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NEWS, BREVARD, N. C. in the ^ic American iRhold Urged to Ob serve “Porkless” Day. SAVE AND SUBSTITUTE SAYS HERBERT HOOVER r At Least One Meatless and Wheatless Meal Each Day is Requested in Statement From Mr. Hoover — Vital Suggestions Given — Food Instruction Card for Every Household in Entire State. Raleigh, Dec. 2‘2.—Tlie State Food Administration has just let ronliiuts for the printing of 400,000 supplomcn- tary home iusti iu tion cards to be dis tributed ono for each household in the entire State. The issuance of these additional instrncMon cards is pronipt- by the increased seriousness of th-' food situation in Europe lioth frora the standpoiiit of military nocossity an I for the reM('i of hundreds of thou sands of ncans wiio are threaten ed with s arvation unless inuni'diate relief can l>o given them. The supplonient:iry instruction card cells for a “porlxlo.---” day cai h week In addition to ‘‘Meatless” and “WiiPat- less” days, and for a wheatlo;-.s and nicatlc.^s m.'a! each day. The <o!i- sumor is ur;u .1 to use su.rar on a ha^is of not move tlir.H' pi nmls per pc”- month. Mr. Hoover, on one card. fianUly aiici itnnre.'- ' sivcly presonts the food situation a~ it is. “As a nation wo eat and waste per cent more protein than wo require to maintain health," the dire(tio:!s de clare. “Theiefcre. wo can redufe the amount of n^eat we cat without iiarm. We eat and waste 210 per cent mora fat than is necessary.” What Is Call'd for Now. Aside from the general directions contained in tb.e fir :t liojno i:;s< rr.ciion card the new card ask.s everyone to maintain rigid economy of at least: ONE WIH'ATLFSS day each week and ono WIIKATLKSS ME.\L each day. the wheatless day to be Wednes day. By wheatless we mean to eat no wheat products. ONE MEATLESS DAY each weelx, which shall he Tuesday and one mcat- JpsR meal each day. By meatless w’e mean to eat no red meat—beef, pork, mutton, veal, lamb; no preserved meat—beef, bacon, ham or lard. OXE PORKLESS day each week In addition to Tuesday, which shall be Satur<lay. By pork’.ess v,'e mean no fresh or salted pork, bacon, lard or ham. SL^GAR—You can materially reduce Bugar by reducing the use of candy and sweet drinks. We will make ev ery endeavor to see that the connt'-v i-- provided with a supply of household sugar on the basis of three pounds o'" sugar for each person per month. Do not consume more. We Are a Wasteful People. Human foo;^-;tuffs comprise three principal elements: PROTEIN: Mainly present In meat, beans, fish, poultry, milk, and to some extent in grains. FATS. That is, butter, cream, lard, bacon, margarine, cooking fats, beans, cotton seed oil and other vegetable oils. CARBOHYDRATES: Grain, sugar, potatoes and other vegetables. As a nation we eat and waste 80 per cent more protein thun we require to maintain health. Therefore, we can reduce the amount of meat we eat without harm. We eat and waste 240 per cent more fat than Is necessary. Of the carbohydrates we can Just as well consume corn, oats and other cereals as wheat and we have abund ant supplies of potatoes and vegeta bles. Do not limit your supplies of milk •and table butter, but consume it all. Don’t waste any. You can reduce the consumption of fats by reducing pastry and fried foods. Remember the Gospel of the Clean Plate, the serving of small portions, the purchase of less supplies. What Hoarding Does. Any person in the United States who buys ^nore foodstuffs than he custom arijy keeps at home in peace times is defeating the Food Administration in its purpose to secure a just distribu tion of food and in its great endeav ors to reduce The hoarding of tootf houscv.oias is not only unnec- «ft«*ry, as the f.ovsmment is protect ee food supplj of eur people, but the !T:; ■ ’^o market. ’’j much ln:«ld’ous propaganda country arri’.ist consorvation and IncreaBed production. All oppo sition to these services is direct as sistance to the en 'my. The Situawion Grave. The reverse si le of the card carries a message to thosr? who have signed the pledge card of the Food Adminis tration. It is as follows: To Momhers of th? United States Food Administration: The food ituation in Europe is far graver than when the preliminary sur vey of the food supply of the world for this year was made. W’^e have an abimdance for ourselves, and it la the firm policy of the Food Administra tion, by the prevention of ( xports, to retain for our people an amide supplv of every espential foodstufiir. T’le liar- [ vests of ('ur Allies have proved I'^ss j than we had contemplated, and th?j great c urtailincnt of shipping by tlie j submarines during the last few j months h:i;; further prevented (honj: f. oni ac('ess to more remote m-irkPtH.! IJeyond t’.io denuinds of tli-.! Al’ics | th.ere is a call upon us by the frien(!ly I neutrals for food supplies, and if we : cannot at least in part re.