anaheim-gazette 1918-10-10

PROFIT MARGIN PERMITTED TO GROCERS GOVERNMENT FIXES PERCENTAGES ALLOWED ON ALL FOOD-STUFFS SOLD BY THEM FOOD ADMINISTRATION CANNOT FIX PRICES BUT IS AUTHORIZED TO CONTROL PROFITS Stringent measures are being taken by the food administration to prevent food profiteering, price boosting and food hoarding. Maximum percentages of retail grocers' profit have been established by the United States food administration at Washington, and, in accordance with the ruling, it is announced that any dealer who sells on a higher basis than such percentages is violating the rules and liable to prosecution. In all cases the retailer is required to base his cost on his actual invoice purchase price without regard to the market value of the goods at the time. The percentages are maximums, not minimum, it is announced. A dealer may sell his goods as cheaply as he desires, but he can by no means exceed the maximum price. The retailer is permitted to add no charges whatever to the invoice cost of the merchandise plus freight or cartage to his store. He will be required to post a daily bulletin of fair food prices in a conspicuous place, to substitute the daily item in the newspapers. Every dealer is required to post his cost and selling prices. Lard, bulk ...3c to 5c lb. Lard substitutes ...16 to 20% Evaporated milk ...16 to 20% Canned corn, standard ...25 to 30% Canned tomatoes ...20 to 30% Canned peas ...25 to 30% Canned dried beans ...25 to 30% Dried fruits—raisins ...25 to 30% Corn syrup, cans ...20 to 25% Eggs ...6c to 7½c per doz. Butter ...5c to 6c per lb. To arrive at retailer's selling prices, when any of the percentages as above are desired, use the following method: Subtract from the unit 100, the percentage to be used; thus, if 25 per cent is desired, subtract 25 from 100, leaving 75. Using 75 as a divisor, divide the cost, which we shall assume to be $1.50 per dozen, by 75, carrying the same into two decimals will show $2.00, which will be your selling price. You will notice that the difference between the cost of $1.50 per dozen and $2.00, thus obtained, is 50 cents, or 25 per cent on the selling price. GOVERNMENT WANTS MORE CANNED TOMATOES Placentia Cannery Requisitioned for 45 Per Cent of Output According to advices received by the Placentia Canning Company, the government has requested the canning industry to reserve 45 per cent of their total pack of canned tomatoes for the army, navy and marine corps, says the Courier. It is evident that the government has great need of canned tomatoes, for in the early part of the season it was understood that 15 per cent of the pack would be the amount requisitioned, but as the packing progresses through the country, the quantities of canned tomatoes ordered reserved by the food administration went to 25 per cent, then 33.1-3 per cent and finally... The percentages are maximums, not minimum, it is announced. A dealer may sell his goods as cheaply as he desires, but he can by no means exceed the maximum price. The retailer is permitted to add no charges whatever to the invoice cost of the merchandise plus freight or cartage to his store. He will be required to post a daily bulletin of fair food prices in a conspicuous place, to substitute the daily item in the newspapers. Every dealer is required to post his cost and selling prices on two varieties of fresh vegetables, and the same on fruit. The food administration permits him to choose his own fruit and vegetables and to change the variety or grade each day if desired. Also, he can make the change any time during the day if the supply runs out, although not otherwise. The following, the policy of the new price control plan, has been outlined by Ralph P. Merritt, federal food commissioner for California: "The price of foodstuffs to the public is a matter of common interest to the distributor, the government and the consumer. The great majority of distributors have been loyally co-operating with the government, and have been selling the staple food products within the margins of profits authorized by the food administration, but the dealer in foodstuffs who exacts an unreasonable profit brings disgrace to himself and to others engaged in similar business, and breaks down the efficiency of the government's work in winning the war. "The consumer, however, must be brought to a realization of the following facts: "First, that the food administration is not a price-fixing organization, but has the authority to regulate reasonable margins of profits. "Second, the price of food generally will justly increase in proportion to increasing cost of production and increased cost for producer and consumer, because of war conditions. "Third, that there are certain legitimate costs of retailing upon which the consumer must be educated. "It is for the purpose of carrying out this policy that the food administration has adopted the plan of having each retailer of groceries, fruits and vegetables, post in his own store a placard in accordance with the plan herein announced. However, for the first few days it will be necessary for the retailer to make a special point of discussing some of these problems with his own trade all dealers who have heretofore been restricted." HOW THE FOREST SERVICE HELPS IN WAR The Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture is mobilizing the country's forest resources for war by helping the War and Navy departments and munitions manufacturers get the kinds and quantities of