Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 19, 1917, Page 4

Price 12c a week; S0c a t Norwich, Rooms 35-3. Bolletin Job Office 35-2. Office, 67 Church St oh, Friday, Jan. 19, 1917, CIRCULATION 4905, AVErsg®...arvaesanosos An important step in Ders which is now underway. ' Bvery community should have a ro- bust organization of this character. _ For the past few years there has been " & atvision of interest, a waste of ef- fort through the fact that two were { attempting to do what should have Been left to onme. This conflict ‘overlapping has been ended by mak- start on progressive lines is 2 move which should receive endorsement of the whole ecivic organization which is work- the betterment of a commu- every way possible deserves There should be a getting #67 Why it should not be. Wil < i FACING STRONG COMPETITION. so occupled with the production of war material, #or the use of itself and its allies, as %o prevent it from glving any atten- in that or other lines, is disposed of by the man- ‘ner {n which the big English firm of - Hadfleld scooped the contract-for the g and 16-inch shells for the United navy at a price $200 less per That Great Britain is tion to export business _mhell than American firms bid. That shows what sort of competi- tion this country is confronted with, ‘and it can even be expected that it _ will be keener after the war ends. But _that s not all.. Great Britain has not ‘Been devoting all its energies to mu- It fs still producing other and not all for home consump- either. Last year there was an in British exports of over ,000, 2 quarter of which was in #oods alone. A large part of | these exports went to South and Cen- America, a fleld where this coun- has been endeavoring to get a hold and improve trade rela- It has been urged that the war gave us a great opportunity and this cou " pas taken advantage of it to a extent, but it is quite evident Great Britain has not abandoned therein despite the war. It dy maintaining a close touch the conditions and those markets, of which simply emphasizes the in h after the war ceases to oc- attention. Such a situation en in connection with the desire of to increase its foreign o be like & word to the 1901, AVEr8ge...e..ceescaiion 4412 THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. connection with the new chamber of commerce, ~ the organization which has taken up the consolidated work of the board of trade and the old chamber of com- " merce, is the campaign for new mem- There was a time when Norwich had & chance to boast of its large membership in such an organization. is mot In position to do much in ASat line today but there is mo rea- In fact the of Norwich and particularly the business men should rise to the oc- casion, get back of an organization which will stand for a bigger and bet- ter Norwich and see that the city gets the results which it should, and with » ewverybody putting his shoulder to the wheel there is no doubt but what it statement that on there was a shortage of 114,908 freight cars. On December first there was still a shortage of 107.778 but by the end of that month it had fallen to 59, 892, and this change 1s attributed to the cooperative efforts of the three bodies working for the single purpose. Emergency measures had to be adopt- a to meet the abnormal situation, and these have succeeded in getting the cars out of the congested districts in- to territory where they are most needed. % It has been apparent throughout all the trouble that all the fault hs not Dbeen with the railroads for they were suddenly confronted with conditions which made it impossible to meet. For the past nine years there has been a continuous net surplusage of freight cars, except £or a matter of a few iso- lated months, but there have never- theless been steady additions to the number for there were 36 per cent. more in 1916 than there were in 1507. The trouble must therefore be attrib- uted to abnormal conditions, and it is surprising that they have done as well as they have, considering the financial troubles which have been confronted at the same time. LARGE NAVAL LOSSES. Navigation is always confronted with its perils. If it lsn't one thing it 18 another which comes up to en- danger those who go down to the sea in ships, but there are times when the fallure to exercise proper care and $00d judgment play an important part in bringing about large of lives and property. And it is for the purpose of deter- mining whether this actually entered into the serious losses which the United States navy has sustained in the last six months or so, and if it does what the extent of it was, that in- Vestigations have been started. Those losses reached their elimax when the cruiser Milwaukee went ashore on the California coast when it was alding In the effort to salvage a submarine which had grounded in the same locality a few days before.. This serviceable ship, valued at $4,000,000 is a complete wreck as is the under- water boat. It was not long ago that the crulser Memphis was driven ashore by a high tide, or a tidal wave, and all that is left of it is junk. Previous to this the colller