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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-02-07
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited by
$4,000 ,000-French Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD At 9 CENTS,
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
to Seventy Per Cent. Of Normal.
Java Stocks Unavailable.

Sugar control has saved the Amer.
lean public SisO.O00.O0O. Herbert Hoov'
err. United States food administration,
declared the other day.
lie pointed out that sugar was sell.
ing for IL cents n pound last August
and that IL would have advanced 10 20
cents a pound, with the world short
age rs n stimulus. hnd mot the feed
administration secured the co-opera-
ton OF the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed n sugar price that today en-
ables housewives to buy sugar at frem
81 to cents n pound.
Every cent raise In sugar from
September l to January ! means SlS,-
100000 to the American consumer"
Mr.. Hoover said Numbers of gen
tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed Of $3.50. 600 this year II we
had not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
80 cents pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 20 per cent. OF Its normal sup
ply. Before the war the average m
nual household consumption here was
IS pounds person. In England the
annual consumption during the war Is
20 pounds. and In France each person
is allotted little over one pound
month.
I'm August the French government
found itself unable 10 maintain even
this ration" Mr. Hoover declared.
IAN appeal was made TO America.
France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed 20 al this demand and up TO
December had shipped S5.426 tons In
the meantime an appeal was made TO
the American public to reduce Its sug-
ar consumption, and requests were
made TO distributors TO supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with 80 per cent. of normal supply.
This has been generally followed. al
though such regulations were volun-
tary, as the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
Domestic Price 10 SIs TO Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take profit Of no
more than 30 cents a hundred-half a
cent a pound-on sugar. BY reason OF
food administration regulations, bind.
ing refiners and wholesalers, the re
taller is able today TO buy sugar AT
from s TO 81 cents pound. This
enables him 10 sell to the housewife ut
Sla TO cents a pound.
There have been some violations OF
the sugar rulings Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales 81 sugar from 10 to
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and Stop
ped and Is evidence itself ~ The prices
at which consumers would have been
mulct had we not inlervened. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses In az
cravated cases. and We have issued
warnings To first offenders IN a grca;
many Instances through our local al
t.,Er
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
BUSINESS OUTLOOK FOR
THE COMING YEARS

Manufacturers Record: AS the pail
of woe is lifted from the world, as
the. agony under which men and
women everywhere have lived for the
last four years passes away, there
must inevitably come spirit broader
in it's worldwide scope than any
known in the past, broader in it's
conception Of the possibilities of ma
| terial development, learned in the
| sad experience of war, for the fullest
utilization of all the great agencies
Of business which make for the ad-
vancement of mankind. We are fac
ling. therefore, condition which must
lead to great business activities.
OF necessity this country will be
compelled to spend billions of dollars
| in the construction of great highway
systems. We shall have to expand
our railroad facilities by putting out
many billions in order to meet the
| transportation needs of the present
and of the coming years. We shall
have to develop all water transpor-
tation on very much broader scale
| than heretofore. Every river and
harbor available for traffic must be
utilized, for the business of the coun-
| try will be far in excess Of the facili-
| ties of the railroads and of the high
ways for many years to come.
Our shipyards and our vast ship
tonnage mean that we must keep on
building ships and become second, if
not first, of the ship-owning countries
of the world. Ships will mean COM
merce. Commerce will mean that our
manufactured products must seek
markets in every part of the world.
We have been educarting our
people to thinking in broader inter
national lines, and they will go out
latter world trade, because the facili-
/; ties of our vast merchant marine will
make world commerce necessity
and create for US the opportunity.
During the last four years this
country has done but little building
Of dwellings,. In the last two years
we have done almost no building ex-
cept of great warehouses and of
plants for the making of things need
ed for war. Now we shall need to
build hundreds of thousands of dwell
ings in cities and on the farms. The
prosperity of the farmers justifies a
period of great farm improvements in
the way of better dwellings and bet
ter outhouses.
improvements in the conditions of
living in the cities demand wide &C
titities in home building for the men
of moderate means, and by reason of
the fact that almost no expensive.
houses have been built during the
| last few years, mere will be period
of much activity in the erection of
| the more costly houses. Construction
of school buildings and churches,
which has been delayed by reason
iof the war, must now go forward on
an enlarged scale. Municipal i'm
provements held up by the war must
/, be taken up promptly, and as rapidly
as the ban is lifted for construction,
work on a large scale this nation
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG
It's Easy-If You Know DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret of keeping young Is to feel
young - to do this you must watch your
liver and bowels - there's no need Of
having sallow complexion - dark rings
under your eyes - pimples - bilious
look in your face - dull eyes with no
sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety
per cent of all sickness comes from in-
active bowels and liver.
DR.. Edwards, a well-known physician
in Ohio, perfected vegetable com.
pound mixed with olive oil to act on
the liver and bowels, which he gave to
his patients for years.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets the substi.
tute for calomel, are gentle in their action
yet always effective. They bring about
that exubcrance of spirit, that natural
buoyancy which should be enjoyed by
everyone, by toning up the liver and clear
ing the system of impurities.
You will know DR.. Edwards Olive Tab
lets by their olive color. 10c and Csc PEI
box. Ell druggists.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Pope.
CHOICE OF ECONOMIES.

