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Monday, July 15, 1918. ASHLAND TTDPfCS PAGE THRE7 Come m and Examine the TIRE With a thous and claws. All sizes SOLD BY TUB Overland Millner Co. Agricultual War Work The department of agriculture lias received many Inquiries from retail ers dealing lu farm Implements, ask ing If they are required to obtain a license as a result of President "Wilson's recent proclamation estab lishing a'l'.censing system for the farm equipment trade. Officials of the department of agriculture say that If the business is retail exclu sively, and the gross annual sales (including all lines of merchandise as well as farm implements) do not exceed $HH),000, a federal license is not required. However. If the f;ross annual sales as a retail ?r ex ceed $100,000, a license is required and the necessary application blanks should lie obtained Immediately by applying to the department of agri culture or the license division of the V. S. food administration, Washing ton, 1). C. The largest experimental plant In the l". S. for the manufacture of fix ed nltrog-.-n from the air, with the exception of the ones now being cn etnicted' for the war department, Is in operation at the l S. department of agriculture experiment farm, at Arlington, Va. ' At this pla'.-.t the nitrogen from t!i3 air Is combined with the niirosen from ammonia and can o used In the manufacture of explosives and fertilizer. Experi ments are now being conducted at this plant by the bureau of soils with c view to Increase the efficiency of (he process. The war department ir, co-operating in this work. What Is hnown as tho Ha'ier process of nitrogen fixation is being used. This process Involves the production of ammonia from hydrogen and nitro gen. .These two gases are mixed In the proper proportions, put under a high pressure, subjected to Intense heat and passed over spongy Iron, whereupon a portion of the mixture combines to form ammonia. Further plans for carrying out the Increased poultry production cam paign were made at conferences call ed by the poultry division In Kan Das City. Omaha, Chicago, New Or leans and Los Angeles. These con ferences were attended by the de partment's extension poultrymen. Ar rangements were made to increase and encourage local poultry organi ratlons and individual poultry pro ducers through the appointment of local leaders in various communities. It is believed that this plan wl'l greatly extend the operations of the department's field men. "Indications are that all crops will be normally harvested and saved," was the conclusion reached at the farm labor conference held In New York June 24-25 by the V. S. de partment of agriculture. Farm help specialists in the various towns and states reported that people of towns and cities wore responding in large "numbers to the call for help to assist farmers. Manufacturers had releas ed a number of employes who have had farm experience for a period of from two to four weeks to work in the harvest fields. Many women afe assisting on truck and fruit farms. Plans were completed at the confer ence to utilize every county agent, farm bureau and business men's or ganization to unite all forces to assist farmers and guarantee the saving of all food products this year. Nearly 20,000,000 1. S. food leaf lets, carrying the message of war time food saving, briefly told, have been distributed by the department of agriculture during the last six months. The actual count to May 15 shows that 18,321.340 leaflets have been distributed chiefly through or ganization and by demonstrators who come in direct contact with the Individuals and communities where Practical demonstrations, carrying out the suggestions made in the leaflets have been given In homes, schools, war kitchens and before wo men's and girls' clubs In rural and vrhan districts, farm bureaus, and so on. They have also been distributed tnrough public libraries. Manufac turers and other dealers have pur chased them in large quanltles for distribution among their employes or customers. They have been trans lated in foreign languages and dis tributed among foreign-speaking peo pla in many states. The leaflets were prepared by specialists of tho department of agriculture and the food administration, and the latter also has distributed many millions of them. To Inform seedsmen or the best methods of Importing seeds the seeds slocks committee of the department of agriculture has taken up with the war trade board and the U. S. ship ping board the steps necessary to ob tain, government assistance prompt ly. An Import license is required for the importation of seeds., Ap plication blanks for import licenses may be obtained from the bureau of imports, war trade board, Washing- ton, D. C, or at branch offices of ti'O war trade board in various cit ies. The seed stocks committee Is to advise with the war trade board as to the Importance of seeds pro posed to be Imported In cases of em bargoes by foreign countries. Quick breads are being featured as war service by leaders of hoys' pud girls' club work in the north and The pestiferous house fly is on his way. Soon