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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
trenches and the men and women In the
munition factories may be maintained.
American Flags, by Proxy.

This war is a struggle to assure the
dominance of democracy. Every nag
that flies against the central powers Is
by proxy the American flag. Every
man in the ranks Of the allies, every
woman and child in Europe sacrificing
in the maintenance of these men, gre
fighting in our defense.
I'VE have in our abundance. and in
ou" waste. an ample supply to carry
ter without suffering. If we fail. 1t is
because individual American citizens
have failed to see and do this loyal ma
tional duty. This is a service in which
every man, woman and child in this
country may enter. We shall invite
all classes and all trades to sign vol
unteer pledge to cooperate with us in
the undertaking and so become as
much members of the food administra-
tion as we ourselves are.
There is no royal road to food con-
servation. 1t can be accomplished only
through sincere and earnest daily CO.
operation in the 10000, 900 kitchens and
at the 100000 dinner tables of the
United States. If we can reduce our
consumption of wheat flour by one
pound. our meat by seven ounces, our
fat by seven ounces, our sugar by
seven ounces per person per week.
coo. will UNNECESSARILY aid and encour-
age our allies. help our growing armies
and so effectively serve the great and
noble cause of humanity in which our
nation has embarked.
This cooperation and service l
ask of all in full confidence that Amer
lea will render more for flag and free
dom than king-ridden peoples surren-
der at compulsion."
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BASED ON high AUTHORITY
Samuel Gompers Says Food Control
Law Will Not Hamper Labor.

NEW YORK. August 11.-Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. assured the Central FEEDER
ated Union of Greater New York. in a
telegram received last night. that the new
food control law would not operate to the
detriment of labor. In his telegram Mr..
Gompers said the American Federation
did not try to hold up the food bill for
these easons:
The Supreme Court had held that pri-
waite individuals could not institute legal
proceedings under the antitrust laws.
The civil sundry appropriations bill car
ries no appropriation for the judicial de-
partment that can be used to prosecute
labor unions.
The assurance was given "by high
authority that section Of the food bill
would not be interpreted as applying to
the normal activities of labor unions
The federation will have introduced as
a separate bill a provision stating that
this section shall not be construed as re-
placing the labor sections of the Clayton
antitrust act.
These assurances take in the chief OBJ
jections that have been urged by labor
organizations to the passage of the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
Depicting American Markets.

France and Italy formerly produced
their own sugar, while England and
Ireland imported largely from Ger
many. Owing to the inability of the
first-named to produce more than one
for the others to import from other
markets they all must come to the
West Indies for very large supplies and
therefore deplete our own resources
Because of the shortage of shipping
only the most concentrated of foods.
wheat. grain, beef. pork and dairy prod
ucts and sugar can be sent across the
seas. Fortunately. we have for our own
use a superabundance of foodstuffs of
other kinds-the perisha bles fish, corn
and other cereats-and surely our first
manifest duty is to substitute these for
those other products which are o.:
greater use to our fellow fighters. Our
second duty is to eliminate wastes to
the last degree. Seventy per cent of our
people are well known to be as thrifty
and careful as any in the world and
they consume but little or no more than
is necessary to maintain their physical
strength. They can, however. substi-
tute foods as above. 1t is not too much
to ask the other thirty per cent. by
simpler living. to reduce their consump-
ton. The substitutions we ask impose
no hardships and the elimination of
waste is today no more than a patriotic
service.
Every ounce OF waste is a contribu-
ton toward starvation. Our allies have
reduced consumption by the most dras-
tic measures, but it is impossible to
reduce consumption to those in war
work and engaged in other physical
labor.
therefore the incidence of this
drastic reduction among our allies falls
upon the old people and the women and
children, and any shortage in the sup
niles we may send them will fall upon
this class and this class only. for until
they are reduced to starvation they
themselves will insist every sacri-
flee in order that their fighters in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
THEATER USHER HELD ON
ENLIGHTENMENT CHARGE
F. A. Williams Are 5ted in Balti-
more Pleads Guilty to Taking
$3.50 of Poll CASA.

