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Evening star., 1918-02-08
MAY YEACE EADEF|c|T
iNRAI[WAY CONTROL
1917 Figures Show That
Roads Income Has Declined
/ for Recent Months.

Estimates Of railroad earnings in this
country IN 1917. Just made public BY the
interstate Commerce Commission. indi-
cate that unless the government is able
to reduce operating expenses 1T may
face q deficit under the guaranty which
It gives the roads in the Senate railroad
bill.
The railroads earned about s95s.o0o.-
eeo. according to these estimates. The
Senate hill provides the government
must pay the roads for their use about
s4s.ooo.ooo.
But the figures for 1917 show that the
railroad income has been on the de-
cline in recent months. and II this de-
cline Is kept up. augmented by In
creased wages and the rising cost of
materials and supplies, the government
may face deficit.
Hope to Cut Expenses.
On the other hand. the railroad ad-
ministration hopes to be able to cut
economize on charges necessary only
under competitive conditions to Offset
the declining income. The size of these
items, which will play such a big part
in railroad financing this year, were
disclosed by the latest computations.
Tho figures given out by the Inter-
state Commerce CommisSio deal with
revenues. expenses and income of rail-
roads earning more than $1,0OO.0OO
last year.
In December, the last month under
private operation. rail earnings de-
clined sharply, according to early re-
cefyed by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The average reduction Of
!. 1ncome was estimated at 30 per cent.
caused by the ever-mounting cost of
vyv al hxvA = -
tar winter weather of December. to-
Gether with a sudden drop in revenues
resulting from traffic congestion and
embargoes.
Comparison With Former Years.
Compared with the estimated income
1915 was s1,OS7. $50, 900: for 1918, $116.-
<76.000; for 1914, $500. .330. 900, and for
1913. $S16.510,O0O.
Last year the total revenues from
railway operations were $4.03s 900 .O00
and operating expenses were s2.-]
861 900 900, leaving a net revenue of
s., III. 100000. From this were deduct
ed $217 100000 taxes. and minor items
of uncollectable revenue to compute
the net income figure, which is COM
parable in a general way to the basis
of government compensa ton
These figures will be increased about
per cent by addition of reports from
ing revenues of less than $1,000.00O a
year, whose records are not included
with the reports Oh standard class
roads.
Reason for Decline.
The reason for the decline in net in
come last year is shown graphically by
the report. Operating revenues were 10
per cent greater than the $685., ,000. 900
Of 1916. but expenses ran more than
20 per cent above the $2,S73.00 900
mark Of the year previous.
Nearly all items of expense were
higher. Wage increases are estimated
1t 20 per cent. Cost Of coal. train sup
plies and repairs went up by bounds
With which the immense receipts from
frefghts and other revenues did not
keep pace.
People Travelled more in 1917 than in
the year previous, but the increased
revenues did not go far in counteract-
ing the steadily declining Income. War
caused an immense increase in hauling
and from freight the roads received
most OF their revenues.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Asks Court to Change His Name.

Elias Stassinopulos. q soldier In the
United States Army. today asked the
District Supreme Court to change his
name to Elias Stanton. The new name
Is an English translation Of the Greek
one. the petitioner says. and the change
would relieve him from embarrassment
because of the foreign origin OF the
name and the difficulty to pronounce It,
The petitioner was born in Piperitsa,
Greece, and came to America In 1907.
He Joined the Army seven years ago,
he says.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Are You Going to Build?

If you are, whether it be private residence build
ing for industrial manufacturing purposes, sky
scraper any of building you will be interested
in reading the of the building material
manufacturers appearing in this weeks issue of THE
LITERARY DIGEST.
Evening star., 1918-02-08
OPPOSES Definite DATE
i FOR Return Of ROADS
Senator Poindexter Makes Minority
!, Report on Administration Bill.
4; Discusses Rates Also.

