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; I % Retail merchants are required by the eucar regulations to “take a state ment from the customer’' that he has not on hand, including the purchase about to be made, a quantity of sugar greater than the law allows. The bur den of the provision falls on the mer chant to know this. To protect them- aelret the merchants of tbe state hare been authorised by the Stood Adminis tration to provide themselves with tbe following form, require the signature of tbe purchaser, and keep the signed application on Die subject to inspec tion by the administration: Householder’s Sugar Application 1 hereby apply for purchase of..,. J,, pounds of sugar for household use at. Street, City of.... . There are persons in my family, including servants. I hereby certify on my honor that 1 will not attempt to purchase sugar elsewhere In excess of three pounds per person per month for home con sumption, in conflict with this state ment I further certify that this pur chase, Including sugar now on hand or In my possession or under my con trol will not exceed a 30-days’ sup ply on the above basis. (Sign) . Sate (This applies only tb cane or beet sugars In all forma. The merchant must hold this certificate subject to Inspection of the agents of the Fed eral Food Administrator for Georgia.) functions Of the Food Administration (By Herbert Hoover.) To so guide tbe trade In the fun damental food commodities as to elim inate vicious speculation, extortion and wasteful practices and to stabilise prices In the essential staples. To guard our exports so that against the world’s shortage, we retain suf ficient supplies for our own people and to cooperate with the Allies to prevent Inflation of prices. -To stimulate in every manner with in our power the production and sav ing of our food In order that we may Increase exports to the Allies to a point which will enable them to prop erly provision their armies and to feed . Jir peoples. I XXaJalatntUa for Ownfs The Hicks hotel In Savannah, one of tbe large hostelries of the state, will not be allowed to serve beef In any form until January 1, 1913. The concern was found to have vio lated the rigid beet conservation or der by serving beefsteak on Monday— It is permitted only at one meal Thurs day—and excessive use of wheat bread. The case was a clear one of flagrant violation. In lieu of action by the Food Admin istration the company paid 1500.00 to the Savannah Red Cross chapter and agreed to use no beef whatsoever pri or to next January. We'll substitute corn for wheat and victory for defeat. The demand for beet for the army, the allies and their civilian population for this summer Is beyond our present supply and as a consequence the food administration Is asking that the con sumption of beef of all kinds be great ly reduced for tbe time being. On the other hand we hare Increased ov supply of pork and an economical ex pansion of the use of this product is advisable at this time. Milk, cream and butter are now abundant and rep resent on many farms “perishables" not marketed. These products with cheese may well be used to make up for the shortage of beef and supply tbe necessary protein and fat to bal ance tbe diet of fresh vegetables. Every meal In the rural communi ties and the city communities as well, whore they haVo followed to the food administration recommendation to plant a garden, should now be a gar den party. Tho use of the home grown garden and orchard products now will release immense amounts of the more concentrated and staple foods for tbe Allies and soldiers and for the people living in industrial cen ters where gardens are impassible. It is not patriotic to uso canned goods at this tlmo when fresh products are available. Immense stocks of com mercial canned goods must be reserv ed for tho army nnd navy and every home can help to build up this sur plus by eating fresh foods and can ning all they need for themselves. W • f: h BUSINESS MEN SHOULD , HELP GATHER CROPS Especially Those in Small Country ] Villages and Towns j Georgia farmers havo planted big acreages this year and every farmer practically in .this state is working full capacity and nt the present the erops are well worked and in good growing condition. We have had the most favorablo seasons for farm work that have ever been known in Georgia. Even though wo get fav orable weather through tho remainder of the cultivating season, the harvest is coming and labor conditions may be even worse in the fall than they are at present. As n precaution against the fail ure to gather crops, wo urge business men and others interested in thed if- ferent phasbs of war work to consider organisation for the purpose of mob ilising and directing distribution of all labor that may be available for farm work in cases of emergency. Espec ially in small towns and country places could this matter be hnndlcd with success. A committee of busi ness men and farmers could get to gether and devise plans for putting in to effect this idea. Through coopera tion alon gthls line, activities in the business life of most towns could be so directed as to make such a scheme of cooperation very helpful and pos sibly in some cases that might arise save many acres of crops that oth erwise would have to be abandoned. In the harvest season valuablo food and feed stuffs, as well as cotton, might be saved that otherwise would go to waste. This proposition could be handled and plans worked