Possession of $780, entrusted to him
to deposit in bank. it is charged. proved
so tempting to Frederick 4. Williams,
twenty years old, 63s Orleans place
northeast. that he neglected to perform
his duty and disappeared He was en-
ployed as usher at Polls Theater and
the money was given to him by his
employer to bank.
Yesterday afternoon he was arrest
ed in Baltimore by Detective Berman
and brought here to answer a charge
of embezzlement. His story to Detect
i've Berman was that he visited a road
house in Maryland and from there he
went to New York.
On Broadway he went automobiling
with young lady, he stated, and in
the morning when he awoke he had
barely enough money left to pay his
fare as far as Baltimore. This morn
ing the young man was photographed
at police headquarters.
Later he appeared in Police Court.
where he pleaded guilty, and was held
in $500 bond to await the action of
the grand jury.
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H. c. Hoover Tells the Aims
of the Food Administration
Under the Law lust Passed

After President Wilson had issued an
executive order last evening creating
the food administration and naming
Herbert c. Hoover as the head of it,
Mr.. Hoover issued a statement telling
what the administration hopes to ac-
complish.
He summarized the immediate pur-
poses OF the organization in the fol-
lowing words:
First, to so guide the trade in the
fundamental food commodities as to
eliminate vicious speculation extortion
and wasteful practices and to stabilize
prices in the essential staples.
Second. to guard our exports so
that against the worlds shortage we
retain sufficient supplies for our own
people and to cooperate with the allies
to prevent imitation of prices.
Third. that we stimulate in every
manner within our power the saving OF
our food in order that We may increase
exports 40 our allies to a point which
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Getting Machinery Ready.

Likewise the Department of Agricul-
ture. in most of its bureaus, has been
arduously at work setting up the ma
chinery which began to move today in
an unprecedented campaign for in
creased production. for more efficient
distribution and for the national sur
vey of food supplies. for which about
s2.500.O00 of the s11.00O,000 will be ex-
pended.
This food survey is in itself an enor-
nous task. 1t contemplates not only an
estimate of the total acreage and pro-
ductive capacity of soil under cultiva =
ton, and of land available for cultiva :
ton, but il looks to complete itemiza :
ton ofall the food now on hand in the
United States. as well as the determine
ton of a consumption ratio.
Arrangements for such survey have
been completed under the supervision
of departmental committee. The last
mentioned feature of the work will en-
tend into the kitchens and larders of
thousands of homes. Preparations also
have been made for that work 1t is
intended to select areas of few thou
sand representative families in various
sections of the country and send out
agents who will cooperate with house
wives in keeping an exact account of
the week by week consumption of all
foodstuffs in their homes. Thus Will be
determined not only the available food
supply and the capacity for expansion
of production. but the rate at which
food is being consumed in our own land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
LEGAL STAFF RESIGNS.
Lawyers Sever Connection With
Emergency Fleet Corporation.

The legal STAFF of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation has resigned. The staff was
composed of several lawyers of ma
tional prominence. serving voluntarily
They resigned. it is understood be-
cause of their sympathy with the views
of Gen. Cocktails. whose resignation as
general manager of the corporation
was accepted recently by the President.
The members of the legal staff were
George Rublee. former member of the
Federal Trade Commission; Joseph p
Cotton. George II. Savage and Charles
p. Rowland of New York, and Edward
B. Burling Of Chicago
The designations have been in effect
several days. but they were kept secret
until last night. The lawyers felt they
should leave their posts of duty on ac-
count of their sympathy with Gen.
Goethals, and thus give Admiral Capps,
the new general manager. free hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
DEFENDS SENATE REVISION.
Chairman Simmons, Debating War
Tax, Denies Big Business Is Favored.

The 81, 006, s70, 900 war tax bill. as the
unfinished business of the Senate. today
again was the subject of debate in that
body.
Chairman Simmons. chairman OF the
finance committee which rewrote the
House bill, resumed his speech in further
explanation of the measure. He defended
his committees revision of the bill and
denied it had favored big business and
man Kitchin of the House ways and means
committee. The House had. the senator
asserted. shown far too much leniency
with those who had reaped large Profits.
large share of the expenses Of the war
would be met by increased taxes on the
incomes of certain corporations.
Senator McCumber, republican member
of the finance committee, planned to speak
after Senator Simmons finished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
EXPORT OFFICES OPEN SOON.
Lack of Clerical Help Holds Up Ii
Y censing Machinery.

