The producers news., 1919-08-15


dtaly ----------------------------- 100000
Spain -------------------.---...-.. RQd mn
Sweden -------------.--.------------.--. $4,000
Figures compiled by H. C. Wiltbankl
Germany and Austria have steppel
out of the list. Spain and Sweden
have stepped in to it. The United
| States has taken the second place
from Germany. Today she is num-
ber two among the big ten. Japan
is third instead of fifth. France is
seventh instead of fourth.
British policy and British neces
sity call for sea control. For a CEN
tury, the British. held the undisputed
mastery of the seas. Germany
threatened that mastery. She is no
more. In 1919 the United States
occupies the same position, as far as
tonnage is concerned, that Germany
occupied in 1914. Furthermore, the
ship building capacity of the United
States is greater than that of any
other nation. American ship ton
mage is new threat to British sea
supremacy. Japan looms on the
Eastern horizon with her growing
IlcSI VI IlcIClldilCII1CIk.
| Would you know the names of the
chief participats in the next world
}, war? Begin at the top of the column
showing "After the War" tonnage
!, figures and count down!
NINETEEN PER CENT
; DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Health
I Commissioner of New York City, has
, issued an official bulletin from which
j it appears that 19 per. cent. Of the
children in New York City are un-
der nourished.
, Nineteen per cent!
!; Charles Dickens in lizard Times"
t pictures a school teacher, Mr.. Nc
: Choakumchild giving lesson in eco
= nomic. Mr.. McChoakumchild says to
Sissy Jupe, a daughter of hardship
| and poverty, "Here are the statistics
E of accidents upon the high seas and
. find that in a given time hundred
thousand persons were to sea on long
q voyages, and only five hundred OF
' them were drowned or burned to
. death. What is the percentage,
Sissy Jupe answers, Nothing"
"Nothing!" exclaims Mr.. McChoak-
h umchild, in astonishment.
$ Nothing" answers Sissy Jupe, TO
O the relations and friends OF the peO-
pie who were killed"
? Nineteen per cent. of the children
/ in New York City are under-nouT
:? ished. What does the per cent. mat
t ter to the fathers and mothers OF
. the hundreds of thousands of boys
e and girls about whom Dr. Copeland
t writes, investigations have snoWI
IS that under-nourishment is to be trac-
ed most directly to insufficient Ol
wrong feeding Reports OF Vn'
N United States Bureau Of Laoor snow
n that the average. increase IN wage
j. since the war began has been aoou
i 18 per cent, while the average III
crease in the cost of food has pee:
nearly 100 per cent. Families VIII
narrow margin of living cannot W -,
)63 suffer as q result
70 present time one child out o. eNSl.
% five in New York City IS so onoe-
20 nounshed as to demand lmmeo-aG !.
10 attention, while at least TWO ''0,,,. ~,
20 tional children out OF every H'e %
10 on the border line between q, 9'o
l0 health and under-nOurshlneH-'
90 The percentage OF unael-aol-iS.. l.Ls.
10 cd children in 1914 was per c5---
and the percentage IN 1917 10 y
90 per cent, which is another wa. .s-+l
90 saying that four times as many g..;-I -.;.5
90 ers and mothers look, with -...- ''-=- ~
90 from their inadequate WAGES " %.
]O meagar bodies of their little oil17'