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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
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5000 pounds of rice to the acre. In 1914
the area jumped to $4,000 acres, and last
year it covered 900 acres. In 1916 the rice
crop of California alone was more than lO0,-
100000 pounds. 1t was equal to one pound
for every man, woman and child in the
United States, or enough to supply twelve
meals for each of our citizens.
But what of rice as war ration, Mr.
Carpenter asks:
How warm will it keep the soldiers in the
trenches and how much work one do on
such a diet? | have been in Manchuria in
winter 1t is bitterly cold, and there is no
where that one needs more food TO keep
warm. Nevertheless, it was upon diet Of
rice and fish that the Japanese soldiers en-
dured all their hardships and succeeded in
defeating the meat-fed Cossacks from Russia
Every soldier in the japanese army had
little acquered tin case about as big as an
old-fashioned cartridge box. This contained
a pound or so of raw rice, and that was suf-
fcient to sustain his life and fighting strength
for two or three days. The rice could be
and water obtained. 1t was used both in the
camps and on the march.
As to the value of rice for our people at
home, it is equally good. 1t forms the chief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

bread Of Asia, and about half of the people
of the whole world make it their principal
food The Filipino keeps fat upon rice, and
the Chinese coolie works twelve hours a day
upon his scanty supply. have had Japanese
jinrikishs men carry me over the country
at six miles an hour, running all day, on
nothing but rice, and | have seen Corean
porters carrying loads of 300 pounds on the
same food.
Mr.. Carpenter describes the rice har-
vest in Southern Louisiana as being very
much like the wheat harvest in the North
west
The rice turns yellow and the sheaves look
ike wheat The thrsshing is done in about
the same way. The machines go from farm
to farm, and a single thrasher will handle as
much as 1000 acres per day. In the thrashng
the paddy, or rice grain in the husk, flows
forth at the side of the machine, while the
straw is blown out through pipe at one
end. The paddy is caught in bags, each OF
which holds about 200 pounds, and it is in
this shape that it is carried on wagons or
boats to the warehouse or mill.
1t will not be any stranger than the war
itself if one of its effects will be to fill
with waving stalks of rice thousands of
lowand acres that are now unused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

buyers are turning more and more to do
nestle producers. This accumulation of
demand, which is worldwide, will tend to
hold the cotton goods market and prevent
any great decline in operations for any
extended time. Domestic consumption of
cotton goods for ordinary purposes is
smaller than formerly, but it is more than
counteracted by very large buying for spe-
cial purposes. 1t is not likely that the de-
mand upon manufacturers will be less for
a long time, but unless this big demand is
handled carefully it may bring specula-
ton. Speculation is liable to produce ex-
ceptional prices, and from any high point
more radical decline can take place than
if quotations were relatively nearer the
actual cost of production. In order to
maintain steadiness in the situation and
to aid the export trade, manufacturers
should keep prices relatively low and ac-
cept contracts at profits which might be
considered moderate as compared with
those which are being obtained. Cotton
has advanced relatively much more than
many fabrics, but exceptional profits are
being made and some manufacturers tend
toward forcing prices still higher.
The wool trade generally feels that by
adherence to the mo speculation" slogan
of Mr.. Hoover they can cooperate with the
government and voluntarily keep prices
down to a non-speculative basis.-Ameri-
can Wool and Cotton Reporter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

"HIS month the hundredth anniver-
sary of the construction of the
Erie Canal is being celebrated
"The great waterway" says State Con-
troller Eugene NJ. Travis, "has earned the
praise of every one who understands its
influence in stimulating industry, increas-
ing the wealth of the Empire State and
making New York City the metropolis of
the world. Its effect upon the growth of
the nation as a whole has been tremen-
dous, for the canal soon became the ar
terry of inland travel, its value to Ohio and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

able output of cottonseed oil. While dieti-
tians dispute the interchangeability of yege-
table and animal proteins, it is generally
conceded that fat from vegetable sources is
dietetically as good as apd some contend bet
ter than fat from animals.
II takes fat 20 make nitro-glycerine, but
our allies first call on us is not for dyna-
mite, but for bread. SO long as there is
actual shortage of grain for human susie
nance. and Il comparative abundance of food
fats in America, IL is certainly grossly ex-
trsvAgant TO feed so much Of our food grains
to animals. II requires five or six pounds of
grain to produce one pound Of beef, and beef
sy. RACES less than 70 per cent Of fat. This
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

