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VOLUME XXIV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 26, 1917
NUMBER 21
HOW TO STOP MUCH OF THE
$7,000,000,000 FOOD WASTE
IN THE HOMES OF THE U. S.
Garbage Pails, Careless Handling and Improper Cooking Waste Most
of It Rats, Mice and Insects Ruin Large Quantities
Efficiency Should Be Watchword
GOOD FOOD 18 WASTED:
It It Rets Into tho garbage pall.
If allowed to spoil In the home.
If ruined by careless cooking.
When too murh I served at a meal.
County Agent Seidell is of the
opinion that whilo increased crop
production will be a great factor for
the fartners to consider this next
year, the conservation of food and
the elimination of waBto will be aB
great or an even greater thing for
everyone farmer, ranchman, and
townsman to consider during the
next twelve months. Ho suggests
that it would be well to attempt to
stop this waste not r.lono for thi
present time but to continually make
the effort.
Good food heedlessly thrown into
not needed immediately are thrown
out or allowed to spoil instead of be
ing used in soups or combination
dishes. Fruits which could be need
and kept are allowed to spoil. Veg
etables and fruits in quantities often
are stroed in hot, damp, and poorly
ventilated bins and under conditions
which hasten wilting, fermentation
and decay. Fruits, surplus beans,
tomatoes and other vegetables pro
duced in home gardens are allowed
to spoil on the vines or rot on the
ground. A mornings work would
can and preserve such surplusage for
use when fruits and vegetables are
narbage pails, food allowed to spoil
In the household, food ruinod by im-1 scarce and high in price,
proper cooking, and rood destroyed Much food is ruined by being
by rats, mice and Insects constitute stored where flies or other insects
the heavy items in the $700,000,000
annual waste of food in homes in
this country cited recently by the
secretary of agriculture. Seven hun
dred million dollars is considered to
be a conservative figure. In house
hold waBte, of course, are not tnclud
ed the vast losses of food allowed un
or rats and mice can get at it. Much
cereal food is ruined because it is
not protected against weevils or oth
er insects,
hind Spoiled by CarelesHtVtoking
Many housewives who complain
that children and adults will not eat
breakfast cereals fail to realize that
der improper handling or inefficient the cereals they serve are under
marketing methods to spoil In tran- cooked, Bcorched, or improperly sea
sit or in the hands of producers or I Boned and thus made unpalatable,
dealers. Moet of the cheaper foods require
Much of this $700,000,000 house-1 careful seasoning and preparation to
hold waste of food, the dietary spec-J be fully appetizing. In many house
ialists of the U. S. Department of : holds, the specialists believe, proper
Agriculture declare, is easily pre- j attention to the cooking of these
ventable. This nreventahle waste i cheap and desirable foods will in
crease greatly their consumption and
thus reduce considerably the use of
more expensive foods eaten instead
consists in large part of the follow
ing items:
1. Kdihk food thrown Into the
garbage pall or Into the kitchen Kink, of cereals.
That vast amounts of nourishing ma- H Vegetables properly prepared
terial are thrown out from American tempt the appetite. When they are.
kitchens and so made useless for hu- setrved in soggy form or in watery
man consumption is well established
by the returns from garbage and fer
tilizer plants showing the amount of
or poorly flavored dishes, much of
them will be left on the table. The
nutritive value and flavor of meat or
fats and nitrogenous material recov- fish can be lessened by over-cooking
ered fro mcity garbage
Much of the food Is thrown out,
the specialists say, because so many
or improper cooking. If fats are al
lowed to burn even a little, they de
velop unpleasant flavors and usually
people do not know how to utilize , cause people to refuse gravies and
leftovers or will not take the, trouble
to keep and prepare them. The
specialists point out that left-over
cereals can be reheated or combined
with fruits, meats, or vegetables in
to appetizing side dishes; that even
a spoonful of cereal Is worth saving
as a thickener of soups, gravies and
sauces. Stale bread can be utilised
in a variety of ways in combination
with vegetables and meats and in
preparing hot breads and puddings.
Skim milk, too widely looked down
upon as a food although It contains
practically all the nourishing ele
ments of whole milk with the excep
tion of the crenm or fat, can be used
an a beverage. In cooking cereals, or
as a basis for milk soups or sauces.
