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New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
M any Boards;
AVA None Authoritative

The division of planning and statistics,
under the direction of Professor Edwin
K. Gay, Of Harvard, is striving to get a
survey Of the whole field This division
is a sort of statistical pool of all the war
administrations, whose business it has
been to secure information and statistics
and then digest them as basis for the
plans of the war administrations 1t re-
Gently sent out a questionnaire to all the
war industries in which it sought such
information as the amount of floor
space used by war work, the proportion
Of orders emanating from the Allies and
from the government, and the proportion
of civilian orders being filled or waiting
Just what use will be made of this in
formation when it is collected and
digested does not appear. So far as can
now be ascertained there is nobody that
can make authoritative or intelligent use
of it as a whole but all Of the war ad-
minstrations can make some use of it.
The War Labor Policies Board and the
war labor administration generally are
intimately interested in the conversion
problem, because they see the most diff
cult side of the immediate work of stabil-
izing labor, not in the returning soldier
but in the returning war worker. The
soldier, it is argued, will find his niche
more easily than the war worker. So,
we find the labor planning people Won
dering what can be done to help the re-
organizing and reconvertlng manufact-
urers and they are even entertaining sug-
gestions that the government, through
the War Finance Corporations, the Capi-
tai Issues Committee, the Federal Re-
serve Board and Congressional legisla-
ton, should come to their assistance,
even to the extent of guaranteeing the
risk of turning munitions plants into
peace goods producers.
The demoblizaton of troops and of war
workers is g subject that supremely inter
ests the various forms of labor administra-
ton. 1t is realized that to A considerable
extent the returning soldiers will have to
be assisted in finding employment and in
getting to the part of the country where
each man, according 30 his qualifications,
can be best utilized. But the soldier prob
lem is viewed rather as one Of displacement
of persons at present employed. AS a class
the soldiers arc superior to those who have
taken their places Their former employers
will be glad to get them back and glad to
get rid of the substitutes. Placing the sub
stitutes is the problem. Large numbers of
them arc women. Many of these will gladly
return to domestic life, but others will be
workers henceforth indefinitely and efforts
must be made to place them. 1t will take
time at best to find employment for the
displaced war workers and transport them
to their former homes or new abodes. The
fields of employment that are open to them
are in the revival of the abolished or re-
stricted non essential industries, in the war
plants that are to be converted into peace
plants and in the factories which existed
before the war; but have been diverted to
war manufactures and will now seek to re-
turn to their normal production.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
The First Step
Toward Chaos

Inc War Industries Board and the
var Labor Administration are strug-
sung with the first phase. Neither really
"'a any plan, though both are now try
"e 70 evolve plans. Because there was
~ poiicy the first thing that was done
''S an impulsive rush to cancel con-
"asss and suspend production. Hun
eoS OF thousands of people who were
Jung busily and happily two weeks ago
= now jobless and futureless, and pro-
''s'ns strikes are already in evidence.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

WORLD bewlldered by war now
~ turns wearily to the laby-
< IA rinthine task of reconstruction.
Taken by surprise and thrown
without warning into by far the great
sst armed struggle of all time, the
hrused and shattered nations emerge
from the bloody conflict to find that it
s not only Belgium and Northern
France and Poland and Rumania and
Serbia and all the other regions that
armed hosts have trampled to tatters
that must be reconstructed, but that the
whole structure Of modern civilization
has been shaken and shattered by the
vast commissions of the war of the world.
Tme-honored traditions are contemned.
encient institutions are overthrown, and
mankind finds that the whole order in
and by which it lived has been wrecked,
oven as the Cathedral of Rheims has
been hammered into a ghostly ruin of
the grandeur that was. The modern
Huns marching with lust and avarice
and ruthlessness to world conquest, have
been beaten by the united hosts of civil
ization But the titanic struggle of
right and might with wrong and might
has ravaged the world; and mankind
finds itself housed in civic and economic
ruins which give it no shelter or COM
fort after the weary years of tense
struggle We have all been warriors in
this WAL We fain would lie down and
take our ease, but conqueror and con-
quered alike must turn with tired minds
and sore muscles to the conquest of
peace The world must be rebuilt.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
4 merlca Has
"A Not Escaped

