davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-28
Producers Find Experiment So
Satisfactory That They viii
Extend Service.
QUICK DELIVERY IS RESULT
Fruits, Vegetables and Other Products
In Season to Be Carrled-Mer-
chandise 10 Hauled by Trucks
on Return Trips.

Last year producers of eggs near
vineland and Miilville, New Jersey,
had difficulties getting their eggs to
dealers in New York City. This year.
however. they travel direct by motor
truck to the dealers doors and arrive
in less time and with less loss from
breakage than In other seasons.
This community of producers has
found the results of their experiment
Of shipping eggs by motor truck SO
successful that they are planning to
extend their efforts to cover fruits and
vegetables. poultry, and other products
In season.
Eggs by Motor Truck.
Following season in which trans
portation troubles made shipments to
New York City unsatisfactory the
farmers sought assistance from the
bureau of markets of the United States
department Of agriculture, and spe-
cialists on motor-truck marketing made
survey Of the situation. This was
followed by group of producers agree
ing to ship their eggs by motor truck
and to bring the cases to designated
places along the route the truck was
to cover. A large commercial motor
truck company, operating n fleet of
trucks between New York and Phila-
delphia, was interested and agreed to
make detour on their trips to New
York, to which city their trucks had
often Travelled without being loaded,
to take In vineland and Millville. Lo-
20 MI In
two towns agreed to give their hauling
business from Philadelphia to the truck
company and thus insure full load
for the trucks all the way from Phila-
delphia to New York.
Capacity Of Trucks.
The trucks have capacity of about
five tons. and can take 200 crates of
eggs. On the first trip only $50 cases
were ready at the roadside and the bal
ance of the load was made up of Grated
glass from Vineland and Millville. This
first load went the 40 miles in the
record time Of Is hours with not an
egg broken on the way. The truck
went across on the ferry boat from the
New Jersey shore, and the eggs were
delivered on the sidewalks in front
of the wholesale houses. On the re-
turn trip the truck hauled merchandise
from New York direct to Philadelphia.
Some of the dealers In New York
City are offering premium of from
one-half to one and one-half cents
dozen for eggs shipped by motor
truck from Vlneland and Millville. be-
cause the eggs arrive in better condi-
ton and In quicker time than when
shipped by rail- This premium alone
more thnn covers the difference In cost
of shipping by motor truck and by rail.
and, in addition to the time saved. the
motor-truck service is more dependable
and gives better delivery. The eggs.
as yet, are not pooled. but consist Of
individual shipments to a number Of
dealers.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

COMING EVENTS
July 22-Democrattc state Assembly in
Denver.
Aug. 22-24-Coiorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown
Sept. 23-2s-Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
Hugo
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-28
Arizona.


The silver claims at the end of the
Old blackberry at Kingman have been
leased.
Steel people have taken under OPP
ton several manganese properties
near Topeck.
The Patagonia district is returning
to Its own. Almost all Of the old
mines are working.
Shipping will soon commence from
the Pocahontas mine at Prescott. The
property is equipped with three com
pressors and two hoists.
Phelps-Dodge Corporation has de-
clared an extra dividend of $3.50 a
share. in addition to the regular quar-
terly dividend of $3.50 share.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-28

Butte and Superior reports an out.
put OF 6,850.000 pounds OF xinc for
May; ore mined. 1880 tons; mill re-
covery. 81 per cent.
The total domestic copper produc.
ton in May. as indicated by returns OF
the leading companies. increased ap-
proximately 100000 pounds over
the preceding month.
With an output of 749.733 pounds OF
copper in May. Davis-Daly is continu-
ing the high production pace 1t set in
the first quarter Of this year. Last
months output was 10000 pounds
greater than April and brings total
production to June 1 up to 4,107,249
pounds. Silver production last month
amounted to 35,29s ounces. bringing
the total silver output thus far this
year up TO 100000 ounces.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-28
Colorado.

