THE 3IORXING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, APRIL, 16, 1917; JOHND'S.ESTRAHGED BROTHER SUCCUMBS Frank Rockefeller Passes at Home in .Cleveland at Age of 72 Years. WEALTH IS CONSIDERABLE Speaking '.Relations Not Maintained With Oil Kins and Mention of Blood Tie Resented Model Stock Farm Operated. CLEVELAND, : April 15. Frank Rockefeller, 72, youngest brother of John D. Rockefeller, died today. He was not on speaking terms with his Drother, John D., as a result of a quar rel they had years ago. Frank Rockefeller was a brother of John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller, and was for many years associated with them in the oil busi ness, but was not as widely known as they. - - - Born In Rlehford, N. T.. In 1845, he was the youngest of the three Rocke feller boys, and when his brothers or ganized the Standard Oil Company he became' identified with them, serving for a. time as one of ' the vice-presidents. He acquired considerable wealth, but his relations with his brothers became strained and be severed busi ness connections with them. Stock; Business Entered. In 1900 he turned his attention to stockralsing. purchasing 12,000 acres at Belvidere, Kan:, for a stock farm, which became recognized as a model throughout the Southwest. Although he closely resembled his brothers, he was more sturdy and a little more squarely built than they and well equipped physically for the new work he had undertaken. At tired like a farmhand, he was the ac tive "boss" of 'his ranch, and when fences were to beo repaired, ditches dug, or other heavy work to be done, he did his part. Some of the purest bred cattle In the world were to be found on his Kansas farm, and from there he also directed large range Interests In Texas and Arizona. . Frank Rockefeller always manifested great aversion to being referred to as "John D. Rockefeller's brother," or "the other Rockefeller." Publicity Avoided Studiously. "I am Frank Rockefeller,-stockman." he would say, "not Frank Rockefeller, a brother of John D." ' He studiously avoided newspaper publicity. Although exceedingly fond of horse trotting as a sport, he confined his In dulgence In It to his own track, on his own place; with his own horses. "Next to my family," he once re marked, "I love animals more than any thing else in the world, and by simply having fun' with them ' I have found out a good many things and learned a. gooa many lessons mac 1 could never have learned otherwise." One of his great desires was to pre vent the disappearance of the buffalo. He presented a great many wild beasts and birds to the zoological gardens in Cleveland and some to other cities. During five months In the year, Mr. Rockefeller lived in Cleveland, as did hia brother, John D., but they were never seen together. ITALY HONORS AMERICAN Cabinet Attends Luncheon In Honor of Ambassador. " ROME, via Paris, April 15. A luncheon- given in honor of Ambassador Thomas Nelson Page yesterday was at tended by Premier Boselli and other members of the Cabinet. Premier Boselli, in giving a toast to President Wilson, referred to the grow ing intimacy between the Italian and American peoples, and concluded: "As a son of the city from which Columbus came I drink to the glory of President Wilson and the Congress and people of the United States of America and to a certain and Just victory." . - Ambassador Page replied with a toast to King Victor Emmanuel and the army, navy and government of Italy. ,' GROCERS OFFER SERVICES Supplies for Army, and Navy Will Be Provided If Asked. NEW YORK. April 15. The National Wholesale Grocers' Association, which has members in. every state of the Union, has tendered its services to the Government in assembling, distribut ing and supplying foods for the Navy and - War departments, "without any desire for gain." As an example: If a ship or any Army post at any given port or points needs food supplies, the association will, through its members, fill the requisition without delay, insure both quality and- service and leave the price to be determined Jater by the Gov ernment. SPY'S , VICTIM ' IS DEAD Dynamite Found In Tunnel After Shoot Ins, of Guardsman. PORTOLA. "CaLr- April 1(. Private Murphy, member of an Oakland unit of the California National Guasd, who was shot while on guard at a tunnel on the Western Pacific Railroad, died In the SIko, Nev., hospital tonight. One hundred, and nineteen sticks of dynamite were found in the tunnel after the attack on Murphy, with the fuse attached, but the dynamite had failed to explode. An Austrian has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the af fair. He is held in the jail in Portdla. 