anaheim-gazette 1918-11-07

POPULAR OYSTER ONCE MORE IN SEASON GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDS ITS USE DURING THE "R" MONTHS AS MEAT SUBSTITUTE HERE ARE A FEW NEW RECIPES FOR PREPARING THE LUSCIOUS BIVALVE The oyster, most popular of all shell fish, is again admitted to a place on the menu. During the summer his popularity wanes, but with the coming of the fall he is again held in high esteem. According to popular belief, the oyster is at his best during the months which contain the letter "R," or from September through April. Naturally a clean and wholesome food, the State and Federal Governments have made rigid restrictions in connection with oyster farming to prevent any accidental contamination. At the present time the gathering of oysters and their distribution are carried on under sanitary conditions. Through the oyster has a high content of water (in this resembling milk, one of the most important of foods), it is nevertheless valuable for the nutritive material it supplies and is readily and well assimilater. It may be utilized for food in many ways and has a special value in that a moderate Oyster Fritters Drain 1 pint of oysters. Dip in a fritter batter. Put a couple of tablespoons of bacon fat into frying pan. When smoking hot, drop in the oyster and cook until brown on both sides. This will take the place of oysters cooked in deep fat without using large quantities of fat. STATE MUST PREPARE AFTER-WAR PROGRAM Legislation Needed For Reconstruction Days, Says Governor A request that the State Council of Defense evolve a "comprehensive after-the-war program for submission to the Legislature" was made Friday by Gov. Stephens in a letter to Charles C. Moore, director of the council. Making provision for the returning soldiers, industrial readjustment and reconstruction that will follow the restoration of peace, questions affecting the rehabilitation of those maimed and crippled on the battlefield, and plans for returning to normal occupations as speedily as possible those who will return physically sound, were subjects suggested for consideration. Gov. Stephens urged the development of new construction projects for immediate employment of our soldiers after demobolization. Utilization of "California's limitless hydro-electric energy" to stimulate manufacturing and the extension of California's plan of land settlement were recommended. Labor problems affecting those engaged in war work, as well as those growing out of demobolization should be studied, Gov. Stephens said. An agricultural survey, development of foreign markets, organization of agricultural, horticultural and other industries were urged. He also suggested consideration of a minimum wage "that will insure the maintenance of the RED CROSS Women of the Pacific arisen to the presentgency in a manner more words of approval continued need of wition and the Red Cross pend upon the daughter to keep at the helm u tigo of the storm b The Division Bureau applied every available its command, then call to fill up the gaps in ers to care for the th ers. Chapters in all have handled the city did manner and they again lived up to its The Red Cross has Washington that the mas parcels labels his country, and will be those who are to use mail facilities permit complete instructions at Red Cross chapter Only one package for be accepted. Each n ditionary forces has r and has been directed person from whom ceive a Christmas par do not carry this label excepted and none can November 20. W. Frank Persons, Bureau Civilian Relief Cross, and Chairman tee Influenza, visited Headquarters recentlhe greatest admirably and efficient way t handling the flu epidern states. He is off home service work Through the oyster has a high content of water (in this resembling milk, one of the most important of foods), it is nevertheless valuable for the nutritive material it supplies and is readily and well assimilater. It may be utilized for food in many ways and has a special value in that a moderate quantity will impart a good oyster flavor to a considerable amount of other food material and so make a very palatable dish at moderate cost. For instance, scalloped oysters, a dish of which a large proportion of Victory bread or cracker crumbs furnishes the basis, is made appetizing and acceptable by the use of a few oysters. In the seacoast regions where they grow, oysters are eaten in large quantities, and are much used in inland towns, because, unlike most fish food, they can be shipped alive. Even a district so remote that it is not easily reached with live oysters can still have them, for they are canned and shipped in large quantities. Oysters can be placed on the list of meat substitutes, as they supply the same kind of food to the body. They may be served in many ways, raw, stewed, broiled, baked, or fried. For the present frying should be avoided, as the Food Administration has advised conservation of fat. But this should not be a handicap, as there are many attractive ways in which they can be prepared. Creamed Oysters Creamed oysters make a very palatable luncheon or supper dish. 1 pint oysters. 