Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 41, 29 December 1917 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1917,

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND S UN-TELEGRAM

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Cutting Down on the Non-Essentials By Edward Hungerford of The Vigilantes ' A man coming into one of the large New York hotels today, for the first time in some months, would not gain a very vivid impression that the country was at war; involved in one of the very great crises of its existence. True it is that the dining-rooms are draped in flags, that Mr. Hoover's injunctions are solemnly spread upon the menu-cards, that off icers in khaki are seated here and there and everywhere and that all rise upon

the playing of the national anthem. These evidence of patriotism are not difficult. An effort, more or less successful, has been made to close restaurant and cabaret festivities at one o'clock in the morning. But that is about all. Jazzbands still bang out their discordant melodies in the cheap places, with softer-toned orchestras for the more expensive ones. There is gaiety ;n the air. And prosperity to sign the check. "We're keeping them cheered up," said the sleek proprietor of the restaurant, with a wink, "You know. Business as usual." But he means, "pleasure as usual."

Go over upon Fifth Avenue. The press of

limousines is as great as in any other December;

perhaps even greater. Cars run in second-speed all the way from Thirty-third street to Sixtythird and there is a tremendous wastage of gaso

lene. What matters it that the president of one of the very largest of our oil companies warns us that we are using gasolene far faster than we am producing it, that there is less than five years reserve remaining and that soon we will have to begin putting side a large amount of the best product for that great new aviation fleet which is to be America's chief contribution to the war? Does that worry the men in any one of those cars? As for that matter does it worry you in yours? Is it any of your business that there are 25,000 men nearly ten full-sized regiments today engaged in driving private pleasure automobiles in the city of New York ; perhaps twice that number elsewhere in the country. Is that your business or mine? - Is it any of our business that we cannot manufacture phonographs rapidly enough to fill the demand at this time; that it is a big season in furs; that florists never had a .better year? Should we not rejoice that the non-essentials are doing so well in these bitter times ? Why not business as usual ? England can answer that question. She went through the same performance? She tried to stretch her industrial productivity despite a great shortage of man-power into making an increased output of both essentials and non-essentials; and failed. We shall fail if we persist in trying to do the same thing. Only in our case such a failure would be even more

tragic. For the best things, in addition to foodstuffs, that we can supply to aid the Allies and the great cause to which we are all pledged are

the products of our industrial productivity guns, powder, clothing, shoes, aeroplanes, motor

trucks, locomotives, railroad cars; and then the ships in which to carry all these things overseas.

Of money we have a plenty ; already we are giv

ing generously of it to our Allies. Men we can supply and shall but I am afraid, never in more

than a comparatively limited number. But mu

nitions we can and should supply in almost unlimited quantities. Yet these we cannot give plentifully unless we have plentiful man-power. And our. manpower, like that of England's has been depleted by the drafts for our army. And even if we have learned from her mistakes and showed more judgment in picking men for the trenches and leaving the right types for our essential industries, the fact remains that our fighting service already has made great drains upon our industrial army. These drains we cannot now prevent. But we can prevent the drain of non-essential industries upon bur work-men, to say

nothing of our materials and our very limited supply of fuel. And this is the very thing that we must stop. England stopped it in a large measure at least by forbidding the employment of men between the ages of eighteen and sixtyone years in sixty -eight industries which she classified as non-essential. And when one of the manufacturers barred, or practically barred, from making his product protested, saying that he

must keep his plant and organization together un

til the return of peace, she found other work for

him. Thus a factory given ordinarily to the output let us say of candy, suddenly might find itself manufacturing canned tomatoes for the Army, at a price which not only enabled the candy-maker to keep his business together but to gain a small profit from it. And if he was at all puzzled at the details of canning tomatoes the government smoothed out his problems. Tn Great Britain more than 10,000 plants large and small, in other days turning out a tremendously diversified list of products are today under government direction making the supplies essential for England's part in the winning of the war. Here is a lesson by which the United States may profit if only she will - heed it in time. It has not as yet sunk far. When it does sink and we begin to take heed, there will be a little less gayety in the hotels ; they and the theatres will

begin to take on more of the complexion of London playhouses and hotels, where there is light

and laughter and supreme confidence but re

straint as well. There will be less pressure of passenger automobiles upon Fifth Avenue, New York, or Michigan Avenue, Chicago, or any other of the great pleasure streets in the land. The thing I noticed most on a recent trip to Montreal, after an absence of two years, was the tremendous reduction in the number of motor cars upon the streets r the fact that most of those within sight were driven by men and women, obviously their owners. Canada has had to learn her lesson. And so must we. Only it is within our pow

er to make that lesson reasonably easy or fear

fully hard. And if we do not practice self-denial now we undoubtedly shall be compelled to prac

tice it at a later time ; anad in a far greater meas

ure.

"AUTO RANGERS" TO BE ENLISTED FOR HOME DUTY Automobile Owners of .Indiana to Form Part of State Militia.

