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*“Save 3 Cents a Day in FOFIPISIIII IS PISS IISIIIISIIISS PITIIS IIIS IIIT IW GSS DEIGOII IPF IO SS GOT FID IIT EIST IRD KITCHEN IS KEY 10 VICTORY: WOMEN TO HAVE LARGE PART IN WAR UNDER FOOD CONTROL Mr. Hoover Explains His Conserva- tion Plans—3 Cents a Day Cut Off Waste, 3 Cents a Day Less Spent on Food, Means $2,000,000,000 a Year to Nation. By Sophie Irene Loeb. 7 (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Juno 14, WO Dillion dollars a year could be saved in foodstuffs if each per- son saved three cents per day on waste and spent three cents ber day less on food, The Housewives’ Association of The Evening World is invited by Herbert Hoover, Food Administrator of the Govern- Ment, to help carry out the new system which will be put into operation @s soon as Congress passes the needed légisiation. Captains will be appointed in all sections of New York City and the women of the metropolis will bave an opportunity to show how they can help the nation, Don't waste bread! Save two thick slices every day and defeat the U-boat. Complete victory If you eat less bread. Food controllers’ ration is four pounds of bread per person per week, The kitchen is the key to victory—eat less bread. 's bread and eat only the national ration. Save the natio Eat less bread. These are tho slogans that will be @——_————————————— sent broadcast and will confront you|great propaganda plan is being on ‘all sides as soon as the pending | Whipped into shape, in which women Re decd iasasuive ib. vended will ‘be called into service on the food questions, Special uniforms and in- “The biggest work is to be done iN} ening are administering this sald Mr.) workers who will help carry out the Hoover—the man of the hour—the| provisions of the new act. Each will man with the herculean job, While|be asked to pledge herself to carry he Js bending every effort to work out out the law, & plan for the conservation of food, as will be inaugurated. There will be departments of lectures in which well as sending it abroad to the Allies, the lobbies of the | ature are filled 4 with the butoher, the baker, the law,” try to teach how to eliminate waste in the household, as well as to sug- Glestick maker. The halls aro alive cout supstitutes for various kinds of i ) with vested interests. But If food 10d ors and food manipulators 4 ‘ : i By knew it nee man Hoover is burn- It is estimated that if each per- | ing the midnight oil to devise ways, son would save three cents per and means by which each party's day on waste and spend three proper interests will be conserved. | cents per day less for food than MUST HAVE CO-OPERATION IN| they do now, the country would save $2,000,000,000 annually. Di FAIRNESS TO ALL. “For example,” said Mr. Hoover, do not think the maximum price plan ri im Europe has worked too well, It} would seem to me a more co-operative method in price fixing will work out} { to the greater advantage of all con-| Wilbu of inducing hotels, dining cars and other public meal-serving institu- tions to eliminate waste as much as possible. A programme is being pre- cerned. In other words, prices set pared In which 2,000,000 ple each cannot be done by starving peop! » N ghould be toward stimulating produc-| will have @ prominent part. Surely |“““prosy home upon all the. neces- tion as well as to get prices as low/ this {s taking the people into your! sity that the Lever Rill should be on A) ' as possible, so that the poor man will| confidence “with a will" by giving| the statute hooks before July 1." ’ not have his standard of living too|each a part in carrying out a new ? low.” jaw that affects all Chicago va Toward this end Mr. Hoover is hop-| Another big problem of Mr, Hooy- | *HIC. J MW . / tng to secure co-operation in each de-|er’s ts the amount of foodstufts that | CHICAGO, June 4 partment of production, That is to| will be allowed to go out to the! ment took the Initial step in say, the matter of price fixing will be | Allies so that they may be fed sut-| rive against ui high cost of ses ~ nontrolied by » production | ficiently t ep the war going to-day when subpoenas were issued ean contrelies By io a aN Picea. a es