FRENCH BOY STOWAWAY
PROSPERITY ERA
IS SEEN FOR U. S.
Dye-Waking and Building Trade
to Help Boom Whole
Nation.
W ar Industrie* Centers Show Remark
able Speed In the Transition From
Munition M a n u fa c t u r e to
Pea ce ab le P u rs u it s.
New York.— Resumption of peace
time pursuits, with the addition of
new industries, such as dye-making
and the boom expected in the build
ing trades, w ill carry the United
Spates at once into a period o f great
a c tiv ity according to reports gath
ered by the United Press.
When restrictions on bullying trades
are fully raised and the need for manu
factured and raw materials in Europe
becomes keenly felt, business depres
sion which muy result from the stop
ping o f war work w ill be rapidly over
come, it is believed.
Representatives o f industry in 34
states, just concluding a conference
o f the advisory committee of the na
tional council for industrial defense
here, declare the nation is on the eve
o f “ good times,” with jobs a-plenty
fo r returning soldiers and men and
women thrown out o f work in muni
tion plants.
Get Back to Peace Pursuits.
Reports from Pennsylvania, Connec
ticut, Delawure, New Jersey, Virginia,
Ohio and other war Industries centers
showed remarkable speed in the transi
tion from munitions manufacture to
peacenble pursuits. Dye factories of
huge dimensions have been built by
the Du Pont Interests to take the place
o f monster shell and explosive pro
ducing plants which made new cities
In several sections.
Philadelphia reported a surplus of
jobs, with returning soldiers and muni
tion makers being greedily snapped
up. Steel plants at Harrisburg, Pitts
burgh and other centers are rapidly
returning to the manufacture o f build
ing, bridge and other nonwar steel.
Wisconsin's plants are being shut
down, for the most part, but about 15
per cent o f them have been trans
formed Into dye works.
Indiana is turning baek to the build
ing o f automobiles.
Detroit, industrial center o f Michi
gan, is gradually returning to old-time
pursuits, with automobile manufactur
ing leading.
Ohio reported a surplus o f men, but
at least fifty returning soldiers are be-
Why do some portions o f the Uulted
Stutes suffer from tornadoes, or cy
clones, as they are generally but erro
neously called, while others do not?
The question Is answered, notes a
writer In People’s Home Journal,
by scientists of the United States
weather bureau, who point to the topog
raphy of uur country in explanation.
Tornadoes occur in the Mississippi
valley, anywhere from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Canadian line. No por
tion of this area is more apt to suffer
than unother, the experts assert. This
valley opens to the warm waters o f
the gulf on the south and is closed in
ou the west by the high wall of the
Rocky mountains. Warm, raoisture-
taden winds from the gulf move north
ward in the spring and early summer
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nnd encounter the cold north and
When the big transport Leviathan northwest winds that sweep down the
docked at Hoboken the other day east wall o f the Rockies. When the
opposing currents meet there is some
there was one pussenger aboard who
times formed one o f those rapidly re
was not on the pnssenger lists. He
was fourteen years old.
Fernand volving. funnel-shaped clouds so de
structive o f life and property.
Dornler, form erly o f Verrons, France,
Tornudoes travel southwest to north
and later the mascot o f our boys at
east, and. In addition to their terrific
Brest. The little fellow ’s father was
whirling movement, which Is too great
killed at Chateau-Thierry. His moth
to be measured, have a forwnrd ve
er and little sister were inter killed
locity of from 50 to 60 miles nn hour.
by a bomb from a Hun airplane. L it
Their path may be from a few hundred
tle Fernnnd then east his lot with the
yards to a mile in width.
American troops near his former
The word “ tornado,” at first spelled
home. When the detachment o f which
“ ternado,” probably was derived from
he was mascot left fo r Brest to em
the Spanish tronada, which means
bark fo r home, he went along and
thunderstorms. “ Tornado” may have
managed to smuggle himself aboard
grown out of nn attempt to combine
the great ship. He Is now In charge
this word with the Spanish word tor-
o f the Children’s Society home In Jer
nar, meaning to “ turn,” thus mnklng It
sey City and efforts are being made to
descriptive o f a storm that turned or
find a home fo r him.
twisted.
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GREAT iACTIVITY EXPECTED
Ing put to work each day la Cleve
land. ,
New England and New York are ab
sorbing returning soldiers and dls-
churged munition workers with no dif
ficulty.
