Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 26, 1917, Page 8

GHILD'S TONGUE "BECOMES COATED IF CONSTIPATED| ‘WHEN . CROSS, FEVERISH AND SICK GIVE, “CALIFORNIA '8Y- RUP OF FIGS. Children love this “fruit laxative,” and nothing eise cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels ‘so. nicely. A child simply will not.stop play- ing to empty the bowels, and the re-| sult is, they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish; stomi- ach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, . don’t. _eat, sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has eore throat, stomach-ache or* diarrhoea. Listen, Mother! See If tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of “California Sy rup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the system, and you have a well, playful child again. Millions of mothers give “California Syrup of Figs” because it is perfectly harmless: children love it. and it never fails to act on the stomach liver and bowels. Ask our druggist for a 50-cent bot- tle of “California Svrup of Figs” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups| plainly printed on the bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. Get the gen- uine, made by “California Fige Syrup Company.” Refuse any other with contempt. ———————— PROPOSES SEIZURE OF A GERMAN WARSHIP President Braz Has Sent a M to Congress. Rio Janeiro, Oct. The president ef the republic, Dr. Wenceslan Br: has sent a message to the congress de claring that jt js impossible to avoid noting aiready the state of war. which Germany has imposed on Brazil. He proposes the seizure of a German warship now in the port of Bahia. revoked her decree of neu- trality in the war between the en- tente allles apd Germany last June. Thé Brazilian government had previ- cusly revoked its policy of aloofness, &n far as it affected hostilities between the United States and Germany. The trouble between Braz!l and Germany re=ched a climax in April when the HBrazillan steamer Parana was torpe- doed. The German minister received kis passports and antl-German riots broke out in several cities. A large rumber of German ships in Brazlilian ports were seized. Recent despatches from Buenos Aires reported disclosures of German intrigues to bring about a conflict be- tween Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. CHARGED WITH THREATENING LIFE OF PRESIDENT WILSON Ewald Pietsch of Chicage Held $10,000 Bail. Chicago, Oct. ‘Ewald Pietsch, a #on of Dr. Carl Pietsch, a professor at the University of Chicago, was ar- rested today and arraigned before a United States commissioner on charges of threatening the life of President Wilson and desecrating the .cAflr;Aer.cln flag. Bail was fixed at $10,- Brazil Torrington.—One hundred and nine- teen responses were made to the an- vual roll call of Torrington lodge. No. 372, B. P. O. Elks, at Flks’ club Wed- resday night. A social followed the business session. Nineteen Torrington glka are now in the service of Uncle am. e e Lemons Beautify! | like this:— gener: rrobably ing on the globe will agree that the adage is exactly ally course not. cut tipping O: course not. potatoes all the same day. not. after and he's sold it to the paper mill, and for_eeed and bags for crop and get your money you demand a double or triple Pprice for thea. Of course not. arabls bushes. move to the there, and still get home-maintain’ng crops off that worked farm. Of course not. ' (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) 1 haven't any certainty about how many times in the last few years we have quoted in this “column the “old adage: “You can't eat your cake and have it,.t00.” A -good many times, haps a dozen or more “It's one of those old sayings of the sort in. which the English language is especially rich wherein have been condensed into homely but striking phrase some bjt of truth, accumulat- ed by thousands through long exper- ience, and thus “boiled dowa” into a form which makes