tea and ieainat officials of the National as well as ity stages of sales. rex- | tha suffer as a result, It! finned Foods and Dry Fruit Brokers’ ample, the producers co-operative is estimated that 15 per cent. of the! Asso the Hltnois Wholes: scheme will approximate the price food that has gone abroad hereto- | ( n and the National that shall be charged to the whole- |f0re has been sunk by submarines, — | Who! Association, They salers for staple articles, such as|FOOD CONTROL BILL NEEDED TO| Wire Mummoned to appear before the wheat, etc. Then wholesalers, in a| CHECK SPECULATORS AT ONCE, | _— } ©0-operative plan, will approximate |, It 14 she peinion. of ait Hoover and na’ agociaten “that ‘the “Americas | EXPLOSION KILLS 50 "i the price to the retailers, who, In turn. |nousewife Will play the bigerst tant will adjust the price to the ultimate he tana | ; ust the pr rymate lon the food question, Aw a rule the| IN A BRITISH TOWN gonsumer, Every effort will be put American housewife, especially the | forth to have these co-operativ |goclaty, wor an, has been very waste- | oe d joined with the Government in |fU!, and ¢ ainly her rejuvenation as : 1 rrying ow The food control bill will be taken | Lyme, Bonar Law Announce: are to play the greater part in the up in the House of Representatives | yme, Bona \ ces general administering of the food law. next Monday, having been given in Commons, I talked with Mr. Hoover, 1/fBht of way over ot legisl. As a with 4 As 1 A week will be required for Da LONDON, June M4.—Fifty persons gleaned one paramount principle that |though Congress at last realizes the | w killed and many persons were im dominating the man, and that way /need for haste. Charges have been | ¥&® * ; . ss ' back in his*brain all work is /obenly made in the House that food | inure by an explosion at Ashton- ¢s owards ono direction—get- SPCCulators are now going about the | Under-Ly Andrew ar Law tending tow ra ne an t @ country buying up crops in advance | (anc t Exchequer, an- ting the people back to the land. As to corner the market before the Sach @ general thing the majority of the Government Administrator can get to | Mounced in the Commons people are too far away from the soil. | Work ote ye er past in the efforts to get people back | move,” sald Leader Kitchin, |) PARIS, June 14—-Bighteen dead and | Ro the tatm, There is an intimation that | sixty injured persons have been taken If you would have little families go Some of the most specious specu- | fron the ruins of mu nto f Gist into the Government service and | tory Which collapsed yesterday make it attractive for them are trying to hamstring the new | accident was caused by the breaking of Mr. Hoover has realized this, and, movement before it can get |a bean supporting the third floor of his big drive will be to so conserve! started. ey | the building, in which 800 persona were omit ne nenble wha ersillt epresentative ing of Mlinots|at work. ‘The whole structure col- the inter ts of the people who would aated about this to-day in Congress. |lapsed. Many of the workers had time seek the land as to make it t true.” he inquired, “that| to eseap: tive, | In r words, he w their xchanges and most of the specu | _— productions, even from the small gar- s have already been called tn to Gens, to receive an assured sale at a Help regulate the food supply?” M. ROMANOFF CAN VOTE. . ten z leader Kitohin gave a somewhat sin Ber price #0 BB to onc se more non-committal reply, saying, “Ido not| Will Be Allowed to Help Choone production, He also hopes to get think so, | Hie Succes better conditions of living in farm Stories persist about the Capitol}! prrroGRAD, June districts toward the end of making that many of these fat and sloek | ionged debate, the Coun gentry are of ng on the Inside | : life more attractive there, and rtriving to draw the teeth out of Rede ntementreee = <= = to be worn by women; Dozens of activities; women will be sent all over the coun- | Mr, Hoover are working on schemes | Food Waste and Win bee ee aad ddd ddd ddd hhddaddidddd aad d di dd Adda hdaaaaddabha badd AhdLLALLLLLLLLLLOLAa Looe A ee the War’ FOOD CONTROL BILL SHOULD BE LAW BY JULY 1, SAYS GOMPERS (By Telegraph