About one-sixth the normal number
o f persons are now employed at“ the
huge plunts at Hopewell, Seven Pine3
and Penniman, Va.
The big United States nitrate plant
at Mussel Shoals, Ala., will continue
|in operation and the surplus nitrates
probably will be used in the manufac
ture o f fertilizer. A war department
committee will decide what is to be
done with the powder plant at Nash
ville.
Labor officials In Ohio believe manv
women will leave their work soon,
pointing out that they took it up
mainly for patriotic reasons.
In this state many government con
tracts have not been canceled and
work is going ahead.
Father and Son Both
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Litchfield, 111.— Attempting to
crank a delivery truck, Louis
Hauser, Jr., hail his wrist brok-
en when It “ kicked.” The next
day his father tried to start the
“ bucking broncho” and had the
same fate befall hlna.
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PLAN TO REFOREST
DENUDED FRANCE
American Forestry Association
Will Aid in Planting Million
and Half Acres.
Washington.— A little bag containing
all the Douglas fir seed to0be had in
this country has gone to France to be
offered to the French government as
a help in reforesting France. P. S.
Ridsdale, the secretary of the Am eri
can Forestry association is- in charge
of the project. There are 50,000 seeds
The dismemberment o f Austria has revived the idea o f a Danube federa
tion along the lines urged by Kossuth In the middle of the nineteenth century.
According to the Hungarian patriot the states bordering on the Danube
river had common interests economically and fo r the most part racially, and
should federalize. The present movement toward a union o f the new stutes
forming from the disrupted Hapsburg monarchy has hardly assumed any
definite shape, but has been discussed nt Paris among the various representa
tives assembling for the peace conferences from the Balkan region and to the
north.
Among the states grouping themselves racially as members o f the Slavic
group are Poland, Czeeho-Slovakla. .Tugo-Slavls, the latter Including Serbia,
Montenegro, Herzegovina, Croatia, Bosnia and Slavonia.
Roumanla and Hungary, while not o f the Slavic race, would be expected
to join the proposed federation for political reasons.’ Bulgaria also would be
invited to Join as soon as the Sofia government had met the conditions im
posed by the peace conference.
Geographically such a anion o f states would form a barrier between
Russia nnil Germnny, through central Europe, from the Baltic to the waters
o f the Mediterranean and Black seas.
The above map only approximates the boundaries o f the new states, as
conflicting claims and local clashes are changing the unsettled frontiers.
Restaurants in Other Lands
Serve Meals at Low Prices;
Show Good Weekly Profits
American fried-egg financiers and pie
plutocrats should take warning from
abroad, suggests-Thrift Magazine. The
national restaurant o f London, which
was established {o expose the profi
teers, shows a profit o f $350 a week
or about 70 per cent on the Investment.
Lunches and suppers are sold for 2?
cents and tea and breakfast fo r IS
cents. There is a profit o f about twe
cents on each meal. The co-operative
restaurant Idea also has taken root Jr
Paris, where ten publicly controlled
restaurants, each seating 1,000 per
sons, are selling good meals fo r aboul
30 cents each.
In the average American restnuranl
today a man has to play a mean trlcb
on his appetite if he expects to have
much left out o f a dollar after main
taining contact with a full meal.
Statistics show that there are 9,000,-
000 persons who subsist In American
restaurants from day to day. Among
this vast army o f bacon-and-egg ex
perts there are many, no doubt, whe
would be glad to see the dally raent
card speak In more conciliatory ac
cents on the subject of hash und other
luxuries.
and the value of the trees will be
about $1,000,000.
The American Forestry association Is
urging the planting of memorial trees
In honor o f the sailors anil soldiers,
and the suggestion is being adopted
all over the country. The idea Is to
plant trees along motor highways, In
connection with any memorials being
planned, and in streets and avenues
being named fo r war heroes. The as
sociation o f which Chnrles Lathrop
Pack is president urges the planting of
a tree in honor of the man who o f
fered his life to his country nlso.
Many Organizations Help.
“ In collecting the seed that France
will want,” said Mr. Ridsdale be
fore sailing, “ the members of our asso
ciation, the forestry departments of
the various states, the boy scouts and
other organizations will be called upon
to help.
