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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Little Riders That
Make for Waste


Make for Waste
And not all the opportunities for
operating skill, just wage awards,
and business foresight are vested in
the people. Left to themselves to
work out, no one could doubt that
the affairs of army and navy would
be dispatched with high ability and
wisdom. So now, with much dis
trust. we find the houses of Congress
attaching to their appropriations
small riders which will effectually
prevent effective, tried-out methods
of scientific labor operation in gov
ernmental shops and plants. Ac-
cording to General Crozier, chief of
ordnance. adjustment of efficiency
methods by a premium system in the
arsenal at WATERFOWL has within a
few months time increased produc-
ton costs by two and two-tenths
times. Such national showings in
times when the standard days work
and individual efficiency have found
a place in all but archaic manufac-
tories, in days where every bit Of
man-power counts, is surely far from
stimulating. Political efficiency and
the elevation of the unfit are two Of
many things a democracy does not
require, in time of war especially.
Surprising your factory in order,
look at your office. Be sure that
when you 90 a logical head looks
after your business in the best in
terests of responsibility, frictionless
cooperation, loss of confusion, and
economy Of operation. See that your
well paid clerk is not intrusted with
q much used telephone that might as
we'll be placed beside the elbow of
stenographers, or that labor within
the reach of office boys at s. is done
by a man you pay $25 or $50 every
week for what he knows. Buy your
supplies by test, in common with
your fellow manufacturer. See that
your man who buys is not afraid to
learn from the man who uses, and
consider in passing the case Of the
factory that had its prospects ex-
amined and employed by a watch
man. New help is a luxury, particu-
larly if it is temporary.
There arc not words enough to
amplify efficiency, for it spreads
across a thousand fields. The man
who through self-help and rigid self
examination is unable to decide the
sort Of business tonic that he wants
would better get a scientific super
intendent or director for it. The for
ward-looking expert will become, if
he be personally proficient, not alone
ar organization engineer for the
present, but a prognosticator also as
to which way the current of business
is bound 10 flow in future. Efficiency
in 1917 is not the sort of dodge"
used by the ever-ready sideshow man
Of fifty years ago when he used more
water in lemonade to cope with a
thirsty crowd. Efficiency in 1917
does not leave the empty or unpleas-
ant taste in the mouth of business.
| Il leaves it clear, and it prepares for
more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Along the Road
To the Capital

Some day, in travelling from Bal
timore to Washington, look out at
the persistently unfruitful aspect of
the land that lies between the ma
tional capital and Baltimore. Mary
land, as our states 90, is most fer
tile, well-tilled region, yet parallel
ing this run is mile upon mile Of as
desolate, brush-growing land as one
could wish to miss. | could not help
remarking it the other day. In New
York State, along the Central, lies
more of it, much more; and if in
the well-peopled sections Of the East
and South you see such natural mis-
adventures it is useless 10 expect too
much Of sparsely settled sections Of
the West, where rich, productive for
esta have been wiped out clean, and
wrctched looking lands turned over
TO the state because they are not
worth their salt in taxes.
SO runs the story Of the waste in
but one industry, and instances in
this and many others mount up so
fast that it is idle to recount them.
More germane is il 10 look for RENE
dies, and, when seen. applying them
forthwith. We might add that laws
in all the statcs-instead Of only in
d very few, as Connecticut, Michi-
gan, Now York, Pennsylvania and
Nnrrrn,-- --uLich Crcourave Mnolc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Refining Capacity
ully Employed

The refining capacity Of various
leading companies, although largely
increased in the last eighteen months,
is susceptible to further expansion,
but this cannot take place overnight.
The record amount of refined copper
produced in this country in any one
month was 200,000,00O pounds last
December, when work in all the
plants operated was brought under
high pressure. In March, owing to
labor difficulties, unfavorable wealth
er and the inability of the railroads
TO furnish adequate transportation
facilities, the production fell TO $780,
100000 pounds. Since then condi-
ticns have improved, though opera
tons at the present time are much
hampered by the scarcity and high
cost of labor, and in May ls5,000,OO0
pounds of refined copper were turned
out. At this rate the domestic re-
fireries are caring for practically
every pound Of ore being shipped
from the mines and smelters.
Domestic consumers. especially
factories working on orders for sup
Flies intended either for this govern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
mot BUSINESS AS USUAL,
BUT BUSINESS AT ITS BEST
To Grasp the Opportunity Enter Upon Wider Field Of Usefulness
Opened by the War; the Nation Must Put Its Workshop
In Order and Look Well t. the Elimination Of Waste

itv that made a market for your
product are the sine qua non of mod
ern manufacture. Remember that
real. four-sided efficiency in man
apement is generally the equivalent
to-day Of the difference between a
loss or profit in the conduct Of your
business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Mining Projects
Are Stimulated