to the Baltor of The Evening WASHINGTON, June 14. The spirit of American citizen- ship for freedom and democracy is aroused to an Intensity never exceeded in the days of the Amer- jean Revolution or in Civil War times, That spirit must be fos- tered and maintained. The food supply to our men who will do the fighting for that great cause, the food supply for our ctvilian popu- lation who, though remaining at home and producing the needs of our fighting force, as well as maintaining our civil life, must not be made the object of piratical gambling of speculators and ex- ploiters. The Lever bill contains the in- strumentalities to protect the peo- |] ple against these ghouls, whose patriotism is greed, and who would in reality rather that the world's gigantic struggle for justice, free- |] dom, democracy and humanity |} should perish than they be de- |] prived of squeezing the last dollar they can wring from the people, The Lever bill should be the law |] of the land before July 1, or in this || transcendentally important matter our people will be helpless, and we can write our inaction into the words, “Too late.” SAMUEL GOMPERS, ' | atead of the of $16. Statistics were submitted showing jthat not only in food but in many other nocessarios of life excessive | prices are being charged, Mr. Gompers said that thousands of letters would be sent out to labor | organizations urging them to get after their Congressmen to put through the pending food bills. A significant hint was given that if the cost of living was not brought down labor would be obliged to de- mand increase in wages to enable ‘ workers to live. ALL LABOR UNIONS TO HELP | PUSH FOOD BILL THROUGH present robbery price Federation Officials Urge Work- men to Insist on Immediate Pas- sage of Lever Measure. WASHINGTON, June 14.—Follow- ing their determination support | the Hoover food administration pro- gramme, Amer n Federation of | Labor officials senting millions of workers t h mem- urging support in push- rep day sent to e | ber a lette jing the bill through Congress by | every trade union," Gompers | said to-day very central body, every State federation and every in- ional organization urge ‘upon | respective Congressman, your |Senators and President of © the | 1 States Its immediate passa, nnot be fought by hun he work necessary to ontinuity of this nation gry men. ntain the ip rules governing « WOMEN TO PLAY MOST ACTIVE the system (o protect thelr own rob- cided to ea M an ery gaune Jwho used to be ¢ PART IN FOOD CONTROL. Herbert Hoover, leaders of Jabor | of ‘ho former Imperial fam > vote, If out of this war food measure he OF8 Biaaslone and tw y members of; All Use 1 standing uk sh Pel ati ie Congress had a long conference last | deaf and 4 may particlp secures a Ic percen b night discussing practical methods, |!p the elections in a “back to the far movement, | ‘Phe labor men, under the aggressive | aa the war measure will have done a leadership of Samuel Gompers, are | Given Italian Min heretofore most diffeult if not im an oring te make food control) Hig Welcome, blo task, and ‘ail olan 4. ond price regulation a reality for the] NEW ORLEA Mu poasibie task, and if all plans art bonetit of the working masses, who| A cRAG arrived hare GOCGharT carried out as they seem to be under are suffering from extortionate | [t#!ian Mission arrived lay on way it looks as though the thing will prices, It was asserted at the meet-| their tour of the South. The visitors be done. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ing that on wheat alone the middie-| were greeted by the Citizens’ G _ pe . men have robbed the public of $120,-| Committee, headed by avor former President of the Leland Stan- 999000 monthly. ‘The labor men as.