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Who Shall Be
Suppressed?
( From "The New Y'ork CalL" July 24)
MANY readers of "The Call" have
directed our attention to the
page that The New Ycrk Trib?
une ran last Sunday, in which it was
?stated that "Uncle Sam thinks the So?
cialists have gone far enough." The
article in question?it covers the entire
page?apparently anticipates the coming
Suppression of socialist journals, and
?quotes many of them, among others "The
Call." It is also illustrated with three
cartoons from "The Masses," the centre
one of which portrays a number of fat ?
capitalists seated around a table, while a
Congressman, hat in hand, humbly ap?
proaches them and inquires: "Excuse me,
?jentlemcn; where do I come in?" The fat
men, representing "hi,*-* business," reply:
?"Run along, now! We got through with
you when you declared war for us."
This is supposed to be treasonable and
?ditious. Let us assume that it is. Uncle
Sam is represented as not going to stasnd
for it any longer. Hut, if it is s?ditions
there is something more to say on the
matter. There are others?not socialists
i?who most assuredly merit the sarrrt
treatment from Uncle Sam.
New, here is something that all' our I
cornapondents overlook. Take up that :
page of The Tribune, hold it to the light.,
and look through the centre picture we
have described. You will see something
then* of exactly the same character as the ;
aupposedly seditious picture. Turn the
page over and you will notice a fat capi?
talist sitting on a skull, under the caption ,
of. "The Profiteer." It is taken by The
Tribune from "The Bystander." a Lon?
don publication, and that it is reproduced
?with approval is shown by the quotation
Underneath, setting forth what President
Wilson had to say to the American,
"profiteers." Now, if "The Masses' " car- !
toon is seditious, what shall be said of The
tribune's reproduction? The first merely,
?represents capitalists in council dis-.
eussing what they intend to do, whereas ;
the one The Tribune reprints, with ap-1
proval, depicts the profiteer as actually |
having committed murder, and sitting on '
the skull of his victim.
We reproduce both of those cartoons
?elsewhere in this issue, and leave it to our
readers to decide which of them goes
further than Uncle Sam can stand.
Our opposition to war is to no small
extent on account of these unscrupulous
profiteers, who, as The Tribune's cartoon
show?, would murder the people for profit.
If the war could be conducted without
these greedy and conscienceless rascals in
aty way whatever profiting by it a con?
siderable amount of socialist opposition
?would cither subside or become greatly
mitigated. Their suppression would at
least have the effect of greatly strength?
ening the claim now made that we are
in this war to make the world safe for
democracy. And it is this very thing, the
existence of this abomination, this capi?
talistic character of war, that gives point
to nine-tenths of the socialist criticism.
Now. we put it up to The Tribune to
aay which should be suppressed?the so?
cialist journals, that excoriate big busi?
ness and profit mongering; The Tribune
itself, that does the very same thing, even
more pointedly, or the profiteers, that
both the socialist publications and The
Tribune equally condemned?
Now, reader, turn over to the pictures
we told you of. They were both printed,
hack to back, on the same paper page of
The Tribune, so that you could actually
see the one through the other. We want
your opinion about which is deserving of
suppression.
"Sermons in Freight Cars"
I
Mm* ? "VEMAND and supply," declares
I 1 "The New Republic." "are the
twin guardian angels of the
competitive economic system." And under
the head "Sermons in Freight Cars" this
publication observes:
"Tnc stated shortage of freight cars is com?
pile.) on the basis of the requests for cars.
These requests come from shippers who often
file duplicate orders, or orders with several
different lines to care for the same shipment,
knowing thst, on account of the shortage,
cars are likely to be refused on one or more
of th?- ran
?i
"The shipment in question frequently rep-r
resents goods not yet on hand, although or?
dered by the consumer, for competition lcaa,*?
shippers to be forehanded. The order* for
goods are often duplicate?, for the scarcity of
commodities prompts consumers to order the
same materials from several source? at once,
hopirif? thus to secure the full amount of
their needs.
"Therefore the original demand for com?
modities is likely to be doubled several times
ever before it appears in the freight car sta?
tistics. The extrerr... complexity of the situa?
tion makes it impossible to estimate at once
the discrepancy between actual and apparent
shortage, but for all we know three cars may
he demanded to move each carload of good*-;
and it is certain that cars are furnished where
they are less needed, increasing the deficiency
elsewhere.
