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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-11-20
WHEAT DEVELOPS
STRENGTH ON NEWS
FROM LIVERPOOL

CHICAGO. Nov. 20.-Wheat develop
ed strength today after hesitating
start. Word from Liverpool that sup
plies do not meet requirements had a
bullish effect. The uncertainty at the
outset was largely due to conflicting
reports as to weather conditions in
Argentina and as to the likelihood Of
an Argentina embargo. Opening prices
here, which varied from A,c decline
to &c advance, with Dec. at $1.771z to
s1.77N and May at $1.83h to $1.84M,
were followed by moderate losses all
around and then by decided general
upturn.
Corn swayed with wheat. Prospects
of enlarged domestic receipts were off
set by assertions that rains in Argen-
tina had been insufficient After
opening unchanged to &c lower, the
market rallied to we'll above Satur-
days finish.
Oats were governed chiefly by the
action of other cereals. The upturn
was accomplished by heavy purchas-
ing on the part Of leading firm.
In provisions, as in grain, rallies sue
ceeded early weakness. Large exports
as compared with last year seemed
more than to counterbalance lower
quotations on hogs.
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ASKS sAloON|sTS
[contInued From Page one.1

the immediate vicinity Of their homes.
The agitation for the removal of
these two saloons from this district
was not begun by the writer in the in
terest of the prohibition, temperance,
or anti-sal0on organizations, nor as a
proposed preliminary step in victor
dry campaign.
/ To single out these two particular
saloons with such general campaign
in view, would be considered by the
writer as decidedly an unfair method
of procedure. He is interested and
active in this matter from the stand
point Of improving the moral and eco
nomic conditions in this particular To-
cality.
Asks Help Before Council. ga
The common council can declare
that portion of the Third Ward north
Of the railroad a residence portion"
of the city, which IN fact it is. BY
doing so these two saloons can be
eliminated as they should be. This is
all we ask.
It is rumored about that the liquor
interests will fight this proposition to
finish. don't believe that, simply
because know that liquor dealers are
not void Of q sense of decency and hui
manity. Therefore, believe that the
liquor dealers who understand the sit
uation will advise councilmen of their
acquaintance to favor the proposed
resolution Of declaring Riverdale a
residence portion of Richmond.
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stand that immigration was purely an
economic question. He said that
those who opposed immigration did
SO because they desired to limit the
competition OF unskilled foreign la
borers; those who favored the wide
open door did SO mecause 1t made la
Dor cheap.
The immigrant no longer went to
the farm. Mr.. Howe said, because all
the available land Of the country had
been taken up. hundreds Of millions
Of acres being held for purely specula-
tive purposes"
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PRODUCE
Cincinnati Produce

CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 20.-Butter:
Creamery whole milk extras, 401ac,
centralized extra, $50: do firsts. 341s:
do seconds, 31hc; dairy fancy, S1kc.
Eggs: Prime frsts, 43c; flrsts,
4115c, ordinary, 1910.
Poultry: Broilers under TX lbs.
21c. flyers over III lbs, Ice; ROSTERS,
lie.
Potatoes: Home grown, $5.25@5.50
Dbl: Eastern Cobbler, $5.25@5.60.
Lemons: California, $400@6.50:
Messina, 3.60@4.50; lines 2.75@3.00
box.
Tomatoes: Home grown, 75@1.00.
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Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Nov. 20
Hogs-Best heavy. $9.50610.00; med
ium and mixed, $9.15@9.6O; good to
choice lights, 1915 q 9.35; roughs.
$8.5009.25; best pigs, s$@25; light,
pigs, $S.00@S.50; bulk of sales. 1915
@9.5O. Receipts, 10000.
Cattle-Good to choice steers, $3.50
@11.O5; common to medium. $3.50
$50: heifers, $6@7.75. Receipts,
1900.
Calves--Common to best veals, ST.
b0@12.00: common to best heavy
calves, $4@9.50. Receipts, $3.50.
Sheep and Lambs-Good to choice,
$6.75@725; common to medium, $500
I6.50: good to choice yews. $500
$40; good medium yews. $6.50@7.25;
good to best lambs, $10@11. Receipts,
$50.
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Buffalo

