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Sumotous fjrpiutmfnt Mora True Than Funny.?An old negro not long ago applied for membership In an extremely exclusive church in an eastern city. Hut the bishop of this refined congregation told the old man that his spiritual condition was not satisfactory and sent him home to pray. After a few days the petitioner again sought the minister and again the bishop said that he was unsatisfied and recommended the darky to prayer. Hut the next day back cam>the old man. his face shining. "Well," said the bishop. "How is it with you. Sambo?" '*11 unh''M finMU'l'Twl th?* darky. '1 prayed to de Lord, and the Lord said, 'Go ahead. Sambo. and good luck to >ou. I'se been trying to git Into that church for twenty years myself."?ilo.ston Transcript. Another Irishman.?An Irishman was buying a talking machine, and the obliging salesman had delighted him by playing several Irish songs, He was particularly pleased by some Mc< 'orrnick records, but, after hearing these, he was still unsatisfied. "is there anything else you would like to hear?" said the salesman. Yes," said Fat; "that other famous Irishman -oh, how I would like tc hear him sing." "Who do you mean?" asked the salesman. "oh. you know who I mean, well enough, but I can't think of his?Yes, that's him: A1 McGluck." The salesman smiled and got out one of the Alma Uluck records.?Life This is No Joke.?In these days 01 the high cost of living the following story hus a decided point: The teacher of a primary class was trying to show the children the difference between the natural and manmade wonders and was finding it hard. "What?" she asked, "do you think is the most wonderful thing man evet inude ?" A little girl, whose parents werr obviously harassed by the question ol ways and rnea is. replied as solemnly as the proverbial judge: "A living for a family."?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Exactly the Same.?Simpson joined --- - ? i?..-?<,,l tn .la-ill On* HIV ill 111} auu icai iku w .... <luy he took part in u sham battle. He heard the general say before the battle started: "Everything is to be done the same as In actual warfare;" and no sooner was the llrst blank cartridge fired than Simpson dropped his gun and took to his heels. "Hey. Simpson, where are you running to. there?" the general shouted as the recruit dashed by him. "Why. sir," said Simpson, "I'm doing the same as I would do In actual warfare."?Denver News. He Graduated Quickly?An English curate taught an old man in his parish to read. After his lessons were finished he was unable to cull upon him for some time, and when at last he called he found only the man's wife ut home. "How is John?" said he. "And how does he progress with his reading?" "i ?h. nicely, sir." "I suppose he con read his Bible quite comfortably now?" "Bible, sir!" exclaimed the woman. out o' the Bible and into the sporting papers long ago!"?Youth's Companion. Guessing.?In a small town where a stranger was noticed by everyone, John Robinson, aged nine, stood on the corner watching the newcomer ap proach. The stranger stopisd in front of the boy and said: "John can you tell me where to find the f>ostotflce?" John looked up In amazement and asked: "How did you know my name?" The stranger replied: "I just guessed It." John calmly said: "Well, just guess the way to the |>ostoffico."?Country Gentleman. Couldn't Fool Pat.?Patrick, lately over, was working in the yards of a railroad. One day he happened to be In the yard office when the force was out. The telephone bell rang noisily for some time before Pat came to the conclusion that It ought to be answered. He approached the instrument cautiously, as he had seen the bosu often do. "Hello there." he said. "Hello," answered some one at a distant place. "Is this eight?six?foureight?" "Aw, g'wan," Patrick replied. "Phat d'ye think Oi am?a box car?"?Life. Worse Than Ever.?Smith turned up at the club a short time after his marriage. He had such a desperate look that his friends asked what was the matter. "I'm blue," he answered. "I'm just blue. I got married last month and I've discovered that my wife can't sing." "Hut," they laughed, "you shouldn't let that trouble you. Why, >ou are to be congratulated." "No, Tm not either." said Smith bitterly. "You see, she thinks she can."?Ladies' Home Journal. In the Other Service.?At a negro Methodist revival the minister asked all who belonged to the army of the Lord to stand up. A stranger on the front bench rose. The minister went up to him and said: "Brudder, do you belong to de army ob de Lawd?" "Yes, sah," said the stranger. ~i belongs to de Baptist army." "Oh. pshaw, nigger!" said the minister. "You don't belong to de army, you belongs to de navy!"