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Lei the Senate Follow Suit.
.No measure that Involved dangerous dictator
ship or menaced the welfare of the farmer or
threatened any essential Interest of the people
could pass the national House of Representatives
by a vote of three hundred and flfty-six to five.
That is the towering majority by which the
House has set Its approval on the Food Control
hill. Party lines were obliterated; the ordinary
divisions of liberal and conservative melted away;
potty politics slunk to Its kennel; patriotism be
came practical; and with virtually one accord the
Representatives granted the President the special
authority he has asked, and so critically needs, to
protect the nation’s imperiled interests. It is grat
ifying to note that every member of the Georgia
delegation in the House voted aye.
In the earlier stages of the discussion, a num
ber of Congressmen were rather dubious, concern
ing the necessity or wisdom of a Food Contro 1 law.
But as fact after fact came to light they realized
the gravity of the conditions which speculators
and monopolists have forced upon the country
and Vie disaster which is Inevitable unless relief
end protection are vouchsafed. Os this number e
was Representative Gillett, Republican, of Massa-,
chusetts. He said that when he first read the bill
he was staggered by Its provisions. a
’ “I belong to that school.” he continued.
“which believes in the law of supply and de
mand. but it now is obvious that the law of
supply and demand will not meet this situa
tion. The demand is far greater than the
supply and the demand, will continue. Hoard
ers can demand any price they please. There
is a new situation in which my old beliefs do
not apply.”
The case of Mr. Gillett is that of scores who In
ordinary times would not dream of centering in
the Government the powers which they now grant
willingly because a crisis involving the nation’s
security and the people’s subsistence demands IL
In the teeth of this emergency, mere theories be
come meaningless and insistence upon - particular
privileges at the risk of the common country be
comes treasonable.
The almost unanimous vote by which the bill
passed the House is a cheering omen of its suc
cess in the Senate. It is important, however, that
the same forces of public opinion which fought
for this legislation in the House continue fight
ing for it tn the Senate. This is a matter in which
we dare not take any chance, and in which any
dplay is dangerous. The clutch of the food
gamblers is at the country’s throat.
During the past five months, according to con
servative estimates, speculators have robbed the
American people of two hundred and fifty million
dollars In the price of flour, and of vast sums in
other staples. Flour has been selling at fourteen
dollars a barrel on the average and at fifteen dol-j
lars in many places, when the highest prices paid
the farmer for his wheat and the most liberal al
lowance for the cost of milling, transportation and
rightful profits warrant a price of only nine dol
lars a barrel.. Who gets that enormous excess?
The farmer doesn’t get a penny of it; the honest
manufacturers and merchants do not get a penny
of it. The only persons who share in that blood
money, wrung from human hardship and suffering,
are the bloated, greedy speculators and monopolists
who would sell the Kaiser their nation’s very
birthright.
It Is to end this unjust and perilous state of
affairs that the Food Control bill is designed; and
the sooner the measure is in operation, the better
for the people’s practical interests and for their
supreme interests in the war.
To Protect the Loyal Many
Against the Treasonable Few.
Regarding the continued advance in prices,
the Manufacturers Record observes that while con
diuors of supply and demand are responsible in a
large measure, it is nevertheless true that some
persons and interests are taking advantage of the
situation to put prices far beyond what they
ought to be. Then follows this sound and pa
triotic, bit of reasoning: /
‘ln this time of war. instead of a scram
ble being made by people to enlarge their
profits, the effort of the country should be to
maintain business activity with a minimum of
profit as compared with the volume of trade.
This is not a time for gouging, not a time
when a man should expect to make more than
normal profits. . . There never was a time
in the world’s history when unselfish devotion
to the welfare of the republic was more need
ed than at present, and when men should for
get themselves in seeking to advance the na
tion’s welfare and the saving of civilization.”
