HOME AND EDUCATION

...but oatmeal cannot be used instead of milk...

...IT IS this great fact, that war must be banished if civilization is to endure, that the victory of this war shall be the end of all war, which turns the darkness of 1917 into the light of a new and better day...

...2. DO YOU KNOW CORN MEAL...

...Such glory may be still too good to be true...

...No people in modern times has produced such literature and music as these Russians...

...If they do as well as our fathers did, in a period not of months but of years, they will be doing well...

...What right have we to demand, what has never yet been accomplished in the history of mankind, the successful organization of a great people, suddenly emancipated from tyranny, in a period of half a year...

...Its destructiveness is beyond all control...

...Fruit and vegetables furnish some of the material from which the body is made and keep its many parts working smoothly...

...It will be conceded by us all, I imagine, that nobody anticipated, when this war began, that it would last so long or cost so much...

...The program has so evidently been determined from the man's point of view, —the commercial result of so many wheatless and so many meatless days, overlooking the many problems which such radical changes in diet bring to the housewife...

...Carrots may be omitted...

...It gives me genuine satisfaction to note that the United States Department of Agriculture has issued a series of leaflets on food preparation and conservation that are based on the sound principles of sufficient and wholesome nourishment for the family...

...These foods act as fuel to let you do your work, much as the gasoline burning in an automobile engine makes the car go...

...4. MAKE A LITTLE MEAT GO A LONG WAY...

...The prospect could not have been brighter...

...This leaflet tells how to make the exchange in a way the family will like...

...When the French people took matters into their own hands in 1789, the people of England went wild with enthusiasm...

...3. Cereals, Corn Meal, Oatmeal, Rice, Bread, etc...

...They are valuable food, but many people eat more of them than they need...

...I refer to what I would call the breakdown of war as a method of settling disputes between nations...

...Its cost surpasses all estimate...

...Tried in the fire as silver is tried, they have come forth a people cleansed in hope, redeemed for the pntient toil that must still be done...

...They cannot longer exist together in the same world...

...All this is the veriest surmise, of course...

...Half the fun of cooking is in trying new things...

...Rabbit, fowl, or any meat may be used instead of the fish, or tomatoes instead of milk...

...add 1 teaspoon of salt and 2 cups of hominy which has been soaked overnight...

...Heat 1% quarts of water to boiling...

...Put pork, onions, carrots, and potatoes in kettle and cover with boiling water...

...Each is enough for the whole dinr.er for a family of five...

...Each group serves a special purpose in nourishing your body...

...Let the North try the Southern corn bread and the South the oatmeal of the North...

...Serve hot...

...T. FOOD FOR YOUR CHILDREN...

...The dinner helps you to do your part for our country...

...Especially is this true in the higher fields of moral and spiritual life...

...My faith in the wonder A t) e great movement is absol- tely unshaken, in spite of all follies and disasters, for a variety of reasons...

...Try the One-Dish Dinner...

...Then you will have ail the five kinds of food your body needs...

...Recall, if you will, the chronology of the French Revolution...

...The Allies on their part had no such hopes in the beginning as the Germans...

...Cut pork in small pieces and fry with the chopped onions for 5 minutes...

...Melt the fat, stir in the flour, add the «;oId milk, and mix well...

...Savory stews and meat pies require only a little meat for an excellent dish...

...Give it to them in plenty of whole milk or in butter...

...Mix three tablespoons of flour with onehalf cup of the cold milk and stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken...

...This recipe may be increased and enough cooked in different ways for several meals...

...What is this, I ask you, but the accomplishment of the very thing we say we are after...

...and while we are not ready as yet to regard the Russians as enemies, we have long since ceased to think of them as friends...

...They help prevent constipation which gives you headaches and makes you stupid...

...NOW ALL THIS has brought about certain very definite results...

...Cook until the fish is tender, about ten minutes...

...The Government asks us to save wheat to send abroad to our soldiers and the allies...

...Buy at least a pint a day for every member of your family...

...but it fits in strangely well with the Christian teachings of a man named Tolstoi, and justifies us at least in asserting that there is an experiment being tried here, which is not necessarily doomed to failure...

...Delight was only increased by the burning of the Bastile in July, and the abolition of class privileges in August...

...For three years and four months, Germany has been fighting unremittingly...

...Present military advantage, for whatever it may be worth, is undoubtedly lost, but the spiritual gain of both the present and the future !3 incalculable...

