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Oic RURAL NEW-VORKER 
November lo, 1917 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
(Continued from page 1296) 
nearly all farm-grown, and the pigs thrive 
on it. The cabbages were planted in a 
strawberry field after the vines and weeds 
Avere plow’ed under. Now it ha.s been 
seeded to rye, and next year there will be 
a heavy growth to plow' under for po¬ 
tatoes. It seems as if we never had such 
a start with rye and rye and vetch as 
w'e have this year. It looks well above 
ground, and if you dig dowm into the soil 
you find a groiw'th of roots that seems sur¬ 
prising. Every one of these roots is a 
little farm policeman to arrest some run¬ 
away atom of nitrogen and make it Avork 
for us next year * * * Most of us 
ha\'e read about “dishorned” trees. Many 
people report poor success in cutting the 
toi)S of large trees completely off. Often 
such trees become discouraged and die. It 
is better to cut about one-third of the 
top each year. However, the picture on 
page 1296 shows such a tree on our lawm. 
It must be 75 years old. The AA'uid blew 
off the top and we trimmed it off Avith a 
clean cut. It has started out a strong new' 
top and looks good for half a century 
more. * * * \ have been reading three 
new' books w'hich can be recommended to 
our people. “My Four years in Ger¬ 
many,” by James W. Gerard, should be 
T<'ad by eA'ery American. Mr. Gerard 
Avas our Ambassador in Germany Avhen 
this fearful war started. He makes it 
States Marshal Power ordered a cleanup 
October 30 of the restricted zones in 
Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond, w'here 
Germans are employed. The new order 
affects no less than 1,000 enemy aliens, 
and all permits allowing these to enter 
the Brooklyn half mile zones have been 
revoked and their employers notified that 
their enemy help shall be discharged 
forthwith. After the above date any 
enemy alien found in the barred zone will 
be subject to arrest. 
WASHINGTON.—The scope of the 
espionage and trading with the enemy 
acts, in so far as they affect the postal 
service and how they are to be enforced 
against disloyal publications, are ex- 
plaified at length to publishers by Post¬ 
master-General Burleson October 25, As 
interpreted by the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment, the acts make it unlaw'ful for any 
person, firm, corporation or association 
to mail, or to transport, carry, or other- 
Avise publish or distribute during the war 
any printed or other matter: 
1. Advocating or urging treason, in¬ 
surrection or forcible resistance to any 
laAV of the United States. 
2. Conveying false reports or false 
statements intended to interfere with the 
operation or success of the military or 
naval forces of the United States, or to 
promote the success of its enemies. 
3. Intended to cause insubordination, 
disloy.alty, mutiny or refusal of duty in 
the military or naval forces of the United 
States. 
4. Intended to obstruct the recruiting 
or enlistment service of the United 
States, to the injury of the services of 
the United State.s, 
5. The circulation or publication of 
which involves the violation of any of the 
numerous other criminal provi.sions of 
the espionage act, but wh’’ch are not of 
special interest to publishers. 
0. Printed in a foreign language con¬ 
taining any news item, editorial or other 
printed matter respecting the Govern¬ 
ment of the United states, or of any na¬ 
tion engaged in the present war, its poli¬ 
cies, international relations, the state or 
conduct of war, or any matter relating 
thereto, unless the publisher or distrib¬ 
uter thereof, on or before offering the 
same for mailing, or in any manner dis¬ 
tributing it to the public, has filed w’ith 
the postmaster at the place of publication 
a true, complete translation of the 
article. 
Ship construction throughout the United 
States is lagging because of a scarcity 
of labor, and the Government wants 400,- 
000 more men to bring the shipyards to 
the full capacity that is required to meet 
the urgent demands of the Allied nat’ons. 
Many of the shipyards, w'orking one shift 
a day, are able to turn out only 45 to 50 
per cent of the output that could be pro¬ 
duced with three shifts of eight hours 
each. There are 200,000 men emnloyed 
for the one .shift in the yards, and the de¬ 
sired additional shifts cannot be filled for 
w'ant of men. The Shipping Board con¬ 
cedes the ground for Lord Northcliffe’s 
Chicago statement that the country would 
not be able by the end of 1918 to turn 
out the 6.000,000 tons required for trans¬ 
port purposes, but, at the same time, it 
was stated that T the pending labor 
troubles could be settled and the scarcity 
of labor cured, a tonnage output of be¬ 
tween 5 000.000 and 6.0(X>.000 could be 
reached by the end of next year. 
Official announcement was lade at 
Chicago October 29 that eA'ery meat pack¬ 
ing plant in the country is under full con¬ 
trol by the Government, and that after 
November 1 the control will be absolute, 
operation of the plants then being under 
license. The announcement was made by 
Joseph P. Cotton, chief of the meat di¬ 
vision of the Food Administration, and 
Prof. Charles McCarthy of the Univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin, personal representative 
of Food Administrator Hoover. 
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping 
Board in order to drive ship construction 
at the uttermost possible speed and pro¬ 
vide the tonnage imperatively required 
by the United States and its allies for the 
prosecution of the war, has notified the 
pine mills of the Southwest that if they 
do not turn out lumber in the quantities 
desired by the Shipping Board, give it 
preference in manufacture and shipment 
over lumber for private account and ship 
the various parts of the schedule in the 
order and manner required by the ship¬ 
yards, their mills will be taken over and 
operated by the Government. 
