T0 HEEP THE BOYS
WARM IN CAMP
Rt
Many Clothes and Sleeping
Things are. Shipped.-
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MEADE GETS BIG SUPPLY
Four Times As Many Blankets As
Men At Cantonment—Great Mo-
bilization . Of Textile
Industry.
Department.
Of this enormous total, Camp Meade,
80,532; cotton breeches,
ets,
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EES
16,691: woolen coats 24188;
leggins,
22,034; flannel shirts,
stockings, 66,878; light
41,453; cotton un-
woolen undershirts,
36,642.
811; hats,
overcoats,
896; cotton
woolen stockings,
dershirts, 48,615;
77,695, and shoes,
42,062;
53.-
Put Under License By Presi-
dential Proclamation.
October 2. They reveal a tremendous
response on the part ‘of the American
industries to the emergency demands
of the Government. Deliveries that
have already been made seemed only
a few weeks ago to be utterly impos-
sible of accomplishment. When the
war broke out
establishments were without large re-
sistent demands from foreign coun-
tries. In the few months since then
these industries have been practically
made over to the needs of Uncle Sam,
and there has been such a mobilization
and realignment of their facilities as
to stagger imagination in many in-
stances.
From now on, it is stated, the flow of
supplies for the army will be steady
and constant. The total, figures on
shipments made to all 16 cantonments
follow: Bedsacks, 422346; blankets,
1.402.390; cotton breeches, 436,749;
woolen breeches, 259,805; cotton coats,
267,579; woolen coats, 204,728; sum-
mer drawers, 912,272; winter drawers,
1,047,690; hats, 607.374; leggins, 459.
116; overcoats, 289.713; flannel shirts,
$97,997; cotton stockings, 1,606,532;
light wool stockings, 1,276,023; heavy
wool stockings, 12,975; cotton unde:
shirts, 1,019,801; woolen undershirts,
1,023,093; shoes, 937,734. Grand total,
12,974,111 articles.
INDICTED FOR BOMB PLOTS.
Four Accused Of Conspiring To De-
stroy, Munition Ships. -
New York.—Indictments charging a
conspiracy to “plant” incendiary
bombs aboard ships carrying munit
of war from this to the Entente
Allies in 1815, were returned by a Fed
eral grand jury against Eugene
Reistere, Joseph Zeffert, Walter Uhde
and Bonford Boniface. Three of the
men were taken into custody last night
by the police “bomb squad” and
fourth today.
Bail for Zeffert was fixed at $8,000
and for the others at $10.000 each, in
default of which they were sent to jail
Others involved in the conspiracy
and previously indicted included Frarz
von Rintelen, a captain in the German
Navy; Dr. Walter T
to have operated a “bomb factory’
Hoboken; Captain Otto Wolpert
Carl Schimmel,
Evidence that Schimmel had knowl
edge of the placing of bombs aboard
the Lusitania prior to her last
age 13 being investigated. ‘he indict
ments returned today charge that
Schimmel! carried through the streets
of New York three packages contain-
ing bombs intended be - placed
aboard ships.
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the
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SANK THE LIEBENFELS.
Captain and Editorial Writer Con-
victed Of Conspiracy.
Aiken, 8. C.—Paul Wierse, editorial
writer of the Charleston (8. C.) Ameri
ean, and Captain Klattenho®, of the
German steamship Liebenfels, were
piracy to sink the ship in Charles
ton Harbor, and sentenced to two years
a fine of $1,000 and costs each.
The Liebenfels was sunk just before
jovernment.
CRISIS FOR MICHAELIS.
Naval Mutiny.
Copenhagen. — Germany's paper
tion but was so small in results, has
passed. In its place has arisen a new,
and this time a really serious erisis,
caused by the attempt of Chancellor
Michaelis, vice-chancellor Helfferich
and Mirister of the Navy von Capelle
aavy as a political weapon against the
party of the extreme left In the Reich
stag.
