?FORTH!
Outlined in Proclamation Issued
f by Von Hindenburg?Houses
and Lands For AIL
HUN-SOLDIERS ARS GIV
EN MORE PROMISES
Dwellings Erected on Land Are
Purchased With Money That
Was "Loaned to Germany at a
- Low Rate.
Amsterdam, Dec. 4.?The Berlin
igs Leitung of Monday said that
-Id Marshal Hindenburg addresse d
t6 following proclamation to his
>ps:
"The preliminary work for a land
settlement on a big scale is in progress
and-will be pushed forward as rapidly
as the shoitage of coal and of build
ing materials will permit. The return
^'ing warriors will first receive the
" thanks of the country for more than
-'V-fc-ur years' work in a thousand*batt 1 es
. in which they wore unbeaten.
"?Hundreds- of thousands of build
ings will be erected on cheaply , ac
quired land, with public money loaned
at low rates to farmers, gardeners and
?country artisans. Houses will be built
for workers, employes and oificials be
longing to sedentary occupations and
r<.-T?f!?sferred to' them on the payment
of a moderate portion of the actual
costs. * Only have - patience a little
while. _ Kelp the wounded fatherland
? ? through ' its hardest ' time. *Save it
again '"by manly 'discipline and order,
u"d this make your own future und
your own happiness."
Fair Manufacturing Profits.
New York, Nov. 6. ISIS.
Editor American. Wool & dotton Re
porter:
I would appreciate it if you wouk
give me your opinion as to what cot
ton manufacturers consider a fan
profit during the present times on such
fabrics as drills, sheetings, osnaburgs.
and light ducks. Also what the
commissioner's profit is on such fab
rics.
(We give you what we consider a
fair statement of the conditions which
have, existed. It must be realized that
the profits have varied rather widely,
depending upon the various manufac
turers' conditions. Some have haa
Cotton on hand at what might be con
sidered low prices, while others have
been favorably situated in regard to
labor .cost, or in regard to their me
chanical equipment.
Admitting that such conditions
: 1st. we should say that a fair total
v/ould*'be about as follows: 34 cents
tor'cotton, with a 15 per cent loss in
waste, which would add 6 cents per
pound*. The total labor cost, w 1th
overhead, etc., would not be over 18
certs per pound for anything like an
i average plant and probably is less in
most of the concerns which consider
themselves efficient. Thus the total
per pound would be 58 cents. On a
5.35 yard fabric, the government price
is 15 1-2 cents per yard, or S3 cents
per pound. The difference between
the government price and the cost of
production is 25 cents per pound, am'
for a 5.35'yard fabric, G4x60. this
would-give a profit per yard of 4.67
cents, Some have obtained higher
profits}/than this amount and a few^
have .obtained less. Probably the
arnoun/t would be, somewhat larger
per yard for an average among good
manufacturers.
Wh^l L.ight be considered a fa1',
profit.? we would assume to be about
as foliojws: On a mill cost of abou.
$750 pVr loom, a 10 per cent profit net
wou:d;?e $75 per loom per year. Thi.
wouldv-.be a profit for 52 weeks of
$1.44 per week. We assume that the
fabrics..mentioned would be produced
at a rate of 225 yards ger week, and
thus S|fe44 divided by 22> yards wouic
- give a|fprofit of 64 cents net per yaro
as a s$*t"':e*ent profit to pay a dividend
tf&r cent ner. on the investment.
Of co?|se*. men concerns have wr :
ten oijkju part of their capitalization
, and a&ccrdlng'y a smaller profit" per
yard tjstin that mentioned will be suf
ficient'^::; return a net profit of It*
. per cent. It will therefore be notec
that the actual profit being obtain* <3
ts at a: rate of about 70 per cent on a
mill quilt somewhat before the war
started'.; We do not believe there have
been to any good concerns obtaining
less ;han "0 per cent profit and we are
quire certain that many have actual
ly obtained more than 100 per cent on
their investment at the government
prices.'^
Tho..>rcfit of" the commission house
e will vary somewhet. It is seldom mon
than * ? per cent of the se'ling price
of the goods and we understand that
some h'av^ accepted new accounts re
certly at not over 2 1-2 per cent of th<
selling price. Of" eours<-. a part of
this p^rc- nt^rre is doe *o the carryin'
Hot-Foot.