out for such coop- oration between towns and surround ing farms as to give farmers in emer gencies theg reatest amount of help from every available source of labor that could spend a day or two of each week, or even more, in farm work. An organisation of this kind in the towns could prepare lists of available help fix working conditions, hours, wages, etc., and could render a most patri otic service in emergencies. It should be borne in mind that should there be a waste of crops on account of the shortage of labor on the farm during the harvest season, that the towns and cities trill suffer store than wjll the farmer. SWEET POTATO STOR AGE IS IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SPECIALIST ON THIS SUBJECT GIVES SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION. Georgia has grown sweet potatoes for generations. Of late years, few counties hove grown many potatoes for market because of tho troublo and loss in storing tho crop. Bnnks have proven very unreliable, some men have used a system in making banks that proved successful nearly always. However, in any nnd all potato banks the loss will average 50 per cent. The soils of Dooly County grow lino pota toes nnd lot3 of them. If tho storage loss can be prevented, what a fine crop sweet potatoes would make to tako the plnco of some of the cotton now that the weevils arc getting more certain. Tho government has worked out n system of storage for sweet potatoes that is both cheap and sure. Take for instance, the sweot potato house of Mr. D. W. Morgan, Waycross, Ga., Potatoes were stored until sold in March for n fancy price per bushel. About one per cent, a trifle less, was lost In storage. This is but one in stance, many more in the state have done as well. Potato houses enn bo had in nny size or capacity, from n few bushels to many thousands. For the farm, a remodeled tenant house, will hold 500 to 1,000 bushels. The cost of re modeling is low, usually not over $100 For larger houses it is better to build new ns suitable buildings large enough nre seldom to be had. A building for 5,000 bushels will cost around $1000. Potatoes can usually be had in plenty nt digging time. Afew patch es wiU make a thousand bushels, auch potatoes can usually be bought for 75c. In the following spring $1.50 a bushel is to be expected under pres ent conditions. This amounts to $760 on each thouiand bushels stored. A possible profit of around $350 or 33 1-3 per cent interest on money in vested. What farm crop will do bet ter? . For buildings house watch this pa per next week. FEAS FOR SALE A quantity of No. 1 Speckled Peas for aale. 7-4-2t D. T. WARDS “ EYES OF YOUTH” JHIS is the title of one of the plays of the season. With apologies to the author, we would like to borrow the term for use as the heading pf this article, be cause it expresses precisely what wo have in mind. It is the Byes of Youth that read most faithfully the Hearst newspapers; it is to them these papers appeal; it is because of the Eyes of Youth these papers prosper. The Hearst papers are pre-eminently the spokes man of Young America. Youth has its faults. Sometimes it believes too much, hopes too much, dares too much. It is radical. Sometimes it seems overconfident. It discounts danger. It has a dizzy faith in its star. But for all that it is the sap of the world. If it braves danger, it also causes^ progress. If it upsets settled traditions, it also uproots old frauds, removes old ‘institutions that have ceased to be useful, blows away ideas that once were green and juicy, hut now are withered. The Eyes of Youth question all things. Whon the Hearst papers entered the field of American journalism Special Privilege had en trenched itself everywhere. Clover and unscrupu lous men Imd taken advantage of their less nirable- witted neighbors, and through huge wealth units were reaching out to control the nation. They dominated Business. No enterprise that defied them was allowed to live. They controlled the Political Parties. Senators and Congressmen were their puppets. Campaigns were waged with their money. They reached out to dominate Public Opinion. They exerted a tremendous influence upon the Press. They used a fraction of their great moneys to contribute to the Church, to Education and to Charity. So doing they were creating the impres sion that whoever was attacking them and their methods of amassing money was also an''enemy to Society and to all humane effort. Into this situation, where the autocratic hand of unlimited wealth was slowly bringing about a paralysis of ifiitfa'tlve, an undoing of democracy and a condition of rule by a favored Class, came the Hearst newspapers with the Eyes of Youth. They questioned tho .whole program with the recklessness of youth, tl.nt cares more for Truth than for sacred Tradition, more for Men and their Lives then for Money and its Rights. They began to ask, “What is best for tho People!” without regard to the profit or loss to nny class. They stood for the Common Good, heedless of the alarmed shrieks of Pride and Prejudice. They uttered Democracy. They made vocal the unsaid will of the great populace. They spoke for them that heretofore had perforce been indignantly silent; for the Farmer, the Brake- man, the Storekeeper, the Stenographer, the Inde pendent American everywhere that wanted only a chance to stand on his own fcot and conduct his business as he chose. The Hears*, papers were not champions .of nny one class. Not of