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submitted document to prove, that
France and Great Britain were "up-
plying artillery and machine guns
for the first forces at their own ur
gent request' In order that ships
might be u seed for other purposes.
In all that was done prior to the
departure of the first troops, Gen
eral Pershing shared in the delibera
tions and approved the derisions
reached, Mr. Baker declared? and
bow surrounded with a staff of
trained regular officers, Pershing Is
In France as the "eyes of the army."
. Cantonment History ftlven.
Kvery step taken has been founded
on his long dally cabled reports of
what Is going on at the fighting
fronts, ' ' - , ( - ' "' . . i . '
Tables were cited to- how that
over-crowding In the camps and can
tonments had not been general and
that the sickness had come mostly
In the camps where medical opinion
had agreeed it was least to be expect
d. The history of the development
and building of the cantonments was
given in detail to show that every
precaution possible; had been taken.
Analysing the efforts of the ord
nance bureau, the secretary said that
General Crozler had urged for years
a great artillery preparation; that
he at least had realized the time
gun-making required. Hut even-
France herself "with the enemy at
- her throat,!' he added, "had not been
able to e?what vast gun programs
the war would lead Into,
During hi general statement of
the war plan and bow it was devol
.opend, Mr. Baker wa rarely Inter-
, rupted. lie said! .
"Now, gentlemen, about the plan
of.thu war. It will be remembered
that this war broke out In Augnst,
191 4.' We went into It In April.
1917, so that for two and one half
years, or moreth n two and one
half years the war had been going
on. ' It was not as though war had
broken out between the United
States . and some country, each of
them prior to that time having been
at peace with one another and with
everybody flse; so that an Imtnedl-
, ate plan should be made In the
United States for conducting war
against Its adversary,' but we were
coming into a war which had been
going on for two and one half years.
In which the greatest military ex
perts, all the inventive genius, all
of the industrial - capacity of those
' greatest countries In the world had
for two and one half years been
solving the problem of what kind of
war it was to be and where It was
to be waged.
ClrcumMtanceN Face V, 8. V
"It was nothing for us to decide
where our, theater of "war should be.
The theater of war was France. It
was not for us to decide our line of
communication. Our line of com-
- munlcations was across the thousand
miles of ocean, one end of It Infested
with submarines. It waa not for us
to decide whether we would have the
- maneuterlng- of large bodies .of
troops In the open. - There? lay the
antagonists on opposite sides of No
Man's Land In the trenchjes at a
death grapple with one ah other. Our
antagonists were on the other side of
that line and our problem was and
Is to get over there and .get him.
, "Its was not the problem of doing
It our way and letting everybody
else take care of himself. In the
.first place, we were going to fight
in France, not on our own soil and
not on our adversaries' soli, and
,t therefore at the very beginning. It
was obvious that the' thing we had
to d was not to map out an Ideal
plan of campaign, not to have the
war college with Its speculative stud
ios of Napoleon irtid everybody else,
map out the theoretically best way
,to get at some otber country, but
It was the problem of studying the
then existing situation and bringing
tho financial. Industrial and the mil
itary strength of the United States
Into cooperation with that of Great
Hrltaln and France In the most Im
mediate and effective way. That'
problem could not be decided here.
I fancy in this audience there are
men who have been In the trenches.
The altogether- unprecedented char
acter of that problem Is the thing
wl.Uh 'every returning visitor tells
u. cannot bo described In words,
, cannot bo put down in reports; it is
a thing so different from anything
else that' ever went on In the world,
so vast In Its desolation, so extraord
inary In its uniqueness that it must
be seen and studied on the ground
In order to be comprehended at all.
Study Held Essential. "
"It is easily" imagined that we
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might have perfecteed an army over
here and carried it across the ocean
and found It wholly unadapted to Its
task, and it might well have been
that the array that we sent over was
Jut one thing that they dia not neea,
nd that some other thing which
we might have supplied would have
been the thing essential to tneir ihv-
"go 'that from the very beginning
It was not a iuellon or ausiratj
speculation here, but a. question or
. ihir. m rind out where our
shoulder to the wheel could be put.
