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The evening leader., 1918-12-04
MEAT PRODUCERS
DID FULL DUTY
Increase in American Hogs Will
Help to Meet World Fat
Shortage.
FARMERS SAVE SITUATION.
Government Justified in Stimulation
of Pork Production-Sevenfo
Increase Over Pre-
War Exports.
FARMERS SAVE SITUATION.

Through increased production and
conservation we will be able this year
to export seven times our pre-war
average exports of pork products.
With the heavy demands added in car
ing for the millions who have been
freed from German oppression, the
Department of Agriculture and the
Food Administration are justified to-
day in our every action of stimulation
of hog production. In the coming year
the greatest world shortage will be in
fats, and pork will help to save this
situation. The efficacy of the policy
of stimulated production has built up
in this country supplies which will en-
able us to supply very large part of
the fat deficiency of the world. In
beef there must be shortage in Eu-
rope, due largely to limited refrigera-
tor ship capacity. All freezer ships
available, however, will be filled by
America, Argentine and Australia.
The contribution made by the pro-
ducers of this country to the war pro-
gram as applying particularly to ami
NAL food products is illustrated by the
following:
Reports compiled by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture indicate an
increase in cattle of 10,23S,000 head
and 12,441 900 hogs. These figures
were compiled to January 1 last.
In this period there was decrease
In sheep of $4,000 head. The indica-
tions are that this decrease will show
an increase, according to recent re-
ports.
Since January 1 unofficial informa-
ton indicates an increase In hogs OF
not less than s per cent and MOI
more than Is per cent. as compared
with one year ago, with an increase in
the average weight.
Following the request of the q. s.
Food Administration for an increase
in hog production for marketing in the
fall of 1918 and the spring of 1919 the
increase may yield not less than 1,600,.
100000 pounds more of pork products
than were available last year. With
out ILLS iiSiCooS lhS S>hiPphh5 Pio6i ioih
arranged by Mr.. Hoover regarding an
imal food products would have been
impossible.
The dressed hog products during the
three months ending September 30
1917, amounted to 903,172,000 pounds,
while for the corresponding months of
1918 the dressed hog products totaied
1,277 $4,000, an increase of over 374,-
100000 pounds for the quarter
During the same period for 1917 the
records of inspected slaughter of
dressed beef showed 1,263000, ,000
pounds as against 1,454, 100000 pounds
for the three month period ending
September l, this year.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
TOLD IN TARPON SPRINGS
A Resident Known to all Our Readers
Relates an Experience

Readers of the Leader have been
told again and again of the merits of
that reliable, time-proved kidney rem
edy-Doan's Kidney Pills. The ex-
periences told are not those of un-
known persons, living far away The
cases are Tarpon Springs cases, told
by Tarpon Springs people.
William Gourley, 202 E. Lemon ST.,
Tarpon Springs, says: "My Kidneys
got out of order and / became run
down. I had to get up nights to pass
the kidney secretions and they were
scanty and burned. l had pains in my
kidneys and could hardly get up
when l was down. / always used
Doan's Kidney Pills at these times and
they promptly relieved me of the
backache and fixed my kidneys up in
good shape"
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't simp-
ly ask for a kidney remedy - get
Doan's Kidney Pills = the same that
Mr.. Gourley had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04

our normal home use OF md
Europe, with the release of ships to go
far afield, can maintain it's recent re-
stricted rations. If, however, those
nations are to increase their use of
sugar very considerably it must be by
our continued sharing with them
through limiting our own consump.
ton. =
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
AMERICAN SPIRIT
RELIED ON TO WIN.

In the light Of succeeding events 1t
Is interesting to recall the confidence
with which the United States Food
Administrator viewed the gloomy out
look in July of 1917, when this coun-
try had been in the war for less than
four months and the Germans were
steadily sending the western front
nearer and nearer to Paris.
"Even though the situation in Eu-
rope may be gloomy today" he de-
clared in a public statement, mo
American who has knowledge of the
results already obtained in every di-
rection need have one atom of fear
that democracy will not defend itself
in these United States"
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
SUGAR SHOWED
our BACKBONE
American Willingness to Give Up
Luxury Demonstrated Ma
tion's War Conscience.
STAND WITH THE ALLIES.
BY Reducing Consumption People Of
the United States Averted q
Famine at Home In Spite
of Low. Supplies.

