The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 8, 1918, Page 15

7 %, 2 r/////, 23 R ”#//,/ // 9 / / From Woman Who Values the League | Sunshine Brightest the Day the Organizer Called, She Says, and She Reads e /’4 // V// the Leader Twice to Be Sure the Good News Is True OMEN throughout the West are ral- lying to the sup- port of the Non- partisan league as they did to the Farmers’ alliance - and the Grange in the early days, and in those states where women vote equally with the men, their support means a big factor weighing towards success. . Another interesting letter from a woman League champion, and from one of these women-voting . states, has just reached the Leader office. It is from Idaho, where the farmers are- going ahead as though no such thing as defeat could possibly meet the great farmers’ movement in that state. i Mrs. Lulu ' Miller of Kimberly, Idaho, was the first member of her. family to get acquainted with the Nonpartisan league. and in writing of it she shows that she understands the fight against it, and understands what its success will mean. She writes: “As I am much interested in this farmers’ movement that means so much and gives us hope that at last we have started the only organization that will give every one a square deal, -1 am, gomg to write you a letter. It seemed as though the sun never shone so bright as on that day when the organizer ‘left a Nonpartisan Leader at our house. The ‘men folks’ were not at home,-and after reading the paper through twice (I think I read _ it twice to be sure that such a move- ment ‘was at last started) 1 began to~ “ ‘want the men to look up the organizer for fear we would not get a chance to have him explain this thing, where farmers were. actually getting back— bone to. demand their rights. DIDN'T NEED TO WORRY; ORGANIZER WAS BUSY “But after getting acquamted with Mr. Arthur Thomas, the organizer, I - could have saved the worry, I-discov- ered, for he never missed one in the country he canvassed. -All our neigh- bors far and near joined, except three or four knotheads wheo thought $16 was too much to put into a farmers’ organization, and anywsy, this was not the time to organize. "~ “Ah, how blind! If we only had what was stolen from us during just -the Iast year because' farmers were not organized, how many more farm- ers could buy Liberty bonds who are i now only able “to buy war stamps! "There is not a more patriotic people _than the farmers. They have: given “their all, and are willing to sacrificé - ' more for our soldier boys, but not one cent for big business, and these fel- - Jows see it, Thot is why the farmers et must stick. 2 '~ SHE UNDERSTANDS IOWA’S ;‘_ANTI-FARMER FIGHT - Mrs.” Miller™ came ‘from Towa, the he most vicious organization “fighting the Nonpartisan league, and she. knows why the Greater Iowa‘assoclatlon is orgamzed the being stirred up by the Greater Towa association. Again she says: “The business men have held a meeting at Eagle Grove to instruct the farmers on this Nonpartisan or- ganization. The farmers of Wright county. know it is not the $16 they are ‘losing’ that makes the business men worry, but the fact that they won't get the thousands they have- been getting in the past when the farmers are ' organized to protect themselves fully. Eagle Grove is a railroad town. Railroad men and Here is an art drawing sent out by the food ad- ministration, illustrative of the way the women may help Uncle Sam by using up the big surplus .crop of potatoes mow. Uncle Sam is whispering this bit of news to her, but it will not take two whispers, for the farm women are “Hooverizing” with all sorts of economies, and they will not throw away the potato crop. farmers have built many fine up-to- ' date houses for the business men. But what have they got in organiza- tion that will help the farmer and railroad and labor men? “Our enemies say that Mr. Townley went through bankruptcy. How many good men have had to give up farm- ing? But Mr. Townley did not give up. He knew why he went through bankruptey, and is trying to remove the cause. How many farmers’ wives have tried to keep up the store blll by raising poultry to be offered six cents a pound for nice fat young hens which were sold at the same time for 25 cents per pound—and were cheated on the weight-besides ?” Mrs. Miller then lays stress on the economics of the farmers’ move- ment, a feature that the League’s enemies have refused to acknowledge, while they have con- cocted all sorts of coun- ter charges to keep peo- ple from seeing what the League movement is. It is these economic facts that farmers find staring them in the face at every turn, and that are brush- ed aside by the enemies of organized-agriculture, which