it easy to com- municate, simple to understand, and short enough tc remember. Put in the form of a logical syllo- gism. the idea would be something anyway: per- Major premise; Nothing can be pos- sessed unless it exists in shape and form to be possessed: Minor premise: Anything which has heen used up. devoured. destroved, coes not longer exist Therefore; That which has been de- voured can no longer continue to be possessed.. But who wants to go through a log- | ical demonstration to prove that which is self-proven by the very ut- terance in such a terse and hammer- hitting phrase as “You can’t eat your cake and have it As an abstract matter, talking in terms and addressing the uni- in a sort of Jimpersonal wa; every intelligent human b%be- | verse correct. and the fact it _states is absclutely true. Futhermore. there _will be practic- unanimous agreement that its cnrious implications are all, also, true. For instance; You can't leave your shoe at the cobbler’s to be mended and wear it while. he's’ mending it. Of You can’t patch a hole in your apron which has been burned out with the same bit of gingham ch burned. Of course not. You can't stand on your head with- yourself ‘tother end to. W was You can’t go fishin’ all day and dig Of course You can’t wear a last vear's dress ou've sold it to the junk-man the paper mill has ground it up into pulp and made paper of it of course not. You can’t pay double prices for Iabor and fertilizer and triple prices our potato back unless let its and stay You can’t abandon the farm. land grow up to weeds city and abandoned and un- All of ti e things and scores of others your own fertile Imaginations will suggest. rest will unhe. iz. we'll agrae to them .of abstract fact But vou and T and all_the gitatingly agree to. Thet s statements When it comes right down to some | particular thing that we particular \THE FARMERS TA TO FARMERS YOU CAN'T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT, TOO Make Quarter Pint of Lotion, Cheap want on a particular occasion, nine if not eleven out of every ten of us act as if we ‘expected that the universal law expressed in the old adage would be set aside temporarily, and an ex- ception -made for our special individ- Here is told how to prepare an inex. pensive lemon lotion which can be used to bring back to any skin the sweet freshness, softness, whiteness and beauty. The juice of two fresh lemons strain- ed’into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quar- ter pint of the most remarkable lemon skin beautifier at about the cost ome must pay for a small jar of the ordi- nary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth s0 no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows _that lemon juice is used to bleach and.re- move such blemishes as frockles, sal- lowness and tan,’and is the ideal skin softenér, smoothener and beautifier. Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any pharmacy and two lemons from the grocer and make eat your ‘Whereupon both Jonesy nod their heads affirmatively and chorus pieces hands larly_want to eat chantes are big that they'll eat the cake and twelve hours afterward be i S scolding each other and the children and the cook and ’'most of the rest of the universe because they got it, the millers and the bankers because they are required to pay for the new cake they have to buy. val benefit. One quotes the saving: “You can't cake and have it, to0o.” Jonesy and Mrs. “WEy, of course not.” But when it comes to the particular of cake in their particular at , that particular moment, which parficular pieces they particu- then and there, the haven't still. They’ll- especi wheat-growers and lly and roundly scold the * flour- uch high prices up a quarter pint of this -sweetly Don’t you believe it? Just listen a tragrant lemon lotion and massage it|™minute:—— . daily into the face, neck. arms and| | ... than one-hunmdredth of the hands, and see for yourself. PLUMBING AND GASFITTING T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing. 92 Franklin Street IRON CASTINGS -FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY CO Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry Street -ROBERT J. COCHRANE GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING Weshington Sq, Washington Building Norwich, Conn. Agent for N. B. O. Sheet Packing Phone 581 MODERN PLUMBING Is as essential in modein houses a slectricity Is to lighting. We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fairest arices. Ask us for plans and prioes. J.F. TOMPKINS. 