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Show I THE GRANTSVILLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. drainage of exports from the United States, that we retain a proper supply WAR CROP for our own country, and we must adopt such measures as will ameliorate, so far as may be, the price condiFEED ALLIES tions of our less fortunate. We might This Years Harvest of Fruit Will so drain the supplies from the country Help Whip Enemy. to Europe as by the high prices that would to follow force our people to important Message to People shorten their consumption. This operFrom Herbert C. Hoover, ation of normal economic forces SCARCITY OF PICKERS FELT would starve that element of the comAdministrator. munity to whom we owe .the most protection. We must try to Impose the Size of Crop, Equal to Two Bushels burden equally upon all. for Each Person In Land, Calls WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED Action Must Be Voluntary. for Special Methods of There is no royal road to food conHandling for Market servation. We can only accomplish Increased Production, Elimination of this by the voluntary action of our In a couple of weeks we will begin whole people, each element In proporWaste and Careful Control of Food all over the United States harvesting tion to its means. It is a matter of an apple crop equal to two bushels Exports Form the Solution of a minmatter of equality burden; of Ttiis War Problem. ute saving and substitution at every for every man, woman und child In the This is a war crop. The point in the 20,000,000 kitchens, on the country. consumers of the United States will Aug! 20. Washington, What the peo- 20.000.- 000 dinner tables and In the pie of the United States not only can 2.000.- 000 manufacturing, wholesale and be urged to use apples in the food savbut must do In the matter of' food pro- retail establishments of the country. ing campaign by which we are induction and use In order to help win The task Is thus in its essence the dally creasing the amount of wheat and the war is set forth In detail in a individual service of all the people. other staple foods sent to our fighting statement issued today by Food Ad- Every group can substitute and even allies. Eat an apple and send a biscuit, ministrator Herbert Hoover. If we the great majority of thrifty people fail to do our "part in this respect, he ran save a little and the nior'e luxuri-bu- s is the motto tills year. War conditions also confront the says, the people of the allies cannot be elements of the population can by maintained at war, for their soldiers reduction to simple living save much. apple growers, for there is a scarcity cannot light without food. The final result of substituting other of pickers, and careful preparations The normal Imports of wheat and products and saving one pound of must now he made to see tliut this other cereals by France, Italy, the wheut flour, two ounces of fats, seven crop is all safely harvested and put United Kingdom and Belgium, and the ounces of sugar and seven ounces of Into storage. Now is the time to beestimates of the 1917 crop in those meat weekly, by each person, will, gin organizing picking crews In every countries compared to the normal pro- when we have multiplied this by one apple growing section. A survey of duction are given by Mr. Hoover in hundred million, have Increased our the situation shows that the farmer from business tabulated form, and the conclusion is exports to the amounts absolutely re- will need men In towns and the cities round drawn that in order to provide normal quired by our allies. This means no ' more than that we. should eat plenty, about at which he trades, and whleh consumption it will be necessary have just as great an interest in this for them to Import in the next 12 but ent wisely and without waste. months 577,000,000 bushels of wheat Food conservation has other spects crop as the farmer himself. This Is and 674,000,000 bushels of other cereof utmost importance. Wars must be emergency organization work to be als. If the crops of the United States paid for by savings. We must save taken up immediately by chambers of and. Canada all mature safely, North in the sonsumptiou in commodities and commerce, boards of trade, state and America will have an apparent sur- the consumption of unproductive la- county councils of defense, and business men generally. plus of 208,000,000 bushels of wheat bor in order that we may divert our The labor supply to harvest tills and 950,000,000 bushels of other cere- manhood to the army and to the shops. exists right in the cities adjacent crop als. The allies, therefore, must use The whole of Europe has been enether cereals than wheat for mixing gaged ever since the war began In the to the apple orchards in most cases, in their war bread, and the people of elimination of waste, the simplification but the draft and demands of facof life, and the increase of its indus- tories and railroads for labor have America must reduce tlielr consumption of wheat flour from five to four trial cupudty. When the war is over disturbed the normal supply of workthe consuming power of the world will ers upon which the farmer usually jpounds per week per person. be reduced by the loss of prosperity draws, and it Is necessary to recruit Decrease In Food Animals. A careful estimate of the world's and man power, and we shall enter a new kinds of workers. People who food animal position shows a total net period of competition without parallel have never regarded themselves as apdecrease of 115,005,000, and this will