vl 'S I- m y r, e J .. t.USTKAT. fcuattnn He&gcr nnan uf'i iCkAanns PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTHUa It. K. CUKTIS, rnrsmrM &r1m It. tatdlnston. Vic President! John faetln. Hrrtar rii Treasurer. 1hihn 8. olllns, John II. Williams, John J. hpurBton, ' H. Whaler, Directors. KDlTOnlAt. IIOAHDl Cintix II. K. CtBTU. Chairman. WH AI.F.T Editor 9. H. JOHN C. MAnTIN.. General Dullness Mannr Published dully ut Pernio t.Ktmrn nulldlnc Independence) Square, Philadelphia, I.aimaa CrsTltAI... .nroail and Chestnut Ktrreta ATLANTIC ClTV l'rrs-l7nion llulMlnit ' fisw Voait 20(1 Metropolitan Tower Detroit nn Konl Hull 1inr . PIT. ioms.,. Kiiii ruiierion nun-ling; Cnicuao ,j. ... 120J Tribune Uul illnv xnws uuiucausi Wi.niviTos nt.nrB. JCuw "V j.osrM Jv. K. (."or. rrnnsjivama Ale. and nth M. ionic liiun.il The Him iiinMine srms lime At'.. . Marconi House, turn ml muni az Hue Louis le urann Sl'ISHCMPTtON TKU.MS Tho UvtMva I.riKirn Is served to ur.siTlbrs In FhlladtlPhla mid aurrnundlng tonus at tha rat of twelve IIJ) cents per week, payable, to tha carrier. ny mall to points puisiae or riiuaneipnia in y man eo remi, pui.mf pi i-miHiiriimia in United States, Ciena la or United Mites ros- t Ions, pOktiRo free. fUtl 'MO tents per J th. Six (fUl dollars p-r .eur. pajable In w fftS month tdvance To all forelzn countries one (It) dollar per month. NnTicr. Suhscrlhers wlshlnj: address chanced must clve old as w ell as new adJrers. BELL. 100O VTAIALT KtlsTONL. VIM'S JOM .Irfdrrs iff rommunUelloni tn Flrnlnj Ltdatr, Independence Sqt,are, Piinie'pMa. MKtco it Tnr inn Ancmiu rmTorric xt rcovp-iIM vxiL uiTTia rhlUdelpbij, I ndiy. Noeemtier SO, 1917 WATERWAYS FOR WAR AND PEACE T H13 war emphasizes the icee&siti and aluo of an Inland waterway sjstcm from New Unglund to Tloi Ida more point edly and substantial tlian all the aiKU ments and orations at the eleventh annual convention of tho Atlantic Deeper Watci nas Association, now In session nl Miami. Convincing and eloquent as the.o pleas surelj are, the simply sup port the movement which Its founder. Congressman .1. Hampton Moore and his colleagues have been prosecuting In Con gress and out since 1007, when the asso elation was org.tnlcJ in this citj It Is no disparagement to sav that war with the smashing logic of mllltarv ncccssit Is arguing more forciblv and effectively for their project than all the advocates together since the beginning. Congressmen who supported the pro posals for an Inter- und intia coistal thor oughfare aloiM the Atlantic seabo.ud llnd themselves vindicated In this hour of national tirgencj and pressure on all ave nues of transportation. Congressmen who opposed appropriations realle the foil of their opposition now in a crisis when the authorities might have been relieving railroad congestion bj the use of supple mentary w.iterwas. But It is Useless to hold an Inquest over la'ck of preparedness. The Importance now Is to recognize that "preparedness," In Its recent sense, Is a cunent word, ex pressing eneigy and action that ate eon tantly going on. We must realise tliat It is never too late to prepare To be pre pared means buckling down to Imme diately and Imperative demanded achievement In making operative the Inland waterway svstcm Its completion Is eminently desirable before the end of the war If engineeting and lalior prob lems make that unfeasible, completion of one link aftei another will more than p.ij In value returned for the monev espendi d. Just now the Atliutiu vvatciw.iy Is outstanding as a war necessltj. Uut It Is one of those mllltii woiks which will he of utmost national utllit.v after the war. A great burden of taatIou has already been laid on this generation. Financing wateiwajs Is one p.ut of financing the war. No geneiatlon builds for itself alone. Those that succeed us will r help defray this bill from the revenues of a commeicia! enterprise as Intiinsl- , cally valuable as the Pan ima Canal. Stock tuklng of what has been done hows the Cape Cod unit already In oper ation under private ownetslilp, the Nor ' folk-to-Beaufort, N. C. unit piovided foi. eliminating the ocean menaces of Capo Hatterus; and wateiwajs fiom Oeoie town, S. C, to Key West opened up. Congress has authorised condemnation proceedings for the Delawnie and Chesa peake Canal. Thus at least one third of the actual digging itnuHite hay been ef. fected. Tho trans-Jersey cut of thhty three miles linking Philadelphia and .New York U the most Important unit for Im mediate use. The old idea that It was proposed to dig an 1800 mile trench along the coast at enormous expense no longei deludes any one with Its error. It Is not umlss, how ever, to point out that the 131 miles to be , dug will connect the 140 navigable mites of tho Delaware, the "00 miles of the Chesapeake Bay, the btretch of Long Island Sound und other piactlcahle water avenues. The cost Is estimated at less . than $50,000,000. The cost of the Jersey cut would bo less than half of ono day's current war extipnilltnrn of Sin imo Oon Tho Atlantic Deeper Waterways As- '? A swlnttnn Vina ficcnmn!