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MOTOR TRl CK IN RIG DEMAND
Fop several years it had heen predicted that the nto
tor truck was to enter on a new and greatly extended pe
riod of devlopment. It had heen improved until its me-!
chanical efficiency was heyond question, and its economy
in certain lines of transportation had heen well establish
ed, but it required, apparently, the necessities ol war to
center attention on these facts, and finally to throw open
the door on the second period of development of the mo
tor truck. The total production of motor trucks in the
United States last year was about 35,000. This year.
after war was declared against (dennany, the War
partment asked for bids for 10,000 trucks and motor lac
lories are already busy on contracts for part ol these. In
commercial fields and also from fanning districts an in
creased demand for trucks is reported, so that therejs no
doubt that this year will se a big jump in production.
Previous horse competition had been lessened in two
ways—by the scarcity of horses and the rising cost ol
horse feed. From the beginning of the European war
about 35,000 horses and m iles have been xported per
month to the Alies. It is estimated that the needs of our
army will be 11,000 horses a month. Destruction of horses
in the fighting area has been placed at not less than 1,300,
a year. The number of horses now in this country is
placed at 20.000.000. and the cost of feeding them at $5,
000,000.000 a year. Not only the increased cost of grain,
but the need of land to raise food for human use, are fac
tors that center a new attention on the serviceability ol
the motor truck. Freight truck routes are being laid out
between cities and between city and country, and it is pre
dicted that much of the freight hauling up to seventy
miles will be done in the future by motor trucks as roads
are constructed to bear this traffic.
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A PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Loyal labor, whether Democratic, Republican or So
cialist, has accomplished a splendid, patriotic work in the
Minneapolis meeting of the Alliance for Labor and De
mocracy, through its aggressive utterances in support of
the war. its influence in suppressing disloyalty, and its as
agement to the new republic of Russia. Labor of Amer
agemnt to the new republic of Russia. The labor of Amer
ica, speaking direct to the labor of Russia, should make
for a better understanding and larger co-operation, and
leave less opportunity for the mischievous work of pro
German plotters who have contributed so much to the
They do the one thing
you have always
wished a
cigarette
would do;
and that
is—
They Sat
isfy — and
yet they’re
MILD.
ONE GETS STRONGER—THE OTHER WEAKER.
TRAINING
Quarters
U 5-GERMAN
BOUT
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— Evan* in Baltimore American.
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confusion of the Slav democracy. 1
It is curious that, in a war between autocracy anil
democracy, involving the continued maintenance o oui,
free institutions, there should have been any doubt as to.
tiie duty of citizenship, or any division of sentiment!
among the elements of our national life that are striving,
for larger liberties. Loyal Socialists and loyal labor lead
ers and other patriotic citizens have combined, in the Al
liance for Labor and Democracy, to make the war issue
dear, and their efforts will have a large influence tor good
not only in this country, but in Russia, and in other war
countries of Europe. j
Men like Samuel Gompers, John Spargo, Charles Ed
ward Russell, Frank P. Walsh, Janies Duncan, and oth-j
ers like them, have risen above local differences, to a plane,
of citizenship on which every American, of whatever
party or propaganda, may meet them, and call them
brothers.
THE GOVERNMENT AND PAID ADVERTISING
The question of whether the United States govern
ment should engage in a policy of paying for advertise
ment in the newspapers has been much agitated of late,
especially in regard to the selling of Liberty Loan Bonds.
This being a strictly money matter the question conies up
more squarely in connection with it than with legistia
tion, food conservation or other governmental matters
given publicity.
Secretary McAdoo, of the Treasury, has issued a
statement dealing with this matter. Attoi lefeiiing to
: the great amount of advertising patriotically given to the
| Liberty Loan Bonds in the first campaign by newspapers
: and other advertising agencies, and by banks and other
concerns and by individuals, the Secretary contradicts the
impression that the Government in the first Liberty Loan
I campaign asked for free advertising or paid for any ad
vertising in the newspapers. The great success of the loan
he attributes in a very great degree to the voluntary and
patriotic work and advertising space patriotically given
free to the government.
While acknowledging the tremendous value of adver
tising the Secretary points out that the relation of the
Government to the press and to the public generally is
such that the question of paid advertising by it presents
a problem very much more complex than it would be to
a private enterprise. The Government cannot use the
same thorough discrimination as to the mediums it should
use, but would be obliged to be thoroughly democratic
and impartial and the cost of such an undertaking would
be very great and would exceed the appropriation avail
able under the existing law.
The Secretary, however, states that the matter is be
ing very carefully considered, but a decision cannot be
arrived at until a better knowledge is had as to the cost
of the campaign and until the appropriation available for
the purpose has been settled by Congress.
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Men whose religious scruples prevent • them from
righting for the life and liberty of their country are ready
enough to call upon that country to protect them in their
efforts to destroy it.
1
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KNIK, ALASKA
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They are teaching the army doctors at Fort Benja
min Harrison to shoot with pistols, probably on the the
ory that if a doctor doesn’t get ’em one way, he will get
’em another.
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Edison is said to have invented a means of handling
the U-boats. Now, if some one will suggest a way to
catch them so that they can be handled according to the
recipe. •
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The Russian revolutionists are trying to write a new
national anthem, owing to the fact that there is very lit
tle nutriment in the ditty entitled “God Save the Czai.
The Swedish minister io Argentina has discovered
that sharing his cable privileges with the German Count
IJuxburg is a good deal like collaborating with a hyena.
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Music may not be absolutely essential, but he who
doesn’t blow his own horn must pay the piper.
Paradoxical as it may seem, a man isn’t apt to see a
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