Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-17
VIEWS AND NEAR-VIEWS,
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
After WAT Isusincss-Thnt Deliver!
system, NSnln-iiiStory of APP
Observation-Disclosures Ia I'm Ii.

Z he pC l'pnt lpWUGE N''iPNHS nos
acquired Il substantial interest in TWO
Large automobile companies. y imam
! cial journal explains this move. rs
: motor concerns arc large consumers
! OF fubrihoid ami u. ralin. as we'll as
pa ints and varnishes. which tho powder
company is now engaged in manufac-
turing as by-productS. the Du Points
are obviously putting their money
where IL viii do the most good. Many
companies which In tho past few years
have done 4 substantial war business
age looking forward 10 the time when
they must find other business TO take
its place. The Du = nj Company Is
already establishing an after the war"
business which Will serve to great
extent TO take the place Of The ao-
normal war business which the COM
pauy has done in the past few years
In a few days now retail merchants
in all towns OF $500 population or
more will he asked 10 adopi the entire
retail delivery system program OF the
Commercial Economy Board, Council n
National Defense. This program IN
cludes the maximum OF one delivery
day, the elimination Of special de-
livcrieS. restrictions on returned goods,
{. q. i. privileges. and the cSta biiSh-
lnent Of cooperative delivery systems
in small and mcdium-sized communal
ties. This action was decided upon at
Il conference held by the Commercial
Economy Board. at which we're present
Herbert 4. Hoover. United states food
administrators; w. =. i;ediicld. Secretary
Of Commerce, and representatives or
state Councils OF Defense from Con-
mecticut. Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky.
Maine. Maryland. Minnesota. New Jer-
scy. New York. Pennsylvania. south
Carolina. Vermont. Virginia and West
Virginia.
There was. a time, so the Regina rost
tells US. when appendicitis was quite
q fashionable disease. In some PARTS
of Europe ii was known as the "Ameri-
can disease" The FIRST operation for
appendicitis was performed al IT.
Lukc'S Hospital, Denver, Col. in Jam
uary. 1851. y young woman residing
in Davenport, Iowa, had the distinction
Of being the first person TO have inc
troublesome. vcrmiform appendiN re-
moved The operation. necessarily.
was in Tho nature of an experiment.
and the patient was so informed. but
She pluckily declared her Willingness
to submit TO the knife as Il last resort
II was not until about two years later
that another operation OF this kind
was performed. Since then thousands
of such operations have been per
formed in every hospital in the world.
1ndu*triallY. tho war is developing
things in this country, many g WEich
have not as yet attracted the attention
Of the average observer. For example,
scarcity OF French walnuts has added
to the demand for Texas, Virginia and
Georgia pccans. Then, too. there have
been found in the forests and in the
mines OF Virginia and other southern
States materials Of which 10 make MIL
lions Of dollars worth of dyeStun5, Tor
which We Cnce thought we Wee en-
tirely dependent upon foreign lands.
These arc but two pointers. When the
war is over We viii not go back 10
foreign lands for these things. but
Keep on making them here.
The statistics seem 20 show that
German guns are not SO destructive OF
life as We have been led to believe.
Ii is said that the loss OF life III tho
British forces at the front. from all
causes. IL only a little more than
per cent 4 year. OF the 100000 babies
horn every year in the United states
more than $4,000 die before they are
a year old That is more than Il per