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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS.

Branch offices of the United States
Employment Service now number
more than 800. The Service is now
placing workers in shipyards, muni-
tion plants. on farms and in other war
industries at the rate of between 150,-
900 and 175,000 month. Each day
more war manufacturers turl to the
Employment Service to find them Ia
bor."-U. S. Employment Service Bull
letin, May IA. 1918.
Berries That Renewed Vigor.
Toward the middle of the fifteenth
century. it is related, n poor Arau was
travelling in Abyssinia. Finding him
self weak and weary. he stopped near
IL grove. For fuel wherewith to cook
his rice, he cut down ii tree that hap
pened to be covered with dried berries.
His meal being cooked and eaten, the
traveller discovered that these half
burnt berries were fragrant. He col
lected number of them, and, on
crushing them with n stone, found that
the aroma was increased to great
extent. While wondering ut this, he
accidentally let the substance fall into
a can that contained his scanty supply
Of water. A miracle! The almost pu.
trid water was purified. He brought
1t to his lips; 1t was fresh and agree
able; and after short rest the travel
er so far recovered his strength and
energy as to be able to resume his
journey. The lucky Arab gathered as
many berries as he could, and. having
arrived at Alden. informed the mufti
Of his discovery. That worthy was an
inveterate opium smoker, who had
been suffering for years from the In
fluence OF the poisonous drug. He
tried an infusion of the roasted berries.
and was so delighted at the recovery
of his former vlgor that in gratitude
to the tree he called 1t camuha. which
in Arabic signifies "force."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
MINE WORKERS MAKING Sic PAY

With the patriotic speeding-up of
p oduction, the mine workers, to
whose efforts the steadily increasing
production is largely due, are making
wages that, even in these days of
high pay for skilled labor, should
make coal mining attractive, and
draw many recruits to the mines.
At Thayer, Va. where the miners
determined to celebrate the Fourth
of July by coal-digging contest,
one mine worker with his son as
helper made S25 a dav Two neph-
ews of the superintendent of the
mine cleared up S45 by their com
bincd efforts for the day. These
same young men earned exactly 500
each for five days work in that week.
They are both going into military
service and they explained their
speeding-up by the fact that they
were anxious to have some spare
change when they went after the
Kaiser.
From other mine fields similar con-
ditions are reported. In the Fair
mont district it is common thing
for mine workers to make $500 n
month and an instance is cited of a
negro laborer who came to the field
from Alabama and made S1S2S0 in
the first two weeks he worked.
Under the stimulus of the large
amount of money to be made the
miners are gradually lengthening
their hours; more than ever before
getting up to their full forty-eight
hours week Many of them. how
ever, who are working longer hours,
are not impelled solely by the high
wages to be made, but by the
thought that every extra hours work
they put in is helping, by that much
to win tie war
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
ADVERTISE WAR INSURANCE.

Secretary McAdoo has recently writ.
ten to all local draft boards urging
that the men registering for military
service be adequately informed of the
Government plan of insurance. The
draft boards lave also been sent liter
ature on the matter for distribution.
The men who must make the greatest
sacrifice are entitled to know what
protection the Government offers them
and their families and they might 9th.
erwise take out costly private insur.
ance through ignorance of the gov
ernment plan.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
FORFEITURE NOTICE
Crested Butte. Colo, July "a.

Crested Butte, Colo, July "a, 1918.
To F. S. Mckee:
You are hereby notified that have
expended during the six years 1912,
1918, 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917, each
year the sum of One Hundred (S1OO)
Dollars, in labor and improvements
upon each the Ada Belle, Ada Belle
ing Claims, situated in the Spring
Creek Mining District, Gunnison
County. Colorado, the Location Ger
tifcates of which are of record in
the Office of the County Clerk and
Recorder of Gunnison County, Colo
RADIO, in Book 1876, Pages 615, 615 and
GIG, respectively, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
Section 1924 of the Revised Statutes
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Wanted +. Steady Job

One of our city young men who
had heard that farm hands were ex-
empt from the draft hired out to n
farmer in the dry section near Den
yer and worked every day for about
a week under the new time card, and
did chores until late at night, in
formed the farmer that he was going
to quit telling him he promised to
give him a steady job, when he hired
to him. "Well, you have one, haven't
you?"
mo, I haven't. There are at least
four or five hours every night don't
have a darned thing to do-except to
loaf away in sleeping"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
10 CENTS TAKEN FROM COAL
PRICE.

