co.,
$20,000; Sears, Roebuck & Co., $10,
000; Cudahy Packing Company, $10,
000; Wilson & Co., $10,000; Edward
Hines, $5,000; Montgomery Ward &
Co., $5,000; Peabody Coal Company,
$2,500; First National Bank, $2,000;
Durand & Kasper Company, $1,500;
John A. Lynch,41,000; Walter J. Con
Ion. $1,000; Peter P. Kranz, $1,000;
First Trust and Savings Bank, $1,000;
Archbishop Mundelein, $1,000; John F.
lelke Company, $1,000.
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FLOWERS GIVE PLACE
TO USEFUL VEGETABLE
(By,Associated Press)
LEYDEN, Netherlands, Feb. 27.—No
longer will the famous road to Haar
lem present an uninterrupted vista
if flowering bulbs, when spring comes,
rhe bulb business, which has been
seriously hit by the war, offers such
poor prospects that many growers
tiave partly abandoned bulb planting
and have taken to vegetable raising
instead. Extensive vegetable drying
sheds have arisen alongside the ca'n
ils where in previous years banks of
milti-colored tulips and hyacinths de
lighted the eye. So far, the facilities
tor drying vegetables, especially cab !
bages and carrots, are limited to,
ibout 600 tons a week.
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Harold Larson recently pleadfed j
?uilty to the charge of having failed
:o register in Fairbanks, and sentence
was imposed of twenty days in jail
md registration. He said that he did!
aot know about the registration law
ir he would have complied with it.
His arrest took place at Hot Springs. |
SOLDIERS APPRECIATE
WORK Of RED CROSS
SAN FRANCISCO! CM.. Feb. 2K —
Do the nation’s soRflers and saflb-s
appreciate the messages* of thder
accompany the sweeter,. wrist«ft.%
mufflers and the lit* made by ^
women of the Amerietm Red Cfos*. |
In one of the cantonments, the Re*
Cross field director wa* visited by a
fine looking young American who
brought a note from Ms enmmamSftjg
officer stating that th* b*m.r wsw a
motorcycle rider, just recovering rtt*n
illness and was greatly ln nee* of
knitted articles. The Re* .Gross
took the convalescent" seldifer to the
warehouse, and on tt*«- way ,hfe
dler said:
1 have seen some of the -sweaters
given the boys, whiettt had notes pin
ned on them from rtw women who
made them, and if it just the sama
to you, can't you pick me out a sweater
with a card on it. so mat nmay write
a letter of thanks ’’
As the two entered the-warehouse
and reached the boxew-of sweaters, it
happened that the first sweater picked
up had a little black bordered card at
tached bearing the name and address
of a woman and on tHe other side of
the card was written in-a small thin
shaky hand the following words:
“T am 71 years oHdi and’God bless
you, boy.”
When the soldier read this card, he
gathered up the sweater, helmet,
wristlets and muffler, and with tears
welling into his eyes, he turned and
said, “Isn’t that splendid? This is
just the one I want~ and he started
back to write that old lady a real let
ter of thanks and appreciation*
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NOTICE;
A regular meeting cf the Order of
Eastern Star will’ be- held Thursday
evening, Feb. 28, at 8 o’clock. AH
members are requested to attend as
business of importance will be trans
acted.
EMM’A HOWARD, Secy
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The freighters Latouehe and Cura
cao recently called in at the Granby
mine at Valdes and took out 2,000
and 1,000 tons- of copper ore respect
ively The Granby mine is one of the1
biggest producers in this section of!
the country..
STAMP COLLECTION
LEFT TO GERMANS
BERNE; Fbb. 2T.—The world’s great
est stamp < .jMemirin. at present"'ini
Paris, and valbted at $2,500,00*11/ hair
Men bequeathed to the Berlin Postal
Mliseum. It was the property of Philip
fa Renetiere. a wealthy Frenchman;,
who died at has Home in Switzerland
last year. It' i-v supposed that the- will"
was framed before- the war, as there
fs no reason ter believe that the ownir
had • ’ pro-Germwn sympathies In tile
present confliefc
The Berlin Postal Museum has* ai1
ready one of tile ITnest stamp colla
tions in existence. b*t this bequest*’i£:
the French coon** allow it to stand,
wilt" put it out off reach of any rivals;
La Renetiere-commenced his colRJc
tidn in 1864, and spent upon it
greater part offa-targe fortune. If in-,
eludes the only ttnown specimen of the
1856 1c British'Oirfana, the most prized
stamp in the world, said to be val*ml
at $25,000. The- collection has never
been exhlbltedt'and it was always sup
posed that the-owner Intended to leere
it to-the city of tParis.