~ OSSIBLY at the point of the bayo-
net, as any number of solicitous
u gentlemen already have inferred,
the eating habits of the United States
will now undergo a change. With the
future of the world depending very large
" on how much wheat the average man
can restrain himself from eating, it will
not be strange to find that other foods
have been discovered to be quite as pal
atable as wheat, fully as nourishing and
perhaps just at the present moment not
so precious.
Doubtless one of these foods will be rice
The Department of Agriculture places
rice higher than corn, wheat or oats IN
the amount of nutrition contained, figures
its food energy as three times as great as
its weight in potatoes and more than twice
that of fat beef 1t has higher heat
producing power than rye, barley or
wheat and far more than white bread or
beefsteak. Frank G. Carpenter, who
shows an expert knowledge of the subject,
writes thus of the rice fields of Louisiana
in 1.-The New Orleans Times-Picayune"
Lake Charles is surrounded by thousands
of acres Of rice fields, and the territory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
The Erie Canal Has a BIRTHDAY
The Bystdrdr

There is not an abundance 81 uyi
as a matter of fact. For one resyl. n
weren't so many newspapers hg.
October 26, 1925, "The New Y1 IL
ing Post" is found exulting thus
This is the day, and 10 O'Clock d, 2
when the first boat from Lake En-, si'
the Grand Canal and proceeded 70 a,m
New York, a distance of 500 miles. All ~
The New York Advocate confssss;, AZ
end. The great work (says he) hs ~
complished by the freemen Of this ''a
their own hands, and with their or ~
and in the fiftieth year Of AmsnG =
pendence. Those who, in the ineipl. :
ress of the work, pronounced i wild q
ionary, ruinous and extraysgant (ar'''''
the first among the number) now hs'r-l !
in exchanging congratulations, and P''~
ing in the celebration OF its eonps1"
cold or reluctant admission Of HS7
whitening concessions - no ireHai V :
patient surrender of notions ere WIZ,
the former opponents Of the process =.
once open, frank and manly, giving W. =.
great credit to whom honor and a'' :
due, and burying hostility in ooll'''
magnanimity of recantstion.'
"In 1917 commissioners were iPP'I
commence the work, and the ground W !. :,
broken at Rome, on the 4th day oi'I! !..
year. AS late as the session Of 80
after many thousand dollars ha' w
pended, a strong effort was maze =.
the work, and a large minority " |" =.
of Assembly actually voted agar"
any further appropriations. !
an 1920 the great loan was au'n'.
much unanimity, and every o''"' ~
way to hardy enterprise and active =" a
the forests were levelled-na'''"
acknowledges of gigantic rock S'", "a
from their base-the channels o. u"
turned. and on THIS DAY the s''sI
the canal from the Silver Lake. i''
the products of the district sao P =. -
New York, proving beyond 8 o'
Work Is Finished al
"A gun was fired at the Battery ~ =
and at Governors Island ssre'' .
rangement. at 10 minutes past y
But why it was fred at tina, pre' srs y
mains to be ascertained, for IN ms 4
Argus II is stated that the { u 4
at precisely II o'clock, whel''' "
is heard from above or not
And in the same paper l"0
one finds this: n
"The sound Of the cannon VIZ
the completion Of that creates, Is
age. the Erie Canal. was he'ta us /
WEDNESDAY at minutes before :.
morning. The return FIRE fTon g
was heard here at minutes O'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Swine Feeding in Spain

In Western Spain certain lands covered
with oaks are utilized for pig feeding
Toward the middle of autumn, when the
pastures begin to get poor and the acorns
begin to ripen, the feeding process begins.
The forest is usually divided into four
parts and the acorns knocked from the
trees in the low-lying quarter first, then
the second, about two weeks later. and so
on, the pigs indicating their hunger by
signs known to their guardians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
European Water -
portation