Manufacture, Storage, Importation and
Buying and Selling Brought Under
Federal Registration To Pre-
vent Unreasonable Profits,
{ Washington.—Government control of
| foodstuffs is extended to take In vir.
by
| Wilson directing the Food Administra.
tion to license after November 1 the
manufacture, storage, importation and
distribution of some 20 prime com-
modities. Many small dealers are ex-
empted,- as ‘are farmers, who were
especially excepted in the Food Con-
trol Law.
The Proclamation.
After quoting the Food Control Act,
under which the action iz taken,
President's proclamation says
“It is essential, in order to carry into
effect the purpose of said act, to li-
cense the importation, manufacture,
storage and distribution of neceszaries
to the extent hereinafter specified
the
“All persona, firms, corporations and
associations engaged in
of (1) operating
warehouses (a cold-storage warehouse,
for the purpose of this proclamation,
being defined as any place artificially
or mechanically cooled to or below a
temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit,
the business
either cold-storage
held f
operating
other places for storage of corn, oats,
bariey, beans, rice,
sod
meal,
wr
thirty days
elevators,
(2)
or
or more);
warehouses
cake, cottonseed meal or peanut
or (3) importing, manufacturing
uding milling, mixing or packing,
distributing {including buying
selling) any the following
(inc!
Oar r
OF
or com-
modities:
Commodities Affected.
“Wheat, wheat flour,
flour; barley or barley flour; oat
meal or rolled oats; corn, corn grits,
cornmeal. homony, flour, starch
corn oil, corn syrup or glu
rice flour; dried beans: pea
seed or dried peas: cottonseed, cotton
geod oll, cottonseed cake or cottonseed
meal; peanut oil or peanut meal; soya
bean oil, soya bean meal, palm oil ©
oleomargarine, lard, lard
substitutes, oleo oils or cooking fata;
butter or cheese; condense
powdered or evaporated milk; fresh
canned or cured beef, pork or mution;
poultry or eggs:
rye or rye
=, ont
corn
from corn
COSe, rite,
copra oil;
milk,
fresh or frozen fish;
fresh {ruits or vegetables: canned peas,
sardines; dried prunes, apples, peaches
or
Small Dealers Exempted,
“Excepting, however, the following:
“Operators of all elevators
houses handling wheat or rye, and
been licensed,
“Importers,
finers of sugar, and manufacturers of
already been licensed.
annum,
“Common carriers,
“Farmers, gardeners,
i
i
co operative
| including live stock farmers, and
| other persons with respect to the prod.
ucts of any farm, garden or other land
| owned, leased or cultivated by them.
“Fishermen whose business does
not extend beyond primary consign.
ment,
{ “Those dealing in any of the above
| commodities on any exchange, board
| of trade or similar Institution as de
{ fined by Section 13 of the act of Au
| gust 10, 1917, to the extent of their
i dealings on such exchange or board
[of trade,
“Millers of corn, oats, barley, wheat,
je or rice operating only plants of
a daily capacity of lesa than 75 bar.
| rola,
| tomatoes, salmon or sardines,
Ades per annum.
“Persons slaughtering, packing and
distributing fresh, canned or cured
beef, pork or ‘mutton, whose gross
sales of such commodities do not ex-
ceed $100,000 per annum
“Operators of poultry or egg pack-
ing plants, whose gross sales do net
exceed $50,000 per annum,
“Manufacturers of maple syrup,
maple sugar and maple compound.
“Ginners, Buyers, agents, dealers or
{ other handlers of cottonseed, who
| handle yearly, between September 1
and August 31, less than 150 tons of
cottonseed,
Effective November 1.
“Are heréby required to secure on
| or before November 1, 1917, a license,
which license will be {ssued under such
rules and regulations governing the
conduct of the business as may be pre.
scribed. .
“Applications for the license must
i be made to the United States Food
Administration, Washington, D. CC,
law department, license division, on
forms prepared by it in advance for
that purpose, whiéh may be secured
on request.
“Any person, firm or corporation or
association other than those hereinbe-
fore excepted, who shall engage in or
carry on any business hereinbefore
specified after November 1, 1917, with.
out first securing such license will be
liable to the penalty prescribed by said
act of Congress.”
