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Something About the Workings
of the Food Administration
Department and the Campaign to be
Launched in Fremont County
“TbUr is the day of the selective >
draft. Relieving that you will wclcom*
the opportunity to serve your country
in its time of need 1 would like very
much to have you act uh Food Admin- <
istrator in Fremont county.”
Such was the imi»ortani part of u
telegram 1 received u few da>* ago j
from Mr. Thomas 13. Stearns, Federal ‘
Food Administrator for Colorado.
1 must confess it gave me quite «
•shock. 1 saw visions of much hard j
, work and some trouble. “Food Ad ■
mlnslrator” has quite a forinidabl< ■
round. It sounds like regulation an»i
difficult dealing with grocer*, butch i
era. bilkers and food dealers in gener
al- I wired Mr. Si*atns that I would;
come to leaver and talk the mattei
over.
1 went to Denver and on Friday at I
tended a conference of Food Admin :
;M rat ora from Colorado and Wyoming
Alter aitting in with this bunch of a ;
hundred earnest men and women. I
busy Industrious people from all over ( i
the state all day and listening to the
eloquent talks of Mr. frhlward F i
Trefz and Mr. J. H. Andrews, repre . i
seating Mr Hoover, of Washington,;!
IX t\. and others, I wouldn't have the j
nerve to decline if the work and both
••r were ten times as much as I had '
imagined.
This is a time when every man and j
woman ought to put every posslbb h
< ffort into winning this war. Not only
the men and women in other states 1
and the boys in the array—but everj ;
and woman in Canon City and'
Fremont county. ! I
Fremont county has sent nearly three
hundred men tq
-eady In France Those men have giv
en up employment and business, com j
# ort« and luxury. They are living a }
life of hardship and toil The training
o. a soldier is no Sunday school, ptc j
air. His whole plan of life has been '
interrupted and few will be able tc 3
lnk< up their business life where the>
left off on their return
When you think what they are con
tributing to the nation’s cause—wha
their sacrifices h&vc b eom»-ovMfi ns id- :
from all dancers of battle and *al>|<
marine—it tnakes all the efforts that i
tr who stay at home contribute
insignificant indeed.
So I reason for myself in accept |
•lg this un wished for rr-porsiblliiy ■
jiul I reason for you gentle reader
—for the workings *»f this department ;•
,*f Keib-ral Pood Administration will J
touch every family tn Fremont coun l
t> In order to carry out the insttuc
non* of the President and Mr. Ilooy-1
er and Mr. ’Stearns, it will be n«»co#-
sary to have a small army of worker*
all over the county In the first pine* l
/» ji executive, commit!r». will be or •
mniced and this comnilUee will call
on peop’a who seem best rateable of
! |>« i forming the work in every precinct
>1: the county.
VIESTCIjFFE NEWS
(Wet Mountain Tribune)
Will Nelson came up from Canon
City Tuesday to give Ibo ‘‘appul” out
look the "once over.” On second
thought, however, he decided to per
form the mining stunt. Not so much
oil or us hie a knock-down as is ob
tain«*d from “fruitful” labor, but mil
should squlbble. ,
Mrs. James Ryan and son I>oon
drove to Canon City Inst Sunday to ac
company Miss Mae Case that far on
her return to her home In Missouri.
Miss* Case has been with relatives
yere for the post two year*.
l»r. Pearson, veterinary, of Canon
City, spent a few days with relatives
in Roaita the latter patl of last week
Miss Amelia Rouker left for Canon
City Thursday to remain for a while
SHERWOOD EOOY TO
SPcIK IN DENVER
An Imporlnni conference of Iroillnß
men from every county of the elate
halt been called to meat In Denver on
October 2«th to eonnlaer Important 1
mntterH relating to the morale of the
American anti Allied armloa.
Mr. Oconto Sherwood Eddy of New
York will address this meetlnc. Mr.
Eddy Is one of the International B<-c
retsrles of ths Y.If.C.A. and has spent
many months In ths different wnr
tones. He has had many conferences
with Oenersl Pershing sad with the
lenders ot the English. French tnd
Itn'lnn armies and Is probably ns well
acquainted with their needs, other
I ton strictly military, on nap man la
By GUY U. HARDY
We hope that those called on will
; fed honored, wllf cheerfully accept 1
md perform the serv ice desired anu
that we will have no slackers in our !
county.
I was pleased to And that we will
‘lave nothing whatever to do with '
; prices of food nor with the regulation j
iof dialers. Not at present at least. 1
The first big task for our county or-;
-'animation is the Card Campaign.
This campaign will be palled off ,
[October 2&th to November 4th .and a
similar campaign will be going on the
name week In every city, town and
school district in the United States.