| man, Large crowds on streets ford University, will have charge of serted that flour could be sold at/gave the Italians an snthusiawic Pe conservation department, and & §7,7b per barrel with fuir profit, ins welcome, * First Policewoman in United States Says New York Needs Many Like Her To Protect Girls and Rebuff Mashers “ Time OF Peace WOMEN POLICE SHOULD GUARD Dance HALE THEY SHOULD PoLce He movies PERS OF | every NATION iMovw nave won POLICE « | For Male Youth of Land Is Get- ting Into War Togs Now, and Lure of Uniform Is Often Cause of Misery to Average Susceptible Girl—But It’s the Movie Masher and Dance Hall Loafer, Not Soldier, That She Most Fears — Police- woman Is a Power for Amer. icanization. : \ LONDON CHILDREN “SUFFER FROM ACID sociation of Policewomen, came to New York yesterday from Pittsburgh { with thé announcement that her organization is now urging upon the Couneil for National Defense the es- tablishment of policewomen in every city of the United States as a war measure. At the annual convention of policewomen, which has just come to an end in Pittsburgh, resolutions were passed pressing this step upon the Government. At the same time the Mayor's Committee of Women on Na New Pain Making and Destruc- tive Kinds of Missiles Used by the Aviators, LONDON, June 14.-For pure flend ishness of purpose and in dhe ghastly | tional Defense 18 about to ask Mr, Mitchel to establish toll of innocent women, children and a force of policewomen in New York, old men, German's air raid on Lon- Fe Mrs, Wells told me yesterday why women are don of yesterday was the most mur aad | needed for police work at this time. derous of all the aerial piracy which “ W YORK CITY needs police- | i ; : England has seen omen eve: time of| When it arises between mother ani : ay Omen AYER is ats daughter, aa it often docs, Is primarily | New destructive and pain-making peace,” the head of the worm: one for the policewoman’ to settle. I missiles were dropped by the invad |lico of Los Angeles informed have met it many times in Los Angele ‘ou can believe it or not,” she add- | ‘The first thing I do is to ers. Most of those injured suffered Jed smilingly, “but ince I have been| foreign mother to | terribly from acid-fluids contained in | that she can speak the langu child, New York, with its population, needa the poli at work of An for women n proved in this city the necessity with police powers has ti | ‘Aw I stood in front many of the bombs, 'T and women writhe children woman to In hospital beds to me personally. help in the ricani#@- to.day fro great burns caused of & moving picture theatre looking tion In which ‘The Evening World has 1 rom. sr tna’ caused by ‘ Cine AD n so active. For in the West the ese mu pus minsiles at a poster, a dapper young MAD Diicewoman has proved one of the A number of the injured persons leaned over my shoulder and whis- most effective agents of Americaniza- succumbed to thelr wounds during| pered, ‘How would you like to g9 in tion, the night, | and see the pictures? It seems in- “T HE Policewoman's Association Latest reports show that ninety-| credible, but it happened!" numbers 160 members {POM seven persons were k 1 and 439 tn-| It djd not seem in the least increti- twenty-four of the United ; | « look into the soft | from Europe,” Mrs. Jured by the fifteen German rat ble to’ me as I looked tnt me with pardonable p Twenty-six childe Including in eyes of this very modern police WOM | began work in Los Angeles, a few fants in arms, were killed, and ninety lan from the West who bears the yearn ago, 1 was the first pollee-|eouy injured ueere: ost incongruous resem-| Woman in the world, At our confer i BUBRTIRY | HORE: Lisa, And any-| ence in Pittsburgh, which just| Sixteen women met death and blance to the Mona LI é any; | Closed, delegates attended from four- | were wounded body with the slightest knowledge of teen States and reports were read! pifty-tiye men, many cripples, or the movie magher in New York is) from Canada, England, South Africa, | 1, 7 af | that he has effrontery enough |New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and /Old men, were wurde 1 223 wore aware tha 1 of police. | Hawall, All of the: tries ha wounded by the ga jerman air to tac a whole squad women police. The conference men, women !f they are good looking. upon the members to rededi iseineni andy a eapare “ man of my age does not ned | themselves to the work of home de- ||, mbu ; |S women Bal Beadle Mra, Wells | £e08e, espectally with regard to homes /#clans and nur 1 by protection from mashers,” Mra. broken by the war, to the need of | police, were engaged ighout the \assured me, “but suppose T had