The penalties prescribed for viola
tion of the act are a fine of $5000 or
imprisonment of not more than two
| years,
GERMAN NAVAL REVOLT FAILS.
Crews On Four Battleships Mutinied.
Several Shot.
Amsterdam. —A muliny among the
| crews of four battleships of the Ger
min fleet occurred at Wilthelms-
haven. One of these battleships was
the Westfalen, whose captain was
i thrown overboard and drowned. The
crews landed. Marines refused to fire
{on them, whereupon soldiers surround
has
ed the sailors, who surrendered
ried to have occur
Nurn-
A mutiny is repo
red on German warship
berg, which was at The men
the officers and proceeded in
tion of Norway, with the in-
ya of being interned. The Nurn
org was overtaken by destroyers and
sread to surrender.
Emperor Willlam went to Wilhelms-
en and ordered that one out of
Very seven mutineers be shot. Chan.
rellor Michaelis protested, with the re
sult that only Heavy
ientences were imposed on the others
William's visit to Wil
aven in company with Chancel
Michaelis was made after
mutiny had been suppressed.
One of the reasons for the mutiny
was bad and inadequate food.
the
sea
asjzod
the direc
teril
three were shot
Emperor
helms
lor the
PLANS FOR NEXT DRAFT.
Practically All Eligibles To Be Sum-
moned For Examination At Once.
Washington~Plans for calling up
tthe next draft of designates for the
National Army are now complete,
The exact number of men that nre
to be called up is about the only gues
i tion still undecided.
That, however, is a detail, indsmuch
i as General Crowder has deiermined
{that a majority, #f not all, of the
i actly how they stand on the list.
Revolutionary changes are
made in the methods. Complete ad-
vantages is to be taken of every mis.
| take that was made in the first eall
A HAN AS SSR,
AT LAST 'TIS ANSWERED,
Soh
Scots Don't Wear Anyihing Under
Kilts In Cold Weather,
London.—At last some one has had
the hardihood to ask the guestion
aroused by the sight of a Scot in kilts,
During a trial at Old Bailey a Scottish
laddie In kilts was a witness. One of
the jurors restrained himself as long
as possible-~then asked him.
“I've never known anyone in my
regiment to wear anything under them,
even in the coldest weather at the
front,” answered the Scot.
The judge and jury heaved n sigh of
raliof
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LEAD THE WORLD
Construction Program Calls For
787 Vessels.
EVERY TYPE IS INCLUDED
Total Program Costs $1,150,400,000
Work Of Construction Being Rush-
ed—8ome Vessels Completed
and Now In Service.
Washington. —The American Navy's
787 vessels, including all
superdreadnoughts to
types from
submarine
In making this announcement, Sec
have been completed within the past
few weeks and are now in service and
that the remainder of the program Is
rushed. The total cost is esti
Many of the vessels are destroyers
carrying out the $350,000,000 supple
mental destroyer program, which the
Navy expects to be completed in
months,
Examinations of
legal representatives
prevented the formal signing
agreements with the six companies
which are to bufld the craft, but Mr
Daniels said only minor details stood
in the way of getting the vessels under
construction
Secretary Daniels sald he expected
the first of the new destroyers to be
launched and commissioned within
nine months. They will be of the
largest and improved type
which have just been tried by the
American Navy, he said, and found te
be unsurpassed by any destroyers in
the world.
by
builders
contracts
of the
of
IN ACCORD IN RUSSIA.
Democratic Agrezs
Kerensky's Plans.
Congress
Petrograd. After a conference of
three hours of members of the Govern
ment, including Premier Kerensky
with a delegation representing
Democratic Congress and with
sentatives of the bourgeois, a complete
agreement reached on
The Premier declared that the
Government purposed immediately t
form a complete cabinet, that the
reconstituted coalition
might be able to go to work at
on the basis laid down
repre
Was all ques
tions
£0
once
PLOT TO BLOW UP CITY HALL.
Enough Dynamite Found Under Muni
cipal Building To Chatter It.