Branch offices for the issuance of ex-
port licenses will be opened by the bu-
reau of foreign and domestic COM
imerce shortly ct Philadelphia. Norfolk
Savannah, Galveston. Los Angeles and
Charleston, it has been announced.
Opening of the offices has been held
up through lack of clerical help. The
civil service commission has been I'M
able to furnish enough clerks. but it
has been decided to use the local eli
gible lists of the civil service in each
of the cities named. This step will
facilitate the securing of clerks, it is
hoped, with the result that the branch
offices may be opened in the near
future.
Philadelphia and Norfolk do tire
mendous export business. and the is
suing Of licenses to vessels sailing with
cargoes for the allies will be big job
at those ports. To date the issuing of
licenses for all ports has been done
from this city and New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
WAR RELIEF GROUP MEETS.
Women of St. Anthony's Parish Re.
port on Work Done.

Women of st. Anthony's parish.
Brookland. d. c.. who are interested
man of the group. Mrs. Frank O'Hara.
These committees reported progress:
Miss Harvey. registration; Mrs. Roach,
vestments; Mrs. Bowling. collection of
magazines and other literature, and
Miss Moves. collection of jellies.
The object of the work is to CO.
operate with the Knights of Columbus
in furnishing recreational facilities for
the soldiers. sailors and marines who
come to this city. The next meeting
of the group is to be held Tuesday
evening at the parish rectory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-11
RfcIAL H0TTCI6.

FH1 TWEyTY-sEvENTH sEu-ANNUAL DIV
idend of two and one-ialf per cent t2h7sl has
been declared on the preferred stock, Of the
Washington Railway and Electric Company. pay
abIs December 1. 1917. All holders of certificates
Of Anru"s. 1911. bearing ! stamp % changing the
time and manner Of payment Of dividends there
on from semi-annually to quarterly. shall receive
one-hah Of said semi-annual dividend ON Sep
TENDER I. 1917.
A quarterly dividend of one and three -fourths
per cent uaetl on the common stock OF the
Washington Railway and Electric Company has
been declared. payable September i. 1917. TO
common stockholders of record at the close of
business on the 18th day of August. 1917.
Books for the transfer of the preferred and
common stock will be closed from the close of
business on the 18th day Of August 1917. TO the
opening of business on the 18th day Of August,
1917 S. r. BOWEN. Secretary.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIvENcTHAT HAVE
bought the confectionery and fruit store located
An persons having debts against same will pre-
PATRIcK WHITE. 1o7 Pa. ave. NV. II.
THE ANNUAL MEETING uP THE STOCK
holders Of the Bast Washington Heights Traction
Railroad Co. for the election of directors and
the meeting will he held on wednesday. August
u. lsi1: at the Office of the ;r company; 90"
'i@" ''' +. r BAYNE. Secretary
WILL THE TWO GENTLEMEN WHO GAVE
.s%s e on q June co It 9th and p ave- please
call Room IS. 112e = St. Main 1892 II.
I WILL NOT Re RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
debts otherwise than those contracted for by me
personally. ALBEET f. GILL. 3a3 l. st. s.w.
Office of the
I4ANSTON MoNOTYPE MACHINE COMPANY.
Philadelphia. Pa
The board of directors has this day declared q
quarterly dividend of y per cent on the capital
stock of this company. payable on the 3lst day
Of August. 1917. to stockholders OF record at the
close OF business. August II. 1917.
]. SELLERS BANCROFT, Treasurer.
Philadelphia. August Z. 1917.
THE Wholesale PJJ-MRING SIfPPIY BUSI-
NESS OF THE LATE l.. e. SCHAFER
has been acquired by Mrs. Z. G. Schafer and il
now Incorporated under the of E. q.
SCHAFER & Co. The business will he conducted
At the present address. 21S 18th ST. NV. Every
courtesy and attention will be extended. Friends
Of the business. old and new. invited TO pay
q call.
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Apportionment of Foods.