Heavy shipments from the Portland
mill at Victor were made by the COM
pany's melt house at Colorado
Springs.
The Caledonian Mining and Milling
Company, operating in Mining gulch.
near Silverton, and formerly known as
the Peerless San Juan, is making
ready for most active seasons work.
The Jerry Johnson mine, on Iron
clad hill. Cripple Creek, is the scene
OF promising ore strike. 1t was
made by Lessee Green, who has op-
ened up new ore shoot that is ship
ping at between 325 and $50 to the
ton.
In the Golden Eagle group, near Sa-
lima. Boulder county, the ore is a tel
luride. carrying gold and silver, with
quartz carrying values in a sort OF
tale. This is regarded as smelling
ore. but responds to cyanide treat
ment when roasted
Central City. reports that the HON.
er mine. located on Central City hill,
has entered the list OF dividend pay
ers. A recent shipment of the Argo
mill gave returns OF 2.07 ounces gold.
6 ounces silver and 1910 per cent dry
copper to the ton.
The precise effect of the advance in
railroad freight rates. effective June
rs, will differ with the several local..
ties. Where concentrates are shipped
rather than crude ore the difference
per ton will be small. The change
emphasizes the value of home treat
ment for low and medium grade ores.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-28
uRasvHD uNIPsRH mfHRaAfIeaAA
SUlyDNSQlQ0L
LESSON

(By REV. p. B. FITzwATER. D. D..
Teacher of English Bible in the
Moody Bible Institute OF chicAGo)
Copyright 1913. Western Newspaper Union.)
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Native Forest Resources
and the War

y A. STIRLING. in the November
A1s issue of "American Forestry"
(Washington), shows the capital impor-
tance of lumber as one of the many fac
tors in the final victory of the Allies. He
writes:
ITO say two or three billion board feet Of
lumber are being produced in the shortest
possible time to meet the most urgent war
needs the country has ever known convev.
very little. Even to say that single billion
feet would make a boardwalk ten feet wide
from New York to Petrograd, via Vladi-
vostok, really does not convey the full i'm
preston. AS a matter of fact, no one really
knows just how much lumber is being used
just now in our war preparations. The only
important thing, for the time being is to
know that forest resources are fully able
to meet the unprecedented demands upon
them, and this without materially reducing
our reserve timber supply
ut should be remembered that while the
military needs are being taken care of. lum-
Der for the everyday needs of the country
is being produced we'll This alone, even
with the decrease in building operations.
will not fall far below 10000, 900 900 feet per
year Then, although their Importance
transcends everything else, the war require
Wents are but a comparatively small per
centage of our total output"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

The New York Evening Sun" was in
cllned to be bit skeptical as to the fuel
saving, arguing that
III VIII DC difficult matter to convince the
average Janltor (to whom the problem an.
pears one Of interest) that much conserva-
tlon of fuel is going to result from shutting
down the furnace an hour earlier at night if
he has to fire up an hour earlier in the morn
ing"
But there seems little doubt in the
minds Of most commentators that the saw
ing would be real, as it would affect the
urban population-everybody in fact. ex-
cept the farmer, who has always effectu-
ally had to practise it during the growing
season, when Of necessity the sun is his
clock. The plan, it is argued, has also an
important value as inducing the back to-
simplicity tendency-a tendency which is
one of the inevitable consequences Of the
war.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

any other source have been received of con-
ditions charged. These arc wholesale
charges. stating no facts giving names
or places. and | cannot enter into a contro-
versy with an anonymous and an indefinite
thing"
Vice Admiral Sims said there never was
a time in American history when there
was so little drunkenness among the
American fighting forces
An American army officer at Washng-
ton informed on all courts-martia:
"Thc American army in France has been
sngularly free from intcmpcrance 1t has
enjoyed higher rate FOR sobriety than the
forces at home. There have not been more
than six reports of courts martial of officers
in Pershng's command on the charge Of in
toXication. The trials Of enlisted men for
intoxcation have been even less than this
There has been no wholesale ntoxicaton
among the overseas armies such as would
justify the statement published by the Meth
odst Temperance Board"
These denials pay high tribute to the
American forces. American soldiers in
France arc facing conditions quite radi-
caly different from those at home Water
is used very slightly as Il beverage there.
its place being taken largely by light in
digenous wines and beer. 1t would be diff
ficult to enforce the same sort of liquor
rules for soldiers in France as arc being
enforced in the United States.
Even in England, according to c. V.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Cotton