Philadelphia — What is believed by
the police to have been an attempt t«
blow up the City Hall was
when Nathaniel Rambo, a cily em
ploye, found enough sticks of dynamit«
the Th
th
whos
to blow building to
explosive was found directly un
City Controller's window, in
room the vaults of the city are
piece
der
MEXICANS GET U. 8. SOLDIERS.
imprisoned But Escape.
Fabens, Texas —Two American sol
side line south of here,
and taken prisoners bj
armed Mexicans, removed to Mexican
territory and imprisoned in an adode
building. The soldiers =oon made their
escape from the building and fled
the American side
they rejoined their command.
of the
overpowered
of the line, whet
Draft Law.
New York. Jesus Martinez, a Mexi
the selective draft law on the ground
that he is Mexican viceconzul hore,
was arrested by Federal Agents. He
was arraizned before a United States
Martinez has been
supported in his action by Juan T.
Burns, Mexican consul.
“DROWNED” TO GET INSURANCE.
Orleans, Confesses Fraud.
New Orleans.—Fred. Roe Spearing,
of Phialdelphia, who, according to the
two years ago in order that his wife
might collect his insurance, was arrest.’
ed hera According to authorities,
Spearing had made a complete confes.
sion,
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SENATORS TO VISIT FRONT.
Hale and Kenyon Will Study War On
Battle Fields.
Washington, « Senator Hale, of
Maine, who was on the European bat.
tle front when the President summon.
ed Congress in extraordinary session
to deal with war problems, intends re.
turning to France to study the present
situation. He will he accompanied by
Senator Kenyon, of Towa, who also is
DAIRY CAMPAIGN PLAN
Make Fullest Use of Every Drop
of Milk Produced.
rT
Large Portion of By-Products Might
Advantageously Be Made Directly
Into Food for Human
Consumption,
(From the United Btates Department of
Agriculture.)
A campaign to have every drop of
milk produced in the United States
make the fullest possible contribution
to the food supply of the country will
be launched immediately by the Dalry
Divisions of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture, This eampalgn
will be eanrried on with funds made
available by the food production bill
recently enacted by congress,
ent much skim milk and large quanti-
vantageously be made directly
food for human consumption.
products constitute cheap forms
food.
tage and other cheeses are high in pro-
tein and are useful
meats,
In work for fuller utilization of milk
the dalry
special attention to cottage-
manufacture. Creamery
devote
cialists of the division, milk producers
will be encouraged to send as much
whole milk as possible to the cream-
eries, and efforts will be made to In-
crease the general consumption of cot-
tage cheese by the public
Other specialists of the division will
aid state extension workers in conduct-
ing campaigns for the improvement
of farm-
specialists also will conduct demon-
strations before groups of farm men
and women.
PLAN FOR CATCHING RABBITS
Recom-
mended by Department of Agri.
culture—Tile Is Used.
A clever plan for catching rabbits
It is a trap which catches
one quickly.
| ges0ceescssncessscvessnne
POTATO DON'TS
(1) Don't injure the selling
and storing quality of your po-
tatoes by careless digging.
(2) Don't glut the fall mar-
ket and injure your winter mar-
ket by placing large quantities
of ungraded stock on the mar-
ket at harvesting time.
(8) Don’t ship any frost-dam-
aged potatoes, It Is disastrous,
(4) Don't demoralize the al-
ready overburdened transporta-
tion facilities by shipping cull
potatoes. Unless potatoes are
extremely high in price culls will
not bring transportation charges,
(5) Don't overlook the advan
tages of “machine sizers.” They
are proving of great value in
many shipping sections,
(6) Don't expect machine
sizers to grade for quality-—only
human hands can grade out the
defective tubers,
(7) Don’t mix No. 1 and No.
2 grade potatoes. There are
customers who desire each sep-
arately, but do not want them
mixed,
(8) Don’t overlook the potato
grades recommended by the
United States department of ag-
riculture and the
food commission.
United States
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PLAN TO SAVE CLOVER SEED
Should Be One of Regular Routine
Duties on Farm-—High Price
Justifies the Labor.
