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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-02-21
FACE the FACTS

EFT us face the facts The war situation is critical
IL Unless the Allies fight they never yet have
fought defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot hight
at their best; hungry nations. France England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed Them
Wheat savngs-They must have wheat. It is the
best foodto fight on. It is the easiest to ship: We
alone spare to them. By saeing just little
less than quarter of what ate last year-we can
support those who are fighting our battles. And we
can do it without stintng ourselves. We have only
to substitute another food just good.
The Corn of Plenty-Corn is that food. There's
surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
hour of need 1t has given corn in such bounty
loads of Five hundred million bushels over and
above regular needs. All we have to do is to
learn to appreciate it. Was patriotic duty made
so easy? And so clear?
food. The Indians, hardest Of races lived on it.
Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a
continent For great section of our country it
has blong cen the staff of life. How well the South
fought on it, history tells Now it can help America
win world war.
Learn Somethng-Corn! It isn't one food. It's a
dozen. It's cereal. It's vegetable. It's bread.
It's dessert. It's nutritious; more food value in it,
dollar for dollar than meat or eggs or most other
vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't
know until you've had corn-bread properly cooked.
Best of all. it's plentiful and it's patriotic.
Corn's Infinite Variety-Hcw much do you know about
corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing more about it? Here are few
Of its
There are at least fifty ways to corn meal to
make good dishes for dinner supper, lunch or break
fast. Here suggestions:
HOT BREADS DESSERTS
Boston brown bread. Corn-mea molasses cake.
Hoecake. Apple corn bread
Mullins. Dumplings.
Biscuits. Gingerbread.
Griddle cakes. ~? Fruit gems.
Waffles
HEARTY DISHES
Corn-mea1 croouettes Corn-meal fish balls.
Meat and corn-meal dumpings.
Italian polenta IamaSes.
The recipes are IN Farmers Bulletin sos, Corn
Meal as Food and Ways of Using It" free from the
Department Of Agriculture.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-02-21

Men who are capable of hand
ling horses are still wanted for
the Veterinary Corps. They
must be physically fit and not of
selectlve- service age.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-02-21

S. B. Bundy, Of Monroe, died
there the 18th. He was a brother
of Stacy Bundy, of Hamlet, and
Rev. ]. D. Bundy, of Fayetteville.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05

! PROFITS NOT BIG
Applies 70 Only Preceding Year
= and Not TO Accufnula-
tons Of Other Years

AhnOpncemPnt that undivided profits
are to be subjected to d fifteen per
cent additional federal tax has awaken
ed considerable interest among stock.
holders of various corporations which
have in past years accumulated surplus.
es through investment of profits in.
stead of paying them out in dividends
and inquiries have been heard as to
whether such tax is applicable to such
snrPlhses or applies only to aecutnula:
tons of the last calendar or fiscal year
Where last year corporation, or q
firm, failed to divide profits, not es'
,sentially needed for the carrying on OF
it's business, such undivided profits are
to be subjected to a fifteen percent
surtax. The understanding is that this
applies only to the earnings Of the
past year and does not apply to prior
'aceumulatiOns although the first inten,
Of the law was 10 make II 80 apply
As passed, it is said by those wht
have kept in constant touch with this
Sort of taxation legislation, 1t apple,
only to undivided profits for the year
How much will be allowed as al
amount necessary for the conduct 6t
the business Will be a matter to be de
cfded in specific instances, the vary
ing circumstances deciding the ques
ton. 1t IS evident, however, that The
setting aside OF fund to pay federR
taxes will not make such som sub5ect
to tax. This is Something that pfacti
cally all of the Hawaiian 'c6rpOfafionl
have done. Some Of the companies die
acquire further additions 10 TIER Sur
plus funds last year. and il VIII b
necessary to determine whether III,
additions to such SURPRISES were neces
'saEy FOR the conduit OF fhe business
of the companies.
I 1t must also be taken into considera
tion that where Liberty Bonds hays
been purchased by such companies :
taxable undivided profits are only tn,
I amount over and above the inSesttiien
in s1eh Liberty Bonds or in treasury
certificates
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS
-. ?. Pr. -. CAUSE DIVIDEND SUSPENSIONS