2 tablespoons fat. 1¼ cup flour. ½ teaspoon salt. 1-8 teaspoon pepper. 2 cups liquid (oyster liquor and milk). Melt the butter and add the flour, salt, and pepper. Stir over the fire until well mixed, being careful not to brown. Add the liquid gradually and cook until thick and smooth. Add the oysters and cook until the oysters are plump and the edges begin to curl. Serve on toast. If it is desired to serve the dish on some special occasion, the oysters may be served in patty shells. A little chopped parsley sprinkled over the top adds to the attractiveness. California's innate energy" to stimulate manufacturing and the extension of California's plan of land settlement were recommended. Labor problems affecting those engaged in war work, as well as those growing out of demobolization should be studied, Gov. Stephens said. An agricultural survey, development of foreign markets, organization of agricultural, horticultural and other industries were urged. He also suggested consideration of a minimum wage "that will insure the maintenance of the American standard of living," and of plans "for readjusting and stabilizing food prices and for reducing as swiftly as possible the high cost of living." "If we would avoid the industrial dislocation that naturally would follow the sudden release of so many workers from war service, we must give immediate attention to certain constructive politices that the new conditions will require," the governor said. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS College of Agriculture Recommends Their Organization in State Perhaps the greatest problem in California agriculture at present is the standardization and distribution of products to be marketed. The value of farmers' co-operative marketing associations as a means of shortening the route between the producer and the consumer, and as a factor towards the better development of rural community life, is a well established principle. This has been amply demonstrated by many successful farmers' organizations now in existence in California, among which may be mentioned the California Fruit Growers' Exchange and the California Associated Raisin Company, which by their successful operation have attracted world-wide attention. Farmers' co-operative marketing associations are business concerns that depend for their success upon the plans and objects of the organization, the character and efficiency of the men elected to manage them, and upon the support given them by the farmers of the state. Membership in such an organization brings with it the usual hazard involved in even the soundest business ventures. Knowing that the College of Agriculture has always favored farmers' cooperative associations, the officials of newly formed organizations have from time to time asked that the institution enter the field to aid them in inducing farmers to become members. But the salt, and pepper. Stir over the fire until well mixed, being careful not to brown. Add the liquid gradually and cook until thick and smooth. Add the oysters and cook until the oysters are plump and the edges begin to curl. Serve on toast. If it is desired to serve the dish on some special occasion, the oysters may be served in patty shells. A little chopped parsley sprinkled over the top adds to the attractiveness. Oyster Scallop 3 cups cooked rice. 1 pint fresh oysters. 1 cup chopped celery. 1 cup milk. 1 tablespoon corstarch. 1 tablespoon fat. ½ teaspoon salt. 1-8 teaspoon pepper. Make a white sauce by melting the fat, stirring in the cornstarch, salt, and pepper, then adding the milk. Stir over the fire until thickened. Arrange in a baking dish alternate layers of rice, oysters, celery, and white sauce until the dish is nearly full. Let a layer of rice cover the top. Bake for 20 minutes in a moderate oven. Oyster Potpie 1 pint oysters. ¼ teaspoon salt. 1-8 teaspoon pepper. 1 tablespoon cornstarch. ½ cup cold water. 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Biscuit dough. Put the oysters on to cook with salt and pepper. Stir in the cornstarch dissolved in the cold water and cook until thick. Add the lemon juice and pour into a baking dish. Cut the biscuits and place them on top. Poke until the biscuits are brown. The biscuits for the potpie are better if they are very short. Bacon fat makes a very tasty biscuit to be used in this way. Knowing that the College of Agriculture has always favored farmers' cooperative associations, the officials of newly formed organizations have from time to time asked that the institution enter the field to aid them in inducing farmers to become members. But the college has refused to urge farmers to join any particular association because it believes this to be a responsibility which farmers must take for themselves, since it was their own