?Atlanta Constitution. Not Washed Yet.?The news of a young southern girl's engagement to an army officer had just been announced. and there was great excitement in their circle. "Uza." said a friend of the family to the old colored washerwoman, "have you seen Miss Edith's fiance?" Lisa pondered for a moment, then bent over the laundry tubs once more. "No. ma'am." she said. "It ain't been In the wash yet." He Had the Hoover Idea.?-"Tommy," said the fond mother, "isn't It rather an extravagance to eat both butter and jam on your bread at the same time?" "No* ma'am, it's economy," the boy answered. "The same piece of bread doee for both."?Chicago Herald. MACHINERY THE SOLUTION Man Power Most Be Supplemented With Tools. HENRY FORD MAKES SENSIBLE TALK In This Crisis, When Labor is Scarce and the Necessity of Increased Production Daily Grows Shorter, there Must be Great Reliance on the Use of Tools that Will Multiply Effort. Literary Digest. Henry Ford tells us that we can win ! the war if we will only throw into the balance the whole weight of our industries and tool-power. In an article contributed to the American Machinist (New York, April 11) "Uncle Henry" assures us that the victory will be to him who musters the best machinery; for this war is "the greatest engineering feat the world has ever known." That it behooves us to see I that our factory management is per, feet and that our use of machinery is the fullest possible. Moreover, we must organize to concentrate our in[ dust rial resources upon essential warwork. What we need. Mr. Ford says, is leadership and labor, working in confidence and harmony. He himself has given u striking example of howproduction may be increased without strikes or wage discussion; and he is entitled to speak with authority. He 1 writes: "The United States produces half 1 the steel and half the coal of the 1 world. Converted into machinery of warfare, this would be decisive on the west front. "ftussla, with man power of 1x5,000.000. was almost entirely lacking in machine (tower. She mobilized 15,000,000 men, but she sent them into battle poorly equipped, armeu wun on1 solete rifles, sinall-calibre guns, and in tnany eases only with clubs. This poorly equipped and poorly armed army was pitted against the vastly superior rifles, machine guns and large 1 calibre cannon which were turned out in vast quantities by great factories and a highly organized railroad system in Germany. "Russia lost 5.000,000 men and her power collapsed. "The lesson for us is that not numbcis nor latent resources, but better machlnery and better organization are i decisive in warfare. "Trenches can be conquered and the stalemate of the west front broken if we develop and use the right machinery. For a long time in the Middle Ages castles were impregnable ' when men attacked them with spears and catapults, but they fell easily to 1 the new tools using gunpowder. To me it seems out of place to send men with bare bodies and rifles against 1 trenches of concrete fortified with barbed wire, machine guns and can' non. A small tank can be made for attack that will carry two men and a machine gun with armor protection strong enough to resist the hail of machine gun bullets and shrapnel splinters. Such tanks, if standardized to one model, could be produced at the rate of one or two thousand a day. Once production was started ninety thousand tanks could be made in three months. Distributed equally along the west front, this would place one tank to every eighteen feet. In 1 ttvr, men shielded bv ar imor plate with a machine gun would I nave the offensive power, of fifty sol-I diers^w'lth rifles. That advantage would come from possession of the better piece of fighting machinery. Soldiers would stand in line to have a chance to attack in such out Ills. "In our food problems also we have failed to realize that the solution lies in the increase of tool power on the land. The farms of England, France and America have been drained of their men, first to till the armies, then to fill the munition fuctories, so that today food production lags. For three decades men have been leaving the farm to get to the easier work of the factories and on railroads where engine power has removed the drudgery of heavy muscular labor. The curse of Adam to 'labor in the sweat of the hrow' still rests upon farm workers. It remains for America to carry engine power to agriculture. Until 1850 harvesting and threshing were done by human muscles using sickle, scythe and flail. Then America invented the binder and harvesting machine and shifted these two tasks to the animal. Today America must substitute engine work for human and animal muscles on all kinds of farm work. "A tractor engine will plow, harvest, seed, pull binders, make hay, cut ensilage, pump water, churn, and do the chores of the farm. It will multiply the power of every farm worker and give him new joy and pride in his work. It will keep the boy on the farm. With the aid of tractors a reduced number of farm laborers can