Tiiev resided that. And so Great
Britain sent over to .us Mr. Balfour
and General Bridges and a start oi
experts. They came over here and
you saw Mr. Ualfour in the house of
congress and at .the White House
and In public meetings at one place
and anojher, but the group of ex
perts whom they brought over with
them yon did not see much of, and
vet they distributed themselves
through the war department, and
their ordnance experts sat down with
General Crozler. their supply experts
with General Sbarpe and his assist
ants, their strategists sat down with
the army war college, and all over
this dtr there were these confiden
tial groups exchanging Information,
telling how the thing was over there,
what we could do, what they advised
us to do, what experience they had
had in developing this, that and the
other implement or supply; how cer
tain plans which one might naturally
have evolved out of the past experi
ence cf the world had been trie!
there and found not to work at all.
i Joffre' VVIt nrcalled.
t'Th'f were exchanging Informa
tion, giving us all that they thought
waa helpful. And then came Joffer,
with his wonderful reputation and
bis Treat and charming personality,
and he made a great figure here and
we welcomed him. It was a tremen
dous Inspiration to see the hero of
the Marne; but with him came this
unobserved staff of fifteen or twenty
or twenty-five young men, the most
brilliant men in th French army
strategists, mechanical experts, ex
perts In arms, experts In supplies, ex
perts jln Industry and manufacture,
and thev told us not merely the for
mal and military problems, but thy
brought i over with them men who
were In from the beginning, In their
reorganization of their Industrial
plants, and we sat down with them
in little groups until finally we col
lated and collected and extracted all
the information which they could
give us from their respective coun
tries, I And every country which has
been ' brought Into the war has
brought us that sort, or sent us that
sort of a staff of experts, and it has
been necessary to compare note and
with tbia as a basis, to form such an
Idea as might be formed of what was
the thing for us to do over there.
" M -War Not IMatlc Things
"But that was not enough. They
admitted that It was Impossible to
draw f that picture. They could de
scribe to us and bring the specifica
tions and drawings for a piece of ar
tillery, but they could not tell us why
the British theory of the use of ar
tillery was by the British preferred
to that of the French. They could
not picture to as a barrage of heavy
howitzers as compared to a barrage
of 7' mm. guns. They could not plc
tare to us the association of, air
craft, balloons; and mobile aircraft
with artillery uses. They could tell
us about It, but even white they tlod
us the story grew: old.
"The one thing they told us from
the very beslnning to the end .was
that this war, of all other, was Aota
static thing: that our adversary was
a versatile and agile adversary; that
every day he revamped and changed
his weaoona of attack and his meth
ods of defense; that the eotrles they
were telling us were true when they
left England and France, but an en
tirely different thing was probably
taking place there now, and they
told us of large supplies of weapons
of one kind and another which they
had developed in France and Eng
land, and which, even before they
got them In sufficient quantity man
u fact u red to take them from the In
dustrial plants to the front, were su
perseded by new Ideas and had to be
thrown Into the scrap heap::.
"They said to as. this Is a moving
picture; it la something that nobody
can paint and give you an Idea of.
If Js not a, static thing.
. ' Observation Is Purpose. !
Therefore, it became necessary
for us .to have eyes there In instant
and i Immediate communication with
us and we sent over to France Gen
era! Pershing, and we sent with him
not merely a division of troops to
that; I shall refer In a moment but
we sent with him. perhaps I can say
safely, the major part of the trained.
expert personnel of the army. You
know the else of the official corps of
the regular array In this country
when the war broke out. It was
pitiful handful of trained men, and
yet it was necessary to divide them
ud and send over t -France officers
of the highest quality so that they
would be at the front and see In the
workshops and in the factories and
In the war offices and In the armies,
where consultations would take place
immediately back off the front so
that they could see the things with
their own eyes, and send us back
the detail by cable every day of the
changing character of this war.