The object is to get every house
. wife and cook In the country *to sign
he “Pledge Card of United States
. Food Administration.”
The card you will aigi\ says merely:
• ”To The Food Administrator:
“1 am glad to join you in the ser
■ ice of food conservation for our Na
tion and I hereby accept membership
i in the United States Food Administra ;
1 ion. pledging myself to carry out th<
directions and advice of the Food Ad
; rninistraton lb my home, insofar as
; ray circumstances permit.”
j That is all.
And the cost is abnotately not hi nr
Carrying out the plans of the Food
, Administrator costs nothing but on the'
I-»fher hand will work a great saving in
jthe household.
After a lady signs this Pledge Card
j ■‘he is given a Home Card which is a
. ard of instructions and suggestions
' o be read and hung in the kitchen for
i future reference. Also a Membership
ard which is to be hung in the front
J window, to show tc the world that
chat household has joined the Food.
, Administration.
! Now the campaign to get the**
■ard* signed by even* woman in Pro
! liant county Is the big job before us
The campaign week Is Oct. 2H to
Nov. 4th.
The organisation will include an ex
-cutive committee, a chairman for
-acb city or general district, a captain
■tr ♦‘sch city precinct or county school
llstiict and several lieutenants In
; ach precinct Who will go out and get
i he Pledge Cards signed. We will call
, be signer* of the cards the privates
! n the greatest array of volunteers
ver ruif*«*d to win n war
And ft surely is this g-eat army of
; volunteer signers of those Food Pledge
'’ardw that will win the War—for It
s been thoroly demonstrated that |t
I* F«»od that will win this war. And
*ie necessary food for our army in
* ance and for the army of our AMie*
ill along the battle fronts cannot b**,
-ovided In any other way than by th«*
oluntecr restriction of the con stun p
‘“Mon of a few certain kinds of food in
, he 20 million homes of America
Of a’l the nec«»t«slty for this—of th«-
great shortage of meats, wheat, but
• r and sugar tn France and England
be world. Mr Kddy is also a bril-i
; liant and foreeful speaker of wide rep
utatlon.
j At this conterence wtll be consid 1
on*d what are Colorado’s responsibil
ities in this world crisis and how they
should be met. There is not a town or
village in the state but now baa-rep
tesontailve* either at the battle front
»r in truming to go there. They know .
they are to meet dangers, but they j
will also meet temptations never j
dreamed of before. Shall we allow
hem to fight these latter battles un
aided or shall we surround them with I
helps and safe-guards that will enable
them to return to us (if they escape;
death in the battlefield) clean and
pure in body and mind and with theii !
high ideals unsullied?
The railroads have made reduced
rates for all who wish io attend the
‘iceting And it is hoped there may be
ppresontat Ives from every county in j
he state. Mr. W. S. Hopkins, the
tato secretary of the Y.M.C.A. is in
charge of the arrangements and will;
>«• glad to give any further Informa j
on. H*» may be addressed at room
; 22. Association Building, Denver.
.
FOUR MINUTE MEN ARE
DOIN6 VALUABLE SERVICE
This morning Gov. James H. Pea-j
body, chairman of the local branch of
| the Four-Minuto-Men, received the fol
'owing telegram from Secretary %f the
, Treasury Wm. G. McAdoo.
Washington, D. C.. Oct. 14.
i fames H. Peabody,
Cmnon City. Colo.
The- Four-Minute-Men are » mighty
nod potential Influence In the success
i of tfcg Lisbrty Lena. They did an Sm
THE CANON CITY RECORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER Ifl, 1917.
I >ou have read in your newspaper* art.l
lagaxines. Yon will hear much more
:: fit in the next two weeks. In the
•ast we have grown to look on tills as
e have on the starving Armenians, i
and famine-stricken Chinese, as a
r-fliing apart from our lives —a tbinc
vre deplore but cannot help.
Put now that we have two hundred
thousand American boys in France. ,
and by spring will have a million more |,
Vmer lean boys In France, and some of
: hese boys are from Fremont county—!
, :‘rom Canon City, Florence, Penrose.
I | tnd the coal camps-ll becomes our j
: :mmediate concern.
We must save in our own home in j
, >rd»*r that these men fighting for our
-.rountry—for our own county—may .
t)e tad.
i And some of us must volunteer and ,
accept assignments to put this Card i,
. ' Campaign over. It will be up to some •
.; jf us to show the p*-ople the way they I
, ' ••an serve their country in this time of:.
i re distress.
