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New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
Humanity s Narket Basket
 Faces Possible Shortage

conscript four pounds; and the Aus- trian common soldier 2h pounds 8 day.
 "Still another way to get an idea of the size of the worlds food problem is to assume that the average individual consumes ten cents worth of food daily. On this basis it would require the entire national wealth of the United States, the richest nation of all history, to pay the worlds food bill for twenty-six months. For every cent per day per capita that the cost of liv- ing increases, more than s6,000, ,000.- 900 Is added to the worlds annual market basket expense.
 But when one considers the possi- bilities of future food production, it is difficult to have much faith In inc prophecies of pessimism of these twentieth century successors of Nal thus. For instance, in the United States we have 35,O0O,000 acres of arabic land, only 400,000.0oO of which are under cultivation. Yet, with less than half Of our available land utilized the United States produces one-siXth of the worlds wheat, seven -ninths of its corn, one-fourth of it's oats, one eighth of it's cattle, one-third of its hogs, and one-twelfth of it's sheep.
 Even with the land now under cul- tivation, if we produced as much wheat per acre as England and Ger many we could supply the world with two-thirds of it's flour. If we produced as much corn to the acre as they do, we could double the worlds supply of that product.
 To-day the United States has to- tai cereal crop of O0,0O0,0 900 bush els. Were all of our arabic land un- der cultivation and producing only ac- cording to our present standard which is less than half as high as that of western Europe, we could add enough cereals to take care of an additional population the size of that of Europe.
 "When one has lived on land, as the writer has done, which, at the end of the Civil war, did not produce more than eight bushels of wheat and twen- ty bushels of corn to the acre. and has seen this land produce as high as forty five bushels of wheat and a hundred bushels corn, 1t is difficult to take any other than an optimistic view of the possibilities of American agriculture.
 Not only are there infinite possi- bilities yet untouched in our own country, but also in most of the oth- CT countries of the earth as well For instance, Russia, that land for which nature has done so much, endowiug it with food-producing possibilities such as few other countries possess, has a wheat yield of only ten bushels to the acre.
 'When the day comes. as come it certainly will, that Russia produces as much per acre as Germany and Eng land and when the utold millions of acres of undeveloped land are opened
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

up and settled, as they are destined to be, alone she can supply the worlds present needs in cereals ex- cept rice and corn.
 Nor is that all. Any one who has travelled through the tropics, studying the production of foodstuffs there at first hand, cannot fail to understand that vast potential food sources still lie untouched. The wonderful discov- cries of Ross and Reed and their coad- tutors, of the methods of preventing malaria and yellow fever followed by the mastery of the secrets of the bu- bonic plague and beriberi and the ap- plication of these lessons in Cuba, at Panama, and elsewhere in the tropi- cal world, have made it possible for civilized man to open up gardens of plenty of which he never before dreamed.
 Untold millions of acres of densest iungles are so far as man is concerned nothing more than lands of infinite richness wasting their sweetness upon the desert air of unutiliZcd opportuni- ties.
 Not long ago I visited the ruins of Quitigua, in Guatemala. The Unfit ed Fruit company had set apart scv- CTdl HuHuTeu acres dS t ISSCl NatI"'i for the protection or the ruins Tho jungle forest of the reservation, hor- derirg the banana clearings, lowered like a green wall a hundred feet high and the Undergrowth was so densc that no man could penetrate it save by cutting his way through with q ma cncte.
 "There I saw the contrast between the past and the future of the trop- ical world. The banana plantations, stretching for miles and miles up and down the Motaga River valley were producing millions of punches or ban anas, where but a few years before had existed the same sort of jungle as that at ouirigua."
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
Booze in the Army.
Bridgeport Tclogram.) )

An amendment to the army bill in the senate will be introduced it is announced. and will prohibit tho presence of liquor in any form on army reservations. posts or camps
 Now the nation will probably be treated to the spectacle of a ten weeks debate in congress on this issue. while the army bill itself is forgotten. The fanatics. both for booze and against it, will grapplc in deadly struggle.
 Why is this? We don't know. Rut reading of the Congressional Rec ord will disclose the fact that con- gross is always willing to talk its head off concerning some minor, technical point in any bill under dis cussion, while really important mat ters are hurried through hclter skol- ter. or allowed to die
 This latest amendment to the army bill is enough to make any ono sick.
 We can have an army with booze. We can have an army without booze. But we cant have an army without men-and that's just what we will have, while congress fumes fritters and fusseS over the cut of a second lieutenant's coat and the proper color of a rockies shoes.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
Boy Joy-Ridcrs on Railroads.
(Meriden Journal)