"General Pershing's starr of ex
perts' and officers over there runs
into the thousands and they are bnsy
every minute and every day that the
sun; rises I get cablegrams from
General Pershing from ten to sixteen
pages long, filled with measnrments
and formulas and changes of. a mil
limeter In size, great long specifica
tions of changes in detaila of things
which were agreed on last week and
changed this week, and need to be
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15a
changed again next week, so that
what we are doing at this end Is at
tempting by using the eyes of the
army there to keep up to what they
want us to do.
"Already you will find in yout
further examination Into some of the
bureau work of the department, some
of the divisions,: when they come
down, you will find that schedules
which were, agreed upon . weapons
which were selected and which we
had started to manufacture, bav
been so far discarded, that people
have forgotten the names of tnem
almost, and new things substituted
in their place, and those forgotten
and sew thing in the place. ,
JtaMibie IMity Faced. '
"So that if one gets the idea that
this is the sort of war we used to
have, or if he gels the idea that thlrf
is a static thing It is an. entirely er
roneous idea, and when you remem
ber that we bad to divide this little
handful of officers that we had' and
send so large a pait of them vo
F rance, and then think of those who
remained at home, you will reaIze,
I am sure, that those who remained
here had the double duty, insuffic
ient for either aspect of it, in num
bersand they still have this double
duty they bad to go forward with
manufactures, work out industry and
industrial relations; they bad tu see
about supplies of raw materials and
manufacture finished products, and
make from day to day alterations
and changes that bad to be made,
and they bad to be Ingenious with
these suggestion, to see whettir
they could devise, on this side some
thing which bad not be thought of
over there.
"They had to be hospitable to su
gestlons which came from the other
side; they had to confer with the
foreign offlcters who were here and
were constantly being changed, so
that men fresh from the front coul 1
be here to advise with us, end In ad
dition to that every one of them bad
to be a university professor, gol 113
out into the life of the community
and selecting men who had mechan
ical experience and knowledge and
training, but not military mechanical
experience and knowledge and train
ing, and adding to his original equip
ment their scientific training, that
finishing touch which made un
available for use as a military sclent
ost. ' ' . 1 .
Uttlo iirtnvp Doe Bfnch.
"As it consequence, this lltt'i
group which stayed here have built
the great special departments of tne
army. The ordnance depart tuur.t,
starting, I think with 93 or ( of
ficers, has now, us 1 recall the fig
ures, something Uke 3000 of fleets.
Tbey have bad to be trained ; thev
bad to be specialized, and that ha
had to go on contemporaneously
with ' this tremendous response to
the changing conditions on the otbei
fclde. -
"In the meantime, when we start
ed Into this' war, I think .t was com
monly though throughout the coun
try that our 'contribution at the out
set might well be financial and In
dustrial. The Industries of this coun
try were largely devoted at that time
to the appropriate Industties, anl
n any converted Industries were
largely devoted to the manufacture
of war material for our allies.
"As X suggested this mornliiff.
when we went Into that market we
found it largely occupied, so .that
problem was not going to a shoe fact
ory and saying 'make shoe for us.'
but It wa going to a factory which
never made shoes because all the
frboe factories were busy making
shoes for our people from whom we
could not take them, and saying
learn how to make shoes In order
that you may make them for us.'
; "Now. of course, that is not true
of shoes, but It is true of -machine
guns; at Is true of other- arras; It
Is true of ammunition; it is true cf
forging capacity, -which was the
greatest defect in the country and all
of this time we had not merely to
disturb the program of allied manu
facture in this country, but we had
not to cut off the supplies of raw ma
terlal to our allies, and we had not
to disturb Industry of this country,
to such an extent that products upon
which they depended for the success
of their military operations would be
interfered with both agricultural and
commercial and Industrial product.
- Karly Idea, Financial.