Water transportation in ha ,.,is,
expensive than rail transports, NJ
1905, for instance, the NS. ~, . mils .
STA showed a deficit of $500 -, ~
the railways yielded net . 'rO,srrS
for every mile. The Prus' aan,S prs
consequently, uses the rs'"
Offset the waterway deficit 81
None of the canals Of E 'aa'srs,s
few of the rivers serve Wv
carriers Of traffic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Vegetarians as
Patriots

TIME social responsibility for food
waste is laid by vegetarans at the
door Of the meat eater. A writer
in Physical Culture" for July calls for
the slaughter Of male cattle as a means of
reducing waste in grap foods. He thus
proceeds 10 make his point.
The United States In heavy produees OF
food fate. not only because Of her great meat
industries, b,it because Of her very consider
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15

pointment of a commission which was author
lied to borrow money on the credit o. the
state for this purpose.
"The actual work of construction Of the
canal proceeded as rapidly as the methods Of
that time would allow. AS soon as each sec
ton was completed it was opened to traffic,
and by 1921 the irst tolls collected amounted
to $4,000, this sum exceeding s1,O0O,0OO before
1880.
THE completion of this great waterway soon
developed Western New York from frontier
country in which iron and cotton mills multi
Piled more rapidly than in other sections. 1t
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14
The Liberty Flag

1t is a good thing that Flag Day and
Bond Day fall together. This is the flnal
hour of the country's first great effort IN
the war. its first test of what the words
universal service" really mean. Have
YOU done your share in that service? Have
you backed your country with the dollars
she urgently needs? If not, go buy your
Liberty Bond-and then cheer the Lib
erty Flag.
That flag is so many yards of cheap
bunting unless you stand beneath it ready
to cherish it, to labor for it, to keep 1t
flying at the cost of ease and comfort and
life. if need be- We have listened to a
wealth of expositons of the present bond
issue. of its soundness, of its safety, of It's
excellent return to the investor, of spending
your money and having it, too, of the glory
of thrift. All of which is good, sound
teaching. But none Of it states the one
and compelling reason for what you are
doing. That reason is the flag, the flag
brate to-day and for which we have
pledged our lives and our fortunes.
1t is not an easy thing that is asked OF
YOU Subscribing itself is simple, yes. But
if you can easily pay for the bonds you
have taken you have not taken enough.
Your country asks more than the loan of
surplus income, of money easily spared.
II asks for steady, day-by-day, carefully
thought out economy-saving pennies and
dimes and dollars by more intelligent
housekeeping and labor and business.
That is hard task. 1t is not to be com
pared with the gift a man makes who
enlists. But it is a real sacrifice, a genu
inc gift, fine. unselfsh service.
1t is asked of you in the name Of the
fag you love, the dear and glorious co!ors
that mean to us our country, our homes,
our beloved ones our common treasure Of
truth and liberty and right. So asked,
who is there that can refuse?
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14

il would be foolish to go to the trouble OF
taking it. However, there exists no earth
ly doubt about the right of the Governor
to make the rules for taking it and the di-
1ectors and assistants to require the filling
out of the enrolment blanks. The person
who neglects or refuses TO answer the
questions, or answers them falsely, incurs
a penalty of six months imprisonment.
This census has nothing whatever to do
with the registration for military service
required by the Federal government on
June 5. 1t is a state affair, intended to
show the resources of the commonwealth
for military purposes-men, women, sup
plies. No person who is patriotic, or wise,
will let any foolish notion about the I'M
perative mood in phrasing of the law or
manifestoes issued in conjunction with 1t
rique him into neglecting to obey the law S
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14
The Botched Census

