The Lamar register., 1917-05-09
WHAT'S DOING IN WASHINGTON



upon still another WY in which to
increase cur food supply. He has pre-
pared q bill proposing to establish
game sanctuaries in our national for
ests, in which deer, elk, mountain
sheep, etc, may be allowed 10 breed
undisturbed and spread out into thu
neighboring country where they may
be hunted in accordance with STATE
laws. Mr.. Mclaughlin expressly says
that the purpose of the proposed leg
islation is to produce an increased
food supply by breeding under natur-
al conditions" Congressman Nc
Laughlin is next TO tho leading re-
publican on the committee on agricul-
ture, before which the measure is now
pending, and he will exercise his
great influence with the other mem
bers to secure a favorable report.
Proportion to Population the Right
Standard
Exception to the published state
ment that Illinois leads the states il
the number Of cnlistments in the army
is taken by Congressman Harry C.
woodward of West Virginia, who con-
tends that in proportion to her male
population his state stands at the head
of the list in the number of recruits
furnished. Since war has been de-
clared, says Mr.. woodward, West Vir-
ginia has put two regiments in the
field, one of which has seen service OF
the Mexican border, and when the call
comes for more men that state will
stand ready to furnish even more than
her quota of soldiers
Let's Make EN- in America
A firm has been organized at New
market, Canada, to make lead pencils,
it being the avowed intention of the
company to keep German lead pencils
out of the country. Then more of
them will come into the United States.
Philip BorolzhaimGr, of New York
City, when the ways and means COM
mittee was considering the duty on
pencilS, told the committee that labor
in the pencil industry in the United
many or Austria, three times as high
as in England, ald about 10 times as
high as in Japan, where some 40 lead
pencil factories have been cstabli5hed
since that government put a protec-
tive tariff on Japanese mado goods,
and our export buGincss to that coun-
try has beer entirely lost since then"
But the committee reduced the duty
on lead pencils just the same. We
should get back to protective rates
again before the war is over, and
make our own pencils.
Japan Looking After Trade
Preferential treatment accorded by
Canada to Japan is aiding the Japs
to capture the Canadian button trade.
Buttons imported from the United
States into Canada are dutiable n:
421z per cent advalorem, while thoss
from Japan go in under the Canadian
intermediate tariff at 375A per cent,
the long haul from Japan being offset
by cheaper labor cost. Japan is over
looking no bets while The war is on.
Citizens Of German Descent Loyal
Senator LaFollette's proposal tc
exempt from consc:iption those Of our
population who are of Tcutonic birth
or extraction was made, we think,
without adequate knowledge of tho
real feelings Of these people. Some
of them favor the Fatherland, Of
that there is no question; but tn
great majority Of them are better
Americans than the LaFollette pro
posal would make them out, and they
do not want to be exempted. They
came here to take their chances in this
new world. If ono Of those chances is
to be drafted to fight che new world
battle, even against the old world Of
their origin, they will accept thu
chance and do their bit. The Wiscon-
sin senator doubtless thought he wa
acting for the benefit of his Teutonic
constituents. In reality he was not re-
fleeing their majority opinion, no
that of the majority of the German
born people who live in the United
States.