New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1917, Page 6

s ALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. &t Herald Building, 87 Church St A at tie a8 Second Class Mail Matter. 87.00 a year only profitahle advertising medium % Britain Het-'alci. A datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Post Office at New Britain livered by carrier to any part of the city “for 16 cents a weak, 63 cents 4 month. Fiptions for paper to be sent by mail, payable in advance, 60 cents a month, / NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1017. © a~ carried on without much ado. Saving the sugar will be a task mare difficult than Those wha are used iy of the others. to two charine chrystals in their coffee every h morning will have a hard time fore- i 1 | going this' pleasure. Tea, to be per- tectly prop should be brewed, seeped and served without sugar. i They do it in China. Why not here? n | AS to the fifth request of the food dic- the ety airentation books and prems | tator.—the eating of more vegetables, Toom alwavs open to advertiserg. | fruit and fish.—common sense will Herald will be found on sale at HotA- | 41oq.p the American people sooner or Mngs Nevs Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- | - G L wan New 'York Citv: Board ‘Valk. Ai- | later that the more of these things iantic City, and Hartford Depot they eat and the less meat the better CALLS. 028 for all concerned, especially in hot - .::.': S 26 | weather. Urging economy is the duty The Call of the Flag! Its stripes with patriot blood are dyed: Its i ton, ‘Where farmers faced the foe and died star rose o'er Lexing- And by their glorious deaths there won . First place in Freedom's annals grand— The first for her to make her stand, The first to answer her stern call And first in her great cause to fall! And through a century’s growing might = That old flag always. proudly stood or Liberty and for the Right And bonds of mankind’s brotherhood! jach star in its great galaxy, ke beacon light of Liberty, fhts still with its clear radiance 'he path of Freedom’s grand ad- vance! O torch of Liberty! now wave Across the seas your signal light! o Allied hosts and peoples brave A Nation comes in bannered @ might! . The call has come from Europe’s shore To stand as erst it stood of yore! World-dawn of Liberty we scan— Lead on, O Flag, in Freedom's van! H. T. SUDDUTH OFFICIAL DRAFT FIGURES., Service should be the aim of ewspapers. ling events in which the public terested, hformation their desire readers er pages the rotation in which Ne ritain men eligible for the on boards in both of the two di he official paper by sheets war master the dependable as she efficient examining board can find at lvers although each will all In addition to chron- newspapers should furnish to Jnow even when such stuff is outside initial jraft will be called before the exemp- jcts. These figures are taken from | furnished department ough the Assoclated Press and are ma- | nery of the government can make | m. Men who will be called before Hance through these figures just when y will be expected to present them- receive ifMcial notice from the boards when task that may never be accomplished. The men who run restaurants can take | care of their end of it if their patrons | exercise somé sort of disoretion. Helping Hoover will be a pleasure when the task is undertaken with the proper spir It means to forego plegsures that fixed in ‘the daily habits of American life; but when those who stay at home in this war realize the great sacrifices that are being made, will be made, by these going away Vihe thougnt should help greatly in bringing about co-operation with the national government. one of the much have become and who are There is not requests aforemen- tioned which is outzide the bounds of common sense. There is not which cannot be lived up to by the average American citizen. This being 80, it is the duty of each and every in- dividual in the nation to get behind Hoover and help make this campaign six one for food conservation a success. TAKE INTEREST. At the present rate of returns to this office it will require almost a month in which to complete the list of names of all those New Britain boys and men who have answered the call to the colors. This should not be so. There should he enough interest evinced in the local soldier boys to make a complete list available at this time. The work in hand is simple. one knows of a man or boy who is enlisted in the army, the navy or the national guard let that per- son fill out one of the blanks which appear in the Herald from day to day and send the data to this office. Parents should be to this request. in line for such service. If any the first to answer Relatives are next Failing to get this information from parents or next to kin, the Herald will ap- is | of the boys. There are Uncle Sam’s in the regular Army. New Britain boys in There are men There are two Navy. hat is commonly known as news.