(ul,al nnlililn nnpl VS In the face of Jeers and Indifference. The eHij United States In war for victory Is now & amforclng Its arguments. It should clinch Er.sf " them to speedy achievement at the wujMuiitt avaoiuii u. suiiKien&, mow to defeat the u-boats -JfiWKCE April the U-boats huvo been K?, sinking merchantmen at the average HUe of twenty-three u week. This recoid t (,. thirty-two weeks Is believed to spell HIPMalV for the submarine campaign, but ' jen the assumption that the ship- Um Allies will be able to launch '" '' 'EVENING LEDGER-PmiADELFHLA:, FRIDAY v ships at the rato of thrco or four a day. It In expected that tho Dclavvnro nrds will bo ablo to tlnfoli one ship a day when all uro going at full tilt. But wo must not trust to optimistic statements. It In necessary not only to keep puce with tlio nliiklriKs: we must also leplaco the 743 British esselB sunk since April. When tho wenk of restotlng tho old statu of shipping has advanced wo shall not feci that every troopship should have been used as a foodshlp and every fond ship as a tioopshlp. There must ho lnoiu than enough ships to lclleve this ills- tic-islng computltiou between the vuilous ,,,,, ,,, ,,, u,i,,u needs Of tho armies TA 111 ITS MUST BK FRAMED ON A NEW BASIS WAlt has produced In ex cry counto of the world tho-u conditions whli.li the cti utile protectionists Used to tell us were Ideal 1'iucIkh competition Ins teen l educed to it minimum and home pio- , , , ....... .1...... ducers hae the markets almost to them- , fnu tn Uf,,t..u .r filisnlntpH "el es The del man Mutes arc uosulilici shut olT from the rest of tho world 1110 submarine has raised a wall around Kins tmd und l'l.ince moie dllllcult to sinlo than the highest tariff hairier eer elected. The fnlted States is affected by the same submarines that aio lucrci-lutf the cost of all foi elfin Roods that enter Groat Britain. deal war fortunes nie helm? made tliat will vui pass tho foi tunes urcuniu latcd b the owneisof liidustilts piotcctcd by a tailfr in the d.is of peace When peace comes apiln we are UUel to be told tint the only waj to Iumiic a con tliitMiuc of the war piospeiltj in the L'nltcd States is to lepioduce the piesent tiade londltliins -o fai as possible b tnactliiK extiemo pioteotle tullf liws Ic Is hluli time, hovcei, that leadcis of public thoiuht befsan to turn the mind of tho people In the llk'ht dbeetlou Whe 1 t)(.ic tomes the woild will face an eco nomic situation the llle of which neer liefoio elsteil and the t'nited States will be confronted h. pioblems which will t the tiiKcnultv and the bi.iins of the cieat est economic statesmen. We aie lenilint; blllloiis to i:ni!land. Pianee and P.ussla This debt of lhnope to us, whethft wo like It or not, mikes us partneis with It In the t isk of llciulditln,' the cost of the Kieat war. We can no longer assume that we aie eeouomliiilli Isol ited. with no obligation to ronsliler the ttonomlc needs of otlin- n itlons If we shut out doors to their floods the nn p.i nelthci the Intel est noi the piimipal of their debt to us. And If we i-clflshlx attempt to Im poctsb them. tbe cannot ecn lm our ownsuiphis. The v. ii Ins btouuht about in economic volld tilts amoni; the nations fluhthiK the Oei mans That solidarity must continue in a meitei 01 less desico after the war if the n itlons aie to be s,ied fiom bankruptcv This means fieei ti.ide thin In the past It means i.tdiial leslslon of the tailff laws actually In th" Intiests of the meat mass of pioc.nceis and consumeis nmnn; the allied n.itlnns So Ions auo as 1101 Mi'Klnle foies.iw the uecesbity foi a modincatlon of the Ameilcan protcitlte sstem If Ameilcan rommeice weio to epand bejond the national bound.uies The w.u has inulti plleil a thousandfold the lensnns which led McKlnle to mike the famous speech In Buffalo, which pieceiled his death by only a few d.i",s. The t.ivk of .idjilstliiK mil economic laws to the new conditions will icst upon the Congress to be- elected nest "ir It Is time the voters began to pe some thought to the subject In older that thev may be in position to Bhe the Congi ess men whom thes will elect an unmis takable nnndate. EAITH AND ".