The food administration touches upon
the distribution of food in respect TO
avoiding imitation of prices by boarding
or by speculation. 1t deals with the dis
posal of the foodstuffs seeing that enough
is allowed for use at home, at the same
time designating how much may be ship
ped to the allies.
Both the department and the food ad-
minstration will seek. through publicity
and every possible means, to bring home
to the average citizen the necessity of
doing his part. through such efforts as
the home garden and the home and COM
munity canning projects. The food ad-
ministration's food conservation section.
directed by DIR. Ray Lyman Wilbur. which
has been somewhat quiescent since its in
itial campaign, pending the passage of the
food bill. will begin active work with re-
doubled vigor and seek to drive home TO
every household in the land the necessity
Of individual economy in the use of foods.
One of the first steps of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. now that its
money is available. will be to send
county agents into practically every
county in every state in the country.
These county agents are credited with
! marked success in increasing farm out
put by advising farmers about the lat
ton, and particularly the eradication
! of disease.
There also will be sent food demon
stration agents, for the first time into
cities. Washington now has the first
agent of this sort in Miss Mary Whar-
ton Thurston. recently appointed food
demonstration agent for the District of
Columbia, and others will follow a plan
similar to hers in seeking to encourage
canning. study of home economies
! methods of avoiding waste and kitchen
efficiency.
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Obligation to Feed the Allies.

The deep obligation is upon us to
feed the armies and the peoples asso-
ciated with us in this struggle. The
diversion of 10000. 900 of their men to
war or war work: the additional mil
lions of women drafted to the places
of their husbands and brothers: the toll
of the submarine, have all conspired to
so reduce production that their har-
vests this autumn will fall 500 900 600
bushels of grain below their normal
production. Always dependent upon i'm
ports from other countries for n sub
stantial part of their food needs our
western European allies because of the
destruction of shipping by submarines
and the isolation from the normal mar
kets by belliserent lines are forced to
large degree upon our markets, not
only as the nearest but as the only
market capa BILE of relieving their bit
ter necessities
Therefore. whereas we exported be-
fore the war but 10000 600 bushels Of
heat per annum. this year, by one
means or another. we must find for
them 225.o00.000 bushels, and this in
the face of shon crop. our best will
but partly meet their needs. for even
then they must reduce their bread con-
sumption % per cent, and it will be
war bread they must eat-war bread
of which large portion consists of
other cereals.
Already the greater call for meat nd
animal products, due to the stress of
war on the millions of men on the
fighting line and the enhanced physical
labor of populations ordinarily subsist-
ing on lighter diets, coupled with the
inadequate world supply. have COM
PEELED our allies 20 kill upwards of
33.000.00O head of their stock animals
This is burning the candle ct both ends
for they are thus sitting their annual
production. Therefore, not only must
we increase their supplies of meat and
dairy products, but must prepare as
war goes on to meet an even greater
demand for these necessary COM
modities
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Aid for Food Administration.

The support of the Order of Red Men
was pledged to the food administration
yesterday by a special commission which
promised to take steps to have each of
the 100000 members of the order observe
one wheatless meal and one meatless meal
day
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Priority Shipment Bill Is Signed.

The bill empowering the executive
to compel priority in shipment of food
and war materials in interstate COM
merce was signed today by President
Wilson.
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Uses of Appropriation.

Parts of the s11.000.0O0 will go to the
bureau of animal industry to fight
cattle diseases. to the bureau of plant
industry 81 combat plant enemies and
one feature of the program is the elm
! nation of predatory animals in the
west. which annually destroy thousands
of head of cattle.
The labor problem is one of the most
serious handicaps to increased food
production. and this will be worked
out through the joint action of the De-
partment of Agriculture. which will
seek to keep in close touch with the
farm labor needs. and the Department
of Labor, which will check up on the
available supply and means of trans
porting il to the points needed.
The Department of Agriculture and
the food administration necessarily will
work in close cooperation. and already
they are doing by means of joint
committees. Experts of the department
have laid before the proper officials in
the food administration all the figures
availablessin the lines on which they
effort to avoid overlapping. 1t is un-
derstood to be the Presidents wish that
the department go ahead with it's nor
NAL work. now of even greater i'm
portancee in war time, especially with
relation to increased production and
greater efficiency in agricultural
methods The department also will
touch upon the marketing and distribu-
ton of food, so far as the mechanics
of these operations are concerned
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will enable them to properly provision
their armies and to feed their peoples
during the coming winter"
Mr.. Hoover's Statement.