220 BILLION BACK LOAN (Continued From First Pare.) States is (220,000,000,000, equal to (21S7 per capita. The National debt amounts 'to (950,000,000, or (9.32 per capita. The estimated wealth or England Is (85,000.000,000, or (1(48 - per capita, while the national debt is (19,503,000, 000, or (424.09 per capita. In 1913 tlje revenue per capita of England was (19.98 and the debt per capita (77.85. In , the year following, when the war began, the revenue per capita was (21.64 and the debt per capita $75.91. In 1915 the revenue per capita increased to (24.67. while the national debt per capita jumped to $120.94. In 1916 the revenue began to come in more freely from taxation. The revenue per capita increased to (36.61 and the national debt per capita rose to (267.50. At the beginning of the current year the revenue per capita rose to (62.33 and the national debt per capita to (424.09. While it is inconceivable that this country would be called upon to ex pend as much on the war effort in proportion to income as has England, yet it is one of the possibilities. England expended in 1916 (10,990, 000.000. according to fi-rures now avai lable. This would represent for us, if computed in proportion to income, the contracting- of (24,365,000,000 of new debt in a single year, besides an an nual budget of (8, 605,000,000. Meas ured against wealth, the burden would be seven-eighths as great. The figures give an idea of the di mension of the British financial en deavor. They also give an idea of the division of England's war cost be tween loans and taxation. CADETS DRILL 8 HOURS DAILY ROUTINE AT PULLMAN TO HAVE PLENTY OP TOIL. Encampment After Week's Vigorous Training to Conclude With Sham Battle With Idaho Boys. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pullman, April 15. (Special.) The en tire cadet battalion of the State College, numbering 650 student soldiers, aug mented by faculty members of the of ficers training corps, will encamp for the week beginning April 23 In the vi cinity of Pullman. Eight hours - of drill and marching will be the dally menu of the toiling students, according to the statement today by Captain Frederick J. Ostermann, commandant of the cadet battalion of the State Col lege. The encampment will substitute for the proposed two weeks" tour of Yel lowstone National Park, announced by the military department of the college sometime ago. Daily drills in the manual of arms, camp sanitation and tent pitching will be supplemented by practice on the target ranges and prac tice in the construction of trenches. The culmination of the week's period of vigorous training will be celebrated by a sham battle with the 200 cadets of the University of Idaho. The bat talions of the two neighboring institu tions will leave Moscow and Pullman respectively, early on the morning of April 27 and will engage in a mock struggle when within battle range. SWISS OPINION DIVIDED GERMAN REPORTS RIDICULED BY SOME NEWSPAPERS. Others Indulge In Attacks on America Which Are Equaled by Few Really Teutonic Editors. BERNE. April 12. via Paris. April 15. (Delayed.) The combination of the battle of Arras and the interviews granted by Field Marshal von Hinden burg to a Spanish correspondent have furnished the Swiss press with food for seemingly unlimited editorial com ment, which it utilizes quite as vari ously as the differences in the lan guages of publication or temperament of the editors. Papers published In the French lan guage not only give the utmost promi nence to the British victory, but pour ridicule upon von HIndenburg for de claring in the very hour that the en tente forces were capturing Germans by the thousands, that the western front was secure. These papers also make sport of the German official com munications. The Germanophlle portion of the Ger man language press, on the other hand, takes opportunity to Indulge in attacks on Aemrica equaled by few really Ger man papers. AMERICAN AIRMEN LOST Berlin Reports Downing of 17 of Allies' Airplanes. BERLIN, via London. April 15. There has been lively fighting north of the Bapaume-Cambrai - road and artillery duels in the western sector of the Champagne and along the Aisne River, according to the official communica tion issued by the War Office tonight. In the air fighting the loss by the "French, British and Americans" of 17 airplanes Is reported. Recession of the German line north of the Scarpe on the Arras battlefront Is noted In today's Army Headquarters statement, which asserts that only minor engagements accompanied the removal, the British suffering heavy losses in this fighting as well as in massed attacks on the front from low lands of the Scarpe to the Arras-Cam-bral Railway, which are declared to have failed. DRY PROGRAMME ADOPTED Prohibition for Men In Uniform and Around Camps Urged. WASHINGTON, April 15. An anti liquor legislative programme for the war emergency was adopted here to day by the legislative committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America. It proposes prohibition of the sale of liquor to soldiers or sailors, dry zones around camps, absolute prohibi tion of interstate commerce in liquors or the inclusion of intoxicants with the terms of the anti-narcotic act, and forbidding the use of grain or other food material for the manufacture of liquor. GIRLS TO GROW POTATOES Astoria Honor Guard Leases Vacant Land From Railway. ASTORIA. Or.. April 16. (Special.) The Girls' Honor Guard of Astoria is to participate In the practical part of the real National preparedness programme. It has leased a tract of vacant land In the filled district from the O.