...We have at least witnessed the ironic spectacle of this hopeless and helpless government at Petrograd extorting from the Central Empires the only concrete terms of peace which have appeared from that source since the opening of the war...

...IV% pounds fish (fresh, salt, or canned), ' 9 potatoes, peeled and cut in small pieces, 1 onion, sliced, 2 cups carrots cut in pieces, % pound salt pork, 8 cups milk, Pepper, 8 tablespoons flour...

...I listen and shall listen to the end, for that "mystic Trunk* peter" of Whitman sounding no longer "war** wild alarums," bat "a higher strain than urj> yet" O glad, exalting, culminating songt Hymns to the universal God from universal man—all joy...

...I realize that it is unpopular these days to wax enthusiastic over this vast overturn of the Romanoffs...

...In vhe first place, the Allied governments are talking much more moderately today than in the beginning of the struggb, and men are constantly appearing, like Dr...

...Don't let your butcher keep the trimmings from your meat...

...But look at the reality...

...But her enemies still stand in their arms against her, and victory is as far away as ever...

...Attractive dishes that make a nutritions meal and an inexpensive and time saving one...

...Economic and industrial conditions have remained absolutely autocratic, with the fatal result of "a house divided against itself...

...thawl offensives have been carried through at vast expense of men and ammunition, and then in every case have been halted or have broken down...

...At the same time the diet is simple and appetizing...

...Many foods can take the place of meat...

...The drift of public sentiment in regard to this Russian Revolution is following exactly the same course today as the drift of public sentiment in regard to the French Revolution a century and a quarter ago...

...Children need some butterfat...

...Only one dish to cook, few plates to wash, steps saved...

...Many ways of cooking it, all of them good...

...If now we add to these facts the further fact that war must today be indefinitely prolonged if victory is to be achieved by the stronger over the weaker side, the conclusion is inevitable...

...ONE OTHER THING, hardly to be described as an event, and yet destined to be regarded perhaps as the most significant fact of this one enormous year, I must mention, at least briefly, for your final mediation...

...2. Milk, Eggs, Fish, Meat, Cheese, Beans, Peas, Peanuts...

...It contains all their bodies need to help them work and grow strong...

...A WHOLE DINNER IN ONE DISH Everybody Will Like the One-Dish Dinner—Why...

...Then succeeded six long years of disorganization, confusion, lawlessness, with no central government of any kind to hold together the thirteen separate colonies...

...This aspect of the matter I would not ignore nor underestimate...

...And shall we not get the price back again in the end...

...It was on the 14th of July, 1789, that the Mob of Faris captured and burned the Bastile...

...I refer, of course, to the Russian Revolution, which I believe to be the greatest event of modern times...

...6. DO YOU KNOW OATMEAL...

...Then, in^Russia, as earlier in France, we began to discover that these people were different people from what we had imagined...

...These dishes supply all five kinds of food...

...Don't skimp any...

...What is going on in the German government is indicted by the peace terms submitted to the Russians on December 27—terms which would have been unthinkable from such a source two years, or even one year, ago...

...Use both oatmeal and milk...

...She has been triumphant on nearly every field, and now occupies thousands of square miles of conquered territory...

...Those of us who disbelieve are moved by the unfortunate relation of the whole stupendous event to the military fortunes of the Allies...

...Especially has this year 1917 been to both sides, from the military point ef view at least, a year of bitter disappointment...

...6. Fats—Butter, Margarine, Cottonseed Oil, Olive Oil, Drippings, Suet You can exchange one food for another in the same group...

...They realized that they had a long, hard fight ahead, and set themselves grimly to the performance of a terrifie task...

...Lastly, and most important, this fact of an unfinished war is convincing people of all classes, of all countries, of all varieties of opinion, that war has become impossible/ in modern times...

...It was more than three years later, in September, 1792, that the Revolutionary armies met the invaders of republican France on the field of Valmy...

...Our soldiers and the Allies need them more than we do...

...Here are the reasons why you need the five groups...

...Eat them with bread and with fruit or jam for dessert...

...Cut the potatoes and carrots in dice, mix all the materials in a baking dish, and bake for one hour...

...They belong to you...

...One or the other must go, and the choice between the two cannot be difficult...

...For example, oatmeal may be used instead of wheat, and eggs, or sometimes beans, instead of meat...

...But they are facing .them as an essential part of the social problem, and are thus at least well started on the way toward the establishment of the first real democracy the world has ever seen...

