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New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

WHAT" said the French auth critics,
"take your sugar when you have q
sugar famine! No, no; you are too
generous"
These methods Of saving staple foods
by substitution viii, continue on an in
tensive scale during 1918. Let Us re-
vert finally to production. Farm labor
is a problem Of the first magnitude.
Will the government draft labor for
agriculture-some of the futile and in
effective labor of the cities? The vol
untary enlistment Of city schooiboys,
Of older men and Of women will un-
doubtedly be resorted to, and the de-
velopment Of the government employ
rnent bureau system may be looked for.
But no farm or food almanac for
1913 WILL be complete without its
treating emphatically of the farmers
demands for an extension Of price fix
ing to protect him as we'll as to curb
him. The farmer is checked and
reined by the 81 wheat ukase. Mean
while he "pays two prices" for his ma
chinery, for his wool and for his
leather. why, why, why the deuce,
why?" asks the irate farmer.
A word to the wise is sufficient. Do
you recall the Presidents hints that
profiteering might make necessary fur
ther price fixing? In Washington the
opinion goes that presently the Presi-
dent will yield to the farmers in-
sistent demands:
IF you want us to raise 50 wheat,
fix reasonable price on clothing,
shoes and farm machinery"
In this direction we shall see what
we shall see.
Wheat it is. Raise wheat! Save
wheat! The billion bushel mark may
not be attained in 1918. Last year we
produced only 67S.ooo,oOo bushels. And
of this we would eat all but ss,oO0,oo0
bushels normally. Canada has 120,-
100000 to put with that $4,000, ,oe0
bushels for export. making total
normal export Of 208,0oO,000 bushels.
But the Allies needs are for 0OO0o,-
600 bushels. By saving we are max
ing up some of the deficiency.
Ships Needed for
Argentina and India
Were ships available there would
be another way out. Australia has
135,927,O00 bushels for export, India
8o,oO0,0O0 and Argentina 100000
bushels. The coming Argentine crop
is enormous, being estimated at 239,-
$4,000 bushels, three times that of
1917. But to ship those remote crops
to Europe is excessively costly, though
some Australian wheat has arrived at
our Pacific ports for transshirment
Poor France, which in 1913 produced
s7,s3O,000 hundredweight of wheat, in
1917 produced only 39,9OO,000.
In 1915, our bumper crop year, we
produced 1,o25, 100000 bushels Of
wheat, Of which 673,OOO,000 was win
ter wheat. On the basis Of 10 per
cent condition for the present winter
wheat planting Of 100000 acres the
yield for 1918 will be about $4,000
600 bushels, according to the last Off
cial forecast of the Department OF
Agriculture. A none too cheerful out
look. Hence the intensified 1915 fght
against Allied famine.
Copyright. 1918. by The Tribune Association,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
People Abstain
In Grand Totals

Germany experimental with artif-
cial food substitutes, but with little
success, for dysentery and other all
ments followed the use Of substitutes
and resort was had again to the natural
diet
OF a different nature is the Hoover
substitute method. The "Meatless
Tuesdays" and the "Wheatless Wednes-
days" have saved enormous quantities
Of these foods, in spite Of the obvious
failure Of many hotels and restaurants
to obey the cooperative injunction.
Most Of them co0perated. Mr.. Hoover
reports that large operators Of chain
hotels and restaurants show a wonder
full reduction in wheat and meat con-
sumption.
Not only do "people like to read the
meatless, wheatless signs" in the win
dows, but they actually abstain in tan
gible grand totals. New York is reach
ing 80 per cent Of its ideal in wheat
saving, according to Food Administrator
Williams. Hoover says that on one
day the saving in meat in New York
City was 193,545 pounds, and in wheat
-four 517 barrels. A 80 per cent de-
crease was noted in many hotels and
restaurants.
Frank c. Hall, the New England
chairman. estimated a saving in his
district for October of GAO tons of
meats and 4,6O0 barrels of -four. In
Ohio in the same month there were
saved III the public eating places 237
tons of meat and 1913 barrels of -four
The Eat Less Bread" campaign in
England decreased wheat consumption
by 10 per cent.
Sugar has been vexed problem
Some observers insist that more sugar
than ever before has been consumed in
the midst Of the scarcity. Hoover at
tributes this in part to extra home
canning and boarding He now advo-
Gates the direct government purchase
and sale Of sugar to consumers, and,
insisting that his operators prevented
extorton, promises winter relief by
the early marketing Of the Louisiana
in addition to the Cuban crop. The
warning is still out, however: "Savc
sugar; it cannot be abundant during
the war;
A pathetic incident was the refusal
by sugarless France of shipment of
10000 tons from the United States
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