-W. R. & N. Company, and will plant It with po tatoes. A special meeting of the guard will be held ' tomorrow evening, when ar rangements for planting this tract will b& perfected. FLYING BRACE KILLS MAN Grays River Logger Victim of Acci dent on Pile Driver'. ASTORIA, Or.. April 15. (Special.) Victor Lahtlnen, an employe at the North Bank Logging Company's camp at Grays Harbor, was Instantly kilted yesterday afternoon. He was working on a plledrlver when a brace b-oke, striking him on the head and crushing his skulL The deceased was a native of Finland and 25 years of age. NEUTRALITY STAND TAKEN BY CARRANZA Complete Report of Adminis tration Is Read Before Mexican Congress. POPULACE CHEERS LEADER Assembly Joins In Ovation When President Enters Action of Regime From Time of Revolt Is Reviewed. MEXICO CITY, April 15. General Carranza in his address to Congress to night declared that Mexico would main tain a strict and rigorous neutrality in the world war. ' H. von Eckhardt, the German Minis ter, was seated in a box with Austrian, Spanish and, other diplomats. Henry P. Fletcher, American Ambassador, sat with the British Minister. General Carranza also read to the Congress, which held its first formal session tonight, a complete report of his administration as first chief. The narrative extended from the time of the Madero revolution In 1910. Particular attention was given the revolt against Madero by Felix Diaz In 1912. General Carranza declared that the failure to treat Diaz with severity was a great mistake, as it allowed the awakening of the ambitions of Diaz and old favor ites. Alleged Influence Reported. He gave In detail the alleged efforts of Henry Lane Wilson, the American Ambassador to Mexico, to Influence him as follows: "Just after the assassination of Pres ident Madero the Consul and Vice-Consul or the United States visited me at the government palace in Saltillo un der instructions from Henry Lane Wil son, the American. Ambassador, to bring nressure to make me desist in my attitude of non-recognition of the Huerta government. "They Insistently affirmed that all resistance would be futile becaTuse Huerta had immense resources, suf ficient to choke the revolt In Coahulla: and they made known to me that the government of Huerta had been recog nized by all other governments, in cluding the United States, which had diplomatic representatives in Mexico, and added that by order of the Am bassador all the other governors had accepted the government and that I was said to be the only one maintain ing a rebellious attitude. Rejection of Offer Recalled. "In answer I said that I would not accept the arrangement and would fol low my duty as Governor or the state, whatever the outcome. Afterward I obtained a full copy of Ambassador Wilson's message to th said consuls to bring pressure upon me. A few days later Vice-Consul Silliman asked what would be my conditions to avoid war. saying he would transmit the con ditions to Huerta through Ambassador Wilson. "I'wrote in reply that my terms were that Huerta and the others connected with the Cuartelazzo leave the country and that the capital be evacuated and occupied by troops of Coahuila and fao- nora and that Congress designate a legal substitute for the President. Mr. Silliman promised to see that this let ter reached the capital, but I never had an answer. "It is opportune to make clear these facts. I note the recent interview given by Senator Knox in the United States in which he said the Intervention of Ambassador Wilson was due only to the fact that I had asked his medi ation, which is entirely false, as the facts are as above." Damages Decree Explained. In explaining the decree of May, 1913, providing for the rights of natio-.als and foreigners to collect damages suf fered In the revolt. General Carranza said the decree did not refer to damages that always follow civil war. but only through the occupation of private prop erty hy the constitutional autnorities by reason of military necessity. He aoded that when Huerta was de feated and the capital occupied, the country and the people had suffered comparatively little damage, which could have been easily repaired had not ambition bitten certain chiefs and made the continuation of the civil war inevitable. General Carranza concluded by say ing that history would show whether he had complied with his duty as first chief. He assured Congress of the sincerity and disinterestedness of his motives and declared his only object was the redemption of the Mexican peo ple. He urged Congress to do its duty and to show that the revolution had not been in vain. General Carranza went to the Cabi net through streets lined with soldiers and attended by a brilliantly-uniformed bodyguard. He was wildly cheered both in passing through the streets and Inside the chamber when he en tered. U-BOATS WINSIMPLE FOLK Loans Obtained From Germans With Hint at Submarine Power. y AMSTERDAM, via London, April 15. Typical as showing how the simple folk in Germany are separated from their savings to swell the war loan Is a little story in the Cologne Gagette de picting a village meeting at which the official from the nearest market town explains the advantages of the loan and refutes doubts regarding the safety of the .Investment. An old peasant woman, hesitated, then asked. VBut now that the Americans are coming in?" "Never mind, mother, our U boats will take care of them," Is the only reply and everybody is happy. DIVER IN PACIFIC DENIED America Being Protected by Japa nese Navy, Says