The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 158, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 8, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
fERNMENT ATTACKS ON BIG SCALE
TASK OF MAINTAINING FOOD SUPPLY
$11,346,400 to Be Spent in Stimulating Production and Protec-
tion and Conserving of Crops—Farm Help Activities to Be
Extended—Marketing Assistance to Be Ex-
tended to the Producers.
Washington.—The task of maintain-
ing during the war an ample supply
of food will be attacked on a still
larger scale by the United States de-
partment of agriculture through a
score or more of projects, under the
provisions of the food production bill
just enacted by congress.
While most of the projects will be
extensions of present activities, some
of them will represent new undertak-
ings. The task will be to find just
where the country stands in so far
as the adequacy of the present food
supply is concerned, to speed up the
production of food crops wherever this
can be done, and to stop as many as
possible of the leaks ’through which
hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth
of edible products annually is wasted.
Eleven million three hundred and for-
ty-six thousand four hundred dollars
are made available for the work in
the food production bill. This money
is for emergency use in addition to the
funds appropriated in the regular ag-
ricultural appropriation bill for the
usual activities of the department. The
bill also is distinct from the fdod con-
trol bill, a measure having to do chief-
ly with the regulation of the distribu-
tion of food.
To Increase County Agent Force.
One of the most important steps to
be taken in the emergency agricultural
work will be the extension of the ex-
isting force of county agents, the joint
Jiejd employees of the department and
the states, who come into most direct
contact with farmers. With the addi-
tion of the new county agents, an
agent will be situated in practically
every agricultural county in the Unit-
ed States that will co-operate to advise
and assist farmers in every way pos-
sible on matters of production, conser-
vation and marketing. The- number
of woman county agents in rural coun-
ties will be considerably increased and
•ther woman agents wifi be placed in
» number of the larger towns and cit-
fes. These women \frHi stimulate the
production of garden truck, poultry
and other products by women and chil-
dren, and will advise and instruct in
regard to the most efficient methods
of food utilization~and conservation.
Labor and Food Problems.
U»der the food production bill the
r<ffice of farm management of the de-
partment, in co-operation with the
United States department of labor,
will extend the farm-help activities
through which farm laborers and the
farmers who most need them have
been brought together during the pres-
ent season.
The third of the more important of
the emergency projects to be carried
out by the department of agriculture
is a quick survey of the food situation.
This activity will be for the purpose
of ascertaining as accurately as possi-
ble the condition of the country’s food
stores and the normal consumption in
orfter that such action as may be nec-
essary to insure a sufficient supply
may be taken intelligently. Farm
stocks and supplies in retail stores and
in the hands of consumers will be es-
timated, and stocks held by wholesale
jobbing, storing, manufacturing and
other commercial establishments will
be enumerated. It is contemplated
that the survey will be followed by
•monthly reports on several of the more
important commodities, and if the
emergency requires it, by another sur-
vey after an interval of perhaps six
months.
In addition to the activities under
c_
CALL BRITISH TARS “LIMEYS”
American Bluejackets in European
Waters Have Nickname for
Everything They See.
London.—American bluejackets on
fluty in European waters have a nick-
name of their own for England’s sail-
ors and soldiers. They call them
“limeysthe individual being known
as a “lime.” The American sailor men
apply the designation to all English
fighters just a« the British refer to
their soldiers as “Tommies.”
The sailor from the United States
has his nickname for nearly every-
thing he sees. Bluejackets who had
served in the near and far East first
started calling British sailors and sol-
diers “lime juicers,” because of their
fondness for fruit juice and charged
water.
Now the designation has been short-
ened down and everything British is
“limey.” Brltmti soldiers’ and sailors’
clubs are known as “limey clubs,” and
British-brewed lager beer is commonly
; spoken of as “limey beer.”
the three projects mentioned, special
work will be undertaken by many of
the bureaus and offices of the depart-
ment of agriculture in the interest of
increased production and for the con-
servation, protection and improved
handling and marketing of crops and
live stock. The bureau of animal in-
dustry will seek to bring about in-
creased production of hogs and poul-
try, the two live stock products capa-
ble of most rapid increase. The
agents of this bureay also will locate
surpluses of hogs in heavy producing
areas and farmers in other sections of
the country with good facilities for
hog raising, in the effort to' bring
about more economical distribution of
hogs. Efforts also wiil'be made indi-
rectly to increase animal production
by combating animal diseases and
pests, especially hog cholera, tubercu-
losis, and the cattle tick, which cause
losses aggregating millions of dollars
annually. The bureau also will en-
deavor to stimulate the increased pro-
duction and utilization of dairy food;
and will carry on a campaign for the
more general production of infertile
eggs.
