New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1917, Page 9

“WILSON 10 BLOCK | RAILROAT STRIKE Conference to Be ield 2 the| White House on Nov. 22 e e Washington, Nov 15.—Operation of the railroads of the country as a military necessity, under the guthority contained in the Federal railway eight-hour law, may be exercised by President Wilson if the railway broth- crhoods carry out their proposed de- mand for an increase of wages for railwvay employes and transportation facilities are paralyzed as a result. A broad hint that the president might be obliged to invoke the author- ity to operate railroads is contained in a letter which he has sent to Wil- liam L. Chambers, Commissioner of ' Mediation and Arbitration, expressing deep interest in Judge Chambers’ ef- forts to bring about an agreement as to wages between the railroad execu- ‘ tives and the representatives of the brotherhoods. + In order to take every measure to prevent transportation paralysis at this critical time, when all the rail- roads must work at full capacity to aszist the government and its allies in the movement of war material, the president has invited the heads of the railway brotherhoods to confer with Nim at the White House on Nov. 22. Ile is determined that there shall be no. transportation paralysis, and it is telicved that he will resist any ef- fort on the part of the brotherhood heads to follow thd tactics that en- abled them to coerce congress into en- & the Railvay Eight-Hour Day when sentiment in the National Legislature was opposed to this step. Judge Chambers has been in con- ference with the heads of the broth- cthoods but it is gathered, from what was said yesterday, that e did not make any progress in his effort to persuade them that at this time pa- triotism, demanded they should not pr their grievances. The brother- hood heads are credited with giving the cold shoulder to suggestions ®hat their differences With the railroad executives be submitted to arbitra- tion, aw The Letter. The following letter from President Wilson to Judge Chambers expresses the president's attitude toward the ation: My Dear Judge Chambers: May I not express my very deep and serious interest in yvour efforts to bring the and the brother- engaged in train operation to an rrecment that there shall be no in- terruption in their relations on efther side until ample opportunity shall have heen afforded the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation to “bring about, if possible, an aml- cable agreement, and -that in the eyent of a failure to bring about such an agreement any controversy that may have arisen will be submitted to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Newlands law? “T take it for granted that yvour ef- forts »will sncceed because it is in- conceivable to me that patriotic men should now for a moment contem- plate the interruption of the transpor- tation which is so absolutely necessary to the safety of the nation and to its gucce: in arm as well as to its whole industrial life; but 1 wanted, neverthe; to express my deep per- sonal interest in the matter and to wish vou Godspeed. “The iast thing T should wish to contemplate would be the possibility of being obliged to take any unusual measures to operate the railways and I have s0 much confidence that the men von are dealing with will appre- ciate the patriotic motives underly- ihg vour efforts that I shall look for- ward with assurances to your success. “Cordially and sincerely vours, “WOODROW f\'ILSON," Judge’s Statement, Judge Chambers issued this memo- result of the efforts of the of Mediation to bring the rail- execntives and the brotherhoods enguged in train operation to an agreement that there shall be no in- terruption in their relations on either side until ample opportunity shall have been afforded the United States TRoard df Mediation and Conciliation tb bring about. If possible, an amicable agreement, and that in the event of a failure to bring about such an agree- ment, any controversy that may have arisen will be submitted to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Newlands law, Commissioner Chambers has held conferences with leading railroad officials and executives of the brotherhoods. —_— GRANDMA NEVER LET HER HAIR GET GRAY Kept her locks youthful. dark and glossy with common garden Sage and Sulphur chief When you darken your hair with Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it's done so naturally, so evenly. Preparing this mixture though,/at home is mussy and trouble- some. At little cost you can buy at any drug store the ready-to-use prep- aration, improved by the addition of other ingredients called “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound.”” You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morning ail gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark- ened, glossy and luxuriant. Gray, faded hair, though no dis- grace, is a €ign ot 0ld age, and as we and attractive all deslre a youthful gppearance, get busy at onge with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound and look years younger. This ready- to-use preparation is a delightful