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Newspaper Page Text4 CHE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLAKTA. GA.. 5 NORTH FOISTTM ST.- Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve months & c Six months * c Three months The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tues day and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all o\er the world, broug by special leased wires Into our office. It has a sta of distinguished contributors, with strong depart ments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed Outfit free. Write R R- BRAD LET. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C- Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff. J- M. Patten. W. H. Reinhardt. M H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing yoor paper shows the time your sabscrlptlon expiree. By renewing at least two weeks bo ws tbs date on this label, you insure regular eerrlce. Is ordering paper changed, be sure to mention yoor old. «» 'well as yoor new address. If on a route, please glee the route ,U, W« eannet eater subscriptions to begin with back numbem. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered Address sU orders aad notices for this Department to THE SKMI-WEEKLY JQVRNAL. Atlanta. Ga. Our Troops in the Trenches. General Pershing's announcement that Amer ican troops are now in first line trenches on the Western front with American artillery behind them is a matter of deep and stirring significance. This, the first contingent of our expeditionary force to enter actually in the fighting, may not number more than a few battalions; the sector on which they are stationed may be quiet compared with other parts of the ever-stressful battle line in Trance: and the primary purpose of putting them In the trenches at this juncture may be merely to ‘steel them for greater adventures ahead and to give them experience which they can apply to the training of other contingents. But the fact re mains that they are there—OUß men, fighting for our liberty and homes and for the cause of hu manity and civilization. At last America is in the war with all her being—her treasure, her faith and her best heart's blood. For months past, indeed from the day we ac cepted Germany’s challenge, the United States has been effectively tn the war. The millions of dol lars lent our allies, the speeding-up of our ship building program to offset their tonnage losses, the entrance of a flotilla of American destroyers [into the thick of the campaign against U-boats, the I important patrol duties assumed by units of our navy and its still more important service in con voying tens of thousands of soldiers, together with vast quantities of military supplies, safely across the Atlantic —through these and kindred activities, we have been actually and powerfully in the war. So quietly have they proceeded that the American public has been but faintly impressed. But Ger many has been intensely impressed, particularly since the establishment of the embargo that is com pletely cutting off her food imports from adjacent neutrals and since the mighty oversubscription of the second Liberty loan In which she reads the immovable purpose of the American people. But when all Is said and done, the most im pressive and the most djrectly potent force through which to express our national sentiment and will is not money, fiot embargoes, not com mercial and diplomatic measures, but MEN bear ing our flag to the battle front and glorifying our cause with their lives. That is the deep signifi cance of General Pershing's announcement. Our MEN are there —not simply In France but in the trenches, front-line trenches, just a few score yards from the Huns. Just how soon or to just what extent they will participate in an important offensive can only be surmised. It is conmonly taken for granted that the Americans will have a major part tn the big spring drive of 1918. It Is by no means unthinkable that they will see ag gressive senice before then. Secretary Baker interestingly remarked in one of his recent re views of war operations that "it is not anticipated that the Allies will go into winter quarters this year.” That is to say. there will be no pause in hammering and thrusting the Kaiser's plainly weak ened lines in the West. Only the worst that the weather can do will prevent a continuing and vigor ous winter campaign. It will not be surprising, then. If we hear of notable activity on the part of oar troops before spring unleashes the greatest drive of all. In any event, the news that they are mustering on the battle front, in steadily-growing numbers no doubt. Is enough to quicken the pulse and deepen the loyalty of every American. Honor, the Best Policy. Our chief and all-sufficient return for the bil lions of money which the United States is pouring into the war will be the vindication of American principles and the lasting security of American fire sides against Prussian savagery. To have main tained our rights and upheld our honor