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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
8
Pastor J. W Priest invites parishioners to resume traditional schedules at 802 Uritiot Avenue. Morning service at 10:00 features "The Bread of God" with Lord's Supper. evening worship at 7:30 features "The Test of the Gospel." St John’s Church hosts Sunday School at 9:00 and Holy Communion at 10:80.
The theatre page notes the Liberty Theatre will host Theda Bara in a new production directed by J Gordon Edwards on Sunday September 1. The story follows a working girl Mary Lynde drawn into artistic schemes and romance, with betrayal and blackmail surrounding the artist Sinclair and a planned revenge.
President E C Warriner of Central State Normal Mt Pleasant and Mrs Frances E Burns Great Commander of the Ladies of the Maccabees will address an equal suffrage meeting in Alma on September 10. The two speakers are described as prominent and the public is urged to attend.
A July 4, 1918 letter from Herbert Hoover to the President outlines U S food shipments to Allied nations during the wartime year. It cites total value at about 61.4 billion dollars and detailed exports of wheat rye and other cereals, noting declines in domestic production and the large voluntary effort of Americans to conserve and ship food to Europe. It highlights the sacrifice of farmers and the public, and praises coordinated Allied food control efforts while stressing national shortages and exports.
Allied directors urged immediate firmness in food saving while noting the present supply is good. They warned the need to plan for future shortfalls and potential supply disruptions, calling for coordinated action and long term strategies.
The federal food board released the text of a joint resolution from the food controllers of the United States France Italy and Great Britain. It calls for rigid economy and waste elimination in food use and distribution while maintaining increased production across allied nations to sustain Europe and North America. It emphasizes conservation to transport food to the front and to build up a reserve against harvest failures and potential large drafts. It warns against judging the food problem by a single year's war and urges preparedness for continuance.
Public guidance from the United States Food Administration urging willing service to feed Allies and sustain the home front. It emphasizes keeping prices steady and distributing food to ensure soldiers and civilians are supported during the war effort.
The text advocates avoiding bread wheat and substituting with milk and eggless meals. It suggests potatoes, kravy ke, cravy, and fruit as breakfast options while noting other cereals with fruit upset the stomach. Quick breads like griddie cakes and malts are acceptable. A test recommends omitting bread whenever used for convenience.
Lt Col John C McCrea’s Flanders Fields poem appears amid a field report of soldiers in Flanders and tributes to fallen troops. The piece includes lines about the torch of courage and justice. Also mentioned is Dr M Murty of the Indiana State Board of Health praising the wheatless food policy.
The piece urges total public backing for the war effort, stressing unity under democracy, steadfast morale for troops, and the belief that victory hinges on collective American action. It frames food as powder for war and calls for unwavering support to defeat the war lord and secure final victory.
A wartime report notes the reply to Allied requests that every grain of wheat our ports can handle be allocated for human consumption. It mentions a special department of the Fond Administration tasked with preserving this edible fraction amid threshing and wartime shortages.
War time guidance outlines cottage cheese as a valuable, underused dairy product made from skim milk. It suggests serving uncooked cheeses in lunches or suppers and offers menus and dishes from scrambled eggs to cream sauces, aiming to reduce meat use and stretch diets with practical, period-appropriate preparations.
President Wilbur of Stanford denounces profiteering during wartime urging a new medium of exchange and pledging that tuition relief and fees must reflect sacrifice. He condemns those who profit from the blood shed of soldiers and calls for national unity and fairness in wartime economics.
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