-AMINES" rpilll nightmares of various commodlt.v - famines vanish Into noth'ngness In the tonic nil of cool icasonlng and to npfintlnn The eltv'h "ceil famine" 1ms foen dispelled, according to the local fuel admlnlstuitor 'I lie salt famine was piomptlv ended by the manufacturers' stitement that no necessity existed for laising pi ices oi limiting supplies The Cuban pl.inteis have accepted the United States' bid for the new sugar crop at a moderate rate, President Menocal an nounces Anil so it goes roicstulllng nnd ho u ding cause the "famine" panics. Sensible housewives are learning to keep level headed and to buy only enough for cunent needs. They are ignoiing "scares," which, It Is pietty plainly seen by now, fostei high prices and icstilct even neeess.uy purchases The public Is developing a definite and commendable awateness that the food admlnlstiatlon Is n prartical and not meiely u thcoietlcal protection That theli tiust and co-opeiatlou are will placed will bo proved mine und more as the iidmlnlhtintlim becomes thoioughly organized and npeiateti mi high geai. Thanksgiving may have biokcn the food conseivatlon lules, but Mr Hoover Is on the Job again today. Petrogud had an election accompa nled by machine gunllre. They have government by minder with a vengeance there. It was high tlmo to put New York pleis under, military contiol when Ger man watchmen were found theie guard ing them from Gcimans. Mothers with bon In the service must not be needlessly woirlcd over alarming stories concerning conditions at Camp Wheeler, Overcrowding there und delay In serving out winter clothing, on account of too prolonged trust In the balmy southern climate, were quickly recognized by Suigcon General G'orgas and lectltled ut Macon, Parents aro ic assuied that these conditions have not been common to all tho cantonments. South Philadelphia defeated woman suffrage in Pennsylvania in 191C. It is alwavs the centers of coiruptlon in political life that breed the strongest "ontl" movements. Women who now will demand the voto with renewed vlgoi and encouragement because of the New Ttork vlclery have an excellent argument provided by facts known to every on. Any change brought about by the votes of women in Philadelphia would be for the better. For, when a city Adminis tration Is as bad as It possibly could be any change would be an Improvement. BEST WAY TO GIVE VOTES TO WOMEN The Slow Process of Amending State Constitutions Must Be Abandoned for Congres sional Action By IDA HUSTED HAHl'EB UNIiurUTIJUI.Y one of the utroiigest In fluences In hccuilng the huge unintui tive voto foi woman suffrage In New York was the strong support of tho amendment by the press of the State It was the great est v.ctorj ever won for wonrtn suffrage, as more women wire enfranchised than ever before ut one time, even In mi entire country and, what Is the most giatlf.vlng of nil, this was the free-will offering of the mnjorltj of the men, while In other conn tiles the vote has been given to women by an net of p.irlliment Perhaps however, the most Important re sult of the election Is the Inimciice Impetus given to the effoit for an nun ndmeiit to the Pider.il Constitution, which Is the ulti mate goal of the vast majority of miITi agists. '1 In" Nation il suffiage An-oelatlon was or ganized In IsG'i bv Bllpatit th 'ud Stanton, Sus in H Anthony and other lenders for the ivptess puiposu of seeming such an amendment It has nevir deviated from this object and Its representatives hive appealed before ever Congress since that elite to uigo their claims They soon learned tli it Congress would not net until piHhSiiii" could be hiotif'lit to tie ir from Mites which made iniide- the experiment; then fore they began campaigns for amend ing s't.ilc constitutions, which have been continued up to the present time llquil KUlfr.ige existed In eleven States be foi o New York was ailtliil to the lis, B.u-h of these adjoined one en mine whei" It ul i c.itlj had been tried and Us results were well Known 'Ibis fait in itself is a con vincing answer to the arguments agtlnst It Burdensome Cost of State Campaigns Woiiiin sl,oU( not be compelled to go on for j e ai s bearing the he.ivj burden "f tliisii state campaigns' Not in nil other Slate hive tiny .is man experienced lead ers as In New York and prob.iblv not in anj nthtr e in thev raise proportionately the amount of money they luvve raised lie re This cimpilgn of 11117 cost about 