The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, August 14, 1917, Image 2
THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA. ELECTRICITY IS A BIG FACTOR IN WAR FOOD ECONOMIES 8 Squirrel's Thirst Almost Cost Animal Its Life WASHINGTON. If your friends Include n country squirrel whose home uddress Is u nut trot-, with a running stream for neighbor, you will know thnt, as a Rood provider, his name Is Hoover. But there are always others this one, for Instance, who has found n champion In a kindly big brother, nnnicil Man: "While sitting In Stanton park early Sunday morning last a squirrel ran down one of the trees near the park fountain, and nfter first trying to get water at the hose connection near by, he failed to satisfy his thirst and thereupon made for the fountain Itself and dashed over the wall of the basin Into about a foot of water. He followed the wall of the fountain basin and I soon saw that he was not going to he able to get out of his predicament. I hailed the street lighter and he got him out with his stick. lie tells me this happens frequently In Rummer time and that he often takes them out of the fountain In n very exhausted condition. "Hut to get hack to the story the squirrel was no sooner rescued than he made off for the same tree which ho had descended a moment before, and a my eyes followed him In lils ascent they rested on something In the forks of the tree which proved to he a flask a little more than half full of whisky. This fact, coupled with the animal's thirst, certainly makes out a good case by circumstantial evidence, However, this, of course, Is a mere coincidence and has nothing to do with either the chilling effect of the squirrel's early morning hath or his abnormal thirst, for he seemed to be a perfectly sober and respectable squirrel, and there Is no doubt In my mind but that the afore said hidden trensure really belonged to another and entirely different kind of animal. Still one cannot help hut Wonder If the owner of the bottle would not take qulto as great a risk to secure a drink from either It or the fountain so early on a Sunday morning, or which nnlmal Is really the,more reckless of his future. "If you will absorb this llttl? story, which Is a true one, It may bring about the provision of means whereby the squirrels may bo able to got dut of the fountains, which ought to he done. It Is not pleasant to think of their swim ming themselves to death on some occasion." Women Displacing Men in the National Capital LUItED by thousands of vacancies In the federal departments and private In stitutions as a result of war, women are Hocking to Washington lu such numbers that the capital Is In danger of being overrun with them,- Few men yMJINGTON s made that with a continuance of the war for a year or more there will be two wj)men for every man In tho city. One. member of congress from Virginia said that ho had assisted more than 100 women from among his constituency to obtain employment in tho public service during tho last few months. Recently four cabinet ofllcers Secretaries Lansing, Baker, Daniels and Itedlleld announced that women would be appointed In their departments la preference to men. This policy waH adopted as a military precaution; tho men are needed for duty on tho llrlng lino and la tho process of mobilization of tho nation's resources. It is probable that the other departments are doing tho same, although without public announcement. Many Reasons Why War Nurses Should Be Slim 4 - SUGGESTIONS for reforms of every kind aro being received dally by the Council of National Defense. Now a movement' Is on to "reform" fat nurses. A group of Chicago women, who want the government to construct a camp for Intensive reducing, haB re cently put tho question up to tho women's committee of tho Council of National Defense. Fat at tho front that is tho bat tle front Is considered a serious handicap, lti the view of women. Nurses to bo most clllclent should bo no moro than properly plump; there is no necessity of their being perfect thirty-sixes, but when they aro forty-seven or forty-eights thnt Is too much. Besides the smaller sizes pleaso the wounded soldiers better. But there Is nnothor consideration which hnn come Into tho minds of otllclals. It Is tho necessity of conserving all apneo possible aboard steamers In tho transatlantic service. A CO-pound reduction for every one of 1,000 aursus, might readily save thp transportation expenses of 2JS tons. Tho Chicago women declared that tho camps tho goverameat should establish in various sections of tho country where nurses could reduco should bo similar to thoso for Boldlers. Tho courses should be of