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 29. "Gasoline Rangers" motor car owners enlisted, with their autos, for military transport service, subject to the emergency call of the Governor are to form a new and important branch of the Indiana state militia now being organized by the protection department of the State Council of Defense under the authority of Adjutant General Harry B. Smith and Governor James P. Goodrich. Indianapolis car-owners have taken the lead under the direction of George Harney of the protection section of the State Council of Defense, and enlistments are being made rapidly, with prospects of an early offer of services to the Governor. The purpose is to organize auto owners throughout Indianapolis and over the state, subject to military emergency call, and to use the cars and drivers so enlisted whenever and wherever they may be needed within

the state to carry militia forces to points where trouble or disaster

menaces the public, safety.

The autos will be used for militia

or for other military forces when needed. For example, in a case such as the tornado at Newcastle, where troops were needed in a rush, a mobile corps such as the "Gasoline Rangers" now being formed in Indianapolis could have been mobilized at the Monument circle, bodies of troops could have been loaded immediately in the motor cars at that point and the needed soldiery could have been on duty at the emergency zone in a brief hour or two from the time of the first distress signal. Oklahoma is abreast of Indiana, in starting an organization, of motor car owners for service in the war emergency. It is the purpose of the Oklahoma movement to put every auto in that state at the call of the nation.

The organization is being pushed by i

the Oklahoma Automobile association. The Oklahoma idea includes the employment of the autos for Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other war drives.

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While driving to th city one morning a ehprt time ago Cy Pretlow met a neighboring farmer, and they paused to talk over their crops, each striving

to outdo the other. Presently their

conversation turned into another

channel, whereupon Cy asked: "Are you in the market for a good horse, Eb?" "You know me, Cy. Always ready

to dicker." "Well, here's the critter. She's

sound and gentle; any woman can drive her. She's yours at rock bottom price." Eb gathered up his lines preparatory to starting, at the same time replying: "Well, Cy, I'd buy her this morning, but I hate to bust a dollar."

Officer Christens Man, Then Takes Him for Navy DALLAS, Tex., Dec 29 -The chief yeoman at the naval recruiting station here faced a puzzle when a young man, almost perfect physically,- but who said he did not know his name, knew of no place to call home, and could not remember ever having seen his parents, applied for enlistment in the navy. The only name he knew, according to applicant, was "Puddy.' The chief yeoman entertained serious doubts as to whether he could accept the man, but at the insistence of the applicant calle-. .rf Capt. Walter Ball, chief recruiting officer. After hearing the man's story, Captain Ball said : "I now christen you John Puddy, aged 18, and tell you that your home is in Fort Worth." John Puddy waB accepted today as an apprentice seaman.

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people no trouble, no fuss, no attempt to wriggle out of settlement. "If the man died tonight," he continued, "his widow would receive her money by the first post tomorrow morning." "You don't say?" drawled the Yankee. "See here, now; you talk of prompt payment! Waal, our office a on the third floor of a building forty-

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So prolific was the Island of Mindoro, in the Philippines, at one time in the production of rice that it was popularly called "the granary of the Philippines." Sugar, cotton, hemp and other crops thrive on the island when properly cultivated.

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A LITTLE SLICE O LIFE. One of the nieces had been away For a long time taking a course in Domestic Science at a school near Boston. After she had finished her course she came home And the relatives gathered all round To enjoy some swell eats, for the advance Notices she had sent us had been very favorable. The young lady didn't exactly hate h-r own cooking. We had visions, and we reveled in them. One evening, shortly after she got home, She prepared the meal, and we all gathered round. The piece de resistance was a cheese ramikin. A cheese ramikin, as I take it, is a Piece of asphalt pavement garnished with parsley. The stage settings were immense, but the ramikin That is something else again. The ten of us managed to blast off about one-third Of it, and we were all chewing on it when we started home. The next day Uncle Peter had the doctor, And now he has a fifty-fifty chance. Uncle Jake hasn't been down to his office. Three aunts are confined to their beds. What's the Idea domestic science? It is more like domestic. suicide. More frightfullness.

IN THE GLOAMING. In the gloaming, O. my darling. I go down the cellar stair With the coal hod to bring up some Of the anthracite that's there. I am clad in my pajamas And my faltering feet are bare, And my teeth ever chatter From the frost that's in the air. In the gloaming, O. my darling, When I see where 1 am at, When it's darker than a dungeon, And when 1 as quick as scat Tumbls headlong with the scuttle And land neadflret on the cat,

If I use some choice quotations Think not ill of me for that. General Pershing has established a second base. Though it sounds like a baseball game we trust there wul be no short stop. EXCESS BAGGAGE. President of Vassar says some beautiful girls are brainy. . But brains are always like a side line when a girl is beautiful.

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IXDIAXAFOLIS, Dec. 29 Any grocer supplying a hotel is classed as a wholesaler and must have a license under the federal food control act, according to advices just received by Harry E. Barnard, federal food administiator, for Indiana. The ruling came from the legal department of the federal administration, which holds that the food control should obtain as much with reference to this class of retailors, even though many of them may he smaU, as exists in reference to the dealer whose sales total $100,000 per year. County food administrators in Indiana have been advised by Dr. Barnard to see to it that all retailers conform to this regulation and secure federal licenses at once.

In compliance with Food Administrator Hoover's request for all possible conservation of sugar, the Kansas ice cream manufacturers, representing practically all of the large manufacturers in the state, have voted to manufacture no more sherbets or ices as long as the country is at war.

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