wood needed for rifles, airplanes, wheels, and other specialties; finding out what kinds and grades of wood are suitable for war-time's special requirements; training inspections of wood materials; improving timber specifications; and investigating and testing material, processes, and products used in manufacture of war supplies derived in whole or in part from wood. It is also stimulating the production of meat, wool, and hides on National Forest ranges; co-operating with stockmen to lower losses from poisonous plants; aiding the Fuel Administration to increase fuel supplies annually to reserve 45 per cent of their total pack of canned tomatoes for the army, navy and marine corps, says the Courler. It is evident that the government has great need of canned tomatoes, for in the early part of the season it was understood that 15 per cent of the pack would be the amount requisitioned, but as the packing progresses through the country, the quantities of canned tomatoes ordered reserved by the food administration, went to 25 per cent, then 33-1-3 per cent and finally to 45 per cent. The opportunity is, therefore, presented to the local tomato growers to put Orange county on top of the list as doing her bit toward the preservation of perishable foods, and in view of the urgent government demands being made for canned ripe tomatoes, it is wasteful and unpatriotic as it is unprofitable to the grower to pick tomatoes while still green and only partly developed. A careful analysis of seasonal earnings and production costs, by Mr. A. L. Marzo, manager of the Placentia Canning Company, proves conclusively that the grower's expense is less and his earnings greater when growing tomatoes for canning, and that the grower suffers a loss of about 25 per cent when picking green. This is the important reason why all local growers should make immediate arrangements for the disposal of their crop to the Placentia Canning Company, provided they have not already contracted with other canners. Over at police closet that is kept to which each one conglomerate man takes from memorial drunk, some of it as hair restorer, efficiency in a wet is not used as the officer's word fortunate in pick sees fit to preserve just allowed to a funniest thing has months which haunt The booze commute to disappear as it two of his deputies dance and decide the purloiner of its red eye was taken in the locker and was taken of its hold, despite their continued to disappoint fingers were taken at one gulp. They on the carpet to Two of the men innocence as they casion ever touch and the men now try good idea who around. Strange ten days or more have gone estray along smoothly. A funny thing evaporation, is that put on too much paper later went home trunk. But the fuse when a fellow wilt and rush the growtents under his b "It is for the purpose of carrying out this policy that the food administration has adopted the plan of having each retailer of groceries, fruits and vegetables, post in his own store a placard in accordance with the plan herein announced. However, for the first few days it will be necessary for the retailer to make a special point of discussing some of these problems with his own trade all dealers who have heretofore been patriotically assisting the government will be glad of this opportunity of closer co-operation, and of proving to the public the character and cost of services which he is rendering. "The complaint of the public is largely directed to the cost of perishables, namely, fruits and vegetables, and in many cases the complaint is justified. Fruits and vegetables are not licensed and are the non-perishables, but at the same time they are governed by the reasonable profit rule, and each retailer must be in a position of defending his own sales when requested to do so by the food administration or consumer. This new plan casts no reflections on the integrity of the retail trade as a whole." A list of the maximum percentages is as follows: Wheat flour, $1.20 bbl. or 1c lb. in less than mill packages. Rye flour, same as wheat flour. Corn flour ... 16 to 20% Cornmeal ... 16 to 20% Oatmeal and rolled oats ... 20 to 25% Corn grits and hominy ... 16 to 20% Barley flour ... 16 to 20% Rice flour ... 16 to 20% Edible starch ... 20 to 25% Rice, Blue Pose grade ... 20 to 25% Granulated sugar ... 1c lb. Beans dried ... 20 to 25% Because it had reached the limit of its allowance of fuel oil and electric energy, the California Portland Cement Company closed its Colton plant Wednesday for the rest of the year. Three hundred and fifty employees are affected. The plant has on hand all the cement its stockrooms will hold, and enough clinker-burned to make an additional 2,000,000 barrels of cement whenever operations can be resumed, officials of the company say. Until six months ago the company employed about 6,000 men, and in recent weeks it had been employing 350. Only seven men are left on the payroll of the plant. It is the first big local industrial plant to so close. "The fuel administration regulations caused us to temporarily close down," said T. J. Fleming, secretary and general manager of the company. "We were allowed for this year 75 per cent of the average amount of fuel oil and electric power required to run our plant during 1915, 1916 and 1917." They Say The other day a group of Eastside orange growers were bunched up on the sidewalk talking about one thing and another, when heavy black clouds rolled up from the southeast, which