7 Wosk Wi et measurable great state of New York is occupied Only 2 Days Left! To put the power and punch of New England’s stored up wealth working for our country ! Buy Liberty Bonds Today We must put our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor on the altar of sacrifice and dedi- area of our meighboring Ly eities or villages. The rest is open nd. mostly in farms or dapted to made into farm Half a century ago, more than three-quarters of the population or that state lived on farms and was en- gaged in working the farm-lands. Today. only about a third of state’s total population - lives outside the cities. Nor is all that pitiful [third engaged in-actual farm produc- tion. The same state of affairs exists all cver the east. We of New England know it. jor even a ten mile walk from the :enter of your own city, without pa: g abandoned farms and deserted, roof-rotted, crumbling farm houses. b My own wholly rural town, without even a-'village in its limits, ten miles from,the nearest city, fifty years ago ad double its present population, all farmers or farmers’. families.—and ey regularly cultivated almost dou- ble the acreags now. under plow. Wh: tie little town actually sent more vol unteers to serve in the Civil War than the entire nresent number of draft- lisble men in its borders. 1 don’t know a single mile of road jin the whole town from which one cznnot see cither a deserted farm- house, or a once cultivated and pro- dnctive field now abandoned and so- ing back to serub afnd woods. They left no complete records. in those old diys of the amount and value of farm crops raised here. Nor { should T know just how to o to work i to find out how much is produced. this vear. But. in spite of the larger- use of machinery and improved methods. I'd be willing to wager a dime against a doughnut that the whole ' town deesn’t now produce two-thirds the food-stuffs whick is used to produce in_the 1850s. In my own sclool district T know -of bundreds and hundreds of hillside acres which used to grow rye or buckwheat and make splendid pas- ture in the between-crop intervals, which are now scrubby woeds. Only a yvear or €0 since, some woodmen. cutting fuel in the forest..came vipon {the remnants of a row of oid apple treesc Inquiry from - “the oldest in- babitant” brought out the fact that that very hillside where the men were cordwood was, in his own the site of two productive farms, with good houses, ample barns, orchards. etc. They had also pro- duced big families. but the younger {folks had gone away, one after the jother, to this city or that, the old fclks had died. the houses had fallen tc ruins, the barns disappeared. even the weils and cellar-holes had been filled up: only half-a-dozen decaving }0id apple trees along the line of what ad once been a fence remained to }identify the place where life had once ‘flov\ed so busily in such volume. Records’ of my own farm show me that in the 1850’s seed potatoes we bought for twelve and a half cents jbushel 'and twelve-hours-a-day labor thought iteelf amply paid ‘with fifty cents a day. Last spring. the ruling price of geed potatoes, right here. was $4 a bushel, and farm labor, not so ccmpetent nor so loyal as in the old days, has demanded $2 a day foi pre- tending to work eight or ten hours. you ask. My dear brother or sister: If you and hundreds of thousands like you have' deserted and continue to desert