Hector became so Armly grounded off the South Caro- lina coast that it could not be saved, while the Jersey coast has claimed the transport Sumner., The loss of these ships represent a tremendous waste, and it is therefore time to find out whether the fog which was the primary cause of the trouble is to be made to shoulder the whole blame or whether it must be charzed in part to poor scamanship. Certain losses are to be figured on but they appear to have been coming thick and fast in the last half year. THE OSBORNE INVESTIGATION. It has been expected that Thomas Mott Osborne would render the high grade of service in conmection with his investigation of the conditions in federal prisons that he gave while he was warden at Sing Sing. It is a cause in which he is deeply interested and prison reform is receiving greater attention every day throughout the country. In keeping with the start which he made at Sing Sing Mr. Os- borne has now started in at the na- val prison at Portsmouth, N. H, to spend a week in the cells with the others, wear the same kind of a uni- form and receive the same food and treatment. This is dome that he can get first hand information as to the actual conditions and thereby be the better prepared to urge any reforms. That he ought to gather some val- uable information by such a method cannot be doubted, but if it is to be expected that he is to receive the same kind of attention, without any favor- itism or extras, it would seem as if the announcement regarding such a test should come at the close thereof rather than at the beginning. Those in charge of the prison should have no %nowledge of the plan. He should be committed from a point where his identity would not be known and the investigation permitted to g0 on with- out the warden or the attendants be- ing conscious of the fact that they were under survelllance. Otherwjse it is reasonable to suppose that such things as come to his attention will be of a different character from what ordinarily goes There is no rea- son, if the best Tesults are aimed at, such an Investigation should 'e an advance press agent attached. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: More people would feel like taking advice If it were sugar coated and gold lined. It isn’t too eerly for some of the prophets to claim that what they pre- dicted for 1917 has to a certain ex- tent come true. ‘With California claiming that it is the leading prune state in the Union, it must be a great commonwealth for boarding houses. The sultan of Turkey has promised the destruction of his enemies with divine help. He will probably charge the massacres in Armenia and Syria to such assistance. ‘Well, Thomas Lawson has the sat- isfaction of knowing at least that it isn't every individual who can make congress pass a special rule before he can be made to talk. Vice Chancellor Leaming of New Jersey deciares that love can dwell in a rainspout and be contented, but he wouldn’t have admitted that had he been here last Sunday morning. Spain continues to protest against the torpedoing of its ships, but what a merry pink tea the neutrals could have if they could only get together some afternoon about five o'clock? If this country continues to lose a warship now and then it may get the number down to the point where it will not be obliged to enlist new men in order to take some of the battleships out of reserve. It is estimated that it cost $37,000 to cause the death of every man killed in the war, but from the self New Haven, Jan. 15.—The Reserve Officers’” training corps of Yale Wa- iversity was officlally recognized and epproved last Monday by the Yale corporation at the regular January corporation meeting. Although the training corps has been a certainty for some time, until this meeting of the corporation, there could_be no official connection with Yale University. The degree of Master of Arts, pri. vatim was conferred on Edwin it the editor of the Yale Alumni Weekly, by the corporation’s adopting the fol lowing vots } “Voted: That as Mr. Oviatt has completed ten years as editor of the Yale Alumn{ Weekly and five years as business manager of the Yale Review, and has recently added to Dhis other Yale services an Interesting volume on the ‘“Beginnin; Yale,” and as in all of these activities he has shown 2 spirit of devotion to the University and an intelligent grasp of University problems the corporstion” extents i m its' congratulations and best wishes and, as an evidence of its ap- preciation, confers upon him privatim the honorary degree of master; of arts. The degree of bachelor of arts with enrollment in the class of "1916 was conferred upon _Orlando Calhoun Scarborough and Richard K. Suther- land, and that of bachelor of philos- ophy on Arthur Titmen Lacey, three members of last years graduating class, who were unable to receive their degrees at commencement and who recently have been appointed Seécond Lieutenants in the regular army. The degree of bacheior of atts was also conferred on Danford New- ton Barney of last year's class. The treasurer announced gifts since the last meeting of the Corporation in No ber