That is good sense as well as good senti
ment; and it is the attitude, we believe, of the
great majority of the country’s business concerns
as well as of the rank and file of the people. It
is only here and there that one finds the money
gThttons who would rob the public and imperil
the nation’s very existence in order to brim their
own flesh pots. That such persons exist how
ever, and are scheming to advance prices to still
more extortionate lengths next winter, is not to
be denied. The problem and duty of the hour is
to stop their atrocious scheme before it goes any
further. And that is the object of the Food Con
trol bill pending in Congress.
In his recent statement to the Senate Mr. Her
bert’ Hoover, whom the President has selected for
the post of food administrator, said that in re
peated conferences he had held with farmers' or
ganizations, millers, packers and merchants he
had found “the sense of national service predom
inant;’’ but, he added, “even the majority would
be powerless to eliminate bad practices unless a
law to govern the situation were in existence.’’
Once enacted and fairly in effect, the Food Con
trol law will operate without friction as far as
legitimate, patriotic business interests are con
cerned. Indeed, it will help those interests by
protecting them, along with the consumers,
against monopolists and speculators. Merely as a
stabilizer of prices and a preventive against vio
lent fluctuations, a system of food control by the
Government would be of great value to business.
The Administration will depend on enlightened
and loyal public sentiment in effecting economies
in the use of food, and will administer the greater
part of the entire system on a basis of voluntary
co-operation. Just what’ is meant by "voluntary
co-operation,” Mr. Hoover explained in answering
Senator Reed’s question, how he would handle a
thousand bushels of wheat bought in North Dakota
and shipped to Chicago? The substance of his
reply was this:
“The first matter would be transportation,
the rates of which are fixed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, consequently there
was no problem there. A proper milling cost
would be fixfld by the millers themselves by >
agreement with the Government, voluntary on
their part and sufficiently remunerative to be
satisfactory without extortion. The same
agreement as to profit would be made with the
Association of Wholesalers. It was not in
tended, however, to fix the price at which the
retailers should sell, but the Government
would publish at certain distributing centers
the standard of prices showing what the flour
cost at retail, and public pressure would do
the rest.” /
These plans for voluntary co-operation will
work out satisfactorily provided there is a law to
forcer the unpatriotic minority into line. But' it
would be unfair and altogether profitless to attempt
to bring the majority up to certain standards of
prices and methods of dealing if food pirates and
brigands were left unrestrained. There must be
definite measures carrying definite penalties to
reach monopolists who hoard foodstuffs and to
reach all the criminals who gamble with those
necessaries on which the lives of millions of people
an’d the security of the nation itself depend. This is
due the consumer whose very subsistance is
involved; it is due the producer, whose interests
so often are at the mercy of speculators; it is due
the honest merchant, who wants to make only a
legitimate profit but who is powerless when the
gamblers are in control; and it is due the great
cause for which our country is fighting and on
which our national destiny is staked. The basic
purpose and basic necessity of Food Control legis
lation is to protect the loyal many against the
treasonable few. On that issue, there can be but
one truly American course to pursue.
Siefansson’s Arctic Adventures.
The return to Greenland of the MacMillan ex
pedition, which sailed from New York in July, 1914,
for adventures in the Far North, gives,renewed in
terest to the whereabouts of VilhjaJmar Stefansson,
who heads the only party of explorers now in the
Arctic seas. It was four years ago on June the
seventeenth that Stefansson embarked, at Victo
ria. B. C., upon a voyage that has been singularly
hazardous and picturesque. Os his original forty
three companions and followers, fourteen are
known to have perished from exposure or disease,
and several others have been lost in the vast ice
wastes. In its earlier stages the expedition di
vided into northern and southern parties, Stefans
son going north on the steam whaler Karluk to
seek new land beyond the mouth of the Mac
kenzie river. The other party, headed by Dr. Ru
dolph M. Anderson, proceeded toward the Coro
nation Gulf country east of the Mackenzie delta to
make scientific surveys, with particular reference
to geology and biology, and also to study the blue
eyed Eskimos of that region.
