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 ;