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'EDEN RETURNS;
END OF WAR FAR
OFF, HE REPORTS
TEXAS FOOD CHIEF SAYS AMER-
ICA HAS REAL FIGHT ON HER
HANDS; ALL BEGINNING TO
FEEL IT.
Hoover Himself Takes a Hand to Aug
ment Fish and Oyster Supply on the
Gulf Coast.
E. a. Peden, federal food adminis-
trator for Texas, returned Monday
morning from Washington and New
York, where he attended a meeting of
the food administrators of the United
States at the Capital City, and a meet-
ing of the executive committee of the
Southern Hardware Jobbers' Associa-
tion in New York on January 15, 16
and 17.
"I have come home convinced more
than ever," said Mr. Peden, "that we
are In a war that will call for our
every energy, and I am converted to
the fact that it will be a long war un-
less we do put forth every energy. It
Is certainly a war,' if we are to win,
in which every man, woman and child
will be needed.
"The psychological effect of the
coal order was one of the very best
things that could have happened. It
brought home to the people that we
are at war and that every man, woman
and child will suffer to some extent as
the war progresses. We are also com-
ing to understand that it Is just as
important for us to fight to win in our
work in the factory and business and
home as it is for the soldier to fight
in the trenches.
Food Men's Conferences.
"We were in session for four days
at the United States food administra-
tion headquarters in Washington,"
said Mr. Peden. "These conferences
began at 9 o'clock in the morning,
with a general meeting at 10 o'clock
and a recess at noon, when we all
lunched together in the cafeteria of
the Food Administration Building, and
were served by the women of the ad-
ministration. We re-met after lunch
and were in continuous session until
7 o'clock.
"On the opening night, which was
Tuesday, January 8, we had a con-
servation dinner at the New Willard
hotel, at which the speakers were Mr.
Hoover, Dr. Taylor of the house com-
^ymission to Europe, and Federal Food
wulministrator Parker of Louisiana.
"During one of the sessions much
time and consideration was given to a
discussion of the'fish, oyster and
shrimp industry in which Mr. Hoover
and the administrators exhibited deep
interest. With the head of this depart-
ment (Mr. Fowler) I had. several spe-
cial conferences, and was greatly
pleased to learn of the co-operation we
will get from Washington in the mat-
ter of developing this industry along
the gulf coast. Details are being work-
ed out and in a short time the fish
and game commissioners of the gulf
states will be invited to Washington
for a special conference for the pur-
pose of preparing rules and regula-
tions that will eliminate most, if not
all, of the handicaps now in the way
of the fishing industry.
To Augment Supply.
"It is hoped that in the near future
the supply of fish, oysters and shrimp
will be greatly augmented, coupled
with fair and reasonable prices."
GIRL GRADUATES FOR 1918 TOLD
TO PREPARE FOR MANY
WAR SERVICES.
'
Bulletin No. 112.
{Publicity Department Office of the
Texas Federal Food Administration.
Houston, Texas, Jan. 16, 3918.—The
women graduating classes of 1918 are
needed by the United States govern-
ment in many fields; and one of these
fields is the United States food ad-
ministration. Their brains, training
and experience are needed to help
carry on the great war work which
stretches out through 1918 and for the
subsequent years of the war.
United States Food Administrator
Hoover has wired all of the presidents
of the women colleges and the depart-
'" ments of home economics in colleges
and universities pointing out the ne-
cessity of educating women students
in war work; and in a special address
to the college women soon to graduate
the administrator says:
"The United States food administra-
tion calls you to its service. Our need
is so great that we appeal to you to
prepare yourselves as best you can
and to enlist for the great work that
must be done. There will be diversity
of tasks and therefore diversity of tal-
ent and training can be used.