| fy]] companies of national guards- ntaining its policy of presenting| men. The latter are well taken tters of common interest first in its | care of, insofar as their records are 1d, the Herald today publishes on | kept at the state armory. The army W | men who enlisted before the present war began havp been lost sight of, to some degree. The same is true of those who have been in the navy for eight or ten years. The idea here is to get as many names of New Brit- ain men and boys serving under the flag as it is possible to secure. There are many of the young fellows from this town who enlisted in Hartford, and these are credited not to New Britain but to Hartford. We want to know where our boys stand, what has the country, and how many taking part in the great war being Waged that the world may s- | a been done for are o do so. No other publication having | pe made safe for democracy. circulation in New Britain has vet| [ nag been estimated by a com- ublished the official figures. Read || otent authority that New Britain, hem and learn when you will be| (yon (ne selective draft law calls the i 513 recruits from this town, will have dlmost a thousand men, alto- GET BEHIND HOOVER. gether, in the federal service. To At the outset of his faod conserv: on campaign Herbert Hoover. jational food dictator, the made six big date we are given credit with 327 en- jistments. Our gross quota, under the army bill has been placed at 840. To bring the total enlistments from New a- .:'u of' the “American people. | ) ain up to this strongth there will h W H 2 1 Toe:t e G hiocities moal o Hoye| perE18 men taken avay with in the B ant beol Rutton or poric not pmenth. Granted that we have lost . m" g A 5 came credit for enlistments by our more an ance a day. < R s 2 2 o f i T oys) eolng o RHan (ong i eREh oG et it nevertheless find out just how many e g ¢ ser into the ranks, 4. To cut the daily allowance of | men we have sent e Fre i iy o it Ol s | S i R0 Sla e U BERED ) ) ; way to do this is obvious. Take in- ays. 5. To nd fish. 6. To eat more vegetables, fri jaurants frequented the necessity onomy. Concerted action on the part n and women all over the Unity about a fulfillment of these quests. Just so soon as the m the value to be derived from living e nation begin to take its place wi wars [There must be personal sacrifice his time. [penalty to eat one wheatless meal It does not require overmu train from eating beef, mutton or po: urge in the home or the res- tes will be the only means of bring- | of Education in which si d women of the country realize | tions that nur schools fail to teach o war time economy, just so soon W nations' of the world. | sacrifice on the part pf anvone to re- | year high school boy, ter in the search for this informa- tion and fill out a blank. 1it of | SOME SPELLING. of | Commenting on a letter written by ed | the precident of the New York Board this educator “mortified to find there that he i | conie en | how much basis is for asser- up | reading. and arithmetic, the ill | New York Worid presents the fol- th | lowing: Of 193 applicants for employment at | from public school graduates, 95 were It is not.a very difficult | rejected by a local corporation, prin- a | cipally because of poor penmanship ch ! and arithmetical vagueness. A first- | in a spelling rk | test given by a bank, wrote: “Re- more than once a day. To oconomtzeI leave, deceive, sive, inflmation, con- M the use of butter s a simple prac- stonation;”’ and this bit of Josh Bil- teaspoonfuls of sac- | of every housewife, every husband, every son, every daughter. Urging | | economy in ‘public restaurants is a preciate any help rendered by friends | tice easily learned and which can he!