Senator Poindexter Of Washington, in
q minority report on the administra-
tion railroad bill to the Senate yester-
day. declared himself opposed to fixing
. definite date for the return OF the
He said that the system In vogue be-
fore the roads were taken over by the
government was admittedly failure.
1T IL a great mistake. in my judg-
ment." the senator said, "for this COM
mittee to recommend that on a certain
date the railroads should be restored to
private owners without in any way
changing the dangerous and unscien-
tilc conditions which existed up to the
time the transportation systems were
taken over by the President.
Wants Business Divided.
II do not think that public opinion
will tolerate a return to these condi-
tions. Public interests require that
competitive lines should be regarded
as a part of the transportation sys-
tenn of the country, and that business
should be SO distributed between them
est and best service to the public.
Under the system, which 1t is pro-
posed by the committee amendment to
restore eighteen months after the close
of the war. some railroads earn as high
as SO per cent upon their capitalization,
Undated as 1t is. while other roads
which were equally necessary to the
communities which they served earned
NO profits at all. Under government
operation. with profits and losses Of all
the railroads going ultimately into one
account. such Inequalities would adjust
themselves. Under private ownership
4 IL obvious that this inequality Of re-
Burns IL tneffaceable and unjust"
Calls Plan Illogical
The senator asserts that the plan pro.
Dosed by the committee for the Presi-
dent to initiate rates is Illogical and
0nworkable."
1T 10 . little too much to expect Of
human nature that oh1cials who owe
their o6ciAl existence to the President
will be able. however much they may
Try. to exercise any real Independent
Judgment or action in setting aside the
Presidents orders in tho matter of
rates"
Evening star., 1918-02-08
Calls Plan Illogical.

.CeIAs Cause Headache ana Grin.
LAXATIVE BROMO QCININE Tablets famovs
&1e eauss. There II only one ".Bromo Quinine -
= ~. GROVES signature on box. 5oe.-Ad-
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per cent Aug. !, 1917, and 50 per cent
1.-THE average condition August 1st for
the years 1912 to 1916 A condition
of IS per cent on August 1st indicates
1 a production for Iowa of approximate
lily 434,71S,0O0 bushels, compared with
10,700000 bushels harvested last
year, and 365,013,0OO bushels the aver
age for 1912-1916 Dry weather ac-
companied with hot winds and eX-
tremely high temperatures of August
Sd, 4th, 9Th and 9th have seriously
reduced the prospects Of the corn crop
in southwestern Iowa. Adair, Cass
Montgomery and Mills counties are
especially hard hit by the extreme
Temperatures of Sunday, August 4th,
and Monday, August 9Th All other
portions of the state give promise of
exceptionally heavy yield. The high
Temperature which so adversely af-
fected the corn crop in the south
western portion of the state seemed
to have had the effect of forcing the
growth of the corn crop in other sec
lions of the state. In localities most
seriously affected many farmers are
already cutting and putting their corn
into shock to save what little feed
value remains of the crop. Corn in
many early planted fields is already
|denting.
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GAMES AND PHYSICAL EFFl-
Cheney N

Boys and girls have been urged to
play certain games as means of de-
veloping the physical efficiency neces-
sary If they are to pass the national
badge tests that are part of the pro.
gram for patriotic play week, held I'm.
der the auspices of the children's
bureau of the United States depart
ment of labor and the child welfare
department of the woman's commit
tee. The organization of such games
and of the badge tests is the simplest
part of the play week program and
will, it is expected, be particularly val
liable for communities where there Is
now no organization for promoting the
safety and sanity of the way children
use their leisure time.
! Many mothers and also members Of
committees organizing the work in the
Estates. have written to the childrens
bureau and to the child welfare depart
ment for information as to what
games are especially useful for de-
veloping particular muscular ABILITIES.
