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Show owe it to the BOX ELDER NE loys Over There lQ Boy W. S. S. Today Devoted to no Party or Faction UME BRIGHAM TWENTY-FOU- CITY. BOX ELDER COUNTY. UTAH, But Just to All. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16th, 191S. NUMBER 40. YOUR WHEATLESS DAYS- DIES ID HOSPITAL Because of the early harvest season, :i Tuesday afternoon, the merch-o- f Board of Education has'decided to the a few other Brigham City and the schools of Box Elder county instruc-recitopen most a to listened ns, of the sugar situation by upon Monday, Sept. 16th, and hold the jfpbHliP M. McGregor of the State first teachers institute Sept. 12th and Administration, who came to 13th. The first se'ssion will be held prim"iam City from Logan, accompani-- y Wm. H. Davenport of the U. S. arily for those who have not at any time taught in Box Elder county. It et Service. called was by County will begin at 10:30 a. m., Thursday, meeting i Administrator ,Wynn L. Eddy, Sept. 12, at the high school in Brigham notified all the merchants person-an- City. All teachers will be expected to attas many others as he could end the remaining sessions, the first official for the government told of be held at 1:30 p. m. on red to tell his story in the best of which will 12th. Sept. Thursday, ta get the widest circulation, The Board w'ill tender its annual ie message Mr. McGregor had to s reception on the evening of Thursday rer was. that the sugar of the for all teachers. not belong to any sugar The institute work will end with innor broker private the evening session of Friday, Sept. the to nation, itial, but it belongs 13, but on Saturday the principals will the will distribute government supply of the country in the have an opportunity to assist any of euitable manner possiole and in the 9th. grade students in getting proElder High it that all may be served alike, the perly registered at the Box School. been has adopted, system nlng ount having Been fixed at 2 lbs. WAR MAP SERVICE. capita per month for all purposes. action has been made. necessary The News has secured, for the beneiuse of the acute sugar shortage, public, an exclusive - fit of the general Amerion attack he recent war map service which will provide a Atlantic on seaboard, the shipping new map every Monday showing the ,000 pounds of sugar were sent battle line at the end of Friday prevbottom of the ocean. The ious and with every village in France are drawing heavily upon marked so that each days adUnited States sugar supply and plainly vance of the allied armies can readily 'government uses a tremendous lot be traced. w ar lugar in the manufacture of This service map will be placed on the reasons, aitions. , For these " an easel and stood out on the sidewalk pie are required to get along with in front' of the News office where the meilt 5 minimum supply and the regula-- i refer to it to folie,s as at present fixed are deemed general public may low each Readers of the drive. wd Sclent to days provide for all the needs will find the war may a morning paper iemenl prevent personal suffering among when afid the help evening par far great n ir people. pers comq in, by referring to the map, Blief Native to sugar for fruit preserv-3- the battle line can easily be found. r Mr. McGregor stated that the for This u toemment 'Food Administration had the sole service hasof been secured purpose giving the people tluwi. jrmined by scientific experiment, of Brigham City an opportunity to see It" N t 400 quarts of fruit can be canned on a large and readily understood seier-- l preserved with 100 pounds of sug-ac- k, scale, the tremendous operations now t Upon that basis, the administra-uem!;going on which are of such vital imis working; every sack of sugar portance to the peace of the world ielikeifit take care of that much fruit for As each map is replaced at the beginbe allowed. It is also 1 more will n. of the week with a new one. the that 400 quarts of fruit is ning improidmated weeks map will be kept on previous thant&cient for the average family, file at the News office where it may be i forjere more fruit is needed or desired and to referred anybody by eiernody nl,er!t foocf administration suggests dry-ine who cares to drop into the office other processes, the formulas want the public to make use of his rhich can easily be had, and in that of the service and follow the progre-7. Mr fcner the fruit will be taken care of war. ery 4 the food supply will ue maintaining whileisugar will be saved, MEETING OF FARMERS. idnej jnerica was the most profligate A special Farm Bureau meeting was SUgar 0f any ation in the world. 