the country for ecity tenements you by that very action abandon farms which you might have worked: you decrease the -supply of labor essential to working all farms: your action diminishes. productiom and inevitably induces scarcity, which is the imperative cause of increased prices and the “high cost-of living.” You. by your absence from the flelds. net only reduce the production which might be got from those fields, but. in the cit; ou increase the ranks of non-producing consumers. You di- minish the supply ‘and. at the very ame instant, you increase the de- mand. And ther you kick about the High prices of farm produce! But,—you don’t want to.live in the jcountry and be ‘“mere . farmers” or ‘mere farmers’ wives.” You'd “rath er” live in the city. 'hy, of couite; that's why you're doing it. That's undérstood from the outset. You want that particular piece of cake: you're hungry for it and vou want to eat it. Very well: that's vour privilege and right —to eat it right now;. eat it to the last crumb and the last tiwy mor- el of frosting. TBut, after eating it, why in the cate all to Freedom and Democracy. the I You can’t take an auto ride | H What's_all this got to do with “You ! can’t eat your cake and have it too”? | The Business ? Center of Norwich 'AUTUMN SALE OF TOILET GOODS This Sale of the finest Toilet Preparations should be given your earnest consideration. ‘here, at the prices quoted below, should be thought of as an investment, and it is greatly to your advantage to buy as liberally as.possible. Each sale price represents not alone a radical reduction from present sale values, but it is a price which will not be marked upon that particular article again for many a day. Take advantage of the “in spite of the war” ’. prices given below, lnd lay in a liberal winter wpply. Every purchase you make BRUSHES «'Keepclean” Hair Brushes with solid wood back COLD AND VANISHING CREAMS Parisian Ivory Toilet Novelties 39¢ Pompeian Massage Cream g;e ¥ Real Bargain 62c Po i Mas: e Cre: c o e e SOME PIECES IN THE COLLECTION VALUED -gale Brice 210 35¢c P at Night C a - i} - 25¢ Sanitol Cota Cream- - . AS HIGH AS $2.50 - : (Sale Price 480 50c Hind’'s Honey and Almond lym»m.. tic Tooth Brushes 260 Hughes’ Ideal Hair Brushes 21.50 qual .Sale Price $1.25 A sale of pretty Parisian Ivory Toilet Novel- o & Taim. . Sale Prics ties which comes at an opportune moinent. : SnleiPrice $150 'ond’s Van! ing an o i i i i & ke e - Itis a chance to secure novelties which will - DeMeridor’s Cold Cream make very acceptable Christmas gifts at a SOAPS [ 33c size.. bargain price. The assortment includes ra gaia B tor 23 Rubty Sitde Bemulifior Mirrors, Trays, Buffers, Perfume Bottles, Weisi Chattla . . 8 or white Picture Frames, Hair Brushes, Clothes e e s T v os e Brushes, Manicure Sets, Jewel Boxes, Rose and Violet. ss’.'x’s Bri S Dagget & Ramsdell’s Cold-Cream Puff Boxes, Etc.. Come in the first day of G nsc, & 53 10c tube Sale P the sale and get first chance. Pear's s‘&ZJ’QL:,,QEZ?Q:‘:. 5 g:'c‘ :::g: .\\U;dhur): Facial Soap 18¢ 35 Sale Price 28c 7 uticura Soup. Saie 'Price 18¢ 50c Sale Price 33¢ TALCUM AND FACE DENTIFRICES Colgate’s Toilet Soaps Packer’s Charm F ‘y Cashmere Bouquet. guest size, g R Foion 156 (o POWDERS Sheffield’s Tooth Paste.... 14e SN ¥ 10?, S for §§: Price 3¢ 17c Babeock’s Corylopsis 4 43¢, - Ciox Tooth Powder.Sale Price 200 . GLiNIICTP Jouduet reguiar e 226 Pribe iTc | . Su i et 43, Kolyrios Tooth Paste.Sale Price 17c Viorls .15¢,'3 for 40c Palmolive Cold and Van- o R s Ly o TR s s Dasto 17¢ Transparent Glycerine 10c, 3 for 30¢ ishing Cream. .. Sale Price 39 Bradley’s Woodland Violet..... 3 ™ U8 = O%E OF [ SIE N gycerine: ceoen 1803 for 40 Cuticura Ointment E LR i ozodont Liquid or Paste...... 19 *ine Tar s 0c, 3 for 18c Williams' Talenm in Violet, 4 ;z::::.:\s Ointment . 38c e h e e Large size 23c, Small size 10¢ “;J’_‘rl‘:‘l_"hlzx\:“:m' £ ;gz § :g: fi: mond Cream....Sale p,.,e. ;ge 20~ Mennen's Borated ard Violet Burrill's Powder or Paste...... 