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SOMF l?l(. I \(TS MUM I KICK
Famous World Traveler and Writer
Tells About Fncle Sam's New Kice
Kield*. Itcrenl DnrlopmrnU in
Food Crop of Fnormous Value to
the Army and I'eople. A Dish That
Costs One Cent IVr I'rrson. How
Five Pounds Will Feed Sixty Men
(Copyrighted, 1917.)
Lake Charles in one of the centers
of a new industry that ran do much
toward increasing one food supply in
this great war with Germany. It is
surrounded by thousands of acres of
rice fields, and the territory tributary
to it is now growing more thui a
million sacks of rice every year. Just
now the rice is standing hi^h out of
the water, like countless emeralds
sprouting out of a basin of silver.
Then are great beds of these emer
alds all the way from here to the Mis
sissippi river, and they extend west
ward and southward along the (iulf
of Mexico to below the Brazos river
in Texas. They are part of the great
rice farm which runs along the flat
Louisiana prairies above the (Iulf of
Mexico and extends far down into
Texas.
The gulf strip of rice land is four
or Ave hundred miles long and from
20 to M) miles wide, and it is now
producing a large part of the crop of
the United States. Its area can be
greatly extendi*! and can be made to
include much of the land running
northwurd from here to Arkansas.
In the Arkansas prairies there are
other rife lands which yield even more
to the arc re than those of the urulf;
and within the past tivr years a bit'
rici' industry has sprung up in m<'
Sacramento ami Shu Joaquin valleys,
in California. In 1 1*1 th?* rice of
California had not yet come into the
market. During that year a strip of
1.4(H) acres was plunted near Higgs, in
the Sacramento valley. It succeeded so
well that in 191 .'I 0,000 acres were
planted, and thoy yielded more thai)
.'{,000 pounds of ricw to the acre. In
l'.M4 the area jumped to 1<!,000
acres. In 1916 tin- rice crop of Cali
fornia nlone was more than 100,000,
000 pounds. It Was equal to one pound
for every man, woman and child in
the United States, or enough to sup
ply twelve meals for each of our
citizens.
To show that this is not an extrav
agant estimate, I here give you some
figures supplied by the "Manual for
Army Cooks," gotten up by the War
Department for the troops in the field.
It contains directions for the rations
to be supplied to the soldiers, and how
to cook them. Among the recipes are
several for rice. One of these tells
how to prepare a meal of boiled rice
for sixty men. The ingredients are
five pounds of rice and three gallons
of water. The recipe rends: "When
the water comes to u boil add the
rice. When the rice has grown soft
enough to be mashed witli the fingers
pour into a colander and drain well.
After that each rice grain should be
whole and separate." The dish should,
of course, be salted to taste.
Five pounds of rice for 00 men!
That moans 8*i pounds for 102 men.
It means that 85 pounds would fur
nish a meal for 1,000 soldiers. At
that rate our new army of 500,000
could be fed on less than 411,000
pounds of rice, an amount that could
easily be stored in a single box car.
Four such acres would supply a meal
of rice for 2,000,000 men, and the
food would form the best nourishment
we could supply.
This brings me to the food value of
rice. How warm will it keep the sol
diers in the trenches, and much work
can one do on such a diet? I have
been in Manchuria in winter. It is
bitterly cold, and there is nowhere
that one needs more food to keep
warm. Nevertheless, it was upon a
diet of rice and fish that the Japanese
soldiers endured all their hardships
and succeeded in defeating the meat
fed Cossacks from Russia. Every
soldier in the Japanese army had a
little lacquered tin case about as big
as an old-fashioned cartridge box.
This contained a pound or so of raw
rice, and that was sufficient to sus
tain his life and fighting strength for
two or three days. The rice could
be cooked anywhere that a fire could
be made and water obtained. It was
used both in the camps and on the
march.
As to the value of rice for our peo
ple at home, it is equally Rood. It
forms the chief bread of Asia, and
about half of the people of the whole
world make it their principal food.
The Filipino keeps fat upon rice, and
the Chinese coolie works twelve
hours a day upon his scanty supply.
I have had Japanese jinrikisha men
carry me over the country at six
miles an hour, running all day, on
nothing but rice, and I have seen
Korean porters carrying loads of
300 pounds on the same food.
