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THERE is only one way to give to the Red Cross— - ^
give till your heart says stop. A little contribution | |
j is only a salve to pride. ?
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J ^ This is not to say that contributions of only one : -1
dollar, or even of only one nickle, are not desired—and ,
needed. |
For you to give $5 when you can give $25—for X?
;• you to give $25 when you can give $100, or to give
j $100 when you can give $500—is to dodge the heaviest j
i obligation that this war has laid upon you.
For remember, this is not a charity: — this is a ;
duty. X
This is not a time to give because others give.
! This is a time to give because others need.
No man can tell you how much you ought to give.'
j Except this: that “Ov er There” the need is so great
I that only by cutting to the quick, only by giving all
5 that you think you can give and then more—only
j by giving not a little of your excess but much of it—
| only by taking from your own children and from your
I wife and from yourself, can the needs of the men who
| ^re fighting for you and the needs of the children of
■i 4he men who have died for you be met.
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Ask your own soul how much it should be! JjMH|
ITALY IS MAKING
SLACKERS FIGHT
Minister of Treasury Routs Out
148 Officers and Sends
Them to Front.
SEARCH IS ON FOR OTHERS
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Great Disaster to Cadorna'3 Army Maj
Be Blessing in Disguise—Volun
teers ir. Minority—Deserters
Are Shot.
By PHILIP R. MACKENZIE.
Rome.—On the eve of the great war,
while General Cadorna was hard n(
work creating the Italian army des
tined to unite Trent and Trieste with
tiie kingdom 148 officers of all ranks
from colonels to sub-lieutenants, were
given special work. This work con
sisted in finding out how much rnonej
was wasted during the Tripoli war.
A corridor in the ministry of the
treasury accordingly was set apart foi
these officers, who during the last three
years have been auditing accounts and
taking tlieir time in doing it, while-j
their comrades fought the Austrians:
and were wounded or killed in action
There is every reason to believe that
the great task of auditing the accounts
of the Tripoli war would have beet
prolonged indefinitely, but the new
minister of the treasury, Signor Nitti,
discovered the 148 officers hidden in
the corridor.
- Royal Decree Is Issued.
Signor Nitti was disgusted at the
sight of so many professional officers
calmly working on the four simple
rules of arithmetic, and in 24 hours
he had the case brought before a cab
inet council and a royal decree was is
sued postponing the work of the 148
officers, who were ordered without de
; lay to the front.
j No figures are available ns to the
j number of men physically fit yet ex
j empted from active military service.
Cases of so-called “imbosenmento,”
meaning literally "hiding in bushes"
to evade military service, have been
frequent in Italy.
The socialists, who oppose the war
and whose peace propaganda contrib
uted toward the recent military disas
ter, repeatedly told the masses that in
Italy the war was being fought by the
peasants. The rich people do not fight,
said the socialists, as when one has
money he cun easily “hide in the
bush.”
The sons of well-to-do tradesmen and
j farmers as a rule, are drivers of motor ‘
1 lorries and ambulances, and those of
upper middle classes and nobility, who
should he officers, often prefer to drive
staff officers’ automobiles unless they
succeed in getting clerical work in of
fices away from the front.
It is true that many young men vol
unteered for active service as officers
in Infantry regiments and sacrificed
their lives for their’country, but they
were a minority.
It must be admitted that up to tht
present the mistaken impression pre
vailed that the hardest share of fight
ing was borne by the .peasant and la
boring classes, who suffered most ol ■
all from the war. This impression in-1
creased to such an extent that a great |
proportion of the men who returned on
short leave from the front felt discour- j
aged and dissatisfied when they real-!
ized that every city and town In th* 1
country was crowded with young men i
who evaded military service or who J
even if called to the colors succeeded !
in remaining away from the front and
saw no actual flehtlnsr
America Consumed 42,000,000 Bushels Monthly.
From Now Until Harvest Must Use
Only 21,000,000.
R/ TION PER PERSON IS U POUNDS
OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY
Military Necessity Calls for Greater Sacrifice Here—Allied War
Eread Must Be Maintained—Cur Soldiers and
Sailors to Have full Allowance. i t
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If we are to furnish the Allies with the necessary propor
tion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now'until the
next hafvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce
our monthly consumption to 21,007,000 bushels a month, as
against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels,
or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This i3 the-situa
tion as set forth by the U. S. Food Administration at Washing
ton. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for
special cases, leaves for general consumption approximately
11/5 pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food
Administration’s statement continues: Many of our consumers
are dependent upon bakers’ bread. Such bread must be. durable
and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products
than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and
navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat
products than can the poor. In addition, our population in
the agricultural districts, where the other cereals q,r«.abujB—■
dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these
ether cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations.
With improved transportation conditions we now have avail
able a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring months
a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for human
consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes, has
already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains.
To on cot the needed saving or wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall be observed:
1. Householders to use not to exceed
a total of 1*4 pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than 1% pounds of
Victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined.
2. Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present.
In addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal an
aggregate of breadstuffs. macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
of more than two- ounces of wheat
flour. No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eat
ing establishments not to buy more
than six pounds of wheat products for
each ninety meals served, thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
3. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to tfny
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and in no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold, by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
before, and corresponding proportions
In other weights. We also ask bakers
not to Increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
cent, of the average monthly amount
purchased in the four months prior to
March 1.
5. Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely. |
0. There is no limit upon the use pf
other cereals, flours, and meals, coni,
barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et
cetera.
Many thousand families throughout
the land are now using ho wheat prod
ucts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and art
doing so in perfect health and satisfac
tion. There is no reason why all of
the American people who are able to
cook in their own households cannot
subsist perfectly well with the use of
less wheat products than one and one
half pounds a week, and we specially
ask the well-to-do households in the
country to follow this additional pro
gramme In order that we may provide
the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts of the community less able
to adapt themselves, to so large a pro
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that1 are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population and soldiers of the
allies and our own army, we propose
to supplement the voluntary co-opera
tion of the public by a further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
time to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With the arrival
of harvest we should be able to relax
such restrictions. Until then we ask
for the necessary patience, sacrifice
and co-operation of the distributing
trades.
New Summer Shirts
A collection of over 200 Tub and Silk Skirts to select
from, the most complete line in Newport. Wash
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1 Crepe and other materials. Silk Skirts of Satin,
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Light Blue, Tan and Black and White checks. Silks
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Silk Skirts from $5.95 to $12.50
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