and played a worthy part in the giant struggle between Hu manity and the Huns, this would be compensation enough for all the tides of treasure of which we may be drained. But in the final accounting it will be found that In addition to these Inestimable gains there are many material items to America's credit, u a result of our war expenditures. Many of the things which the Liberty loans are buying will be permanent assets. As the Savannah Morning News tersely puts it, "When the war is over the United States will have the greatest mer chant fleet in the world, the greatest fleet of de stroyers in the world, an army as well equipped and well trained as any in the world, backed by fac tories which were called into being by the war and which in themselves will be worth a very large amount.** Consider, too. the permanent and inval uable results of the spirit of thrift which war conditions are developing in the American people, who heretofore were distinctly extravagant and wasteful. The thousands of persou who are sav ing to pay for Liberty bonds, haring acquired the habit, will keep saving when the war is over. Con sider furthermore the gains in industrial efficiency which the past seven strenuous months have pr<> duced. Think also of the goodwill which America’s loyalty to Ideals has earned her the *orld over, out side of the Huns and Turks—a priceless asset that never would have come with Ignoble neutrality. The United States is not looking for material gains of any sort in this war. “We have no selfish ends to serve; we desire for conquest, no dominion.’’ said the President in his epochal message of April the second; and he spoke simply the fact. But it is none the less apparent that in our material as well as our ideal interests the end will prove that honor is the beet policy. • THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1917. Georgia's Imperative Duty In the Food Saving Campaign. Hard upon the heels of the great Liberty loan drive, and no less essential to the winning of the war, comes the Food-Saving campaign. In every State and county of the Union this will be a week of intense effort to arouse the public to the im perative need of conserving food supplies. In Georgia there is a call for half a million house holders to volunteer to serve the country by co operating fully and definitely with the State and Federal Food Administrations. Any sort of food economy is better than none, but the sort that will prove most helpful is that which works with an un derstanding of just what the national leaders are trying to do and just how the individual best can serve. Hence the importance of housewives en listing in the general movement, signing its simple pledge cards and following the practical sugges tions of the experts who are ceaselessly studying all the problems involved. By this plan it will be easy to economize the food staples which are scarcest and thus provide the sorely needed sur plus for export to our allies. Let no one suppose that this is a matter of sec ondary importance either to the nation or to the family. The time and money and sacrifice that will be* required to win the war depend in a large measure on our success in solving the food prob lem. The shortage in the world’s food reserves is so great that only the wisest husbanding of such stores as are available will suffice to meet our own needs and leave enough to keep our allies in effec tive fighting condition. Their deficiency in wheat is conservatively reckoned at some four hundred million bushels. Os our 1917 wheat crop, less than seventy-eight million bushels will be left for exportation unless Americans greatly reduce their normal consumption of wheat. That is to say, there will be gaunt hunger in the trenches and sharp distress in the homes of France and Eng land and Italy unless the rank and file of the American people eat less wheat bread. To do this will be little or no deprivation to a country where wholesome substitutes for wheat abound and where the general supply of food es sentials. if duly conserved, will be ample. The plan of establishing thre£ wheatless meals a week in every household is particularly easy for a State like Georgia where the delectable art of corn-meal cookery has so long flourished. Indeed, the aver age Southern household might well adopt six or nine wheatless meals a week. The nutritive value of corn products is a matter of scientific demon stration. Dietetists say that the reasonably fre quent use of corn bread in place of wheat bread, far from lowering bodily vigor, is thoroughly sus taining and healthful. Even if the curtailment of our consumption of wheat called for a measure of sacrifice or hardship, every loyal American should cheerfuly render this practical service to the na tion’s cause. But when there is no real sacrifice to be made, when the role requirement is a* little thoughtfulness and a shnple change in table rou tine. who that is in any wise loyal will fall to help? As of wheat, so of other products which the Food