Our Department of Agriculture
says that, pound for pound, rice
ranks higher than corn, wheat or
oats in the amount of nutrition con
tained, and that it has three times as
much food energy ** the same weight
of potatoes and more than twice that
of fat l?ref. It h; a higher heat-pro
ducing power than rye, barley or
whe&t, and far more than white bread
or beefsteak. Dr. At water, one of the
chief authorities on the chemistry of
foods, at.ys the ideal ration in rice
mixed with chicken, beef or veal in a
stew.
Moreover, rice can easily be digest
ed. It in out of your stomach within
an hour after you cat it. It takes two
hours to digest oatmeal, three hours
to digest potatoes and your stomuch
has to work four hours on meat.
Kicc has gone up in price with
other provisions, but it is still cbout
the chcapist of foods. I have before
me a cookbook prepared by the
Southern Pacific railway which runs
through this rice territory. It l.as
twenty p:.ges of rice recipes, and
gives much information concerning
the cereal as a food. 1 1 stat s that
one cup of rice will expand in boiling
to about four cups of cocked rice, and
that this amount in combination with
a disii of meat or with beans or
peas will make a meal for u family
of four. It estimates that one pound
of rice i; equal to thre" teacupfuls,
and that even though rice costs 10
cents a pound the amount mentioned
in the above recipe should not cost
more than ?'! or?4 cents anywhere in
the United States. Even at 4 cents
the cost would be only 1 cent per per
son for this part of the meal.
The feet is that our people have
never appreciated the value of rice.
In most purts of the country they u*e
it as a pudding for dessert and not
as a cereal, or principal article of
food. In many sections the people do
not know how to cook it; t.nd, on this
account tl|? Association of Kicc Grow
ers here has been considering the
sending of trained cooks to the army
to show how it should be prepared
for the soldiers.
As to our rice supply, wo arc still
importing sovcrul hundred million
pounds every your, but if the people
do their duty in extending the rice
farms they can increase the crop five
or six fold in this region alone, to
say nothing of the possibility of new
rice lands in California. In tin- cen
tral part i f the latter State they have
been growing rice at both ends of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
This region is more than 100 miles
long and from twenty to sixty miles
wide, and a great part of it can be
irrigated. The two valleys contain
aliout twice as much land as Massa
chusetts. They have nine or ten- mil
lion acres in all, and, ns I have said,
there an' now only 70,000 in rice. The
great prairies of Arkansas, which last
year produced about lialf again as
much rice as California, have less
than 122,000 acres in that crop, and
Louisiana and Texas alone could
probably supply five or six times
their present output. Our total rice
yield at present is less than one
million pounds. Frank CI. Carpenter,
writing from Lake Charles, La.
MKITIS11 ASSEMBLY I'BOGKAM.
Christian Workers' Training School
at \\ rightsville Beach
June 27- July 1.
General Secretary E. L. Middleton,
of the Baptist Seaside Assembly, has
brought out a handsomely illustrated
program of the third annual session
of the assembly which is to be hold
at Wrightsville Beach June 27 to
July 4. The assembly is designated "A
summer training: school for Christian
workers," and is held under the aus
pices of the Baptist State Convention.
Governor Bickett is on the pro
gram, together with some of the
leading figures of the Baptist denom
ination, as follows:
Dr. A. T. Robertson, professor of
New Testament, S. B. T. Seminary,
Louisville, Ky.; Or. Weston Bruner,
pastor of Tabernacle church, Raleigh;
Dr. B. D. Gray, corresponding secre
tary of Home Mission Board, Atlan
ta. Ga.; Dr. R. F. Y. Pierce, pastor
North Baptist church, New York
City; Dr. II. M. Wharton, preacher,
author, lecturer, Baltimore, Md.; Dr.
John Roach Stratton, pastor First
Baptist church, Norfolk, Va.; Dr. W
L. Poteat, president Wake Forest
College, Wake Forest; Dr. W. M.
Vines, pastor First Baptist church,
Charlotte; Dr. R. T. Vann, secretary
of Board of Education, Raleigh; Dr.
W. C. Barrett, pastor Baptist church,
Gastonia; Dr. C. 1). Graves, pastor
Baptist church, Wake Forest; Dr.
Fred D. Hale, pastor Baptist church,
Lexington; Dr. C. L. Greaves, pastor
Baptist church, Luniberton; Mr. E. L.
Wolsagel, singer with Home Board
evangelists, Asheville; Hon. John A.