All bituminous coal shipped from
mines after May 25 must be sold for
10 cents less than the former maxi
mum price 1t is estimated that this
new order of the Fuel Administration
will save the consumers not less than
s60.0O0.000. Due to the fact that the
Government is operating the railroads,
cars are being furnished the mines
without discrimination, fact which
will add much to our coal output. The
government has also enforced new
regulations to prevent coal companies
from profiteering by sending poorly
screened coal to the market.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
of the United States and the amend

of the United States and the amend
ment there to, approved January 22d,
1880, concerning annual labor upon
quired to hold said lodes for the Pc
riod ending on the 31st day of De-
cember. A. d. 1912, 1918, 1914, 1915,
1916 and 1917; and if within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice, you fail or refuse to contrib
ute your proportion of such expendi
ture as co-owner for each of said
years, your interest in the claims
will become the property Of the sub
scriber. your co-owner. who has made
the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
FRANK McGILL.
First pub. July 25, 1918.
Last pub. Oct. II, 1918.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01

Miss Julia Lathrop, Chief of Chill
Labor, who has carefully studied and
urged this measure, the matter is
now before Congress. The bill pro-
poses to grant Federal aid to state
work for mothers and babes in ru-
raj districts. The amount allowed
for the first year would be S1.4S0,O00,
including the expenses of Federal
Administration, this sum to be in
creased until in 192324 it will be
S24SO,000. Amounts above the first
$4,000 will be available to state
only after the state has appropriated
an equal sum. The aim of the bill
is to finally place consultation office
in every county or rural community
| in the nation and furnish medical
care for mothers at home and in hos
pitals. Mothers in remote sections
will be encouraged to have their ba-
bes born in hospitals. The bill has
the support of the Administration
and every farmer is urged to write
his Congressman and Senator urging
its passage.
Interests Oppose Labor Bill
The extreme sensitiveness of the
big business interests to anything
threatening their profits or prestige
was brought out in the recent debate
in the House on the Keating bill.
providing for minimum wage com
mission for working women in the
District of Columbia. The bill is de-
signed to protect women workers in
department stores, laundres, res
taurants, etc, and although SINH
lar measure has been passed in ten
states. the Old Guard was on deck
to oppose it. Among the latter were
J. Hampton Moore. of Steel Trust
fame. "Uncle" Jos Cannon and Nick
Longworth, son-in-law of Theodore
Roosevelt. Longworth got an amend
ment through exempting domestic
servants from the benefits of the bill.
Moore, Walsh Of MASSACHUSETTS, and
Volstead of Minnesota. were shocked
over the title of the bill because it
declares that the ''health. lives and
morals" of women workers are to be
protected by the wage board. They
want the word morals" struck
out. Moore objected to. Congress
committing itself to the doctrine
that morals had anything to do with
economic conditions. Cannon argued
that the law of supply and demand
would take care of the workers. and
Meyer London replied that supply
and demand could not take care of
the millions of our boys who would
return from the front and would
have to be provided with work. l
League Congressman Patriotic
Congressman George M. Young, re-
Gently reelected by the votes of the
North Dakota Nonpartisan Leaguers,
hardly answers the description of the
disloyalists big business is holding
up as the type of League leaders. He
has gone to Europe with half n
dozen other members of the House,
to see what the American troops are
doing. Laden with knowledge of
true needs and conditions at the
front, he will make n great champion
when he returns, for our fighting
boys and our other war needs.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Bill to Help Farm Women