in ferocity. After the war, we must ple pickers mny this year be asked to be greater as the war goes on. . As maintain our foreign markets If our go to the orchards and help get In the the increase of herds and flocks takes working people are to be employed. crop for patriotic reasons. Much is heard about the scarcity of years, we must reduce the consump- We shall be in no position to compete but there is not as great a scarlabor, conwe and waste if on continue to same eliminate live the carefully tion, as most people Imagine. ' Workers city basis of waste and extravagance on trol meat exports. whom the farmer depends in orOur home dairy products supplies which we have lived hitherto. Simple, upon times have simply been shifted dinary is are decreasing, while our population temperate living is a moral Issue of the Into other occupations, and war condiInmust we at order and first and other ship time, any any increasing, tions demand that business men step creasing amounts of such products to basis of conduct during the war becomes a wrong against the interest of in, locate other classes of workers who our allies. Consequently this induscan be shifted to the orchards for this try must be stimulated, and home the country and the interest of emergency and see that the farmer has users must save the wastes in milk and democracy. of help. plenty in be said The impact of the food shortage of butter. Much the same may will probably be some diffiThere knocked has at of .the case of sugar. door every Europe in conculty harvesting the apple crop with Mr. Hoover urges a greater the United States during the past three volunteer these workers, many of In sea fish and foods, of of The foodstuffs have years. prices sumption at the work. no whom have enorexperience are which our coasts and lakes nearly doubled, and the reverberations handled carebe must Perishable fruit of the land, The rich. of would products mously Europe's increasing shortage he reminds us, are conserved by the have thundered twice as loudly dur- fully to prevent injury to the skin and would later cause deing the coming year even had we not bruises. These eating of those of the sea. when the go Into storage. cay apples Our Duty. entered the war. The principles of careful fruit pickWe are today In an era of high In conclusion the food administrator underprices. We must maintain prices at ing are very simple, andcaneasily says: with start farmer stood. the If show in to previlevel as a endeavored will such stimulate have I producand two or three experienced pickers of ous articles that the world is short tion, for we are faced by a starving time little a good explaining spend with confronted is and of a to world the value commodity food; that Europe picking methods to his volunteers he the grim specter of starvation unless the hungry is greater than Its price. should get excellent results, for these we waste our and of world As a the abundance result of our from shortage volunteers, while new to the work, will keep the wolf from the door. Not only supplies, our consumers have suffered also be people of good average Intellimust we have a proper use of our food from speculation and extortion. While and the war emergency will apgence, supply In order that we may furnish wages for some kinds of labor have Interest so that they will to their peal which with sinews food Increased with in rise with the the our allies prices, to more harvest the than be they may fight our battled but it is in others, it has been difficult to main- crop skillfully.ready help fellow towards of our standard nutrition. tain of act high an humanity Apple growers are advised to get in By the elimination of waste in all men, women and children. touch with the business organizations men conof millions of in the reduction the diversion classes, by By the nearest town, ask that help be from production to war, by the occu- sumption of foodstuffs by the more for- in their in isosecuring pickers and report given we the our shall Increase land armies, by of tunate, supplies by pation of needed by themlation of markets, by belligerent lines, not only for export but for home, and the number pickers difficulOne the of selves. greatest we of can in .Increased destruction by shipping by and by the supplies help for hands harvest in ties organizing submarines, not only has the home pro- the amelioration of prices. of gathering accurate is that crop any over fallen our Distribution. allies For of Better by duction Information as to how many helpers 500,000,000 bushels of grain, but they Beyond this the duty has been laid are needed on each farm and in each much a us for larger upon the food administration to are thrown upon informasuch lack of For township. with the patriotic men In trades proportion of their normal Imports forone and commerce, that we may eliminate tion it very often happens that merly obtained from other markets. because will be handicapped They have reduced consumption at the evils which1 have grown Into our township it is without sufficient helpers and a every point, but men in the trenches, system of distribution, that the or thirty miles twenty-liv- e men in the shops, and the millions of may fall equitably upon all by res- township a will of workers. have away surplus relabor l at physical women placed toration, so far as may be, of the advance in Just how By ascertaining course of trade. It is the purpose quire more food than during peace needed will in each be workers many of their incidence saving of the food administration to use its fim and the will be business