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the Grain Corporation was making q
large purchase for the Allies and wal
utilizing its knowledge Of available
stocks by having on the Job trans
portation strategist-Edward Cham
bers, vice president Of the Santa Fe.
Mr.. Chambers was assisting the Food
Administration and has remarkable
"way with him" Even before he was
called to assist Mr. McAdoo, the Direc-
tor General, his suggestions to the rail-
roads had a wonderful effect in dis
couraging their hesitancy as to finding
available cars and in clearing up con-
gestions that looked as though they
never could be uncongested.
How Uncle Sam Keeps the Whip
Ease in getting the needed cars was
one of the advantages enjoyed by this
particular elevator after signing the
voluntary agreement which ceded to
the Grain Corporation the right to con-
troll storage and direct shipments and
sales of all wheat bought by the pro-
prietor.
While voluntary, this agreement is
almost compulsory since railroads give
priority recognition to Grain Corpora
ton requests for cars; and elevators
or mills outside the official fold must
rustic" for themselves. In return the
Government guarantees the elevator
proprietor against losses and protects
him In every way as to price and pays
him rentals for all storage space requi-
sitioned by it.
All elevators, local and terminal,
must take out licenses or face shut
down. What is the power of the IL
censor 1t requires the operator to lay
all cards on the table as to his bust
ness dealings. For the time Of the
war the elevator becomes public util-
ity and It's proprietor must furnish in
formation as to his business at any
time when required by the Grain Cor
poration. Each week he must make
and mail reports showing the amount
Of wheat, rye, or their derivatives, pur-
chased, stored, and shipped.
Under present license terms, the IL
censee can keep on hand for only 30
days, unless he obtains a special per-
NIT, any stocks Of these grains or
their derivatives. He is also forbid
den to contract for the sale OF any
product which can not be delivered
within 30 days after the contract Is
made.
How the Wheat Was MIlied.
Away went our bushel of wheat on
Its journey to the terminal, where 1t
met other bushels Of wheat from all
parts of the territory that fed this
market. There 1t was regarded for
special requirements, marked for i'm
mediate milling and rolled on to a
large mill in Illinois. The miller
bought the wheat from the Grain Cor
poration, for each miller In the Unit
ed States Is under license also, and
most Of them have filed out another
agreement which binds them
either to purchase all supplies from
he Grain Corporation or under its d.
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A plain duty is always more attrac-
tive after it ha be, W dressed up bit.
Every man Should DO his bit, put
mighty few are clamorin 9 for TWO oils
worth.
The man Who marries for money is
apt to EXPIRE SIS his affection G. 0. D.
AS general rule when a ma mar
rfes his stenogra pher he ceases t die
tate to Philadelphia Record.
Every time HON talent gives Yin,
strel show the people pretty near ly
laugh themselves to death.
Contrary to his expressed wish. no
mar. wants to hear both sides. All he
wants to hear is his own side.
III you are not bossed by woman
you will find 1t necessary to do a lot of
disagreeable fussi ng to avoid it.
Ottawa insists, be fat and happy, but
1t is safe bet That they don't feel as
much at home as they did down on the
old farm.
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ANVIL SPARKS