"All our questions now center in
food, Its production, its distribution,
its use, its conservation. The more
you know about these things the more
valuable you will be and the greater
will be your service to humanity. If
you have not already done so we urge
you to pursue studies dealing especial-
ly with food, but these F.hould be re-
inforced by courses in chemistry,
physiology and economics. It will be
well, too, if you have acquired the arts
of public presentation of your knowl-
edga to the people who so much need
it. Fortunately most of your educa-
tional institutions now offer courses
which give )he necessary training for
this work, but to others-an appeal is
being sent to provide such instructions
wherever it in possible. More detailed
suggestions and directions will be
.published soon." ' . ■«
BOARDING HOUSF
LODGER EATS TOG
MUCH, THEY SAY
FOOD ADMINISTRATION IS TO
SEND A SPECIAL PLEDGE CARD
TO PEOPLE PAYING BY THE
WEEK.
People who' live In boarding houses
shouldn't overeat (they usually don't).
Just bemuse boarders are paying
for their food at so much a week they
do not' have to gorge themselves be-
cause they have to get everything
that Is comjngrto them.
Because^ men and women through
unfortunate circumstances are com-
pelled to surrender the wholesorae-
ness and amenities of the home—they
must not imagine that they have not a
patriotic service to perform as well as
the man and the woman of the home.
It has been brought time and time
again to the attention of the Federal
Food Administration of Texas that
perhaps the most smug, complacent
and satisfied creature during all these
days qf the agony of nations is the
man or the woman who dines in board-
ing houses or at public places.
They do not seem to think that it
is an essential that they aid the poor
little boarding hquse lady in her strug-
gle to keep above the deep waters of
high cost of living, as It is for them
to give to the Liberty Loan, the thrift
stamp and the Red Cross. "It's all
very well," they seem to say, "for us
to give of oiir money, but why give of
our food, \fhen we are paying for
three full meal*?"
Got to Reform.
The Federal Food Administration of
Texas is strongly* of the belief that
these "free lances in the eating world"
need a sort of patriotic revival. It's
all very well for them to sit on the
outside of the world of sacrifice and
unselfishness and regard the thing of
saving and denial with a sort of se-
cret contempt, But they are of the
wrong impression if they think tlie na-
tion proposes to overlook them—when
it has placed the burden upon the tired
little women who do a sort of upper
servant job for their smug, complacent
lives.
The United States government, bear-
er of the standard of world liberty and
freedom, says to the man and the wo-
man who eat at the table of the board-
ing houses of the land:
"You are not outside of this busi-
ness of war; you are part of it. You
needn't think because your bills are
paid by the week that you are to have
everything coming to you—and then
seme." It wants you to become a hu-
man, sympathetic, responsive citizen.
It wants no niore of this detached bus-
iness, this apartness, this trifling and
wastage. *
Wrong Conception.
"Your landlady isn't the enemy.
Because the^ sugar bowl is on the table
is no reason why you should consume
eight pounds a month—and bread and
meat and butter and milk and every-
thing else in like proportion.
,"Ttypre isn't an excuse in the world
why you should stay out of the game
of saving and conserving, when the
boys of the land have dedicated their
lives to the cause of liberty, and the
business of the nation has placed It-
self at the feet of Uncle Sam. You'
can't hang back when the very chil-
dren are learning to go without, and
the mothers of the homework! are
practicing the finest economies."
Soon the Federal Food Administra-
tion is to issue a card designed for
the enrollment of people living in
boarding houses and the proprietors of
these boarding houses. This card will
be prepared to meet the community
in which it is issued and reads as fol-
lows :
BOARDERS' PLEDGE CARD.
I, at present a boarder in this
city, hereby accept membership in
the United States food adminis-
tration, pledging myself, as a pa-
triotic duty, to co-operate with the
proprietor in the conservation of
meat, wheat, sugar and' fats, ac-
cording to the directions and ad-
vice of the food administrator.
Name
Address
SEED CAKE SAVES
CATTLE; BLIZZARD
AID TO WHEAT
Texas has gained millions of dol-
lars in cattle saved through the work
of the Federal Food Administration
in effectually rushing through the
months of November and December
feedstuffs to the drouth-stricken areas
of the Panhandle and West Texas.
The administration has received a
message from Porter B. Whaley, dis-
trict, administrator for the Panhandle,
reading as follows:
"Heavy snow falling in the Pan-
liafidTe; will pull wheat crop
through in great shape; little
losses to cattle; great cake work.
