j- *&•?*& -v W 1-*- WWIUnilCAL FALLS AOS TWO V3 ROYAL SUGAR CONTROL In the Ranks. SAVEDMILUONS Frances American Consumer Profited b) A Famous Novel in a $180,000,000—French Situation Helped. Great Photo Drama HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS, Nation's This Sugar Supply Reducec Per Cent.' Normal. ItexBeadKg to Seventy of 3 DAYS3 Great Alaskan Java Stocks Unavailable. StooryinRmefia Photo-Play Tues.Wei.Tkr. Sugar control has saved the American WimM public $180,000,000, Herbert Hoover, r.ex United States food administrator, MACH declared the other day. He pointed out that sugar was sell lng for 11 cents a pound last August and that it would have advanced to 2C cents a pound, with the world shortage Feb. 5,6 and 7 as a stimulus, had not the food administration secured the co-operation of tiie refiners and wholesalers py dar.dont kill him twice! and fixed a sugar price that today enables MiicuJnewr twkdat homnoiwanbefat! housewives to buy sugar at from 8% to 9 cents a pound. "Every 1 cent raise In sugar from September 1 to January 1 means $18,000,000 PROJECTION. SPECIAL MUSIC. to the American consumer," As we have just installed a new projection machine A Unique feature of "The Barrier" which will -Jklr. Hoover said. "Numbers of gentlemen all pictures are now shown from beginning appeal strongly to musical people is the extremely will tell you that 20 cent sugar (Copyright by L»If® Pub. Co.) to end with no stops (changing of reels) to break beautiful and appropriate music written especially Courtesy of Life and Charles Dana Gibson. would have prevailed and the public the interest. This is a big improvement. for the picture. robbed of $180,000,000 this year if we can be shipped—those that pack The American House Manager is had not taken tjiese actions." Later the most food value into ths smallest today a member of the army that Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact is fighting to save democracy in shipping space. These foods A Remarkably Faithful Adaptation of Rex Beach's Alaskan Story that uncontrolled sugar advanced to the world. More than 11,000,000 are wheat, meat, fats, sugar. We 35 cents a pound during the Civil War. managers of American homes cannot eat them and send them have enlisted for the duration of too. We cannot eat them and France Got Our 8ugar. A VIRILE AND VIVID PORTRAYAL OF REX the war and pledged themselves to send others. We must send these Today the American public has been BEACH'S GREATEST NOVEL. support the fighting men by the foods, and in order to do that we allotted 70 per cent, of its normal supply. way they buy, cook and serve food. must eat other foods ourselves. In this fascinating epic of Alaskan life during Before the war the average annual Food will win the war, and these The American House Manager household consumption here was the gold rush, you see unfolded the story of a great women will help to win it. America will see to it that no food comes I- 55 pounds a person. In England the love crossed by the sinister "barrier" of race anc'i must send food to Europe. into her home that does not do its annual consumption during the war is blood—a tense, thrilling story of primitive passions The armies cannot hold out if we full duty under her management 24 pounds, and in France each person and emotions. Nothing like it has heretofore been fail to send it. Only certain foods in winning the war. is allotted a little over one pound a seen in motion pictures—it makes a new epoch and month. sets a new standard. BIG HERDS GONE males if not needed to replenish their "In August the French government herds rather than go to the expense of found itself unable to maintain even The fight between two gigantic men maturing them into veal. The high this ration," Mr. Hoover declared. is a struggle that surpasses all limits in prices of meat caused the virtual discontinuance "An appeal was made to America. fierceness, and ferocity and will send the of this killing. Another France needed 100,000 tons. We red blood coursing through your veins. World War "Wastes Europe's encouraging fact is 75 per cent of agreed to fill this demand and up to calves killed for veal this year were December had shipped 85,426 tons. In is a character that will be "Poleon Meat Supply. males. the meantime an appeal was made to numbered among the American public to reduce its sugar Somebody has very aptly said that ideals for life. consumption, and requests were the wars of the world have been won American Stock Raisers Co-operate .To see this great made to distributors to supply the with grease, meaning that bacon and confectionary and sweet drinks trade picture is to see With Food Administration in Conservation lard have been as essential to success with 50 per cent, of normal supply. in war as powder, which is true. limit of realism Measures. the This has been generally followed, although and romance. The hogs of Europe have been very such regulations were voluntary, greatly sacrificed to present day needs. as the food administration had It is probable that Europe for many This makes the American burden all no authority to impose them." ears after the war will look to a the more heavy and makes doubly essential 'BIGGER AND BET­ Domestic Price is 8y2 to 9 Cents. an increased pork production jreat extent to "America for its meat Retail grocers throughout the country in this nation. In Italy grain is now TER THAN THE supply. are supposed to take a profit of no forbidden to be fed to hogs. In Denmark Europe's herds are dwindling under SPOILERS" more than 50 cents a hundred—half a under a recent order one-fourth svar's demands faster than they can be cent a pound—on sugar. By reason of of the hogs were ordered to be killed. food administration regulations, binding replenished. It is estimated that one-half have now refiners and wholesalers, the retailer been killed. A Picture True to Type