"But thu is only the beginning of the con?
fusion. Shippers make a practice of taking
the.r own tone about loading and unloading,
holding cars until they can be loaded accord
lag to brands and trade names, and using :
them for storage purposes.
"(in March 30 there were 89.371 cars stand- ?
lag idle all over the country, unavailable on
account of just such use. Various economy
and efficiency methods in the use of cars and
locomotives by the rsilroads themselves ,
Would, according to estimates of the Special
Committee of National Ilefence. increase the
available supply, without any outlay of capi?
tal, by TTMM c?rn, or 30 per cent of the
whole. Rearrangement of assembling yards, :
distributing pointu, warehour.es, elevators and
terminal facilities woald else go far to de- '
crease the congestion for these matters hsve ?
gaati determined not by the cooperativo need]
, of the whole, but by the demands of the sev
! eral competitors.
"It is on the lack of cooperation among
railroads, shippers and consignees that the
interstate Commerce Commission, the Co?
operative Committee on Transportation and
the Car Service Commission have concen?
trated their attention. A : ample of what
they can do is the pooling arrangement ef?
fected among con! operators, railroads,
trjine.? and lake eOSOCls whereby coal from the
i Lake Frie ports destined for the head of the
lckes will be classified and handled so much
more efficiently that the eqeirali nt of 52.000
cars will be added to the equipmen*.
"Similar arrangements are under negotia?
tion elsewhere. The application of regulated
priority is relieving th? situation :o rapidly
that the June shortage ligares have dropped
off to 105.127 ear?. Some now cHr? will, of
course, he necessary, but most of them will
probably be built according to national needs
at restricted prices.
"The m?,re! Is el? ai. A fairs eco?
nomic system under the cor? ? onipo
tition sprawled out into incredible waste. The
supply of freight ears. 1f left U) itself, would
have met the demand, if at all, only at an
enormous cos.t to the public. Now, enforced1
cooperation and regulation under national
necessity will squee/e out much of the waste,
tend to cut off unwarranted profits, and do its
bit to lighten the whole pyramid of high
prices under which the pc-apl? are staggering,
The twin godhead of D? Band and Supply has '
demonstrate?) its need of ai ?! fr???n a little .
human intelligence."
Shingles by Parcel Post.
A Western lumber company made ex-1
i???ptmnal uso of the parcel pool system ,
not long ago when it shipped ;i coi
BMnt of .'10,000 shingles through the
mails. The destination of the shingles
fays "Popular Mirhatiios," was tifty-tw.?
miles from the shipping point, and the
postal thai got were lee than 160. Al?
though a shipment of this size is uncom?
mon, the parcel post is friquently used in
the Western States to send supplies to re?
mote places in the st-ick raising country
as well ft? to the mines.
Politics Hampered the
Civil War Draft
A GLANCE at the files of The Tril
une for September, 1863, disclose
the interesting fact that the Civ
] War draft was beclouded by politics?
; condition entirely missing in connectio
with the present draft. For example, oi
September 2. 18t*.'', The Tribune said edi
torially under the heailiru*- "Peace Demo
crats and the War":
"Special efforts are made by the 'Pcaci
Democrats' to bring discredit upon the dial
in this city and neighborhood. At a publii
meeting recently held in the tti Wt
prominent politician told his auditors thn<
there was a 'trick in the wheel'; that the of?
ficers managed to draw the names of poor
men who have not $300. but who were ahle
hodied and could not procure exemption
papers.
"In several wards vigilant committees have
been appointed, charged with the duty of re?
lieving drafted men at whatever cost and at
ill hazards. If the conscript has no family
and cannot obtain commutation from the
Hoard of Supervisors, his case il man-aged
by certain parties so tiiat he may escape on
some other pretext. If a man who has voted
a dozen years in his district cannot clear
himself as an alien he must take a chance
on physical disability; and should that fail,
it is expected the writ of haheas ?orpu? will
be there to save him.
"Not a Dollar, Not a Man.
