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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
Electricity as Fertilizer.

THE necessity for increasing the
food supply of the world and aug
menting the productivity of the soil
has led to much speculation on the
subject of "electrifcation'' of the land.
Theories on the use of electricity as a
means of stimulating crop growth have
been numerous and persistent, and it
may be that the future holds some
great achievements in this department
of experiment and stUtiy.
'-Electrocuture'' j.; = ETcTi that has
come into recent use. Scientists who
are in close touch with the subject say
that there has been a !eelter of wild
and sensational talk and prophecy on
this matter. One OF these scientists,
commenting on the electrocultures eX-
periments in England. has said: "Elec-
troculture has passed the back-garden,
amateur stage. 1T is now a serious
proposition. But know ledge of it's pos
sibilities and limitations is scanty. 1t
falls into place with other possibilities
of development in plant Industry which
Will only reach fruition by the help of
well organised. larse-scale research
and experiment supported by public
funds"
1t was about twenty years ago that
the present method OF overhead dis
charge from wires stretched over the
crops was introduced into England. A
company. in which Sir Oliver Lodge
was one of the prominent promoters,
set up large number of installations
in the British Islands and in some other
countries. The results were contra
dictory and confusing, but on the whole
were encouraging. The board of agri-
culture took up the matter and it's ex-
periments were gratifying. long
series OF experiments has been made
in the United States. and the end of this
subject, full of immense possibilities,
has not been reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
BY SEWELL FORD
:

nothing left but to take to the boatA
And when they had rowed off. the sea
still rather rough, the Huns went
aboard and planted few bombs You
know they don't waste torpedoes on
mule transports. And when they had
done their usual pilfering they went
back to their boat and watched for
the Arapiqua, abandoned and rolling
helpless in the waves to go to the bot
tom.
'aThen the unexpected happened. They
saw something stirring under the canvas
cover of the forward gun A man had
crawled out and was cutting away the
cover laShings. He was trying to swing
the gun around to bear on them That
tumbled as fast as they could follow one
another below. But before the U-boat
could submerge the lone man on the Ara
piqua had got the gun going. The first
shot missed by a hundred yards. 80 the
transport captain says-he was watching
through his glasses. The second WASH
quite so wide And the third was a fair
hit just at the base of the periseope. A.
fourth shot struck we'll forward There
was a tremendous explosion The stern OF
the submarine was flung up and she sank
like rock.
The man on the Arapisua was still
firing, shot after shot, as fast as he could
feed them in when the bombs began to
go off One exploded aInidships another
In the stern and the third sent the whole
forward deck high in the air. The lone
man and his gun went with ito king
dom come But he'd done his work
Shorty, can you guess who the fellow
was"
-'You-you- don't mean" says I. 1T
was-Todii?"
Pinckney mods
Samson Todd. HERO says he The
transport captain recognized him through
his glaSse Besides. he was the only man
unaccounted for and, so far as known.
the only one on board, besides the gun.
crew. who could load and fire the three
FOUNDER. He had begged so persistently-
to be shown how that the men had hu- D..
mored him. 1t seems he thought he might
be made a gun captain on the next trip"
But how did he come to be hidin' there
under the canvass" / asks.
Couldn't We pass over that?" says.
Pinckney. Suppose he did begin the fight
badly-he ended it nobly enough. Not
Ulysses himself could have won to a more
glorious end"
That's right" says I. TT was a mans
finish. Huh Todd Who'd have thought
it was in him.
Copyright. 1918, by seweu Ford)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
Directors Advocate Simplicity i'm the FoodSavng Program

lima, but grows on bushes instead of
on vines.
