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VP or ytij IT. Tf^fj *"" " &. mrIS^ • OF ALL FOOD ? |T" •• *• " >'•-. and Provision of Penalties for Profiteering, Advocated ^ by the President ^ TO FORCE SALE OF SURPLUS In AMrni to Congress th« Chief Executive Makes Assertion That Ws ."Are Dealing With Very CcM»> cal and Difficult Matters." [y -- Washington.--Addressing4" congress if;,1 and proposing remedies to check the high cost of living, President Wilson declared existing laws were inade- ^ qnato and high prices were not Justl- "'v fey shortage of supplies, present f. '5 , °r prospective, but were created tn many cases "artificially and deliberately" by "vicious practices." ^ He spoke practically as foUcprst Ghtntlemen of tho Confreai: I have aought this opportunity to *d- .. Qremu you because It is clearly my duty to call your attention to the present cost *t living and to urge upon you with all the persuasive force of which I am capable • r'f. '•!>• legislative measures which would be most effective in controlling it and brinr ln| It down. , The prices the people of this country are Wing for every thine that it Is necessary for them to use in order to live are not Justified by a shortage in supply, either present or prospective, and are in many - cases artificially and deliberately created . by vicious practices which ought immediately to be checked by law. Profiteers Lawbreakers. , Borne of the methods by which these prices are produced are already illegal, seme of them criminal, and those who employ them will be energetically pro- , ceoded against. But others have not yet been brought under the law. and should be dealt with at once by legislation. With the increase In the prices of the necessaries of life come demands for In creases In wages-demands which are . Justified if there be no other means of enabling men to live. Upon the increase of wages there fol- ; r lows close an Increase In the price of the j products whose producers have been accorded the increase--not a proportionate increase, for the manufacturer does not content himself with that, but an Increase considerably greater than the added wage cost and for which the added wage cost is oftentimes hardly more than an excuse. The laborers who do not get an Increase In pay when they demand It are likely , to strike, and the strike only mat ters worse. f It checks production; If It afreets the v railways It prevents distribution and •trips the markets; so that there is presently nothing to buy, and there is another excessive addition to prices resulting from the scarcity. Conditions Not "Natural." These are facts and forces with which • we have become only too familiar; but we are not justified because of our familiarity with them or because of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are "natural" and inevitable, in sitting inactively by and letting them work their fa tal results if there Is anything that we can do to check, correct or reverse them. We must, I think, frankly admit that there Is no complete Immediate remedy to be had from legislation and executive action. The free processes of supply and demand will not operate of themselves, and no legislative or executive action can force them into full and natural operation until there is peace. Must Know "terms of Peace. There can be no confidence in indus- . try, no calculable basis for credits, no confident buying of systematic selling, no certain prospect of employment, no normal restoration of business, no hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a proper reassembling of the dislocated dements of enterprise until peace has . been established, and, so far as may be, guaranteed. Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and dismembered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more directly affected, with all Its terrible ( ravaging and destructive force, but it • has been nevertheless profoundly affected and disarranged, and our industries, our credits, our productive capacity, our economic processes are ln- / extricably Interwoven with those of other nations and peoples--most intimately of all with the nations and peoples upon whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fell and who •re now most dependent upon the cooperative action of the world. Exports Greatest In History. We are just now shipping aiore goods out of our ports to foreign markets than we ever shipped before--not foodstuffs hierely, but stuffs and materials of every sort; but this is no index of what our • orelgn sales will continue to be or of the effect the volume of our exports will have on supplies and prices. It is impossible yet to predict how far or now long foreign purchasers will be able to find the money or the credit to pay for or sustain such purchases on such a scale; how soon or to what extent foreign manufacturers can resume their former production, foreign farmers get their accustomed crops from their own fields; foreign mines resume their former output, foreign merchants set up again their old machinery of trade with the ends of the earth. All these things must L tewmln uncertain until peace Is estah- V ' -lio'iea ana the nations of the world have I Concerted the methods by which normal life and industry are to be restored. All that we shall do In the meantime to restrain profiteering aad put the life of our people upon a tolerable footing will be makeshift and provl atonal. There can be no settled condition here or slsewhere until the treaty of peace Is out of the way and the work of liquidating the war has be- . tone the chief concern of our government and of the other governments of the world. "Buropo will not.