\ RADICAL slump in cotton is looked for
"a byMarch or April if the war continues
Government regulation is not looked for az
long as the price holds reasonably high, or
as long as there is possibility of the war
ending and still higher prices Price regu-
latlon is expected in the spring if the war
continues. This policy will be adopted to
protect the cotton grower. The price will
not be established until time when the
bottom is ready to drop out of the cotton
market. If the price of cotton does not
nold up, certainly goods prices will not.
Unless some very large crops of cotton are
raised for number of years, there is
likely to be big shortage both in goods
and in cotton when conditions become more
settled.-The american Wool and Cotton
Reporter.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
How Big Is Americas Railroad
Plant?
Scientific American

USI how big the American railroad
plant really is one may learn from
the following statistics given in the cur
rent issue of 1.-The Scientific American":
Not many people are aware that tho rail.
roads of the United States have a total length
approximately equal 10 those Of Europe and
Asia combined. As q matter of fact. the rail-
road tracks. if strung out in a continuous
line. would be sufficient to run a cirdle of
steel eleven times around this earth at the
Equator
"lf we take the average length of a loco.
motive as being 125 feet, we ind that the
$4,000 locomotives which are possessed bv all
the railroads, if they We're placed end to end.
would fill four railroad tracks each ss5 miles
in length
THE freight car statistics give US some
remarkable figures. If the cars on all
our railroads were placed end to end, they
would stretch continuously for 10000 miles.
which means that there sufficient cars in
the United States to-day, if strung out, to
make complete circle of the earth along
the latitude of Philadelphia.
The amount of freight that Is carried
every year is stupendous. The tonnage last
year was l,S02,018,117 tons That is a big
TOTAL. For measure we viii take
Madison Square, New York CITY. which ex
tends $40 feet by $40 feet from building to
building. Assuming that the average con.
tents Tor each ton of fre ght is 30 cubic feet
we ind that on the basis of nearly . aOo ooo
ooo tons OF freight per year we would have
TO MI Madison Squarc every twelve hours of
'he year to depth OF 279 feet"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Daylight Saving to Conserve Coal

100000 to 100000 tons annually here in
America.
Before the war England was never an
carly-rsing nation. London did not
''come alive" generally, until a much
later morning hour than New York is ac-
customed to. This was true of industry
in general as we'll as of Office workers.
Putting the clock forward in Great Britain
occasioned no one any real inconvenience,
and is said to have materially increased
production. The same is said to be true,
though perhaps to a somewhat less degree,
in other countries.
The opinion Of the press of America is
almost unanimously in favor of trying the
plan as presented in the pending BILL "Thc
country" said "The Chicago Herald"
"will use more daylight and less artificial
Illumination Every argument supports
it,"
1t is also generally heralded as wise
and perhaps necessary war measure "The
coal shortage" said "The Chicago Trib-
une," ''empl1asizes the argument for set
ting the clock forward. The country is
now observing lightless nights, but there
is no reason, when the days grow longer.
why we should not take advantage Of an
extra hour Of daylight-which can be had
without expense and without hardship"
"Give US daylight saving" urged "The
Boston Herald" instead of closing the the
atres arbitrarily at the present 10 o'clock
hour. THE Boston Transcript" also
heartily favored it, as "the most profit
able exchange ever heard Of it is an act
ual case of something for nothing" "The
Richmond Times-Dispatch" found in it a
very practicable and very appealing pro-
posal."
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
It Was Originally Proposed by
/ Asquith and Grey

1t is worth while to reproduce here an
utterance by George Harvey in the current
North American Review" which refers.
not to the referendum, but to the Presi-
dents words. After saying that he was
far more surprised at the "President's
thinly yelled threat of economic ostracism"
than at his call for war against Austria,
Colonel Harvey writes:
"When the fact became known, some two
years ago, that a similar programme had
been adopted at a secret conference of the
British and French in Paris, the outcry
against it unduly and unwisey vindictive
was strongly intensified by the marked
disapproval of the American government that
Mr.. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey hastily
abandoned the idea, and it has never since
been heard Of We can picture the amaze
ment of the original sponsors at the revival
of the proposition by the President himself
in foreseeing 'untoward circumstances which
might render impossible the admission Of
Germany to the free economic intercourse
which must inevitably spring out of the other
partnerships of real peace"
Nevertheless, it is clear that the idea of
boycotting German goods, with or without
an organized plan, has strong support in
the country. Thus, Senator William S.
Kenyon, of Iowa, received loud applause
when, in addressing the New York Repub-
lican Club recently, he said:
! "Who wants to handle the goods made by
hands that perpetrated the atrocities in Bel
GUM? Let them keep their goods, and to
hell with them!"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
uggestion That Pro-Germanism
~ May Be Back Of the CHARGES