19¢ 15% Stanley’s Peroxide Bath 12 Colgate’s, Cold Cream. c Talcum.. Sale Price 13c Colgate’s Dental Ribbon Cream Soap ; .. 126 25c Woodbury's Facial Cream 19e . . “o . o070 Rosa or Targe size 24c Small size 150 Jefll‘:z’lnn Givcerine ; white. . Sale Price 26c 40c Pebeco Tooth Paste........ 3e 250 Packers Tar' Soap. 3 17¢ ANTISEPTICS AND Comfort Powder 43¢ Forhan’s Pyorhea Prepara- 25c Resinol Soap....Sals Price 20c . HOnTN T 0 ot = Small size DEODORANTS RIS Sale price 33 10c Dental Floss = NflSCELLANEOUS i ey - PRrS i 25c Sanitol Paste, Powder or c Hot Water Bottles....... 79¢c B o e S5 ey Wisterla.. . rep 2l Liquid ...... " 19¢ 60c Rubber Gloves in sizes & to 15c size. St S i % y5c 8 S White's Powder or S Seirrics 2o 23c size. 10ct Mennen's Talc...Sale price “8c Liquid ......... $1.50 Metal Hot Water Bottles. Oakiand Co. Dioxogel 20~ Rozer & Gallet's Salvia and 2-quart size.s..8a 19c “size. :a:n : ice ;?: Lioris’ Talc. . . -Sale Price 27¢c :“ Jar ;am‘vhor“lce & 39c size. ale Price 3ic 7 Z ounce Jar Vaseline, yellow or ol |l Sals Prics B6c I5c Jersens Talcury. in roce and HAIR TONICS AND white ...........Sale Price 100 Glycohymoline violet.. --8ale Price 12)¢ SHAMPOOS Toilet: Papar Sale Price 19¢ Colgate’s Talcum in 7 Odors Arctic. .. .6 rolls for 280 Sale Prics 3 f-ounce size ......iiii.... Danderine Warrior 4 rolls for 28 it 7 aldos ceee . e ':rme 7-ounce 'm‘;-‘--' " 25¢ size....... Sale Price 18c Scot Tissue.. B itls o a8 hs ?9c Roger & Gallet's ice Pow- Sanitissue or pk; for 40c 33c size Sale Price 1% der. in Pink and White FEigeg ) SIz e - ---Bale Prics 400 o5 o Absorbent Cotton. ... 21e ;f:: stze. Sale Price 38 La Blache Face Powder. in $1.00 size............ Sale Price 29c roll Absorbent Cotton. 310 Flesh, White, Pink and cream 50¢ Palmolive Shampoo. .. Shaving Needs Sylpho ‘Naptho! = 4 25¢ Woodbury’s Face Powder. in bl Colgate’s Shaving Stick..... 10c- 10¢ size Flesh. White, Pink, Cream and S0c Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur 870 ColeRteln Suaving SUSK. .- 10o-20e i Brunette ., 30c ~25c Lavox Shampoo..S8ale Price 21c (olgate’s Shaving Powder..10c-23¢ e 22¢c Satin Skin Face Powder... 19¢ 50c Canthrox .Sale Price 40c gu:lumsj s:u\;‘inx ,b,‘llck-- <.. 280 65c Florida Water it L st Wi ace iR owder, 19¢ 50c Hay's Hair Health .40 Fillame Shaving Cream: 1 25¢ Egvptian Deodorizer - . e 50c_ Jaya Rice Po‘d;r in_ five 50c Hay' Coconut Oil. Sham- Johnson'’s Shaving Cream 25c Dickenson’s Witch Harel.. 20c shades ale Price 36c Poo. . ...Sale Price 40c Williams' Mug Soap...... 25c Laveris..... Price 20c = 45~ Pnssy Willow Face Powder, 50c Hay's Sulpho Sage. 40c Williams' Barbers' Soap.. 50c Lavoris. . Price 40c Flesh, White and Brunette. .. 50c ‘Jatamiansl Hait Dressing. - 48 Yonkee Shaving Sosp.. Pond’s Extract 60c Djerkiss Face Powder. o P ’P"g 49, Michelson’s Bay Rum— 25c emergency size..Sale Price 20c four shades........ Sale P STeEarigia) Tee, ¢ el roa Value 26c............8ale Prics 210 50c size.... Sale Price 40c )arv Garden F“lce Powder. in 30c Newbro’s Herpicide Value 50c $1.00 size . Sale Pri 80c three shades....... Sale Price 90c Amami Shampoo.......... Value 66c sidewalks and ! name of all that's reasonable do you expect the first fundamental law of economics to be set asidé in your be- half, so that you shall still have it for tomorrow? There aren’t half as many produc ing farmers, in proportion to the con- suming population, as there were fifty or sixty vears ago. . There aren’t any- thing like as many farms, in propor- tion. as there were, then. Labor, ma- terial, supplies. all “cost from four to ten times as much as they did, then. The steady movement of population from country to city has dealt and is dealing a doubly deadly biow at the common welfare.. At the same time l'i;lat it swells demand it refuses sup- vy, How can there help being scarcity and high prices? ents may appeal ‘and food- Pre: administrators _expostulate till the cows come home and the