In response to these inquiries it was
twelve games are available prepared
by the Playground and Research Asso-
|ciation of America, / Madison Ave,
New York, N. Y, from which copies
can be secured. These games include
old familiar ones like Tag, Tug of War,
Prisoners Base, Up, Jenkins, Run
Sheep Run and Volley Ball. They have
been selected because of their useful
ness in developing alertness, team
play and physical erectness. The de-
|scriptions have been prepared with
special reference to the usefulness of
the games in the patriotic play week.
and the old games have been enliven-
led by new stunts" Recreation com
lnittees which have been unable to
find play organizations ready to hand
can easily get the boys and girls i'll
any community interested in starting
games and thus competing all summer
in fitting themselves for taking the
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4 Mrs. Edward Rickers and sister,
Miss Anna Sohl, we're business cali
i ers in West Side Tuesday.
i j. F.. Dreessen and children, Laura
and George, left for Willard, Neb., on
4 Thursday to visit with relatives for q
few days. George will stay and help
Mr.. Sohl with his farm work.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Segebarth and
son, Earl, called on friends at Vail
Wednesday,.
Christ Brotherson received a fine
bunch of cattle from Sioux City Tues
day.
Mrs. VIM. Hitler and children, Of
Omaha, are visiting at the Julius JAMS
| home.
| Jesse Dieter bought several hundred
bushels of corn from John Kock Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Dresser
spent Thursday evening at the VIM.
Rickers home.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Jams and son,
Vernon accompanied by Mrs. William
Hifflen, left Friday morning for Mime
sofa where they will stay several days.
VIM. Kock sold load of hogs to
the West Side buyer at $18.25 per cwt.
Mrs. Frank Dozark and daughters,
| Gladys and Irene, autoed to Boyer Fri
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lawler called at
the John ODonnell home Friday eve.
ming. $
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rickers and fam
| lily, Mrs Ed Rickers and Miss Anna
Sohl were pleasantly entertained at
the VIM. Segebart home Friday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kock and son,
Clarence, and Mrs. Ben Myers and
VIM. Kock left Saturday for Millneso-
ia to visit friends and relatives
Fred Rickers and John Auen went
to Omaha on business Monday morn.
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Gertz and family
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM,
Rickers.
Miss Lena Lamp is visiting at the
j. H. Jams home, at present.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Rickers and fam
lily visited Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Buck.
ODonnell Brothers shipped load
of cattle Saturday. evening.
Henry Peters spent Sunday with his;
parents at Lake View
Mr.. and Mrs Chris Brotherson and
children and Mrs. j. F. Dreessen mo-
tored to Denison Friday afternoon.
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THE REVIE WIS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. 2. Gray f. + s.,.
tsEfHh s*'tt 4y Editor r3& z aH Es 9 X Il
Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers
John '''' II. 2. Gray
Editor

| livestock raised on the farm, if
owned the farm. ! have often won.
dered why more such signs are not
placed on the farms along the Lin
coin highway. Every time ! drive
| out in the country see dandy places
| for placing such signs on our Craw:.
ford county farms. One Of those large
silos is a good place to paint sign.
tsE&F -O-
Here I am back on the job again.
am very short Of news this week be-
cause have not had time to gather it,
but / expect to strike my stride again
Iby next week. After a talk with the
dear doctors" have decided to put
off that visit with Saint Peter another
fifty years. When you lay awake
nights trying to decide whether there
are three or four handles on each
side Of the coffin, oh boy, amt it
a grand and glorious feeling to have
the doctor fix you up as good as new?
The Ida Grove Pioneer last week
contained the following: The Ida
county threshing committee, with Jas.
Bleakly, Otto Schugg and Charles
Shirk present, met Tuesday evening
and reduced the 1918 threshing prices
in Ida county as follows: Threshing
oats was placed at 311 cents bushel,
gas rigs half a cent higher; barley to
remain the same at cents bushel;
wheat was reduced to 6, cents a bushel
for steam rigs and cents for gas rigs.
The committee recommended that
threshers refund the difference to
farmers for threshing already done
this season, to conform with the new
prices.
