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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25
PRICE CONTROL EXTENDING.

The food control policy of the gov
eminent, now applied to the manu-
facturers and distributors in certain
lines, will eventually be extended sc
as to include the retailers.
An order recently issued by the
department indicates that the system
OF licensing will include also the re-
tailers doing a business Of n hun.
dred thousand dollars a year or more.
Under this regulation the boostine
OF prices on account of the scarcity
of an article is forbidden. The sell
Ing price must be based upon the cost
OF production. Unless the cost OF
production increases the advancing
I the selling price will not be per.
mitted.
In order that the department NAV
have full information at both ends
of the line-the manufacturing end
and the selling end-both the manu-.
facturer and the seller. including the
retailer,-must submit monthly re-
ports of the business done, showing
the prices paid and those received.
The trouble with the steel trust
and probably the feature which caus-
ed the government to fix steel prices,
reducing themtby more than fifty per
gcent.-was that it began to boost
prices when the foreign demand in
creased, Notwithstanding the cost of
production had not CORRESPONDENCE
increased. It kept on boosting and
boosting until it's profits were doubled
and trebled, If not quadrupled.
The coal barons proceeded upon
the same theory, but more outrag-
eous. In the case of the steel trust
there was an actual increased de-
mand . In the s of the coal trust,
the scarcity was produced by reduc-
ing the supply. The sprice reached
almost a prohibitive point when the
government stepped in with the poll
cy Of control, but making the mistake
OF recognizing existing contracts,
thus leaving a Ioophole for the Con
.tinuation Of the high-point price for
some time, with slight variations.
We have an example OF this price
control feature OF the governments
regulation in the sugar situation.
Although there is a sugar famine in
some Of the larger cities, threaten
ing to extend to the whole country,
the price has not materially advanc.
ed, the sugar trust fearing to follow
its usual practice of boosting prices
merely on account of relative scare
ity.
The next step In this regulatory
~policy--at least, a step that should
be taken at the earliest practical mo-
ment-is the control of the prices Of
oils, a commodity that is in general
use, 1t is the common belief that
the Standard Oil could sell power
gasoline at q profit at seventeen
cents a gallon, or Whereabouts, where
as the prevailing prices average in
the northwest between twenty and
thirty cents.
Mistakes will be made, of course, as
they have been made in the past.
since supreme wisdom is not an ele-
ment OF the human mind, but the.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25
E Dit R L

deliyeryman to visit her kitchen door
and about how much the merchant
could have saved if she had ordered
in larger quantities and had she paid
the cash.
a wholly inadequate conception of the
labor and expense involved in the
free delivery and the credit systems.
Business houses, it is true, are re-
ducing bookkeeping so far as posi-
BILE, and in many instances the jour
nal is omitted, but in no event can
the triple entry of each item be
avoided If the customer is to receive
an itemized statement.
Why not begin to reduce wastage
by reducing delivery?
Why should all, or more than all,
the profit involved in a ten-cent sale
be diverted to pay for the delivery
of the article?
Why should the man who buys for
cash be compelled to pay as much as
the man who buys on credit?
pay as much as the man who buys
on credit?
Why should the man who buys on
credit and meets his bills monthly
be required to pay as much as the
mar who ALLOWS" the merchant to
carry" him for six months or a
year?
These are questions that concern
not alone the merchant, but the pub
lie as we'll. since the greater proper
ton of the people fulfill their finan-
cial obligations.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25
FOOD CONTROL AND PRICES.

