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Evening star., 1917-12-22
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Evening star., 1917-12-22
Ilg, Another Alien Enemy, Held.

NEW YORK. December 22.-Another
enemy alien alleged to have been impli-
Gated in incendiary bomb plots to destroy
sugar and munitions steamships and start
water front fires has been arrested by
federal agents here. The prisoner described
himself as Charles IIg, ffty-two years
old, and said his home was in Richmond
Hill. He is believed to have been an as
sociate Of Franz Won Rintelen, one of the
most notorious German agents in the
United States who has been reindicted
for placing an incendiary bomb on a
British Stea rship.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
REMOVAL OF EMBARGOES
CAUSES BIG JUMP IN CORN

CHICAGO, December %. = Skyward
Jumps in values and accompanying re-
moval of railroad embargoes east of Chi
cago have made an exciting week in the
corn market, but extreme top quotations
could not be held. Net gains for the week
were ~ to 3h. Oats advanced 1H to 2h
and provisions 62 to 1.50.
The biggest single leap by the corn
market was in the May delivery, which
at one time showed an almost vertical
rise of 6A a bushel. At the same time
Immediately following the announcement
that the embargo had been Cancelled, the
December and January options ascended
to within u Of the highest level possible
under existing rules. Gossip was cur
rent that the maximum price limit on fu-
ture deliveries would be raised. but de-
malls were promptly forthcoming. and the
ardor of bulls then began to subside A
Evening star., 1917-12-22
CAPT. KEEGIN FOR COMMANDER
Other Officers Chosen by Gen. Henry
W. Lawton Camp, S. W. v.

The annual election Of officers, inspec-
ton. a smoker and campfire was held
Thursday evening by Gen. Henry w Law
ton Camp. No. 4. Spanish War Veterans.
Oficers chosen are Capt. Edward Keegin.
commander: ". c. Ryon. junior vice
commander; w. p. Davis. officer Of the
day R o. Clifford, officer Of tho guard,
and John Farmer. trustee.
Capt. John Farmer, the retiring COM
mander. received the hearty congratula-
tons from members for his services for
the camp. The newly elected commander
has held many Offices in tho departmental
corps and 10 foreign service government
medal man.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
AND FOUR
OTHERS ARE CONVICTED
Former Gets Four Years in Prison
and Fine Of $40, 900 on Conspiracy
Charge at Detroit.

DETROIT, Mich, December 22.-Al-
bert c. Kaltschmidt, with four or five
others, was convicted in federal court
early this morning on a conspiracy
charge He was sentenced a few hours
later to four years in federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth, and to pay fine of
$4,000. 1t was the maximum sentence
possible under the law for conviction
on the three counts against him. Mrs.
Ida Neef, his sister, was sentenced to
three years in the local house of cor
rection and fined $4,000: Fritz A. Neef.
her husband. and Karl Schmidt and
wife Marie were sentenced to two years
imprisonment and fined $4,000 each
Schmidt will serve his term at Fort
Leavenworth and his wife was sent to the
Detroit house Of correction. Franz Respa.
seventy-year-old German. was the only
one Of the six acquitted on all three
counts. He was held, however. to answer
to two other indictments pending against
him.
The trial came to an end at $3.50
o'clock this morning after q session Of
court lasting since early Friday fore
noon. The jury was out more than thir-
teen hours. several times asking addi-
tional instructions from the court.
In passing sentence. Judge Arthur
Tuttle pointed out that the statute un-
victed was framed by Congress during
peace times, and therefore It was not
possible to impose heavier penalties.
Appreciation of Fair Treatment.
Kaltschmidt, in addressing tho court
before sentence was passed. expressed
his appreciation of fair treatment ac-
corded him and his co-defendants by
the court and jury. but charged that
attorneys for the government had
brought up points unwarranted by the
evidence.
Money he received from official Ger
man sources, he insisted, was for a
legitimate business transaction, and
was not intended for furtherance of
any conspiracy.
The counts on which Kaltschmidt was
convicted charged the setting on foot
i1 the United States of military en-
terprise against Canada; a conspiracy
to dynamite the Detroit screw works,
and plot to destroy the st. Clair river
tunnel at Port Huron.
Carl Schmidt and his wife were convict
ed on one count and Mrs. Neef and her
husband on two
Evening star., 1917-12-22
Changes in Specification.