“ A million and a quarter acres of
forest in the north and east o f France
have been practically wiped out dur
ing the war. They were cut down by
the contending armies for use in
trench building, fo r barracks, for
roads, fo r Y. M. C. ’ A. and hospital
buildings or were blasted to pieces by
shell fire. But the sacrifice was not
in vain, fo r the great defensive value
A n E m b r y o H u m o rist.
o f the forests materially aided France
Mother (coming from pantry)— Rob
and her allies In checking the Ger
man drives and saving more o f France ert, did you pick all the white meat oil
this chicken?
from Invasion by the Huns.
Bobby— W ell, ma, to make a clean
“The service which the Amerlenn
breast o f it, I did.
Forestry association and Its members
will consider nn honor to perform Is to
T h e P ro p e r Kind.
aid In the restoration o f these forests
“ They say that pilot gunboats ought
which France had to sacrifice under
the pressure of war, fo r no war has to have signal guns when they go out
ever made such n call upon the for In a fog.”
“ I should think they could better
ests for materials.
"Almost a million French people thread their way with a needle gun."
were dependent upon these forests for
A D ra w b a c k .
six months of the year fo r a livelihood,
“ A woman can
and the French government faces a
make any man
great economic problem In providing
propose to her she
them with resources fo r sustaining
pleases.”
themselves until the forests are re
“ Certainly she
stored."
can,
but
some
M e m o ria l T r e e P la n .
women
c a n’t
In St. Louis, Park Commissioner
please any.”
Cunllff Is going to plant memorial trees
along the famous Llndell boulevard.
E n o u g h n e se .
An “ avenue of the allies” lined with
“ Dffi that burglar say: ‘Enough,*
tfees in honor o f the nllled nations Is
when you attacked him?” asked Mr.
one suggestion coming from ‘ some cit Dolan.
ies adopting the memorial tree plnn.
“ O f course he did,” answered Mr.
Another plan being woHied out Is for
Rafferty. "W h y wouldn't he say,
the planting of memorial trees along
‘Enough?’ H e had as much swag as
the transcontinental motor highways
he could carry and was trying to hold
by the various counties through which
on to every bit o f it.” •
such highways pass.
¡The Lincoln
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Highway association has taken up this
The
Reason.
plan. In Louisiana memorial trees are
“ There Is a great deal o f atmosphere
to be planted, one every 40 feet, along
the Jefferson hlghwny In that state. about dear Gwendolyn's letters."
“ Why, Is she sending them by the
This is the hlghwny that lends to W in
nipeg, and the slogan Is “ From Pine air route?”
RIDSDALE CARRIES THE SEED
Secretary of Association Takes Only
Douglas Fir Seed to Be Had in
This Country to Offer to
France.
Topography of Our Country
Responsible for Tornadoes,
Explanation of Scientists.
SCRAPS OF HUMOR
U . S. 1918 Crop Valuation Is
$12,272,412,000
Wheat Y ield W as Second Largest, Oats Crop Third;
Shortest Yield o f Corn Since 1913.
The second largest wheat crop, with 917,100,000 bushels fo r the United
States, the shortest yield o f com since 1913, or 2,532,814,000 bushels, and the
third largest oat crop, 1,538,359,000 bushels, are the leuiling features o f the
government report on final returns for the year 1918 in the United States.
Total o f wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley Is 5,483,751,000 bushels, a de
crease o f 83,781,000 bushels, or 1.5 per cent from the revised returns o f 1917.
Valuation o f the nation’s principal crops this year is $12,272,412,000, the
highest known, nnd compares with that o f $11,058,032,000, based on the price
paid producers December 1.
There is enough for home requirements and for all the allies w ill need, leav
ing a fa ir surplus for the people In other countries. O f wheat alone It is
figured that allowing 470,000.000 bushels for domestic consumption, which 13
below the prewar average, there are 337,000,000 bushels surplus fo r export
and carrying over from July 1, 1918, to" July 1, 1919, or 2112,000,000 bushels
above the prewar average, o f which 115,000,000 bushels have been exported
to December 1 this year.
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Returns on com were a surprise, being reduced 167,000,000 bushels from
the November figures and 532.400,000 bushels under the revised yields o f last
year, which w ere 3,065,233,000 bushels, or 94,000,000 bushels less than orig
inally issued. The yield per acre was 24 bushels, compared with 24.2 bushels
last month and 26.3 bushels Inst year, nnd a five-year average
consumption o f the Inst flye years, which Is 2,723,000,000 bushels.
