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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
THREE PER CENT OF MEN
GAINFULLY EMPLOYED
NOW IN SERVICE

In bulletin on the employment of
women in the storage and warehouse
ing depots of the United States army
is the following:
1.-The census of 1910 reported that
of every 100 men and boys 10 years
of age and over, only 10 were not
painfully employed. This group of
~ included old men not able to work,
children too young to work, the sick
and handicapped, and men in schools
and colleges.
Assuming that 100000 of the
number called by the selective-ser-
vice law have had some form of gain
full employment, we may estimate that
one out of every 60 men in the indus
tries and professions of the country
has been called into military service,
while another in every 60 has volun-
tarily Joined the forces of the army
or navy. Thus about per cent of
the gainfully employed men have been
taken out of their occupations"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
MEN WITH TRADES HAVE
: CHANCE FOR ADMISSION
IN SIGNAL CORPS

Men qualified along certain lines,
although registered under the selec-
tive service law, may be indicted in
to the land division of the Signal
Corps, which is in need of men for the
following duties:
Chauffeurs, motorcycle drivers, and
gas engine repairmen for duty in field
and telegraph battalions; telegra-
pliers, both wire and radio; telephone
men, including switchboard operators,
telephone repairmen, and men skilled
in testing and repairing telephone
lines; telephone and telegraph line
men; photographers, still and moving;
homing pigeon men; radio men who
are familiar with installing radio ap-
paratus; men qualified as cooks,
clerks, stenographers, blacksmiths,
meteorologists, cobblers, cable men,
etc.
Men indicted for this division, I'M
less otherwise requested by the Chief
Signal Officer of the Army, are sent
to Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
AMERICAN FORCES NOW
SIX TIMES AS LARGE AS
FOR SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

There were 1,428,650 enlisted men
and 1l0,S65 officers in the United
States army at the opening of 1918
more than one and a half times as
large as any force ever before mo-
bilized by this nation, according to a
statement by Secretary of War Bak-
err.
During the war with Spain the ar
my Of the United States, at its max
imum strength, aggregated 272,O0O
men and officers. The army in the
field and in training now is practical
ly six times as great as the maximum
number under arms in the Spanish
American war.
About $4,000 officers were commits
stoned from civil life in the two Sc
ries of training camps, nearly eight
times as many as the number of Of
ficers in the regular army April /,
1917.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
COLOR OF CORD ON HAT
DENOTES SERVICE OF WEARER

Just as the sleeve chevrons and
bars, stars, and eagles on the Shout
der proclaim ranking officers, the hat
cord denotes the branch of service
each private has entered.
Light blue signifies infantry; scar
let, artillery; yellow, cavalry; buff,
quartermasters Corps; scarlet and
white, signal corps; scarlet and black,
ordnance; black and white, field clerk Z;
maroon, medical corps; black and gold,
officers; silver and black, adjutant
generals clerk; green, instructor
home guards; green and white, home
guards. These cords are worn only
on service hats.
Cadet aviators wear as hat bands
inch and half white ribbons and on
cot collars insignia representing the
aviation branch of the signal corp,
propeller blades.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
THE FACTS OF
THE FOOD SITUATION

"The question now before us is not
what recommendation we would
make as the result of our investiga-
tons under normal or peace times
The war problem is to produce more
crop" y y "The problem before us
at this time is to take what we can
get and make it grow more crops.
"The Government is demanding
immense amounts of sulphuric acid
in the manufacture of explosives for
war use. The U-boat warfare and
the demands of our Allies have prac-
tically stopped the importation of
pyrttes from Spain. Cars are diff
ficult to obtain. Labor is scarce at
the mine. Some of the burlap needed
for next years fertilizer sacks is
still in India. No one can forecast
the future or what it may bring forth
from month to month.
eve would say to the manufacture
er: Continue to make all the fertil-
izer you cam We would say to the
farmer: Use legumes. Return crop
residues to the soil. Grow more live
stock. II Do not forget that the
purchasing power of your crops is
practically as great as ever before.
Order your fertilizer early for imme-
date delivery and pool your orders
with your neighbor in order 70 buy
maximum car lots"
(Signed) c. G. Woodbury., Director.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
MANUFACTURE OF SHOES
IN ITALY STANDARDIZED
BY GOVERNMENT