Stefansson's ship became ice-clutched in the
autumn of 1913. With four of the crew he went
ashore to hunt caribou for winter meat. A few
weeks later the Karluk was forced westward and
finally, in January, 1914, was destroyed by ice
near Wrangell Island, north of Siberia. The sur
vivors were rescued some months later by a ves
sel sent to Wrangell Island for that purpose. In
the meantime Stefansson and his associates, mov
ing eastward along tjje shore of the Arctic, came
upon the Anderson party, which had gone into
winter headquarters west of the mouth yf the Mac
kenzie. Dr. Anderson reported,. upon his return
from the Arctic last year, that Stefansson intend
ed passing the winter of 1916-17 at Winter Har
bor, Melville Island, and then, as soon as the ice
should break, "to head eastward (in a motor ves
sel which he had purchased after the loss of the
Karluk) in an effort to accomplish the northeast
passage and end his adventures with an ascent of
the St. Lawrence River to Montreal.’’ Writing to
Rear Admiral Peary from Banks Island on Jan
uary 11, 1916, Stefansson said:
“Should you not hear from us by Novem
ber, 1917, it is to be presumed that some
thing beyond our control has delayed us. I
am of the opinion that in the spring of 1918
a ship, or ships, should be sent north from
the Atlantic to look for us if we’ have not been
heard from then.”
The southern party of the Stefansson expedi
tion brought back a large and valuable collection
of birds, animals and photographs, and made im
portant surveys on the Arctic mainland coast of
Canada, from Cape Perry to Pathurst Inlet. In
Bathurst Inlet one hundred and fifty islands were
mapped, where formerly only three were indi
cated. Researches on Victoria Island led to high
ly interesting discoveries concerning Eskimo mi
grations, customs and language. Stefansson him
self is expected to bring back additional knowl
edge of much importance. Tidings of his where
abouts will be eagerly awaited, and if by next au
tumn nothing is heard from him a relief ship will
be sent forward in the following spring.
j4s to Freight Rate Increases.
In the midst of the ’effort to obtain national
legislation to protect the country against extor
tionate prices, the railroads rise to ask for a fif
teen per cent increase in their freight rates, on
both interstate and Intrastate transportation. We
are now concerned particularly with the petition of
the railroads of Georgia, asking a flat increase of
fifteen, per cent on all rail shipping between points
within this State. The case is set for argument
before the State Railroad Commission on July 17,
and by virtue of its far-reaching importance to
the people’s interests it merits their earnest atten
tion.
There could be only one ground on which to
justify so great an increase in freight rates at this
juncture, and that would be the ground of na
tional necessity. Whatever is needful to the na
tion’s security and effectiveness for the war is war
ranted, regardless of the cost. If a five hundred
per cent rate advance were necessary to enable the
railroads to serve the Government and the people
efficiently in these crucial times, then a five hun
dred per cent advance should be granted. But on
the same broad ground of national interest, a rate
advance of one per cent or of one-hundredth of
one per cent would be a wrong, and a very serious
wrong, against the Government and the.people of
the. United States unless it were needed unmistak
ably and imperatively.
Transportation is one of the necessities of life,
as much so as food or clothing. To raise the cost of
transportation is to raise the cost of living. An
increase of fifteen per cent in the interstate and
intrastate freight rates on grain and meat and
fuel and machinery and hundreds of other basic
commodities would mean a material demand upon
the already straitened income of the average fam
ily. While we are appealing to Congress for pro
tection against the monopolists and speculators
who arbitrarily put up the price of food it will be
well to scrutinize the petition .of the railroads who
are seeking to put up the price of transportation.
Are they trying to add hundreds of millions of
dollars to thb cost of freight, and hence to the
cost of living., because national service demands it,
or simply because they want the money?
This is largely a question of fact, to be deter
mined by a careful investigation, of railroad earn
ings and expenses; and none but competent judges
with the entire record before them could presume
to speak on this point with finality of opinion.