and of Great Power When the German armies retired Is able today to buy sugar at from occupied portions of France and from 8 to 8% cents a pound. This Belgium approximately 1,800,000 head WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD. enables him to sell to the housewife at marks a new epoch and sets a new Rex Beach's "Spoilers" was the most popular picture "The Barrier 5f cattle were appropriated. This addition 8% to 9 cents a pound. a picture for all types, all ages, all play which ever appeared in Canada or the United standard. It is virtually safeguarded Germany There have been some violations of The 1917 wheat crop in France was 'moviefann" States, and "The Barrier" will surpass it in almost classes of people...It gives the confirmed the sugar rulings. Mr. Hoover said from cattle shortage other nations now less than half normal, tiding the crop a new idea of the possibilities of motion pictures. It every way. It strikes to the roots of all emotions in a recently: "Sales of sugar from 16 to luffer. of 1913 as a basis of comparison. moves, thrills and facinates those to whom the ordinary bold, original manner and the response of the spectator 20 cents per pound have been reported There was a shortage of 176,000,000 In England some 2,400,000 acres of is instantaneous. picture has no appeal. and followed up vigorously and stopped bushels, or 53.S per cent The potato grass lands have by compulsory measures and is evidence itself of the prices crop was only within one-third of normal. been forced Into grain production, at which consumers would have been The sugar beet crop showed a, thus reducing pasturage and hay lands. mulct had we not Intervened. We have deficit of 67.9 per cent. Her meat* A declining scale of maximum meat forfeited wholesalers' licenses in aggravated herds In the early fall showed a shortage prices for live cattle was ordained in cases, and we have issued of 1,800,000 animals. England, as follows: For September, warnings to first offenders in a great Those are' a few of the reasons 117.76 per hundred pounds October, many Instances through our local admlnlstrators." America must feed her associates in $17.28 ^November and December, the war. They are no longer able to N $16.08, and for January, $14.40. *The feed themselves, and unless we come Effect on Military SituatiMi. evident intent of this measure was to to the rescue are face to face with American sugar stocks could be filled drive the beef animals into market as starvation. And starvation means defeat to normal very soon if ships could soon as possible. in the war. be sent to Java, where 250,000 tons of According to official French figures, sugar is waiting for shipment But HASTENED RUSSIAN COLLAPSE the cattle of France have decreased to the shipping situation Is so acute that a total of 12,341,900 as compared with the pation cannot spare the eleven 14,807,000 In 1918. Today, due to lack "We must not overlook the fact that ships needed to transport this sugar. of forage principally, France Is producing Russia collapsed, not because of the It would take the boats one year to only one gallon of milk where Germans on her borders, but because haul 250,000 tons. In the same time before the war two and one-half gallons she failed to organize and feed her they could be used for transporting were produced. own citizenship," the food administration 200,000 soldiers to France. Meantime the United States food administration announced The food. administration ^believes "We must be warned that if we are to has taken steps to conserve-our that the American public will 'diminish emerge victorious from this war we cannot flocks and herds and to increase 'its sugar consumption by 10 or 15 per risk the collapse of another of our their numbers. The stock breeders cent when it is made clear that such associates in this war from this cause. of this country show a disposition sugar saving is a patriotic act and "Anybody that is looking for the collapse to co-operate with the government in when It is understood that there are of the German people en the food thla. plenty of sweeteners available to take question had better turn around and the place of sugar, such as honey or For many years It has been a practice look at the moon, because the results corn syrup. among many of the dairy people will be the same. Germany is to no of this country to kill male calves at Why Shortage Exists. more danger of collapsing on ttuity birth and in many instances the fe­ The three great sugar producing centers score than we are, if as much." Of the world are Germany, the West and East Indies. German sugar is, c^f course, used at home. The East Indian sugar is unavailable because of. the ship shortage. While boats made big inroads on the world's shipping, France and Italy ceased to be self sustaining in sugar manufacture. England in the meantime was cut-off from German sugar— 1,400,000 tons a year—because of the war. The Vesult has been that the allied nations have been forced to turn to America and the West Indies for their sugar. RIGID FOOt) CONTROL Pood Is Bought in Germany 8urreptltiously in Violation of Autocratic Rulings. Even the autocratic food control of You Must See It! You Cannot Afford To Niss It! Germany has been powerless to prevent surreptitious sales, according to semi-official reports reaching the United States food administration. Illegal sales of butter are being made in Germany Time Table Prices at prices ranging from $1.75 to $2.25 a pound. Eggs sold contrary to the German food regulations are Evenings, Doors Open 6:45 p. m. Evenings bringing 10 to 15 cents apiece, according First Show, 7 p. m. Last Show, 9 p. m. to, these reports. Aqd bacon or Adults, 35 Cents. t. bam Matinee Tuesday, February 5th at 2 and 4 p. m. bringing from $2.25 to $&25 Cl»adUr«iai 15 Come at the starting time if possible. tZkJS ''^-^Tuesday Matinee, 25 and 10 Cento. & 'M-':