The changes in specifications were
made In wooden vessels two months
ago. after some of them already were
under construction. They were made
MIR. Hurley said. by Admiral Capps and
his staY of designers when 1t became
apparent that the ships as contracted
for originally needed larger timbe-s
70 strengthen them.
Mr.. Hurley read TO the committee a
statement in which he said:
The contracts Of the Engineering
Fleet Corporation have been let to 10
shipyards. of which thirty-six existed
on January /. 1917. and seventy four
have been created since. In addition
the Emergency Fleet Corporation has
rcquisitioned vessels which are build
ing in twenty-five shipyards In addi-
tion TO the above. so that the Fleet
Corporation is at present controlling
FORK In l32 yards OF which fifty-eight
are old and "a are new.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
Red Cross Contingent Stirs Rome.

ROME, December 22.-The arrival of
party Of thirty-one members Of the
American Red Cross. constituting the
permanent commission for Italy, of
which Robert P. Perkins Of New York
is the head. has aroused great enthu-
siasm here. The newspapers through
out the country are devoting much
space to the activities of the Red
Cross in refugee work. and also in the
regular war hospitals.
Evening star., 1917-12-22

further cause Of reaction was the fact
that lifting of tho embargo apparently
failed altogether to stimulate shipping
demand.
Oats scared with corn, but to a less
sensational degree. Holders of oats dis
played greater readiness to realize
profits.
Upturns in the provision market were
ascribed in large measure to curtailment
of the hog supply at packing centers.
Previously. the arrivals of hogs had been
excessive for Immediate requirements.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
No. Of No. Of
Cbntracts. Vessels.
5.517.lO0

The first ship built under contract
made by the corporation he said was
an s.soo-ton ship laid down in a Seattle
shipyard 1t would be ready to sail
soon after Christmas
when will the last of the ships for
which you have contracted be COM
pleted?" asked Senator Jones Of Wash
ington.
Mr.. Hurley replied that he thought
such information should be given to
ihe committee in confidence and not
made public, and the question was not
pressed.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
Only a Limited Number
on This Generous Plan

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:" You can readily understand why
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Evening star., 1917-12-22

ciaily we'll preserved. There 10 no limit
to the age of re-eniistment other than
physical fitness
It IL not intended. says Gen. Carter.
that these troops take over the duties OF
private watchmen of local and munich
pal departments in lieu OF the present
agencies. Dependency is not a bar to en-
listment.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
SHIP INVESTIGATORS
HEAR ]. A. DONALD.
Vice President of Emergency
Feet Corporation Is Be-
fore Senators.
STATEMENT BY Mr.. HURLEY
STATEMENT BY Mr.. HURLEY

Edward N. Hurley, chairman of
the shipping board. filed with the
Senate Investigating committee n
table showing the ships con-
tracted f0rt
Composite ships, So, with 1D7 900
tonnage. costing S27,732,OOO, or
E133.S7 per dead weight ton.
Steel ships, 557. with 3,914,20O
costing S851, ,6S7 ,O46. or
sTf66.4S per ton.
wooden ships. 378, with 1,344.9OO
tonnage. costing 3127,SS1,3 ,332
The estimated grand total is
994 ships, with 6,466, 100 tonnage,
costing S15O, ,O6O, ,S73, at anaverage
of $159.1S q ton.
Two barses are not included I'm
the totals.
Evening star., 1917-12-22
The Contracts NOW Let.