A railroad man was saying the other day that it is becoming f&vortte trick with boys to steal long railroad trips by passenger trains. Parties of boys will set out to see the world, and travel on the tops of cars, or sc- crete themselves on the trucks. The story is told that one day few boys got so caught on truck that a train had to be uncoupled to release them.
 This kind of thing is one or the modern instances of loose family dis ciplines. To a rowing and restless type of boy, there is something very fascinating about railroad lire He hangs around stations when he should be running errands for his mother.
 Some day he tries his eXpertness at Hopping freights." A few years after that, he is the one-legged youth who is seeking to make an honest" living selling lead pencils. Boys should be kept away from the rail- roads as a place where there are many periIs of life and limb. Also if is o place where tramps and vagrants enticc many young fellows to adopt a wandering career.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

Washington, D. C., April 10.-For- which there will be too many people in the world for the groin fields and stock ranges to feed, the question of a possible general shortage in human itN's market basket supplies has re- cClVCd more than 100 years of Nol- luminous consideration. Since the out break of the world war, probabilities of food shortages have been discussed more than ever before. but in respect to definite and narrow geographical limitations. MT. William Joseph Sho- walter, in a careful study of the worlds food supply, considering the bulk produced, it's distribution, and the pOtcntialitics for increased produc- ton, discounts preSCnt-day fears of ul- innate universal famine. Of the bug aboo theory that a general under-sup- ply of foodstuffs is the menace of the future he has the following to say in a study prepared for the National Geographic society at Washington:
 Many men are inclined to sound a pcssmistiC note as to the adequacy of the worlds food supply for future gen erations, and like Malthus a hundred years ago are inclined to predict that tho day has at last come when the human race must cease to expand it's numbers, or else face inevitable hung CT.
 And when we consider now many mouths there are in this world to feed and how much food it takes to satisfy them, little room is there to wonder at this pCssmism.
 "The earth's population today reaches a grand total of about 1,700,- 000,000 souls If they were all set down at a banquet it would require sixteen tables reaching around the globe to scat them For every ounce of food they ate, the -giver would have to provide 53,000 tons of provisions, and if the dinner were no more than a democratic dollar -platc affair, it would cost, in the aggregate, as much as it costs to run the United States government year and half.
 "FXpreSSed in terms of annual con- sumption, the worlds market basket is one that dcfies portrayal in weight and size. one is forced to cast around for new units of measurement to give d proper idea of it's proportions. AS sl1ming that the average fnhabltant of the earth uses two pounds of pro- visions a day, the total for the year would amount to a billion and a. quar- ter tons It would require string of cars. carrying Unity tons to the car. and reaching eight times around the earth, to haul this material.
 ."Thc fact however. is that the aV- craze inhabitant of the earth prob ubly uses more than two pounds Of provisions a day. The steerage pas scngers on English ships are al- lowed , E pounds each day. Even the prisoner in the average jail gets more than two pounds; the Russian
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

celt, politics and sometimes by thing made famous by Benedict Arnold.
 The three most frigid spots on earth are the north and south poles and the spot where Col. House hap pens to be located.
 Many of the favoritc son candidates have as much chance of being nom- mated on tho republican ticket as a vice president has of having voice in the government.
 Judging from what Is heard and printed there will be only one tune played in Chicago and that will be Roosevelt with the progressive band leading and the republican band climbing aboard
 Chicago will be justly entitled to the name of "Windy City" on Juno IA with two national political con ventions in session.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
THE OPEN SWITCH.

hlone decrced that New Eng Puld net awake this morning of one of the most horrible wrecks in the history of this The accident which occurred |y morning at Jericho's Bridge |train going at the rate of thir- niles an hour. ran into an onen had all the ear-marks Of a |nal killing of passengers and Es. As it was, only sixteen per
 re injured and but one of these k. The escape was miracu- will be a thorough investiga- Ehis wreck, as there have been btions of all wrecks that nave | in the past. This time the at once apparent. While no s killed, the possibilities were that the investigation should ho way relented. It should with all the vigor of one pur- ter 8 hundred people were
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Politics makes bedfellows stran-

Politics makes bedfcllows stran- gers.
 The lane to the. White House has many turns but the road out is straight.
 A sage said Be good and you will be lonesome" Boss Barnes of New York seems to be determined to be lonesome without the saving grace of being good.
 It's a long way from Washington to Mexico and there are many politi- cal ambushes along the roadside.
 Those two boys seen sprinkling tacks on the highway are Root and Hughes. They expect the Roosevelt machine along in few minutes
 Pennsylvania avenue is bounded on the north by patriotism, and on the south, east and west by flattery, de-
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
D. mCMILl. AN 190-2O1-2O3 MAIN STREET.
A New Political Party.
(AnsOnia Sentinel.)

