Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-06-22

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A total of $16O, 100000 has been spent
| on railway materials alone. Included
In the purchases are 1,727 locomotives,
% $50 freight cars and $4,000 tons of
steel rails.
Reports are reaching the childrens
bureau of the department of labor from
the hundreds and thousands of women
who during the last go days have been
weighing 100000 children of Amer
lea, and the way in which permanent
poverty menaces the healthy growth of
the children of the nation is being re-
vealed as result of the weighing and
measuring campaign.
Workers have been SO much aroused
by the conditions revealed that they re-
quest information regarding follow-up
work. Many of the families are de-
scribed as being pitifully poor. One
mother had a new baby wasting away
for want of milk. The mother was
told to drink one quart of milk day
herself and to give one quart day to
each of her six children. Milk is 16
cents quart, and the family income
! SIS week. The women writing to
the children's bureau said they did
not know how to solve the problem.
The children's bureau has been COM
PEELED to reply to such reports that
federal appropriations are available
only for the families of men actually
in the military or naval service.
Nearly $4,000 negro soldiers are
now in the National army. OF these
900 are line officers holding commits
sions of captain and first and second
lieutenants. There are about $50 col
ored officers In the medical and dental
reserve corps.
The army now includes two divisions
of colored troops, which when fully
constituted will include practically all
branches of the service; infantry, en-
glneer, artillery, signal corps, medical
corps and service battalions with men
technically trained in all branches of
scientific work.
! There are now openings in the vet
Urinary corps for negroes skilled In
veterinary and agricultural work. Ar
engagements have been completed to
send negroes registered but not yet
called to schools and colleges this
ing, electrical engineering, auto me-
chanics, blacksmithing and the opera.
ton of motor vehicles.
Scores of firms throughout the
United States have been penalized for
violations of rules of the food admins
tration. In some cases licenses to OPP
crate have been suspended; in others,
contributions to the Y. NJ. G. A., Red
Cross. and other organizations have
been accepted in lied of suspension of
license.
Among the more nW uerous violations
are sales of flour without substitutes
refusal to accept delivery of foodstuffs
previously ordered; operating without
licenses excess sales ot sugar; carry
ing more than a norma, 80 days sup
ply of sugar; failure to use the proper
amount of flour substitute IN bread
making; and profiteerink.
Next to the aggregate number of sub
scribers, perhaps the mosc striking fea-
ture- of the third Liberty ,oan was the
support given 1t by the farming and
rural populations of the country. ac-
cordlng to a statement by the treasury
department. Not only did the farmers
purchase literally Of thu bonds, but
more prompt In completing their
quotas of the loan than ,he larger
cities. More than 10000 Communities
In the United States subscribed or
oversubscribed their quotas. many of
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