Railroad News of Interest
Rail I;. ..i.l News From sBfll Wrrk
Martin Hills' hoperhas born pull
ed off temporarily and nnothcr CTCl
put on the Crawford Hill, this makes
the fifth crew at this point. Engin
eer J. .T. Rogers is holding down the
Job of running the Hill.
Engineer Balchky, enjoyed a little
recreation Wednesday night by put
ting in his time as an ML a hostler.
Lw says that he would rather run an
-2, however he is making good at
the hostler work and can have the
Job steady.
W. F. Hart boi?er "inspector went
to Casper on 41 lasl Tuesday. "Bust or'
Holland is acting in his place on the
home grounds.
Firemen A. W. Whitney rnd A. L.
Pace are on the high line flreing oil
burners.
Engineer J. A. Wolverton and son.
are going to Deming New Mexico, to
the army cantonment, where Mr.
Wolverton's eldest son is servinir
TJncle Sam.
Miss Leona Reno, daughter of
Engineer Henry Reno, is going to
Sheridan on a visit.
'
A. M. Richmond, known as "Jeff
around the Round House, Is taking a
trip to Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Joe Witowack nnd two firemen,
deadheaded on 42 to Ravenna yes
terday, to bring in the second S-3 en
gine, 2956.
Engineer Bartram received word
Wednesday, to appear before the ex
aming board at Hanniball, Missouri.
Night Foreman, J. F. Stark layed
If last Wednesday night to go to the
picture show. Theodore Waddell act
ed in his piece.
Peter Rolfson, is helping out tem
porarily in the master mechanics
office.
Engineer McGuirc, had a brd ac
cident last Tuesday. He was work
ing an oil burner lubericr.tor and
didn't notice that the engine was
noving. A large amount cf the oil
wes spilt, cr.tching cn fire. As Mc
6uire was right in the midc'.le of the
oi he was burnt severly In the face
and upper pr.rt of the body. He is
now home under medical attention.
C. P. Wienell has been transferred
from a br.ikeman to the ror.ition of
fireman. He scys, "the 02's rln't too
big for him."
Enginery J. A. McDonr.lu acco .1
panied by his w;fe and dSSfchtSl1 BAVC
gone to Chicago on a pleasure trip.
Donald Briggs, a young lad from
Spearflsh, South Dakota, is being
broke in as "call boy".
Engineer Starrman, of ttoe Guern
sey line, received word Monday night
that his mother In Illinois had died
He left immediately, aud engineer
Gebauer was put in his plrce during
his absence.
Engineer J. F. Ellis is serving on
the switch engine at the present tine.
Engineer G. F. Wilson, C. B. Geb
son, J. W. Edwards, Carl Witham A.
J. Cole, T. A. Fowler, Charles Myers,
and E. W. Johnson are on the layoff
board at the present time.
Robert Driscoll who n.is been act
ing round house foreman fo 1 a couple
of years, enjoyed a day off 'Wednesday
by setting the valves on the 285S.
Bob certainly enjoys this kind of
work and is a mighty pood hand at
that kind of business.
Charles Leidhoff smilos real often
these days. Guess anyone would smile
knowing that the December rush was
over.
W. J. Brandon, employed at the
Round House has gone to Illinois.
Mr. Brandon, is a young man and has
been in the service of the "Q" at Al
liance for some time. He Buffered
the terrible misfortune of losing his
wife, following an oporr.tlcn at the
hospital. Mrs. Brandons' folks all
live in Illinois and Mr Brandon is
taking the body there for lnterrment
in the family ploi.
J. M. MARTIN
AUCTIONEER
is ready to try your sales. Em
ninv none but the best. You were
several years collecting your prop
erty, so you can t anora to lei a
poor auctioneer give it away in a
few hours
GET YOUR DATES EARLY.
See F. E. Brown for dates. Phone
Red 436, or meet me at the Mar
ket Day Sales.
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C. E. SLAGLE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office phone, 65. Res. phone, 52
Alliance, - - Nebraska
L. W. BOWMAN
Physician and Surgeon
302 Box Butte
Phones: Office, 362; Res. 16
Geo. J. Hand, M. D.