money and their own crops that were invested therein. This does not at all lesson the strength of the belief of the college of agriculture that farmers' co-operative marketing associations are essentially desirable. While the college is unable to actively solicit farmers to become members of any particular organization, it has full sympathy with the co-operative movement and when requested to do so will gladly extend such advice and suggestion as it has available. It earnestly hopes that at all times the farmers of the state will lend their active interest to the various associations promoted under competent auspices and participate in those which their judgment approves. It urges the county farm bureaus to open their meeting to a full and free discussion of the various farmers' co-operative marketing organizations that may be in process of formation. Attention is called to the fact that the State Marketing Commission of California and the Office of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture, are available to give advice and direction to farmers' co-operative movements in California. News articles about drive for fruit seeds badly needed by making gas masks, station the delivery of the nearest Red agency. Native blackennial dates are making gas proof cocoa. The Pacific division Cross, shipped more tin foil in the past Angeles has thousand boxes under the Boy over $1,200 each month foil. "For All Humanity a film that will be ripe future, showing the Red Cross activities will be made by them when this and other can be seen on this Sunday night Fre who is after Jess V a party of friends Seal Beach, but be that town they hit road and the big side up. The occur car and Fulton big shoulders and car up high enough crawl out. Not a o for a scratch whover the eye. The a hurry and brought the repairs made turned to Los Angeles RED CROSS NOTES Women of the Pacific division have arisen to the present epidemic emergency in a manner which is beyond more words of approbation. There is continued need of woman's ministration and the Red Cross feels it can depend upon the daughters of the West to keep at the helm until the last vestige of the storm has disappeared. The Division Bureau of Nursing supplied every available nurse and aid at its command, then called on laywomen to fill up the gaps in the army of helpers to care for the thousands of sufferers. Chapters in all afflicted districts have handled the situation in a splendid manner and the Red Cross has again lived up to its real ideal. The Red Cross has announced from Washington that the first of the Christmas parcels labels have reached this country, and will be in the hands of those who are to use them as soon as mail facilities permit. The boxes with complete instructions, may be obtained at Red Cross chapters or branches. Only one package for each soldier will be accepted. Each man in the expeditionary forces has received one label and has been directed to send it to one person from whom he wishes to receive a Christmas parcel. Parcels that do not carry this label will not be accepted and none can be sent after November 20. W. Frank Persons, director, National Bureau Civilian Relief, American Red Cross, and Chairman National Committee Influenza, visited Pacific Division Headquarters recently and expressed the greatest admiration of the masterly and efficient way the Red Cross was handling the flu epidemic in the Western states. He is of the opinion that home service work will occupy the MILLIONS ARE DUMPED IN SOUTH Domination by South Clearly Shown by Appropriations for Cantonments In passing out the appropriations for army camps and cantonments the Democratic administration gave $400,306,991.34 to sixteen states south of the Mason and Dixon line and only $200,559,222.01 to all the other states. The division of the original appropriations by states was as follows: Alabama ... $61,386,145.36 Arkansas ... 15,409,572.56 Florida ... 7,278,201.24 Georgia ... 28,710,845.85 Kentucky ... 8,375,239.90 Louisiana ... 6,240,474.65 Maryland ... 39,187,441.87 Mississippi ... 5,544,514.92 New Mexico ... 4,007,545.86 North Carolina ... 4,518,761.39 Okalahoma ... 5,174,646.07 South Carolina ... 19,045,284.95 Tennessee ... 76,672,100.00 Texas ... 