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Show mapm-' v liife H "Send us condensed milk," pleads H Germany, "for our babies are dying H from want of it Our cows are dry- H lug up. For the sake of the little H children let the milk come through H the blockade." H The allies laugh sardonically and H reply: "If the milk would ever' H reach your babies we would let Hj those millions of cans come through P the blockade, but wc know and you know that your shells, not your In- H fants, would drink it" Hj On ono day it seemed that 120,000 Hl cases of condensed milk standing on H the New York wharf would bo taken H to Germany. Dr. Edmund von Mach, j Harvard professor and one of the de- 1 fenders of the Teutonic causo in this H country, had labored long and hard H with the Red Cross to accomplish H this. The humanitarian plea had M been raised. The milk was nvow- H edly for the starving babies of Gc-r- H many and Austria Hungary. H THEN ntAXCE H BAitiiED siiirnrETrr. H T)en dcallued for InCants jras M not to bo.-considcred as oontranand H of war. The way for It through lew H rigorous and perilous blockade H which the allocs maintained about H the central powers seemed smooth. H A digniaed request bad been sent to 1 the allies -and the cans waited In H New York wharf and tho ships which j were to carry them lay In Ncvr York j harbor. Nino million six hundred tmmt- -tMfiM Sm H and forty thousand cans wero pack- H ed closo to the hoisting cranes, H waiting the word. H Then suddenly came the word j from Franco that the allies, for H "military reasons," could not per- H mlt the shipments of milk and cream in any form from the United States to the central powers. The statement further declared that the , same reason precluded the shipment of condensed milk to noncombatants, " especially babies. Secretary Lansing's message, voiced through tho American ambas' sadors at London and. Paris, had been refused and the charitable Interests In-terests were denied. What was It that led England and Franco to deny this seemingly Innocent Inno-cent request7 They profess to have discovered ono of tho most subtle and intensified intensi-fied of the, German itoma of - effi ciency. The allies claim that the condensed milk would never bo ueed for the nourishment of babies, but that it would go into the manufafi-turG manufafi-turG of high explosives. SUPPLY SUDDENLY. nirdvEEiSHED. They declare that tho petition on behalf of tho children w.ib a subterfuge subter-fuge to gain more ammunition. Not only was the fat to bo extracted from tho condensed milk and employed em-ployed In the manufacture of nitroglycerin nitro-glycerin but tho metal In the cans was to bo UBed In tho samo medium of death. These are tho reasons of tho allies al-lies for pronouncing their decision: Germany is suffering from a fat famine. Upon certain days no fat A mi ' x Mrnt Wli i i j.nry VfI jMvj&t Mm? 0 mm 4 WI M-WM. Mmmk f0 MM4 I d up all her supply of fatin the making mak-ing of high explosives. C Fat plays a leading part In tbo composition of nitroglycerin. It Is used extensively in tho secret compounds com-pounds that lay in tho heads of the huge shells fired from tho monster cannon. England believes (haUtho latest Inventions of tho sclenlislwho continually con-tinually work upon new JgEchiuus .of . , death in the huge IOrippj&orks rc- qulx-amoro than 'thoRustgnjary i amdunt of fat. SomolhS has sud- ttoly Impoverished thosual sup-Ply. sup-Ply. J England .believes ranauy bas 1,600,000 cows and thapsome tremendous tre-mendous demand has-Vddenly exhausted ex-hausted its supply .6f milk. No cream is sold even In7 tho highest priced cafes in Germany. Lard and w wjBh f k WwmmmUWWmmKj I A$ Ftf7TWnKW Jr f&M- i&ffimj'fWMM a 1W, WtW M (Lt mW&M8Mm mm m - ?1 f0 MM mm $ . xr Mm if ' .- - ' - is sold in any form. ThQ salo of It 1b limited at all times. Tho word comes across the channel chan-nel continually that the government is on tho verge of limiting lts sale to those who hold "fat cards," a aya-tem aya-tem already employed in tho distribution distri-bution of bread. Germany haa usci Tho allies say that tho general famine is duo to the hunger of the munition factories and to them alone. KED CIIOSS COMES TO An). American manufacturers of condensed con-densed milk state that tho percentage percent-age of fat in their product runs all tho way from 6 to 12 per cent, with the average being around 7.S per cent. vn tho 120,000 cases which Dr. Von Mach tried to send across Micro wore 9. G 10.000 cans, since tho cases destined for foreign shores contain 72 cans each. Tho process whereby tho fat could bo extracted from tho milk would be a purely chemical ono and easily accomplished ac-complished Counting S per cent of A German girl working in the huge Krupp works puts tho, ghastly chargo in the shell and so feeds Mors tho milk that babies should haTc, sny the allies. butter formerly used in shortening for pastry are curtailed. All milk