Kind deeds make good shortening
for even the upper crust of life.
The husband of a nagging woman
usually believes in absent treatment.
Some who can be very voluble in
meeting would hesitate to open their
books to the Lord.
An economical wife and an indus
trious husband make a good team to
pillow the burrows of life.
Some people give a dime to a good
cause, and then, when dollars do not
flow back to them, think something is
wrong with the tide.--Christian Her.
aid.
IA religious doctrine or theological
DOGMA, If true, viii lind its best Illus
traGon in nature.
Small men sometimes build great
honesl--Doct0r Gardnn.
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period in 1916. In September, October
and November. under the supervision
of the Food Administration, -four pro-
duction was ia per cent of the same
period in 1916 What this means in the
great national situation, with depleted
domestic -four reserves and clamOring
foreign buyers, can hardly be over
emphasized, when movement of wheat
into primary markets has been hardly
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About the same time our cooperative
elevator manager had listed shipment
with his terminal representatives.
highly reputable commission firm, also
under Grain Corporation license. This
firm caught wind of the Georgia order
and secured permission TO sell the Mis-
souri, wheat. The second bushel was
among those poured into car and
hustled along to it's destination. This
shipment did not pass through any
terminal market 1t moved straight
to Atlanta, where it went between the
rollers of the mill.
Controlling the Jobber by License.
Now, the flour which came from our
second bushel of wheat was rolling
serenely along in another direction,
but the car was diverted by special or
der of the q. S. Food Administrator
and received by large wholesale job
Der in New York City. This jobber
also does business under a Food Ad-
license, but administered
by the distribution division. Under Ii
cense terms the jobbers must sell at
a fair profit only, although the exact
amount of this profit is not determin-
ed, the Food Administration reserving
the right in each case to call halt
when 1icensee has gone ''the limit"
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Because the saving of wheat is a MILITARY
~ISA NECESSITY OF THE HIGHEST IMPORTANCE
k1ffTaHANA FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS Federal Food
WaRAltW Administrator Atkinson of Montana Monday
49, morning. H. caused put into effect
governing the wheat flour Montana The
issued in form of proclamation for Montana
proclamation provides persons dealing flour
and making MUST WITH EACH SALE FLOUR,
SELL AN EQUAL WEIGHT OF WHEAT FLOUR SUBSTITUTES.
regulation places basis
basis that wheat flour must be sold only with equal
weight of wheat flour substitutes.
The ONLY AUTHORIZED SUBSTITUTES for this fifty
fifty after March II, shall be- meal
starch flour hony g barley flour rce rice flour
oatmeal rolled OATS buewhet flour potato flour sweet potato
flour soya bean may
flour substitute when they sold in the proper
ton of FOUR POUNDS OF POTATOES TO ONE POUND OF
WHEAT FLOUR Bran and shorts must not be sold wheat flour
substitutes after March H. 1918 Other states of the nation
the 'fifty-fifty' basis
official food program Montana and after March H.
authorized be follows Monday all meals WHEATLESS;
Tuesday, EIEATLEsS Wednesday, all WHEAT
meal every to be WHEATLESS There will be
por Saturdays for the present Mutton and fish
may meatess days Poultry also may be
days restriction Of the poultry order issued recently
BEEF PRODUCTS either fresh preserved
not be eaten meatless day.
1.-THE need for MORE INTENSE WHEAT SAVING in Mon
other of the paramount says
Atkinson France supposed have 80
days supplies Of food hand at all times against emergency
army the allies in Europe LESS
THAN ONE WEEK S SUPPLY OF WHEAT FLOUR AHEAD If
people and brothers the think
this fact for moment that the response from
greater saving WILL IMMEDIATE
AND WHOLEHEARTED
THE SAVING OF A GREATER AMOUNT OF WHEAT AT
HOME rs A MILITARY NECESSITY.
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RING last July and Au-
gust. While Congress was
wrestling with itself to
produce a food admins
tration, and there was
no Grain Corporation,
-four production in the
principal centers was 70
nor cont 1ndnr the same
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aESE schedules arrang-
ed for the various
markets are veritable
price dams" to pre-
vent the overlooking
of the stream of
wheat at any single
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ETNNt,lN being milled carlot of
ESIkf.IrsM wheat reached this mill
WI. w. @ from Canada. Importa-
AVA FNST ton of Canadian wheat
q ca GAs without special consent
being forbidden, the mill
operatives became curious and made
inquiries. This wheat was part of
large supply which the Grain Corpora
ton had brought into the United States
to aid in keeping the American mills
running.
There was another reason. Domes-
tic wheat was not moving from the
farms as freely as the millers needed
it, and shortage forced the mills to
operate at great disadvantage and,
according to them, at higher costs.
The last journey stage of our first
bushel, although considerably changed
in it's form, was TO so as flour to port
under rush orders. It now had right
of way over all ofher classes of freight
except other munitions of war. Con-
sent of the War Trade Board being
obtained, it was loaded on a ship and
passed safely through the submarine
field to France, where it succored the
hungry.
We started out to follow the travels
of two bushels of wheat from the farm
to their points of consumption under
war condition with the Z. S. Food Adj
in control of the market
ing. ! have previously discussed the I
journeys of these two bushels from
the farm to the elevator at the country
point. Here they parted and one of /
them passed on TO a terminal and /
from the terminal to mill and from /
the mill to seaboard. There it went to |
France for consumption.
The Other BusheI of Wheat Starts
TrsNaIino
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Under these conditions the proprietor
would probably sell at st. Joseph or
Chicago, according to his inclination.
The table further illustrates the
equalization of prices and indicates to
what extent the miller is protected
when buying wheat in any territory.
Through this plan determinations
against the producer, the miller, and
the consumer are eliminated so far as
it seems humanity possible under a
plan of such tremendous proportions.
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wheat bushels was poured into a car
which miraculously had appeared on
the siding at time when car shortage
Was troubling the entire commercial
world Inquiry might have shown that
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Selling Wheat to Government.