1 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In response 10 the cali for volun-
teers to take the state census, offered my
services, and was assigned to booth at the
other end of town, opening at 7 a. m. ! re-
ported there for duty yesterday, and stood in
the driving rain for two hours. along with
the other volunteers. waiting for the booth
to open. When the door was finally unlocked
there were no blanks, no pens or ink, and
when the supplies were finally sent they
were insufficient and lacking in the common
essentials. To meet the stream OF appl-
cants we had to send out and buy supplies
with our own money. Then the blanks gave
out. and we had to turn away people who
could i'll afford TO spare the time again. That
there were other booths in the same pre-
dicament was shown by the appeals for
blanks sent in TO US. To-day the situation
was no better. People streaming in to regis
ter volunteers ready and able TO perform
their part, and no blanks!
believe I speak for the volunteers when
! say that our service is in all cases cheer
fully rendered. We do not complain OF any
thing connected with our assignments. But
that an organization which has had weeks
to prepare for just this situation. and which
is presumably trained TO do it efficiently,
should fail so lamentably in handling 1t
shows that something is rotten somewhere.
The question is. Where?
hope VIC find the answer before the Ger
mans do. JEAN ?. HOPKINS.
New York. June l2, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14
Flag Etiquette

Never before has this generation seen
so extensive display of the flag, and as
the ordinary mortal is tremendously igno-
rant Of the customs governing the use Of
his country's emblem, never before has
this generation seen such misuse of the
flag. II is to be hoped that the circular
prepared by Brigadier General Mccain,
adjutant general Of the army, telling what
should and what should not be done with
the flag, will have wide circulation.
Adoption Of its simple and common sense
suggestions and directions would abolish
all misuse Of the flag which does not re-
suit from sheer carelessness or neglect.
Flag etiquette, according to General
Mccain, Is based on no Federal laws, but
on the practice in the army and navy. In
the army the flag is run briskly to the top
Of the pole each day at sunrise, regardless
Of weather, and lowered tremendously at
sunset On Memorial Day it is hoisted
TO the top Of the staff as usual, then low
cred 20 half-staf, being displayed that
way until noon, then run to full staff and
50 displayed from noon to sunset.
Civilians should, if possible, hang the
flag from a staff. When it must be hung
without the staff, it should be displayed
with the union to the north or the east, ac-
cording 10 the direction Of the street. The
flag should rarely be displayed in hori-
zontal position. 1t should not be used for
decorative purposes; bunting in the ma
tional colors is the proper material for
that use. But if the flag is to be included
in a decorative scheme, it must be hung
fat, whether on the exterior or interior Of
buildings, with the union 20 the north or
east. 1t should not be hung or placed
where il can easily be soiled; it should not
be draped over chairs or benches, and no
object or emblem should be placed on or
over II. When more than one flag is 20 be
flown from single staff, the United
States flag should be hoisted first and dis
played az The top.
General Mccain saysf his department
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14

heard rumblngs and grumblings Of an
archists, German subsidized pacifsts, the
ordinary garden type Of fool pac-
fists. extremists, conscienceless objectors,
radicals. cutters, yellow-streaked but not
fully baked students? say. ,in view
Of these circumstances Russia should have
our open-hearted and open-handed support
and have it now They deserve and have
earned such consideration many times over.
Let US not knock, but boost II we cannot
shoot now. until such time as we can let
us help some one who has a trained army
of millions OF men in the prime of physical
condition. Let us, instead Of holding out
with our money, our personal service, and
our whoe-hearted sympathy, jump in now
and help.
Having remained secure behind the armies
and fleets OF our allies. unprepared and un-
preparing. for nearly three years. is it not
now opportune and expedient that we over
look no single chance afforded 70 show our
appreciation of what they have done for us
while We. for many, many months had our
foot on the rail at the German influence"
bar? EDWARD H. EGBER1, VI. D. .
New York. June r. 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14
Talk Again, Not Track Removal