An oats crop o f over 3,000,000,000 bushels more than previously reported
was not a surprise and Is only 54,400,000 bushels short o f lust year’s bumper
yield, and was far above consumption, leaving nn abundance for export.
The rye crop Increased 28,958,000 bushels to the best known, and barley
44,616,000 bushels over last year’s revised returns.
Buckwheat returns more than 1,000,000 bushels Increase, while flaxseed
Increased 5,493,000 bushels. Rice Increased nearly 6,000,000 bushels. Pota
toes, although 40,942,000 bushels short o f last year’s record, are a big crop,
aggregating 297,676,000 bushels, and sweet potatoes are almost 3,000,000.
bushels above the record o f 1917.
H ay shows a shortage o f around 8,000,000 tons tame, and wild fell off 757,-
000 tons, due to drought. Cotton yield o f 11,700,000 bales, although 304,000
bales In excess o f last year, was below the five-year average.
WHO’S WHO ON U S.
PEACE DELEGATION
America’s Representation
to Conference
The president of the United States
heads the American representation to
the peace conference.
R O B E R T LA N SIN G — Secretary of
state since June 23, 1915. Born nt
Watertown, N. Y „ In 1864. Was asso
ciate counsel fo r the United States In
the Behring sea arbitration ense In
1892-93 and solicitor for the United
States in the Alaskan boundary tri
bunal besides having been honored with
other government commissions.
An
authority on International law nnd
counselor fo r the state department
prior to his appointment as secretary
of state.
COL. E. M. HOUSE— Born In Hous
ton, Tex., In 1858. Active In Demo
cratic politics in Texas but was never
a enndldate fo r office. Has been close
friend nnd adviser o f President W il
son, and his special representative In
Europe In 1915 and 1916.
H E N R Y W H IT E — Diplomat, born in
Baltimore In 1850.
Ambassador to
Ttaly from 1905 to 1907 and to France
from 1907 to 1909. Hns held numerous
consular posts abroad. H e is a resi
dent o f Washington. Represented
United States at international confer
ence in London In 1887-88 anil at Inter-
latlonal conference at Rome In 1905.
MA.T. GEN. T A S K E R IL B LISS—
Born In Lewlsburg, Pa., 1853. Grad
uate o f the United States M ilitary
jeadomy, 1875, and honor graduate o f
the United States Artillery school In
1884. Held many Important military
posts. His home Is In Rosemont, Pa.
Sakura, Cherry Blossom, Is
National Flower of Japan
"N o flower has entered Jnpanese his
tory, literature, arts and religious
thoughts longer or more richly than
our sakura or Japnnese cherry," snys
the Tokyo Herald o f Asia. “ It was
only natural, therefore, that foreign
visitors to this country began to call
It the land o f the cherry blossoms and
that we have Chosen snkurn ns our
natipnal flower by common consent.
Our army has adopted the blossom as
Its Insignia o f ulways being ready to
die fo r a cause, after the manner o f
sakura, which fnllh In the heigh« o f
natural glory nnd humnn admiration
without the slightest desire to linger
in the sordid world.”
Why Paper Will Turn Yellow
When It Is Exposed to Light
Origin of Word “Yank ”
Applied to Americans in
the W ar Against Germany
The nickname "Yank,” as applied to
the American expeditionary force sol
diery, has something o f charm in the
tradition o f the word, says a w riter
in Stars and Stripes. Persons Inter
ested In the history o f words may have
noted with interest a footnote In
Cooper’s “ The Deerslayer.”
It Is singular there should be any
question concerning the origin o f the
well-known sobriquet o f “ Yankee.”
Nearly all the old writers who speak
o f the Indians first known to the col
onists make them pronounce the word
“ English” as “ Yengeese.” Even at this
day It Is a provincialism o f New Eng
land to say “ English” Instead o f “ Ing-
llsh,” and there Is a close conformity
o f sound between “ English” and "Yen-
geese,” more especially if the latter'
word, ns was probably the case, be
pronounced short.
The transition from “ Yengeese,” thus
pronounced, to "Yankees” Is quite
easy.