32,652,744.11 Virginia and West Va... 176,103,472.61 Total ... $490,306,991.34 These original appropriations have recently increased by over $105,000,000, making a total of approximately $600,000,000 that has been or is being spent by the United States on camps, cantonments and military plants in the South. A cantonment was located at Louisville, Ky., at an initial cost of $8,375.279. This cantonment was located there in spite of the recommendation of two military commissions to the contrary. Army authorities recommended the use of Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, where the government already owned ample ground for a cantonment and where there was in existence quarters large enough to accommodate a vast number of troops. Indianapolis was also admirably chusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana and Kansas. It is more than was appropriated for army camps in the two states of Illinois and New York. But, then, Texas is the home of Colonel House, the "unofficial president"; Postmaster General Burleson and Attorney General Gregory. THE GERMANS IN LILLE At a time when Germany is seeking to maintain that no work of destruction has been carried out by her forces in Belgium and Northern France, and no hardships inflicted upon the inhabitants of these districts, but such as were urgently necessary from a military and strategic point of view, the story of Lille and other rescued cities and towns, now being gradually unfolded, comes with peculiar force. It is not, of course, that any one believes the statements of the German Imperial Chancellor, or feels inclined to expend sufficient time on them even to denounce them for what they are. What the Germans have done in Flanders is just what the Germans and their allies have done everywhere else where they have passed. It is, however, one of the duties of the allied peoples, at the present time, to keep before them the full enormity of the German crime, and to allow no weariness, no natural human desire to turn away from it, as soon as it ceases to be an active menace, to rob them of their opportunity and of their duty to make a full end, says the Christian Science Monitor. The suggestion to condone was launched by the Vatican some fifteen months ago. It was indignantly repudiated by all the Allies, but the effort to secure condonation has never ceased, and is being prosecuted today, harder than ever before. Remember the Inquisition Remember the Land... W. Frank Persons, director, National Bureau Civilian Relief, American Red Cross, and Chairman National Committee Influenza, visited Pacific Division Headquarters recently and expressed the greatest admiration of the masterly and efficient way the Red Cross was handling the flu epidemic in the Western states. He is of the opinion that home service work will occupy the close attention of Red Cross chapters for at least two years after the conclusion of the war, and that this deeply important phase of Red Cross work should be given closest study and practical application at the present time. Director Persons addressed the home service institute now in session at San Francisco. The Red Cross chapters in the Pacific division are again urged to comply strictly with production allotments. Most of the chapters are doing this faithfully, but a few still insist on clogging up the national machinery by disobeying orders. No credit is given at Washington for over-production—which only needs enough to fill actual army orders. Hereafter the division bureau will not accept any articles sent in that are not the result of a production order. Christmas seals will be omitted by the Red Cross this year, and in the place of the fund raised by the association in this manner to combat tuberculosis it will appropriate $2,500,000 to aid the National Tuberculosis Association and its allied organizations. The Red Cross Christmas Roll Call will be supported by all these organizations and each Red Cross member will be awarded ten seals enclosed in a folder which contains educational matter regarding the white plague. Many enterprising normal teachers, with the consent of their local boards of health, conducted Junior Red Cross activities in the open air during the recent closing of the schools. This enabled them to keep up with the allotments for Red Cross for the army and navy. News articles about the Red Cross drive for fruit seeds and nut shells, so badly needed by the government in making gas masks, should always mention the delivery of these articles to the nearest Red Cross collection agency. Native black walnuts and oranges were located at Louisville, Ky., at an initial cost of $8,375.279. This cantonment was located there in spite of the recommendation of two military commissions to the contrary. Army authorities recommended the use of Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, where the government already owned ample ground for a cantonment and where there was in existence quarters large enough to accommodate a vast number of troops. Indianapolis was also admirably adapted for the site of a cantonment by reason of its railroad facilities and a belt line. Louisville is the home district of Representative Sherley, Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Louisville got the $8,375.279 cantonment and Indianapolis, the choice of the military experts, got a $582,000 repair depot. On October 4, last, it was announced that Louisville was to get another cantonment, with an initial appropriation of $20,000,000. This gives Representative Sherley two cantonments in his district involving the expenditure of nearly $30,000,000 of the government's money. What Rest of Nation Got California ... $14,980,398.84 Illinois ... 