Every farm man and woman in the
nation ought to get behind and urge
the passage of bill recently intro
duced in both branches of Congress
by Miss Jeanette Rankin, member of
Congress from Montana, and Senator
Robinson of Arkansas. designed to
safeguard the lives of mothers and
babes at childbirth who live remote
from towns. Over $4,000 American
women die every year at childbirth
and most of these women who die
from lack of proper instruction and
attendance because they live too far
from proper help. Hundreds of
thousands of other childbirths re-
suit in weak and nervous children
from a proper lack of knowledge and
attention, and farm women are the
main sufferers. This evil was recog-
nized years ago in England and today
England is spending S1,1O0,O00 yearly
to protect mothers and babes in Eng
land and Wales. Thanks mainly to
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Price Fixing Help. Trusts


ering was that government price
fixing has served as cover for the
big profteers who produce at low
cost and sell at the maximum prices
fixed by the government. In estab-
fishing prices the government was
obliged to fix them at level which
would enable the less poorly equipped
and efficient companies to exist. This
eft wide margin of profits for the
low cost companies and they took
full advantage of it. From this the
commission concludes that the fixed
nrice system has produced "an eco
nomic situation fraught with hard
shin to the consuming public" which
will gradually enable the low cost
concerns to absorb their smaller COM
netitors. 1t all comes down to the
proposition that in fixing prices the
Government cannot prevent the big
trusts from asking huge profits so
long as it permits the smaller con-
Germs to make any profit at all. The
only way the cost of living can be
lowered to the people is for the gov
ernment to fix prices based on the
the only alternative is the method
employed so much by the warning ma
tions in Europe government pro-
duction and distribution of the basic
,,ar ,n,oes;t;oc
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Hi. WORKING Sche dule

"How long has that clerk worked
for you?" asked the caller.
"About four hours" replied the
boss.
81 thought he had been here longer
than that" said the caller.
"He has," said the boss. "He has
been here for four months" Mil
waukee Sentinel.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
Gunnison News
From Tho Empire

Mrs. Sprigg Shackelford enter
tanned at Bridge Saturday.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01

Mrs. Sprigg Shackelford enter
tanned at Bridge Saturday.
Mrs. John Steele entertained at d
knitting party last Tuesday.
Mrs G. W. Lightley went over to
Canon City Tuesday, returning Thurs
day.
L. C. Ehlerding of Montrose, came
in Tuesday to look after his mining
interests over near Spencer.
D.
Mrs. Edgar Bissell returned from
Denver Sunday, accompanied by her
daughter. She has been away three
weeks.
H. C. Getty, Irrigation Division En-
gineer, stopped over in Gunnison
Wednesday evening on his way to
Denver.
Mrs. Geo. Hetherington returned
Wednesday evening from a brief visit
in Delta, She reports it very warm
down there.
Elmer rutland and wife of Denver,
came in Saturday morning to visit
Mr.. Ruland's uncle, Grant Rutland,
for few weeks.
Joseph Wilson and wife came in
Thursday to visit for while with
old friends. Joe has sold his ranch
Mrs. Mary Souer of Oneonta, N. Y,
sister of Grant rutland. arrived
Saturday and will spend month
with him and his family.
DIR. Loui Weiss came over from
Denver Wednesday and went out to
Vulcan in the evening to look after
his mining property at that place.
He will remain there during the sum
mer.
V. p. Rawalt and wife are here
from Denver, visiting his parents and
renewing acquaintance with old
friends. Verne has been away from
Gunnison for fifteen years and finds
many changes.
Rockefeller & Price loaded out n
car of lumber for James Shackleford
this week and will follow it with an
other to be used in replacing the
barn recently burned by lightning on
his place near Jacks Cabin
DR.. J. ID. Walker and his son David,
left for independence, Missouri, for
two weeks visit last Saturday. He
will visit with his brother and fam
lily as well as old friends and ac-
quaintances. E. A. Ault will run the
store in his absence.
Mr.. A. w. Jorgensen and wife
stopped over in Gunnison Friday on
their way to California from Iowa.
Mr. Jorgensen is an expert for the
Linograph Company of Davenport,
Iowa, and made the stop to go over
the Empires machine and correct
some difficulties. AS result of his
labors we are now prepared for any
thing that comes up.
On Saturday evening at the resi-
dence of the brides mother, Mr.
Chas. Whinnery, of Lake City. and
Miss Lou Lightley, We're united in
marriage. Rev. White officiating.
On'v members of the family and Mr..
Harry Endner were present. The
young couple left for Denver Sunday
evening, where the groom expects to
enlist in the Marines. Their many
friends wish them long life and hap
piness.
The State Board of immigration is
anxious to obtain the cooperation of
every section of the state in putting
its advantages before the public, to
the end that its special resources may
be developed as rapidly as possible
during a period when the nation is
in need of a maximum output from
all ferns, orchards, ranches and
mines. Good photographs are among
the most convincing arguments, es-
pecially from the agricultural dis
tricts, and the Board rs especially
anxioustto obtain good pictures taken
before or during the harvest of the
current crop, which promises to be
one of the best the state has ever
produced.
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Wanted Steady Job
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01

