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I>r privation.” an official statement
declares. "The food administration
has mattered the problem of Amcri
ca’a food In such a waj that every
ounce of ffwwt onpnnrvml »n/l Impt In
Europe.
te tin to waste food. It i
an empty huahela for every
become sacred. t
means life; It means some
body’s life, and you. cannot escape re- ing
- aponsiblllty.
•There Is no waste
the Allied nations.” ....
food among
WAR BREAD COSTLY
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Com, America’s greatest cereal crop.
Is now moving rapidly to market
More thau 3,000 million bushel,
how long can
the Htnmd this* strain.” Tne
child in America—a^ftlaeflT In tti7.
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Every year the British government
pays $200,000,000 toward the cost of
that nation’s war bread. That la the
principal reason why English bread
prices are lowqf today to the consumer
than In America, incidentally the
British bread it much poorer than the ed use ofthe"cereal*
American.
Great Britain has taken over all
home grown grain, bought at an arid-
a mighty crop. The actual In-
crease is about 500 million bushels.
And this extra store of grain la com-
on to the market fp the nick of
time, since the American wheat sur-
plus has been sent to help feed famine
threatened Europe.
Just as it happened In ghe Colonial
Resolution, and
vli War, corn has actually be-
come the nation's mainstay.
In the entire Hat of Amertoi’* food
commodities tbera Is no Item that la
better than com. In puddings, bread,
com pone, and aa bomlny combined
With meat or eggs, corn la without a
peer. Housewives are fast learning
the large number o<L4cJJgitw* .dishes
that may be made with corn and their
families are benefiting by an lncrens-
trary price, and all imported wheat
bought in markets of the^ world at pre-
vailing prices. This Is turned over to
the mills by the government at a price
that allows the adulterated war bread
loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents
The two pound loaf costs 8 rents, and
the one pound loaf sells for 5 cents
In milling, however, 14 per cent,
more flour Is extracted from the wheat
than In America. And there la a com-
pulsory adulteration of 20 per cent
and an allowable adulteration of 50
per cent “
; Compared with American bread, the
British product la only about 65 per
cent pure at Its best
In Prance, fonder conditions some-
what similar, but with a larger extrac-
tion, the four pound loaf sells for 10
cents. .....v " -*.....r
AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL
~ MEASURE WHEAT
“We baip already exported tl
whole of the surplus of the fl917 wheat
harvest over and aborrtbe^normal de-
mands of our o*wn population. It is
necessary, therefore, for the food ad-
mitvistratlon to restrict export of wheat
so as to retain In the United States
sufficient supplies to carry our own
people until the next harvest.
«- Therefore all exports of wheat
from now forward are limited entirly
to volume of giving made by the Amer-
ican people in their consumption of
wheat and wheat products.
"We continued wheat shipments for
December ns far as our situation al
lowed, but even with all the conserva-
tion made we were still unable to load
aevernl hundred thousand tons of food-
stuffs urgently required by the allied
‘nations during the month of December
alone.” * ....... - _
HERBERT HOOVER.
Corn, mors than
any other cereal, .contains all of the
elements essential to maintaining life
and health.
In order that the fighting men
abroad and In tbs army camps at horns
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 In Europe. .....
England. Prance and Italy most be
fed J*rqm America’s great storehouse.
They will get some cern—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 sod change the eating habits of
Europe.
America's greatest use of corn will
be in the form of corn bread and corn
meffi, mixed w ith wheat In the making
of leavenerhfdhd.-----;—--- —
Mixed with 80 per cent wheat flour,
corn meal can be used In bread mak-
ing, nrodnclne j loaf more nutritlpus
than bread baked with wheat alone.
It Is *a fact corn millers will verify
that dozens of the large American bak-
ers have been successfully using a corn
flour In bread making for several
years.
Hominy grits, served,, at breakfast
with a poached egg, or eaten at any
other meal with meats or gravy, Is an-
other use of corn that will become un-
usually popslaA during the war.
Corn syrup to sweeten corn cakes,
and com oil for use in all kinds of
cooking, are two more products that
nre already welcomed in thousands of
American homes.
Xu. luibuice
Oat mi Pow-
ers* he uaid. end 7,000,000 would
tor MeOtnnbcr.
rebroat.