tive, who was man of affairs and
might have invested her funds 80 that
she would get perhaps $1,000 a year
out of them, which would have been
more than she had ever had to live OH.
But she did not do that. She let some
real estate broker get his hands on it
to buy huge apartment house that
was to make her rich. Inside year
her money was all gone and she was in
debt.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

could not be shipped In any case, as it
was soft for the most part. So the
world cries for wheat-wheat--whe
With all our high resolves only 49,
100000 acres were planted in fall
wheat. 1t was the drouth. Now what
to do? Let us be prepared for big
Department of Agriculture drive for
spring wheat planting, uncertain crop
though it be, and more limited in habi-
tat. This is what the farmer will hear:
PLANT spring wheat. Don't run to
oats, corn or barley in hope Of higher
profits. The situation is desperate.
| Plant wheat!"
The city dweller seldom has an ap-
preciative understanding of the Hoov,
| erian difficulties in a planting cam
paign. How, for instance, is q farmer
going to plant wheat when he has no
seed? Go to the grocery store and
get a pound of seed? Hero are some
seed figures:
1917 Crop. Bushels.
seed wheat .............. 90,O0O,0 600
oeeu corn. ............... 2O,O00,000
Heed oats. tS................., 100 0OO. 900
Seed cotton. n............, $4,000 900
S Soe1 oaIley ..'.'''..''..... I5,o00,000
seed potatoes. es.............. 100000
In many localities there are almost
total crop failures. The grain type Is
| often peculiar to the locality. Where
the farmer is tenant (as 40 per cent
OF American farmers now are, because
farming does not pay decent living
wage 20 the farmer) he often has
mortgaged his crop, which, being a
failure, yields him nothing for the
mortgage and no resources for seed.
This is where the Department of Agrl-
culture comes in. Secretary Houston
had an appropriation Of $4,000 for
the purchase of seed, revolving fund,
but he has properly asked Congress
for S6,000,00O moro for seed-buying
purposes.
Speaking of seeds, the extravagans
use of garden seeds last year by ANA
teur gardeners has caused serious
shortage in this line. The distribu
ton OF garden seeds by Congressman
will be \boon this year, provided they
distribute them to tho right places.
Price Fixing Has
Defeated Hoarding
The goddess Ceres has not been might
lily with us this winter, for frost has
killed off an alarming percentage of
the planting. An acreage abandon
ment of 91a per cent is normal. This
winter so per cent of the wheat is
winter-killed. The normal condition
Of winter wheat at this time of the
year is S9la per cent. The condition
of the nations wheat crop in January
is 70 $40 per cent
Now the question is how to overcome
these handicaps. Large spring plant
ing and a favorable summer NAV bring
the crop up to the highest expectation,
yes, even the billion bushel mark. For
after all the average acreage for the
past several years was only $4,000 900.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

vested the savings Of her thirty years
labor in some practically worthless
proposition, and in short time found
herself beggar. Of course, the peo-
Pic who took her money ought to have
been prosecuted, but she had no money
with which to start prosecution and
they were resourccful people anyway,
and would probably have dragged the
case out and beaten her if she had
started suit.
"Her tragedy there all comes back to
ignorance again. Indeed, believe that
Ignorance is the only real obstacle for
women to overcome in the financial
field. | believe that SO far as brain
faculty goes, appreciation, or the ability
to apply increased knowledge to what
they already have, they are as we'll
equipped as men.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Hen to Lead in New Drive as ANA
teurs' Weapon-Skin1 Milk and Back
yard Pigpens To Be Rallied to Sup
port of the Boys in the Trenches
'Eat More Corn" Slogan Also Ad-
dressed to Livestock

cholera, cattle tick and other diseases
in cattle, sheep and hogs alone amount
ed to $212,0OO,0O0. Big strides are be-
ing made along this line, however. The
pink boil worm in cotton, smut in wheat
and livestock diseases are Huns Of
more than human efficiency in ruth
lessness. Cattle tick lost US s40,0Oo,-
600 worth Of animals in 1917.
"Feed the bumper corn and oat crop
to the Stock" is 1918 slogan. "Eat
more corn" is addressed to the hog as
we'll as to the human. Hoover has
succeeded in reducing the price Of
millers' feed between 25 and so cents a
barrel.
Fish production and fish eating will
be part of the 1913 drive. The seas
and waters are alive with fish, the cat
ing Of which will save wheat and meat.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
They Have a
Fit Occasionally