EAST BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 90
Cattle-Receipts. $500; steady.
Shipping steers, $750@10.50; butch
ers. $6.0069.00; heifers, $5.00@S.00;
cows, $3.50@725; bulls. $5.OO@7.0O;
stockers and feeders, $5@7.25; fresh
cows and springers, active. $50@115.
Veals--Receipts, 1900; active, $3.50
@13.00.
Hogs-Receipts. $4,000: slow; heavy
$9.e0Q975; mixed, s9.50@9.60; York
ers, $9.4O@9.5O; light Workers, $500
900; pigs, $S.25GS50; roughs, $3.50
0S.60; stays, $7.004S.00.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, $4,000,
sheep active; lambs shol; lambs, So
01l.60: yearlings, $6.50Q9.50; weth-
ers, $S.50@S.75; ewes, $4.O0GS.0O;
mixed sheep, $S.00QS.25.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-11-20
BOILER EXPLOSION
KILLS TWO PERSONS

NEW YORK, Nov. 20-An explosion
due apparently to defective boiler
cost the lives of at least two men
the captain and engineer-on tug
boat, the Rambler, on the Brooklyn
water front today. The bodies of two
other men, a fireman and q deck hand,
are believed to be in the hold of the
vessel, which sank at her pier. A
score Of other persons working on
lighters In the vicinity were injured.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-11-20
FARM LOAN BOARD
MEETS IN FAR WEST.

ALBUQUERQUE. New Mexico, Nov.
20.-Four members of the Federal
Farm Loan Board are here today to
hold hearing on land credit condit.
ions and to gather information which
Will aid the board In defining the
twelve federal land bank districts
authorized under the rural credicts
act. Secretary Of the treasury VIM. G.
McAdoo. who has participated in other
hearings. did not accompany the board
here. having gone to California for
rest.
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Coal Quotations

Corrected by Hackman e. Kiehfoth.)
Anthracite nut. $11O0; anthracite
stove or egg. $1,000; Pocohontas lump
or egg. (shoveled) $3.50; Pccohontas
nut, $7.25; Pocohontas mine run,
$500; Pocohontas slack, $3.50; Jack
son, lump, $500; Tennessee lump,
$6.75; Kentucky lump. $6.75; West Vir-
ginia lump. $3.50; Winifred washed
pea. $6.25; Hooking Valley lump, $3.50;
Indiana, $500; coks, $500; nut and
slack, $500.
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CHICAGO Cash

CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-Wheat. No. 2
red, $1.s2; No. 3 red. $1.74K @1.S0;
No 2 hard. $1.86@1.SS; No. 3 hard.
31.74k@l.S6. Corn: No. 2 yellow.
S6h; No. 1 yellow. 93096Ac: No. I
white, s3@S41sc. Oats: No. 3 white.
5s@57Ac; Standard. 57@5Shc.
Rye: No. 2, $3.50. Glover: $11.00
@16.0O. Barley, 900$1.28. Pork,
$3.50. Ribs, $14.25@15.00. Lard,
$500.
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LIVE STOCK
Pittsburgh

PITTSBURG, Nov. 20.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts $4,000; market lower; heavies
s9.75M9.s5: heavy workers., $9.25@
$50; light workers. $s.50@S.s0; pigs
$8.O0M8.25.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 5000;
market steady; top sheep 1925; top
lambs $11.75.
Calves Receipts 1000; market
steady; top $1,000.
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New York Cash.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.--Flour, bare.
" steady. Spring patents, $4,000
Cts; winter patents, $S.60@9.00: win
ter straight, $S.40@S.65; Kansas
straights, $9.50G9.75.
Port, unsettled: Mess, $4,000
$500; family. $32.00@3400; short
clear. $29.00@31.00. Beef, quiet; mess,
$5S.0Ol23.50; family, $25.50@27.00.
Lard, weak; middle west, $4,000
17.l0. Molasses, steady: New Orleans
open kettle 40G50c. Hay. firm: No.
/. @1.1091.15; No. 2, $1.05: No. 3.
csc; shipping. S0GS5c. Hides, firm;
Bogota 44h 045c; Central America,
44c. Leather firm; hemlock firsts.
Sc: seconds, soc.
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Liverpool Grain.