Administration is seeking to conserve so that there may be no want in this country end so that there may be a surplus for our allies. The demands, which this duty makes upon the household and upon the individual are easy to meet. But unless they are met, faithfully and efficiently by the rank and file, there will be grave weakness if not actual failure at one of the peculiarly vital points of America’s war plans. No matter how many bil lions of money are raised to provide for our armies and to aid our allies, if we lack the food necessary to their maintenance all the gold in the world will be unavailing. While the brave peoples who are fighting by our side for democracy and civilization need our financial help, they need most of all the help of our granaries. England and France and Italy are husbanding their food supplies to the ex treme of frugality. Their civilian populations are practicing self-denial to a truly heroic degree that the men at the front may not go hungry. But their utmost sacrifice will be insufficient unless we rein force them with a portion of our plenty. For more than three years they have borne the savage brunt of German fury, defending the interests and princi ples that mean as much to us as to them. Today the cause of their troops and our troops on the Western front is virtually the same. Their strength is our strength, their weakness is our weakness. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that we help them in their crying need of food. Failure to do so might easily lose ar indefinitely postpone the victory that now seems assured, and certainly it would mark us as recreant to a great human obligation. It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this is not simply a war of armies but peculiarly a war of peoples, a war in which national character plays a supremely important part. The patriotic duties of the men and women at home are no less imperative, no less essential to victory than those of the fighters at the front, and of all such duties few are now sb urgent as that of conserv ing food supplies. Let every household, every hotel and restaurant, every man, woman and child in Georgia join wholeheartedly in the nation-wide campaign that begins today. • fl The Empire of the Southeast \ Impressed by the tact that the South Atlantic and Gulf States, in addition to producing ninety per cent of the world’s cotton supply, is also, poten tially, the country’s finest corn region, the Balti more American remarks that the most striking thing about this big Southern area is that it has not yet attained to one-fourth of its capabilities in agricultural production: "It is distinctively the section of the United States with a big. promising future.” Particularly is this true of Georgia and its neighboring States in the Southeast. Almost everything of food value that grows in America can be raised In this fertile region, and almost everything that Is manufactured in America is manufactured - here. But the fact of outstanding importance is that what the Southeast now pro duces is only a faint presage of what it will con tribute to the nation's wealth and power when its resources are fully developed. In Georgia alone there is enough unused and available land to produce, under scientific cultiva tion, a more fruits and vegetables and grain and meat than many of the crowded countries of Eu rope can yield. With an area approximately the same as England and Wales combined and with a diversity of climate and soil hardly exceeded In the greatest empires. Georgia is destined to become one of the moot productive areas of the whole earth. Happily, too, this destiny is beginning to fulfill itself under the eyes of our own generation. Reclaiming Billions. Well-advanced plans for the reclamation of some twenty-five thousand acres of swamp land in Lowndes county, Alabama, are announced by a cor respondent of the Manufacturers Record, who adds that "as this is already a very important cotton, corn and geneml produce farming section, as well as the second largest cattie and hog-producing county of Alabama, the nevi' enterprise takes on a semblance of national importance.” Every successful project of this kind is of na tional importance because of its contribution to the country’s wealth and power. The South has approximately fifty million acres of wet lands which in their present condition are virtually useless and in numerous instances a menace to health, but which if properly drained would provide farm sites of unsurpassed fertility. These lands are now worth only a few dollars an acre —not more than ten dollars at the most liberal estimate. But sup pose these fifty million acres were drained. They would sell for at least a hundred dollans an acre, and would yield harvests of incomparable richness. Thus in land values alone this swamp area would increase from five hundred million to five billion dollars, as much as the maximum of the colossal Liberty loan. The consequent benefits would be no less marked for the community and the State