HOOVER'S LATEST PLEA TO FARMERS! "HOGS, MORE HOGS AND STILL MORE HOGS" Deficiency in Fats Now More Serious War Factor Than Bread Grain Situation—Tells Public Satety Men Pennsylvania Has the Best Organization in the Country. To the assembled representatives of the county organizations of the Com mittee of Public Safety for the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, in session at Philadelphia, Herbert C. Hoover, Federal Food Administrator, gave hi= latest and most important message tc the people and more particularly the farmers of the United States. "Hogs, more hogs, and still more hogs," is the slogan of his new ap peal. Mr. Hoover's address came in the midst of a food supply conference, iarranged by Howard Heinz, chairman Of the Department of Food Supply. The attendance of Public Safety Com mlttee chairmen, food supply repre sentatives, and executive secretaries numbered about 250 and came from practically every county in the state. Governor Brumbaugh, Lieutenant Governor McClain, Auditor General Snyder, George Wharton Pepper, E. T. Stotesbury, and many other men of prominence heard Mr. Hoover join In the assertion that in point of or. ganization and accomplishments Penn sylvania's Safety Committee had prov ed to be the most efficient In the United States. A striking analysis of the food situ ation was presented by Mr. Heinz, who, in his capacity as Federal Food Administrator for 4 Pennsylvania, has a prominent part in the shaping of na tional food programs. Mr. Heinz pictured the world meat jaupply as being short 115,000,000 meat animals, with a shortage of 7,000,000 meat animals in this country alo'3. The wheat situation is just as bad, he declared. Exemption, he said, may apply to the physical side of the mili tary problem, but there is no exemp tion for the food forces. Every one mußt help in insuring supplies for our own armies abroad and for our alile in the trencthes. Conservation and production are the .problems to which MT. Hoover gave speciail emphasis. He said: "Early in the month of June, when 2 was asked to undertake this par ticular task, I and the men whom I assembled around me at the moment made a short survey of the situation |by way of organization throughout the United States. We came early So the state of Pennsylvania in our ■wanderings, and after making a short ■study of the organization of the state, we determined that if we could annex the Committee of Public Safety to the Food Administration we would have no further anxiety as to Pennsylvania and also that we had settled the ques -lion for ten per cent of the people of the United States. "We were in no uncertain mind as <o that because of the character of the organization and the way that it was completed. We were confident jthat it was sound, sane and would carry the mesage and carry out the work. "Our first and most important prob lem is production. Production and jconservation are both impelled by the wame cause, by the same food short age. Europe's Diminishing Production. ; "In addition to the maintenance of a normal supply, we have the very disastrous condition of continuously diminishing production. It is impossi ble to take forty million men from {productive labor and devote them to Hvar without cutting into the vitals of (food production itself. That deficiency lias been contributed to by stoppage jof cereals and the diminution or ani jma|p, until on cereals alone this year's [production falls below last year's by »25 million bushels. Therefore we jiave a load of over a billion and a wuarter bushels of grain to preserve phe normal food consumption of our Sallies. "This is a load that is beyond our (capacity, beyond the combined capa iity of the United States and Canada, "here is no way of meeting that situ ation except that after we have ex iorted the last grain that we can ex iort, they must reduce their consump ion to a point where the two ends jmeet. , "It is physiologically possible to re duce the food consumption by forty iper cent, but on the other hand, sol jdiers in the trenches, men in the ishops, working over-time, and mil lions of women put to physical labor, actually require more food stuff than "n times of peace. The net result is that all privation by the reduction of consumption operates upon the most helpless class in the community— that is the old and the women and ft he children. ' Farmers Should Right-About-Face. "The problem of animals is one thai iiecomes a problem of practical char jter to us this very day tn the Unit ed States. Europe with k shortage of dodder and a shortage of imports has first cut her fodder imports rather (than her bread grains. The result has been the ruthless killing of animuls and out of that has arisen an annua 1 , deduction in their animal products. This is burning the candle at both ends. i "It means from the fat point of yiew that we must increase cur fat imports into Europe. We may dimin sh our meat imports for the momen*; mt when the war is over we will havs t ca'l upon us or upon our farmers or enormousdy increased animal pro iuction. . "Europe has practically always pro fluced her animal products. Compared to the total consumption she has im ported a comparatively minor amount lof fat products. But with