There are certain broad aspects of the situation,
however, that will not fall to impress any fair
minded observer. Consider, for example, the fact
that while the railroads are asking for rate in
creases which, according to the estimate of somq
shippers, would amount to approximately a billion
dollars a year, their present earnings, and their ac
cumulated surplus earnings are the greatest lu
their history. The detailed figures are presented
in the news columns of today’s (Journal and we
commend them to the attention of everyone who
is interested in this important matter, either per
sonally or as a citizen jealous of his country’s well
being. Suffice it at this point to note that the rail
roads operating in Georgia earned in the year 1916
net incomes which represented increases ranging
from fifty to eighty per cent over the pre
ceding year, and that their net earnings for the
first five months of 1917 are considerably larger
than for the same period of 1916, which marked
a pinnacle of prosperity.
It is in the light of these figures that we
should view the railroads’ statement that their
increased operating expenses demand an increase
in transportation charges to safeguard their ef
ficiency and credit. Undoubtedly their operating
expenses have increased In the last few years.
What line of industry or business has not seen its
operating expenses mounting? For institutions as
for individuals, the cost of .living has kited. But
whereas the earnings of most individuals and of
many institutions have stood still or advanced but
slightly, the net earnings of the railroads have
gone forward beyond precedent. Unless, then,
their increased expenses are incredibly great, they
are pursuing a policy of selfish gain instead of
generous patriotism in seeking to extract from the
pockets of an already burdened people an addi
tional sum of a billion dollars a year.
'This is no time for selfish gain at the expense of
the common good; certainly it is no time for greed
on the part of interests already fat with prosperity.
If the railroads cannot subsist and cannot meet
the nation’s needs on their present income, to
gether with their accumulated surplus, then they
should be allowed a fate increase. But before ac
cepting that marvelous theory, the Railroad Com
mission. we take it, will require confirmations
"strong as proofs of Holy Writ.”
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES.
"I want you,” said the fair society leader, “to give
me a plain opinion as to my latest photograph."
“Madame," - said the gallant cavalier, bowing, “to
speak irf plain terms of that portrait would be impos
sible.”
A young man not particularly entertaining was mo
nopolizing the attention of a prety debutante with a
lot of uninteresting conversation. “Now, my brother,”
he remarked in the course of a dissertation on his
family, “Is just the opposite of me in every respect.
Do you know my brother?”
“No,” the debutante replied, demurely, “but I should
like to.”
• • •
Pestered by the ever-advancing cost of living, and
determined to exercise a protective vigilance in the
future even in small matters, the customer picked up
a knife from the counter and handed it to the butcher
with a friendly smile. “I don’t really want It,” he
said, "but if you will cut It off I will take it along
with the rest." “Cut what off?” demanded the butcher
in blank surprise. “Your hand,” was the gentle reply.
“You weighed it with the sausages, and I like to get
what I pay for.”
PRICES IN EUROPE
Statistics compilea by a European neutral show
that since the beginning of the war prices in gen
eral have risen on the following basis: England,
34 per cent; France, 5 to 55 per cent; Germany,
76 per cent. This rise in Germany cuts the pur
chasing power of a giv'en amount of money almost
in half. The rise in prices in each instance has
been in spite of government regulation, which in
some cases is very stringent.
Editorial Echoes.
Sooner or later the time must come when the
University of Georgia will be open to women.
The vote of the trustees Saturday afternoon on
the question of their admission stood eight for
admitting them and twelve to keep them barred
out, a vote which shows that even among the
trustees themselves sentiment is strong in favor
of making the university eo-educational. What
ever difficulties are in the way of extending the
facilities of the institution to women must be
removed, and will be removed some day. Georgia
owes a great deal to her women of the past, is
incurring a new debt to the women of the present
every day and is bound to owe much of her future
greatness to the women of her future, and she
should remove obstacles in the way of their better
preparation for her service whenever she can.—Sa
vannah Morning News.
SAVING SUMMER FOODS. lll.—Preserving Meat and Fish.
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12. —There is
another way in which, you can work
patriotically this summer for next win
ter's food supply besides preserving fruits and
vegetables. You can salt some fish, and. can as
much meat and soup as your storing space will
hold.
