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Feed the Fighters! Win the War! 
Harvest the Crops! Save the Yields! 
On the battlefields of France and Flanders the United States boys and Hie Canadian 
boys arc fighting side by side to win for the World the freedom that Prussianism would 
destroy. 
While doing this they must be fed and every ounce of muscle that can he requisitioned 
must go into use to save this year’s crop. A short harvest period requires the combined 
forces of the two countries in team work, such as the soldier boys in France and Flanders 
are demonstrating. 
THE COMBINED ZFICHTERS :iN FRANCE AND FLANDERS 
ANDJTHE COMBINED HARVESTERS IN AMERICA 
WILL BRING THE ALLIED VICTORY NEARER 
A reciprocal arrangement forrthe use of farm workers has been perfected between the 
Department of the Interior of Canada and the Department of Labor and Agriculture of 
the United States, under which it is proposed to permit the harvesters that are now 
engaged in the wheat fields of Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota. 
Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin to move over into Canada, with the privilege of 
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HELP YOUR CANADIAN NEIGHBORS WHEN YOUR OWN CROP IS HARVESTED 
Canada wants 40,000 Harvest Hands to take care of its 
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your Canadian neighbor in harvesting his; in this way do your bit in helping "Win 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Discovery of platinum 
in Alaska by Dr. Herschel C. Parker of 
New York and others has aroused Gov¬ 
ernment agencies to the greatest activity 
in the hope of finding sufficient quantities 
of the precious metal to meet the war 
needs of the Allies. The virtual cessation 
of activities in the IJrjil Mountain 
mines, the source of the world’s greatest 
.supply, has cut off imports. S'O acute is 
the world shortage that the price has 
advanced from $45 to .$105 an ounce 
since the beginning of the war. 
Lieut, Irving F. Schneider of the Ger¬ 
man navy was arrested recently at San 
Francisco on a presidential warrant as 
a spy. Many maps and papers declared 
to be of an incnminatlng nature were 
found in his possession. Federal author¬ 
ities said Schneider tried to join an avi¬ 
ation corps and later a department of 
the military service. 
Two vicious mongrel dogs attacked 
Ralph Protta 9 years old. of 245 East 
1.50th street, New York City, in a yard 
adjoining his home, August. 17, and in¬ 
jured the child so tlmt he died in Lin¬ 
coln Hospital less than an hotir after. 
The child was shockingly mangled, 
Joseph Cohen, a poultry denier, was 
Kentencod to die in the electric chair in 
the week if October 1 for his part in 
the murder of Barnet Baff by .Tnstice 
Tompkins in the Criminal Branch of the 
Supreme Court at New York, Aug. 17. 
Abraham Graff, convicted with Cohen, 
but on the lesser charge of manslaugh¬ 
ter, was sentenced to serve not less than 
ten nor more than twenty yoai-s in Sing 
Sing. 
.Tames Rowan, district secretary of the 
Industrial Workers of the World, and 
twenty-five other members of the organ¬ 
ization were arrested at local I. W. W. 
headquarters at Spokane. Wash., August 
19, by a company of Idaho National 
Guardsmen and placed in the county jail 
as military prisoners. Rowan had or¬ 
dered the general strike of I. W. W. 
labor in the Northwest. Strike orders 
advising farm workers “to let the fni’t 
Tot on the ground” and calling on cou- 
istruction workers to Lay down their tools 
have been signed by Rowan. 
Fire destroyed the ice houses of 
Armour & Co. at Round Lake, in Lake 
county. Ill.. Aug. 19. The loss will ex¬ 
ceed .$250,000. Freight care valued at 
.$.50,000 also were burned, while the 
stock of 50.000 tons of ice was valued at 
.$75,000. Frank Senlerson, the superin¬ 
tendent, said the fire was of incendiary 
origin, as it started in a dozen different 
places and within a short time was be¬ 
yond control. 
Fire following an explosion in a 
munitions factory at Rigaud. near Mont¬ 
real, Canada, Aug. 18, caused a monetary 
loss of $2,000,000, hut only one life was 
lost. 