still produce a full crop. "One tractor sent to France or England now will produce fifty times Its weight and bulk in wheat and food this year. One ship carrying tractors 1? as good as fifty ships carrying food next fall. "In a properly organized factory running on one model an ordinary workman can build a tractor in fifteen days, and each tractor will add the working power of two or three men to a farm during the whole year. Fifteen thousand men can produce one thousand tractors a day, or three hundred thousand tractors a year. "We shall get more food not by bookkeeping and clerical regulation in the cities, but by the use of more and better machinery on the land." But success In producing great quantities of industrial output from our factories will never come, Mr. Ford says, from absentee control. The heads of Industry must live close to their work: they must know metals and machines and be ready to give every man a square deal. He goes on: "Men don't work for money alone. Ten dollars a day will not hold men In some places. The things of life that are worth while make the strongest appeal to the workman. Above all. he must have something to hope for in the future. There must be something in the plant, in the business, that he can tie to and look forward to. Many war plants are having labor troubles because the men know that the business is built on a speculation for a quick profit and will 1 be dropped. Such plants offer their 1 workers no hope. 1 "The ease with which we have been able to Increase production at the Ford plant was due largely to the < willing co-operation of a vast army of 1 workers. We have no strike: no wage discussion. Our men have willingly, ( eagerly turned to every task that has 1 been set for them. They deserve credit for most of the progress that we have made in the production of ships, tractors and airplane ports. They know that the company is not seeking profit from war work. Corporate and* business leadership that measures its success by war profits in the balance-sheet cannot object if workmen take the same viewpoint. Profiteering breeds distrust and antagonism. Vet today smooth teamwork between labor and leadership is needed for the very life of our nation. Today every man must lose himself in order to f.'nd with his fellow men his soul anew in the nation. "Our democracy is on trial. Can our institutions bring out the latent energies of our people and the moral forces of discipline and order? Can wfe sul?ordinate Individual selfishness and profiteering to the welfare of thi group? If so?and I am sure that we can?we shall win the war. We know that armed robbery and land-grabbing belongs to the primitive ages: today civilized men take their case tc court. In supporting President Wilson's national policies we stand for a reign of justice and right among nations. With him we are fighting for the birth of a new world order based unon the rights of the common peo pie." TREMENDOUS Af^MY INCREASE Quota of Million Men To Be Called Tc Colors In May. Simultaneously with an announcement Tuesday that 232,000 men from 4 5 states had been called to join the colors in May. Secretary Baker indicated the scope of the government'! plans for increasing its fighting strength by stating that congress had been asked to appropriate approximately $15,000,000,000 for the ami) for the next ilscal year. That amount is exclusive of funds provided in the fortifications bill which not only covers coast defenses, but as a rule provides the bulk of heavy field ordnance. The call for a quarter of a millior men during May, goes to ull states except California, Oregon and Nevada which with the District of Columbia already have supplied so large a pari of their quota that it was decided not to include them this time. Th< movement in most states will beglr May 25 and will be completed in flvt days. By this order the war department abandons its plan of assembling men in even monthly increments ol approximately 100,000. Under the original program it was intended tc call out not to exceed 860,000 mcr dluring 1918. The call for 110,000 ir April and 233,000 this mouth will bring out in two months half of the number originally contemplated foi the year. Officials made it clear thai it is now the purpose to mobilize all the men for whom equipment and training facilities can be provided. Need All Camps. In preparation for this tremendous increase In the army, the house military committee was told thai every existing cantonment in the country will be enlarged and every national guard camp utilized to ite full capacity. It is regarded as probable that some new cantonments must be built, but in the interests of speed and economy of effort and material, pressure will be placed upon expanding existing facilities. Ground S^^ ^.