than for the individual land owners. The aug mented tax returns would be enough to reimburse the State and county, even if they bore entire cost of the reclamation projects, while the gains for the community’s health and prosperity would be really incalculable. Georgia has the largest area of swamp and overflowed lands in any State on the Atlantic coast, with the single exception of Florida; and Florida is reclaiming her swamp lands at a truly Herculean pace. One-seventeenth of Georgia’s en tire territory consists of land which must be drain ed before it can be used. But far from being a liability this will prove a priceless asset It reclama tion is brought duly into service. The valley of the Nile itself does not excel the fertility which the ages have packed into this swampy soil and which drainage will make easily available. While vast expanses like the Okefenokee present formidable engineering problems, there are thousands upon thousands of acres which can be drained at a cost comparatively trivial beside the profitable results which are certain to follow. In fact, few’ expend itures of public money yield such rich and speedy »returns as do those for the reclamation of swamp or overflow lands. Under the Georgia law authoriz ing the formation of drainage districts and the is suance of drainage bonds, these improvements can be made without burdening the taxpayers and prop erty owners; for it invariably happens, if such en terprises are rightly conducted, that the products of the reclaimed land more than suffice to dispose of the bond indebtedness. Thanks to the educa tional work of the State Geological Survey and the stimulating influence of the Georgia Drainage Asso ciation. the task of reclaiming our swamp area is moving steadily forward. In the last few years many thousands of acres have been converted from mosquito-breeding bogs to mines of agricultural gold. As this weal th-creating movement spreads from district to district, the State’s prosperity will row apace and its contribution to the nation’s strength continually increase. It may truly be said that drainage projects like that now maturing in Lowndes county, Alabama, are of national impor tance. By every possible means they should be en couraged for all that they mean to the development of the South and the enrichment of America. PACIFISM WELL EXPRESSED In the October issue of the Century Magazine there appears, under the title of “A Letter,” a poem by Ruth Comfort Mitchell. This is a poem that might be, and probably will be, characterized with some severity by many readers, especially by par ents who have sons in the training camps, but here and for present purposes to call it "peculiar 'or "surprising” is enough. Its two most striking lines, perhaps, are these: What has this loathsome war to do with us? What is this wickedness to you and me? There speaks, or rather writes, the perfect pacifist, perfectly. She sees the war as though it were a battle in some city slum between gangsters who had fallen out over the division of blackmail. The Central Powers and the allies she views with a fine refusal to discriminate between the motive by which they are impelled, the object they seek. Tn consistency, and therefore presumably, she would have a like equality of scorn for two fighting men, one of whom had attacked her in a lonely field and the other had risked death to save her life or honor. But that is not the only notable passage in this poem. Its author tells of motoring through what she calls a "preparedness camp.” 9he describes the men in it as “poor, earnest, eager things,” who are "scuttling like ants whose hill is trod upon.” An<J she understands so well why they are there! They are: Preparing, as the cave dwellers prepared; Preparing like the prehistoric man; Preparing like Dark Ages, only lit With hellish modern ingenuity. To plunge a radiant, up-standing world Back into dark, abysmal ooze and slime. How keen the pacifist eye—how generous and how accurate the pacifist judgment! Os course the men in the camps, and a good many of us who are not there, had imagined that they were getting ready to do something quite different. Perhaps they and we still think so. in spite of Ruth Comfort Mitchell.—New York Times. THE SEARCHLIGHT MAKING THE ENEMY WEEP Poison gases of various sorts are commonplace weapons of modern warfare, but the latest of these, which is being perfected by an American scientist, has a certain novelty and daring origi nality about it. This gas is of such a nature that it has a specific and localized effect on the lach rymal glands of the eye. These are the glands which secrete the tears. When invaded by the new gas. they work so vigorously that the eyys of their owner are flooded, and he literally weeps so profusely that he can not shoot, and indeed can hardly see. ♦ ♦ ♦ CHINESE IRON Few people think of China as a land of unex plored and almost unknown natural resources, yet such is the case. Peopled by the most numerous of single nations, dwelling under what is