R. n. Mead, Curtiss Aeroplane Com¬ 
pany instructor, and Charles Wall civil¬ 
ian passenger, wore killed near Buffalo. 
N. Y., Aug. 20 when a smoke bomb they 
were trying out exploded when their 
plane was 200 feet in the air and set 
fire to the machine, which dived to the 
ground. The bomb, it is reported, had 
been offered to the Government and ]Mr. 
Wall was making a demonstration de¬ 
manded by the War Department when 
the accident happened. 
Fire on a pier at the foot of Warren 
street, Brooklyn, N. Y., August 21. 
damaged two steamships,, three tugs and 
six lighters, and caused a total loss of 
more than $.500,000. 
Louis I. Cherey and Dr. Samuel .T. 
Bernfeld, formerly members of TiOcal 
Exemption Board No. 99, in New York 
City, confos'sed taking $4,000 in bribes to 
release able-bodied, single coiiscrii)ts. 
I*leading guilty, they were sentenced by 
.Tudge Martin T. Manton in United 
States District Court August 20 to serve 
two years each in the Atlanta peniten¬ 
tiary. ,Tudge Martin T. Manton refused 
Aug. 21 to consider a jury’s recommen- 
dabion for mercy for Kalman Gruber, 
the mechanical dentist, convicted of 
selling exemptions fi’om military sendee 
at .$300 apiece. NeitTier would he heed 
the defendant’s tearful plea to be put in 
either the army or the navy, that he 
nn'ght “prove his loyalty.” lie imposed 
upon the man in United States District 
Court the maximum sentence of two 
years imprisonment in Atlanta Federal 
Penitentiary. Gruber was found guilty 
of having acted as go-hetween for Dr. 
Samuel .T. Bernfold aud Louis I. Cherey. 
In denying a writ of habeas corpus to 
two slackers who refused to register IT. 
S. .Tudge Emory Speer of the Southern 
District of Georgia at Mt. Airy. Ga., 
Aug. 20, upheld in toto the constitution¬ 
ality of the selective draft law. The at¬ 
torney for the slackers was Tom Wat¬ 
son, whose paper has been carrying on a 
campaign against the law which baa 
caus*^! trouble all over the country. 
Aug. 21 Dr. Henry Seligman, volun¬ 
teer assistant at a draft exemption 
hoard in AVilliamshurg. N. was ar¬ 
rested for receiving bribes from drafted 
men. His arrest followed quickly after 
that of Lazarus .Taewhson, a young in- 
.surauce agent. .Tacohson was seized 
wdieu detected taking a diamond ring and 
$75 in marked hills from a drafted man, 
.Toseph Levy. The prisoners were tak¬ 
September 1, 1917 
en l>efore United States Commissioner 
McGoJdrick at the Federal Building in 
Br(M)klyn and held in $10,000 bail each 
on a- charge of conspiracy. 
Fifteen Germans were arrested at 
Tripp. Hutchinson County, S. D., Aug. 
21, by Federal officers on the charge of 
violating the espionage act. The men 
were taken to Yankton, S. D,. and ar¬ 
raigned before United States Commis- 
.sionor E. T. AVhite for preliminary 
hearing. 
First appoiils in suits contesting the 
constitutionality of the army draft law 
were filed in the Supreme Court Aug. 
21 for four residents of St. Paul, Minn. 
Each defendant xofused to register on 
June 5. was found guilty of attempting 
to evade the law and sentenced to serve 
one year imprisonment. They are Walter 
and Otto M'angerin, Alfred Grahl and 
Joseph F. Arver. 
, farm and GARDEN.—The Flor¬ 
ists Telegraph Delivery service of this 
country is making arrangements with 
Trench florists by which soldiers in 
France may order flowers to be delivered 
here. 'J’he orders are relayed from the 
French receiver to a florist at the point 
of delivery. This delivery service, in 
operation all over the United States, 
had previously been extended to Great 
Britain, 
To enlarge the campaign toward the 
control of insects infesting stored food 
products.^ a new section has been or¬ 
ganized _ in the bureau of entomology of 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture. I’he Secretary of Agriculture 
luis appointed to the new position Dr. 