usually portends a rainstorm. All hands agreed that a wetness is coming this winter, and whenever a person thinks of an unusual downpour, the old Santa Ana river naturally comes in for a few knocks, because it raises the very mischief when it gets to going good over its banks. The Eastsiders who own acreage close in on the Olive road have their eyes on a certain open stretch in the west bank of the river up in the neighborhood of where the Santa Fe bridge turns the water partly to the west. These men figure that when the river again takes to flooding the stream is going to cut in at this point and continue north of town. These men are not hoggish at all, but they have seen the floods come pretty close to their holdings in the past and are willing to let the other fellow have a taste of it. By this it is inferred that should the river again dig in to the north, it is dollars to doughnuts that it will stay there, and the men to the south of the bend can then sit back and take a breathing spell, especially when the old river goes over the top. The open stretch in the west bank is a real menace to property to the north and west of this city. Should the river ever go out at that point, its subsequent course is problematical, for it might cut in at any old place. A person may do all kinds of work to keep a river flow in its natural channel, but no one can divert water from a natural waterway. This has long ago been established by the higher courts. So many of the Eastsiders, and those to the south of us, are waiting to see what's going to happen, should we have in pounds, by classes, as given by the bureau of markets, were: Grease, 37,769,216; scoured, 11,732,697; and pulled, 2,014,544. The reports show Massachusetts still leading in wool used, followed in order by Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, Connecticut, and Maine. According to the latest available information on wool textile machinery equipment there are 6,377 woolen cards and 2,263 combs in the United States. The three firms whose reports are not included in the consumption figures have a combined capacity of 15 woolen cards and 9 worsted combs. This, it is pointed out, shows that the consumption report included 99.7 per cent of the woolen machinery in the United States. UNDECORATED HERO SUFFERS IN GOOD CAUSE Former Chicago Official Lends His Body in Government Research There is in Washington a man inconspicuously doing his bit, or his all, for his country by serving as a "host" for body lice, the "cooties" of the war zone. He is co-operating, in a very personal and intimate degree, with entomologists of the United States Department of Agriculture, who are striving, under the direction of the Council of Research of the Council of National Defense, to find preventives and exterminators for the pests that not only annoy and irritate American soldiers, but that spread trench fever and other diseases among them. This man formerly served the city of Chicago in a public capacity. He has a son with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and when he volunteered for this service he was awarded a bronze medal. GASOLINE OPINION Charles G. Johnson, state superintendent of weights and measures, has issued the following to weights and measures officials of the state: "Since the inception of this department there have been constant complaints over the substitution of 'distillate' for 'straight refined gasoline.' During the last three months these complaints have been much more numerous and much evidence has been obtained establishing the fact that the practice of substitution is becoming very common. "Gasoline is a straight refined crude oil product, generally characterized by a low content of unsaturated and aromatic hyprocarbons and by a distillation range free from marked irregularities. Its basic properties obtained through its process of refining and distillation are essential and necessary to readily start an automobile engine and keep it going when started without hindrance to the mechanical efficiency of the engine by carbon deposits and other properties too light for general use in automobiles. "Commercial distillate is what may be termed a 'compound gasoline,' very similar in appearance and odor to the straight refined product, but very different chemically in that it contains a larger percentage of unsaturated and aromatic hydrocarbons. Its motive power is in many respects equal to that of the straight product when used in engines constructed for its use, but automobile motors, due to their mechanical construction, require the straight refined product, and substitution is detrimental to the efficiency of their operation." "The straight gasoline has a commercial market value of approximately 21 cents per gallon, while distillate sells at 12 cents. The sale, therefore, of 'compounded gasoline' under the..." a real menace to property to the north and west of this city. Should the river ever go out at that point, its subsequent course is problematical, for it might cut in at any old place. A person may do all kinds of work to keep a river flow in its natural channel, but no one can divert water from a natural waterway. This has long ago been established by the higher courts. So many of the Eastsiders, and those to the south of us, are waiting to see what's going to happen, should we have an excessive downpour this winter. Should the river again take up its bed north of this town the boosters down around Newport would throw their