The frst essential to the control
of food prices is a command of the
facts of production and marketing
Tho public cannot exert intelligent
and effective pressure on food prices
until it knows first what profits the
dealers are making, what they ought
to make. and what is the volume OF
production on which to base future
expectation in prices st. Paul Dis
patch.
The foregoing is true. But there is
n thing that the public should take
into consideration, and that is the
tremendously expensive methods the
consumers demand of retailers.
To illustrate, let us say that a deal
er buys potatoes in carload or wagon
load lots at a dollar a bushel. The
average consumer would say that il
he sold them at a dollar and a quar-
ter, which is twenty-five per cent.
above the cost, he ought to be salts
fed.
But. under our present system Of
doing BUSINESS in the cities and larger
towns. the merchant who sells pota-
toes at only twenty-five per cent,
above what he paid for them is in a
fair way to land eventually In the
poorhouse.
And we'll tell you why. We think
1T safe to assume that the average
housewife these days buys potatoes,
not BY the bushel, but by the peck,
~reordering at intervals OF only a few
days..
Now, ii has been determined by
those p~refassing to know that our
mercantile free delivery system en-
tails an average cost Of three cents
per package and that the average
cost OF entering, booking and collect
Ing each separate order Is substan-
TALLY Eve cents.
The dealer, in doling out potatoes
In lots OF a peck each, must furnish
4 telephone operator to receive four
orders for each bushel, or a clerk to
walt upon four customers IL the pur-
chases are made in person; he must
make four separate deliveries, must
make four entries in his journal and
transfer these orders to four separate
accounts In his ledger, and then, at
the end of the month, he must trans
fer them back to. four monthly state
ments. mailing nj to each of four
customers at N cost In postage OF
three cents each after November 10.
Let U assume that d housewife
telephones or delivers in person ff-
teen orders in q month, each contain
ing Four items. It involves the work
~ making sixty entries once each on
the counter slip, the Journal, the
ledger and the monthly statement,
occupying SIXTY lines of space on each
or two hundred and forty lines. all
told.
The result ID that 1t has cost the
merchant from q dollar TOT dollar
and q half to deliver the goods and
approximately se~venty.ive cents for
bookkeeping and collecting. H the
amount ID less than ten dollars, vel
perceive that the cost OF delivery,
bookkeeping and collecting repre-
SCENTS about twenty per cent. OF thel
total, and that we still have the
wsapDiAs, the rentals, the taxes, thel
light and heat, etc. to- reckon with
You say this is overdrawn or ex-
aggerated. Well, let each housewifeI
Investigate the question for herselfi
by examining her duplicate sales
slips d ascertain Just how many
times she has neediessly caused a
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25
TAKE il in TIME.
Just as Scores Of Watertown People
Have

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Watertown. says: was troubled
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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25

gNEEEF. EL
National Food Commissioner Her
bert Hoover has appointed former
Governor Chas. N. Herreid Of Aber-
deem food commissioner for South
Dakota. Governor Herreid's ambition
was to go to the war front, where he
hoped that he might render service
to his country in helping to establish
and maintin lines Of communication,
but the authorities declined to accept
him because Of his age-he has passed
the A year old mark. But the oppor-
tunity now presents itself for his rem
dering signal service at home by SUI
pervising the work of conserving the
food supply and helping in the matter
of distribution and in adjusting con
1icting interests. Mr.. Herreid, we
opine, will not fail to measure up to
Mr.. Hoover's expectations.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25

The Saturday News r~eiterates it's
belief that if this war closes before
the nations are ready to disarm and
refrain in the future from such enor-
nous preparation for war, it will con-
stitute the greatest crime against hui
manity in history.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25

The first American transport ship
to go down was lost. on its
homeward voyage. 1t brings home to
America the fact that its sacrifices
have scarcely begun. When the I'M
tied States entered the war, those in
authority warned us that the sacri-
fees we would be called upon to
make would be great. But we have
not comprehended them in their en-
tirety-we do not yet comprehend
them. We must realize that 1t is pos
sible that one Of our ships will go
down with thousands Of our boys on.
it and that hundreds of thousands of
our boys will offer up their lives in
the trenches We needn't be surprised,
liz more of u boys get into this war.
than g engaged in the great Civil
War OF half a century ago. Ameri4
cans, we fear, have not yet fully
awakened
TAKE 1T IN TIME
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25

If Germany should capture Petro-
grad. and Moscow, and ever half of
Russia, or all of it, that would not
necessarily end the war in favor of
the central allies. The probability is
that it would merely prolong it.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25
GERMANY NOT YET BEATEN.