from two to six months' duration, according to tho slzo of tho nurse. Then, fully, reduced, they would bo ready for France, or could hotter withstand tho strain of Hold service. But after all has been said, to tho patient In tho cot tho plump and Jolly nurse, mm over-ruauy smue, win do Fenced-in Botanical Grounds Mar tho Landscape "W 1IEN 1 benoU' Washlaoton arrayed In Its livery of green It seems to mo VI that every citizen of tho Ualted States Bhould have for It the passion nte attachment which tho Athenian Greek had for tho 'violet-crowned city,' '' said Paul Do Lnvlgno, aa nrtist of 'grounds nro an eyesore. A friend told mo aot long ago that aa English visitor Inquired of him for what reason the authorities had located a Jail at the foot of tho capltol. . His frlead, supposing that ho was Jestiug, replied that Its prescat locatloa was Bqlccted to Imprlsoa tho Socialists la coagress, where upon the Eagllshmau unwwered, 'Why do they not send the beggarB to tho workhouso?' Such an laclosuro is nowhere seca save around Jail and bar racks. It BhutB out to thousands a view of tho matchless fountain presented to tho nation by Bartholin, tho sculptor who designed and cast tho Statue of (Liberty Enlightening tho World at tho ontrnaco to Now York harbor. That prison vull la my opinion, should vualsh overnight." I THOUCHr I WAS A GOHttW WATTrtE are seeking Jobs but the women are applying for lnindreds of newly cre oted positions In the various govern ment branches and taking the places vacated by men who have been or will bo called to the colors. Already Washington was a city of women. The percentage of women, according to the census of 1010, wns larger than In any other large city In the country. The" figures demon strated that then there were 01.3 men for every 100 women. The prediction f) MOT FAT fti JUST raw ror an time tho oao la demaad. Now York city, at the Wlllard. "There aro In all directions vistas aad vlsloas of surpassing loveliness aad beauty. Tho view from the capltol across tho Potomac to the blue Virginia hills Is, la my opinion, unequaled. Much hua boon said and written of tho beauty ol Paris, the City of Mexico, Floreaco, Italy, aad Coastantlaople. Washing toa surpasses them all. "There Is ono blur, however, on the landscape. Tho fonced-la botanical Every "Big Bertha" In Wcrid Conflict Is Fired by Press ing a Button. WIRELESS IS ALWAYS BUSY Invention Stimulated by Demands of War Trench Orders Given by Tel ephone Magnets Take Place of Surgeon's Probe. New York. Electricity, child of peace, has been adopted by war as Its own especial ward. Without electric ity this war could never have reached the proportions which It has; perhaps ooiild never have been fought at all. livery "Big Bertha" Is tired by an elec tric sparlc. Every order from head quarters reaches the trenches, not by courier trs In days of old, but by tele phone. The wireless crackles a stac cato accompaniment to every sailing of ship and submarine. The torpedo itself Is propelled by electric motors. Invention has been stimulated al most hysterically ly the demands of war. Armies on the march or In the Held have now a hundred conveniences which were not known Inst year. There Is a radio telephone and tole- graph equipment, for Instance, which can be attached to a motorcycle, It was given to America only a little while ago by a New York Inventor. The transmitting power Is approxi mately one kilowatt, with a resultunt radius rot the wireless telegraph of from 80 to 100 miles and about half that distance for the radio telephone. Current for this compact Held set Is supplied to the telephone or tele graph by a high voltage direct current geaerator connected directly to an in- dependent motorcycle engine connect ed with the side car. For the equip ment Is contained In a small metal side car attached to the cycle. Wireless Equipment. The wireless equipment comprises a completely Independent unit, which can easily be dotaehed and pushed by hand or loaded on a wagon and trans ported over rough ground. An extra wheel is provided which can be at tached to either hub of the side car or to tho'fVont or rear of the motorcycle. Tho antenna is supported by a light weight: metal mast of tubular con struction. The telescopic form of It makes it possible to collapse the mast and strip It out of the way oa the car's side. And when erected, It can take messages from Held and airplanes with equnl ease. The French have developed the wireless to a line point. They now have what they call aa "oadophoac" detector for receiving messages, the value of which lies In Its small slzo and extremely compnet makeup. The wholo affair, as a matter of fact, caa