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Evening star., 1918-06-02
CHERRY PARIS is A
TONIC FOR PESSlMlSTS

mistaking the imperturbable optimism
that prevails on all hands.
In all my stay l did not come across
Il single doubter Paris has no fear
Of the issue. Is it this very proxim-
ity that banishes anxiety? l have
heard il said that there are more long
faces in one hundred yards of Lon
don street than along the whole 400
miles Of the western front. Certain
il is that found Mr.. What is the
use of going on and Mrs. I told you
So and all the rest of that demoral-
izing brood conspicuous by their abb
sence.
To be sure there is that long range
gun peppering. the CAPITAL. / was
there the first day it began opera
tions: the people were startled. OF
course. After that they settled down
to it as a freak Of Teutonic malignity.
Some ran for shelter when II repeat
ed its Performance punctually every
fifteen minutes. and others went on
with their business as usual. The
aorial "frightfulness." which broke
out with special vehemence during my
visit was undoubtedly alarming. The
French do not sweep the skies on such
occasions with searchlights; instead
they send the fire engines through the
streets. and these set up din which
only a very deaf person would fail to
hear. But the next day the city is
just it's normal self again, and the
finest tonic fer "nerves' that. have
come across since the war began. In
deed. l could think of nothing better
calculated to hasten the end of the
war than to bring some CT the dis
gruntled Germans fed. in the main, on
a diet Of falsehoods, to that Paris
which is for Hindenburg SO near and
yet so far, and let them report tho
truth-if they, dared.
Evening star., 1918-06-02
Voluntary Rationing.

~ ONTROI4LER HOOVER congratu<
" lated Washington gathering on
the success of the voluntary rations
ing system.
1.-The observance of voluntary ra-
tioning has been universal" he said.
Il heard the other day of a tiny
urchin on picnic in the country who
ran to his mother with tears in his
eyes.
whats the matter?' his mother
asked.
1.-The urchin held out a swollen fins
ger and shouted. indignantly:
Then bees! Today is a meatless
Tuesday, and them bees amt observin'
it!"
Evening star., 1918-06-02
The Worlds Supply Of Sugar Since the United States Entered War

the mechanical and physical condition
Of the soil Is improved from 60 to 30
per cent after several seasons OF
planting. Land to be planted in sugar
most other things. Millions of fibrous
roots, slender as threads, reach down
into the soil for several feet and are
left there when the beets are plowed
out. In Germany so careful has been
the culture of this wonderful plant
from one acre. In the United States.
while ten is the highest. experience
is forwarding the possibilities.
Since sugar beets grow well under
in opening up some of our western
desert lands. The stockmen of the
west have been slow in adapting beet
pulp as feed for cattle. but many are
finding that the results of such feed
ing are too valuable to ignore. Stock
fattens rapidly on beet pulp.
The west is conceded TO be the. best
place for the cultivation of beet sugar.
and it Is interesting to learn that
prominent Mormon in 1852. purchased
from France the first machinery for a
sugar beet factory in this country-in
Utah. Across the Atlantic, down to
New Orleans. up to Leavenworth. by
water. and thence to Salt Lake City by
OK team the apparatus which was the
pioneer in this industry Travelled. Tho
building in which this machinery was
first placed is still standing, and in
many offices of men interested in
beet sugar cultivation the picture of
the old adobe structure has a proud
place.
Much of the sugar used in the
household sugar bowl comes from
Cuba ordinarily. but Cuban exports to
Europe were very large for some time
after the war started, and by the first
of last September the old crop in Cpba
was exhausted. The United States
Food Administration had a conference
with beet sugar growers and refners.
and the sale and distribution of this
kind Of sugar is now administered by
the government. The price Of cane
sugar has been regulated in some-
what the same mannerf negotiation
with Cuban planters, last November.
having fixed the profits on a basis fol-
lowing beet sugar agreements. Tho
selling price, as cane sugar goes out
of Cuba. is a definite figure. but tho
shipping board fixing the freight rates
according to conditions involved
causes the variance in wholesale price
from New York harbors inland.
Evening star., 1918-06-02
BY LEO SCHEFF.
.ial Correspondence Of The Star.