The bureau of entomology will ex-
tend its activities In the field to pro-
tect crops and live stock. It will as-
sist in organizing communities for com-
bating insect pests, both of crops and
live stock.
Marketing Assistance.
Producers will be given advice by
the bureau of markets regarding im-
proved methods of packing and hand-
ling food products. The bui’eau also
will extend its market news service to
include gi’ain, hay and seeds, dairy
and poultry products, and to cover
more fully vegetables and fruits and
meats and meat products, and will as-
sist in solving local truck marketing
problems. These services will make
public facts as to supply, demand -and
movement of food products, intended
to help in the elimination of the lost
motion and economic waste existing
In the marketing machinery of the
country. The bureau also will help
producers and consumers to form di-
rect business relations through the
parcel post.
With the extra funds furnished by
the bull the bureau of plant industry
will greatly increase its war against
destructive plant diseases which annu-
ally bring about the loss of considera-
ble proportions of the crops of the
country, The bureau also will seek
to bring about increased conservation
of food products by encouraging natur-
al storage and drying of the products
best suited to these methods of preser-
vation.
Farm Products and Animals.
Under the food production bill the
department’s work for the conserva-
tion of farm products, including live
stock, will be greatly extended. The
states’ relation service will add to its
staff many county and city agents, who
will give instructions and demonstra-
tions to all parts of the country in
canning, drying arid the preparation of
food products in other forms which
will protect them against spoilage.
The bureau of markets will seek to re-
duce losses due to faulty handling,
packing, shipping and marketing. The
bureau of plant industry will endeav-
or to arouse Interest in the natural
storage during the fall and winter
months of semiperishable products.
Forces making for the conservation of
live stock and animal products will he
put into operation by the bureau of
SAVES TWO SMALL GIRLS
animal Industry. This work in-
clude, as already mentioned, cam-
paign for the reduction of losses of
live stock from animal diseases, losses
of eggs through faulty handling and
from failure *5 produce Infertile eggs,
and movements to assist in the more
economical distribution of hogs. In
the latter work field agents of the bu-
reau of animal industry will bring to-
gether owners of surplus hogs and
farmers having facilities for raising
more hogs. This should result in the
distribution of the surplus stock from
regions of heavy animal production
and expensive feed to parts of the
country where animal industry is not
well developed and where pasturage
and feed are relatively abundant .and
cheap. The bill also makes provision
for the extension of other lines of the
work of the department. ,
ONLY FEMALE ARMY SURGEON
Brown Leaped From Pilot of Loco-
motive to Sweep Them to
Safety.
Wallace, La.—B. V. Brown of St.
Regis, Mont., at the risk of his own
life saved the lives of Innes Lanpher,
eleven years old, and her little two-
year-old sister, by leaping from the
pilot of a locomotive and sweeping the
children from the path of an on-com-
ing freight train here recently.
The children were pushing a go-cart
across the tracks when it became
caught In the rails. Brown was riding
on the pilot of the engine, and seeing
the children’s danger, jumped from the
engine in time to save them, hut was
himself struck by the engine and
hurled to one side. He was severely
shaken, but uninjured.
An Early "Scoop.”
The Virginia Gazette was founded
in 1736 and claims to be the oldest
paper in the oldest city of the oldest
state and first to publish the Declara-
tion of Independence.
Doctor Markland is the only female
surgeon in the British army. Doctor
Marltland Is a most unusual miss, and
the distinction which she holds has
been won by her great skill as a sur-
geon.
She holds a reputation in her pri-
vate practice which makes her one of
the foremost women surgeons in thp
world.