BOUT % days after the
farmer brought in his
wheat there came a re-
quest to this elevator for
a carload to be purchas-
ed by the Grain Corpora
ton, So one of our
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DIV as to the other bushel
of wheat. a certain
Georgia miller, in need
of supplies, notified the
Grain Corporation and
received permission to
huv on the omen market
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market. They also tend to correct
many abuses prevalent in the past,
such as cutthroat methods adopted by
mills to secure supplies and indiscrimi-
nate moving of wheat to terminals
For all practical purposes the wheat
business Of the country is apportioned,
and whenever possible mills are sup
piled from wheat in the territory near
est them. This policy has for an OBJ
ject the saving of waste in transport
tation. In another way saving is
made: Formerly large quantities of
undergrade wheats have been difficult
to dispose Of on account of unco-ordi-
mated purchase of the competing mills;
but under Uncle Sans domination
each bushel of wheat must now go
somewhere and the poorer wheat will
move just as freely as the more de-
sirable grades
Limiting MilIers' Profits.
The Illinois miller who received the
carlot containing our bushel of wheat
milled it promptly and shipped it's flour
to port for expectation. The miller
was permitted by the Food Admins
tration to make fair profit, not ex-
ceeding a maximum of 25 cents per
barrel on the -four and maximum
profit of so cents per ton on the feed
stuffs left over. All mills, however,
must furnish at regular intervals TO
the Milling Division full statements OF
costs, which are scru-
tinized carefully. The derivatives OF
this wheat the miller sold for domes
tic consumption, az the policy OF the
is to keep in the United
States all available feedstuffs in order
to encourage livestock production,
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sample on to the st. Louis zone agent
for test, which verified his judgment as
to grade. He then went about his usu-
nj duties, cleaning the grain, filling his
bins, and shipping out as regularly as
he could in maximum carload quanti-
ties, in order to economic the use of
cars in time Of congestion. He was
careful to keep his records very
straight as to dates and quantities of
wheat purchased, on hand, and shipped
out, for the Grain Corporation requires
weekly reports and full details of
transactions.
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wheat would bring at five different
markets if shipped from Maryville,
Mo-:
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UR delay In getting this
wheat started across
the world was occa-
stoned by the uncer-
tain judgment Of the
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THE SAVING OF GREATER AMOUNT OF WHEAT AT
HOME rs MILITARY NECESSITY
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Milling Canadian Wheat.

1ILE our bushel was
being milled a carlot of
wheat reached this mill
from Canada. Importa-
ton of Canadian wheat
without special consent
haiDU forbidden fhp mill
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| SAVING OF WHEAT is
MILITARY NECESSITY
Prepared by the Federal Food Administration in
Montana. Alfred Atkinson, Director

Because the saving of wheat is a MILITARY
:: : :; : !: ::
- morning, March H. caused to be put into effect
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25
JOHNSON MEETS
DEATH BRAvELY
MoIiner Dies Like a Man While Co
ing Over the Top, States Let
ter From Company.

