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New-York tribune., 1918-02-22
Embargo Chilled
Scandinavia, Says
Minister Egan
Sweden Most Susceptible to
kultur, He Asserts, in
Lecture Here

Feeling in Norway and Denmark
against Gcrmany's military methods
and autocratic spirit is much stronger
than resentment against the hardship
wrought to neutrals by the Allies
blockade, DR.. Maurice Francis Egan,
American Minister to Denmark, said
Yesterday i'll an address before the
Academy of Arts and Letters.
lie stated, however, that the friend
ship of the scandinavian countries for
the United States has been consider
ably modified by the embargo Before
the trade restrictions were imposed, he
declared, Norway, enraged at the sink
ing of her ships by submarines, was
ready to go to war with Germany and
was only restrained by Sweden.
Ali Three Fear Germany
All three Scandinavian countries. he
sad, fear Germany, Denmark most of
all, while Sweden, being the least
democratic OF the three, is most sus-
ceptihlc to German "kultur." The fact
mat Scandinavian authors have to rely
on Germany for their market DR.. Egan
mentioned as another influence which
may have helped the spread of Ger
man thought IN Scandinavia.
He found that the Danes were innu-
enced by the Latin races in painting
and by the Germans in music. Aneri-
can and English plays were successful,
notably "Milestones" and "Romance,H >
which had long runs in Copenhagen
theatres. "And if any Danish singer
dared to sing in German in Copcn-
hagen he would be hisscd," said Dr..
Egan.
He declared that the task of diplo-
matist should be to make the ideas of
his own country thoroughly we'll known
abroad, and this he thought the Allies
had neglected
Kings Met in Self-Defencc
"The recent meeting Of the three
Scandinavian kings was measure of
sef-defence forced upon them bv the
war" he said. at meant an Industrial
and economic union. They felt that
they we're being deserted by the world
and starved, not through military ne
cessity but by military red tape.
We should remember that the ideas
of Norway and Denmark are much like
our own. and that Sweden. now re.
lleVcd of tire fear OF Russia and having
adopted Il more liberal constitution, IS
beginning 10 fall In line"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-22

The original photograph note was oven os
oay TO the American Defence Whitney
turning to France Tribune Face and hack f
the note shown the in the unnr bt ~
.,I ~ '"I "o'uo uotC oVr'ie England und Amer
ka! Ut as though had been vacant" Co;
secretary OF the American Defence Society," which to fill in ae 10
Oh Days dearest enemies Amerika appears to have hon
doed as an atertougha happy aterthogh one NAV iugc
from the triumphant point. ' 'N"Se
interest also attaches to the that received tho
o " lo months before the declaration between
states ana Germany 1t shows chdishness would be am,n
were 1t not significant of the hatred
ing while we were still ostensty friendly neutral"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-22
Six Trains of Food
To Go Daily to Allies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Six trains
of packing house products for export
to the Allies will be moved eastward
daily for the next month until great
quantity has been hauled, Secretary
McAdoo to-day told Earl Reading, the
British Ambassador; Count Macch di
Cclerc. the Italian Ambassador, and
Andre Tardieu, French High Commits
sioner.
The representatives of the three Al
lied nations were also told by Mr.. Nc
Adoo that between 100000 and 2,0O0,-
GOO bushels Of corn were now being
taken to primary markets in the West
each day.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-22
NJ. Fields, Sd S, Babies
Saved by Fire Drill
oervants Ply Extinguishers
While Nurses Rescue Chill
dren; Antiques Damaged

hanks to a fire drill in which ser
samI9 III IN ~: 1he nome of Lieutenant Mar
Snait Field. Sd, at 16 East Fifty-tifth
S,t Stroct wer2 required to be proficient
wa marSnali ma; Aield' 4th. twenty months DID,
ana ms sister Barbara eight weeks
old, are safe and sound TODAY. thougb
antiques stored in room on the sec-
Ihd no Moor just below the nursery were
badly damaged by fire last night
As soon as the flames were discov.
ere, cred the servants sped to their posts
nc nurse snatched up the babies and
carried them to Il front room. A majI
rang up Fire Headquarters, never even
heesitauns for the number. The rest
OF the servants seized fire cxtinguish-
ers and played streams on the blaze
Whch Tour engines, two hook and
!aauer companies and a couple Of bat.
,allon chlets clAttercd up the fire was
about out. Mrs. Field was at Cumn
logan, Tex, visiting her husband. who
IS lieutenant in the ted Field Artil.
lcry. He enlisted vhcn the United
states entered the war and recently
won commission.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-22
Closing Rule Held to Apply
Only to Temporary Posts

NASHlACTON. Feb. y Officials Of
the judge advocate generals ofiirn s.;d ~
to-day that the regulations refrrroJ W ~
IN the foregoing dispatch apply onlv ~.
"miiltary camps" which arc consul
cred establishments of a Temporary
charaeter. and separate and distinct
from regular army posts. barracks and
Determination of the stains of naval
s, Stations now Is under consideration by
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
POTATO CANDY AS A WARTIME
OFFERING.