be practically no income tax and will
certainly be.no excess profits tax.
Suspension Necessary
It Is therefore clear that the suspen
sion of dividends by WaiIuku is a ne
,eessity since it viii not have the earn
ings and is not course pursued to
accumulate undistributed profits. Wal
luku will have small earnings, If any,
for the present year and the 1919 crop
is not highly encouraging.
AS to Hutchinson similar clear
statement has not been obtained but it
is understood that what has been said
of Waikiki earnings and probable earn
ings may be similarly applied to the
Big Island company.
Others Are Likely
Suspension, of dividends by other
companies win not be an unexpected
eventuality, or II not suspensions at
least cuts. In some instances the sus-
pensions may be merely until returns
come in. Some of the plantation com
panies now have q third or half OF
their crop stored and waiting bottoms
for shipments At Waikiki, with its
other troubles, there is in storage now
about $500 tons or nearly half of this
years crop. 1t will take weeks after
shipment for the companies to receive
their returns. Meantime they do not
consider it the part of wisdom to Dor
row money at six or seven percent in
terest for the purpose of paying regu
lar dividends. They will have to put
aside their provision for taxes on theiI
earnings and the result will be a TEN
porary lack of funds, at least of funds
that are available for dividends.
The companies also face the prcba
bility of still larger excess profits taxes
These, with higher freights, higher costs
for everything used, win cut the profits
below last year considerable and there
will be a materially smaller drop fol
the year as we'll.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05

Two plantation companies have an
nouneed suspension OF dividends, Wai-
luku on Maui and Hntchins0n on Ha-
wall and the, reasons for the action are
the same in both eases, adverse grow.
ing conditions. The action of Walluku
was fully expected but with Hutchih-
son the expectation was less general
Wailnku has had two years Of ad-
verse conditions that could not but
greatly diminish crops for this year and
next year, az well. In 1916 came the
heavy rains and the lao Valley floods,
washing out irrigation SYSTEMS and do
ing other material damage. Then in
1917 came q. reversal in weather condi-
tions and seven months of drought. This
ent tie present crop by fully third
from the normal and the 1919 crop. was
also seriously damaged Under these
circumstances cessation of dividends
was TO- be expected. ,..1
Hutchinson suffered severely from the
drought on Hawaii last year and its
crop was similarly reduced for this year
and win be cut for next year as we'll.
Costs Increased
II costs as much to grow q field of
cane when the tonnage of cane is light
as II does when the cane is heavy. 1t
also costs as much to grind cane where
the sucrose content is small as where it
is large The result is that the cost Of
growing and grinding 10000 tons OF
sugar is the same as il the acreage had
produced cane to yield $4,000 tons or
in other words, the cost for the pro
duetion of a ton of sugar is about q
third to a half larger than normally
With costs higher and with sales re-
duced the profit is gone. This is the
situation at Waikiki.
Where profits. are earned there must
be put aside sum TO meet the fedora
taxes for the year when they shall be
definitely known but where the situa
tioh is as it is, at Wailuku there will
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
REslEERS' 4PPtitATfDN FOX RAISE
MRRIcES NlLL BE INVESTIGATED
~ FPR FOOD ADMINISTRATION

