Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-01-23

has made the following translation of an article appearing in the Bremen | Buerger-Zeitung:
 "A soldiers wife who had gathered wood in the common forest of Wald- kirch, near Freiburg in Breisgau, was sentenced for the offense in the follow | ing terms:
 I Mrs. Clara Ganter, on June 13, 1917, has removed from the common forest of Waldkirch, Sec. I 23, one fagot of dry fir twigs of the value of she Is sentenced to a fine of 1 mark and one days imprisonment "The husband of the culprit has been | for three years at the front, she her self has four small children to support i in the direst poverty. Similar reports | of punishment should be reported in | greater numbers. Our bureaucracy un- derstands how to employ this period | of shortage of wood and coal on a large scale for the benefit of the treas ury."
 In a bulletin on the employment of women in the storage and warehousing depots of the United States army is the following:
 "The census of 1910 reported that of every 100 men and boys ten years of age and over, only 19 were not gain fully employed. This group of 19 in cluded old men not able to work, chill dren too young to work, the sick and handicapped, and men in schools and colleges.
 Assuming that 50O,OOO of the num- Der called by the selective-service law have had some form of gainful employ ment, we may estimate that one out of every 60 men in the industries and professions of the country has been called into military service, while an other in every 60 has voluntarily join ed the forces of the army or navy. Thus, about 3 per cent of the gainfully employed men have been taken out of their occupations"
 The largest shoe factories In Italy have started manufacturing the nation | al standard shoes, using leather SUD- piled by the ministry of industry con- merce and labor. The standard types were established by the central shoe committee in Rome, but every factory | is making little notifications, accord ing to its means and system of manu- | featuring.
 The government is organizing sys- tems of sale of shoes to the public. They provide for the opening of stores in the principal Italian cities, to be engaged exclusively in the sale of na- tional shoes and to be controlled by the government authorities It is like ] =ly=s that h1yers.- will have to. obtain cards.
 The private shoe stores will be sup piled with an adequate number of shoes and will be granted a reason able commission.
 | The army and navy commission on training camp activities, in addition to the work being done in army camps and cant6nments, now has its repre- | sentatives in every training station of i the navy and at every place where en- listed men are preparing for sea serv- | ice.
 There are 86 clubs for sailors at camps and in adjacent cities. There are reading and writing rooms, assem- bly, halls, and some of the cities have arrangements for athletics, swimming pools, and gymnasiums. In the IS camps there are given each week 92 entertainments ranging from profess sional performances, lectures, and ex- hibitions, to club nights and weekly dances.
 More than 6O,OOO books have been furnished ships and stations by the American Library association. The Y. M. c. A. has 42 buildings and tents in the various camps.
 According to the bureau of labor sta tistics of the department of labor, in the year from November 15, 1916, to November 15, 1917, prices of food as whole advanced B per cent. Potatoes is the only article that shows decline in price. Cornmeal advanced ST per cent; bacon, 62 per cent pork chops, 48 per cent; beans, 39 per cent; sal mon, 38 per cent; milk, B per cent; and lard, 27 per cent.
 Food as whole was 49 per cent higher on November 15, 1917, than on November 15, 1913, and 46 per cent higher than on November 15, 1914 During this four-year period cornmeal advanced 127 per cent; flour, 100 per cent; lard, 104 per cent; bacon, IT per cent; sugar, 75 per cent: and potatoes,