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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03

Meat Foot, Wheat Foot

Just have gone without beef all winter and have
become quite resigned to the situation told in these
first spring days to help ourselves to meat penuly. This
not 1ckeness the of the food administrations
adjustment to changing conditions We have cut down
meat consumption probably 20 to Is per cent at the least
we have saved much but unapp the shpbuiders
have not been active the The storage
houses have been overtaxed and for few weeks
eat good steak rib we'll Dreaded veal chop
lamb accompanied by spring salad and clear conscience
even on Tuesday. Pork will keep. Save it.
In spite of all entreaties the greater demand for
cheaper cutsround steak and stewng meatstl keeps the
prices OF the mans meat while the srloin steak
the rib roast down The of these erstwhe
cheaper cuts the fact that there less keeps them
greater demand despite the dropping off in price of the
quality Can't persuade anybody to show his patriot
ism by eating sroin steak at 80 cents pound instead of
round steak at 80 cents?
1t also IS no longer either patriotic economical
chicken at 40 to As cents pound instead of beef lamb
veal at 22 to SO cents Step out boldly meat FOOT first
the .Wheat foot should barely touch the ground
We to be willing to do almost anything for our
country except to stop eating wheat If it great
to figure out whether getting exactly pound and
half week allowance would simplify matters stop eating
wheat altogether Potatoes instead white bread corn rice
md oats instead Of wheat for few months only deed
is done Why haggle it, with so much at stake?
4 STATEMENT OF RETAIL PRICES
TIES
prices i" cents uHLss ohe~a.se stotedl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Incentive for Gardeners
Government Planning Awards
for Amateur Planters

Amateur gardeners arc not only tc
be encouraged during the coming sum,
mer, according to A. n Gitterman
chairman OF the War Garden Com
mittee of the Park Department, but
those who show the most proficiency
during the summer will stand excellent
chances of winning special awards
from the government
The committee which has been an.
pointed to encourage New York men
to do garden work are planning model
gardens in Union Square and at Forty
second street so that practical lessons
IN gardening may be taught.
The National War Garden committee
IS cooperating with garden committees
throughout the country. Copies of
books on gardening may be obtained
from the Parks demonstration gar
Gems Gems at Union Square Park and Bryant
park or at Room 1904, Municipal
Building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Coal Price Cut Soc.
For Consumers Here
Fuel Official Fixes Dealers
Maximum Profit at
$2.25 a ION

BY fixing $2.25 as the maximum
profits which a dealer mag make on
a ton of coal, the fuel administration
yesterday reduced the cost to consum-
crs 30 cents a ton less than tho rates
which prevailed last winter.
The average prices now ave: For
egg coal, $50; stove coal, $3.50. and
nut coal, $40. These prices vary as
much as 10 cents a ton, according to
the dealers hauling cost.
twenty-five cents a ton was cut of
the dealers profit, and, in addition an
other 30 cents a tom was cut off for
April, May, June and July. This would
make a total reduction of So cents. TO
offset this the dealer is allowed Is
cents additional to cover increased
costs Of handling. This leaves a net
reduction TO the consumer of 80 cents.
Persons who applied "a The Office of
Reeve Schley, County Fuel Administra-
tor 81 Broadway. yesterday, were told
that 1T would be impossible to make a
uniform retail rate to apply all over
the city.
"Many dealers have held up their
orders because there apparently was
misunderstanding as to what they
should charge said Mr. Schley. "Now
that the maximum profit has been
fixed they can 30 ahead and deliver.
The public should cooperate by buying
coal CARLY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Railroad Men Laud
Wilson for Solving
Traffic Problem
Government Operation Is
Outlined to Rotary Club
by Director Smith

President Wilson was the first ma
tional executive to realize that rail
road men are useful in solving trans
portaton problems. G. n. circuit,
vice president of the Erie Railroad
Company, told members of the Rotary
Club of New York City last night at
their monthly dinner in the Hotel Nc
Alpin.
"The President" declared the Erie
executive, "has surrounded himself
with the greatest railroad men in the
country. Government operation OF the
railroads is at this time, and will con-
tlnue, as nearly perfect as railroad
operation can be. Government opera
ton to-day is success. But perma-
nent government ownership Of rail
roads can never be a success in this
country.
AFTER the war we must make all
railroads interstate roads by act OF
Congress. We must abolish the various
state commissions there are over 40
end under so of them. Up to the time of
President Wilson the men on the Inter-
state Commerce Commission had almost
always been lawyers. Think OF it. |
cannot understand how lawyers can be
expected to settle problems Of trans
p0rtation."
Alfred II. Smith, regional director
OF Eastern railroads. rppointed BY Di-
rector General McAdoo, declared that
the RAILROADS Of the country have not
broken down in the present emer-
gency."
"You may be surprised to learn"
he continued, that during the year
1917. with the same plant as in 1915,
the railroads carried 100000 900 600
'"0 ''iles nlore freight The increased
freight service rendered was upward
OF IS per cent greater than during the
preceding year, due to intensified cf-
forts of the railroad army.
with redoubied efforts the rail
roads are now seeking to continue the
Improvement, and though the war re-
qulrements are staggering and un-
paral leled, there is every prospect of
our breaking all records this current
year, except for the first two months
or severe prostration from unprece-
ocnted storms"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
were Socialists who had renowned

