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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
FOOD STOCKS GROW IN YEAR.
Except for Few Items, Including White
Flour, Dealers Have More on Hand.

Washington, Aug. Stocks of food
stuffs in dealers hands are generally
larger than they were year ago. A
survey made July by the department
Of agriculture shows increase in the most
important foodstuffs, excepting -four,
which was 5l.l per cent less than
a year ago; buckwheat -four 27.4 per
cent less, rice ALL per cent less, sugar
22.S per cent less, and canned corn III
per cent less.
Quantities of whole wheat and graham
dour were 1897 per cent larger than a
year ago; rye -four 244.s per cent, corn
meal lis per cent, mixed -four zoos per
cent, corn 81 per cent, barley per
cent, rye 27.9 per cent, beans 1871 per
cent, rolled oats 80 per cent, canned sal
mon l75 per cent, condensed milk, III
per cent and evaporated milk SO per cent
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
MAY BE BREAK
IN RELATIONS
Germany Contemplating Re-
call Of Ambassador to
the Ukraine
PENDING CLEARING
OF SITUATION
Following the Assassination
of Won Eichhorn in
iSIa Kiev


London, Aug. Germany is contem-
plating the recall of Ambassador Won
Mumm from the Ukraine and the hand
ing of passports to the ambassador Of
the Ukraine in Berlin. pending the clear
ing up of the situation in Kiev, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam under Wednesdays
date.
Foreign Secretary Won HintZe, the
message says, had long interview with
the ambassador from the Ukraine on
Wednesday and then received the Aus
tralian ambassador. With the latter the
possibility of sending military reinforce
ments to the Ukraine were discussed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
go Where the
Going Is Good"

TODAY this homely quotation strikes respon-
sive echo in every manufacturing plant.
Manufacturers are looking for logical markets =
places where there is natural demand for the prod
ucts they make; places which they can serve easily
and economically.
That is why this newspaper, working with other
newspapers through it's national organization, the
Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association is investigating merchandising
conditions for the information of manufacturers.
Manufacturers in all lines are calling on the Bureau
of Advertising for facts about logical selling mar
kets. These facts are helpful in planning an adver-
Using campaign. They insure the opportunity Ito
go where the going is good"
Manufacturers are invited to communicate in this
connection with the Bureau of Advertising, 806
World Building, New York
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
GERMAN LANGUAGE BARRED
As Basic Language in Schools of Brazil
Town.

Washington, D. G., Aug. 1.-The Ger.
man language as basic language in the
many schools of Santa Catharina, Brazil,
has been forbidden, according to advices
reaching Washington The authorities
have decided to permit the teaching Of
German in the curriculum, but Portu-
guese is ordered as the basic language
in all schools, public and private In a
single district of Santa Catharina there
were, before Brazil declared war, 1874
German schools where nothing but Ger
man was spoken.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
NEARLY READY FOR SERVICE.
Two German Steamers Requisitioned BY
Uruguayan Government.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 1.-Two of the
German steamers requisitioned by the
Uruguayan government and leased to
the American emergency fleet corpora
ton are about ready for their trial
trips, after which they will be turned
over to the United States.
There are eight German ships in
Uruguay taken over by the Uruguayan
government at the outbreak Of the war
and the United States has contracted
for all of them for the duration of the
war with an option on them after the
war. The rate of payment is $S.25ta
per ton of burden per month, Urugusyan
gold, half to be paid in advance month
ly in Montevideo and half in New York.
York
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
KILLED In FALL
FROM WINDOW
Lieut.. John F. Newton, a
Wounded Soldier Home
on Leave
BECAME DIZZY
AND LOST BALANCE
Officer of the 117th Engi-
neers Recently Gassed
in France

New York, Aug. Lieutenant John
F. Newton, ll7th engineers, here on
leave after being gassed at the front in
France, was killed to-day in a fall from
the sixth floor of an apartment house.
While sitting in window he became
dizzy and fell to the court yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
HE MISSED THE COLONEL