LONDON. May 21. 1918.
IN USINESS took me to Paris recently
lSN 1t is not n light undertaking to
CROSS the channel nowadays when
you have run the gantiet of officials on
this side-a very necessary gantlet. to
be sure-and you have to negotiate the
peculiar perils of the Huns sea offensive.
That means that you may be
awakened at am: by a shrill warn
ing and find yourself colliding with
a half dozen panicky figures in the
dark. Worse still yeusmay open
your eyes the next morning and dis
cover yourself not at q port on the
French coast, but at the dear old
English city from which, you set out
twelve hours beforehand to which
you have, while asleep, returned.
thanks to a U-boat having been sight
ed en- route! This is a very discon-
certing experience, and oue which
should not; be courted by persons OF
inflammabfe temperament or excit-
able nerves. The waters are alive
with searchlights and shipping. They
are also alive with rnmor. l hope
that the particular rumor which sent
the vessel that Immediately preceded
mine to the bottom of the sea-with
only three survivors-was untrue.
Most probably it was.
However, even the journey to
France comes to an end some time,
and at the port of debarkation you
get a glimpse of the conditions which
prevail in the occupied poHtions
of the rerublic. They are pleasant
conditions, If the boches had the
4 f<H he,
would choose. But, in all this. the
French port is really like a suburb
of Paris. If the capital is not ex-
actly the gay" city at this moment.
it is most decidedly not an unhappy
one. II the Germans picture it as
lost and despairing and hungry. then.
in the expressive language of Glenn
enceau, '.they lie." The crowded
cafes. the teeming boulevards. the
packed theaters and cinemas, witness
what 1 say.
Strolling through the animated
streets, you would not imagine your
self within gun sound, almost. of
Armageddon. The well stocked win
dows and abundance of food tell of
anything but the pinch of hunger. 1
stood in pleasant amaze. before
don't know how many refreshing
shows of fresh butter. and appetizing
piles of cheese, while the fresh meat
and poultry were enough to break
Germans heart and the restaurant
menus to turn him green with envy.
Only quite recently has Paris taken
to rationing at all and even then
only in respect of one or two articles.
The American soldiers and the Amer
ican accent are everywhere and the
men swing in confident manner along
the boulevards doing Paris" with
that dim age when nobody thought
of war except the German war lords.
Always, of course. n cosmopolitan
city. Paris. with it's increasing thronG
from over the Atlantic, is now more
American military police. flourishing
their batons. give it it's last express
sive touch as the great world center.
Perhaps it is the omnipresent Amer
lean that has helped to give in
habitants their feeling Of confidence
But whatever the causes, there is no
Evening star., 1918-06-02

not to see this seed returned to the
enemy in any form.
A very Important fact was added to
this sugar experts Statements 1t
concerned the value to the soil of al
ternating sugar beet crops with other
crops. In view OF the new watch
word of this nation-conservatio
the point is noticeable. Scientists are
agreed that sugar beets are the
strongest stimulator that can be put
into the earth for other plants; that
Evening star., 1918-06-02
70 0HO. before the war. would
NAX ever have thought that
WV sugar would occupy SO
" much space as a subject of

.AX ever have thought that
|NH sugar would occupy SO
much space as a subject of
DISCUSSION. Sugar then was an every
ay. taken-for-granted matter at 6
ents pound, slightly more or less.
Ike milk at cents quart as the
evailing price for years and years.
gar stood at cents pound for
cade ending not very long before
war began. 1t is hardly the cost
sugar here in the United States.
wever. which puts the commodity
the front page so frequently, but
Pre the scarcity. The public is told
at it is about to go on sugar ra-
bns. and the canning season is at
ind, and transportation from Cuba
uncertain, and the people eat too
1ch sugar. anyway. and SO forth.
Che people of three hundred years
70 regarded sugar as a luxury. What
now think a table necessity was
st beginning to be used at very
re intervals by the average house
bid. The history of sugar as found
The United States Department of
commerce, is entirely too long to be
lated even briefly, but it was the
walton of the first sugar cane in
Pestern Europe. And it was a native
|f Venice the beautiful, in the days
q her glory, who invented the meth
Id of making loaf sugar. receiving.
ncidentaily. gift of large sum Of
honey from the appreciative city.
Genice became the European center Of
|he sugar trade, her ships carrying
he precious cargoes to many Atlantic
|orts.
x
England gave in exchange great
Fargoes of wool, and the treasured
import sold for 80 cents a pound.
thirty cents at that time, several
hundred years ago. would have paid
|or perhaps two entire meals for a
British workman's family. so the ap-
Plication is obvious. Even in the
Fear 1900 but ten thousand tons Of
|ugar were imported by Great Brit
Pin. 1t was not uatil more than a
product Of cane came into common
hae.
Most prosperous of all nations, the
United States has long been the great
|st consumer of sugar, though world
keeps even with produc-
Hon, and the surplus left from one
|eason to another in the warehouses
u sugar yielding countries is not
|arge. This Is speaking Of normal
lines. and not war times, when no
lztion has been able to keep her
equilibrium in trade. The United
itates has for many years used more
han one-fifth of all the sugar produc-
p in the world. The consumption per
hpita reached its highest point in
914-more than eighty-nine pounds
b each American.
There seems to have been a pleni-
fnde of sugar in many parts of the
klobe the year the great war seized
Evening star., 1918-06-02