been pro re caused by the entrance of | night In aearch f vic }a young girl? Many an acquain women jnto new fields of labor, and to a : peat eee eae eg movie theatre or a| thé Unprecedented social problems at he are My | dance hall has brought misfortune and| iarge training: carpe wenes in hoapl 1 ‘ ey y to ng wirls, One of the Wherever there in a girl and a ng, where wom 11 leg of the policewoman Ia to k iniform there is danger,” Mra. We as bata sogabt | dutie the p halle under her| (xPlained. “This was proved In for hours in ing | res and dance halls und land early in the wa nd volunteer favorable new ‘ Hiss | 4 see that men do not hang uf women police had to be organized to! ing ative | ront of them to make the acquaint © with the problem, We advocale| Phe public bel 1 jin f | patrons. Another phase | {#¢ Creation of women deputy sheri i p ance of girl pa i f the rural districts in which camps | 40d @nti-alreratt > . | of the work is in promoting Americant- | are [kely to be instituted and the es- | Git |yation by acting as intermediary be-| tablishment of policewomen in all | Kj) wa |tweon the foreign-born mother and tha | American cities.” Fes . | strange American duckling she bas <> fa strange att joes not understand. 1"| NORTHCLIFFE ON AIR RAID. the juvenile courts of the West we would’ be’te eordon nave found that many children are ¢ patrol aeroplanes t arried to the edge of crime through a eat ay aan ck of understanding of American life wal me? othe | lack i egarding the latest alr raid on T : by porents be front would proba Eng THE torcign tather and mother com: Als faldalime Zandao\ and Eng. [land's complete ae to America with European Ideas jish towna will continue ax ux th rn front, t f M \ of parental discipline, A word and 4) fritish Govern all I 4 blow is too often the law of the prisal raids and | hamp: ft | homes. r children are sent to work wlation centres." aive t _— the earliest possible age and a Dr. Hugh 1 ing of J Hoy jat th al 5 . nd ter Kills ride of , made to surrender every cent of the Weeka, king, & Major in the M bi earnings. But they soon learn that ATLANTA, Ga., June 14.—Private Joe | heserve Ce ( \ inced \this relentless discipline, this harsh |. Kirk, Seventeenth United n- | the flendishn t an attack jexaction of every penny, i not shot and k sb nye AAEM law of the American household; that few Weeks early to-day nim= | Oy r 1 Capt. How | we carry our basic idea ef democracy ¢ wounded when passed larg f the M, O ( rough his wife's body and burie the family life. Pa ite een erie Aaa 1 plendid nen the children revolt; often they |. hagpital at Fort Mof tor |W \ run away from home and wind up in ree aus) Auaee pica? ue ae (6 N an officera | une courts ‘TDis situasion, particularly greed without eaception thal bbe By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ’ RS. ALICE STEBBINS WELLS of Los Angeles, Cal., ploneer police \ woman of the United States and President of the International As- sli | ning FRENCH DEPUTIES (Pam we seme STOP BUSINESS TO. CHEER PERSHG Body Identified as Brooklyn ficer's by Former Classmate ~ at Navy Yard. | The body of the man who come mitted suicide yesterday afternoon om {the estate of George W. Perkina Riverdale by shooting hin U. S. Commander Lunches through the heart was identified | " "See auaae | jay as that of Lieut, Richard © Ww ith Poincare—Reception | Vincent Hantion, U. S. Ny @ feale Notable Even for Paris, j dent of Brooklyn, Lieut, Webb of 9 |the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a former | PARIS, Juno 14.~-Maj.-Gen, Perah- bon wea beg wan tanh age bi ef ing was tumultuously cheered this jy", sit e initials “Re afternoon when he nd American bovis vice revolver found neni : Ambassador Sharp visited — the | *N@_ body gave the clew French Chamb of Deputies, The Hannon had cut all identification marks from his clothes before ending — | his life, His family lived In Buffate, | om which city he was appointed to pandemonium of applause was #0 great that all business was suspend~ The American army commander seemed greatly affected and bowed A®%4polis, Lieut. Webb said he had PaDGMnAdIY EE tha GFaLiOn, jnot been in communication with Premier Ribot and Vice