New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1917, Page 8

AL DAME NATURE 10 RE-STOCK WORLD America May Be Chosen to Fill - Earth’s Empty Larder _— |8 ‘Washington, April 13.—A program )t food Production and food conser- tion_ for the replenishment of the rld’s depleted stores, far reaching B its effects and so radical in its na- ire as to propose the application of fle principle of selective conscription 8ct workers for the fields, was out- d last night in a statement from department of agriculture repori- I8 the conclusions reached at the Inference of agriculture experts heid St. Louis. It is doubtful if‘any nation embark- in war ever took the elaborate leasures for the increase of food pro. Imction that ara proposed by Secre- tary of Agriculture Houston and his ‘Qn(!revs Describing the situation fronting, the country as perhaps 1 greatest cmergency in its history. Jhe confererce strongly recommend- 4 the following action: The program. Conscription of the more than 2,- 900,000 boys between the of 15 f8nd 139 nrot now engaged. iny ‘produc- ¢ work, of men beyvond military age men of military age, but not pted for active military duty, for in the fields and in other lines food production as well ‘as in am- unition plants. Appropriation of $25.000,000 to be [mmade immediately avallable for the of the secretary of agriculture to ‘meet the extraordinary needs of agri- lture in the. crisis. Price publicity and, if necessary, ce fixing in order to protect the blic against speculators who seek to [make capital out of the country’s con- ition. Government control of agencies for manufacture and handling of A complete survey of the food sit- tion. A call by the gavernment to farmers ind all persons having a plot of land p any size available to plant as much as possible this year and thus patriot- lly assist the country in as great degree as the man who shoulders a fle. * Formation of a relatively small cen- agricultural body in' Washingten, large national advisory body com- of leading agricultural organi- Hons, a small central agricultural y_in each state to be designated y the governor, all the smaller or- nizations working in co-ordination ‘with the central national board, which in turn will work in co-operation with the Council of National defense. \ Suggestions to Farmers, . As the first step in the increase of “America's food production the con- ference urgently made these sugges- “tions to the farmers of the nation: Increase the acreage in spring " wheat in the northern states. Increase the corn area east of the 100th meridian. In districts where wheat has been winter killed replant with oats, corn or sorghum, as climatic conditions may é."mmine. 7. Plant barley and 3 oats wherever hoy are proved and reliable crops, to | ‘maximum that can be handled. “Buckwheat' acreage in the northern Ask Your Dealer To play your fa- 'vorite song or band selection on the arid eastern states, where the season is too short for the great staple crops, may well be increased. The area planted to navy beans in the north and west and to Mexican and tepary beans in the southwest should be enlarged, The planting of potatoes, especially for local use should be stimulated in | every reasonable way. g Sweet potatoes in the south should be produced in larger quantity than usual for use in their fresh state and for storing, canning or desiceating for winter use. Production of peanuts should be er- larged. | Care should be taken to avoid un- due encroachment on areas used for pasturage and hay required for live stock production, Authority should be granted to the secretary of agriculture to advance to | farmers under proper safeguards seed required to insure the production of crops necessary for the welfare of the nation. Yive Stock Holdings Low. | An early increase in the animal product of the country should be made, as live stock holdings already are too low and should not be dimin- ished further. Increase must come through enlarging the supply of feed by more efficient methods of feeding and through more complete control of contagious diseases. Pork production could be increased substantially through the more ex- tensive use of full litters, better care and feeding. Milk production could be increased fully one-fourth by more liberal and intelligent feeding. The poultry products can and should be doubled within a year. Another drastic provision that the conference advised was the delega- tion of power to the secretary. of agriculture to license all concerns handling foodstuffs in any way, and if thought advisable by the council of national defense, actually to take over and operate such of the busi- nesses as may be warranted in a manner similar to a receivership. Turning to the subject of prices, the statement of the department says: “The fixing of maximum or mini- mum prices need not be undertaken at this time, but the fact that such !a course may become necessary in jthe future makes advisable the crea- ;tion of agencies which will facilitate ! government m:tion when the necessity 'may arise. “To this end it would be well for the congress of the United States to authorize the council of natlonal de- Many Women in this Condition Re- gain Health by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Convincing Proof of This Fact. 