Food Administrator Peden, of Tex
as. was recently visited by a candy
maker of that state and given box
of chocolate bonbons. all of them
tempting as to exterior, and each
splotched with tiny stars.
An examination of the candy as
closed a taste similar to cocoanut,
while bite and slow munching show
ed that the interior, in addition 10
being like cocoanut, also had an addi-
tional quality not unlike brittle, but a
good deal more delicate than brittle.
Potato candy is logical follow-up
with tapioca-four bread, whale steak,
porpoise fillets, mesquite strip, cot
tonseed-hour mullins, canned sha-k
meat, and other interesting food reve-
lations brought about as a result of
the war
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
POULTRY MADE GOOD
WHEN GIVEN CHANCE

The Presidents proclamation of
May IA, requiring the licensing OF
those engaged in certain lines of bust
ness, including operators of poultry
and egg packing plants not already Ii
censed by the United States Food
Administration" has been misunder-
stood by some of those affected.
Under this classification, anyone
who sells poultry or eggs in any other
way then at retail to the consumer,
regardless of the amount of business
done, must be licensed.
There are many country storekeep-
ers whose business is mostly retail
selling, but who buy eggs and some
times poultry from the farmers. They
have never considered themselves as
operators of poultry and egg packing
plants, but in reality that is what they
are. The fact that they are in the
retail business on too small a scale
to require a retailers license does NOT
alter the case. In order to comply
with the law they must all fill out
blanks obtained from the United
states Food Administration and have
licenses issued.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05

iting Mesdames Carl and Thel1 Boat
wright, after which she will proceed
to Poteau, Okla, where she fill be
the guest of Miss Johnnie Balger.
C. N. Faubel is treasurer and Al
derman John P Streepey one of the
incorporators of new Oil and gas
company that proposes to develop a
property in the Ranger field, in Texas.
The we'll must be drilled through
limestone to depth of about 5000
feet.
H. w. Anderson has sold his cot
tage at 422 North Beech street to
Thomas H. Holland for $3.50. Mr.
Holland purchased the place for a
home. The sale was made by E. L.
Walden. Mr. Anderson is building a.
new home on the adjoining lot at 420
Beech street.
The Forest Park School W. S. S.
Society has only three rooms, but the
sales of the little association have
amounted to $2,925, and pledges to-
the amount of S155 have been Sc
cured. Much credit is due to the
children of the society. Lenore Jen-
nings has bought and sold $1,000
worth of stamps; Adolph Horrowitz,
$500; Helen Joslyn, $456; and Linn
Watkins $50.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
SUBSTITUTE FOR
A SUBSTITUTE
NOT PERMlssABLE UNDER PAR
LlAMENTARY PROCEDURE AND
COFFEE ROASTER HOLD IT
TABOO IN HIS BUSINESS.

There is the substitute for chicory
that is better than chicory ITSELF" a
rotund young gentleman informed j.
C. Dome, manager of the coffee de-
partment of the Plunkett-Jarrell Gro
Ger Company, as he proudly displayed
a can upon which appeared a lurid
label.
"They are using this all over Texas,
Oklahoma, Louisiana md Mississippi
to my certain knowledge, for l travel
those states, and if you patronize my
house they will be buying it in Ark
ansas,' continued the fluent sales
man.
"Chicory has a muddy taste, but
this preparation gives coffee the good
flavor of chicory without the objec-
tionable features"
The travelling salesman would prob
ably have rambled on for an hour or
more, but Mr.. Dome cut him snort
with curt:
Cant use it. We don't use dozen
barrels of chicory year and l am
sorry we use even that much. We
certainly would not use substitute
for a substitute for coffee anyway.
I wouldn't use it il you gave it to
me-"
Not being longer interested, the
salesman departed to find someone
who appreciates the value OF a sub
stitute for chicory while Mr. Dome
continued to express his views on a
coffee that contains chieory.
when l came to Little Rock they
told me I could not keep my depart
ment going unless 1 sold chicory in
Coffee" he said, "but have, and the
Plunkett-J FARRELL Grocer Company has
coffee business that it can well be
proud of. Each year I use less and
less of it, and if it was not for lit
tie bit of Louisiana, I would not have
to buy a barrel of chicory during the
year. These people will eventually
see what good coffee is and then they
will be drinking Betsy Ross and I
won't buy a single barrel at any
time"
Chicory is not really an adultera-
ton, it being a pure article, but Mr..
Dome prefers coffee straight.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05