'SM If,g people are noted for their sweet held in Garland on the evening of Aug. th" and in the homes, sugar has 12th. The purpose of the meeting nsed with an extravagance that was to take up the matter of prices ealeri In the canning of for threshing the various grains thru-ou- t emedrj almost waste. lt, many housewives got the notion the county. The threshers were increased the food invited by the County Farm Bureau to $ more sugar ue of the fruit when as a matter of be present, but only one was in attendt, according to the findings of the ance. This is the second threshing ent ,artment, the. sugar only served to meeting that has been held. iK srisfy the abnormal taste of the con-It is felt by the people of the county rner and the fcruit would have been that the threshers are making excesJ as highly nutritious with less sive charges, and they have been askfar. ed to come to an agreeable underr. McGregor stated that in the standing. For another season this of sugar, the State of Utah matter will be taken up in the winter, received more than her allotment, the threshers will be asked to attend 1,000 pounds more than the allot-m- t this meeting by the Farm Bureau, and having been sold by the merch-lt- a definite scale will be agreed upon. Dr. Robert J. Evans, State County in this state during the month of ie alone, He declared that Utahs Agent Leader, was in attendance, with far allotment right now is located County Agent Stewart, and gave an J the basements of the residents excellent talk on the value of county mes, for mny of the people agricultural work, and the working re stored up sack after sack power of and good to be accomplished He showed em!h 24 it ls. partilly because of the by the farm bureaus. bureau was the farm that r.Qgijpatriotic action of this class, that phatically the a3 powefi to greatest . to recognized has had stringent regulations FI assist the government. He also praismade effective. The people have very patriotically ed the good work that has been acsewred every call and accepted ev-- complished in Box Elder county. Hon. Willard S. Hansen also spoke requirement of them in the sav-League of food. In the saving of sugar concerning the and cautioned the farm i is; ;w, declared, Mr. McGregor, those of America, ' .to are inclined to chafe under the bureau officers to advise their memS 8'striction may be heartened by the bers to evade them and not join this ought that the sugar they are sav-- terrible menace. Many districts were represented at by being, restrained from eating i may save the life of a soldier for the County Farm Bureau meeting and sugar saved by the nation is go-- much good was accomplished. into the manufacture of high ex-tloslves which in turn are being ship-i- that come before them. Mr. Wynn L. overseas for the soldiers to use Eddy, county food administrator, Is in defending Democracy and destroy-- a position to take care of all cases that of and Autocracy. And also, it should the merchants cannot dispose asks peothe administration food the remembered by Americans, the fench people have been living for ple to give to this movement to save ro years on a sugar ration of 4 ozs. sugar, the same unselfish and loyal ;r week per capita which is one support that they gave to the wheatless and meatless campaigns which und per month, for llli purposes. Mr. McGregor fully informed the have resulted so marvelously in saverchants of the regulations in order ing human lives and preventing disat they might be in a position to aster to the allies in their fight to thdle practically all the questions make the world safe for Democracy. -- al d na-doe- t, j 1 0 1 d s dis-mtlo- n 8 L F g Non-Patriot- ic 8. -- g g d g AMERICAS RECORD IN ONE YEAR OF ' FOOD SAVING By William Almon Wolff. Food Will Win the Wqr Dont i any longer, to buy a certain amount of Waste It!" Do you remember how, I com meal or barley or rye or potato just about a year ago, that slogan first flour when you get a sack of white struck your eye? You do, ot course, j flour. Its never been very much in the backThere wont be any white Hour for ground since then, either. Now it is you to buy. time for a report. Has food won the The mixing of the white wheat flour war? What has it all come to, all the with substitutes will be done scientifsaving you have done? Has it been ically at the mills, before it goes into worth while tlfe sacks, instead of in your kitchens, Well, the war hasnt been won yet. or the kitchens of the hotels and resYou still have that to do. But, bn taurants you patronize. There w ill be the word of the Food Administration, no wheatless days and wheatless the way you have backed it up, the meals. You won't have to wonder way you have saved food, has prevent- whether everyone is living up to Hooed the war from being lost. Winning vers Youll requests. it remains; in this next year that This new flour is not coming betask still lies before you. But it cause you hive failed Hoover; it is do what