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Show FURLGUGHS ARE TO HELP FARM WORK WAR DEPARTMENT INTENDS TO : LET ENLISTED MEN GO HOME, TO SOW AND HARVEST. HOW TO MAKE APPLICATION i . . . , Many Drafted Men Have Been Ex-I Ex-I eused Under- Vocation Provisions i Trade Tests Used to Secure Skilled Workers for Army. (From Committee on Public Information.) 1 Washington. For the purpose of augmenting agricultural production It lis the Intention of the war .depart-iment .depart-iment to grant furloughs to enlisted men to enable them to engage In farming farm-ing during the present season. Cnm-;manding Cnm-;manding officers may grant such furloughs fur-loughs within prescribed rules whenever when-ever It appears they will contribute to increased farm production. Furloughs may be given by commanding com-manding officers of posts, camps, cantonments, can-tonments, divisions, and departments. They will be for short periods, largely large-ly for seeding and harvesting time. They will not be granted to enlisted men of or above the grade of first sergeant, ser-geant, nor In an organization that has been ordered to move or Is In transit from points of mobilisation or training to a port of embarkation. All furloughs granted will be recalled and the men ordered to their organizations when they have received preparatory orders for duty overseas. Furloughs granted for farm work will be without pay and allowances, except that enough pay will be re- j talned In each case to meet allotments in force oo the day of the order, war-risk war-risk Insurance, and pledges on Liberty Lib-erty bonds. ,' For specially qualified experts In agriculture furloughs may be granted by the secretary of war upon app'Ica-tlon app'Ica-tlon by the secretary of agriculture, providing such furloughs are voluntarily volun-tarily accepted by the persons for whom application Is made. Individual applications for furloughs submitted by relatives will be on a form to be furnished by local draft boards. Two sections are to be made out and presented to the local board, which can complete the form. If the furlough Is granted the application appli-cation will be filed by the commanding command-ing officer and a certificate furnished the soldier. If not granted, the application appli-cation will be returned with reasons for disapproval.- . . If the soldier Initiated the application applica-tion he will give the name of the person per-son for whom he desires to work, from whom will be ascertained the need for farm service. - Furloughs may be granted en bloc to men who are willing to accept them," The committee on public information has made public editorial comment in the German press on the revelations in the Reichstag main committee In connection with investigations of the Daimler Motor Works. It was shown that the Dnlmler company was earning 173' per cent, profit per annum,- Hie company's sworn statement placing the profits at 11 per cent, and while the company was earning 400,000,000 marks monthly In excess of Its peacetime peace-time profits It had threatened to reduce re-duce output unless higher prices were paid. The Berliner Tageblatt (Liberal), (Lib-eral), snldr ' "Energetic action of the authorities and the Reichstag Is demanded. Such enterprises as the Daimler "firm are not compelled to submit books for Inspection, In-spection, while every little trader selling sell-ing vegetables must show his profits. We demand government confiscation of Illegal profits and, if necessary, state control." Vorwaerts (Government Socialist), said , "The Ralmler revelations will hardly occasion the same surprise In financial circles as among the masses. The Daimler company's purpose was not to deceive the financial world, but the authorities, so that Its real profits might he kept from the public's knowledge. knowl-edge. The company reckoned upon the commercial Ignorance of tbe government gov-ernment and this experience, shows that such reliance Is usually Justified." Attention of fertilizer manufacturers manufactur-ers and dealers has again been called to the necessity of taking out federal licenses. All fertilizer manufacturers, Including Includ-ing mixers, even though their output out-put may be small, are required to take out licenses. Agents and dealers doing do-ing exclusively a retail business, whose gross sales do not amount to more than $100,000 a year, are not required re-quired to take out licenses or to make I applications for blanks. However, any retail dealer or agent whose gross sales amount to more than $100,000 and who does not apply for a license, Is liable under the provisions of the act of congress provlclng for the governmental gov-ernmental control of the Industry. . Application for license should be made to the law department, license division. United States food administration, adminis-tration, Washington, D. C. American' soldiers and sailors In Ger-,man Ger-,man prison camps prior to April 12, 1918, will not be deprived of their rights to war-risk Insurance becnuse of Inability to make personal application, applica-tion, provided such application Is made In their behalf. 