n Backing up the denials and explanations
are many demands for some sort of retri-
button for the ISLANDER" cast on the army.
1.-The Providence journal" thinks there
is something pro-German back of the
charges, while "The Baltimore American"
calls for an apology. "The New York
World" classes such charges along with
lies that arc reasonable" and resents the
idea that the American forces in France
need anything in the nature of "Com-
stockian vice censorship" Representative
Cary, of Wisconsin, wants Congress to in
vcstigate the charges.
On the other hand, the so-called "prohi-
Eition propagandists" have few defend
ers. Bishop Quayle, of st. Louis, thinks
that the report "is not to be pooh -poohed
by authorities either civil or military" Dr.
Joseph Fort Newton, Of Iowa, preaching at
the London City Temple, is reported to
have said: "When / see American boys
staggering in the street, drunk. l hate
London" Bishop Hughes, of Boston, said
he had no first-hand information from
France, "but men who have been there
have reported that the situation is dis
quieting." The "clpsheet" is also defend
ed by Methodist minister, the Rev. Lin
coin II. CaswelI, Of Flushing.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
It's Hard to Get Hot Coffee in
l the Front Line Trenches

Further light on the problem of some
thing to take the place of water is given by
?. w. Wilson, of "The London Daily
News" Writing to The New York Trib-
une, Mr.. Wilson said Of the thirst prob
lem:
"Thcre are two problems to be solved. The
first is thirst in the trenches. The second is
thirst when on leave.
Now, it is easy enough to say that SOL
diers should fight this war on cold water.
have preached sermons, bat never prepared
them on cold water. I am writing this opin-
ion. | hope vivaciousiybut not on cold
water. 1t is coffee that is doing it--hot
coffee.
"rhe question is how to get hot coffee
into the trenches. Behind the lines the
guild manages it, to some extent But the
trc1'e.cs are front line, not behind the li.e,
and to boil coffee in the trenches takes trou-
BILE. is out of gear with military traditions
and may be actually impossible. hate the
idea Of serving rum ration to our British
lads. | agree with Grenfcl, OF Labrador,
that even in the Arctic Circle there is no
real warmth in rum ration--quite the con-
trary. But the rum ration is convenient to
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

THE so-called "daylight saving" bill
is likely to be passed by Congress
before long. introduced by Sena-
tor Calder, it was unanimously adopted by
the Senate, and is now under considera-
tion by the House Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce. There ap-
pears to be practically no opposition to it,
criticism emanating mainly from the few
who think it unnecessary, if not futile,
and call it mere fad.
Daylight saving has been tried with
great success in England, France, Italy,
Germany, Norway, Denmark and other
countries, where it has been found that a
mere rcsetting of the clock results in the
saving of fuel and the speeding up of pro-
duction. 1t was tried in several cities of
the United States last summer and aban-
doned as unsatisfactory, but its advocates
argue that the test was not adequate, and
that a nationwide change will be quite
"a different matter from sporadic expert
ments in single towns.
The plan is to put forward the clock
one hour, beginning April 90, until the
end of September. Some advocate max
ing the scheme apply all year around. The
essence of it is really "gct up earlier"
movement; an attempt to prove the value
of the old adage about "early to bed and
early to rise" The chief gain, it is claimed
will be in fuel saving. 1t is argued that
if, for instance, theatres close at 10, in
stead of II, there should be a saving of
one hours fuel as expended in lighting
the homes of theatregoers who would
thus retire earlier. Bedtime. according to
the clock, would move ahead one hour to
keep pace with the expected morning riot
of the alarm clock. 1t is variously esti-
mated that the coal saving would be from
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Is 1t Morally Right for a Hungry
Man to Steal?
The Sunset Md00zi0e

