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Show BEWARE TUBERCOLOSIS AFTER INFLUENZA fl A Few Simplo Facta and Cnu- o Meant Not to Frighten But to Safeguard. Influenza and Its Symptoms So-called "Spanish Influenza" Is a form of grippe. It may at-tack at-tack a person mildly or severely. In the present epidemic, a large proportion of tho cases are sc- The symptoms by which au attack of influenza may be roc-ognized roc-ognized includo headache, body-ache, body-ache, chils, fever, sore throat and chest, cough, expectoration, weakness, and a generally "done up" feeling. Tho Danger of Tuberculosis Influenza greatly reduces one's physical vitality ,and is frequently followed by other sickness, especially pneumonia, which still further reduces one's resistenco of disease. Such lowered resistenco opeiiB the way for active tubcrcolosis which is a disease of the weak-encd. weak-encd. Most people are Infected with tho germs of tuberculosis in childhood. Provided ono's gen- jH eral health remains good, such jH Infection may never develop in- iH to active disease. A person may iH appear to be entirely well, but when bodily Vitality Is lowered jH by a slcksesfl such as Influenza or lmeunniathe'tube'rculdsJs germs, lying In wait, may launch a sudden attack and make rapid headway. How to Prevent Tuberculosis The surest way to prevent tu-berculosls tu-berculosls as a result of lnflu-enza lnflu-enza Is, of course, not to get in-fluenxa. in-fluenxa. 1 Avoid being near anyone who you know has influenza, a cold, sore throat or other sus-plclous sus-plclous symptoms. 2 Avoid crowds and crowd-lng, crowd-lng, and especially places whero people copgh, spit and sneeze carelessly. 3 Safeguard your general health; breathe fresh air, keep warm, eat moderately, drink plenty of water, and keep tho bowels open. 4 If you do not feel well, consult a doctor at once. If You Get Influenza 1 Stop working and go to i'H bed immediately. Do not re- sumo work until the attack of Influenza is all gone and your doctor permits it 2 Have nothing to do with patent medicines of drugstore "treatment." Put yourself un-pcoplo un-pcoplo cough, spit and sneeze continue under his care until cured. After You Havo Recovered 1 Havo your doctor examine you thoroughly to seo if any !! signs of tuberculosis are present ' You cannot tell without an ex-pert ex-pert examination. 2 If free from any trace of tuberculosis , keep so ;by suf- flclent rest during convdlesence, JM and careful living then and af- terwards. 3 jf your "cold" hangs on, or thero are other indications of IM tuberculosis, begin medical treatment without a moment's delay. jfl 4 Get Into touch with tho tuberculosis or health organi-zatlon organi-zatlon whose name appears at .1 tho bottom of this artlclo or write to tho National Tuberculo- sis Association, 381 Fourth Av- , enue, New York City, for print- H ed Information which will bo sent you without charge and which will help you and your physician. Tuberculosis Is Preventable and Curable Tho purpose of this letter Is, (Continued on Page Eighty :H I 3V i 1 i ; I STEADIER HOG MARKETS PLANNED 1 Hog Producers and Packers Confer With Representatives Repre-sentatives of the Food Administration and Agricultural Department and Adopt New Plan of Regulation. I In accordance with the policy of the Food Administration since Its foundation founda-tion to consult reprcsantatlro men In the agricultural Industry on occasions of Importance to special branches at the Industry, on Octoh " 21 thcro was convened In Washington a meeting of the Lire Stock Subcommittee of the Agricultural Advisory Board and the special members reproscntlng tho swine Industry to consider the situation In the hog market The conference lasted for three days, and during this time met with the executive committee of tho fifty packing firms participating In foreign orders for pork products and with the members of tho Pood Administration directing foreign pork purchases. The conclusions of the conference were ns follows: I: The entire marketing situation has jso changed since the September Joint cenference as to necessitate an entire alteration In the plans of price stabl-llratlon. stabl-llratlon. The current peace talk has alarmed the holders of com, and there has been a price decline of from 23 cents to 40 cents per busheL