From Stars and Stripes, France.
 A colonel out in No Mans Land at tracted the attention of a German snper in a tree. He promptly fired at the Eng lishman and missed him.
 The colonel as promptly threw himself down, rolled into sheft hole and stayed quiet until four star shells had gone off He hunted up the lieutenant in charge of that length of trench and wrathfully de- nlanded:
 What do you mean by letting boche sniper take shot at me, with no reply 2"
 "We didn't see the thing at all' said the lieutenant. ''Do you know where he was?"
 "Hes in that tree over there." said the colonel.
 'l'll put my best shot on the job said the lieutenant. and called up the man. Everybody watched the performance.
 The rifleman got comfortable posi- ton, hitched his elboy into the sling in the orthodox fashion and waited. Pres ently another star shell went up.
 q see him." said the sharpshooter, and snuggled the butt down into his shoder hollow. He waited for another star shell and fired. Ping. The German came tumbling down out of his tree. and the English soldier, blowing the smoke out of his rifle barrel, remarked:
 "Take that for missing our colonel!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
Demand for Bumper
 Corn Crop Imperative

1T HE governments report on win
 l ter wheat indicates another short crop, which makes the demand for a bumper corn harvest all the more imperative.
 From 1912 to 1915, inclusive, wheat production in the United States in creased steadily. In 1915 it reached for the first time the billion-bushel mark. But since that year weather conditions have been unfavorable and the yield has fallen far below the 73O ,O00 ,000-bushel record of 1912. This years wheat harvest will hardly reach 600,00O,000.
 There is time enough for the farm CTS to plant largely increased acre age in corn. A four-billion crop would not be excessive. Even with a five-billion crop every bushel would be needed if the allies are to be well fed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
Gladden. a Soldiers Heart
 By Writing Him a Letter

TIT is a small thing to do. Write
 G a letter to soldier. Briggs, in one of his inimitable cartoons, in the series entitled, "When Teller Needs Friend" pictures the woeful dis appointment of soldier who has re- ceived no mail although his comrades are chuckling over letters from home.
 There is hardly anyone in this coun- try today who is not well enough ac- quainted with at least one boy in khaki to correspond with him. In the Training camps letters from friends and relatives are prized highly, but they mean much more to soldiers who are lover there" There may be un- pardonabale delays in getting mail delivered, but sooner or later, let ter will reach them. For the man in the trenches nothing can take the place of letter from home. It is a symbol of the faith we have in him, proof that we think of him and bid him godspeed in his sacred mission.
 "What shall I write to soldier?" The common, everyday gossip of the town, the store, the office or the fac tory where he was employed. He doesn't want to know about the war. He knows more about it than you do. What he wants to know is the little things. the intimate homely things that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
COST OF LIVING GOES HIGHER


 Thomas r. Logan, in Lesles.
 Figures just compiled by the depart ment If labor show that edbles which required the expenditure of an even dol lar 2 year ago now reduce the family funds exactly $1.25. There have been sharp divergences in the general mount ing cost of living. Some commodities in fact, have taken a downward course The price of cornmeal shows 77 per cent in- crease, while flour is up only F per cent This, of course, may be traced to the nationwide campaign for the conserva- tion of wheat. Potatoes have been more patriotic. They are 16 per cent cheaper now than year ago. The first month of 1918 showed an increase of ? per cent in average food prices over December, 1917 Notwithstanding this general in- crease, there was a small drop in the cost of flour, lard, bacon and cornmeal. The total advance in the cost of food since 1913 is 63 per cent. Five years ago cornmeal was exactly 135 per cent below the current quotations, lard was IA per cent cheaper, potatoes were 1O7 per cent less expensive and flour commanded ex- actiy halT the present price. The steady rise in prices during the last 12 months is apt to discourage heads of families with small incomes. As matter of fact, how eVer' It Is due to the intelligent work of the food administration that the cost of living has not taken far more appall. ins upward jump in the first year of Americas participation in the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10