Kaiser?"What account are my
brave ifroops giving of themselves?"
Hindenburg?"A running account
?vour 3^aipstv."?BoUimore American
g-L_
? I Th ? ? '"v n il Hour;
7h>' -"Mgr. re eleven has assumed
nlace Zfr history that, will n<.t soon
be formten. It will will be remem
!>ered SSiat the fighting in the war
was popped at the elevenh hour
of - the^ieievenh day of the ele\.th
month*" Some one was courious
enought'i" look up the eleventh
verse the e'ev^nth chaptfif of in
eieV?,t-^| !>ook in the Bible i> ? ";:--;\
r-'ei"--.^;. ? es- :ucb as i hi ? is ?' n
tq rh'*c? and thou best not kept m
ee.v-n.-ket and my statutes, which 1
have ?maa tded thee, f will surely
rend kingdom from thee, and
will giS&jt to thy serva
The <P$Lation is from the book
of i Kmks, ? '.-lev^th. chapter ajj/U
h ev< nth verse. '
Retains Restrictions
Food Administration to Prevent
Profiteering.
Columbia, Dec 5.?In order that
no misunderstanding mky arise among
licenses with regard to the effect .of
the armistice upon the regulations of
the food administration, it is stated
by the food administration, and
made perfectly clear, that the regu
lations are not annulled by the armis
tice. Modifications have been made
by the food administration, but the
specific regulations limiting margins!
of profits and. preventing hoarding
have not been removed, and there is J
no present intention on the part of
the food administration of dropping
these rectrictions, which will be rig
idly enforced, it is said.
The world needs at the present time
are perhaps for a larger amount of
food -than before the signing of the j
armistice brought the fighing to an \
end. This comprehends food of all
kinds, with the possible exception of j
wheat, of which there is reported to
be plenty. The people of many coun
tries are looking to America for
.food, and the food administration has
designated this week as "'Conserva
tion Week for World Relief," the idea
being to impress upon the public mind
in every possible way the vital neces
sity of continued food saving in or
der that hundreds of millions of peo
I pie may not have been liberated to
'be allowed to perish for lack of food.
The Living Monument.
(By George Barr McCutcheon of The
Vigilantes.)
In the little Connecticut town of
Norfolk there is a; triangular piece of
ground belonging to the people. For
years it stood useless, almost aban
doned, and to a certain extent unnot
iced. Norfolk sent to France early in
191* a score and a half of her boys to
figh't with the American armies. Other
boys followed and still more in due
course were called from the small but
hardy class representing the fighting
quota.
' A few months after the first con
tingent marched out of the town on
its way to the training camp and
thence to the line of battle, Norfolk
began to receive its share of tidings
from the front. Names of boys
known to every one in the town were
found in the lists of those "killed in
action." Boys whose faces were
bright and shining and whose voices
1 were strong and cheery were never to
return. They were lying in the fields
of France, covered with the earth of
France, and over the graves of each
stood the small but noble cross of
wood bearing a name and a date.
The return' of these names to Nor-'
rolk instead of flesh and blood that
went away, gave Norfolk its inspira
tion. The little green triangle be
! came a tract of glory. No more will
it be looked upon as a waste, no more
will the people of Norfolk call it a
worthless bit of ground. For some
j one thought of a way to make it
rich; some one thought of a way to?
make it the most cherished spot in
Norfolk.
On Flag Day in the year that the
war made heroes of these lads from
Norfolk the people of that place
dedicated the point of this triangle
to the memory cf those who were not
to come back from France. At that
time four of Norfolk's boys were lying
in France under the cheap little cross
of wood, and on this day four little
crosses of wood similar to those in
' "ranee, with a name and a date on
each, were driven in the ground at
the point of the triangle, and there
they winistay until they are perhaps
replaced by more enduring and im
pressive marks of tribute. But the
little crosses of wood- are not all that
the people of Norfolk placed in the
village traingle in memory of the
boys who will not come back. Some
thing that will live and thrive and
beautify the barren triangle was
placed there for each boy. and it is
named for him. For each hero a
tree was planted, and it will always
be known as his tree, by his no me:
and long after the great-grandchil
dren of those who now live in Norfolk
?ire dead and gone, these trees will
still be standing a/id they will be
known through all the sunshine and
storm of the ages to come by the
names they received at the christen
ing. They wil grow to be tall and
mighty and they will spread their
branches, winter and summer, over
the cross that was won on the batte
fields of France?the simple cross of
honor that every man wins when he
^gives up his life for his country.