}ings philosophy: “Now is a pro- fishous time for you to consurve yonr resosous.’” Striking out new paths ortho- graphy may indicate brilliant initiative vet in a business letter cause “con- is an old-fashioned re- in stonation" cipient. Intellectual men may have skotchy ideas of arithmetic; but an impression that 3 and 8 make 12 might irritate in a statement of bank As Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Lord Randolph Churchill might ask of page in decimals, “What are all ‘those damned little dots?"" but adding 10’s for 100’s in an invoice will be scantily appreciated. Some of the trouble may be due to a misapprehension of what education is. Reading, spelling and arithmetic are not pedagogic “fads and fancies” but for adult life. They are balance. a “resosous’” the efficiency of nations, is ‘“‘a pro- fishous time” to begin. FACTS AND FANCIES. An Ohio rooster in the middle of the road caused the wreck of an auto- mobile. Usually it is the rooster that is put out of dence Journal. “You and the British have too damn many ships,” sald a Germait supmarine commander atter sinking the American barkentine Hildegaard. This practical difficulty might have occurred to Berlin before beginning the campaign of sea Frightfulness.— New York World. ¥ There is a good deal to deplore and criticise, of course, but, after all, we think we're doing fairly well in our prosecution of our part of the war, considering that we're a Republic, in the first place, and have a Senate, in the second.—Ohio State Journal. A town man occasionally can shape his business so that he may lie down beside it and take a nap. But a farmer after his regular work has been attended to, always has a weil to dig.—Topeka Capital. Cardinal Gibbons' advice to young men on his eighty-third birthday ‘s worth repeating: ‘Be Americans al- ways. Remember that you owe all to America and be prepared if your country demands it to give all in re- turn.’—Hartford Post. Without co-operation, without unanimity of purpose, things may be accomplished, but the results will be only partial. 1t is when all have the vision and all work that really big things are done. No town is going ‘o be bigger than the composite charac- ter of its citizenship. It takes big people to make a big town.—Vandalia (Kan.) Leader. One of the rookies at Fort Riley neglected cer. to salute a superior offi- How long have you been in the ' demanded the officer. “Threz replied the rookie. ‘‘How long have you been in?"—Kansas Star, If you see a crowd of young men and, maidens leading muzzled swine down the shady rural lanes in the cool of the morning this Summer, you must know they are merely following the advice of a the State Agricultural College, say- ing ‘pigs should have regular exer- cise.”—Kansas City Star. The Sniper’s Toll. “Not all of us die in a charge” he said, ““the sniper must have his toll, mad for a sight of tomorrow’s goal. You can keep him down in his trench for days, but sooner, or later he Will 1ift his head o'er the pile of dirt to see what is there to see, And the death he knows is the price he'll pay oon as his head shall rise, iy And he’s had his look at the shell- torn ground is the pitiful death he dies. as “You can talk till you're black in the face to hoys of the terrible sniper’s skill. You can tell them morning and noon and night that whenever they shoot they kill. They can see their half-crazed curi- ous pals picked off at a shot and vet When the madness comes for a look out there it seems that they all forget. There's a wild desire that you can’t explain, and the snipers sit and walt For the poor, rash lad that must see the fleld, though death is his certain fate. “T've fought with them in the tren:h myself when the dawn begnn to break, To keep them down where their lives were safe, but a look they were mad to take, And sooner and later thev'd lift their heads and fall in a crumpled heap, For it seems somehow that the sniper brood has never been known to sleep. Though it's well I know that “it's death to him who raises his head to see, I am most afraid there will come a time when the madness will master me.” —Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press, worth finding out about; and perhaps | the present day, when war grimly tests | commission.—Provi- | City ! recent bulletin from | And the prey he gets is the lad that's | | NEW BOOKS AT Carry On: Letters in War Time, by C. W. Dawson, ; Dunsany the Dramatist, Bierstadt. “The most discriminating and val- by E. H. uable part of the autho i his treatment of Dunsany philos-/ ophy. Like Yeats, Dunsany is more interested in ideas than in people s 3ut he has revived wonder for us. His plays release us from an in- tolerable burden of photography and realism,” Publisher’'s Weekly For France, by A. J. Dawson. Living Present, by Gertrude Atherton. Mountain Interval, by Robert Frost. “Compared with North of Boston this has more of the personal and less of the communal life. Mr. Frost is a poet because he can show a spir- itual history.” New Republic, Second Book 'of Operas, by H. H: Krahbiel. “The well-known musical ecritic here considers the plots, the music, and the histories of those important operas which were not included in his firét work. The two books to- | gether