The fact that the people of the
United States were able to reduce by
more than one-half million tons their
July, August, September and October
consumption Of sugar proves conclu-
sively that their war conscience was
thoroughly awakened and that the
country as whole stood ready to fol-
low the injunctions of the Government.
Our normal consumption of sugar in
the four-month period beginning with
July has been 100000 tons per month,
total of 100000 for the quarter
year.
In July, when our sugar stringency
began to reach it's height, consumption
was reduced to 100000 tons. In Au
gust only 325.000 tons went into
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
Notice of Application for Tax Deed.

Notice of Application for Tax Deed.
Notice is hereby given that Geo. w.
C. Littell, purchaser of Tax Certifi-
cate No. 21, dated the 7th day of Sep
tember, A. D. 1916, has filed said GER
tificate in my office, and has made ap-
phcation for tax deed to issue in ac-
Icordance with law. Said certificate
srchlEsces the following described
property SITUATED. in Pinellas County
Florida, towit: Beg at NV cor of
ov Lot 3-and run $40 #, E 21 de-
Iees, N 80 feet, west 13O feet to
g. Sec. II, TIP 81, Rge 1910
res, the said land being assessed at
he date of the issuance of such certi-
Ecate in the name of A. P. K. Stafford.
kUnless said certificate shall be re-
deemed according to law, tax deed
twill issue thereon on the 81 day of
December, A. D. 1918.
Witness my official signature and
seal this the IL day of Nov, A. d.
1913. J. N. BROWN,
Clerk Circuit Court of Pinellas
J County, Florida.
Know. 13-20-27; Dec. Ally
The evening leader., 1918-12-04

Where will the wise go VINO want
their clothing really steam cleaned
and pressed? There is only one
STEAM cleaning establishment in the
city. T. D. Johnston, opposite post
office, phone 160. Work called for and
delivered and satisfaction guaranteed.
11-20-tf.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
Food Will Win the World.

America earned the gratitude of al
lied nations during war by sharing
food. America under peace may win
the worlds good wi! by saving to
share.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04

Please have the dime ready Tor the
paper boy when the comes. 1t is a
great deal of trouble for him to come
again for it. His success depends on
you, in measure.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
SPAIN AND ENGLAND REPORT
INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS
AFTER INFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC.
U. S. Public Health Service Warns
Public Against tuberculosis.
One Million Cases Tubercu.
lOsis in United states-Each a
Source of Danger.

Influenza convaIescents Should Have
Lungs Examined-coIds Which Hanc
On Often Beginning of tuberculosis.
No Cause for Alarm if Tuberculosis
Is Recognized EarIy-Patent Medi.
cines Not to Be Trusted,
The evening leader., 1918-12-04
LOYALTY IN LITTLE
THINGS LAST PROOF
OF PATRIOTISM

Americans without murmuring cut
their sugar allowance from four
pounds a month to three and then as
long as need be to two pounds for 10y
alty's sake.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04

BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS.
The evening leader., 1918-12-04

Furnished house, rooms and bath.
for rent for the season. Good loca-
tion, near Spring bayou. Leader Real
Estate company. If.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
Gov. WHITMAN TO
Give HEARING IN
CROSSLEYS CASE

! Governor Whitman Of New York
will in all probability grant extradi-
ton papers for J. Harry Crossley, the
Bridgeport real estate manipulation
and New York stock broker, to be
brought back to this city on or after
April 8, which date the governor has
set for the hearing of the application
made by the Bridgeport police de-
partment for the extradition of the
prisoner who is now held in the
Toombs, New York city.
Detective Captain E. o. Crcnan,
chief of the detective bureau of
Bridgeport, made the announcement
upon receipt of a telegram from De-
tective Sergeant Bray, who is in AL
bany, N. Y, waiting to take Crossley.
1t was expected by the local author
tiles there would be a lively legal
battle against extradition of Crossley
but it appears he has very little left
of the large sums of money he is al
legged to have obtained and legal bat
ties cost money.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
The World of Finance