The thought is a beautiful one. That
little triangle in Norfolk will have
many trees and crosses before the
wer is over: the boys who die ir
France will live and grow to an ng'
far beyond the years of the oldest
of men. The "John Perkins Elm,*' or
the "Hesrv Smith Oak" as the ce.se
may be. will be living in Norfolk two
hundred years after the day on which
they wore so lovingly named by a
forgotten generation.
And how simple, how easy this way
of commemorating the deeds ane
the spirit of the boys who go forth
to the war today, never to come home
: gain. A little cross of wood for the
present, a towering tree for the fu
1 tu re. and the name of a hero pre
served for an age to come.
What l etter example could be set
for the rest of the country than this
beautiful .-ict of the people of Xor
Colk? Why not .in every commun
ity, a plot of hallowed ground with
its trees bearing the names of the
oys who w< nt out and did not com?
back? A living monument, green
'! spreading with the years, to stand
as a guardian over the memory of
him who fell in battle; not the ar
tificial product of main, but th<- incom
prehensible handiwork of Him win
first put life into the body of the boy
whose death dignifies the community
thatjlost him.
Made Him Blush.
Magistrat??"You certainly com
mitted this burglary in a remarkably
ingenious,way* in fact, with quite ex
ceptional ?cunning.'*
Prisoner?"Now, vor Honor, no
:::;--ry. if you please-; if *hese!s one ,
thing I *ates, it's flattery."?Tit-Bils. \
Governor's Loss
Many Expressions of Sympathy
for Death of Son.
Columbia, Dec. 3.?"Many telegrams
of condolence have been received by
Gov. Manning and Mrs. Manning in
this hour of grief for the lost son.
Major William Sinkler Manning, kill
ed in- battle in France. November-6.
One was received from Franklin K.
Lane, secretary of the interior, who
is a close personal friend of Gov.
Manning's. He said:
"Mrs. Lane and I join in sympathy
for your loss and in the great pride
that such noble men so gallantly
went."
Another, equally sympathetic came
from Gen. E. H. Crowder, provost
marshal, in charge of the selective
service regulations of the country. He
said:
"It was not until "my return from
New York this morning that I learned
of the death of your son in battle.
You have made the great sacrifice and
the sympathy of the State and nation
will be with you. Because of the in
timate personal and official relations
we have sustained toward each other
during the past eighteen months of
unflagging effort in the conduct of the
selective service administration, I
share your great grief in a very per
sonal way."
Major Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, of
the department of the Southeast,
Charleston, wrote:
"The wish to assure you and Mrs.
Manning of Mrs. Sharpe's and my
heartfelt sympathy is my excuse for
intruding upon you at this hour of
your deep sorrow.
t "I am sure that the assurances of
human sympathy are a comfort, for
they remind us of the divine sym
pathy which shares our griefs and
carries our sorrows.
"While sorrow's crown of sorrow
ing is remembering happier days, and
the heart cries in anguish for the
I touch of a vanished hand and the
sound of a voice that is still, yet the
knowledge of the great blessing
gained for humanity by the sacrifice
of a pure and noble life will in a
measure assuage the bitterness of
your grief and lighten the present
deep gloom of your sorrow."
Before volunteering his services to
nis country at the outbreak of the
war between the United States and
Germany, Major Manning was em
ployed on the Washington bureau, of
the New York Times. Carr V. Van
Anda. managing editor of The Times,
sent the following telegram:
"I can not adequately express the
grief of his associates of The Times
over the fate of your son, whose
character and abilities had established
him in their affection and admiration.
They share not only your sorrow, but
also the pride you must feel in the
distinction won by him in the ser
vice of his country."
Richard V. Oulahan, manager of
the Washington bureau, with whom
Major Manning was associated, sent
the following telegram:
"I have just heard of Sinkler's
death. With the deep sympathy I feel
for you is coupled the knowledge that
it is a glory to have had such a son.