And I want to say to you people ,
who will be asked to serve in this ‘
, 1 short campaign of only a week, that
while at first the task seemed apa’lint:
'o me. as it opens up and the organ! j,
' ration begins to unfold if begins to ,
I look like no task at all. It will be a j
■ week of pleasant, agreeable service.'
; one of tbc finest works of patriotic j
| endeavor ever undertaken in this.-
I county. If workers -espond cheerfully
~tt will not require more than three .
; hour* a day for about a week of any
person's time who poe* out with the |
( Pledge Cards. You are asking for no ;
money You have nothing to sell. You
are doing every person a service who]
signs the card and you will come in j
from your day’s work with the glow o! !
pride known only to the noldier who
ha* been victorious in battle or of he !
who has served his feltowman.
And let me impress upon you all
you who will be asked to serve, and
you who will be given the opportunity
■ to sign this Pledge Card—that this it*
i not the scheme of any society or or-
I -miration or of any set of individual
i 'adists but it is the work of the
: United States government and our In*
I structions coroe direct from Mr. Her
bert Hoover. United State* Food Ad
i ralnistrator, working under the direc
tion of the President of the United
States.
ny this grand and noble volunteer
•flfort it is hop**d to accomplish the
«nme ends in this free land of ours
hnt are worked out b> compulsion
i under some of the autocratic natiope
now at wnr.
We must f»-«»d the armi* s that a»-e j
1 fighting for us In France—and this is
he only method known at this time
hr which it may l>e accomplished.
Your hearty co-operation wllf make
u% remont county the banner county in
Colorado in this magnificent patriotic 1
I endeavor. G. U. H.
mensely valuable and patriotic service
in the first Überty Loan and I count
with genuine satisfaction upon their
enthusiastic support and service in r
playing the second Liberty Ixmn God
speed every Four Minute Man in the
toble work.
FOLKS WE ALL KNOW
llrre comes the Editor's Friend, wltb
n Hunk ot Copy, sway ahead of Ttine.
lie knows that All tlia Type Isn’t sot In
the last Poor Hoars before (olnff to
l’rees. And wheu be orders Job work,
bo says, -Wont need It for a Week."
Ho can here Anything be wants, even
the Office Towel.
f Children Cry
• FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTO R I A
LETTER FROM LIEUT. MCUM
GOING OVER-SENS
A letter has just been received by |
ihe parents of Lieut. Ernest J. Me
Lain written aboard ship in which
Lieut. Melanin says:
”1 am in the harbor here ‘Some
where in Canada.” I would like very
much to tell you where i am and de
scribe this interesting place but beins
censored makes it an ImpoFKlbilty.
“Five days ago I hurt my right hand i
;In life boat drill and today is the first 1
day I have been able to use it at all
“I am feeling wonderful and have
i fine time. It is all so interesting. I
have seen more things already than
he ordinary man is privileged to see
in a life time and I am only started on
my trip. The sea, so far has been very
calm and failing Is fine. All has been a
pleasure. The meals are fine and ar
.-ommodations first class. *'
“1 have seen ships of all kinds and
lescriptions from four-masted sailing
: vessels to Kngiish armored cruisers
ind torp**do boats.
*‘Many time* while 1 stood on the
Jeck watching the wonderful sunset
and surroundings have I wished for
all of you to be with me any enjoy it.
“I have talked to Canadians who
•iave returned from the front and they ,
the very interesting and exceedingly
ociable sort of fellows. The English*
and Canadian people are fine and they
eat me as though I was on** of them
“The third day out on our trip one
if the fellows let out a shout that he
*aw a submarine, but of course it was
mistake. What he saw was an im
rnense whale, in fact there w*s a
whole school of them. They passed very ;
;-Tose to our ship. Also I saw a shark
and a tortoise.
“There is just so much that I would
! ke to write and so little than I can
hat it is almost impossible to com
po*e a letter.”
COUNTESS OF ESSEX
Recent photograph of the beautiful
countess of Ks«*x. who. before hei
marriage to the **arl In 1803, was Miss
Adele Grunt of New York, daughter of
Ilt-ach Grant.
Market for Old Copper.
France Is now in the market ns n
purchaser of copper at home. In the
ihnpc of utensils. Just as other coun
ties have been for a long time. For
the present the government Is seeking
principally old copper “alembic*,” or
liquor stills, of un almost obsolete pat
tern that are found In some regiou*.
Although it purchase* any copper ob
ject offered for sale. Since copper stills
rannot readily be shifted from point
:o point by their owners, the govern-
Brnt ha» organised a series of collec
tion parties, each under command of
• n officer, which are touring several
xf the departments and picking up
fucta copper ns is offered for sale. The
government offers 4 franco (80 cents)
per kilogram. /
The half dozen departments where
the collection tours are taking place
have been notified of the exact day
tnd hour when the collectors may be
expected to arrive. In all 177 towns
In six departments are being visited.
