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L1TICAL ANNOUNCE
Kf; MENTS.
he Independent is authoriz-j
to announce the following j
*ons as candidates for public j
ce, subject to the action of
Democratic party:
County Superintendent—
| M. Balch.
arland E. Land.
J. Gamer.
D. Barber
, L. Thomas
Congress —,,
fm. A. Hodges,
v D. Davenport.
I A. Oldfield
County Treasurer—
t. D. McLain.
Eudge:
ielville.
and Collector—
ative:
ms
terk:
NEW ORLEANS,
ependent.
Jan. 24.—Commission
age will leave Sunday
inSrst? attend a meet
29-30 " Of the Cotton
risory Assbcia^. v.the
of Agriculture or the"
s, and the presidents
s’ Unions, to consider
that has originated
reet manipulators, for
>od Administration to
:ontrol of .cotton as a
It is proposed that a
ts a pound be fixed,
i started with the
turnal of Commerce,
that 18 cents per
>n will provide an av
er acre for the farm
louth where cotton is
I to the return from
id further that it will
indirectly force the planting of a
much greater percentage of food
and feed crops.
\ “It will be contended by the op
usnts of this plan,” said Mr. Page,
"tha \ the price at which cotton goods
\ow being sold justify a price of
®![e r Nts for cotton; and that, while
40 e'en r '
.. Aas been an advance of one
there } \ *
h ndret f Per cen^ *n P™6 co*‘
un , | price of cotton manufactured
0n’ \ias advanced 250 to 30o per i
goods . j
cent.” ' 1
MAY HAVE SEEN CRIME.
Searcy, Jan. 23.—A man giving
his name as Victor Lee and believed
to be insane, was taken into custody
at Kensett yesterday. He said he
was from East St. Louis, is appar
ently about 40 years old, and is well
dressed. He talks continually of a
woman being shot, a brick building,
a basement and other disconnected
things, in a way that leads the offi
cers to believe he has either taken
part in or witnessed a crime, which
has unbalanced his mind. He speaks
often of a “frame-up,” of which he
claims to be the victim. He has no
letters or papers to prove his identi
ty, but he showed a deposit slip for
$327.37 on the Illionis State Bank of
East St. Louis and gives his address
as 1901 St. Louis Avenue, East St.
Louis.
Officers have written to the bank
and to the address given, in an effort
to get some information about the
man. He cannot tell where he was
going, merely saying, in response to
.questions regarding his destination,
that “he was going South.”
TO ESTABLISH HOSPITAL
Special to the Independent.
Lttle Rock, Jan. 23.—At a meet
ing of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Arkansas yesterday,
a plan was endorsed for the estab
lishment of an isolation hospital by
the state, city and county authori
ties for the care of communicable
diseases. A deficiency appropria
tion of $6,000 for this purpose by the
governor was also endorsed. This
is to be used for the purpose of par
tially equipping three wards in the
old medical school building and a
part of the Isaac Folsom Clinic ad
joining, which has been turned over
to federal, state, county and city
public health authorities for use as
an isolation hospital for the treat
ment of communicable diseases not
including smallpox, especially menin
gitis and venereal diseases.
The National Council of Defense,
working through vWiaus auxiliary
organizations, has attempted to con
trol the suppression of vice and the
prevention of venereal diseases, par-'
ticularly near the great army canton
ments. In order to accomplish this
result, some place is needed where
women arrested on charges of im
morality may be detained and when
found to be infected with venereal
disease, be treated until they are
non-infective. It is also the purpose
to provide for the treatment of cases
of scarlet fever, diphtheria, menin
gitis, etc., occurring in boarding
houses and even among the floating
population that have no permanent
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FACE the FACTS
LET us face the facts. The war situation is critical.
Unless the Allies fight as they never yet have
fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight
at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them.
Wheat Savings—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’s a
; surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
hour of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty
as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of corn. Five hundred milliop bushels over and *
; above our regular needs. All we have to do is to
I learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made
so easv? And so clear?
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America’s Own Food—Corn I It is the true America:
food. The Indians, hardiest of races, lived on it.
Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a ,
I; continent. For a great section of our country it
II has blong een the staff of life. How well the South
11 fought on it, history tells. Now it can help America
i| win a world war.