NEW POSTAL RATES.*—On and 
after November 2 letters for delivery in 
the following foreign countries will be 
subject to the rate of three cents an 
ounce, instead of two cents, as at present: 
Bahamas (including Fortune Island 
and Inagua), Canada, Cuba, Barbados, 
British Guiana, British. Honduras. Do- 
miu'can Republic, Dutch West Indies 
(including Aruba, Bonaire. Curacao, 
Saba, St. Eustatius, and the Dutch part 
of St, Martin), England, Ireland, Scot- 
landi Wales, Leeward Islands, Mexico, 
Newfoundland, New Zealand, Panama, 
and Shanghai City (China). The rate 
on letters for foreign countries other than 
tho.se named above remains as at present 
—five cents for the first ounce or frac¬ 
tion thereof, and three cents for each 
additional ounce or fraction thereof. 
Postal cards and postcards (private 
mail’ng cards) for all foreign countries 
Avill be subject to tAvo cents postage, 
unless they fulfill the conditions for 
“prints,” in which case they will be mail- 
able for one cent each. Cards which bear 
no more Avrit’ng or typewriting than is 
authorized upon printed matter will be 
subject to the one-cent rate as “print.s.” 
very Clear AA'hy Germans acted as they 
have, and vdiy this war must be fought 
through. “A Son of the Middle Border,” 
by Hamlin Garland, is the story of a 
farm boy w'ho grew up on an Iowa farm. 
It is the best farm story or farm auto¬ 
biography I have ever read. “Uncle Hen¬ 
ry’s Own Story,” by Henry Wallace, is 
another book which every one of our 
people should read. It is one of those 
fine, mmple tales of resil life Avhich bring 
us back to the truth of things and kc<‘p 
us in touch with the fine old days Avhicli 
are fast becoming a memory. n, AV. c. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—October 23 Capt. Hans 
liorg, of the Appam, and nine other Ger¬ 
mans, escaped from the detention camp 
at Fort McPherson, Ga., by means of a 
tunnel dug from their sleeping quarters. 
Six of them were captured October 2(5. 
Fire of unknown origin destroyed two 
cars of a troop train on the Erie Rail¬ 
road at Rathbone, N. Y., October 28. 
forc'ng the members of one company to 
escape from their Pullman through the 
Avindows as other escape Avas cut off by 
the flames as the men slept. The mem¬ 
bers of this company lost their reserve 
uniforms and personal belongings in a 
commissary car that aa’US destroyed. The 
loss exceeds ^.30,0(X). 
One soldier Avas killed and another per¬ 
haps fatally injured October 28 in a rear- 
end collision between tAVO extra freight 
trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail¬ 
road at Elsmere, Del. It is understood 
the soldiers were acting as guards on the 
train which was run into by the other. 
They were in the caboose, which AA'as de¬ 
molished. 
The People’s Building and Loan Asso¬ 
ciation, of Chicago, the oldest organiza¬ 
tion of its kind in Illinois, is in the hands 
of State Auditor Russel, who has appoint¬ 
ed John S. Kowalski administrator. A 
shortage of ?182.000 is involved. Harri¬ 
son Kelley, for forty years secretary of 
the organization, died b.v droAA'iiing re¬ 
cently. 
Mayor Hoan, of Milwaukee, a Sociab’st, 
vetoed October 29 the resolution adopted 
by the Common Council providing for the 
purchase of $50,000 worth of Liberty 
Ronds by the city. The Mayor declares 
he is living up to the law in doing so. and 
for that reason alone vetoed the measure. 
Six men died in New York City Octo¬ 
ber 30 as the result of drinking “Avar 
whiskey” and another is in a serious con¬ 
dition from the same cause. The “war 
Avhiskey” is believed to have been made 
of Avood alcohol or some other inexpensive 
poison to substitute for the liquor Avhich 
saloon keepers Avere able to dispense for 
ten cents a drink previous to the increase 
in taxes. An autopsy will be performed 
on one or more of the men to establisli 
the exact poison that is being sold, but 
there is enough evidence from the con¬ 
dition of the A'ictims to warrant strong 
suspicion of Avood alcohol. Those of the 
victims who Avere attended by physicians 
before death or lapsing into a coma Avere 
found to have suffered complete paralysis 
of the optic nerves. 
Stirred by the unusually large number 
of fires along the_ Brooklyn waterfront, 
many of them believed to have been set 
by persons hostile to this country, United 
Stg, V. S. Pat. Off. 
The hustle and bustle of farm and freight station never stop for rain. Men 
must be outdoors in the worst of weather. 
But—Raynsters have come to rob rain of its annoyances. 
This new word “Raynster” is the name of the United States Rubber 
Company’s entire line of W'eatherproof clothing. And to make sure that you 
get a Raynster when you buy, each coat is labeled. 
The Raynster label is your assurance that you are getting a waterproof 
coat that is serviceable and comfortable and made of the best of materials. Buy 
by this label—it’s your protection. 
These practical storm-coats are made with ample room to work. They’re 
made strong and durable. They’re made to fit every purpose and person. 
Raynsters are of so many different styles and kinds that to say these storm- 
coats are obtainable to fit the needs of all men, women, boys and girls just 
starts to tell the story. 
Stop at your dealer’s and you’ll learn the rest about Raynsters. And if you 
do, it’s ten to one you take one home. 
Send a postal today for interesting book of styles. It shows Raynsters for 
men, women and children. 
United States Rubber Company 
Clothing Division, New York and Boston 
