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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
TRAINED FARM
WORKERS MUST
Be Modified
nv BASIL M. MANLY


PHILADELPHIA, May ill.,
In my tour OF the vital food
ecnters OF the country TO find
out Just what the food situation
10, food and farm experts i'm.
press me with the demand for
immediate mobilization OF farm
iaborora by the hundred thou
sand. " America lie TO raise the
great crops demanded for this
country and her allies.
In the opinion OF many agricul.
turai authorities. lack OF competent
labor Is the greatest obstacle In the
way OF production OF enormous
crops.
Plenty OF Farm Land
There IL plenty 81 good land ready
for sowing. fertilizer il being Sc.
cured. seed. tho below grade and
high priced. is being procured. but
iaborerh that know how 20 farm are
not 10 he had for any wages the
farmer feels he can afford TO pay
on tho basis OF prices he expects
for his crops.
Without men TO pillow and cult.
vate the soil. all the erhortAtion
and patriotic fcryor In tho world
will not increase the acreage.
There 10 even reason 10 fear
that. owing 20 shortage OF farm
labor. crops viii not be cult.
waited as thoroly az isst year.
which will inevitably result In
decreased yields per acre.
Farmers in all parts OF the coun.
try are offering wages nearly twice
as high as In 1915
Situation 10 Desperate
"The situation In desperate" tho
superintendent OF the New York
public employment office tells me
The demand for labor exceeds
the supply In nearly every limo er-
cept clerical service but We are
having almost no applications from
men who have had farm experience
or are willing 20 30 90 the country"
iAborers are not applying for
farm work because there IL work to
be had In the cities for the asking
by almost any able bodied man.
City Excitement Holds En-
The average man would rather be
poorly fed In the city than stuffed
In tn. country. This Is particularly
true Just now. when the cities are
iccmins with war excitement and
the country IL by comparison dull.
What tn. farmer needs 20 produce
big erops IA nm adeduafs number Of
TRAINED farm hands. men who
can pillow a ssraixht furrow. harness
a horse and drive q eultivntor.
II IL doubtful whether any farmer
who has had experience with the
assistance 81 green hands would
thko any OF the amateur volunteer
farm hands II they offered.
Something effective mus, be done
10 mobilize American farm labor
within the nex, 30 days or our crops
arc going to suffer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
BANDO'S
SPECIALS

Potatoes-Special
Early Rose, 7 lbs. Csc
During hours of from /
p. m. to 2 p. M, and 8
p. m. to 8 p. m.
Asparagus, Sc ID. and up
Cabbage, ID. &c
Cucumbers, each, Sc UP
Sweet Oranges, doz lOc
3 dozen for. Csc
Thin-skin Gamma brand,
best of Sunkist, doz 35c
Apples, Winesap, doz. 1Oc
Lemons, dozen .1Oc
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
Don't Trample on
Flags or Gardens

II don't see why IL isn't an bad
10 trample on a war garden as on
n nag" says Mrs. Edith Townsend,
assistant to r. y. Chapman. head
OF the school boards garden move.
ment. yesterday. People are com.
Ing TO VA every day and saying
they have made gardens on vaean,
lots. and people who have been In
the habit OF taking short cuts
across those lots are still doing it,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
BREAKS LEG; USES
FISH POLE SPllNT

PENDLETON. Ore. May H.
Lou Bulin OF Bingham Springs re-
Gently had an experience that nj
most proved disastrous He went
fishing the other day. and In jump.
ing across n stream. slipped and
fell. breaking both bones in the up
per part ofone leg.
Bulln was two miles from the
nearest camp. and there was five
feet of snow on the ground. Deter
mined to reach home. he broke up
his fish pole and made splints for
his leg.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
Ten-Cent Whale Meat
Makes Hit in Seattle

Seattle likes whale meat A ton
OF IL was sold here Thursday. and
there was demand for moro. Tho
meat sold AZ 10 cents pound. with
no bones or Eristie. The American.
Pacific Whaling Co. importers OF
the new meat. have made arrange.
ments TO keep Seattle markets sup
piled during the summer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11