heavens crack: they, no more than other men. can eweep back the Atlantic with their brooms. or stay the irresistible action of universal law. You people who have flocked - swarms and hordes to the cities and swollen the ranks of hungry consum- ers have got to ’'bout face and come back to the farms: thousands and tens of thousands of you, or else, if vou WILL eat your cake, you must accept the alternative. There isn't going to be any annul- ment of cosmic laws for your conven- ience nor- for your welfare: not even for the well-being of the country or the continent. You can feed your present appetite on your present cake. if you choos Tn that case for heaven’s sake don't snivel or whimger because vou're out of cake tomorrow! One thing is absolutely and etern- ally certain: you can’t have your own Buy Liberty Bonds as Your Share! At any Bank—Cash or Installments ‘LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF NEW ENGLAND way without paying the price which the universe has tagged it with: you can’t eat your: cake and have it too. THE FARMER. DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN AND PRISCILLA ALDEN —_— Judge Augustine Simmons is Dead at North Anson, Me. North Anson, Maine, Oct. 25.—Judge Augustine Simmons, a direct descend- ant of John and Priscilla_Alden of Mayflower Descendants, dfed last night at the age of 8. He was judge of probate for Somerset county from 1305 to 1912 and for five .vears was editor of the Fairfield Journal. REPORTS FROM BOSTON FEDERAL DISTRICT Liberty Bond Sales Are Beyond M mum Allotment. s Boston, Oct. Reports received today too late for the daily official tabulation made ‘it certain that the Boston federal reserve district had gone beyond its minimum allotment of $300,000,000 in the Liberty loan cam- paign and gave officials ground for: the half Saturday renewed hope of réaching billion dollar maximum by nigkt. Official figures, which included only subscriptions up to Wednesday night, placed the total of $290,690,000. Mem- bers ‘of the committee expressed the opinion that tomorrow's report would show that the district already had passed the total amount subscribed in the first Liberty Joar when New Eng- landers bought $330.555.000 worth of bonds. The number of -individual subscribers for the second issue also is expected to.pass that of the first in; which 970,000 had a part. Returns indicate .that not less than 801.000 per- sons thus far have taken bonds of the secyd issue. Several Massachusett= municipali- ties are now over their maximum. Reports- from Conne eaually encouraging. New Huven was $114,000 over the minimum in today’ tabulations and Hartford needéd on $800,000 to reach its hixh mark. Ston- ington, with $641.000 was nexrly Aff per cent. above its maximum and De; by, Rockville, Southington. Norwi Chester and Plainville were officiall recorded as having passed their min mums, Among the totals reported from cities an dtowns are the followin Connecticut: Hartford. $1 Meriden, $462,000: New Haven. New Tondon, $998000: $1,198,000: Waterbury, $3, were 754.00 wich, 000. TO CHARTER SHIPS TO ITALIAN GOVERNMENT To Relieve Shortage of Shipping to .Transport Supplies. Washington, Oct. 25.—The shipping board agreed today to charter to the Ttalian government approximately 5 American commandeered stcel 'ships of an agsregate of 100,000 dead weight tons. to relieve Italy’s shoriage _of shipping to transport vitally needed supplies. . This actlon was announced late to- day - “hairman Hurley of the board. Great Britain has - been supplying France and Italy with shipping to Imeet its emergency needs but cannot continue to-do so in view of increas ing British shipping requirements. Ttaly has strongly represented, her great need and she gets five more ships than were allotted to the I'rench government a few. days ago. Part of the ships chartered will be old and part new, and some may he {iaken from those on the way frém the Great Lakes to the ocean. They 1 be used between the