Europe, for Germany. in the phrasing
Pf one of its principal newspapers. an
bounced that Germany was Swim
ming In sugar" even in the sIring Of
SIS. OF course, expectation having
argefy stopped. accounts for part Of
his fact. In any event. and seeming
butte strange now when one thinks Of
Europe as practically without sweets.
J war commandant posted here, there
hnd everywhere. advised the use of
tugar, sugar kas an excellent food,
even medicinal" According to an
authority in the Department of Com
nerce, there Is still considerable sugar
in Germany. its usage down to mini
mum because of the certainty of a
Bhortage Of fats. The monthly ration
asst December was less than two
bounds a month per person.
Austria, too, has sugar, though it
kppears that this empire of checkered
eces is not great sugar consumer.
n capita consumption in 1928,
Yhen the world was at peace and
yerything going smoothly. being less
khan one-third Of Great Britain's.
italy apparently draws sweets from
her famous sunshine and balmy skies.
Tor eleven pounds for each of her in
Immediately sets an imaginative per-
ton to wondering IL there has ever
been an accurate estimate made. of
he spaghetti consumption there. She
Imported less than 5000 tons during
he first year of the war. and her pro-
luction of sugar is not large.
n
France obtained most Of her sugar.
before the war. from her colonial pos
sessions. This was cane product. and
pf raw beet sugar produced on French
sOiI. The average yearly yield of
)beet sugar in France for some years
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
LAND LEASE BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Measure Which vitally Affects Oil
~ Companies Is Adopted -. g..
BY Narrow Margin

WASHINGTON, January 8 =, CAS-
sociated Press) - BY a small mar.
gin of five the senate yesterday
passed the Walsh. Pitman land leasing
law which provides for the leasing of
certain coal and oil lands by the gov.
ernment to operating companies for
terms of years with the title remaining
in the United States. The vote was
81 to 80. The bill will now go to the
house where it is expected to be passed
by similarly close vote.
The bill passed by the senate yester.
day has had q stormy career and would
probably not have passed but for the
war Interest which attaches to ii. Sew
eral times its fate seemed to be in
doubt but an agreement was finally
reached that IL should pass in the form
in which II was adopted by the senate
yesterday, Especially from California
there has been d bitter opposition to the
law especially from those who have liti-
CATION in progress affecting claims In
the Taft withdrawal area.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
CALIFORNIA ASKS
ADMITTANCE OF
CHINESE FARMERS
Development Board Makes Den
, mis- kearney Turn In Grave BY
Urging Opening Of Gates To
Some CeIestials During War

SAN FRANCISCO, January S-(As-
sociated ess)--Califoruia was put on
record as favOring a limited immigra,
tiOn of Chinese by the action taken by
the California Development Board
yesterday. That body passed set Of
resolutions favoring the opening of the
gates of the country to experienced
Chinese farmers and farm labor during
the period of the war. The resolution
has its limitations, however, since it
says that the board is unalterably
opposd to the importation of Oriental
labor which cannot be deported when
il shall be deemed advisable,
Moved by the growing demand for
labor upon the farms and ranches and
in the orchards aud vineyards of the
state the development board undertakes
to reverse the stand which California
has taken for so many years, as to the
admission-of Oriental labor.
The agricultural interests Of the state
Undertook in some instances to secure
exemption from the Selective draft of
farm labor, especially in the case of
Vinyardists and some fof the orange
growing associations but We're without
success. 1t will now be urged that in
view of the loss to the agricultural
and horticultural industries of much of
the labor that was formerly available,
substitutes must be supplied.
Action in the present congress is to
be urged by the development board
and Ssimilar action is expected from
other states. Already South Dakota
through it's governor has requested Chi
nese labor and it is believed that re
quest from California will have more
effect upon congressional action than
would the request from any other state.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
MOBILIZATION OF
THREE MILLION
WORKMEN, PLAN
Needed Labor For Agriculture,
Shipbuilding and Government
Contracts To Be Organized BY
New Department