Meanwhile the government maintains
Paris a sort of old copper feendqunr
tors at 2 Avenue de Saxe, when
utensils and Object* of all kinds tirade
of red copper may be turned In at 4
francs the kilo.
A Sure Way.
"What Is n good way to get rid of
angle worm* l» a garden?”
“ThO Ue*t way 1 know Is to plan a
fishing trip. There won’t be a worm
there when you go to look for them.”
Cooking.
Girls have their own Ideas about
ettoklng. What’s fun on a chafing dish
Is w ork on a stove. —Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Killing Hunger.
According to an Italian physician,
the channel from the mouth to the
stomach is the seat of the souses of i
hunger and thirst, which he claims to j
have suppressed by cocaine Injec
tions.
Hot Stuff.
Recently a Frenchman Invented it
electric furnace In which all the opera
tioa« of tanking and refining gins* are
carded on continuously with the some
Mrca of Boat.
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HaJ Shepard glanced at his watch.
•There’s only u half hour before the
stage comes.” he announced, “and you
haven’t answered my quest Ion."
The girl beside him drew a deep
breath.
'Til answer it now.” she replied. "I
can’t come.”
"Won’t you be sensible. Madeline?”
he pleaded. "You know I want you
to come, don’t you?”
"Yes, 1 think 3*oo do—now.”
"Then why won’t you?”
"Because I think that two weeks
from now* you’ll be sorry you asked
me.”
'That’s nonsense. You know It Is.”
Madeline Gilman shook her h**ad.
"It isn’t nonsense. Let's look at this
thing fairly. Hal. A month ago yon
came up here In the mountains to rest
from too many dances. You didn’t ex
pect to find anybody but a lot-of farm
ers, and when yon discovered me here,
the simple fact that I’m not altogether
a farmer was such a surprise that you
haven’t quite gotten over it. Com
pared to the ordinary run of farm
girls, perhaps, I am something of a re
lief. but as soon’as you get back home
and see the girls you’re accustomed to
you’ll forget all abont me.”
"Then you won’t come?”
"I guess not. Hal. I’m all right up
here, where uu assembly ball is a
thing unknown: but down in Rfdue
field. with its country club and after
noon teas. Td he ont of place. You’ll
like me better If I don’t go to the
assembly.”
For a moment. Hal Shepard was si
lent. It occurred to him that possi
bly the girl beside him was right. Cora
in* to the little mountain village a
month ago. he had been pleasantly
surprised to Cm! her. They had been
together almost continually, and the
freshness of her viewpoint, her lack
of affection, had appealed to him no
less than the blue of her eyes and the
rose tint of her cheeks. The Gilmans
had li\cd In Mountrille for three gen
erations : comfortably fixed, they had
reaped the harvest season after sea
son. and had pursued the even tenor
of their ways.
Tm sorry yon won’t come.” he
said. "I was hoping that you’d change
your mind the last minute.”
"No.” she answered. Tve thought
It all out."
"Do you mind singing just once be
fore I leave for home?”
"Of course not.”
They made their way together tc
the oozy house on the top of the hill.
After she had seated herself at the
piano Madeline looked up inquiringly.
“What shall I sing?” she asked.
"Forgotten.”
Flnl thrilled jnst a bit as the word*
of whet they had designated their
song broke softly from the girl’s tips.
"If counting each moment of longing
Till the time when I see you again
If this t»e forgetting, you’re right,
dear.
And I have forgotten yon £hen.”
When the Inst notes died away. Ha!
looked directly at the girl beside him.
"Til never forget you.” he said rath
er huskily.
For the next two week* It seemed
as if he conldn’t forget her for a single
minute. The Friday night dances at
the Country club were soulless af
fairs. Even the presence of a coun
try-famed orchestra failed to arouse
his enthusiasm. The girl® whom he
had once considered "good sports"
failed to amuse him.
The night before the assembly he
took supper with his sister, who
broached the subject of the dance.
"Do you know that Cynthia Thomp
son hasn’t been invited?” she asked.
"How is that?”
T couldn’t say: it just happened
that way. Maybe she’d go with you if
you should ask her.”
"Maybe she would.” Hal manifest
ed hut little enthusiasm, but his sis
ter. anxious to do a good turn to Cyn
thia. ventured a suggestion.
“Why don’t you call her up?” she
asked.
