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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-02

1t is strictly against the law for a
licensed dealer to sell cotton seed for
feeding or fertilizing purposes unless
specifically authorized to do so in writ
ing by the u. S. food administrator.
The prohibition to use cotton seed in
the manner indicated is set forth
specifically in the rules and regula'
tions governing the importation, manu-
facture, storage and distribution of
food commodities for domestic use by
persons subject to license. These rules
and regulations were promulgated by
the president of the United States
under the authority conferred on him
by act of congress, approved August
10, 1917 entitled IAN act to provide
further for the national security and
defense by encouraging the produce
ton, conserving the supply and con-
trolling the distribution of food prod
ucts and fuel" The pamphlet setting
forth these regulations states specifical
ly under rule 4, page rs, under special
regulations for licensees engaged in the
business of ginning. crushing, refining
and dealing in cottonseed, cottonseed
oil, cottonseed meal, cottonseed cake.
peanut oil, soy-bean oil, palm oil and
copra oil, peanut meal and soy-bean
meal That the licensee shall not,
without the written consent of the u
). food administrator, sell or use cot
tonseed for feeding or fertilizing pur-
poses. Those interested or concerned
in these regulations should be govern
ed accordingly This information is,
therefore, presented in the foregoing
form in order that such publicity may
be given to the same or such use
made thereof as will inform the pub
lie relative to this matter and enable
a proper conservation of cottonseed to
be effected through the agency of all
licensed dealers in such seed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-02

p. +. J., Rome. Ca, writes: 1 would
like some advice i'm regard to using spring
planted Irish potatoes for seed in the fail.
] have planted some Bliss Triumph and
Irish Cohb.er, ana If ! c3n | want to plant
some of these in the fall
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
The Woman Who Heads
the Three Minute Women

CHE Three Minute Women, %Slo last
week began a campaign of &ratory
parallel to that being waged by the Four
Minute Men, are headed by DR.. Martha
Carey Thomas. For twenty-three years
DR.. Thomas has been president of Brvn
Mawr College.
DR.. Thomas is sixty-one years old. She
was born at Baltimore, Md, and at TWEEN.
ty was graduated from Cornell Uniyer-
slty After years study at Johns Hop
kins she went to Leipsic with the inten-
ton of obtaining doctors degree. This
was given her by the University of Zurich
IN lSS3-the first woman to whom such a
degree had been granted Another wear
OF study abroad. at the Sorbonne, and
III Thomas returned to America, Just
IN time to be elected dean of the faculty
OF Bryn Mawr. Upon the death in 1895
0i DR. james L. Rhoads, first president
oi hryn Mawr, she became president. As
.ornelPs first woman trustee she served
from 1879 to 1899; she has been a trustee
u bryn Mawr since 1908. DR.. Thomas is
vac author of "Sir Gawayne and the
''eeh Knight" and several books on the
"isher education of women
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
ne News Columns: Thy People Shall Be NV People

nm. In view Of the fact that he had
negotiated an understanding between
America and Japan in regard to China
there was widely felt confidence that he
would succeed, where Baron Sato failed,
In concluding trade of Japanese ships
for American steel.
Viscount Ishii, one of Japan's most dis
tinguished and capable diplomats. and
also known as her most patient, is what is
called self-made man; he rose from the
ranks. He graduated from the law col
lege of the Imperial Toxic University in
1889 and the following year was ordered
to France as diplomatic attache Later
he was sent as consul to Chemulpo. Dur
ing the Boxer troubles of 1900 he was in
Peking as first secretary Of the legation.
Later he was made chief of the section of
telegraphs and then director of the bu
reau of commercial affairs in the FOREIGN
Office, and in 1908 was promoted to vice
minister OF the department, serving sue
cessively under Count Hyashi MARQUIS
Komura and Viscount Uchida. In 1909 he
was created baron in recognition of COM
merclal treaties. In 1912 he was named
ambassador to France Three wears later
he was made Foreign Minister of ths
empire.
Viscount lshii headed the Japanese mis-
sion which came to Washington last
August to extend to President Wilson and
the American government the thanks Of
the Japanese Emperor for Americas en- |
try into the war. This was his second
visit to America. Ten years before he
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Now for the Bells-Germany
Needs More Cannon