he will breed and bloom by the million and attack the food and mills of the younger generation. V.'hy not beat him to it? Scraeii3 are absolutely the greatest preven tive against this enemy, the greatest death-dealing animal known to sci ence. Screen every door, "window, and porch. We'll rend a man who w ill measure your entire building and give you the exact cost of perfect fitting screens. There i3 no obligation to buy. Ashland Lumber Co. Phone 20 west. More than 12,000 children registered In the bread clubs under these extension workers are learn ing how to save wheat and at the same time makr light and palatable breads. Quick breads are especial ly suited to the needs of club mem bers for they are quickly andeasily made and save a large proportion of wheat flour. Members are also taught the use of 50 per cent and more wheat substitutes in bread making but are urged to concen trate their efforts on the making of good quick breads. Boy and girl club members In the north and west are enlisting in a sugar conservation program that will be of considerable importance in helping to make good the season's supply. In addition to canning with nc sugar or with a very small pro portion of It, members are being taught to make sweet sirups from sugar beets, quinces and apples; to use corn sirup In canning, and corn sirup mola'sses, maple sirup, and honey In all'general cooking; to dry fruits of all kinds by home methods; to make sugarless candles, and con fections; and to go without many, if not all sugar luxuries. Because of the large number of boys' and girls' clubs a large saving of sugar can be made by this one organiza tion. To encourage the saving of fruit and vegetables at a time when the supply of sugar Is limited, a program foi canning without sugar is being catrled out this season by the U. S. department of agilculture and the date agricultural colleges through the boys' and girls' clubs of the 33 northern and western states. Fruits are put up In boiling water Instead of sirup; unsweetened products are canned for pie filling; fruits made into sirups, which can be used in many ways in place of sugar; and fruit juices are also preserved by sterilizing them to be used later for making jellies, jams and marma lades. The juices are also for sea soning In general cooking and for making beverages. Inspectors in charge of meat In spection have been authorized by the bureau of animal Industry to select women as "assistants in meat Inspec tion" at all stations where men are not available and it is possible to utilize the services of women. Be cause of war conditions the bureau Is experiencing difficulty in obtain ing men as lay Inspectors and at a number of the larger stations wo men already have been employed as assistants. "It has been demonstrat ed," eays a bureau of animal Indus try statement, "that they are able to do efficient work in supervising the shipment and the receipt of prod- SAVIOURS By ANGELA MORGAN Yours is the daring skill to tread ' The waters of a world at war; ( Yours is the miracle to shed Where rocking seas of hatred are, Courage and comfort, like a star. You cry unto an earth dismayed, And God is thrilling in your tone: "Brothers, the ship is not alone ; Be not afraid!" Ye are the Christs of this black hour, The Great Physician come again, Within your sacred hand3 the power To heal the race of men. Ye hold the hurt world to your breast; Ye bind her bruised and broken soul; The sick, the maimed and the oppressed Yours is the gift to make them whole. And where the stricken miles 'Unroll Ye sound the resurrection morn ; Above the bier where Justice lies, With visions of an age new born, Ye bid the dead arise ! O World, that walkest now in teara Where Truth again is crucified After the thousand, thousand years See yet that Christ is not denied! nets, labeling, branding, assisting in the sausage, canning and oko de partments, and other similar duties." A list of 340 national and state livestock and poultry associations with the names of the president and secretary and their address.s Inn been compiled by the bureau of ani mal Industry, of the department of i'friculturc and published as Year look Separate No. 742. During tlu' last few years numerous requests from many sources have been receiv ed by the bureau for lists of national ond state organizations. This pub lication has been, issued to furnish such information. It will bo sent Irc-e on request. The International farm congress has decided to pay 50 per cent of the premiums to be won at the Inter national Soil Products exposition, at Kansas City, Oct. 1G-20, In war sav ings stamps and 50 per cent lu cash The only exceptions are premiums won by exhibitors residing outside tic United States. Fxperimcnt are being made by the bureau of markets to determine the proper designs for combination heat er and refrigerator cars used in the shipment of perishables. The heater equipment installed In these cars Is intended to protect perlsli- able products against freezing in win ter. Keep fire away from straw stacks and sell the straw for the use of the army is the advice of the grain and hay marketing