The largest shoe factories in Italy
have started manufacturing the ma
tional standard shoes, using leather
supplied by the ministry of industry
commerce and labor. The standard
types were established by the central
shoe committee in Rome, but every
factory is making little notifications,
according to its means and system of
manufacturing.
The Government is organizing sys-
TENS 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 ma
tional shoes and to be controlled by
the Government authorities. 1t is
likely that buyers 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 Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
COST OF LIVING IN ONE YEAR
INCREASES % PER CENT

According to the bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Department of La
Dor, in the year from November Is,
1916, to November Is, 1917, prices
CT food as a whole advanced 20 per
cent. Potatoes is the only article that
shows decline in price. Corn meal
advanced 81 per cent; bacon, 81 per
cent; pork chops, 48 per cent; beans,
80 per cent; salmon, SO per cent; milk,
SO per cent; and lard, q per cent.
Food as whole was as per cent
higher on November Is, 1917, than on
November Is, 1913, and as per cent
higher than on November Is, 1914.
During this four-year period corn
meal advanced 1877 per cent; flour,
1909 per cent; lard, 104 per cent; ba-
con, n per cent; sugar, rs per cent;
and potatoes, 72 per cent. No article
declined in price.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
REGISTRATION OF GER
MAN ALIEN ENEMIES

In accordance with the proclamation
of the President of the United States,
issued November Is, 1917, requiring
all alien enemies to register at such
time and place as might be fixed by
the Attorney General of the United
States and pursuant to instructions
received from Postmaster General
Albert S. Burleson, designating me as
Chief Registrar for the Eastern Ju-
dicial District of Missouri, | have, in
accordance with instructions received
from the Attorney General of the
United States, arranged for the regis
tration of all German alien enemies
at the Office of every local Postmas-
ter in the Eastern Judicial District,
which includes Pennington. The time
fixed for the registration is the 4th,
9Th, 9th, 7th, 9Th and 9th days of
February, 1918, from 6 a. m. to s p.
m. on each of said days.
BY all German aliens is meant: All
natives, citizens, denizens, or sub
jects of the German Empire or of
the Imperial German Government, be-
ing males of the age of IA years and
upward, who are within the United
States and not actually naturalized as
American citizens.
An alien enemy required to regis
ter who fails to complete his regis
tration within the time fixed therefor
or who violates or attempts to vio-
late, or of whom there is reasonable
ground to believe that he is about to
violate any regulation duty promul-
gated by the President of the United
States or these Regulations, in addi-
ton to all other penalties prescribed
by law, is liable to restraint, impris-
onment, and detention for the dura-
ton of the war, or to give security,
or to remove and depart from the
United States in the manner prescrib-
ed by Sections 1867 1869 and 1910 of |
the United States Revised Statutes, |
and to all other penalties prescribed in
the several proclamations of the Pres
ident of the United States and in the
regulations duly promulgated by or
under the authority of the President.
1t will be the imperative duty of
all German alien enemies to call in
person at the Office of their local
Postmaster and present themselves
for registration in compliance with
the Rules and Regulations made and
provided for that purpose.
COLIN NJ. SELPH,
Postmaster at st. Louis and
Chief Registrar, Eastern Ju-
dicial District of Missouri.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
PROFITEER CAN'T
GET SUPPLIES NOW

Columbia, Mo-, Jan 21.-Because he
made an excessive profit on canned
goods, retail grocer in Indianapolis
cannot buy any more goods from the
licensed wholesale grocers, according
to information reaching the Missouri
Division of the United States Food
Administration. The merchant had
bought quantity of canned goods at
eight cents can and sold them for
fifteen cents can, it is alleged. This
was considered profteering by the
Food Administration and the whole
sale grocers Of the State were order
ed not to sell the offending merchant
any more supplies.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
A POTATO AT EVERY MEAL