ASTHMA and
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Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
PHONE 257
Calls answered from office day or
night.
J. D. EMERICK
Bonded Abstractor
I have the only set of abstract
Books in Box Butte County
Office: Km. 7, Opera House Block
"Let Me Cry For Yon"
HARRY P. COURSEY
Live Stock and General Sales
Specialist and Auctioneer
FARM SALES A SPECIALTY
Terms Reasonable
Alliance, (Phone 664) Nebr.
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CHIROPRACTORS
Office Hours, 10 A. II. to 8 P. If.
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Quality Portraits,
Interior and Exterior Views
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Phone Red 166
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Harness Repairing by Experienced
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J. M. COVERT
At M. D. Nichols Stand, Alliance
AMERICAN SUGAR
SENT TO FRANCE
American Price Rigidly Regulated
by United States Food
Administration. i
CONSUMERS HERE PAY 9o,
Sugar Cost 36 Cents a Pound During
Civil War Refiner.' Profits
Now Curtailed.
DR. D. E TTLSE
DENTIST
PHONE ICS
Over First National Bank
ALLIANCE, - - NEBRASKA
BURTON & REDDISH
Attorneys-at-Law
Office: First National Bank Bldg
PHONE 180
Alliance. - - Nebraska
L A. BEPEY
LAWYER
Phono 9. Room 9 Rtuner Block
Alliance, - . Nebraska
Sugar ia selling today throughout
America at from 84 to 9 cents aj
pound to the consumer, even though
there Is a world shortage which has,
reduced this nation's sugar allotment
to 70 per cent of normal.
Through the efforts of the United i
States food administration the sugar
market has been regulated as far as
the producer, refiner and wholesaler
Is concerned. The food administration
has no power to regulate retail prices
except by public opinion. Even though
more than 85,000 tons of sugar have
been shipped to France In the last
four months the retail grocer's sugar
price Is around 8 to 8 cents. He
should sell this sugar at 8 to 9
cents, the food administration believes,
and asks the Amerlcnn housewife to
pay no more than this amount
Last August when the food admin
istration was organized the price of
sugar rose suddenly to 11 cents a
pound. During the Civil War sugar
cost the consumer 35 cents a pound.
Ry regulation of the sugar market and
reducing the price to 84 and 9 cents
and keeping It from advancing to 20
cents the food administration has sav
ed the American public at least $180,
000,000 in four months, according to
a statement made by Herbert Hoover
the other day.
"It Is our stern duty to feed the al
lies, to maintain their health and
strength at any cost to ourselves,"
Mr. Hoover declared. "There has not
been, nor will be as we see It, enough
sugar for even their present meagre
and depressing ration unless they send
ships to remote markets for It If we
in our greed and gluttony force them
either to further reduce their ration
or to send these ships we will have
done damage to our abilities to win
this war.
"If we send the ships to Java
for 250,000 tons of sugar next year
we will have necessitated the em
ployment of eleven extra ships for
one year. These ships If used in
transporting troops would take
150,000 to 200,000 men to France."
Reason for World Shortage.
As Mr. Hoover pointed out the
United States, Canada and England
were sugar Importing countries before
the war, while France and Italy were
very nearly self supporting. The matn
sources of the world's sugar supply
was Germany and neighboring powers,
the West Indies and the East Indies.
German sugar Is no longer available,
as It 1b used entirely In Germany,
which also nbsorbs sugar of surround
ing countries.
England can no longer buy 1,400,000
long tons of sugnr each year from
Germany. The French sugar produc-,
tion has dropped from 750,000 to 210,-,
000 tons. The Italian production has!
fallen from 210,000 tons to 75,000 tons.!
Thus three countries were thrown'
upon East and West Indian sources
for 1,925,000 tons annually to maintain,
their normal consumption.