THE famous Kaiser Bell of the Cologne
Cathedral, the largest bell in Ger
many, struck its last peal on New Years
night, and crowd of devout persons as
sembled to take last farewell of it. The
bell, which was cast from French cannon
in 1875, is to be taken down and turned
into cannon to be used against France.
Owing to its huge size-it weighs 271h
tons-t will be cut up by electricity and
let down in sections. 1t was lifted to its
position in one of the spires of the cathe-
dral by hydraulic presses in 1877.
The melting down of church bells has
now proceeded so far in Germany that
artistic people are pleading to have spared
bells that form part Of particularly beau
tiful chimes. Specialists are also already
discussing plans to be carried out after
the war for the restoration of the bells.
insisting that some uniform method must
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Brand Whitlock's Story

I is the King Of the Belgians speaking
before the Belgian Parliament:
J'd1 tos dams nos destinGes. I'm 1o7ls
Qui Sc offend s'impose an respect de tous:
ce pays ne pe1it pas. Dieu sera uuec nous
dams cette cause juste, Vie la Beloione
undergraduates
C''l have faith in our destiny. A conn
try which defends itself enforces the re-
spect of all; such country shall not per-
ish. God will be with US in this lust
cause. Long live free Belgiumv)
p The mad, passionate applause breaks
all unrestrained now; handkerchiefs are
waved, then pressed to weeping eyes-the
hlng selzes his KEPT, the Queens and the
little princes rise, and the King stalks out.
sword clanking; away on stern business
now,
And find myself leaning over the bal
cony rail, a catch in my throat, my ewes
moist
Then that stiffness again in the cham
Der, intense, vibrant with emotion, the
thrill of patriotism, the sense of tragedy.
the consciousness Of assisting at an his
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

the "most daring and helpful to the Kaiser
of any that has been circulated in New
York"
Mr. Menken is a lawyer. He was born
at Memphis, Tenn, in 1870, was educated
in New York, where he graduated from
the City College, and took postgraduate
work at Cornell and later at Columbia
University. He began law practice in
1894 as member Of the firm of Ogden
q Beekman; the firm is now Beekman.
Menken &, Griscom Mr.. Menken was ac-
tive in city politics as a member of the
Reform Club. In 1896 he was organizer
Of the Hall of Records Association, which
enrolled 10000 members The same year
he was candidate for justice of the City
Court of New York. In 1908 he was or
ganizer. of the Democratic League. Of
which he was chairman. His next organ
lzing venture was the National Security
League, which has almost two hundred
branches throughout the United States
and membership of more than 100. 900.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

haps more than, those of any other min
lister in New York.
DR.. Eaton, who will be fifty years old
next month, is native Of Nova Scotia
and was educated at the Arcadia Univer-
sity, at Wolfville, not far from Longfel-
lows Evangeline-land of Grand Pre-. He
raised the funds to complete his college
course by teaching and lecturing. His
theological degree was received from the
theological seminary at Newton, Mass,
and his first church was at Natick, in that
state He was then called to Toronto
where, In addition to ministering to a
large congregation, he took active part in
public affairs and was for five years
sociological editor of ''The Toronto
Globe In 1901 DR.. Eaton went to
Cleveland, where he was for seven years
pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
thurch. He was called to the Madison
Avenue Baptist Church in 1909.
just two years ago DR.. Eaton rendered
ms resignation to his congregation, ex-
plainlng that he wanted to devote his
whole time to what he considered the
more important work of arousing the ma
tloh 10 sense of its responsibilities in
'he war But his congregation protested.
and after three weeks of reconsideration
Dr' Eaton yielded. Last April his congre-
gatlon as a whole volunteered it's services
for war
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

his life looking for an honest man, uses
his lantern to throw light on the truth
itself and let the public see it.
"When the Rockefeller family decided
to let the public know what was going on
in the administration of their vast funds
Mr.. Lee was the man chosen to open the
windows and the doors. He was so Sue
cessful that other men, wishing to put
before the public propositions which
might be misunderstood, asked Mr.. Lee to
help them. They are his clients, just as
= lawyer has clients. They go to him to
get advice on prospective speeches, an
nouncements, advertising campaigns, so
that the public will understand them"
The International Rapid Transit Com
pany is one of Mr. Lees clients, and the
placards announcing that the company re-
quested comment and criticism of it's SER
vice was one Of Mr.. Lees ideas. He
handled Billy Sundays campaign in New
York last spring.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
They Ate All They Wanted,
Then Grew Talkative

