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I EUROPE [MS DIRE FOOD AND | I FUEL SHORTAGE! " < Inadequate Supply of Heat Expected to Cause Much ! Sufferina. 1 w ] HCW THE FKMT STffiBS People Have Less to Eat This Winter F Than Last, Is Belief?Two Fodder Discoveries?Disaffection in Austria. * i ?? London.?Europe is going to lead the simple life this winter and for a long time thereafter. There is not a country that does not now realize the real danger of extreme food shortage. > But food shortage is not the only or t in most cases the worst of the men- I aces. The nations face and realize as * never before the exhaustion of all nec- i essary supplies. Although food will be i 2? -11 2?r ...l?1 4 scarce 111 un cuuu tries, wuemer ufing- i I ercnt or neutral, it is doubtful whether 1 k that will impose as much hardship on f P people as the shortage of fuel, writes Judson C. Williver in the New York a Sun. s In Europe's climate food is fuel to t the body quite as much as it is nour- I ishment. Sharply restricted supplies i of food, and that of a doubtful qual- 3 ity and^oor variety, might be endured c if there were plenty of fuel. It is ( wben the supply of fuel, both outside i and inside, falls below the necessities of physical effort that people begin t to suffer. / r Europe has neither carbon for its i L food nor carbon for its fireplaces, and ^ A ia some respects the northern neutrals t j are even worse off than the belliger- c % eats. Rations of important food nec- t |fe essaries have been reduced by some of t P* them even below the amounts allowed i la Germany. England is by far the best supplied country in the matter of I am? on+fn?nHoc ora mntinc i 1VUU) auu LUC uuiuvnuvu U4 V u>u.u.us desperate-efforts to make the-popula- t tien, realize that rationing will soon r be compulsory unless food consump- r tkra is considerably reduced. The food r authorities have announced a policy c of accumulating sufficient Reserve to t feed thfe country for three months, i even if no imports shall be received A during this time. 1 Question of Shipping. In the case of England it is entirely t a Question of shipping. Big stocks of r L food have been gathered in Australia, c W New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, * but there are no ships to bring them r here. England is probably better situ- * ated in the matter of coal supplies r ban nnv other country, but must di- < vide with its ajlies, France and Italy, < and so far as possible some of the neutrals hope to be taken care of from the r English mines. c The 6erman food situation is puz- r zling. Apparently the authorities are ' ncrt nearly so confident about it as they f ^ would like the public to believe. The ) year's harvest turned out more sat- fl P isfactory than seemed probable dur- f f ing the period of droughts and hail- f storms in midsummer, but on the oth- -t m er hand reserves were heavily drawn r W upon before the harvest of 1917 was t gathered. Reserves, indeed, may fairly be said to have disappeared. 1 The carefullv cultivated official un- i PRINCESS JEANNE * < ;" " 'i ? 1 t^mmmk >' ' , if* : # \ 1 / % : i i 1 X: . v :vX-< >X\v. ||V. j ^ T T>rin/*occ .Toflnnft. VnnnSTftSt XiibUV * AAUVVI^M v y o member of the Italian royal family, photographed while on a visit to wounded soldiers recently, returned from the Italian battfefront. The princess is ono^ of the most popular mender of the king's family, espedally with the Italian public/ She is idolized by the soldpry. derstanding in Germany is thfit there will be a better fcod supply this winter than last. The specific statements justifying this expectation are highly unsatisfactory. The Munich Medical anion has declared that there will be less food, except potatoes, this winter than last. Throughout Germany there is apparently a pretty general belief that this is true, and widespread demand is vr?ced for an in:reas6 in the allowance of potatoes. In Germany, as in England, the immediate result of the harvest was -Teat increase in the marketing of pn;atoes with the consequence that in nar>y places there were not storage ?acilities to take care of them. The 'ear is expressed that a not inconsiderable portion, of the potato yield will he .vasted, partly because of overconsump:ion in the agricultural areas and party from inadequacy of storage facili:ies. So from many German authorises comes the warning that despite a >ig yield of tubers the coming winter s likely to see conditions quite as bad regarding them, and worse as to many )ther things than Iastrwinter. Ominous Suggestion. The ominous suggestion is made by ;ome of the German food authorities hftt it will not do to be* too free with potatoes, because later it will be necessary to mix more potato flour with ce eal flour to stretch the supply. Also is there was a short crop of fodder hroughout the country potatoes are ikely to be required to feed domestic mimals. <0 The fear of such an event has caused TM/]Ar.nMAn^ ^Atr?nr?