Oates, president Baptist State Con
vention, Faycttcville; Miss Annie L.
Williams, field worker of Sunday
School Board, Birmingham, Ala.;
Miss Bertha Carroll, corresponding
secretary W. M. U. Convention, Ral
eigh; Mrs. W. N. Jones, president
State W. M. U. Convention, Raleigh;
Mrs. H. T. Pope, Lumberton; Mrs. H.
C. Moore, Raleigh; Mrs. W. J. Jones,
Salemburg; Miss Ruth Caldwell, Lum
berton; Mrs. W. B. Muse, Wilming
ton; Acme Quartet, Wilmington.
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NOTHING TO DO TILL SUPPER TIME
F\it the meat in right after lunch ? give it thirty minutes of quick
heat, then close the damper and the New Perfection heat-retaining
oven does the rest.
It's the stove that cooks while the cook s
away. Saves time and money too.
No fire to build and tend, no ashes to
empty. Takes, half the drudgery out of
your kitchen and keeps it cool.
A new feature of the New Perfection ?
the reversible glass reservoir. Ask your
dealer to show it to you.
ALADDIN SECURITY OIL
a superior kerosene, should be used for
best results. Always clean and clear
burning.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Washington, D. C.
Norfolk. Va.
Richmond, Va.
(New Jersey)
BALTIMORE
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Charlotte, N. C.
Charleston, W. Va.
Charleston, S. C.
Prophesying War's Kend.
Atlanta Constitution.
Official announcement from Wash
ington, as carried l>y the Associated
Press, that little hope is held out in
well informed circles that the war
will terminate inside of three years,
and that America's war plans are be
ing furthered upon that basis, is such
as to cause the ordinary American
citizen to pause and ponder deeply.
And probably the very act that
those directly in touch with the war
plans and in whose hands the sh?p
ing ef them rests have brought them
selves to thus look at the thing in its
coldest espect, to plan accordingly,
will have a tendency to hasten rather
than retard the end.
The general tendency has beer,
with the speedy end of the war as
consuming world desire, to minimise
the strength and durability of the
enemy end at the same time overes
timate America's power to turn the
balance without adequate time al
lowance; which, of course, is falla
cious and hinders rather than helps.
Of course, no man knows even ap
proximately when it is going to end.
It may end in a few months, but the
fact of the matter is that a war does
not end until the last gun is fired;
and it is poor policy for us to give
too free sway to our desire in arriv
ing at a conclusion, because over con
fidence is often a fatal weakness.
mere is no indication that Ger
many is anywhere near the end of
its resources. True, Germany is short
of food, but so is France, Italy, Eng
land and Belgium. It may be true,
too, that there is considerable inter
nal disaffection in Germany ? that
there is a pronounced rpirit of oppo
sition of the German population. Hut,
nevertheless, to date there has been
no evidence of anything resembling
a concert of action in revolt, and the
kaiser's iron will is apparently as all
powerful at home as ever it was.
It is also true that thousands of
Austro- Hungarians are opposed to a
continuance of the war and would
welcome a separate peace. But there
has to date been no visible evidence
that this element is strong enough
seriously to embarrass the supreme
lord in Berlin in the furtherance of
his oft-expressed determination to
prosecute the war to the bitter end.
It is all right to wish for peace, to
hope for peace; but the best way to
attain peace is for us to say little
about it and go ahead about onr busi
ness of living and waging war as
though such a thing as peace is not,
to be thought of until it comes ?
which it will only when the German
fighting arm is broken and the Ho
henxollcm dynasty brought to its
knees.
There is nothing to be gained by
super-optimism, no more than by
over-pessimism. Each is bad for a
people at war, and in its bearing up
on the final outcome one is about as
bad as the other.
We shall win, and that is all we
know about it, and all that need give
us concern until we do win.
Ol li STATE CAPITAL LETTER.
The Summer School at State College ;
of Agriculture and Engineering.
The Efficiency of Dr. J. Y. Joyner.
Some Plans for Big State Fair.
(By Llewxam.)
Raleigh, June 12. ? The summer
school at the State College of Agri
culture i.nd Engineering began today
with a creditable attendance of teach
ers, and those preparing to teach,
here from the various sections of the
State to take advantage of the fine
opportunity presented to fit them
selves for the work.