^pond 10; these neutral (all.:, starvation on a.i : unparalleled stale must ensue. j Greater Sacrifice Necessary. Food lias now taken a dominant po sition in the war. and we must ask the American people to sacrifice far I mere than was at first thoi’cht ner»'s- j sajy. We have exported the whole of ■ the surplus of the wheat from this | harvest after reserving to ouraelves an ; aftio<int su!Ti; ient for our normal wn- j sutnjUion of seed and flour until the ' ne.\t harvest and therefore the amount of wheat ti(nir that the United States crn contribute lo r>s.ix with the war bread of our Allies during this winter will be simply the amount that our people reduce their consumption | month by month. In other words,' every grain of wheat or its products \ that the Allies receive from the Uni-| ted State.-; from now until the next j h:irvfst will be exactly the amount w liich our ptHiple have saved each month on their behalf. | The Allies today ask for 2r» per cent more meat and fats (pork, dairy prod ucts and vegetable oils) than we con sider our monthly iiroduction permits us to send them without tronching on onr own supplies, or. on the other! hand, unh'ss we can consume le!»s. Due I to the shortage in sliipping, our avail able sugar supplies mast be less ihan normal from the present time forward. I Every Particle Sr?ved Will Count. Thus every particle of diminished con^limptinn by th"' American people is one particle more for the soldiers, men, women and children of our Al lies and for the starving people in oth er countries. This is a personal oblf-; gatiou upon every one of us toward some individual abroad who will suf fer privation to the extent of oiir own individual negligence. j If v.e are to reduce the coHsump- tion of the few products whirh we should export abroad v.’e will need to oat a larger proportion of many dii-' ferent I'oodstufTs which we cannot ex port and which we ave at liome. For this reason we MLTST NOT waste ANY ■ foodstuffs. A great many individuals in our population eat far more food than is necessary to maintain their health and strength. In this einorgen* vy only the simplest of living is patri- ; o^ic. We want no person in the Uni- ^ ted States to eat less than is required for good health and full strongth, for in this emergency America requirv.s every atom of the productive power of cur peo’.'le. While m.any can eat less, all of our population can substitute other foodstuffs for the few that are vitally needed for export. | We must not overlook the fact that ' Russia collapsed not because of the , Germans on her borders but largely because of the failure to organiee and , feed her own citizens, and, IF WE j ARE TO emerge victorious from this I war, we cannot risk the collapse of ^ another of our Allies from this same | cause. There Is no waste of food ; among any of our Allies—there is the ‘ most drastic reduction in their con sumption; there is actual privation among their women and children; there Is starvation in Belgium. Problem for Individual. We have already issued a series of suggestions in the Home Card—^a card that is now hanging in over ten mil lions of homes. These suggestions have already shown important results, and to these jve now add others. The problem of saving in food is a local and individual one, so that more pre cise and definite rules just to all can not be formulated. It is a matter for the conscientious consideration of every individual that he or she should eat only that which is necessary to maintain bodily health and strength and unselfishly to select those food stuffs the use of which relieves inter national necessities In this winter of 1918 lies th*^ period when there will be tested in this grent free country of ours the qur .; if n a to whether cr not our people are ca' ^’’'le of voluntary Individual st If-sacr ■ ce ‘ to save the world. H ' HOOVER. . UnJtOu ? ..linI.- ration WAR TALKS By UNCL£ DAN Number Jwo JI*Tiimie Collins Tells What He Saw— What Military Ti*aining Does for Boys. "Well, here we are!” exclaimed Bll- He, presentiug his chum, Jimmie Col lins. ■‘Very glad to sec you, Mr. Collins,'* said Uncle Dan with a smile. “Aw,” said Billie. ‘Just call him Jimmie. That’s the only name he knows, lie s the pitcher ot our base ball uine, anil he s .some pitcher, too. Just feel of his ariu.’’ “Well,” said Uncle Dan, feeling, “That's a fnighty good arm!” “Now, f)oy,s.’ said Uncle Dan, “what do y<i;i w:;nt to talk uI>out?’' “Well,” ^■aid .finimie, “1 was down to (»j!lc. burg {J few nnirltl'.s ago when the boy.