The Nevada County picayune., 1917-07-19

they have been putting i'll the way or the successful prosecution of this war by the ocean freight rates they have been exacting.
 Making War a Failure.
 "They are doing everything that high freight charges can do to make the war failure, to make 1t impos- sibIe.
 'I do not say that they realize this or intend 1t. The thing has happened naturally enough because the conner cial processes which we are content to see operate in ordinary times have without sufficient thought been con tinued into period where they have no proper place.
 q am not questioning motives. l am merely stating fact, and stating it in order that attention may be fixed upon it.
 "The fact Is that those who have fixed war freight rates have taken the most effective means Tn their power to defeat the armies engaged against Ger many. When they realize this we may, take it for granted. count upon them to reconsider the whole matter, It Is high time. Their extra hazards are covered by war risk insurance.
 Warning Is Sounded.
 q know. and you know. what re- sponse to this great challenge of duty and of opportunity the nation will ex- pect of you; and I know what re SponSe you will make.
 "Those who do not respond, who dc not respond in the spirit of those who have gone to give their lives for us on bloody fields far away, may safely be left to be dealt with by opinion and the law--for the law must, of course, command those things.
 "I am dealing with the matter thus publicly and frankly, not because have any doubt or fear as to the result but only in order that in all our thinking and in all our dealings with one an other We may move in perfectly clear air of mutual understanding.
 Must Have Same Prices.
 And there k something more that
  public is now is much Il part of the government as are the army and navy themselves; the whole people in all their activities are now mobilized and in service for the accomplishment of the nations task in this war; 1t Is in such circumstances impossible just ly to distinguish between industrial purchases made by the government and industrial purchases made by the managers of industries and IL Is just ns much our duty to sustain the indus trials of the country with all the in duStries that contribute to its life as il is to sustain our forces in the field and on the sea.
 Think Not of Self.
 We must make prices to the pub lie the same as the prices to the gov ernment Prices mean the same thing everywhere now. They mean the eff eiency or the inefiiciency of the na- ton, whether 1t Is the government that payS them or not. They mean victory or defeat They mean that America will win her place once for all among the foremost free nations of the world or that she will sink to defeat and be come a secondrate power alike in thought and Tn action. This is q day of her reckoning and every man among us must personally face that reckoning along with her.
 "The case needs no arguing. l as- sume that I am only expressing your own thoughts-what must be in the mind of every true man when he faces the tragedy and the solemn glory of the present war, for the emancipation of mankind.
 "I summon you to q great duty, a great privilege, q shining dignity and dlstinction I shall expect every man who is not stacker to be at my side throughout this great enterprise. In 1t no man can win honor who thinks of himself"
 A patent has been issued for per. forated towel rack for bath rooms that can be connected to faucet by rubber tube and used as a bath spray.
 Electrically controlled oilers for moving machinery have been invented, several of which can be operated from centrally located switchboard.
 Japan harvested more than 296, ,000,. 900 bushels of rice last year, an in
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