Even we in America have not escaped
Physically, we have suffered little from
the war. Of all the nations involved
the war has come nearer to being for us
an episode rather than an epoch in our
the chapter of war as something ended
and finished apd go on to the next chap
ter. We are not as we were. The war
has profoundly altered us, and even the
outwardly fair and massive structure of
our national edifice deceives none. We
too must rebuild. Caught unprepared
for peace, as we were for war, we are
bewildered. Something, many things,
must be done, but nobody knows how
We swarm energetically but aimlessly to
the task, confused by multitude of
counsels and myriad of advisers. We
lnstinctively react to the warning pains
that tell of injured tissues and useless
limbs, but we react as a man fighting in
the dark with an unseen opponent whose
blows he feels but whom he does not
locate.
First of all we have to deal with the
mechanical readjustments of industry
and Socety-the putting back in their old
places of all the things, policies and ac-
tlyltles that were altered or dislocated to
turn the nation from war to peace. After
an ordinary war that would be the sum
Total of readiustment. 1t is process
That would take care of itself in the long
run, but that can be greatly facilitated
and eased by thought and intelligent
eHort and planning. 1t is problem that
can be solved without great suffering to
ne Individual or the state, by intelligent
uifectlon in comparatively short time,
Or 1t will solve itself in somewhat
suffering. 1t is the immediate post
oeium problem 1t is one of readjust-
ment, replacement and local repairs and
'emodelings rather than Of reconstruct
'on' This problem has three phases.
flrst-The reconversion of the war
industries to the uses of peace.
Second-The rehabilitation of troops
and war workers.
Observation-Disclosures of the soldiers
whom the wounds and diseases of
war have permanently impaired
and of the families that have been
affected by the casualties.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
TNhe Second Phase Is
d. Reconstruction

After rcadjustment comes reconstruction.
Here is whore wise men will fall out and
inferior men will come to grief Here is
where there will be a great clash of inter
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
BY Theodore M. Knappen

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Taken hy surprise and thrown
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
CARE OF COLTS AND
YOUNG HORSES.

Give the weanlings and immature
horses good care. The colts should
be given an ample supply of grain
and good roughage in order that
they may mature into useful work
horses. The saving of grain should
be made with the idle mature horse
and not with the colt. There are
many economical rations that can be
fed to both young and mature stock,
depending on the local feeds avail
able. Write to your State expert
ment station for information regard
ing the most economical rations to
be fed in your State. Also write to
the United State Department of
Agriculture for Farmers Bulletin
S03, which gives information on the
feeding and management of young
horses.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
HOW NATIONS LINE UP
IN GREAT WORLD WAR.

Washington.-The following nah
lions are now fighting with the al
lies: England, France, Portugal,
Italy, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro,
Rumania, Japan, the United States,
Brazil and Belgium.
Russia has been eliminated.
The following nations are in a
state of war against Germany, but
not as yet actually fighting: Cuba,
Panama, Siam, China, Guatemala
and Liberia.
The following nations have with
drawn their representatives from
Nicaragua and Honduras.
The following nations are neu-
trail: The Scandinavian countries,
Holland, Spain, Mexico, Salvador,
Costa Rica, Argentina, Venezuela,
Colombia. Ecuador, Chile and Para
quay.
The following nations are fighting
with Germany: Austria, Bulgaria
and Turkey.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
APPEAL FOR FARMERS
TO TRAIN BOYS.

The time has come when we can
not be choosers but must take the
best we can get. This principle ap.
plies practically to all classes of peo-
pie to-day, owing to conditions
brought on by the World War. OF
all classes of people that are hard
est hit by these conditions is the en-
ployer of labor, whether he be a
manufacturer, a merchant or a farm
er.
The farmer, no less than the en-
ployer of labor in the city, he's felt
the drain of labor owing to the war.
The active young men upon whom
chiefly the farm work falls must be
replaced by some one if production
of food stuffs and meats is kept up
even to the normal of past years.
But the demand is for more food so
we can help supply the other nations
who are helping us to make the
world safe for democracy.
There are 100000 High School
boys in this country. Several thous-
and of these are in our own State
and have enrolled in the U. S. Boys
Working Reserve. These boys are
willing and anxious to do their bit
in helping to serve their country.
Thousands and thousands of these
boys have already pledged them
selves to go to any farm where they
may be sent and will do their best to
aid the farmer. In other States
calls from the farmers for boys have
been greater than the supply.
A few of these High School boys
have had farm experience, but the
of them have never been
on a farm and consequently do not
know the first principles of farming.
However, they declare they are will
ing to learn. They say they expect
sore hands, tired muscles and hot,
long days when they get to the farms
but are "nerved" to do their part.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
BETTER TAG YOUR DOG.