Competitive buying on an unpar-
alleled scale resulting from the UNI
usual demands for war purposes has
caused an extraordinary advance in
the price Of the metal, and this in
turn has stimulated production in all
paSts of the world to an extent which
the shrewdest mining engineers had
rct anticipated. Mines which had
been abandoned because they could
no longer be operated proftably on
the basis of the low price prevailing
for copper before the war have re-
opened and are yielding their owners
large returns.
Great strides have been made in
the development of copper mining
projects in South American coun-
tries, particularly in Chile, where
American interests have acquired
vast holdings of copper producing
claims. Some of these properties,
owing to their disadvantageous loca-
tion high up in the mountains and
the lack Of transportation to ship
ring points on the coast, are oper-
atcd at what is regarded as excessive
cost, and yet they have found plenty
e inducement 20 increase their out
put. At the same time the growth
of production in the United States
has surpassed all calculations. Last
year it amounted TO no less than
$4,000 tons. compared with $4,000
fms IN 101I while the world nro.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Britain Acts to
Control Market

The steady rise in prices and the
increasing difficulty of obtaining sup
plies prompted the British authcri-
ties several months ago TO take dras-
tic action in bringing the English
market under control. Embargoes
were placed on trading in such way
as to put an end to speculation and
to restrain the consumption of cop
per for purposes other than govern.
ment requirements.
Whether the United States will see
a necessity for taking similar action
is a question which is under serious
discussion in the copper trade at the
moment. The promptness with which
the leading producing interests re-
sponded TO the governments first cal
for supplies has apparently relieved
the tension Of the immediate situation
and smoothed the way for the nego'
tiation of future requirements.
The price the government is to pay
for its copper, as might be expected
assumes an important place in such
discussions, but of more vital inter
est is the question whether the Amer
lean producers, after providing for
the wants of the army and navy, will
be able to continue supplying our
allies in Europe on the same tremen-
dous scale as heretofore without de-
priving domestic consumers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

scription. and see that the knowI-
edge and ability of America plus the
needs of the world should equal OPP
portunity.
Signs of the
Awakening
And there is real encouragement
about TO show that this Is so.
It may be so, for it is far
" in the air, in the way that
old, abandoned lands are bloom
ing out to crops. or the tennis court
Of yesterday become the cabbage
patch to-day; in the way that city
lots which some time held a small
ranshackle building which used up
half its ground are growing up and
nearly overnight, to tall skyscrapers
which fiji full every foot Of it. Old
lots are giving way to crops, bill
boards to useful buildings. idleness
and waste to BUSINESS; and
Brains, Money and System are back
ing it all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

coo tons in the year during which
the war was declared and a little
over 100000 tons in 1912.
The high prices obtained for their
increased output has made it possible
for companies operating the low
cost mines to pay out millions Of dol
lars to stockholders in extra dividends
in addition to setting aside funds
sufficient to defray the cost of ex-
banding their plants.
Large Profits Made
By Spectators
Active speculation characterized
the development of the demand for
copper in the early months Of the
war. At that time there were large
surplus stocks of the metal, both in
this country and abroad, especially in
England. The first impulse on the
part of many holders was to sell out,
because they thought the war would
cause general industrial depression.
IN October, 1914, the extremely low
average price Of LAO cents a pound
for electrolytic copper was estab-
lished in the New York market.
Then the true meaning of the war
began to reveal itself. In the next
few months orders for hundreds OF
millions of dollars worth of munitions
were placed In this country for the
account of Great Britain and her al
lies. One of the first needs of the in
custries receiving these contracts
was copper.
Spectators who had anticipated
this demand were rewarded for their
foresight, as consumers in June,
1915, did not hesitate to pay as high
as 1871 cents pound for the
copper they required to fill war or
ders. After a reaction to 1922 cents
in August the price resumed its up
ward trend at an accelerated pace,
and did not pause until the high av-
erage of 1884 cents was made last
December.
All this while the surplus stocks
which were changing from the hands
of one group of spectators to an
other had steadily dwindled, and de-
spite the increasing production the
world over the shortage Of refined
ccrper became acute. The spot sup
ply, in fact, all but disappeared from
the market, while the leading pro-
ducers had sold heavily for forward
delivery. At the close of 1916 they
had sold most Of their prospective
output for the first half Of this year.
Such sales included contracts from
Great Britain, France, Russia and
Italy for copper to be delivered at the
rate Of 100000 pounds a month
over a period of six months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
panU Of Cincinnati.