diminished janimals she will have less demand for fodder and therefore more particu larly for the production of bread grains. "The people will of necessity turn their agriculture from the production of fodder to the production of bread iand we, in the meantime, must be prepared to take a like turn; in other words, we have exported in the main bread grain, whereas the demand upon ius after the war will be for animal products. "Therefore, we must turn the faoe of our agriculture—we must turn the face of our farmer from the produc tion of bread grains to the production of animals. This becomes not only a problem of the future for the nation, but it also becomes an immediate problem, and our immediate problem is acute. " During the last year we have slaughtered in hogs alone a large per centage of the nog population. In other words, whereas we annually slaughter something like 60 per cent of our total hog inhabitants, this year we have slaughtered over 100 per cent. If we take the three pre-war years as 100, we can see that during tne last twelve months we have slaug tered 179 hogs, we have exported 215. "This means but one ihing. It means that as we have increased our exports of animal products, largely pork products, from 51)0,000,000 pounds pre-war average to a 1,500,000,- 000 pounds in the last twelve months, that we have over-exported the capaci ty of this country. "Today about 60 per cent of the normal arrival of hogs Is reaching the markets in this country, and we are faced with a shortage in fats, and we are faced with that shortage at the very moment when we must be in creasing our exports to our allies. "We are facing a large feed CTOP this year—a crop, in fact, as we calcu late it. twenty-five per cent greater than the animals we have to eat it. We will, therefore, have a fairly low range of prices for food stuff, and we will with this situation, have a high range of prices in animails Therefore, it must be In the immediate interest of the farmers of this country to raise hogs, more hogs, and still more hogs. More Hogs Needed For Years Ahead. "And it is not only an immediate interest, but it is an interest that will last, not only for the period of the war, but for many years to come, and the greatest help we can obtain from our fanning population today, is to get a quick response in an.'mal procucts. "I have believed that if we could go through the state of Pennsylvania, toll the fanners of the state that ihis country should raise three more hogs T3 against one of last year, that is three to one—if they will do that sort of work, it will be serving the country and be a benefit. "The difference between democracy and autocracy is a question of whether people can be organized from the bot tom or from the top down. If, in our defense, it becomes necessary to organize from the top down I trust we will do so. But the moment we have done this, we will have undermined the individual, and our own people art reduced to an autocracy. It is, there fore, worth our while to make the ef fort to carry this thing through on a volunteer basis." ALLIES CANNOT WIN WITHOUT OUR AID God-Given Opportunity For Servio* Here, George Wharton Pepper Tells Safety Committee Men. Addressing the county representa tives at the opening of the Public Safety conference in Philadelphia George Wharton Pepper, chairman of the state committee, made a stirring appeal for efficient effort in every dis trict. Mr. Pepper said: "The efficiency of the work that we are going to do for the cause of Pub lic Safety in this commonwealth is going to depend almost entirely upon the appraisement which we as individ uals make of the seriousness of the situation in which our country finds itself at the present time. "If a man believes that this war will be over in ninety days, it he be lieves that it is going to end without serious inconvenience on our part; or, if not that, that at least at the first approach of our advance guard the kaiser is going to state his readiness to come down; if that is the state of mind of a man, I am quite sure that to him the Committee or Public Safety is a quite unnecessary organization; he is not going to spend much time or much energy in its»service. "On the other hand, if a man has, as I have, a living and burning con viction that we are in for a long and bloody fight, and that upon the issue of that conflict depends the very ex istence of the Idea of democracy in government among men—if that is the man's conviction, then he will look upon the work of this Committee of Public Sftfety as a God-given op portunity to express the patriotism that is welling inside of him. "It seems superabundantly clear that the allies cannot win tnis war except at the price of the life-blood of our mothers and daughters. We must keep on because without our aid the allies cannot win the war, and unless this war is won by the allies the things that we stana for cannot sur vive or prevail. "There are many of us, I know, who wish to God that we coudd exchange chairmanships and secretaryships for the more active service on the line; but if we can't, if they won't have us on any terms, at least let us consti tute ourselves an effective support to those that do go to the front, and be the guardians