Admiralty. SAN FRANCISCO, April 15. The Jap anese Admiralty officially denied yes terday that there is a German subma rine in the Pacific Ocean, according to cablegrams today to a local Japanese newspaper. "The Pacific Coast of the United States is safe from the depredations of an enemy diver by the protection of the Japanese navy," the Admiralty an nounced, according to the dispatch. JAILER IS 75 YEARS OLD Ben Branch, 4 0 Years In Police De partment, Is Hale and Hearty. Jailer Ben Branch, of the Portland police bureau, dean of Oregon turnkeys, passed his 75th. milestone yesterday, and was the recipient of many con gratulatory messages from his friends and fellow patrolmen. For 40 years Ben Branch has been in continuous service as a patrolman and Jailer. He has been keeper of the keys of the city Jail for 16 years. He is endowed with unfailing good humor and courage. Jailer Branch has ever had the respect of those upon whom he turns the bolts. "They come in here fighting crazy," said Jailer Webster yesterday, "ready to rough it with the first man that lays a hand on them to search. But when Ben Branch steps up to them the wildest ones quiet down and let him go through their pockets." Jailer Branch spent bis 75th birthday at his home, 295 Lincoln street, choos ing one day of vacation to reflect upon his years of service. He is hale and hearty and has no intention of retiring. FAT SHORTAGE LOOMS RESOURCE COMMITTEE URGES PRO DUCTION OF MEATS. California Defense Council Declares Al .rlcan People Cannot Be Starved. Cron Advice . Given. BERKELEY. CaL. April IB. The American people cannot be starved but a shortage of meats and fats will come, according to an announcement made public today by the committee on re source and food supply of the California State Council of Defense. The committee, in view of the war emergency, urges the farmer to pro duce in the greatest quantities possible meat animals, eggs, butter, milk and forage crops, such as milo, Egyptian corn, sorghum, brown durra and Sudan grass "which give maximum results from a minimum effort." The opportunity for saving by 'plant ing potatoes in the backyard and eating rice instead of potatoes, is almost nothing, according to a statement made to the committee by Dean Thomas F. Hunt, of the College of Agriculture of the University of California. Dean Hunt pointed out that potatoes and rice together do not cost more than 6 per cent of the annual expenditure of the average Pacific Coast family for food, while two-thirds of the amount spent go for foods of animal origin. High prices to the producer is the most successful way of assuring an abundant supply of food, according to Dean Hunt, who' declared that all un occupied lands should be made avail able for crops during 1918 and 1919, and that the farmers and farm laborers should be made to realize that the men who feed the Nation and the Nation's soldiers are aiding their country just as patriotically as the men who go to the front. DR. CARDIFF DISMISSED WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE RE GENTS TAKE ACTION. Agricultural' Station Director Charged Wltk Misconduct Place Offered to W. J. Splllman. SPOKANE, Wash., April 15. (Spe cial.) Dr. Ira Cardiff, director of the agricultural experiment station of the Washington State College at Pullman, was dismissed by the Board of Regents as the result of a meeting which lasted all day Saturday and until 2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Cardiff will leave the institution inside of three weeks. He was accused of activities prejtyiicial to the best in terests of the college and of misrepre senting the intentions of President Hol land and the institution. The position has been offered to W. J. Splllman, head of the bureau of farm management in the Department of Agri culture at wasnington, D. c, who or ganized this Federal department 15 years ago and has een its head ever since. Mr. Splllman resigned his chair as professor of agriculture at Pullman to accept the Federal office. The regents present at the meeting were E. T. Coman, Spokane; William M. Pease, Seattle; A. Duncan Dunn, Wapato, and R. C. McCroskey, of Gar field. The absent member was W. A. Ritz, of Walla Walla. Governor Lister, ex-offlcio member of the board, was not present, but conferred last week with the regents in regard to their action at 'Pullman. VIENNA PAPER PROTESTS SHIP SEIZURES BY AMERICA DE CLARED HOSTILE ACT, Severance of Relations With United States Is Regarded as Necessitated by Pure Caution. THE HAGUE, via London, April IB. An article in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse protesting against the reported seizure of Austrian ships by the United States and explaining why Austria sev ered relations with the United States, says: "Despite the absence of a declaration of war by either side, the President has begun hostilities illegitimately and ap propriated the property of others." The newspaper explains that the sev erance of relations by Austria was ne cessitated by pure caution. In con clusion the newspaper seeks an anti dote for the unpleasantness of relations with America in the anti-annexation declaration of Finance Minister Ker ensky. of Russia. It asks whether these happenings in Petrograd are not far mere important