were Socialists who had renowned
their Austrian citizenship.
The soviet gave the assurance that
no more prisoners would be armed, and
also announced its intention to defend
Siberia against the German invasion.
The United States and Great Britain
we're requested by the soviet to per
NIT the free expectation of manufact
ured articles, especially farm machin-
cry, into Siberia through Archangel and
Nladivostok
The soviet officials also asked the as
sistancc of the Allies in checking Cos
sack raids across the Manchurian Dor
der, saying that they were unwilling
to follow the marauders into Chinese
territory, but were quite able to de-
feat General Semenof and his follow
ers If they were prevented from escap
ing to Chinese soil.
A foreign trade and finance COM
mission of nine members, who include
Nikolai Lenine and NJ. Radck. has been
appointed to frame Legislation for the
establishment Of state monopoly in
foreign trade and generally to deal
with all matters pertaining to economic
relations with the United States. Ger
many, the Ukraine and other countries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Atkinson Is Willing
To Pick Camp, but
Won't Wear Khaki
[Staf Coy1'espoudenccl

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Brent Dow
Atkinson, Of Chicago, writer of anti
war articles in pacitst publications,
to-day served notice On the Chicago
Draft Board that he will not return
there to be certified to Camp Grant for
service in the National Army. He will,
however, consent to go to Camp Meade,
Maryland, from here, but he will vigor-
ously resist wearing uniform.
VI reported to the draft board here
.o-day mat l was ready to go to Camp
Meade, the nearest army post to Wash
lngton,' Atkinson said to- day. "The
board has telegraphed the Chicago
Draft Board that | have reported for
duty. If the Chicago board refuses to
permit me to report at Camp Meade |
Will vigorously resist any efforts to
remove me to Chicago.
Jacob Bernheim, chairman of my
loca! board. is prejudiced against me-,
and he is determined that shall re-
port to Camp Grant, at Rockford. 1t
has been called to INV attention that
fifty officers there have requested that
be sent to their companies for in
struction in bayonet practice. 1t would
be obviously unfair tc compel me to go
to Rockford. whore the antipathy
toward me is so apparent"
Asked if he would submit to military
service CT insist upon assignment tc
some noncombatant branch of the
army, Atkinson said that he would not
den a soldiers uniform to Kill.
he government must provide sons
constructive work for me-" he said. "a
my opposition to the destructivoness
OF war has not diminished, ror will it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03

ready for them. Also the release from
school appeals to most Of the boys.
find that argument goes strong when
ever | appeal for volunteers"
Another argument that brings re-
crUits hockine is the five acres-a- boy
slogan that Mr.. Reyford uses as a
battle cry.
Every boy can cultivate on an aver
age i've acres he says. Multiply FIVE
acres by 10000 and that by 40 every
acre ought to yield forty bushels of
wheat and you'll find that the contri-
button Of the bows win he about
100000 bushels. When fellow with
the right stuff in him understands Just
what big part he can play in this
war his first and last instinct is to
do it,"
Teachers Answering Call
High school teachers as well as the
boys are answering the call of the
food commission with great enthu-
siaam, Mr.. ReXford reported. The
teachers are to act as supervisors to
the boys in their camps. and are made
responsible for the welfare and CON
duct of the boys during the entire
period Of their service
1--WE send boywise men," said Mr..
Rexford "who will be on the job to
see that the fellows don't spend their
summer comfortably in a hammock
drinking lemonade. The teachers don't
get big money for it, but they are en-
thusiastic ABOUT going"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Chance for 3, 200 10
Get TOT lighting Line
Drive for Recruits 10 Fill Soar.
tanbnsg Division Gaps
Starts TODAY