If in want of anything try an adlet
in the Pilot. 1t will bring results.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
WARRINGTON NEWS LETTER

Washington, July 25.--Where does
all the profiteering money go? This
question has just been answered by
Daniel C. Roper, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, in report to Con
gress which shows that almost in the
same proportion profiteering has
grown the number of big incomes
have increased. For example, in 1914
according to the income tax returns,
there were 8,672 incomes of 100000
and S25,000 year representing for
tunes of 100000 each; in 1916 there
were 12,955. Incomes of 100000 to
S250,000, representing fortunes
around S5,000,0O0, increased in num-
ber during this period from 233 to
726. Fortunes of Slo.OOO,OOO, in
creased from SO to 245; fortunes
s1o,O0OOOO to S2O,0OO,O00, with in
comes of half to one million dollars
a year increased from ia to 376; for
tunes above S20,OOO,OO0, increased
from 60 to 206 in these two years.
Analysis of these figures shows that
while men of the half million dollar
class increased in numbers 40 per
cent, the millionaires of S5,000,000
and over increased in number as we
ascend to the Millionaire class respec-
lively 211, 255, 23O, and 243 per cert.
In other words. profiteering is max
ing millonaires much more rapidly
than it is making men of moderate
wealth, and there were over three
times as many men owning over
IS, ,00O,OO0 in 1916 than there were in
1914.
Profiteering Hurts Farmers
The United States Department of
Agriculture has given out the infor
nation that profiteering in pig iron
and steel is the main excuse given by
manufacturers for the doubling and
trebling of the price of farm imple-
ments. In fact, it is stated that the
producers of these raw materials are
charging such high prices that it is
doubtful if the licensing system re-
Gently inaugurated by the Admins
tration to control farm machinery
prices will have much effect. julius
Cook. head of the office of Farm
Equipment Control. who is after the
profiteers. reports that the cost of
pig iron to the manufacturer has ad-
vanced since 1914 from Sl2. and S14
to $50. Other raw materials enter
ing into the manufacture of farm
the same ratio. The idea is gaining
ground very rapidly that il the De-
partment of Agriculture is to really
lower farm machinery to farmers in
the present crisis so that food pro-
duction will not be hampered, it
must buy the entire output of farm
at prices based in each
plant on the cost of production. Then
IL must pool this output and sell it
Mt an average price. If the American
Harvester company tries to block
this program it would be necessary
to take its manufacturing plants
over and that would give Uncle Sam
practical control of the production
as well as the distribution of farm
implements.
Price Fixing Helps Trusts
A startling fact brought out in the
recent report of the Federal Trade
Commission to the Senate on prof.
Z cring was that government price
fixing has served as cover for the
big profteers who produce at low
cost and sell at the maximum prices
fixed by the government. In estab-
fishing prices the government was
obliged to fix them at n level which
would enable the less poorly equipped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
A Patriotic Hen