W"e knew his courage, and among all
his friends it was a common saying
that he would be found in the fore
front of the battle and that he was not
afraid to die;": You and Sinkler's wife
have made the great sacrifice, but
without such ".mothers, and wives and
fathers, we should not have come
successfully and honorably out of the
world conflict in which this splendid
officer and gentleman laid down his
life."
Hellish to the Last.
Hun Deviltry Knew No Bounds
in Last Days of Fighting.
With the British-American Armies,
Nov. 20 (Correspondence of The As
sociated Press)?German deviltry
seemed to know no bounds in the last
days cf the fighting on the British
front after the Hindenburg line had
been shattered. They attached gren
ades to the bodies of dead Huns left
behind in the German retreat, so that
when the bodies were lifted the
grenades exploded, killing or wound-1
ing the bearers.
Near the town of Le Cateau. a num
ber of Australian stretcher-bearers
were killed by these grenades in at
tempting to remove some German
dead from the- Held in front of an
American machine-gun position.
Thereafter no Australian would put
baud on a dead German. In some
cases the bodies were dragged to their
burial places by means of a long
rope which allowed the stretcher
bearers to keep out of range of any
exploding hand grenades.
The Americans, on the other hand,
hit upon the plan of making the Ger
man prisoners bury their own dead.
In one instance a Boche prisoner we?
summarily shot because he refused to
remove the body cf one of his dead
companions. An examination of the
body later led to the discovery that
?t was mined. The (German was
own re of this fact and refused to
touch it.
In one small town evacuated by the
Germans, many of the beds were
found to be mined. An American of
ficer, tired and worn by a long and
hard fisrhtin?: sou.srht rest on a lounge
in a room previously occupied by a
German officer. The lounge blew up
and he was instantly killed.
Another officer picked up a pair of
field glasses left by the Germans am1
was adjusting the focus when the
glasses exploded in bis hands and
blew away a part of his face.
The Huns had become adept in the
nefarious business cf making infernal
machines, mines and time fuses, and
there was scarcely an area where the
electrical and engineering experts o1"
the allies did not find some new form
^f their fiendish ingenuity.
Looks Like a S!oW-up.
F.rigprs?"Well, the world seems to
move faster and faster all the time."
Griggs-?"Nonsense! During the Rev
olution we bad minuto-men. Nov
tve have four-minute men."?Life.
Cotton Crop Statistics
Jay & Co., New York Cotton
Merchants Issue Estimate
of 1918 Crop.
New York, Dec. 4.?We hand you
herewith our final report of the sea
son of 1918-19, which is an estimate
as to the probable yield of lint cotton
in tales, linters excluded; lint yield
pe acre and percentage ginned. The
details as shown by States are the
compiled results cf reports received
from our correspondents throughout
the cotton growing States as of No
vember ISth, 1918:
Estimated Lint pc ginned
yield in bales yield to
States per acre Nov. 14
Virginia . .. 20,000 187 52
N. Carolina 850,000 253 62
S. Carolina . 1,350,000 215 81
Georgia . 2,000,000 176 81
Florida .... 28,000 80 70
Alabama . . 800,000 146 78
Mississippi . 1,150,000 16S 6S
Louisiana. . 525,000 162 78
Texas . . . 2,720,000 109 83
Arkansas . . 900,000 147 70
Tennessee . 290,000 149 65
Oklahoma .. 650,000 98 66
Missouri . . 58,000 176 58
California . 85,000 209 30
Arizona and
all others 50,000 219 31
United States 11,476,000 148 76
By reason of the prevailing high
price and the three preceding small
crops, farmers this year made every
effort to obtain a large yield. The
acreage planted to cotton being 37,
073,000, close to the largest on rec
ord.
Conditions on June 25th were most
promising, and- the . indicated yield
was 14,750.000 bales. Adverse weath
er thereafter cut this promising pros
pect to the estimate of 11,476,000
bales as shown in this report.
The quality of the lint is good and
in grade averages from middling to
strict middling of good body and
staple. No account of linters is tak
en in the foregoing figures. Ap
proximately 4,360,000 tons of seed will
be released for oil; mill purposes, and
as the mills prepared for an exceed
ingly close cut due to the heavy de
mand for explosive purposes prior to
the signing of the armistice, the pros
pect is that the close cut will be con
tinued and that 1,150,000 bales of
linters will result.