Your organization has saved the
state millions."
The "tnessflge from Mr. Whaley was
transmitted to Administrator Peden
in New York, and was given by him to
the New York press. The work of
getting relief feed to the famine-
stricken cattle is due to the constant
and untiring work of Herbert Godwin,
assistant food administrator for Texas,
who has Been the executive In the
■work; E. 0. Spiller, secretary of the
Cattle Raisers' Association of Texas,
and R. F. Crow, a member of the Cot-
ton Seed Crushers' Association of
Texas, who peifsonally have given of
their time to the administration as vol-
unteers, and who have, with a small
staff, accomplished the placing of mil-
lions of dollars worth of cotton seed
cake alone.
roiv lOitiiiitbS
In the regular announcement
column appears the name oi
Hon. Rufus Hardy of Navarro
county as a candidate for re-
election to congress from this
(6th) district.
Speaking of Judge Hardy's
congressional record one of his
home papers says:
Judge Hardy has been in
Congress for ten years and has
always been a hard-working
member, giving all his time and
strength to the service. He
has taken part in the discussion
and settlement of every import-
ant question that has been be-
fore Congress. His first speech
there in 1907 urged an amend-
ment to the law governing rail-
ways to prevent them from
charging more for short hauls
than for long hauls, a practice
by which they strangled all in-
land water transportation and
levy unjust freight taxes on in-
terior towns by charging them
excessive rates. The law has
been greatly improved in that
respect. Railways cannot now
charge more for short than for
long hauls unless they first get
authority from the Inter-State
Commerce Commission. Other
amendments have been passed
improving the law but it is not
perfect yet. Every year now
sees less and less discrimination
against inland towns and ac-
tual inland water transporta-
tion bids fair soon to become a
substantial part of our trans-
portation system. It will be a
great and beneficent achieve-
ment when the law as contend-
ed for by Judge Hardy is made
positively to prohibit all dis-
crimination by railways against
inland points. Then our great
rivers will all carry endless car-
goes of freight and carry it for
less than one-half of what the
railroads can possibly carry it
for. The whole administration
is now back of the effort to
make our rivers and canals ac-
tually useful, and since the
government now operates the
roads they will run them in co-
operation with the waterways.
When once we begin to carry'
all our bulky and cheaper
freight on our rivers and canals
we will never see them again
abandoned. . .
Judge Hardy advocated the
Parcels Post when he first en-
tered Congress when its friends
were few. It is now a great
blessing. He advocated the
Federal Reserve Banking Act,
the greatest piece of construct-
ive legislature for this genera-
tion. He helped to pass the
Federal Farm Loan Act which
gives more assistance to our
farmers than any other law ev-
er passed by Congress. He
fought vigorously for Tariff Re-
form and helped by his public
discussion to swell the tide ot
popular sentiment on that sub-
ject which in 1910 swept the
country and gave the House ot
Representatives to the Demo-
crats. He took an active part
in all the reform measures pass-
ed by that House. The record
made by the House in 1911 did
more than any other one thing,
to give us the presidency in
1912. The rule of democracy
has brought no disaster but
great prosperity to the country.
General prosperity and war
conditions have greatly enhanc-
ed the cost of living. Judge
Hardy therefore favors increas-
ing the pay of post office and
other employees of the govern-
ment proportionally.
Perhaps the most important
work done by Judge Hardy has
been in the building up an
American merchant marine.
Every law passed on this sub-
ject since he became a member
of the Committee on merchant
marine on which he is now the
ranking Democrat, has been ad-
vocated by him. By invitation
he has spoken on the subject to
commercial and other bodies in
laltimore, Boston, New Yorl,
nd other cities. He believes
,iat under wisa laws along thi
ines of our recent legislation
\'e will in ten years have thi
jreatest merchant fleet as well
ts the greatest commerce of
any nation in the world. Last
November he visited our Texas
ports and waterways at Free-
port, Houston, Beaumont, Port
Arthur, Sabine Pass and
Orange. Also visited the site
and property at Beaumont of
the Texas Steel Company. He
believes he sees a great future
commercially for South and
Southeast Texas. He is doing
all he can to secure proper and
legitimate recognition of the
iron and steel producing and
ship-building possibilities of
Texas by the Federal Govern-
ment. There is now 26 feet of
water from Beaumont to the
Gulf and a great amount of
shipping uses the Nachez Riv-
er. If the efforts now being
made to establish at Beaumont
a great iron and steel and ship
building plant are successful
that city will be one of our
great ports in the near future.
