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
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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.
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+ PLANTED TREE YEARS ♦
♦ AGO TO MAKE COFFIN <§»
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<§► 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."