hats so high in the air that the lids would be a long time coming down again. Over at police headquarters in a closet that is kept under lock and key, to which each officer has access, is a conglomerate mass of bottled goods, taken from men pinched for being drunk, some of which might be used as hair restorer, and some might put efficiency in a weary willy. This stuff is not used as evidence, because the officer's word usually puts the unfortunate Jn pickle, as the recorder sees fit to prescribe. The liquids are just allowed to accumulate. But the funniest thing happened the past few months which had the cops stumped. The booze commenced to evaporate—to disappear as it were. The chief and two of his deputies hold a little ghost dance and decided to lay a trap for the purloiner of the peruna. A bottle of red eye was planted on the shelf in the locker and careful note one day was taken of its contents. Lo and behold, despite their vigilance, the booze continued to disappear. One time three fingers were taken out of the bottle at one gulp. The chief called his men on the carpet to unravel the mystery. Two of the men proved their absolute innocence as they never upon any occasion ever touch liquor as a bracer, and the men now working have a pretty good idea who has been snooping around. Strange to say, for the past ten days or more, none of the liquids have gone estray, and everything goes along smoothly. A funny thing, speaking of booze evaporation, is that one time a fellow put on too much port wine ballast, and later went home and robbed his own trunk. But the funniest thing of all is when a fellow will drive up an alley and rush the growler and put the contents under his belt, and then come entomologists of the United States Department of Agriculture, who are striving, under the direction of the Council of Research of the Council of National Defense, to find preventives and exterminators for the pests that not only annoy and irritate American soldiers, but that spread trench fever and other diseases among them. This man formerly served the city of Chicago in a public capacity. He has a son with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and when he volunteered to be a subject in the experimental work of the entomologists, he said he was willing to do anything that would help out the boys over there. Valuable data in regard to the control of the "cootie" have been obtained from the parasites living on his body, and moving pictures of them have been taken through a microscope. The pictures are to be magnified and shown at army camps before scientists and army officers engaged in delousing work. The entomiligists, in addition to watching these particular "cooties" and others confined in glass tubes and other places, are testing chemicals to learn their destructive action on lice, their effect on human bodies, and their penetration of clothing. Also, they are co-operating with army officers in testing laundering and delousing processes. They are trying to add to the knowledge of how to repel, kill, or drive away the tiny parasites that to many of our soldiers have proved more troublesome than the Huns or the bullets of the Huns. One of the scientists of the Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, also is serving as a host for the parasites, but in a more restricted sense than the Chicago man. His "cooties" are confined under the glass top of a wristlet, much like a wrist watch, and they pass their existence, from the egg stage to the dead adult, on the skin of his arm, and can not move to any other spot. Through the glass cover the entomologist can watch the "cooties" as they emerge from their shells and go through all the stages of their life cycle. Extensive governmental efforts to devise ways of overcoming the parasitic evil are under way. Similar efforts have been made and are being made in practically every country that has large armies in the field. The war centered attention of entomologists upon body lice, which previous to the conflict had not received as much attention as scientists believe they deserve. The straight gasoline has a commercial market value of approximately 21 cents per gallon, while distillate sells at 12 cents. The sale, therefore, of 'compounded gasoline' under the representation that it is straight refined product, and substitution is detrimental to the efficiency of their operation. "The straight gasoline has a commercial market value of approximately 21 cents per gallon, while distillate sells at 12 cents. The sale, therefore, of 'compounded gasoline' under the representation that it is straight refined product, and substitution is detrimental to the efficiency of their operation." "From the complaints I believe that the public is being swindled out of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by this deception. The honest and legitimate dealers are being driven out of business and standards of quality maintained by ruptable refiners are being abused. Their appeal for relief to this department demands our immediate and serious attention. "Upon the receipt of these instructions you will make a careful investigation of all service stations in your jurisdiction, ascertain if gasoline and distillate are handled by them, and the manner in which the two commodities are stored, and if any circumstances facilitate the perpetration of the fraud complained of, obtain a sample of the commodity sold for gasoline, and forward to this department for