State Superintendent of Instruction
Joyner is calling upon the teachers
and others concerned to not allow the
great cause of education to lag or
the work to suffer because of "war
conditions." Dr. Joyner cites the ines
timable danger and loss caused by the
Civil War to schools and education
and which so seriously affected a
generation of our people, and he urges
upon all the great importance and
necessity of guarding against the rep
etition even in a small degree of such
a calamity.
If the educational units of North
Carolina will heed the advice and fol
low the wise counsel of Dr. Joyner
this most precious cause of learning
will be kept in good condition and the
youth of the State will continue to
enjoy the blessings which our pres
ent State system of schools and col
legts affords, and which has reached
its present state of efficiency, so
loyally through the untiring zeal and
activities of this man ? for no State
in the Union has a more competent
and useful head directing its educa
tional interests than North Carolina.
Closely allied to this subject is that
of keeping alive and in usual activ
ity the cause of agriculture and the
display of agricultural products at
the various Fairs to be held this fall
? and especially in its application to
the Croat State Fair at Raleigh. Sec
retary Pogue and Treasurer Denson
say the arrangements for horse
racing and live stock display exceeds
those of any previous year. With the
farmers cultivating this year the
largest acreage in the State's history,
the agricultural harvests and State
Fair displays in October ought to ex
cel everything heretofore attempted.
Producers Getting Double Prices.
The level of prices paid producers
of principal crops on June 1 was
99.8 per cent higher than a year ago
and 107 per cent above the past nine
years' averajre on that date, the De
partment of Agriculture reported
Monday. Producers of meat animals ,
on May 15 received 48.4 per cent
mo^re than a year ajyo and 71 per
cent more than the average price on
that date in the last seven years.
The composite condition of all
crops on June 1 was .5.8 per cent be
low their ten year average on that
date.
Jerome-Bowers.
The Methodist church of Kenly was
the scene of a beautiful, though sim
ple, wedding on last Thursday after
noon, when Miss Annie Cora Jerome
became the bride of Mr. Eugene
Scott Bowers, of Jackson.
The church, under the direction of
Mrs. H. F. Edgerton and Mrs. J. R.
Sauls, was transformed into a bower
of green and white, and lighted with
numerous white candles.
Just before the ceremony Mr. Ged
die Jerome, of Rose Hill, played soft
ly on the Violin, "Humorcsque" and
"Trau merie." He was accompanied on
the piano by Miss Allie Strickland, of
High Point. Promptly at half past
one o'clock, to the strains of the
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, the
ushers, Messrs. Fred Jerome, brother
of the bride, and George Burnett, of
Jacks6n, proceeded down the aisle
and took their places near the altar.
Following them came the maid of
honor and sister of the bride, Miss
Gladys Jerome, dressed in tulle over
yellow satin and carrying yellow
roses. Next came the little flower
girls, Emily Grant, niece of the
groom, and Miriam Edgerton. They
were dressed in white and carried
lovely baskets of white sweet peas.
The ring bearer followed, litlte Joyce
Harper, a cousin of the bride, car
rying the ring on a silver tray. The
bride, beautiful* in a traveling suit of
navy blue, with accessories to match,
and wearing a corsage of orchids and
valley lilies, entered on the arm of
her father, Rev. C. P. Jerome, who
gave her away. At the altar she was
met by the groom, accompanied by
his best man, Mr. J. P. Buxton, of
Norfolk, Va.
Rev. E. H. Davis, of Jackson, of
ficiated, using the beautiful ring ser
vice of the M, E. church. During the
ceremony Miss Strickland played
softly, "To a Wild Rose" and as a
recessional, Mendelssohn's wedding
march.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowers left immedi
ately for points in Canada. After
their return they will make their
home in Jackson, where Mr. Bowers
is engaged in the mercantile business.
The many beautiful and handsome
gifts from friends, attest the -esteem
in which both the young people are
held.
Out-of-town guests for the wedding
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Jerome, of
Williamston; Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Jerome, of Winston-Salem; Mrs.
Lindsry Walker, Mrs. L. C. Grant,
Mrs. G. W. Ball, and Mr. George Bur
nett, of Jackson; Miss Elizabeth and
Mr. Geddie Jerome, of Rose Hill; Miss
Allie Strickland, of High Point; Miss
Eannie Nooe, of Pfttsboro; Mr. J. P.
Buxton, of Norfolk, Va.; and Miss
Joyce Harper, of Durham.
Kenly, N. C., June 11, 1 317.