purchased has had the cream extracted ex-tracted from it theso 9,040,000 cans as fat, tho amount that might be derived would bo a very respectable ono and would " o far toward filling tho demand of p of Germany ys J 9,ooo.ooo Cans i of Condensed I WiB JOlUC i 1 W- "M Ml 1 : he The inonstor bombs used by both of tho opposing forces are masterpieces )m of devilish ingenuity, requlrlnp great quantities oi material and com- pounds of strange chemicals the fat from milk strangely enough is a ' prominent iugredient te: m: the munition factories for a time at least The German government has taken no definito position upon the question; in fact, tho request for the Importation of condensed milk did not como from tho administration directly. Dr. Von Mach, from his point of vantage' In Harvard whero he has been defending Germany's position po-sition in the war, interested tho'lled Cross workers in tho project German sympathizers take the position that German cows aro Impoverished Im-poverished now and that their lack of provender is responsible for the shortage of milk. Sugar beets, which were formerly the staple food for cattle, are utilized in somo other way at present The scientific employment em-ployment of every commodity in this time of stress' had found a placo for the beets which gives them nioro valuo than as cow food. Tho bran mash which the breweries brew-eries had left over formerly was utilized in cow mangers, but some secret and greater use has been found for it, and, the 'cows are deprived de-prived of that also. In this event tho champions of tho Teutonic position claim no cow could bo expected to do her best, and that the shortage of fat in Germany now is natural and unmllitary. "What is a poor neutral nation to think? A child is a child and has a right to be fed, a fact which even warring nations cannot deny. If tho babies wero hungry and faint from lj there are few Americans who would not risk their all to still tho fretting cries, but how are Ameri- cans to know whether it is bombs or babies that aro waiting. HIIlLUttTY Off BABIES' SIDE. y If it is the babies that cry.humani-ty cry.humani-ty is on the German side of this controversy; con-troversy; If 'it is the bombs that famish, fam-ish, humanity cannot blamo the allies al-lies for holding the food away. No belligerent denies the right of an opponent op-ponent to attempt to capture munl-tion8 munl-tion8 and to hinder tho collection of materials of war. If the allies are right, condensed milk Is a material of war, and they have succeeded in shutting off valuable munitions of war. If they aro wrong in their conception con-ception of Germany's intentions thoy have deprived many a Teutonic in- fant of his full dinner pail. PAPER BURffS . " LIKE COAL. 3 Tho extraordinary demands of tho 5u time have produced shortages in nu- j JS morous commodities for which makeshifts havo had to bo made. 4 flj Tho Germans aro said to bo short j Jj on liquid fuel for their aeroplanes yj and dirigibles and to havo fallen j , back upqn alcohol derived from po- j S tatoes for their supply. J Ono Gorman member of the Jf reichstag recently proclaimed in pj thathouso that the success of the Jj Zeppelin raids depended upon the m, fullness of tho potato crop. 'Wj, The Italians who aro conducting :i! dogged warfaro against tho well- Mr nigh impregnable Austrian positions l.e on the mountains are short of fuel i r since there is no tree growth upon g thoso rocky heights. j Thousands of Italian children f 2: down in (ho sunny cities aro caring ; ? for this difficulty, however. Some- , fe ingenious military man or scientist I, fc discovered that "coal paper" would j U! act as an efficient substitute, and as ' S&1 a result hundreds of thousands of - J? small, tightly rolled billets of paper s are being shipped up to the troops. Paper is compressed so tightly '; Kj that Its burning will bo much after f ge tho fashion of coal. It burns slowly J gro and with a steady heat, is light in J er transportation and can bo easily J all prepared. ; j Corps of children scour Italian jen cities on tho lookout for stray pieces Rhe: of paper and collect all that they fihe can find. They bring this looso fee stuff to a central station, where oth- i,' fcai er children under tho direction of I Kai women teachers press it into solid fe e rolls, which are then cut up into Ral ehort sections. ;l Bags of these rolls are sent to the , '. 5iai soldiers in tho mountains and are :i the carried about by them and held f ready for any emergency of hunger -i jmr, or of cold. j j (Copyright 191G.) J I ; Tl Sandy's Confession. I JJJJ "You were a college man?" inter- ifcnfl rogated tho lady in the vine-covered ;' k bungalow. 1. Kas "YeBsum," replied Sandy Pikes aa f coss he tackled the wedge of peach pie. Ihis l "And took degrees?" JK, "Yessum." f?61 "How many degrees did you taker ' P8 "Ninety-one, mum. I stole de col- but : lege thermometer one summer day." Iliad 4k |