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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
8
Food Administrator Hoover blasts profits above prewar levels as unfair to farmers workers and manufacturers. He says no one in the United States has a right to earn more profit than under prewar conditions and calls extortionate gains unnecessary for wartime effort. He accuses the profiteers of venality.
Report discusses German methods of feed security and Lavarian Epeg Supply Office rules. Poultry keepers must deliver to the Government eggs at a quota of 40 eggs per hen with a 4 cent price set for September. The policy aims to explain how German fed states feed their populations when local products fail to reach markets.
John F. Jantzen of Delmeny Sask endorses Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as an exceptional preparation after using it personally and with his family.
Fourth time this year the Food Minister orders general requisition of foodstuffs from consumers and producers. Wheat oats maize potatoes millet and fat are seized except for a sufficient home supply to last until early August. Punishment for hoarders is provided.
The Food Administration calls on residents to conserve perishable foods for future use to cut waste and protect state produce as it ripens. It notes rising corn flour production, warns against pasturing hogs in wheat fields during war, and frames thrift as support for the flag. Quotations from the Philadelphia Record and Mark Twain are cited.
The American Red Cross calls for more than 25 000 nurses to enter Army Navy service before 1919 and to join civilian, military, and public health roles. Married nurses and nonactive nurses are urged to enroll as Home Defense Nurses and assist in local hospitals schools and disasters. Nurses must be 21 to 45, apply through local chapters or the Atlantic Division in New York.
The War Council of the American Red Cross appropriated 54855 dollars to lease equip and maintain a Red Cross hospital in Great Britain for American nurses on leave from France. Head of the Red Cross Commission to Great Britain Mr Endicott called the demand urgent. The facility will hold about fifty five beds.
Atlantic Division directs all chapters to speed up production for winter needs. Women urged to volunteer as 800000 pairs of socks and 185000 sweaters are slated, with substitution and reclamation to conserve wool. National HQ will coordinate wool distribution to avoid duplicate gifts and ensure military needs.
The American Red Cross will build forty Nurses Recreation Houses at cantonments and base hospitals with approval of the Surgeon General. The facilities include a 30 by 75 foot main room, a library, sewing room, laundry, kitchen, balcony for films, and assembly uses. The buildings aim to provide comfort and connect to nurses’ quarters.
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