“Riuwia and Rumania are out
of 1ftie war,” asserted Senator
McflurabeTi ’ ‘ Itrilj—jr
ground.* France is unahLe to
make any headway. The waSl of
opposition at the oaatern end of
the battle dim* in continental Eu-
rope is crumbling. Who can say
how Ion" Italy can y’Jfffl with-
flUpply liiem ^hipping. WTe
took that duty upion ourselves,
st^ind the Teutonic pressure? Op-
timistic indeed must be tfie man
who will say a single year wifti-
aly under the heci of the cota
queror, with Franco assailed in
the flank, who can prophesy that
that country will not quickly be
brought under The fleet of the
same conqueror and England‘b
army Ipft <bo battle against orer-
.vhelming numbers? This i# de-
lineating two things*; First, the
exact situation as it now its, and
second, the possibilities of the fu-
dJinited
m
aRIaygd
tho most important, the most Vi-
tal duty incumbent upon, us in
lining the* wftr. WeT Have neglected
that duty beyond any other,*
shamefully neglected ijt.”
They .toll u*.itfwa» beuacse
of wranglmgs and disagree®©tits
in the shipping board,” he dp-
, addhat- -frg—be-
lieved there was lack of appre-
ciation of the submarine menace
in the Itoard and tliat.hoJid not
out additional support. With ,Jt- bedievp «ny member so umpatri- ducln* *m* fallen ef milk
fore w© can ever hope to equal-
ture and it is presented with th^. ae t^e florces of he powers pdt-
WHEAT-CGRN YEAST BREAD.
Wheat-coru broad Is more nutritious
tlmn bread bal;t»d with wheat ffpur
qlono. Thousands of Atnorlcajri funr,
flics today are Using this mixed flour
bread, and In so doing are enabling
America to provide more wheat flour
for the allies. Here's n tested recipe
for this brood:|Take one and a half
cups of milk, water dr a mixture of
the two; oue-hnlf cake compressed
yefcst, one and n half tensions sull*.
one tablespoo^sugar, one tablespoon
of fat If desired, one euf) eornmeal
_ and two cups when! floor. ^ •
Put one nntT altaifcups of water,
the eornmeal, salt, sugar and fat (If
used) into a double boiler and rook
twenty minutes. The water Is suffi
dent only to goften the meal a little.
Allow the meal to cool to about the
iperature of the room and add thA
rvl Wltll (lie i'val
thorough tr.j
make Into loaf, place In pan of stand-
rise . until aenrly
fills thq pan and bake 48 or 00 mln-
^ utes. It Is hardly practicable to use
imeal than
i nf
this even in emergencies, for bread so
made differs very little from baked
. I/ess eornmeal ran be used
In aucn a case the general meth
[Iven alwve may be followed.
ftread without/flrof rooking the
cupful 01
£ capfuls
1 of meal should be'used to
the bread !■ mixed and
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATION 8AY3:
Food saving Is In Its essence the
daily individual service of afl the
people. Every group can substL
tute, and evert the great majority,
of thrifty people can save a little
—and the more luxurious elements
of the population can, by reduc-
tion to simple living. save much.
This means no more than that we
should eat plenty, but wisely and
without waste.
Food WilT Win the
, War
LARGE part of .the
worl<J Is coming to
tho position that
Belgium 1s In ,* com-
ing to tho stage
where tho pri-
mary and Im-
portant thing
In life Is
enough food
to keep alive.
Food hnsVnow
taken a domi-
nant position In the war. The
American people must prepare
themselves to sacrifice far more
than was at first thought uoces-.,
sary.
The cold facts am: Francs,
Italy and England have Just
enough food to keep them going
hope that we will ak leaat p*w-
tiaily awaken to a realization of
what is before us.”
Senator MoCwmber said the
idea that pointing out our weak-
ness* •discouraged the American
people* and* encouraged* the tine7
my was a mistaken one and de-
clared that “we must now learn
the lesson tliat boasting will not
win this war." Ho said he was
fired of hearing argument tliat
Germany would Jbe reduced to
submission by jdorvatipn and
wtated that the Central Powers
control three times attnvuch terri
tory in Kurupc ais dual the all:os.
The balance of resources held by
this country he said, should not
be considered until there was ton
Rage to carry men and products
across tbe seas.
, * ‘The- entente powers'-* have
about reached their limp,” he
said. .‘‘To balance the manpower
otic to’ dd!iay shipbuilding while
bis personal differences were be-
ing settled. He declared ‘‘We
appointed a Kilkenny shrippi
board and then weiit to deep.”
and ‘"Later in his address said:
“We know' we .must supply
Groat Britain aad France and
Italy. We know we shall re-quire
five million anen in France be-
ted against each other. Where is
it ooming from? Possibly God
knows; contiinly neither the ship!
pi»g board nor the navy depart-
ment knows.*”
When the German, armies retired
fra— ampin! portions »f Frsnos ami.
Belgium approximately 1,800,000
cattle were nppnroprlat
Sugar control
lean public
»r. PulUff Sui
suffer.
Jb England some 2,400,000 acres of
grass lands have by compulsory meas-
ures been forced into grain production,
thus reducing pasturage and hay lands.