-i came home Iron) the Mexican border, 'i hey looked line. iOverybody nas si;r?'r: -< d to j:ee how straight Ihey j;n(l i'ow nuiuly they were. The iioys .■'(•eined proud to wear the uni form. 1 ti ll y(»u their liii’scles wer<‘ us liar.l as nails, ilua.rd Banker Haskett .-aj that (he trainuig and (liscii)line (he hoys had v,;i.s exactly what cciy li(.y in ihe coiinlry ought to have, a!)(l that now these boys could get a heiter job at higher pay than they could have h:i(l before. Do you think that’s so, Uncle Dan?” Uncle I^an replied- “I have a friend who employs hundreds of young men. IJe ahvays gives boys having had military trainin;, the preference; iic says it pays t • do to. Ho liucis they jire more alert, more protupt, niore courteous; they kmnv how to carry out orders; they are quicker to think and to act than those without trainiii.g. lie said fi«»m iiis experience he belicvi'd that six or eight months of intensive militaiy training would add at least ‘JU per cent to a man’s INTERESTING LETTER FROM RALPH R. FISHER Just allow an echo from a boy from Western North Carolira tt> blovv’ in on u. breeze, and plea«e re ceipt. tlio same by a card or 'vriting a Icttnr to the addrejis iriven b<Oow. Now ]>lensn don’t (all to write to nuiif you know me; if 50V1 d(»n't know m(» writ(‘any '.VMV. “ ’cHSii I mil in tho arni\ now.” As I reolinc on my coneb today n II niilitai y cam]) I cannot help *>nt look luck to those tliMt I i,ti»‘vv and lovi'd s(* well. Wbih' vv<* ar«* allowed everytlnn*^ tliat we ne(*d. or would have, .still I \vf)uld lik** to \(Mi. ono and all, )in:( trie 'bon;;ht makes m<^ sij/li, in-j-hap-. Yet, «lare 1 ^mv that somo (>1 y»n a re si:rbin}f I'or nu-y The cold w’catber of the nortli is not felt by me. Th(‘ srow tliat lies in nbnnilature urontid on*- very doors, anid acro.'^s tbebilLs of nortlj ern Kentiieky, bus nanirl.t to do witli iiiy eoniliM'. 1 am waiiu, <;lu*erfnl and over-rnn \vitlj jov. It bus hern said, and W( l] said, that tbt* sunny vales of Pi »nee are as fair as tlie sinning shores of western Arcadia. Today they i.'leam brightly in the (listaneo, and listening one thinks they bear the roar of the eaiiiion tli»i( has rent the homes of many and left them to bleed and die. 1 um thinking of that beautifnl valley of the French Broad River, and of the bills and vales that stret<di baek from the rocky borders of the mnrmnriniLj stream and of the people whcx'd'vell in their midst. I am no'A’ on my wav to tbo altar of tlm rt'pnblic to offer up my sH(;rifice, which it taken i)!tir\!jres me out into eternity to met t my (jod. I have ijone without grudfi'e and will return to yon nil harmed, I trust. If D»ir- oluin: !* I am doonu d to slnmber in tlie rnstie-lined «'r«v»' »>f a soldier, I will heur no censoring', IxMrrtnse I I died tor you. Manv !i inan lias died for notb- int;, Itti* I eaJ! (iie for 1 ho ^lT tne o! onr womon, the homes «»f the eiip- j)le. the iinniorv ot our lorefutbers anil tli(* i/lorv of (lod. I'ho love of ■\ K to ininkin«} is with me and evev .'-hail l)e, even until my hlnod is ^nillid iiiid inv t)ody lies eohl nuiier (iod's skies. Oil t he shoi, s oi pntrilied Kuropo. By our power, backed by a f'overn- ment of one hioKlred million peo- p]»‘, we will hrini; lln: brutish, (jler- man K;tisor t(» the shadow of the v,intrs of »h .ith, theie u(> v^ill ad minister the ]iunishmenr of th** (’o:->Haeks; by our po ver and w’itli our bloud we will force (>r bu\ freedom for n afil'ind vt‘ry'.vhertv To those behind, amid.st the vine- chid hills of North ('ai(;ltiia, which I love so well, I wave a tendnr farev.eil. I wait for the end «>f tyranny, tlie bumbling of tu^ Huns, the clo.se of the war and dawn of peace, when I shall e<>jitfj back to the laud we are lii^iin iiji; f<»r and settJe down in the mn< f- “tf.Iked about” connnhiHl \\itb .some dainty red »>lo.,,h-l Amenc;in K'rl to spend the drtvf- fliar the future perchaneo M hold, Mild to furnish for the e, |. trv lifiurfc 2i 11V' will itd.i to the l^lory of the L'en. , tions vet nni)orn. OneeHi/ain I Ufiy farew’ci] I./,, that f!n? Huns may feel the! f ol the men from over Ihe se,i Onct! aifdin I plead for a in: - — from von, t^ach and all. Knj liy write now* before you forijet S\nh lots of love 1 beg to r. tur.ii} a part of your sacrilice. liALI’I! R. FlHIIKt'. i;;th Co., l^t Flatcion, 3iotii ,>ad Ft. Thomas, Ky. \ AFTER FIVE MONTHS. The two pictures are of the same young man The first was taken the day he enlisted and the second after he had had five months’ military train ing. His home is in North Carolina. earning capacity, find that it w’as the best investment any young man could make. “Billie, if you will go up to my room and bring my small handbag, I will let you see two photogr.iphs of the same young man, showing v.hut only