Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-02-07

The committee on public information
has made the following translation of
| an article appearing in the Bremen
Buerger-Zeitung:
"a soldiers wife who had gathered
wood in the common forest of VALID
kirch, near Freiburg in Breisgau, was
| sentenced for the offense in the follow
| ing terms:
/ "eMrs. Clara Ganter, ON June 13,
1917, has removed from the common
| forest Of Waldkirch, Sec. %, one
| fagot of dry fir twigs of the value of
10 pfenning. In punishment thereof
she is sentenced to fine of 1 mark
and one days imprisonment
1.-The husband of the culprit has been
for three years at the front, she her
self has four small children to support
in the direst poverty. Similar reports
of punishment should be reported in
greater numbers. Our bureaucracy I'M
derstands how to employ this period
of shortage of wood and coal on a
large scale for the benefit of the treas
ury."
In a bulletin on the employment of
women in the storage and warehousing
depots of the United States army is
the following:
1.-The census of 1910 reported that of
every 100 men and boys ten years of
age and over, only 10 were not gain
fully employed. This group of 10 in
cluded old men not able to work, chill
dren too young to work, the sick and
handicapped, and men in schools and
colleges.
Assuming that 100000 of the num-
Der called by the selective-service law
have had some form of gainful employ
ment, we may estimate that one out of
every 60 men in the industries and
professions of the country has been
called into military service, while an
other in every 60 has voluntarily join
ed the forces of the army or navy
Thus, about per cent of the gainfully
employed men have been taken out of
their occupations"
The largest shoe factories in Italy
have started manufacturing the nation
al standard shoes, using leather sup
piled by the ministry of industry, COM
MERGE and labor. The standard types
were established by the central shoe
committee in Rome, but every factory
is making little notifications, accord
ing to its means and system of manu-
featuring.
The government is organizing sys-
TENS of sale of shoes to the public.
They provide for the opening of stores
in the principal Italian cities, to be
engaged exclusively in the sale of ma
tonal shoes and to be controlled by
the government authorities. 1t is like
ly that buyers will have to obtain
cards.
The private shoe stores will be sup
piled with an adequate number of
shoes and will be granted a reason
able commission.
The army and navy commission on
training camp activities. in addition to
the work being done in army camps
and environments, now has it's repre-
sentatives in every training station of
the navy and at every place where en-
listed men are preparing for sea serv-
ice.
There are Sc clubs for sailors at
camps and in adjacent cities. There
are reading and writing rooms. assem-
bly, halls, and some of the cities have
arrangements for athletics, swimming
pools, and gymnasiums. In the 10
camps there are given each week 90
entertainments ranging from profess
sional performances, lectures, and ex-
hibitions, to club nights and weekly
dances.
More than 10000 books have been
furnished ships and stations by the
American Library association. The Y.
NJ. G. A. has ~ buildings and tents In
the various camps.
According to the bureau of labor sta
tistics of the department of labor, In
the year from November Is, 1916, to
November Is, 1917, prices of food as a
whole advanced % per cent. Potatoes
is the only article that shows decline
in price. Cornmeal advanced 81 per
cent; bacon, 81 per cent; pork chops,
4S per cent; beans, 80 per cent; sal
mon, 80 per cent; milk, 80 per cent
and lard, 81 per cent.
Food as a whole was 4S per cent
higher on November Is, 1917, than on
November Is, 1913. and 46 per cent
higher than on November Is, 1914.
During this four-year period cornmeal
advanced 127 per cent; flour, 100 per
cent; lard, 104 per cent; bacon, II per
cent; sugar, 70 per cent and potatoes,
II per cent. No article declined in
price.
Examination of the records of 10000
men passed for military service by To-
cal boards and then rejected by camp
hot