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You have seen the statement that the capacity of the Concrete Yard will be increased. You have seen
and heard the Government representatives come to this town and plead with the people to build houses; are
you going to respond to your patriotic duty, and to your opportunity to make money? If these houses are built
and they must and will be built, you must have the lots on which to put them. Buy one df these lots if the loca
cation appeals to you, but regardless of whether you buy at this sale or elsewhere, for heaven s sake, buy a lot
somewhere and build a house.
We have instructions and authority signed, sealed and delivered to sell these lots regardless of price, and
we are going to do it, on easy terms. Those attending the sale will be given souvenirs, but the most important
thing is to make your arrangements to buy some property. These lots front the Carolina Beach Boulevard
and are highly desirable.
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O. T. WALLACE, General Manager
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UNCLE SI'S FULL LARDER 1
Br ARTHUR MTARLASE.
"Work?" said the Vermont farmer
as he hungrily chewed on an oat straw
in front of his first hive of bees;
"Work? Say, you can see they don't
even want to stop at night. Nor I
betcheh they wouldn't if they could
see in the dark. An that's jest where
it is. Gosh blame It when they're
wiilin" an' we're willin', so longijt say.
' as they do feel that way about it,
wouldn't you think that old Burbank
or somebody could find a way to help
them out? An' I've got the Idee that
mebbe a lot could be done by crossin'
them with lightnin' bugs."
If you are a producer of food, the
word is out, from the department of
agriculture and the food - administra
tion both to cross yourself with a
lightning bug for the duration of the
war.
We can't possibly produce too much
food. Our own need has been doubled
by ihe need of the allies and trebled
if we begin to count neutrals.. Mil
lions of former food producers are now
In army camp or war work. And the
loss by submarine has been great.
"With the best we can do ,the food de
mand will still stretch si wider moutjl
than the food supply. "Losh, mom,"
said the old Dundee trawler captain,
"there couldna be too much fush!" And
with us there can't be "too jnuch
fush" of every sort till the kaiser is
sitting on some nice wet cold rock off
St. Helena trying- to catch his own. :
Results on the Way.
For months Uncle Sam has been
quietly at work at his part of the job.
He has been "stimulating an' increas
ed production" and in every field there
is. In many he can already show re
sults. In others he can see them com
ing. In one he can be almost certain
that the increase will be veritably un
exampled. What' firtd Is it? That
must come later. But you can make
your guess now and learn how far,
even after you've been told you can
be wronj. ' . .
Naturally, because this is America,
we think first of wheat. And the gov
ernment has surely done much' there.
First it fixed a price per bushel
throughout tb country an average of
almost exactly $2, where the average
for the three previous years had been
less than 87 cents a price at which
every farmer with real wheat land
ought to be able to make a profit. A
few have kicked. But more, from pure
patriotism, have planted wheat even
while- knowing tthey were going to
make a loss. Next, with the aid of
every state agricultural - college and
experimental farm, the department of
agriculture gave itself to the business
of distributing ample quantities - of
the best seed wheat. Incidentally and
at the same time it dealt with the
seed wheat hoarder and profiteer. The
problem of harvest labor is still to be
met. But it la hoped to have 'a labor
army, and one that will move with the
ripening graidn all the way. from Kan
sas to the Canadian northwest. For
local reinforcements, every possible
drafted man will be spared from camp,
Every threshing gang In the country
l being organized and there are 75,-
000 of them while as general assist
ants and expert advisers all round,
there will" be some 250,000 boys. In
iact, most or them will be Boy Scouts,
and, as is well known, all Boy Scouts
were crossed with lightning bugs at
the start. There should be no lack of
wheat. But it is not in wheat that
that unexampled increase is going to
come.
Farmer Gets Better Price.
Where, up to a year ago, the farmer
was receiving 66 1-2 cents for corn,
he is now averaging $1.09; for oats
he averages 78 2-3 cents where, for the
three p revious crops, he i,ot 40 1-2;
and for barley nearly $1.32 where he
got a little over 64. The government
did not make those prices. They
were made by the demand for feed
stuffs. But they are a stimulation
which means that every available acre
will be planted with corn and oats
and,, barley. There will Joe a smaller
potato acreage than there was last
year .which was a record planting.
But the food administration has done
Its stimulating. First by creating a
steadily growing demand for potato
flour as a wheat; flour substitute
and next by planning this year to
have cars enough to move the crop to
market before that is made impossible
by the cold of winter.