life preservers to the naval authori-
ties and the Newark plant is working
a force of men in two shifts of ten
hours each turning out 5000 life pre-
servers a day
The new life preserver has only 20
ounces of kapok in it, and they are
made much like a vest and the sail
least all of the time they are in the
danger zone, which is four days of
the transatlantic journey. 1t grows
very tiresome to wear any kind of
life preserver that length of time, but
big cork affair for four days is even
worse than shipwreck-
The Robinson-Roders company is
now making another kind of life pre-
server for the government. 1t is of
rubber for women and nurses, with
rubber hood that entirely covers the
head and of closely woven cloth for
the men. There is a material differ
ence of cost in lie two, the one for
the men cost $4S7 and the women,
SOL That OF the men has neither
hood nor arms.
Mr.. Young states that when all the
machinery has been established in
the Little Rock factory it will be the
most complete in the Southwest.
The company is now on deal which
will probably bring second Phila-
delphia, a Kansas City and an Allan
ia mattress factory into the concern.
1t is the intention of the officials 20
make the Little Rock plant one of the
principal establishments, it having
the territory to warrant it. A kapoK
mattress plant will probably be add
ed here.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
SELL SUGAR BY
CARDS ONLY
JOBBER AND RETAILER CAN Sc
CURE ONLY SAME AMOUNT AS
THEY WERE ALLOWED
LAST YEAR.

Want any sugar? Well, show your
card.
Hereafter there is going to be no
more hit and miss policy in the sale
of sugar in Arkansas. There will be
no building UP big sugar business.
There is little chance for this any
way, with the supply of sugar so
short, but even if a wholesaler or re-
taller had the chance he cannot buy
all he wants. He can only get as
much this July as he was able to get
in July. 1917.
The Arkansas Food Administrator
has laid down the law and the county
administrators are expected to see
that his orders are put into effect.
The Little Rock jobbers already are
exhibiting their cards when they
make purchase, and they require
the retailers to do the same, and the
consumer is going to do his part, and
in this way the boys in France, and
those who have just arrived in Italy,
are going to have sugar for their COT
fee, and in their pastries and pud-
dings.
The sugar supply in Little Rock
has been rather short for some time.
One of the larger houses has been
without anything in the bulk. 1t has
been able to supply the trade with
package sugar and no more. The
other houses have lad a fair supply,
mt ,,pda, fba ri cvctpn We ran all
have sugar-in limited amounts.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
COLD STORAGE
Is NO RED FLAG
FACT GOVERNMENT SHIPS NEAR
LY HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS
OF BEEF MONTHLY SHOWS
STORAGE is RIGHT.

Cold storage is too big need of
modern life to be downed by early
prejudices. It has become an enor-
nous business and has won the APP
proyal of producers and of all con-
sumers who insist on getting a hun
dred cents worth for a dollar.
During the war there has been q
bigger demand for cold-storage space
than ever before, and, through the
efforts of the Food Administration,
many difficulties and abuses have
been corrected. The rule prohibiting
the making of loans by the warehouse
men themselves up to more than 10
per cent of the value of the products
in cold storage was designed to pre-
vent market manipulations and large
operations on small capital. 1t was
predicted that this rule would result
in lowered prices and consequent dis
couragement of production, but cold
storage space has been used to a
greater extent this season than ever
before and prices have continued on
a high level, showing that this rule
has not prevented cold-storage prod
ucts from occupying their proper
place in relation to other foods.
The consumer has been protected
by a Food Administration ruling
which prohibits the sale of cold-stor-
age food as fresh. The dealer who
patronizes cold-storage warehouses is
protected by regulation which pro-
hibits the raising of rates for space
without 80 days notice. The Food
Administration also prevents unjust,
excessive, and discriminatory storage
charges and requires that rates be
filed.
The fact that at the present time
the United States Government is one
of the largest users of cold-storage
space is sufficient to remove all doubt
as to the who1esomeness of food held
in this manner. Each month we now
ship to the allied nations more than
70,000,000 pounds of cold storage and
frozen beef, and it is anticipated that
shipments will be largely increased.
Additional cold storage facilities are
a growing need in our efforts to feed
the Allies and our Army.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
PULASKI HEIGHTS NE WIS
SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL
AT BAPTIST CHURCH