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NEW EBRITAIN - DAILY HERALD, ' fence, if deemed necessary, to pur- chase, store and subsequently .dis- tribute food products or to fix prices ih any national emergency caused by a temporary or local over-production or by a sudden ending of the war or Ly restraints of trade manipulations or uneconomic speculation in order trat producers may not be required to suffer loss on account of the ex- traordinary efforts they are mnow asked to make, and in order that consumers may not be required to pay oppressive prices in case of disor- ganized or inadequate transportation.” WOMEN BECOMING MACHINE EXPERTS Prove Their Worth As More Than Mere Attendants London, April 13.—Those who still cling to the idea that the woman munition worker is a mere attendant upon a machine, engaged in repetition work and incipable of taking the place of the skilled artisan, are being given a tangible proof that there are many thousands of women mechanics in this country doing delicate and difficult work that, in times of peace, only the exceptional expert was thought capable of doing. This proof is being furnished by an exhibition that the ministry of munitions is giv- ing. Engineers agree that the making of a rotary aircraft engine is about as severe a test as exists of skilled ar- tisanship. Such engines are being produced today by women. Steel ‘cylinders are exhibited that are ma- chined down to one-thousandth of an inch, and with an accuracy of bal- ance that is reckoned to the fraction of a gramme. A pump used in a rotary aircraft engine is shown that it is a miracle of delicate construc- tion, and is made entirely by women. It is a war invention and has never been made by man labor. The de- gree of accuracy here is .0004 of an inch, and a notice attached to the ex- hibit adds that operator sets and grinds tools.” Even greater accuracy is achieved in the various gauges that women workers are making. There is on dis- play one cylinder guage for a sixty- This gauge had been ground to a limit of three ten- thousandths of an inch. And this is but one exhibit in a whole section de- voted to dies, gauges, and tool cut- ters of every kind. A manufacturer who was attending the exhibit was heard to exclaim: “I never thought I should live to see twist drills made by women.’ There are few cases of repetition work, most of the exhibits being of pure handicraft, very often of a kind that, before the war, England had to look for abroad. A striking example is the optical section. As far as lense making was a Britfsh indus- try before the war, it virtually was a monopoly of a few French and Ger- man workmen imported specially into this country. Now English women areturning out lenses and prisms of an angular accuracy of three seconds or less than are said to challenge the best work of France or Germany be- fore the war. Not only a few exceptional women have attained this skill, but there is an army of them engaged in all these kind of expert work and earning high wages. And the astonishing thing about it is that it has all come about since 1915. These tens of thousands of skilléd women artisans have had an apprenticeship of months where men have had years. “in every case the her own pound shell. COL. BENNETT CONVICTED. Oyster Bay Politician Found Guilty of Bribing Juror. Mineola, L. I, April 13.—After a trial which lasted all this week, Col. Henry M. Bernett, of Oyster Bay, was found guilty yesterday of bribing a juror in the supreme court. The jury was out less than an hour. Charles R. McCarthy, formerly as- sistant district attorney, charged Col. Bennett with offering to bribe Freder- ick McQueen, a juror in the case of Fuller against the Bradley Construc- tion company. The case was reported to Justice Van Sicklen, who was sit- ting then. Mr. McCarthy testified he went to a hotel, where he met Colonel Bennett told Mr. McCarthy, according to the evidence that the trick could not be done for- less than $2,500. This Mr. ‘McCarthy sald he agreed to pay and gave Colonel Bennett $100 on ac- count. Colonel Bennett was charged with accepting a bribe. Sentence will be passed on Saturday. DIES FIGHTING AT 71. Amsterdam, ‘Via London, April 13, 4:38 a, m.——The Taeglishe Rundschau, a copy of which has been received here, prints a Leipzig dispatch saying that Sergeant Dr. Caspar Rene Greg- ory, a native of Philadelphia and pro- fessor of theology in the University of Leipzig, who volunteered for service in the German army, has been killed on the west front. He was 71 years ola. FREE RENT FOR GUARDSMEN. Union Hill, N. J., April 13.