The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-19

CHARTERED in Harvard's classic halls
and the quiet streets of old Cambridge
re-echo with the tramp of thousands
of soldier boys. The beautiful new
quarters of the Massachusetts Tech
now harbor thousands of Americas
finest young manhood, who are spend
short time in intensive training for
overseas service. Boston literally
swarms with men in khaki and 'Sgob'
uniforms.
Potatoes, beans and cabbage are be-
ing raised on the historic old Boston
Common, near the place where the
Boston massacre occurred a century
and half ago. Yankee ingenuity
and speed is shown by the miraculous
construction of large ship building
plants. Last October one of the num-
erous small islands of Boston harbor
was worthless swamp. In ten
months a modern million-dolla
plant was completed on this site, in
Guiding full equipment of machinery
and in August the first torpedo boat
destroyer was launched from this new
yard. Philadelphia is experiencing a
congestion never before known in the
old Quaker town.
Rents have been raised 100 per
cent. Shabby cottages rent for $25
a month and $50 apartments are hard
to get. To relieve the situation the
government is constructing cottages
by the hundreds to supply the unusual
demand for working mems homes. In
a city which has gained the unsavory
for graft that Philadelphia
has, it is but natural to hear of ugly
rumors of profiteering and no doubt
government cost inspectors have their
hands full guarding the public's in
terest. Steel mills, shoe factories,
cloth mills, machine shops, in fact all
manufacturing plants where war ma
terial can be turned out, are working
overtime to meet the unprecedented
demand. Wherever such plants are
located or are being constructed, there
one sees the evidences of industrial
BOOM Corresponding stagnation pre-
walls where war contracts are not
being carried out. Living expenses
are soaring on all articles not con-
trolled by government regulation; the
price is limited only by the capac-
ity to buy. Meats vary from % cents
a pound for ground mixtures of
questionable source and age to 60 and
~ ceI1CS pound lOr STEAKS ana rOdSCS.
Fish are abundant and relatively
cheap. Vegetables vary with prox-
unity to market but fruit is rather for
exhibition than for consumption pur-
poses. Early apples were sold at
cents apiece, and western cherries
brought 80 to 35 cents pound I'm
der such market conditions the social
and economic problems of the tene-
nent districts e. G. along Salem street
n Boston or the lower East Side in
New York, are becoming serious
We're it not for the excellent sanitary
education and recreational facilities
,ostered by the school systems of
hese cities, one would dread to think
If what war conditions would impose
lpon these teeming thousands.
Mr.. Soulen took an opportunity of
some of the crippled soldiers
the first who had arrived in the
]. S. from the battle fields of France.
lie found some of them in the Boston
ity hospital and others those minus
rms or legs or otherwise more Sc
erely wounded-at the government
lavy hospital at Chelsea. Though |
hey had made miximum sacrifice
most of them having taken part in
he battle of Chateau Thiery, seven
yeeks before they were among the
Ol1ieSt at this rather PROVIDED hoe |