toi- Iet requisite and not a medicine. It j« not intended for the cure, mitiga- _ tion or prevention of disease. Mrs. Hardy’s Eczema a Mass of Little Itching Blisters. In One Month Healed By Cuticura. ‘My right ankle and up as far as my knee was a mass of little blisters that would open when I scratched them. I was told it was eczema. My limbs were badly swollen and a great many nights [ was awakened by the itch- ing. The trouble went to my fingers and the skin was inflamed and red. Ihad to scratch_and the eruption smarted and my fingers used to crack open. My clothing was aggravating to me and when I put my handsin water they would smart. ““The trouble lasted two months before I used Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment. I got relief in less than a week, and after using them a month 1 was healed.” (Signed) Mrs. James Hardy, Fryeberg, Me., Oct. 6, 1916. ‘Why not prevent these edistressing skin troubles by making Cuticura your every-day toilet Soap aided by touches of Cintment to heal the first signs of pimples, rashes,etc.? No pureror more effective emollients exist than Cuticura. For Free Sample Each bé Return Mail address post-card: ‘‘Cuticura, Sold everywhere. FAGTS CONGERNING THE SUGAR SUPPLY United States Is Recognized As World’s Greatest Producer | New York, Nov. 15.—The United States is the world’'s greatest con- sumer of sugar, despite the fact that the per capita consumption has de- creased about 10 per cent as the result. of the high prices. A compilation by The National City Bank of New York shogys that the consumption of sugar in the United States for the fiscal year 1917 was but 82 pounds per capita against 89 pounds in 1914 (the year preceding the war.) The total quantity con- sumed in 1917 was, however, 8§ 1-2 billion pounds and we also exported 1 1-4 billion pounds, or twenty-five times as much as in the year before the war. The bank’s compilation shows that the world’s sugar production is now about 12 per cent below that of the vear preceding the war. Beet sugar production in Europe has fallen 43 per cent but cane production in the tropics has increased about 26 per cent. The beet sugar of Kurope, which was 18 1-2 billions pounds ir the sugar vear 1912-13, was but 10 1-2 billion pounds in 1916-17, and the world cane production, which was a little more than 20 billion pounds in 1912-13, was over 25 billion pounds in 1916-17; world production of cane and beet sugar in 1913-14 was 42 bil- lion pounds; in 1916-17, 37 billion pounds. Beets produced one-half of the world’s sugar prior to the war, but in 1916-17 supplied only one- third of the world’s total. In the United States and its Island possessions there has been a rapid in- crease in production. In evefy one of the sugar areas under the Amerl- can flag—Porto Rico, Hawali, the Philippines, and the cane and beet fields of continental United States— there has been a marked increase, the aggregate product of these areas hav- ‘ng grown from about 4 billion pounds fn 1912-13 to practically EA billion pounds in 1916-17. The share of our consumption drawn from foreign countries has fallen from 75 per cent in 1897 (twenty years ago) to 48 per cent in 19 In consumption of sugar the United States stands at the head of the list of the world countries, our total con- sumption being 8 1-2 billion pounds in the fiscal year 1917 against ap- proximately & billions in Germany, § billions in the United Kingdom, and 2 billions in France, the figures for the European countries being those for normal years. Our per capita consumption, however, is less than that of certain other countries, Den- mark’s consumption being 93 pounds per capita, England 90, United States | 82, Germany 75, Norway and Sweden | 60, Netherlands 73, France 40, Rus- sia 30, Spain 15 and Italy 10. About 25 per cent of our consumption fis drawn from our own fields, 27 per cent from our Islands, and 48 per cent from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba. The value of the sugar enter- ing continental United States was, in the fiscal year 1914, $155,000,000 and in 1917 $348,000,000, the average im- port price per pound (including that from the Islands) having been, in 1914, 2.8 cents and, in 1917, 4.6 cents. Our exports of sugar have grown | very rapidly during the war, having been, in 1914, 50 million pounds, in 1915, 650 millions and in 1817, 1,250 million pounds, the value of the ex- ports increasing from less than $2,- 000,000 in 1914 to over $77,000,000 in 1917. Of the 1,250 million pounds exported in 1917, 450 millions went to France,.about 160 millions to Great Britain, 50 millions to Italy, 250 mil- lions to Neutral Europe and about 150 million pounds to South Amer- ica. The world’s chiet producers of cane sugar arc Cuba, India, Java, the Ha- waiian and Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico; and the chief producers of beet sugar are Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France and the United States. Cuba, from which we draw our chief imports, is now the world’s largest producer, her crop in' the sugar year 1916-17 having been 6,730,000,000 pounds, India 5,882,000,- 000. Java 3,575,000,000, Hawaii 1,- 288,000,000 and Porto Rico 1,006,000, | 000 pounds, while® Germany’s beet sugar ‘production in 1913-14( the lat- est peace year was 6,093,000,000. Rus- sia 3,898,000,000, Austria-Hungary 3.