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Evening journal., 1917-06-21
BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL AND DEMOCRACY TRI.
UMPHANT

SD USINESS as usual?" Impossible II isn't in the
Dcards War is now the nations business VIII be
until Kaisersm is licked And war isn't usual It's
unusual So business will be unusual But that doesn't
business will be dull. There's no reason for
pessimism. Business will boom. You can't spend ten
billions year for clothing. Shoes munitions ma
chinery, material food and supplies without an un-
usual circulation OF money That means busness-un-
usual business.
That's the thing business must get in their
heads. We've got readust business There will be
plenty of money Business viii expand The demand
for labor will be unusual War will diminish the sup
ply Railroads will have to be organized 10 do more
business than Waste be cut out everywhere
Non-essentias will have to give way to essentials lux
ures 10 necessities
f1rst-let every manufacturer understand that the
demand for necessities viii be unusually large the
uemand Tor Injuries unusually small. Also that the
nations new busness-war-is more important to the
nations life than the individuals old business Let
me individual make the nations business his business
II his business doest fit the new game let him change
his business e
second-After all this IS a defensive var ~ our
part II We fail our business will 20 TO cmash II need
" oneie sam VIII conscript all private wealth Who
ever aims 70 use the war 10 enrich himself s menace
10 the nations evstence-and hence TO his own ,eai.b
Safey nrst-that means the nations safety srst tn
individuals will follow. Unless the nation,s h.,
is successful the individuals can't be Ana the -.
tons business just is war.
Food hogs. coal hogs, railroad hogs material bo
supply hogs. Industrial commercial and financial hoe
-a these to the successful prosecution
OF the nations business There must be cooperation
competition. All business must have common
purpose. We must conserve the manhood. womanhood
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
apocklNev TIE POLICE.

From the Labor Herald.
The Labor Herald is of the belief
that some more equitable plan should
be devolved by the Board OF Police
Commissioners than docking police
officers who may be derelict in their
duties for ten days pay, forcing them
TO work the ten days without receiv-
ing any compensation for their ser
vices.
The railroad companies are all firm
believers in efficiency and the forces
OF workmen in the various branches
Of railroad service realize that the
companies expect Of them the best
service that is in them. yet when
these workmen fail in their duties or
overstep the mark. they serve time"
that is they are laid Off for a GER
tain specified number of days They
don't work these days and are not
paid. They are still considered EN-
/ ployes OF the particular company and
must remain within call Of their fore
men and superintendents. And It Il
usually the case that the form OF dis
cipline Serving time" is sufficient Z
serve as a lesson to the offenders.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
A MUNITIONS DEPARTMENT.

ID REPRESENTATIVE LOUIS IT. McFADDEN, Of Penn
ANsylvanla is Of the opinion that a efficient pro-
ducton OF munitions will be insured by the creation Of a
Department OF Munitions. which has been found to be
necessity in England. To that end he has introduced
bill creating such department whose purpose shall
be TO foster. promote and develop the Industrial
Of the United states in behalf Of the national
defense and to purchase munitions Of every character
II is to take over all contracts pending in tho
War and Navy Departments and the Council OF Ma
tional Defense for the purchase Of munitions and will
include in its organization such bureaus and offices as
are now devoted 90 that work
Mr. McFadden provides that the President shall detail
army and navy officers for duty in the department
He believes that specialization along the lines indi-
Gated in his measure will result in a much more eec.
tive prosecution OF the law.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
BY HERBERT QUICK.