The American people are making
the mistake of their lives If they think
that Germany is on the point Of
breaking down" Germany is yet far
from beaten.
With n of the greatest fighting
organizations the world has ever
known, with its store houses full to
o~verflowing at the commencement of
hostiIities, with its systematized food
conservation, Germany is able, unless
the best available information obtain
able is unreliable, to continue the war
for some time to come-how long no.
body knows.
News dispatches, a few days ago,
contained a report to the effect that
Austria is to supply Sweden with oils
and that arrangements we're In pro-
cess OF completion for Germany to
furnish certain grains to some of the
neutrals in return fer certain things
the Germany army needs. 1t does
nit appear that the German people.
have reached the point Of starvation.
Germany seems vet capable Of put
ting up" the greatest fight that the
world mad ever Witnessed prior to
the commencement OF the present
war.
There Is a disposition among those
who are not conversant with the real
to believe that the war will
end before our American boys get in
to the trenches In France. Possibly
1t will, but we a perceive no well
grounded reason for SO believing.
So far as America is concerned, the
war has scarcely begun.
or course, it Is tremendously ex-
pensive and America is spending bill
lions with the likelihood of expend-
Ing still other billions. But we can't
to give this matter much consid-
now--iet It rest until the war
closes.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-25

American people will tolerate errors
of judgment, rectifying them and
remedylng the result so far as posi-
Bile, until the objects sought through
this war shall have been attained.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
Wet Papers and Dry Voters

Vhgnan:
In Hobbs
nc
believed that the Richmond EVENING
through journal
real
a good ana noble
Richmond friend
believe that the Rich
prohibition
OF
GnrIan or
that Inc
ns possible
Mr. TO accomplish their
aoes
williamsburg always wise to consider
WELT
deceive, possible, the Every elect
As stated to him
Oh the DEM
Of
mouth he sat on front
NO on
The conduc
hens in mouth U.s.
shoes bedad nut om
HEPBURN.
ya" August 8, 1911
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
TROUBLE STILL bRfWS
AMONG RESISTtRS
BIoodshed and Arrests Continuation
eminent Will Ask for Capftaf
Punishment.

Tulsa. Okla, Aug 6.--The death PEN
atty Will be asked for those who took
part In the recent uprising against
the draft according to announcement
made today by District Attorney Nc
Ginnis. at Muskogee. Evidence Is be-
ing gathered against them.
\ half-carlosd of dynamite, believed
to have been intended for use by the
Working Glass Union in their scheme
OF terrorization was captured a:
Spauldlng by deputy sheriffs today.
AT bay in the brush near E~Aden
VILE, a band OF twenty-six alleged
members Of the Working Class Union
are surrounded by officers, and a
rosse in automobiles are rushing to
aid in the capture.
Quiet reigns tonight in Seminole
county, where Sasakwa has been the
headquarters OF ~possemen engaged in
putting down the draft resisters
Twenty prisoners were brought from
Sasakwa to Holdenville today,
In Hughes county two men were
killed and two others wounded In
rising of draft reslsters last night
Bands of draft resisters are said to be
| terrorizing tonight the section arounc
Asher. twenty miles south of shawnee
| Pottawatomic county. A posse oil
twenty men, headed by Sheriff Darden
! left shawnee on special train to-
! night for the district where the draf'
registers are said to be operating.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
FIRE BOARD ASKS
RAISE FOR f|RtntM
Petitions City Council to Give Men An
Advance OF Ten Per
Gent.
TO FIGHT RATE INCREASE.
Board VIII Cooperate With Five In
surunce Agents in Opposing Threat.
encd Advance OF Rates On Retail
Merchants States.

