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FOOD SHORTAGE IN I i FRANCE GROWING? at DENMARK AND SWITZERLAND ARE FACING A REDUCTION OF b? WHEAT RATIONS. w 1 111 WAR INSURANCE IS POPULAR ? he ar >AppKcations Near the Three Billion Mark?All Adult German Alien Ene- *a mies in United States Must Regis- ^ tor. "I jiFrem Committee on Public Information.) ai p( Washington.?According to the food administration, shortage of wheat in gl F/amce is becoming more and more V( alarming each week. The minister of general revietualing indicated recentlj that a further reduction of 20 per cent ^ in the bread ration would soon become m imperative. n( Denmark is now looking forward to ^ a reduction of wheat rations. Final ^ figures for the cereal harvest show a fj( total of about 62,000,000 bushels, which Is 20,000,000 bushels less tban in 191G . and about 10,000,000 less than was e<- }. timated in the summer, when tile pop- ^ Tilace was put on bread rations. The ^ authorities are already considering a further reduction in the allowed consumption. The food situation in Switzerland is er rapidly falling to the danger line. A ro ration that is far below the consump- ^ v or tion in many of the countries at war has already been ordered. Under the & new regulations the Swiss may have &1 only a pound and a half of sugar per person per month. The bread ration has been fixed at about half a pound T a day, and the butter ration at one- fa fifth of a pound a month. Applications for war-risk insurance by men of the army'and navy have se nearly reached the $3,000,000,000 mark, Sl and continue to come in at a rate of Ui about $60,000,000 a day. The average e: amount applied for per man is $8,630, le the average having increased steadily ?* since the act went into effect, Oc- fo tober 6. For persons who joined the colors oy before October 15, 1917, the last day tc for applying for government insurance is February 12, 191S. Intensive ef. forts are being made by commanding 1U officers to have all their men take in- c:; suranee before that date. The maximum amount which may C? be taken by any man is $10,600. ri ri Among the regulations for the regis tration of German alien enemies in me United States during the first week of February, are the following: All German males of the age of four>-teen years and upward are required *? to register. Notice of time and place ?* of registration will be given by pub- 1D lication in newspapers. NV The affidavit of etch registrant must al be accompanied by four unmounted s* cicrnoii PTOSS thft faOe ^ piiuiu^ia^nc, . ? so as not to obscure the features, and cl the finger prints of each registrant 111 shall be taken. r5 Between 10 and 15 days after registration each alien enemy must again L< appear before his registration officer 4i to obtain a registration card, which oi will bear his name and his left thumb st print. This card must be carried by fa the registrant for future identification, w An alien enemy who changes his ei place of residence to another place within the same registration district si must at once report the change to the pi registration officer. No alien enemy ti shall move out of the district without ti a permit. Application for a permit must he made upon a form furnished by the department of justice, giving c, fu!I particulars as to date, reason for tr change, and intended place of residence. m P?' To increase France's crops and to lighten the burden of toil on her old t. men, women and children 1,500 farm g tractors will go to that country from . ' the United States. The first hundred are already on the way, and the whole number will be in France by March, ? ? ^ in time for tne spring piowmg. space was provided for the first shipment on a naval transport. Schools ' of instruction will be organized. lue acreage sown to crops in the uninvaded portion of France in 1917 was about 10.000,000 acres less than a in 1913, or 24.4 per cent. The in- s< . creased production through the use of r tractors this year is expected to great- P ly improve the food situation. b /' According to records of the selective service, country boys do not show P much physical superiority over those r of the cities. For purpose of compari- n son selection was made of cities of r' 40,000 to 500.000 population, and a cor- 0 ' responding set of counties of the same toial size. In the physical examina; tions 2S.47 per cent of the city boys <> wve rejected, as against 27.9G per cent ? of the country boys. e i Theaters and restaurants in i?en! mark close at 10 p. m. to save lights, i To save kerosene, which is sold at a n I price regulated by the government at r : 72 cents a gallon, Greenland whale oil i ^is being tried for lighting. It is esti- f i mated 200,000 acetylene lamps are uow 1 | in process of manufacture. j The distillation of all kinds of a'co: hoi except for industrial uses is pro- < - * - ^ } i hitutea. a lanre part ui mc alcohol will be needed for use in tlie < .new incandescent lamps.