To Sustain the War"
"These sympathizers with secession are re?
luctant to pay MOO to save their friends even.
i nd they are bitterly hostile to the plan of
furnishing substitutes. Their motto is: 'N'ot
a dollar, not a man.'to sustain the war.' Th-*
logic of thirty thousand bayonets has con?
vinced them that they must in most case
pay the money or supply the men. The lat?
ter they obstinately refuse to do. and he who
furnishes a substitute is in their eyes an
offender who commits an unpardonable sin
The committees appointed to hinder the prog?
ress of the draft are distributed about the,
city and the imm?diat, neighborhood; they
have their documents and lawyer's writ, so I
that when a man is taken by the Provo
Marshal they can issue out a writ of habe;
corpus, and they expect to '
ties to give him up.
"They pretend that the ? *
f.nd the supervisors is unfair Bttd ?
value now they openly denounce .*
Republican measure, adoptad for the purpo?
Of removing Democratic voter.? from the cit
ii order to obtain the Abolition triumph I
the next election.
"To-day they will work with all theil
because in one or two of the districts th
provost marshals intend to commence th
ta-k of arresting those who ?my no respec
t.? the notifications which have been sent t
them. Thus the Copperhead faction are do
termined to maintain for this city the bai
distinction they have earned for her by mur
der and riot of being the only place in th?
North where sympathy for Southern traitor1
is strong enough tor persistent effort against
the reinforcing of Union soldiers in t! ?
Let them be put down with the strOBg hand!'
The Copperheads Say
The Draft Is a Failure
And by consulting The Tribune for Sen
tomber 7 of the same year one finds thai
politics is generously mixed with the
questions of exemptions and the right of
suffrage:
"The Copperhead journals persist in the
work of dofaasiag, ridiculing ami discredit?
ing the attempt of the government to re?
inforce the I'nion armies by drafting. Here
are specimens of their assertion:?:
1. "'New .Jersey, Syracuse, etc.. arc doing
better by volunteering than could have bean
done by drafting."
"We answer the volunteer bragged of ?
a direct and palpable result of the dtatt.
The efforts instanced to raise volunteers
would never have been made hut to avoid the
draft, and not one in ten of the-.?? ?
volunteers would have been sal is ted Bl all
had there been no draft.
'_' " 'Trie druflcd did respond.'
"We answer, They did. Some are legally
exempt, others furnish substitutes; ai
fi-rther class pay the $30(1 for exemption: ?
ar.d others at once employed methods ?
? | the volunteering that the Co*:
l.erheaals proie?; to liki -o well. B..
ail by persona!
Thu army ara
? d.
?' The drafted men desert.'
But There Are Refutations?
.And Spades Are Called Spades
"We answer, No; the desertions are nearl
?11 'rom among the volunteers; that i?
?those who have freely bargained for ao muci
ubstitutes for ?Iraftc
B large class of scoundrel
; who make a business of enlisting for thi
' bounty, obtaining it, and then deserting
Of them havi- dune this half a dozet
il now shooting t
* | irorsl of thil clas* for examples
? ath salutary results. The drafti'd men wh?
as for service rarely desert
L " " ?*>'? II, at Sail events, the Republican;
? go to the war.'
"\v<* nee! thii sssegtloi by fact? thai eaa<
! rot !.. lyed. Consider ths: Severa!
have, through the action of Republi?
can legislatures allowed their soldiers in
? ??ai the Right |f Suffrage; and they
r;.\ e voted accordingly in every instance
, largi Republican majority. Their
are all recorded in the last Tribune
AimanSC, save those cast this year by the
'?'. eonsin Midlers, which also showed s
.erfte Ki publican majority.
"Xow, while the voles of the soldiers have
1 uniform!.- shown a large majority on the
. the votei of those staying
me have shown a corresponding* Re?
publican less, proving 'hut sending soldiers
t<i the Held has diminished our relative
strength at home.
"And, on the ether hand, California and
Oregon, which have sent very few soldiers
to tlie war, are more distinctly with u= to?
day than the) were ?vh?n the war broke out.
"Here is proof from three totally inde?
pendent quarters 1. iron the vote of the
which have HIM the ranks of our
armie-; '2, from thst of the state.? which have
i.or tilled them to any considerable extent;
?a the vote if the soldiers themseh? -
that about three-quarters of the defenders
of the Lnion wore drawn from the Repub
ranks. How can i*. be gainsayed? W
?The World." 'The Bxptoss' and 'The Albai
-' try their skill upon it?