TO accord to the refners the same
spirit OF desperation manifested by
them in their acceptance Of voluntary
regulation, but aiso 10 interpret 70 the
puddle the necessity for d slightly high
'er price on sugar because Of higher
producing costs. !. The latter should not
be difficult, because the man in the
street 10 already fully aware that In.
crease,l, waRes to labor, higher freight
rates and larger values placed on all
materials must be passed along to the
consumer TO preserve the business of
he country in war time
In connection with the procedure to
Ne followed by Mr.. straus in his in,
vestiEation, Il IL reported that he does
hearing. He will For the present
at least confine his line OF inquiry to
study Of the refners' briefs submit.
ted, numerous Conferences and discus,
sion with individual refiners, and audits
Of 'the refining companies' books to es-
tablish definite cost figures.
II is evident that the above method
win accelerate the determination of the
new margin, as rapidly. as IL possible
consistently with Mr.. Hoover . desire
D have the investigation a thorough
~, On the other hand, 1t would In
dictate, that whatever margin Is decid
ed upon cannot become effective for
some time to come yna Is
,, This latter possibility is giving Ger
= ain refining companies some concern,
IS IL Is generally conceded In all quar-
tiers. that unless the, relief to be grant
ed is promptly forthcoming it viii be
Of little value TO the rehners this year.
The last quarter Of the year, even in
normal times, is the one Of the highest
refining operations, while this year it
will, be abnormally so, as supplies in
ioht for that period in 1918 are eI
tremely light. It is thus obvious that
4 much Delayed increase In the margin
would ACTUALLY net the reiiners but
little, as the higher refining costs have
prevailed during the months Of heavi-
est 'oneratiohs.s-
II is reported in trade circles that
the tarif commission may take 'advan
tage Of the present investigation to
conduct an inquiry covering the en-
tire subject of refining costs along the
line of the survey made some time ago
If the cost Of sugar production in
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Louisa
na.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
'DRAFTEES WILL NOT
lose BONUS MONEY
Departure From Plantations Act
Eof Government and Not Act
U Fof Men Themselves

Draftees who are taken from the
plantations and accepted for service
will not lose the bonus which they have
earned thus far this year. The planta-
ton companies realize that the leaving
of the plantations by these laborers is
not an act of their own will but an act
over which they have no control They
would have been perfectly willing to
work out the bonus year IL they had
been permitted to do 80, but the gov
eminent has takeR them. Under these
circumstances II is only right and fnir
that they should not be the losers by
the arrangement. And they will not
be. ....s -.
Payment of bonuses to those called
in the draft will not be made at this
time but will be made to them, as to
the laborers in company employment,
who have fulfilled bonus conditions,
at the end of the bonus year. Already
they have received each month q third
of the bonus money for that particular
month This means that they have
coming to them the remaining two
thirds of the bonus money for those
months, of course, the bonus ceasing
when their labor ends with the call Of
the draft.
1t was said ut the Office of the Plant
ters' Association labor buEaau on We'd
nesday that this was the case but that
the same rule did not apply to those
who were called in the guard. The men
of the puard. who have been taken in.
to service now, Joined the guard of
their own responsibility, by their own
willing act, knowing that they might
thereby be called into service. Thus
it appears that the guardsmen called
win lore the several months accumula-
ton of the bonus money earned, for
that period, as if they had left the
plantation for other work. Just where
the difference comes in the lay man
may not qnite see. 1t is estimated that
the call of the guard has taken more
than q thousand men from the Planta-
tiOns.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
MORE Than HALF OF ,
SUGAR CROP MOVED
Still Shipments Are One Hundred
and Fourteen Thousand
Tons Behind Last Year

More than half of the Hawaiian
sugar crop has been moved. At the
same time Accommodations of raws are
piling up in all of the warehouses; of all
Of the Islands for, although the pro
portion of the total that has been moved
is not alarmingly below the percentage
of the 1917 crop that had been moved
at the same time year ago, ship
ments are, in volume $4,000 tons be-
hind.
so far as are available the figures on
shipments to the first of July are 22S,-
667 tons of Sugar Factors raws and 55,-
7O2 or in all 2S4, 1869. One year ago
there had been shipped to July |, $685.
279. The June shipments may be n
little higher than these figures indi-
cate for the failure of the usual channel
of information as - departures from
other Islands makes the to al uncer-
tain and there may have been some
departures since the date to which this
year total is run.
The shortage of shipments this year
as compared with last by no means in
dictates the amount of sugar piled up
awaiting shipment for last year ship
ments were behind production and now
the sugar is not moving so fast as it
leaves the mills. The figures Of sugar
waiting shipment that are each month
reported to the shipping board as of
the first day of the month have not yet
come in. 1t is expected they will have
been combined within the next few
days and will show considerable in
! crease over the first of last month.
Still shippers are optimistic Of the
future and are confident it will be but
short time before there are sufficient
bottoms available to carry of this
steadily growing surplus stock.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
SOFT Drink MAKERS
CAN \ SAVE |. on \ SUGAR