.t'ore1gn consumption has increased so
enormously as to call for over a bill
lion pounds annually of American
copper, and it would take much more
than that if it were available. There
is plenty of copper in the mines and
adequate smelter and refinery capac-
ity to put it in marketable shape.
More man-power, however, is needed
in order to keep the supply equal to
the overwhelming demands
Judge Mayer of the Federal District
oCurt of New York showed excellent
business sense as well as marked le-
gal ability in appointing and contin-
uing such men as ex-Gov. B. B. Oden
and ex-Judge G. C. Holt as receivers
Of the Aetna Explosives Co. They adj
ministered the affairs of this corpora
ton so successfully that their contin-
uance in office will benefit both the
government and the shareholders. The
| offer of the New Haven railroad of
new preferred stock is reported to be
made in reSponce to a Washington re-
quest that the company should en-
deavor to raise at least a part of the
sum required to meet the April Is ma
turity of 100000 notes. A great
many people who have bought stocks
on margin, treasured by the tendency
toward greater war progress, are TAX
| ing up their purchases. Persistent
buying of the coal stocks is reported,
including industrial and railroad is
sues. The far-reaching effect of gov
eminent railroad control is not fully
appreciated in many. quarters. The
guarantee afforded for a period of
time must operate to stabilize values
generally. Equipment shares would
seem to be very attractive on reac-
tons in the stock market.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
INVENTOR SUES
FOR The Value
OF HIS Device

Claiming he never received the COM
pensation promised him for devislng
a machine for the polishing of needles
John Raycroft is suing the Singer
Manufacturing Co. before Judge John
J. Walsh and a jury in the Common
pleas Court for $1,000.
Raycroft sets up in his claim that
in September, 1914, he was an en-
plove of the needle department of the
Singer shop, of which PhiIo M. Beers,
since deceased, was foreman. He
saws Beers came to him and asked
him to devise a machine for polishing
the needles an operation then done
nv hand, tedious and expensive. He
consented to make the experiment
He saws he was promised proper COM
pensation by Beers.
After working for q weeks Ray
croft claims he devised a s,uccess1ul
machine for the purpose, one was con-
str11cted, tried, and found practical,
and the company has since installed
other machines of the same kind. He
never received the compensation,
however. and now sues for $1,000.
The defense is a general denial OF
the promise of compensation, and the
claim that the work Raycroft did was
11rton the time of the company Tor
which he was paid.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
Preparations Sufficiently Ad-
vanced to Enable Liberty Loan
Workers to Start Great Drive
on Time.
LOCALIZED RESPONSIBILITY
BASIS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Arrangements Perfected for Indi-
viduaI Canvass Both in the
Rural and Industrial Sections
of Reserve District.

Preparations for the Third Liberty
Loan campaign throughout the Second
Federal Reserve District have been ad-
vanced with such rapidity that the
working organization will be ready to
take up the work as soon as the great
drive opens.
In one particular the campaign out
side Of New York city will differ ma
terially from the work done in the
previous loan campaigns, the basic
principle, as explained by the cam
paign chiefs, being localized respon-
sfbility." The purpose will be to reach
every possible purchaser of the bonds
and to spare no effort in doing so.
Many complexities in the organiZa-
ton have been adjusted to meet this
demand for localized responsibility.
They can be understood best by sum-
mary of the work to be done in the
rural districts Each county has been
divided into sections under the super
vision Of individual chairmen. These
in turn have provided for canvassing
each locality on a house-to-house ba-
sis, the canvassing to be done not by
outsiders, but by men living in the
particular districts, men who are
known and who are in many cases in
innate with the people to whom the
appeal will be made. It is believed
this specific appeal will be much more
effective in selling bonds than any at
tempt on the part Of outsiders to con-
vince residents of these sections of
the necessity and the advantage Of
taking liberal amounts Of the securi-
ties.
In the Industrial sections Of New
York and New Jersey an equally de-
tailed canvassing scheme will be car
ried out. Steps have been taken in
every important industrial organiza-
ton to have the Liberty Bond cam
paign brought forcibly to the notice Of
the workers. The work in this field
will be both educational and Of a pa
triotic nature.
Despite the extraordinary efforts to
handle the campaign on an individual
basis, the opinion has been expressed
ny LHduy VI AlDS1I y A%OdA "O4NSA .
that conditions for the sale of the
Third Liberty Loan are much more
propitious in the rural districts than
in the previous loans. News coming
from the American front in France
has served not only as an inspiration
to patriotic citizens, but has empha-
sized among all Of them the vastness
Of the struggle and the great sacrifices
| whic hare necessary both in material
and a moral sense.
On the opening day Of the loan the
great machine will be set in motion
and will be constantly in motion until
| the work is done. The preliminary
work has been 50 thorough that it is
expected very large sales will be made
in many centers and that many towns
will win the Liberty Loan Honor Flag.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
FRANCE ASKED
INTERVENTION
FROM The JAPS