7no.iion. all contributed witlili the State mid prluelpillv bj women There were tot nunc thin JOn In the ell ntitl Mite who leielvid t-.i arlci-. The monev all went foi in-iess ir anil legltlm ite- expenses main taining he,i(!iii irteis in man place"), ad vertising e liiul.nllnt: vote rs nnd th" ire lt Ing of the most .complete political oif,inlzi tlon of women ecu KiiMwn Kor the list three oi fan .veins thousinds Tif women have given theli si ile.es gratultousl This situation would have to be elupllc.eti el in all of the till' M si (tied Mates to earn an amendment I'avorable conditions existed lure which are not IIUcIc to obtain In oilier cuiipiUns The win worli of the women, their registration, ep , win a tremendous asset, and the men expiesed their apprecia tion with tliclr li.il s Tin .scnl.ilist part is Mrinigir here than In anv other Mate and w is a I ugi f letnr One at le.i"t of tho domlnint pet tics favored the amendment The tiade unions vote el for It The assist ance of President Wilson was a powerful Inline nee No such eoinlilu ition of cir cumstances would be possible In an other Mate Tin re should be i ireful consideration of whit it means for the women to appeal to the Indiililuil voters It means that they must beg anil piaj for the suppoit of thousands of Ignoiant immigrants and of men of ever cruel r.uc color and condi tion It means tliat the must go on their Knee's to the llepior and vuc Interests and to tho Intemperate, Immoial and degraded of evil l.iml In the Noith ami in the .South It seems as if evci man should wlsa to spue women from tilts humiliation In steael oi fore ing It upon them 111 order to obtain their enfranchisement It seems as If the men in ever Mate should wish to set th"lr women free from the iliudgpry of these Mate campaigns In eudci that their seniles might be utilize 1 along the m iny channels of sue 1 1 welfare whuc the are so mui h needi-d In a number of St.ite.s the constitutions me so vim ded that thc cannot In amended, and In various others new ones can In made onl at inti rviils of man man Mars In some of them onli one amendment can be submitted at a time and In Ktlll others one cannot be resubnltted until livi ve.irs have elapsed f ime Mate eeiv .vi.ir adopts worn in suffrage, which has been the aver age for the last seven cars, it will require thiitv-slx .vears for the women in all of the States to be enfranchised If two Stntes cae i ear an- gained, which Is the ina( that could be hoped for eighteen ears will be icifuircel Long before that time every piogrcsslvo countr.v in tho world will havo given suffrage to women, and tho Unlteel States will come in ut the very end of the pioccsslon Tills is unthinkable. Advantages of a Federal Amendment If the posltliii Is taken that thne-fourths of tho State Legislature shall not enforce their will on the other one-fourth, then It must be acee pled that the Federal Con stitution never shall be amended Theses who maintain the State's right to determine Its own tleetniale declare In (act ttut the men of the Stsito shall decide) who shill vole mill mav hi Id the women foreier In u disfranchised condition, If they choose to do sn It eloes not mean the right of the people of the Stale, but simp the right i f the men aad this Is absolutely contrary to tho principle of Individual representation on which ejin (joveinmcnt Is supposed to 1 1) founded It Is rener.ill eouceded tliat universal woman suffrage is Inevitable Why Insist on the Mate-b -State method which will make it Impassible dm ing tho present gen eration, vi hen a Kedeial amendment would end the ei nlest within u comparatively lew rnrs" After it lias been submitted bv two-thirds of each house of Congrcis-U must than be accepted by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States Their mem liers can be elected on this Issue and the men of the State will havo an opportunity to direct hnuthey shall vote. .Should It be adepted each State will still be entirely free to make its own requirements for voting, except that It shall not disqualify solely on account of bex. A Pederal amendment offers the easiest, the speediest and the most dlgnlllcd method for obtaining the suffrage The women of all the States ure joining In this movement for action by Congress If all the news papers and all tlm politicians in the Cnltril States slirulel oppose It they would not bo swerved from this position. Why, then, prolong and Intensify the struggle, which lias already continued fc-r seventy earsV Why should Congress wait until urged by tho President to submit the