...Now all this to my mind is inexcusable...

...We are expecting the Russians, in other words, to accomplish in six months, under the most unfavorable conditions, what it took the French almost as many years to accomplish...

...Good, nourishing food — you can feel sure that you are feeding your family right if you give them this dinner...

...Mankind, for all its woes, may not yet have learned the lesson...

...To have accomplished the Revolution is in itself a sufficient guarantee of what they are...

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...All the democracies which the world has seen thus far, have been exclusively political democracies...

...Milks, eggs, fish, meat, peas, beans.—These help build up the growing body and renew used-up parts...

...Cook until it thickens...

...Or take the chronology of our own American Revolution...

...This makes five cups...

...Not until 1789 was the constitutional convention assembled in Philadelphia, and national sovereignty at last established...

...No other food can take its place for children...

...Here is one combination...

...Remember that expensive fats are no better fuel than cheap ones...

...Steadily, therefore, ffiring the past six months, our enthusiasm has been cooling, off...

...In telling the tale of this unhappy period of our history, John Fiske entitles one of his chapters, "Drifting Toward Anarchy," and the story of disorder which he there narrates, is one which we find it most convenient to forget...

...8. INSTEAD OF MEAT...

...Why such terms should be offered to such an enemy, unless Germany, in the present condition of her people, has quite as much to fear from revolutionary agitation in the east as from military offensives in the west, I cannot imagine...

...FISH CHOWDER...

...The embarrassment of the Germans on the eastern borders is quite as apparent to my mind as the military weakness of the Bol-sheviki...

...The fighting ended with the victory of Yorktown in the fall of 1781...

...AGAIN, I HAVE FAITH in the Russian • Revolution, because I have faith in the Russian people...

...It may stand forever in men's minds as the last year when man met man in battle...

...Vast offensives hav« bee» projected, by the Germans in Italy, fW example, and by the English at Cambral...

...Home and Education Conducted By BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Rely More On Women THERE HAS ALWAYS been a notion in the back of my head that Uncle Sam would be better off and able to do a better job, especially in the management of the domestic affairs of the nation, if he relied more largely on the wisdom and judgment of women...

...in freedom, worship, love, Jay the eestaey af Ufa...

...It was exactly five years later, in July, 1794, that Robespierre was guillotined, and the Reign of terror brought to an end...

...Each enough for a family of five...

...8. A WHOLE DINNER IN ONE DISH...

...A dish hot and savory—good for work or play—that is why the father and the children will like it...

...Everywhere the operations of this year seem to bring confirmation of the thesis of the great expert, M. do Bloch, that the defense in modern warfare has been strengthened so vastly at the expense of the offense, that military victory is rendered so difficult as to be almost impossible...

...At first, everybody was overjoyed by the overthrow of the Czar and the triumph of the people...

...Today, however, the three years are gone, and more than gone, but still the overthrow ef Germany has not been achieved...

...Secondly, I have faith in the Russian situation, because the Revolution is a fundamental thing...

...This conviction has grown upon me in observing the practical workings of the business of food control...

...Her armies were to take Paris in six weeks and thus destroy France, turn swiftly to the east and conquer Russia, then battle with England at their leisure...

...reborn rata appears a perfect world— Joy...

...They furnish the standard of food for growth and nourishment and sound health and indirectly they teach the waste and the wr> ig of superfluous eating...

...And lastly, may I say that I have confidence in the Russian Revolution, because I am not at all sure that the Russians have not got hold of the right psychology even for the present situation...

...POTTED HOMINY AND BEEF Hominy is excellent to use as a part of a one-dish dinner, if you have a fire in your stove so that you can cook it for a long time, or use a tireless cooker...

...Don't think that wheat bread is the only kind of cereal food...

...It is a simple matter to give them what they need but a very important one...

...War and civilization, in other words, have become an impossible combination...

...In the second place, the undecisive character of the war is stirring up a degree of popular discontent that is a source of very genuine alarm in all belligerent countries...

...Cook until vegetables are tender...

...But the longest time set for this task was Lord Kitchener's three years, and this distinguished soldier was almost alone in making such a forecast...

...We are seeking a free world, let us remember, and here, in the twinkling of an eye, is a great nation of 150,000,000 people, enslaved for ages, suddenly free...

...and secondly, in the light of those ultimate destinies of hunmanity, to which we are told the operations of this Great War are all the time directed...

...Easy to cook and to serve—that is one reason why you will like it...