Bven sour milk, so largely thrown
away, can De used in mnxing not
breads or in the home manufacture
of cottage cheese.
Every scrap of meat or fish can be
combined with cereals or other foods
lacking in pronounced flavor, both to
give flavor and to add nourishment to
made-over dishes. Every bit of fat
or Buet trimmed from meat before
cooking or tried out in boiling, roast
ing or broiling can be made useful
In cooking. Many butchers, after
they have weighed meat and named
the price for the cut, trim off valua
ble suet and fat. This fat which the
housewife pays for. if taken home
and used, would reduce expenditures
for prepared cooking fats. Water
used in cooking rice and many of the
vegetables contains nutrients and de
sirable flavoring materials valuable
in Boups or sauces. Too often fata
and such wad i are poured into the
sink.
Many persons regard the saving ot
small amounts of left-over fooa as
unimportant. If they kept accurate
account, however, for any period,
the specialists say, many families
would be astounded by the amount
of good food they are throwing out
and by the sums that they are pay
ing to the grocer, the butcher and
milkman merely to replace good
food being absolutely wasted.
9. Hpoilage of food due to erc
lewa handling and storing In the
borne, Important amounts of per
ishable foods are made dangerous or
inedible in households because they
are exposed unnecessarily to heat,
germs, dust, dill or to flies and oth
er insects.
Much milk spoils quickly because
it is kept uncovered in warm kitch
ens. Close observance of the doc
trine "Keep perishable food, espec
ially milk, cool, clean and covered
continuously" may make a striking
difference In the food bills of many
families.
In other cases, one or two vege
tables, beets or carrots, for Instance,
sauces made witn mem or ioous
fried in them; burned meat is also
disagreeable as are burned vegeta
bles. Wat in Preparation
Much useful foods gets into the
garbage pail because the housewife
in preparing potatoes or other vege
tables and fruit, such as apples cuts
off with the skin a considerable per
centage of edible material. Care
less paring of potatoes may consign
as much as 20 per cent of the edible
portion, including outer layers con
taining valuable mineral substan
ces to the garbage pail. Many per
sons are unaware that the green and
tender tops of many vegetables which
contain valuable mineral and other
i food substances, are excellent cooked
as greens, or even its additions to
salads.
Ovcrgo-nerous Serving of Food
Many families take pride in serv
ing lavish and overbountiful meals.
Such meals bad inevitably to waste
of food on the table and to evcreat
Ing, which often impairs health and
efficiency, The sane standard, "Eat
enough food and no more," rigidly
followed, would reduce greatly food
bills in many homes and, at the same
time, tend to improve the physicnl
condition of all members of the house
hold.
Eat for Efficiency!
Housewives, interBeted in economy,
who wish to be certain that their
families are getting proper food and
not too much, should ask the U. 8.
Department of Agriculturo to send
Farmers' Bulletin 808. "How to Se
lect Foods What the Body Needs."
This bulletin classifies foods into
simple household groups and shows
rthe housewife how to plan mealfl
that will provide for the growth and
repair of the body and supply the en
eryg the various members of the
household need for their special
tasks. '
Ghalleng
HERMANN HAjGfapQRN
AmmaMflarThern is jrHr manhood gone ?
Whr TOtaBragnd run, who taught
Who tsjugjf!) your Jgom to whin of peace with quaking
cowaKkneea, Jr 4
And fling WWnirrfthe wolvs yo r hard-won liberties?
America, AnrcricawhertWiur gwy fled?
What of, thtf :drc8m?j4aMrriof the deeds, what of the
nobtp dead? .7
What pi the swords that flashed .for you, what of the
tongues thatspok? -rlxl
WhatM the hearts fchat WrajrVrdu, what of the
hMit that hrnhV? h3s 01
7 i mmn
America! Amecaremember moW otir dead I
TKi tr tv, unn orrnes th tnioNt anil uill not h
ArmJarihawse. Amrlla1fdTvut sword once morel
x ncytfiue in wc-xne naroor-mouiq, troc ioc is on your snorci
AiU.M.lAkTicahWhT bt the air?
HaWfthferlwdtd oiVbjngtpnjJfV call of
f-elanWand ihereAjgnrr Hdttcockj There Adams,
n, Patrick Henrf ier)ehnjrouh! There, jack
f;fen,MeidJay!