/ WASHINGTON, January s--(Asso.
eiated Press)-- Mobilization OF three
million workers for agricultural labor
and employment in the government
shipbuilding yards and in war con
tract plants devoted to the purposes
Of the United States has been under.
taken and is to be entrusted to the
United States employment service.
To handle this vast and highly i'm.
portant work of supplying the labor
necessary for the proper conduct Of
these industries John b. Densmore, so.
licitor for the department of labor
has been appointed national director Of
the employment service.
Plans for an equabIe working out
and adjustment of work and wages are
said to he already underway and the
purpose of the service will be to place
labor where it Is required and when
required Mt the shortest possible notice,
TO prevent overcrowding Of some in
dustries and an under. supply for others
and generally to keep the labor market
we'll balanced in supply and demand. II
Is probable that those mObilized will
be drawn largely from what the service
may determine to be uuessential pur-
suits. - .a3, ~. .a Is. f.. @
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
DEFEAT Or ARABS
lSTOLDFROMADEN
British Destroy Defenses and In
ilict Loss Casualties For Il
Week Are Not Large z.

LONDON, January 81 Assoc ca
Prcss) British successes IN Arabia
NltI8 siDld il ofleial tleapat fllss sreeei1etl
'last night from Alden. the British port
upon the e6hthwesterly coast OF Ara
hia. On Saturday tho dispatches
said, the British destroyed the defenses
Iof Hartum aud inflicted considerable
losses upon the, enemy. at s ,sts
On the Italian front the British air
patrols were reported 10 he very nc.
tive, crossing and recrossing the en-
emyis lines in the Piave sector and
causing alarm in the Anstro- German
ranks in anticipation Of an italian al.
lied offensive. = ~ .%.l t9t
British casualties, in the report Civ.
en- out last night which covers the
week ending Saturday night 10 all the
aters and all sectors, were Comparative.
ly small, clearly indicating the less
severe military operations and the
checking of offensives by the wintry
weather.. q. 80. .. Z. rrS't
\ Total casualties for the British
armies were is,99S. OF, these 1i3 off.
GERS were killed or died or wounds and
44S were wounded or reported miss
ing. The list Of enlisted men showed
Ssas killed and l4,605 wounded or miss
ing. t.~,'ri&[re E8 ...,H.. II
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
.SUFFRAG|STsFEEL... !
HIGHLY confident
Hearings Before House Commit
tee On Constitutional Amend
lment End Bailey Opposes

|, WASHINGTON, January 8-(Asso,
ciated Press Hearings upon the pro-
posed constitutional amendment that
would grant votes to women were
closed by the house committee yester
day and the vote OF representatives
win be taken tomorrow.
Opposition to the amendment was
emphatically- voiced before the com
mitee by Joe Bailey, the one time sen
ator from Texas. He contended that
women we're not entitled to the ballot
because, he asserted, they are incapable
of performing the three principal du
ties of citizenship.
Sun'ragists expressed themselves last
night as confident of winning their de
mands in the present session of con
gress. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
voiced this sentiment of confidence
when she said:
"As to the final result-victOry for
the federal amendment. One can never
be certain Of q vote until it is taken,
but in my opinion believe the passage
of the amendment is assured. We hope
for q vote in the senate Immediately
following the vote in the house. 1t
sounds very optimistic, but. l believe
we will be able, to move out Of our
Washington headquarters February |. !"
care you prepared TO 60 into the
congressional elections to oppose. those
candidates who do not favor the fed
eral amendment If the amendment does
not pass congrcssi" Mrs. Gait was
asked.
"There is no 'if' about it," she re
Piled s"our time has cone. We are
going to wini''
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
M'ADOO TOLAUNCH
. NEWNOVEL DRIVE
Director General Enlists Public
j Aid In Having Consignees
Unload Their Cars