E. A. Back, of the bureau, as ento¬ 
mologist in charge of insect investiga¬ 
tions. 
Short coni-ses in agnculture at the N. 
.T. State College, Rutgers, New Bruns- 
Avick, will oi)en Xov. 20. Circular out¬ 
lining the courses may be obtained from 
the director, Brof. F. C. Alinkler. 
Inability to got the necessary labor 
for farm woi-k and also a lack of fertil¬ 
izer, especially jdiosphate, are among the 
principal ohstjudes in the way of an in¬ 
creased AA’iiitcr wheat yield in 1918 and 
an incrcasf'd rye profluction experts 
from Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, Mich¬ 
igan, Ohio and AVisconsin told rei)reseii- 
tativos of the United States Department 
of -Agriculture in conference at Indiana¬ 
polis Aug. 20. 
The annual Field Day at the New 
.Jersey State Agricultural College and 
Exp<M’imeut Station, at New Brunswick, 
will be hdd this year on Thursday. 
September 0. The day’s program will 
consist of exorcises in which the heads 
of departments will tell of the work of 
the Experiment Station, au inspection of 
the College Farm, stump pulling and 
blasting demonstrations and an exhibit of 
farm tractors. The people of the State 
are cordially invited to be present. It is 
suggested tluit any of the agricultural 
organizations of the State may find it 
convenient to arrange for conferences of 
committees or similar meetings at the 
College Farm on this date. 
WASHINGTON.—Contracts for 100,- 
000 tons of sugar have been i)laced by 
the Government for army and navy re¬ 
quirements at a price to be lixed by the 
food administration. At the present mar¬ 
ket price the order will total between 
$12,000,000 and $15,000,000. Pleasures 
to stabilize sugar prices were discussed 
Aug, 20 by Herbert C. Hoover, the food 
administrator, with a committee from the 
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, 
which stopped sugar futures trading last 
week at Mr. Hoover’s request. Prices 
have advanced sharply within the last 
few months. The food administration 
plans to take control of sugar dealings 
as soon as it has completed a programme 
for supervising wheat trading and flour 
and bread manufacture. 
The highest price ever paid by the 
Government for silver was recorded 
Aug. 21 ill the purchase of a large (pian- 
tity at 87 cents an ounce for coinage. 
Tills is an increase of more than 50 
per cent, since the war started. An in¬ 
crease in silver coinage is planned. 
President Wilson issued an order Aug. 
21 fixing the price of bituiiiiiious coal 
in all producing districts of the country. 
The order, which applies to every mine 
in the United State's, virtually cuts the 
price in half. Tlie country is dividisl 
into twenty-nine districts and every pro¬ 
ducer in every district must market liis 
coal at tlie same price. Figures show the 
actual reduction by the President’s order 
to lie 44 per cent, in the specific case 
of A’irghiia coal, which furnishes the 
general ratio of I’eductioii, although the 
new iir.ice to the navy is 50 per cent, 
of the old. The price of a long ton of 
A'irginia coal at the pier has been .$().50. 
The new price is $2.*20 a long ton plus 
$1.45 freight, or .$3.()5 at the pier, 5{) per 
cent, of the old price ai a reduction of 
44 per cent. A price of $2 a ton is 
fixed for the Peuiisylvunia. AA^'est Vir¬ 
ginia and Ohio fields, which supply 
practicallv all the coal used in the East¬ 
ern Htates. The other prices range from 
$1..50 to $2 for Alabama fields to $3 for 
Oklahoma, These compare with a price 
of $3 offered by the Pennsylvania oper¬ 
ators at the coal conference held here 
last .Tune aud the same figure presented 
by the AA’^est Alrgiuiu operators. 