five months of intensive training ou the Mexican border did for him.” The bag was brought. Uncle Dan, showing the pictures, said: “Well, here they are. They tell their own story and it is a mighty interesting one. The young man, before training, has a discouraged look; he has seen but little of the world. There was very little in his surroundings to bring him out. When he joined the colors and Uncle Satn took him in charge, life for him took on a new’ meaning. He saw a chance to do something and be something. He woke up. His cap tain says he is twice the man he was when he joined the army. This may be one of the extreme cases.” said Uncle Dan. “I can tell you, though, that war or no war. no one thing will do the young m of this nation so much good in so snort a time as a few months of intensive military training. It fits a man to fight his own life bat tles in the business world as well as to defend his country and its flag. “Nearly every civilized country gives Its boys military training. It is com pulsory. It is basQd upon the fact that it Is the duty of everyone to help de fend his country; and as war is now carried on, no one can do much unless he is trained. Also, the records show that the killed and wounded among untrained troojis is nearly three times as great as it is with well-trained men who know how to fight and how to protect themselves. By this plan a nation has trained men to defend her and the individual is a stronger and better man for the training. “If the Chamberlain Bill f< r Mili tary Training is passed by ( agress, as it ought to be, the same thii.g would be done for millions of other young men throughout the land. Everybody ought to demand of his congre.ssman and senators the passage of this Mil.” *‘A11 rigbt, sir, exclaimed Jimmie, we will SBO 3udge Brownell, Mr. Haskett, and Professor Slocum, and get them busy.” CAROL SERVICE WATCH YOUR STEP! The record of accidents due t'> ■ ' mobiles shows plainly the need < estrain rescu^ation, says a writer Kew York Tlvening Post. Acc' ; to the rer-ori of the New Yor- police department for 1915, eigh'> ■ • en per cent of all vehicular af f i ■ - vJ 7"^ I^ streets of the city in whi^ ? r- Nearly every newspaper ca ; U;f the general news but the * News is the only one carrvm^ the most important Transyivaiu news. A carel service \va<* )ie1d at tlio ligiitt'nl intisieal profrr.Hin was ren- . 11, 1 c. derf d. tliH ehihlren taking an ini- LpiPCopal church on Sunday after- i part in tlie singin-. noon before Cl;n>i n.fr-. A do-1 Foll<;v.in^f is t be ])rogr;uii : Opening Voluntary, Chrisimas Pa.storale Harker Processional Carol 49 Magnificat Nunc Dimitis Hviss Old Chant ...Plain Chant Anthem, “Children of the Heavenly King” Bartlett By children of St. Philip’s Offertory, “Silent Night, Holy Night*' Traditional Carol 58 Recessional 59 Star Spangled Banner I sons wore injured or killed, av > *';v j causes of which were given, wcr f.'.v j fault of the injured. One-thirr? or j those killed or injured in New city were unftp-.- sixteen years of u • This wnuld inlicate clearly that ; : mafei ial reduction of rtreet e; r i']> • - must be brought ahout by edu ;it r.» ^ botli adnl‘‘! and clilldren to ■=• i pronfir caution, by regulatalne; pcfl> * i train traffic, by providing ade la'v ! playKTonnd^ for children and fr.rii'-' j ding playin.2: and skating in the ‘ « j and stealing rides. I Eveiy reasonable means haviric; ’.cH-t talien to prevent the reckless and '-r.r# less drlvini? of vehicles and opcrai!<•:'- of sfrnrt cars, it remains to re ’,;v- thf^ pedestrian to protect him ?: ■ his own carelessness. If all th" dents due to faults of drivers and < ators of vehicles were ellmlnar- would reduce the total numbc strept Rccidents only one-tenth. Cn parison nf the records of New 'k city with those of Germany for -:tt year 1915. as shown by a report >f rli«» \?scciation of Administration.' T ir.an St.^et and Interurban Lltiec. proves that eighty-six per cert iue to the fault of the Injured. ram Let Us E When you want printed matter of Quality, the kind that reflects a high degree of clavss and refine ment call the “Brevard Printcry”. House where “Promptness” is the motto. The juintiag ONLY THE BEST DESIGNING AND PRINTING MATERIAL IS USED HERE. THIS INSURES THOROUGH AND PARTICULAR PRINTING. The man who d< cs not advertise is simp'y blind to his own interests. Every man has something to advertise, either physi cal or mental labor cr some ccmmodity. Advertisers are the wide awake citizens of a community. They are not only in terested in their own interests, but are workers for the public welfare and the good of the community. BREVARD PRINTERY Publishers of THE BREVARD NEWS
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