For n moment Hal hesitated. "May
be I will.” he said. Hal turned to the
’phone. Rut the number he culled was
"Mountvllle 420 R.” When Madeline,
who had answered the call, recovered
from her surprise, he informed her
gently hut firmly that he had decided
that he didn’t want to go to the as
sembly hall without her. and so he
wasn’t going nt all.
*Tni coming up to MountvilTe in
stead.” he continued. "I can g* t the
three o’clock train Friday and reach
there at eight-thirty. And then 1
want to ask you a question."
Rut he didn't tell her what the ques
tion was until he had climbed down
from the rickety stage and had seen
the light of welcome In her eyes.
And then, after she had answered
In th« affirmative, he made his way
hesitatingly Into the dining room and
stated his vase before her father. And
Mr. Gilman, honest farmer that hi
was. looked fairly Into Hal's eyes, and
was satisfied.
(Copyright. 1317. bv the McClure Newspa
per {syndicate.)
Rad Latter Day.
"Good heavens! Johbles Is bchavtaf
like a man craxy with joy. lias some
body left him a fortune?”
"No.”
"Maybe some prophet told him th*
war would noon be over!”
"Oh. no. Bis baby has just said Ma
do* to him over the teletdame for tSi<
ftiat time.**—-Birmingham AfeHmld
WOMAN STEALS
ANOTHER BABY
Mother, Frantic Over the Loss of
Her Own Infant, Resorts
to Theft.
FOOLS HER HUSBAND
Man, Home From Extended Business
Trip, Believes Child His Own,
Until Police Reveal Age
Discrepancy.
Boston.—When Mrs. Josephine M.
Blaine of Dorchester. Mass., entered
*he Boston Homeopathic hospital, ou
♦he eve of motherhood, she did so with
high hopes and ambitious for the lit
tle one that was to be brought into
being. The baby came and died. When
the mother was told, she lay as if
stunned and her life was despaired
of. But nature was strong and the
woman recovered sufficiently to de
part for her home m few days ago.
Leaving the hospital, a frail little
woman clothed In somber black. Mrs.
Bialne did not take a car to her home.
Instead, she walked, brooding over an
Inestimable loss, picturing her greet
ing. when she should meet her hus
band. wl» was on a business trip and
had not learned of the baby’s death,
bat was on Ids way home to meet his
wife and their little one.
Real Mother Discovers Loss.
As she passed a store in the heart
of the shopping district she saw three*
baby carriages unattended. She peered
Into one of them. A lusty little fel
low was sleeping quietly. Without a
moment’s hesitation she pushed the
carriage down the street and took the
baby home.
Meanwhile the real mother, after
making her purchase, left the store
and looked in vain for the baby and
carriage. She notified the police and
In a short time clews were obtained
that focused about the home of Mrs.
Blaine. An officer entered the house
and inquired of the woman as to the
number of persons in the household.
Mrs. Blaine named her hushanu. her-
Pushed the Carriage Down the Street.
self, and their hnhy. five months old.
Ue asked to see the child after a
brief Interview with the husband, who
replied to an inquiry by stating that
the baby was about three weeks old.
Finding she was trapped, Mrs. Blaine
broke down and confessed.
Law Steps In.
Mrs. Agnes Law. the real mother of
the baby, was summoned and identi
fied her child. She. too. cried, first
with joy. then with u woman’s sym
pathy for another. The law stepp-»d
in ur.d Mrs. Blaine was taken to a sta
tion house, charged with kidnupiUg
Noting her condition, officers suggest
ed that she be removed to a hospital
for treatment. Her husband, shonc'-d
but loyal, accompanied her and spetit
the night in consoling the grief-strick
en woman. It is not believed the
charge of kidnaping will he prosecuted
by the authorities.
WONT LET HIM BE EXEMPTED
New York Woman Writes to Authori
ties That She Is Not Dependent
on Husband.
Albany. N. Y. —Not all women In
New York state want their huhbit s
kept off the firing line. Mrs. Mildred f.
Mount, postmistress o* Oftott. Niagara
, county, doesn’t, for one.
The avljutaut general’s office has re
ceived a communication from Mrs.
Mount in which she takes issue w<th
her husband. Harry Blower Mount, on
the matter of dej»endeucy. Postmls
1 tress Mount declares thut her husband
registered on June 5 and claimed ex
emption from military service on the
grounds that he was an assistant post
muster in the service of his wife. This.
Mrs. Mount says, doesn't Jibe with the
facts. Her husband, according to the
letter, has been employed oa the Inter
national railway for about two months
prior to refletratton and had hi no way
assisted hjr la the office.
"1 am perfectly capable of caring fqg
my two children mad myself.” the post
mistress wrote, and to clinch the case
added "and tail m way dependent
1 upon him.”
THREE