The first contract was let on April
u, 1877 During that and successive
months contracts were let as follows:
Evening star., 1917-12-22
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Evening star., 1917-12-22
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21

Every mans duty to-day is to stick
TO his last. Each one Of US can do his
part most effectively by redoubling his
endeavors at the occupation in which
he finds himself -railroading or farm
ing. mining or advertising, selling gro
ceries or making shoes, banking or
numbering. All of our everyday occu-
pations have their great place in our
industrial and commercial structure,
and this great structure is the mighty
force we have thrown into the war.
Our job for the moment is to increase
our production and to make our ia
cilities Of distribution equal to the bur-
dens we must place upon them. In
neither one of these jobs have We the
tasks which all OF the countries ear
lier at war had TO confront in the sec
ond half OF 1914. Although not in the
war. in reality we wen: through those
days with the belligerents. By way OF
provision against recurrence Of such
times we have since done q deal to-
ward creating the nucleus Of an or
ganization for war. and in preparing
our structure of finance, production
and distribution for exigencies Of war
we made some real progress. Our or
ganizaton for war is now taking form.
Finance and industry are adjusting
themselves 10 the new national situa-
ton. This is period of transition.
In order that the end of this period
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
From Trade Journals
The War Burden

The whole philosophy of the conduct
of this war, and most commendable
one, is to distribute the burdens equally
in all quarters where they can be borne.
The selective draft fully recognizes
this principle. The graduated income
tax falls upon all incomes alike, and is
varied in degree in supposed proper
ton to the ability to pay. In taxing
industries on the excess profits plan
the same principle is recognized. If
all industries were to furnish precisely
the same proportion of their output to
the government, an equitable distribu-
ton of the contributions to the gov
eminent could be made by determining
prices on all the commodities furnished
according to the same rule. But the
various industries are not to contribute
equal percentages Of their total output,
and thus, when discount is made from
prices obtainable in sales to private
consumers, an injustice is at once done.
If prices ruling in the steel market are
quite abnormal, so also are costs. The
last general wage reduction in the steel
industries was in 1903. Since the
restoration of the former wage rates
in 1905 there has been nothing but suce
cessive advances. The one early in
1918 was followed eventually by the
greatest depression the American steel
industry has ever known. in point OF
intensity, and since the opening of last
year there have been four advances, OF
about 10 per cent each, the last occur
ing at the beginning of this month.
Freight rates have not advanced within
the year, but the expenses of the traffic
departments have greatly increased, FOR
the present almost normal movement
of material is secured only by the most
untiring vigilance and the employment
of more than normal forces, all involv-
ing an increased expense. The inte-
grated companies not only pay much
higher wages and expend more money
in conducting their transportation, but
they also pay fancy prices for many
commodities, involving in the aggregate
a large item. The finished steel pro-
ducers that are not integrated cannot
participate in sales to the government
at material concessions without risklng
serious loss.-Ths Iron Age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Bohemia Lacks Food
News Reports Show Prague
Has No Vegetable but Onions

Newspapers that reach Paris 'ton
Bohemia through Switzerland CONAN
startling facts about the economic w
uation of the richest of Austrian ianes'
says the Paris correspondent Of y.
Bohemian National Alliance" rnew
received an allotment of hunssns
hogs to exc out the slender suppY
of meat coming in from the surrouss
ing country, but this did not 50 e.
Instead of the official maximum Pa
of 7.50 crowns per kilogrann, the ~ y
ing price was 1850. Potatoes an y
gone, and on February 81 the mn
cipal potato depots were closed. !.
earlier the supply Of turnips u'ee g..
substitute for potatoes gave OUT ~
and lentils are reserved for hosp' ~,
vegetables are all gone and al ~ y.
the municipal alimentation ouresc
left is several carloads OF onions I"
which there is small demand; "a,
A very serious problem is the s, ~
decrease of births. In Prague '1sm
were born in 1913, 5,346 bsolss, ,.r
wears later only 1853 and IN tns
wear only 1927. But since IVY y
this number were born in the pIo'y
cial hospital. the real pereen..s. -
decrease in births for Prague Is - -
larger. In one week IS CHILDREN -
born and 1856 persons died, % Oh
of tuberculosis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Food Conservation