Many progressive renters in Iowa
follow the plan of making the farm
leases for next year in August. Know
ing the conditions under which they
will hold their farm for another year,
they can 60 ahead and plant their WIN
ter wheat, plan their crop rotations,
buy supplies and otherwise plan a
year or more ahead This is an advis-
able plan, say the farm management
extension men at Iowa State college.
A. written lease is always better than
a verbal one. It is not necessary to
have a printed, legal document form
of lease. Just simple agreement in
writing, in which the terms and other
matters agreed upon are set down IN
writing, is sufficient. The simpler the
leaseis the better. Two copies should
be made, one to be retained by each
party. It is the experience Of many
Iowa tenants that the most profitable
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Not many days ago we CHANGED to
meet prominent farmer who was in
Des Moines, where he made the pur,
chase of a large electric fan. In our
conversation with him he aroused our
curiosity to a point that we had to in
quire thesuse to which he was plan
ming to put the fan. He conf1ded in
us that he was going to install it in
his barn and that he was going to use
II during milching time. The flies, he
said had become so bad and as the
clocks had been advanced an hour he
was forced to go milching at an hour
long Before dark. He had arranged
shelves at an appropriate height be-
hind each stall in his barn, where he
placed the fan. he reasoned, would not
only keep the flies away, but would
help keep him cool at the same time.
He had heard Of the stunt and was
planning to give it thorough trial.
Some scheme, that, of keeping the
cows tail from whipping around ones
Our when milking, not to mention the
expression In ugly words during milk
Ing hour Slater News.
& SlE9 41lc }0NG 10ui1CIIA CpOl 10 CAdL 4S1CAS
Martin, Of Sac county, got forty-five
and one. half bushels of Marquis wheat
per acre from an eight acre field, meas
ured. III was quite hardship to in
sjst that Iowa farmers raise wheat
this year Lets see, at 1920 per
bnshel that wheat would yield $1Ou.lO
Der acre, wouldn't It.? Who's doing
my better Rolfe Arrow.
MI saa& ---o-
Last week i travelled on the North
western railroad from town of Wall
Lake to Sioux City. / noticed several
6blds OF corn badly fired near the
towns or Mapleton and Castana, but
that was about all the damage by the
recent hot dry spell II could see 1t
certainly looked good to see that vast
tract o. land in the vicinity Of Ona-
Wa, which had been raising nothing
hut hay for years, now under cultiVa-
tion and good crops of corn, and small
grain growing on nearly every acre Of
II. The big drainage bitches which
have been put through that section of
the state were good investments, no
matter what they cost. saw fine
herd OF Angus cattle in pasture near
the railroad between the town Of Ar
thur and Ida Grove. l don't know
Mho they belonged to, but would not
BE slow in giving the farm a name and
have Q large sign painted and erected
near the track, telling the name Of
farm, owners name and breeds Of
y . t. } + \ Y
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wheat for -four in the ratio Of eight
pounds per month per person in his
family Or establishment UP to October
! first. In other words the farmer may
Exchange wheat for -four up to almost
so days supply at this time He is
not required to take substitutes with
the -four unless he SO desires, but he
is required to sign the pledge given on
the certificate which he must sign q
United States Food Administrator j
F. Deems estimates that almost If not
quite 100000 bushels Of grain will
have been saved in Iowa during the
harvest season of 1918 by the organiza
ton of the threshers of the state into
grain saving associations. In ninety
counties OF Iowa 1869 threshers have
met in convention during the season
and formed organizations which have
pushed along the food administration
program of better threshing to save
food. Practically all counties organ.
lied and the associations thus include
about 5000 threshers. Their work is
mot completed for the year but it is
the opinion of Mr.. Deems and his asso-
ciates that fully 100000 bushels of
grain will have been saved when the
threshing is over That means close
to $2,500,O00 saving, as fully 100000
bushels were saved from the wheat
fields.