"At the outset the idea was that
we would be a financial end indiikl.
rial assistance toour allies during
tbe year 1918, and I think you prob
ably can read from the Metropolitan
scaztne for August a Suggestion
wen win show what tho current ex
petation of this country was. Th i
f dilor of tbe Metropolitan Magazine
was protesting against what he be
lieved to the. the Intention of the
government at that time."
Here enator Week Interrupted to
&k If that was the magazine of
which Theodore Uoosevtlt I as-
rociate editor. Secretary Baker rc-
piiea tnat Mr. Roosevelt was a con
trlbutlng editor, and continued:
; "Thla magazine came, out In Aug
use. 1917. and tble editorial savs:
" 'Since it Is our war, w want t
put everything Into It so as to finish
It in the shortest possible time, so
mat tne world may be restored. Tr
our mind the whole plan of the war
department has been flavored with a
aesire to hold ofr until the allies
finish the war for us
"You see, the editor was dealing
with what he supposed to bo the in
tention of the war 'department it
that time, that we were holdlnf of'
ao far as actual military operation.!
were concerned and letting the allies
do the fighting.
"What he Lsays we should hav
done and I ask jour particular at
tention to it, is this:
Military Ideal HurpassewL
' 'We, should have strained every
energy to have. gotten from SO.OOo to
ivv.uvq men to France thff. year.'
"That Is. the year 1917. I tell
no secret bult Is perfectly well
known to everybody in this group
that we have far exceeded what in
August,. 1917. was regarded as a
program so Ideal that the editor t
this magazine refers to it as a thing
wnicn we ought to have strained
every nerve in a vain but boneless
effort to accomplish."
in res pone to a question hr Chair-
tan Chamberlain the secretary said
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tinued: "And then the editor goe on:
"I3y next year. 1918. we could
have 600,000 men to send over, or
any part of 600,000 men which we
could ship.'
Half Million hon In France.
"Now, instead tf having 60.000
or 100,000 men In France in 1917,
we have many moiw "men than that
In France, and 'instead of having a
half million men whol we could shin
to France If wo could find the way to
do It In 1918, we will have more than
one half million in Franc early In
1918, and we have available. If the
transportation facilities are availa
ble to us, and the prospect Is not
unpromising, one and. ono half mil
lion who in 1918 can be shipped to
Frahce." ,
Senator Weeks asked whether the
secretary knew who wrote the lic
t0tl.1l and Mr, Faker said he thoughi
it was attributed to lr, Wlgglh, the
editor In chief.
i "W by," asked Senator Chamber,
lain, "have you not felt it proper ti
lt the public Into your confidence
with refereuO to these things that
yon arc telling now?"
: IHndenburtt K Quoted.
A "Senator, I confess I have hesi
tated an I I stilt hesitate." replied
the secretary. "I have hero a state
ment from Field Marshal von Hlnp
d en burg, in which he is quoted as
saying in a German newspaper. In
contcmrtuous fashion of us. that we
hav advertised our pieparaUoti for
thi war in ar'unwoithy manner."
"Do you think for a moment. Sec
retary Baker." said the chairman.
?that there has been anr time within
the last year that the German secrt
service has not been fully advised a
to everything we bnvo done?"
"Yes. 1 knew. If I mar roly unon
tne confidential information which
wo, get from confidential sources.
tne uerman government is t-till mys
tified as to tbe number of men we
nave in France, or have had there at
any time."