The Pulaski Heights Baptist Church
has just closed a successful revival
meeting. DR.. T. d. Brown, pastor Of
the First Baptist Church did the
preaching and Dr. ]. e. Neighbors led
the singing. A number of PROFESSIONS
were made and quite number Joined
the church. Baptismal service was
held Sunday night. This church has
been pastorless for about six months.
but since the meeting has taken on
new life and is expecting to call d
pastor at once. With this end in view
the Rev. w. James Robinson, who is
now pastor of the Kensington Avenue
Baptist Church of Kansas City, has
been invited to visit the field and will
reach the city Saturday morning. He
is a highly educated gentleman and
fluent speaker and will occupy the
pulpit both Sunday morning AMI
night. 1t is assured that every orc
who hears him will have no cause for
regret. Sunday school as usual at
9:45 sharp. This church extends a
cordial welcome to every one living
on Pulaski Heights to attend any and
all Of it's services.
Do not fail to hear the Rev. w.
James Robinson of Kansas City at the
Pulaski Heights Baptist Church Sun.
day, both morning and night.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
WILL MANUFACTURE
OLD, COUNTRY MEAL

Grocers of Little Rock will in the
near future be supplied with old-fash.
toned country corn meal and whole
wheat -four The Fence Milling Com.
pany has been organized for that pur-
pose and is now putting the neces-
sary equipment in the building at 40
West Seventh street. Paul F. With
erspoon and Will Read are the or
ganizers of this company. They will
use the Lyons Sanitary Meal MIL,
which will grind all the corn and all
the wheat, giving the grocers fresh
meal every day.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
WEAR PRESERYER
LIKE A VEST
RosINsoN-RooERs COMPANY DIS
PLACES OLD CORK ARRANGE
MENT WITH SOMETHING
NOPE SERViCEABLE.

For several days Little Rock has
been entertaining a celebrity in the
war work world of the present day III
G. H. Young, vice. president of the
Robinson-Roders Company of New
ark, N. ]. Mr.. Young has been in
Little Rock looking over the business
of the local factory of this big CON
Germ, and visiting with @. L. Porter,
manager of the Little Rock institu-
ton as well as vice president of the
Robinson oders Company.
The Robinson-Roders company is
right now up to its eyes in govern
ment contracts, and all of its factories
are turning out volumes of mattresses
and pillows for the army and navy,
but the parent concern in Newark has
contract that is far more interest
ing, for it is making life preserveTs
for the navy. This company is max
ing new kind of preseryer and it
was Mr. Young that finally persuaded
the government to break away from
the old cork affair that was SO clum-
sy it tired the submarine victim into
submission before he hit the water.
Several years ago Mr.. Young made
disappearance in Washington with
a new material for the manufacture
of life preservers. He had a vege-
table matter known commonly as silk
floss. but to the trade as kapok. This
is substance that resembles closely
the floss that flies each year from
the cotton wood tree. It grows in
Java in pods that form on a tree.
Inside the pod the fibre is packed
tightly and when the pod breaks open
it falls out something like cotton from
q boil Mr. Young endeavored 10
convince the department heads that
kapok was the logical thing for life
preservers, as a pound of it is suffi-
cient TO sustain a man weighing lS5
pounds. and it is so light that the
pound may be placed in the lining of
vest without mountaineering the
wearer at all.
AS has always been the case when
one endeavors to introduce new
things into the army and navy, Mr..
Young had his ups and downs, but
finally succeeded in interesting
Franklin Roosevelt, now assistant in
the naval department This led to
tests which brought the Robinson
Roders company the heavy contracts
it now has for life presarvers.
The Robinson-R oders company has
lust received an order for 10000
mattresses for the navy, Mr.. Young
being advised of the contract while
in this city. These mattresses are
10 be made of kapok, or at least they
will have liberal amount of the floss
in their composition. The mattresses
will be made with straps on the sides
so that they can be thrown into the
water in case of shipwreck, and as
each weighs five pounds, five men can
hold onto them in safety until res
cued
Up to this time the Robinson-Rod-
ers company has manufactured $780,
900 mattresses for the government,
many of which were for base hospi-
tails. 1t has also delivered 100000
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
AMONG THE JURORS SUMMONED.