...A good breakfast—what you need and how to cook it...

...6 for the recipe...

...Yon can save wheat and meat to ship abroad...

...The Breakdown of War (.From the same address...

...It enlists every man and every dollar in its support...

...An oatmeal pudding is delicious...

...6 cups cooked hominy, 4 potatoes, 2 cups carrots, 1 teaspoon salt, Y* pound dried beef, 2 cups milk, 2 tablespoons fat, 2 tablespoons flour...

...It is very good cooked in many different ways...

...They had ideas which we could not accept, and were doing things with their country which seemed highly reprehensible from our viewpoint if not their own...

...Save on meat if you must, but dont skimp on milk...

...IN THE first place, I believe that we must give the Revolution time to do its work...

...Nothing is settled by such a method save death, destruction, and endless misery...

...I believe, therefore, in Russia and the Revolution...

...The kinds you choose depend upon the season, but remember that the cheaper ones are often as valuable as the more expensive...

...Add the rest of the milk and the fish which has been removed from the bone and cut in small pieces...

...And they are usually your cheapest fueL Besides, they give your body some building material...

...That is their main business...

...Now the wonderful thing about the Russian Revolution is that it is economic as well as political...

...They are scientific in that they teach the value and the necessity of the balanced ration...

...Cereals.—Bread and breakfast food...

...No people has kept so close to the springs of mystic experience, and drunk so deep of their living waters of the spirit Especially has no people so suffered and striven and sacrificed for freedom...

...But I must insist, on the other hand, that this question be judged first of all in the light of the former anomalous situation of an alliance of democratic nations in a democratic cause with the government of the Czar...

...Two years later, in 1783, came the treaty cf peace between England and America...

...You can omit salt pork and use a tablespoon of other fat...

...That they will be able to answer all of these questions today, or even tomorrow, is of course impossible...

...So with the Russian Revolution...

...No race in the world is possessed of finer qualities of genius...

...Dried peas and beans make good dishes to use in place of meat part of the time, but don't leave out the other foods entirely...

...Sugar and Sirups are fuel, too, and they give flavor to other foods...

...Revolution is nowhere impossible at the present time...

...Cook in a double boiler for four hours or in the fire-less cooker overnight...

...No people has dreamed such dreams of the new and better day of brotherhood...

...Milk is the most important...

...The Russians have gone to the bottom of the problem of democracy, and are dealing not merely with the question of political institutions, but with the questions of land, of industrial employment, of public ownership, and so on...

...It is well for us to be patient with the Russians...

...1. Vegetable and fruits...

...Eliot in our country, and Lord Lansdowne in England, to urge the possibilities of a negotiated peace...

...The Russian Revolution (From a sermon preached by John Haynes Holmes at the Church of the Messiah, New York, December 30, 1917, publ:shed in full in Unity, January 17, 1918...

...And can we expect to have this thing without its price...

...Hominy is excellent combined with dried, canned, or fresh fish, or meat and vegetable left-overs may be used...

...This you can think of as their chief business...

...Sweet fruits, of course, contain much sugar and are better for the children than candy...

...It was in Germany that the hopes of swift and complete victory in 1914 were soaring highest...

...Uelow are the chief contents of leaflets 3 and 4. CHOOSE YOUR FOOD WISELY Every food you eat may be put into one of these groups...

...Any one can obtain a set of these leaflets by writing the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. They are entitled: X. START THE DAY RIGHT...

...This year may mark the turning point of history...

...Ton should choose some food from each group daily...

...War has simply broken down as a method of settling disputes between nations...

...Use drippings...

...War, sorrow, suffering gone—the rank earth purged—nothing bat jay left...

...We are blind leaders of the blind, indeed, if we cannot see what is going on in Russia, and have confidence in the ultimate outcome...

...As the Revolution, however, marched on, and came more and more into the hands of what was called the mob, sentiment across the channel began visibly to change, and it was not long before England was not only opposing the Revolutionists, but actually taking up arms against them...

...You need some food from each group every day...

...Eat is fuel—Some is needed especially by hard-working people...

...But I at least shall dare to hope...

...4. Sugar, Sirups, Jelly, Honey, etc...

...The Germans have to all appearances given up hope of winning a military victory and the best soldiers of the Allies are talking of a victory achieved only after a period of from three to a dozen years...

...ATHIRD HAPPENING of 1917, and this the most important of all, still remains to be spoken of...

...These Russians will not fail, we may be sure...