^ cannot recoup her , eapital or put M**»tieaa. distracted peoples to work She knows exactly where she Miads in respect to peace; and what we will do is for her the chief question upon which her quietude of mind and confidence of purpose depends. While there is any posability that the peace terms may be changed or may be held long in abeyance, or may not be enforced because of divisions of oplfiion among the powers associated against Germany, If la Idle to loolc for permanent relief. Immediate Relief Measures. By way of immediate relief, surplus stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the government will be sold and of course sold at prices at which there la no profit. And by way of a more permanent correction of prices surplus stocks in private hands will be drawn out of storage and put upon the market. Fortunately under the terms of the food-control act the hoarding of foodstuffs can be checked and prevented, and they will be. with the greatest energy. Foodstuffs can be drawn out of storage and sold by !***/ action which the department of justice will institute wherever necessary: but as soon as the situation is systematically dealt with It Is not likely that the courts will often have to be resorted to. Much of the accumulating of stocks has no doubt been due to the sort of speculation which always result, from uncer- Uuntjr* Would Have Prices Plainly Marked. I would also recommend that It be required that all goods destined for Interstate commerce should in every case where their form or package makes It possible be plainly marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer. Such a requirement would bear a close analogy to certain provisions of the pure food act, by which it is required that certain detailed laformation be given on the labels of packages of foods and drugs. And it does not seem to me that we could confine ourselves to detailed measures of this kind, if it Is indeed our purpose to assume national control of the processes of distribution. I take It for granted that that is our purpose and our duty. Nothing less will suffice. We need not hesitate to handle a national question in a national way. We should go beyond the measures I have suggested. We should formulate a law requiring a federal license of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce and embodying In the license, or in the conditions under which It is to be issued, specific regulatlons designed to secure competitive selling and prevent unconscionable profits In the method of marketing. Law Would Do Much. Such a law would afford a welcome opportunity to effect other much-needed re forms In the business of Interstate ship ment and in the methods of corporations which are engaged in it; but for the moment I confine my recommendations to the object Immediately in hand, which Is to lower the cost of living. We are dealing, gentlemen of the congress, I need hardly say, with very critical and very difficult matters. We should go forward with confidence along the road we see, but we should also seek to comprehend the whole of the scene amidst which we act. There is no ground for some of the fearful forecasts I hear uttered about me, but the condition of the world is unquestionably very grave and we shonld face it comprehendingly. The situation of our own country Is exceptlonately fortunate. We of all peoples can afford to keep our heads and to determine upon moderate and sensible courses of action which will Insure us against the passions and distempers which working such deep unhappiness for some of the distressed nations on the other side of the aea. But we reay be involved In their dtstresses unless we help, art help with energy and intelligence. Disregarding the surplus stock In the hands of the government, there was a greater supply of foodstuffs in this country on June 1 of this year than at the same date last year. In the combined to- * number of the most Important roods tn dry and cold storage the excess is quite 19 per Vent. <^nd yet prices have risen. Law Department Active. The attorney general has been making a careful study of the situation as a whole and of the laws that can be applied to better It and is convinced that, under the stimulation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations of producers and combinations of traders have been formed for the control of supplies and of prices which are clearly In restraint of trade, and against these prosecutions will be promptly Instituted and actively pushed which will in all likelihood have a prompt corrective effect There is reason to believe that the prices of leather, of coal, of lumber and of textiles have been materially affected by forms of Concert and co-operation among the producers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which it will be possible to redress. No watchful or energetic effort will be spared to accomplish this necessary result I trust that thqre will not be many cases In which prosecution will be necessary. Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon promptly and of their own motion. The department of commerce, the department of agriculture, the department of labor and the federal trade commissi,on can do a great deal toward supplying the public systematically and at short intervals, with information regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that Is in existence and available with regard to supplies which are In existence but not with regard to the methods of price fixing which are being used by dealers In oertaln foodstuffs and other necessities. Retailers in Part to Blame. There can be little doubt that retailers are In part--sometimes in large Pert--responsible for exorbitant prices; and It is quite practicable for the government through the agencies I have mentioned, to supply the public with full information as to the prices at which retailers buy and as to the costs of transportation they pay in order u«i it may be known just what margin of profit they are demanding. Opinion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest Let me urge. In the first place, that the present foodstuff control act should be extended both %s to the period of time during which It s ill remain In operation and as to the commodities to which It shall apply. Its provision against hoarding should be made to apply not only to food but also to feed stuffs, to fuel, to clothing, and to many other commodities which are Indisputably neceesarles of life. As it stands now It is limited In operation to tttn^o4 «f the wjttMepemuve upon the reraaat wwdamation or pasta. But i shobiyMgr^mklt *<* dearth •ffthty'tfft omfmttieOnl power of the Congress 4b StaKe Idknifiar permanent provisions and regulations with regard to alt Jpnoi* ^dfelned > to# 4ater*ta*e commerce and to- exclude taem freei Interstate shipment if the requirements of the law are not complied with. s- Some such regulation is imperatively necessary It would materially aU to the eerv- Ireabillty of the law, for the purpoee we now have in view, if it were also prescribed that all goods released from storage for interstate shipment should have plainly marked upon each package the selling or market price at which they went into storage. By this means the purchaser would always be able to learn what profits stood between him and the producer or the wholesale dealer The world must pay for the appalling destruction wrought by the great war. and we are part of the world. We must pay our share. For five years now the industry of all Europe has been slack and disordered. The normal croffe have not been produced; the normal quantity of manufactured goods has not been turned out Not until there are the usual crop* and the usual production of manufactured goods on the other aide of the Atlantic can Europe return to the former conditions; and it was upon the former conditions. not the present that our economic relations with Europe were built up. We must face the fact that unless we help Europe to get back to her normal life and production a chaos will ensue there which will inevitably be communicated to this country. For the present, it IS manifest, we must quicken, not slacken, our own production. U. S. Must Hold World Steady. We, and we almost alone, now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and self-possession depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It Is In this supreme crisis--this crisis for all mankind--that American muBt prove her mettle. In the presence of a world confused, distracted. she must show herself self-posaessed. self-contained, capable of sober and effective action. She saved Europe by her action In arms; she must now save Jt by, her action in peace. In saving Europe she will save herself, as she did upon the battlefields of the war. The calmness and capacity with which she deals with and masters the problems of peace will be the final test and proof of her place among the peoples of the world. And, if only In our own Interest, we must help the people overseas. Europe Is our biggest customer. We must keep her going or thousands of our shops and scores of our mines must close. There Is no such thing as letting her go to ruin without ourselves sharing In the disaster. In such circumstances, face to face with such tests, passion must be discarded. Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place in the counsels of a free people. We need light not heat In these solemn times of selfexamination and saving action. Everyone who Is in real touch with the silent masses of our great people knows that the old strong fiber and steady selfcontrol are still there, firm against vio' lence or any distempered action that would throw their affairs into confusion. I am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves, no matter what the circumstances, and that they will address themselves to the tasks of peace with the same devotion and the sama stalwart preference for what Is right that they displayed to the admiration of the whole world in the midst of war. Sinister Influences at Work. And I enter another confident hope. 1 have spoken today chiefly of measures Of Imperative regulation and legal compulsion, of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish processes; and these so doubt are necessary. But there are other forces that we may count on besides those resident In the department of justice. We have just fully awakened to what has been going en and to the influences, many of them very selfish and sinister, that have