The recent legislature passed the
most stringent dog law ever enacted
in Kentucky. Under the provisions
of this law all dogs must wear tags,
and any dogs caught without a tag
will be impounded and the cost tax
ed against its owner. IL is made the
duty of the sheriff to see to the en-
forcement of the law and heavy pen
alties are provided for his failure to
do so. ANY dog, without tag,
found upon the premises of another,
when not accompanied by its owner,
may be killed without involving re-
sponsibility in damages. Dogs,
with or without tags. when found up
on the premises OF another after
night may in like manner be killed.
The provisions of this law will in
volve the necessity of locking up or
claiming all dogs at night.
Hubby, the maid has gone and
She took my diamond tiara"
well, l don't like notoriety. Let
IL 60"
"She also took pound of sugar"
Send for the police"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

The Fuel Administration has is
sued warning against the use OF
domestic sizes Of hard coal by in
dustrial plants.
Representatives of the musical
instrument industry have agreed to
curtailment of their output to 70
per cent of normal during April and
May.
A total of 100000 women are now
on the pay roll of the Prussian-
Hessian Railway, according to a
statement in the Leipsige Illustriete
Zeitung.
In Norway, where no gasoline
has been obtainable for many months
and automobiles have practically
ceased running, experiments are
being made to operate motor cars
with acetylene gas.
The total amount of foodstuffs
shipped during March from the
United States and Canada to the
allies, according TO the rood Al
ministration, was about 100000
tons, compared with 100000 tons
in February.
Red Cross workers at line of COM
canteens in France &C
American soldiers on shop
ping trips, to see that they receive
correct change and otherwise ad-
wise them in their encounters with
French shopkeepers.
Three landing fields have been
obtained for the proposed Washing
York airplane postal SER
vice, at Washington, Philadelphia,
and New York. According to the
Post Office Department, the service
will start not later than May Is.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

greatly augmented. These troops
have been constantly engaged in
general engineering work, including
the construction of railways, docks,
wharves, environments, and hospitals.
An American Army locomotive
was built in this country in 81 days
and shipped to the Expeditionary
Forces. Many other locomotives,
cars, logging trains, trucks, dis
sembled buildings, and other equip
ment have ben shipped to augment
the output and facilitate the con-
struction operotions of American
forces abroad.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

The first preference list issued
By the priorities board, which names
Industries whose operation is. con-
siiered of exceptional importance to
tne country during the W. IS for
che guidance OF all agencies of the
United States I'm the distribution of
coal and coke. Included in the list
are plants engaged in the nanufac-
ture Of the following:
Aircraft and supplies; ammunition
and small arms for the United States
Government or the allies; chemicals;
coke; electrical equipment; elect
rodes; explosives; farm implements
and farm operating equipment; feed;
ferrOalloys fertilizers; fire brick;
food; food containers; gas; gas
producing machinery; guns; hemp;
jute; and cotton bags; insecticides;
iron and steel; machine tools; min
ing tools and equipment; Oil-well
equipment; locomotives. cars, and
other railway supplies; ships (not
including pleasure orafD; soap;
tanned leather, save for patent
leather; tanning extracts; tin plate;
binder Irvine and rope; wire rope
and rope wire.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

The Federal Trade Commission
has issued orders to SO lumber COM
panies of the Middle West and far
West requiring them to stop certain
trade practices in relation to mail
order lumber concerns. Among the
practices which are barred by the
orders are the following:
Obtaining from mail-order con-
Germs, in bad faith or by subterfudge,
estimates of the prices of lumber
and building material and obtaining
catalogues and special information
intended only for bona fide custom
ers and prospective customers.
Though actual or threatened with
drawal of patronage, including
manufacturers or wholesalers to re-
fuse to furnish supplies of lumber
and building material to mail-order
concerns.
Following or causing statesmen of
mail-order concerns TO be followed
from place to place with the object
of hindering and embarrassing them
in their negotiations with prospective
customers.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
BERT DAVIS.

During the next few years the
manure spreader will justify its ex-
istence more than ever before. All
stable waste should be spread over,
the land before any of its fertility
is lost
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
GOES TO LOUISIANA.

Beaver Dam, Ky.
Editor Hartford Herald: You will
find enclosed $2.00 in payment for
Herald until Nov. first 1918.
Change my address to Ged. Louisi-
ana Box 95.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

The frequent and widespread
publication Of statements concern
ing the presence of ground glass in
foodstuffs has led the Committee on
Public Information to inquire into
the authenticity of these reports. II
has been advised by the Food Ad-
ministration that thorough investiga-
lions of more than 200 of the cases
has disclosed only one instance in
which ground glass was found in the
foodstuffs inspected.
The case in which glass was found
occurred at Fort Smith, Ark. A
baker in that town had had trouble
with his employees, one of whom,
desiring TO destroy his employers
business, had filled with glass loaf
of bread which was to be delivered
to an orphanage. When the bread
was served to the inmates of the
institution several of them suffered
decorations of their lips. No more
serious injuries resulted.
In statement urging the erection
of National Defense cites these adj
of National Defense cities these adj
vantages of the school district as
unit of community organization:
The school district is small enough
to permit individual contact, and is
nonpolitical.
The schoolhouse supplies meet
ing place in each district, and in
many schools includes domestic
science, manual training, and other
facilities.
The school district reaches child
rem and parents alike, and in the
cities the school is, to a large extent,
already in touch with the alien
population.
The school is an established center
of information and education.
The school principal or faculty
provides a tried agency through
whose assistance community organi-
zation can be quickly effected.
The school district, with the
schoolhouse as its center, is already
a social community, especially in
farm districts.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01
Weekly War News Digest
Stories of Activities and Conditions