Conservation of the food supply is as
essential to successful war making as
financing. recruiting, transportation or
munitions. Indeed, it is far more es-
sential than any Of these; IL is the first
requisite. Besides the needs Of domes-
tic consumption. the requirements OF
the Allies must b. supplied. These VIII
be enormous, it having been demon
strated that the consumption during
war is far greater than in time OF
peace. It is absurd to imagine that
this unprecedented demand can be met
by relying entirely upon the ordinary
machinery of trade, nicely and ade-
quatcly adjusted as IL is to peace con :
ditions. There must be, in reserve II
not to be Immediately applied, super
organization, with ample power arbl-
trarily to enforce regulations which
will bring about the largest good to the
greatest number. The less this ma
chinery supplants the usual business
methods the less il interfe.es with the
immutable laws Of supply and demand,
the more successful il will be in accom-
plishing its object, but il is imperative
that it should exist and that its powers
should be mandatory. We have seen
during the last few months how wholly
inadequate the ordinary methods of
control are to meet the exigencies even
of pre-war conditions. and thereby we
can estimate how ineffective they would
be to deal with period Of great inter
national emergency unless dominated
by a higher power. There is absolutely
no use in kicking against the pricks;
government food control is demanded
and is bound to come.-The North
1pester1 Miller,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
The Railway Situation

The managers of the railways are
fully alive to the situation. They
have not waited for the government to
tell them their duty and indicate how
they shall do it, but have voluntarily
formed an organization for operating
all of the roads as a single system, in
order that, largely regardless of the
interests of individual lines, they may
so utilize all their facilities as to give
to the government and the travelling
and shipping public, during this crisis,
the best and most adequate service pos
sible. 1t is not conceivable, however,
in view of the enormous increases in
wages, prices and taxes, which have
occurred and are still going on, that
the arrangements, by even the most
efficient methods, can maintain their
net operating income without govern
ment aid during the emergency. Ex-
penses and taxes still are increasing.
or practically all roads, faster than
earnings, and with present freight and
passenger rates the net operating in
come of the railways will soon be- down
to and even lower than it was in 1914
and 1915. Government aid riay be
given, as it has been to the English
railways, in the form of guarantee
of the net return earned before the
war. 1t may be given in the form in
which it has been asked for by our
railways, namely, that of an increase
in rates. Just how long this assist
ance will be needed or how large it
ought to be are yet to be determined
But one thing may be stated with GER
titude. That is, unless the government
ard the public give the railways the
assistance they need to carry them
through the present emergency, the
roads will not be able to render the
service the government and public will
need to carry them through this
emergency.-RaitUay Age Gazette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Warheld Pleads
For Higher Rates
Fifteen Per Cent Increase Would
Not Offset Higher Costs

s Davies Warfield, chairman OF the
executive committee Of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway. who has called con-
ference of owners Of railway securities
TO be held in Baltimore on May 70, IN
a statement issued yesterday from the
Plaza Hotel called attention to the
reeds of the railroads for higher rates.
"The country" said Mr.. Warfield. "is
waiting to know whether part OF the
s525, 900. 900 the extra cost to the rail-
roads this year over last year through
increased prices alone-will be Sc
cured TO them through increased rates
IN enable them to live and MAINTAIN
their credit. The amount asked LOT
will not even make up this increase III
cost Of railroad operations. s525'ooo'-
ooo IN the credit of the railroads Is
based the value of their huge volume o,
securities. and on the value OF ra,lioa
securities depends in turn the Eaiue VI
tho securities Of many enterprises, ~.
the American railroads arc the ialses.
purchasers of material and supplies III
the world. ,,s mon
ave are asking all the elements ,nem
toned, from the smallest 70 .ne "a6
Sst TO contribute to our Liberty Loan;
They will do so. but their nhahIaa
ability to do so is increased Oh ie
sened by their ability to use thelr ~ ~
come from their investments OF ~
make use Of their investments, ihciuu-
ing railroad securities, one way " e.
other, either as credit or ~ sa'. 80
wa have an endless chain. Impair the
credit of the country's largest enter
nrise affecting billions of investment
and millions of people, and we lessen
tho purchasing power of the people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Imagination Is Needed /
To Make Things Grow
Farm Production, Writer Says, Could Be Increased II
Organized by Men of Genius and
Properly Financed