and custodians of the homes that will be waiting for them when they come back. "I speak with a degree of intensity which only faintly indicates the way I feel about the matter. My convic tions about it are so deep and so burning, and I seem to see the situ ation so clearly, that I tremble when 1 find so many of my feUow-citizens, even in this commonwealth, who do not seem to be aware of the predica ment in which the world finds itself, and who are unwilling to make even slight sacrifices to the end that Amer ican ideals in the. end may be su preme. The Song Old Gloif V Cr " * '3" I J'JTy r HAT is the song Old Qlory sings J ■¥■ rr When the wind goes roaring by * £ And the banner bom of valor flings J -* Itself against the sky? *■ £ Know you the song it rustles out J * To the time beat of the breezef * 'Tis the blended chord of a battle shout J T Caught up between the seas. * •¥■ A MID the smoke it rose and clung >f To the blazing Stripes and Start, J •* And it is the call the flag gave tongu* * £ When rent by shrapnel scars. , u * It ripples out when the wind is high * * As it did ifi days long gone. 5 * The flag careens to the bending sky * * With its valiant shout "Come on!" J * X * is the song Old Glory tings J * In the battle glare of noon, * +c And the breath of wild war trumpets rings J * In this defiant tune. * * The hoarse hurrah, the vibrant cheer, 5 * Have been woven in its folds, j * And the piercing fife note, shrill andccleatr t J c Is in the , song it holds. * * FJfHAT is the song Old Qlory sings * X r r When the breeze is soft and slou> * J And the banner curves and sways and sittings, * * All stately, to and frot J £ Knotc you that song, all gentleness, * •k With its measures sweet and smooth, J c When the old flag waves with a mild caress * * In cadence made to soothet J * CF-'IIIS is the song Old Qlory sings J * £ When its ripple slowly runs: J •k 'Tis a song of peace on gentle wings, % • jT £ A song of silent guns. * * All joyful, too, that the stress is done * £ And the throbbing drumbeats cease; * 'Tis a chant of victories long won, * J A wondrous strain of peace. * ¥ —Chicago Daily News. * One of the native tribes in the Philip pines produces fire by rapidly com pressing air in a sort of syringe. The factory output of sausage:in the United States is worth $60,000,000 an nually. Walking Exercise. In a brisk walk of twenty minutes duration a person brings into play all the muscles of the body, the abdominal organs are shaken into activity, the lungs are filled with fresh air and are thus assisted in their natural function of purifying the blood, the action of the heart is quickened and strength ened, so that the blood, well aerated in the lungs, flows abundantly to the brain and washes out all the poison with which work and worry clog it. Every business man with a sedentary occupation ought to walk to and from his office if it is possible, as he would derive great benefit from the practice. Curious Beehives. In the village of Hoefel, Silesia, there are a number of beehives in the shape of life size figures cleverly carved in wood and painted in colors. The fig ures were carved more thah a century ago by monks of the Naumburg mon astery, who were at that time in pos session of a large farm in the district The beehives represent different char acters, ranging from Moses to a mili tary officer, a country girl and a night watchman with a spear. Chance Visitors. "Is there such a thing us a new thought?" "Maybe there is and maybe there isn't," replied the cynical man. "Some people entertain a thought so seldom that whenever one strikes them they get the idea that it's new." —Birming- ham Age-Herald. Cause For Worry. "You must take exercise," said the physician, "and by all means worry less. Play golf." "Doctor," replied the patient, "you mean well, but a man who plays my kind of golf game can't help worry ing." Too Bad. Jinks—Couldn't you borrow a thou sand at the bank on your character? Binks—lmpossible! I keep hens, and the banker lives next door to me!— St. Louis Republic. Optimistic. Cheerful Undertaker—Beautiful dav for the funeral, sir; just enough breeze to stir the plumes. Now jump in, sir, please.—T-ondon Tatler THE PEPTIMIST An optimist is a man who believes that the seed he plants in his garden will grow and look as good as the pic tures on the package. A pessimist stands beneath the tree of prosperity and growls when the fruit falls on his head. A "peptimist" (we claim to have In vented this) is the happy medium be tween these two. He doesn't believe, with the optimist, that the seeds will produce something equal to the picture on the package but he does believe they will grow and bring some return for his labor. Should the fruit from the tree of pros perity fall on his head, he rubs the bump and grabs the fruit. When the weather report says "Fair and warmer," he believes it—and car ries his umbrella. Like the optimist, he sees the bright side of things and goes ahead, but he also sees the dark side and prepares to meet it. And herein lies his success—looking not alone on the bright side, nor yet on the dark, but seeing both sides clearly —he weighs each situation carefully and is prepared.—Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Employees' Magazine. Glycerin was once a byproduct of the soap making industry, the disposal of which gave the manufacturers some concern. There are hulling machines that take green peas out of their parent pods at the rate of 1,000 bushels a day. No, Indeed. "There's no place like home, you fcnow." "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum, "but home doesr't always pay the salary that Washington does."—Washington Star. ♦ €» + PLANTED TREE YEARS ♦ ♦ AGO TO MAKE COFFIN <§» «§> <*> <§► Chicago.—Fifty years ago Wal ♦ ter Bushnell of Carrollton, 111., v ♦ planted a walnut on his farm and <§> ♦ announced that he would have ♦ his coffin made from the tree. « ♦ Three years ago he had the tree ❖ ♦ cut down and sawed into slabs. <3» ♦ Bushnell is now eighty years <3» old. The walnut wood, having ❖ ♦ been properly aged, has been O ♦ made into a coffin. £ ♦ * $ A DRAGNET FOR WORLD NEWS Flotsam and Jetsam of Live In terest Caught From the Wires and Boiled Down. GREAT CONFLICT EPITOMIZED Important Happenings In the Forty eight States of the Union—Occur rences at the Capital—Latest Cable Condensations. |^_^A^BULLETINs|j British troops in the renewed drive east oi Ypres have pushed forward on a nine mile front, gaining a mile and a half in the centre and taking prison er several thousand Germans, who sur rendered by hundreds. "We shall bomb Germany with com pound interest," declared Lloyd George, the British Premier, replying to the appeals of a crowd of poor resi dents of London for reprisals for re cent air attacks on the capital. The crowd cheered the promise. Four big German cities, one of them Frankfort-on-the-Main, more than 125 miles from the French border, were bombed by Frencfh aviators in the greatest reprisal raid of the war. The other cities visited by the French were Treves, Coblenz and Stuttgart. The last was bombed by French aeros. In the strongest air raid yet attempt ed by the Germans London was bom barded for two and a half hours. In their offensive the Italians have captured 2,019 prisoners and repulsed all counter attacks upon the Italian lines on the Bainsizza plateau. Another example of German intrigue was revealed when it was learned that recently Berlin, by holding out a bait of pledged support to any Jap anese policy of expansion in China, sought to stop Japanese aid to the Allies, especially the sending of mer chant vessels to the Atlantic. * WASHINGTON j Secretary Baker announced that when the natioa's armies move against Germany the "eyes" will be ready in a great and powerful aerial fleet of 20,000 of every type and piloted by daring airmen. The United States has refused coal to South American vessels bound for European neutrals unless established that their cargoes contain no contra band for Germany. Representative William E. Mason, Republican, of Illinois, in speaking on a question of personal privilege de- I clared in reply to Representative Hef ! lin's implied charges of treason that the Alabama Democrat had uttered a known untruth. Later the objection able words were withdrawn. Action looking toward the expulsion of Mr. La Follette was not expected by leaders in Congress, but the Senate committee which will consider the charges of disloyalty may recommend censure for pacifist members. The Senate, without a dissenting voice, adopted the war revenue bill conference report, ending a five months' bitter fight. The measure went to the President for his signature. Fixing the price of anthracite coal brought no alleviation to the bitupii nous coal situation, and many facto ries dependent on the latter fuel are threatened with a shut-down because of the shortage. The Senate received more demands from various parts of the country for the impeachment of Senators La Fol lette, Stone and Gronna. Senator Pomerene called a committee meeting to consider the protests. Critics of the shipbuilding program say that vessels under construction are so slow and easily sunk that they are "submarine bait." Vessels cap able of sustaining two or even three torpedo shocks are urged. The Government took the first step to control the retail prices of coal, Fuel Administrator Garfield allowing 30 per cent, more than the 1915 mar gin for the retailer. Brig.-Gen. John A. Le Jeune has been assigned to command the Ma rine Corps Camp at Quantico, Va. GENERAL Twenty thousand Red Cross workers, among them many who have seen war service, marched down Fifth avenue in one of the most impressive wax pa rades New York ever witnessed. Arrangements are announced for the ; third series of officers' training camps, In which enlisted men and 2,490 col lege undergraduates will be fitted for second lieutenancies. The House of Representatives voted lor an investigation of charges of dis loyalty by Representative Heflin, of Alabama. Boston recruiting quarters were opened by Lieutenant May, of the Im perial Royal Engineers, to enlist men ior inland water transport section. Mrs. Sadie A. Kitchen, a Boston bar ber, applied for enlistment in the Unit ed States Marine Corps as a barber. A oattery of French 75 millimeter guns, with caissons and equipment, presented to the Yale artillery com- | panies by the French Government, were placed in the Yale baseball cake. Members