We doubt if much damage has been
done the corn crop in this vicinity. by
firing. Here and there may be found
stalks along the outside rows or ends
that have been hit. How about the
barren stalks? Have you gone out in
your fields and looked over the ears
closely? II you have-that is num-
Der of you-you will find many stalks
without an ear on them. This will
cause much more loss than the fired
corn, believe.
In every. section of the county some
winter wheat was raised this year.
The yield per acre is reported to be
larger than the spring wheat. 1t is
estimated that ten thousand or more
acres of winter wheat will be planted
in the county this fall. Winter wheat
may be planted any time between now
and October first.
III s21s5,. --O- t}s tEasiyr atEs5 Il
The value of the crops and animal
products of the state Of Iowa in 1917
were greater than those in any other
state in the union, according to fig
ures just published by the United
States department of agriculture, be-
ing valued at $1,33O, 100000 Iowa's
closest rival is illinois whose products
are given as $1,255, 100000 or $780,
100000 less than those OF Iowa. Next
comes Texas with $1,O45,0OO,00O, and
then Missouri with $947, 100000. The
report is in the form of a map of the
United States showing each state in
outline and giving the value Of the
products of each. The map also
shows the approximate center of ag-
ricultural production of the country
in 1917, according to value of crop
and animals, which center is given as
being located in the east central part
Of Illinois near the Mississippi
Or
The estimated condition of Iowa's
corn crop on August LIST was 95 per
cent Of a full crop, compared with 81
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4 be cheaper to- use the commercial pref
arations, a number of which have been
tested out at the Iowa agricultural ex
pertinent station and found satisfac
tory. Good cultures can be bought fol
30 cents an acre. Full directions fol
using these will be found on the pack
age.
Gasoline is the best worm remedy
for sheep that is known, says the
sheep herdsman in charge OF the
ffocks at the Iowa agricultural expert
ment station. He has been using gas
oline for years and finds it better than
any drug or patent remedy he has
lever tried It not only kills stomach
worms, but it will kill tape worms as
we'll, which are much harder to reach
For lambs two or three months old
the herdsman recommends a dose OF
ounces Of whole milk, ] tablespoon
full of gasoline and ! tablespoonful OF
linseed oil. For aged animals, two
tablespoonful of gasoline are used
with the other ingredients the same
Sometimes for strong, growing lambs.
nearly, two tablespoonfuls are given
The linseed oil acts as laxative as
well as taking away the bad taste. Be.
fore the dose is given, the sheep are
starved for one night. The dose Is
repeated for three successive days.
However, If the sheep or lamb is sick
lily and weak the doses are given ev-
cry other day.
A silO is cheaper this year than ever
before and its saving value is greater.
1t may not be cheaper in dollars and
cents, but it is actually cheaper in
bushels Of corn or pounds of beef, and
that is the way business farmers figure
values. In the past two years botn
beef and corn have actually doubled
In the amount they bring. but the cost
|of most silos has not raised half that
much. Then we must consider also
the greater value which the, silo has.
At least twenty-five per cent Of the
feeding value Of the corr crop is lost
when the corn is cribbed and stalks
left for pasturing Now that corn has
twice its former value the loss by not
putting it into3a silo is twice as great
and what you once lost by leaving sew
|enty.five per cent corn out, has just
doubled with corn worth $3.50. More
than this the corn saved by a silo will
produce just as many pounds OF beef
now that beef is worth eighteen cents
as it did when 1t was worth only nine
cents so you get twice as much for
your money there. Taking it all in all
and looking at it in terms of actual
dollars which will be returned on the
sinves tment, the erection Of a silo this
year Is only good common sense
business proposition, much better in
fact than ever before, and one which At
will not pay to disregard. Successful
Farming.
20
The sugar shortage in America is
very serious. Iowa gets but 100000
pounds for, August. The householder is
limited to two pounds per person per
month, hotels and eating houses to
two pounds for every ninety meals
served and manufacturers OF sugar
products like soda water and candy,
to fifty per cent or less Of their re-
quirements. Orr,
The farmer is permitted to exchange