"There ain't the acreage," says one
big potato man, "but we're leavin' it
to the Lord. If you've been followin
the weather you'll know that' so far
He's been with us strong. An' you
cart write It down that He's still -the
high-up Food Controller."
The Lord With TJs.
Which offers the best of openings to
tell how strong the Lord was with
his assistant food controllers when, a
fe wmonths ago, in a famous anti-
pullet killing order they took tneir
first step toward increasing the future
supply of eggs. The big poultry hous
es of Chicago and New York said that
it was a fool and a hara-kari order,
and no food administration on earth
could stand on it If for three months
you forbade the Ifjirmer to kill his
pullets simply because during thM
time they might lay a few much need
ed eggs, by the end of those three
months he would be so thoroughly mad
that he'd simply clean out his poultry
yard and have done for all time to
come with eggs and pUllets'both, Like
wise .there would be an avalanche of
dressed poultry that no cold storage
accommodations could take care : of
and that not all America could eat.
WaII. what really happened was
this: Whe nthe Lord had heard about
that order, ' almost immediately the
weather began to grow warmer. Spring
commenced in February. The hens
started to lay at once and worked in
a way to shame even lightning bugs.
They began to brood much earlier than
usual. And the result was that not
only was the egg supply increased
over that of the year before by some
24,900,000 dozen, but every second hen,
yound and old, was walking the barn
yard with the sort" of fluffy-yellow
little following that is the best guar
antee of abundant eggs and poultry
for the year to come.
, "Eating Out of Tin Cans.? -
,Not long-ago on a horse transport
one humble observer returned from
embattled Europeu ;-: And "Boys," he
reported, "there's a hundred billion
people over there, ' all hobo'in' it on
the roads an' eating out o' tin cans."
He exaggerated the number of Eu
rope's hobos, military and otherwise.
But he was right about the tin cans.
Everybody is eating out of them
from the babies with their condensed
milk to the soldiers with their beans.
As our town dumps bear witness, so,
very largely are we. In winter almost
all our tomatoes and corn, beans and
peas come to us in the can. The can
ner represents one more food staple.
And how long sighted as well as thor
ough has been the food stimulator's
work may be shown by just one item
in that galley. The food administra
tion's first step in the case of canned
goods was to get the tin plate makers
together and make certain that there
would be no shortage of the cans
themselves; a high probability, as has
been shown in 20 other metal indus
tries. Then the "F. A." told the can
ners to put In their orders early. It
had already been guaranteeing prices
to the grower of tomatoes and peas
and beans. And the result in the can
ning field, as forecast by the size of
the can orders, will, with the favor of
good .weather ,be another unparalleled
output.
Only It isn't in canned goods, or in
poultry or eggs, that the great big in
crease of food is going to be.
The Little Pig That Stays at Home.
When your German general thinks
of American industries, he doesn't
think of bees and lightning bugs. He
has infuriate mental pictures of hogs.
And since German militarism insisted
upon that brotherly, word, the food
administration began some time ago
to encourage and stimulate the' hog.
It virtually guaranteed the grower of
hogs a minimum price, "$15.50 per
hundredweight for the average drove
in the market at Chicago." And the
rest --of that story is a short one.
Thoughthe exact figures are lacking,
all reports agree that whether it be
a matter of the little pig that went to
market, or the little pig that stayed
at home,1 never were there so many
little pigs, and big ones, In the coun
try, before.
The raising of cattle and sheep re
quired no stimulation from the gov
ernment. The submarine did that. Be
fore the war this country exported to
Europe practically no beef and mut
ton whatever. All came from the Ar
gentine and New Zealand and Austra
lia. But as soon as ships began to
lack for the long hauls that beef and
mutton had to come from us. And
rancherc and sheep growers and live
stock men set to work to answer the
call. With the result that while meat
and meat products are how going to
Europe at the rate approximately of
20,000 pounds a minute there are also,
most probably, more sheep and cattle
in the country than ever before. In
fact one side Indication is furnished
by, the dairy . industry. In the last
year milk cows have increased by
afcout 390,000. The number of milk
condenseries in "Wisconsin alone has
increased from 12 tu 50. And where,
in March. 1917, there were -15,550,000
pounds of cheese In storage, now there
are 41,500,000. There will be a glut,
indeed, of both milk and cheese till
we can build the tonnage, that can
move it.