"There is one thing I have noticed
about them, though. Every lady is
apt to have to have fit occasionally.
I don't mean necessarily physical fit.
but she gets stalled, like machine
that has to be cranked up again before
it will go. She seems temporarily para
lyzed and incapable Of doing anything.
don't myself believe she has do
that, but they say you get education
from what you see around you, and so
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

T<HE Hoover 1917 food line wa.
dented by untoward economi,
i forces on several vital sectors
Like the famous Hindenburf
line. It proves to be an elastic rathe,
than rigid line of food defence, thu.
saving it's general contour, while yield
inc at disconcerting intervals.
The Hoover food line for 1918 will
present significant differences because
of the surprises which price fixing and
Of forced production in given directions
involve Observe these important de-
yelopments for 1918.
The fixed price of $3.50 bushel fol-
wheat has sent other grains kiting in
the market, abandoning the old eco.
no,nic relations between corn, oats and
rye and the price of wheat. The farm
srs are apt to turn to oats and to corn
in quest Of profit for 1918. The patri-
otic food drive for 1918 must head of
the profit seeking farmer from that
fatal pursuit.
The Department of Agriculture last
autumn aimed at planting of 45,0O0,.
600 acres of fall wheat to save the
world from the starvation that else i'm.
pends. The drive was TO be, and still
is, for l,000000,000 bushels. The plant.
ing amounts to not more than $4,000.
900 acres, more than normal acreage
TO be sure, but frankly inadequate. The
desperate drouth in the West STAYED
the farmers hand-that and the fixed
price of 81 for 1918 wheat. There are
reassuring factors, as we shall present.
ly see. But first let us outline the
whole problem.
100000 Tons Behind
In Aiding Allies
We have just heard Mr.. Hoover's
sombre warnings as to the impending
famine in France, where rationing has
been resorted TO. France has seized ali
wheat On top OF this comes LORD
Rhonddas report disclosing grave
shortages in England. Our food ad
ministration is 100000 tons behind in
supplies to the Allies. They called fol
100000 tons up to January ], and
they have received but 100000 tons.
"Wheatess days" here will help re
duce the "brcadless weeks" in France:
but emergency wheat production must
SUI be the main reliance. Cooperating
with Hoover, the Department of Agri.
culture viii press its campaign of edu.
cation "to help the public visualize
iood productions" the labor involved
and the dependence of each man upon
the specific activities of food raising;
N brief. "to impress upon the public
the preciousness Of food"
Bread is more staple in Europt
than it is here. Yet England ant
France are reduced to about half of ON
per capita consumption.
The gardening zeal of 1917, shall W.
resume it in 1918? Shall we get on
the hoe and cultivate every availabl,
cod for 1918?
The garden drive of 1917 was al
overwhelming success. The crop o.
vegetables vas excessive, especially O.
potatoes. And the crop OF patriotism
was Of even greater comfort. But there
was distinct interference with the
economies 0f ,1rnrjr1ctiOo N,,.1,o4 ,~or
ceners were crushed out of business b.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Especial Correspondence