1 According to a statement by the secretary sec-retary of the treasury, applications for insurance may be made in behalf of such prisoners by persons within. the permitted class of beneficiaries voder vo-der the military and naval insurance law. This class Includes wife, child, parent, brother, or sister.. Application should be made to the bureau of war-risk war-risk insurance, at, Washington, D. C npon requests of farmers, when time consumed In traveling from, the post to the place of labor will not exceed 24 hours. In making these applications applica-tions farmers will use a form of lhe provost marshal general's office, also going t6 the local board. Under provisions of the selective-service selective-service law making specified vocations a ground for exemption or discharge; apart from the "necessary Industries" dilt with by the district boards. C7. 710 men were excused from military duty. Of the men exempted. 1.(503 were fed. ernl or state officers; ministers,' 3,078; divinity students. 3.144; In the military and naval service, 47,822. County and municipal officials numbering num-bering 8Sf were discharged; customhouse custom-house clerks, 171 ; mall employees, 1,476; arsenal workmen, 2,3.r8; federal fed-eral employees designated by the president, pres-ident, 1,777; pilots, 1,772; mariners. The health of troops In the United States continues very' good; according to a recent report to the surgeon general gen-eral of the army by the division of leld sanitation. ' Admission, noneffective nonef-fective and death rates are somewhat higher than last report, due chiefly to prevalence of Influenza and bronchitis with complicating pneumonia, In many of our northern, camps. . National Guard cnipps as a group, continue with remarkably low rates. Very few new cases of measles and-meningitis and-meningitis have occurred. . National army camps continue to have high sick rates as compared with camps of other groups, though the rates are lower than last report. Scattering Scat-tering cases of measles are reported from all camps. - - , Field and garden seed are nncondl-tlonally nncondl-tlonally exempted from all embargoes, according to the department of aert- culture. Instructions are IsRued to all railroads to do everything possible to expedite the tnovement of seed. Over 200.000 applications for Insurance Insur-ance by officers and enlisted men of the naval service had been filed by Slarch 81. The average amount of Insurance In-surance on each policy was about $7,-300. $7,-300. making a total of more than $1.-500,000.000. $1.-500,000.000. Payments on war-risk allotments are now about $1,000,000 a month. Wednesday, April 3. was a peak day In sales of war savings stamps, when $4,120,032 was recorded at the treasury treas-ury fcr the day's receipts from stamp aalea. The alien property custodian has been given power to sell, at private sale without advertisement, enemy-owned enemy-owned live stock, feed or food stuffs, hides and other animal products, agricultural agri-cultural products, fertilizers, chemicals, chem-icals, drugs, . essential oils, lumber, cotton, tobacco, furniture, books, glass and china ware, wenrlng apparel. Jewelry, Jew-elry, precious stones, pictures, ornaments, orna-ments, brlc--brac, objects of art, raw or finished textile moterlols, trunks, boxes, partially or completely manufactured inetols, fabrics, rub!er and rubber products, and all kinds of merchandise. In lots having a market value of not more than $10,000. Such sales may be held at places and under conditions prescribed by the alien property custodian. Federal reserve banks are to rediscount redis-count notes secured by farm tractors, tract-ors, h cording to the department of agriculture. Instructions have been Issued to nil federal reserve banks authorizing au-thorizing them to rediscount tractor paper presented by any member bank, provided It has maturity not exceeding six months and the tractors are purchased pur-chased for agricultural purposes. In Oklahoma, county councils of defense de-fense are securing pledges from automobile auto-mobile owners to furnish transportation transporta-tion to speakers for community councils. coun-cils. The pledge provides that the cliHlrniHn of the county council may hire a cht at the expense of any signer ho foils to furnish transportation at Hie time promised. (tiv'stlntloiis by the department of . agriculture In 1T stvlcs t.liovv that of a !;i1 of fi VVU'i'.' eft-v-p. 34.rm were ' illod fiy dog in utie i sr ami were ,.'', for by the counties. |