WASHINGTON, June 21.-There is
a food crisis in the United States.
Anyone who denies this, shuts his
eyes TO obvious facts. Food scarcity
Is not the absence OF food. In anv
civilized country food scarcity always
shows itself in the high prices and
never in the absolute absence OF food.
The lnboring people Of the United
States and people with small incomes
are pinched today in the matter of
food.
What is famine? It is nothing on
earth but high prices carried to the
point which makes It so hard to buy
food that any large body Of popula-
ton cannot buy enough to properly
feed themselves.
Food was exported fran Ireland
during the worst periods Of the great
Irish famine Food has always been
exported from India during her worst
famines.
What is the basis of our food sup
ply?
It is the seed from which crops
are grown. and the breeding animals
OF our focks and herds, the hens. the
geese, the ducks. the turkeys. the
sows, the COWS, the goats and the
ewes. These are the seed of our food
crops and our food animals.
This country is today being stripped
of the basis of its future food supply.
The situation calls for rigorous gov.
ernmental control Of the breeding
basis OF our aocks and herds and
the seed basis of our farm crops.
Milk and eggs contain substance
n nf al I.na
they cannot grow. Take away from
our children the fat which is found
in milk and in the yolks Of eggs. and
they will die, or they will be stunted
] have seen young animals which
should have been almost full grown
kept down almost TO their infant size
by being deprived Of this mysterious
and wonderful substance which is
found dissolved in the fats provided
by the mother element I'm nature.
We hear OF fat-starvation in Ger
many This comes from the fact that
the dairy cows OF Germany were very
largely killed Off after the first year
of the war.
An expert in foods told me the 9th
er day at Memphis, Tenn, that he
expected milk to be 20 cents a quart
next summer in the south. and hear
predictions of 40 cents a quart in
various parts OF the industrial north.
When such prices arrive, the fat
starvation of Germany will be repeat
ed In this country, and when the
dairy herds are reduced to the point
OF such scarcity as this, IL will take
years TO build them up again.
Our dairy herds are being depleted
In just that manner Whole regions
are being stripped of their breeding
cows. because the high price of beef
tempts the cattle owner to SELL He
thinks Of his 500 or $3.50 per COW
today rather than of conserving his
part Of the future meat and milk sup.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
AID THE RED CROSS.

DRoGREss of highly gratifying nature is being made
in Delaware in the work Of raising funds for the
Red Cross
In that respect, as in many other respects Deawar
cans are doing more than expected Of them.
There is no person in Delaware high or low rich or
poor, who cannot do something aid that admirable
organization Those who have money spare may give
both money and service; those who have no money to
spare may give service.
In short everyone can, and should, give something
TO, or do something for, the Red Cross
Never in world history has It been in such impera-
tive need OF money and service mitigate the horrors
OF war it is at the present time.
Therefore give something do something to aid it.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
POLITICAL Por sIMMERlNo


From the Greensboro Free Press.
The fire under the political pot in
Caroline county has been lighted and
will soon be boiling. Most OF the can
didates are now only tentative, so
they say, but II will not be long till
they Will be out in the open. Hon.
Harvey L. Cooper is the only one
spoken of so for Senator and Joseph
H. Carroll seems mighty well pleased
when his name is mentioned in con
nection with a second term as County
Treasurer. It is also said that owen
Carey would like to be custodian OF
the county's exchequer y. Potter
Steele feels that another term as
Register Of Wills would not be dis
tasteful to him. John K. Lynch, of
Ridgely, is grooming up for the race
as a member Of the Legislature. w.
Foster Clark, of Henderson, would
not object to being High Sheriff of
the county, and it is said that Preston
G. Parvis, also Of Henderson, may
get into the race for County Commits
sioner. Il would not be at all sur
prising II Commissioner Handy's
friends persuaded" him 10 enter the
race for a second term As stated
above, the fire has been lighted and
the sly ones are beginning to lay
their plans to name a ticket to their
liking.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
THIS HAPPENED IN LONDON; 1T MAY HAPPEN
HERE.


over the city there is the haze Of June heat In the
- school there is silence save FOR the murmur
Of little children recitng their simple lessons or occa-
sionaly the soft laughter Of who has found
thing amusing in tho tedium of school in Summer
time
Il is as peaceful could possibly be mag
ined is beautfui-this gathering OF little ones
ranging IN age from seven just starting on the
thony path to knowledge
Tn the twinking OF eye all this is changed over
head there is sound Of rendng timbers and then with
in the itself there is terrific binding SCATTERING
explosion. When the gas and the smoke clear away all
IS silence again for the pitiful OF mere
babes Who are suffering the last agonies Of torture
Some Of the tots have had and legs off, others
a7 terribly lacerated or burned buried amid wreck
-~sge. Some are unacceptable.
In tho absence Of ambulances ordinary grocers'
used to away the little sufferers to the
hospitals while griefstrcken and almost insane moth
ers clamor for news OF the fate Of their children
This is picture OF what happened in a school in
London on June 10 OF this year II may all sound very
far away to you. Happening the other side Of the
ocean be hard for you to visualize Your own
st1rdy little John curly-hared Mary seems so safe
from harm. far removed from the horrors OF war
And yet II do not speedily help England and
France to defeat German miltarsm, if we allow our
allies TO be beaten to their kneesall the beasty bar
harous ruthless practices the Prussan war-makers
have introduced into the world will be brought to our
own shores and our own doors.
uhe same military necessity" that caused German
ayators to fly from Belgium over London and massa-
ere innocent children with high-powered explosive
bombs would them-once they effected a landing
anywhere on the American coast-to murder our wo-
men and children too
We must face the facts. We must realize what wo
are hghting It is time stop deludng ourselves with
the pleasant dream that whatever may come our own
fair land will not be blasted by the guns OF the Ger
man war-makers. II Americans want 10 keen the
Huns out Of America, If we want to keep them awav
from Wilmington and the other American cities we
must whip them on the and in the trenches Of
France
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
rnERE,s MrcH N NAMEs.