Won Hindenburg warned the Kaiser that it would take tine to win the war in the west. But the Teutons have no time to spare.
 The New York World estimates that Congress averages 100000 words a day Washington is the worlds windiest cap ital.
 MT. Hoovers critics are keeping so quiet just now that he's probably able to work full 24 hours a day.
 Ys # Y. Just when we thought gentle spring was all ours. shameless winter came back and fingered in her lap. Another symptom of spring is the fe- verish desire of cub reporters in a news paper office to swap desks. /
 I. * # The Turks are taking possession of the "crumbs" tossed to them by their German masters at Brest-Litovsk
 <. # # Police records show that New Yorks gunmen usually accomplish what they set out to do
 $, * # The German timetable is subject to daily revision.
 .. < x The battle of battles S-Sed while Con- tended"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
More Praise for BIackman

T always enjoy my visits to Birming- ham, said Joseph B. Babb, the we'll known newspaper man who is now do- ing such effective work as government speaker. T see most of the big dailies and have been greatly interested in the war cartoons, hut without qualification can truthfnlly say that no work being done is more telling than the drawings of Walter Blackman. I take pride in the fact that he is connected with Bir- mingham paper. He is growing every day in technique and power and fame. The Age-Herald is to be congratulated on having such an artist. No wonder his Illustrations are being copied all over the country and featured in the film screens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
100000 WORDS A DAY

From the New York World.
 An expert accountant for the World has made careful computation Of the and Senate during the month of March. For that period 1871 pages, or 9S42 col- unns, of the Congressional Record were printed with the purpose of preserving the utterances, weighty, wearisome of irrelevant, of members of Che House and Senate on the floor. In words the output was 3,121,402, or an average of 100000 for every day in the month, incfGcfng Sundays, holidays and adjournments for recovery from exhaustion At that, Con- gress is in session usually only a few hours day, and limited number of senators and representatives make it their duty to keep up the intermina- ble discussions that delay the public business.
 If the figures seem vague or pointless to the hurried newspaper reader, let him consider what it would mean if 100000
 words, covering 100 columns. or 121a pages of the World, were translated into waves of sound Let him hire a hall and with a corps of highly trained as- sstants try the experiment of address ing to a picked audience occupied in private conversation, letter writing, reading and minor personal duties the contents of a single days issue of the Congressional Record
 This orgy of ortary runs on endlessly through the seasons. It is continuous performance. When senators and repre- sentatives are not talking, the govern ment printing office is reproducing their speeches for circulation at the govern ment's expense. Rarely the volume of words ceases while a roll call is taken or resolution or bill of minor hnpor- tance is passed. Since early in December Congress has been talking at the same even rate, and most of the business of the present session remains to be done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
Four Persons Attend
 Woman Spy's Funeral

NM ME. DEsPINA DAVIDovITcH GV0 STORCH, said to have been one of the leaders of the German spy system in America, was buride the other day in Mount Olivet cemetery, New York. Four persons accompanied her body to the grave.
 For nearly two years Mime. Storch had lived in the fashionable hotels of New York and Washington. She was a well known figure along the Great White Way During her activities as a spy she had associated with many prominent people, not only in this country but in Europe, where she IS said to have moved from one capital to another with her followers, re- ceived by persons high up in the so- cial and diplomatic world.
 This, you may say, is fitting end for a spy, even a woman spy. It is
 scessary to have spies, as human na- ture is at present constituted, and governments which reflect the weak nesses of the people who make them and support them, yet spies are never highly regarded. The sacrifices they make and the risks they run seldom win them fame or fortune, although they are well rewarded in pecuniary way, particularly those in the employ of the Kaiser
 Perhaps, if Mime. Storch had died in Germany, her funeral would have been more largely attended. It is probable that there would have been more than four mourners at her bier, if the sort of people with whom she was most intimate did not have healthy re- gard for their own safety. To walk or ride in the funeral procession of a German spy, in America, is to invite suspicion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
How Many Others.

and want her to have the very best that is going, and that's the reason am strong for an auditorium in Capitol park said T. Fl. Hobart, the well-known Louisville and Nashville passenger con- ductor. If they will build one which is give s1OO toward it, and I know many others who will give similar amounts, not to mention those who are able to give much larger sums. hope a strong effort will be made to create such an in- terest for it that some definite action Will have to be taken toward it in the near future. want to see it done before die."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
v New Impetus for Thrift Campaign