11,878,150.11 Indiana ... 582,000.00 Iowa ... 8,518,975.38 Kansas ... 11,611,998.31 Massachusetts ... 11,480,837.87 Michigan ... 18,165,178.56 Nebraska ... 549,266.00 New Jersey ... 51,103,884.79 New York ... 17,818,965.30 Ohio ... 36,116,364.04 Pennsylvania ... 8,893,732.00 Vermont ... 108,823.13 Washington ... 8,750,647.68 Total ... $200,559,222.01 It will be noted that of the appropriations awarded states north of the Mason and Dixon line, New Jersey obtained over one-fourth of the total. It is a favorite argument of Southern Democrats, in excusing this discrimination, that the splendid climate of the Southern states accounts for the favoritism shown that section of the country. Unfortunately for this argument, the facts do not sustain it. For example, California's climate is quite as noted for its mildness in winter as is the climate of Alabama. California's climate is far more healthful than Alabama's, the latter being full of malaria. California received $14,980,398 in appropriations for army camps and other human desire to turn away from N.Y., soon as it ceases to be an active menace, to rob them of their opportunity and of their duty to make a full end, says the Christian Science Monitor. The suggestion to condone was launched by the Vatican some fifteen months ago. It was indignantly repudiated by all the Allies, but the effort to secure condonation has never ceased, and is being prosecuted today, harder than ever before. Remember the Lusitania! Remember the Llandover Castle! Remember the Leinster! Remember Lille! are not war cries of vengeance. They are, and must be, for allied peoples, for many months to come, yet one more stern call to stern duty. No decent man nor woman wants to remember the outrages on humanity which these names stand for. But if the punishment is to be justly inflicted, the crime must be justly appraised, and those who have already borne so much in this battle for righteousness will not shirk this one burden more. The normal man of decent feeling is however faced by a difficulty at the outset. The crimes are so many. What the Germans have done in one city would have been enough, four years ago, to have branded them as outcasts, and even what they have done in one city is often, indeed always, too much to recount, and always, too much to recount, and always too uncountable in its fullness. As M. Delroy, one of the released deputies for Lille said, on his first return to the French Chamber, the other day, after an exile of four years," it is impossible to denounce all the German crimes." He went on; however, to speak of one with which the story of Lille, during German occupation, is indelibly associated, and that is the forebear deportation to Germany of thousands of girls and young women to work in German factories and fields, hundreds of miles away from their homes, or behind the German line under the gun-fire of their own people. The first deportations took place in the spring of 1916, and since then many towns have suffered in a similar way, Lille itself included. What happened in Lille was only typical of what happened elsewhere. Tourcoing, Roubaix, and other places all witnessed the same terrible scenes; whole districts arbitrarily marked off in the darkness; machine guns posted at the ends of the streets; and families ordered to gather in their doorways; then the march past of a German officer with a squad of men; seizing a woman here and a girl there; carrying them off... News articles about the Red Cross drive for fruit seeds and nut shells, so badly needed by the government in making gas masks, should always mention the delivery of these articles to the nearest Red Cross collection agency. Native black walnuts and ornamental dates are very valuable for making gas proof carbon. The Pacific division, American Red Cross, shipped more than 10 tons of tin foil in the past three months. Los Angeles has thousands of collection boxes under the Boy Scouts and makes over $1,200 each month on the sale of foli. "For All Humanity" is the subject of a film that will be released in the near future, showing the various phases of Red Cross activities. Announcement will be made by the Pacific division when this and other Red Cross films can be seen on this coast. Sunday night Fred Fulton, the man who is after Jess Willard's title, with a party of friends motored down to Seal Beach, but before they reached that town they hit a sharp turn in the road and the big car turned bottom side up. The occupants were still in the car and Fulton raised up with his big shoulders and raised the three-ton car up high enough for the party to crawl out. Not a one was hurt, except for a scratch which Fulton received over the eye. The car was removed in a hurry and brought to this city and the repairs made so that the party returned to Los Angeles in it. California subscribed $358,194,200 to the Second and Third Liberty Loans, or 24 times what the government