Herbert ought to be easy to a way of killing two birds with one Hoover will ask of you now. Because stone. First, it will permit of more exwhat you have done lias been so treact calculations in building up the remendously worth while. It has help- serve of two hundred million bushels ed so much. It has given you such a of wheat which Hoover wants to have definite part In the war. on July 1, 1919; second, it will save I wish everyone in America could you a lot of trouble and red tape in dohear the big Food Administration ing what you have proved yourselves building In Washington humming w i h absolutely and happily willing to do, the praise of what America lias done. and what it is as important as ever Your ears would burn, madam and sir you should continue to do. and particularly you, madam' This Reduced to figures, here is w hat you is what one man who knows what he made possible: is talking about says: We sent to our allies, In the fiscal Theres never been anything like it year 1916-17- , 239,900,000 bushels of cerin history. Here was a people that eals and cereal products. In 1917-18- , had never known want, that had never we sent 340,800,000 bushels an inexperienced famine or anything re- crease of 80,900,000 bushels. And in motely resembling it a people that the first year our exports w ere all out had plenty within reach of its hands of in the second we rased surplus every moment. We asked the Ameri just enough for our own normal decan people to do voluntarily mors Hi an mand, so that it was only by reducing any other people ha3 even ben asked that demand that we were able to And to submit to under compulsion feed our allies. the American people made good! They You have to think over these figures have saved more voluntarily thin any before you can appreciate what you country in Europe hasjdone vnder the made out of a possible! In 1916-1most stringent compulsion! surplus , of something like 200,000.000 Now, just what is it that you have bushels (we had a worlds record done? And just what are you still wheat crop, you remember, iu the called upon to do? harvest) we sent over 135,1 no, 000 In the first place, the crops of 1917 bushels of wheat and 2,300.000 bushels were, in general, bad. That was true of rye- - wheat and rye being ths prime in breadsuffs. In 1917-18- , of the whole northern hemisphere when, as the the face of inevitable reduction of crop result of a subnormal crop and what areas, directly due to the war, nahire was almost a corn blight we sen' herself seemed to fight, for once, on bushels of wheat nod every the German side. So that the de- bushel of it you saved! We sent 13,- mands upon you had to be increased, 900.000 bushels of rye, so that there proportionately, as the result of crop was an increase of 7,500,000 bushels failures. Herbert Hoover wroti to of the prime breadstulfs all saved the President in July that for Hie fis- by you. Moreover, since those figures cal year 1917-1ending July 1st the were tabulated, 10,000,000 bushels more total nutritional production of the from our scant 1917 crop have readicountry was between 7 and 9 per cent ed our allies so that we actually sent below the average for three previous more wheat out of our savings, in tills years. That doesn't sound particular- last lean year than we sent out of our ly dramatic or serious. But the sta- abundance the year before. And we tistical genius of the Food Adminis- also spared .10,000,000 bushels more tration 1.smiled, when I said so to him. to neutrals who faced starvation unWell, he said, Til tell you what it less we helped them. means. If that nutritional production It isn't wheat alone. We have built had been 15 per cent below average, up a surplus of bacon and ham over nothing under heaven could have sav- there." For the first time since 1914 ed our allies in Europe from famine our allies have that comfortable feeland disaster. The war would be over ing that comes when you know that if we would be beaten!" something happens to the deliveries Now that we have turned the cor- you can scare up a bite in the ice box ner, it is permitted to tell how narrow- and on the shelves in the closet. In 1916-17- , we sent to our allies 2,- ly we skirted the edges of disaster. 166.500.000 pounds of meats and fats In July, 1918, there were less than bushels of whea in the United which- - means all sorts of meats and States in storage, in transit any- meat products, canned and powdered where! We were within ten days of milk, butter, cheese, vegetable oils, we sent being out of wheat. We came to the lard, and so forth. In 1917-1new harvest with that slender surplus! 