"When they have ciphered through, 1
r skill on this:
"If the great body of our soldiers are pr
Slavery Democrat-:, why is it thai the legi
Irtors and governors of that party habi
ually oppose the attempts as systematical
made by Republicr.ii*- to extend to them tr
flight of Suffrage?"
There Were Grave Registration
Troubles?Misbehaving Figures
Apparently those responsible for th
Civil War draft encountered dithVulties i
a way, a small way, of course, compi'rab!
with those encountered to-day. On Se(
tomber l, W?, The Tribune describe
some of them as follows :
"Some singular misproportions occur, whicl
evidently arise from the behavior of the poo
pie in giving false residences, false name
and other misleading information, to the en
rolling officers. The lith Ward has but on.
drawn te M population, while the 2d War.
has one drawn in 11. The 2d. therefore fur
nishes four times her proportion; the 6tl
gets off with less than half her due.
"In tho upper part of the city proportions
are more equal. There are material differ
?BCOa in the numbers drawn in proportion to
the number of name.? put into the wheel, as
for instance: The 1st, 2d, ."'..I. 1th, 5th. ?th
and ?*th wards, forming the 4th Congress
District, ?Iraf'ed one in ten only from their
wheels, while the 12th, 10th and 22d 19th
Congress District i drew nearly one in three.
The average of the city was one drafted to
sis in the wheel.
"These discrepancies are les-? when we take
into consideration the movements of popu?
lation. While the lower wards have de?
creased in proportion since 1MO, the upper
wards have enormously increased. There are
now nearly '.lOn.OOO inhabitants in this city
and at least 130.000 voters (over 1241,00(1 were
registered two years ago).
?'The terrible draft, about which the Cop?
perheads make such an outcry, amounts to
about this: Deducting the 30 per cent fo
exemptions. 111.772 men are called for-abou
cre-seventieth of the people, or one out o
11 voters; t-r about one in 20 of the me
aliens included) rea?y able to take th
?eld.
"Had this been a Jeff Davis conscriptior
from sixteen to sixty, it would have take
; about 33 per cent of the entire male popu
! lation say 150,000 men and boys -exeep
those who could prove physical disability
no $300 would have saved them, nor woul.
any evasion or dodge avail.
"The United Sta'es gets less than one-tent*
as many, and, with the aid of the supervisors
has made the road to exemption so easy tha
1 all talk about the hardships of the draft II
nonsense where it is not treason.
Another Draft to Drag Out
Shirking Republicans
"The ?'oppcrheads still harp upon the ridic
ulous assumption that the army is compose?
mainly of Democrats I though they swear II
the next breath that the ?iraft was ordered
on purpose to get Democrats i. In eigh'
Democratic counties r.anted, including New
York and Kings, the Democratic vote fell off
only 9,354, while the Republican loss was 16,
768 yet none but Democrats volunteered, of
course. In the eight Republican counties
named Wadsworth's vote shows a falling off
from Lincoln's of 11?,424, while Seymour act.
ually gains 323 over Fusion yet none but
Democrats went to the war, of course.
"In the entire state the Republican loss
was ()').740; the Democratic loss was onty
.'?.??l yet the Wide-Awakes all shirked, of
course, and none but Democrats went into the
army. Allowing for the absence of voters
trom the state, the poll for Governor was
fully equal to that for President; it will not
be pretended that any considerable number
who voted for Lincoln failed to vote for
Wadsworth, and the same on the other side,
yet we lost eleven where the Democrats lost
one yet none but Democrats went to the
war!
"Indeed, we fear we must have another
draft to drag out those shirking Republicans
who are lurking at home to elect Governors
while the hard-fisted are all gone to the war!"
A Century of Steam Transportation on the Great Lakes
The Gradual Modernizing
of Transportation Methods
Has Revolutionized Traffic
on the Inland Seas?How?
ever, Sailors Are Still Sailors
_/T T HAS been a stirring century, this
| century of steam," writes George
X W. Stark In "The Outlook." Just
100 years ago, it seems, the first steam
propelled vessel was launched on the
Great Lakes. And this writer goes on to
explain in what manner the century has
been momentous:
"A century of steam on the great chain of
inland waterways has sired cities whose roar?
ing furnaces and belching ?tacks have trans?
formed the primitive lake country of one
hundred years ago into a commercial epic,
written in fire and water. That century of
steam has seen the rise of a new dynasty of
the princes of industry. These are the men
who have toiled with hand and brain to get
the most of what the Croat Lakes country
has to offer.