WASHINGTON. May ii.---Lab Dor
Representatives OF labor in Great
Britain. Canada. France and Cuba
will meet May Is TO discuss labor
problems. resulting from the var.
with American representatives.
The meeting has been called by
Samuel Compcrs. chairman OF the
national defense councils labor
COMMITTEES.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
NEGROES HEAD PROOF
AGAINST BULLET

TERRE HAuTE. Ind. May IL
Coody Clark. negro barber. shot
and probably fatally wounded his
white wife here. He then fired a
bullet against his own skull. The
missile dropped To the floor flat;en.
ed. and only small bump shows
on Clark'a head.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
Grace Ford Wins
so for Red Cross

Miss Grace Ford. employed by
the MacDougall.Sout Co.
has secured 80 new Red Cross
members. record which Red
Cross women say Is the largest of
any individual so far.
II don't know how I did IT," says
Miss Ford, Il telephoned my
friends and acquaintances. and
spoke TO people whom ! met In
the store. and told them II was a
worthy cause-and they just
joined"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11

Silver skinned bermuda Onions. ID
Homegrown ionr. green Aspars gus.
Fancy large Burbank Potatoes. p lbs.
io9-io CINNAMON q c
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11

The South End Community ses.
ttvai. which has been In progress
At the Fred Marine hall. In George
town sine. Tuesday. will close Fri.
day night. President, Rhodes and
Secretary Corhaley. OF tho Cham.
Der Of Commerce and Commercial
Club, VIII DO the speakers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11
DONATE PART PAY
TO FAMILY FUNDS

Halt OF I per cent Of their sal
aries viii be appropriated by
federal employees OF the Wash
inason district 10 help support
dependents OF men with the col.
ora The employees met Thurs
day and elected Chief Inspector
Frank p. LOTUS. Examiner l.. e.
koonu and Cashier George L.
lde ~ trustees OF the fund.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-11

New York artists have picked
Miss North as the modern Venus,
She In an English beauty who
worked her way To the United
States. where she sang In church
cholrs and ut benefit concerts until
discovered by artists for whom she
ls now posing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
NEW WAY TO SAVE BREAD
War to Be Fought on Wheat as Wei
as on War.

Few woman have an idea of the
commercial machinery which makes it
possible in every town of size to get
at any time of the day a loaf of
freshly baked bread. We so take this
convenience for granted that we do
not exercise even ordinary forethought
about the amount of bread that we
order in the morning. We know that
if we take two loaves and find our
selves short toward tea time, that an
extra fresh loaf is easy to get 1t is
only when our attention is challenged
that common sense tells us that this
is no matter of course but the result
of large preparation on somebody's
part. What the machinery is has just
been made clear by the council of ma.
ton defense.
The fact that this war is to be
fought on wheat as much if not more
than on guns and men is becoming
clear to us all The government is
studying the practical points of saving
wheat without too largely disturbing
business. The council of national de-
tense includes commercial economy
board. 1t is the business of this board
to see where we can make useful
economics in the distribution OF
things Naturally one of the first
things to which this board turned its
attention was wheat products, and
quite naturally it seems now from
what they have found, the first thing
that they challenged was the continu
Gus supply of fresh bread on the bread
retailers shelves. They saw that he
was carrying every day more than he
sold, which meant that the bakers who
supplied him were making more than
they sold. The commercial economy
bread undertook an investigation. II
is one of the prettiest pieces Of work
that has recently been turned out in
Washington.
The board discovered that largely
for competitive reasons these bakers
kept the Shelves of the bread retailer
stocked fully with fresh bread. In
doing this they did not expect the re
taller to sell all the bread. Their point
was that the retailer should always
have enough bread so that there would
be no complaint on his part that he
was not supplied. The retailer know
ing that he would have more bread
than he could sell never required his
customers to order ahead. His Gus
toners were trained, so far as bread
was concerned, to toll not neither tc
spin, nothing to do but order at any
hour of the day. 1t requires little
thinking to see that this reckless com
| petition means waste at some point
AS matter of fact the commercial
economy board finds that it means 8
considerable waste. one which at the
present time cannot be allowed to con
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28