perhaps the oldest of civilizations, there is still much to be "discovered” in the Chinese republic. Recent in vestigations into the iron resources indicate that China may be the great industrial region of the future, for it has the neighboring deposits of coal, iron, and flux in enormous quantities that have made other industrial states mighty. There is a single iron mine in China, now being developed by the Japanese, which has an annual production of 600,000 tops. The contractors expect to increase this output to 1,500,000 tons within two years, TO PREVENT NEURITIS—By H. Addington Bruce NEURITIS, like neuralgia, is an often mis used word. Much neuralgia is mistakenly called neuritis. So, frequently, is the con dition known popularly as "writer’s cramp.” "Writer’s cramp” is essentially a functional nervous trouble, based primarily in fear and in the overstrain of muscles. Neuralgia is likewise func tional. But true neuritis is an organic nervous disease. It involves poisoning and degeneration of nerve cells, and has as its symptoms a steady, intense pain and nerve-tenderness, accompanied by mus cular shrinkage and weakness. Being organic, it is a difficult malady to handle. Its prevention is therefore a matter of special im portance. One of its commonest causes —Cabot says its usual cause—is over-indulgence in alcoholic bev erages. The alcohol poisons and inflames the nerve-cells. When a gentleman who has been a hard or steady drinker begins to feel pain and numbness in the arms or legs, udth perhaps some swelling, he should regard this as a serious danger signal. If he promptly clambers on to the water wagon, AND STAYS THERE, all will probably be well with him. But if he persists in dallying with liquor neu ritis is likely to set in. possibly on an extensive scale. He then is a victim of what is technically known as "multiple neuritis.” Writing in Good Health. Dr. W. H. Riley draws this picture of multiple neuritis: "The disease affects several of the nerves — the nerves of the hands and arms, of the feet and TEACHING THE PEOPLE TO EAT—By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26.—The biggest mark of patriotism these days, next to owning a Liberty bond, is to eat correctly. Not that the government is concerned with your table manners, but it is concerned with your food. Eating has recently been the subject of more gov ernment pamphlets, tracts and bulletins than the war itself. * * * So rapidly have they been flung at the hereto fore hearty appetite of the average American that he has sometimes experienced considerable diffi culty in keeping up with them. One week, for ex ample, he Is told to drink more milk and eat less meat, while the next week comes the word that milk is scarce and to use as little of it as possible. Then he is told to eat but few potatoes—they are needed to win the war. But just as he has accus tomed himself a to rice as a substitute, he is in formed that it is not potatoes he must economize on, but bread. Has he ever heard of using potato flour intsead of wheat flour to make delicious and nourishing bread? • • • Now, all the usual staples of the American diet, with the exception of potatoes, are under a partial ban by the food censor. We are told that we ought to limit ourselves to two level ta blespoonfuls of sugar, two level teaspoonfuls of butter and one-fourth of a cup of flour a day. Already Europe is keeping alive on like meager rations. This year British housewives are mak ing no plum puddings for their boys in the trenches —they haven’t sugar enough. French children of the present’ generation never spend their odd pennies for candy. Italian confection ers are permitted to do business only three times a week. • • • Then, there is the question of meat. This also is needed to wage the war, and patriots will eat less than usual of it’ during the coming months. The high cost of living makes patriotism in this regard a comparatively easy matter. • • • If, however, people cut down on their con sumption of meat, flour, butter, milk and sugar, they must make it up in some other way. True, such economy will give a large number of fat people a good opportunity to get thin, but what about the people who are already thin? In the absence of any reserve fuel, how are they going to keep their bodies running along on two table spoonfuls of sugar, for instance? It is not as sim ple as it looks, and the housewife who would keep her family in good condition during the va rious war embargoes has got to study the prob lem thoroughly. In this respect the government offers the best assistance. Problems in body and how they are met by different foods have been worked out in the laboratory kitchens of the de partment of agriculture. One of these studies, made by Miss Caroline Hunt, scientific assistant of the office of home economics, states relations service, shows how fresh fruits and vegetables may be used to save other staple foods. Miss Hunt points out, for example, that green peas and lima and kidney beans form an excellent