are -swelling the ranks of the League and enlisting’' the women who have the hardest of all the economic burdens to bear. Mrs. Miller refers to facts that every farm- er’'s wife understands, when she says further along in her letter: “I have sold strawber- ries at $1 for a 24-box crate as well as 25-cent chickens at six cents per pound. Once I put a note.. in one box of the straw- berries, asking the per- Let Potatoes Save the Wheat A Hint From the Food Administration Showing That Now Will be found extremely nice. * While the Meat Ban Has Been Lifted Is a Good Time to Use Potatoes HE best thing we can of- fer to the public to help the . country save. “the- of a New Orleans dealer. It is ‘a2 good “ad” and mterprets to- day’s ‘needs. ° : By the Food Administration . wheat is Idaho potatoes,” so runs an advertisement Potatoes are umversally hked. There is stxll a large supply on hand - - that' must. be- used or go to waste. Now is;the time to.use them ‘while the is" ordered. . The suggestion is good. bers. . If you eat two baked potatoes you ban on meat is lifted for a while. ‘Back up ‘savory stews with ample servings of potatoes and cut down on read. i acceptable substi : % - perishable potato as ‘a wheat and a8 ‘a bread substitute.” In the present food crisis all cereals ; are precious; they will keep and the potatoes won’t. ~As an emergency son who .bought it to let me know what -was paid. The berries were shipped 75 miles and I received a let- ter telling me that the person paid $3.560 for that same crate for which I got $1. There is an electric line running by our farm. We could have our home furnished with electric heat at very little cost, but big business controls the line and we can not get the service. “The farmers are well organized al- ready. We never gave a thought to the $16 we paid to the organizer. We were thinking of saving a few thou- sand and I hope every farmer will look at it the same way. Even if some don’t see it in their own time, their children will have the pleasure of knowing what this great movement is, and many will thank those of today for helping in the organization.” POTATO BISCUIT—TWO RECIPES For potato biscuit, a form of bread that will be relished, take: 1 cup mashed potato, 1 cup flour, 4 tea- spoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons fat, % cup water or milk (about). Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; work in the fat with fork or knife; add the potato and mix thor- oughly; then add enough liquid to make a soft dough; roll the dough lightly to about %2 inch in thickness; cut into biscuits and bake 12 to 15 minutes in a hot oven. Another good recipe is this: Boil and mash six or eight potatoes; while warm lay on a floured pastry-board and run the rolling pin over and over them until they are free from lumps; turn them into a bowl, wet with a cup of sweet milk and add a teaspoon of melted fat; when well mixed work in half a cup of salted flour, or just enough to make a soft dough; return to the board, roll out quickly and lightly into a thin sheet, and cut into round cakes; bake in a quick oven; - butter as soon as they are done, lay- ing one on top of the other in a pile. Eat before they fall. : The excellence of potato bisc © de- pends very greatly upon the sottness of the dough, light handling, and quick baking. If properly made, they THE LITTLE RED CROSS HEN A plan of raising money for the Red Cross among the farmers, by in- ducing each farm family to set a hen and devote the chickens produced to' the benefit of the Red Cross, comes * from Walter J. Fairbanks of James- town, N. Y. Last year he induced 50 measure increase the use of potatoes. / farmers and their wives to"join in a Serve - potatoes boiled in jacket, creamed, hash-browned, and don’t forget the baked potato. The family will eat well cooked potatoes instead of bread. In some of the London hotels, potatoes are served with. meat - without additional 'cost, if no. bread - ‘will not eat much’ bread. rice ‘and hominy ‘the depe dables as a substitute . for - bread :in ‘the “less y program that must be rigor- il harve: movement of that kind. The result was 229 chickens which produced that “‘much extra food for the people and $175 for the Red Cross. “This year,” Mr. Fairbanks wntes, “my own endeavor will be to increase the output at least six times in num- I shall make $1,000 our goal " thig year. I intend to get 300 Red Cross flags and na:l one on every Housekeepers will find - potatoes, ~house where there is a Red Cross hen sitting,”. The plan has the indorse- : ment of the poultry experts of the food admlmstratmn. B DDy e e Tower L i ] e i TOwIR N TR~ o i ~ A B T O R P R I FE T WY R EVRR AR TSR T T o