The following extract from the report of a county home demonstration agent in Mississippi shows the kind of prize winning poultry the southern club girls are adding to their flocks:
 There are all kinds of hens like there are all kinds of people. Some do their rart we'll and others fail totally, but at Pineville just north of Pass Christian, there is one hen that has made such a record for herself and her family that she is entitled to be classed, as a pa triotic hen, and we give her history so that it may serve as an inspiration to other members of the feathered family that have layed down on their job.
 This hen is owned by Miss Will helmina Hawkins. club member, and is one of her state prize winners of the Barred Rock variety. Her name is Jamie M. and she was one year old on< April Il, 1918. She had laid 124 eggs to that date. When she was six months and five days old she had laid 14 eggs. Il of which were set, and all matched, bringing out Ii bullets and one cockerel. One of thest bullets laid her first egg when she wa, four months and eleven days old, and has laid every day since. It Is a race now between the mother and daughter for breaking the record in egg production for while the old hen has done wonder fully well. her daughter has nearly two months start on her at the beginning of laying age, and at the rate the latter Is going she is evidently endeavoring to push her patriotic mother down In the honor roll'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
RESULT OF WELL BRED SEED

The reports coming in to the local experiment department of the experi- ment station with regard to the testing and multiplication by farmers in a num- Der of counties of cottonseed carefully bred and we'll selected are quite interest ing. These seed were sent out to 30 farmers of the state who are also doing other experimental work in cooperation with the station. The varieties sent out
 were special strain of Cook, which has been bred up by the experiment station at Auburn for several years, and
 hybrid between King and Triumph, which cross was made by this station in the endeavor to combine In one variety some of the earliness of King with the larger boil of Triumph. About one bushel of seed was sent to each experimenter
 Before being given the opportunity to test and multiply these seed, the farmer signs an agreement that he will plant them at least 100 yards from any other cotton and that he will keep the yield separate from any other cotton before and during ginning. He agrees further to give to one of his neighbors, not on his own farm, one bushel of the seed he produces, and to supply the name and address of this neighbor to the experi- ment station. This neighbor also gives to someone not on his farm one bushel of the seed, who agres to report the yield to the station and keep the seed pure, but is not required to keep the scheme
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12

going. By this method three farmers re- ceive benefit from one bushel of seed. Each one of these experimenters also sends in report to the experiment sta tion regarding yields, etc. d
 c. O. Lawrence of Dallas county who received 2S pounds of Cook seed last spring, planted five acres with them The total yield of seed cotton from less than bushel of these bred-up seed was 4S6O pounds, or an average yield per acre of 972 pounds seed cotton. It ran 40.s per cent line. and according to MT. Law renee, this cotton yielded 25 per cent more lint per acre than the remainder of his crop. and was from 10 days to two weeks earlier. He saved 2OO0 pounds seed cotton from this cotton that is suitable for planting purposes. After saving enough for his own use and giv- ing one bushel to his nefghbor, accord ing to agreement, he will sell the rest. Thus less than a bushel of station bred seed, planted in 191S has afforded seed enough to plant about 100 acres in 1919
 This scheme will be continued indefi- nitely by the station, and it Is believed that the result will be the planting of a great deal of more carefully selected seed than would otherwise be planted This is one of the forms of very prac- tical help that the experiment station is rendering to Alabama farmers, the funds for this particular line of seed breedine being provided by the state local ex- pertinent law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-12
Service Saved Dollars

Here is an example of the kind Of service that home demonstration agents are rendering, as indicated in the report of Mrs. J. B. Wilson, home demonstra- tion agent of Pike county:
 q went into home where the meat was infested with worms and was be- ing trimmed and thrown out where the chickens ate it. I showed them how to go through all the meat, trim out bad places and pack in screened box to prevent further infestation with worms. Then I showed the family how to take the trimmings, worms and all, heat and then pour over them lye, which con- sumed everything except few bones; to this was added water and the whoie
 material made into good hard soap. After cooling, the lower part, which con-
 tained the sediment, was cut off ana more lye and water added to It and cooked into a soft soap for scrubbing and clean ing, where the dregs did not matter. In this way, many dollars in this home were saved, as not only a good bit Of meat was saved, but the amount ordi- narily paid for soap was very much re- duced
 II have taught my club girls ana many others how to make lunch biscuit ! bread, and rolls from buttermilk yeast. Recently, I delighted one lady by show ing her how to take one hen and feed ner company two days with hen products Have rescreened a number Of houses az good as new with worn -out screen doors and windows, sofne new wire ana ie"' tacks."