The board OF fire commissioner
last night placed the following applil
cants on the eligible list: Benjamin
williams, Harley Rice and II. z
Eudd. and the following resignation4
were received and accepted: E. RI
Blakey, w. X. Slagle and j. J. Dough-
erty, all OF these men having obtaining
better paying positions with only eight
hours work, while in the fire dapart1
nent they are on duty twenty-four|
hours.
The board considered the matter Of
the naked rate at which fireman are
leaving the department. and IN every
case recently 1t was shown that They
left for more money. and as the fired
men have not received an increased In
about five years when they received
only s per cent increase. the board
unanimously recommended to cte7
council that an increase of 10 per cent
he granted in the salaries of all MEM
bers of the fire and fre-alarm depart
Inents..
The board ordered transfers and
promotions. and elected the following
new men In the department.: W. w.
Purks was transferred from Truck
, Co No. 10 Engine Co. No. Is: =. l.
Harter was transferred from Engina
C'o." No. $ ta Truck Co Nod. and sW
J. O'Connor was transferred from
Engine Co. No. to Engine Co. No. 8.
Ainslje c. CLAYTON was elected to
grade III" and assigned to dutg In
Engine Co. No. /: Granville A. Corr
was promoted from grade ''B" to
grade "A" in Engine Co, No. s:
BENT. r. williams was elected to
grade "B" in Engine Co, No. 5, and
S. s Whitlock was elected to grade
b. in Engine Co. No. 3.
The board decided to cooperate
with a committee of fire insurance
agents against the threatened increase
in insurance rates on stock OF retail
merchants and also to furnish sta
tistics TO show that the loss of this
class OF risk in Richmond does, not
justify such an increase. especially
when the fire department has in re-
cent years standardized the fire fght1
ing force by replacing all call men
with stationed men. at an enormous
cost per annum.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
ITARDwICH TELLS OF
GEORGIAN SITUATION

Washington. Aug. 81 an In sym.
patty with the efforts OK Georsians to
test the selective draft law In the
courts, although do not believe In
actual resistance" Senator Thomas w
Hardwick. Of Georgia. today told the
international News Service.
Senator Hardwick voted against the
selective draft law and has been one
of its most consistent opponents. He has
lately introduced bill providing thai
the consent OF a conscript must be OBJ
tanned before he is sent to foreign
service.
There has been no violence In
Georgia. no actual resistance said
the senator There have been meet
iugs or rro-est.
/ told the people of Georgia at mass
meetings and through the newspapers
that no matter how bad the law they
should obey 1t implicitly and they have
be en- doing so. While / believe the Is W
opposed to American institutions and
principles, l believe 1t constitutional
l am still firm in the belief that draft
ed Americans should not be sent
abroad TO fight against their wills.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
NEW WAR TAX COVERS
SUGAR, TEA AND COFFEE
While War Profits in Senate Measure
Are Taxed Rather Than
Excess Profits.
NO RETROACTIVE TAXATION
Trainers of SENATE Measure Declare
House Proposal to Tax 1915 In
comes Was Morally and Economi-
caiiy Unsound.

Washington. Aug. 6.-The war reve-
nue. bill, with total of $2,006,s70,-
900 as against s1.S67, 100000 sug-
gested by the house. was reported to
the senate today
Even with the astounding total or
the bill, the people are warned by the
finance committee to be prepared to
meet even greater war burdens.
This thought is not directly ex-
pressed in the report upon the bill,
but the slpsuInent ai>ounds IN such
significant, phrases SIS money to par
chase bonds to be issued to met such
part Of our own expenditures, such
sums as we may be called upon 10
loan to foreign governments engaged
with US in war against Germany, and
future demands for additional reve-
nue."
The main sources of the bill are
three. as follows:
/. Income tax (new war tax s777,-
700. 900.
2. War profits tax. 1852, o0oo 900.
g. Direct taxation, 667,270. 900.
The income tax is listed under
title l." and the war profits tax un-
der title e. The other taxation is
listed thus:
Title llI"--Distilled spirits, sl35,-
600, 900. rectified spirits. 100000
fermented liquors. s4s 900, 900; wines
etc, s21. 100000; soft drinks. syrurs
etc, s11 100000
Title 1V"-Cigars. $4,000 oo;
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
DO0T-LEGG|NG" AND
CAR-SIfAL|NG TRADE
Members of Gang Confess to Having
Done Prosperous Business in
Both Lines.
HAULED RUM IN STOLEN CARS
Three Cars Stolen In Richmond Now
Held at Tsituns Northern FoifIrS.'
Ncfartous Traffic Lands Quartet In
Baltimore Jail.