, tinue. AS nearly as the board can es-
innate with the help of the bakers of
the country, who have been taking
hearty interest in the investigation, it
should be said to their credit, fully
four per cent of the bread baked in
this country is returned by the retail
ers, the bakers themselves going to
the expense to collect it,
Now what Is done with this four per
cent of returned loaves? Some of it
is sold to the poor who go direct to
the bakers for it. or the four per
cent returned, however, probably one
and one-half per cent is fed to pigs,
chickens, and other animals. Now
make little calculation. Suppose in
your town the bakers put out ten
thousand loaves a day, a small town
requires as many, there is one hun
dred and fifty loaves fed to the pigs
and chickens; extend this calculation
There are bakers in our large cities
who turn out at least half a million
loaves a day. That means $500 for
the pigs.
1t needs no argument to those who
realize what the shortage of wheat
means to convince them that this leak
age must be stopped. All that think
ing people ask is how it can be done.
The bakers themselves are beginning
to take steps. Inquiry among the
bakers show that at least eighty per
cent are in favor of stopping bread re-
| turns, that is, of selling to the retail
bread dealer only what he believes he
can dispose of. That if he orders
more, it is his loss, if less, it is to his
customers inconvenience.
And here the women come in. They
are the bread buyers and their plan
| means that they must make their cal
culations for the days supply and do
| it in such business-like fashion that
| they will not be left in the afternoon
without loaf, that if they are so left.
| they will not complain to their grocer,
but that they will accept the fact as
a proof of their own lack of business
foresight in ordering.
This really important saving can
only he effected if the women of the
country generally back it up. The
womans committee of the council of
national defense asks the women of
the country Immediately to begin to
order bread for twenty-four hours in
stead of for temporary needs. 1t asks
them to explain carefully to their
Ineighbors who may not have been
reached in any way the reason for this
request. Intelligent women must
Everywhere back up the bakers and
bread dealers in the no-return plan.
If they will do this we can save the
one and one-half per cent that now
goes to the pigs and chickens. 1t will
be putting this many loaves day into
| the hands of hungry women and chill.
dren and fighting soldiers, and will be
one element in that great task that we
have before us Of so handling the
wheat crops of the world that every
man and woman in all of the Allied
world will have enough to eat in the
long and hard struggle before us.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
European Civilization.

The first payements in Paris were
laid about the year 1900; in London
about 1417. Berlin was without pave
ments far into the seventeenth cen
tury. No houses had glass windows
before the twelfth century, and as late
as the fourteenth century anything
might be thrown out of the windows
of Paris and London after three times
calling out, Look out" Shirts were
not known until the time of the cru.
saders, and the fine clothes which Ia
dies and gentlemen wore were seldom
washed and only occasionally scent
ed" So late as 1850 there were TO he
found iu Paris but three carriages,
while in England coaches date from
1880
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28

DR. and Mrs. Leroy Pierce and two
children of Manchester spent We'd
nesday in town.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF tho Town and Village Iclt
Briefly for Busy Readers

DR. and Mrs. Leroy Pierce and two
children of Manchester spent We'd
nesday in town.
Mid-week services tonight at the
First Baptist church. Hour $50.
Cordial welcome to all.
r. +. Healy has returned from ST.
Johnsbury where he appeared Tuesday
in chancery hearing before Judge
Frank H. Fish.
Ground has been broken for the
new bread-baking plant to be built by
r. A. Davenport at the corner OF Park
and Gage streets.
Virginia Pearson in delightful
breezy love story, "A Royal Romance
and +. X Lincoln in the thrilling de-
tective story, Jimmie Dale at Harte
Theatre today. Adv.
At the Methodist church this even
ing Love Feast will be held in
stead of the usual prayer meeting. IL
is desired that every member attend
so far as possible
The famous Japanese actor, Sessue
Hayakawa in "The Bottle Imp" a
Burton Holmes travelogue and an
Uncle Sam defense picture at Harte
Theatre tomorrow Adv.
"War as it Really is" great au'
thentic war picture in seven parts,
photographed by Donald C. Thompson
war correspondent for Leslie weekly
will be shown at the opera house sat
urday evening. Adv.
4 consignment OF, between five and
six thousand half size lingering trout
we're sent today from the Bennington
sfeld station TO Wilmington to- be- dis
tributed in streams in that vicinity.
The trout, were sent in charge OF
County Warden Higgins assistant,
John Titcomb. jr.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
FOUR CLASSES EXEMPT
Rigid Regulations Governing
Kinds of Applications