question? "Why should It not receive its mandate from tho tcople of the country? In behalf of tho women ever where who want tho suffrage, we earnestly request that you will extend to this Federal amendment yc-ur continued support und help to create a public sentiment which will Justify the members of Congress from your State in voting to submit It. AFTER-VACATION THOUGHTS I wlsht I was a little rock A'setthi on a hill; A'doln nothing all day long Out Just a'setthi still. I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't drink, I wouldn't even wiiBh. I'd set and set a thousand years And rest myself, by gosh. From the Public Ledger of September It, 191 1. Reprinted by request. Tom Daly's Column Tdr v a nn i: vron. 1 inn, iiiciiaiiwtnow for !oi' ,1 Afrit; that U null rf And (I U WW that hill In tin With V'V (inn Muter 7'reiinvi loo And If Vim think It Ivi'l sn, sir Ask Mr. Mpers' ulfr the grata. It ttfii 50 tiltiisa.it oi vi In ad Tha nthcr mniiUnu mother said Vomc Httlc f'nincn omc itlft .' .lurf little Viami's uho li three Went up to Mil and atlrd her uheic Ma stild to act some nice ficsh ah. And so they Ullv sti oiled until Ma thouuht she'd pav her ytoccr'a bill And uhen she did and stalled out 'J he litlh ulil heian to pout And uoiild not Inn e the grocer's state Or follow mother to the door. She sought the grocer's xtlfc Instead And looked up In her fate and said 1 nant a pound of nice fresh air. Then mothir said utll I deilnic And so explained it to the mmd And ctcrybodu laughed out loud. ,s'o iioio ask pou Isn't she As cute nnd hilght as one amid he 1'or just a little aftor three Wi: Wlilin talking the ot lcr da about a friend of ouis up In Connecticut who Is a c.vnophoblac, that Is to say, ono who fenis dogs. We wondei how th.it same ere.ituro would havo behaved If he had been the guest ot Mr. and Mia. Amos Austin, of Gcimiutown, on l'rlda night last, and hail Just Bono to bed In the spare room when tho hullabaloo broke loote on the llrst llooi. The l.elghboi.s sa there never was uti tiling like It In (ieiniantown blnce tho Uiltlsli went tlnough In 1777. Pete was lesponslble foi the uptuar. Pete Is the Austins' dog a big uiigainl mutt, which Is In the habit of sleeping In the front hall at night on Tilda, when all was still, Pete smith ills sUirted se-i earning lie didn't Mark at all, he just seicamcd Tin n followed tho uolso of dining loom ill. ill. s tumbling ovci und the thud of blows upon the legs g the tabic. Out Into the kitchen went tho riot of thumping and snorting and su earning. Theie was u lln.il Clash, and when that came all the Austins, cur lug caudles and scared faces, were peering over tho baiilsteis. Pete ciuno lollicklng out to meet them, and in the kitchen they found tliu rcglstel tliat belonged In tho lloor in the fi out lull. The ilo had been lug over it and when he laiscd his bend ii ling in his coll.i had cau'lit In the ironwork and lifted It out ot Its niche. Drill Son;; Tall in! Attention! Now, count off! 'One, tun, thicc, four, flic) As ou weio! Ucs right, and only count to four (Jott 11111.S together, d it, sir!) ltight diess! 1'iont! Ceunp'nv, picc sent aims! Don't let those pieces iiiijqle so) Now, keep the cadence. Order, arms! (Cumc dou it togethi r. A'of so slow.) Port aims' M.uk time! Left, right, left, light (Sei, you're not dancing; not so fast.) S'iiu ids, halt! One, two. Together, now. (the halt tonus first; the order last.) I.oft shoulder arms' Mark time! Squads, halt! (I said left shouldt i aims, not light) Kcmembei, llrst a distinct port. ll'hraw the pltte up. The darn thing's light.) Left shoulder arms! Oh, order arms! (Don't duck your heads. You iton't be hit) Itlght shoulder arms! Mark tlmo! Left, light. (l"on do Hint uonderfully nit.) Itlght by squads! 1 he first squad front, The othcis do squads riijht.) Hep, march' fc'fiuuds, right about, ni.tich! Column, left, (l'our backhauls need a little starch.) Left front in line, march! Comp'ny hull! (l'oit fillets make me uant to fight) Now dress up there. (Jet on the line. You neitr do a d thing riijht.) Inspection arms' Now, order arms' il'oiir heads must all he made of fat.) Comp'ny dismissed! St. Stcvo bo praised! You didn't do so bad at that.) IinilMAN D. LnVINSON. This la tho only partmthesls sunn by the recruits. The rest of thi InKliur an well us mobt or tho antirlni;. Is donei by the acrn.ent. HAVING SETTLED the uselessness of the back collar-button to tho satisfaction of all who wear collars that fit, wo are asked by W. X. lennlngs to turn our at tention to tho tailless shht. "Why the