bo carried la na olllcer's breast pocket. With this little detector at a dls- taace of 20 miles from the transmit ter all that is needed Is aa opea um brella held as high as the hand can rench or a swortf, If you prefer while a small metal contact piece con nected to a cord lies upon the ground and makes the earth circuit. At 00 miles one need only plant a knife In a tree, preferably a pine tree, or a gimlet will answer as well. One of tho cords with Its metal clip Is at tached to this "antenna" while- the other clip Is placed In the ground. Tho entire receiver weighs but 1!1 ounces nad yet la spite of Its size It Is meticulously made aad Is a aiost accurate apparatus. For Long-Distance Work. For long distance, for lnstaace to the extreaie bonders of Fraace, one clip Is Joined to a telephone line which serves as aa aateaaa and the otlier goes to gas or water pipes for tho CONSERVATION COSTUME Women who sign the conservation pledge of tho food admlalRtratloa board of tho government may wear this uniform of red, white and blue, which tho patternmakers declare Is as useful as It Is pretty. It Is of Inex pensive material, cotton clvttv, wltlde tachablo cults, spreads out like a sheet for Ironing and has a doublo froat. It la fastened by two straps from tho front panels which meet In tho back and button with ono large button. ground. But at n smaller distance thare caa be a wider choice for aa teiinnc a kitchen stove, a balcony, a metal bod or the like, or oven a bl yele or an automobile. The operator may use his own body for the ground by attaching the metal clip to his fin-g'-r. while the other clip goes to the telephone wire. In this way slgaals have reached Paris from a dlstaace of no less than 270 miles. Most interesting of all, perhaps, and particularly so from a constructive viewpoint, Is the Invention of an elec trical contrivance to remove partlcl6s of metal from wounds. This has aot come, directly from tho war, either, though It Is being used there now In the best of the base hospitals. It mine from Pittsburgh, from the fac tories which have been furnishing practically all of the barbed wire for the allies' Intrenchments. This machjtie Is a powerful electric magnet thnt Is taking the place of tin surgeon's painful and perilous probe, and It Is one to save countless hes and untold agony. The removal of pieces of shrapiKjl, steel-Jacketed bullets and other metal substances from wounds by use of powerful electro-magnets la the war zone hospitals has been acclaimed ns the very latest application of science to surgery. EDITOR'S INITIALS CUT OUT Employees in Italian Censor's Bureau Dldrvjt Understand American Newspaper Ways. Home. The Italian censor's ofllce has been bullied for twq years ln'nn effort to discover the meaning of little groups of letters and dashes, such as "axyz-wtv," and so on, which appear at the ends of ews Items sent out by the Associated Press In New York and remalled from there to tho As sociated Press correspondents from whom flie items came. These marks t:re the Initials of the writer, editor or manlfoldcr of the Item, but apparently the employees of the censor's bureau suspected they conveyed some mystic meaning, for when received by tho correspondent; here they have often been cut out of the pages, or carefully obliterated with ink or, sometimes, the entire batch of mall Is withheld for two or, three months at a time. ' The latter - Is the favorite method pursued by the censor's ofllce for pre venting Information of a harmful na ture from being .disseminated. It Is not unusual for news cables or busl aess dispatches of a aature seemingly suspicious to be quietly forwarded a week or so after the sender has for gotten having filed them. ( On the whole, however, from an American point of view, there has been little complaint regarding eltlier cables or malls, coasideriag th ac tivity of spies of Italy. Most of tho coiaplaiats aro aiade editorially by Italian aewspapcrs which, whea news Is dull, print long tirades declaring thnt the censor Is suppressing inter esting news. JAILED FOR APING PRIEST Heretic Sermon Sends French Soldier Swindler to Prison for a Year. Paris. A soldier named Taillebols has been sentenced by court-martial to a year's Imprisonment and 2f0 francs flao for impersonating a Catholic priest and swindling Catholics. Taillebols Is not a Catholic. He as sumed tho nnme of Fn,ther nenry, trained the confidence of n number of priests and parishioners of Orleans and the surroundlag couatry, ofllcinted In several churches and chapels, heard confessions, a'dmlnlstered communion In many communes, all the while re ceiving money for mnsses and for char Itablo