spent on camps in California. Alabama subscribed only $38,795,350 to those two loans, or less than two-thirds as much as the government had spent in that state. But Alabama is the home of Chairman Dent of the House Committee on Military Affairs. Texas the Prize Winner Then there is Texas. It is notorious for its "northers," the worst of blizzards, in winter. In summer it is the hottest state. Its Rio Grande border is a waste of sand. Malaria fever is the plague of every camp in Texas. All told, it has probably the most inhospitable assortment of weather of any state. Yet Texas was handed six army camps, eleven aviation camps, one concentration camp and one repair depot, with total appropriations of $32,652,744.11. These plums were generously passed around so that Waco, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, San Antonio and Wichita Falls each got a liberal bite. This is more than the total appropriations for cantonments and other military plans in the states of Massa- DEMOBOLIZATION Demobolization of the American forces in France will require a period "Men like to wear Furnishing Goods that come from Jackson's because they are always different." We are now showing Holiday Goods at exceptional prices. New and attractive Neckwear, in the "Camouflage and Futurist Patterns" and all the up to date styles, in both Four in Hands and Club ties, prices 25c to $2.50. Linen Initial Handkerchiefs box of three $1.00 Bath Robes made of "Beacon Blankets" $5.00 to $15.00. House Coats in neat patterns bound with silk cord, and frogs $5.50 to $8.00. Silk, Cotton and Wool Sox. Silk Shirts, Cotton Shirts, Flannel Shirts. Gloves, Sweaters, Pajamas, Night Shirts and anything that you may want to give your men friends. Let us help you make your selections. JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM of two years after peace is declared, according to a statement made by Gen. T. Coleman DuPont, just from a two months' visit to the western front. Declaring his views were the reflection of official opinion among Allied forces, he asked Americans to accustom themselves to long demobilization as they had to long war. "One of our generals asked me," he said, "to tell the people at home that our boys have a year's work ahead of them in removing the barbed wire the Huns have strung across France." Asserting that the Civil War had "turned thousands of men back into war Department, that it will be impracticable to undertake the distribution of gifts to men in the United States service who have no relatives or friends to whom they wish to send their Christmas box coupons. However, the Red Cross abroad is preparing to make a general distribution of tobacco to all men in the American Expeditionary Forces. Cigarettes in special packages of fifty will be provided if possible. For Soldiers War Department regulations for soldiers' Christmas packages are as follows: Declaring his views were the reflection of official opinion among Allied forces, he asked Americans to accustom themselves to long demobilization as they had to long war. "One of our generals asked me," he said, "to tell the people at home that our boys have a year's work ahead of them in removing the barbed wire the Huns have strung across France." Asserting that the Civil War had "turned thousands of men back into civil life weakened and purposeless," Gen. DuPont said that the seven war work agencies should be supported generously in their approaching campaign. He declared that "statesman-like plans are being laid" for the trying period following peace. BETTER GRAPEFRUIT FOR CALIFORNIA The reputation of California grapefruit has been injured in the past by the fact that the Marsh variety, which is the only important grapefruit variety now grown in that state is composed of a number of strains, according to specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. No recognition previously had been made of these strains and the marketing of fruits of the various strains, some of which are of a decidedly inferior nature, in the same package has caused a great handicap both to the growers and consumers. Investigations conducted by the Federal specialists, reported in Bulletin 697, "Citrus Fruit, Improvement; A Study of Bud Variation in the Marsh Grapefruit," just published by the department, show there are six important strains which have arisen from bud variations in the Marsh variety. The only strain of this variety which should be propagated is the Marsh. This bears a smooth, flat, thin-skinned fruit which is commercially seedless. The investigators are confident that the Marsh strain can be established and maintained and variations within the strain reduced to a minimum through bud selection based on individual tree performance records. Prominent among the strains which should be and are being eliminated are the Bell, Seedy, and Corrugated. Healthy trees of undesirable strains can be successfully top-worked by using select buds from fruit