Aim Ai aerjeafl iYrdeadCTyiitloVOT, Ansep
uflB, S nuylety Marshall. Marion ! The wvi 'pail nd
Pauf Jonjes. Decatur; Perry I McD' r ough olwmplain !
A fe, Athcrica, and standi A raufc of men
You Wer E notimemfTto Vcrge, Noli wre" not made to
jYu wei oteap iorilv1n & rtnd gutter
J3j God, wedidnot giva-ibwr' bWod to: ypur light on
prly toHseca craverafla slojfhfully Mt jdie!
.We. did not oW for Freedom
Attn.Wr n, arisr, Americsl Put
Veochme, we' cime to trie cc
IniHrlrihre rttndl fit J '
i - i
rild!
3 -
PATRIOTIC AMERICAN GREEKS
LISTEN TO SPEECH BY THE
HON. PAXTON HIBBON OF N. Y.
Former United States Consul at Athens Delivers a Rousing Address
At Greeks' Independence Day Celebration, in Carnegie
Hall, Hew York City, March 20th
AMERICAN GRKKKM IYAL:
To Uie Land of their nativity;
To their Adopted country;
To the principles of patriot J am ;
And willing to fight for liberty.
W j ii . i ii uiviii. I V. W WW I
tjherjj to lei her perish nowt
Iby the eiavenl dread!
jors. Wecome,'the
jr dead cannot sleep in the old.
And we dead rise up from the
- i . r .
e we I
s for
UXi
Arm.arTnti&risei For
green' graves!
Liberty tries, fmpe
1 .waves!
Mdstei' the strength, of the living! Ten to one
Ten ghosts pehindeach valiant boy, who stri
liberty . .
il-t- J : t
ArrriirmAaTise, AmericarjTieart of my land, be flame!
An eneKbf words andbafter! Ati en'oraT6th and
Haik, hqw the old heroic ghosts toi dedthless "dee4ii
'- ' I 'BSBM -11
cowards, perish ! But if you arc men, then
i . L
J lnvfte
Iiiiyow ire
WESTERN NEBRASKA LIVE STOCK
NEED IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
Cattle, sheep ami Hog IjoMte In 191 f
Total 3,27,720. I.o-s in 1016
TotaltMl $4,720,710
Uy F. L. Taylor and F. M. Seidell)
w a4Mi
THE PRICE OF PEACE.
j IIAVK never sdvocated witr
exeept s a means of pence,
tiraut.
I'euee won by coinpromise It
usually a short lived achieve
meat. WlaaeM se.,it.
Tesce, above nil things la tit
he deslrel Itut hloml must be
Mpllletl to ohtulll it on eqUHhle
and liistitij: terms. Andrew
.1 ... i -..ii
The meat supply of the nation la
an important factor in wartime. No
other form of food gives so much
value for the amount of bulk. This
is a very important factor in supply
ing the armies of the United States
and the allies. The meat supply of
the United States has not kept pace
with die increase of population and
this, even in times of peace, is a ser
ious situation. Western Nebraska is
one of the Important live stock pro
ducing areas of the United States and
can do much when called upon, as
this section is now, to relieve the
meat situation.
In the 52 Western Nebraska coun
ties lying west of Merrick county, ac
cording to the State Board of Agri
culture reports, on April 1, 1916
there were 193.604 milk cows havinR
a total value of $11,616,240; 1,820,
884 head of other cattle, valued at
$7;!. 135,360; 91,697 tiheep valued at
$641,879; 807,038 hogs valued at
$16,140,760. The loss by death of
live stock for the year preceding,
based upon iiHsessors reports, were as
follows: milk cows, 6,198 head val
ue $372,080; other cattle. 39,968
head, valued at $1,598,720; sheep,
3,480 head valued at $24,360. hogs
to the number of 76,628 valued at
$1,532,560; making a total of $3.
527.720. The report of the Bureau of Crop
Estimates shows that on April 1,
1917 there was in this territory an
increase In cattle of 4.5 per cent, hogs
1 per cent and sheep 2 per cent over
April I, 1916. The losses of cattle
in the same area were 1.68 times
what it was a year ago. Sheep loss
es were 1.62 times what it was a
year ago. The loss of bogs was .9
of what It was one year ago. The
losses on the estimate ror 1916 would
total $4,729,710.