- \i is c.sti- I -mated that 2.000 tons of jrraiu will bt ( enved hv the new regulations. i X The committete on public informs- , Dn has made the following transla- I jn of a story appearing in the Oc- | ber 15, 1917, issue of the Leipziger olkszeitung: "A sample of the fashion after nich bloated landlords treat the wives ! soldiers has been brought to our tention from Upper Langenau in lesia. One of the hired men of Docr Mueller's agricultural estate has * ?en for a long time at the front. His ife, who had worked alongside her lsband before the war after the usual istom, remained in the ranks of the jld hands and accordingly retained ^ ir farm cottage. October 1 this worn- 1 i got the following letter: " 'The undersigned baliff of the este hereby gives you notice as of this ite to the field service for January > 1918. On that day you are to give ) your liouse. The work which you e doing on the farm does not com?nsate the farm for the loss which ?crues to it through the continued ipport of your family. Look out for mrself away from this farm, your "* )use is needed for other use.' * "The woman communicated the notice 2 > her husband with these words: 'I f ust tell you my distress, soon I shall I )t be able to see the paper for my c ars. What shall I do? Winter is at i ie door and the cottage is full of lit- j t ^ y j v e uuiuiciJ. , ? "Thus the bailiff of the estate of a ,r oated landlord turns a family with j I ?ht children out of doors in midwin- I p r while the man is at the front. | a ominent takes care of itself." ? i1 War credits extended to foreign gov- s nraents since the United S'ates en- i i red the war total'' $4,230,400,000. Of J g lis Great Britain received .$2,045,000,- ! r K>: France, $1,2S*000.000; Italy, I i i00.000.000; Russia, $325,000,000: Bel- i j ura, $77.400,000; Serbia. $4.00j.000. It is estimated that 50,000 different j c tides are needed *in modern warfare. : t hp pinthinpr pnninment of but one in- ; r 0 _ n try in an for service in France m- z udes the following: s Bedsack, three wool blankets, waist g ilt, two pairs wool breeches, two wool E >rvice coats, hat cord, three pairs z imrner drawers, three pairs \\inter q awers, pair wool gloves, service hat, a stra shoe laces, two pairs canvas j r ggins, two flannel shirts, two pairs z \ shoes, five pairs wool stockings, ^ ur identification tags, summer un- c ?rsii: ^ts, four winter undershirts, J ?erec five shelter tent pins, shelter , t Hi pr xmcho, shelter tent. ^ I-Is j - "eating utensils" the in-1 ntryman ?ceives food to be carried J his haversack during field service, j mteen and canteen cover, cup, knife, j ^ ?rk, spoon-meat can, haversack," pack j ~ irrier, first aid kit and poach. Ills "fighting equipment" consists of jE fle, bayonet, bayonet scabbard, cartdge belt and 100 cartridges, steel helet, gas mask, and trench tool. ( i C ;1 To help increase the pork supply th? ? ?partment of agriculture has released j , - motion picture theaters, through one j ' the large companies, a film show- j ig the work of the boys' pig ciuds j hich the department is organizing in j 1 parts of the country. The film ; * lows methods *)f instructing farm | * )vs who have joined the agricultural ; 1 ubs how to raise better pigs and the ; ethods used by club members in car-; \ -ing out instructions. J < The first pig club was organized in i ouisiana in 1910. Now approximately 1 >,000 members are enrolled through- \ it the country. Clubs in several j ates are planning to send carloads of it hogs to fairs and stock shows, alter ( hich they are to be marketed co-op- : j atively. < Other moving pictures being used to \ low the importance of increased food 1 reduction sliow activities in the na- j onal forests, important sources of ] mber and water supply. ! ( t Athletic work in army camps and } intonments is in the hands of 32 ] ained organizers and coaches. They j re civilian aids on the staffs of cornlanding officers, and their salaries are ] aid by the government. ? Particular attention has been given s ) boxing, as it assists men in bayonet , phting. A committee of best-known ^ oxers worked out plans, and moving ictures to teach boxing have been f lade. Baseballs, bats, basketballs,, } nd soccer balls, boxing gloves, and ?