shirt-tail, anyhow?" se he. "It only luflles up your feelings every tlmo you dress." If It were summer now, wo might buckle on our armor and rldu a tilt at this suggestion. Kor, in the summer the merry game of golf huth the call and then tho sole function of our shirt-tail seemcth to bo to run up our back -whenever xve essay a match with ono of cur fellows. What say yo, gentlemen, shall we lay this matter of Mr. Jennings's suggestion upon the tablo until such time as the winds of winter abato? Boston and Vicinity One proverb in the Down East States Hath this Interpretation: He cachinnates best who cachinnate Tho ultimate cachi.inatlsn. JIM McKAY'S baby is beginning to talk already, a.id it can't bo much more than six months old. At any rato, one of Jim's friends 8as he sat along side of Jim In u light lunch cafe the other day and overheard Jim say, absent mindedly, to the waitress: "Dunme a Jlnky water p'ease." s yttyaBMBER -30, v L- """SSI....,.,,, lr ti. i t" ...j.,,..- .-.., 'iuW - 1s - - fr oit, i) i.ifci i- -. . Oft !'' e1 - ' ill !.KJ "WVSy;.: J ,, J. j -' F -Z- 0 l,v ji!eWs ifi, f-tii & 4S$' WHEAT SAVING IN HOMES OF CITY LESS THAN ONE PER CENT Conservation Policy Demands That Housewives Cut Down Amount of Baking and Buy More From the Bakers THLTtU are about 330,000 homes In Phila delphia. That figure Includes boarding houses The wheat eonsei vutiou In thoso homes since the United States food administra tion began to plead for wheat saving list the American nnd Allied soldiers suffer and the war for democracy be lost the wheat conseivatlon has amounted vlrtuall to nothing. It has been !e"-s than 1 per cent That means th it after all tho pleas of Hoover and his assistants, after all the ncuspapci edltorl lis, aftir ,ul the patriotic appeals of leading citizens Philadelphia Is consuming Just about us much wheat lloui as It consumed three months ago It is consuming only about 10 per cent less than It consumed a ear ago biforo the United States was at war And If whi.it flour consumption In the United States is not reduced .10 per cent, and qulckl, tho war for dcmociacy may bo lost 1 ho average bread consumption per home In Philadelphia Is nine loaves ahout nine pounds a week, the avciago family num bering the persons A jear ago, according to estimates of several bakers and grocers serving many sections of tho city, the aver ago consumpl'"" was ten loaves per home. Dread consumption is a dllllcult thing to reduce Bread Is a necessity. Wo could eat less than we do, but we must cat homo Other things vie can do without. Wo can spare fancy meats and game and poultry, but we .cannot spare biead though vie could spare more than wo do Largo numbers of persons suppose! that In ultra-modern Amciiia, where commerce and Industry have advanced so much far ther than anywhere else In tho woild, vir tually all the bread baking Is done In bakciles and virtually none In homes Dut that Is very serious erroi. Llghty per cent of Kurope's bread Is baked In bakeries Only 40 per lent of America's bread Is, and In Philadelphia approximately 70 per cent ot bread Is baked by housowlves Of the 3,ti00,000 loaves of bread that aro eaten In Philadelphia homes every week only about 1,080,000 aro baked in bakeries. Slne-e the average percentage ot flour In a loaf of bread Is 85, It appears that the city's homes consumo in bread 'J.JGO.OOO pounds o' Hour a week. In cakes, pies and other pastry they consumo approvl niutelv 700.000 pounds more A ear ago they probably consumed 1,000,000 pounds of tlour In pastry, but cako takes eggs and sugar and milk and butter, all of which cost more. But the people have become accustomed to high prices now, and their living Is adjusted to thoso prices. When conservation was demanded the people's living had already been adjusted to those prices They were already conserving on luxuries and they had conserved as much as they could without actual discomfort on bread, which they had regarded not as a luxury, but a necessity. Now something Is needed to accomplish In creased saving of wheat flour In homes. As to what that something is opinion differs. Tho "big" bakers will not speak, but their views have been obtained from their friends and associates. Other opinions aro easy enough to learn. The following paragraph Is the opinion of one of tho six biggest bakers In Phila delphia, obtained from a "small" baker, who Is bis persona", friend: ' Tho people at homo need bread and need It lust as much as the men In the trenches nnd the people of Europe. Tho rich people, who do no hard work, and tho