to European peo ples than President Wilson's message and whether quite another higher and truer humanity Is not here beginning to break through. MARINES RECRUIT RAPIDLY Interest Is Increasing and Units Are Easily Formed. WASHINGTON. April 15. Enlist ments In the Marine Corps In the last few days have broken all records In the history f recruiting. The "Sol diers of the Sea" are making net gains dally of whole -companies and battal ions at their distinctive recruiting sta tions from coast to coast, according to reports Just made public. Recruttlng officials consider these increases Just a start, however, as knowledge of and Interest in this "two-ln-one" land and sea service is rapidly growing. Pres ent recruiting activities Indicate that the Marine Corps will reach its newly authorized strength in the early Summer. The desire of red-blooded Americans to be the first to take a shot at a peri scope and the realization of the fact that Marines are needed as well as submarines, at this time. Is responsible for the material Increase - in Marine Corps recruiting, according to Govern ment officials here. "Join the marines the minute men of today for imme diate action!" is the slogan. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. United The President, in his recent speech to the Congress, recommended that oar resources be, so far as possible, added to those of the Allied Governments. Patriotic American investors made immediate response by purchasing; large amounts of British and French War Bonds. Our Government proposes to extend direct credit to the Allied Powers and also to raise funds to support our increased Army and Navy by the issuance of United States Government War Bonds. To help insure the success of this loan, we shall be glad to attend to all details of your subscription, without profit to ourselves, if you decide to "do your bit." Full details will be announced shortly, we believe, and if you want some of the bonds, please fill in and mail us the blank form below and we will send you particulars when available. CARSTENS & EARLES, INCORPORATED INVESTMENT SECURITIES Established 1891 Seattle, U. S. A. Capital, Reserve, Surplus and Profits, $742,000.00 CARSTENS & EARLES, Incorporated, ( Seattle, U. S. A. Dear Sirs : I (we) am interested in the New United States Government War Loan and shall probably want to subscribe for $ This is not, however, to be considered a com mitment unless later confirmed by me '(us). . Y4 .-3 WILSON MAKES CALL Young Men Urged to Turn to Farming at Once. PLEA MADE TO CHILDREN Speeding TJp of Industry, economy and Efficiency Declared Abso lutely Necessary to Victory ' for America in War. Continued From First Page.l there; rails for wornout railways back of the fighting fronts; locomo tives and rolling stocks to take the place of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor and for military service, everything with which the people of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves but cannot now afford the men. the materials or the machinery to make. "It is evident to every thinking man that our industries. In farms, in ship yards. In the mines, in the' factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever and tha they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular re quirements of our task than they have been, and what I want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight for peace and free dom Just as truly and Just as effective ly as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches. Workers Will Win lienor. "The Industrial forces of the coun try, men and women alike, will be a great National, a great International, service army a notable and honored host engaged in the service of the Na tion and the world, the efficient friends and saviors of free men everywhere. "Thousands, nay, hundreds of thous ands of men otherwise liable to mili tary service will of right and of ne cessity be excused from that service and assigned to the fundamental, sus taining work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as much a part of the great patriotic forces of the Nation as the men under fire. "I take the liberty, therefore. of addressing this word - to the farmers of the country and to all who work on the farms: The supreme need of our own Nation and of the nations with which we are co-operating Is an abundance of supplies, and especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate -food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. Without abundant food, alike for the Armies and the peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and fail. The world's food reserves are low. Europe Relies on America. "Not only during the present emer gency but for some time after peace shall have come both our own people and a large proportion of the people of Europe must rely upon the harvests in America. Upon the farmers of .this country, therefore, in large measure, rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the Nation not count upon them to omit no step that will - increase the production of their land, that will bring about the most effectual co-operation In the sale and distribution of their food products? "The time is short. It is of the most imperative importance that every thing