Among the peit jurors summoned
in the First Division of the Circuit
Court Monday are the following: S.
A. Beal and B. f. Mason, Gray Town
ship; J. w. O'Neal, Maumelle; J. o.
Dorsey, Bayou Meto; W. w. Gardner,
Roland. Alternate jurors are: A. II.
Chappell and II. Tysinger, Little
Rock; D. c. McNair. Gray township;
r. M. McClintock, Union township;
*. E. Branch, Badgett; T. E. Noble,
Bayou Meto.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05

DIR. Bert e. Carder has purchased
the five-room cottage owned by w.
S. Holt at SIG North Ash street for
$3.50. The sale was made by o. L.
Eaton.
w. Fl. Livingston sold property at
SIG North Valentine street. owned by
Mrs Emma Kile of Chicogo, to y,
]. Webster. The place was bought for
a home.
w. w Hughes & Co, wholesale and
retail druggists of Pulaski Heights,
have filled articles of incorporation,
with W. w. Hughes, president and
secretary: C. J. Snyder, vice presi-
dent, and Lulu Hughes. treasurer.
Miss Gladys Knight, 321 Johnson
street. has gone to Van Buren,, Ark.
where she will spend two weeks Wis.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05
WHEAT MUST BE
CONSERVED STILL
JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE BUMP
Err CROP DOES NOT RELIEVE
CONSUMER OF HIS DUTY BY
MEN AT THE FRONT.

How large will this years crop be?
And what use will this Nation make
of them?
Such are the queries which nova
days are ali important and heard
everywhere. Most vital of all, per
haps, is the question of our approach
ing new wheat supplies, and how such
supplies are to be utilized. At pres
ent the most careful estimates place
the 1918 wheat crop at high figure,
and there is little reason to doubt
them
What is to be done with this
wheat? To find the answer for this a
good many people-far too many
are arguing thus: Wheat supplies az
present in this country are abnormal
ly low, have been in that condition
for some time There are all sorts
of trade restrictions regarding the
amount of wheat that can be bought,
sold, and used. The housewife has,
been told to conserve wheat in every
way, and has done so. Now, if the
approaching wheat crop is large, let us
at once rectify all these abnormal
conditions and get back to our normal
pre-war domestic conditions. That is
surely the only sensible course"
Such reasoning is altogether false.
Worse than that, it is unpatriotic, in
that it contributes nothing toward
our troops or the Allies. Our coming
wheat crop, which should begin to
be available some time after the mid
die of August, must be regarded as a
potential factor in maintaining the
strength and morale of the armies and
people in allied Europe. Such an
achievement can be accomplished on
ly by regarding the coming crop of
wheat as a means for building up
reserve, practical and efficient in its
possibilities. It is true, of course,
that with a larger supply of wheat IN
hand, some restrictions regarding do
nestle use may be modified or re-
moved. But such removal of restrlc-
tons should be regarded as only in
cidental. No mere assets of domestic
convenience can begin to equal the
importance of an adequate reserve
Such reserve will provide an ac-
emulation of at least one staple food
product which will permit real fexi-
bility of usefulness. That is, it will
help guard against any unforeseen
and unfavorable crop conditions in the
future It will aid. by constant ship
ments overseas, the~ Allies in build
ing UP in their own countries such re-
serves as are necessary to guard
against unexpected contingencies
which might result from more COM
plete submarine blockade. Finally,
perhaps most important of all, such
a reserve will help counterfeit the eff
feet of the steady and continued di-
version of men from food production
to other necessary war activities.
Therefore the coming harvest time
should-must-be regarded not as an
occasion to cease conservation, nor
as a period in which it is advisable
to take off the lid" in any sense, but,
rather, as a time when our Nations
food service will be greater because
its opportunity is greater. That is a
policy and an ideal to be lived up to
intellectually and periodically dur
ing the coming months.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-07-05

Harry S. Mesler, of M. A. Treadway
& Co., local grocers, will leave next
week with his family for Michigan.
where they will remain for the bal
ance of the summer. Mr. Mesler will
make the trip overland in a Ford, re
turning in a few weeks, his family
remaining until fall when they will
make the homeward journey in an
other car. This will be Mr.. Meslers
second trip to Michigan overland.