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Newspaper
Swarthmore News
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
3
From our correspondents from our correspondents says names and addresses must be signed to all letters sent for publication. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters. The publication of a letter is not to be taken as an endorsement by the News, which invites the freest discussion of general interest.
In Swarthmore readers praise loyal Toerman and Austrian families amid war strain. The piece laments loss of Town Meeting and Union Community Thanksgiving Service, fearing professional politicians replace neighborly talks and shared blessings. The poem hints at war grief and patriotic resolve.
Fragmentary verse imagines extending the Kaiser’s life while he endures Belgian tears and a surreal banquet of silken comforts. It juxtaposes luxury with a cursed immortality and a scoured feast. The text preserves its provocative political edge through vivid imagery.
An editorial urges fostering thrift in children as a moral and practical habit. It highlights economy as art, simple living for healthier bodies and stronger minds, and suggests using the story The Birthday Cake to teach food economy with a plan children can apply in home sacrifice.
A quoted speaker contends that choosing Washington as the Peace Conference site could have averted much trouble. The Capitol is described as the ideal location, and the speaker laments that it might have been.
National themes influence local meetings as Swarthmoreans plan a Thursday night gathering to discuss food sing and share a communal time with the Community War Council.
Barbara plans a rich birthday cake but shares what she can with others. On her day she visits Timothy and Granny Blake, delivering milk eggs and sugar, then returns home to find a candlelit surprise and a pink ribbon gift.
The Swarthmore News invites orders for job printing and offers to provide estimates before you place orders elsewhere.
Peanut butter is a wholesome food with high value, higher than round steak for its weight. The recipe for Tomato and Peanut Soup uses 1% cups seeded tomatoes, 2 cups peanut butter, salt, paprika, and water, simmered ten minutes and served with croutons.
A meeting is set for December 12 at the Woman's Club in Swarthmore to discuss food conservation urged by Mr. Heinz and supported by Mrs. Wm. Plumer Potter. The appeal emphasizes aiding the Food Administration and Hoover's message about saving food to prevent world suffering and chaos.
Howard Heinz, Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, urges local groups to hold a December 4 program in all women’s organizations to highlight world relief during conservation week. The appeal cites Mr Hoover and national presidents of major women’s groups and asks that a meeting be arranged to press relief efforts.
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