/1 fliof mnrCk T"> AffC ha t> I Vitrei CClLl lit?UlClllll L1-1CX. c UlViV iiV/j-,0 i/V ;laughtered that they may not require o be fed with potatoes that the peo)le will need. The number of hogs n the country has been increasing this rear, and the fact gives concern be ause the pig Is an active competitor >f a munition worker or anybody else n the matter of food requirements. German authorities have determined hat beyond providing a moderate meat ation the transmutation of vegetable nto animal food is a dangerously vasteful process. So there is an effort o induce farmers and village dwellirs to restrict the number of hogs md cattle to the point where it will >e just possible to raise the absolutely lecessary meat ration. The relation of the general economic >reakdown to agriculture is indicated n both England ana Germany by mat- ' ers affecting the supply of agricultural nachinery. In Germany there is a nost serious shortage of all kinds of igrigultural tools and machines, bemuse the old ones have worn out and here is neither metal nor manufacturng capacity to provide new ones. In England the complaint particulary concerns the supply of motor plows. The government long ago promised hat thousands of these would be furlished in time to put a greatly in reased acreage in cereals under cultivation in 1918.- Now when the fall lowing season is on it develops that vant of shipping or other reasons have >revented the delivery of anything like m adequate number of these machines. A Dresden physician who is quoted is an authority, lifts recently die :ussea the German food situation as egards the requirements and supplies >f various elates of consumers. He inds that children up to eight ears of age are receiving a reasontbly satisfactory ration, but the imount allowed to those f^om eight to 'ighteen is utterly insufficient and that he shortage seriously threatens the )hysical vitality of the next generaion. I Some of the German jurisdictions rnve recently announced thnt nevviy narried couples will be granted a ?nnhlA fnnrl nllmvnnrn for the first Six veeks of their married life! Elsevhere provision has been made to louble the food allowances of nursing md expectant mothers. Two Fodder Discoveries. The effort to find fodder for animals . las started the professors on many nvestigations and inquiries. Doctor 3egen, director of the seed testing staion in Budapest, claims to have discovered two valuable articles of fodler. He writes: i "The searush (Bolboschaenus mari:imus) was known, as regards the part ibove ground, as a fodder equal in ralue to straw. Recent experiments lave, however, shown that the tubers growing on the roots underground are ar more valuable. They come very near to the horse chestnut in the iraount of raw protein, raw fat and nnntonis without Iht1 bittlTnCSS. [f they are used for Hie manufacture of spirits the wash, either wet or Jried, can also be used for fodder. "The pond bullrush (Schaenoplectus lacustris) also contains a valuible underground orsan. The horizontal roots, containing a jrreat quantity :>f starch, form a jrood concentrated fodder. If used in distilleries the ivash is not so valuable as that f^oni ihe searush. But in a time of need t is a raw material that can be used for various purposes." Milk famine confronts all Europe. The situation has lon^ been bad, and ^rows steadily worse everywhere. There is constant and increasing conflict between the various state and municipal authorities dealing with the food question thro^hout Germany. In rhis regard the German situation is :nuch more complicated and difficult to handle than the English. The state and municipal governments in Germany are very jealous of rheir authority in their respective jurisdictions, and the federal authorities !are not or canno? impose universal -egulations upon them. In Saxony ar ar.gements have been made to reimburse farmers who would import from >ther cows ar.d heifers in calf, banners niacin? such purchases will receive a premium of 20 oer cent ot JAPANESE DUILD jj: 250 SHIPS A YEAH j; Tokio.?Japan is able to build j ships a year, their tonnage j totaling 1.000.01)0, according to | I a government statement. The ! shipbuilding business of .Tap:m j lias had Jin unprecedented i growth since the beginning of lilt? Will, illiU UII Ol'l'IVMilil'l 1 there were li.