"One hundred years ago one steam-pro?
pelled vessel ventured into the broad reaches
of Take Ontario. To-day an argosy, the larg?
est fleet of freight-carriers in the world,
steams in proud procession from Ruffalo to
Duluth and back again."
Checking Up on the
Freight Transportation
Mr. Stark reminds the reader that an
immense amount of labor has perfore?
accompanied this development ?if com?
merce. Aside from the production of
tonnage, it has been necessary to con?
struct locks and droalge almost countless
channels. After going into some detail
in this connection he turns to the matter
of freight :
"A vivid reflection of the vast quantities
of freight carried over this inland waterway
is contained in the latest statistical report of
lake commerce passing through the canals
at Sault Bte. Marie. This report is for the
10ir> season of ravigation. and was prepared
by the 1'nited States Engineering Depart
ment. It shows that the total freight traffic
through the canals last season was 01 .RKS.210
tons, an increase of 20 per cent, or 20..V?7.!M?
tons, for 1015.
"Even these ligures fall short of the mark
set at Detroit in 101**-. fine of the proud
boasts of this remarkable city is that more
freightage passes along its river front than
at any other point in the world. The I
States engineers' report that last season the
commerce which passed through the Detroit
River is estimated in freight tons at too,'.hit,
270, the estimated ralas of which is fs'iven as
llfiS9j9VI 187.
"Let it be remembered, too, that the scaron
ration on the Great Lakes lasts only
through eight month?.
"Th???e figures convey an approximate idea
of what the Croat Lakes have done and are
doing to-day for America."
And again :
The bulk of lake tonnage consists of iron
ore, coal, grain, flour and lumber, with their
dacts. Th?? ore trade has boon the
mainspring of lake com merco. It originate?
on Lake Superior end the northern portion
?1 Lake Michigan, and moves east and south
port.? of Lake F.rie, to South Chicago
and Gary. This groa? mountain of metallic
lock, containing in a singl?' year ell
fifty million tons, is moved by a magnificent
Heat of carriers.
"Ranking second in tonnage on the Great
Lakes i.? the roal trade. Of the other bulk
cargo? - grain forms the thitd important com?
modity.''
The writer finds that the Great Lake
IN peculiarly rich in ncoids of -hip
wreck. He says:
"It is interesting to note that no similai
area of any ocean, if suddenly stripped 01
its volume of wntpr, would expose to humar
gaze a larger number of sunken ships 01
more valuable cargoes than lie at the bottom
of these inland weters. A record kept be?
tween the years 187S and 1>*0R reveals the
startling fact that in that period (.999 ships
were wrecked on the Great Lakes, and 1,093
of these were total losses. The loss of
cargo during the score of years was nearly
SS.000,000 "
And the element of superstition i.s, at
this point, touched upon:
"Some of these vessels disappeared almost
as mysteriously as did the Griffin in the brave
old days of exploration. They were never
hraral from again. \o wreckage floated
ashore. The Great Lakes hid well their se?
crets. Navigators of the northern lakes li?
lil? that there are portions of Lake Superior
where it is impossible to find the bottom.
The superstition is that some ships that have
gone down at sea are held forever in this
unfathomable pit beneath the waters.
"Like the sailors of the salt seas, the men
who navigate th.> inland waters are a super
' stitious loi Almost every wreck that marks
the history of the lakes is the inspiration of
?OSSS weird, fantastic story that by frequent
repetition assumes the dignity of truth in the
sailor's ready mind. One such superstition
that il (irmly rooted in the minds of all
Great Lakes navigators concerns the mys?
terious wreck of the Bannockburn.
"She was a big, powerful freighter, carry?
ing a crew of twenty-two men. She cleared
1 Duluth on a day in the late fall. What hap?
pened to her will never be known. She went
1 out in the morning, and was last sighted the
next evening. That was the end. For more
than a year the chill waters of Lake Superior
guarded well their secret. Then one day
an oar was found floating along the drift?
wood of the bleak north shore. A piece of
tarpaulin was wrapped securely around it,
and when this was removed it was found
that the word Bannockburn was scraped into
the wood. The oar is all that remains to-day
i to tell the story of the missing freighter.