The first fruit Of the so-called West
Side legislation, alleged to have been en-
acted for the furtherance of plans for the
removal of the New York Central's tracks
from grade, has been gathered. 1t is the
abandonment by the Board Of Estimates
subcommittee of the proposed contract
which the railroad was willing to carry
out for track removal and improvement
of its West Side facilities and the dec
laration by the representative of the rail-
road that on the enactment of the legisla-
ton in question the company's commit
ments under the proposed agreement were
cancelled and the company released
therefrom.
Nothing remains but for the Board of
Estimate to ratify the position its sub
committee has taken and 10 assume its
due part in the process by which the entire
matter will have to he gone into again.
Four years work on the part of city au-
thorities and railroad officials and a con-
siderable expenditure of money have gone
for nothing. Instead of a beginning of
work for the abolishment of Death Ave-
nue." this fall, there will be a beginning of
talk about another plan. If effort remains
in the realm of talk there is no prospect
that agreement on a plan satisfactory to
all elements in interest can be reached in
many months, perhaps in several years.
If the Public Service Commission under
takes TO force the removal of the tracks
as this new law permits it to do if an
agreement is not reached by the end Of
the year, the delay incident to lawsuit to
prevent it will tie up any improvement.
The city seems doomed to struggle along
with all the dangers of death Avenue
and the inconveniences Of an inadequate
West Side freight service for an indefinite
period. Whatever new scheme is finally
worked out will have 10 be highly advan-
tageous by comparison with the one which
/ the Albany authorities have caused to be
abandoned to compensate for this delay
/ There is bound to be much doubt whether
so great advantages over Mayor Mitchel's
plan can be compressed into any new one
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14

sees no objection to flying the flag at night
on civilian property, provided it is not
flown for advertising purposes. A prac-
tcal objection may be seen all over this
city, however, whenever one of this sea-
sons frequent rainstorms occurs and the
flags whip in the wind, rainsoaked, rather
distressing objects. This indicates neg
lect of the national emblem not exactly IN
keeping with the sentiment of respect
which should govern its display, since the
flag is flown at night chiefly by those IN
divduals who, having once hoisted 1t, give
il no further thought.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14
Women First. Actresses Afterward

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In answer TO "Citoyen's' scathing re-
marks about actresses presumng to wear
the Red Cross costume at the Actors Fund
Fair. ! would like the privilege of a few
words.
| happen 10 be one of those who so offend
ed him, and | wore the uniform, to which |
have a perfect right Before rushing into
print would advise "Citoyen" to have r
small knowledge of his facts.
There is an organization called the Stage
Women's War Relief. working as unit un-
der the Red Cross rules and direction, and
for weeks the women OF my profession have
been working faithfully and efficiently for
the Red Cross and turning out sur
prisingly great quantities of work. There
fore his remark that we would be of no
use in Red Cross workroom, Il by chance
or accident we wandered in," is quite un-
founded and untrue.
Like so many uniformed persons who
judge our profession by its scandals alone,
it seems not to have occurred TO "Citoyen"
that we are women first and actresses af-
terward and that we continue TO live even
when not in the theatre.
We are doing our Bit" and doing il with
all our might. wonder If "Citoyen" can say
as much. INDIGNANT.
Member of the Stage Women's War Relief.
New York. June -. 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-14
Boost, Don't Knock Russia
She Has Earned and Deserves Our
Support and Sympathy

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I have long been an admirer Of The
New York Tribune and have been in sympathy
with its attitude toward national and in
ternational politics and policies. However,
this morning received terrific jolt wnen
| saw the front page cartoon.
II is true that great masses Of the Russian
people have been intoxicated with the sudden
ness and completeness of their freedom and
liberty. True. there have been anarchstic
outbursts in Russia. but why, why, when
Russia is now SOLDERING up, when every day
ber head is growing clearer (her heart has
been RIGHT all the while, | mean the heart
of the great Russian people,. should the pa
per which perhaps. most accurately voices
the will and sentiment of the great majority
Of real Americans publish such a cartoon,
Uncle Sam cautioning Mr.. Root with the
500. 900 900 TO hold of
Now is the time of all times TO show our
sympathy. our confidence and our trust IN
Russia. They most highly deserve It.
Russia. swarmng with German agents and
-Prussian imperialsts suddenly relieved
Of her secret police her gendarmes and even
her municipal police. on one hand and given
for the first time freedom of speech and
freedom Of press. on the other, yet. with II
all. is restoring herself and coming back
with punch what right have we New
Workers. we. who have had such freedom for
over sevenscore years, 10 throw stones at our
youngest brother7 Have We not also