| Washington, June 27.-Four classe
of men are named as exempt from
military service in the draft regula
lions to which President Wilson CAV,
final approval today.
These classes are: Men physi-
| cally unfit, men employed in es-
sential positions in war industries,
| those with certain religious be-
liefs, and men with wives or other
relatives wholly dependent on
them for support.
The regulations cover fifty printed
pages. They will be made public at {
date to be fixed later and probably viii
be given the press to be held for re
lease tomorrow or Friday.
Two strict checks are put upon the
seeker after exemption for occupation
al reasons: First, the claimant must
prove his industry is necessary to the
maintenance of the national interest
and, second, the applicant must prove
his service to be virtually indispens
able to industry"
Married men will not be exempted
as a class. In each case the object OF
the board will be to determine wheth.
err the dependency of wife, children or
other relatives upon any man is so
complete as to warrant his rejection
as soldier.
Probably the boards will be furnish
ed with suggestions as to occupa-
tional exemption. The government
can outline the professions or trades
which must be maintained at full
strength behind the fighting lines.
The Importance of the individual in
that profession or trade, however, can
only be determined by local boards.
No linking has been given as to the
part assigned those granted partial
exemption because of religious belief
They are to be freed of the necessity
of firing upon enemy soldiers and
therefore from regular military SER
vice but the act contemplates that
they can serve in some non-combatant
behind the lines and holds
them liable for such service. In such
cases the question of physical quail
fications is wholly different and there
are many fine points that will have
to be decided in that connection as the
facts present themselves.
Appellate exemption boards will
scrutinize carefully all cases of cleri-
cal workers and farmers before grant
ing exemption.
In the case of munitions workers,
miners, shipbuilders and other work
ers on lines Of national interest there
will be practically no question.
The appellate boards-not the local
determine the value of the
and of the men in the indus
try to national defense.
While in most cases the employees
will be sufficient, the boards
will guard against mere selfish inter
est on the employers part and will
require individual evidence by the APP
Dlicant.
Should a man be exempted from
iuty by virtue of his occupation, he
cannot maintain his exemption il he
trSnsfers himself to other lines not
vital to the nations needs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
Thirteen at Dinner.

Thirteen at dinner is an old Morse
myth. 1t was deemed unlucky be-
cause Loki, god of malice, once liz
truded, making thirteen guests, and
Baldur, the brilliant god, was slain NJ
the instigation OF Loki, who prevailed
upon Hodur. strong but blind god, to
throw Mistel, the mistletoe, at Baldur,
peTforating the latter and letting out
his divine soul.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
MANCHESTER RAISES $3ee3
Town More Than Doubles It's Rec
Cross Apportionment.

Manchester. June 27.-The results
N Manchester of the Red Cross sub
scription drive were most gratifying
TO all the latest returns showing
S369376 as having been subscribed.
The apportionment for Manchester
was $500, but apportionments all
went overheard when the returns com
menced to come in.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-28
POTATO PRICES SLUMP
Tubers Drop to 81 Barrel in New
York.

New York. June 27-Potato prices
dropped today to as low as 81 a bar
rel here, as compared with sl2 bar
rel some time ago The break was
caused BY the dumping OF thousands
of bushels into the market by rail and
steamship lines from the eastern
coast of Virginia and other southern
points. There has been drop of 90
cents a day on the barrel for the past
week according to wholesalers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-07
Annual Session
of Marion County
Potato Growers