specialists of the bu reau of markets, who point cut the wastefulness of burning it, especial ly in view of the demand for it at the many army camps, it Is sag gested that all straw be baled as soon rfter threshing as poss'iin. if as sistance In marketing sir-. is need ed, the grain and hay reporting serv ice of the bureau of mark-.'ts s ready to help. TAXATION' LISTS TO STRIKE EVEKYIIODY Preparations for framing the new wr.r revenue bill has gone forward. In the house ways and means committee with attention centering upon the list of suggestions for new or higher taxes on luxuries and necessities sub mitted by the treasury department. Members ot the committee Indict ed that the li3t would form the basis for consumption taxjss in their draft of the bill. Besides doubling present taxes on liquors and tobaccos, quadrupling soft drink levies.nnd making general Increases In other existing rates, the treasury suggestions indicate taxes of 50 per cent on retail prices of Jew elry, watches and clocks except thos? sold to army or navy men; 20 per cent on automobiles, bicycles, musi cal instruments, etc.; 10 cents a gal lon on gasoline to be paid by the wholesaler; 10 per Ctent on hotel bills for rooms over $2.50 a day or American plan over $3; 10 per cent on all cafe or restaurant bills and taxes of unstated amounts on men's suits .selling for more than $30,. women's suits over $40 and coats over $30; men's hats over $4; pajamas over $2; hosiery over 35c, shoes over $i; gloves over $2; un derwear over $3; all neckwear and canes; women's dresses over $25; bklrts over $15; hats over $10; shoes over $5 and all furs, fans, etc.; chil dren's clothing including suits over $15; toilet articles over $2. In addition to all these taxes, which would be levied directly upon the consumer, the list proposes doub ling the present motion picture ad mission tax and Imposing a tax of 5 cents on moving picture theatre rentals villi the present film lax eliminate.!. A 10 i.t cent tax on "wire leases" ii.tc-r.ite.i !o apply to tel. graphs, tele phones and other fires whose use Is leaded, is another of tho treasury proposals. The retail tax priciple Is new In tne I'liit'd States tax law, although it has been levied in England and France r.nd Germany. The treasury suggested that tell per cent basis for ,hls plan would bo too low and that anyone wanting tho retail goods would pay as high as twenty per cent. The treasury proposed a license tax of ten dollars a year on soda fountains. The suggested tax on domestic ser vants would allow a minimum of one iemal'' sonant. Others would lie taxed as follows: First servant "' per cent of wages paid; second servant 50 p?r cent; third servant 75 per cent and on more than three servants (not count in;; the one female servant) lmi per cent of wages paid i:i each case. WHAT IS A YANKEE? You ask "What's a Yankee?" Your challege I call. He was born out of Eden Just after the "fall." And his fond mother, brooding o'er Paradise lost, Taid, "Adam, my dear, he Is well worth the cost." The welt of the ages within him U spun, Hi's a mixture of everything undei the sun He's !. pirate's own son from the old Spanish main, And the gay blood of France courses hoi In his vein; The stubborn old Briton within him is wrought, And he filched some ricli blood from the canny old Scot; The strengih of the Xorse In h's sinews is strung, And the blarney of Ireland bewitches lib tongue; This conglomeration, (now let us be frank), When crossed with the Hun, maket a helluva Y'ank. You ask, "What's a Yank?" I'm sure 'twould bo vain To trace through his being each sep arate st"ain, But God planted him here where these vast prairies roll And our distances broadened the 'scope of his soul, He was built for a purpose, (!oJ tempered his form To the heat of the desert, the lash of tho storm; He nibbles his crust by the sweat of his brow, And he hardens like steel at the tall of the plow; His heart's full of hopa with no room for regrets, nd the harder you lick him, the madder he gets; He's the hope of the world, the pride of his race And he leaps to the fight with a grin on his face. Dick Posey. IUG BUSINESS DONE BY CAMP THEATRES Uncle Sam's training camp thea tres will do a $3,500,000 business in the first year of operation under the commission on training camp activi ties if the people back home will pro vide the soldiers with their tickets by sending them Smileage books, says the Smileage division of the commission. 