- The chairman said he doubted this
After tome discussion as to the pol
icy of governments in announcing
mimary secrets, Mr. Haker raid it
was not ,the policy cf the American
or other governments to dc so and
addfd:
T'l am 'saying this now, benause
you have asked me why I hav- held
back these facta until now, I am
saying to you that yon could not get
from Great Britain at this moment
I don't know whether I could get th
number of soldiers Great Hr tnin hai
in j France or at home. 1 could aet
an approximation; I could set what
ever information might rr,. dVme.t
helpful to the immediate m'litary
object to be lictompllshed. but I
could not act from Great Hrltaln "or
V ranee cither one. the actual num
ber of troop they have at the front.
fit may be that that precaution is
unnecessary, and yet that is the pre
caution which military men have ob
served, and I have no further point
to make In the matter of the number
of troop there than to show, as I
wss showing, when I read that ex
tract, that our original intention was
to make our military effort in 101?:
and in A 11 pud of 1917. a sealous ad
vocate of Immediate military activity
laid down as the maximum obtaina
ble program, a thing which has since
oeen muitirold exceeded.
Joffn? Tell Kit nation.
"Why did we decide to send noma
troops to France in 1917?' It is no
secret. When -Marshal Joffre rm
to this country from France, when
he British mlnnion
France, they told us of a situation
which we hd not tin to that time
fully appreciated. There had been in
ranee recently conducted before
that an unsuccessful major offensive.
"The French people had suffered,
oh, suf'ared in a way that not only
our language is not adapted to de
scribe, but our imagination cannot
conceive. The war Is in their conn-
try. The wolf has not only been at
their door, but he has been gnawing
for two years and a half at their
vitals, and when this unsuccessful
offensive in Franco had cone on
three weeks, a spirit not of surren
der but of late, about the French
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people, and hls mighty military en
gine which they had seen prepared
to overcome them for forty years
was at them, and their attitude was
that no matter whether every
Frenchman died in his tracks, as
they were willing to do. or not, that
it was an Irresistible thing, and jo
they slid to us 'frankly. It will cheer
usi It will cheer our people if you
send over some of your troop.
"We did send some troops.
IJHtUh Kamle t'nwlev
"At that place we had a choice.
We eonld have sent over, as Great
Hrltaln. our regular armvr d In a
very short preparation have put It
Into action and suffered exactly what
Great Hrltaln suffered with her 'lin
temptlble little army, a It' waa
called by their adversaries, f Our
arm would have given a good an
account of Itself as the British army
did, but It would have been destroyed
like the British army, and there
would have been no nucleus on whlchlof lied Cro nurses and doctor and
to '1 ltd this new rmy that wa. to orderlle and attendant In hospital
come over a little later, and it was
deemed wiser to send over a regular
division, bnt not to send over our
whole regular army at that time.
"Then what" happened was that
that regular division went over and
the people of France kissed the hero
of their garments aa they-marched
np the streets of Paris; the old' vet
erans, wounded In this war, legless
or armless, stumnlns along- -on
crutches, as they went up the streets
of Paris with their arms around tbe
neck of American soldiers. Not a
single man in that division wart" un
accompanied by a veteran. America
had rone to France and the Freneh
people rose with a sense of srratltude
and hopefulness that had never been
In them before.
French Morale Rlwe.
"Of course they welcomed the
British, but their need was not so
arrest when the British went. Of
course they welcomed the British,
but there were ties between them
and ui which there had not been
between them and tbe British and
o when our troops went there was
an Instant and spontaneous rise in
the' morale ef the French, but ao
equally instant and spontaneous In
sistence that these soldiers who
fame from America should continue
to come in an Unbroken stream.
"And so we made the election. We
decided not to send the regular army
as t whole, hut to send regular dl
vfslor.4 and national guard divisions,
wftofJd according to the state of
thflr trpeparatlon and keep hack
ner som part of our trained forc
In ordrr that it n.fxht Inoculate with
IH spirit anU Its. training; these raw
levies .which! we were' training and
mne after another ilhese division
have ron over until in Franca there
is a ruhtliia army, an army trained
In the essentia and In tbe h?Kln
nlns of military dlsclplie and prac
tice, and trained, spawned fighters
in this kind of a war on the actual
battle fieids where it Is taklnc placs.