bearing wood from performance record trees of the Marsh strain. A practical method of locating the most desirable trees in commercial orchards is presented by States service who have no relatives or friends to whom they wish to send their Christmas box coupons. However, the Red Cross abroad is preparing to make a general distribution of tobacco to all men in the American Expeditionary Forces. Cigarettes in special packages of fifty will be provided if possible. For Soldiers War Department regulations for soldiers' Christmas packages are as follows: All packages will be of standard size and weight, one for each individual in the American Expeditionary Force. General Pershing is distributing to those in his command coupons on which are inscribed the names and addresses of his men. These will serve as address labels for the packages, as they will be mailed by the soldiers to the persons who are to send them Christmas packages. These labels probably will be received in the United States by November 1. Those receiving the labels should present them at the nearest Red Cross chapter or organization, where each will receive a pasteboard carton, three by four by nine inches, in size. These boxes will be distributed by the American Red Cross by November 1. Boxes may be filled with any articles except those barred by postal officials which include intoxicating liquors, inflammable material, liquids and fragile articles improperly packed. No note or message of any kind will go with the boxes. Friends and relatives of soldiers are urged not to put anything in the boxes that will not keep fresh until Christmas. Dried fruits and other food products should be packed in tins or wooden boxes. Preference should be given to hard candy, over the soft varieties such as chocolates. The weight of the package wrapped should not exceed three pounds. Parceles may bear such inscriptions as "Do not open until Christmas," "Merry Christmas," "Happy New Year." With Best Wishes, and the like. The boxes should be taken unwrapped and unsealed to the nearest collection center to be indicated by the Red Cross, together with the address label and sufficient stamps to carry it by parcel post to Hoboken, N. J. After the package has passed inspection by the Red Cross representatives as to contents and weight, and has been wrapped in stout paper, the Christmas label bearing the address of the man for whom it is intended is to be placed on it. After the package has been properly stamped, a label certifying that inspection has been completed by CHRISTMAS BOXES So many conflicting reports have been circulated about regulations governing the sending of Christmas packages to soldiers, sailors and marines in overseas duty, that the State Council of Defense is urged by Washington to give the widest publicity to the set of rules to be observed in forwarding packages to our warriors. No package will be accepted for soldiers after November 20. Packages for soldiers should be shipped to reach New York not later than November 15. Rules for sending Christmas packages to marines who are with the American Expeditionary Forces in France will be the same as for soldiers. For all other marines, whether in training or serving actively at naval posts and stations at home and aboard ship, navy regulations will govern. In has been decided by Red Cross officials, with the concurrence of the Prominent among the strains which should be and are being eliminated are the Bell, Seedy, and Corrugated. H. althy trees of undesirable strains can be successfully top-worked by using select buds from fruit bearing wood from performance record trees of the Marsh strain. A practical method of locating the most desirable trees in commercial orchards is presented by the department in Farmers' Bulletin 794, entitled "Citrus-Fruit Improvement: How to Secure and Use Tree-Performance Records." Both of these bulletins can be obtained free upon application so long as the supply lasts. For Sailors Rules for sending Christmas boxes to sailors follow: Packages forwarded by parcel post must comply with the postal regulations and should be inclosed in substantial boxes with hinged or crew top cover to facilitate opening and inspecting. All boxes shipped by express are limited to 20 pounds in weight, should measure not more than two cubic feet in volume, be of wood, well strapped, and have a hinged or screw top to facilitate opening and inspecting. No perishable food products other than those inclosed in cans or glass jars should be packed in parcel post or express shipments. All mail matter should be addressed as now prescribed by the postal regulations. All express packages should be forwarded in care of Supply Officer, Fleet Supply Base, Twenty-ninth Street and Third Avenue, South Brooklyn, N.Y. All packages must be plainly marked with the name and address of the sender together with a notation indicating the nature of the contents, such as "Christmas box," or "Christmas present."