sub stitute for meat. She does not^advocate their use in the menu every night, but she holds, with many other eminent dieticians, that Americans in gen eral eat entirely too much meat, and can easily afford to dispense with some of it. "A large dish of green peas,” says Miss Hunt, "supplies as much protein as one-fourth of a pound of beef, and, cooked with mint, or mint sauce, constitutes a very acceptable change from the monotonous round of meats.” As cereal savers, she suggests the use of po tatoes. sweet potatoes and partially ripe bananas, cooked. A small potato, weighing from three to four ounces, supplies as much starch as a large slice of bread, but less protein. It is not’, there fore, an absolute substitute, but It comes pretty near it. Mashed potatoes may be used in the [ CO-OPERATION THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY—By Dr. Frank Crane The United States is just now engaged in the most critical enterprise in its history. It is a business that has to be done not pretty well, but in the very best way possible. A stricken world, attacked by the most efficient military organization ever known, has cried out for help. If the help we offer is to be of any use it must be overwhelming. The blow we deliver must carry with it every ounce of strength we possess. No nation can stride unless it is united. Its power is in exact proportion to its unity. It is the glory of democracy that it gives the individual citizen the maximum of liberty. He can go and come, carry on his affairs, and express his opinions as he pleases. This is the air of freedom in which a democracy thrives. But if that is all there is to it, a democracy is no more than a mob and slumps into anarchy. This spirit of freedom ought to be a spirit of co-operation. If it be simply the spirit of eternal dissension there is no social progress, no com munal strength. This is what a lot of people do not realize. We have decided, through our regularly chosen officials, to go to war. Before we did so it w r as proper to discuss whether we wanted war or not. Now it is not proper, it is weakness, folly, and verges upon treason. In revolt against monarchy we insisted upon government by majority. If we will not let the majority rule, but keep on revolting, we are sim ply a lot of quarreling schoql children. We be come impotent And ridiculous. t The trouble with people of the stripe of Sena tor Ua Follette is that they are not good sports. Beaten in the arena of public discussion they re fuse to give up. They are incapable of social, united effort. They would reduce our govern mental structure to a heap of stones. Does intelligence preclude team work? Are thinking people incapable of concerted action? Can a people that play baseball not do as disciplined service in defending their national existence? Can legs, and sometimes even the nerve that controls the heart are among the nerves that may be af fected. “The paralysis is usually complete—so much so that the patient is confined helpless to his bed. "He cannot feed himself. His heart is unusual ly rapid. At times mental symptoms come into the case.” In short, a victim of multiple alcoholic neuritis is tolerably certain to experience bitter regret that he did not give heed to the first warnings of his weakening nerves. Neuritis, again, sometimes results from a com bination of wrong living habits. There may be no indulgence in liquor what ever, or most moderate indulgence. But perhaps there is excessive indulgence in tobacco and rich foods and late hours and worry. A combination like this may prove a potent pro ducer of neuritis. The simpler the life, conse quently, the greater the likelihood of avoiding the slightest neuritic twinges. To assist still further in the prevention of neu ritis, ALWAYS keep the eliminative organs in good working order. Not only should the bowels be kept active by proper dieting and exercise, but the pores of the skin should be cleared through frequent bathing, and water ought to be drunk freely. Occasionally neuritis is caused by infective dis eases, by metallic poisoning, by ptomaine poison ing. But neuritis thus caused is of infrequent oc currence compared with the neuritis resulting from the above-mentioned and readily preventable causes. place of biscuit crust in making meat pies. Also, a good way to utilize left-over mashed potatoes is to slice and fry them for breakfast, when they may be used tn the place of bread and butter. Moreover, potatoes make an excellent basis for a number of attractive salads. Combined with peas, beans, beets, cucumbers, radishes, onions and asparagus, they may be served in many dif ferent forms with mayonnaise. » • • • Fruits of all kinds offer a substitute for su gar, since every ripe fruit contains a large quan tity of it. Fresh figs and plums contain about one-fifth of a cup to thp pound, while watermelon contains only a small percentage. When dried, fruits are even sweeter than in their fresh state and require no additional sweetening. Stewed prunes, apricots, peaches