Especial to The Richmond Virginian.)
Baltimore, Md, Aug. 6.-Confess-
ing that they were members of a gang
that was engaged In stealing automo-
biles and in the "bootleggirg" traf-
fic, four young men are being held
by headquarters detectives on the
charge of stealing eight cars, One
Of the men was arrested here and
three in Virginia.
Cleveland G. Hall, of Richmond,
Va. one of the men under arrest. told
the detectives that after cars were
Washington and loaded with whiskey
and then driven to Richmond, where
there was always a ready sale for the
wet goods at prices ranging from So
to IS a quart. He said that mem bers
Of the gang realized several thousand
dollars on the stolen cars and boot
Logging" traffic since May !.
Hall said the "bootleggers' were
doing a land office business in Rich
mond, that automobiles were carrying
the wet goods into the town by the
wholesale. He said on one occasion
he and a companion were stopped on
road by special officer appointed
by the prohibitionists to apprehend
"bootleggers." They gave him bot
tie of whiskey and he allowed them
to pass into Richmond with ten cases
of the liquor. The detectives brought
three of the cars to Baltimore today
from Richmond and will bring three
others to the city from the same place
later in the week.
The four men under arrest are
Cleveland G. Hall. Joseph r. Manning
Jesse versel and Vincent Williams
alias "Dumpey." After the cars reached
a local garage the men would erase
the numbers off the car motors, hav-
ing a set of tools made for the purpose
Manning and Hall both had operators
cards and license tags of MARYLAND
and Virginia. Cars that were stolen
here would be supplied with Virginia
licenses and then they would be taken
to Richmond. No car was taken 10
the latter city without carrying a
quantity of liquor. according to the
men under arrest.
Cars that were stolen in Richm ono
would be brought to Maryland and
other points for sale The accused ad.
mitted that they hold a Richmond ca,
In Frostburg. another in Baltimore anl
third in New York.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
FIRST STATE GUARD
COMPANY ORGANIZES
Cambria, Montgomery County, Re
ports Body With Seventy Men
and Three Officers.
MANY ASK INFORMATION,
No News Yet As to When Virginia
Troops VIII Go south-Coast Artil-
lery VIII Train At Fortress Monroe.

The FIRST company of state volun-
teers yesterday reported It's organiza-
ton to Colonel 10 Lane Stern who
1. handling the work OF raising home
guard. in Virginia for Adtutant- Cen
eral w w. Sale. This company was
formed at Cambria, in MONTGOMERY
county, with seventy men and three Of
ncers. John z. King is captain Of the
volunteers The report made to Colonel
Stern was according to instructions,
and the entire personnel of the COM
pany will now take the oath such as
It prescribed for all state officers.
The Cambria company is the first
to result from liz applications re-
ceived by Coionel Stern for informa
ton regarding the organization OF
home guard com panies Others. how
ever. are in course of formation, and
In a short time each county and city
in the state will have its state volnn
teer units The officers will be COM
missioned Just as officers In the regu-
lar forces. and arms and uniforms
Will be furnished by the government
later. For the present. however
each company WAL nave ~ SquiP
itself
Although it was reported yester-
day that an effort would be made to
bring the coast artillery command Of
the state to Richmond for training
preparatory to sailing abroad, it Is
not believed that such a move will
result favorably to this city There is
ample room at Camp Stuart for ac-
commodating the artillery. but from
the best advices obtainable il is be-
lieved that the government is deter
mined that the coast artillery will re-
ceive its training at Fort Monroe,
whore the big guns and other equip
ment is at hand. Colonel Henry
Fairfax Ayres. of the coast artillery.
was in Richmond for a brief period
yesterday
Nothing was received yesterday in
-dtcating when the Virginia troops will
leave for the South. Since they were
drafted in the service OF the govern
nent Sunday, and relieved from guard
duty. II is believed that they will soon
entrain for Camp Mcclellan, Gem
eral Sale has made a survey OF tho
property OF the state which il will
be necessary TO guard and IL was
stated yesterday that the Fourth pro-
visional brigade OF New York will
patrol all important points and build
ings.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-07
rtScaf YeaPn.

Fiscal year means the treasury year
Or period for which government ap-
propria tons and reports are made. and
accounts are rendered. The govern
u,ent fiscal year in Great Britain and
IN Germany ends March 81; In the
United States on June 80. and In
France on December 30. AS II always
relates to government finances. II might
be called the financial year. The word
1scal is derived from the Latin hscus,
4 basket. and may relate to some re-
mote period Of primitive simplicity
when q money basket served as a gov
eminent treasury. Since the organiZa-
ton Of the United States government.
the term fiscal year has meant from
June 30 of one year to July OF the
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