X7AsHlNGToN. Jan. 1o.-'"The
w shortage Of labor is acute" has
become one of the familiar
e'es and excuses of the war The pom
"fous civilization we have built seems
nave outgrown the foundation of
S''sers on which it must stand. With
Auadr"ds of thousands engaged on the
~!flad tasks that gild or soften life, we
ore lacking coal, iron, even food. The
euestion is becoming insistent: Can
0uE civilization support itself without q
Suostratum of almost enslaved toilers
Inc latest palliative offered for the
present strain-a palliative that almost
answers this question in the negative
% 'ne suggestion to admit Chinese farm
."oorers to meet the needs of greater
aooa production in the United States
%HG canada. 1t is coming to the front
- S9hgress, and has occasioned consid-
,sseo'e discussion by farseeing critics
throughout the country.
AC the instance of certain Republi-
.ans S IN the Senate the Committee on
nrsaculture OF that body has been di-
aas.seo' by unanimous resolution, to
.a'.e a'aAe a careful investigation into the
ts;aasis,aolllty ~ of recommending legisla-
cpi cpn that will permit the importation Of
f" fSuinese farmers into the United States
~ 'he duration of the war"
California Now
Loudest in Demand
,.. .C.uriously enough, in the light of its
T+;s Ch;s history, the loudest demand for
f",nese labor has come from Cali
os Una "a The State Development Board
Na1i1ornia passed a resolution ia
sssns the importation of Chinese
tSSa"srs tSa to California to "remain for
f" s"s duration OF the war" The Cali
1y,nia Ch;a Fruit Growers also demanded
fnr.ne f.nese labor. alleging that without it
ir,'her increased production would be
ny Tnapossible. The Pasadena Board of
nre;u "ue passed resolution favoring the
np.o!ect, p, and the press of California has
''gY.'y generally supported it.
Cauuse Ebert H. Gary, of the Steel
eisl po,rae'on, .,, in speech to a CONNER
er. a' club IN Chicago startled his hear
S,stao the extent needed the United
RS es should Immediately, under
sts;p.; conditions and reasonable re-
tba tbe1iohs' draw from the islands of
eno,s sea and from Oriental countries
ssilassh men, including soldiers and
lsa;oo,,s, TO meet every emergency. If
AZ ass's'at'on saln is required Congress should
~ NJ without delay"
0 proposition under serious dis
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
BY William ]. Black

THE Hoover 1917 food line was
dented by untoward economic
i forces on several vital sectors.
The sun., 1918-04-15
ERZBERGER AND
HERTLING SPLIT
German Chancellor Reported
to Have Broken With So
cialist Leader.
DIVIDE on ANNEXATION
Reichstag Radical Proposed
Peace at Any Price. Says
Newspaper.
DIVIDE on ANNEXATION

ANsgERpAAI. Aptl i4--Tae Ideyn'hs
II d .GsChd.. OF Berlin. cony Of which
has been received here. contains story
lat toun: Won HertiuG. the German
inper.a, ch ncellor. hrokc off relations
with Matthias Erzoereer, Leader ot tie
Catholic Centyists n the ReichstaS. and
threatened 10 resign when informed by
the leaders OF tAe ma jol.;y party that
they adhered 20 their resolution for
peace without annexations or indcmui-
ties
Sections OF the majority party. tae
newspaper adds. thercupon decided 70
iccept the Governments new progra rnme
Cor Incorporating French territory and
the coast Of Flanders into the German
Empire and lcNying Large war indemni-
ties on the western Powers. The ma
jor!'y Socialists also accepted tho Nro-
sramme OF anncyat!ons. says the news
paper.
The Trnoii,he P,ndschoa also de-
r',res that Herr Ey2bergsf IA 1917, dur
ing the regime of Chancellor Won Beth
mann Itoilwep. m.dc peace offer TO the
enemy tbrouGl, Dutch journalist. This
of.er. tie paper says. amounted 20 n plea
for peace at any price.
Chancellor von Hrrtlinr now refuses
10 receive Herr f.r.bc'ger, the paper
asserts.
The sun., 1918-04-15
Smokes. Like Bullets.
Will Help Win the War

MEN, guns and bullets will win
this war for America and the
Allies. The men are at the front
now. fighting gloriously. The
Government, with your help in
buying Liberty bonds and an
swering other calls. will keep
them supplied with arms and mu-
nitions.
But the men need more than
guns and bullets. They need
smokes. The army commanders
say so. More than that, they need
the cheer, the encouragement, the
home touch that 60 with those
smokes. These things the Gov
ernment doesn't and can't supply.
It's up to you!
Turn to page 4 and read how
you can help.
WARMING! THE SUN TO.
BACCO FUND has no connec-
tion with any other fund, organi-
zation or publication. 1t employs
no agents or solicitors.
The sun., 1918-04-15
Terrific Struggle Occurs for
Mastery Of Tip of Mes
sines Ridge.
NEUvE EcL1sE THE KEY.
Village Changes Hands Sew.
cral Times. but British =.
Still Hold 1t. E.
ENEMY GAINS IN FOREST
Sacrifices Men in Great Num-
ber. but Is Utterly Unable
to Break Haig'S Line.
ENEMY GAINS IN FOREST