The losses in livestock are attribut
ed to many different causes. In cat
tle the losses were chiefly due to
lack of feed, exposure, black leg corn
stalk disease and tuberculosis. In
sheep losses were attributed chiefly
to lack of feed, exposure, losses dur
ing lambing, etc. In hogs the losses
were for the moat part caused by
cholera, farrowing and many other
swine ailments.
Labor will be scarce this year ho
provision must be made to begin early
and secure enough feed for keeping
the live stock well during the com
ing year. More care should be exer
cised during calving, lambing and
farrowing seasons. Black leg losses
should be prevented by vaccinating
all young cattle twice each year. In
case of abortion among breeding
herd of cattle a good veterinarian
should be consulted. In hog cholera
(Continued on last page this auction)
The twenty-fifth day of March is
to patriotic Oreeks what tho fourth
of July Is to Americans, for it was
on March 25th, 1821, that Greece se
cured her Independence from Tur
key. This dny Is celebrated by the
Oreeks wherever a large number of
them live, In America as well as In
their native country.
At tho OreekB independence cele
bration held in Carncglo Hall. New
York City, on the 26th of last month.
a speech was madn by Hon. Paxton
ilibbon, former consul from the
United States at Athens, that Is so
full of patriotism for this country as
well aB Oreece, and flhows so well
the latter country's attitude In the
great world struggle now taking
place, that It is published entire
herewith:
Ladles and Uontlemen:
"A few days ago, seeking a text for
what I waB going to say to you here
today, I found this statement by the
great Daniel Webster, champion of
the cause of the Greeks In their war
of Independence: "I ask you to re
ward Greece," he Bald, 'not as she ex
ists in history, triumphant over time
and tyranny and Ignorance, but as
she is now, contending against fear
ful odds for being, and for the com
mon privilegeH of human nature."
"I ank you Ureeks here to-day to
regard your fatherland, not as she
was three years ago, victoriuos after
two successful warR under the lead
ership of that great soldier, Constan
tino I., but as she is to-day. torn by
internal strife, overrun by friends
and enemies alike, starving and in
great agony- a martyr among na
tions. This is the anniversary of
your independence. It was hardly
won. after 500 hundred years of the
bravest, mom patient struggle. To
day one man keeps it for you still,
struggling against fearful odds. With
him your independence as a people
rests; without him, it in gone, sucked
down into the vortex of the great
Bit repeat! struggle, where Belgium,
Serbia, Montenegro and RotUBanla
were lost And it may never come
back. What King Constantinc has
had BBS. real his heart always has
bCOO to avoid If possible that irrepar
able disaster, to conserve that lo4
penilence you celebrate this day. He
never has been pro-Cerani i, he baa
been pro-Greek and without his pa
tience, his tact, hiy foresight, there
might well hi'vxe been no urates to
day, Whose independence you could
celebrate.
"I do not know these p opts are
who say that King Constantinc is pro
German. But I know that they do
not even know him -they do not
know him even :s well as you do,
who served under him, you reserviatl
Bven I have the honor to know him
better than the?! I have talked with
kin many times and I know that his
heart is with those who finht for tfco
independence of the sinnll nation.:
with tbfl Allies. I know- that on six
Separate occasions he sought to Join
with the Allies in their war for the
defense of small nr.tlons. Why his
offer has not been accepted is a jues
tlon which only the Allied diploma
tists can answer. But I know that,
true to his trust of keeping the
Greece your arms have conquered in
tact, he has made it a condition of
every offer to Join the Allies that the
integrity of Greece be guaranteed
every foot of soil under the Oroek
flag to remain under the Greek flag.
He has not been willing to sell out
any part of Greece. Perhaps it is
for that reason they say he is pro
Geramn. As late as last September
King Constantino offered to join the
Allies again. On September 1 he
told the British Minister in Athena
so. On September 13 he elegraphed
bis brothers, T. R. H. Princes George
Nicholas and Andrew, who were then
in Paris, Petrogra and London re
spectively, to give his royal word that
Greece would join the Allies in a war
on Bulgaria if the Entente would
guarantee the integrity of Greece.
Ou September 18 Prime Minister
Caloguyeropoulos made a foraml of
fer to the Entente government to the
same effect.