WASHINGTON, January s--(Asso,
ciated Press )-Director General of
Railroads McAdoo has designated next
week as "Freight Clearance Week"
and purposes to conduct one Of the
energetic eompaigns to enlist the ser
vices of the public which have pre-.
viously proved successful under his
guidance, This special campaign will
be worked In every part Of the main
land United States and all business men
will be urged to have unloaded forth
with all cars which may be consigned
to them. -.., T.%.
As the first step in the government 3
assistance to railroad financing Inter.
state Commerce Commissioner Daniels
requested the various railroad presi-
dents to wire him Immediately the
amount of capital they will require for
their roads this year and also a sep
arate statement, of the amount needed
for the first six months.
He asked them to detail the precise
purposes for which the funds win be
needed--whether to meet maturing 30.
curities pr for improvements and con.
struction.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
more WORK FALLS
TO COCKTAILS LOT
Secretary Of War Adds Trans
portation and Storage Ar
rangements To Duties

WASHINGTON, January s--tAssoei.
ated Press)-Mai-aen, George W. 0oe.
thals has had his duties largely inereas.
ed under orders of Secretary Of War
Baker issued yesterday. In addition
to the duties delegated to him when he
was recalled to active service Deeemb9r
Is and designated as acting quarter.
master general, he has now been des.
ignated as director of transportation
and storage for the army.
When General Cocktails was selected
to succeed General Henry q. Sharpe he
was looked to for the speeding up of
securing supplies for the army. Nov
the problem of army transportation aud
storage facilities is found 20 need az.
tention and IL has fallen TO the fofmst I
Panama Canal head to undertake IL.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
Meetings Regarded Most POr-
tentOus Since Outbreak of
War; Labor Gives Support
FINLAND Is RECOGNIZED

Al
~ indicated German parliamentary following appa-
collapse Of negotiations for separate with Russia
in Socialist party has assumed proportions that produce
suits Of great moment Taggeblatt reported
MEETINGS OF GREAT MOMENT VA.
the yofwaerts referring the Socialist
meetings held Sunday that these perhaps the
of any since August 1914 meaning the be
ginning Of the points out that the Socialists than
peace they have had their hopes of the break
ing up Alliance raised high pitch there tone
Of in the words spoken the meeting that for
clearer presentation Of demands for rights well for peace
WOULD ovsTs svohI KuEHLMAN
Taeebiatt 81 also Quoted as saying that the
annexatonist faction using It's effort The down.
fall Of Knehnan foreign minister considers him as
nimical to the plans for territorial
Support given labor party of the Bran
denburg province which Berlin capital meeting
the National Labor Party Of that province Sunday the viewpoint
taken that the demands of those command in the
departments of the East and of the West be considered dec
sive and the laborers them. So
~" FINLAND rs RECOGNIZED /
Either Germany considers negotiations end with Russia
making effort Bolshevi yesterday
republic Prior to this before the negotiations were
Germany had notified the delegation senators from Finland that
they wait for recognition until the wishes of the Russian
eminent with which Germany then negotiating for
been learned 1t might therefore, be taken that the recognition
granted is also declaration by Germany that considers negota
RUSSIA PREPARATIONS
5 $ the left S9 t & %S s SsSsn'i @ % % S@ %s. na%e. 1n T11y % of %
uncertain s1 s. ,Ss offensive Ss,S need @ e m Of
a &F%y BY the Boas in pSn % % for some sort
be M RadeF,
i @ &c 'F g Who home are % s iS' s s, Ss 30 % % .: s ss to s %
We do the help of the Allie.
Iss ss' & S' 4 f"'1 S
not I ~s %l ass:psd % 4s l % the ." s. t Of eu, position would be de-
% e Sd.4ss @ss s ] '';i
PROJECT ba% on the Gt aS aos Of
system which
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
NATIONAL BANK CALL

WASHINGTON, January 7-- Asso
ciated Press)-The national bank call
was issued today as Of December 81.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-08
WAR REVENUE LAW IS I
SUBJECT. OF PROTEST
Representatives of Large Inter
ests Seek Remedies

WASHINGTON, January S-(Asso
ciated Press) s)-Meetings were held yes
terday and will be continued today to
consider the matter of proposed changes
in the War Tax Law that industry be
lieves to be necessary. At the meeting
were representative oil and mining
men, coal and minerals, and other large
industries.
At yesterday = session war profits
taxes questions Of "invested capital "
and other phases of the law that are
called inequalities were considered 1t
is planned to formulate n list Of
changes that are considered essential
and TO present these to congress urg
ing remedial legislation in such re
speet' y w., f.,