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FOOD SHORTAGE.
LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR THE
NEXT SIXTY DAYS.
Says O^ly Solution is Greatly Increased
Rail Movement East to Exlusion
of Much Other Commerce.
Washington, Feb. 21.?The eastern
half of the United States faces a
food shortage likely to continue for
the next sixty days.
In making this disclosure tonight
Food Administrator Hoover declared
^ that the situation is the most critical
in the country's history and that in
many of tpe large consuming areas
reserve'food stores are at the point
jof exhaustion.
The whole blame is put by the food
administrator on railroad congestion,
which, he says, has also thrown the
food administration far behind in its
progress for feeding the Allies. The
only solution, he says, is a greatly
increased rail movement of foodstuffs
even to the exclusion of other commerce.
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McAdoo Ready to Cooperate.
,\v It was very evident tonight that
the railroad administration is inclined
to resent Mr. Hoover's blame
of the railroads, ahd Director General
McAdoo declared he was ready to
provide every transportation facility
for expediting food movement. The
railroad administration, he said, had
suggested that farmers be urged to
V. release their grain holdings that
large numbers of available cars might
be utilized in moving the crop.
Inability to move the crops, tyr.
Hoover sets forth, has suspended the
law of supply and demand and has
created a price margin 'between producer
and1 consumer. wider than it
was ever before.
Corn Spoiling.
A large part of the corn crop is
about to spoil because it is not. movr-v
^ ing to terminals for drying. The per.
W. centage of soft corn jn last year's
crop, all of which must be dried if it
is to be mov?d, is the largest ever
known. Estimates place the amount
. as high as a billion bushels.
The cost of grains for feeding live
stock has increased to such ah ex- i
teat by reason of transportation difflr
culties, Mrv Hoover says, that feed.
ere are confronted with the prospect
of serious losses. Dairying interests
* -tbo, he declares, are hard hit.
\ , Potatoes, the food administrator
declares, are spoiling in the pro...
1 ducers' hands, while consumers have
been supplied only from summer garden
crops and stores carried over.
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It .was a beautiful morning in Au
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gust, Lord Brackington was motoring
across the broad expanse of a
moor in Scotland. With him in the
?*" tho AhflnfPwir. were three
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ladies?his wife his wife's sistet
"v, and a - cousin. The , automobil/e
suddenly stopped. There was something
but of order with the mechan'V
r ism which could be adjusted in a
; ! few minutes; and as the chauffeur
>, , threw off his coat and went to work
. Lord Brackington and the ladies
walked on, directing the chauffeur
to follow them when the necessary
^ repairs were completed.
X. Jnst after they had passed a turn
? in the road and the car was no longer
in sight they came upon a band of
gypsies led by an elderly woman who
'' S- ! accosted them and wanted to tell
their fortunes. The ladies declined
to have their fortunes told, but Lord
Brackington offered the gypsy half a
crown if she would tell him when the
great war ..was going to end.
"On the 15th of November next,"
said the gypsy.
"Nonsense!" said Lord Brackington;
"if you mean the 15th 6f November
next year, I might believe you;
but this year never! Your prophecy
can't be true.""
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"It is true, my lord," exclaimed
the gypsy. "It is a strue as it is
mat at mis very rniuuit; your ciiamfeur
lies dead under your car!"
"Now I know that you are talking
> nonsense," responded Lord Brackington.
"We left our chaffeur less
than ten minutes ago and he was as
much alive as you* are. But here is
the half crown for your trouble;"
, and with this the automobile party
turned back to meet their car.
As it came into view, standing
where they had left it when they
passed the turn in the road, they
were rather st^tled to observe that
the chauffeur was nowhere in sight.
, "Oh, he is at work under the car,"
said Lady Brackington; but nevertheless
they hurried on.
When they reached the car the
chauffeur was under it?but not at
work. He lay there dead.
The rich prizes of life are for the
young man who is man enough to
take them.
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He who does what he knows to be
his duty will have many of his doubts
cleared thereby.
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FIRST SHIPMENT OF PLANES.
Fighting Machines Built in America
Now En Route to France.
Washington, Feb. 20.?The first
American built battle planes are er
route to France, nearly five month:
ahead of the original schedule.
In making this announcement tonight,
Secretary Bak^r said the firsl
shipment, although in itself nol
large, "marked the final overcoming
of many difficulties met in building
up this^new and intricate industry."
Liberty Motors.
"These planes." Mr. Baker said
"are equipped with the first libertj
motors from machine production
One of them in a recent test surpassed
all records for speed and climbing
for planes of that type. Engine production,
which began a month ago,
is now on a quantity basis and the
peak of production will be reached
in a few weeks. Only the tWelvecylmder
type is being made, as developments
abroad have made it wise to
concentrate on the high powered engine
instead of the eight-cylinder."
Optimistic as these statements appear,
the secretary said they should
not be exaggerated and should be
considered in the light of these facts:
Figures on Planes. /
That after three years of warfare
the total number of planes ^able vtc
"take the air at any one time on either
side of the western front has not
been more than 2,500. . 6
That forty-six are required on the
ground for every plane in the air,
making a total of 115,000 men need
ed for the present maximum of 2,500
planes.
That for every plane in the air,
there must be two replacement planes
on the ground and one training plane
for every pilot who eventually reaches
the front, with a spare engine for
each plane.
" Chief Problem.
After reviewing the many obstacles
tfyat had to be overcome in getting
the aircraft production program underway,
Mr. Baker said the great
problem now remaining is to secure
the thousands" of skilled mechanics,
enginemen, motor repairmen, wood
and raeta! workers, etc., needed to
keep the planes in perfect condition
and without which the machines turned
out'soon would be useless and the
fliers helpless.
"At best," said the secretary, "the
life of a plane is but two months and
the engine must be overhauled after
seventy-five hours, while a pilot on a
plane allowed to leave the hangars
in imperfect condition is as helpless
as a bird with a broken wing.
Mechanics Needed.'
"Now that American battle planes
are i?nine: overseas, a great increase
in the volunteering of skilled mechanics.
is both essential and expected?"
"During the past months," Mr.
Baker said, "a responsive channel of
communication with the Allies has
been opened, the latest types of foreign
machines have been adapted to
American manufacture, the industry
increased at least twenty-fold, the
training plane problem solved and
the production of battle planes begun.
American battle planes were not
due in France Under the original
schedule until July.
Pioneer Slackers.
The man who seeks to avoid military
service by every possible means
has been heard from in all lands and
ages. He was a familiar figure in
previous chapters of American history.
When the expedition against
Quebec was being organized in the
middle Of the eighteenth century the
slacker was in evidence. A newspaper
printed in New Haven during
1758 contains this note:
"About 100 men who left their
habitation in this colony in order to
avoid the necessary defense and military
service of their country and fled
into the New York government were
taken up and pressed into service of
that province, according to. a law
there subsisting. And it is hoped
that wherever these disloyal, cowardly
deserters fly they will in like
manner be taken up, so thay they
must either fight for their country
or desert to the French and fight
against it."
Later, when the colonies rebelled
against British rule, the Provincial
Congress took notice of the shirker
in a set of rules regarding recruits,
the first two of which read as follows:
"You are not to enlist any man
who is not able-bodied, healthy and
a good marcher, but as men of good
appearance may have complaints
which render them incapable of a
soldier's duty, you must give attention,
that you may not be imposed
upon, and take the opinion of a
surgeon where there is room for
suspicion."
Rule 2 gives this advice: "You will
have a great regard to moral character,
sobriety in particular; let our
manners distingush us from our
enemies, as much as the cause we
are engaged in."
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