3.011.100.000 pounds an increase of And normally we carry over 60,000,000 844.600.000 pounds. That increase did We not come out of a vastly increased bushels of wheat for seed alone. have never before, even in years of production either! It represents what blighted crops, carried over less than you didnt eat it represents your 100,000,000 bushels of wheat into the meatless days, your abstention from new harvest. We are going to take bacon at breakfast, all your no such chances in the coming year. and sacrifices in the way of To begin with, a bumper crop is in foregoing fried potatoes and extra pats sight. The crop of 1918 looks to be of butter! And next year you will safe. Barring a disaster now unfore- send even .more. The Food Administration, playing seeable, Hoover will have a great store to work with. And already plans are affectionately with figures, turns up being made that will end all uncertain- all sorts of little statistics. For exty. There has been time, as last year ample, it says that from April 1, 1917, there was not, to make things easier to April 1, 1918, we sent enough food for you. You cant look for white over there to ration completely more bread this winter. But you can look than 21,000,000 men and to give them for something that, all things consider- at that, an excess of protein and fat! Before the war we used to send enough ed, ought to please you even more. As I write, Herbert Hoover has just to France, Great Britain and Italy landed in England. And he has gone each year to ration 6,000,000 men. to try to perfect certain plans and ar- We used to send on an average this rangements that will standardize was before 1914 153,260,963 pounds bread and flour for all the Allied world of bacon a year to the Western allies. that will result in your eating Vic- In our first war year we sent 490,523,-13- 3 pounds. Was it worth while to tory loaves and pies and cakes made from a standardized Victory flour that hped the line the good hotels had all will be the only flour used in any coun- last winter on their menu: Please do Was it? We used try of the Allies. If Hoovers plan not order bacon? goes through, you wont be obliged, to send 3,004,537 pounds of fresh beef . 7, pre-viou- s - self-denia- ls Private Clarence Mason of the 145th Field Artillery, died on Wednesday at 3 o'clock p. m., at the military hospital at Camp Kearney from spinal meningitis. This sad news was conveyed to his young wife in tfiis city in the form of a telegram that same evening. Private Mason enlisted on May 2, 1917, and was only 19 years of age. Preivous to his joining the army, he married Miss Afton Cheney, of this city, and a baby boy, now six months old, has blessed that union. Mr. Mason has been in the hospital for a number of weeks and was very much disappointed when his comrades left the camp for overseas duty and he was not permitted to go wit., them. The remains will be shipped to this city for interment and until more definite word as to their arrival is receiv ed, no arrangements for funeral can be made. in the meantime, universal syni pathy goes out to the bereaved wife and babv. PEIRCE BOYS IN FRANCE Mr and Mrs. Eli T. Peirce of Harper are in receipt of a card announcing the arrival of their son Harvey C. Peirce in France. Private Peirce is a motor machainic. These parents tlso received a card announcing the departure, during the week, of their son Leslie Peirce, who is a member, et the 34th Regiment Engineers Coaps, for overseas duty. These two oung fanners enlisted in Uncle Sam's service sev eral months ago and like all the-- rest of the boys were vry anxious to get over to France. WILLARD DEDICATES SERVICE FLAG. The final details of the transfer of the Hanson Mercantile company to Mr. Arthur Frank of Salt Lake City have been completed and the new proprietor is now iu charge. The present stock of goods will all be put on sale under the former management, witli the assistance of the new proporietors, after which Mr. Frank will restock the store with a complete line of new and goods in all lines to be carried by the institution. Some of the lines which the firm will handle will be Crawford shoes for men; Utz & Dunn shoes for women; Sophomore clothes for men, CJuette & I'eabody shirts for men and a complete line of ready made garments for ladies beside the usual line of dry goods and notions, everything to be new and right up to the minute in style. Mr. Frank is a businessman of long experience and has a chain of stores in Salt Lake county and throughout the state. It is his purpose to continue the business iu this city under the present name, for the time being at least, and Mr. I). B. Barron will lie the manager. Mr. Barrou has been in checking over the stock and is now in the city getting acquainted. He will bring his family to Brigham City and make this ploe his home Mr. Wnt. Preston, who served for a number of years as manager of the Hausou Mercantile company, will give up active work and take life easy. During the