• • •
It sometimes happens that a man goes fishing
and is lucky. Not often, but occasionally. He
may catch more fish than the family can eat at
one meal, and, as a rule, the surplus goes into
the garbage can—unless there is a fish-eating
neighbor on hand. The government does not ad
vocate stinginess with the neighbors, but it does
advocate stinginess with the garbage can- It is
your duty to the nation to salt your extra fish.
• A •
Now picture the American housewife going
marketing. She buys a roast of beef, groaning
inwardly as she notes the price. The butcher
then inquires if she desires the bones that he has
carefully removed from the roast in dressing it.
She frowns, registering heavy thinking for a sec
ond, and then decides she doesn’t. She never did
like soup in hot weather! And so, she pays for
three-quarters of a pound of roast which she does
not get. This is the sort of thing which has
earned for us our reputation for extravagance,
and it' is the sort of thing which the government
is trying to overcome. Every woman is admon
ished to can or to make into soup any spare pieces
‘of meat that cannot be used in the day’s menu.
♦ • ♦
Canned roast beef for example, is a very con
venient food to have on the pantry self in winter.
The same method is used in canning meats as in
canning fruits and vegetables, only in the case of
beef it must be blanched for a half hour instead
of a few minutes. It should then be cut’ into
small pieces; the gristle, bone and excessive fat
removed, and then packed into jars. Gravy from
the roasting pan is the best liquid in which to
pack it, but pot liquid—concentrated to one-half
its volume—may also be used. After the jars are
filled they should be sterilized for four hours in a
home-made canning outfit or for one and a half
hours in a steam-pressure kettle generating fif
teen pounds of pressure.
♦ • •
When the sterilization process is completed,
remove the jars, invert to cool and test the joint,
and wrap them in paper to prevent, bleaching.
• * •
What applies to amat’eur fishing also applies
to amateur hunting- If a man succeeds in killing
more wild ducks than his family can eat, his wife
should can them. The canning should be done as
soon as possible after the fowl is killed, however.
The first step is to draw the bird, wash it care
fully and put it aside, to cool. Then cut it into
convenient sections, place in a wire basket or a
cheesecloth bag and boil until the meat begins to
fall away from the bones. Remove the meat
from the bones and place it in the glass jars, cov
ering it with a not liquid, after it has heen con
centrated one-half; add a level teaspoonful of salt
to each quart of meat, and partially seal the jars.
Sterilize for three and a half hours in a home
made outfit and one hour in a steam-pressure
cooker generating fifteen pounds of pressure. Fol
low the same in regard to inverting
the jars and wrapping them in paper. This last
procedure should never be omitted in canning any
kind of product.
For a family that likes soup with its dinner,
the home-made product constitutes a saving. If
the lady who bought the roast at the beginning
of this article had t’aken the bones and made
soup stock out of them, adding a couple of pota
toes and carrots, and had canned that soup stock,
she might have had soup for four or five meals the
following winter. But you do not have t'o buy a
roast in order to get soup materials. You can
buy beef hocks, joints and bones containing mar
row at a low price. Inasmuch as the cansing
process requires a good deal of time, .it is better
to buy large quantities at one purchase. Ten
pounds, for instance, is a good amount to buy.
The first step is to strip off the fat and meat and
crack bones with a hat'chet or cleaver. The broken
bones should be put in a thin cloth sack fcnd
placed in a large kettle containing two gallons of
water, where they should be allowed to simmer—
not’ boil —for six or seven hours- This should
make about two gallons of stock. Sterilize forty
THE VOCATIONALLY SAFE.
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
YOUNG man, you who have just ended your
school days and must now choose some
vocation, by what principles do you intend
to be guided in making your choice?
Are you chiefly intent on engaging in work that
is likely to give you "social standing?” Is your
v Inclination swayed in favor of this or that calling
by the fact that it offers "big money” as an ulti
mate reward? Or do you merely desire to find a
"short hour” occupation?
These are considerations which have been de
cisive in influencing the vocation choice of many
young men. . I hope they will not be decisive in
your case.
For the fact is that, however attractive any
vocation may seem from these points of view, it
will be the wrong vocation for you to choose unless
you are naturally fitted for it.