V. K. Knjtliiecr Work Heroically.
"Karly In this war, when Joffre
was her and when IJalfo ir wa here
lhy sal 1 to us 'It miy lae you smJ
time to Ret over to us a flghtlns; ar
my, but yon are a great Industrial
country; our man power Is fully en
gaged in our Industries and in our
military enterpM-. send over arti
sans, special engineering reslvents..
and troops vt a technical character
although It was not contemplated
at the outset, and i-nly a phrase In
the emrgensy military legislation
showh that th If thing was thought of
ps a possibility, yet. In 4 very short
time we had orranlrcd ienineerlng
recim nts of rallrond r.in and sent
them oyer there and were rebuilding
behind the lines of the British and
Freb the 'railroads which were be-
ig carried forward with their -ad-
vacne, reconstructing their broken
englnea and cars, building new rail
roads, both back of the tench and
British lin-s. and those regiments
were of such quality that at Cambrai
arcault. carried on by General Byng,
when the Germans made their coun-ter-ataek
our engineer ' regiments ;
threw-down" their plcke and spade I
and tarried their rifle Into the bat-.
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gallant action In tbe war lUolf.
"Very early in this war Great Drit
lan, through Balfour and his assit
ants, and Fjance, through Joffre,
said to u 'send u nurse and doct
or.' Why before we were scarcely
In the war American unit organized
in advance and anticipation by tbe
Ited Cross, which wa taken over In
to the service of the United Starea
through the surgeon, general, were
on the battle field and there are Un
of thousand of men in England and
in France now ho bless the mission
of -mercy upon which ' the flrjl
Americans appeared In Fiance.
Great Task I ItealizeO. .' -"Our
surgeon have set up hos
pital immediately behind the line.
They have been military In every
sense or th world. They have not
been especially fortunate In escaping
attack from the air and our early
losses in this war were the Iossjs
I and ambulance driver whe were sent
over to assist our amca in tncee
necessary services, thus not only
rendering assistance, but acquiring
skill and knowledge of the circum
stances and surroundings, so that
when our own troops came in large
number they could render like serv
ices to our own forces. But that wa
not enough. It was suggested that
further -groups of mechanics ffnigh'.
be needed. Nay, we began to see
that we were going to be over ther
In large force, and the question that
then had to be answered was, how
will maintain an armv In frtnu.'
Special studies had to be made ol',
that problem and this Is what they
showed. They showed that the rail
roads and the facilities of Franco
had In this war been kept inan ex
cellent condition; far better than any
other aupposed possible under war
conditions. And yet, that those rail
roads were used to the maximum to
take care of the needa of the French
and tbe British themselves and that
when our army became a great army,
it would be necessary for-us to build
back of our own line an independent
line of communication." .
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brth Ilrnmet.
It . will r1n out your head f n to
minutes and allow you to breathe frcv
ly
ttyoml wiy mil a rM In one day. It
will rellv you f dlKKurtlnir uriui-fl'-a.
hawklns-., apltlina -and fftnie
breath in a week. - -.'
. Hyomei Is made chiefly from a jooth
int heallna:. term killing n t l-nt lc.
that romea from he eu-a)ptua fore'a
or inland Autrlm whcr ratarrh.
ant h ma and rnnnumptton were nvtr
known t eslut,
llynmel Is pleasant- and easy to
hreathr. Jut nour a few. rfrnon Into
the hrd ftiblwr Inhaler, un aa rilrcct-
1 M (1 11 r run tm nir,t.n i im.ii,
A eomnUte Ilyom-! outfit. Imludlnar;
tnhalr and one bottle of llyomei. mam ,
but llttl at rfruKlla evrrywhre and
at Panlfl J. Fry. If yoi alrrady owi
an inhairr you ran al an extra i.wtl!i v.c 7 "(".' v-
i iiyomel at drusgiats. Ifryrup is also being produced, la
CHIPS FOKf HIXK khi:ads.
"Is Mabel still devoted to that
young man who owns the twelve
rylinder car?", "No. She passed him
up for an army aviator.',' -Detroit
Free Press.