aggregating $180.000. Among the new foundations announc- ed is a lectureship in religious educa- tion for which an endowment of $5,000 has been secured from an an- onymous donor. The foundation e to be in memory of the late Samuel Thorne of New York City. Announce- ment was also made that the Colorado Yale Alumni Association has to raise $5.000 to be divided between the Yale University Press and the Colorado Yale Scholarship Fund. The report of Professor Ernest Brown, F. R. S, on the Lunar Tables, was presented to the corporation. The report shows that the tables will be ready for publication in the spring of 1918. These tables have already been adopted by many of the leading nations for use in their nautical al- manacs, and in other ways. The corporation voted to ratify the recommendation of the executive board of the Graduate School by ad- mitting women as candidates for the THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety The island of Lesbos, whose inhabi- tants were not far behind the Cretans in expressing in revolutionary out- ‘burst their dissatisfaction with the failure to throw the weight of Greek arms into the scales of war on the side of the Entente Allies, is the sub- Ject of a timely war geography bulle- tin issued by the National Geographic Seciety, from its headquarters in ‘Washington which say “Lesbos, often called Mytilene after the island’s famous capital and chief city, lies on the eastern edge of the Acgean Gea, separated from the shores of Asia Minor by a channel which at its narrowest point is not more than seven miles across. That part of the mainland opposite the is- land waseknown In ancient times as Troad (the land of Troy) and in Ho- moric legend Lesbos was given as one of the bounds of the region ruled by King Priam. It lies almost midway ‘between Smyrna and the Dardanelles. “The area of Lesbos is about 675 square miles larger than the Isle of Pines, off the coast of Cuba), and its surface is a succession of well-wood- ed mountains and fertile valleys. The shallow Gulf of Kalloni, entering from the southwest, almost cuts the island in two. Mt Olympus, on the southern promontory, reaches an eel- evation of more than 3,000 feet. “In ancient days Lesbos was famous for its wines, i oil -and its grain, but the vineyards are mo longer es- pecialiy productive. The olive is now the chief product of the island, and much of this fruit is_converted into soap and ~exported. Figs, almonds, cattle, and hides are other articles of commerce, also the acorns of the val- gnle oak, extensively used in tanning and in the preparation of dyestuffs. V——— “Although 90 per cent of the island's population of 130,000 is Greek, the territory was under Turkish rule until three years ago when Greece assumed control. following the second Balkan war. The Turk came into possession of the island in the middle of the fifteenth century when Mohammed IT Wrested it from the descendants of the Genoese noble, Francesco Gatti- lusis, who had received it from the Bwtlne emperors in 1854. ‘Besides the famous s les over the city of Mytilene, recited in previ- ous bulletin of the National Geogra- phic Society, several important mar- ine engagements have been fought im the waters adjacent to Lesbos, not- ably those in which the Venetians de- feated the Turks in 1690-98, and the ‘Greeks bested the same power in 1821, In addition to Pittacus, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and Sappho, the greatest woman poet of the an- clents, Lesbos’ hall of fame boasts of Terpander, the founder of Greek classical music and of lyric Ty and a famous composer of d songs; Alcaeus, poet and inventor of the Alcaic stanza, much used by Hor- ace. and Thebphrastus, the famus philosopher and pupil of ~Aristotle Whom the latter named as guardian of his children and to whom he be- queathed the Aristotelean libary anad original works, After Aristotle’s death Theophrastus presided over the Per ipatetic school for 35 up to the time of his death in m. C., he was given a public Athens and mourned have ale to degree of master of arts. heretofore been admitted at elor of M Bache usic and Bachelor It is a very valuable addition to the Yale Medical School, Sy the need for a clinical pathological laboratory has long been felt, and it will also make it possible for ‘the hospital to make minute study of complex .cases. ‘The laboratory has been built in the honor of Anthony N. Brady, by his heirs. Mr. Brady lived for many fcars in Albany and later moved to lew York, where he was well known in financial circles. The organization of the Aero Club of Yale has been comj Men in all departments of the University, and men comnected with the University who are especially interested in the development of aeronautics are e ible and seconded by members of the club and then passed upon by the Entrance Committee before they will be_admitted. “The aims of the club is to promote interest and knowledge in aeronau- tics here at Yale. This will involve many phases. The War Department has requested that fifty men be recommended from Yale for the summer course of train- g which will prepare for a commis- sion