Army and Navy camps and canton
ments are included in the list as
well as mines, newspapers, and
periodicals, oil refineries, public in
situations and buildings, public utili-
ties, railways, producers and whole
salers of seeds, except flower seeds.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

A review of the first year of opera
ton of the Federal Farm Loan Sys-
tenn shows that 2,S0S national farm
loan associations were incorporated
representing about four associations
to each five counties of the United
States. They average 20 members,
or a total membership of about &c.
900 farmers.
The IL land banks have received
applications for over 10000 loans,
amounting to about 100000, 900.
About $4,000 loans, amounting to
over $16O, 100000, have been ap-
proved, and on 10000 of these loans
over sSO,OOO,OOO has been paid to
the farmers.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

Parents of soldiers in camps are
warned by the War Department of a
swindle which has successfully oper-
ated in various camps.
A telegram is sent informing that
the soldier has a furlough, and re-
questing funds by wire to come home
waving identification. The rest is
a mere matter of detail.
Parents and friends should be
warned of this game and of the
similar one where the teiegraphic
request is to mail money to the sold
Ter, care general delivery.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

In order to meet the demand for
increased production of foodstuffs,
instructions have been issued in
Canada permitting the free admis-
sion of teams, vehicles, implements,
and other outfits which have been in
use for farming purposes, condition
al on their reexportation prior to
December 81, 1918.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-01

Under the new baking rules issued
by the Food Administration, the
substitute for wheat-fiour content
of all bread and rolls must amount
to 25 per cent. The substitute con-
tent hereafter required in various
products follow:
Sweet yeast dough goods, 331b
per cent; crackers, Is per cent;
cookies and ice-crcam cones, 331a
per cent; pies, 1919 per cent;
fried cakes, 33k per cent; pastry,
331s per cent; batter cakes, waffies,
quickbreads-such as mullins and
Boston brown bread 6611b per cent.
Under the new rules no public
eating place may serve more than 2
ounces of bread and rolls or moro
than ounces of quick bread to any
one meal.
With customers who buy loaf bread
bakers are urged to promote the use
of the three-quarter pound loaf,
following the Food Administration
request that the 12-ounce loaf be
used where the 16-ounce loaf was
used before.
Bakers are urged to introduce
"quick breads" as a wheat-saving
measure. These quick breads, in
mullins, baking-powder
biscuits, corn bread, Boston brown
bread, griddle cakes, and wafiies,
must contain two-thirds wheat-four
substitutes.
The use of the words milk" or
Cream" on wrappers and labels is
20 longer prohibited. but milk bread
must still be sold at the same price
as bread made without milk.
The official review of the first
year Of war issued by the Committee
On Public Information contained the
following description of the work of
American engineers in France:
American engineers have gone in
o French forests and done the work
If the pioneers OF our own North
vest. They have frequently been
inder fire. One of their first tasks
vas the reconstruction and extern
ion of a railroad 600 miles long to
AIRY our products from ports of
Decentralization to general bases of
operation.
The First Engineer troops, 1,100
trong, arrived in France about
hree months after war was declared
'ince then the number has been
The Carlisle independent., 1918-06-06

-BELTING, The kind that don't stretch, For SIX years we have sold this brand of belting exclusively. Over 1500O feet sold last year all giving satisfaction, if it don't we stand behind it. Our prices are lowest on account of the large quantity we sell Layne & Bowler Go. Irrigation Plant Supplies. Stuttgart, Ark. Ask A. N Hollingshead, Local Rep resentative, Carlisle, Arkansas.
The Carlisle independent., 1918-06-06
ALLIED FOOD SHIPMENTS
 REACH LARGE TOTAL,

A general idea of the quantity of food sent to European allies by the United States from July l. 1914, to January l, 1918, is given by figures just announced by the U. S. Food Ad- ministration. In that period the Unit ed States has furnished complete year. ly rations for 57,100,933 people. In addition there was enough extra pro- tein to supply this portion of the diet for %, 194, ,570 additional men.
 The total export of wheat and wheat flour to the three principal allies is equivalent to about 3S4 0OO,0O bushels. Pork exports for the 31s years amount ed to almost 2,0OO,OO0,0O0 pounds. Ex- ports of fresh beef totaled AS, ASA 400 pounds. The amount of food exported to Russia is negligible compared with that sent to the western allies.