Judge Hardy's work has not
been confined to Congress or to
campaigning in his own district
but every four years from
1908 to 1916 inclusive he has
gone at his party's call to fight
for the national ticket. In 1908
he spent a month in New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey, and
Illinois. In 1912 he campaign-
ed in New Jersey and New York
in the interest of Mr. Wilson
before the Baltimore conven-
tion and after that gave a
month to speaking for him in
Illinois, Ohio and Iowa. In 1916
he spent five weeks, speaking
in Nebraska, Kansas, New Mex-
ico and Oklahoma. He believes
he helped the party in these
states where it needed help.
All this, however, and the al-
most continuous sessions of
Congress have prevented him
during the last four years from
speaking to his own people as
frequently as he would have
liked to have done.
There is no beteer friend or
more loyal supporter and de-
fender of the president than
Judge Hardy, yet he thinks for
himself. He was an earnest
advocate of peace but not or
"peace at any price." He be-
lieves that all international dif-
ferences ought to be and could
be settled by diplomacy or ar-
bitration, if nations were will-
ing to be fair. He hoped and
prayed for some honorable way
of avoiding war with Germany,
but when the imperial German
Government openly and deliber-
ately murdered our men, wo-
men and children and announc-
ed her purpose to continue to
do so; when she sought to
blockade our whole coast and
force our vessels to lie idle in
our ports while our farm prod-
ucts rotted in our fields by
threatening our ships and sail-
ors with submarine assassina-
tion; threatening to sink them
without warning and without
mercy, and to execute as a pi-
rate any officer who defended a
ship; and when she carried in-
to effect this last threat by ex-
ecuting after capturing the
captain of a British merchant
ship, it seemed to him the limit
had been reached, and to sub-
mit to such humiliation and in-
jury would be degrading be-
yond endurance, would be
"peace at any price." When the
president presented these facts
and called for the declaration
of war he voted for war. He
believes moreover that had we
refused to fight Germany now
and had she won over England,
France and Italy we would later
have been compelled to fight her
alone or to pay her a vast idem-
nity and submit to still greater
humiliations. He has voted
and will continue to vote for
every measure to strengthen
the hands of the President, to
furnish and care for our boys
in the field and to win the war
;—the home drink
Besides its popularity at drug stores, fountains and
restaurants, Bevo has found a welcome place in tho
home. A family beverage—a guest offering—a table
dnnk that goes perfectly with all food.
As a suggestion for Sunday eupptr~ Sweet rod or
green peppers stuffed witjh cream cheese and
chopped nuts or olives, served on lettuce loaves.
French dressing. Cold meat. Toasted crackers.
Sev° for everyone. A beverage that tastes like no
other soft drink. Pure, wholesome and nutritious.
Bevo—the all-year-'round soft drink.
Sold in bottles only and bottled oxc/u«ivo/y by
Anheuser-Busch—St Louis
24b
and redeem the world from am-
bition, greed and blood-thirsti-
ness.
As Chairman of the Commit-
tee on Expenditures in the
Navy he is now conducting in-
vestigations and hearings which
may lead to the saving of many
millions of dollars by cheapen-
ing material and ship building
costs as well as aid in securing
recognition of great iron and
steel wealth and resources of
Texas. He only wishes to say
to his people that he has tried to
be faithful and that if elected
again he will endeavor to serve
them faithfully still, and the
people of Judge Hardy's district
know, as the people of the en-
tire state do, that he has been
faithful, and that men of his
experience, strength and pat-
riotism are needed now prob-
ably as never before.
Amusements . hedh
Constipation is the starting
point for many diseases that
end fatally. Healthy regularity
can be established through the
use of Prickly Ash Bitters. It
is a fine bowel tonic, is mildly
stimulating and strengthens the
stomach, liver and kidneys.