II TNPRECEDENTED fervor marks " the Third Liberty Loan cam paign throughout the country and the eager demand for the bonds will doubt less have quickening effect on the sale of War Savings Stamps.
 As has been explained repeatedly, the purpose of the stamp campaign lis twofold-to raise money for the conduct of the war and to develop the habit of thrift on the part of children and all people of limited income. Nearly every bank has it's savings department and this with it's more recent adjunct, known as the Christ mas club, has been valuable agency lin adding wealth to the nation and developing thrift habits in individuals who had thought little of the prover- bial "rainy day"
 But savings institutions have not reached the rural population as class. The Thrift Stamp is within easy reach of all classes-urban and rural. All that is needed to make the campaign a complete success is thorough or ganization.
 The cities of Alabama are well or ganized and already good results in the sale of Stamps and Baby Bonds have been reported; but much yet re- mains to be done in the agricultural districts.
 When every rural school has be- come at once center of patriotic ac- tivity and thrift center, War Saw ings Stamp money will pour into Uncle Sam's treasury in larger volume.
 Let's have dynamic junior drive in every school district of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
LUKE M'LUKE sans

Ihe society girl who celebrates her fnuptials has just as many ba-t.es later o'' as does the working girl who merely gets hitched 4 pohtlcal party needs d statesman to sound the keynote. But it takes a pre- clret executive to deliver the votes The boss can always SC if vol. are ca pahle of doing higher class of work ana getting promotion. He watches the way you do the small jobs you are work ing on now
 There was time when the devil was considered the most onery. icwdown crit ter Tn all creation. But since certain degenerate in Berlin with wrong-font
 arm staged his kultur produ ttion, folks are beginning to regard satan as a gen. tleman and sclliiar A girls face may be her fortune. But Wifes face is often her husbands mis- fortune.
 man after all He will often raise the rent when the tenant can't raise 1t. If Hiram Maxim had only invented a monograph silencer instead of gun | silencer he would have gone down into history as one of our great human ben efactors.
 We just cant help thinking what an old fool Methuselah was He might have taken bottle of bunksated iron and
 lived to ripe old age if he had had any sense
 What has become of the old-fashioned party who used to wear derby hat, the crown of which was lined with white satin, like coffin? i Any clerk can tell you that the only morning in the month he gets into the office late is the same morning the boss gets there on time. 1 A fat woman starves herself trying to
 reduce. But fat man would rather be fat than be hungry
 l We don't know why. But no woman ever expects good news to come in 2
 telegram.
 1 The reason why girl can't eat more than man when he takes her out tc
 'nner is because he is looking at her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
New Liberty Farm


 T am hearing good reports from our larm up on Sand mountain that was Soaned to the Boys Industrial school by pr. Emory A. Morris said D. M. Weakley, the superintendent. "It is near New Liberty, a good name for a town just at present. We have a man to look after it, but it is worked by boys from the home. They like to go up there. It is an outing. and an experi- ence for them. We are raising all kinds Of foodstuffs, and as the Sand mountain country has done so well with cotton we have put in 25 acres The variety on the mountain brings a premium. If we get good stand and have favorable wealth CT. we hope to make quite neat nest egg for the institution"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
Killed HuIIdnm

I have heard some of ny newspaper friends speak of certain politicians and public men as hounds for publicity '" said J. Mercer Barnett, "and I fear it killed my bulldog, Lord Roberts, or 'Bobs,' as I called him. He was written up frequently in the papers, and it must have gone to his brain, for he died of the swell head I was fond of him. not only because he was so ugly that he was pretty, but because he was highly pedigreed dog, being sired by Wander bilts famous prize-winner, and given to my wife's brother by soldier who had to join his regiment abroad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
THE SAFETY BADGE