TT is excellent idea to give the American soldier
fitting name-a name Of the kind we commonly call
ncknames
Men have died for ncknames. Attached to these
names men have been built up great fighting organza
tions making them nvinclble in the armor Of tradi-
ton built up around the name.
Everybody remembers the Rough Riders Of San Juan.
And no other division in that is distinctiyely
known.
There's a great deal in a name.
So 1t isNwe to pick a for fighting boys who
are going 10 the trenches. Let's have real name
a name that regular fellows will love to fight under,
name that will stick to our boys and be descriptive Of
them
The sure thing is that if don't name them our
selves somebody else will do it for usand we'd rather
do this loving service ourselves; wouldn't wet
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
Spirit of the Delmarvia Press
DELAWARE AND ITS SOLDIERS.
Erom the Milford ChronIcle.


From the Milford Chronicle.
Tonight in the City Of Wilmington
there will be a conference between
the authorities and those who. have
long striven to have Delaware save
her military identity in the present
war between the United States and
Germany. For several years there
has been a mistaken policy of main
tanning an organization of only eight
companies of infantry in Delaware
which is not conformity with the mill
tary laws Of the United States, and
would have deprived Delaware Of her
recognition, had not political influence
been brought into the pressure to con-
tinue the system; but now, the crisis
has arrived, and Delaware as mill
tary unit will certainly loose its
standing unless the Governor orders
at once a full Regiment organized.
The meeting tonight is for that pur-
pose and its object will be to save
the military honor of Delaware for
the future.
It is right for the people to expect
that those of Delaware who enter the
service OF the armed forces of the
equipped as a Delaware Regiment.
This can be done by the people them
selves taking the lead and filling up
the ranks of the First Regiment in
fantry If four more companies of the
third battalion is formed, then Della
ware will maintain her history and mil
itary record in the greatest war the
world has ever seen. If there is any
State pride it must be shown now.
| Let the fathers and mothers of the
young men advise the part OF patri-
otto wisdom, and have their sons
form and maintain a regiment Of De-
laware soldiers. We are convinced
that there will be many who will be
disappointed in getting exempt from
4 the conscription, and they will have
! to go where sent by the government
unless they enlist now. The new re-
cruits will be distributed to com
paIies which need their service, but
it will be in a Delaware organization
: II they enlist now.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
LEARN no SPEAK FRENCH.

THE EVENING JOURNAL starting a series Of les
4 in French for who expect to fight in
France urges upon these men. and upon all its read
ers, the ACCESSIBILITY Of French study the part Of
those men and women who are to make up selected
army and Red Cross contingents.
The French language, necessary in degree 70
all soldiers will be douby necessary to those men
who expect to study or work for commissions ON
GERS AS officers they likely to deal with officers
Of the French amyand French is the language Of in
ternational intercourse, throughout the warld
THE EVENING JOURNALS lessons are designed to
teach all the French that be taught in limited time
through the medium Of print But further instruction
will be required by those who aim to become really
proficient in the French tongue
Evening journal., 1917-06-21