Learn Something—Corn! It isn’t one food. It’s a
;I dozen. It’s a cereal. It’s a vegetable. It’s a bread.
:i It’s a dessert. It’s nutritious; more food value in it,
11 dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs or most other
I: vegetables. It’s good to eat; how good you don’t
; know until you’ve had corn-bread properly cooked.
I: Best of all, it’s plentiful and it’s patriotic.
Corn’s Infinite Variety—How much do you know about
;| corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
Ij by not knowing more about it? Here are a few
of its uses:
There are at lfeast fifty ways to use corn meal to
make good dishes for dinner, supper, lunch or break
fast. Here are some suggestions:
HOT BREADS DESSERTS
Boston brown bread. Corn-meal molasses cake.
Hoecake. Apple corn bread.
I Muffins. Dumplings.
I; Biscuits. Gingerbread.
11 Griddle cakes. Fruit gems.
SI ' Waffles.
HEARTY DISHES
ij Corn-meal croquettes. Corn-meal fish balls.'
I; Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamales.
The recipes are in Farmers’ Bulletin 565, “Corn
; I Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It,’’ free from the
Department of Agriculture.
home. Such cases are a great men
ace to the community and provisions
must be made for their isolation and
treatment, which is done through the
fiction taken by the various co-oper
ating authorities yetserday.
NEWS ODDITIES.
Girl bricklayers are being given a
try-out in Dunbar, Pa., because of
shortage of men due to draft.
First woman alderman in New
York state in Troy, where Mrs. P. J.
Kennedy has been appointed in place
of her husband, who died soon after
the election.
“I married a widow with six chil
dren eight months ago,” Maryland
man told the draft board. “There
are worse things than war, and I’m
ready to go to the front.”
To stop “useless talk,” Germany
will “ration” its telephones.
Prize hen with record of 325 eggs
a year refuses to lay in public at
poultry show.
Fancy shirts, shoes and ties may
be barred in clothing standardiza
tion planned to help win the war.
Iceberg in New York harbor saved
man who fell on it when knocked ofl;
incoming ship by davit and was not
found for half an hour.
Walking to California was to be
the next feat of' 11-year-old boy who
stole a ride on ship from Porto Rico.
Hotels waste 1,500 tons of fine
soap a year by placing two cakes in
a room, Mr. Hoover Las been told.
NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE.
When cooked by electricity meats
shrink less than when cooked by coal.
The College of Hawaii has added a
four-year course in sugar technology.
About $500,000,000 a year is being
spent on education in the United
States.
To record the work done by sten
ographers a typewriter meter has
been invented.
Norway has established a national
domestic science school for girls at i
Stavanger.
A metal clamp to hold two pieces
of wood together at right angles has
been invented.
For home consumption Great Brit
j ain imports about 30,000,000 pounds
| of coffee annually.
A new clamp to hold a cover on a
milk bottle also serves as a handle to
carry the bottle.
Nine-tenths of Russia’s gold min
ing is done on lands owned or for
mally owned by the czar.
'One of the easiest ways to cool an
overheated oven is to stand a basin
of cold water in it.
Most of Japan’s pearl divers are j
women, who begin to learn the trade ;
at the age of 13 or 14.
LABOR LEADERS
MEET WITH M’AC 30
Say They Are Confident Employes
Will Be Favored With Wage
Increase.
Asociated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Represent
atives of 450,000 railway employes
and mechanical workers, after a con
ference with Director General McA
doo, expressed the opinion that wage
increases are to be granted them.
No definite demand was presented.
G. B. Umstead went up to Tucker
man yesterday for a visit to his par
ents, Rev. and Mrs. M. B. Umstead.
NOBODY PLEASED.
It is a peculiarity of human na
ture that people are never satisfied
with any sort of existing conditions.
When the weather is hot we want it
cold, and when it gets cold we want
! it hot. When the earth is dry we are
afraid of a drouth, and when rain
comes we are scared to death that it
won’t atop until everything is ruined,
and so it goes. It is absolutely im
possible to please people, and we
judge that fact is not better under- i
stood than by the controller of the
elements.—Sharp County Record.
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notice.
I will resume my class Monday
spite the weather.
Mrs. John Stayton.
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