Doctor Markland will render service
very probably in one of the hospitals
behind the firing lines in France. She
has won the commendation of many
physicians in Great Britain, and when
she offered her services to the army,
she was accepted after some delibera-
tion as to whether a woman doctor
could serve in the army ranks.
There is little question, but that
Doctor Markland will prove that wom-
en doctors in the field can be of con-
siderable service, and soon many more
of her sex will be seen in the ranks.
Girl Saves Poet's Home.
San Francisco, Cal.—Through the
heroic work of Miss Margaret Moya,
eighteen years of age, of Fruitvale
Heights, the famous Jacquin Miller
home was saved from destruction by
fire. A grass fire of considerable pro-
portions was discovered by the plucky
girl in the grounds of the poet’s home.
After summoning the fire department,
Miss Moya attacked the flames with
wet blankets and had stayed their
progress in the vicinity of the house
before the arrival of engine No. 14,
Berries Keep 21 Years.
Monticello, Ind.—Mr?L Ida Foss, a
farmer’s wife living near this place,
recently opened a can of huckleberries
that had been put up 21 years before
and found them in perfect condition.
Rooster Picks for Hens.
Upper Sandusky, O.—Anthony Hall
of near Sycamore has a rooster that
Is envied by all the other roosters on
the farm. He watches until Mr. Hall
has picked all the cherries from a tree
he wants for Ids own use. Then the
rooster climbs the tree himself, going
to the entte of all the branches, anti
picks r11 the remainder of the cherries,
dropping them to the ground, where
the hens of the farm gather In a great
flock and have a feast.
Aged Mother of Twenty-Eight.
Chino, Cal.—Mrs. Paul Aguilar, who
has been married 38 years, recently
gave birth to her twenty-eighth child,
a boy. Mrs. Aguilar, who is fifty-three
years old, was married when she was
fifteen. She has hud three sets oi
twins, and all but two of the children
are living.
A Big Job.
Little Estheic stood gazing at the
sky. and turning to her mother, said:
“Mamma, how do you ’spose God evei
got that great big aky up there without
breaking It?”
Last of the
rTVHE other day there was the re-
port that some of the British sol-
diers on the Tigris hud come
across a village of Red Heads.
Strange people ai’e these Red Heads,
writes J. C. Bristow-Noble in the Lon-
don Globe. They are the last of the
Baal worshipers. The men wear red
caps, hence their name Red Heads.
They also wear red knotted cords
around their necks. The cord is put
on during babyhood and is never re-
moved. It Is interred with the body
after death. They shave their heads
except for a patch on the top, and
here they allow the hair to grow long,
and plait it into pigtails, which bang
about their ears. They are tall, wiry
fellows, with enormous appetites for
both food and drink.
The women, who do not veil them-
selves, and who dress simply in loose
fitting garments, are thin and spare,
but wonderfully strong. In their homes
they wTear breeches as well as skirts.
There Is no wife-beating among the
Red Heads, but plenty of husband
beating. The husbands take their fre-
quent chastisements meekly and pa-
tiently. They employ themselves, both
the women and the men, in agriculture
and theft. They produce a couple of
crops—tobacco and durra; the rest of
“their time is given up to looting the
Turks’ crops and cattle. Their little
whitewashed, low-roofed dwellings,
with small unglazed, but shuttered,
windows are divided into three apart-
ments ; a kitchen, a guest room, a
^sleeping room. A few earthenware
jars, about five feet in height and
filled with grain and dried fruits, are
kept in the guest room, and the guests
help themselves.
Tree Their Sanctuary.