been producing high prices and imposing an intolerable burden on the mass of our people. To have brought It all Into the open will accomplish the greater part of the result we seek. I appeal with entire confidence to our producers, our middlemen and our merchants to deal fairly with the people. It is their opportunity to show that they comprehend, that they intend to act justly, and that they have the public interest sincerely at heart Labor Must Consider. X believe, too. that the more extreme leaders of organised labor will presently yield to a sober second thought, and like the great mass of their associates, think and act like true Americans. They will see that strikes undertaken at this critical tims are certain to make matters worse, not better--worse for them and for everybody else. The worst thing, the most fatal thing--that can be done now is to stop or interrupt production, or to interfere with the distribution of goods by the railways and the shipping of the country. There are many things that ought to be corrected in the relations between capital and labor. In respect of wages and conditions of labor and other rtiings even more far-reaching, and I, for one. am ready to go Into conference about these matter with any group of my fellow countrymen who know what they are talking about and are willing to remedy existing conditions by. frank counsel rather | than by violent contest. General Interest First. | No remedy is possible while men are ! In a temper, and there can be no settlement which does not have as Its asotive and standard the general Interest. | | Must All Work Together. Threats and undue insistence ape* the Interest of a single class, make settlement impossible. I believe, as I have hitherto hsd occasion to say to the Congress, that the industry and life of our people and of the world r!!! suffer irreparable damage if employers and workmen are to go on In a perpetual contest, as antagonists. They must, on one plan or another, be effectively associated. Have we not stead Iness and self-possession and business sense enough to work out that result? In the meantime--now and in the days of readjustment and recuperation that are ahead of us--let us resort more and more to frank and Intimate counsel and make ourselves a great and triumphal nation, making ourselves a united force In the life of the world. It will not then have looked to us for leadership In vain. nr.*** Pitiful Ending of Career of $ir --laike White, Once Membe^ of Parliament. . f BJMKROT AND K TA Some of His F^oor Constituents Leist Their All by Intrusting It to Hinr --War Makes Financial .. Distress Knetom, 4$ - -Y* . tendon--From a position 6f wiltience, popularity and public service which woa htm a seat in parliament and a knighthood, Sir Luke White Is ending his days as the inmate of a workhouse infirmary in Driffield. Clever enough to rise from poverty to a noted career, injudicious Investments brought him low, and at the height of his political power he was forced to confess himself bankrupt. He carried down with him numerous trusting constituents, and his liabilities of $135,- 000 included $05,000 In loans from poor people who had confided their a" to him. The shame of having this* Wrecked the savings of those who b« lieved In him completely unnerved him. Now he Is dependent on public charity, his spirit utterly crushed, and he is one of the most pitiful fl(VM U| the north of England. Began as Office Boy. Born in Delghton, near York, In 1S45, he was an office boy at fifteen for a solicitor, who paid him about 90 cents a week. After eight years tn that service, of course with increasing Income, he became managing clerk for another solicitor in Driffield. In another six years he was admitted to the bar as solicitor, and in the same year he succeeded to the practice of his employer, who had died. He speedily became known as a local preacher and speaker for a large district, and he was highly popular and successful. For years he was chairman of the local board, and then of the urban district council. Then he went to the East Riding county council. In 1896 be was appointed one of the.coroners for East Riding. He acted as election agent for Sir Angus Holden, Liberal member of parliament for the Baekrose division, and when Sir Angus died in 1900 White was chosen as his successor. In 1908 he was knighted. Popular For Years. He continued to divide his time between his attendance at Westminster and his business In Yorkshire, but as he gave nore time to his parliamentary duties than to his private affairs, his practice suffered. The-war brought out the fact that he was in financial distress, and last fall he resigned his seat and filed a petition in bankruptcy. It appeared in the bankruptcy proceedings that some of his poor constituents had confided their money to him to put Into war loans. Friends provided for j him for awhile in a sanitarium near Scarborough: When that fund was exhausted he was removed to the workhouse infirmary, which almost adjoins the court In which he formerly practised. His tragic mlsfortuhe caused a great sensation in East Yorkshire; where for years he, had been so well known and Hked that in the town of Bridlington particularly his |»hot» graph hung on the walls of eveT^> Other house. He had been etninently a foor man's lawyer. .1 His fate Is now brought afresh" to public notice by an action against Herbert Brown, a deputy coroner for the East Riding of Yorkshire, who is charged, jointly with Sir Luke, with having appropriated to the personal use of Sir Luke in 1907 $1,000 intrusted to them by Witham Hatfield for investment. Sir Luke escapes arraignment owing to his physical and asrvous collapse. Thousands of Cats Are Homeless by Prohibition H4w York.