Paris. March 27.-Intervention by
France in the European war was so
licited by France at the end of Au-
gust, 1914, according to detailed
statement by M. Bernard, the histo-
iran, as published today in the Elk
celsior.
Theophile Delcasse took charge OF
the foreign oce on August %. His
first step was to draft a note to the
emperor of Japan, in his own hand.
M. Bernard says the note was com
mrnicated to the British ambassador
The reply was that Japan's policy was
entirely oriental and that her army
was not prepared for action outside
that sphere.
NJ. Bernard denies, on the authority
of M. Delcasse himself, a report that
has been current for long time that
.Tanan demanded the cession of Indo-
China by France as the price OF her
Intervention
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27

WatSOn'S
Weekly
Letter


Uncertainties have extended their
contracting influence over the specu-
h1Ve market during the past week,
with a result that restricted f1uctua-
tons have been the rule in securities,
and general investment sentiment has
adopted an attitude Of awaiting fur
Their developments of radical char
acter before making important COM
mftnfentS
Principal among the uncertainties
which have been prominent in the
speculative mind have been the pos
sibilities involved in the much adver-
tised German drive on the western
battlefront in France. The Siberian
question has also been a factor of i'm
portance in restraining activities, for
the position of this country has been
delicate-i. g., it has desired ardently
of course to further the Allied cause
as aggTessively as might be consistent,
but at the same time Washington did
not wish to be put in the position of
supporting a Japanese invasion that
might be unwelcome to the Russian
people.
Domestic uncertainties have thrust
themselves forwa1i7' in definite forms
Notable, is the Third Liberty Loan,
detailed information regarding which
has been held back to degree that
has made the investment community
cautious and conservative. Money
conditions have been in opposition to
any broad constructive demand for
securities, owing to the banks prep
aration for the Liberty Loan flota-
4 L AI,.,4 !,
War Finance Corporation measure,
once it is enacted into law, will take
care Of exigencies, and the important
feature of new financing for organi-
cations doing war work. Investors
have also been impatient to see re-
suits from the new railroad law,
which As expected to take care not
only OF the financial and physical
condition of the greatest Transports
ton system in the world, but also to
solve the war labor problem to a large
extent.
In addition to this there have been
conferences looking to revision OF
fixed steel prices, which were sched-
uled to expire, as at present in force,
on April 1. Uncertainty as to the
outcome in this respect has had a
good deal to do with the market trad
ing position. It would be logical to
expect copper metal producers to
share In any more liberal treatment
of the steel organizations. The Ma
tional Conduit & Gable Co., copper
authority, refers as follows to the
copper metal situation:
Requirements for copper continue
large and urgent, and from all indi-
cations demand will rule unusually
strong throughout the entire year.
The near future should see monthly
output of at least 100000 pounds of re-
fined copper, if the actual require
ments Of international demand are to
be met. World stocks of copper are
at an extremely low ebb. Europe may
be said to he swept bare of surplus
stocks as they existed in pre-war
times. Meantime, England, France
and Italy are multiplying their de-
nand for the product Of our mines
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
The WAR, The FARM,
and The Farmers
BY HERBERT QUICK.