^otTaiKed" in the vlcinity of several cantonments for the expansion and details of the new construction are being worked out by the general staff. In connection with the exclusion ol three states, and the District of Columbia from the May call, officials explained that an effort Is being made to balance accounts among the various states preparatory to the application of the new quota basis when congress has approved that measure. The men called out this month will be mobilized generally at the cantonments to which the men from the same states have previously been sent. In many cases they will find the divisions originally created at those camps gone. Some of the camps will have been converted into replacement divisions, and the new men will be redistributed in accordance with their qualifications. To Fill Divisions at Home. It is regarded as likely that the April and May drafts will be used largely to fill up divisions at home while the seasoned personnel from those divisions is 9ent overseas to fill the gaps. Since the number of divisions on the other side is rapidly and steadily increasing, the flow of replacement troops must increase proportionately. A new draft of the annual army appropriation bill, providing for the needs of 3,000,000 men under the $13,000,000,000 program will be laid before the house military committee when it reassembles Monday. Secretary Baker, Major General March chief of staff and other officers, apDenred at the committee's executive session, discussing the estimates tc carry out the immediately forseen wai work. The apportionment among the states of the men called include: Alabama, 6,820 to Camp Sevier, S. C. North Carolina, 8,114 to Camp Jackson, S. C. Pennsylvania, 7,700 to Camp Mead. Md., 4,000 Camp Lee, Va.; St000 Camp Humphreys, Va.; 2,923 Camp Greenleaf, Tenn. South Carolina, 1,900 Camp Jackson. S. C.; 288 Camp Wadsworth S. C. Tennessee. 4,130 Camp Pike, Ark. Virginia, 6,135 Camp Lee, Va. West Virginia, 4,797 Camp Lee, Va. New York, 6,800 Camp Dix, N. J.; 6,850 Camp Hancock, Ga.; 7,600 Camp Upton, N. Y.: 9,700 Camp Wadsworth, S. C.; 1,380 Camp Sevier, S. C. "There is but one question before the American people today, and that Is to win the war," said former President William Howard Taft, at Greensboro. X. C.. Saturday. "In order to win the war It is necessary that the government as quickly as ponible coordinate all activities to this end. The people of America might aa well face the fact that this war will last three and perhaps Ave years longer, and that supremacy in man power will be deciding factor." Keeping Up the Payments.?Mrs. j&iby?"Does your husband ever get behind with his alimonyT" Mrs. Golltely?"No. indeed! I've ihreatened to go back to him instanty if he did."?Judge. STORY OF BONO SALE How vaiiace Moore Got a soog From Geraldloe Farrar. PAID $1,000 IN ACTUAL CASH Interesting Newspaper Stones of Quite a Pleasant Incident that Occurred in New York Not Long Ago When the Famous Prima Dona Was Helping the Liberty Loan. Although any one can hear r.eraldine Farrar sing for a reasonable sum paid at the box office, it costs $1,000 in Liberty bonds to have the famous prima donna lead you by the hand to the piano, and then croon to you soft ! and low. while an envious crowd strains its ears to hear. At least that is what it cost Wallace Moore, a prominent young planter of C'heraw, to get the experience, according to Xew York newspapers. Following is 1 an account of the affair gleaned from three of the leading Gotham Journals. The Sun tells It thusly: Enter the Heroine. I "Miss Farrap stood up before the crowd and let her well-known voice out in "The Star Spangled Banner' as a reminder to those who heard that they had a duty to perform. Her mother, who chaperoned her, 1 stood by and held Sniffles Tcllegen (Miss Farrar's dog), and the star's fur coat, although she disapproved of Geraldlne's taking off the coat and said it would certainly mean her 'death of cold.' " 'Pshaw, what do I care for the old voice? I can't sing in my coat!' exclaimed the star. "Enthusiastic applause greeted the song which so fascinated the traffic t cop at the corner that he ceased his > efforts to keep Fifth avenue clear and ' let traffic clog, while the chauffeurs s and cabmen who had been swearing a I minute before just sat still and drank in the golden stream of melody. Then i followed a financial golden stream. The last inspiring notes had barely . died away when a prosperous looking i man who said his name was Max LowL cnthal, of 30 East Forty-second street, I worked his way forward through the ; dense throng and said he was proud i to buy $25,000 worth of bonds from i Miss Farrar, who had given htm some happy nights at the movies, and here was the money down. T "So the sale started with eclat, a ( $1,?00 bond to Sniffles Telegen, five ) $1,000 bonds to his mistress and tweni ty-flve $1,000 bonds to Max Loweni thai, and it went right on with a I swing. Miss Farrar and Sniffles were i escorted to