With the war practically over, and
mills swinging over from government
to civilian business, the many prob
lems of machinery replacement,
finance, labor and stable government
in foreign countries, the question- of
transportation, etc, estimates regard
ing consumption are nothing but a
guess. It is however quite clear, that,
had the war continued throughout
this season, the consumption of Amer
ican cotton, linters included, would
have fallen well below 12,000,000
bales. The question to be answered
therefore is, how rapidly can the
world1 change from a war to a peace
basis, can this be done-within the re
maining eight months of the .cotton
season? In our opinion consumption
can-hardly exceed that of last year and
we put it at 12,200,000, feeling, that
the increase in foreign will about off
set the loss of war orders and. Unter
j powder consumption, not offset by the
civilian demand upon American mills.
The indicated carry-over at the end
of the season July 31st, 1919, is there
.foi^ 4,$84,000 bales (all sources).
Ordinarily an indicated carry-over of
this "cfiiantity of cotton would result
in materially lower prices than- now
prevail. It is, however, well recogniz
ed that the whole world is practically
ly naked and that everywhere there
exists an enormous need for cotton
goods of all kinds. At what price and
I under what conditions this enormous
jmeed. will be translated into heavy
I buying cannot be determined, until
i the reconstruction period in foreign
mill centers and transportation from
America has reached a point where it
can . begin to oe supplied. It there
fore seems quite clear that our mill
friends are in for a considerable pe
riod of great prosperity and it also
seems quite clear that our southern
friends will perforce of circumstances,
be compelled to carry the surplus un
til the world is ready for it, and again
it is quite clear that the circum
stances justify them in expecting a
price much higher than would ordi
narily obtain in view of the indicated
carry over.
Our advice to them therefore is, to
recognize these conditions and to mar
ket their product gradually at price,
that will return them a fair profit
above the cost of production and the
cost of carrying. As world conditions
are restored to normal the burden
will gradually lessen.
The probable season's supply and
consumption is as follows:
Visible Supply?July 31st, 1918:
In America . 1,535,000
In Great Britain 1S3.000
On Continent 164,000
1,932,000
Mill Stocks?July 31st, 19IS:
In America .. 1.151,000
Foreign .. .. 250,000
- 1,401,000
Uncounted towns and
on plantations 925.000
Total visible and
invisible, July
31, (Hester) 4,258,000
To which add
the probable
yield indicated
in this report
of.. 11,476.000
Linters . . . . 1,150,000
12,026.000
Making 191S
19 season's sup
ply. 16,884,000
Against which we
estimate cor.
sumption (lint
ers included):
American mills 7,000.000
Foreign mills.. 5.200,000
- 12,200,000
Leaving an indi
cated carry over
fvisible and in
risible). July
M. 1919, of . . . . 4.6S4.000
Yours very truly,
jr. W. JAY & CO.
Don't Slop Over.
(?Manufacturers Record, Nov. 21.)
Through neurotic sympathy toward
the vilest criminals in the world's
history we are in danger of losing the
victory won on the battlefield.
Every tear shed by the hypocritical
liars and looters and outragers of
Germany in pleading for an easier
armistice and for foodstuffs is merely
a coward's effort to reach the maudlin
sentiment of a nation, many of whose
people have often been inclined to
yield to wrong in preference to
standing for the right, thus permit
ting a cotton string to represent their
backbone. The future of civilization
would be endangered if we should
give any heed to these appeals to
the neurotic sentiments of flabby
minded people.
Generosity to a beaten foe is an ap
peal which touches the sympathy of
men and women who foolishly think
of this war in terms of the wars Of
other (lays. But this was merely a
plan to murder in order to rob. The
frightfulness which made the hell of
Belgium and France and other over
run lands, violating every law of map
and God, was merely the fulfilment
of the long-time teachings of the
whole German people.
The women of Germany appealed
for easier peace terms and for an ar
mistice on the hypocritical plea of
their sufferings, and thus caught a
few American men and women of
that neurotic temperament which be
decks che cells of the rapist with
flowers and fills It with scented notes.
We should remind the German women
of the dying babies of Belgium and
France, of the women outraged
through the long four years of war,
of the poisoned wells and of all the
other horrible atrocities which have
marked the accursed work of a nation
of fiends against which German wo
men never protested. The manf or
woman in this country who is not
willing to stand firmly for eternal
justice in the punishment of the mur
derer or the rapist is morally and
mentally weak and is without a
character worthy of the respect of
decent, honest people.