There is economy in demoblllzlng our troops
to limits of safety as determined by our military
commanders There is waste if the men re-
tired from military service be not promptly Civ
en- civilian work to do. There is economy in
starting industrial projects so that idle labor
may not be compelled. There is waste in start
ing industrial projects when material and labor
costs are high above normal without knowledge
that market conditions will warrant these costs
There is economy in waiting to plan in
dustrial program until peace conditions are as
sured There is waste in admitting Of period
OF disorganization that may greatly impede this
program when peace is made. 1t is plain to
see that we must choose the economies which
promise most good in full knowledge that they
are not economies without incurred wastes.
The great thing is to hold the nation steadily
together In industrial and social purpose. To
do this, justice to everyone is the thing to seek.
In normal times justice and economies may run
together; in these times because justice has
called on business to practice economics to save
a world cause for her, and because business has
done this, the best economies will be those
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
Something Less Than the Sky.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: Some
limit there must be for everything.
Mr.. McAdoo' has decided that in the
case of railway wages it is less than
the sky. Rates have gone up, fares
have gone up and already there are
protests from the public which has
to pay. What is tolerable in time
of war may be intolerable in time
of peace. The revenues of the rail
ways were increased in September by
80 per cent, but the operating ex-
penses were increased by so per
cent, and Of these expenses wages
constitute no small portion. Under
private management such conditions
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
SAGE TEA DARKENa
HAIR TO ANY SHAH
Don't Stay Gray! Here's ., ~,
Recipe that Anybody can s'
Apply.

The use Of Sage and suInhr.
restoring faded. gray hair to- i,s
ural color dates back to grandra
ers time. She used it to keen y
hair beautifully dark, glossy ava u
tractive. Whenever her hair tnol.
that dull, faded or streaked ann.
ance. this simple mixture was ap peJ
with wonderful effect. pA
But brewing at home is mussv
out-of-date. Nowadays, by askin, a.
any drug store for bott1e
"Wyeth's Sage and SULPHUR roy
pound" you will get this famous y
preparation, improved by the add,tid
OF other ingredients, which can \
depended upon to restore na,r.]
color and beauty to the hair
A well-known downtown Drives.
says it darkens the hair so natnrsl'
and evenly that nobody can tell
has been applied. You simply damna
a sponge or soft brush with il an
draw this through your hair takin
one strand at a time. BY mornin
the gray hair disappears, and afsa
another application or two, II h,
comes beautifully dark and glossy
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is delightful toilet reouisit
for those who desire a more youts
full appearance. 1t Is not Intends
for the cure. mitigation or preyeu
ton of disease.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
TEN MILLION PROBLEMS.

| With the coming of peace the federal bureau
of naturalization finds itself with ten million
problems on it's hands. There are in this coun-
try today seventeen million, five hundred thou
sand alien born residents of whom less than two
per cent. had applied for naturalization before
we entered the war; There are more than ten
million persons in this nation who owe alleg-
lance to some other nation. In spite Of the I'M
pulse given by the war to naturalization and
to education for it, the surface of this great
Iproblem of making intelligent citizenship a pos
!sible fact in alien population has alone been
surveyed and not worked to even anything like
lfruition The bureau of naturalization is
logical agent for supervision of this, provided
there is constant cooperation with the educa-
ton department There is need and ample OPP
portunity for special educational projects and
for effort to interest aliens In these projects
But one outstanding fact should never be lost
sight of: the public schools are the means by
which this task can be accomplished. just IN
proportion as education for AUGMENTATION
runs parallel with and is closely interviewer
with public school education, it will engage
the attention of the people whom it must reach
ito do any good.
| There is not moment to be lost in getting at
this work practically Ten million people aloof
from approach by the publicity means OF the
language OF the nation; by reason OF this alooI-
ness not knit into understanding sympathy
with loyal citizenship dependent perforce on
Intermediates Of their own race and kindred
who may or may not be honest in loyalty to this
nation-here is mass of potential menace to
unity. There has been fine unity In support OF
the war because in one way or another our PEG.
pie have come at least to documentary knoW-
edge of the causes Of the war But OF recon-
struction there can be such general knowt
/ edge. The only safety is in opening the minds
iof all our people to facts upon which Judgment
can be formed. And the only safe opening is
through knowledge Of the language of the ma
ton, and by this means through education to
understanding of American life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
URIC ACID IN MEAT
THE KIDNEYS
Take Glass Of Salts it Your Bac
Hurts or Bladder
Bothers.