Bottles Of soft drinks in the United
States may save approximately 10000
tons of sugar annually by using other
sweeteniug materials, according to in
designations by specialists Of the Blu
reau of Chemistry, United States De
,Partment of Horticulture, The Bureau
of Chemistry lis preparing to furnish
'B6ttiers With sWeetehing formulas that
will allow the actual sugar content in
soft drinks to be cut to, fifty percent
or less. and at the same, time win pre-
serve the customary thste and quality
Of fhe beverages, Starch sugar, starch
strip, mnItose siruP, and honey are the
The bureau Of Chemistry specialist
have eooperated with bottlers in psin 3
these to. .sweetsn ana give : body" to
soft drinks, Their favorable opinions
Of the, results have been Sustained by
four Tasting jfTfes'S, made up Of rep
IeseRtatiyes, of the ,bottljng industry
.bpteau experts, representatives Of hav
'orihg extract manufacturers, and wO
men and children representing the con
shnihg public, e., -..,.
The sWeetehipg Formulas that have
been tested in tie bureau experiments
will be furnisbed TO bottleTS and the re
suits of the Experiments win be deserib
ga in detial IN Nothing trade pubhca
tons Restrictions on the use of sugar
in soft drinks have been placed by the
United States Food Administrations but
it II believed that the Bureau Of Chem
istry experiments win allow the usua
gm9unt Of these products to be manu-
featured without marked change in pal
atabihty or .aualitY,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
BEET ACREAGE

The acreage sowb to sugar beets
last year in the limited States was
6S4, $50, while in 1857 II was 672,ll6
acres. The tonnage sliced was 5,095,-
2l7 tons, against 5,5O4,7O7 tons. OF
the tonnage Colorado sliced 1904. 56S
tons and California lls6,91S tons. The
average yield of sugar per aere was
80 tons, against "a tons in 1897
and 1.1S tons in l9l616. There were
81 Factories of which 10 were new.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
ALLOTMENT INCREASED

The allotment Of sugar 70 be handled
by the Honolulu Plantatioh Company
has been increased 10000 tons. The
sugar is to be supplied through the Su.
gar Factors Company, Ltd. The refin-
ing Of this additional amount will serve
TO relieve somewhat the pressure upon
Pacific Coast refiheries, which on &C.
count of the transportation situation
are being called upon TO handle an un-
usually large proportion of the current
Hawaiian crop.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
RECORD INeIAN CROP

OthclaI reports received this month
from India place the total crop of
l9l7l8 in the British Indies at 3,229,
900 tons, which is the highest SO far
recorded In view of the shortage Of
seagoipg vessels, it y doubtful If this
bumper crop will relieve in any way
the sugar shortage in Western ana
Central Europe
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
HUNDVERSCADSE
LOSSES Of. SUGAR
Twelve Thousand Five Hundred
Tons Sent TO Bottom of '''
atlantic Coast -

Raw sugar shipments suffered fur
ther during the past week from sink
ings Of carriers by the German U.boat
raiders, who continue their piratical
operations in North Atlantic coast wa
tiers. The two additional vessels to be
listed with the three reported destroyed
last week were the Vinland, carrying
l,471 long tons of Cuban raws and the
Pinar del Rio, with 3,642 tons, also
from Cuba, Facts About Sugar reports.
Sugar Loss over 1900 Tons ii
This further loss brings the total
amount Of raws destroyed through
submarine sinkings to about l2,700
ports for the previous week were above
win closely approach that figure, 1t is
obvious that damage inflicted by the
enemy submarines on the inward flow
of raws represents but a trivial loss
which is barren Of any serious infu.
ence on the sugar situation.
At this port eargOes Of raws have
been arriving daily all the week. The
same is known to. be the rase at other
Eastern ports. In addition, II is re-
ported that such eargoes Of raws as
were temporarily diverted to Southern
ports at the outbreak of the submarine
attacks have since arrived at their
original destination. Sugar carriers
held at West Indian ports last week
have also since sailed.
Slight Slowing Up
The net effect upon the sugar ship
ping situation of submarine activities
along the American coastwise lane
may, therefore, be summarized as be
ing confined to q slight slowing up in
the movement of raws which is of
practically negligible Importance. Su-
gar carriers are mOvinp to lDading and
unloading points unde' Instructions is.
sued by the Navy Department Under
thi ) system all possible safeguards are
being provided and the results attained
so far under this plan indicate that
there is l.ttle likelihood of any great
! check taking place in the future ar
rival Of raw supplies at any refining
point.
There has been no change in the
general shipping situation for the week.
Late reports in the trade are TO the
! effect that the Joint Committee on
, Transportation stiIl anticipates the
movement of close to 100000 tons dur
| ing June. d.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
BEET CROP CONDITION