—Two hundred and fifty tenants of houses owned by James Usher were notified today that Mr. Usher would not charge rent to families in which the principal wage earner enlists for war. He also offers to help support such families in other ways. RAILROAD LAWYER DEAD. Chicago, Aprjl 13.—Chester M. Dawes, aged 62, general counsel for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, died at his residence here Jast night. He was a son of Henry L. Dawes, for many vears United, States senator from Massachusetts, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1917. Beware of Substitutes ‘When you buy Aspirin you want genuine Aspirin — nothing else. As additional protection against substitu- tion, every package and every tablet bears “The Dayer Cross— ' Your Guarantee of Parity” erTablets AsPu—-m ATLANTIC RESORTS MAY BE KEPT DARK Lights May Be Extinguisbed Half Mile Inland New York, April 13.—Apprehen- sion spread among the proprietors of hotels and amusement places in the resorts along the Atlantic coast yes- terday as the result of the refusal of officials of the war and navy depart- ments to deny that they contemplate ordering extinguishing of lights for a distance of one-half mile from shore. Such an order would be looked up- on by buginess men on the Rockaway peninsula as little short of disastrous. Many of them asserted last night that enforcement of such an order would mean their financial ruin. Similar re- ports were received from Atlantic City, Ashbury Park, Belmar, Cape May, Long Branch, Atlantic High- lands and other resorts along the New Jersey coast. Coney Island business men took an optimistic view of the situation and expressed the belief that they would be able to reach a compromise with the military authorities by devising a means of screening their lights so that they would not be seen from the ocean. No Order Issued Yet. Officials of the war and other de- partments at Washington maintained silence on the subject. It is known, however, that no order of the kind re- ported has been issued. “This must be done by local au- thorities,” was the only statement that could be obtained .on the' sub- Ject in Washington last night. It “lights out” order is issued, the bus- iness men say .that all of this money would be lost to them. . Residents Alarmed. So seriously did Mr. Connolly re- gard the appeals that he wrote to Representative Caldwell of the Queens congressional delegation. “The great uneasiness is being felt by. property owners and citizens of Rockaway,” Mr. Connolly said, “owing.to.a per sistent rumor to the effect that the federal government or the war de- partment will cause to be extinguished the lights on the Rockaway peninsu- la as a war measure, and this uneasi- ness is seriously affecting the renting of property. It is easy to understand just how serious this may be, in view of the fact that the leases are now be- ing renewed or cancelled, and it is of the utmost and vital importance that something be done to allay.fears of the prospective lessees and prospec- tive summer visitors to Rockaway- ““This also would seem to apply with equal force to Coney Island and per- haps to the Borough of .= Richmond. Accordingly, it may be possible for You to obtain the co-operation of Sen- ator Calder and the representatives of Brooklyn and Richmond in obtain- ing some action on the part of the government or army officials in the way of an interview or statement to the effect that it is not the intention of the military or naval authorities m causg these beaches to remain darkness during the summer senson Virtually all of the largest hotel! along the Rockaway coast are within a half mile of the shore line. The same is true at Atlantic City, where nearly every one of the more than eight hundred hotels of the resort are within a quarter of a mile of the ocean front. £ GERMAN PLOTTER INJURED. Fairfield, April 13.—Steven Ruder, 30 years of age, a German, was badly injured here last night while attempt-; was surmised that statement might|ing to cut the electric feed wires of, be interpreted to mean that the.gov- ernment may suggest the adoption of the light regulation as a war measure. Hundreds of appeals for informa- tion were received from property owners of Rockaway beach and Far Rockaway by Maurice E. Connoll Borough president of Queens. They declared that the circulation of the report at this time is serious, affecting cottage and hotel rentals which usual- ly are at their helght about this sea- son. The situation at the Rockaways is Httle different from that with the property owners and proprietors of hotels and amusement places at other shore places. Many carry heavy mort- gages on their lands. Hotel