new political party has come to light. According to New York news papers it may have had it's inception in Delaware but its official birth was recorded in New York city Thursday afternoon, where it was first an nOunCed in the metropolitan evening papers. It was christcned at birth and appears under the name of "Tho Business Mems Presidential League" The name sounds good, particularly up New England way. It's mission m life is to demand that this great and glorious country of ours shall be ti- rcctcd ''by a president who is a real business man, administered with the same economy, efficiency and results as any other business" That sounds good also, but there turks s,l&- picion that the new born is some kind of a political boom. set in motion co oXtCi the candidacy of Gen. IT. Cole man Du pOnt for that exalted posi- ton. Down in Delaware, where this new born is not taken seriously and from present indications it is likely to prove a puny weaking and die in it's infancy. Should, however, he wax strong and grow to be a big strong man, taxpayers are promised that he 900 that the late Senator Aldrirh claimed was wasted annually in uhr running of the public business.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
EARLY AND AVOID THE
 RUSH.

RUSH.
 In every two years it becomes y Of citizens of this municipal Ionfer upon some one man the pf being their mayor. There such occasions. other offices He'd, but the highest office to h by the people here is the sty. At this particular time a little contest on for the vari- ses that come under the work. the city administration but fe two candidates for the main The two men who are seeking se are we'll known to the people Rcity, one probably not as well las he might be. The other sEed the city for the past two the same portfolio which he |gain. The other has served 2 capacity. Tomorrow either or the other must rise or lfording to the merits of the the duty of every man who can and who is entitled to 9 Ego to the polls tomorrow and | his silent voice in the cleo a major and his lieutenants. R privilege not to be taken too Eit is solemn obligation that |pn the shoulders of each quali- |Rr. And each and every vote Puld be sent in clean, should p smattering of smut, no tinge |edness. Each and every vote Haring on the situation. There E man with the vote is the man N let's. His vote should never should not be held so lightly Ie bought even by the price of and home or the simple ex- of a ride to the polls in an pile owned by organization I Is. If the managers of the Hpolitical factions are interest | sh in getting out the voters to
 nt that they send automobiles Fer conveyances for those who 3btful, it is not obligatory for a who thus secures a ride to 8ording to the dictates of the |lo owns the vehicle. There Nno obligation in this matter.
 Hry vote should be cast accord #1e dictates of conscience. No npposed to know how anyone 7 to vote. That is the business I individual voter. The sum 7l tell the story.
 Eight, while we are on the eve S great event, 1t may be well a and every man in the city Ends to go to the polling places aw, to sit down for an hour
 d think over the various uuali- 3 of the two men who present Aes for his consideration. In I Ielection days, in the times 1he campaign waxed warm, Ere various arguments pro and Forth. In the days of the pre- 5es there were exposures made ! or the other and much valu- Formation given to the voting 3 This data is all in hand, it be well considered, and then IS cast. The greater the vote A greater credit reflected upon
 ebitants of this city, for it
 hat we are not a gathering of
 asy-going, sheep-like peo-
 stay at home and let certain
 of the community be driven plls like animals to the slaugh-
 is the duty, then, of every Xssessing the vote to get out 8 his prerogative tomorrow.
 e the way conscience dictates, a way politicians direct.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
SOne''S SOlace.

Edward o. Jackson, in Springfield
 Republican, Full measure of melodious tears, Drawn from the Muse's sacred
 wells, My heart has treasured through the
 years Life's woes the poets song cndcars; No solace with a charm eXcels Full measure of melodious tears. villon's and Hcine's and Shakes
 peares
 Exquisite lyric miracles My heart has treasured through the
 years. And his, who once surpassed his peers, When, grieved for Lycidas he tells Full measure of melodious tears. All sacred utterance that cheers The pathos that in being dwells, My heart has treasured through the
 years. Tn solitude my spirit hears, Life waves in murmurous sea-sh els, Full measure of melodious tears My heart has treasured through the
 years
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
DRESS UP"
YOIK HOME

A visit to our 3rd Floor, Drapcry and Floor Covering Departments, the largest in New Britain. You can save money right their you can save timc, as our assOrtments and values we of fer will convince you that you need go no further. A satisfactory pur chase is the result. You nave select cd the very newest, in a reliable qual ity at tho lowest price that such quantities can be bought for.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

President Menocal of Cuba is able to inform his congress that money Is plentiful and prosperity prevails. Sugar prices paid by Europe and by the United States largely explain Cubas luck. Somebody always has to pay the piper-Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The Italians brought down three out of a, squadron of five aeroplanes which raided Ancona. If the Italians can hit aeroplanes so successfully, it is strange that British can so rare ly hit Zeppelin-Buffalo Express.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

It Is possible that the American people want a War Lord In tho White House and want him to do for them what the Kaiser has done for the Germans. If Is possible that they want the Republic militarized and want its industries Prussianized. It ie possible that they are tired of their old free swinging gait and long for the gooseStep and the drill sergeant. It is possible that they want war for wars sake and are eager for the trenches at any cost. The way to de- termino all that Is to submit 1t to 9 referendum of the American people in an election in which the policies, tho chara cter and record of the two can didates cannot be obscured; an cleo ton in which every citizen must know precisely what he is voting for. MT. Roosevelt Is the one Republican can didate who would make such a cam paign possible. He Is the one answer the republicans can honestly mako 10 President Wilson-New York World
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

