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Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01

be mitigated II we can exert strong
control and this in many directions.
We are today in an era of high
| prices. We must maintain prices at
such a level as will stimulate produc-
tion, for we are faced by starving
|, world and the value of commodity to
! the hungry Is greater than its price.
AS a result Of the world shortage Of
supplies, our consumers have suffered
from speculation and extortion. While
wages for some kinds of labor have
increased with the rise in food prices,
in others, it has been difficult to main
tain our high standard of nutrition.
By the elimination of waste in all
classes, by the reduction in the con-
sumption of foodstuffs by the more for
tunate, we shall increase our supplies
not only for export but for home, and
| by increased supplies we can Help In
the amelioration of prices.
For Better Distribution.
Beyond this the duty has been laid
upon the food administration to Coop
crate with the patriotic men in trades
and commerce, that we may eliminate
the evils which have grown into our
system of distribution, that the bur-
den may fall equitably upon all by res
toration, so far as may be, of the nor
NAL course of trade. 1t Is the purpose
of the food administration to use It's
utmost power and the utmost ability
that patriotism can assemble to ameli-
crate this situation to such q degree as
may be possible.
The food administration Is assem-
bling the best expert advice in the
country on home economics, on food
utilization, on trade practices and
trade wastes, and on the conduct Of
public eating places, and we shall out
line from time to time detailed sugges-
tions, which If honestly carried out by
such individuals In the country, we be-
lieve will effect the result which we
must attain. We are asking every
home, every public eating place and
many trades, to sign q pledge card
to accept these directions, so far as
their circumstances permit, and we are
organizing VARIOUS Observation-Disclosures 10
ameliorate speculation. We are ask
ing the men Of the country who are
not actually engaged in the handling
Of food to sign similar pledges that
they shall see to 1t, so far as they are
able, that these directions are followed.
and this Is the essence of democracy
itself.
Autocracy finds its strength in its
ability to impose organization by
force from the top. The essence Of
democracy consists In the application
of the initiative in its own people. If
individualism cannot be so organized
as to defend itself, then democracy is
a faith which cannot stand. We are
seeking to impose no organization from
the top. We are asking the American
people to organize from the bottom up
The call Of patriotism, of humanity
and of duty rings clear and insistent
We must heed it if we are to defend
our ideals, maintain our form If gov
ernment, and safeguard our future wei
fare
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
Examination Notice

The examining board will hold
eXamations for teachers as fol-
lows:
For white teachers beginning
at o'clock P. M Sept. 6 ard con-
tinuing thru the week and begin
ming at the same hour on Sept.
20, and going thru the week,
Colored teachers will report
at l O'Clock Sept. 13 and balance
of the week for 1st examination,
and 2nd, the same hour on Sept.
81 and remainder Of that week.
Those that take professional
examination may notify me 10
days before any of above dates.
G. Fl. Bass,
Supt.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
President To Control
Exports

Washington, Aug. 3O.-Presi-
dent Wilson tonight issued a
proclamation which gives the
government control over every
possible commodity exported
from the United States.
1t is the most drastic step for
economy control taken by any
nation during the war. The
president, in a statement accom-
panying the proclamation, insists
that he aims at control and not
at the actual stoppage of exports.
But the manner in which the
proclamation is divided makes
it's purp ose certain.
All articles of commerce must
be licensed for, export to enemy
countries ~ the countries of
the European neutrals. This
will give the United States for
the first time control over GER
tain munitions and money sent
to the neutrals. The list of com
modities for which license is
required for exports to the rest
of the world is widely extended.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
hOINLMIEnICAC CAN
FEED ITS ALLIES
~'mpcrtant Message to People
From Herbert c. Hoover,
Administrator.
WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED
Increased Production, Elimination of
Waste and Careful Control of Food
Exports Form the Solution
of This War Problem.