America, sentimentally inclined
and easily misled by agitators in pub
lic as well as in private life, is al
ways in danger of slopping over. This
fact is often seen when some atrocious
criminal, having been sentenced to
death, immediately evokes the maud
lin sympathy of neurotics, who; en
tirely forget the sufferings of the vic
tim. ;
In thinking of Germany we must
think of that nation as of a whole
people definitely for years commit
ted to the criminality of the last four
years. If we should count as of no
avail the deaths of millions, of sol
diers who have been murdered by
Germany, if we should shut our ears
to the wails of the women and babies
who died on the Lusitania, if we
should close our eyes and our hearts
to the sufferings of the mangled chil
dren and of the women of France,
Belgium, Italy and elsewhere dishon
ored by and with the approval of the
German government and the Germar
people, we would still be bound ir
duty to all the civilization of the
ages to come to stand firm and un
flinchingly for the punishment of Ger
many.
A Baltimore business man o* Ger
man descent, knowing Germany anc
the German people for many years
has within the last few days said thai
the whole German people are laugh
ing in their sleeves as they see the ef
fect which their appeals for mercj
are having in this country. H?
knows the German people. He say*
Americans do not. He is of Germar
descent and intimately in touch witr.
German life, and he voices the views
of intelligent men and women every
where who. knowing Germany, know
that the entire German race upheld
the war, gloated in it so long as suc
cess seemed certain, rejoiced in the
hope of looting the world, cared not
that the women and children of Bel
gium and France and oher invaded
countries were treated as never were
women and children treated before in
human history.
Now these cringing hypocritical
liars, these looters and robbers and
highwaymen, these deep-dyed villain
ous murderers are rolling their eyes
to heaven and asking for sympathy,
and yet not one single word of peni
tence has come out of Germany. Not
a single word has been uttered by
German men or women which indi
cates any sense of sin or shame, nor
j have German women expressed any
1 regret for the horrors inflicted upon
the people of France and Belgium
and Italy and Serbia and Poland by
their fathers and. husbands And sons.
? These unrepentant criminals appeal
for sympathy?sympathy for them-;
selves, but not for their victims.
Such is the appeal of the German wo
men who so long.as Germany was vic
torious on the battlefield made no ef
fort to stop the war in order to re
lieve their suffering, but now that
they have been forced to stop by the
allied police of civilizaton, and are to
be brought before the bar of justice,
they are like hypocrites pleading for
sympathy and mercy. Sympathy for
such a nation would be on a par with
sympathy for the Devil himself. The
devil could net possibly surpass Ger
many in seeking to use the livery of
heaven for the purpose of doing the
work of hell.
America should not slop over. Let
it not waste any neurotic sympathy
upon a nation which now seeks by
hypocrisy and by lying to win through
maudlin sympathy the victory which
it lost on the battlefield.
Looking to the civilization of the
future and to the standard of morality
through the years to come, the world
is today in greater danger than it was
when the onrush of barbarism was
stopped at the Marne in 1914, or
when from the Marne the German
army was driven back in 1918.
The whole German race joyously
adopted the teachings of their leaders
and joyously entered upon the war,
and'has upheld in every way possible
every crime committed. Some Ger- :
mans and people of German descent ;
living in America, and even some
dishonoring the name of Christ as his ;
professed followers, blatantly boast
ed of Germany's achievements when <
t fed to the sharks the bodies of the
lying women and children on the <
Lusitania.
Shall we have a maudlin sympa- 1
thy for Pilate, for Judas; torW&ot
Compared with their opportunity;'
their crimes were as nothing com
pared with the crimes of the whole
German people.
Christ said:
"Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the dam
nation of Hell?"
Shall we presume to be greater lov
ers of humanity than Christ Him
self?
THE MAN WITH THE
HOE
(From the Houston Post)
While Mr. Gompers is making his
stand of "not a cent or minute leab"
for the cigar makers, the barbers, the
soda fountain operators, the bellhops,
the elevator operators, the restaurant
waiters, the bartenders' union, the
train butchers, the pants pressers,
the cash register thumpers, and many
other people who have been helping
to win the war in town, let us tuna
our attention to the man with the hoe.