LIVERPOOL. Nov. 20.-Wheat spot
No2 hard winter. 15s 10hd; No. l
northern Duluth, none: No. l. Mani
toba. les I'd; No. 2, old les Cd; No. 3.
15s SID. Corn spot, American mixed
new 13s Id. Flour winter patents. Ats.
Hops in London Pacific COAST "a,
16s@ P6. los.
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Feed Quotations

Corrected Daily by Omer Wheian)
Paying-Oats, SOC; new corn, S5c;
rye, $115; clover seed, $S.O0@9.00 a
bushel; straw. Sc ton.
Selling-Cotton seed meal, $4,000 a
ton,s $3.50 a cwt.; middlings. $500 a
ton, $3.50 cwt. bran, $4,000 ton.
$165 cwt.; salt, $3.50 Dbl. Quaker
dairy feed, $50 ton, 81 go per cwt.
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Chicago

CHICAGO. Nov. 20.-Butter: High
er, 36@401ac. Eggs: Receipts, 3,572
cases: market stead, 39@39hc. Poul-
try: Alive, steady; fowls, 15c; spring
ers, 16c Potato market: Steady;
Dakotas and Minnesotas, white $500
1.60; Minnesotas and Dakota, $1,000
1.75; Wisconsin and Michigan whites,
$160@1.70; receipts, so cars.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-11-20
.EMIGRANT NATION,
IS new PREDICTION

NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.-The United
States may become an "emigrant"
rather than an Immigrant" nation at
the clase Of the war, predicts Com
missioner of immigration Frederick C.
Howe. He bases his belief on the
ground that the immigrant is not be.
ing treated justly.
In an address last night he took the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-11-20
New York Exchange Closing
Quotations

American Can, 65h.
American Locomotive, "a.
American Beet Sugar. 102A.
American Smelter, 121.
Anaconda, .104.
Atchison, 1854.
Bethlehem Steel, 698.
Canadian Pacific, 173A.
Chesapeake 70 Ohio, 68.
Great Northern, pfd., 117A.
Lehigh Valley, 83%.
New York Central, 1851.
No. Pacific, 111%.
So. Pacific, 1003s.
Pennsylvania, 81.
U. S. Steel, COM, 1878.
U. 8. Steel, pfd., .121A.
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Glen Miller Prices
Produce

Corrected Daily by Edward cooper)
Old chickens, dressed. paying &c,
selling csc; young chickens, paying
22c, selling soc; country butter. pay
ing 25@30c, selling, $50; creamery but
ter. selling 45c; eggs. paying, 35c. sell
ing 45c; country lard, paying 15c, sell
ing zoe; new potatoes. selling $2.25
bushel.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-11-20
LUMBER DEALERS
HOLD CONVENTION

PORTLAND, Me-. Nov. 2O-Lumber
manufacturers from middlewestern
and southern states are here today for
a conference with Oregon lumbermen,
the purpose of which is to promote
nationwide cooperation in the lumber
industry.
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Chicago Futures
Toledo Grain

TOLEDO, Nov. 20.-Wheat: Cash,
$l.s6h; Dec. $1.S7; May. $685..
Cloverseed: Prime cash, $1,000; Dec,
910.S5; jan, 31095: Feb, $11.05. AL.
sike: Prime cash, $10.S5; Dec, 5000:
March, $11.20. Timothy: Prime cash.
$266; Dec, $2.56.
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Kansas CITY

KANSAS CITY, Nov. o. Hogs
Receipts, 10000; lower; bulk, $4,000
go; heavy, S9.6OG9.SO; packers and
butchers, $9.40@975; light, 1880
9.65: pigs, $S.00@9.25.
Cattle = Receipts, $4,000; steady;
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&1ocal and foreign
w Markets

prime fed steers, $10.25@11.50; dress
ed beef steers $7.5001O.O0; southern
steers, $5.75@8.50; cows. $4.750750;
heifers. $5.50@10.00; stockers and
feeders, $5.25@8.00; bulls, $5.00@6.50.
calves, $6.50@11.00.
Z Sheep - Receipts, 5000; steady;
lambs. $11.00@1160; yearlings, $S.75
@975; wethers, $7.50@S.50: ewes.
$6.75@7.75.
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GRAIN

Cincinnati Grain
CINCINNATI, Nov. 20.-Wheat: No.
2 red winter. $1.S1@1.S3: No. 8,
31.75@1.7S. Corn: No. white, $1.0O
@l.01. No. yellow, $1.00Q1.Ol.
Oats: No. 3 mixed, 57@5Sc.
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Chicago