objects. His downfall came from aa attempt to preach in a church lit St. Jean le Blanc. The cure of the commune found ids doctrine was not iltocothor Catholic and asked for in ' formation regarding the wandering j priest from Monslgnor Glbier, bishop l of Versailles, who exposed tho swm ! die. 2 CIVIL WAR VETERAN, 74, WANTS TO ENLIST X Atlanta. You can't tell W. A. Ellis that ho Isn't as goo1 a man at seventy-four as ho was CO years ago, whea ho raaged half a dozen countries as a soldier of fortune, and led a company of Georgia volunteers through the war between the states. Mr. Ellis, aa lamato of tho Old Soldiers' home, waats to eater the service of his couatry, aad to help beat tho kaiser. So far he has not been nble to Induce recruiting ofllcers In any branch to accept him. Until two years ago ho was 11 resident of Grlflln, excopt whea ho was lighting for tho Confederacy or with Lee Christmas, tho famous filibuster, In Central America and Mexico. T Eagle Stole First Papers. Greeley, Neb. Lawrence Maelr is searching over Greeley county for his naturalization papers. An eagle took tho document from his coat while Maelr was working in a Held. Maelr has petitioned tho naturalization de partment at Washington to grant the clerk qf the district court hero permls slou to reissue tho papers. URGED BY HOOVE Cardinal Principles of Campaign for Conservation of Supplies Set Forth. MILLION SIGN F08D PLEDGES Less Wheat, Meat, Milk, Fnts, Sugar and Fuel an,d More Fruit and Vege tables Suggested by the Food Administrator. Washington. To food economies which Herbert C. Hoover of the food administration desires to suggest to the American people have been offi cially promulgated. They constitute tho cardinal princi ples of the food campaign as are set forth In clear type on a small card In terms so definite and concise that all will know exactly what and how to save. This food administration enrd will soon hang In every American kitchen and Its directions will be followed with scrupulous tare by the home makers of the land. Alrendy the appeal has met with a generous response. The Information Is at hand thnt a million food pledges have already been' signed. A rending of the card, which Is printed In fill below, shows thnt to fol low Its suggestions entails no real hard ships. The rules are concise and sim ple. Less wheat, meat, milk, fats, sugar aad fuel. More vegetables, foods that are aot suitable, to lie sent to camps or flrlag lines. No limiting tho food of growing children ; not eat ing by anyone of more food thaa Is needed. Buying food that Is grown close to the home. Is any of this too hard? WIN THE WAR BY GIVING YOUR OWN DAILY SERVICE. Save the Wheat. One wheatless meal a day. Use corn, oatmeal, rye or barley, bread and non-whent breakfast foods. Order bread 24 hours In ad vance so your baker will aot bake be yond his needs. Cut the loaf oa the table aad only as required. Use stale bread for cooking, toast, etc. Eat less cake and pastry. Our wheat harvest Is far below normal. If each person weekly saves one pound of wheat flour that means 150,000,000 more bush els of wheat for the allies to mix in their bread, This will help them to save democracy. Save the Meat. Beef, mutton or pork not' more than once dally. Use freely vegetables and fish. At tho meat meal serve smaller portions, and stews instead of steaks. Make made dishes of all left-overs. Do this and there will be ment enough for every one at a reasonable price. We are today killing the dairy cows and female calves as the re sult of high prices. Therefore, eat less and eat, no young meat. If wc save an ounceof mtat each day per person, we will have additional supply equal to 2,200,000 cattle. Save the Milk. Tho children must have milk. Use every drop. Use but termilk and sour milk for cooking and making cottage cheese. Use less cream.- Save the Fats. Wc nre the world's greatest fat wasters. Fat Is food. But ter Is essential for the growth and health of children. Use butter on the table as usual but not In cooking Other tyits are as good. Beduce use of fried foods. Soap contains fats. Do aot waste It. Make your owa wash lag soap at home out of the saved fats. Use one-third aunce less per day of animal fat and 375,000 tons will be saved yearly. Save the Sugar. Sugar Is scarcer., We use today three times ns much per person as our allies. 