The baseball fan who does not find his interest in the game limbering up at this. season is only a counterfeit Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-10

Tn Chancellor Von Bcthmann-Ho11- Wegs address to the Reichstag there arc two matters that concern the United States: His assurance that Germany contcmplates no aggressivc act in the Now World now or in the future, and the notice the Chancellor gives that Germany will not allow "the arms of dcfcnse'' to he wrcstcd from her hands. We use them" he says, "and we must use them.' As to the Chanccllors assurance that "after the end of this war" Germany will refrain from adventures in thc Western Hemisphere. it need only be said that the United States has lost faith in the professions of tho Flu ropean chancelleries and the pledges made in treaties soIcmnly negotiated. And the United States intends to pre- pare the army and navy for the de- fense of its territory and for tho enforcement of the natonal policies. including that doctrine which de- clares that the American continents "are henCeforth not to he considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power."-New York Sun.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

The season for country sausages
and griddle cakes has arrived.
The memory Of last seasons
good country sausage and good
griddle cakes served at the
BELLECLAIRE seems to linger in
he minds of people, judging from
the number of them who order
these great dishes for breakfast.
Many men and women are
dropping in for an oId-fash.oned
breakfast-the kind they liked so
much as boys and girls on the
farm.
1t is astonishing how many New
Workers there are who like the
same kind of food that their moth
ers supplied them when they were
rugged country boys and girls.
The BELLECLAIRE caters to
heir appetites. They all say:
What fine breakfasts, lunches,
dinners and midnight suppers we
can get at the BeIIeclaire. -
ROBERT D. BLACKMAN
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-08
SERMON
On "The State Of the Soul after
Death" win Be Preached
Sunday.

Tho cvangcllshc meetings which
are being held in tent on tho old
Union park diamond at Union
Heights arc meeting with success and
fifteen persons have been converted
since the meetings started. The at
tendance At every meeting has taxed
tho capacity Of tho tent
Evangelist Whitman will preach
>iis sermon on The State OF the Soul
after Death" Sunday afternoon and
the largest congregation OF the week
IL expected to hear him. Evangelist
Whitman will bnFc his sermon on pas
saEes from the Bible.
These arc INSTRUMENTATION
meetings and all Christians may feet
FREQ to 20 and sing praises to God
and testify Of their love for jesus.
Evangelist whitman In being assist
cd by II. J. Topping. Of Grafton. a
number Of good shop meetings have
been held in the factories in the city
and suburbs.
At 3 O'Clock Friday afternoon Mr..
Topping will hold a special meeting
for the children. All arc cordially in
vitcd to attend these meetings.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-08
INSTITUTE WILL BE
HELD AT FAIR VIE w

How the EXhorter can Help-R. r..
Webb.
1900 u. Sermon by tho Rev.
a. f. O'pcll.
Thursday. Juno IL.
Tho Work and Needs OF the
Church--W II. FCGlesunE.
The Work and Needs OF Elssluna
w. l. CRntCr conference mission
nry secretary.
All Collections FOR RcnCvolcnrr1 In
Full--A. T. Kcyscr.
Elections:
OF tho licensing committee
OF the district law leader.
OF lay delegates to tho annual
conference.
500 y. m.-scrmon by the Roy.
q. l., Thornc.
Friday Morning.
Reports of local preachers and tho
renewal OF their licenses.
Tho granting OF local preachers
licenses.
Recommendation TO the nrural
conference:
For admission on trial
For rC-admissIon
For deRcuns' or cldcra' order.
How to Promote the CO.
ficienCy OF tho Epwogth
Ainslec Perkins. &. W. stow.
1900 u. M Sermon by ,Nw Rev.
l.. s. Nuvill
goo .. m.-RcportE.
From the trustees OF the district
parsonagcs.
From the committee on lay actIv-
tiles.
From the committee on quarterly
conference records.
From other committees.
Selection Of place OF next meeting.
$500 y. m.-Scrmon by tho Rev.
H. T. Webb.
Committees.
For license to prcaCh-R. T.
Webb. Ivy Yoal. H. II. Powell
For admission on trial into tho an
nual conferencc--R. ] Noak. W. II.
FoGlCsonG. a. +. Kcyser.
For dCaconR' md elders orders
u. A. Vim. J. n. Herald and n. y.
Ware
For enquiry concerning the local
preachers Csubjcct to the approval Of
the district confSrpnco)-- S, Au-
vii. W. 7. Lantz. 1. s. Tyler.