II you must have your meat eyeryl
day, eat 1t, but flush your kidneys WITH
salts occasionally. says noted auth,
or;ty who tells us that meat forms
uric acid which almost paralyzes tho
kidneys in their efforts to expel ID
from the blood. They become sluggish
and weaken, then you suffer with a
dull misery in the kidney region. sharp
pains in the back or sick headache,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritatcd,
obliging you to seek relief two or
three times during the night.
To neutralize these Irritating acids.
to cleanse the kidneys and flush eft
the body's urinous waste, get four
ounces of Jad Salts from any pharma-
cy here; take a tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations. to flush
and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also
to neutralize the acids in urine, so it
no longer irritates, thus ending blad'
der weakness.
Jad Salts Is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, and makes delightful efferyes
cent Hthia-water drink.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09

which see justice done as the recovery from the
war is made Some industries must continue
Ito operate for a time at costs above supply and
demand control Labor must be given its work
ito do somewhat on speculation OF It's future
value. Capital must serve the needs OF produc-
ton and of labor also until these needs become
united.
We shall not arrive at the wise plan If we
eliminate constant consideration of the need OF
morale in our fight for prosperous peace as we
have fought for prosperous ending of the war
1t has taken the unity and devotion OF our PEG
pie to produce the war morale; and that peo-
pie must see the REIMBURSEMENT through with
the same unified devotion to common interest.
LIZ we make our choice Of economies with this
in mind, we shall see it through.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
haxner,s Majority

Stuart Herald: Latest reports are
that Attorney General H. M. Havner
got through with about 10000, which
is mighty good considering the fact
they were fighting him bitterly. One
good thing about it, Mr. .Havner never
worries about any fight made against
him. When he believes he is right
he goes straight ahead without a
turn. let come what may. No man
in Iowa will ever question his cour-
age. One of the brainiest men in
this state, a good speaker, a loyal
friend. There are many who believe
he will some day be governor of the
state.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
SPANISH influenza
Do Not Fear When Fighting
German or a Germ!
BY DIR. M. COOK.
BY DIR. M. COOK.

The cool fighter always wins and SO
there is no need to become panic
stricken. Avoid fear and crowds. Elk
ercise in the fresh air and practice
the three C's: A Clean Mouth, a
Clean Skin and Clean Bowels. To
carry Off the poisons that accumulate
within the body and to ward off an
attack of the influenza bacillus, take
good liver regulator to move the
bowels. Such one is made up OF
May-apple, leaves of aloe. root OF
jalap, and is to be had at any drug
store, and called Pleasant Purgative
Pellets"
eff bad cold develops, go to bed.
wrap up well, drink freely Of hot
lemonade and take hot mustard
foot-bath. Have the bedroom warm
but well ventilated. Obtain at the
nearest drug store "Anuric Tablets
to flush the kidneys and control the
pains and aches. Take an ."Anuric''
tablet every two hours, together with
copious drinks of lemonade. If true
case of influenza the food should be
simple, such as broths, milk, butter
milk and ice-cream; but it is impor-
tant that food be given regularly in
O1utT W heSp up pdlleul strength
and vitality After the acute attack
has passed, which is generally from
three to seven days, the system
should be built up by the use of a
good iron tonic, such as "Irontic"
tablets, to be obtained at some drug
stores, or that well known blood
maker and herbal tonic made from
roots and barks of forest trees-sold
everywhere as DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
TODAYs BIT OF VERSE
A SONG FoR HEROES.