DOSE WILDER LANE is amplifying
IN in "The Sunset Magazine" the out
line of Jack London's life, which is known
to most of the lovers of "The Call of the
Wild" In the current issue she tells how
London came to seek an education. A
characteristic extract is that telling of
London's trip East with General Kelev's
Industrial Army of protest, headed for
Washington. Around a campfire one
night London listened to an impassioned
argument as to whether it was right. not
legally but morally right. for a hungry
man to steal a shack's (brakeman's) lunch
pail:
1T was vital topic. The commissary had
been separated from the army; all the men
were hungry. filled lunch pail showed
temptingly in the magnations But their
ethical scruples We're strong 1t was right
to steal shacks lunch because he had
job. He could get another meal No, it was
wrong to steal shack's lunch because II
was his property, he was a poor man, and it
was wrong to steal But if it is right for the
boss to take mans job away from him.
why isn't it right for that man to take
shack's lunch?
HS VAIN HOUTS wore away, and still the
men argued From time to time Jack threw
another stick of wood on the diving fire. and
the fare of light showed their faces, alert
keen, interested. against the background of
the night. The camp lay silent around them.
litter OF scattered shapes under the stars.
AT last compromise was reached If
man was very hungry, starving and there
vas no nope OF his getting food anywhere
else. 1T was right for him to take a part of
the shack's lunch, but he should leave a por-
tion Of it, and also the lunch pail And un.
less in dire extremity, it was wrong for him
TO take any of the shack's food. This deci-
sion being unanimously accepted, the con-
versation would have ended, but one ardentA
orator propounded another question. Was it
right to kill a scab?
"However, the problem aroused no discuss
sion. No one would take the negative OF
course IL was right to kill scab The men
rolled in their blankets and went TO sleep"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
TNCONSIDERATE criticism finds in
one drunken soldier q drunken

<<TNCONSIDERATE criticism finds in
one drunken soldier a drunken
division" remarks "The Chicago
Tribune" speaking of the sensational
charges in the interest of "prohibition
propaganda" made against the American
Expeditionary Force in France by the
"Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Public Morals" of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. The press generally agrees in
deprecating the recklessness and extrava-
gance of the "clpsheet" charges without
more definite proof being submitted, back
'ng up the denial of responsible officials
Connected with the Y. NJ. C. A. and with
fhc government, from Secretary Baker to
General Pershing. Yet review of news
md opinion following the original charges
oes disclose as yet some honest dis
agreement regarding the real conditions,
probably owing to the lack of concrete evil
dencc further than that contained in the
many vigorous denials Of bad conditions
in the Expeditionary Force.
AS originally made. the charges pre-
ferred indicted American troops on the
broad grounds of intemperance, immoral
lty and depravity. The son of former
cX-President, presumably Colonel Roose-
sct, was quoted as having said that
drunkenness, Immediately upon landing,
among both officers and men, was appall-
ing, and that conditions were so horrify-
ing that he had been made a prohibitionst
for life. "a lady writing from French
seaport" was also quoted. Further charges
we're made, though much modified in tone,
even after denials from the highest Off
GERS of the government had been issued.
A complete statement of the dcnials
would require great deal of space, but
among those vigorously refuting the "clip-
sheets" assertions may be mentioned Gen
eral Pershing, Secretary Baker, Raymond
3. Fosdick, chairman of the Commission
on War Camp Activities; Caspar Whitney,
correspondent Of The New York Tribune
Vice-Admiral Sims Of the Navy; Walter
Hines Page, American Ambassador in
London, together with his staff; high
American officer at Washington complete
ly informed on all courts-martial in
France; Secretary Daniels, G. V. Hibbard,
associate general secretary of the War
Work Council of the Y. M. C. A.; the Rev.
Dr. Robert Davis, a member of the Amer
lean Red Cross Commission; Senator
Kendrick, of Wyoming; Senator Kenyon,
of Iowa; Representative Mccormick, of IL
inois, and Representative Dill, of Wash
ington, all four of whom we're recently in
France; the chaplains of Pershing's army;
P. w. Wilson, an English journalist, and
Arthur Draper, London correspondent of
The New York Tribune.
\ rmy Defenders Are Quick to
"A Offer Refutation
A number of extracts from these denials
are worth noting.
General Pershing:
"The general charges Of drunkenness and
depravity among the soldiers are utterly
without foundation. Characterize them as
false. The fact is, the conduct Of our SOL
ders in Paris and throughout France is so
splendid that it is the subject of favorable
comment by all natonalites. There is no
army whose moral tone and whose attitude
toward vice are more commendablc."
Secretary Baker:
"No reports from General Pershing from