That NeIs Johnson of Moline.
killed in action some time ago, died
Ike man, is told in letter writ
ten by Howard v Johnson to R A
Laughlin of the John Deere Plow
works, dated Sept "a. Howard
Johnson also tells of hrs going over
the top. In speaking of the bravery
OF the man vino lost his life, the
letter states:
"a boy by the name Of Nels John
son was killed as we went over the
top several days ago. He left Mo
line the same time l did and worked
GL the Peoples Power company. If
you get a chance tell his relatives
that he went under like a man and
fighting for all he was worth while
up at the front.
The Y NJ G. A. sent UP on the
stretchers gum, candy. cigarets and
chocolate, and after Sc hours i
sure went fine. While up at the
front this is all given TO US free OF
charge, and when in the rear is
sold for less than half what you
ray in the states. So don't worry
and try to send US anything to
smoke and as far as Bull Durham
is concerned we get more Of il than
We can use, as this is issued to US.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25
FLU SERUG TO BE
ADMINISTERED TO
DRAFTEES MONDAY

Sufficient influenza pneumOuia
serum to vaccinate the 145 regi s.
trants, to be eHtrained for Camp
Macarthur, Waco. Texas. has been
received by the Moline exemp ion
board The men viii be imuuni1CI
by DE- C.. c. Sloan on Monduy ana
when able, which IS expected TO be
the latter part OF next week, Will
be eutrained for the southern camp.
Forms from Washington ask.u:
for the exact data on the following
to be sent in by Nov. l. has been
received by the local boards. num-
Der of men examined since June.
1917. ages of each, classes. men re
classified, men entrained. men III
limited service. etc. This task
means weeks of the work for the
board. Teachers who are not work
ing at present viii be called on 10
aid the board with the work Two
stenOgTaphers from the Deere &
Mansur company have been aiding
the board, through the kindness Of
H. b. Mckain.
Registrars in class / Division B,
have been Teclassified for limited
service. They probably will be
called into service in a short time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25
FLU CASES NUMBER
164 At WATERFOWL
INSTITUTION TODAY

One hundred and sixty-four cases
Of influenza exist in the Watertown
hospital today and of this number
there are 80 cases among the at
teldants and employees. About ten
per cent of the patients in the insti-
tuition are afflicted with the dis
case. It has become necessary for
the authorities to place paroled pa
tents as assistant attendants. to
meet the loss Of attendants who are
ILL., Fifteen cases among the pa
tents and two among the employees
developed yesterday There have
been six deaths within the last two
days, four patients having died yes
raTday. Those dead are George
Funk, Ralph SnOdgrass, Anna
LiCka, Edward Reichens berger,
CLarIes Johnson and AdOlph Pier
son.
Officials received a quantity of
vaccine Yesterday and started the
incubation OF every one in the in
stitutiOn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25
NEW SHIP YARD AT
NEWPORT NEWS, VA.
HAS A BIG OUTPUT

Newport News. Va.-New ship
ways. towering tTestles, spreading
shops, fields of steel and the in
cessant cIamor. day and night, of
automatic riveterS, great steam
hammers and whirring machinery
are the symbols of wartime ship
building here. where deep sea
craft have been turned out since
the SOS.
In this great plant 10000 men
and women are working at top
speed. Sliding quietly from the
ways, without a semblance of the
ceremony that attended launchings
in the days of peace, ship after
ship has been built and floated only
to lose itself in the maze of com
merce at this gateway to the At
lantic and to the fields of France.
When the wartime history of
the Newport News Shipbuliding
and Dry Dock company is written,
it Will be an interesting chapter in
the romance of the destroyer. It
will tell how former boys from the
rolling plains of the west, who had
never seen a ship, and women
whose only experience with metals
had been in the handling OF pots
and pans, answered the call CT
their country to build many of the
GestrOyeTs which steadily are re-
moving the menace Of the Submar-
inc and keeping open the lanes
thrOugh which the millions Of
American soldiers are going to the
western front.
How well these men and women
have done their work under the
guidance OF skilled workers, is
demonstrated by the fact that ev-
cry destroyer turned out has more
than met the express-train speed
required under the navy contract.
And it is no secret. at least not
here. that the finished ships which
have gone into the war zone have
given ! good account of themselves
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25
KEEP LUUNlNG YUUNG
It's Easy-If You Know DR.
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret Of keeping young is to feel
young-to do thi3 you must watch your
liverand Observation-Disclosures hav-
ing a sallow complexion = dark rings
under your eyes -p;nples-a bilious
look in your face-duu eyes with M
sparkle. Your doctorwil tell you ninety
per cent of all sickness cones from in
active bowels and liver.
DR.. Edwards, we,l-!,nown physician
in Ohio, perfected vegetable COM
pound mixed with Give oil to act en-
the liver and bowels, which he gave to
his patients for years.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the Sub
s..tute for c-lCrael, are gentle in their
action yet always elective. They bring
about that exubera-ce Of spirit, that
natural buoyancy which should be en-
joyed byeveryone, b. to1ing up the liver
and clearing the system OF impurities.
You VIII know DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets by their olive cOlor. 10c ard
&c per box. Al druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25
SEABERC HURT;
TO COME HOME
MOliner InValided to United States
Now Stationed i'm Brooklyn
Hospital for Treatment