Continuing his statement, Mr.. Hoover
said:
THE food administration is called
into being to stabilize and not to dis
enterprise against illegftimate COMPETE
ton. 1t has been devised to correct the
abnormalities and abuses that have
crept into trade by reason of the world
disturbance and to restore business as
far as may be to a reasonable basis.
THE business men of the country,
am convinced. as result of many hun
dreds of conferences with representa-
tiveS of the great forces of food sup
ply. realize their own patriotic obliga-
ton and the solemnity of the situation,
and will fairly and generously CO.
operate in meeting the national emer-
gency. / do not believe that drastic
force need be applied to maintain eco
nomic distribution and sane use of sup
plies by the great majority of Ameri-
can people and 1 have learned deep
and abiding faith in the intelligence of
the average American business man
whose aid we anticipate and depend on
to remedy the evils developed by the
war which he admits and deploreS as
deeply as ourselves. But If there be
those who expect to exploit this hour
of sacrifice. if there are men or or
CARNATIONS scheming to increase the
trials of this country, we shall not heSl-
tate to apply to the full the drastic.
coereive powers that Congress has con-
ferred upon us in this instrument
I'm enforcing the measures of the act
it is not our intention to proceed with
a host of punitive measures. but rather
by coordination with the various
trades to effect such constructive regu-
lations as will render gambling, ex-
tortions and other wasteful practices
Impossible and will stabilize prices.
Indulgence in profiteeri1g in this hour
of national danger is far from the wish
or the will of the vast majority of our
business people. and l am convinced
that while we must have ready in re-
serve the corrective powers given us,
We shall by these powers free the great
majority from necessity to compete
with operators whose sole effort is to
initiate prices and bring into disrepute.
the majority of honest traders. We pro-
pose to proceed as rapidly as possible
with constructive regulation in various
commodities and to announce each pro-
gram as quickly as it is properly
formulated. We hope within the next
few days to announce the method OF
wheat and -four control.
Sharp County record., 1917-04-06
NO WONDER SHE HESITATED
Woman In Postal Savings Bank Finally
Tells Why She Doesn't Sign
Her Name.

'Please sign your name there"
gaid the post-ofice official to the
woman who wanted to start saw
ings-bank account.
'Do you want me first name"
asked the woman, as she picked up
the pen.
yes; your full name, please"
'Do ye want me husbands nameF"
"Yes; his last name," explained
the official patiently. "But your
own first name, please"
"Oh, I see, you want me name be-
fore | was married" i"
'No; your Christian name-Mary
or Jane"
"But it's not either of them !" said
the woman, with a toss of her head.
TITS Gwendoline ROseP p
"Very well, then. Write that
down, please, and remember that
there are others waitingP'
The woman raised the pen
thoughtfully.
"Oh, do you want me to put the
Mrs. p" -
mo, not that. Just your full
name, please"
'I'd do it at once, SIR" she said
meekly, ''if I only could write"
Sharp County record., 1917-04-06
DIET DICTATOR.

The appointment of a food dicta-
tor in Germany inspires the sugges-
tion that such a dietetic tyrant might
be a fine thing for this country. We
have not the same desperate reason
for conserving our food supply that
blockaded Germany has, but there
are plenty of hygienic reasons.
We have been told countless times
that nearly all of us eat too much for
our health, particularly too much
meat and other proteid foods; and
yet we go right on doing it, in spite
of the fact that proteid foods are
the most expensive.
Under such a dictatorship as Ger
many has established there would be
an enforced simplicity Of diet that
would probably cure innumerable di-
gestive ailments and promote the ma
tons health and efficiency. Our die.
tator would operate like a family
doctor, giving orders to family Of
1OO,OOO,0OO people--and seeing that
those orders we're obeyed.-Athens
Messenger.