--Another of the evils of prohibition has been discovered. Seven thousand cats have been made homeless in New York by the closing up of the saloons, it is estimated. There were well over 7,000 saloons in New York and, outside the fashionable bars in the big hotels, it is estimated that every barroom had Its cat, some of them more than one. Now that the saloons ars closed the cats are homeless. Keep 300 Jofr Bureaus Open Welfare Societies Respond to wlth returns from five large states no, « . . _ . , _ , yet received, and those from none of Appeal of Federal Employment Service. AMD WORK FOR SOLDIERS Two Hundred and Sixty-four Offices Already Assured, With Replies ' From Five States Still to It Received. Washington.--So great has been the response of the country to the appeal of the United States employment service to assist in the maintenance of its soldiers' and civilian workers' placement organisation in the field that WOUNDED SOLDIERS LEARN FARMING NtwiMMr the other states complete, the continuance of 264 employment offices already is assured. Because of its limited appropriation the federal employment service Is Itself able to finance but sixty offices, and the outside support for the other 200 offices will be continued until congress acts upon the Nolan-Kenyon bills for a permanent national employment service. Welfare organizations and chambers of commerce lead among the various agencies that are keeping federal employment offices open, supplying quarters, personnel and funds. The agencies which have been co-operating with the employment service since demobilization began also are continuing their support of the 2,000 emergency bureaus for returning soldiery and niLLwran, WHO ARE U) TU» Woman LjdUE.P«nkW.V«te. fcble Compound--Har Personal Experienccu & McLean. Neb.--"I want te nesmi ttend Lycos E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to a l l . women who snfferfrao any AmdieesB - disturbance, as ftjV has dons mm warmgood than the doctor's ; Since taking it l| have » flnt nsstflij baby eiri and hav»i ffainedin health and strength. My bos- # band and I both praise joor aiad» l * idnetoiDialrinr; ^om 1 en; --Mr*- John Kopnnjurac, £r> No. 1, McLean, Nebraska. _ TWs famous root and her?) remedy.! Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Ccm-i pound, has been restoring womaa off America to health for more than forty [ years and it will well pay any womasj who suffers from displacements, in-j flammafioa, ulceration, irregulsj-iti-s. I bacr.ache, headaches, nervooaness or r "the blues" to give this successful^ remedy a triaL •"or special suggestions in regard to« your ailment write Lydia E. PinkhamL Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The resultf of its long experience is at your service;, j - \£ - • • • • * Soldiers Soothe Skin Troubles with Cnticora AGENTS MAKING $200 WEEKLY BrsoaM St.. NBW TOHJt. sailors. K«S|> 900 Open. John BTDinsmore, director j^eral *nd.,ook|nK around, he saw his friend Wounded soldiers, convalescing at base hospital No. 1, Gun Hill Road, N. Y„ are being given Instruction In fanning and agriculture. Not only doss this help the men regain their strehgth and health, but provide? fowp | trade which they may follow after demobilization. ' of the United States employment serv Ice, predicted that when the returns from the states are complete It will be found that considerably more th?n three hundred federal offices will be open through voluntary contributions. From the end of March to June 30, he said, more than four hundred offices ere kept in operation by outalde mds in expectation that after the tter date the employment service would be able to resume their flnancog, but because of the reduced appropriation for the new fiscal year, he explained, continued support is being asked for the next five months, within which period, it Is understood con- Kress will have acted on the measure for a permanent service. "The response of the country Indl cates a general desire of all to give practical assistance to the soldier and civilian war worker seeking to n> establish himself. Mr. Densmore said: "It also shows that American communities, having learned the value of having a central public employment office during the last eighteen months, want those offices continued." Beyond Restraint. ' After trying in vain for months to< v get a house Brown set out one dayi , * with a flnd-a-house-or-die look on htsf 'M face. He wandered about all day with-' " > • 9ut being successful, till at last his t v"^ 3teps led him to the river. - ^jr ^ "Ah!" he said in utter despair, "how 4-|| tempting it looks?" He was stiwest > ^|| 'Inclined to plunge In and end It all. :.a. All of a sudden he heard a splash \ * "J ; nm Green struggling In the water. Without attempting to save htm he rushed^ )tt to the local house agent. "Quick!" he gasped. "Green has fallen in the river. Can I have his < <| jouse?" ""Km "Sorry," said the house agent. *Tv» | already let it to the man who poshed Sim In."