Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-26

ahead of them but to re-enlist upon the
iexpirati OF, service, for the simple
reason that all they knew was soldier
ing. They were unfit for civil life and
its occupations, and too frequently
they were merely tough guys" be-
cause their minds had been brought to
halt through the methods of life aud
the limited instruction received in
camps.
| The war department says that 1.-The
future army will not spend a part of
the day in drill and the remainder in
idleness." In order to change this,
says an official statement, lit is the
policy of the war department to make
farmers of as many recruits as can by
any means be induced to adopt the
profession of agriculture. The course
in agriculture taught at Army. schools
is under the direct supervision of eX-
tperts obtained from the leading agri-
cultural institutions of the country.
An officer in the adjutant generals Of
flee says: 1T is predicted that when
the country becomes better acquainted
with the character of the work done at
these Army schools it will recognize a
constant source Of supply for its agri-
cultural needs
News Print Advanced 500 Per Cent.
A current report Of the government
forest service says that the larger
newspaper publishers of the country
have been able to keep down the adj
vance in cost of their news print to
about 200 per cent because Of their
ability to contract in large volume But
the market price, according to the bull
letin. has advanced 500 per cent since
1915. 1t Is at this price that the snail
publisher is compelled to buy his IVA
per stock.
Primarily, the reason for the advance
in paper Is due to u wood shortage. In
earlier days the paper mills were hhilt
in the lumber regions ar' t.rir pulp
wood was n sort of by product Of the
saw milling industry. But in most If
these regions the saw mills have finish.
ed, and they have packed up. burned
out, or moved away for some other
reason But the paper mill cannot play
the part Of carpet Dagger" quite SO
easily. and as a result the northeastern
part Of the United States has become
largely dependent upon Canadian wood.
Spruce from Minnesota and Canada,
for example, is being hauled from 7CO
to 100 miles to Wisconsin paper
mills. In New York state, where nearly
fifty per cent Of our news print is pro-
duced. sixty per cent of the pulp and
paper mills have absolutely no timber
supplies of their own New Hampshire
and Maine appear to be the only east
ern states that still have raw material
for making paper. and there is n well
grounded suspicion in the paper trade
that the day of profiteering in spruce,
hemlock. balsam and popular is pretty
well under way.
The big papers. in any event, are GER
tainly eating up the little ones. and
their funny sheets" magazine sections
and other irrelevant features add to
the tragedy of the proceedings.
Service Demands Tremendous.
At this time there is scarcely cen
trail station company for electricity
which is able to supply the demands
made upon it for power for industrial
uses.
In 1919 the 7.243 central station com
panies in the United States genera ted
80. 'Ej9. 100000 kilowatt hours of energy
and employed over 100000 men. This
current was carried over more than ST.
600 miles Of high tension transmission
lines, serving. in addition TO the many