The Consumer' Interest.
Not that the consumer Is being for
gotten. At the present moment there
is a drive on. ,in cheese. By which
this is meant.; From every chief cen
ter of observation the food adminis
tration's observers have sent In fig
ures to" show what his cheese has been
costing 'the wholesaler or middleman.
He was long ago given to know what
the government held to be a "reason
able profit." And if he is charging
the retailer too much, or if the re
tailer ia charging you too much, soon
both will hear of it from Washington.
The word will go out, "Play fair, or
we'll close you up." Precisely the
same notive has been served upon the
canner and the packer. And the gov
ernment has the figures on which to
say what that "reasonable profit" shall
be. For the most part it has already
fixed it. The food administration,
guarantees that "next fall eggs will
reach the public on a fair price basis."
To the millers its last word, in the
Bulletin for May 10, was "Corn meal
and oat meal should be selling now at
least 20 per cent below the price of
wheat flour and corn flour and barley
flour should be selling at least 10 per
cent below. The maintenance of high
er price levels will require justifica
tion to the state and local administra
tors." "Justification," as the middle
man has already learned ,can be some
thing very unpleasant. And if the re
tailer, for his part, tries to keep the
price up, "wholesalers will-be instruct
ed to cease dealing with him." In
other words once more the blacklist
will be at work.
But you will have a chance to watch
that for yourself. The urst thing was
to produce the food. When that has
been done, in general, prices will come
down of their own weight. And for
the present that must be left to an
other story.
"Push."
Furthermore, there is still a ques
tion to be answered and a mystery to
be solved. What of that food product
that was and is to increase so un
exampledly? By now, in fact, since it
wasn't wheat or corn, poultry, eggs, or
canned goods; since it wasn't even
meat and meat products and it was
n't you will probably be ready to
wear that there ain't no such animile.
But there is. It was as it were held
under your nose at the very beginning.
There is still ."fush." And if there
can't be "too much fush," by every
present indication Uncle Sam with an
army, or a navy, of trusty fishermen,
is at least going to get very close to
the limit.
' Fish should increase most of all be
cause there is the greatest margin for
increase in two ways. First, with
fields of the sea that are measureless
and inexhaustible,- no great maritime
country has fewer fishermen per cap
ita. And, second, we eat less fish than
any other seaboard people. The -Canadian
eats his; 29 pounds ,a year the
Englishman his 56, the Dane and the
Dutchman quantities that the statis
ticians have felt it decenter to cbnT
ceal from us; but we scarcely con
sume a scant 16. And in the case of
fish, the fbod administration has set
itself to stimulate-andv 'mightily
production and consumption both.:
It is even allowing the Teuton : to
help. In the rice ditches and "mead
ows" of the south, German carp are
being Introduced, with Instructions to
increase and multiply as if for the
Vaterland. And in the salmon fisher
ies of Alaska Germans and Austrlans
are still at work in numbers. Under
any strict interpretation of the alien
enemy laws none- of them should be
within shooting distance of the shore.
But from Alaska the swimming Is
bad, even across the Pacific. ; The
Alaska food administrator,;, one Gun
nison by . name, is a grim man who
holds not merely that there can't be
"too much fush," but that those Teu
tons in his demesne have found one
of those few places where that , far
famed kultur of their land can profit
ably be given the very fullest scope;
that the more slaughter they commit
in the salmon runs and the more atro
cities in the cleaning sheds, the bet
ter for all concerned; and that so long
as he, Gunnison, is in charge, they
will get in trouble only if they stop.
No More Closed Seasons.
But these things are incidentals. In
the matter of fish, the food adminis
tration has virtually said, "With one
hand we'll create the demand, the
kind of demand that can be created
by putting at least some sort of good
eating fish on sale at not more than
10 cents a pound in every fish store
within refrigerating t distance. It be
lieves it can do it .because practically
every fish wholesaler or middleman is
getting fish, of some good sort, at from
4 to 6 cents, right now. The rest, is
simply a matter of ice and quantity
transportation. And the government
is arranging to look after that. On
the other hand, to create the supply
it has done this: At a single sweep
it has removed every restriction from
salt water fishing that is not abso
lutely essential. Not so much as a
closed season is left. And it has'said
to the fisherman, "You can now fish
for a quantity market. Go ahead as
if you were producing wheat or eggs
or pork. We'll penalize you only if
you let anything that is marketable
go to waste."