and apples, therefore, make economical desserts during the winter when fresh fruits are somewhat scarce. They save the butter, milk and sugar used in making rich cus tards and puddings, and are also much more di gestible than the latter. "Ice-cold junket served with fruit,” says Miss Hunt, “constitute a de licious dessert and is inexpensive, since the junket may be made from skimmed milk." She also suggests that occasionally the dessert course be omitted entirely and a fruit salad with cottage cheese be used in its place. • • • • The best way to serve vegetables is the slm- ' plest—namely, boiled, baked or steamed, with a little salt, butter, milk or cream. But, if they are to be introduced to any great extent into the diet, it is well to know many ways of serving them. For many years authors of cook books have given scant attention to the preparation of vegetables. It was taken for granted that they would naturally be prepared as they had been prepared for the past hundred years. But recent ly cook books have appeared containing many good vegetable recipes which have been eagerly grabbed by hotel men, who are anxious to see vegetables take the place of meat to a greater extent in the national diet. And, if the hotels recognize the economy of vegetables the individ ual householder may be sure that they are right. In her bulletin on the use of vegetables in the place of staples. Miss Hunt gives a number of ex cellent recipes for vegetable soups, chowders and souffles. Lots of times various odds and ends of vegetables are left over from a string of dinners, are allowed to stand in the refrigerator for a cou ple of days, and then thrown out. There may be a little scrap of beets, some spinach, some peas or possibly one ear of corn. Now, instead of wast ing these left-overs, they should be placed through a meat'-chopper and placed on the stove to cook in a little water, with a small portion of rice or farina for thickening. Soup is the result. If, instead of using water, milk is used, the soup is much more nourishing and may easily be used in the place of meat. A delicious milk- vege table soup is made by adding to the finely chopped vegetables one cup of milk, one-half tablespoon of butter or other fat (fat from bacon or pork give a particularly good flavor and one-half ta blespoonful of flour. Melt the butter, add the flour and cook one or two minutes, being careful not to brown. Then add the milk and stir until the mixture thickens. Here is Miss Hunt’s re cipe for milk and string bean soup, Including the following articles: Two quarts of string beans; one-fourth cup of flour; one-fourth cup or less o fat; one small slice of onion; salt, pepper, and milk enough to make two quarts of soup. Cook the beans until tender In as little water as possi ble. drain and rub through a sieve. Add the bean liquor and milk enough to make two quarts. Melt the add the flour and cook carefully one or two miniites. Add the liquid and cook until mix ture thickens. Season with salt and pepper. Part of the beans can be cut into small pieces and served in the soup, if desired. The addition of large pieces of potatoes converts the soup into a chow der. a free people not work together for a great deed, but must they talk, talk, talk forever? The people who continue carping at the United States for going to war are not noble heroes, loyal to their conscience, Martin Luthers, one-man-with-* God, and all that; they are petty, petulant, egoistic and wilful. They are like pouting school girls who, if they cannot have their own way, take their doll rags and go home. When a nation’s existence and the principles that underlie its liberties aKe in danger you cannot dignify those unruly and opinionated minds who prefer the triumph of their own contentions to the life of the whole community. There is but one worthy stand to be taken now by the citizens of this country, and that is to stand solidly undivided behind the President, the army, and the navy, submerging [Wide of opinion in pa triotism. at least until this hour of danger be overpast. The man who cannot do -this cannot play the game of life: he is a bad citizen and a point of weakness in our communal life. Government by majority may have Its flaws, but government by nuisance is intolerable. (Copyright. 1917, by Frank Crane.) PASSING OF SUMMER Sweet, warm-breathed summer whom I loved is dead Within the casket of remembered days. The multi-colored garlands at her head Are flowers she sowed along the barren ways. I pine for her and Nature shows her grief For her familiar foot fall fled so soon; Her mourning dress is the dark autumn leaf. So different from the gay attire of June. Yet, after the-drear winter months are gone. x She will return with garlands in her hand, To wake the woodlands with her kiss anon. Her sylvan songs echoing through the land. If summer so returns, why fear death's toll? Cannot time thus restore the fleeting soul? ROBERT SAINT-SIMON. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 24, 1917.