One OF the agencies that are working in behalf
Of the Red Cross is the Delaware Saengerbund one Of
the Oldest musical organizations in our city It is
noteworthy and pleasing fact that the gross receipts
of the saengerbunds annual Spring concert are to be
turned into the Red Cross treasury The members Of
the big singing society could not direct their money
making powers into better channel There is no tell
ing how many valuable lives may be saved on the bat
uehelds in Europe and Asia by the intelligent and sys-
tematio application Of the fund that will result from
the saengerbund's concert in the Queen Theatre on
next Sunday night
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
Tremendous Suck of World Famine is
Destroying Basis of u. S. Food Supply
THE SITUATION is DESPERATE QUICKLY AND
FIRMLY IF WE ARE TO ESCAPE DISASTER

ply OF the country. These cows are
going for beef. They are going by
the thousands TO slaughter houses TO
be canned. The heifer calves, are be
ing killed for veal
There is already a famine In seeds
over much Of the country. In the
south, the committees in charge OF
increased production are searching
high and low for a bushel here and
bushel there Of soy beans, COW
peas. velvet beans. seeds of the vari-
Gus sorghums. California black-eyed
peas, and many other seeds. Ihey are
parceling them out to the farmers
whom they are inducing TO plant as
thinly as possible, so as TO make the
seeds cover the maximum amount OF
ground. A project is on foot to sew
a million acres Of wheat In each of
the three states Of Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas, but the south
ern wheat has been sold ahead OF
the harvest TO the millers for food
That wheat is now going to market
and if the farmers of the south are TO
have the varieties of seed wheat
which they must have, they must buy
it back at starvation prices to seed
their fields. In a trip over nine
southern states recently, ! found
only two sorts Of seed which were
not scarce-corn and cotton.
Go 10 any country railroad station
in the United States, and you will find
on every platform crates full Of lay
ing hens. ducks and other poultry. II
the country we're actually starving
there is no one way in which so much
animal food could be produced quick
ly as by multiplying our poultry
hocks. MAKE THE CLAIM THAT
IF A CENSUS WERE MADE TO-DAY
OF THE POULTRY OF THE COUN
TRY. 1T WOULD BE FOUND THAT
1T is DECREASING INSTEAD OF
INCREASING.
Power must be lodged somewhere
in the government to take hold OF
this matter with a strong hand. other
wise the present scarcity OF food may
reach the point where il will have "a
be called by stronger name. Some
one must have power TO seize the
seeds. Someone must have power to
control the selling and slaughterine
OF female animals We are setting W
machinery tut the NoutIOl Ol lOOu
administration Unless seeds and fe
male animals are conserved. this food
administration will not save us from
things which one dislilSes to predict
The cows, hens ewes and sows. and
other breeding animals, are being
turned into meat, in an endless and
increasing stream.
The seed wheat Of the south is al
ready moving to the mills. The tire
mendous suck Of a world famine has
caught the germinal elements OF Oul
food supply, and is sweeping 1t into
the worlds hungry nav The way
out is through plain. prompt. effec
tive, strong and wise administration
OF the seed elements of our fields
gardens, flocks and herds. There II
no time to be lost.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
TWO KILLED N EXPLOsION.

UNIONTOWN. Pa, June 21.-Arthur
Garner aged %. a trucker and Abner
Walters, aged %, a foreman. both Of
Fairchance, Ia. we're killed yester-
day when an explosion wrecked the
Company plant.
The two men were the only en-
ployes at work in the building. The
body Of Walters has not been found.
The mill was engaged in the manu-
facture of blasting powder. The cause
OF the explosion is unknown.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
REGISTERED MEN MAY YET ENLIsT.

- EGISTERED or not you may yet volunteer for SER
~ vice in any branch Of Uncle Sans army or navy
That you between 21 and 81 and registered makes
difference recruiting officers say. You can escape
being selected for service by volunteering.
If after enlistng. you drafted from among those
registered, will be exempt because you will be in
the military service OF the army.
The army wants 10000 more volunteers to I'll the
ranks Delaware should provide its fair proportonate
share OF those men.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21

The Rev. Thomas F. wadron, pastor Of ST. Paui's r.
c Church. cannot fail to be pleased exceedingly by the
manner in which his parshoners other friends par
tcipated in the celebration OF the silver Jubilee Of
his ordination priest While the money gift TO
him was in excess Of $6,OOO that was as nothing TO
the wealth OF affection and esteem that was avished
upon him by the participants in the jubilee exercises
Viewed whole. the demonstration showed conclu-
svely that Father Waldron OF the most popular
members of the Catholic clergy in the Wilmington do
cese
Evening journal., 1917-06-21

and childhood Of the nation No greatness. No ex-
ploitaton No hoggish selhshness. All for each and
each for all That means business unusual and de-
mocracy triumphant.
Evening journal., 1917-06-21
SCHOOL LITERARY SOCIETIES.