Assisted l,- tho Nf,,o..c f-.,.A
of Women ON Nat;on., nnfono,' o',''" ',,;.
y, :" o'''rn VII Sa'lohal Deience. recruit
mo inc. " '",S, m,,t *''rg a IrlTe TINS morn
W.. vo oI.u'''. US N.fcie lof men Tor
oT+b ,.,',1h 'olui',e'n alVlsioN- me
,sh;r,r 1a',,l, - roy lu''lnG on the i'm
'sm,.s 'o,''rie9 "l Sp@r'ahbufG Tor early
rb 'o az =" ,','seg
mon ne f u', 'S'oi, ".'c" mas oeen called
o onon ION INC 10 'line recently TO
Hpnrs a." 10 ''li 'ne ranks OF other
1,o .o Sp'S 70 ,he natlic
, WIKI '1 ~ "sros o''o2 men VINO arc not
"'s"'n -, prov 'SloAS OF inc selectlVe
, nI,s'ou law w, 10 compete Its own com
p,e'"e"'. nose "h' Joln now. accord
,hg TO mllltdrT authorities, VIII ret TO
France IN a few weeks.
captain iuppcr who has charge Of
me recruiting here for the nth, has
ISSUED fOiCcr giving the reasons VII y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Spring Weather Causes Rush
Of Boys to Work for Farmers
Only 600 Needed to Fill City Quota A. Rexf0rd
Expresses Appreciation for Tribune Service in
Publishing the Enlistment Blank

Fourteen hundred New York City
high school bows now a~c ready and
pulling at the leash to be off to their
summer job as hands on the farms of
New York State.
Frank A. Rexford, city organizer of
the New York State Boys Working Re-
serve, announced yesterday that re-
crults for farm work have come in bv
the hundreds in the last few DAYS.
and that only 600 more boys now are
needed to complete the city's quota
10000 OF the 10000 needed in the
state. Among yesterdays volunteers
were many who used The Tribune en-
listment blank. and sixty from the High
Schooi OF Commerce, who apnlied after.
a recruiting rally there in the morn
ing.
Appreciates Tribune Service
Mr.. ReXford expressed his apprecia-
ton OF The Tribune service Yesterday
III publishing the enlistment. blank,
ana invites any boy who wants to use
The Tribune blank to fill it in and
take 1T to the nearest high school for
filing.
Il can't hold the boys" complained
Mr. ReXford yesterday. "This sprine
weather is getting into their blood,
and they all clamor to know when
their own particular farmer will be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Brooklyn Bakers Told
To Discharge Germans
Glass Found In Bread and Flour
x fragment Cuts Child's
Throat

Following the discovery of ground
glass in much of the bread and -four
sold in Brooklyn, the Federal Food
BOARD yesterday directed all bakeries
there to discharge all their German
employees at once. The Ward Baking
Company announced later it had dis
charged the two Germans in its employ.
loaf Of bread containing glass had
been turned over to Superintendent De
Woody OF the Department of Justice.
This loaf has had two or three slices
cut from 1t. woman in the Kings
Highway district purchased the bread
Saturday. and on Sunday gave slice
to her child. Before the little girl had
finished it her throat began to bleed.
A physician found fragments of glass
in her throat
Last Monday the Federal Food Board
sent broadcast a warning to watch out
for class in breadstutfs. It is now con-
ducting a rigid investigation into the
matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Gregory Puts Ban on
War Contract Agents
Attorney General Tells Manu-.
facturers "Contingent Fee"
Method Is Illegal

WASHINGTON, April Warming
to war contractors against hiring
agents on a contingent fee basis to
solicit orders from the government
was issued to-day by Attorney General
Gregory. In d statement he cites Su-
premc Court decisions holding CON
tracts obtained By that method are as
fraudulent as legislative favors sole
tied By bribery. Padding of expenses
under cost plus contracts also is dc
nouHced.
Department of Justice officials de-
cllned to say specifically whether any
fraud had been discovered in connec.
ton with War contracts already let
although it was explained that the
statement was intended rather as a
notice OF the departments attitude in
the future than threat Of prosecution
for past conduct
1t Is understood several cases OF al
legged exorbtant charges under con
tracts LET or the agreement that She
government would pay the cost plus a
percentage profit have been rcfcrrcc
to the Department Of Justice for in
vestigation. The most notable is the
shlpyard enterprise at Hog island
Penn. now being investigated by As
Slstant Attorney General Todd Mr.
Gregory's statement says the Supreme
Court has hold that if expense items
~ government orders on the "cost
plus basis arc padded by the con
tractor to SUCH an extent as to const-
tutc fraud the government may annul
tic contracts and the holder may not
recover any sum.
The contractor may obtain reason
able price for goods actually delivered
end accepted by the government" he
SAID, but he has the burden of proving
what is a fair price"
This is not taken 10 mean. however,
that manufacturing concern or any
interest soliciting war orders is for,
ridden to employ u bona Gdc agent to
look after its business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03