Have an Irish potato on your table
at every meal. This is the advice and
request of the Missouri Division of
the United States Food Administra-
ton. A campaign for greater use Of
potatoes is to be urged on grocers as
well as housekeepers. Grocers will be
asked to have a potato day" each
week, selecting whatever day is slack
in deliveries and making special pric-
es. Fairly regular purchases are re-
quested of the public, so that distri-
button will be equal everywhere for
the next five or six months, relieving
railroad congestion and encouraging
production of a larger crop next
spring.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
DEFECTIVE EYES CAUSE
MANY MEN FIRST PASSED
TO BE REJECTED AT CAMPS

Examination of the records of 49,
900 men passed for military service
by local boards and then rejected by
camp surgeons show that nearly %
per cent Of the final reflections were
caused by defective eyes.
Teeth were responsible for $50 per
cent; hernia, TAT per cent; ear, 5.94
per cent; heart disease, SGT per cent;
tuberculosis, 5.37.
Attempts to evade military duty
by deception regarding physical con-
dition were very few,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
THE BATTLE OF HERE AND THERE

They sat in the twilight's quiet glow,
Bob and his proud old dad
And naught could be but dads bald head
AS he softly spoke to the lad,
And naught could be heard but his kindly voice
AS he offered his words of cheer,
For Bob to fight battle in France
And dad was to fight one here.
In the dusk of that old summer night
knelt woman--worn with care,
And naught could be seen but the silver sheen
In the coils of her snowy hair.
And naught could be heard but st1ed sob
And the break in her whispered prayer,
For mother fighting her battle here
While her boy was fighting there.
They stood in the star beams tender light
and his faithful wife
And naught could be seen but the Drumming eyes
OF the wife in her bitter strife,
And naught could be heard but the cooling call
Of the babe they both held dear,
For the man was to fight in the trenches of France
And the wife to battle here.
They stood in the dark, meath the old plum tree,
youth and maiden fair,
And naught could be seen but his cigarette
And the white rose in her hair,
And naught could be heard but whispered word
And the splash of a scalding tear,
For Jack was to fight his battles in France
And Sue was to fight hers here.
Under the blue of summer sky,
In the light of blazing sun,
Naught can be seen but the Stars and Stripes
And the fight to be waged and won
And naught can be heard but our bra We goodbyes
AS we shout with ringing cheer,
80 long, don't stop till you're over the top
And we'll boost like - from here"
Kansas City Journal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
5000 C0LORED MEN
CALLED INTO ARMY BY
SELECTIVE-SERVICE LAW

Eight per cent of the 9,5S6,50S men
registered under the selective-service
law are colored. Of these nearly 2O9,-
900 have been called and more than
$4,000 have been certified for service.
Out of every 100 colored men called,
36 were certified for service and Ga
were rejected, exempted or discharg-
ed, while out of every 100 white citi-
zens called, rs were certified for SER
vice.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25

The year of 1917 established new
high production records for corn, oats,
rye, white and sweet potatoes, tobac-
co, beans and onions.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25

Now is the time for every good eat
er to come to the aid of his country.
Meatless days and wheatless days
are sure steps toward frightless days.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25

Don't slaughter your lightweight
hogs. Feed them up on soft corn.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-01-25
For TRIISSES