possible be donei and dona im- 1 States Government War Loan Name. . . . . . Address. City. . . . mediately, to make sure of large harvests. "I call upon young men and old alike and upon the able-bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty to turn in hosts to the farms and make certain that no pains and no la bor is lacking in this great matter. Appeal Made to South. "I particularly appeal to the farmers of the South to plant abundant food stuffs as well as cotton. They can show their patriotism in no better or more convincing way than by resisting the great temptation of the present price of cotton and helping, helping upon a great scale, to feed the Nation and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their com prehension of their National duty. "The Government of the United States and the governments of the several states stand ready to co-operate. They will do everything possible to assist farmers in securing an adequate supply of seed, an adequate force of laborers when they are most needed at harvest time, and the means of expediting shipments of fertilizers and farm ma chinery, as well as of the crops them selves when harvested. The course of trade shall be as unhampered as It is possible to make It and there shall be no unwarranted manipulation of the Nation's food supply by those who han dle It on its way to the consumer. This is our opportunity to demonstrate the efficiency of the great democracy and we shall not tall short of It. Middlemen Are Warned. "This let me say to the middlemen of every sort, whether they are han dling our foodstuffs or our raw ma terials of manufacture' or the products of our mills and factories:, The eyes of the country will be especially upon you. This Is your opportunity for signal service, efficient and disinter ested. The country expects you, as it expects all othvrs, to forego unusual profits, to organize and expedite ship ments of supplies of every kind, but especially of food, with an eye to the service you are rendering and In the spirit of those who enlist In the ranks, for their people," not for themselves, I shall confidently expect you to deserve and win the confidence of people of every sort and station. "To the men who run the railways of the country, whether they be managers or operative employes, let me say that the railways are the arteries of the Nation's life and that upon them rests the immense responsibility of seeing to it that those arteries suffer no obstruc tion of any kind, no inefficiency or slackened power. To the merchant let me Buggest the motto: 'Small profits and quick service'; and to the ship builder the thought that the life of the war depends upon him. The food and the war supplies must be carried across the seas no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. The places of those that clown must be ELL-AWS 'Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists q renecuy Cp harmless Acts Like Magic , .,.,,- L B 'rNrGEST10N k? i i supplied and supplied at once. To the miner let me say that he stands whtr the farmer does: The work of the world waits on him. If he slackens or fails, armies and statesmen are help less. He also is enlisted in the great service army. The manufacturer do not need to be told, I hope, that the Nation looks to him to speed ai.d per fect every process, and I want only to remind his employes that their service Is absolutely indlspensablo and Is counted on by every man who loves the country and its liberties. Extravagance Is Rebuked. "Let me suggest also that every man who creates or cultivates a garden helps greatly to solve the problem of the feeding of the nations; and that every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the Nation. This ia the' time for America to correct her un pardonable fault of wastefulness and. extravagance. Let every man and every woman assume the duty of care ful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a dictate of - patriotism .which no one can now expect ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring. "In the hope that this statement of the needs of the Nation and of th worlj in this hour of supreme crisis may stimulate these to whom it comes and remind all who need a reminder of the solemn duties of a time such aa the world has never seen before. I beR that all editors and publishers every where will give as prominent publica tion and as wide circulation as pos sible to this appeal. I venture to sug gest, also, to all advertising agencies that they would perhaps render a very substantial and timely service to the country if they would give It wide spread repetition. And I hope that clergymen will not think the theme of it an unworthy or inappropriate sub ject of comment and homily from their pulpits. "The supreme test of the Nation has come. We must all speak, act and serve together. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON." Riga, Russia, offers a fair market for American signs and marking de vices. Heretofore Austria, Germany and England have supplied the demand. The Law of the North a big, gripping story of the great Northwest, starring SHIRLEY MASON" Also "PINCHED IN THE END" Another Keystone" fun fest, with Ford Sterling and Harry Gribboru COLUMBIA Sixth at Washington 1 v, r " 'I 1 ;