"As a politician that man was
disgrace to the city.- "Well, he ha
risen In the political world since then.
Now he a disgrace' to the State."
Puck. "That man," said Sherlock Holmes,
Jr., "haa no daughters, and hs wife
doesen't dance." "How do you know
all that ?" asked Dr. Watson. "Have
you ever een him before?" "Nevei.
I Just overheard him ay that he
could 'see) no harm In the tango or
the trukey trot," Houston Cbron
lcle.
Plana
are under discussion for an
appropriate observance next year of
tbe. centenlal anniversary of the
birth of Mrs. E. D. N. Southwortb,
tbe popular novelist.
Wednesday
II Thartday
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
V
1 .,V t
NEW FOOD RULES
TO BE ENFORCED
Steusloff Lays. Down Law io
Gathering of Groccri
' Last Night
At a meeting of Salem grocer ljut
night, President F W. teusloff of the
Salem Commercial club and who I
also Marlon county food administra
tor, declared that he 1 going to en
force to the letter th sew food regu
lation of the government and that
an example would be mad of any
me, dealer or consumer, who falU
to comply with tbe rules. "
"This 1 no time for profiteering
Tyr:;tii9
V"!'.1- Uher pro-Ciinaa
said Mr. Steusloff. He declared that
or a tightwad.
Th new .rules are effective In Sa
lem, today. On cards furnlshea by
the commercial club, the dealers are
to keep, record of sales of the at
tested foods and turn In the name
of purchaser and' the amount pur
chased once each week. This is to
serve as a protection of tbe uev
ccants - against purchasers who
might attmept to violate the rules.
Queries ar constantly being made
at the office of the federal food ad
ministration in Salem as to why the
price of cornmeal. despite the big
corn crop, 1 so high; many persons
a,?want t0 kn0'w why l.here
a difference In the market price of
corn, as quoted . In tbe press, and
the figure at which cormeal Is to be
had from the retailer.
Assistant Federal Food Adminis
trator. W. K. Newell, who has Just
teturned from Washington, looked
Into the corn situation thoroughly
wh!!e ln the east and report that
while the corn crop throughout the
corn belt waa very large peculiar
weather conditions caused a very
heavy percentage of 1 "soft" orn,
which Is unfit for mlllng.
"Only the first gfade corn, en
tirely free from moisture and known
to the trade as No. 1, can be milled"
raid Mr. Newell. "That Is one reast n
why cornmeal remains at uch a hlga
figure throughout the country. The
still higher price of cornmeal ln tho
Northwest Is due to a distance from
the producing point and the trans
portation difficulties. As to the ap
parently excessive difference between
the quotations of corn In the market
and the price of cormeal. It should be
understood that the com quotations
are based on feeding corn, rather
than on the milling grades.
"A new and very valuable food
product, however,, has been discoyer
d through the necessity of finding a
way to -uso the great qua'ntlties of
soft corn that was produced this year
This new product 1 corn oil, which
Is proving to be one of the heft
. ( . ( .
om m
discovered, and
which la given hlrh rank among the
different Cottonaeod. nil and nlher
,,,. - w ' ' ' 7. -m
greater quantities."
AS INHRFINITK tJAHlMTY.
A true story about a citizen whose
daughter is about to be married and
who haa been trying to get a line on
what the expense of the rather elab
orate ceremony will be. He ap
proached a friend of his. seeking in
formation, a
"Morris." he said, "your oAet
daughter va married about JTIve
years ago. wasn't she? Would 70a
mind telling me about how much tns
wedding crst you?"
"Not at all, Sam," was the snswer.
"Altogether about $50t)0 a year."
Cleveland Plalndealer.
If each of the 10,000 bottler of
"soft drink" In the United Statei
can find a way to save Just one ounce
of sugar a day, it will mean a saving
of nearly 200,000 pound a year. -
The recenf election in Stockholm
resulted in the choice of"! wo . women
to become member of the town
council.