The incessant appeal of the world
now is for more food and clothing.
Only the armies have been getting
really enough to eat for some four
years back.
The 420,000,000 people of Europa
* are not the only hungry people in the
world. There are hungry people in the
1 aited States, many of them. There
is no such thing as "plenty to eat1*
when food commands such' prices a*
it does in the United States.
The shortage of clothing is likewise
marked. All Europe is shivering for
want of warm clothing, and thefre is
shivering in the United States, too.
The man with the hoe is the only
person who can relieve this painful
situation. He must bend to the task
and produce more food, more cotton,
more wool, more of everything that
will sustain life and give mankind
those comforts which are usually call
ed "the necessaries of'llfeV'"
And another thing the man with'
the hoe must remember, f In putting
forth extraordinary exertions to fted
and clothe the world, he must exact
less money for it. He must take leas
for his abundance than he might get
for much smaller production.
So far as money is concerned, the
; man with the hoe need have no doubt
about it?he could get far more m?z^
ey by reducing production 60 per
cent. He could organize his unions,
confine his work to eight hours a dSJS*
and, by reducing his cotton, corn*
wheat and vegetables and fruits by
50 per cent, make the rest of the
world hand over its money. But that
[ plan would not make him happy. It
would starve millions of people to
death and ruin the world.
So the man with .the hoe must
, realize his responsibility and the great
! vital place he occupies in the world's
' affairs. He must put forth his max
' imum effort to feed the world and
accept smaller money pay for It.
The various toilers do not expedt Kf
[ pay the man with the hoe any more
? money, but they want the man witb
' the hoe to give them more bread,
, more meat, more eggs, more butter,
? more shirts, more of everything of
' that kind for less money than they
are paying now, and the man with'th?
hoe must rise to the world's emer
gency and do it, as he has always
j done when a hungry world appealed
to him.
I Now it may be that these people
who are appealing to the man witli
the hoe are not in a reciprocal frame
. of mind. It may be that they vfBpt
; to get all this good from the maa
5 with the hoe and not jgive him a. Bin*
j gle reciprocal advantage.
The barber now requires the mall
j with the hoe to exchange the equiva*
. lent of six eggs for a shave, but tin
r der a dispensation of plenty the bar
I ber will demand the equivalent of two
dozen eggs for a shave, according, td
, Mr. Gompers' idea. This is a trivial
instance. All along the line, there is
a humanity call for the man with the
hce to produce more and reduce the
price so that the world's hunger may
be appeased.
That's what the people mean when
they talk about "reconstruction" and
"readjustment." They mean that
there must be more food for less
money. They are talking right at the
man with the hoe.
Perhaps the man with the hoe
thinks there ought to be reciprocity.
Perhaps he thinks that he endures
some hardships that ought to be miti
gated if he consents to supply the
world's tables and wardrobes. If he
gives the added quantity that is asked,
then he thinks that those who serve
him might likewise give him added
quantity, either in service or finished
products.
The man with the hoe may be
right about this; indeed, he may in
sist upon it. It is all well enough
for us town boys to hold the offices,
to organize our little unions and
fraternities, to have our luxuries and
I dictate to presidents, congresses and
j States, but the man with the hoe. ie
! not apt to meet all our demands and
exact none in return.
There are more of him and those
immediately dependent upon him
than of all other forces in the coun
try put together. It is a matter of
policy as well as of justice for all the
rest of us to "tote fair" wi\h the man
with the hoe.
If we bluster too much about him
and think because he is scattered
over a wide area he is not dangerous,
we shall ascertain our mistake.
It is not good sense to issue ulti
matums to the man with the txoe. He
may arise some day and spank some
body if he should happen to be in a
bad humor. And he gets in a bad
humor at times.
Disliked Absent Treatment.'
"Even the field hospitals close up to
the firing line in France find tims for
an occasional laugh," writes Malcolm
Adams, of the Red Cross.
A party of wounded marines wers
being taken to a base hospital on a
much overcrowded motor truck. The
nurse accompanying them became
anxious about their wounds.
"I hope I am not hurting any of
you," she said.
"You're hurting me a lot,'* replied
one of the soldiers.
"But I am nowhere near you,** ex
claimed the nurse indignantly.
"That's what's, hurting . ma/' was.
Ihe calm reply.?Washington Star.