There is going to be fish in quanti
ties unheard of. The weavers of nets
and the builders of trawlers are now
working double shifts to get them
ready. -Will there be "too much
fush?" Not if we do our duty, as the
most adaptable nation in the world,
and eat them.
Meanwhile, whether the thing pro
duced -the fish or corn or meat, if you
are a producer, the word is still to
you. And if at times you should feel
like slacking up simply because the
hour is late and it would seem to be
too dark to work, consider the need,
remember the little lightning bug,
and keep right on.
MICHIGAN IS NOW DRY.
And the Bar Rooms Keep Right On
Selling "Nigh Stuff.
Detroit, Mich., June 15. Cocktail
less cabarets, wineless wine rooms,
and be'er-less bars are making a de
termined play for existence in dry
Michigan. k
When the amendment to the state
constitution prohibiting the sale, im
portation or possession of wines, beers
or distilled liquors Became effective
May 1 it failed to close all the saloons.
In Detroit especially the bars continue
In business in a majority of cases, the
only change .being the substitution of
"near" beers and the elimination of
drinks prohibited by the amendment.
Similar conditions prevail in other cit
ies of the state, in the "copper coun
try" on Lake Superior.
In some cases wine room proprietors
have taken advantage of the new re
gime to bid for prosperity along tem
perance iines. Jazz bands have been
retained in some cases have even
been augmented. The same taMes
the same waiters; the same bars the
same bartenders; everything is the
same, apparently, excepting the bev
erages. -
Proprietors in most cases are opti
mistic concerning the future. Many
believe that with the eliminat'on of
alcoholic drinks there will pass a ma
jor percentage of the drawbacks of
their business. These changes, they
hope, will not interfere to any appre
ciable degree with their patronage.
Some cabaret owners hope to profit
by catering to a restaurant trads a
more or less perfunctory adjunct of
the cabaret of pre-May days. By giv
ing additional attention to the cuisine
they believe that after all ,the law
that threatened to drive them from
business may have the more salutary
effect of putting their places on a mors
stable basis. -
Cabarets that before May 1 were
classed as "undesirable" are also tak
ing a new interest in life and are re
sounding with jazz music for" music
for dancing arid giving restaurant and
soft drink services with the danger .of
official interference lessened by the
elimination of alcohol.
MILITARY POLICE ARE
NOT POPLAR OVERSEAS
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armbana and the red C. on his arm.
Say," said the M. P., "are you
officer?"
"No," replied the correspondent. :
"Then why did you return my ; sa
lute?" ' ;
"Why did you salute me?" asked the
corresponaent. In turn. s 1
"Because I thought you were an of
ficer," said the M. P.
"I returned it because I thought you
were a soldier," remarked the corre
spondent. ; '.-..v.;
The military police organizations
that have arrived recently appear to
be made up of an entirely different
class oT men. They are courteous,
carry out their orders to the letter, do
not meddle in things that do not con
cern them and for the most part dis
play excellent military qualities. It Is
said, and undoubtedly with considera
ble truth, that the discipline and mor
ale of a military organization can .
determined by the way Its men salute.
Some of these new military police of
ours are among the snappiest saluters
in France; and that is saying a great
deal. . .'. ',
Beauty, may be only, skin deep, but
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COLORADO'S SERVICE
TO SELECTED MEN
(Continued From Page One.)
Light lunches also may be had-for a
nominal price.
State activities include:
Assistance to farmers through pub
lic utilities commission to market the
crops when transportation., facilities
were limited and congested . .
Labo. exchanges to meet demands
of farmers. "
Farmers Induced to greatly enlarge
acreage and own their own storage
facilities.- Colorado's crop last year
was the largest in its history and
promises greater this year.
Censorship over all solicitation of
funds to protect public. '-
Census obtained of all women and
men with experience in nursing to be
ready for federal call.
Third regiment of national guard
organized to be ready for government
call.
"" Organization of a state constabu
lary force to guard the state and act
as peace officers. It may be -said that
since the war started not a single dol
lar's worth of Colorado property has
been destroyed through act of an en
emy," and not one soldier has .been.,
asked by the state to guard its prop
erty. This is the only state with this
record, it is said here.;
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