Price $1.25 per bottle. Sold by
Mexia Drug Co., special agents.
JUNIOR RED CROSS
The Grammar School Red
Cross Auxiliary has elected
the following officers: G. W.
Perkins, Chairman; Miss Ruby
A. Black, Secretary; Miss Essie
Holton, Treasurer. The follow-
ing have been appointed as a
Committee on Supplies: Rosalie
Jackson, Chairman; C. R. Best,
Janie Read Berry.
These articles have been
turned in to the Mexia Branch:
22 triangular bandages.
6 substitute handkerchiefs,
16 gun cleaning rags,
220 gun wipes,
2 knitted sweaters,
3 knitted helmets.
The people of the town could
render valuable assistance by
sending to the school by chil-
dren, gingham, madras, percale,
calico, or cretonne scraps at
least eighteen inches square;
flannel, woolen, or flannelette
scraps of any size; and old
white cotton or linen scraps of
at least eighteen inches square.
Small bits of yarn of any color
can also be used. These things,
practically useless at home, can
be made up by the children in-
to needed articles for the Red
Cross.
SEED! SEED! SEED!
I handle the following Seed
Corn: Oklahoma Grown Sure-
cropper, Bloody Butcher, Straw-
berry, Hickory King, White
Wonder, Squaw, and Sudan
seed, Millet, Rape and other
Seed Stuff.
Come to see me.
C. J. Sterling.
Good sound thrasher run
Peanuts F<Jr Sale, $2.50 per
bushel F. O. B. Mexia. Buy
while they are cheap. Seed arc
scarce.—L. E. Kollman, Mexia.
$1 50
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1 50
50
1 50
YOUNG FRIEND
IF GEORGE WASHINGTON
COULD RISE FROM
HIS GRAVE.
rt' ________ •
and see our cities at midnight
lighted as bright as day, hear
the whirl of the electric car,
talk over a wireless telephone,
send a message by wireless to
a ship far out at sea, examine
his own bones with an X-ray,
view the snowy fields, sunny
plains and canals of Mars
through a telescope, take a
flight from ovean to ocean in an
air ship, cross the ocean in a
submarine, get run over by an
automobile going ninety miles
an hour—tout what's the use go-
ing back a hundred years? A
system of ^horthand and book-
keeping twenty years old is of
but little use today.
As the steam ship has crowd-
ed out the sail boat, as the type-
writer, the goose quill pen and
pokeberry ink, so have the fam-
ous Byrne systems of Book-
keeping and Business Training
and Shorthand taken the place
of the old systems. The reason
is plain; these systems cut in
half the time and cost of be-
coming an expert accountant or
stenographer; they teach busi-
ness as well as bookkeeping,
they make it possible for the
student to graduate and begin
earning while the student of the
other systems is less than half
through his course; they give
the student a better practical
working knowledge, which
means a higher salary.
These practical, modern, time
saving systems can be had in
this section only in the Tyler
Commercial College. You would
not think of riding in an ox
cart in preference to an automo-
bile. Then why think of study-
ing the old ox cart systems of
accounting and stenography
when you can get the Byrne
systems which possess such
wonderful advantages that they
enabled the management of the
Tyler Commercial College to
build the largest business train-
ing school in America, with an
annual enrollment of more than
2500.
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For free catalogue, address—
Tyler Commercial College, Ty-
ler, Texas.
THESE HAVE PAID UP
Mexia, Texas, Jan. 31, 1918.
Following have paid since
last issue of the Herald:
S. H. Beene
J. Ross Bell
J. R. VanWinkle
Miss Buna Lofland
Tom May
Thank you.
For the next week—only—we
will give 10 per cent of sub-
scription money to the Red
Cross.
Pay your subscription and at
the same time help lick the
Kaiser.
I . I
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Mrs. R. L. McDonald and lit-
tle son, returned to Groesbeck
Monday afternoon, accompan-
ied by her mother, Mrs. T. Rain-
water. '
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1918, newspaper, January 31, 1918; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth302518/m1/2/: accessed May 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.