"According to the queer twist given the
I story by the sailors of the inland seas, the
Bannockburn is supposed to be the Flying
, Dutchman of the Great Lakes. Sometimes at
night, when the chill north wind sweeps
across the swollen bosom of Lake Superior
and the stinging 'ice devils' fill the air, the
lookout on some lonely point calls loudly to
his companions and points to where he
imagines the Bannockburn, all white with ice
and ghastly in the darkness, is slipping
through the black mystery of the lake."
A Freighter of the Old Days
The Great Modern Freighter
?Photos published by courtesy of The Outlook
Daylight and Bad
Taste
S
OME of the motion picture prod-w^
are fighting dea'h, others are ??l
ing taxes, and all of them arefU,
i ing the "More Daylight" movement. D?
g?tions of motion picture men have im.
neyed to Washington to help ward of _
proposed Federal "daylight" bill. *?V,
attitude is disc'osed by "The Ums\.
Picture World," which Bvag*,
"The members of the *--eiiate and
House of Representatives who sr? ?_,
?.ating this measure do not realii?. ??*?.,,
?rill mean to the motion pn-'ure busia?a,
It is a menace which is not exceeds?! ?o.
by a heavy war tax 'daylight saving* smmu
mean the cutting in half of the Tttjm*,
from theatres and open-air parks.
"In an interview with the Washii).*_
correspondent of 'The Moving Pi??.
World' a prominent, nationally know*,
hibitor said: "I hone that the exhibit??
of the United State.? ?a ill awaken to ?_
fact that "daylight saving" .s pending-tfca*
if the (aider bill is adopted by the S?**.*.
or the original Horland bill, or its sak.t
tute amended, is pas?c?l by the Hou??, _
one or the other agreed upon by both I
will be found that the motion picture bai'.
ness will be hampered to an extent ???
?Ireamed of. Everywhere that they bit?
"daylight saving' and motion picture? j
will find that the former is aecompli?bii?
little, while the latter is losing much."
At the same time the picture men an
in fear of special taxes on admissions ?r
upon total earnings. Rut the bi-****-*-?
fight which confronts them, according to
Aleister Crowley, is the fight against u
tistic degeneration. Mr Crowley m***?, in
"Vanity Fair":
"It is bad taste and not the world ????
-which is killing the movies. Bad Ui!?
in every direction. In the first pi??, ti,
wretches in power, when they get a ?*,.
fectly competent author say a noveli??. ??
great repute will not trust him at all Tb?
great writer's story has always b?*?ri t
'movie on the screen of the author's mind
It was complete in every picture, befo--* h?
ever put pen to paper. Rut the prodtic
ing wretches do not know that. Th??r '?
! not realize that he has done the thinr
right. They do not even reali-e this in ta?
i case of a famous novel- or play wher? ?
i long success has proved it. These pr?.
posterous people do not understand that
they insult the public and make themseh?
ridiculous into the bargain when they offer
to 'improve' Victor Hugo, to bring Duress
'up to date,' to put 'punch* into Ibsen, a
to 'alter' history a bit in order to (give
Joan of Arc an earthly lover"
From Japan, from China an?! from Ru?
sia come reinforcements to the real art
side of motion pictures. A Russian com?
pany proposes the filming of the <*th!
Russian dramatic piece*.. Of this tarnt
ment "The Dramatic Mrrnr" MjrB'
"The works of Tolstoy, Dostoivsky. Turgt
nieff, Sienkiewici, Pushkin, Ostiaesky and
Andrieff in filmed form will soon be a*
familiar to the patrons of American motion
picture theatres as they are now familiar
in book form to the cultured publics of al'
the European countries. The Russian Ar*
Film Corporation has just started a cam?
paign for the popularization Of thes? au?
thors in this country.
"It is generally acknowledged that th?
Slav novelists tower head and shoulder?
above any o*her national school of fiction.
Great Britain and France alone excepttd
Tolstoy has celebrated the g'ories of P.u?
sia rolling back the tide of Napoleonic in?
vasion; Sienkiewicz, the SSartial grander
of antique Poland in age-b.rg wars sM
all its neighbor? and with itself.
"No one can fail to realize the ?pecUrii
lar possibilities of Tolstoy's 'War aid
Peace,' or, on the other hand, Sienki??:?'?
mighty trilogy, 'With Fire ar?l Sword,' '?'*
Delugt' and 'Pan Michael."