organizations locality, and any shortage which they may suf- utmost power and the utmost ability able to recruit a sufficient force. chilwomen and amelito assemble can that patriotism fer, falls first upon This years apple crop calls for spedren. If this privation becomes too orate this situation to such a degree as cial methods of handling. The size of maincannot be may be possible. groat, their peoples makes it necessary to send the crop The food administration is assemtained constant in the war, and we will s fruit to market and the only of battle advice the in the to fight bling the best expert he left alone seconds all and culls are see to that 'country on home economics, on food sold in bulk around home or worked democracy with Germany. is and conservation on food trade utilisation, practices The problem of There must be into one of many complexions. We cannot, trade wastes, and on the conduct of up see that apples are not to care great inoutwe our free and shall with public eating places, and we do not wish, to the heat or outdoors after stitutions and our large resources of line from time to time detailed sugges- exposed but are properly housed In picking, out Its In which if carried by policed tions, honestly food, to Imitate Europe places on the farm storage temporary berationing, but we must voluntarily and such individuals in the country, we we and carefully cooled. The scarcity of the effect which result will lieve .Intelligently assume the responsibility will probably make it necesbefore us as one In which everyone must attain. We are asking every pickers to pick and house the crop first sary and Interest home, every public eating place has a direct and inescapable and it afterwards. Full and grade We must Increase our export of foods many trades, to sign a pledge card directions for pack the fruit will handling as so far these directions, to circumstances accept to the allies, and In the later. be we published are of our shipping situation, these exports .tlielr circumstances permit, and The big. task immediately must be of the most concentrated organising various instrumentalities to ahead isgreat of that securing a picking askWe are foods. These are wheat flour, beef, ameliorate speculation. in tills work the business and force, are who of men the oththe country We have ing pork and dairy products. man and the farmer are er foods In great abundance which we not actually engaged in the handling to an extent never known before. This similar that to food of pledges sign can use Instead of these commodities, It will be harvested it, so far ns they are is a war crop. and we can prevent wastes in a thou- they shall see todirections war a with followed. are organisation. these that the must able, guard sand directions. We ROW AMERICA CAN APPLE C Perfect Diamonds ITS a - bur-de- n nor-ma- , first-clas- - There are n better Diamonds than those we offer you. They aro made right, look right, and are sold Diamonds have been goright. ing up for years. Lucky is the man who owns one. Our prices make buying easy. TAKE OVER ENTIRE CROP IF NECE8SARY TO STABILIZE PRICE8 THROUGHOUT YEAR. MAY BOYD PARK IOUNMDI0M MAKERS OF JEWELRY Food Administration Forms a Fifty Million Dollar Corporation, With All the 8tock Held by the Federal Government. K6 MAIN STRUT SALT LAKE BARGAINS IN USED The fond administraWashington. tion ou August 15 prepared to take over the entire 1917 wheut crop if necessary to stabilize prices through- t. M iplandid mc4 to SNJ. CITY CARS ofiwbila, Uautw4 Hrai claw isanlm cuaiiiioa-aa- ar inni If waatrd by tilhi partita. Writ for Itiailtd lia and Jmcrip-lioUatd Car Dtpt., Raadatll-Dod- d Auto Co Salt Lakt City out the year. It formed a 850,000,000 corporation, with all of the stock held by the federal government, to buy und HfiMTFB ken and women, no la the Mine to the liertier treile. Bam sell wheat at the prlnclpul terminals. bire in zreatdeinenil. Hpecl el rate The move was the first of a series now open for SO dev. Only ahem time required. lurnlahed end ootnntlaaion paid while leara-Into be taken to reduce the price of Toola Call or write Moler Baber School, M Cu tabread. Millers already have agreed me rclal St.. Balt Lake City. Utah. to put themselves under voluntary regulations and are working out with IS THIS YOUNG MANS AGE? the food administration a differential of profits. Distribution of flour by Period of Achievement Comeo wholesulers and the baking of bread Golden When Man Is Well Past Forty will be taken up next. Years of Age, It le Claimed. The hope of the food administration " 0 is to establish a scale of prices from Onr are times called the frequently the farm to the grocery store, elimmen. But when one the of age young inating undue profits and ending spec- looks back to the revolutionary era of ulation. The maintenance of a stand- onr country, from 1775 to 1825, and ard price for wheat, its officials be- considers the striking youthfulncss of lieve, Is the first and most necessary the leaders of America the appellation step. does not exactly to fit," said a In announcing formation of the New Torkappear man in a recent interview. adminisfood wheut corporation, the Nor do the men now in their twentration also made known the person- ties and thirties the men of the nel of u committee which will fix a forties and fifties push hard enoqgh to prove price to be paid for this years wheat that this is the yonng yield, and the names of thirteen men man's age. Unless men of forty are who will act as purchasing agents for considered young, this scarcely is a the corporation ut terminals. young