Much of the extension teaching is
done in Spanish. In towns there are
classes for women once week, and
neighborhood meetings once a month,
for discussing the broad problems of
food saving, the high cost of living
and war service. A war diet card was
circulated through the schools, and
this card tells how starches may take
the place of flour, how cocoanut but
ter can be used instead of milk butter,
how the fat of the cocoa (native choc-
olate) can be substituted for other fats,
and treats of other problems of substi-
tuition. There also are issued special
war bulletins and recipes for economi-
cal meals
Even further removed from war prep
aration, in point of understanding, IL
not in distance, are some parts Of Ken
lucky. Miss Mary f. Sweeney, homo
economics director of that state. told
the story of a man who went into
the Kentucky mountains to carry the
remote settlement. in what formerly
was a "moonshine" section, and stall
wart mountaineer confronted him with
this naive inquiry:
Stranger, glad to see you along this
way. Haven't seen anybody from out
side for six months. Now 1 hear there's
great big feud goin on somewheres,
how about it?
But these mountaineefs, of purest ma
tive American stock. respond to a man
when the message of. their nations
need Is brought to them. Down in the
Kentucky mountains are villages where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17

hotels also have been supplied with
suggested bills of fare for wheatless
meatless and other forms of less"
meals.
Illinois reached many housewives by
food shows, said Miss Isabel Bevier,
Only these food shows were different,
for no food was given away by ex-
hibitors. The biggest one of these, in
Chicago. January to II, specialized in
use of little known foods and 1000 per-
sons were served with whale meat, not
demonstration agents. Recipe books
were sold for 3 and cents, and results
OF these recipes were shown and
methods of making them explained by
the agents. There were five aisles in
which these agents were stationed with
Of the major edibles-fats. sugars.
starches. fruits and vegetables
From PARKWAY Porto Rico came Miss
Grace ]. Ferguson, bright-eyed. ener.
getic young American woman, who was
named as the home economics director
economics for the Porto Rico schools,
where domestic science is taught all
over the island.
Porto Rico. 1t should be understood,
takes a great interest in the war"
Miss Ferguson said THE war touches
principal products-sugsr tobacco and
coffee-iust now are in great demand.
Upon the entry of the United States
into the war a Porto Rican regiment
went to help guard the Panama canal.
That brought the war right into Porto
here, and work hard and long in Red
Cross service.
Then came the message that Porto
Rico would be expected to feed itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17

owned before, not to mention such
trif1es as new razors. fancy toilet soap
a couple of pounds of his favorite
smokin' tobacco, and other little con-
tributions that Pinckney and l could
collect in a hurry.
There" says Pfnckney, rs we waves
goodbye to Todd-"there embarkes 8
potential hero
81 don't know the brand" says l.
"barrin' it's one that makes good until
he meets a spankin' sister.
That menace. at least" says Pinck-
ney, ''he will be free from on the high
seas. AS for the rest-well. let us wish
him the best of luck and consider the
incident closed. Thank you. Shorty, for
a diverting interlude."
That's Pinckney. all over. Two min
utes from then he was takin his
mighty intellect with the proposition of
whether he should go home for dinner
or stop off at the club.
1 must say ! couldn't forget Todd
quite SO easy. Maybe I thought of him
a couple of times durin' the next week.
when / noticed the West Indian rum
min the elevator next door. Then the
heard the name about all it would have
called up would have been something
humorous about somebody gettin'
spanked.
ney and instead of indulgin' in any of
his usual piffle he pulls a chair up to
the desk where I'm sittin' at ease with
my feet up and proceeds to talk seri-
Gus and confidential.
Shorty says he, I've just had a
talk with my naval friend in the trans
port service"
"Y-e-e-e-S?' says l.
Well he goes on. ~the U-boats got
the Arapiqua on her return trip"
"Ara-which says /.
Don't you renem ber?" says he.
'"rhe one Todd shipped on as cook"
N'What?" says l. Sunk her? And
how about Todd"
I'm coming to that" says Pinckney.
The Arapiqua went over loaded with
mules anu provisions. She arrived
safely, in spite of a lively brush that
the conveys had off the coast of France.
Coming back the feet ran into quite
a storm. The Arapiqua became
separated from the rest-strained a
propeller shaft. She was lying to,
patching things up, when the sub
marine appeared. OF course. she put
up fight. but chance shot disa bled
the after gun, killing or wounding
nearly all of the gun crew. There was
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burst a rosy bubble. No more could your
fettered soul rise on the wings OF Orpheus
Still. there were other aspirations, nc
doubt"
"Uh-huh." says Todd, gain dreamy
"Such as suggests Pinckney, let
TIM his left eye twinkle my way.