This should be the supreme consideration In
your mind. It is because so few young men let it
be the supreme consideration that the world 19
full of old men who have to confess themselves
failures.
Every vocation calls for special qualities in
those who choose it. Lacking these qualities they
cannot make much headway.
They will be fortunate if they earn a thin
living. If in salaried positions they will be for
tunate to hold their places. Having chosen fool
ishly, they will forever be vocationally unsafe un
less they make a second and a wiser choice.
"But,” you may pretest, “I am young, strong,
ambitious, earnest, faithful, free from bad habits.
Should not all this be enough to qualify me for
success in any vocation?”
It will certainly help you to do well in any voca
tion. Yet, for real success, you must be so con
stituted that you can meet the special demands the
chosen vocation imposes.
How, then, should one proceed when vocation
choosing?
Let us suppose that law as a vocation appeals
to you, just as it appeals to thousands of young
men planning a career. Don’t make their mistake
of deciding without due reflection to be a lawyer.
Go talk with an already successful lawyer as to
the characteristics essential for success in the prac
tice of law. Then sit down and calmly and can
didly ask yourself if you possess the characteristics
he emphasizes.
It may be that you are short only in charac
teristics which you can develop by careful self
training. In that case, you need not hesitate as to
your choice. But be entirely honest with yourself.
As a help read carefully some one of the mod
ern practical books on vocation choosing—some
book like H. W. Merton's "How to Choose the
Right Vocation.” You will find in such a book
suggestions that should be of great benefit to you.
Study yourself physically as well as mentally
and morally. Some vocations make demands of a
physical sort that may be beyond your powers. To
be on the safe side, have a talk with your family
doctor.
In fine, make vocation choosing what it ought
to be —a subjeet for the most serious thought.
Don't jump eagerly for the first job that pre
sents itself. But neither let such things as finan
cial returns, social prestige, or ease of labor govern
your choice.
Seek carefully to choose from among all voca-
minutes, and pack according to the same direc
tions.
• * •
If to this soup stock you add vegetables, it
makes a delicious vegetable soup. A recipe for
vegetable soup, compiled by the department of
agriculture, and used extensively in the canning
clubs throughout' the rural districts of the country,
calls for a quarter of a pound of lima beans, one
pound of rice, a half pound of pearl barley, a
zjund of carrots, one pound of onions, one medium
sized potato, one red pepper, one-half pound of
flour, four ounces of salt and five gallons of soup
stock. First soak the lima beans and rise for
twelve hours. Cook the barley for two hours.
1 he rest of the vegetables should be blanched in
boiling water and then dipped in cold water. Then
mix all the materials together and fill the jars.
•Make a smooth paste of one-half pound of wheat
flour and stir in the soup stock, boil for three
minutes and add the salt. Pour this over the vege
tables and partially seal the jars. Sterilize for
ninety minutes in a home-made outfit. If you use
a smaller quantity of soup stock cut down the
amount of vegetables accordingly.
• • *
In addition to preserving food by drying and
canning, there is the salting process which is usual
ly satisfactory only with fish and a few meats.
Fresh fish are in the market all the year round at
a much lower price than good cuts of meat, so
that the salting of fish is probably not an im
portant measure of economy unless you catch the
fish jourself or happen to live in a coast town
where fish may be bought for a very low nrice
direct from the fishermen. In a small resort town
along the Maryland coast last summer, for ex
ample, fish could be bought for a few cents as they
were brought in by professional fishermen. The
same fish when packed in ice and shipped to Balti
more and V ashington brought eighteen or twenty
cents,a pound. If you can buy fish at a low price
and salt it for the following winter, the saving is
considerable.
• • •
In salting fish a great deal of care should be
taken in the preliminary preparation. If a fish is
large, has soft fins, small scales and thin skin it
should be scaled but not skinned. Next, remove
the head and viscera. Also remove as much of the
backbone as possible and the tail. Then, if the
fish is too large to go into the container, cut it to.
the proper length.