The Marion County Potato Growers
association held its annual meeting this
afternoon at the Commercial Club and
elected officers for the coming year
as follows: President, George Schaap
of Pratum; vice president, ]. r. Sspin-
wall of Brooks; secretary, W, c. Frank
lin of Polk county.
To serve on the executive committee
Seymour Jones was elected for the
three year term and L. ]. Chaplin for
the two year term, serving with F. w.
Peterson.
Prof. Geo. R. Hyslop of the Oregon
Agricultural college made an address
on potato culture. Stanley Armstrong
Of The Dalles presented a proposition
to the potato growers for the erection
of an evaporating plant, that would not
only handle potatoes, but all kinds of
fruit. He would require an acreage
that would produce at least from 500
to 1000 tons of potatoes. No definite
act was taken on his proposition al
though it was favorably considered
Fred E. Mangis of the commission
house of Mangis Bros, was called on
for an address. He spoke on standard
ization and the preparation of the po-
tato for the different markets, San
Francisco requiring the smaller potato
while Texas called for the larger size.
Mr.. Mangis said that the Oregon pota-
to had been shipped to all points south
and to the central states and that there
would be a growing demand for the
Oregon product.
Among those who attended the meet
ing were A. Copeley, L. j. Chaplin,
IF. r. Mangis, w. H. Egan Prof. G. R.
Hyslop, l. NJ. Lane, w. G. Franklin,
Seymour Jones, George Eyre, A. R.
Clump, e. E. Matin, W. I, Staley, j. p
Aspinwall t. H. McMahon, R. M.
Yates, John Noren, + j. Derby and
tC. C. Chaffee.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-07

an open date on Saturday evening the
18th. But as the guarantee was $500
for the one lecture, the Cherrians did
not feel like taking the chance
just to give the Cherrians an idea Of
how much it would cost to travel this
summer, A. A. Nickel read figures with
estimates of the Roseburg, San Fran
cisco, Seattle and other points. The
total cost of the Seattle trip was about
$25 and to Roseburg, $3.50
George + Rodgers expressed the SEN
timent of the Cherrians when he said
that every one and every organization
should conserve its resources. He
thought that now that the country is at
war, we should be calm and considerate
and not waste any of our resources.
The following committees were ap-
pointed by King Bing Lerehen:
Reception. August Huckesten,
chairman; Joseph H. Albert, Charles II.
Fisher, j. c. Perry, George E. Waters.
Drill-Joe McAllister, G. L. Dick, NJ.
J.. Meyers.
Membership---P. c. Fullerton, chair
man; Frank S, Ward, u. G. Shipley
Properties and wardrobe - George
Fox and Paul Siege
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-07
Market Was Nervous
and Prices Lower

New York, April THE New York
Evening Sun financial review today
said:
Chronologically today's short ses-
sion of the stock market was the first
war market, As has been freely pre-
dicted in recent weeks, the general list
receded several points with a display
of more or less nervous activity, but
the opening was quiet and narrow and
at no time was there anything to sug-
gest panic. Pressure exerted against
steel caused other stocks in the steel
list to suffer losses all the way from
4 1.2 to Midvale Steel to nearly nine
points in Bethlehem Steel B stock.
At the lowest levels losses in the in,
dustrial list ranged from two to eight
points. The steel shares rallied l tc
2 points in the last half of the session
The copper group was down two points
or so with later fractional improve
ment.
On reports Of German raiders of
this coast, the shipping stocks yielded
two to three points. The equipment
munition and other specialties were
actively sold with recession of two
points or more The railroad list waE
quiet and steady.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-07
PERSONALS

Harvey Lewis, of Shaw, was in the
city Friday.
J. F. Holmes was in Salem Friday,
from st. Johns.
Mrs. William Elliott was Salem Wis
itor Friday from Dallas.
r. S. Webb, OF Claxtar, was transact
ing business in Salem Friday.
Mrs. M. B. F. De Haven was in the
city yesterday from Rickreall
D. c. Woodruff was in Portland yes
terday registered at the Imperial.
Governor Withycombe registered at
the Imperial in Portland yesterday.
A. W. Schrunk, prominent merchant
of Aumsville, was in the city yester.
day. .,
Miss Edna Purdy, of Albany, will
spend Sunday in the city with rela'
tives.
Al Mischler Of the Barnes store, was
transacting business in Portland Fri
day.
Mrs. G. A. Rockwell, of Portland, ac.
companied by Mrs. Sarah Smith, OF
New York, her guest, win spent Sun
day in the city at the home of I. G.
Albert.
Mrs. F. Z. Shafer left this morning
for San Francisco to visit her son, who
is in the navy. The ship on which he
serves has been ordered to the Atlantic
coast