in the Aerial Reserve Corps. This organization is directly under the. Federal control, and the requirements for yearly service, after the com- mission has been obtained are such that anyone living within a reasonable distance of ‘a military aviation center ‘will easily be able to fulfill them with- out inconvenlence. The aero club of Yale has been asked to select these men. The aero club will act as a_clear- ing house for all matters pertaining to aviatign especially in reference to facllities” for _instruction in flying, army “and navy activities; the situa- tion in the construction of aeroplanes, motors, etc.’ the development of in- struments for aerial navigation, the use of radio, and all other depart- ments of the' sclence as far as is pos- sible. i 5 ‘i; Y War Time Economy. How the members of the English Parliament are. our war-time eco: in their own households, is "Mnnlfl in a series of letters obtained by the War Savings Committee from wives of members of both Houses. “We are cutting down indoors and end to all luxury,” visiting, ente: and are economizi the matter of clof dress.” Another letter, also from the wife of a member of the House of Lords, says: “The castle has been closed and only a few rooms in one corner are oc: cupied. We have ourselves moved in- to small rooms, having dismissed all the staff except four of the older wo- men servants, thus making drastic reductions in ‘every possible direction. The fire-places have been rearranged and coal eavers put in. Out of doors no man eligible for the army has been retained. Our cottages are all given rent-free and in addition the cottag- ers are provided with coal and wood free. The wages of our work-people have had to be raised to meet the co: of living. Only _girls are now em ploved in the gardens, where potatoes and evening said that after two or months in the comfort of they had no stomach for going into the trenches. They were only glad to get under cover at the first sign of a bombardment and there so many of them were trapped and: sur- outs for advanced headquarters. b the men and officers generally stick to the life of the trenches. Courage and Self Sacrifice, A striking act of courage and self- sacrifice was recently recorded by the biographer of Lieutenant-Colonel Pa- trice Mahon. “Allowing himself to be killed rest- ing on his cannon in order to give an example and to prevent a precipitate retreat” reads the order of the day crediting him for his heroism. Four other officers Imitated his example: Captain Doridot, now prisoner, wounded and his right hand amputat- ed, and Lieutenants Roger, Michel and Nyeegard, all three reported di: appeared. The pass’ of Sainte-Marle-aux- Mines was the scene of the death of Mahon. Twice before he had tried to save the p-== first on asking to g0 there personally when he should hay remained at Saales with the general staff. Then, while leading his troops Pogiel type fiving boats far ¢ it of the Aero Coast Patrol. These are being made after suggestions given to him by the Yale unit. Special points that are to be emphasized in these boats are increases in speed, seaworthiness, cruising radius, climb- ing ability and lifting power. Although these are being built for the Yale unit, they will not be ao- cepted unless ‘they fulfill all require- ments. A similar machine was built a Year ago by the Curtiss factory with the regular F type hull, but it was equipped with twin motors, while this new one has only one. In preliminary trials made last week by Victor Carl- strom, the machine made 90 miles an hour, ‘and easily flew on one motor. After final testings and adjustments, it was supposed to be sent to Palm Beach where members of the Yale unit were to try it out. Unfortunate- 1y the hull was broken in the shop be- fore delivery. Now a new hull, longer and of greater static flptation is be- ing constructed. Tests of this will be made this week at Newport News &y D.H. McCullough, who taught the ale unit how to fly. OTHER VIEW POINTS “Your grandfaethrr had to live on what his community produced.” Thus runs the —announcement of a large meat packing house. It is intended to convey the inference, of course,that grandfather's grandson, thanks to the activities of the meat packers, is to longer confined to the product of his community, but can draw on the whole world. But all this is admitted. Grandfath- er and grandson are alike in, one re- spect—that each has to live on his in- come. And dson is finding this increasingly difficult. He, too, may find it necessary some day to live on what his community produces,or what his own garden produces. That is the point which the packers do not like to talk about.—Bridgeport Telegram. Thousands and thousands of men and women who are now walking about this earth in excellent health that have been notified by good and honest physicians that the end was at band. They didn’t believe it and got well. There was nothing even in_ Colonel Cody’s years that made his death at this time inevitable. An increasing number of investigators scout the idea that at a certain age the machine runs down and vital processes must stop. .But if there is anything that can make death reasonably certain and is as ae as rific bullets it is the ph: sician's verdiet to a sick man that he | S has no chance. Provided the sigk man belleves it. X he docsn't he will prebably Hve o bury the physician.