the table In the back of the tiny theater, where the songstress unl dertook to sell the bonds, sign the npI plications and hand out one of her 1 autographed photos to each buyer of a $100 bond. "But the crowd that had filled Fifth , avenue Immediately surged up the . steps to the entrance of the library, t apparently harboring the delusion that > 10,000 persons could get Into a tent , meant for a table and five persons, i Loud cries of alarm from Miss Julia , Arthur, of the state woman's war , work relief, and eleven Boy Scouts > rent the air. So Miss Farrar went , back to the front of the theater and ; the crowd surged down to the street. I "Then the prima dona " Jhflt S.Vu Ile1t> any' man Intending to ] buy a bond right over the top with , her own hands. The 'top' was the , three-feet high barricade between the theater and the terrace, and so many , imploring palms were stretched out to M iss Farrar that It looked as if the ! whole immense throng was a school , and they were all trying to say something to the teacher. "The diva hoisted a few male heavyweights over the top, when a gallant cavalier from the south, D. W. Moore, of South Carolina, leaped up all by himself, stating that he would scorn to let the lady help htm, but wouldn't she please sing that right pretty, patriotic song once more? Because if she would he'd take $1,000 worth of bonds. "The crowd pressed forward Joyously, scenting more music; but Miss Far' rar was too clever for them. " 'No.' she said, smiling Into the eyes of the blushing southerner, 'this Is all for him, because he has bought the 1 bond to pay for It." ' "Then leading Mr. Moore by his 1 hand to the piano, she sai down and played her accompaniment, and sang ' The Star Spangled Banner' low and sweet so that only Mr. Moore could hear It. "Well, It was a great day at the public library. Sniffles Tellegen went home entirely denuded of the red. white and blue ribbon he wore to the sale, for his admirers had demanded bits of it to such an extent that he had been forced to give every inch of it away." According to Ths Tribune. "Fifth avenue was closed to traffic in front of the public library yesterday noon, and all wise personages who , thought to sit on top of a 'bus and see Geraldine Farrar at the Libertytheatre were carried through on Madison avenue us mad as wet hens. "Ten cents was Just wasted. Noth' ing less than 150 was of any use at all. With $60, however, one could pur1 chase a smile from the prima donna, an application for a Liberty bond, ' made out by her own fair hands, and ' a Liberty button pinned on by the same. For $100 one became the proud possessor of an autographed photograph. "It was a young man from South Carolina. D. W. Moore, who really spent his money to some effect, however. "It was after Miss Farrar had auctioned off her signed photographs to 1 everyone In the crowd who had $100, ' that the young man edged his way to a place below the little white platform, hung with laurel wreaths where 1 the stars of the theatrical and mai sical world have been giving their services to the Liberty Loan Committee of the Stage Woman's War Relief Fund. "I'll buy a $1,000 bond, if you'll sing again," said he. "Right!" said Miss Farrar. "Come right up." "There was no way to go around, for the crowd was packed tight around the little theatre, so Miss Farrar put down her tiny Pekinese and gave the young man a band 'over the top.' The cheers that rose then from the delighted crowd brought about ten thousand more people on the run, but they couldn't hear a word of what followed. " This man has paid one thousand , $ dollars to hear me sing,' cried Mi Farrar. turning to the audience, 'at you folks haven't anything to do wli it. I'm going to sing for him alone. "She took the young man by tl hand and led him to the piano at tl back of the stsvge, where she sat dow on the battered old piano stool ai sang in her lowest, softest tones Tl Star Spangled Banner.' "The young man will be a hap] young man until he meets up wl one Max Lowenthal, who bought twenty-five thousand dollar bond fro Miss Farrar first thing, before all tl accessories had been thought of, ai walked off with nothing but a Farr smile to distinguish him from all tl unromantic people who buy the twenty-five thousand dollar bonds banks. As The Mail Saw It. "The happiest man in New Yoi today is D. W. Moore, a cotton plan er, of Cheraw, S. C. "He was in front of the Public I brary when announcement was mai that Geraldine Farrar would sing f any one who bought a 11,000 Liber bond. "Mr. Moore nearly tore the linii out of his waistcoat in his haste get his wallet out. "Miss Farrar sang for him and th< at the suggestion of some one, tl great songbird and the southern posed and had their pictures taken. "Mr. Moore, in showing his respe for Miss Farrar, bowed so many tlm us he was about to depart that he hi a difficult time in