--London Ideas. An elephant Is said to be possessed of such a delicate sense of smell that it can scent a human being at a distance of 1,000 yards. Six Scribbled Words Dispose of Big Estate New York.--A will of six word*, scribbled hastily on the margin of a daily market report four minutes before the testator died, was filed in surrogate's court. The writer was Alexander William Waters, general agent of the American Fruit exchange. With thp words, "All I have belongs to Zulma." he left his $200,000 estate to Zulma Powell, his housekeeper. Mr. Waters had Just reached his office on July 3 when be was .seized by heart failure. Tell the Age of Oceans FOR SUMMER COLDS Nothing gives Quicker relief than Vacher-Balm. It Is harmless, and also relieves Nervous Headache quickly, and any: superficial inflammation in a short: time. Try it for Mumps, Hay Ffever. or anypaln. If you cannot buy it locally, send for a Free Sample, and Agent's terms, or send 50c stamps for 2 25c tubesL Avoid imitations. E. W. VACHER, lnc. New Orlean* Law--Adv. -•••• ALL TIKE EXCESSIVE PROFITS Federal Trade Commission Makss Public Facts Concerning Present High Prices of Shoes. Washington.--The federal trade commission. which recently conducted an Investigation Into the leather industry. Inquiring especially into the prices of flhoes, made public a summary of its Ipeport to congress. In Its Introduction td the Mmunary the commission says:: ' "The federal trade commission has found that the high price of shoes cannot be Justified by underlying economic conditions. The commission after exhaustive Inquiry Into the price of hides, leather and shoes, is reporting to congress that the larger packers control the hide supply and have taken excessive profit* and passed increased costs to subsequent steps in manufacture and distribution; that the tanner has taken exceptional profits; that the manufacturer of shoes has taken unusual margins, and the prices charged by the retailer are not Justifiable. each factor in the Industry adding to the burden be had to bear ho* fore he passed It on to the next." Means for reducing the present high prices are recommended by the commission In this paragraph: "Some relief from the intolerable prices paid by consumers for shoes may be had by (1) a rigid enforcement of the laws against monopolistic control of commodities, (2) legislation forbidding producers of hides engaging in the tanning business." Must Tell Their Exact Age. Los Angeles, Cal.--Judge F. H. Taft of the. superior court has ruled that hereafter when women are asked their ages In his court they must not aay, *Tm over twenty-one," but will be required to give the exact years. Washlngton.-r-How old Is the ocean? Standing on the shore and looking out over the expanse of water, the ocean seems a fixed and eternal fact, but the seas had a beginning and will have an end. Scientists say that when this time comes the last drop of water will have been nbsorbed Into the earth's crust. Its surface will be a desert and all life will become extinct. The age of the oceans have been estimated by a leading authority, Professor Frank Clarke of the United States Geological survey, at about 00,- 000,000 years. This, of course. Is only an approximation, but is based on carefully studied scientific data. All the water was once contained in the vapor that surrounded the glowing. slowly cooling mass which Is now the enrth. After the gases combined to form water the process of making the ocean salt began. Thla was the work of the rivers. Mineral salts were extracted from the rocks over which they flow and deported In the sea. Each year the action of the streams Is said to make the ocean slightly more salty, and this Is the basis on which Its age is calculated. The amount of salt carried by the rivers of the world Is computed by the scientists and compared with the total quantity In the ocean. After evaporation and the velocity of currents have been consideied. It Is possible to calculate how long It has taken to make the sea water as salty as It is today. About three and a half per cent of mineral salts and 96% per cent fresh water make up the oceans. Threefourths of the solid matter Is common salt, other ingredients being chloride, sulphate and bromide of magnesium; sulphate and carbonate of lime and sulphate of potash, besides traces at various other mineral^ and metals. Including gold and sliver. Liberty's song Is mostly chorus. Cuts Sugar from $4.50 to$l •pool of Thread Drops From * to | Tickets on the weekly train between $1,«0 After Relief Ship Reaches Bucharest and Paris bring a premlwn q Hssr Food Prlsss Have (Viasns - Washington.