Washington. Aug. 20.-What the peo-
pie of the United States not only can
but must do in the matter of food pro-
ductiOn and use in order to help win
the war is set forth in detail in q
statement issued today by Food Ad-
ministrator Herbert G. Hoover. If we
fail to do our part in this respect, he
says, the people of the allies cannot be
maintained at war, for their soldiers
cannot fight without food.
The normal imports OF wheat and
other cereals by France, Italy, the
United Kingdom and Belgium, and the
estimates of the 1917 crop in those
countries compared to the normal pro-
duction are given by Mr.. Hoover in
tabulated form, and the conclusion is
drawn that in order tosprovide normal
consumption it will be necessary
for them to import in the next u
months 577,000,000 bushels of wheat
and GT4.90G, ,090 bushels of other cere-
ais. IF the crops OF the United States
and Canada all mature safely, North
America Will have an apparent sur
plus of 208,0G0000 bushels of wheat
and 950,000,009 bushels of other cere-
ais. The allies, therefore, must use
other cereals than wheat for mixing
in their war bread, and the people of
America must reduce their consump-
ton Of wheat -four from five to four
pounds per week per person.
Decrease in Food Animals.
A careful estimate of the worlds
food animal position shows a total net
decrease of 115,005000, and this will
be greater as the war goes on. AS
the increase of herds and flocks takes
years, we must reduce the consump-
ton, eliminate waste and carefully con-
troll meat exports.
Our home dairy products supplies
are decreasing While our population is
increasing, and we must ship in
creasing amounts of such products to
our allies. Consequently this indus
try must be stipulated, and home
users must save the wastes in milk and
butter. Much the same may be said in
the case of sugar.
Mr. Hoover urges q greater con-
sumption of fish and sea foods, IN
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
BiIbO will Not
Help Harrison

Any statement to the effect
that | am going to line up in my
race for representative in con-
gress from the sixth district
with any candidate for the Uni
ted States Senate in next years S
campaign is absolutely unauthor-
lied and unwarranted," declared
Gov. Bilbo Tuesday.
Governor Bilbo was in his
office early in the forenoon, and
was IN his blithe and CHEEKY
humor, when questioned as to
the verify Of published state
ments that he would line his
support to Representative Har-
rison, a candidate for senator.
In this connection, the governor
stated:
You may say that in regard
to my candidacy, that in due
time [ will issue statement
outlining my position on current
and pertinent issues of the dav
that are before the people of the
country and the world. This. I
expect to do without any regard
any race or contest other than
that which | propose to enter,
that for the Udited States Sen
ate included.
I have my own convictions in
regard to the war and what
it has brought about, and on
national conditions generally. /
shall not hesitate to express
myself on such matters in a way
which I hope will be clear and
explicit, to show where | stand
on these great and mOmentous
issues that are before the coun
try. | have my own row to hoe,
and will go before the people Of
my district on my own merits
and record, and will not under
take to carry on any otner mans
fight.
In regard to the senatorial
race [ do not even know what
the makeup will be, or who will
be in it. I am a friend of Mr..
Harrison and am also friend of
Senator Vardaman, but shall
keep hands off the matter, as l
have said, and at the proper time
will enter actively into the cam
paign, and look after my own
candidacy as well as can.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
FIoover's F FoodMessage To The People

There IS no royal road to food con-
servation. We can only accomplish
this by the voluntary action of our
whole people, each element in proper
ton to its means. 1t is q matter Of
equality of burden; a matter of min
ute saving and substitution at every
point in the 20,000,00O kitchens, on the
2O000,000 dinner tables and in the
1000 600 manufacturing, wholesale and
retail establishments of the country.
The task is thus in it's essence the daily
individual service of all the people.
Every group can substitute and even
the great majority of thrifty people
can save q little-and the more luXuri-
Gus elements of the population can by
reduction to simple living save much.
The final result of substituting other
products and saving one pound Of
wheat -four two ounces of fats, seven
ounces of sugar and seven ounces of
meat weekly, by each person, will,
when we have multiplied this by one
hundred million, have increased our
exports to the amounts absolutely re-
quired by our allies. This means no
more than that we should eat plenty,
but eat wisely and without waste.
Food conservation has other aspects
of utmost Importance. Wars must be
paid for by savings. We must save
in the consumption in commodities and
the consumption of unproductive la
Dor in order that we may divert our
manhood to the army and to the shops.
If by the reduction in consumption of
labor and the commodities that it pro-
duceS and the diversion of this saving
to that labor and those commodities
demanded by the war; we shall be able
to fight to eternity. We can mortgage
cur future savings for a little while,
but a piling up of mortgages is but
short step toward bankruptcy. Every
atom that we save is available for sub
scription to Liberty bonds.
The whole of Europe has been en-
gagged ever since the war began in the
elimination of waste, the simplification
of life, apd the increase of it's indus
trial capacity. When the war is over
the consuming power Of the world will
be reduced by the loss of prosperity
and man power, and we shall enter
period of competition without parallel
in ,ferocity. After the war, we must
maintain our foreign markets If our
working people are to be employed.
We shall be in no position to compete
If we continue to live on the same
basis of waste and extravaganza on
which we have lived hitherto. Simple,
temperate living is moral issue of the
first order at any time, and any other
basis of conduct during the war be-
comes a wrong against the interest Of
the country and the interest Of
democracy.
The impact of the food shortage of
Europe has knocked at every door of
the United States during the past three
years. The prices of fOOdstuffs have
nearly doubled, and the reverberatiOns
of Europe's increasing shortage would
have Numbered twice as loudly dur
ing the coming year even had we not
entered the war, and it can now only
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
Has a High Opinion of
Chamberlain Tablets