From the Clayton News.
The Athenian Literary Society of
Clayton High School deserves con-
CALCULATIONS for what it has accom-
plished during the school year just
closed. Those who have watched the
progress made see the benefits de-
rived by each member Of the society,
which is a help and credit to Clayton.
A school in a Democracy fails in
one OF its duties il 1t fails to train its
students to take part in a delibera-
tive assembly of citizens. Hence a
literary society which imparts a
knowledge of parliamentary proce-
dure, of parliamentary law. which
trains in speaking in public, in think
ing on yOnr feet. in appealing to your
equals, in participation in the forma-
tion of public opinion, this has an
important part in the education of
young people. Therefore, each High
School should have a Literary Society
to furnish training in speaking. in
writing, in presiding, in taking records
of procedure, etc.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-07
X. OF c. WILL Begin
FUND DRIVE FRIDAY
Columbus Day to See Opening of
Recreation Campaign.

Columbus Day, Friday. October u.
has been selected by the Washing
ton Knights Of Columbus as an ap-
propriate day upon which to inaug-
urate the campaign for $4,000, the
Districts share of the 5000, 900 war
fund pledged by the supreme council
of the Knights of Columbus for SOL
diers' and sailors recreation.
Hundreds of girls will be stationed
throughout the business district with
tags. For a week following tag day.
business men and others will ed
vote a portion Of their time to can
vassing for the fund. The full amount
Is expectd to be raised by October %.
Included among the objects of the
S,00o. 900 fund are the following:
To erect and equip buildings at all
training camps In the country and
furnish amusement and recreation for
all soldiers, regardless Of creed.
To maintain information bureaus at
the front.
To furnish each camp recreation sta
ton with q phonograph and records,
plano and sheet music and ample sup
piy of stationery.
To provide each building with a IL
orary of good books. current Ntera-
ture and daily papers.
Complete detsils for the District
campaign will be outlined at a meet.
ing of the societies in the K. of c.
hall. COS E street northwest. at ;
p. m. today. State Deputy Leo A.
Rover, William p. Norrhoyle. genera
chairman, Andrew i. Hickey. Tag Day
chairman. and Maj. C. Eugene Ed
wards. vice chairman of the Tag
Day enterprise, will address the meet
ing
The Washington herald., 1917-10-07
FinancaI NeO Nth the Latest Stock Marker Quotations

mission has arranged an elaborsts
program for today. a. follows:
y. m--The Church OF the Cove
nant VIII entertain ofscers and R. o.
T. C. men at luncheon at the Univer-
sity Club.
2:so p. m.-Reception at the Church
Of the Covenant, Connecticut avenue
and Eighteenth street northwest. for
r. O. T. c. men. army and navy on
GERS and their wives.
Sis to y. mat Church of the
Covenant. Connecticut avenue and
Eighteenth street northwest, a light
supper for men in uniform and younr
people In government employ.
7:3o y. MAT Luther Place Memoir
ial Church, Fourteenth and N streets
northwest, the Christian Endeavor
prayer meeting. at which DR.. Anstadt
will make a brief address, followed
by a social hour.
8 y. mat St Paurs English Lu-
theran Church. corner .of Eleventh
and H streets northwest. the evening
service will be followed by a social
hour.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-07
CHICAGO GRAIN.

Chicago. Oct 6-In the face Of killing frosts
In Central Illinois and Northern Missouri Fri
day night the rrics Of com declined u to 4
cents today. There was general desire on the
part Of the speculative world to even I'D its
Position over Sunday.
Ihat was the case not only with the larger
holders Of this grain but with the smaller ones
as well. Longs sold more corn than any other
interest while shorts led In buying seuti.
ment was bearish today aud 1t would have taken
. much larger demand than existed to absorb
the corn that was placed on sale in the pit.
Oats averaged lower, resting spots for the
day showing declines Of y to y cents. The
December future was under mild pressure, from
longs. but the local trade was bullish and
bought on all the soft spots. Western receipts
this week were S.oN. 900 bushels compared with
s7s3.0o for the corresponding time last year.
Cash sales were snall at 5000 ousheis.
There was an increased demand for cash hog
products from the Belgian Reliaf Cou1missiou
and this caused many shorts in the futures to
cover and sharp gains resulted. oferings oi
meats and lard were taken By strong banda