The fact that the accumulations of low priced corn In the Argentine and South Africa Afri-ca would, upon the advent of peace and liberated shipping, become avail-able avail-able to the European market has created cre-ated a great deal of apprehension on the part of corn holders. This decline has spread fear among swine growers that a similar reduction In the prices of hogs would naturally follow. More-over, More-over, the lower range of corn prices would, If Incorporated In a W-to-1 ratio, ra-tio, obviously result In a continuously falling price for live boss. In vlow of these changed conditions many swine .producers anticipated lower (prices and as n result rushed their ihogs to mnrkct In, large numbers, and 'tills ovorshlpraent has added to and 'aggravated the decline 1 Tho Information of the Department , of Agriculture Indicates that the sup- jply of hogs has Increased about 8 per (cent, while tho highest unofllclal estl-.mate estl-.mate docs not exceed 15 per cent In-icrcased In-icrcased production over last year. On tho other hand, the arrival of hogs during the last threo weeks In tho soven groat markets has been 27 per !ccnt moro than last year, during tho corresponding period, demonstrating tho unusually heavy marketing of tho available supply. In the face of tho jexccsslvo receipts some packers have jnot mnlntalned tho price agreed last month. On the other hnnd, many ' !of tho packers have paid over tho price ofTcrcd to thorn In an endeavor (to maintain tho agreed price. The result re-sult In any event has been a falluro 'to maintain the October price basis determined upon, at Jtho September con-' con-' .ference nnd undertaken by tho pack ers. Another factor contributing to tho break In prices during the month :has been the Influenza epidemic; it has sharply curtailed consumption of pork products and temporarily decreased de-creased the labor staff of the packers i about 23 per cent ' The exports of 130,000,000 pounds I of pork products for October com- ; pared with about 02,000,000 pounds In October a year ago, and the export orders placeable by the Food i Administration for November, amount to 170,000,000 pounds as contrasted contrast-ed with the lesser exports of t fig.000.000 for November. 1017. The BH' Increased demands, of the allies are Hi continuing, and ore In themselves j proof of the necessity for the large BB9 ' production for which the Food Admin- Bjk' Utratlon asked. The Increase In ex- port demands appears to be amply BH sufficient to take up the Increase In nag production, but unfavorable mar- ket conditions existing In October af- ford bo fair Index of the aggregate supply and demand. M It Bust be evident that the enor- ' nous shortage In fata In the Central Empires and neutral countries would Immediately upen peace result In ad- dltlonal demands for pork products BBS which, on top of the heavy shipments BBJ to the Allies, would tend materially to Increase the American exports, In-H', In-H', aamuch as no considerable reservoir of BH supplies exists outside of the United BBB States. It seems probable . that the BBB present prospective supplies would be BBB ' Inadequate to meet this world demand BBB " with the return to peace. So far as It BBB . Is possible to Interpret this fact. It ap- BBB pears that there should be even a BBB i stronger demand for pork products H, after the war, and therefore any alarm BBB' of hog producers as to the effect of BBB pence Is unwarranted by the outlook, BBB) In the lleht of these circumstances BBB1' It is the conclusion of the conference BBh that attempts to hold the price of hogs BBB,' to the price of corn may work out to BB, tno disadvantage of pork producers. BBB1 it is the conclusion that any lnterpre- BBB tntlon of the formula should be a brond gauged policy applied over a BBH long period. It Is the opinion of the conference that In substitution of the previous plans of stabilization the Live Stock Subcommittee of the Agrl-BBBj; Agrl-BBBj; cultural Advisory Board, together with BBBjj tho specially invited swine represcnta- BBB! tlveu, should accept the Invitation of BBBJh tho Food Administration to join with BBB the Administration and the packers In BBBj! determining the prices at which con- BBBjl trolled export orders are to be placed. BBVj iThls wUl be regularly done. The In- BB; fluence