The Virtues of Cheese
AMERICAN cheddar cheese is a most
satisfactory substitute for meat
and may be made the important
protein di?h of a meal, say food spe?
cialists of the United .States Department
t.f Agriculture. Too many people u.se
cheese only as an appetizer. Since it com?
pares very favorably with meat in pro
j tein content and can be kept and served
easily, its wider use is advocated by the
department, which, in a report on the
! subject, continues:
"Contrary to the opinion of many, Ched?
dar or "store" cheese is not usually indi
, ga'stible and constipating. Extensive diges
! tion experiments conducted by the depart?
ment have demonstrated that more than 95
! ncr cent of the protein in cheese Is digested
1 and that 00 per cent of its energy is avail
I able. Even when eaten in large quantities
and for long periods, no case of indigestion,
i constipation or other disturbance was ob?
served in those who ate it. One person who
ate cheese as the chief source of protein
and energy, eating an average of 9.27 ounces
daily for more than two years, did a fair
amount of muscular work and kept in good
! health.
"The value of cheese in comparison with
some of the common meats is shown in the
following tables:
"One pound of Amreican cheddar cheese
contains as much protein as 1.57 pounds of
sirloin steak, 1.35 pounds of round steak,
1.89 pounds of fowl, 1.79 pounds of smoked
ham and 1.81 pounds of fresh ham.
"To supply energy, also, cheese is one of
i the best food products. On the basis of
energy supplied one pound of cheese equals
10S pounds of .?irloin steak, 2.61 pounds of
round steak, 2.52 pounds of fowl, 1.17
pounds of smoked ham and 1.29 pounds of
fresh ham.
"Thus it is seen that a pound of cheese
supplies more than twice as much energy as
a pound of fowl or round steak and almost
twice as much protein as the same amount
of fowl or ham.
"Cheese may be used in many palatable
dishes. VS hen grated it may be used in
soups or ?*?ith many vegetables. Other foods'
| with which cheese is used are macaroni and
| cheese, Welsh rabbit, tomato rabbit, bake 1
I rice and chi'cse, baked crackers and cheese,!
vegetabl" and cheese rolls, rheete or.?!-".
| oatmeal and cheese and ebeesi muah.
"Recipes and further information ir? **.?"'
in Farmers' Bulletin 487, "?'heese tai M
Economical Uses in the Diet," which may I*
obtained free on applicat": te 'he Depart
ment of Agriculture, Wa-h.rgton, D. C
How to Can Sweet Com
THE United States Department el
Commerce has just issoed the fol?
lowing directions d? -'* :'
the thrifty housewife ?rho II aaVastmi*
conserve summer's supplies for winter?
use:
Can as soon after the corn il -??there?) ***
possible. Remove husks and * ? B'***c
by placing in boiling water far See mini?***
Remove and dip quickly into and <??*? *? c***
water. Cut the corn from the c?'o ar.d **
directly into hot jars or cans to *.?. ?.:h?n ?n"
fourth inch of the top. Pour in < r.ough bo1*;
ing water to fill the container AHH one le-*?1
teaspoonful of salt to each quart
rings and caps of jars into po ' on, but
not tighten the wire clamps. Seel tin '-*1
completely. ,
Place containers on a false bottom ?
wooden slats or wire mesh in a veal?'
water deep enough to cover the contai"*?
completely. K*en the water boiling for thre?
hours.
Remove the jars, tighten covers, 'n
jars to test seal, and cool : not m ????? ***
jars might crack?. .
Tin cans may be placed in cold water
rapid cooling.
After the containers are cool *A "
dark, cool place.
Rapid preparation for canning '.< tSM
cially desirable for eorn if a good qualn
of product is to be obtained. The best 1
suits can be seTiured when one persona to
the corn from the cob and another ""*
container?. If it ii necessary for one vtr?
to work alone sbe should cut off fXi9]e]
corn to fill one jar, pour on heillef *"* ^
iidd salt, place the rubbers and c?p"flt|
position, and put the jar or container '
hot water at once. The extra cookinf* ? *
will be given to the cana first filled will ^
be injurious and a better product *>'
secured than if the cut corn were *>*?
to stand until all jan were filled.