A song for the heroes who the sign
And took their place in the battle line;
They were walls of granite and gates of brass;
And they cried out God, They shall not pass!"
And they hurled them back in storm Of cheers,
And the sound will echo the years.
And song for the end, for the glorious end.
And the soldiers marching up the bend
E Of the broken roads in gallant France,
The homing heroes who took the chance,
Who looked on life, and with even breath
Faced the winds from the CULTS of death.
Their hearts are running on over the graves
Over the battleLwrecks-over the waves
Over the SCARED felds-over the foam
On to America-on to home.
And a song for the others, the heroes slain
In Argonne Forest--in st. Gobain-
In the, flowery meadows of Picardy-
In Belgium--in Italy
From brave Monticello to the sea.
song for the heroes gone ahead
TO Join the hosts OF the marching dead
A song for the souls that could lightly fling
Sweet life away as a little thing
For the sake OF the mighty need of earth,
The need of the ages coming TO birth
All praise for the daring God who gave
Heroic souls that could dare the grave.
Praise for the power He laid on youth
To challenge disaster and die for truth.
What greater gift can the High God give
Than the uower to die that the truth may live!
Glory to the Lord the Hero OF Heaven
He whose wounds in His side seven
Glory that He gathers the heroes home
Cut of the red fields, cut Of the foam
Gathers them out of the Everywhere,
Into the Camp that is Over-There
Edwin Markham
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
Heal Skin Diseases

It is unnecessary for you to suffer with
eczema, blotches, ringworm, flashes and
similar skin troubles. A little zemo,
obtained at any drug store for 35c, or
$1OO for extra large bottle, and promptly
applied will usually give instant relief
from itching torture. 1t cleanses and
soothes the skin and heals quickly and
effectively most skin diseases.
Zero is wonderful, penetrating, dis
appearing liquid and is soothing to the
most delicate skin. 1t is not greasy, is
easily applied and costs little. Get it
today and save all further distress.
The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland. O.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
into tremendous

must go forward into tremendous
! building operations.
| Coincident with this must be an
effort on our part to help to rebuild
France and Belgium and Serbia and
other Hun-devastated lands, and to
cooperate as far as may be required
| in supplying the materials for the
! building of the hundreds of thousands
of houses needed in Great Britain
where it has been estimated that az
| soon as the war ends at least 100000
dwellings must be built.
/ The tension of the last four years
has been such that the people will
instinctively seek change from the
; conditions prevailing. They will
travel more, they will build more,
they will think more broadly, they
will be more eager to achieve grea:
things, and though there may be
some temporary hating here and
there by reason of the shifting from
war to peace conditions and the dis
continuance of war work on the
large scale of the last twelve months
we shall soon adjust ourselves and
enter upon basis of aggressive &C.
tivity. without the feverish rush OF
/ the last year or two, and go forward
! into substantial upbuilding opera
| lions.
! We shall need to raise more cotton
and build more cotton mills.
We shall need to largely increase
our production of food, both of grains
and meats.
We shall need to build more fur
naces, for the pig iron output is NOT
equal to the needs of the coming
years. We shall need the entire steel
output of the country for peace actiyi-
ties.
The cement and the lime indus
tries, brickmaking, quarrying, mining
operations, etc.. should all go forward
with renewed activity.
We have been learning something
of the value of labor-saving ma
chinery in the home, where hitherto
people have largely depended upon
manual labor. We are learning what
the farm tractor can do in supplant~
ing man and mule power. There is
before us a great. era for the equip
ment of all newly constructed dwell
ings with every modern Improvement
for lessening manual labor and doing
, by electric and gas power what we
have heretofore depended upon SER
wants to do.
On the farm, tractors and automo-
biles and motor trucks and the gaso-
line engine for pumping water, for
generating electricity, for the saving
of wood and the chopping of feed
stuffs and for other power purposes
will all come into broader use.N
These are among the things to
which we must look forward with
eager interest and with assurance
that as soon as we do adjust our
selves to the new conditions there
will be room enough and to spare
for the work of every hand avail
able, male and female alike, and for
the soldiers as they return from the
battlefield.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
No Mercy for the Unrepentant.

New York Evening Telegram:
Mercy to unrepentant criminals is a
waste and abuse of the goodness of
God Has anyone heard the first
note of repentance from Germany +?
They are on their knees, but they did
not voluntarily fall there 10 acknowl-
edge wrong; they were forced there
by the righteous Judgment of God.
II they could shake off the strong grip
that holds them they would not hest
tate to write a second chapter of all
their former deeds if it promised sue
cess.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09

would point to bankruptcy. The fact
that the government can recoup it.
self from the pockets of the tax
payers does not make this method of
doing business more commendable.
Yet it is easy to conceive circum-
stances under which director gen.
eral might go on yielding to demands
for more pay, reasonable or unreason-
able, remembering that the railway
employees are a formidable body of
voters.