proprie- tors and owners of amusement places also obtain loans to carry them over the early and lean weeks of the va- cation season. These loans, in most instances, already have been obtained and the work of getting the hotels and amusement places ready for opening next month is under way. If the 12,000,000 Coconuts wereused last yearbyhouse- wives. Think of the wasted time—it takes nearlyanhour to prepare a lrelh coco- ! Think of the bruised fingers and ed tem- ! Think of he messy kitchens ! ‘What a contrast with the up- to-date housewife who uses Baker’s Fresh Grated Coconut! She spends a moment in open- ing a can, and presto! Sweet, nutty-flavored coconut, all ted, is ready for her imme- iate use. The original milk is there, too, and a pomon of it may be used in all dessert reclpel calling for milk or in cake batter. BAKER’S Fresh Grated Coconut in the Original Milk In Cans, Not in Paper Packages NOT a Dried Coconut ‘lneh-wullmdm ipes free on est. ive you requ ke i 7 ddi = es, pastries, pu nll.m andwiches and confections. A urdvmlohrfrumy. 10c s Yo FRANKLIN BAKER COMPANY NP Philadelphia, Pa. the New York, New Haven and Hart- | ford railroad. Ruder, who says he left Germany three years ago, admits, | it is said, that he intended to sever the wires and thus interfere with' trains going into Bridgeport. He re-! ceived a broken leg and bad burns, | and is being detained at the Bridge- port hospital, Established 1886 GlobeClothingHous Regardless of market conditions Hart, Schaff- ner & Marx are main- taining their all - wool and - high-grade quality standards. Suits and Overcoats $18.00 up. Exceptional assort- ment of Children’s Top Coats, $2.50, $3, $3.50 and $4.00 to Always worth while see Emery Shirts $1 to B s | , | SMITH IS ELECTED Secrctary of Tammany Hall Handily Defeats Repulican Candidate Suecial Election for Congressman. New York, April 13.—Thomas F. Smith,/for many years secretary of Tammany hall, was overwhelmingly elected yesterday to succeed the late Michael F. Conry as representative in congress from the Fifteenth district which extends from Fourteenth to Thirty-seventh street and from the East to the North river. Of the 12,- 016 votes cast—several thousand more than the special election was expected to bring out—Mr. Smith re- ceived 8,838, against 2,450 for the re- publican candidate, John N .Boyle. Joseph D. Cannon, socialist candi- date, who ran on an anti-war plat- form—one of his campaign declara- tions was that the United States plans to imitate the tyrannical policy by which Europe has ruined her people and enriched her capitalists and aris- tocrats—was a bad third, receiving ! only 728 votes. Mr. Smith carried | eighty-three of the eighty-seven elec- | tion districts and all of the assembly districts. Mr. Smith said last night that he had not yet decided whether he would resign as secretary of Tammany hall, but that he would resign immediately the post of chief clerk of the city court, which he has held for the last nineteen years. A 12% DIVIDEND PAYE “I shall go to Washington, Mr. Smith, “to be first of all an Amez ican and to suppert with full vigor measures designed for upholding the = government in the prosecution.of thé war, to the end that our country m \bc free to pursue her rightful duf and callings on land and sea.” 1 R CROWN OIL COMPANY § INCORPORATED IN DELAWARE Capitalization .$3,000,000 All common stock. In Treasure $1,870,000 slnm Par Value $1.00. PROPERTIES The company own and controls under lease 51,278 acres of oil lands in the umouu Irvine Field, and other fast growing oil sections of Kentucky. PRODUCTION Negotiations are being made for other holdings. Present production in excess of 300 barrels per day. . Oil grades as Somerset, now quoted $2.18 per bbl. Entire production being sold to the Cumberiand Pipe Line, whose lines run dllecdy through the prop- ~ erty, DEVELOPMENT Company’s production from five wells, representing a development of less m.n 1 per cent of present holdings. Have ten proven locations immediately available for drilling. which will augment present production and earnings, DIVIDENDS ARE NOW BEING PAID AT THE RATE OF 1%, PER MONTH First dividend payable May 16th to stockholders of record April 25th. Dlvldoml checks monthly. EARNINGS Three wells now being drilled, mailed Present earnings are three times in excess of dividend requirements and it is expected that with increased production the stock will return at the rate of 24 per cent per annum within a few weeks’ time. | A broad active market for the shares of the Crown Oil Compay is maintained on the New York Curb, transactions being made '‘as high as $1-%. ; Outside of returning 12 per cent at present on an stock has huge speculative possibilities. ‘We offer the unsold portion of 300,900 shares Of treasury stock, ury purposes. 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