The condition of the sugar beet crop
on jaime | is reported by the Bureau
of Crop Estimates of the United states
Department of Agriculture as 9S.6. The
comparison is with the average condi.
ton for the past ten years, taken as
100 percent. The condition of the crop
on June |, 1917, was l04.5 percent Of
the average
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
FILLS RUSH ORDER

The Lihue Min received a rush order
for 300 bags Of washed sugar for the
Honolulu market, They have started
a night shift on grinding SO that they
will be able to finish on time, as they
are now grinding for the Hanamaulu
mill which has shut down-Garden Is
land.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
BETS IN IOWA

Iowa will plant 10000 acres Of beots
this year the largest in the history of
this great farming State. The Mason
City plant is one Of the largest and best
equipped plants known in the country
and will be ready for heavy, tonnage
in fall.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
EARL CADD0CK RETAINS
WRESTLING CHAMP IONSHlP

CASPER, Wyoming, July g
(Associated Press) Earl Cad
dock retained the worlds wrest-
ling championship here yesterday
by taking two straight falls from
Hussane. CaddOck won the first
fall in sixty one minutes by
bar arm deadlock. In the sec
Ond fall he used the head SCISSORS
arm combination.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
SOME HIGHER ebSTS

The coSt of sugar ma6ufacture has
been computed in the West and some
Interesting information is Mt hand as
TO the increase in prices For example
beet seed has Increased 26O percent.
labor 100 percent, fuel oil 125 percent,
COX" 100 percent, filter cloth jhte 40
percent, filter cloth duck 260 percent,
sugar bags 1875 percent, and SO on down.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
REFINERY PROPERTY TO
BE USED AS TENNIS COURT

"A report from the East says that the
United States government has taken
over a plot Of vacant ground and
warehouse of the National Sugar Re
filming Company on the East River
front in Brooklyn. The property is
part Of the old Mollenhauer refining
plant on Kent Avenue and will be turn
ed over to the Y. NJ. c. A. who will
use 1t for a tennis court
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
HOLLAND HaS SURPLUS

The beet sugar7 production Tor the
season Of l9l7.lS in the Netherlands is
reported by the journal des Fabrcqnts
de Suere Of March n as 'tOtalihg 2l9,
1923 ordinary tons, against home con.
sumption Of $l95,767 tons.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
MI GET Sb0AR

The annual gift Of q bag of washed
sugar was again gwen by O. n. WI.
cox TO All BIS married employees Thik
custom, Mr. WILCOX Jstafted several
years ago and has kept 1t up every
year.--qATden Island.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
WHERE SUGAR AR GOES
IS TOLD IN TABLE

The sugar division of the United
States food administration in Washing
ton has compiled the following est
mates of the quantity of sugar used
annually in the various manufacturing
industries:
The sun., 1918-12-25

the West 1921 street station. 1880 at
the Elizabeth street station and 400
at the Morrisania street station were
given q good time and presents, USE
full and otherwise.
Deputy Commissioner Ellen J.
Grady. with her daughter. made a
round of the precincts and watched
the children and their mothers receiv-
ing gifts. Afterward she said she had
never realized that there was 30 much
poverty in New York.
81 saw children in line with the rain
soaking in the holes in their little
shoes. and their, clothes thin and
ragged" she said. Eyes, we hear OF
good times and big wages. but there is
much poverty. The influenza accounts
for some of It; many families have
been deprived Of the bread winner.
The high price of food comes hard on
the poor. One Of my women who has
been investigating the milk situation
told me that nursing babes were SO
starved, because the mothers milk
wasn't nourishing. that they would
beat their mothers' breasts like little
savages because OF hunger"
The districts where there were the
most poor children in line for the gifts
OF the police were richest in service
flags. One block service flag in the
Twenty-sixth precinct has nearly SOC
stars. some Of them gold ones.