*? shipbuilding ; slins owned bv -12 linns, besides i i '24 slips which <*>re building nnd wif! be ready before liie end of the yenr. These facilities are : more than thro? times as great ! i :?s :it the beginning of the war. ! Ei?ch slip is capable of turning | out a ship of more than 1.000 j tonnage in less than a year. a? ? ? =?j the price pi!id, not to exceed SCO marks. This arrangement has caused violent complaint because the prices! .of butter and milk are already fear-1 fully hicrh and the consumers complain ! that th N farmers are making immense j profits from producing them. From Frankfurt comes the report that at present milk deliveries in that j o1\Aiif IliACA y il\ 4liii"iaJO L*/ cii/vsui wm viAiu CAAV/O^ , of ponce times. Receipts sc;. reply suf-j fice to take care of the privileged customers^ invalids, nursing and expectant motliers, and so forth. A large' shiire of what is actually obtained is j produced by the municipal authorities ! from their municipal dairies and j farms. It has been a very expensive; method, yet the sifuntion is so bad! that the town has decided to extend ; it still further. Dissatisfaction in Austria. German speaking Austria has long, been jealous of the comparatively favorable food situation in Hungary, and recently the disaffection has become acute. It is charged that Hungary is j feeding herself bountifully and leaving; the rest of the empire to shift as it! can_ For whatever Hungary is will-1 ing to send into the German speaking; regions outrageous prices are charged, j and the subject has been discussedi with painful frankness in the Jegisla-1 tive bodies of both states. It was said that recently lard from j Hungary had been sold in Austria at j nearly eight times the price it would i have cost in Hungary. The same gen- j eral situation prevails as to many oth-! er Hungarian food supplies. The Hungarians complain with equal j ? 1 ~ -- AV/.ACC l T-Q } r; cur mm iik\v air umi^cu cav-cooi?^ i pr, js for all manufactured articles! produced in Austria. The two gov- ! ernments have been trying to agree j upon a general policy of leveling down the prices of both. But at this point they are confronted by the same diffi-; culty which has been so many times experienced in Germany; no system of j price control will stretch inadequate j supplies to the point of adequacy. In Holland the state's control is be- i ing extended to almost all food sup- j plies. There are indications that the! ot'c-foTYi ?? ^ninrr tr? Ha estflb- ' 1 OJ OlX'ili ?mf\s+ vv WW | lished before winter shall have far ad- i vanced. The u.^e of fat and margarine i by bakers and confectioners and by hotels, restaurants and clubs in preparing food has been prohibited. The; government has guaranteed prices for i wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc. As to crops not available for food j the areas that may be planted have been strictly limited; in some cases to not more than 40 or 50 per cent or \ the plantings of normal years. A premium has been offered for increased i areas of land nnder the plow. The government is going to requisition the entire crop of sugar beets, the factories will convert them into sugar, and this will be turned over to the government at a fixed price for distribution. The price demanded of the public will not /i be increased. .? Although Denmark is, in proportion to area and population, one of the greatest agricultural producing and exporting countries in the world, it is now confronted with shortage of almost everything. The country's butter production has decreased alarmingly, and there is a demand for rationing. The government is undertaking to subsidize the production of butter so as to reduce prices; that is, to apply to butter practically the same rule that was applied to bread in England. The English Avrninont :s subsidizing bread to 11;<> "Xteru of about $40,000, 000 a year, thus making it possible to sell the English loaf of war bread for four and one-half cents. In Norway the government and the local food authorities arc working to perfect a rationing system in time td save the country from disaster this winter. At Ohristiania a big scheme foi scoring reserves of food has been worked out and some - "> warehouses in various parts of the city are being stocked. Umler a law passed J.ast May the government has estabished a monopoly of the import of wneat, barley, oats, rye, beans, peas and lentils and other grains and neal used for human food except rice and potatoes. Clawed by a Hawk. St. Marys, O.?Clawed some time ago in a fight with a chicken hawk, Ben H. Strasburg, forty years of age, married and residing in the Ferguson ^ ' /15r.n Ki a/1 nrlfh HIAAH M'ilUUi UldUl^l, Ui^UUlUU U l 111 Viwu poisoning affecting one of his hands. The hawk was killed. It measured four feet between wing tips. Damages for Being Called Traitor. St. Louis.?John H. Boyer has been awarded $1 actual and $200 punitive damages from Gus V. It. Mechin. who tried to force Boyer to stand while "The fc'ffv-Spangled Banner" was be in? played. Rover testified that he was called a traitor and assaulted. i mm assfc Tim* LuUft lint Im i , Painters Disaiiiss Craft to De ? ? ^ - -- ceive Foe Lurking in Enemy Waters. ! / UHHFLU? S IS RJHT j ! i: i s Even Dreadnaughts Made to Appear as Something but the Monstero ! | Thev Are?Navy Men Like 9 " I Gray the Best. I _____ i By J. M. DAIGER, Correspondent Chicago New-. Norfolk, Va.?"And what is that old tub lyin? over there, captain?" "That happens to be a brcnd nert tornedo boat destroyer that has just arrived to bo manned and put Into immtiliista eorvino " The thing that made me call the new destroyer an old tub is the thing that makes the commander of a German U-boat look through his periscope and remark: "A line morning, but not a sh;p in sight." If the next instant finds the submarine bnnked straight rdown into Davy Jones' locker, it is be- \ cause the commander failed to launch a torpedo at the "fine morning" and because the "fine morning" got in its shot first. It is the naval camouflage?the painting of ships to look at a short distance like what they are not and at . T1 11.