of the National Foreign Trad© Council at their annual meeting In New York were unanimously in fa vor of subordinating commercial inter ests to the exigencies of war. The Library War Council received SSOO,OOO of the million dollar fund be ing raised for military camp libraries. Dr. Peter W. Mcßeynolds, pre«iden< of Defiance (0.) CoDege. died of his injuries, and his wife was killed out right when their automobile was struck by a train near Curryville. Investigation of the activities of 8010 Pacha in New York revealed the fact that several great banking houses were duped in the German propaganda work, directed personally by Count von Bernstorff, to bribe newspapers. Alarmed by growing labor unrest throughout the country, the govern ment sent a commission headed by Secretary Wilson to the West to seek a solution of the problem. Cotton futures soared to the equiva lent of 25 cents a pound for certain options on the Government Oetobe: report, indicating a reduction of 452,- 000 bales from the estimate of a inontb ago. The United States Supreme Court reconvened. President Wilson urged upon th« Congressional leaders passage of the soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill. Representative Jeanette Rankin ap pealed to President Wilson to aid in settling the Butte copper mining strike. Evidence that large quantities ol fats and other import from the United States are being smuggled into Ger many on a much larger scale than has been even intimated before, was brought to light. As a result it was stated authoritatively that the ban on exports to Holland and other north era neutrals would be drawn even tighter than in the past. Ten new cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Chicago, making 70 for, the week. GERMAN-AMERICAN WAR The name of the National Army can tonment, at Louisville, Ky., was for mally changed from "Camp Taylor" to "Camp Zachary Taylor." A western military terminal at Chicago will be opened by the post office department for handling mail collected west of the Mississippi and addressed to members of expedition ary forces. Congregs is asked to revive the grade of full general in the army, re questing promotion of Major General Pershing and the ohief of staff. Guards were doubled at Camp Dix after a fire of supposed incendiary ori gin destroyed the barracks of Compa ny F, 310 th infantry, and an investi gation was started. The Shipping Board made public the charter rate to be paid for vessels re quisitioned by the Government. The Government has begun weeding out the officers in the Reserve Corps who have proved inefficient. ""Count von Bernstorff knew that sub marine ruthlessness was to be resum ed when he asked the German govern ment for $50,000 to influence Congress. Several thousand American artillery men, regulars, now are in a camp "somewhere in England," being train ed in the handling of big guns. | SPORTING | Omar Khayyam and Hourless will carry 126 pounds and race ten fur longs at Laurel, Maryland, for $lO,OOO and gold cup. T. A. D. Jones, football coach at Yale, announced that no man physical ly fit, who has not identified him self with some branch of the military service, will be permitted to play foot ball at Yale this year. Giants finished their championship season by defeating Philadelphia. The Kentucky Futurity of $14,000 for three-year-old trotters was won in three straight heats by the Real Lady, Alexander in a contest with the pen nant winning Giants gained his thir tieth victory of the season for the Phil lies by a score of 8 to 2. Nella Dillon won the $5,000 Ken tucky Futurity for two-year-old trot' ters at Lexington in record time. Eben M. Byers, one-time golf cham pion, lost tennis match and $2,000 stake to Miss Molla Bjurstedt at Pitts burgh. Having disposed of the two leading negro lightweights In three rounds, Leonard now is scanning the horizon for a white challenger. |^_^_^_FORElGN^^| The British cruiser Drake was tor pedoed off the north coast of Ireland, nineteen men being killed by the ex plosion, but succeeded in reaching a harbor, where she sank. Major General Pershing witnessed sham offensive, in which American soldiers in France captured three sup posed enemy trenches. Great Britain is prepared to make air reprisals on German cities, and General Smuts declared while the gov ernment had been reluctant to adopt an eye for an eye policy German attacks on defenseless people would prove a boomerang with dire results. British casualties for the week end ed Oct. 2 were 21,179. Field Marshal von Hindenburg's sev« entieth birthday was observed as a general holiday throughout the Ger man empire. Much property damage was done and many lives were lost as a result of the typhoon which swept over Japan. "If we, my friends, of the Commit tee of Public Safety of the common wealth of Pennsylvania and its affiliat ed organizations through the state —if we do not busv ourselves with the effective organization of this com monwealth so that we may adequately support the lads that go, and preserve the homes for those of them that will come back, then we do not deserve to be called Americans and we are not fitto be the representatire of the Keystone state."
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