A declining scale of maximum meat
prices for live cattle was ordained in
England, as follows: For September,
$17.76 per hundred pounds; October,
$17.28; November and December,
$16.08, and for January, $14.40. The
evident Intent of this measure was to
drive tbs beef animals Into market as
soon as possible,
AWoVdlrig' to official French figures,
the cattle of France have decreased to
Mr. Hoover called Mttentlhn ta the fiA
a total of 12341,900 as comparedVrlth uncontrolled sugar advanced to
14807,000. In 1913, Today,-due to luck JSjyhtt a poand. during thfl Qtil Wat
of forage principally. France Is pro-
before the war two .and one-half gal-
lons were produced.
Meantime the United States food ad-
ministration has taken steps to con-
serve our flocks and herds and to ln-
crease their uumbers. The stock breed-
ers of this country show n disposition
to co-operate with the government tu
this. ..
^ l or many years it has been n prac-
tice among many of the dairy people
of tbla country to kin male calves af
birth and In many Instances the fe-
males If not needed to replenish their
herds rather than go to the expense of
maturing them into veal. The high
continuance of this killing. Another
encouraging fact la 75 per cent of
calves klllad. for veal this year were
■ales._____ _ 7_ _
Somebody has very aptly said that
the wftra of the world have been won
Q _. „ . with grease, meaning that bacon and
yfllSwi* McCrtlBbcr jQfoTii m C3\d lnird hzva been as essential-to success
In war as powder, which is true^
The hogs of Europe have been very
greatly sacrificed to present day needs.
This makes the American burden afl
the more Heavy and makes doubly es-
sential an Increased pork production
In this nation. In Italy grain la now
forbidden to be fed to hogs. In Den-
mark under a recent order
of the hogs were ordered to be killed.
It is estimated that oue-half have now
been killed.
ed that the United States stop
sending soldiers to Franc© now
and use all avaftabtLe tonnage for
food for the allies, ntinmlate**#*
forts to attempt to produce a
ship immune to torpedo attack
and to make « fntt and adequate
test of reinforced concrete ves-
sdlis. He said he bdlieved the al-
lies would emerge from th© war
after wceiiring *th« pcj»ee laid
down by President Wilson 'lint
waH.©qnally “certain that uni jag
we come to the support of our
with skipfuttg faeilities-
many times greater (Tian we
pnopooe, sonic of our allies will
fall before we oan tako their
place on the battle fie'ld.”-
|No.
5697.
=»=
ten or twelve weeks. When
Reserve District No. 11
Repoi^ 6f thr Condition of
The Graham National Bank
At Graham, in tlio State oi Texas at thn kIm* r*4 tIHT7
RESOURCES --------
(a) Loans and discount* (except those shown on i
A b and e).;..........................163,733.05 • -
_ Total loans ..............................
U. S. Ronds -(other than I lbfertr Romls of 11)17) ~
(a) U. S. bonds deposited to seciire <*ircuation (par value)..
( a) Liberty Loan Bonds, i:n,'j)ed/ftd 3>f per ceht and 4 per cent,
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (*>() }*>r cent of subscription).
fa) VahTFTrr-tUnrmn? hciuseTTT,... .....
Furniture and Fixtures.........T^T... .........
Lawful reserve wtttj Fcd\?ral Reserve Rank..................
^kkh In vault (md.net amount due from national banks......
Net amount due from banks and banks and trust Companies
other thap include! in Items 13, H, and 15................
* hecks qp banks located outside of city or town of reporting
bank and othencash items..............j............... 4.>02.14
Redemption fund 'with V. H. Treasurer and duo from U. S.
Trenstther-.......................................;........ 623.80
Total., ^...................................... $309,361.00'
■ LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in ______________________«.rr-rr-rrr... 150,000.00
Surplus .................................... 10,000.00
(a) Undivided profits.......... .......... >4 •xxt m
(b) Leas current expenses, interest and taxes paid — 4,299.01
19.
20.
63,735 01
12.500.00
5,0W 00
yl. >oo.(K)
0,419.34
2.230.00
22,122.18
l‘i,.57137
3,732.62
SEIZURE OF HOUSEWIVES’
FOOD STOCKS IMPOSSIBLE
The government has never consid-
ered nr>y Plan of seizing foodstuffs
owned by householders. Nor is there
nny policy of this kind suggested for
the future.
In spite of this fact, the United
Stales food administration has been
obliged repeatedly to Issue ofllclnl de-
nials of rumors that the government
intends 'commandeering preserves mix!
canned, goods put up Ip American
homes, x
These rujBors were originated partly
hy,J?ro:Qcrman propahundistsand jmrt-
lyby CjofiscleiiFoTess grafters, who
sought to pflotlt,.through- buying from'
iuL|nformcd fl&atewlyeg.