Il should ha' been sea captain says
Todd. "sailin' round and SEEM the world
maybe smugglin' bit, or mixin' it with
pirates over in them Molly islands"
Pinckney draws a deep breath. II
was his turn to stare He'd dug up some
thing he hadn't expected.
"Oh, l. say" says he. ''That'aa whale
of an ambition. But what kept you from
being sea captain. Todd?"
"Ah, l never had no -chanst." says
Todd. II been a stick int h'-mud. Sick
lot. for one thing. And then I never
knew just how to get started. But
allus wanted to strike out for myself
to get away where there was danger
and flghtin' and things to stir your
blood. If I could only get there now
right in the thick of things, I'll risk
but I'd take my share. I'd show 'en
that Samson Todd was a man yet"
He's Strengthened up, Todd has, and
his squinty eyes has an odd greenish
flicker in 'em and he's Vaughn his
head cocky. l can't say whether he's
funny or pathetic little of both,
maybe. AS for Pinckney, I can tell
lie . HdNiu Tue TINE OF MS lie.
Todd" says he, II am almost in
clined to tbelieve you. AS our friend
McCabe WSeuld phrase it, you tell it
well. And yet-Ah, I must quote for
you my favorite motto: Adventures,
Tod. are for the venturous"
"Hey?" says Todd.
For Cherries" says Pinckney. lone
climbs tree. Never were there more
stirring times than these. The world
at war-and you running an eleva-
tort"
Obi" says Todd. 81 couldn't get into
anything. I'm over forty"
STILL" says Pinckney, 'for one who
SO earnestly Graves that sort of thing
there should be some way open-per-
haps not In the very trenches, but
See here; what were you before you
became an elevator manr'
Little Of everything" says Todd. ri
used to sell extras durin' the Spanish
American muss. Later on I peddled
bananas and potatoes and such truck
from cart. Then for a while helped
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"Ah. come" says T. Let's have it
What was it she did to your
spu-spanked me-" sobs out TODD
hidin' his head.
wv h-a-at." | gasped "You LET hel
Spa Good night! Here. Pinckney
Here's your mystery. This noble gen
here on the floor is Mr.. Samson Todd
Up to this noon he was elevator-maI
next door. He didn't like the job. Too
many females-old hens is his favoritt
name for EN-. And he's been beefin
about his woman-foiks at home. I trie6
to tell him that if he was regular guy
he wouldn't come grouchin' to me
about his troubles. but would stand VI
and feed it to 'em. Well. it seems ht
did. And now look at him. He goes
and let's 'em-- Say, shall l have
Swiftly Joe sweep him out. Or"
pinckney has hung his crook -necket
walkin'-stick on his left wrist and Is
holdin' up his other hand
tut. tut, Shorty" says he. Charity
old chap. There may be extenuatins
circumstances. Who knows? Perhaps
in cigarette"
"Eh?" says Todd. eyein' him suspi.
cious.
Pinckney is offerin' his gold cigarette.
case It's minute or SO. though. before
Todd can be induced to hoist himself
into chair and light up.
Pardon me for asking so personal a
question" says Pinckney, but you
haven't Always been an elevator-man
have you?"
mot me-" says Todd "six years
that's ALL And 1t was six years toe
many"
'"rhere, shorty!'' says Pickney trium-
plant. you see! Mr.. Todd is, as / sus-
pected, a person of defeated ambitions
enc who has felt the bludgeonings Of fate
but whose head is as yet unbowed. Am
right, Mr.. Todd?"
Todd was gawpin' at him puzzled; but
after thinkin' it over he mods solemn.
fAnd what" Pinckney goes on. "were
some OF those unsatisfied ambitions, Mr.
Todd?
"You-you mean-" begins Todd
1.-The things you yearned to do and
could not" Pinckney helps out.