Saving clover seed should be one of
the regular routine duties every
farm. The high price and the uncer
{tainty of being able to good
on
secure
Clover Seed Gatherer,
| seed more than justifies the labor and
| expense of saving seed for home use if
i nothing more. It Is only an item in a
well-organized system of diversified
farming. A gatherer in the shape of a
comb or stripper, which any farmer
can make for himself, will enable him
to easily save seed sufficient for his
own use. Other methods will suggest
themselves to you when the time
| comes, only do mot fail to save the
of six
that the small side outlet is below the
The two small tiles
The tiles are well covered with soil
The rabbits are free to pass in and
When they
it is an
Tile Drain Trap.
easy matter to close up the entrance
and take them out of the large tile by
raiging the cover. Such traps are es
pecially suited to open places or on
hiding
natural places. —~Popular Sci
and Be Taken Up by Plant and
Then Digested.
Every reader of a farm paper must
pression “available plant food” As
the plant food which will
that the plant can wke it up. In the
animal stomach there are certain di-
gestive fluids that dissolve the food so
that it can be absorbed into the blood
stream. The soil must serve as a
stomach for plants and as the plant
food dissolves in the soil water It is
absorbed into the plant julces and
moves up through the plant where it
can be used. The extra water evapo
rates from the leaves and moves up,
giving a constant circulation. From
this it can be seen that only dissolved
plant food ean be used. Almost all
soil materials can be dissolved to a
slight extent but often the rate of dis-
solving is too slow,
FARMER SHOULD KEEP BOOKS
Many Clnnot Tell at End of Year
Whether Business Has Been
Profitable or Not.
Probably the most expensive error
usually made by our farmers is the
failure to keep books that will enable
them, at any time, to tell whether
they are doing business at a profit or
loss, Muny of our farmers can't tell
at the end of the year “whether they
have made money ov lost money.
Should any other business be con
filucted In this maener, nothing but
€aliure would be expected,
| INCREASED SUPPLY OF MEAT
| special Efforts to Be Directed Toward
Hogs and Poultry by Depart.
ment of Agriculture.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
| To stimulate quick increase in the
| meat supply, the United States depart
| ment of agriculture will extend
| throughout the country. the pig clubs
{ which have been operated in 15 states
| and the poultry clubs which have been
| operated in nine states. In addition to
the 88 specialists in hog production
i and 89 specialists In poultry produc
{tion who thus will be placed in the
| field at once, an additional specialist
on hog prodnction will be placed in
each of the five principal hog-raising
states.
Hogs and poultry have been singled
out as the live stock on which special
paign for increased meat production,
because they give the quickest returns
The various pig and poultry clubs have
already Interested in the rearing of
these animals large numbers of young
people who otherwise would not coa-
tribute to an increase in food prodne-
tion.
Given Crop Does Not Germinate First
Season, But Distributes Germina.
tion Over Period.
“One year of seed, seven years of
weeds.” Weed seeds are produced in
great abundance. A given crop of
weed seed does not germinate the first
season, but distributes its germination
over a period of years,
Seeds deep in the soil do not germi-
nate readily because of lack of oxygen,
and those that do grow exhaust the
stored food in the seed before reaching
the surface. Seeds may lie buried in
the soil for years without losing their
power of ge nating. Such seeds may
germinate readily when brought to the
surface.
DETERMINE VALUE OF HORSE
Feed Given Colt for First Eighleen
Months Decides to Great Extent
Size at Maturity.
The feed a coit gets the first 18
menthe, and especially the first winter,
determines to a great extent the size
of the colt at maturity. The size of a
horse determines its value very large
ly. Good breeding gives wonderful pos
sibilities, but it takes feeding if these
possibilities are to be fully realized.
MUDHOLES NOT PREFERRED
Hogs Are Not Dirty From Choicte
Cement Tank Filled With Clean
Water Is Most Desired.
Hogs do not use mudholes for bath-
tubs from choice. They rightly want
a bath every day, but had rathér have
a cement tank sunk ten or twelve
inches In the ground and filed with
clear cool water thae a mudhole.