Copvri0h', 1918; all riohts resesred.
LoNDoN. April 1.-THE situation
tonight in the great battle in France
and Flanders is believed by compe.
tent observers to be most encourag-
ing. the indications being that the
Germans have advanced as far west
in the sector north OF La BasSee
Canal rs they can so. Messines
Ridge is still held by the British.
despite the insinnation in the German
communique, which is interpreted
here as an effort to prepare the Ger
man people for the stoppage Of the
German advance.
1t is believed that the next twenty
four hours will carry us over the
most critical period Of this battle Of
Arment!eres and perhaps Of the war.
The situation Is better than II has
been on any recent night.
On the eight mile front running
from Neuvc Eslise to Vieux .Berquin
thousands of German troops rave been
sacrificed In the last thirty-six hour,
in the terrific struggle to envelop Bail
leul as we'll as in a succession Of FROM
tUl N'tttNS III Tue nUS OF Ine railroad
and the high ground TO the southeast.
The village OF Neuve Eglise has
been taken and retaken five times and
the Germans at one time Saturday
| night had advanced as far as the
, heights west OF the place, but this
morning the British again drove them
back 20 the lower ground southwest OF
; the village.
The rcro"..s Of corresponds al the
! front Indicate that the struggle ragged
witt t'.c lrrst intense fury through yes
terday. last night and to-day without
!atcriupt0'. Southwest Of Bailluel the
enemy 20. across the railroad that runs
!" Haaebrouck ~ Merris. but the British
are ho,d.ng then, between that place and
Niel'l- wood
Fighting g gong on tonight. tha
Germans making the most desperate ef-
forts to brca, down the British resis-
tance that has held up their advance
now more than forty-eieht hours. in
!l!'t!rg t's,nendous losses at tho cost
OF very little ground.
The sun., 1918-04-15
CHARLES IN PEACE
PLEA TO HOLY SEE
Italian Press Declares EN-.
peror Wrote Two Letters.

Rome. April 1.-THE Italian press.
commenting OH the controversy between
the French Premier, NJ. Clemenceau, and
the Austro- Hungarian Foreign Minister.
Count Czevn!n. insist that at the time
Emperor Charles wrote to Prince Sixtus
OF Bourbon another letter was sent to
the Pope.
The Idra NC.iOadlc says that the sec-
ond letter was designed to complete, as
relating TO Russia. the first letter as
relating to France, and had for its OBJ
jeot invoking the intervention OF the
Holy See in favor OF peace.
The Tibrnd says that il was all a
part of a vast pacific offensive" on the
part Of Austria and Germany and that
it was a Joint movement to deceive both
France and the Vatican.
According TO another source the letter
to the Pope was written by Empress Zlta.
CoPENHAGEH, April 1.-THE Foreign
Committee Of the Austrian delegati
has been summoned to meet April 20
according to a Vienna despatch TO .he
PoHtiksn. Count Czern!n will then
make a declaration on foreign and inter-
nal affairs.
The sun., 1918-04-15
special Ca6Ie Despa,et 10 Tmr SrN.

LONDON. April 14.--Further reyela-
lions of the authenticity Of the letter
Of Emperor Charles Of Austria TO his
brother-in-law. Prince Sixtus. III which
the ruler Of the Dual Monarchies de-
clared that Alsace-Lorraine should be
French. Is furnished by the personal
knowledge OF the text Of the note pos
sessed by former Premier Ribot and
Jules Cambon.
An inspired article by an anonymous
writer in the Evening STANDARD. who fs
understood to he a well known diplomat,
In which he discusses the identity of the
neutral monarch suggested for the Aus
trian EmperOr's peace communications,
points out the reasons why tho Haps-
burg family. with the related Spanisl,
royal family. would be likely to take the
ant.-Prussian view Of the rightful status
OF Aisace Lorraine.
That the neutral monarch was closel,
connected by parentaee with the house
OF HaE1burg when Emperor Charles
accepted the Austrian throne is common
talk among the diplomatists OF the neu-
trail states. lie personally was DESTROYS
Of peace.
Some accounted for this desire BY the
fact that the military fortunes OF Aus
tria then were at their low ebb others
assert that the new Emperor looked at
the situation from a different standpoint
expressing himself not in these exact
words. but to this effect:
II am not. responsible for this war
and ! Fad no share in the policy leading
up to II. Until my uncle. Francis Fer
dinand. died at Sarajevo ! was very
secondary person ana many years might
have elapsed before I might have been
called to the throne. When ascended
the throne ! found my dominion DESC
lated by war. my subjects suffering.
desire the restoration of peace; ! an,