past, year, Mr. Preston has been constantly afflicted with rheumatism, so a rest yill be appreciated by him. In the transfer of the business, the good will of the former stockholders is given the new proprietor with the hope that they may continue to enjoy a prosperous business. e BOY PULLS DOWN BARBER POLE. Last evening a little boy, Hon of Mr. and Mrs. David Rosenbaum, was idly The Mutual Improvement associaon the barber pole in front tions of the Willard ward have pre- swinging of the Rex barber shop when the pole sented the bishopric and ward mem- came loose from its moorings against bers a beautiful service flag containthe building, and crashed to the groustars. Three young men nd. The ing sixty-cmgh.ss case was demolished enlisted in the service but were sent in the crash, Master Rosenbaum and back home because of physical disawas quite severely cut about the arms. bilities, so they are not registered on the service flag. Three more young YOUTHS MUST REGISTER. men will leave during the month and this achievement is almost a record in An order has been issued by the this part of the state at least, for one Provost Marshal General, directing ward. that all young men who have attained Willard has contributed of her the age of 21 years since June 5tli, young manhood to the various profes- 1918, must register under the selective sions in a most remarkable manner, draft on the 24lh of the present month. during the past years, and when war All local exemption boards have been came the boys of the town arose to advised of this order and they are the, situation magnificently and offer- making preparations to enroll the new ed themselves in the defense of hu- 500 men will be registered in the stale manity in a manner that must be a of Utah. source of pride to every father and mother in the community. The ser- BIG COMPANY OF DRAFTEES BEING EXAMINED. vice Hag now adorns the wall of the ward chapel. Today, the local exemption board in our til'?! ar r drafted men sent 235,368,-47- is examining the fifty-tw- o lbs. How about those steaks you who are to leave for Camp Kearney didnt order? during the last week of this month. The corner has been turned in this A number of these men were drawn list and' others matter of food. Hoover knows now, from the and so do you, that you can do all that are from the present year registrants. is needful, and that we can supply the .. number of young wives have accom-paine- d their husbands to this city to Allied world. This year, in all probthe watch we ourselwon't to have proceedings, and the presdeny ability, ves quite so sharply. We wont have a ence of the wives lends a touch of surplus. And we are facing the cer- pathos to the scene. tainty that we can't have as big a harvest next year as we are looking for- SENATOR KING MAY ward to now. We have lost too many BE SUNDAY SPEAKER. men lent too many men to Pershing rather. So we will have to keep on An effort is being made by Supt. E. saving. P. Horsley of the Stake Y. M. M. I. A. You know about flour. Sugar youll Board, to get Senator William H. King have to use very sparingly two lbs. to come to Brigham City on Sunday a month a person, for .all purposes, next and be the speaker at a big from August 1 to January 1. There M. I. A. patriotic rally, which service, won't really be enough sugar for ev- is provided for in the summers work eryone again until peace comes. Even program of the Mutuals. Supt. Horsafter peace well all have to go easy ley got in touch with Senator King for a time. Meat and fat ought to be over the phone last evening and the a little more plentiful in this coming senator expressed a desire to accept year. Theres going to be a big corn the invitation if he can arrange it. crop, and since corn means hogs, ba- He promised Mr. Horsley that ho con and pork ought to be reasonably would make every effort, this morning, abundant. The beef situation is look- to adjust his affairs so that he can fill ' . the appointment and will wire the resing up too. One thing is certain! You can eat ult sometime today. Since his return to Utah from Wasall you need. You cant waste any food, but you wont be asked to carry hington, to spend a brief Vacation,. to the point of serious sac- Senator King has been in great derifice. And still you will, by such mand to fill speaking dates and it goes sacrifices as Hoover will still have to without saying that the people of ask of you, put health ana strength In- Brigham City will turn enmasse to to the peoples of our allies. You have here him next Sunday, if he is able to begun to give them the infinite com- come. In any event there will be sacrament fort of knowing that the ghost of fama in the tabernacle beginning lands in services never ine can their stalk 2 m. next Sunday. Collier's at p. Weekly. gain. e j.-:;- self-deni- 8 |