of these orders will be directed BBBj (to the maintenance of the common ob- BBBjj ilect namely, the stabilization of the B price of Uvo hogs so as to secure as far ns It U possible fair returns t6 the sVMSi BBS producer nnd the Insuranco of an ado-qnnte ado-qnnte future supply. These foreign orders aro placed upon the basis of cost of hogs to the packers. As the result of long negotiations between this body and the Packers' Committee, representing the 45 to 50 packers participating in foreign orders, or-ders, together with the Allied buyers, all under the Chairmanship of the Food Administration, the following undertaking un-dertaking has been given by the packers: pack-ers: In view of the undertakings on the part of the Food Administration with legard to the co-ordinated purchases of pork products, covered In the attached, at-tached, It is agreed that the packers participating in these orders will undertake un-dertake not to purchase hogs for less than the following agreed mlntmums for the month of November, that Is a dally minimum of f 17.50 per hundred pounds on average of packers' droves, excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs" to be defined ns pigs under 180 pounds, stags, boars, thbi sows and skips. Further, that no hogs, of any kind shall be bought except throw-outs, throw-outs, nt less than $10.60 per hundred pounds. The avcrngo of packers' droves to be construed as tho average of tho total sales In tho market of all hogs, for a given day. All tho above to bo based on Chicago. We agree that a commltteo shall bo appointed by the Food Administration to check the dally operations In tho various markets with a vlow to supervision super-vision and demonstration of tho carrying carry-ing out of the above. The ability of the packers to carry out tills arrangement will depend on there being a normal marketing of hogs based upon the proportionate In-crcaso In-crcaso over the receipts of lust year. The Increase In production appears to be a maximum of about 10 per cent and wo can handle such an Increase. If the producers of hogs should, as they have In the past few weeks, prematurely pre-maturely market hogs In such Increasing Increas-ing numbers over tho above It Is entirely en-tirely beyond the ability of the packers pack-ers to maintain these mlnlmums, and therefore wo must have tho co-operation of the producer himself to maintain main-tain these results. It la a physical Impossibility for the capacity of tho packing houses to handle a similar over-flood of hogs and to find a market for the output Tho packers are anxious anx-ious to co-operate with the producers In maintaining a stabilization of price and to seo that producers receive a fair price for their products. (Signed) ' TnOS. B. WILSON, Chairman Packers' Committee. The plan embodied above was adopted adopt-ed by the conference. The Food Administrator has appoint ed a committee, comprising Mr. Thomas E, Wilson, chairman of the Packers' Pack-ers' Committee; Mr. Everett Brown, president of the Chicago Livestock Exchange; Ex-change; Major Roy of the Food Administration, Ad-ministration, Mr. Louis D. Ilall of the Bureau of Markets, to undertake the supervision of the execution of the plan In the various markets. Commission Commis-sion men are asked to co-operate In carrying out the plan embodied in the packers' agreement. It roust be evident evi-dent that offers by commission men to sell hogs below the minimum established estab-lished above is Hot fair, either to the producer or the participating packers. Mr. Brown has undertaken on behalf of the commission men In the United States that they will loyally support the plan. It Is believed by the conference that this new plan, based as It Is nflon a positive minimum basis, will bring better bet-ter results to the producer than average aver-age prices for the month. It does not limit top prices and should narrow tho margins necessary to country buyers buy-ers In more varlablo markets. It Is believed that the plan should work out close to $18 average. Bwlne producers of (he country will contribute to their xwn interest by not flooding the market for It "must be evident that If an excessive over percentage per-centage of hogs Is marketed in uny one month price stabilization and control con-trol cannot succeed, and It Is certain