* At?/v onnnl i Ciier equipujcui mc smpany, in part, from a government j ppropriation. i i Boys' and girls' clubs in Northern , nd Western states pledged for war erviee in gardening, canning, poultry . Eiising, and other emergency enterrises have more than SOO.OOO memers. I A fireproof solution for treating air- ( lane fabrics is a thing which may be ealized in the near future, expedients in a private plant having alpady developed a comparatively sue- , essful solution. The manuraciure auu cuuaumpuvn f pastry regarded as a luxury in 'ranee has been entirely suppressed, ( xeept on Sundays and holidays. Government barges have been placed n service on the upper Mississippi, nd through government assistance a iew fleet is lo be built for this servce. Sugar is being moved by barge rom Louisiana plantations to New Or- , eans. The winter of 191G-17 was the most lisastrous the range stockmen of the .Vest have ever known. The lamb -? ? A _ OA rrop for f.ie entire West was 10 to -u >rr v^:i below the average, and the ?alf crop was considerably below normal. SECMU (i:tiLiiS nvusKms HAS ARMY OF SUBSTANTIAL SIZE NOW IN FRANCE READY TO FIGHT. 1,500,000 MtN! 1ER ftRfflo Vnswers Critics of War Departme.it and Declares Such an Army Never Was Raised, Equipped and Trained So Quickly. Washington.?Every phase of the var department's preparations for >attle against Germany was outlined tnd defended by Secretary Baker beore the senate military committee, -le answered those who have critiised the department during the comnittee's investigation with the asser ion that no such army as that now inder the American flag ever had been aised, equipped or trained so quickv, and that never before had such >rovision been made for the comfort ind health of an army. The secretary read an exhaustive >repared statement when he took the itand and was not interrupted until t was concluded. Then questions bejan to fly from every side of the comnittee table, launching a cross-examnaticn that was not concluded at adournment. Chairman Chamberlain and other 'ommitteemen wanted to know paricularly about delays in furnishing nachine guns and rifles, and much ittention was devoted to the army's upply purchasing system. Mr. Baker idmitted that there had been some nistaVes and delays, but declared that ill fighting men in France were ade[uately equipped and armed and that ill/sent over would be. He took full esponsibility for delay in approving i machine gun holding that the ralue of the Browning gun now devel>ped was worth it. He also said the uper.or weapon obtained by having he British Enfield rifle recha^bered 'or American ammunition compensated for the delay there. More than 1,500,000 AmericansNare iow under arms, Secretary Baker aid, and an army of substantial size Llready is in France reidy for active lervice. Members of the committee were rank in their disanproval of the secret purchasing system of the department. They did not shake Mr. Biter's support of it, however.. WOMAN SUFFRAGE BARELY WINS IN HOUSE Washingtn.?Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment won In the house with exactly the required aumber of affirmative votes. While member1? in their seats and :hrongs in the galleries waited with 2ager interest, the house adopted by i vote of 274 to 136, a resolution proriding for submission to the states of ;he so-called Susan B. Anthopy amendnent for enfranchisement of women. Eut for the promise of Speaker Ulark to cast his vote from the chair !or the resolution if it was needed, the change of a single vote to the opposition would have meant defeat. Republican Leader Mann, who came trom a Baltimore hospital where he las been under treatment ever since congress convened, and Representa:ive Sims of Tennessee, just out of a sick bed and hardly able to walk to lis seat, brought the votes that settled the issue. : Advocates of the amendment had been supremely