pUT stealing during food famine has
NN its peculiar dangers, as three other
thieves learned to their cost Not long ago
the threc--two men and a woman-entered
a low tavern in Berlin and slowed them
selves away till all the guests had left and
the lights were put out. Then they cot
busy. They ate everything that they could
lay hands upon and mbibed copiously of
the beer and cordials. But there they
blundered. Through long abstinence they
had lost their drink denomination, SO to
speak. Free beer was too strong a tempta
tion and it soon began to talk The three
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Lucky Coupon 131 Draws
Pound of "Smearing
Material''

A MOTHER glimpse into food conditions
a at Berlin is afforded by a notice
which the city government had inserted
IN the papers of January s. 1t reads as
follows:
The Berlin Magistrat will distribute one
pound of marmalade on coupon 131 of the
general food card The Magistrat declares
IN answer to complaints, that it regularly
undertakes the distribution of 'smearing
material as soon as the goods arrive At
the middle of November one pound of mar
malade was distributed, and again the same
quantity at the middle Of December. A new
distribution will take place shortly. Just as
soon as the long-expected goods arrive"
1t was further announced that four and
half ounces of cheese would be allotted
on each family card in several wards in
habited by laboring people.
\ MOTHER notice in the Berlin papers
"A announced that in Wilmersdorf Ga
part of Greater Berlin) the authorities
would distribute 31a ounces of sago or
buckwheat meal or flour between Wednes-
day and Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
General Famine Advancing
less than highly sens

HNOTH1NG less than highly sensa-
tlonal is Mr.. Hoover's testimony
before the House Committee on
Agriculture. Contrary to previous gov
eminent statements, he declares that much
OF the corn crop is rotting in the fields
because OF lack of cars; that the crop
Itself, widely heralded as bumper one, is
composed of only 2,o00,0OO,O0O bushels in
stead OF $500 100000; that there are only
lOo,O00,00O pounds of beef where there
should be 450,000,00O, and that there is a
shortage of from 100000 900 to 1,ooo.-
100000 pounds Of pork products and vege-
table oils-about so per cent of what is
required. When these figures are digested
there will be growing feeling of alarm
throughout the country. No wonder Mr.
McAdoo is rushing special provision trains
to the Atlantic seaboard." The Nation
for February II.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
How Pig Must Have Light, and
Forced Its Owner Into Court

ME proceedings of the Berlin
courts continue to bring out evi-
dence illustrating the hardships
OF living on short commons during war
times. Recently one Wilzek, owner of
cafe, came to grief in unique way. Ger
ralnly no German could have been haled
nto court before the war for just the Of
fence of Wilzek. But war is the mother
of invention, and so he found his wav to
the bar of the court. Wilzek got into
trouble because he could not be satisfied
with the few ounces of pork weekly that
the Food Administration permitted him to
buy. He wanted to "go the whole hog"
and-as the German report quantity
phrases 1.-THE acquired living hog for
fattening purposes Having no other place
Tor carrying on his "fattening purposes"
he put the "bristle-anmal" into the Gel
lar. But it "did not feel comfortable in
the dark cellar. 1t grunted and squealed
in such a way that Wilzek feared it would
disturb bis guests in the cafe"
Here the report continues:
Remarkably enough, the hog behaved it.
49, au'c''y ao sooH as Nght was brought
into the cellar. In order to help the poor
animal Wick hung an electric bulb on the
wire that ran along the cellar ceiling, and
then the hog squealed no more. This friend
ly act had very bad sequel for Wilzek. for.
when the inspector called on his next round
he found that Wilzek was taking off cur
rent that had not yet passed through the
electrometer"
That is why he was brought before the
court for a fine of $120.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
MIR. Wilson Is Called to Task for
Wasting 100000 Speeches

THE "Koelnische Zeitung" reprints a
dispatch from Washington to "The
London Times" about the preparations
made for the circulation Of the Presidents
speech of January 8, including the state
ment that a million copies in the German
language were to be dropped behind the
German lines. To this the German paper
remarks: "1nasmuch as the German
papers fully printed the speech, Wilson
might just as we'll have thrown those
million copies into the sea. This, more
over, is new proof of how little he knows
about Germany"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
This Man Merely Introduced Him.
self as "the New Floorwalker"

