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Show The wheat shortage is destined to make the people of tlie United States acquainted for the first time in their history with the great American eralri corn. When one comes to think of it, it is really surprising how few people in our land really appreci-rte appreci-rte this grain as they should. Corn bread, rightly made, has no superior as a regular article of diet. Those who have become accustomed to its use frequently prefer it to all other bread, and insists that one never loses relish for it. Corn was the staple article of food for the American Amer-ican Indian, than whom a finer race physically, never existed. It was also the mainstay of the African slaves of the South for two centuries, and on it they throve and labored. It is acknowledged ac-knowledged by leading physicians that corn bread is more healthful than wheat bread, and when once one has acquired a taste for it h? becomes a convert for life. It is the merest drivel, to say nothing of craven disloyalty, dis-loyalty, for any of our people to bewail be-wail a forced abstinance from wheat b-ead so lane; as we have untold millions mil-lions of the best grain God ever-caused ever-caused to grow out of the ground. |