comprise a survey of prac- | tically all the operas that are ever presented n the modern theater.” | Publisher's note Social Survey, by Carol Aronovici. ‘‘Based on the author’s wide experi- ence as director of the Bureau of So- cial Research, Phil, this book fur- nishes a good text for civic clubs or communities’ which are contemplat- ing a survey. Discusses in. a con- structive way the meaning, scope, method, character and sources of in- formation to be considered in each of the fields into which the social sur- vey should extend.”” A. L. A. Book- list. War and the Soul, by R. Campbell. BRAZIL QUIGK TO LEARN AIR LESSON Other Somth American Countries Also Buying Fleets ipr Aviators Led by Brazil, long the leader in aeronautics in South America, various republics below the Panama Canal have adopted programs of aerial preparedness and are buying airplanes. Sontos Dumont, a pioneer aviator and aeronaut, whose er in Paris, introduced aeronautics to his countrymen in Brazil and for the last few years the leading sportmen there have done much flying. Only recently the Brazilian government, profiting by the war lessons of Eur- ope, decided to establish flying schools and organize its avigtion service. Reasons for coming here to buy air- planes were given by an inspector at Planfield, N. J., plant, which is build- ing these South American machines. “The Brazilian government, which is probably the most progressive in South America,” he said, realizes that its defences are entirely inade- quate without an efficient air service. Following the decision to organize its flying corps, came the question of getting airplanes. Officers of the Brazlian army had bene acting as ob- servers in Europe and knew exactly what types of machines were re- quired for the work to be done, | “Armed with this knowledge these experts set out to get the machines. European airplanes and those made in the United States and- finally de- cided that the latter were best suited for South American use. After an inspection of the various plants and the machines manufactured here, 'they chose those made by the Stan- | dard Aero corporation which are ! fitted with the Hall-Scott motors. Now | a number of these are being built jand before the end of the summer will be in use in Brazil. “One of the most efficent of the | machines ordered and now being | built is the Standard ‘Model D,” which is a twin-motored military hydro- airplane. This has two power motors and can make 80 miles an hour, which is very fast for a fly- ing boat. In addition it can go as slow as 45 miles an hour, which al- lows of safe landing anywhere, even | if the sea is rough. This machine can carry more than 1,300 pounds of dead weight, which will allow it to carry guns, bombs or torpedoes. There are accommodations for both pilot and observer, both of whom may handle guns, and the machine has a range of action of about 450 miles. Even when fully loaded it can climb 3,400 feet in ten minutes, which is a splendid performance for a aero- plane. “In addition to this type, a number have been ordered for land flying alone. These, of course, are not so heavy and are particularly adapted to flving at high altitudes. These ma- chines will probably be used for many purposes apart from their military services. Transportation is the great problem in Brazil and all the other South American countries and these machines will make trips over the mountains in a few hours, where is would take days by the roads or trail It is planned to use them for mail | carrying. and Santos Dumont has per- fected plans for using airplanes as express carriers. With their ability to carry a large amount of dead weight, it is quite possible that they may be used to bring out bullion from the mines high up in the moun- tains. There are a number of other commercial uses to which they might be put, but of course/ their most im- portant service will be as part of the — the i dirigible | was the first to circle the Eiffel Tow- | They considered the various types of | 120-horse- | THE INSTITUTE - Washington Square Plays. Four one-cast plays selected from the twenty American plays which the Washington Square Players have pro- duced Way to Study Birds, by J. D. Kuser. Women Are People, by Mrs. A. D. Miller. - “Gay, entertaining verses by a suf- frgist, inspired by various arguments of the ‘anti A. L. A. Booklist. Women of Belgium, by Mrs. Charlotte Kellogsg. “The simply told and touching Belgian women since the war started, written by the only American woman | member of the relief commission. Mr. Herbert C. Hoover says in the in- troduction: ‘Our share and the share | of these woman has been a | tagk of prevention, not a task of remedy, Our task and theirs has been {to maintain the laughter of the chil- Taggert. By a Salvation Army officer. . FICTION. Cecilia of the Pink Roses, by K. H. Tayolr. My Country, a Story of Today, by C. 1 R. Brown. Those Times and These by Irvin S. Cobb. Torch-bearers of Bohemia, Kryshanovskaya. “This book by a modern Russian woman tells a story of medieval Bohemia . John Hus and Jerome of Prague are two dominant figures in the story.” by V. I, military and naval defence of Brazil.” Agents from Chile, Peru, Argen- tina and several of the other repub- lics are preparing to give their or- ders for airplanes and it is expected that the aeronautic industry here will build up a large business in machines for South America. LABOR AFTER WAR AROUSING INTEREST Britain’s Demobilized Army to Present Many Problems 1 | London, July 19, (Correspondence) The vital question of labor after the war and the relationship between master and men is receiving particular attention in official as well as trade circles. A belated report issued by a i sub-committee of the Reconstruction | Committee for the permanent im- | provement of relations between em- | ployers and workmen has just been 8- ! sued and sent out to the leading Em- ployers Associations and Trade Unions. In a covering letter, Sir D. Shackel- i ton says that the War Cabinet is deep- ly concerned that timely measures i should be taken before the end of the war for the future of industry. The report recommends the estab- lishment of an organization for each industry representative of employers and employes to consider matters af- fecting the trade from the point of view of all those engaged in it. = One of the chief factors of the de- i mobilization problem, consists of the . guarantees given by the government with Parliamentary sanction, to re- store trade union rules and customs ,suspended during the war. The re- port considers that the definite co- operation and acquiescence by both emplovers and employed must be a condition of any setting aside of these guarantees and undertakings and that {if new arrangements, satisfactory to all parties but not in strict accord- ance with the guarantees, are to be , reached, they must be the joint work of employers and, employed. | " National industrial councils are ad- vocated in order to secure co-opera- tion by granting to working men and women a greater share in the consid- eration of matters affecting their in- dustry. The following questions are mentioned as being specially suitable for consideration: Better ultilisation of knowledge and experience. Means to secure to workers a great- er share in and responsibility for de- | termlnation and observance of condi- tions of work. Settlement of general principles of employment including methods of fix- {ing., paying and readjusting wages. | Establishment of regular methods of negotiation with a view to preventing | differences between master and man. Means of insuring to workers the greatest possible security of earnings and employment. Technical education and training. Industrial research. Provision for full consideration of inventions and improvements designed by workers and for the adequate safe- tpuardmg of the rights of the design- ers. Improvements of processes, ma- chinery and organization and full con- sideration of workers point of view. Proposed legislation affecting industry. No suggestions are offered in the report on profit-sharing, co-partner- ship or particular systems of wages. | “We are convinced,”” says the report, {“that a permanent improvement in practical dren, not to dry their tears’” A. L. A. Booklist. | it e | Yankee Major Invades Belgium, by | *7" Wallace Winchell and George : | AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE FELT END T0 BE NEAR German Correspondent Gives De- tails of Murder Copenhagen, June 14, (Correspond- ence)—What purport to be hitherto | unpublished facts relating to the as- | sassination of Archduke Franz Ferdi- | and of Austria, showing that he had | a strong premonition of approaching story of the relief work done by the | death, are contributed to the Berlin Tageblatt by its correspondent at the Austro-Italian front. The correspondent’s informants, ac- cording to this dispatch are persons of | { high standing, some of whom were eye | witnesses to the Serajevo tragedy | ! which has been described as having | supplied the match that set the world aflzme. 