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ing of Columbus and extending through 

 to the present day. Instead of soliciting 

 floats to be prepared by the several 

 stores and societies, the committee in 

 charge has arranged that each line of 

 business shall have a representative 

 float, the various merchants pooling 

 their funds for this purpose. All of the 

 floats are being built under the direc- 

 tion of the parade committee, -which 

 assigns the subjects to be represented 

 and takes full responsibility for con- 

 struction. The result expected is a 

 beautifully harmonious spectacle. Only 

 organizations in complete costumes or 

 uniforms will be permitted in this 

 procession. 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 17 



What Your Are Asked to Do 

 for Your Country 



THE men of the Allied Nations are 

 fighting; they are not on the farms. 

 The production of food by these coun- 

 tries has therefore been greatly reduced. 

 Even before the war it was much less 

 than the amount consumed. The differ- 

 ence came from America and a few 

 other countries. Now this difference is 

 greater than ever, and, at the same time, 

 but little food can be brought in from 

 the outside except from America. 



Therefore, our Allies depend on 

 America for food as . they have never 

 depended before, and they ask us for it 

 with a right which they have never had 

 before. For today they are our - com- 

 panions in the great war for democracy 

 and liberty. They are doing the fight- 

 ing, the suffering, and dying — in our 

 war. 



Why we must send more wheat. — 

 England, France, Italy and Belgium, 

 taken together, import in peace time 

 40 per cent of their breadstuffs. But 

 now, with their reduction in harvest, 

 they must import 60 per cent. We must 

 increase our normal export surplus of 

 88,000,000 bushels to 220,000,000 bush- 

 els. It can be done but in one way: by 

 economizing and substituting. The peo- 

 ple of the Allies cannot substitute corn 

 alone for bread, as we can. They are 

 using other cereals added to wheat flour 

 to make war bread, and can thus use up 

 to 25 per cent of corn for wheat. We 

 have plenty of corn to send them, but, 

 except in Italy, whose people normally 

 use it, our Allies have" few cornrnills, 

 and corn meal is not durable enough to 

 be shipped by us in large quantities. 

 Moreover, the Allied peoples do not 

 make their bread at home; it is all 

 made in bakeries, and corn bread can- 

 not be distributed from bakeries. There 

 is but one way: we must reduce our use 

 of wheat. We use now an average of 

 five pounds of wheat flour per person 

 per week. The whole problem can be 

 met if we will substitute one pound of 

 corn or other cereal flour for one pound 

 of wheat flour weekly per person; that 

 is, if we reduce our consumption of 

 wheat flour from five pounds a week to 

 four pounds a week. 



Why we must send more meat. — The 

 food animals of the Allies have de- 

 creased by 33,000,000 head since the 

 war began; thus the source of their 

 meat production is decreasing. At the 

 same time, the needs of their soldiers 



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