United States nd Italian port, YALE FRESHMAN IS HELD RESPONSIBLE For Death of Frederick McGee Scaife in Auto Accident. New Haven, (‘onn,, Oct. -In a finding made by Coroner Ell Mix late today, he holds Willlam W. Riair, Jr., a freshman in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, criminaily responsible for the death of Frederick McGee Scaife, a junior in the same school. Scaife was fatally injured on the night of October 20 wh—en an automobile driven by Blair sideswiped another motcr car on the Milford turnpike, go- ing into a ditch and throwing out Scaife, who was sittinz on the floor of the car. Tn the car at the time was Robert Carson ird, an demic fresh. man. The th students are all of SHIPS, WHEAT, HOGS ARE GREAT NEEDS OF ALLIES Hoover Says They Are Necessary to Fight Against U-Boats, Washington, Oct. On a state- mens tonight reviewing the world food situation Food Administrator Toover said the fight against the submarine would be won if the United States and Canada could stimuiate production and effect economies so as to feed the allies from this continest without sending a ship father afield than the American Atlantic seabLoard. Ships, wheat and hogs are the great needs emphasized by Mr. Hoover. He sald deepest concern had been caused by the fact that in spite of high pric es this country’s pork consumption had increased during the war until produc tion had been outstripyed so that the situation must be changed “If we discontinue exporie’ Mi Hoover added, “we will move the Ger- man line from France to the Atlantic seahoard. Pork products have an in- fluence in this present world situation wider than one would ordinarily at tribute to them. Tae human bod must have a certain wmount of fat we must increase production of hogs if we are to answer the world's crav- Pittsburgh. The automobile that fig- ured in the fatal accident was a rent- ed car.’ Blair is held on the coroner's order in $3,000 bail. . In his finding, the ccroner reviews the details of the accident finding that the car in empting to pass a Maxwell car driven by . Violet Sattig. of East River. falled (o “straighten up”’ and crached Jnto a fence bringing fatal injuries to Scaife. Jie finds that the car operated by Rlair was moving at an excessive and high rate of speed at the time. BROTHERS FAILED IN ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK GCne ‘of Them Shot to Death, the Other Captured at Bellingham, Washn. Belilingham, Washu brothers, Earl and Ray tempted to hold Oct. 25.—Two purgeon, at- up. the -Farmers and Merchants Pank at Edison. near here, today. They shot and killed Patrick TTalloran, former president of ih=> bank, and seized two bhazs of gold minutes later Earl Spurgeon was & to death by a posse of citizens, who also captured his_hrother. ing. “The productipn of fats today {s a critical necessity for the 1weserva- tion of these people (the allies) amd the maintenance of their constancy fn the war. “Every pound of fat is as sure of service as every bullet, and every heg is of greater value to the winning of this war than a shell.” As to wheat, the cdministrator eaid the allles’ deficiency of production s 186,000,000 bushels, with imports of 577,700,000 bushels required to mal tain normal consumption. e esti- mated the aggregate American. C‘ana- dian, Australian, Indian and Areentine export surplus at 770,000,000 bushels hut_pointed out that jack of shipping made it necessary for this country and Canada to bear the bLurden of meet- ng the allles' deficit., “The problem is thus simply one of ships. If =hippiug existed, there would be need oy saving or ine sed production of heat on the part of the American people. But if we, can produce economies and stirm- uiate production in the United States Canada such as will enable us to without =ending a ship farthe than our Atlantic seaboard, w resist the sibmarine indefinitely.” live afield can half a million Ttal. Buenos Aires in the Argen- Ther are nearly fans near tine.