ment wished to have the advantage of
the views of the ambassador on the
Russian and Siberian questions before
taking definite action.
1T now appears that the opposition
polltical party is t4fIng advantage o.
the failure of the present Terauchi
Cabinet in carrying the Siberian expc-
dl<n programme to a successful issue
to overturn the Terauchi ministry.
Meanwhile the same cable from
oklo reports that what Vscount
Uchida has to stay on the Sibcsan
question Will have the gravest possible
bearing on the final decision of the
government on that question
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Swifts Called Prohteers
Boosted Egg Prices, Charges
Food Administrator

Swift G Co. We're accused by Arthur
Williams, local Food Administrator.
yesterday of having acted last winter
as "accomplices IN holding UP consum-
crs III New York for exorbitant prices
Tor eggs
The charges were made at the hnal
hearng ut the Food Boards Office, 22O
west F-seyenth Street. MIR. VIII
Jams said that evidence viii be for
waIded To Food administrator Hoover
at Washington.
1t was developed that in January
A.nn d Co. bought from Elmer Wood,
Moulton, Iowa, for Swift {: Co. 100. 900
dozen eggs. The price paid ny Swift
was ~ z cents a dozen. The eggs were
then sod at prices varying from 80 to
% cents a dozen
Inc penalty may be suspension of
license FOR an extended period
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Change in japanese
Cabinet Is Rurnored
Uchida, Envoy TO Russia, Re-
ported To Be Slated for
Foreign Minister
BIZ japanese Co1yesDondo1f

~ japanese CoDeSpon0o1i
SAN FRANCISCO. April 2. Viscount
kosai Uchida. Japanese Ambassador ia
Russia, has reached Toxic, according
to cable dispatch to Japanese news
paper here.
There is a persistent rumor in in
fluential Toxic political circles, accord
ing to the same report, 10 the effect
that Niscount Motono the present or
eign Minister. is to resign and that
Viscount Uchida is to take his place.
The rumor is loudly denied By govern
mental authorities, but the denial does
not carry conviction with those who
are supposed to be in She confidence of
the inner circle of To1io politics.
Niscount uehida, who at the time he
left Petrograa in company with the
Chinese, Samese and Brazilian min
sters to Russia, was expected to make
his headquarters at Hardin, North Man
churia. received a Geographic order
from Toxic to return to Japan as speed
lily as possible. The reason for this
visit of Niscount Uchlda was given pub
licly at the time. The home govern.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Berlin Requests
Russia to Arrest
Teuton Deseyfers

BERLIN Via London), April q
The German government has addressed
a note to the Russian government in
serters at Moscow are threatening to
take forcible possession of the Swedish
and Danish consulatcs, in the same
manner that they have already taken
possession Of lodgings for war pris-
onerS.
They are cndeavoring by violence, -
says the note, "to put these prisoners
into the Red Guard. The civil and
military authorities at Moscow are said
to be powerless. and in some instances
to favor such activities. The German
government expects immediate cner-
getic measures to be taken by the Rus
poets the dissolution of the '1ar pris-
oners' committee, composed OF these
deserters, under the leadership of the
Austrian Asennz, and the arrest of all
of it's members"
LONDON, April 2.-The Russian gov
eminent, according to a Russian wire
dressed the following to the German
governments:
Neither of the councils of the cen
trail government nor the local author
tiles are sending Red Guards to Fin
land. If the German government has
in its possession information that Red
Guards are arriving in Finland from
Russia the Russian government will
make inquiries and take most severe
measures against it. The Russian gov
eminent will be very grateful TO the
German government for an indication
of the points ION the Finnish frontier
at which Russian Red Guards have
entered Finland"
An exchange of the instruments
of ratification of the peace treaty con.
cluded at Brest- Litovsk between the
Central Powers and Russia took place
March so, according to a Reuter- dis
patch from Moscow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Fire Record