King Constantine had spoken first
three daya after ltoumania's entry
into the war. His Idea was that of
the splendid soldier he is that Kou
mania marching southward and
Greece northward could cut Bulgaria
in two, dose the way to Constanti
nople so that the Greeks could then
march on Constantinople and thus
probably end the whole European
war.
The Allied Powers made no reply.
The conquest of Roumania by the
Germans and Bulgarians began and
moved rapidly. Still theretolntaola
moved rapidly. In the face of this
King Conatantlne renewed his offer
twice, as I have aald. Still there was
no reply. Finally on September 80
he received an unofficial reply advis
ing him to declare war on Bulgaria
without any understanding aa to co
operation with Roumania or any
guarantee aa to the integrity of
Greece. He refuaed to do it, but
atlll kept hla offer open to join the
Allies on the terma he had laid down,
principally a guarantee of the Integ
rlty of Greece.
It waa not until November 19 that
an answer waa finally received that
the Entente would not accept Greeca
as an ally except on condition that
Venlxeloa be returned to power. Now,
I aak you, who la the pro-German In
fact: the King who offered a prac
tical, military plan by which Bulgar
ia could be crushed, Constantinople
taken, Germany cut off from Turkey
and the war probably ended long;
ago? Or whoever It waa who pre
vented the acceptance of thla offer,
except on condition that Venizeloa or
any other one man be named Prime
Minlater of Greece?
They say that King Conatantlne is
trying to efltabliah an autocratic rule
In Greece. It la not true. I am a
democrat myself, and I tell you that
I know no slncerer democrat than
the Koumbaros and every man of
you who has fought under his com
mand knows that is ao. He does not
rare a snap who is Prime Minister of
Creecc he I ready to work with
any man the Greek people elect.
! What he does care about is that
I Greece shall lose no Jot of the terri
tory that was won by five hundred
: fean of struggle, ending tho day you
celebrate today, and doubled four
i years ago by his and your victorious
' arms. Every statement he has made,
every act of his as King of the Hcl
j leaes has been in accord with this
I one principle which, as constitution
al monarch of the Creek people, he
Is sworn to uphold.
It is for thin reason that I feel
that 1 may say with authority that if
yon America ns of Greek extraction
would follow the desire of your late
commander, Constantine I. constitu
tional commander la chief of the
Greek army, you may best do so by
helping your new country In fighting
on the side of the Allies. I rhall not
recall to you that in Greece's hour
of need, in the black yean of th"
war for independence, the United
Slates came to the nid of your fore
fathers, as Mr. Vlastos has so elo
quently told you. This is our hour
of need. Will you men of Hellenic
blood help us?
No one knows any hotter than I
what splendid fighters you men down
there wiih the medals with their blue
ribbons ii your breasts are. i haee
seen you at It. Well, we in Amerlci
need just such trained fighters as
fen to help us train ourselves. Kintf
Constantine was the champion of
Sropatedneaa la Oreece. it was he1
who crested years ahead and built
up the victorious armies of 1912 and
19)3 We have been backward in
this, here In this country, but you
un n know the value of it Help us
to catch up with you by joining tho
land and naval forces of the l'nit?d
States, ao that you who know what
war is- and God knows you do know
can help to train your fellow coun
trymen of this country who do not.
There is nothing new to a good
many of you about an American bat
tle ship. You have two in the Greek
navy the Leranos and the Kilkis. I
was on the Leinnos when the light
flotilla, which had borne a message
of freedom to the two million Greeks
under Turkish rule, was takeu from
the Oreeh navy the 10th of last Oc
tober. I saw the men tailed togeth
er on the quarter deck; 1 heart the
order of the day of Admiral Kami...
os read to them, as they stood at at
tention with tears streaming down
their faces: I saw the blue and white
flag lowered and rolled up; 1 saw Ad
miral (pitis with the portrait of King
Constantine, which had hung in the
wardroom of each vessel, underneath
his arm, descend last into the wait
ing boat as the sailors Who had
known victory on them left their ves
sels. It was a sad business. But
that night the sailors of the fleet
came to the American Legation to
tell the American Minister about it,
and they came to my hotel to tell me.
another American Miniate, about it
poor devils, they bad to tell some
body, even though they knew that
we could do little for them. Well,
now, we Americana come to you -
j (Continued on page 2, this section)