—Bridgeport Stan- “The neutral nations can compel peace, and in the interest of their own people and of all humanity they should compel peace.” Truer words have not been spoken, and there are thousands of our citi- their activities, and so bring the war to_an end. S ‘We have made many millions be- cause of the war, all the time protest- :I?‘ummillmmmhuldv- lon. Iso't it time to do something be- make are grown in the flower beds and the lawns used for hay. TBe stock of deer in the park is being systematic- 2lly reduced for food supply. Keepers have gone, and at the estate office the bailiff’s work is being done by a lady." The wife of a member of the Com. mons writes: “Personally I have econ- omized In every way I can. I now do with only three - servants. I have given up my motorcar and I never eat meat more than once a day. I have no bedroom fire, and I buy practically no_clothes. I have put every penny I can spare into the War Loan. have sold all my American securities. But I don’t find that my example has had the slightest effect upon the peo- ple around me. I have held several meetings in the constituency to urse war economy, but people hate these meetings, as they are having the time of thelr lives.” The wife of another member of the Commons writs: ‘My pin-money has been reduced to a minimum as I am devoting all I have to malntaining a Red Cross convalescent hospital. In my own household no sugared or iced cakes have been allowed for some time, except at Christmas. No des- sert sweets have been allowed since the war, and cream only on Sunday: Cakes have been.reduced in the din- ing room and in the servants hall. No wine and after-dinner coffee is served except to guests; fires have been cut down and wood logs used instead . of coal where possible. Din- ner has been cut down and meat is served only once a day, except for an occasional rasher of bacon at break- fast.” The committee has received replies to their questions regarding war economies from the wives of nearly 200 members of the: two houses of Parliament. The replies are to be circulated throughout the country during the next two months in con- nection with a campaign for obtaining pledges of household economy from housewives. . Dugouts Become Death Traps. The dugouts of the Germain lines, some of which have been marvels of underground - construction, are be- coming more and more frequently death traps or tombs for their hap- less occupants. The trench raids ‘which go on nightly from one end of the British lines the other, are con- ner. ‘When a khaki raiding party pounc- es over the pw“ of a German trench in the d¢ of nfght, the first alarm of their presence sends the de- fending eoldiers impulsively in the direction of their dugouts. Once in- their _d is sealed. ler, a rea- sonable wait, and then down goes a bomb, and as many more as may be necessary to completely wreck _the and set it on fire. There have b here dugouts have been connected up by tunnels and Germans throush these, but gen- erally speaking the dugouts stand alone. Crouching in the far recesses of a gallery in one of the enemy surrender tossed in, but out alive. out by 3 who, eurprised by a tful attack. had retired in disorder, he succeeded momentarily in bringing them back in a counter-attack. Another time French infantrymen composed prin- cipally of reservists were confronted by hot enemy attack: they were obliged to fall back in’ disorder, the ground being impossible to 'hold. Mahon, however, did not lose his coolness. Dismounting from his Norse proudly, crossing his arms, he placed himself before one of his guns facing the enemy, there waiting until he was killed.” He lies between French and German lines and, despite of con- tinual danger, a number of officers have vainly tried to recover his body. THE Y. M. C. A. In the Wai Since the beginning of the war the Young Men's Christian Association has expended on an average %850 pounds a day for the benefit of sol- diers and war-workers. Its _specal war-fund has reached 1.000,000 pound: Mr. Yapp, the general secre| just returned to London aftel ing several weeks in France. “The Red Triangle,” s:id Mr. Yapp, “now Is fo be seen along the whole line of the British Armies at the front in France, and at each of the bases there are from twenty to thirty huts. In the foremost posi- tions we have opened buffets some of them 1n the ruins of shell-wrecked houses. “Women have done noble work for us in France. Much of it entirely at their own expense. Throughout France between three and four hun- dred of them are helping the Young fen’s Christian Assoclation. Social distinctions are not zed by them. They are all doing their ‘bit." In a hut used by mud-s soldiers fresh from the trenches I have seen the daughter of the Earl of Lelcester walting on the men. Our helpers have included Princess Victoria.” ELECTRIC SPARKS. Electricity is used to sort coffee Dbeans. Mine gas is detected with a por- table electric outfit which miners carry. Blecricially produced violet rays are used to purify water used in a ?