The year 1918 will srK* home canning
and preserving practiced on greater
scale tlmn ever before tti the nation's
history’, ofliclnls In Wnsliington believe.
And they nre assuring oil patriotic
housewives that foods go saved Are
theirs, and theirs alone. 4—
and that It would have advanced to 2Q(
cento a pound, with the---“ ’
age‘as a stimulus, had
administration secured the |
Lion of the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed a siymr price that today tote.
qSlea housewives to buy sugar at from
8*4 to B cents' a pound.
"Every 1 cent raise In sugar from
September 1 »to January 1 means $18,-
,000,006 to the American consumer,”
Mr. Hoover said. "Numbers of gen-
tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public*
robbed of $180.000.000 this year If we
TuuT not taken these actions.” Later
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public bas been!
allotted 70 per cent, of its normal sup*
ply. Before the war the average an- ^
nuat household consumption here vu
55 pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption daring the war to__
24 pounds, and in France each person
Is allotted a little over one pound a
month.
"In August the French govern meat *'"
found itself unable to maintain even
this ration," Mr. Hoover declared.
"An appeal was made to America.
France needed 100.000 tons. Wo
agreed to fill this demand and up to
December had shipped 83,426 tons. la
the meantime an .appeal was mode to ~'
prices of meat caused the virtual 4kte the American public to reduce Its tug-
NUTRITIOUS CORN BREAD.
-M
pggp$ V
P*
the allied nations begin conanm- .
Ing Into this slender store and
begin a swift March Into actual
famine condltioae—which woflld
Europe then must live on
America's surplus. Tour saving
Increases our available stocks
im IfciMwaoh hid heteeBy $ssJs
some person In the conntriefwttb
which we are associated In onr
Our surplus wheat has already
. th»
n. ft FOOD--------
77,500. no
232,731.99 rye-flour, both of which are being con- FStot ta
30.00
Total $309,561.00
State of Texah, CbtiNTY or YourtG: ss: 1 •
I, Chas. Gay, ITipsldent of thmahova-naraed hank, do solemnly swear that
ivaTp
ar consumption, and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
confectionary and sweet drinks trade
with 50 per cent, of normal supply.
This has been" generally followed, al-
though such regulations were volun-
tary. as the food administration had
no authority to Impose them.”
Domssttc’Fries it i^totCento.
. Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take a profit of no
more than 50 cento a hundred—half a
cent a pound—on sugar. By reason of
food administration regulations, bind-
ing refiners and wholesalers, the re-
tailer la able today to buy sugar af.
rom $ Jo 8 V* cents a pound. This
enables him to hell to the housewife at
8tt to 9 cento a pound. t
Thera have been some violations of
the sugar rulings. Mr. Hoover said
recently: “Sales of sugar from 16 to
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop-
ped and is evidence itself of the prices
at which consumers would have been
mulct had we not intervened. We have
forfeited wholesalers’ licenses In ag-
gravated cases, and wo have issued
warnings to first offenders In a great
many Instances through our local ad-
ministrators.” *
•f . -,
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be fill-
ed to nonmil very soon if ships could
be sent to Java, Where 250.000 tons of
sugar Is waiting for shipment. But
the shipping situation Is so acute that
the nation cannot-;spare the eleveu
ships- needed to trdns;>ort thla ■nga»
It would take the l*mis on** year to
iMUl-rntf.OW loQs. iu the sump time
they could bo ' used for transporting
•JO&OOO soldiers to France; -* =
The food administration believes
that the X)nri*lcnn public will diminish
Its sugar consumption by 10 a# 15 per
;’riit. when it is made clear that soch
sugar stiviug is a patriotic act und
when It Is understood that there are
plenty of ‘sweetener* available to take
the place of sugar, such as- honey of
corn syrup. •—p
Why Shortaga Exists.
The throe great sugar producing cen-
ters of the world are Germany, the
West and East Indies. German sugar
Is, of course, used jut home. The East
Indian siigrtr is unavailable because of
(he ship shortage.
„ While L' boat* made big inroad* on
ttto'tKOrio's gU4>pinf» France und Itoly
.gensod to be self sustaining In sugar
munufa<‘t,ut\‘. England Ip the mean-
time was rm «>fi from German sugar—
1,400,000 tons a year—because of the
war. The result bas been that the al-
lied nations have been forced to turn
to America and the West Indies for
tbclf sugar.
has attainted
thoroughly pametlc corn bread
tunned In greater quantities this year
in order to release whoat flour for ttu
allied nations. This recipe fills tl
large pan—16 by 22 lnchee--and con-
tains fhe following Ingredients: One
quart mil
Even the autocrat!
Germany bsz been j
vent surreptitious si
afar
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