the laborer os against the capitalist, but for the just rights of both. They thus became one of the most unifying factors in American life. They, ns much as any other agency, made the worker in the factory -and tile worker in the hank or office feel ttiat the spirit of America is co-op-ration, not competition. “Each for all and all for each” is the road to true Ameri canism. To America, already stagnating morally because of her enormous increase in the things of luxury, growing into the old-age way of estimating all values by the dollar mark, came the Hearst papers with the Eyes of Youth. They penetrated frauds. They looked through the armor of platitudes. They saw the Truth. And with voice unafraid they told what they saw. The American people responded. The success of the Hearat papers has been the event of the new century. Hailed at first as dangerous, radical, trouble making, having sinister motives, unscrupulous and all such things, by those whose withers were being wrung, they may safely he said to have outlived this storm of abuse, and to have established themselves in the hearts of the American people. For they saw with the Eyes of Youth. They spoke with the courage pf youth. They struck with the vigor of youth. The Hearst papers do not with to pose as holier- tkan-thou reformers. They entered the hnsiness to succeed as business institutions as well as editorial influences, which is an honorable ambition. Prosperity is essential to power, and they con ceived that the surest road to prosperity for a news paper is the same road a dry goods store or plow factory must take—strict integrity, absolute sin cerity and persistent honesty. ' They believed that the American Public in time would respond to the efforts of a newspaper which day in and day out showed itself faithful to their interests. That confidence was well founded. They laid their course by the north star. They placed entire reliance upon the principle that “Hon esty is the best policy.” In spite of storms and fogs, in spite of dangers and threats, they steered straight ahead. That is why they have safely anchored in the port of public approval. They saw. They had vision. For theirs were tho Eyes of Youth. And they did not flinch. Perhaps the Hearst papers have made some mis takes. Perhaps they may make some mistakes in the future. They are human institutions, and who may not make mistakes! “The man who does not make mistakes,” said ex- Congressman Fitzgerald the other day at the Iron and Steel annual banuet, “never accomplishes any thing.” No man knows the future. This Republic is forg ing forward into the unknown. No one but Almighty God knows what the future has in store for us. All of us guess wrong at times when we come to decide upon what is best to do. But there arc certain general principles that never vary. If we see those and stick to them wc shall never go far astray. If we ask ourselves at each step, “What is Right! What is Just! What is for the benefit of all, and not of some one class?” wc shall speedily slough off our errors and advance upon that course Destiny has marked out for us. This the Hearst papers rightly claim to have done. They have been intensely human, and thus liable to error. But they have been Eyes to the American people, and Eyes of Youth, through which this great people could see unclouded the vast purposes of Destiny, the unshakable laws of Justice, the everlasting pillars of Democracy. When the President of the United States appeared before Congress and declared that the time had come for this country to line up with the other democracies of the world nnd resist the power of autocracy, the Hearst papers were among the first to enlist. They threw their whole strength into .the support of the war. And it was not a hnlf-hearted and critical support. They have stood squarely behind the lawfully elected Administration. The Commander-in-Chief of our Army nnd Navy has never had occasion to be distressed or alarmed at their attitude. High-brows and low brows havo been busy finding fault. From disappointed politicians on the one hand to egotistie irresponsibles on the other, there have come snarlings nnd earpings nt our regularly constituted authorities. What support they have given tho war has been accompanied by an invari able sneer nt those who are-for us conducting the war. They have never handed the bread of praise to the Allies without spreading it with the butter of contempt for our President and his advisers. The nearst papers have never shared in this con temptible policy. Their backing of our cause has been 100 per cent. They urged the draft. They advocated the larger navy. They worked for a mighty merchant marine. They exerted every energy to secure the success of the campaigns for the Liberty Loans and the Red Cross. They saw that this is the Only Way. Because theirs are the Eyes of Youth; Eyes of Faith, not Doubt; Eyes of Loyalty, not Criticism; Eyes of Confidence, not-Pessimism. The Eyes of Youth are not afraid of the Truth. It is the Truth that makes men free. It is the Truth that makes men strong. The Hearst papers, so long as they continue their policy of Truth for Truth’s sake, Truth alone with out fear or favor, have no doubts as to their future. For it is John Milton who wrote what they believe, and what the Eyes of Youth see: “Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to mis doubt her strength. Lflt her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter!”