analysis. Carefully investigate all stations to which suspicion is directed and obtain the necessary evidence on which to successfully prosecute them and refer such evidence and information to your district attorney." "This department will extend your efforts the fullest assistance and cooperation and will give all matters appertaining hereto my immediate and personal attention. I urge upon you to extend this service to the public at once in the same efficient manner which has characterized your association with this department." SHY ON TOBACCO Letters from members of Co. L., 160th Inft., who went away under command of Capt. Holderman are beginning to come in thick and fast. The company is now billeted. Among the letters received is one from Mechanic Timmy R. Jamar, a Santa Anan, whose mother, Mrs. L. Maher, is now living at 302 El Redondo street, Redondo. The United California apartments miscored direct services and adhere to all regulations set forth by local authorities. Albo admin: leads a elevator hotels; urged untari lights; minimizes safety rooms; ening should actually allow people access inside buildings. SHY ON TOBACCO A funny thing, speaking of booze evaporation, is that one time a fellow put on too much port wine ballast, and later went home and robbed his own trunk. But the funniest thing of all is when a fellow will drive up an alley and rush the growler and put the contents under his belt, and then come out in the open and espouse the cause of prohibition. A man pulls a boner every time he knocks his home town, and many of the boys down the rialto say it's a fright the way a certain gent slams it into is law abiding and peaceable community. If an outsider should ever happen to lamp the lines he would think this burg was a counterpart of Tar Flats or Hogwallow or some other seaport. Some people would like to know why certain men are permitted to go about town intimidating some of the new-comers who have opened up shop. Blackmail? If you want to hear a corking story on booze evaporation, horn in on the chief, he'll let you have it. WOOL CONSUMED IN AUGUST Manufacturers used a million and a half more pounds of wool in August than in July, 1918. August figures being 63,900,000 pounds, grease equivalent, compared to 62,300,000 in July. Monthly consumption has averaged about 67,000,000 pounds, grease equivalent, since January 1, 1918. Stocks of wool consumed in August Extensive governmental efforts to devise ways of overcoming the parasitic evil are under way. Similar efforts have been made and are being made in practically every country that has large armies in the field. The war centered attention of entomologists upon body lice, which previous to the conflict had not received as much attention as scientists believe they deserve. The "cootle" has not yet appeared in numbers at the camps in this country, but if it should do so military authorities expect to be ready to deal with it. Men serving for long periods in the trenches, or at other places where bathing and disinfecting facilities are not available, are the principal sufferers. Delousing stations, where thorough bathing, hair-clipping, and disinfection of clothing can be done, have been established in the war zone. The moving pictures that are to be part of the campaign against "cootles" show how the louse comes into existence, how it passes into the nymph stage, and from that to the adult, and how it propagates its species. They also will show lesions caused by the bites of the parasites, and how to find the eggs and the insects themselves in the folds of clothing. These will be added to films to be taken under the direction of the War Department, which will show a delousing station, the devices used, and a company of men ridding themselves of their unwelcome visitors. To gather and correlate all the scientific knowledge available on the subject, Bureau of Entomology scientists have organized a study class that meets weekly and sends reports of its findings to army officers and others engaged in eradication of parasites. SHY ON TOBACCO Letters from members of Co. L, 160th Inft., who went away under command of Capt. Holderman are beginning to come in thick and fast. The company is now billeted. Among the letters received is one from Mechanic Timmy R. Jamar, a Santa Anan, whose mother, Mrs. L. Maher, is now living at 302 El Redondo street, Redondo. Jamar's letter, written August 30th, says that Co. L had been travelling almost continuously since it left Camp Kearny. He says that there is a great scarcity of tobacco in England and France, and that if it was not for the Y. M. C. A. the smokers would be in a bad way. "It if wasn't for the good old American Y. M. C. A., I guess we would never get any," says Jamar. "It certainly is wonderful, what the Y. M. C. A. is doing abroad for the soldiers." "We are billetter in a French village. We never see any young Frenchman who is not in uniform. About all we see are women, children, old men and men who have been disabled. The people are glad to see us. We sure have lots of fun trying to understand each other. The people here have the idea that the American soldier is rich." "Some things are cheap and most are not. For instance, a small bar of laundry soap costs 30 cents." A Los Angeles paper has the following in reference to a former Anaheim boy: "Another boxer who will be on the card is Red Mathews. Red didn't lose any friends when he boxed a draw with Gene Watson and is a great drawing card. He packs a