munity where the claims of capital
which, as the philosophers tell us,
is yesterdays labor and enterprise
are allowed to lord it over the enter
prise and labor of to-day and the
vision Of the future that is in the
eye of the wise. cannot under
stand how any banking policy that
seeks to lay upon the general work
ing plant of the community the
heaviest overhead charge it can pos
sibly sustain can compete for long
in any circle of commerce with the
more modern policy that strives for
low production costs and the scaling
down of the charge that our yester-
day lays upon our to-day and our to-
morrow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Shipping Concern Moves

The main Offices Of CASTOR, Will
Jams & wigmorc, Inc, formerly oc-
ouying the whole fifth floor Of the
Guaranty Trust Building. have been
moved to the eleventh floor of the
Equitable Building. 100 Broadway.
They now have considerable more
room than at the former address. 1t
was stated BY ono of the officers yes
terday that securing larger quarters
Was but a preliminary step toward a
further substantial growth OF the OK
port and import business OF this con-
Germ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Great Northern's
Revenues Larger
Gross Earnings for Half Year
Increase $1,763,184

Following the lead of the other car
riers in conforming to the order OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission
that the fiscal year of railroads shall
correspond to the calendar year, the
Great Northern Railway has issued
report covering operations for the
half year ended December 80, 1915.
Total revenues from transportation
for that period were s46,395,269, com.
pared with s44,632,0S5 for the half
year ended December 81, 1915. or the
increase of sl,763,184 there was due
TO freight traffic sS76,O45, and from
passenger earnings S699,S75. Nom
operating revenue brought the total
gross up to s47,294,41s, against S45,-
375,167 in 1915.
Operating expenses consumed sz4,-
677 .3Ol of the gross for the half year
and taxes s2,949,4 32. leaving an oper-
ating income Of sl9,667.6S5. Other
income brought this up to S2l,023,S2
The amount of fixed charges was S3,-
500, 646. which left s17.201,176 avail
able for dividends. This was at the
rate of 1877 per cent year on the
S250,000,000 capital stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
A New Kind Of
Financial Conspiracy

In every locality in the country
search should be made for men who
have something of the outdoor genius
of Secretary Lane, Herbert c.
Hoover, or the late James j. Hill,
and these men should be put into
executive places in the banks, COM
missioned there to seek and find
more men-as many as possible-of
their own sort, every one of whom
should be offered the honor and
power Of financial credit, conditioned
upon their finding in turn still other
men of agricultural competency and
the kind of creative imagination that
makes things grow--a great multi
tude in all.
And every mothers son in this
hierarchy of regeneration should be
mads to understand that he is given
social credit not to make food dear
end farmers cheap but, on the con-
trary, to make farmers dear and
food cheap-that he belongs to
financial conspiracy in acceleration
of trade-a conspiracy for the ad-
vance of the science of vital things
and the increase of the purchasing
power of a days work.
In this manner we shall save and
establish democracy. venture TO
say that democracy cannot be saved
and established by the CONSUMPTION
of farm labor or by putting the
whole agricultural business of the
country into the hands of Mr..
Houston.
II will be discovered-to the sur
prise Of some-that the stronghold
of democracy is in a modernized and
scientific finance. For democracy,
after all. may turn out TO be nothing
other than this government by sound
social and scientific appraisement of
values, and by appreciation and pro-
motion of the man that delivers the
real goods.