--Families of 25 cities 4t the country paid 16 per cent more .. lb June for 22 standard articles of food ®*an the average in 1918. according to fteurea msde public by the department «f labor. The average cost of the same foods per family in 1918 was 67 per «ient more than in 1913. The cost per iamlly tn cities for 1913 is given as #324. In June, 1919. it had risen to $823. an increase of a little more than • W IW* ««nt. Since then prices havs f®* ®™ beyond those figures. CITY TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD Volunteer Workers In Boston Will Portion Out Surplus Army Supples in the Near Future. Boston, Mass. -- Information obtained at the mayor's office Is to the effect that the city's organization of volunteer workers; to distribute surplus army food supplies Is now nearly ready for work, and that as a result of the discovery by Francis Ford, acting mayor, that $170,000 remains from the city's appropriation to tray coal last winter, no time need t/e lost la getting an order for tbe purchase of food through the city council. The widespread Interest In reducing the cost of living tj>at has swept thei country within the past week has led to &d attempt by the state of New Hampshire to discover why prices are high and what can be done to lower them, It was learned here on Monday. The governor has asked the attorney general of that staiX* to begin an inquiry at once. . Roumania. Bucharest--When the American Red Gross and the American relief administration commenced work here Several months ago, sugar was selling at $1.50 a pound, and was almost Impossible to obtain even *>r that price. Today it is still scarce, but can be purchased at somewhere around $1« due to the relief shipments. A "Hoover" ship with 900 ton? of milk, about 3,000 tons of fat, and 3,000 tons of other foods, recently arrived at Constanza. These supplies did much to Improve the situation. Food is not the only commodity which has taken a fall. In the Inst month the price of thread has dropped from $6 to $1.60 & spool. A speculator who recently brought in a truiikloud of cotton thread realised a profit of $3,600 an his enterprise. as high as $200. HOW TO MAKE HOG CRATES Fodtral Department of Agriculture Haa Many Queries From , Shippers. tages. It can be easily handled, and provides comfort without loss of space for the hog In transit A circular of the department tells how to build the crate. Hoard by the Baas. , v > In an office where I once wotiM we nicknamed the boss Vegetable Face because he had a turn-up nose. One day when he had finished dlcta- Ing to me he asked me to send one of the other girls In with some letters • he wanted. When I reached the stenographers' room I said to a girl, "Vegetable Face wants those letters he gave you this morning." On hearing a sound behind me. I turned around and looked into the enraged., countenance of my august employer.^-- Exchange. Washington--More than 00,000 requests for information on how to make bog crates have been received by the United States department of j estate, agriculture. A large number of the requests are from club members, and the percentage received from the South Is regarded by officials of the department as an index to the extent of Improvement the hog industry has made in that part of the United States. The type of crate the department specialists have developed and are now recommending has several advan- Adopt Married Man. Harrfoburg, Pa.--Although- h# la twenty-four years old and married, Lewis Simmers Walker has secured foster parents, for the Dauphin county court has approved the application of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham I'. Simmers to adopt him as their son. Walker has made his home with the aged couple for some years, and they made him their son to escape legal technicalities when they will give him part of their If Yoa Need a Medietas tn Should Han III Bast Have you ever stopped to reason why it is that so many products that an extensively advertised, *11 at once drop eat of sight and are soon forgotten? The reason is plain--the article did not fulfill the promise* of the manufacturer. This applies more particularly to a medicine. A medicinal preparation that haa real curative valae almost sells itself, ss like sn endless chain system the remedy is recommended by those who have been benefited, to those who are in need of it. A prominent druggist says "Take for example Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, % preparation I have sold for many years and never hesitate to recommend, for in almost every esse it shows excellent results, as many of my customers testify.. No other kidney remedy has so large a aale." According to sworn statements and verified testimony of thousands who have used the preparation, the success of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact, so many people claim, that it fulfills almost every wish in overcoming kidnsy, liver snd bladder ailments; coHects ni> nary troubles and neutralises the nris acid which causes rheumatism. You may receive a sample bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcels Poet, Addrssa Dr. Kilmer A Co.. Biaghamton, N. and enclose ten cents; also mention this paper. Large and medium sisa for sale at all drug stores.--Adv. y:lp ."Hi? ' Yi >**s Locusts Get Goats' Goats. San Diego, Cal.--Locusts have eatec practically all vegetation on Quadaloupe Island, 175 miles south of here. Officers of the motorshlp Gryme, which arrived here, estimated 75,000 wlli goats on the island will starve. Tht island belongs to Mexico. The locusts are the first to visit tht to more than fifty years. Not Knocking of Course. A Perth Am hoy gentlemau says ho took his pet cat to Pennsylvania, a distance of 90 miles, and dropped bar. Later tbe cat arrived home with very sort feet and cried for something tn eat "1 dont expect anybody tn ttia," says the geattemaa. So far as we are concerned, he his wish.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Keepyowr Eyes | Strong and lianHlu* If they Tire, Smut. IfeeMr Burn, if Sore, In Usui. i infl»rMnt orGmstaML we Murine often. Safe for Infant or AMt At all Drqggista. Write for Free Eye Bask. •Mm Cyl--dy Ciwjiy.Chkapbl