The farmer everywhere loves peace.
The American farmer especially loves
peace. But the farmer everywhere is
. warrior when war is the only thing
which will make and keep him free
either a warrior or a Serf. The farm
ers are sometimes the last to heat up.
But they stay hot, and in long fight
they are always found sturdily carry
ing the battle across No Mans Land
to the foe in the last grim struggle.
The American farmer will give all
that he has and all that he is to win
this great war against war, this enor-
nous struggle to win again the victory
which we fondly believed we had twice
won in the past.
This war was at first hard to under
stand 1t seemed to many of US that
we were not at war, the thing was so
far off, and it came to US in so unfa-
miliar a guise We did not then know
that a monster has arisen with a thou
sand arms, who could reach across the
seas and could take from us three
fourths of everything we grew without
our being aware of it and could follow
up his robbery with invasion, subjuga-
ton and national death.
The Hand of KaIrserlsm.
If the imperial German government
had made and enforced an order that
no American farmer should leave his
own land, that he could not haul load
a. 1,sr "a r,4o b.,
town-if, in fact, the Kaiser had laid
an interdict on all intercourse between
farm and farm and between farm and
town-he would have done only a lit
tie more than he accomplished by his
interdict against American farmers
use of the sea.
When the war broke out through ter
ror and surprise and panic we gave up
for awhile the use of the sea as a
highway. To a great extent we gave
it up. And so long as we gave it up
we, the farmers of America, were ruin
ed. When we finally rallied and set
once more in motion the ships of the
world prosperity returned to the farms
of America.
Why did we draw the sword? Was
it to keep up the price of wheat and
cotton and to protect trade only? If
some one should order you to remain
on your farm and not to use the public
highways would your resistance be
based only on the fear Of loss in prop
erty, the profits from failure to market
your crops, the inconvenience in not
being able to buy your supplies in
town? By no means! You would fight
to the last gasp, not to make money,
but to be free.
! War Against Slavery.
When a man is enslaved all he loses
in money is his wages. But the white
man has never been able to accept
slavery for that reason.
What the imperial German govern
ment offered the farmers of America in
its ruthless submarine warfare was not
the loss of profits, but slavery to the
saber RATHER of Potsdam. He pur-
posed to make us slaves by numbering
the people who take our products to
| market
This, then, is the war in which we
are fighting. If we had not declared
war, but had accepted the conditions
| of life ordered for US by the Kaiser,
we should today be poverty stricken
people, our factories shut down, eur
workmen unemployed. our people
starving, our farmers ruined by the
poverty of those for whose consumD-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
STOCK MARKET

Noon-The activity and strength of
the first hour conferred in equipments
and railroads. Prices yielded mod
erately later on the heaviness of mo-
tors and shippings, which reacted 1
to points. Liberty bonds were in
clined to sag on greatly diminished
dealings. The second As, yesterdays
Sensational feature, fuctuated be-
tween $3.50 and 1882, a block of
1000 900 changing hands at 97.40.
First As sold at 97.36 to 1882, and
the 3 IS at 1872 to 1884. Sales of
all Liberty issues up to noon approx
mated $5,000,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT, S.,
PROBATE COURT.
March 20. 1918.

March 20, 1918.
Estate Of Mary Mccarthy, late of
the town of Bridgeport in said district,
deceased.
The Court of Probate for the dis
trict of Bridgeport hath limited and
allowed six months from the date
hereof for Creditors of said Estate
to exhibit their claims for settlement.
Those who neglect to present their
accounts properly attested, within
said time, will be debarred a recovery,
All persons indebted to said Estate
are requested to make immediate
payment to
KATHERINE I. CARROLL.
Administrative.
81 E1mwood Place.
S26 s"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
TO ADDRESS
CAMP DEVENS MAI.

Following instructions from the
Postmaster General letters for SOL
diers at Camp Devens, Mass, should
be addressed as follows:
IAAN@Ie ...-s..s,
Company .....
-........ Regiment,
Camp Devens, Mass.
The name of the post offices at Aver
or F1tchburg should not be included
in the address in any letters for Camp
Devens.
Postmaster c. F. Greene desires
those writing to soldiers to follow the
intructions given above.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27

Special. Passover services will be
held at the Park Avenue Temple at
$50 o'clock tonight. The communal
Passover Feast, 'tSeder,'' will be held
under the auspices of the Sisterhood
of Park Avenue Temple Members
of the Hebrew faith stationed at the
naval base at Black Rock are re-
quested to be on hand
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-27
ton we grew our crops.

Every farmer in the United States
must remember that the war has a
first mortgage on every cent he has.
Our contribution is, first, our sons
and brothers for the trenches; second,
the last pound Of food products which
we can grow by mobilizing our labor
supply, utilizing the men, women, chill
dren and the townspeople about us,
and, third, money for Liberty Bonds.
General Pershings latest list con-
tains the names of IL men dead and
II wounded.