~ have been selling Chamberlain g
Tablets for about two years and hear
such good report from my curtomers
that concluded to give them tria
myself, and can say that do not be
lieve there is another preparation of
the kind equal to them," write G. A.
Mcbride, Headford, Ont. If you are
troubled with indigestion or constipation
givethema trile. They will do you good.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
81 Billion Dollars
Is Asked For

Congress is being asked to
raise twenty. one billion dollars,
to be expended during the next
year by the government.
Ten billion to be used for war
purposes. seven billion to loan
the allies. two billion for cur.
rent expenses and two billion as
a reserve fund.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
Some Time

You will be in need OF
printing of some kind.
Whether it be letter
heads, statements we'd
ding invitations or
public sale bills, re-
member we can turn
out the work at the
lowest cost consistent
with good work,
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
lesa essaGE'OlniiZe !

Hle merchants who ad-
vertiso IL this paper.
TheyWill treat you right.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
Our Duty.


Our Duty.
In conclusion the food administrator
says:
have endeavored to show in previ-
Gus articles that the world is short of
food; that Europe is confronted with
the grim Specter of starvation unless
from our abundance and our waste we
keep the wolf from the door. Not only
must we have proper use of our food
supply in order that we may furnish
our allies with the sinews with which
they may fight our battles, but it is
an act of humanity towards fellow
men, women and children.
BY the diversion of millions of men
from production to war, by the occu-
patton of land by armies, by the iso-
lation of markets, by belligerent fines,
and by the destruction of shipping by
submarines, not only has the home pro-
duction of our allies fallen by over
5O0,0O0,000 bushels of grain, but they
are thrown upon us for much larger
proportion of their normal imports for
merly obtained from other markets.
They have reduced consumption at
every point but men in the trenches,
men in the shops, and the millions of
women placed at physical labor re-
quire more food than during peace
times, and the incidence of their saving
and any shortage which they may suf-
fer, falls first upon women and chill
dren. If this privatiOn becomes too
great their peoples cannot be main
tanned constant in the war, and we will
be left alone to fight the battle Of
democracy with Germany.
The problem of food conservation is
one of many compilations. We cannot,
and we do not wish, with our free in
stitutions and our large resources of
food, to initiate Europe in its pOliced
rationing, but we must voluntarily and
intelligently assume the responsibility
before US as one in which everyone
has direct and inescapable interest.
We must increase our export of foods
to the allies, and in the circumstances
of our shipping situation, these exports
must be of the most concentrated
foods. These are wheat, flour, beef,
pork and dairy products. We have 9th
er foods in great abundance which we
can use instead of these commodities,
and we can prevent wastes in a thou
sand directions. We must guard the
drainage of exports from the United
States, that we retain proper supply
for our own country, and we must
adopt such measures as will amelio-
rate, so far as may be, the price condi-
tions of our less fortunate. We might
so drain the supplies from the country
to Europe as by the high prices that
would follow to force our people to
shorten their consumption. This oper-
alton of normal economic forces"
would starve that element of the COM
munity to whom we owe the most pro-
lection. We must try to impose the
burden equally upon all.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
Uncle Sam Is Callinq

