Evening star., 1916-10-15

made to induce the legislature to enact
q law covering not only the taking Of
Zee Tor job, but also other forms
Of grating on the part Of foremen in
industrial establishments. 1t Its more
than likely that the same kind of in
Eestigations will be carried on from
time to time in the different states.
owing to the success which was OBJ
tafned in this first one.
The War Department is making
in accordance With laws
Recruitinp enacted at the last ses-
H. A. sion of Congress, and
NY. some novel methods
have been put into operation. The fail
ure to get as many men as was eX-
pected is accounted for by officials Of
the department by the wave Of prog
perity that is going over tho country.
whereby men have obtained Jobs easily
and 1t good salaries.
To meet the demands for tho present
and the immediate future, the recruit
ing service must be capable. it 10 said.
OF furnishing annually an -averag. OF
one recruit per thousand of popula i.
Officials of the War Department s4v
that this can only be accomplished "
canEassing every accessible 1ocalit.- il
the United States, and establishing.
masters, subagenctes. The postmasters
are to be allowed fee Of IS for each
recruit enlisted through their good offices.
While the present organization of
the recruiting service is considered sat
isfactory. the time has come, officials
say, to establish definite limits to each
district. not only to facilitate the work
through the postmasters. but also to
give each recruiting officer exact in
formation as to the outlying areas for
which he is responsible. Hereafter.
without lessening the efforts that have
heretofore been taken to procure re-
cruits i'll the cities and large towns,
special additional effort is to be made
thoroughly to comb all the rural sec
tons. This can be done effectively
only by securing the cooperation of
the postnlastcrs.
Officials. of the War Department have
devised another plan for recruiting.
this being in the form of 8 recruiting
party to canvass in the rural dis
tricts. Expense money. is to be al
lowed for this service.
Figures now held by the department
show that tie cavalry is now in eX-
cess. showing it's popularity, and re-
cruiting officers have been advised to
try to make eplistments for another
arm.
Under the law authorizing furlough
y
any young man who meets the require
ments for enlistment may receive,
without expense to himself. a train
ing and discipline of much greater
value than that for which thousands
of business men and students all over
the country have been willing to take
at their own expense at Plattsburg and
other training stations.
The Office Of markets and rural Or
ganizations, Department of Agriculture.
has recently made a
Insurino careful study of various
kinds Of property in
Farmers. surance of interest to
the American farmers.
There are four kinds of insurance
written, the officials found, in which
the farmer is particularly Interested.
These are insurance of buildings and
personal property against loss by fire
or lightning, insurance of the same OBJ
jects against loss o3 windstorln. insur-
aucc of growing crops against hail. and
insurance of live stock against death
by disease or accident.
1t was found that 10 the svera ge
farmer in this country III" first
two kinds Of insuTance usually make
tie strongest appeal ono reason toI
this, it is said, Is doubtless the feeling
that fire and windstorm are the de-
structive agencies that most frequently.
at a single stroke, deprive their We
tins of the accumulated earnings OF
many years. Another reason, 1t Is
thought, for the obtaining of the first
named insurances is the fact that these
are relatively less expensive Sy this
is meant that larger percentage ot
tho money collected from tho insured
can be used to compensat" the *unerers
of loss than is the raFe Win nan OF
live stock Insurance
The fact thai hail and live stock IN
suranc" is less generally carried ny
ia arniers in this country dos not sig
Nifty. the experts say. t!at iTeH" L3rtos
Of protection arc Not Important. Few
farmers are so rich That they ear
wisely go without INSURANCE. II is for
tunate also thi.t few ave so poor thai
they arc compelled 10 go without q
safeguard thai to the averas" farmer
may be classed as u necessitT. The very
farmer who has but Il fe" buildings
and Iittle personal property. ard is
perhaps least able TO pay for insurance
protection. is really the ono "hS can
least afford TO go without 1t.
Figures show that about two-th;rds of
the farmers in the United States lave
found method of providing themselves
with fire insurance at greatly reduced
cost through GlU'DIl or cooperative
insurance associations. embracing q
single county or some such limited ter
ritory. Dependable and cheap wind
storm insurance has similarly been pro-
vided by means Of larger mutual COM
panies. often operating in close reI-.-
tionship with tho. local fire insurance
nutuals. \ smaller number o. farm
ers have also provided theEs elves with
hail and live stock insurance by means
of mutual associations.
:: ::
More natural gas was used in the
United States last year than ever be-
fore, according to
Increased Use of figures which have
Natural Gas. hv the eeo,osical
survey The quantity used was $685.
573,S42000 cubic feet. which is said to
exceed by nearly thirty-seven billion
cubic feet, or s per cent. the former
record. established in 1914.
According to those who have COM
piled this work, the average price of
this gas at the point of consumption
was 1912 cents a thousand cubic feet,
and its total market value was s101,-
3l23S1, gain in price of s7,196,S57,
compared with the figures of 1914.
Of the total production of natural
gas in 1915, 1t is estimated that 211,-
3O2s43,000 cubic feet was distributed
to- 2.195,0S1 domestic consumers at an
average price of 2s.32 cents a thousand