confident of the result in the house after President Wilson advised the members who called upon him last night to support. They vere so confident that the close vote was received with amazement, and some of the opponents were almost as much surprised. Announcement of the vote was greeted with wild applause and cheering. Women in the galleries literally fell upon each others' necks, kissing md embracing, and shouting, "Glory Glory, Hallelujah!" YANKEES AND BRAVES TO PLAY 10 SOUTHERN CITIES New York.?The New York Ameri can league toam will piay m ju souiusrn cities with the Boston Xationrrs and three games with the Brooklyn Nationals in Brooklyn during its twining season, it v. as announced here. The games wili start April 1 with Boston at 2Lacon. Ga.. and subsequent games at Dublin, Ga.', Augusta. Ga., Orangeburg, S. C., Columbia, Greenville. Spartanburg, Charlotte, N. C., Greensboro and ePtersburg. Va. Coal Famines at End. Washington.?The railroad situation has improved under government operation sufficiently to guarantee that there will be no further coal famine in any part of the country this winte*. Director General McAdoo was informed by A. H. Smith, assistant in charge of transportation on eastern lines. Local shortages will be inevitable uQd#?r existing condition, Mr. Smith said, but indications arc that ro important in dustnes vrm oe nwu w sum. u-vn because of lack of fuel. - ICUT OUT MIDDLEMEN ? ' > jgmk Mrs. Georgia June Pratt, well-known society woman of Chicago and Benton Harbor, Mich., is on the eve of organizing an anti-middle-man association as a result of hor gardening expert ii? TTiii* f"irni inct t'lU'i; in* 1IU51 11V 1 ?< j?.-* outside of Bnnton Harbor, produced some of the finest com to bo seen anywhere, corn which her friends were buying at 40 cents a dozen. Commission merchants offered her seven cents a dozen for lier product. She brought her story to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission in Washington and. was referred to Mr. Hoover to the answer. If he hasn't it she is detr-rmir'od to set satisfaction herself. OLD MILL AGAIN IN USE Only Water Mill Now in Operation in Country Grinds Out Wheat Flour. JeffersonviPe, Ind. ? Whole wheat flour is bein? manufactured at a mill in Clarke county which is 100 years old, and is said to be the only water mill now in operation in the country. The mill, which is three miles from . - * - ?A ? s ? 1-^ 4-V? a HTimnnl i Ufiariestown, is miuwu us mc iuuuu mill. It is so called because at a point! in Fourteen Mile creek a tunnel has j been cut through solid rock, 94 feet; below the summit of the hill it pene- j trates and the mill race is fed through! this tunnel, five feet wide and six feet high, to the overshot water wheel erected in the mill below. The mill is of frame, 50 by 85 feet in size, and the wheel has a diameter of 20 feet, though it is said there is room for ^ne of 26 feet. The tunnel is 300 feet long. It was built from 1814 to 1S17 by John Work, a Clarke county pioneer and mechanical genius, who with gunpowder and his rude bor ing tools, out two tunnels, one from each end, that met exactly in the cen- ' ter, the work costing him, it is recorded, $,?>,000. The mill has run practically ever since, and the grinding is done by big stone buhrs. CAUSE THIRD OF DEATHS Heart Disease, Tuberculosis and Pneumonia Are Most Fatal, According ' to Statistics. , ?- - 1? - it.; 1 ? I wasnington.?x\ eany a imru <jjl a million deaths reported to the United States during 1916 were caused by heart disease, tuberculosis and pneumoL.a. I Figures made public by the census bureau, predicted on vital statistics regarding 70 per cent of the country's population, show the deaths caused by heart disease numbered 114,171, tuberculosis, 101,396. and pneumonia, 98,834. Accidental deaths numbering 60,071 are ascribed chiefly to railroad and au " ? - ? J-- mi ? 1A1AO tomoone acciuems. xuere ?cie suicides last year. I ! < :] ^Reasons! b I Why you should use , J Cardui, the woman's ( tonic, for your troubles, L ^ ! k have been shown in |jfo^ j thousands of letters from actual users of this medi- 1 ^ j fcjv cine, who speak from , personal experience. If pft 1 the results obtained by L ^ j k other women for so many . ?fc years have been so uni- 1 ^ formly good, why not L 1 ^ give Cardui a trial? ^ ] (Tt 1 HffefTf! i i / , s ;; \A yj M H N 1 \ ' ? fc V A \ * ? f/ t \ JJ f :> V ._ * til L?Jt '< -? \ U tLijlI TM rh^ri,Q Trr'j1 T^j i si J wu. J 5 'lu.b ?. ^ Mrs. Mary J. Ir\ J*i. c Cullen, Va., writes: F?