-aFor scientific farmers, expert
steaograpbers and trained house.
wives.
Take a course IN the Harrison
Stone Bi-County A. Fl. S. and
get ready for service when the
call comes to you.
Write for a catalog to ClaaGe
Bennett, Perkinsto ton, Miss.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01

which our coasts and lakes are enor-
mously rich. The products of the land,
he reminds us, are conserved by the
eating of those of the sea.
Our Duty.
In conclusion the food administrator
says:
have endeavored to show in previ
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1917-09-01

FOR SALE-25 acres of good
land, suitable for truck farming
Located near Wiggins. Apply at
Enterprise office for description
of land. D. B. Gibbons, Hastings,
Colorado.
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Salesman Wanted

Lubricating oil, grease. sspe-
cialties. paint. Part or whole
time. Commission basis until
ability is established. Man with
rig preferred.
RIVERSIDE REFINING co.
Cleveland, Ohio.
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The
Advertised
Article

is one in which the mer-
chant himself has implicit
faith-else he will not ad-
vertise it. You are safe in
patronizing the mer-
chants whose ads appear
in this paper because their
goods are up to date and
not shop worn. !: ::
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-03
Switzerland In Charge

Washington, Feb g. Switzerland
has taken over Gcrany's interests in
the United States, Ambassador Won
Bemstopff said today.
Bernstorff got into touch with DR..
Ritter, Swiss minister, as soon as he
received the news of the break through
the press. AT that time he had not yet
been officially notified.
He made arrangements to cover all
immediate details with Or. Ritter. The
latter win call upon Secretary of State
Lansing as soon as notification of
Bcnstorff's recall has been given the
Teuton envoy, to discuss with Lansing
the details of his new inteests.
Too all questions this morning, Bern
stoff replied:
"Please ask the Swiss minister
am only 4 private citizen I have no
right 10 talk for my government now.
HAs a private citizen | have never
desired to talk. y
When asked respecting the details of
his coming journey, and of the transfer
of Germany's interests to Switzer-
lands minister, Bernstorff said:
II don't know This is the first eX-
perience of this kind in my life, and
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-03
By Ed L. Keen.
nited Press staff correspondent.


NoHi'eu rIess s'oll coriesPoh"eii'')
Loadon, Feb. 3.-England s intense
interest in s'fwhat Aemrica is going to
do ohout II ,, wos manifest today in
~ -. -. 3la.;,a
ons loi1is! Vlii' t ~ ".14ot - p'i,9 nt
Io"o.'"'t' N 'ooen, l'i N 49,,
posoauol waiter iiliIeS ! ase' ~ ieSS
we 1t apparent III nfl'lsh neMsP'P.iS "
"S'iViI III suporulhatihs a., eNen 'ne IS p";
vi 'ne slluS.iot WIN Milien uie". eu,lo,i l'ii
5 e1lh Is ccnlten.eu IN tne new otiaI III
Sue VI lrlgntIuihesS 10 coPiouS ''''eu
"lSPi'.enes from -Ailerlea. IN,
~ eii,ianS "nliol'iceileil' .p VI ui.1ti,,
4 .Iu suo.l.aIllilnSs y hou lalieu " ! 49,
tne aNerase btltlshef: just such Il steI
n"s peeh antlcllateu lol lnoiitlS, It l"'
Teen PiePaleu loF W tne soN :! - 'iiLer haa
Detalied measures to compat IL nave
Tn S.I lons Piepareo, IreSs "io pun
allhe lnlpllcltly pelleFe these uil" u
neu"eeu iie' t1 measures WIN eilec'lNei9 H0i
tIe GERMAN scheme. ...
ASlue IRON the UerIlan--Niileile" n :
SITUATION, interest mere To-Day conferred
III 'hree deVeiopehts' flrSt was the Sus,
pension OF traffic from I3eahalnaSliI; M u ~
We" OF tfAs an appear from Lofu peN-
ouPort Tor economy IN rood ana colsei-
'atloh OF present supplles' assumed y
new importance. Lastly, me Whole en-
Plfe was Keyed TO attention 10 near
Mnat fremlef lAoyd-Ueorge Wouiu say
thls afternoon IN speech he was scneu
uiea 70 make at Carnaryoh, on ms llfst
VISIT TO ms nome town since ne became
prime munster OF England.
LORD DeVonpoft s appeal as 1000 CON
troiler was followed by the frank dec
laratlon that II his plea was not sue
ceSStNl IN establishing bettef CONDITIONS
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-03
Bill to Abolish Cigarettes
ShoUs Legislatures Tendency