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GERMAN PRISONERS
FOR FARM LABOR
BONBON, Feb. 27—Only one- in
twenty of one able bodied German
prisoners in* this country have been
utilized for work on farms, according
to the Agricultural Gazette.
The journal says there must b*->well
over 100,000 able-bodied prisoners in
the kingdom and such a number could
db wondera in the way- of food produc
tion if organized Within the laet two
or three we^ks the number actually
working on the farms was lees, than
5,000( the- paper asserts,
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A scow partially laden with-machin
ery for the James sawmill! and box
factory at Suloia bay turned turtle
while- lying at the end of the sawmill
wharf, and the major portion of the
cargo went into tfie water. The
spitted' articles were recovered at low
tide.
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In the Juneau Empire of recent date
appeared a picture of a naval gun
crew with the caption, “Naval Crew
Heroically Answers. Nation’s Needs."
One of the members of the crew is
Harold Kirk Allen, son of Mrs. W. R.
W ills of Juneau, His mother recogj
nized his picture.
For sale at a bargain. Walker's Inn
at Aiagauiie For tersQs apply to Cor
dova Abstract & Realty Co, Adams
Building.
CITATiOW.
In United Mates CommtBsioner’s Court
in and iflfip Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of vfaska, in Prtarbkte In the
Matter o# MiA Guardianship, of Gust
Lindquist„ an Incompetent
above nsniwit ’incompetent; and to
whomevereft may concern:
A petitiom halving been ftU-rti in th»
above named court in which’ it is al
that thfrdrtabfllty through which
the above named Gust LiiM<*nist has
been heretofore adjudged' to- be
an incompetent' person, has been
removed anti' alleging that there
is no further necessity off a- guaTdlan
tn the said matter and pnaying that
said guard lftnoreader his final'account
and be relieved bf further ddties here
Tb H. A. : "fitter, Guard fen of the
in.
Byt order oft tats court,-yotnare here
by required t» be and appear in the
office of the-United States commis
sioner and enofftrfo probate-judge of
Cordova Preeuko*, Territory of Alaska,
on the 9th day“ of March, 19Hf, at the
hour of 10 a. m, on said day- to show
cause, if any there be, why the- prayer
of said petition -should not be granted
Witness nny hand and seal at Cor
dova. Alaska j.the 6th day oi-jrebruary
1918. *
tt EDWARD F. MEDLEY
United States. Commissioner and ex
officio Probate, Judge
NOTICE Oft HEARING ON FINAL
ACCOUNT.
In United States Commissioner's Court
in and for- Oordova Presdnct, Terri
tory of Alaska, in Probate. In the
matter of the estate of & B Cooper,
deceased;
In accoraanee with the order of the
above named’probate court issued on
tbe-31st day of January. 1918, notice is
hereby gjven that the undersigned ad
ministrator has filed hist final account,
asking that the same be allowed and
approved! and that the- probate judge
of the above named court has set the
4th day of April, 191$ as the day for
a. hearing on said] final account, on
whioh, day in the office of the above
named* probate court in Cordova, Alas
ka, ab the hour of 3 p. m. any person
interested may appear and file ob
jections in writing, to said final ac
count and' the allowance of the same.
Dated at Cordptra, Alaska, the 31st
day of January, 1918.
W. J. SHEPARD,
Administrator of the Estate of A. B
Cooper, Deceased.
First Publication Jan. 31, 1918.
Last Publication Feb. 38, 1918.
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Will You Lend
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Your Country
25 Cents?
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If that’s all you can spare, today, to help Uncle Sam win the
war,
There’s a way for you to give it, today, so that Uncle Sam will
get IMMEDIATE USE of it.
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At the post office or local banks, buy a Thrift Stamp for 25
cents. With it you will get a Thrift Card, with spaces on
which to paste 16 Thrift Stamps.
When your card is filled with Stamps ($4.00 worth), you can
exchange it, with a few cents in cash, for a War Savings
Stamp, which bears interest, and will increase steadily in
value. On Jan. 1, 1923, Uncle Sam will pay you $5 in cash
for it.
Every War Saving Stamp is an interest-bearing government
Every War Savings Stamp is an interest-bearing government
of a War Savings Stamp.
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