I f tho form er Is pronounced
“ Ynngis” It Is almost Identical with
“ Yankees,” und Indian words have sel
dom been spelled as they are pro
nounced. . . , The liquids o f the
Indians would easily convert “ En” into
"Yen.”
Banks of the Nation Shew
Good Increase in Business
During Last Fiscal Year
Aggregate resources o f the 28*880
banks in the United States, state and
national, last Jnne 3,' amounted to
$40,210*000,000, o f which $22,371,000,-
600 was credited to the 21,175 state,
savings und private banks pnd trust
companies, and $17,839,000,(XX) to the
7,705 national banks. This was shown
by a report o f Comptroller o f the Cur
rency Wllllhm8.
Deposits o f the state banks amount
ed to $18,567,000,000, and loans to
$12,426,000,000, showing an Increase o f
5 per cent In deposits over the record
o f the yenr previous, and 0.5 per cent
in loans.
National banks showed $14,021,000,-
000 deposits, an Increase o f 9.8 per
cent.
A ll banks, state and nntlonal, had
$32,580,000,000 deposits and $22,040,-*-
000,000 loans.
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Tea Drinking Increased
36 Per Cent in Past Y e a r'
Tea drinking apparently Increased 30
p er ceift In the United State* during the
year ending last June 30, fo r 148,084,-
000 pounils was imported, as compared
with 105,984,000 pounds the year pre
vious, rt customs report showed. Near
ly 237,000 pounds were rejected by offi
cial ten examiners fo r containing too
much Japan dust or woody stems, and
3,930,(XX) pounds were exported. Strict
regulations o f ten examiners have re
duced the Importation o f artificially
colored tea to practically nothing, It
was reported.
Few people know why pnper which
Is exposed to the light turns yellow.
Recent Investigations by Dr. Klemm
have demonstrated that these changes
are due mainly to exposure to light. Tn
wood-free papers the failing Is found
to be due to formation o f sonpllke com
pounds o f Iron with rosin nnd fatty
to Palm.”
L e a d e r s o f O p in io n .
substances.
The greater the amount
In many parts o f the country
“ What is your opinion— ”
o f these compounds present the more
churches are to plant memorial trees
Gun Barrel Life.
"Can’t tell you now," replied Sena marked the yellowing o f the pnper. A
in honor of the members who fell In
tor Sorghum. “ I may hav£ to go hack mixture o f ether (tw o parts) and al
battle.
A rather Interesting side light on
home and Interview my constituents cohol (one part) will remove the sonp-
the question o f gun barrel life is a
personally to find out what my opinion like matter.
IM M about anything is.”
determination o f tho actual length o f
time to ■fc-hleh n good shotgun barrel
;; Mistake Bag of Sand
Is subjected to the force and burning
i;
for Actual Hun Bomb
effect o f the powder charge during Its
WORDS OF WISE MEN
“L i v e
lifetime.
I f 100.000 shots are fired
Pensacola, Fla. — When a
learn." •
from a shotgun the Inside o f tjie bar
H e who lives upon the fruit o f
heavy bag o f sand crashed
“ Huh?”
rel Is actually exposed to th* flame
his own labor escapes the con
through the roof and passed on
“ Now I under
o f thol p(iw«ler charge fo r about four
tempt o f haughty benefactors.
through the floor o f the home
stand why the kai
minutes.
Better than getting ahead o f
. i. of Stephen Gallers, the family
ser didn’t declare
your enemies Is keeping abreast
fled into the yard and listened
war on Holland.”
o f your friend*.
Value of Observation.
for the “ explosion” o f what they
The more a mnn accomplishes
thought was an aerial bomb. It
the more he may. An active tool
D e s p e ra t e M e a su re s.
Tot become Educated we must learn
later became known that a naval
never grows rusty.
Edith (visitin g )— I didn’t know you
dirigible balloon, at a great
to observe. Observation gives us facts,
The inan who goes halfway to
Hied classical music, hut I see you
height, had thrown out the sand-
d a ta ; from this we rise to deduction;
have a number o f pieces.
meet fortune Is more likely to
then we generalize and make universal
hag.
find her than the man who waits
Maine— I hate I t ; but sometimes one
application.
This
heightens
and
M -M H 4 «4
I ♦ M44 M •• «44 ■ * has to play It In order to get a man
fo r her to knock at his door.
straightens both our reason and Imagi
to go home.
nation.
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