injurious to adults, so too Is too much
meat, too much plu pudding, and even
too much exercise.
The principle, or lack Of il, of etern-
ally trying to eurtail the personal hber-
ty of the people, not for the public good,
but for their own alleged good is the
reprehensible tendency Of the times
The Puritans came to this country to
escape religious and political persecu-
tion and proceeded Immediately to per
seeute those who disagreed with them
worse than they themselves had been
prosecuted in England. Governor Endi-
cott shipped those back to England who
had the effronteTy to use the Episcopal
prayer book. He cut the red cross out
of the English flag because it reminded
him of the pope. Nobody was allowed
to vote unless he would first Join the
church. Religious frenzy finally re-
solved itself into the witchcraft excite
ment and people were hanged for "sell-
ing themselves to Satan The laws also
provided for a death penalty for Sab
bath breakers, though the statistics
showed that three.fourths of the set
tiers were not members of any church
Even the inoYfepsive Quakers were
'.deelared to be heretiesp and we're
driven from the colony. Roger Will
liams insisted that man who was not
a church member was not qualified to
take an oath. So he was shown the
error of his way by banishment The
same fate later befell Anne Hutchinson
because she dared to criticize the min
ister's sermons. She was officially de-
clared to be possessed of 1929 aceursed
opinions and completely given over to
Satan" So she was banished and her
husband with her. Later, when the first
attempt at uniting the colonies was
made, Rhode Island was refused admit
tance becaouse it had been founded by
these "heretics. ("
! All this is of course familiar history,
/ but is well to refresh our memories with
it occasionally. The spirit of intoler
ance is still abroad in the land, II
raises it venomous head in every legis-
lative body as well as every social or
ganization. Oregon recently showed it's
disapproval of blue laws attempting to
eurtail the personal liberties of the peo
pie, but nevertheless, marrow minded
| individuals win continue to show their
( ploNiucidusH W seehlhS " benu tue
habits and inclinations OF others to
their own way of thinking.
A majority of the people now coneede
the other fellow 3 right to his religious
and political beliefs and we are as q
rule fairly tolerant of them, but there
| is still an active minority, who seek to
eurtail personal liberty by Law, who
could probably trace their ancestry
back to the days when they either snug
gled up against the burning stake or
made others do so in order to convince
them of the error of their way.
It's a funny world.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-03
PRESIDENT STATES POSITION TO CONGRESS

the method Of procedure is therefore
new TO ne"
He ioeularly suggested that perhaps
SO many ships ''kept in American
ports he would be sure to have some
boat to take him home.
As soon as DR.. Ritter learned that
Bernstofff had been inquiring for him
at the Swiss legation. he Immediately
called at the German embassy and the
two diplomats talked over the question
of tranSferenee.
Whether Switzerland will take Over
German interests in England and Rus
sia. now represented by the United
States, -Benstorff was not prepared to
say.
"Good morning, boys was the smil.
ing greeting Won Bernstorff gave the
score Cf new spapermen who called at
the embassy after the news of the
break became known.
Bemstorff, always suave, always po
lite and apparently never worried, al
first frisked himself in and out Of
sight before any questions--and there
were hundreds ready-could be asked
He sent word he would "see YOU
boys later" When he did, he made
the Swiss announcement.
Bernstorff was the only calm man
at the Celman embassy. Every other
man made no effort to conceal his ex
citement.
Bernstorff was asked what would
happen if President Wilson, as report
ed, was given power by congress to
take necessary steps to protect Amer
lean life and property at sea.
He expressiyely shrugged his should
ers and said: "If American warShips
are going to convoy Americans to
Europe-well, I can't say what will
happen" "