} .1 ?11 a long distance hkc uoimug m an. Eve:i a Superdreadnaught. Impossible as it might seem to make superdreadnaughts appear anything but the monsters they are, there are nevertheless processes of camouflage for them. It is obvious that details as to what designs are being used on various types of ships are not for pul^ lication, especially in view of the fact that experimental scnemes ior naving ships -sail in false colors?not under them?are constantly being tried out. I saw one of the largest of the naval colliers, which has several times crossed the Atlantic since America's entry into the war, that had a very simple scheme cf camouflage in which only grays were used. Simple in conception and execution, apparently, but it had an amazing effect on the appearance of the ship a short distance 1 -e "U ? i HZ clLili li uiil WJLiilL liapjLlCllCLi <x i | that short distance I have no dotibt the collier was lost to the eye when it got inuoli farther away. The older naval officers incline to the opinion that the regulation navy gray by itself is better than any camouflage that the artists have invented, nnd they are frankly skeptical about these riots of coin?, and freak designs that the scientific application of one J ^ an Y*i-r\rr AVQf? +Vl Ol t* 3 U1 IJJC UliC ill kO lO cuJLaiiug vitt lu^ti ships. The camouflage used by a great many merchantmen is familiar to everyone who has observed the shipping in the harbors along the Atlantic coast ? These vessels close up look like scrambled rainbows or like the palette of an artist in his cups. The weather has much to <'o with the power of J these gay colors to create optical illu- js sions. | It is almost impossible for people | living comfortably in large cities to ? .'imagine the hardships which the men ' who watch our coasts are suffering at this time of year. Twenty degrees below zero in the Rocky mountains if not so cold as the weather around th? capes. The government has supplied the hundreds of mt*n on the patrol boats, the submarine chasers and the mine sweepers with their allotment of winter clothing, but they need knitted articles. Sometimes Must Let It Sink. Should disaster overtake a ship the , rules in the district office at Norfolk < say the first consideration must be the | war needs of the country. One vessel j must not risk danger to save another. 5 The conservation of ships and of men, | not the chivalry and the courage and the heroism of the sea, must guide the ^ decision of those who would save a ^ shipwrecked crew. If the number of j lives involved is very great?great I enougn to jusury ine risn 01 u smauci 4 number of lives?then the rescue may j be attempted. But if there is doubt <j that a reseu; n? party will itself return from a perilous journey to save a small j number of lives, then the war time rule j Is firm. a Early every morning the ships go j out in pairs, sister ships, with their ; huge "broom" stretched across from j one vessel to the other, to make clear j the path for the merchantmen and j warships that must pass through the j capes and out to sea and for those that ' come in during the day. Do they find j any German mines? I dorft know. But if there are German mines to be j found near our coasts, the work of i the mine sweepers is a risky business j Indeed. Even if there are no German mines, I suppose it is quite possible for an American mine?there are thou- j sands of them planted in the district? I to break loose from the great mine field in Hampton Roads, or elsewhere, and drift in the way of unsuspecting ship. And there is always the possibility of the enemy within doing what . unceasing vigilance in the naval district is trying to prevent him from doing. ; Golfers Buy Sheep to Mow Links. j Arkansas City, Ark.?Combining pafrjof^rr .nd economy, i -rubers of th? Country clul> Iiaw piuviiMsort a tluck of to mow iiieir links. ' hie' Si.;1.to ( O;;::'11'.:"e ij. m ') * I i -.o.y ii p.n of !>eai:fort is visi'in^ his family J, h mHES^BK ^ Ks We a the use Exelcn^i JWiciRoCo., "f j ]food^3.n ^u^Extiento CuinL-so ? supply ?'r ' #? 4^b> Fmrrinff Pomade my hair %v.-.s I IllOIlGy. 43?BgL'' mjfts89ci7i short. Coarse and nappy. I aBSwf b!:t a<>wit has f?r<nratoS2 1 proport -'^5^5^ inches lonr. and is so soft nrir>oc HNK and ?ilky that I can do it * T WM& '"' OP any way 1 waut to. I t*',, _ rV\fs*V' "'-mP am eudiui; you u:y pic- ilo <L a\ -Wy 4ttr? 40 i:iow y?u bow safe; t 1 \ :' 'y pretty Exelcnto has made \ rit. sai.t.tk eekd. gram a.i __ -iCr6S ] Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. 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