Premier! Hannon recently, but had heard Vivianlcthe. latter just, retarmea {thfough others that Hannon was ii we health, Hanno was formerly from his tour of America as head of attached to the destroyer Wilkes. the French mission—both feelingly spoke of France's ideals and her | PEACE PLAN ANNOUNCEMENT could be no peace now—that France would fight on to the bitter end, Gen, Pershing lunched a alynee |. bial . ’ Palace with President Poincare and For Limitation of Armaments, In- other French notables, He was in ternational Arbitration and Against close conference with French War Future Commercial War. STOCKHOLM, June 14 inary statement Office leaders most of the day, and, his headquarters in the Hotel Crillon we of constant agivity. A prelim f nome of the peacs ya scene This morning Gen, Pershing vis- Plans of the nan majority So ited the Invalides, the museum and, Clalists as announced to-day declared the of Napoleon, His stage i” favor of : attended a luncheon of the Military) International arbitration of all dine Club nd this afternoon and accom- ‘The limitation of armaments of all nations Revision of maritime and interna. tional laws to do away with sea prizes ican Commander on ral camp at Hourget. This evening the entire American contingent dine with the War Office staff headed by Minister of War Painleve orrow Persh- ing is to lunch with Marshal Joffre at the Military Club, ‘The manner in which Paris opened its arms to Gen, Pershing and his staff yesterday is sull being talked about to-day. No conquering hero re- turning home could hope for or ever recelve such a tremendous reception as greeted the American commander as his automobile sped through hun- dreds of thousands of cheering people Paris, and particularly the French authorities, had planned and hoped for a great reception, but it is doubt ful her even the most optimistic pictured the almost frantic wds that all but blocked the progress of tha automobiles, Men and women oheered the *# hoarse and flung asses of flowers into tho cars, Paris- tans declare that the only event in their life time that approximates the reception In enthusiasm was that ac- corded to King George of England in 1914 From bundreds of windows Ameri-| can flags were waved by men, wom- en and children, Sellers of American flags had improved the hour preced- panied the Am visits to the g aviation during a war Decision inat a commercial war Mowing a military st whe 80 } ROASTED an pacneD OF Nistin Nichols6@ SSE prea LE” 4 The World’s Bes COFFEE ing the arrival of the party by dis tributing thousands of tiny Stars and Try it in comparison Stripes. French girls, with flags with the Coffee you now pinned to their breasts and their use. If you don’t agree arms filled with flowers bought from that "Sunbeam 16. best thelr seanty savings, fairly fought [har Mor gees abe the ) ‘and get your money. ra chance to et near enough to ini yOGn AeA he machines to hurl thelr ings NSIST ON ‘SUNBHAM™ nto the laps and on the shoulders of the astonished American officers. The Americans apparently had not! imagined the heights to which busiaamn yuld rise men and girls and even so n struggled to Jump on th board of Gen, Pershing's and shake hands with him. It was not Gen. Pershing alone who ari Boys, old un if pas ee ee bifeie PEPEDECLececeeeeeceee coer preeprrr Te et Ees bi | “The car ame in for unp edented tions, but every American ueht slight f ° sth ecrmer ie ae emer ae in the vicinity of the line of march F R oe 3F x re was scln &. aloo that ' ree ussia tein wonuiat demonrtradian, “dren! ~~ Will be published GSU 0 allie peas OR Der oan on June 17th intertwin It is the hymn of the new Russian Republic, successful in. kil rald was “mont ek ee eee ee The poem is written by sirengiianay the Tees RF Tnaee Wh Konstantin Balmont, Garman tombs, Bad bie English version by Kurt , atnerete, will aeain Be ured! § and Vers Schindler, thbusende | OF WoEnbe oscne vor)” andre Gi etchaninoff, ooue OF Hare Ge Seana wit) Oe l arranged and edited by exe outrages Kurt Schindler, Herlin Announces Alr Hala on “Bort? of Lond ANRLIN duos Hoek tot of our| POPS. @nd) 1h ia nr offtlat. tiatoment, “yesteray |? 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