CHICAGO, Nov. 20.--Hogs-Re-
coipts $4,000; market to 10c lower:
'nu'k of sales $9.0O@970; lights 1886
70 80: mixed .S9.0OM9.90: rough 1925,
n 40: pigs s635Q8.20.
Cattle-Receipts $4,000; market
weak: native beef cattle $500 1900;
western steers S6.60W10.20; stockers
I'D feeders $4.65@770; cows and he'll
rcrs; s3.65d9.50; calves $S.75@12.5O.
Sheep--Receipts $4,000: market
trong; wethers $760@S.65; lambs,
9C0l1160.
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Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, Nov. 2U.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts $4,000; market slow; packers
md butchers $925@9.70; common to
cioice $7.0O@9.O0; pigs and lights S.
@S.S5; stays $6.00@S.0O.
Cattle-Receipts 1900; steers $500
0s.S0; heifers $5O0@725; cows $4.25
@6.25; calves 4.50@11.50, market low
err
Sheep-Receipts 800: market slow.
Lambs weak, $7.00@11.25.
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PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22

sentation OF his case. He is eloquent
because OF enthusiasm in righteous
cause. He Is a crusader. He would
rescue men who are enslaved with
shackles OF ignorance on one hand
and the avarice of their shrewder fei-
lowmen on the other. He would abol-
ish war and bring to earth that peace
and good will among men about which
many OF us pray but few work for In
a really Jealous fashion. Debs is a
great American citizen. He is great
preacher of fraternalism. His pur-
pose is to uplift and inspire humanity
to nobler thinking and better living.
He ought to be heard in every chau-
tauqua assembly in the country. His
message is clear, courageous, patriot
ic and full Of information. He pre-
sents point OF view new to all but
few students. He is in truth a
great educator and he is expressing
the sentiments of an increasing num-
Der of people in every civilized coun-
try in the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22
Kennedy. Great Victory.

Burlington Post: 1t will be sur
prise to some of our readers to learn
that Congressman Charles A. Ken
nedy has been renominated, by a
substantial majority, over Railroad
Commissioner Clifford Thorne. The
latter has passed through some
what spectacular career. has been
much in the lime light, and was IN
the enjoyment of a prestige which is
created by systematic advertising.
But this carefully worked up prestige
has been badly shattered by the
quiet man from Montrose, and 1t may
be considered If it ever again can be
coaxed into it's former rich lustre.
The result of this contest shows that
a great deal more Importance Is to be
credited to Mr.. Kennedy's work and
to his genius for affairs than even
his supporters had conceded hereto
fore. His victory over Thorne re-
veals him as a figure of the first I'M
portance not only in the affairs OF
the district and state. but in the
nation. Mr.. Kennedy has served his
constituents well and his strength
in his home district consists in the
confidence the people have in his
ability to attend well to their matters
down at Washington. His great vic
tory over Thorne is epochal in the
states political history and will be
talked about wherever men gather
to discuss political matters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22
AS KEoKUK SHOULD VIEW IT.

| There is possibility, attached to a strong
string of probability, that Company l. OF the
First regiment, Iowa national guard, may be
called for patrol duty along the border separat-
| ing the United States and Mexico. 1t is I'M
portant that the family dependents Of the mill
tiamen squarely face the fact so that they may
neither exaggerate nor minimize the meaning OF
the situation.
| The first outstanding fact to be recognized
by the near ones of the Keokuk soldiers is that
the government of the United States does not
want war with Mexico and will avoid 1t IT 1t
can be honorably done On the other hand, it
has to be recognized that there is condition In
the northern states of Mexico so delicate that
by the hostile act Of one man state or war
may be precipitated.
That hostile act has not been committed, and,
God grant, it may not be.
A reasonable Interpretation Of President
Wilson s call for the militia is that it was an
advance step taken to enforce the terms Of the
note dispatched to First Chief Carranza posi-
lively declining to withdraw the punitive
petition
From all the advices at hand and received
from official quarters, it would seem that the
contemplated movement of the militia to the
border depends upon future developments
Probably much of the force, including the Iowa
contingent, will be held at mobilization points
pending further orders, and even it is possible
they will not be moved to the border.
At the outset, should the Iowa soldiers be
moved to the border, they will encounter little
danger, being employed for patrol duty,
releasing some thirty eight thousand regulars
now doing that service.
1t would therefore seem wise for the friends
and relatives of the Keokuk militiamen, and
all Others in the state, to refrain from worry
over possible immediate danger to the citizen
soldiers. Don't grieve; don't worry! No mat
ter should there be war, conflict with the
poorly armed and undisciplined half savages OF
Mexico has no parallel in danger and horror
with the European struggle. Enjoying every
advantage of equipment training and intelli-
gence, the soldiers of the United States have
comparatively little to fear from a conflict in
which every advantage is with them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22
YUAN sHI- KAI's SUCCESSOR.