- 774,000,000, France 1,749,000,000, the United States in 1916-17, 1,646,000,- 000 pounds of beet sugar and 613,- 000,000 pounds of cane. The world’s sugar production, as far as can be statistically stated was in 1870 5,000,000,000 pounds, in 1880 7,000,000,000, in 1890 13,000,000,000, 1900 20,000,000,000, in 1910 33,000,- 000,000, in 1914 42,000,000,000, and fn 1917 37,000,000,000 pounds, this fall off in 1917 being due to a re- duction of product in the beet fields of the European countries at war. Our own consumption has about kept pace with this rapid growth in world pre- ductlon, since we consumed in 1870 23 per cent of the world’s output and in 1917 21 per cent of the world total. FARMERS’ LEAGUE WILL BE A FEATURE Association Has Its Eyes Trained on Congress, Commissioner Says Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15.—Prediction that the Farmers' National Non-Par- tisan League, which originated in North Dakota, would become a feat- ure in congress and perhaps in the next presidential campaign was made by Frank E. Packard, state tax com- missioner of North Dakota, in an ad- dress he delivered here today before the eleventh annual tax conference of the National Tax Association, Mr. Packard reviewed the underly- ing causes of the movement which re- sulted in the political unheaval in North Dakota. He characterized North Dakota as a ‘one-crop” state, making it peculiarly subject to all the ills in marketing conditions. The control of the local market through locally controlled elevators, he said, is ineffective without control also of termina] market, hence arose the de- mand for state owned elevators. A constitutional amendment was adopt- ed to authorize these but the legisla- ture refused to act. This one circum- stance, sald Mr. Packard, furnished A. C. Townley with the occasion for starting in March, 1915, the move- ment which in June had grown from nothing to an organization with 150,- 000 members, maintaining three news- papers and with hundreds of organiz- ers working in eleven states scattered from North Dakota to Texas and from Wisconsin to the Pacific coast. Outlining the arguments set forth to bring about this organization Mr. Packard said they included the fol- lowing: That boards of trade, such as the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, controlled the great milling and ele- vator companies and “played at ducks and drakes” with the farmer's profits through manipulation in sales with the result that the farmer was com- pelled to accept an inadequate price for his wheat while the consumer was forced to pay an unreasonable higher price than the farmers recelved. That the farmers were ‘“‘gouged” out of millions of dollars annually through false dockage for foreign seed and dirt. That high grade hard wheat raised in North Dakota was mixed in the terminal elevators with soft wheat and the mixture raised to the grade of the hard wheat. That the selling price of feed wheat had beén raised more than 125 per cent. over the price paid to the farm- er by Invention of new grades. Mr. Packard quoted President Ladd of the North Dakota Agricultural Col- lege as asserting that the marketing conditions cost the farmers of North Dakota $55,000,000 annually. Another argument used by the farmers was “that the present profit on a barrel of flour milled by the big milling concerns of Minneapolis 1s $4.89, that the middleman’s and dis- tributor's profits are $5.00 per bar- rel, making a total profit on the wheat used in milling a barrel of flour $9.89, while the flour itself retails for $19.00 a barrel. “The Farmers National Non-Parti- san League,’ said Mr. Packard, “has now added a new argument for the conscription of wealth for the conduct of the war, embracing state-owned elevators, packing plants, flour. mills and warehouses and the exemption of farm improvements from taxation. Only the latter plank—exemption of improvenrents from taxation—has ben enacted into law. “Like all radical or unusual move- ments,” he maid, “it has attracted to it many cranks, faddists and one idea men. But the great body of its mem- bership are honest, straight-forward, intelligent American citizens who be- lieve that they are suffering economic wrong and that they have hit upon a plan to right them. They bitterly resent the charge that the movement is socialisic, unpatriotic or un-Amer- ican. They contend that it is what it appears to be, a non-partisan move- ment, to secure economic advantage for the farming class.” F. H. Johnston left Monday for Washington where he is spending the week ‘working on the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Coal committee. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEEY POWDERS FOR CHILDREN, A OertaioRaellef for Feverishness, Hendagl ubles, Teethiy, s, and ‘Destro o Break up Col oMux 3 SF Biain. A0 ! % 16 FREE. Ad ::.n I:eufl i.m?h mail Trade Mark, | . OLMSTED, L6 Ro; ALADDIN ! 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