| St. Louis swimming pool. A 30,000-volt transformer is used to test insulators and insulating mat- rial at the University of Minnesota. Electric flood lighting of an apart- ment house in Kansas City led to the renting of 44 spertmepts in ome month. A tug dispatcher is employed in New York to control by telephone the movement of & line of tugs i the har- r. Tiny electric Maszda lamps fixed in policemen’s helmets serve to - direct traffic in the darkened streets of Lon- don, England. Even the proverbially slow miolass- es is now accelerated in its move- ments by the use of electric heaters. 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AUDITORIUM The Underworld of the West A COMEDY DRAMA PRESENTED BY THE ETHEL MAY SHOREY DRAMATIC PLAY_ Robert Edeson in Big dim Garrity Rt% REELS Arkansas stockmen who feed molasses | of lving has further served to cattle use the heaters in molasses | about a reduction in man tanks to keep the sticky mass from |the amount of meat, exgs, freezing. peas cunn':ll:!e(:‘.\u ulr which sra ctice, In ] A trap drumer has discovered that | Sriol of this nature the electric lights inatalled inside his | fic’ 28 %10 bear in m drums keep the moisture out and|groe of & properly make the drumheads tight. e oo A million dollars a day is the sum |Such valuable —d paid for electric light ll‘l{ordlvnf to ‘... fimg:n-“:hl:r:“‘:m”;",.‘. Slogtrical Suthority, of the University | gence of pellagra next The same amount of electrical en- Russia Needs Poland orgy required to move an ordinary| The importance of Poland street car one mile on level would|oe the Russian industri raise it vertically to a helght of 166 |eyident from some statisti feot, been published by Dr. Ds One fourth of all the fires occurring | #ka. & Polish authority, J in Veaterbury, Conn., for a year might | Ures it appears that have been avoided by the use of eled- | Was credited with tricity according to the report of Fire E’Eep:‘:'x‘cxi;lx‘::’d:hm:“‘ d uieg Heitaes, cent. of the fron. Eggs may be fried in a griddle | group of Pojand's ind toast may be prepared In a - toast | textiles. It employed drawer, and bacon or chops may be[more than haif of all broiled in another compartment all at|workers in Polan ¢ the same time on a new type of elec- 1910 koods to a tc tric table stove. 000,000. By far the Mountain streams in the West give | 2°CHOR of this €roup Ts oo up their power and save thousands of tons of coal in Seattle and other cities of the Puget Sound district which are supplied with electricity for heat, light and power- Blectrification of the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad between Altoona and Bellwood, Pa., is under consideration by railroad engineers. It is planned to use the water power of the Alleghanies to move the trains. Graphite manufactured from carbon is made In the electric furnace. Al- though this process was discovered in 1906 its commercial development has been so rapid that the output of ar- tificial graphite now exceeds the country's production of natural crys. talline graphite by more than tons. which 18 one of the gre manufacturing centers of Cheap Jewelry in Eng There is a boom In F now in the cheaper kinds which s attributed to the earnings of those en tions of war. The demand watches has been’ es ‘This has led to a practic of business with Switzer sent Great Britain last gold watches and Cases, and sinc total of 261 o cases to be made 1 governmental orc h trade, as it prohibits the of goid, but no mentior order of silver w: The Cities Service Company has | trying to secure Just P with the General Hlectric |order. Company the largest single: order for electric generating _equipment ever( The placed with an electric manufacturing | factories company in the United States. The total order was for approximately a million dollars worth of electric gen- erating units of approximately 115,000 horse power capacity. United States has Fear Increa: Pellagr: That there may be an increase in pellagra during the coming year on account of the rise in the cost of fogdstuffs is the fear expressed in a statement jssued by the U. S. health service today. _As a result of gov- ernment researches it was found that pellagra is produced by an insufficient. poorly-balanced diet and that it can both be prevented and cured by the use of food containing elements in the proportion required by the body. The application of this knowledge greatly reduced pellagra in 1916 as compared with previous years. This reduction is belleved by experts of the publi: health service to have been due to im- proved economic conditions which en- abled wage-earners to provide them- selves with a bettet and more: varied diet_and to a wider dissemination of the knowledge of how the disease may be prevented. It is feared, however, that pellagra may increase in 1917 by reason of an increase in food cost out, of proportion to the prosperity now enjoyed by this country. 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