FOR TRUSSES
Supporters, Belts, Shoulder Braces,
Clutches, Crutch Tips, see 3. M. Laak-
man, Druggist.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
ARMY Of AMERICAN M|ATORS TRAIN
FOR IMPORTANT PART IN WORLD WAR

cared to use. In a week 20 experts
working together had evolved the
liberty motor, which Secretary Baker
has called the greatest achievement
of the war SO far.
The liberty motor is a model of
Standardization 1t is built with four
cylinders, or with eight, or with 70,
and the same parts are interchange
able for all three of the different
sizes. The greatest automobile fac
tories in the world have been provid-
ed with machinery necessary for
turning out these motors.
1t has been necessary all along not
to interfere with the supply of raw
materials, particularly spruce, and of
certain completed aeroplane parts,
to the flying forces of our allies.
In return for these materials the
allies are giving us the rich benefit
of their experience. For months
young Americans have been training
for the air corps on the flying fields
of England and France. On dozen
and more of new flying fields in AM
erica veteran fliers from the western
front are helping in the preliminary
training of the new aviators.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
BOGUS FOODS
STIR GERMANY
MANY SUBSTITUTES WORTHLESS
AND MANY DEATHS TRACED d.
RECTLY TO THEIR USE

AMSTERDAM-(C Correspondence of
The Associated Press almost
complete lack of nourishment in many
of the food Substitutes" now being
sold in Germany is arousing a storm
of warning from German scientists,
who declare that government super
vision of the whole substitute food
traffic is an immediate necessity. Pro-
fessor Juckenack of the University of
Berlin, writing in the Vossische
Zeitung, says:
ct is useless any longer to hide
the truth. Unless the government ac-
lively intervenes to put some control
over the flood of substitute foods with
which we are overwhelmed, the end
of the war will also see the end of
third of Germany's population. More
over, the remaining two-thirds will
be so enfeebled from malnutrition that
they will be unable to perform the inn
mense tasks of recuperation and res
toration.
''The devil alone knows what are the
ingredients of thousands of these
wretched substitutes that already do
duty for butter and eggs, oil and milk,
flour and spirits, meat and broth, cof-
fee and sugar, tobacco and tea, fish
and sausage, cheese and caviar, and SO
on without end
sThe latest products of the ingen-
ious substitute-monger are really
too terrible to be tolerated. A prepar-
alton of crude keronsene is now be-
ing largely sold as frying oil, and 800
cases of serious illness together with
nine deaths have been traced. to its
use in Berlin alone. A preparation
called goose dripping is prepared
from dogs fat; egg substitute form
mixture of chalk and baking powder;
caviar @from fish scales, and bread
from straw. What people, no matter
how patriotic, can hold out on such
fare?
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02

ROISE-The vanguard of the new
army of the air for which congress
voted s640,OOO,OOO last summer is
about to join the forces of land and
sea in action against the Germans.
The navy has tripled in size since
the war began, and the army has null
tiplied itself by 49, The first year
plans for the air service call for an in
crease of more than hundredfold.
Last spring the aviation corps had
less than 200 airplanes of all degrees
of serviceability. Now a fleet of 22,-
900 planes is being built When war
began there were rs aviators A
force of 10000 aviators is now being
trained The total personnel of the
old flying corps, ground workers as
we'll as filters, was 1000. The total
personnel of the new flying corps is
now 100000.
The first move of the aircraft pro-
duction board was to stop negotiations
for the use of existing patents, and
to set men at work designing new
airplane engine which should COM
prise as many of the good points OF
the different patents as these men
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
FINAL SESSION
! IS LIVELY ONE
FARMERS AND HOUSEKEEPERS'
WEEK CLOSES WITH IMPORT
ANT CONFERENCE
R|TCH DISCUSSES SHEEP
COLONEL OUSLEY TELLS OF THE
FOOD SITUATION AND DUTY
LAID ON AMERICA

