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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
2
The Arcadia Journal edited and owned by A. L. Wool Jridge is published every Saturday and entered at the Arcadia California post office as second class matter.
At a Wednesday night board meeting D W Simms submitted his resignation as chairman and council member. A decisive reply is sought by next Tuesday ahead of the adjourned council session. Supporters urge him to stay to aid crucial Arcadia development and needed legislation.
Arcadia residents oppose Monrovia ministers Sunday theater closure guiding local Board of Trustees to respond to public sentiment. Community debate centers on keeping The Outpost theater open or closing it, with Arcadia’s stance shaping town policy.
In a shell-rid hut near front trenches a War Work secretary from Walla Walla recounts a mixed French and American crowd singing parodies and hymns while longing for home. A tale notes Y M C A workers marching into No Man’s Land and a man with false teeth saving his life after torpedoing of the Oronse.
A Los Angeles Tribune portrait recalls Benjamin Tillman born a Confederate boy at seventeen, rising to governor and U S senator by 1894, overturning aristocratic rule with a blunt, partisan style then mellowing with age into a conciliatory yet still fierce figure.
A wartime plea from the Oakland Tribune urges strict conservation of food as global stocks dwindle. It warns against waste and stresses U S leadership in rationing for France Italy Great Britain and neutrals amid a looming grain shortfall and limited overseas shipping.
A wartime verse voice quips about hens cow and horse aiding in wartime efforts and taunts German foe. The speaker jokes that animals perform tasks to support rationing and victory while noting rising barber prices and shifts in patriot bravado. The tone is satirical and nationalistic with playful dialect.
The text describes German scorched earth tactics in Northern France during World War I, girdling fruit trees and destroying farming property to curb Allied supply. It notes U.S. Food Administration efforts and American aid, emphasizing that America must conserve food to feed European allies and sustain the war effort.
The Secretary of the Treasury calls for all Americans to fund the war effort beyond partisan lines. He stresses that wealth, men, and women must join together to meet financial demands and protect American ideals and civilization.
The article urges every American family with a garden plot to increase food production to ease rail and allied supply burdens. Government leaflets from USDA and state colleges offer free guidance to gardeners, citing 2,000,000 war gardens planted in 1917 and lessons for an improved 1918 effort to avert famine.
The plan expands the Home Card for 1918 with optional voluntary rations. It mirrors England on weekly per person allowances for meat and fats and wheat products while preserving milk and school child needs. The Food Administration promotes guidance to help housewives conserve food across the country.
Government estimates show over 100000 extra acres planted as war effort boosts potato supply. US Food Administration promotes potatoes as wheat substitutes and shares a tested potato soup recipe using milk onion butter flour salt celery cayenne parsley and barley garnish.
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