From the Washington Star.
 Sir Frederick Smith at a dinner in New Yorl. joked staff officer from Toronto unmercifully.
 ''Ia the trenches" he said, they call all that red on your hat the red badge of safety Not bad, what?
 Two chaps were wading about a muddy trench one day in Flanders when lordly being with a red hat strolled haughtily by.
 "'Who's that there? said the first chap.
 "'Staff officer, said the other.
 "What. A. staff officer? Out here in front line trench?
 "'Sure
 My stars.' said the first chap, has peace been declared? ?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
INsoLENCE OF THE HUN

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 It is reported from Amsterdam that the Kaiser suspended his long range bom- bardment of Paris during the funeral of the Swiss councillor. killed while at prayers by the Kaiser's devil cannon.
 This act of spectacular courtesy is typical of the Hun. He always has been clever at employing these punctilious ob- servances and using them as cunning artifices to screen the hate in. his soul. His show of respect for the dead coun- cilor and for the war marooned nation he represented, is as hollow as the pre- lenses of hell itself. Were it otherwise, the Kaiser would have shown some sign of pity for the 100 women and children who went to their death with the coun- cilor in the very act of supplicating the throne which the Kaiser hourly desc crates with his pretensions of divine partnership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10
Bessemer's 5 Patriotic
 Red Letter Day

|1O ESSEMER, like Birmingham, is lO aflame with patriotism and will go lover the top" in raising it's quota of the Third Liberty Loan Yesterdays liberty parade was a Isplendid achievement, and would have done exceptional credit to city of many times Bessemer's size. No parade could have been more and while there had been Inc doubt as to Bessemer's ability to do it's part in subscribing to the loan or the purpose of the people to make sacrifices if necessary to help win the war the demonstration in it's scope and spontaneity gave assurance |of liberty drive that will be epochal in the city's civic and patriotic life.
 It was distinctly revelation. That Bessemer will be among the first cities in the south to exceed it's quota may go without saying. Yesterday was indeed red letter day for Bir- minghan's high-spirited neighbor.
 $ # *.
 As further proof of the seriousness of the labor problem. the New Jersey plant of the Standard Oil company classes the time spent by women employees in chang again as overtime, and pays them ac- cordingly.
 Have you seen a sample of the spiked club the Kaisers soldiers use to kill wounded men? If you have an oppor- tunity. take long look at that bar barous weapon and buy Liberty Bonds until it hurts.
 The bolsheviki who permitted Germany to march into Russia and help herself to anything she wanted, view with alarm the landing of handful of Brit ish and Japanese troops at viadistok.
 # # a:
 The Pittsburs Dispatch calls President Wilson daylight dip!omatist." which lis the same thing as saying he, doesn't carry an extra pack of cards up his sleeve.
 *
 Mir. McAdoo also meant that the rail- roads would not be permitted to use pie lures of seductive bathing beauties in advertising beach resorts.
 E * x
 What Premier Clemenceau means by a "diIuted liev is one that won't hold water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-10

places by native Christians, but horses unfamiliar with their smell, are much perturbed in approaching Rameh and Galilee, where considerable herds are kept and pastured. I dare say it's about like the way they cut up when a bear comes to town
 Now, I did not start out with any idea of writing in way to revive any con- troversy among the orthodox and mod ern Jews, for I have friends in both camps some who eat ham and some who abhor it--but none who saw Robert Man tell in "Shylock' can ever forget the scene where Bassanio, on asking him to dine with him, got for an answer: ''Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarite, con- jured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, but I will not eat with you. drink with you, nor pray with you"
 
 Bear In mind that swine's flesh is loathed by Moslems. The Jewish prohi- bition of pork has been adopted by Mo.
  hammedan law. England learned to her terrible cost in India that caste and lack of appreciation of religious preju- dices sent orientals into mad revolt and the massacre of Cawnpore. It had at least part of it's roots in the introduc- tioi of the Enfield rifle. Its cartridges were creased with animal lubricants. The fat of pigs was hateful to Mohamme- dans, while that of cows was still more of an abomination in the eyes of the Hirdus.
 do not know whether I can land or not, but I'll try. The idea wanted to drive home was not that we ought to give up the raising or the eating of swine, but that if the Jews. under Moses commands, pushed aside pork for som