Elmer Seaberg of Moline has
been invalided home and is now
stationed at a Brooklyn, n. Y. hos
pital, according to word which
reached his brother. Eric Seaberg
of Moline 1t is believed that Pri-
vate Seaberg's condition is not ser
ious at present, as the letter is
written by himself and states that
he will soon be in Moline.
Several months ago through a
message from the Red Cross il was
learned that Private Seaberg was
in a hospital in France. His latest
letter indicates that he has. seen
some hard fighting and had some
wonderful experiences. He enlist
ed in the marines Immediately after
war was declared by the United
States. For some time after his
leaving nothing was heard from
him. and after the local publicity
chairman of the Red Cross had tax
en- a hand, it was learned that Sea
berg had been wounded and was
convalescing in a hospital in
France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-25

even as the Tanning and other pre-
war products of this yard have add
ed new laurelS to American naval
records.
While all possible energy is go
ing into the building of the bridge
of ships" to France and their
guardians, the expansion OF this
plant into one OF the worlds
greatest shipyards is planned for
after-the-war needs as well as for
those of the present. Shop after
shop has been built and cranes and
other labor saving devices installed
SO that when peace comes foreign
yards may be met in the great race
that is inevitable for the Testora-
ton of destroyed tonnage.
Even now there are in the build
ing two OF the largest shipways in
America Here, after the war, will
be laid down two of the monster
battle cruisers congress authorized
in 1916, designed as the fastest and
most powerful ships of their type
on the sea.
Nearby these new ways four
emergency ways have been thrown
up on ground made" within the
year. On these emergency ways
naval vessels are building and
more will follow when these are
launched A few hundred yards
away more fighting ships are build
ing, two and three to one set of
ways. On still other stocks, mer-
chant ships and other craft are be-
ing put together.
Turbines largely have sup
planted the old-style reciprocal
drive engine and it is on these that
women have been pressed into ser
vice, performing the delicate work
of finishing the myriad brass pad
dies against which the steam
strikes to revolve the turbine drum,
much as water runs mill wheel.
In the yard dispensary, where
men who are injured are treated,
nurses and doctors are constantly
on duty. A band gives concerts in
the yard each noon.
Housing has been the greatest
problem Two miles beyond the
city on high bluff overlooking the
peopled exclusively by shipyard
WOTheTS- hISu wages are the RUE
as at other yards, with riveters,
many of them negroes, making as
high as $25 and $50 a day. Loyalty
is preached in season and out
In peace times this yard com
pleted merchant ships in six
months or less, but it is lettering
that now, even as it has more than
cut in half the time for turning out
destrOyers. Officials and workmen
alike have ever before them on a
bronze tablet set in the side of a
stone column the words of the
founder of the yard, the late Col
lis 7. Huntington, master railroad
and shipbuilder in the nations pio-
neer days:
Here we will build good ships;
at profit if we can, at loss if we
must, but always good ships"