• • •
In regard to slender fish, such as mackerel,
whiting and large herring, the directions given by
the United States bureau of fisheries are as fol
lows: "Split down the back to one side of the
backbone for the entire length, leaving the belly
walls uncut. The backbone need not be removed.
Smaller fish of the same character need not be
split, but should be carefully eviscerated. Coarse
scaled, thick-skinned, spiny-finned fishes like black
bass and perch, should be skinned, and unless
large and thick meat'ed, need not be split.”
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After thoroughly preparing the fish, washing
them in water containing a little salt and being
careful to remove the blood near the backbone,
they are ready for curing. A tight keg or barrel
is better for this than anj’ other kind of a con
tainer. Under no circumstances use a tin con
tainer- Place a thick layer of coarse salt on the
bottom of the barrel, on the top of which spread
a layer of fish one deep. Sprinkle this layer well
with salt, and then add another*layer of fish, and
so on until the barrel is filled or until your supply
of fish is exhausted. A strong brine will form
from the salt and moisture of the fish, in which
they should be left for a week or ten days.
• • •
They are then washed, repacked in a freshly
made brine strong enough to float a fresh egg.
After a week, this second brine should be drawn
off and the barrel filled with a "saturated brine.”
This means a brine in which a few grains of salt'
will be seen on the bottom after a long period of
stirring. When the fish are packed in this third
brine and the barrel thoroughly tested for leak
age. they are ready to be stored in the cellar or
some very cool place.
• • •
The success of the salting process depends
upon the freshness of the fish used; the careful
salting and mixing of the brine, and the efficiency
of the barrel, which should be tight and hold,
enough brine to keep the fish covered.
WE’VE GOT HIS NUMBER.
BY DR. FRANK CRANE.
THERE’S no use of Mr. Hohenzollern carrying
on any further, really. He has only a few
months to run. His date is set.
We’ve got his number. That’s why.
A friend of mine who is strong on prophecy
has been rummaging around in the oracles and
has found out just who William K. Hohenzollern
is, and why.
Also when he is going to get his.
There are few things you cannot prove by the
Scriptures, if you set yourself to it. When I was
a boy the Millerites had the time of the end of
the world all figured out. On the day fixed they
settled up their worldly affairs and adjourned to a
hill where they could have front seats when the
Day of Judgment opened up. They were thus at a
great advantage over the unbelievers who went on
with their chores as per usual.
The* affair did not come off according to sched
ule, but that was no fault of theirs. They had
used the wrong time-table.
There is a sect that predicted the end of the
world in 1914, and I knew’ a man who sold his
farm in Illinois and w’ent out to Colorado to be
ready for the grand smash-up. These believers
came pretty close to making a good guess, too. If
it wasn’t the Pay of Judgment that hit us in 1914
it was a little to<f much like it for comfort.
But to return to Mr. H. My friend writes me
and says that if we will read the lourth, fifth, and
eighteenth verses of the thirteenth chapter of Rev
elation we will find out just where William the
Terrible is going to get off. These verses run as
follows (in case you do not have your Bible
handy): ,
Fourth —And they -worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast; and thev
worshipped the beast, saying: Who is like
unto the beast? W’ho is able to make war
with him?
Fisth —And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and blasphemies,
and power was given unto him to continue
forty and two months.
Eighteenth—Here is wisdom. Let him that
hath understanding count the number of the
beast; for it is the number of a man and his
number is six hundred threescore and six.
Now, when this wa started William was
fifty years and six months old.
That is, 666 months!
• Figures cannot lie. You cannot escape the
conclusion that the original and only genuine 666
is Mr. Hohenzollern. because he is so feelingly and
fitly described in verses four and five.
He is going to last for forty-two months. There
is therefore no need of speculating as to when the
war will end. It began in August. 1914, and it
will close in just forty-two months from that time
—that is. in February, 1918. for it plainly says in
verse five that power was given to the beast to
continue forty and two months.
(Copyright. 1917, by Frank Crane.)
tions the one for which you actually are best fitted
by nature and education. This is the one sure way
to make yourself vocationally safe In the years to
come.
(Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers.)