wallop, something that will earn him a place on the card any time he wants to start." Fall Suits for Men War is changing the face of the earth, and men's clothes are losing their feminist tendencies. Belts, pleats, tucks and all the other lambable lady like leanings in men's styles have vanished into thin air. Tailoring is back to simple lines once more, and that is where hand workmanship has it all over a machine. Michaels Stern Clothing are hand tailored, they sell from $22.50 to $30.00 When you buy a suit here it must absolutely fit. JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM Are YOU Sneezing? medical science's latest discoveries about the Spanish influenza how the first real epidemic of the world war spread from the German YOU Sneezing? medical science's latest discoveries about the Spanish influenza how the first real epidemic of the world war spread from the German trenches. ALSO—Full page in color by NELL BRINKLEY—the Kaiser's latest cruelty to the little Luxemburg princesses full page of fall dresses described by the famous dressmaker, LADY DUFF-GORDON. another thrilling installment of "The Enchanted Hour" by GIL PATTEN—more about the Fighting Fleets, by Ralph D. Paine— four pages of comics in colors, including Happy Hooligan—My Two Years in Ravished, Tortured Armenia. All of these and many more exclusive, absorbing features in the LOS ANGELES EXAMINER next Sunday, Oct. 13. Make sure of your copy by ordering now from H. A. NEFF, Anaheim Examiner delivered daily for 85c a month. FUEL CONSERVATION The fuel saving appeal made by the United States fuel administrator for California to patrons of hotels and apartment houses has evidently been misconstrued in certain quarters as direct orders for the discontinuance of service on the part of hotel keepers and apartment house owners. Albert E. Schwabacher, federal fuel administrator for California, states that he has issued no curtailment orders affecting the use of hot water, elevator service or heat. Patrons of hotels and apartments, however, are urged, as a patriotic measure, to voluntarily curtail their use of hot water, lights, heat and elevator service to a minimum, consistent with comfort and safety. The regulation of heat in rooms should not be regulated by opening the windows, the radiator valves should be shut off instead. Only lights actually necessary, should be burned, and all lights should be put out when leaving the room. No hot water should W. C. A. war workers is performing at home and abroad. The ordnance department has requested the Y. W. C. A. to supervise the recreation and social welfare of the thousands of girls and women engaged in munitions plants and other war industries. This summer the government opened 22 munitions cantonments and has taken over about 100 "cost plus" plants formerly operated under private ownership. In Connecticut 45,000 women are employed in one plant. There are 5,000 girls working in the Long Island city gas mask factory. It is among these as well as among the nurses and soldiers and munitions workers over there that the war workers are playing the part of the big sister. Volumes could be written on what they have done and are doing. It is a great work, a good work, a work that is deserving of the commendation and support of every good man and woman. Organizations there are a plenty which minister to the needs of the soldier boy and the sailor man, but MEMBERS OF CO. L. It away under comderman are beginck and fast. The deleted. Among the one from Mechanic Santa Anan, whose other, is now living street, Redondo. Written August 30th, been travelling allence it left Camp that there is a great in England and it was not for the writers would be in a good old Ameriness we would nevmar. "It certainnt the Y. M. C. A. the soldiers. A French village. Young Frenchman m. About all we wren, old men disabled. The peons. We sure have understand each there have the idea soldier is rich. The cheap and most easy, a small bar of cents." The followformer Anaheim who will be on news. Red didn't he boxed a drawing is a great drawing a wallop, somemum a place on the arts to start." THE BIG SISTER "The Best Big Sister in the World" —that's Miss Y. W. C. A. She is the big sister to the boys on the front and to the girls and women in the hospitals and in the munitions plants, both in France and in the United States. The slogan adopted for the eight states under the jurisdiction of the western department of the Y. W. C. A. is peculiarly appropriate. That slogan, worded by Mrs. J. T. Lemos, of San Francisco, seems to "hit off" the Y. W. C. A. war worker exactly right. She is a big sister—the big sister of the fighter and the toiler—and none will deny her the title of the best. The United States government has recognized the service which the Y. KEEP VEGETABLES FOR WINTER It should be the aim of every boy and girl to keep the surplus vegetables from the war garden for winter use. Potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips, salsify and late cabbage may be kept by storing them in the cellar, or in banks or pits. Tomatoes, peas, and string beans may be canned. Dry beans may be kept by gathering and storing in a dry place. By storing, canning, or drying all surplus vegetables every boy or girl can help the nation solve the food problem. The United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.*C., has published bulletins on canning, drying, and storing garden products. Write for copies of them. They are free.