Farmers and housekeepers' week at
the university passed into. history
this morning with the final session,
one sof the best of the week. The
wool growers conference was ad-
dressed by w. T. Ritch, the wool ex
pert and many important points were
brought up for discussion. The joint
meeting of farmers and housekeepers
listened to review Of the agricultural
situation in the country and the food
demands of the world by Col. Clarence
Ousley, and the program closed with
discussion of the war situation led
by M. E. Lewis, chairman of the La
tab county defense council. The
meeting throughout was one of abb
sor5fng interest.
Games for Little Ones
The Friday afternoon session for
housekeepers opened at 1 o'clock in
the university gymnasium. During the
week that room has been play
SIOuuu lOI IllC CllllUlSl WullS IuCll
mothers attended lectures. But, in
order that they might better supervise
the play of their children, Miss Steph-
ems met about 80 of the women Fri
day and put them through the chill
dren's PAGES. After giving brief talk
on the various kinds of childrens
games Miss Stephens started the
Victro1a and all joined hands in a
circle. Beginning with the simple
circle and singing games, the "moth-
ers" worked up to the more compli
Gated ball games. "Cat-and-the
Mouse" caused wild excitement, and
'teacher' had great difficulty in
stopping her charges once they be-
came familiar with "Touch Ball' The
meeting adjourned, and with much
putting and laughing the ladies hur-
ried to the auditorium.
Home Care of Milk
At o'clock Miss Nina A. Willis
gave a talk and demonstration on
"The Home Care of Milk" First of
all she urged everyone to keep COW
and thereby have your milk as clean
or as dirty as you like milk is
one of the best foods if well taken
care Of and one of the worst foods if
not properly cared for" Miss Willis
spoke clearly of the sources and eff
fects of the various bacteria found
in milk, urging absolute cleanliness
as the best preventive. eff the milk
must come from some market instead
of the family cow, it can be made
safe for drinking by pasteurization:
that is, heating to 140 degrees F. for
one hour, or, if you would destroy
the tuberculosis bacteria, heat it to
160 degrees F. for 10 minutes Miss
Willis said, people should drink lots
Of milk. If women would drink more
milk, eat more eggs, and take good
exercise, there would not
De SO many bottle babies"
The next speaker of the afternoon
Continued on Page q
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
TEUT0NS CRUSH
LABOR TROUBLE
STAMP OUT INDUSTRIAL UPRIS.
ING WITH IRON HEEL OF
THE MILITARY
NAB SOCIALIST LEADER
FACTORIES UNDER MARTIAL LAW
AND STRIKERS ORDERED
BACK TO WORK

WASHINGTON-Ber evening pa
pers state that Wilhelm Dittman,
Socialist member OF the reichstag,
was arrested when he attempted to
address a crowd in the suburbs.
isolated and insignificant ex-
cesses" in Berlin yesterday were re-
ported in the semi-ofticial statement
received from Berlin.
Work is said to have been resumed
at Hamburg and Danzig. Seven Ber-
lin factories have been placed under
martial law and the strikers ordered
to resume work by Monday at the lat
est, according to word received from
Berlin. Their failure to return, it is
annbunced, viii be punishment ac-
cording to military discipline.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
ON TRENCHES OF ENEMY
British and French Carry the War to
the Germans at Points on the
Western Front

night patrol of Liverpool troops sue
cessfully raided the enemy's trenches
southeast of Armentiers and brought
back prisoners. The Germans at
tempted a raid north of Passchendael
and were repulsed.
-Official-The night passed
in quiet. There was some fighting
at Burnhaupt, LeHaut and Alsace. A
raid north of Mortier wood enabled
the French to bring back prisoners.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
GREAT COAL FIELD
OPENED IN MONTANA
PRESIDENT WILSON TAKES STEPS
TO RELIEVE THE FUEL FAM
me PERMANENTLY

WASHINGTON-P Wilson S
approval of the restoration to entry
and purchase under the coal land
laws of nearly 100000 acres of with
drawn coal lands in northeastern
Montana south of the Missouri river
adjacent to the Fort Peck Indian res
ervation was announced today. This
large area is thus to be made avail
able for the opening of coal mines to
relieve the coal shortage. 1t is near
ly all underlaid with Ignite coal.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-02
SENATOR STONE DENIES
AIDING GERMAN STRIKE

WASHINGTON-"P absurd,
Senator Stone, chairman of the SEN
ate foreign relations committee char
acterized the report that he is con-
cerned in an organization to foment
strikes in Germany ''It is absolutely
without foundation" he said. Such
reports might have been circulated in
Germany to head off unrest and the
strikes now going on