IL allus meant to take lessons on TIL
accordion" says Todd. II can play II
sone--part OF Annie Laurie and the
chorus to Good Old Summer-time.'
was learnin 'Tipperary' too, gettin' along
fine. when that old hen sister Of mine
found the thing and bust it up on me- -
ION you!" says Pinckney. rAh, Ifgura-
lively, l trust? But none the less there
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scarcely resist. All, here is your EN-
inent assistant, Mr.. Gallagher, who
seems to await you with news of i'm
port"
It's a fact. Swiftly Joe is scowlin' i'm
patient.
We'll. anything on your mind besides
your hair. Swiftly" says I.
Nah" says he out of the southwest
corner of his mouth. But there's
sumpin' on the mat you might give the
once-over to when you get the time
"Ah, ha" says Pinckney. "a hint OF
mystery. Excellent"
"Since you're so strong for that sort
Of thing" says 1. IN let you in on it
"Doner' says Pinckney. Proceed to
the mat"
So we files into the gym. I had ia
take a second glance before / places
this huddle-up party with the torn
coat sleeve and the rumpled hair. But
as l walked around and stirred 1t with
my foot, pair of squinty eyes are
rolled up at me.
"Huhr' says I. Todd"
He means out something or other
and goes through some shivery mo-
tions.
well. WELL" 1 goes on. Last heard
of you. you was enjoyin' yourself fine
THROWN a scare into an elevator-loa
of women. with Mrs. Rosenbaum due
on the scene any minute. Did she show
up?"
"Ye-e-es,' groans Todd.
And you called her an old hen and a
few other things. like you threatened?'
/ asks. What them"
Il got the chuck" says Todd.
Didn't look for any medal of honor
to be pinned on you, did your" I goes
on. But that amt the only job in the
world. is 1t? Is that what ails you-or
have you been home?"
He mods and lets out some more
groans.
ooh. you have?" says /. "And there
was big howl, I'll bet. But 1 expect
you told that domestic trio of yours
where they got of. Ell? How did that
work out?"
Todd squirms around quite a lot, but
finally he gets out his report
says.
What" says I. Three women"
"You-you never saw that sister OF
mine" whines Todd. "She's as strong
as any man. 1t wasn't SO much that
she hurt as-aS-"
Here he breaks OF, sniffin'.
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Greeks, Italians, Jews. Lithuanians.
Poles. Portuguese. Swedes and Syrians.
This made eleven languages, with seven
leaflets to be translated into each.
total of seventy-seven publications.
But note here again characterization
ideas were introduced, for these pam
phlets not only were printed In the FOR
eign language, but side by side was the
English translation. Thus the pam
phiets serve as reading books for the
foreigner who is studying English.
They are Ineligible to both the for
eign-language-speak mother and her
English speaking child of the public
schools, and they demonstrated to the
suspicious type of foreigner that Amer
leans were being asked to do just what
he was requested to do.
In each of the ten cities in Massa-
chusetts already organized there are
districts. with leaders in eacff inclnd.
ing the foreign colonies, who have built
the machinery fer reaching the people
with any new food-saving request.
Thus there has been established a
channel leading from washington INTO
the most inaccessible portions of New
England's melting pot cities. for the
double message of food saving and
winning the war for American ideals
Miss Abby L. Marlatt. home economics
director of Wisconsin. who formerly
was associated with the food admins
tration here. on leave from her position
as professor of home economics at the
University of Wisconsin, had no such
city problems to deal with there. There
are but two cities in Wisconsin OF more
than 10000 inhabitants The most
striking phase of her work was thae
among the lumber camps.
And how those men can eat! inter-
jected Miss Marlatt.
Men of the lumber camps frowned on
woman demonstration agents for teach-
ing their male camp cooks how to con-
serve food. So men were found VINO
could go into the camps with the mes
sage of Save food and win the war.
Wisconsin has a veritable ir-trlgger
food-savinE organization with ramifi-
cations which reach to homes, farms.
grocery stores, hotels and every other
food distributing agency. In that state
there also is difficulty in impressing
twelfth of all the potatoes of the coun-
try. one-eighth Of the barley. is among
the banner corn states and also IS
rich producer of milk, cream. outter.
cheese. condensed milk and other
staples
But many unique ways have been
taken to impress the need for saving
food at home. SO that 1t may be shipped
to points where II is more needed.