Because of the world's shipping
shortuge the allied nntlons started
drawing on the West Indies for sugar;
East Indian sugar took three times
the number of ships, since the dis
tance was three times as great. Sud
denly the west was called on to fur
nish nnd did furnish 1,420,000 tons of
sugar to Europe when 300,000 tons a
year was the pre-war demand. The
allies had drawn from Java 400,000
tons before the shipping situation be
came acute.
"In spite of these shipments," Mr.
Hoover stated the other day, "the
English government In August reduced
the household sugar ration to a basis
of 24 pounds per annum per capita.
And in September the French govern
ment reduced their household ration
to 13 2-10 pounds a year, or a bit over
1 pound of sugar a month. Even this
meagre ration could not be filled by
the French government it was found
early in the fall. America was then
asked for 100,000 tons of sugar and
succeeded In sending 85,000 tona by
December L The French request was
granted because the American house
hold consumption was then at least 55
k pounds per person, and it was consid
ered the duty of maintaining the
French morale made our course clear."
Today the sugar situation may
be summarized by atatlng that it
America will reduce Its sugar con
sumption 10 to 15 per cent thla
nation will be able to send 200,000
more soldiers to France.
Sugar today sella at seaboard re
fineries at $7.25 a hundred pounds
The wholesale grocer has agreed to
limit his profit to 25 cents a hundred
plus freight and the retail grocer is
supposed to take no more than 60 cents
a hundred pounds profit. Thla regu
lation waa made by the food adminis
tration, which now asks the housewife
to reduce sugar consumption as much
aa possible, using ther sweeteners,
and also reminds her that she should
pay no more than 9 cents a pound for
sugar.
Control of Cane Refiner Profrta,
"Immediately upon the establish-
of the food administration," Mr.
Hoover said, "an examination wa
made of the costs and proflta of refin
ing and It wss finally determined that
the spread between the coat of raw
and the aale of refined cane sugar
should be limited to $1.80 per hundred
.ounds. The pre-war differential had'
averaged about 85 conta and Increased
costs were found to have been Impos
ed by the war In Increased cost of re
fining, losses, cost of bags, labor, Insur
ance, Interest and other things, rather;
more than cover the difference. After'
prolonged negotiations the refiners
were placed under agreement estab
lishing these limits on October 1, and'
anything over this amount to be agreed
extortionate under the law.
"In the course of these Investiga
tions It was found by canvass of the
Cuban producers that their sugar had,,
during the first nine montha of the
past year, sold for an average of about
$4.24 per hundred f. o. b. Cuba, to
which duty and freight added to the
refiners' cost amount to about $5.00
per hundred. The average sale price
of granulated by various refineries, ac
cording to our Investigation, rras about
$7.50 per hundred, or a differential of
$1.84.
"In reducing the differential to $1.30
there was a saving to the public of 54
cents per hundred. Had such a dif
ferential been In use from the 1st of;
January, 1017, the public would have
saved In the first nine months of the
year about $24,800,000."
Next Year.
With a view to more efficient organ-!
Ir.atton of the trade In Imported augars
next year two committees have been
formed by the food administration :
L A committee comprising repre-i
sentntlves of all of the elements of!
Amerlcnn cane refining groups. The
principal duty of this committee Is to
divide the sugar Imports pro rata to
their various capacities and see that
absolute Justice Is done to every re
finer. 2. A committee comprising three rep
resentatives of the English, French
and Italian governmental two repre
sentatives of the American refiners,
with a member of the food administra
tion. Only two of the committee have
arrived from Europe, but they repre-i
sent the allied governments. The du
ties of this committee are to determine,
the most economical sources from a
transport point of view of all the al
lies to arrange transport at uniform
rates, to distribute the foreign sugar,
between the United States and allies, i
subject to the approval of the Ameri
can. English, French and Italian gov-'
I i'i (inn iiifir mmf-iH linn re-
d need Cuban demands by 15 cents pel
hundred. The price agreed upon Is
abnQl $1.00 per hundred pounds, f. o. li.
Cuba, r equal to about $0 duty paid
New York. I
"This pries should eventuate,"
Mr. Hoover aaid, "to about $7.30
per hundred for refined sugar from 1
the refiners at seaboard pdinta or
should place sugar in the hands of
the consumer at from 8' 2 to 9
cents per pound, depending upon
locality and condition of trade, or
at from 1 to 2 cente below the
prlceo of Auguat last and from one
half to a cent per pound cheaper
than today.