The fatal blunder of Yuan Shi-Kai, in many
respects an able statesman, was to allow HIM
self to be obsessed by the glamor OF an empire
Yuan by seeking to become an emperor had ex-
posed himself to the hostility of a political COM
bination that decided to get rid of him. His
successor Ii Yuan-Hung will support the re-
public which has the advantage of being the
existing government of China. Like Yuan, he
has had a military training, but his views are
more liberal He is fifty-two years old, and IS
the son of middle-class Chinese in comfort
able circumstances. He has been an officer both
in the army and in the navy-a coincidence not
unprecedented in England where Sir Evelyn
Wood had similar experimental he joined
the revolution in 1911, it is said, when the
swords of the conspirators were pointed at his
breast.
When Yuan Shi-Kai was selected as presi-
dent of the republic. Ii Yuan Hung was made
vice president. He opposed Yuan's monarchic
ambitions, and when movement for the res
foration of the empire spread he protested by
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22
Life Insurance Statistics.

Insurance Press: Preparedness!
Something to conjure with these days.
Its present meaning Is applicable to
life Insurance.
The fact that more than 42,426,O00
life insurance policies of 220 regular
companies of the United States were
in force at the close of 1915 Is suf-
ficient to define the efforts to pro-
vide protection. 1t is merely a mat
ter Of discipline, the discipline that
Is required for preparation to reply
to the call to the colors, ready for
any emergency. The vast army OF
policyholders. has been well drilled.
The distributions in the name OF
life insurance last year to the fam
lies OF those who fell. to the individ-
uals who dropped from the ranks
with the scars of wounds In the bat
ties of business life, to those who
needed sustenance during the days
Of adverse circumstances, and to
those who were entitled to premium
savings as rewards for continued and
long service have been computed at
$733, 700, 900.
That amount is equal to LOG per
cent of American loans and credits
{$689, 900, O0O) that have been grant
ed to Great Britain and France since
the beginning of the European war;
or 10 per cent Of American loans and
credits 040,OO0,0Oo) to Great Brit
ain, France, Germany. Russia, three
South American countries, Italy.
Switzerland, Greece. Sweden, Nor
way. and Canada since the outbreak
of hostilities
The foreign trade statistics Of the
United States for 1916. phenomenal
in amount, showed excess of exports
over imports for the first four months
OF 1916 Of $3.50. 100000. The life in
surance distributions in 1915 sur
passed this great figure by nearly
500, 900, 900.
The total clearings OF the New
York clearing house during the week
ended June 10, 1916, appropriated
81, O00, 900 600. Through foresight a
provident population has contracted
with life insurance companies OF the
United States to. pay about $23 ,OOO.-
OO0, 900 Of life insurance, approx
mately the amount of life insurance
in force in these companies at the
end of 1915. At the present rate OF
New York bank clearings, more than
seven weeks would be required for .
sum of that magnitude to pass
through the New York clearing house.
Life insurance is subject so quick
~ to various conditions, as they al
feet general business deeply, that 1t
is becoming thermometrical, indicat-
ing the waves OF prosperity and ad-
versity The reading last year was
for high rise Of prosperity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22
There is nothing the body suffers that the
soul may not profit by.-George Meredith
ALIENS REMARKABLE RUN.

Hon. William S. Allen, candidate for renoml-
nation as secretary of state on the republican
ticket at the late primary, made remarkable
run, having been accorded the largest major
ity ever given candidate in Iowa IN primary
contest. Mr.. Allen carried ninety coun-
ties in the state, his opponent, Mr.. Hasselqulsf,
only three, the former receiving 1852 votes.
Fifty thousand four hundred and fifty eight
were cast for Mr. Hasselquist. Secretary Al
lens majority of 96,414 entities him to the
designation of champion vote getter. His con-
duct of the office of secretary has been along
lines that make for progress and efficiency and
for this reason, coupled with the fact that the
incumbent is a man of pleasing personality, the
people decided that he should "stay put. y This
will be emphasized on lection day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-22
STARTLING POSSIBILITY.

Great areas between the Atlantic coast states
and the middle west are drowned and sour ana
sopping by reason Of the persistent drenchlns
rains. In many cases the second and even the
third replanting has failed and the crop out
look is dsheartening. In the southern states
conditions are totally different though not
mich better, for protracted drought has made
the yield precarious.
It seems quite within the possibilities there
fore that this may be short-crop year with US,
in which event the peoples of Europe may find
themselves in desperate straits, for conditions
are such as to promise poor crops over there. A
half or scanty yield of cereals IN this hemf-
sphere would, with the war, make this year the
most calamitous of recorded time