5 Indications of the Archduke’s un- | easiness, it is asserted, were apparent | while he was driving along the quay : at Trieste to board the steamship for Serajevo. He repeatedly glanced up at houses fronting on the water, as if | suspecting a bomb plot. At Cumaja | Bridge, in Serajevo, however, when ! Gabrinovitch hurled a bomb which | landed on the collapsed top of the Austro-Hungarian heir's carriage, the ! Archduke showed remarkable pres- ence of mind by sweeping the death- dealing missile gway with his hand. Falling to the ground, the bomb ex- ploded, damaging the third automo- bile in the line of the parade and wounding the adjutant, Lieutenant- Colonel Count Merizzi. Feared Being Shot Dead. | After the injured officer had been removed to a hospital, the archducal pair proceeded to the City Hall. At the conclusion of the ceremonies there a consultation was held as to the ad- visability of carrying out the program which had been announced for the royal visitors. Contrary to the ac- cepted version of the episode, which described Ferdinand as insisting that the program be carried out despite the urgent advise of members of his party in opposition to the plan, the heir to the throne is now quoted as having asked: What shall we do now? Shall | we continue to permit ourselves to be shot dead?” f General Potiorek is saild to havs proposed either that the city should be punished by the cancellation of the program or that the streets be cleared and the ceremonies carried out as arranged. To the latter pro- posal, the Archduke, affer briet’ re- flection, is said to have replied: “To carry out the program after clearing the streets doesn't suit me. We had better drop the program en- tirely. I only wish to visit Morizzi." In deference to the archduke's wishés, ' the party was divided, the royal pair proceeding on their way to the hospital to visit the wounded adjutant. In the prevailing confu- sion, according to the latest version of the tragedy, the chauffeur assigned to the archduke's car disregarded his instructions. Count Harrach, the officer who had been detailed to the archduke’s machine appeared on the running board of another car on -the opposite side of the street. When the archduke's chauffeur started off ia the wrong direction. Count Harrach, it is said, called to him to halt, thug affording the assassin, Princip, -an un expected opportunity to fire the fatal shots at Ferdinand and his wife frora a distance of only a few feet. The Tageblatt's correspondent as- serts that, after the bomb outrage in which the adjutant was injured, Gen- eral Potiorek assured the archduke there would be no further attempt tn assassinate him, as plotters ali had been arrested. Ferdinand, however, is described as having looked at him somewhat sceptically and saying: “I dom’t believe it. We will several bullets yet.” ) CITY OF RHEIMS IS LIKE GHOST OF PAST But Cardinal Lucon Believes American -Aid Means Victory I get French Front, July 4 (Correspon- dence of the Associated Press)— Rheims is wilting. The big cathedral city of the Champagne district has the appearance of a hollow shell which has collapsed in parts and is rapidly subsiding into a shapeless mass. Not only the cathedral but all the public buildings and private dwelling houses have suffered terribly in the last half year from the raging ven- geance of the- German gunners who have turned a rain of shells on the stricken city whenever their armies have been defeated at any point of the front. German reverses have been so frequent since the allied offensive began this year. that the city rarely passed more than two or three days without undergoing severe bombard- ment. Ther~ are only 5,000 persons out of a peace time population of about 115,000. Among them are a great proportion of women and chil- dren. Some of the younger women have continued their work through- out, many of them being employed in the Champagne -cellars, where, dur- ing the day, they are comparatively left the | safe from the German fire. Schools are still being carried on, the classes being held far below the street traffic and the municipal gov- ernment also is conducted in the bowels of the earth where the city fathers meet to discuss relief meas- the relations between employers and | ures. employed must be founded upon something other than a cash basis.” Cardinal Remains at Post. A visit to Cardinal Lucen, .the | Germans, and many others have tak- | fore the invaders. T ¥ archbishop of Rheims, who has never for a moment thought of desertiny his post close-to the cathedral, found him in very a cheerful spirit and in full belief that final victory was as. sured. In-the course of the conver« sation he said. “The entry of America into thi war will surely hasten the defeat of the Germans, who, in the name ol their kulture, have done so much tc harm civilization. “My flock has