WAR conditions on create many oppor-
tunities for crime which did not ex-
ist hitherto. For example, the great de-
partment stores have frequently to take on
new help to supply the places of men called
into the army. An enterprising thief saw
his opportunity in this state of things and
resolved to execute a particularly cool and
daring robbery. Entering a store at the
busiest hour of the day, he managed to lay
aside overcoat and hat, and then moved
about the floor in the role of an employe of
the firm. Going up to clerk who had
charge of a big show window, he intro
duced himself as the new f1oorwalker,
and asked him to hand out heavy fur
overcoat worth $3.50, as it was to be put
back into stock and another substituted
for it. With his booty in hand he retired
to corner, put it on, and then disap-
peared. He has not come back yet, but a
description of him is in. the Berlin papers.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
High Spots in the Current American MAGAZINES

to inspire his ambition and how to facili-
tate the attainment Of that ambition by
having his home surroundings cheerful
and pleasant, by attending carefully to
his physical wellbeing and by entering
into the spirit Of his aims and Objects
Good health is extremely important in the
struggle for success, and mans health
is dependent in very large measure upon
his home life. A young man in seeking
wife should pay more attention to her
heart and her health than to her dowry"
E. P. Ripley, veteran president of the
Santa F'e, in "The American" for March.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Railroad Tickets Will Be Re
duced, in One Sense of
the Word

THE scarcity of paper is still more
marked in Germany than in Amer
lea. One of the Berlin papers recently
apologized for the non-appearance of it's
illustrated sheet on the ground of lack of
paper. The railway authorities have taken
further steps to economize paper. Bills of
lading are to be cut down one-half in size
and passenger tickets are to be made
smaller and printed on much thinner
paper.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
A War of Corruption

HT OOK at the situation at the end of
- 1917 after the war has been car
ried on for three years and a half. What
has been Germanys really important con-
quest i'll this struggle? 1t has been Rus
sia. And how has she conquered Russia? !?
Not by warfare, but by corruption. In
the beginning the Russian armies, though
inferior to the German in military fitness
and in morale, had the upper hand in
East Prussia. Then sort Of paralysis
seemed to blight them, and the German
generals, who had retreated from them
at the start, overwhelmed them at the Ma
zurian Lakes.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Peace Talk at Brest-Litovsk Made
: Food Prices Back Down

4 CCORDING to the Polish newspapers,
4 n the peace negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk caused big fall in food prices at
Warsaw. Sugar dropped from $3.50 to 80
and IS cents per Polish pound {about tif-
teen ounces). Russian tea fell from S1375
and SIS to $3.50 and 1915 pound;
cracked barley from s25 to $16 Russian
pood (thirty-six pounds); coffee from
$187.50 to $112.50 per pood, and herrings
from IS and 871a cents to so and 70 cents
apiece. 1t is added that Russian goods,
which had hitherto been held back, were
now coming upon the Warsaw market.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Ivy Lee Has Gone Across
With a Message for
France

ivy l.. LEE is in France starting a
great campaign by the American Red
Cross to convince the French the United
States is in the war with all her heart and
soul, said small Philadelphia dispatch
to the New York papers last Wednesday.
10 any one who knows few Of the things
Mr.. Lee has accomplished for his clients,
through publicity, this news probably
means that the task is already half fin
ished.
just about a year ago "The New York
Herald published an interview with Mr..
Lee which throws light on his career.
Quoting from that:
ut is not easy exactly to say what Mr..
Lees work is. He was asked, but he said
it was difficult to describe.
For while he was executive assistant
to the president of the Pennsylvania Rail
road He used to say then that he was
engaged in interpreting the Pennsylvania
Railroad to the public and Interpreting
the public to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
try to translate dollars and
cents and stocks and dividends into terms
OF humanity If we can make the public
see railroad, not as SO many miles of |
track and so many locomotives, but as so
many human beings, the public will under
stand that railroad,' so he said the@other
day.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Step This Way, Gentlemen!