| 2 t x: "About 11 years a^o, I kj^ i r,j su.'i'cred untold misery Pik j\ cii \vi'>h female trouble, bear- I ^3 l ? 1' ir/j-down pains, heed- ^ S&I cchc, numbness ... I >0 ^ ^ '*4 would go for three weelis k, t Q''\5j almost bent double ... ' \ %i I "y husband went to Dr. ] k . ?j for Cardui . . . gk t *v^ A'.'.zt taking about two K 1 t3 I beran going ^ C V.^3 around and when I took v.Vv| three bo"!:g I could do jPv/^ '. : J aii r:;-work." E-SO , \r, a i. ^Sj I J i L XE'.VBKUilY MAN'S EXPERIENCE T Y C n you clouu tlie evidence of this h sevoj.ry citizen? j( Vt.'ii can verify Newberry endorse-. nert. s: I eod this: ? H. F. Addy. blacksmith, 120S Cald- ^ ell Si.. NewLerry, says: "A hard case p if t'.te ?rip left my kidneys in frightul shape. I had severe r.ain across ay loins an.l was laid up for two aonths. I coiudn't do a stroke of work. ^ ly kidneys were weak and the kid- " ey scretion were scantp and caused 1 burning sensation in passage, me erretions also contained sediment nd 1 had dizzy spells and headache3# * ? ? . 11 | | isk ' </; JL JL.~ ? counesy iu um. When a person by mistake you do nc ishly. On the contn acknowledgment of to lighten his embar erf or. Sometimes you < / i . i and you una tnat yoi to the telephone by n It is well at such the same courtesy tha have extended to you uation reversed and tionally become a tel< When you telep] SOUTHERN BELL TE AND TELEGRAPH ( Fish anc cuiu r Ferti. Labor will be scarce this ve; change and that makes it nece heavily so you can make full c ?nlti"varoH F-arm nroducts Vi v U 11i Uav/Ui ... r ~ year, prices that wiil justify ] and while Potash is high it wi You want good crops while pr have been made without Potai needing it and one per cent of ^n red tend. Potash is a medicine; it war the plants healthy and strong and strong it will grow and bl< ohnr.rlant nrons. There I i C4 V C U k/MAi ^ tween a healthy plant and a si tween a healthy pig and a sick returns are concened. Potash keeps your crops hea' he only ones that pay. Keej he prices are good. Make ?o vorth something. Strike whi We have the Fotash and dor v?n Pic'h Rlood Fertilizer. 11V> X IvJU ? _ md Blood and Potash gnods y n fertilizer. If you don't mat lot be the fault of the fertili )etter. And now, finally, wh< tnd prices for farm products a ilizer?make all you possibly ( rate. Fish and Blood and Pot ution of your farming trouble* ?ish and Blood and Potash ? :ome to see us. You know wl Anderson Phospli W. F. FARMEF he first box of Doan's Kilney P'wM olpetl n"?e nni afte" I ha1 taken six^B : oxes, all signs or kidney trouble had ^B ?*t and I was cured.'' * j Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't M ir.ipiy ask for a kidney remeiy?get^^B ioan's Kidney Pills?the same thaM Ir. Addy hal. Fo^ter-Milburn Cc^B 'roi s., Euffalo, N. Y. :|| x On and after Janizary 1st, ISIS, al^fl ersons sonanijr or bringing papers lor ecord will please let the recording fees ccompany the same. Respectfully, J NO. C. GOGGANS, 2-21 -tf "" Clerk ?f Court. )idden Callers enters your office ?t treat him churliry, your courteous jd his anolo^v helDS Jm ?r ov x rassment over the flH r telephone rings 1 have been called | listake. a time to practise it you would like to . were the same sit-* you had uninteiisphone intruder. bone?smile! ^ LEPHONE fW% COMPANY i 1 Rlnnnl lizer l ar unless there is a decided jssary for you to fertilize rops on the land you g*et ^ * ^ ^ ^ f Vvo in Drjng ?uuu putco hud /ou in fertilizing liberalljr 11 pay you to use some, ices are good. These crops sh and now gray Jands are Potash will help the crops ds off diseases and keeps J and when a plant is healthy I Dssom and fruit and you'll is as much difference be- Jm !cklv plant as there is be-m :ly pig, so far as profit If.hv and healthv crops aym ) the crops healthy whiie^B oc! crops when crops are^B !e the iron is hot. V l't you forget it, we have , When you get the Fish J ou get the best to be had 1 :e a crop with that it will ;; izer?for there is nothing^? 3n labor is scarce and hign fprB .1 C illiC UUii U O l/l IX U VJL1\- ^ :an on the land you cultSMj :ash goods may be the so-^H 5 this year. We have tbe^B ood*?ihey aie for sale? lere to find us. iate & Oil Co. Secretary. * >^|