Manufacturing plants in this district
philadelphia Federal Reserve Dis
trictl have continued to operate as
nearly to capacity as the supply of
labor and materials would permit since
the entrance OF the United States into
the war. A slowing IN is noticeable,
however, in retail trade and among the
jobbers Of wearing apparel of all kinds,
due 70 extremely high prices, unsea-
sonable weather. the economy cam
paign, and the fact that most consum-
ers are pretty we'll supplied. Some of
the department stores have been COM
PEELED 70 reduce their stats of en-
poyes because of curtailed sales.
Business men are not greatly per-
turbed over the war situation, although
they fully realize its seriousness. De-
mand for iron and steel, arms and
munitions, food and clothing, ships and
other products necessary for the main
tenance of armies and the transporta-
ton Of supplies must continue. When
domestic demand becomes lighter in
such lines as wearing apparel. IL is
more than Offset by the government
requirements. The mills are kept run
ming and labor remains fully employed.
The sufferers from the change are the
wholesale and retail distributing houses.
Federal Reserve BanH Of Philadelphia.
Taxation hurts comparatively little
in war time. but will hurt much when
peace brings its difficult problems; and
the more we are taxed now the more
quickly we shall be relieved hereafter.
Taxation is the remedy for extrava-
gance and imitation. which increase the
cost Of the war. impair our financial
strength and our national effort. and
will again react unfavorably on our
after-war position. Taxation m war
time cannot be TOO high as long rs IL
does not impair the health and eff
cheney OF those on whom II is imposed;
because IL either produces revenue.
every possible pound Of which is
wanted or else IL reduces consumption,
and so sets free labor and energy 20 do
things wanted FOR the waffle (L0H-
dom Economist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Resources, and How
To Waste Them

By way Of resources, there % a
great industry that takes first place
In America n number Of establish
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
Press Ganu at Church.

The cursory examinations which
many recruits allegG they received in
the earlier days of the war were far
greater tests Of endurance and STAN
ina than the recruit of so years ago
was wont to receive. In those days,
if man could count all his limbs and
had sufficient teeth to enable him to
crunch the hard army biscuits and salt
beef, or bite off the end Of cartridge
before putting it into his old Brown
Bess. he was certain of being accepted.
In earlier times, however, there was
no pretense at medical examination at
all. When Queen Elizabeth resolved
to assist in raising the siege of Calais
in 1896, the lord mayor and aldermen
of London received instructions to
raise a thousand men for this service,
and on Easter Sunday they proceeded
to several churches with their con-
stables, fastened the doors, and select
ed from the congregation the number
of men required. Without any medical
examination they were equipped and
sent to .Dover-Tit-Bits.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
TYPICAL American Eloouence.

Following is the peroration of
speech delivered in an intercollegiate
oratorical contest in central Kentucky,
1896:
standing upon the last decade of
the grandest century ever measured by
the flight of worlds, I dipt into the
future as far as human eye could see;
saw the vision Of the world and the
wonder that would be- saw the Amer
lean continent formed; saw it the
great sun of the solar system of ma
lions around which all revolved, giving
life and liberty to each and prosperity
and happiness to all; saw its ports
filled with the argosies of commerce;
it's brow blooming with the wreath of
science; the breath of heaven blessing
its flag; yet, in the vigor and buoy
ancy of youth, scorning pessimism and
decay, marching ever onward to the
accomplishment of it's grand and glo-
rious stiny."-Exchange
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
WRITTEN BEFORE TIE WAR
Impressive Fact in Nature Is Stiffness
and Quiet on Earth, Says Observa-
tory Director z. L. Larlin.

One of the most impressive facts in
nature is the stiffness and quiet here
on earth, writes Edgar Lucien Larkin,
director of Mount Lowe observatory.
Ancient roarings, thunderings of pent-
up potential of electricity, the terrific
energy of heat, the exploding surfaces
of millions of suns so many times
larger and energetic than our sun,
itself 100000 times larger than the
earth, had to be hushed down into a
stiffness, quietude and silence to make
ready for that amazing event, the Gre
alton of life on worlds, revolving
around genial suns, giving out life-sus-
tanning light and tempered heat.
None can imagine this perfect bal
ance of titanic forces, for, with slight
increase or decrease of the suns radi-
ant energy, all life on earth would van
ish. How accurate the adjustment of
mighty powers, that living things,
where imminent death always turks,
could even appear and then survive.
The mere item of the careful adjust
ment of the heat energy output Of
the sun for reception and use of the
most delicate organisms on land and
in the sea, this even balance is beyond
Imagination, and one of the marvels
of the careers Of the earth and man.
With the creation of life on earth,
Mind Supreme appears, so far as man
is able to see,- rested and retired.
There is no trace Of the action of the
Original Mind now On earth. The 603
laws Of nature, their force, is all that
can be detected in action now.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
BUFFALO WAGES GAME FIGHT
Wounded Animal Gives Battle Royal to
Huntsmen When He Is Poked
in the Eye.