'So there may be enough for all at reasonable price, use less candy and sweet drinks. Do not stint sugar In putting up fruit nnd Jams. They will save butter. If everyone In America saves one ounce of sugar dally, it means 1,100,000 tons for the year. Save the Fuel. Coal comes from a distance, and our railways are over burdened hauling wnr material. ' Help relieve them by burning fewer fires. Use wood when you enn get It. Use ths Perishable Foods. Fruits aad vegetables wo havo ia abundaaco. As a aatlon we eat too little green stuffs. Double their use and Improve your health. Store potatoes and other! roots properly nnd they will keep. Be gin now to can or dry all surplus gar den products. Use Local Supplies Patronize your, local proifucer. Distance menns money.; Buv perishable food from tne neighbor hood nearest you and thus save trans-.' portatlon. GENERAL RULES. Buy less, serve smaller portions. Preach the "Gospel of the Clean Plate." Don't eat a fourth meal. Don't limit the plain food of grow ing children. Watch out for the wastes in the com munity. Full garbage palls In America mean empty dinner palls In America and Eu rope. If tht more fortunate of our people will avoid waste and eat no more than they need, the high cost of living prob lem of the less fortunate will be solved. PRODUCING EGGS IN SUMMER Better Methods of Caring for Eggs- and Proper PacKing woum tteauce Needless Loss. Losses In eggs during the summer months fall directly upon the farmers. Dealers know that an average of 15 to 18 per cent of eggs marketed durlag, the summer Is either a total or a puH tlal loss; hence prices, they sny, aro based upon good eggs only. Better methods of caring for tho eggs nnd better packing before they aro shipped would reduce this unnec essary loss. A few definite rules for the pre vention of loss In summer eggs aro formulated by the poultry division at the Pennsylvania State college: (1) Produce sterile or Infertile eggs. (2) Keep eggs In a cool, dry place. (3) Have clean nests nnd plenty of them. (4) Do not keep the eggs near keroseno or decaying vegetables. They absorb odors readily. (5) Market the eggs fre quently. Holding does not improve quality. KEEP MOTHER HEN CONFINED. Loss of Chicks by Exposure Largely- Preventable by Keeping Hen In Ventilated Coop. It Is not good poultry management to allow the niotaer hea to range ua restricted with her chicks. With such freedom the hea frequcatly talces her brood through wet grass nnd, as a re sult, some are chilled and die, espe cially the wenker ones, which are like ly to be left behind. The loss of youag chicks which follows such a practice Is large aad mnlaly preventable. Fur thermore, the food which n brood al lowed to range with the hen obtains goes very largely to keep up the heat of the body and the chicks do not mnke as good growth as they other wise would. Chick losses of this nature can be largely prevented by shutting the hen. in a coop. Any style of coop which is dry, ventilated aad can be closed at night to protect the brood against gats, rats aad other animals, and Mother Hen In Coop. which, while confining the hen, will nllow the chicks to pass in and out freely nfter they are a few days old, will be satisfactory. The hen should be confined until the chicks nre weaned, though a small yard may be attached to the coop, if desired, to al- 0 low the hen to exercise. The fence can be raised "from the ground far enough to nllow the chicks to go in or out, but not high enough for tho hen to escape. By using n coop the chicks can find shelter and warmth under the hen at any time and thu weaklings, after a few days, may de velop Into strong, healthy chicks. STRICT STANDARD FOR EGGS When Well-Establlshed Produce of Flrst-Class, Fresh Article Will' Bring Highest Price. iBy C. S. ANDERSON, Colorado Agricul tural college, tort Collins.) The day of standardization In the jgg market is here. When eggs sold for a cent nplece, the claim "na egg Is aa egg" was accepted. With our preseat increased prices, the con sumer naturally is asking for grent er quality and higher standardization In tho products he buys. A number of our best markets are low demanding that eggs shall weigh at least 24 ounces per dozen. They must stand a candling test, be clean, uniform in size, shape and color of shell. When rigid standards are well es tablished the producer of first-class fresh eggs will recefve a premium and will no longer hnvo his prices governed by the uagraded, poorly handled product. PICK FEATHERS FROM GEESE b Soon as Fowl Is Killed Dip It In. Hot Water Three Times, Then Wrap In Blanket. Much of the trouble experienced vhen picking geese may be avoided If the goose, as soon as dead, Is dipped In water almost at the boiling point three times nnd then wrapped tightly In n blanket or other material which tvlll hold the steam. This will thor oughly steam the feathers and down, o that It will come off easily. Don't nllow tho goose to remain wrapped up. more than a full minute. r 1