1lTHE real revolution has begun.
All the swift events of the last
eight crowded months-the sud-
aen debacle of Czarism in February, the
Drlet inglorious attempt of Miliukov to
establish safe and sane bourgeois re-
pubic the rise Of Kerensky and the pre-
carlous structure of hasty compromise
which constituted the Provisional Govern
ment-these were merely the prologue to
the great drama of naked class struggle
which has now opened. For the first time
in history the working class has seized the
power of the state, for its own purposes
and means to keep it"-J ohm Reed. ex-
Bolshevik Ambassador" to the United
States. in "The Libnrator" for March,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

toric scene; the deputies remain standing.
and the Queen makes her sweeping cour-
tesies again, right and left, then, with the
royal children and her suite, retires.
Then there is a universal inhalation
IN the chamber, long breath, and Baron
de Brocqueville, the Minister of War and
Premier, is opening his portfolio, taking
out the pages of his speech, standing up.
A la tribune! A la tribunep" p"-Brand
Whitlock, in Ere,-yboely's for February.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
A Minister Who Finds
More Pressing Duties Just
Now Outside the Pulpit
suIpBUILDING is to be speeded W

rF SHIPBUILDING is to be speeded up
by speeches, Dr. Charles A. Eaton
u would appear to be a man emincntly
ouaGded for the task. DR.. Eaton, pastor
~ the Madison Avenue Baptist Church,
has temporarily given up his parish duties
far duties he considers more pressing,
entaied by his leadership of the national
service section of the United States Ship
ming Board At present he is engaged in
making speeches to the workers in the
various shipyards.
Dt> Eaton is the possessor of opinions
and of the ability to express those opin-
ions in vivid and picturesque language.
Whether or not they agree with him,
people listen to what he says His SER
moas have been quoted as much as, per-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Get a Good Wife-and Win
Mems Loyalty"

IS \ MAN who is not happy in his dc.
mestic life cannot be thoroughly
efficient. If he has to fret and worry over
things at home he cannot give the best
that is in him to his work. His strength
and verve and enthusiasm are detracted
from. The main thing is to marry girl
with good common sense. 1t is not neces-
sary that she should learn great deal
about his business problems; but if she
has solid sense she will know how to be
sympathetic, how to encourage him, how
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
5. Stanwood Menken, Who
Believes in Being Prepared

HE National Security League, which
mas just held congress of national
service" in Chicago, was founded in De-
cember, 1914, by S. Stanwood Menken. to
support campaign started by the Ia ate
Representative Augustus P. Gardnar
against the nations unpreparedness. Mr..
Menken, the leagues first and present pres
ldent, has been vigorously urging the arrest
OF Scott Nearing for issuing propaganda
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
A Neat Method of Conhscating
Meat-But Detective Got Next

THE struggle for meat formed the
II background Of another case before
the courts. Police detectives had observed
Tor some time that a certain automobile
was stopping in suspicious way before
restaurants. One detective saw this occur
before the Hotel Atlas and decided that he
would drop in there several days for his
dinners. He found that the house regu-
larly served it's guests with meat without
clipping the proper coupons from their
meat cards, which meant that it was cir
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

clearings amounted to s9,112 100000, COM
pared with $6,117,0oO,000 for 1916. The
check account business of the postof1ices
reached $28,250000,000, which was a gain
of 53 per cent over 1916. The war also
called into being many new joint stock
companies and gave occasion for many old
ones to raise new capital The total capi-
tai absorptions for the year reached $780,
100000, against $154,0o0o00 for 1916.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
Baker, Reorganizer

$50 CECRETARY BAKER has recently
~ completed the reorganization! of the
War Department which he began some
months ago His enemies must admit
that ne has made an extremely good job
OF 1t, and his friends can unaffectedly re-
lolce in this brilliant vindication of his
sound Judgment. 1.-THE New Republic"
of February 16
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

the Boche helmet withstands a creeping
barrage of English mullins, the Germans
are as great as George Sylvester Viereck
(cries of 'Treason!') thinks thew are. If
this be treason, jump in the river.
"Many things will, win the war. If I
were in charge of such things, | should
cause to be issued, for vide dissemination
in every government building, factory.
garage, hotel, restaurant, store, this
placard:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

cumventing the regulations for restricting
consumption. can inspection" adds the
report, drought to light several hundred
weights of beef, pork and fats, which were
confiscated." The court fined the pro-
prietor 500, and the War Usury Office
closed his hotel for nine months.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

subsequently we have learned that this
paralysis which became chronic, was
caused by treachery, and treachery was
caused by German bribes." s."-William Ros-
coe Thayer, in "The Saturday Evening
Post for February 16