An exciting story is told OF party
who went buffalo shooting in Zuzuland
recently. During the course Of the
holiday a buffalo was shot early one
morning. The party saw the animal
drop, and as it did not move, decided
to deal with it later in the day. Re-
turning in the afternoon they saw the
buffalo from a distance, apparently in
the same position as they left it. One
of the hunters went out to the buffalo,
and on reaching it poked stick in it's
eye. This had the effect of restoring
animation in the animal, which was
only badly wounded, and a warm time
thereupon ensued for the gentleman in
question.
The buffalo jumped up and tackled
the hunter, who hung round the neck
Of the buffalo in the hope of firing it
out. When the other members of the
party arrived the buffalo and his foe
were whirling round at such a rate,
that it was impossible to get shot in
without endangering the life of the lat
ter. The buffalo tried to stamp the
man to the ground with his fOrefeet,
and at last lifted him with a terrible
toss of it's horns into a thorn-tree near
by. This gave the other men the
chance of a shot, and the buffalo's
career finally terminated.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
A Stitch In Time.
Edgerton People Should Not Neg
lect Their Kidneys.

No kidney ailment is unimportant.
Don't overlook the slightest backache
or urinary irregularity. Nature may be
warning you of approaching dropsy,
gravel or Bright's disease. Kidney
disease is seldom fatal if treated in
time, but neglect may pave the way.
Don't neglect a lame or aching back
another day. Don't ignore dizzy spells,
headaches, WEAKNESS or depression. If
you feel you need kidney help begin
using the reliable. time tried remedy,
Doan's Kidney Pills. For so years
Doan's have been found effective. En-
dorsed by grateful people.
Mrs. Mohns, 80 N. Academy street,
GAINESVILLE, Wis, says: 81 was suffer
ing from an attack of kidney trouble.
| began using Doan's Kidney Pills and
about one box cured me-
NO TROUBLE SINCE.
Over four years later Mrs. Mohns
said: II haven't had trouble from my
kidneys since Doan's Kidney Pills cured
me.
Price 60c, at all dealers. DON'T sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy = get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Mohns had. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
END OF. AN ARMED ROBBER
Condemned Men in China, on Way to
Execution, Are Permitted to Stop
at. All Wine Shops.

One of the first sights which it was
my lot to gaze upon since coming here
was public exhibition of man con-
victed Of robbery under arms being led
forth to execution, correspondent of
the North China Daily News writes
from Pakow. We were inside the house
when we heard the sound of the yard
long trumpets in the street and going
to the door beheld procession pass
ing arrayed in the glory Of old China,
with it's triangular shaped flags and
honorific sign-bOards, together with a
touch here and there of Western
ideas.
There were probably 200 soldiers in
the parade and they carried modern
rifles and, minus the cue, looked pass
able if rather slovenly in their car
riage. Some officers rode horses and
were clad in semiforeign garments.
Our attention, however, was particu-
larly directed to the man who was to
die, who was coming along at the end
Of the line. His cart, the ordinary long
goods cart, had stopped for a minute
or two before it came to where I was
standing and on inquiry found that it
had paused in front of a wine shop,
it being the custom here that the con-
vict should stop at any or all the wine
shops en- route to the execution ground
and drink all he wanted free Of CHARGE
By the time the man in his cart passed
me he appeared to be indeed drunk
and was muttering incoherently as a
man will when he is pretty deep in his
cups. He looked like any other SIM
pie countryman and one could not but
pity him in view Of the fact that he
was soon to be thrust unprepared into
the presence Of the Eternal Judge.
The execution ground was the river
side and just outside the town, and the
business which took the crowd there
was soon dispatched, for although did
not go to see the spectacle heard the
trumpets announcing the return of the
troops about 20 minutes afterward.
| am told by one who knows that the
body is not buried, but dragged into
the shade of a small clump of trees
near by and vultures and dogs soon
dispose of it.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-02
Fort Atkinson.

The Murphy Construction Co. has
completed the work of constructing a
concrete pavement on S. Water St.
east and the thoroughfare will soon be
opened to traffic.
Farmers who have clover seed to sell
this fall will realize handsome for
tune as it is now SIP bushel and still
advancing. Under normal conditions
clover seed is worth six to seven dol
lars bushel.
Miss Kathryn Carnes, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Carnes, SOB Washington st.
and Walter J. Nichols of Koshkonong
were married at Whitewater last Sat-
urday evening at o'clock. They will
live on farm in the town of Koshko-
nOng.
Much excitement was caused about
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon when a
Ford truck owned and driven by Henry
Kreklow of Cold Spring crashed into
the team and wagon of Fred Sengbusch
also of Cold Spring. The machine hit
the wagon glancing blow, tipping it
over and throwing Sengbusch out onto
the pavement. The team broke away,
made wild dash into Wicke's alley
and circled the Mrs. Sophia Slagg house
twice before being caught. The wagon
was slightly damaged and Sengbusch
received a few scratches about his
face. One of the horses fell down and
was dragged a considerable distance by
the other, but, fortunately, was not
injured.