"There la now an elimination of
speculation, extortionate proflta, and;
in the refining alone the American!
people will save over $26,000,000 of
the refining charges last year. A part
of these savings goes to the Cuban,!
Hawaiian, Porto Iticnn nnd IxiuslnnlanJ
producer and part to the consumer.
"Appenla to prejudice against the'
food administration hnvc been made:
because the Cuban price Is 84 cents
alove that of 1917. It Is said In effect
that the Cubans are at our mercy;
that we could get sugar a cent lower.
We made exhaustive study of the cost
of producing sugar In Cuba last year
through our own agents In Cuba, and
we find It avernges $3.39, while many
producers are at a higher level. We
found that an average profit of at
least a cent per pound waa necessary
In order to maintain nnd stimulate
production or that a minimum price of
$4.37 w-aa necessary, and even this
WOU.W STiile Mime priMluueia.
"The price ultimately agreed waa 211
rents above these figures, or about one
fifth of a cent per pound to the Ameri
can consumer, and more than thla
amount has been snved by our reduc
tion In refiners' profits. If we wish to
stifle production In Cuba we could
lake that course Just at the time of all
times In our history when we want
production for ourselves and the al
lies. Further than that, the state de
partment will assure you that such a
course would produce disturbances in
Cuba and destroy even our present
supplies, hut beyond all theae material
reasons Is one of human Justice. This
great country has no right by the
might of Its position to strangle Cuba.
"Therefore there Is no Imposition!
upon the Amerlcnn public. Charges!
have been made before thla commit
tee that Mr. Holph endeavored to ben
eflt the California refinery of which het
waa manager by this 84 cent Increase!
In Cuban price. Mr. Rolph did not tlx!
the price. It does raise the price tot
the Hawaiian farmer about thaS
amount. It does not raise the profit ofl
the California refinery, because thelit
charge for refining Is, like all other
liners, limited to $1.30 per hundr
pounda, plus the freight differential
the established custom of the trade.
"Mr. Rolph has not one penny of law
tarest in that refinery."
T. F. O'Keefe has purchased tha
Kust Ranch Just north of Alliance for
a consideration of $2 5,600. This la
one of the best pieces of farm land
in the county.
ernments.
This committee, while holding strong,
views as to the price to be paid for
Cuban sugar, haa not had the final
voice. This voice has rested In the
governments concerned, together with
the Cuban government, and I wish to
state emphatically that all of the gen
tlemen concerned as good commercial
men have endeavored with the utmost
Datiehce and kVIU to secure a lower
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More Than 6,800 Men
From the Bell System
Are Now in the Army
When war was declared the
government asked for skilled
telephone men for the signal
corps service of the army.
In response to this call, from
out of the telephone offices,
down from the poles, from out
of the cable manholea and from
the repair benches, came thou
sands of Bell men to offer their
services to the nation.
Fourteen battalions of these
Bell men were accepted and
are now In active military eerv
Ice. Many of them are already
in France. Others are In
camps ready to embark.
The Bell 8ystem is paying
these telephone men in tha
my signal corps the differenoe
between the wages they for
merly received and the amount
they now get from tha government
Oie Mm Oit of Six With the Colors
One man out of every alx from the main
tenance and construction forces of thla
company ia new in the army.
A large proportion of the volunteers from
the Bell System are technically trained
men. Such employees are hard to replaoe.
Sine the war began, one of our great
problems has been to readjust our organisa
tion to handle the work left by the heavy
enrtaament of our working forces, and at
the same time to take oare of the tre
mendous Increase In telephone traffic caused
by war activities.
In apite of the war and what It haa meant to this oompany In tha
Increased number of telephone meaaagee to handle, the enlistment of
so many of our trained men, the shortage of equipment the scarcity
of labor and the high ooet of telephone materials
In apite of all theae obstacles, we are meeting tha needs of tha
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