Every store has it's window display.
and many have organized materials
upon their shelves in line with the con-
servation program. Stores have large
signs over shelves of certain products
stating: Use Us to Save Wheat" and
over other products saying: Save Us,
For Uncle Sam and Our Allies Need U.s."
wisconsin hotels have been supplied
with circulars showing lists of COM
merciai foods which are wheatless and
meats that may be used because they
cannot readily be sent abroad. The
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in quick lunch joint. That's where
got to be a cook
Really" says Pinckney. You are q
cook?"
"Nothin' fancy" says Todd. ct car
hash up common things. though. MUS
have had half a dozen places, but or
one account or another l GOT
See here, Todd" breaks in Pinckney
Il have the very thing for you Heard
of it only this noon when I was talk
ing to friend-a naval officer. Said he
was desperate for cooks, must find
twenty of 'em right away-mess cooks
for the transport service. Just cook
ing for the crews. you know. There
you are. That's you. 1 know where he
is now. Wait; I'll call him up
"But-but say" begins Todd
openin' and shuttin' his mouth gaspy
and stretchin' his fingers out after
Pinckney. who's started for the phone
"Well?" demanded Pinckney.
"Did-did you say them cooks was for
transporter" goes on Todd. steamers
that carry over soldiers and supplies,
amt they, and-and get sunk by sub
marines?
YES" says Pinckney. Precisely what
you want, isn't it? High adventure.
Shall I call him up?'
1t was fascinatin' to watch Todd s
face. First OFF, that weak chin of his
was sagged, his eyes were popped, and
his skin had turned a dull gray. Sweat
was startin' out on the sides of his nose.
Then. all of sudden. the muscles in
the mouth corners stiffen, and up comes
his head.
Yes" says Todd, hoarse and husky.
Call him."
Now. how you goin' to telle Might
have been easy enough for some of US.
maxim a move like that But it must
have been different with Todd, who'd
just been driftin' along. like rubbish
on the tide, ever since he was born.
I expect he'd wanted to do things. in a
vague sort of way. He'd wished and
waited. And that would have been as
far as he'd gone If he hadn't been
picked up by the scruff of the neck, as
you might say, and chucked into this
Things moved fast for Todd from
then on. though: Inside Of half an hour
he'd been hustled in a taxi to a re-
caniti IN % once &c and had signed up. Be
in Hoboken. loaded down with more
clean warm clothes than he'd ever
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Decimal Money.

E NGLAND may adopt the decimal sys.
Ia tenn for its currency. The agita.
ton for this reform appears to be gain
ing favor with the British people. and
among the important agencies behind
the movement is the Associated Cham
bers of Commerce of the United King
dom. For generations schoolboys have
been learning this: Four farthines
make one penny, twelve pence make
one shilling. twenty shillings make
one pound. twenty-one shillings ster-
ling make one guinea. twenty shillings
sterling make one sovereign.
Then there were the symbols to
learn-tke capital Il" with a short
line across the shank of the letter for
the Latin libra" or pound: the little
s. for shilling, or the Latin solidus; the
little ID for denarius. or penny, and
the ''qr" for "quadrans,' or quarter of
penny, standing for farthing. though
latterly far" came to stand generally
for farthing. All American schoolboys
have studied the table of English
money in that part of their arithmetic
dealing with reduction" which is -the
changing OF numbers, either simple or
compound from one denomination to
another without altering their values"
Many men will probably remember that
as boys they worked and labored over
two kinds of reduction" which were
called reduction descending and reduce
ton ascending"
The decimalizing of English money
is. of course, in the line of simpliffca-l
ton. Some of the financial powers and
papers are urging that parliament take
the matter under consideration, and
it is likely to come up for official treat
ment and discussion at any time
The plan is to retain the sovereign
as standard value of a thousand mills
the half sovereign, 500 mills; the four
shilling piece, 200 mills; the two-shill-
ing piece, or form. 100 mills; the half
form. commonly called the shilling. SO
lIC Ey.I he
1t is recommended that ten-mill and
f1ve-mill pieces be coined.