'Smileage coupons to the amount of $355,000 have been redeemed to data. HILT, CAL., ITEMS i Mr. and Mrs. Jim Joneo spent the 4th of July at Ashland, taking In the Uoundup. C. L. Chllders spent the Fourth Vi'th his family at Yreka. The friends of Mrs. Wllmcr Hilt will be grieved to learn that she U in a sanatorium in Ashland In a critical condition. Her relatives hart grave fears for her for several day3, although she Is now somewhat Im proved. W. A. Cook of Ashland spent last lucsday in Hilt. The scarcity of men in tit la locality is making tho haying season a prob lem Willi tho ranchers. T. L. Hunt has purchased a tour ing car. iVord has been received of the marriage of Ed Nolan and Miss Lu cille Williams at Sail Francisco, Sat urday, July (!. Mr. Nolan has been transferred from Angel Island to Vancouver barracks where they will be for a time at least. Mr. Nolan had been an employea of tho Fruit (5 row ers Supply company for several years before his enlistment in tho army last fall. Miss Williams was a train ed iiurso at tho hospital hero until a fw month:; ago, when she went to Fan Fianclseo. Mr. and .Mrs. Ed Furlong and .dniitUir Margaret spent Saturday and Sunday at Medford. J. P. Twist lias resigned his posi tion with the Fruit (I rowers Supply co:i;p.i:iy and lias tone to his home at I. os Angel.:;. L. S. I.aiigliliu leaves Friday ftv San Francisco, having given up his work here as sasistant hook keeper for the Fruit (Irowers Supply com pany. Mrs. E. Pioulllard went to Ash land Wednesday. Mrs. Myron Grover is here for s visit with Mr. and Mrs. M. II. ('.rover. Owing to tho absence of her hiu- i and in France she spent the pu ;t tear with her prrents, M. and Mrs .1. E. .Tones, at San Diego. They have returned to llornbrock for the summer. Fred .lasmann and family, with Mrs. Irving Dunn, have returned from a ten das' sojourn at Portland. Mrs. Horace Stanley spout Thtirs i.'aj In Ashland. Mr. anil Mrs. John Hibbert and family spent the Fourth of July with Irving Illhbert at Pelican Day. The two families with Mr. and Mrs. II. Lridgeford and nephew spent Sat- u.day at Rocky Point, near the Har riman lodge, on Klamath lake, fish ing, after which they went to Anna creek camp and on to Crater Lake, returning home over the Medford road Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Cox spent sev eral days at Medford last week. TAI.E OF THE W RITING OF POPULAR WAR SONG The tragic dentil of Mrs, Lena Guilbert Ford, the American writer who was killed in an air raid on London, has brought to light several Interesting facts about "Keep the Home Fires Burning," the famous song of which she was tho author. It will surprise most people to learn that this extraordinary popular song which has been translated Into seven languages and broken all rec Keep A New Perfec tion Oil Cook Stove means kitch tn comlort and conTenience. Ask your friend who has one. Used in 3,000,000 homes. Inexpensive, essy to opsrste. Sea them it your deal r's today. Your ing all la 1, I or IPE AM, Y STANDARD OIL COMPANY ; (California) NEW PERFECTION OIL COOK STOVE Provost Bros.. Htlwre, Ashland, "When you want Good Insurance Talk with Billings." The One Sure Way of protecting yourself against Los by Fire, and that is to take out Fire Insurance You may guard your house or building or automobile with every precaution against fire, but Other people may not be as careful! Fire spreads your best protection is a policy issued at this office. Sea us about it today, also your accident and lifo insurance. Billings Agency Real Estate and Real Insurance rhone 211 41 East Main St. Established 13S3. ords In the sale of war songs, was written In less than half an hour. The idea of the song did not orig inate with Mrs. Ford, however, but with Ivor -oveIlo Davlcs, o Cardiff, Wales, a youthful Urltish composer who Is now a member of-the Royal Hying corp". Mr. Davies, who was 20 years of a,:e. at the timo the song was written ---November, 1915 con ciived the Id a from tho startin.? point of the phrase "Keep the homj fires burning." Ono afternoon ho telephoned t3 Mrs. Ford, explaining tho Idea In a, few words and asked her to writo the lines for it. Almost immediate Iv she tviot,; the following. Tiny w.-'i-e summoned from the hill nid They wi re tailed in from tho glen. And the ccuntVy found them ready At tho r.tirring call for men. Let no tear.; add to their hardship As tho soldiers pass along, nd althoir:h your heart Is break ing, Make it King this cheery song; Keep the home:; fires burning, While your hearts are yearning. ":s, Though your lads are far away 1 hey dream of home; ' There".'! a silver lining i Through Hie dark cloud shining, Turn the dirk cloud Insldo'out Till tho but a come home. Young NovMo hastened to her homo, and on his arrival, certainly not more than 10 minutes later f'liiiul the lyric complete. Ho as promptly ret It to the haunting, al most religious melody, which has en deared It to millions throughout the United States and the British em pire. It is an actual fact that the song was ready for the publisher In less than half an hour after the composer telephoned to Mrs. Ford for the words. To be suro, young Novello had been haunted by the Idea of the song for several weeks lefore he telephoned to Mrs. Ford. Nevertheless, it is believed that no other popular war song was written In such a short space of time. More than two million copies of "Keep the Home Fires Burning" have been cold to date, which estab lishes a new record for "high priced music," as this song has never been sold at cut rates. It has been trans lated Into French, Italian, Welsh. Hussion and the Scandinavian lan guages, and, what la ever more re markable. It has actually been trans lated and rung In German. Los An geles Expreps. 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