In the center of every village there
Is a small circle railed off, and in this
space there is planted the special re-
ligious emblem, an evergreen oak. No
•one except the father priest of the vil-
lage enters the inclosed ground, which
,is decorated with small flags, strings of
coins and bright-colored beads. Around
and about the circle the Red Heads
celebrate the only religious festival
known to them, the Gathering of the
New Moon, which takes place every
month. Directly a new moon makes
Its appearance the people are called
together by a lay priest beating a bar-
rel-shaped drum stuck end up on the
ground. Here they come, the women
in long, clean, white gowns, and bring-
ing pots and pans and vegetables and
spices and wine, and the men, all ar-
rayed in their smartest garments, driv-
ing a flock of sheep before them and
carrying bundles of kindling wood and
a quantity of charcoal. Fires are lit,
[copking utensils placed thereon, and
[the sheep killed by the priest, who
[sprinkles a little of the animals’ blood
[on the oak, and the carcasses flayed
:and cut up into joints, and the latter
cooked over the fires, before which
millet and wheat cakes are by this time
[baking on huge flags. In the mean-
time tables on trestles are set up and
laid with wooden plates, horn spoons
[and steel knives and forks, and soon
|the feasting begins. The women wait
ion the men, who gorge steadily for
[about an hour, and then, while their
wives and daughters are clearing up
!the little they have left, indulge In
[dancing, drinking and general merri-
ment.
No religious formality marks the
feast, no blessing or benediction or
grace. Indeed, not at birth or burial
or marriage do these survivors of the
ancient Baal worshipers employ any
formula or observe anything in the
nature of a religious ceremony. They
have no bible, no prayer book, no
litursn. las i»lnce of worship. Their
one and only sanctuary is the sacred
tree Inclosure, their only religious sym^
bol the evergreen oak.
All Babies Are Salted.
When a baby is born it is warmly
clothed, placed on a large wooden plat-
ter and taken to^ the priest, who, in
front of the sacred tree, strips it and
salts it. Probably this accounts fo*
the few Red Heads that now survive,
it being said that their numbers have
dwindled to a mere 7,000 or 8,000. For
the service the priest is given a shoul-
der from the sheep which it is usual
to kill on such occasions and which
forms the principal item in the birth
feast. Other duties that the priest
lias to carry out are the cutting of
three horizontal cuts with a dagger
just above the level of the eyebrows on
the forehead of the dead, and the set-
tling of all disputes.
When a couple becomes engaged the
woman spends most of her time cook-
ing dainty and tasty dishes and trot-
ting around with them to her lover’s
home, followed by her father with
wine and spirits. Breach-of-promise Is
almost unknown, for the youth who
jilts has his throat cut. The para-
mour of a married woman is hanged on
some remote tree by the red cord he
wears round his neck and the body is
left as a warning to others. The
erring wife mysteriously disappears,
and no questions are asked. A man
who deserts his wife also is hanged,
while the woman who deserts her hus-
band is compelled to return to him.
There is a secret ceremony of initia-
tion which every Red Head is com-
pelled to undergo on attaining his sev-
enteenth birthday. It involves seclu-
sion for seven days and going without
food and drink for three days. At
the termination of this preliminary
test the youth is taught certain pass-
words. and grips by wjiich he may rec-
ognize his brethren and a red circle is
tattooed on his breast. The strange
people live on terms of friendship with
the whole of their neighbors with the
exception of the Turks, whom they
hate and treat accordingly.
Mozart’s Music.
A recent biographer says of Mozart
that the most wonderful fact about
him was that he directed his art to-
ward success without any sacrifice of
himself, and Ills music was always
written with regard to Its effect upon
the public. Somehow it does not lose
by this, and it says exactly what he
wishes it to say. In this he was
helped by his delicate perceptions, his
shrewdness and his sense of irony. Ha
despised his audience, but he held him-
self in great esteem. He made no con-
cession that he need blush for; he de-
ceived the public, but he guided it as
well. He gave the people the Illusion
that they understood his idea, while,
as a matter of fact, the applause that
greeted his work was excited only by
passages which were solely composed
for applause.
The Resourceful Dentist.
“It was a dreadful moment," said
the dentist. “I was bathing quietly,
when the great cavernous jaws of the
shark opened before me.”
“What did you do?” asked one of the
ladles.
“I took my forceps out of the pocket
of my bathing suit and pulled his teeth
before he had a chance to seize me.
It was the quickest und neatest bit of
work I ever did.”
Fiend In Human Form.
Her Mother—You say Henry treats
you cruelly. What has he done?
Young Mrs. Snoops—The brute keeps
bare fishhooks in his trouftsns pockets.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 158, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 8, 1917, newspaper, September 8, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906730/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.