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3:o9--tSH % n's! l25tn st unknown: Slight
- ~ West J1th 81: taxicab. unknown. slipht
5.-o-Broadway and isth St. tax;cah; Alason =,
seaman Taxlcah Co. slight
4.lo-eov Columbus ave. unknown: slisat
:, -, 'o9-22o East l3Sth 81. George School. slight.
l2;c5-l7oth st. and Fort Washington ave. n,
unknown Nv
l:oo-iiarlen River. between lo,st St. and yea
St shanly; e. :. Electric Co. unknown
= l5-2hp Wet l53d St: lula Lusson. ,rilng
dl5~-sth ST. ad 81 ay. alto mobile. Il eum ll.iale
Bros 81 $40 paw
- Avenue 4. Samuel lenner- Ky: tr,ainr
> .uH-2l2 East ~ ST.. Joseoh smith: triainc
'ee--1s West 10Th 81: G. Gillette tl1fillS
os'O-.nh >, and columbus cay. - s;rufturc
lnielnpfoush IsYid Trans Co: If niIg
rs West 9TH 81; unknown. no elanare
''9@- - bleeehef st, Cosmopolitan rarrr Roy
Co.. trlhug "'N' i'oA
oo-sl West lA5th ST Joseph IIesse: trianp
S'oo-' 90, West lfoih St. William f. Cnarleion
S45--, SIS, caul.l"sll ST.. The Bronx. Thomas
s.5o-pi ,. IT, East River: tinted Fruit CO.
9;oo-lss West 2lth St; Vincent de paul.s Church .
iring. w '' u"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Jewish Drive Succeeding
100000 Collected in Brook.
lyn Campaicn

Inc 100000 already collected since
the opening gun was fred Sunday night
IN the campaign of the BROOKLYN Fed.
Grafton of Jewish Charities for $500
ooo indicates that the drive is going to
be success.
Magistrate Alexander II. Geismar
CHAIRMAN Of the campaign committee
SAID last night he had little doubt the
goal would be attained before April IL
tie and his associates on the camnaicn
committee are busy lining up the vaTi
Gus sections of the borough for contri-
.p Iou 1ellegen, star and producer of
Montauk Theatre, in BROOKLYN. an
peaIed to his audience between acts for
support for the charities involved Mr.
leIlegen himself contributed $50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Holstein Gives 1897 Quarts
OF Milk in Month. Record

SACRAMENTO, Cal, April .
kaphaelIa johanna Aaggic, a Holstcin
COW at the Napa State Hospital. has
broken the worlds record for milk nro-
ductlon in thirty days, it was an.
nounced to-day by the State Board Of
control: Her record was 1874 poun,.s
or 1897 quarts in a month. The pre-.
vlous nigh figure for thirty days is
said to have been 1857 pounds.
ne production of the COW at current
prices would total $2OS for the month
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Women to Aid Serbians

Colonel Milan Pribicevich, head Of
the Serbian War Mission, won d
promise yesterday from the American
Women's Hospitals Campaign Commit
tee that they would equip 25o- bed
hospltal in Serbia with part of she
Szoo,oo0 which they arc raising for
hospitals in Europe. Colonel Pribicc-
vich was the chief speaker at the
lunch yesterday at the Hotel Fillmore.
The Serbs to-day are a people with
out country" he said. wet to.dav
over 10000 Serbians have volunteered
from America to help fight for the
remnants of their country in the Bal
kans. You women can do Il lot for a
nation with a spirit like that
The fund yesterday reached a grand
total of $50: 446.9S. The days collcc-
tions were 1894.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Turk Invoders
Meet Resistance
Esa the Caucasus
CBy The Associated |

PET ROGRAD, April / Fierce fight
ing has broken out in the districts OF
Batoum, kars and Arabian. in the
Caucasus. The Armenans and Georg-
ians have formed large army for the
defence of the territory against the
Turks, who have begun military occu-
patton OF the three districts By virtue
OF the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty.
The Georgians have seized most of
the Russian warshiI3s in the harbor
or batoum and have taken them into
the slack Sea. The entire population
of Georgia has been modified to o.
pose the invaders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Siberian Soviet
Promises Not to
Arm Prisoners
Only Socialist Captives En-
listed in Red Guards,
They Say
Americana oodsAsked
Armenians and Ceoroians
Fighting Turk Invaders
in the Caucasus
fBy TIE Associated Press

MOSCOW. April 1.-Captain William
R. Webster. of the American Red
Cross, and Captain W. L. Hicks, of the
British military mission. attended a
meeting of the Central Siberian Soviet
at Trkutsk.
They were assured that less than
LOO Austrian prisoners throughout 81
IBERIA had been armed and enlisted in
the Red Guards, and that all these men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-03
Fire Threatens 20 Destroy
Big Canadian Shin Plant

TORONTO, April >. The Thor Shin
building plant, one of the largest il.
Canada, is threatened with destruction
by fire which broke out at G oclock
Tonight
"A general alarm has been sounded
calling out all the fire fighting equip
ment in the city.