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SPECTACULAR RISE IN IMG IRON
Be.vtemer Above $50 in Pittsburgh,
and Other Grades Participate
in Movement.
That prices of pig iron would go
still higher seemed a certainty, yet
few people, if any, probably looked
for a $5 rise in Bessemer this week,
and advances of $1 to $3 in other di
rections. The farther upturn carried
Bessemer in Pittsburg to above the
$50 basis, or, to be exact, to $50.1)5,
and that the movement will continue
is the general expectation, as de
mands for steel-making materials ap
pear a.; insistent as ever. Somewhat
curiously, L. S. Charcoal iron, Chica
go, has yielded 25 cents, but this is
the only decline of the week, aside
from some of the minor metals, and
forging billets are up to $115, Pitts
burgh. This compares with $69 a
year ago and, at $100, open-hearth
sheet bars, Pittsburgh, are nearly
140 per cent above the prevailing fig
ure at this date in 191t>. Without ex
ception, regular list quotations of old
material, twelve in all, have risen,
and in every case coke has advanced,
the differences as contrasted with last
year b ing $6.50 to $7.50 a ton.
With tin largest number of active
furnaces in many years, there is re
newed evidence that pig iron inter
ests arc straining for maximum out
puts. Thu: , there were 340 stacks in
operation on June 1, or four more
than a month earlier, and the daily
capacity of these was 111,704 tons, a
new record. Yet the aggregate pro
duction during May, 3,417,340 tons,
fell below the 3,508,84!) tons of last
October, .which set the precedent, and
the daily rate, 110,238 tons, according
to Thf Iron Age, was about 3,000
tons less and also slightly smaller
than in April of this year. ? Dun's
Review.
The Farmer's Day of Opportunity.
The war changes everything. There
is hardly any phase of human
thought or work that is not profound
ly affected by the international con
vulsion which now shakes the whole
earth. And few other industries are
more profoundly affected than farm
ing. In fact, the first tremendous de
velopment following the declaration
of war with Germany was the na
tion-wide awakening to the funda
mental importance of agriculture.
From the President of the Republic
clear down, there has been an al
most unanimous recognition of the
fact that the safety of the Nation de
pends on the farmer.
For this reason this is the farmer's
day of opportunity. Perhaps it would
not be putting it too strongly to say
that if he will rightly use his oppor
tunities, it may be his day of econom
ic and social salvation. But if this
is to be true, the farmer must be
quick to sense the new conditions and
adjust himself to them. There has
been a mighty shifting of winds and
tides. Now the wise man may find
this the "tide in the aifFairs of men
which taken at its flood leads on to
fortune," while the man who refuses
to meet new conditions with new
methods may suffer shipwreck.
In other words, if the farmer has
intelligence, initiative and hustle he is
likely to be helped by the war, and
if he hasn't, he is likely to be hurt
by it. It is time for all prudent men
to consider just what are the changes
demanded by the new conditions, and
just how to make the most of the op
portunities they offer. ? Progressive
Farmer.
SERBIA GETS $3,000,000 LOAN;
$75,000,000 MORE TO BRITAIN
Washington, June 9. ? Loans of
$3,000,000 to Serbia and $75,000,000
to Great Britain were made today by
the Treasury. The total advanced the
Allies now is $923,000,000.
The Serbian loan, the first to be
made tc that Government, is payable
in three equal monthly instalments.
It will be utilized mainly in improv
ing railway lines constituting mili
tary communications of the Serbian
Army. Some of it may go for relief
of the distressed population, the de
partment announced, "provided sat
isfactory organization, such, for ex
ample, as the Red Croas organiza
tion, can be established to administer
the distribution of relief."
The credit of $75,000,000 to Great
Britain is the first to be made that
Government during June and will be
applied not only on purchases made
for Grer.t Britain, but on outstand
ing contracts for Russia placed here
by Great Britain before this country
entered the war.
Safety First With Cough and Cold.
"Oh, just a cough" to-day may be
come grippe or pneumonia to-morrow.
Thousands die from neglected colds.
Take Dr. King's New Discovery be
fore your cough becomes chronic. A
few doses check the cold by killing
the germs. The healing balsams
soothe the throat, loosen the phlegm
and clear the air passages of secre
tions which provoke coughing. Con
tains mildly laxative ingredients
which remove the waste that aggra
vates the cold. At your druggist, 50c.
$1.00.? Advt.