suffered much. Over 200,000 of the people of my archdio- cese are still in the hands of the en refuge in various parts of the country driven from their homes bex With the help placed at my disposel by American and other sympathizers I have been able to relieve much distress, but " there is still much to do. Many have lost their all, and I should like to have at my disposal in readiness for the return of the refugees a reserve of blankets and bedding, clothing and other essentials 8o as to be able ta* ¥ provide at least some of the more urgently required needs of my peopls Wwhen the Germans have been driven away as they assuredly will be.” American Consulate Hit. The American consulate which has not been occupied since early in the war, has not suffered greatly from the constant bombardment. One shell pierced the roof and left so marks of its explosion, while all t! windows have been destroyed. In the cathedral itself a great change has taken place in receni months. Great gaping holes show in the roof. All the ancient stained glass has fallen to the stone floor, the statues of Saints are calcined and crumbled; frequent craters show in the floor; all the woodwork has suc- sumbed to the flames, and at a moment a big shell may cause the whole structure to collapse. Nearly 700 shells have building, One of them, projectile, hit but failed and it now stands on its base beside one of the pillars of the nave. AL T AVOID ALL WASTE - IN USE OF FLOUR Government Decries Unwise Hoarding of Foodstuifs ‘Washington, D. C., July 26.—Buy flour in small quantities and protect it carefully from spoilage, is the key- note of a suggestion from the Unite& States Department of Agriculture. Sound flour milled from standard wheat exhibits very little tendency to decompose when stored in a proper manner. Nevertheless, there is con- siderable loss of flour through spoil- age as a result of improper storage, particularly during the summer months. Flour dealers naturally have to carry in storage an of flour proportionate to the current needs of their trade. Housekeepers on the farm and in the city should purchase flour in accordance - with their needs only. It is false economy for the housekeeper to purchase lar- hit the a 12-inch to explode amount ger amounts of flour than can be used within a reasonable length of time. This may be a barrel for -a large family; more’ often it will be the 50-pound sack. Any storage of flour in excess of the consumer's needs constitutes hoarding .which, under present circumstances, is an unethical and reprehensible practices of no profit to the individual who, practices it, but injurious to the best interests of the people. Since it is the duty of everyone in’ the present situation particularly to. avoid all waste, it is incumbent upon, each one so to store the normal stock ' of flour as to eliminate all waste what- soever. The precautions that are re: quired have been well worked out im practice and are stated as follows by specialist in the Department of Agri- culture: There are three cardinal principles of flour storage Flour should not be stored in the cellar, since the cellar is rarely free from dampness, even though special flour bins have been built in. It is common to find odor§ in a cellar and flour absorbs odors and is contaminated by them. The cellar is cool, but is usually too damp, Flour should not be stored in the at- tic of the usual type. The tempera- ture 'is too high in summer, there is no circulation of air, and the flour is likely to acquire a musty odor. Flour should not be stored in:the pantrm or kitchen except in small quantities since the temperature is certain to be uneven and the flour is likely to be contaminated by odors. If practicable every household should possess a small room for stor: age of non-odorous commodities. Such a room is best located on the north side of the building.. It should be ventilated and a cool and even tem: perature should be maintained. Where such a room is not available & closet may fit the requirements well: The bins or containers should be kept clean, and when an old stock of flour is exhausted, the container should be carefully cleaned before a new stock is placed. Naturally the flour must be guards ed from vermin. Flour should be ex- amined occasionally to see that de- composition has not begun. Con- served in this manner, the sack of’ flour in the household and the large stores of the retailer can be utilized practically to the exclusion of waste through spoilage. any An Indignant Officer. (Boston Transcript.) % “May we have the pleasure of your company this evening, Colonel?” “Company, madam? I command & regiment.” -4