mans age. The wheat corporation will be put The under thirty receive under the administration's grain divi- an undueyoungstersof attention from the degree sion. Its chuinnun will be Herbert and business. A notion professions Julius Hoover and its president from prevails that the latest Burnes, a Duluth operator, now serv- college, technical school graduate or university ading ns a voluntary aide in the food is more desirable than the mau who comg ministration. The courses in life's has had mittee will be headed by President college of Best sellers,, experience. Garfield of Williams college, and will movies and magazine articles about comprise twelve members represent-ln- business foster the notion. Consenumber! producers and consumers. ( quently, a distressingly The wheat corporation will handle of men from twenty-fiv- e large to thirty ex- -' all allied grain purchases and will do pect to be tbe bosses of big businesses the buying for the American govern- or professions or techment If found advisable, it will also nicalcorresponding vocations the time they aro by serve as broker for the milling inter- thirty-fivests, purchasing wheat for the flour Many will, if they work hard and mills to keep the market steady. The to possess capacity, occupy posiprove allies will be required to purchase But scarcely flour Instead of wheat on the theory tions of responsibility. at reTbe thirty-fivwill age off costs be golden that manufacturing duced and American Industry encour- achievement really comes la most cases 15 years later. In fact, tbe pree- aged. ent age is the age of the mature man BRITON8 CHEER OUR TROOPS. In literature tbe success today is notj the man of thirty. Irvin Cobb would) Americans March Under Review of almost be considered aj Ambassador Page and King George. success universally but Cobb Is in literature, forty- a one and has not reached the fullness; London. Londoners celebrated second American day, when- a large of his power. George Ade Is Frank Cobb, a. contingent of American troops from a Tarklngton t. training camp marched through the chief writer of editorial, the capital Wednesday, in response to a The success achieved through develop- popular demand that its citizens ment of talent, hard work and sacrishould see and greet the visitors, fice is reserved for the mature." whose presence, whose doings and Good Night characteristics have commanded a reThere are two brothers in Indianapmarkable degree of popular attention. King George, Queen Mary, Dowager olis whose names are not John and Queen Alexandra and other royalties Richard Jones, but might be. Richard reviewed the parade In the court fac- owns a grocery store and his telephone listing Buckingham palace. American Am- listing follows directly under the conThis bassador Page and Vice Admiral Sims ing of Johns residence. reviewed the purade from the Ameri- versation took place the other day between Mrs. John Jones and a voles can embassy. on tbe wire : , ARMY TO BE REORGANIZED. Y Hello, is this Jones7 c. price-fixin- poat-gradua- te g e. e. fifty-one- ,; forty-eigh- t, forty-eigh- Will Conform With European Standards as Result of Recent Orders. Washington. Complete reorganiza- tion of all branches of the American army to conform with European standards, as recommended by Major General Pershing, Is provided for in army orders reveullng that the recently announced divisional reorganization plan Is to be carried down into the regiments and companies. The administrative unit of the infantry arm hereafter will be a company with 250 enlisted men and six commissioned officers in place of something over 100 men and tlfree officers. The compuny will be divided Into four platoons, each In command of a lieutenant There will be two captains as first and second in command, one first lieutenant and three second lieutenants. - Tea." Have you got any sonpt" Why, yes, I guess I've got a little. Whyr Why, I want to buy some. What do you think? I've only got one cake. Who is thin, anyway?" Isnt this Jones' grocery?" "No." Good night Indianapolis News. 1 New Use for Motorcycles. motorcycles are still being discovered is shown by the fact that a Californian with a big lawn to care for drives bis mower with tbe aid of his powered cycle. After several unsuccessful attempts be devised satisfactory means of attaching the grass cutter to the front forks of his, machine, and now he asserts that he Tbit new uses for h can trim the lawn in about the time formerly required. The only COAL SHORTAGE IN NORTHWE8T. consideration that limits his speed ap! parently is tbe fact that the mowcq Residents of Five States Face Peril f must be oiled frequently. Popular Me Freezing to Death This Winter. chanlcs Magazine. Washington. Wisconsin, one-tent- Minnesota, the Dakotas and northern Iowa are in danger of freezing to death this winter if some relief Is not had by which the government shall compel the coal operators and the shipping companies to supply these states with sufficient coni for the winter. If the states nnmed are to le made secure against freezing, it will be necessary from now until the first of September to have coni shipped Into them at a rate of 3,370,000 tons a month. That War Easy. '.'7 his mother to the grocery with just enough change) to pay for her order. Seeing some he ordered) ihe in showcase, candy what he wanted of It and started out. When the clerk called him back, say-- j lng, Here, you forgot to pay for the; randy," he stopped, looked at the) clerk, then at Ills sack of candy, and coolly said, "Oh. maka a check for A that little boy was sent |