people who work In oftlccs have reduced bread con sumption, but the people who do hard work have reduced bread consumption only In small degree. Vet they have reduced it almost as much as they possibly can. Tho bakeries have reduced wheat flour con sumption as much as they possibly can by elimination of waste. There was never much waste, but what there was has been eliminated. Whatever further reduction can be obtained cannot be obtained by eating- less nor by elimination of waste In bakeries. There remains but one thing to do, and that Is to eliminate waste tn the homes. The only way the waste in homes nn be eliminated is by transferring home J baking to bakeries. Lot the 215,000 house- 1917 THE PRESIDING OFFICER rPTatCSsBSffV " ""''I!!!.,.- "--""" """" t '1 Ii r n-ei.M. WJ-r. -.-. -st -. m- r jrxjr. t'J'n'"- .' 'UWlVli"T'j't i-rv v jrrs--rxsajswrBBSifai l-'v.s . V V jr i"j"T-ir "tft&r'JWU'y?S'zxxr rXJs -- tfFj4r A:JMftwV'W19mfSi a. " - 'V. 1. JTIf U- Kimi I 1 Air t. . Ar&nr.r VJTTV m. WV "W. f ,UTX -t .KLi1'','l, 1 LilU iiLiir. (ju.t-.L-4T-... X".Ssi!sS- .iJ fksfncijis7Vfe;;.'.. - - ''e'l-'J'.-V-e't's-' 'i , Ji " T w "" '""' J"-'u&lrli.lil!si-wwiUt.il,-'-iri:v.'. iV.-lj&iXrii . irai.-'a))'.'Sf1t't'r -II'--1 '-? -- .7y-'ie.lt n.-ASj. ..-e-I'l- - '.rlS- le-s- lUunrlll-J'sVT-.."! - ,rv - wives who do their own baking luiv stand ard loives from the bakeries, and bo re. quired to buy standard loaves from the bakeries, and If oul nn ounce of lloui a week Is saved on each of those house wives tho total saving for evei week will bo more than 15,000 pounds" Theie ma be those who sav this sounds good for bakeis Pel haps It does. .Vo doubt In normal times bakers would make moie money the more breid they baked and sold. Uut icgardless of the question of monev -making, wheat woiilel bo saved If all the bread were baked in big bakeries. And the prime purposo at this tlmo Is not to prevent this man or that from making mono It Is to conserve food, and par tlculirly wln.it It Is not desliablc that the bakers should make exorbitant profits, umj the in ed not miiko them The United .States Uoi em inent can prevent the making of excessive prollts. but it cannot prevent tho w.isto of vi heat flour that Is though this may sound stringo and rather pirudoxlcal essential as long as bread is made In private homes V. V. II. MOTHER IN OVERALLS Those hopeful young minds who foresco the abolition of homo and marri.igo and other trifles appertaining to tho relations of the sexes swim along cheerfully for tho major portion of their loute Then, alas, some curious und inconsiderate person casually Inquires: "By the way, what do ou propose to do with tho children?" Whereupon tho hopefuls begin to flounder, and their remolding of the world never ex. hlblts qulto the same deftness and cock sureness thereafter In plain words, chil dren are a nuisance and a boro to every theoretic crltlo ot society Yet, fiom the story of tho war, as found In tho Illustrated magazines of Euiope, vie begin to discover Items ot hope for tho le foimers, mid none gi cater than a rccont photograph of a Kreiieh woman munitions worker, herself in oveialls, d, nulling her In fant in tho creche nttaehed to her factory. Names and places are omitted, and we gather that only a few munitions factories have undertaken this enterprlso But somo have, and they aro declared to be a com plete success Tho mother leaves her baby In tho creche In charge of an attendant when she arrives In tho morning for work She Is permitted to nurse the baby as ofton as Is required through tho day. At night sho takes It home Nothing In Greenwich villago could be simpler. Marriage, infants nnd the economically Independent worker travel hand In hand New York Tribune. A LONG FALL FOR WILHELM If It bhould happen that tho Kaiser takes a tumble to himself we would bo glad to supply Niagara Palls for tho purpose To ledo Blade. "NOW FROM THE MEADOW FLOODS" Now from the meadow floods the wild duck clamors. Now the wood-pigeon wings a rapid flight. Now the homeward rookery follows up its vanguard, And the valley mists are curling up tho hills. Threo short bongs gives the clear-voiced throstle, Sweetening the twilight era he Alls the nest: While tne little bird upon tho leafless brandies Tweets to its mate a tiny loving ncto. Deeper the stillness hangs on every motion: Calmer the silence follows every, call j Now all Is quiet save the roosting pheasant. The bell-wethers tlnklo and the watch dogs bark. Softly shine the lights frr-m the silent kindling homestead, StarB f'bV18 ,hearth t0 tna 8hePherd in the e-deorgo Meredith, t Cifc!S C' ' Trt-W'C-r tU. What Do You Know? J QUIZ 1, Win. It Hie Must Keurend loMuo GoriM I UllR.' 2. lint Is meiint by fnrrHliilliiigf H. Who unite Hie iineru of "Faiit"J t. .Name (In- founder of Hit Monemen's Ftl- limsluti. H. Hem Is tlici phrase "shin leln" traiulatHtr 6. Vlluit Is u helm in.' 7. Whli h Is the l-.ihuelto Stale? H. Who Is tho ll'ilerul tuitoellun of alien pilf er lei 0. Wluit U a paper while nirchsusf 10, Where Is I'untulne Notre. Ilume? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. (irnenil holenlai Is the lloUlirllkl MB it! llliler In-elilef of the KuMklan armies, 'I. Itulirluil Weiciel U jeisl eest of Cambnil. J. Atforilliin to mi iiiininmtenrrtit front Wmi buiteii. skilled workers en the Inltrt stales slilpplni; protcram ulll be sobjert In Industrial evemiition from the- new drift mi lone as the) are rngatrel In Uul spei tiled in e iipallon. 1 lit)' must, itonettr. iiiisee.r Ihe questionnaire and otlierslrt follow the new regulations, when their riiiptlein ilalnis will he settled IndliUu alb. t. A siinphiini Is ii niiistitil form written for lull eirtliestr.i In four moirmtnt. Tin llrst Is In sonata form und statu ! Ihrnie whleli ure ilrtrloiird. I.SUT trtsl limit of these and elerlled themes Is fner in malposition. ."i. Vlulne Is Hie Pine 'tree Mule. (I. The loiuloii limes for many er ss knoii. i us "Ihe Thunderer." , 7. Ilinri. In frame. Is Ihe leiupororj ftplul if llelslmii. ,, , .... 8. toiiErrnsmuii .1, llnniMoii Vloore, f Fulf ill Iplilu. Is iirrsl.lP.it 'f the tl Deeper Wulenw.vs Uioriiituin, hKh. H foiiiulrd mui whhli is now holding Its en trillion In Vlbi.nl, Ha. U. "Hie Irllim Peril" Is u term used .ton"; a iiiie-llmr f am led mrnuie to the Vims Mates from Japanese ucureemlon. 10. Leiril .Nelson, ut the lultle of TmfIHf. hIciiiiImIi "h .inland evpwts eitrr m t do his dutv." BACK TO CORN TUB Government urges us to eat mori cornbread so wo may have more wheal to ship to our allies. Hut, tome one uto why not ship tho corn over to them to l and eat tho wheat bread ourselves? The w swer is that In Kiiincc. elre.it Britain n Italy tho people know almost nothinj o our corn and of how to prepare It for foofl To glo them coin to cat now would tn almost ns dllllcult a task as the Introauctioi of a wholly new fooel: as. fur cample, Introduction of tho potato Ihe people o tho British es wire e.irs Iearnlnr IM tho potato was a valuible food They o know all about wheat and how to prepM It. It Is theli great i-tiple And " year at least we must kcip on senium them wheat, as we have beca dolns fi many cars pabt And w o In America must cat more corr There will bo no hardship or deprltstio In that, for torn Is Just as whole-ome, t nutritious and ns appetizing as wheat, an wo have such an enormous Mipply of it tn year. If a f.imllv bakes Its own bread can mix one-fourth pirt of sirnmeai ' wheat flour. If a family is In the lublH eating bakers' bread tho request U w two days In each week only corn W'1' eaten. Nearly every housewife Iff J"SV' of the country knows how to make en bread, corn mufllns and Johnny cake i not. there are plenty of good recipes in j" cook books. Our forefathers In this sect almost lived on corn They were itrw men nnd women. They proved the of com ns a food, "n.ick to corn. J"1 tho slogan Kansas City Times STUDENTS AND" LOAFERS We all know grade "A" and Phi BJ Kappa failures, but they are the exceP"" to the rule and they are very niucn.O" advertised by tho advocates of an " and painless mode of education. ' such cases are in fact but exceptions to i rule Is amply proved by "t"""", f, example, data compiled from V ition In America," a publication which v biographical list ot men and women hav achieved success hi business in professions. In art and ' atuf 8" ta public life, show a much higher Jrcf",, of Ihl Beta Kappa members than con graduates who did not win this schottw honor, and a fnr higher percentage WW noncollege men. So, too It has -" "?, by the records of several of the iW y fesslonal schoo.s that the high aland In college become the high-stand men law and medical schools In , Vdloc higher ratio than do the poor or rm w college students. There Is no m UtaKe this, and there Is nothing f"Wltou It. Some loafers In cillege acWev n nence In after life, but they would r achieved even more had the ""V,,,, advantage of their opportunities In cw Dean Henry M. . JUchlfftH. ,, ' i v1 : ' . i ). 'hi .. i ..-, t W,'J& ski V.fi sftSfll K si jfe wit-Si :'.. 'tJm.M
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