The Hope pioneer., 1918-04-18

| TESTS lOF enllSCe0 men ana OfnCerS.
The war-service exchange of the
committee on classification of per-
sonnel answers inquiries of persons de-
string to serve the army. 1t in
forms the department of labor of
the needs which the war department
has for men.
The committee on public information
has made public editorial comment in
the German press on the revelations
In the Reichstag main committee in
connection with Investigations of the
Daimler Motor Works. 1t was shown.
that the Daimler company was earning
173 per cent, profit per annum, the
company's sworn statement placing
the profits at IL per cent. and while
the company was earning 4OO,OOO,OOO
marks monthly in excess of it's peace
time profits it had threatened to re-
duce output unless higher prices were
paid. The Berliner Tageblatt Glib
eraI, said:
Energetic action of the authorities
and the Reichstag is demanded. Such
enterprises as the Daimler firm are
not compelled to submit books for in
spection, while every little trader sell
ing vegetables must show his profits.
We demand government confiscation
Of illegal profits and, if necessary,
state control"
vorwaerts Government socialist),
said: 4
"The Rainier revelations will hardly
occasion the same surprise in financial
circles as among the masses. The
Daimler company's purpose was not to
deceive the financial world, but the
authorities, so that its real profits
might be kept from the public's knowl
edge. The company reckoned upon
the commercial ignorance of the gov
that such reliance is usually justified"
Attention of fertilizer manufacture
ers and dealers has again been called
to the necessity of taking out federal
licenses.
All fertilizer manufacturers. includ-
ing mixers, even though their out
put may he small, are required to take
out licenses. Agents and dealers do
ing exclusively retail business,
whose gross sales do not amount to
more than 100000 a year, are not re-
| quired to take out licenses or to make
applications for blanks. However, any
retail dealer or agent whose gross
sales amount to more than 100000
and who does not apply for license,
is liable under the provisions of the
act Of congress providing for the gov
| ernmental control of the industry.
Application for license should be
made to the law department, license
division, United States food admins
tration, Washington, D. c..
American soldiers and sailors in Ger
man prison camps prior to April IL,
1918, will not he deprived of their
rights to war-risk insurance because
of inability to make personal applica-
tion, provided such application is made
in their behalf.
According to statement by the Sec
retary of the treasury, applications for
insurance may be made in behalf of
such prisoners by persons within the
permitted class of beneficiaries un-
der the military and naval insurance
law. This class includes wife, child.
parent, brother, or sister. Application
should be made to the bureau of war
risk insurance, at Washington, D. G.
The health of troops in the United
States continues very good, according
to recent report to the surgeon gen.
eral of the army by the division of
field sanitation. Admission, nonef-
fective and death rates are somewhat
higher than last report, due chiefly to
prevalence of influenza and bronchitis
with complicating pneumonia, in many
of our northern camps.
National Guard camps. as a group,
continue with remarkably low rates.
Very few new cases of measles and
meningitis have occurred.
National army camps continue to
have high sick rates as compared with
camps of other groups though the
rates are lower than last report. Scat
tering cases of measles are reported
from all camps.
Field and garden seed are uncondi.
tionally exempted from all embargoes,
according to the department OF agr1-
culture. Instructions are issued to all