that producers themselves can contribute contri-bute materially to the efforts of tho conferences if they will do their mark-etlng mark-etlng In as normal n way as possible. The whole situation as existing at present demands n frank and explicit assurance from the conferees representednamely, repre-sentednamely, thot every possible effort will be made to maintain a live hog price commensurate with swine production costs and reasonable selling sell-ing values In execution of the declared policy of the Food Administration to use every agency In Its control to secure Justice to the farmer. The stabilization methods adopted for November represent tho best efforts ef-forts of the conference, concurred in by the Food Administration and the Livestock Subcommittee of tho Agricultural Agri-cultural Advisory Board, together with, special swlno members nnd tho representatives of the packers, to Improve Im-prove tho present unsatisfactory situation, situ-ation, which has unfortunatoly resulted result-ed because of tho Injection of uncontrollable uncon-trollable factors. Wb ask tho producer to co-operate with us In a most difficult task. The membess of the Conference were : Producers H. C. Stuart, Elk Oar-den, Oar-den, Va., ChMrman Agricultural Advisory Ad-visory Board ; W. M. McFadden, Chicago, Chi-cago, ril.l A. Sykes, Ida Drove, la.; John M. Evvard, Ames, la. ; J. H. Mer-cor, Mer-cor, Live Stock Commission for Kansas) Kan-sas) J. O. Brown, Monon, Ind.; E. 0. Brown, President Chicago Livestock Exchange; N. II. Gentry, Sedallo, Mo. J John Orattan Broomfleld, Colo.; Eu-geno Eu-geno Funk, Bloomlngton, 111.; Isaac Lincoln, Aberdeen, 8. D.; 0. W. Hunt Logan, la.; 0. B. Tnnccy, W. It Dod-son. Dod-son. Food Administration Herbert IIoo-vor, IIoo-vor, F. S. Snyder, Major E, L. Roy, 0. H. Powell. Department of Agriculture Louis D. Hall, F. n. Marshall. The packers present and others sharing In foreign orders were represented repre-sented by the elected packers' committee, commit-tee, Those represented were : Packers Armour A Co., Chicago, III. ; Cudahy Packing Co., Chicago, Rl. ; Morris ft Co., Chicago, 111.; Swift k Co., Chicago, III. ; Wilson & Co., Chicago, Chica-go, Rl.; John Agar Co., Chicago, RI.; Armstrong Packing Co., Dallas, Tex.; Boyd Dunham & Co., Chicago, 111.) Brennan Packing Co., Chicago, RL; Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati, O.; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleveland, Cleve-land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy, Wis. j J. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ; Dunlcvy Packing Co., Pittsburg, Pa. ; J. E. Decker ft Sons, Mason City, la.; Evansvlllo Packing Co., Evans-vllle, Evans-vllle, Ind.; East Side Packing Co., East St Louis,. 111.; Hammond Standlsh A Co., Detroit Mich.; O. A. Hormel A Co., Austin, Minn.; Homo Packing A Ico Co., Tcrre nauto, Ind.; Independent Independ-ent Packing Co., Chicago, III. ; Indianapolis Indian-apolis Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; International Provision Co.," Brooklyn, N. Y.; Intorstato Packing Co., Winona, Minn.; Iowa Packing Co., Des Moines, la.; Powers Bcgg Co., Jacksonville, III.; Klngan A Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; Krcy Packing Co., St Louis, Mo.; Lake Erlo Provision Co., Cleveland, O. Lay-ton Lay-ton Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Oscar Mayer & llro., Sedgwick and Bcethcven streets, Chicago, III.; J. T. McMillan Co., St Paul, Minn.; Miller & Hart, Chicago, III. ; J. Morrell & Co., Ottum-wa, Ottum-wa, la. ; Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo, Colo.; Ogdon Packing and Provision Co., Ogden, Utah; Ohio Provision Cos, Cleveland, O. ; Parker Webb & Co., Detroit, De-troit, Mich.; Pittsburg Packing ata Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Bath. Packing Co., Waterloo, In.; Roberta Oake, Chicago, 111. ; Rohe ft Bros., Now Tork City; W. O. Routh ft Co., Logans-port, Logans-port, Ind. ; St Louis Ind. Packing Co., St Louis, Mo.; 8lnclntr ft Co., T. M. Cedar Ilnplds, In.; Eulllvnn ft Co., Detroit, De-troit, Mich. ; Thcurcr-Norton Provision Co,, Cleveland, O.; Vllson Provision Co., Pcorln, 111. ; Western Packing and Provision Co., Chicago, III. ; Charles Wolff.l'ucklng Co., Topeka, Kan. BEWARE TUBERCULOSIS AFTER INFLUENZA (Continued From Pago One) |