getting his bac bone straight again. "But his smile was on Btralght, i right." GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Record of Current Happenings Cc lected from Various Sources. One hundred and twenty-eight U. officers and men of the Americi expeditionary rorcesin r ranee, woun ed in action or ill, arrived at an A (antic port, Saturday en route to th< homes. All are in fine spirits and s they envy the Americans now goii over for a crack at the Germans. A Berlin wireless dispatch to At sterdam, says that Maximilian Hurdt Councillor Witting and Theodor Wo will be prosecuted along with Prin Lichnowsky. The trial of Prin Lichnowsky, German ambassador London ut the outbreak- of the wi for writing and allowing to be pu lished a long memorandum assaili: the German government and tial blaming Germany's provocative poll for having caused the war, promts to be a most sensational event The decomposed body of a you; woman as yet unidentified, was u covered Friday, five feet beneath t cellar flooring of the former Hlghlai Park home of Hclmuth Schmidt, t "Bluebeard" suicide of Royal Oa Mich., who is suspected to have sla many women. The authorities belie the body to be that of Irma Pallati us, a member of the Schmidt hous hold who disappeared shortly befo Schmidt married Helen Tlsta, a N< York milliner. "If there are not enough men t tween the ages of 21 and 31 to w the war, the age limit will be chang< and men of 40 to 50, if need be, w respond to the colors." ThlB was t statement of Secretary of the Na *L>,rhiefS Tn an addreee' before t Chamber of Commerce of Philadt phia lust Friday, "There must be i limit to the man power which Amei ca must put In the war. the secreta 11? i I;i rod. He said the SDirit of tl government at Washington was send every man within the ages fix< by the law as rapidly as ships cou carry them and carry them supplies. Governor Cox of Ohio, on Saturdi sent communications to ull Ohio ma ors and city solicitors and coun sheriffs and county prosecutors, orde ing that tramps and vagrants be mai to register at the nearest employme agency, with the alternative of payli a fine or going to the workhouse. Tl communication was in line with tl governor's recent proclamation cal ing upon every Ohloan to work. ' vagrant In war times is not necessai ly one who is unkempt or ill-clad the letter stated. "Idleness furnish a workshop for the kaiser. Ohio h no time for the industrial paraBlte." Ships capable of carrying 2,00< 000 tons a year to Europe are bell held out of the interallied shlpph program by Interests involved in no essential shipments. While eve corner of the world is being scour for vessels to carry the millions Americans so badly needed in Euro and pledged to the cause by Seer tary Baker, it is learned that tl shipping board is having the greatc difficulty in securing the craft of ce tain persons and firms. Among tl ships being held back are the vess< of a fruit line, which claims banana business Is a war essential. In Surry county, N. C., superi court, Saturday, Chairman J. J. Wi lace, of the county coramlssione: plead guilty to a secret assault and t Judgment of the court was that tl defendant buy $1,000 worth of I berty bonds, and deposit same wi the clerk of the court; give $100 the Red Cross and the same amou to the Y. M. C. A., and, also resign a member of the county commlssio era, with agreement that he shou never fill that office again. Evlden disclosed that the aasault grew out an argument over the war, Walla expressing himself in strong langua against the American government The greatest battle of the age* lr pends on the Western front, Waahln ton military experts predicted Frlda The full reserve of the allies and tl enemy, it was stated, have been drav up in preparation for the tremendo struggle. It is estimated that the Oe mans have available 2,650,000 me Against this number, it is said, tl allies will be able to throw In at lea 2,675,000. The brunt of the flghtli will occur along the 50-mlle fro with Amiens as Its pivotal point, tl line of battle extending all the wi from the sector north of Tpres to point Booth of A r men tires. And b cause the German army must go fo ward If it is to save itself, and becau Its present position will not long r main tenable, prediction la made th the gigantic battle will be fully und< way within a few days. Weeks mj be consumed and longer before a di cislon is reached. War Bread in the Scriptures^"War bread" is far from being a ne measure to conserve food resource The children of Israel when they d< as fended Jerusalem against selge, were id advised by Ezeklel to utilise every poach slble means for supplementing their wheat supplies, and that was more He than 2.400 years ago. A writer has reae vived Ezekiel's recipe as follows: >'n "A thirteenth century commentator, id David Kimochl, drew attention to the he verse in Ezeklel which said. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and P>' beans, and lentils, and millet, and th fitches, and put them in one vessel, a and make the bread thereof.' The m prophet,' commented Kimochi, thus he warns the disobedient children of id Israel that during the selge of Jeruar salem they will no longer be able to he make bread with pure wheat, but they Ir will have to mix with it all kinds of at grain and vegetables with which flour is not made unless extreme need makes It necesasry to do so.' What rk ever Ezekiel may have meant by his '** advice to the children of Israel, he furnished a recipe for war bread *'* which is pretty certainly the oldest extant-in the world. David Klmchl's or comment is 700 years old and Ezekiel ty wrote 1,700 years before Kimchi." 18 To Locate Submarines.?Leading to place in the largest issue of Col. Geo. Harvey's War Weekly is given to the in paragraph: he "We have the distinguished prlvler lege and supreme satisfaction of announcing that the problem of loeatict ing the exact position of a submarine es from a ship, at a distance which for id obvious reasons cannot be mentioned, k- has been solved by American Inventive genius. This is not a guess based ill upon experiment. It is a fact demonstrated by actual experience. While the contrivance does not presage the complete extirpation of the pest, it does virtually guarantee Its ultimate ,1. elimination as a material force in piratical warfare." g' Aside from the cheer which so asan sured a statement carries there Is the added benefit of a bit of encouragement where censorious gloom too ;jr habitually broods. a* Curtailment of Automobile Producng tion.?Washington dispatches that the war industries' board contemplates a n" 75 js-r cent curtailment of automobile production indicate that the governntent has finally begun to distinguish ce between essential and non-essential ce manufacturing. The trade is skeptlin cal of such drastic action and hopes ir, that it may be accomplished in easy b- stages so as to permit the substitution ng of war work for pleasure car building with as little disturbance to labor and factory routine OS possible. Thus cy passenger car makers may be ordered its to decrease their output from the present 30 per cent of normal schedule to 50 per cent and then to 75 per ng cent, which will accordingly enlarge n- the nntion's manufacturing facilities . for necessary military supplies. The importance of cutting down the id production of new pleasure cars is he that It will permit these concerns to i, increase their munition output, thus ' releasing many steel mills and other ,n plants for other important war work, ve Automobile factories are well cqulpn, ped for the manufacture of airplane motors, ordnance gun carriages, tracIe* tors and simllnr products, many of ire whi.-h are now being turned out by the ,w smaller steel companies, whose facility s are limited for the quuntlty production required. >e. There will be no attempt to inter. fere with the motor truck business, the majority of which is for army purid, poses, and some 90 plants are now ill making the "Liberty truck" at the . rate of 1,500 a month, which will be increased to 2,500 in May and 3,000 in vy June. he The fact that some of the largest American auto manufacturers, such as ' " the Ford, Packard and Studebakcr no companies are already giving governrl ment work 50 per cent of their factory ry capacity, shows the Industry as a whole will be able to adjust Itself to c the new Federal requirements when to officially told to do so.?Commerce and cj Finance. MATURED TO MANHOOD l>" American Boys Now Take Things Sey riously. ty Hack in the training camps one day, r- writes a correspondent from the Amer ue tcan iront, an American major buhi nt peevishly: ig "I can't get these boys of mine to tie take this war training seriously. They tie play at everything. Now. Just notice II- that boy yoniler going through bay'A onet exercises. He's not content with i- merely sticking the dummy but he InI.. sists on trying to cut it In two. He's ' ground his bayonet to a razor's edge ^ just for the fun of the thing." as These same boys are now holding the front trenches. Their transformation is truly wonderful. Horse-play has absolutely disapag peared, and every lad as he looks out over No Man's Land on the German rl? trenches only a few hundred yards n- away, seems to feel that the entirely responsibility of the war rests on his . shoulders. ea Overnight, almost, he has become a of cautious, sober, conscientious soldier, pe he NO SEASON FOB IT sst r. When York Citizon Shows a Way. he There can be no reason why any . reader of this who suffers the tortures 519 of an aching back, the annoyance of its urinary disorders, the pains and dangers of kidney ills will fail to heed the words of a neighbor who has found relief. 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