Motor-Trucks on America's "Bread Line" (Continued) ines, and pointing out the necessity for nore and quicker transportation to aid ncreased food production. The railways are apparently not equipped o carry all food and other supplies at the ame time. Naturally farmers hesitate to produce to capacity, fearing their produce annot be marketed. About twenty per ent of farm help has been lost by the traft and other causes, making it imposible for farmers to haul crops to market nd work on the farm at the same time. The remedy lies in rural motor-truck xpress lines. Farmers, truck gardeners, nd dairymen have found that motor trucks nsure daily transportation to market, enbling them to devote all of their time to heir farms. Increased production and compensation for loss of labor result. The congestion of the railways has in ome sections necessitated delivery of live tock to the stock-yards by motor truck. During the year there were hauled over ighways for a radius of thirty miles to Cincinnati more than 77,000 hogs, 235,000 sheep, 28,500 calves, and 27,500 head of cattle, forty per cent of which were driven n on the hoof, and sixty per cent in motor rucks. This experiment has proved that he motor-truck method promises to be permanent, as stock can be handled cheaper han by railway, and arrive in better conlition and in quicker time. The dependability and adaptability of he motor truck have attracted the attention of manufacturers and growers of perishable goods. In the West and South growers have employed motor trucks for shipping strawberries and early summer fruits ind vegetables to market or to warehouses. Even such delicate fruits as peaches, plums, and grapes are now being shipped out of the fruit-producing States over long distances by motor trucks. The hardier fruits, such as oranges, grapefruit, apples, pears, etc., are in some sections being almost entirely shipped by this method. Such examples prove that the motor truck can be utilized to feed a community, and that it is not necessary, because food is of a perishable nature, to make the railways shoulder this work. CENTRALIZED FOOD DISTRIBUTION Uninterrupted distribution of food is one which the Nation must solve, not only for immediate relief, but after the war as well. I would not be surprised if such a solution were found in a centralized plan whereby distribution points would be located to facilitate the distribution of perishable and Just Out. A New Song Book. Sample copy will You can cure CATARRH James semi-perishable food products, eliminating without drugs-at home-with food the short haul on the railways. This would enable the railways to run through trains from growing and manufacturing points direct to these distribution centers, whence motor trucks would complete the work of delivery to consignees. This would save time for the railways, as they would have no stops and but one loading and unloading. The growers and manufacturers would have but one point to ship to, and the consignees would have but one point to look to for their goods. In my opinion, this would assure delivery of goods irrespective of what transportation problems might arise in the future. Either the Government might take this matter in hand, build food distribution warehouses, where all the goods for each point would be forwarded, and whence motor trucks would convey them to destinations, or the food manufacturers and producers Complete and definite instructions by R. L. Alsaker, M.D. EDWARDS We furnish Edwards complete lock- The Edwards Mfg., Co., 339-389 Culvert St., Cincinnati, O. Motor-Trucks on America's "Bread Line" (Continued) themselves might combine for this purpose. A COMMUNITY PLAN There are several plans whereby a community can insure its own food supplies from delays. One way is for all food merchants in each community-the grocer, baker, meat market, fruit and vegetable dealer, confectioner,creamery, etc.-to form a co-operative motor-truck transportation company to collect and transport to their different places of business all food products and breadstuffs. The number of trucks necessary to carry out this plan would depend on the number of dealers and the area necessary to cover. There would primarily have to be two different routes which this transportation company would have to operate over. The first route would be that of the farmers, dairies, and live-stock growers, whence the city derives its supply of fresh vegetables, fruits, milk, eggs, poultry, and meats. The location of each source of supply on this route should be listed and arranged on a schedule so that each truck would carry full loads both ways. The second route would be for those trucks that would take care of all goods shipped over the railways by the manufacturers and would include all package goods and supplies. If a community is situated near a large city which is the distribution point for manufactured goods, time could be saved by the trucks going to this city and not waiting until they had been reshipped to the community. A great deal of time is lost in waiting for less than car-load lots to be reshipped from distribution points to small communities, and it is here that the motor truck would prove of invaluable aid in deliveries. prompt The second plan would be that of a municipal motor-truck transportation company owned and operated by the community or by a group of individuals, for the purpose of supplying the community's dealers and merchants with their food supply. This could be operated over routes as outlined in the first plan. The third plan would be that of a farmers' co-operative motor-truck_transportation company, to be owned and operated by the farmers and dairymen who supply the community with its fresh vegetables, milk, etc. The farmers participating in such a company could use the motortruck equipment for transporting their products to the community and bringing back with them supplies needed on the farm, thus insuring a load both ways. The above three plans are more or less in the rough, but I believe that every community can find an idea among them that they could profitably apply to their local conditions. This war is a matter of men, equipment, and supplies. These three war essentials have to be transported. This means a load on the Nation's transportation equipment far in excess of its capacity. If it comes to a show-down, the railways will have to confine themselves strictly to Government work. This would mean that all goods and supplies for other than Governmental use would have to be transported in other ways. The motor truck has proved itself the logical means of transportation. It is an equipment that can be purchased and operated by every community without great initial outlay or time spent in putting it into operation. To my mind, the time has arrived when such transportation steps should be taken without delay. BY THE WAY The late Professor W. D. Whitney was quoted on page 156 of The Outlook of May 22 as saying that the Bible contains no such word as "its." A subscriber writes: "The word its does occur in Leviticus xxv. 5." The Oxford English Dictionary thus comments on the matter: "Its was formed in the end of the sixteenth century from it's of the possessive or genitive case, and at first commonly written it's. Its was not admitted in the Bible of 1611; the possessive it occurs once, but was altered (in an edition of 1660) to its, which appears in all current editions." (The word, it may be remarked, is found in only one of a halfdozen standard concordances.) An examination of a copy of the Bible of 1611 in the New York Public Library corroborates the above statement. Leviticus xxv. 5 reads, as printed in the quaint "black letter" type of this early edition: That which groweth of it owne accord of thy haruest, thou shalt not reape, neither gather the grapes of thy Vine undressed: for it is a peere of rest vnto the land. The title-page of this Bible reads: "THE HOLY BIBLE. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings moft excellent Maieftie. Anno Dom. 1611." A note on the fly-leaf in the handwriting of Mr. James Lenox, the founder of the Lenox Library in New York City, says, curiously enough, that this title-page is that of an edition of 1613, altered to "1611." A close examination. of the last 1 in 1611 shows that the figure had, in fact, been tampered with, in order, possibly, to increase the value of the book to an inattentive bibliophile. The words of the Preacher seem apposite in this connection: "God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." The question about the identity of the jackknife that first had its blade renewed and then got a new handle is fairly matched by this story quoted from the "American Hatter:" "You say you've worn this hat for two years?" "Yes, sir; and it looks all right still. Twice I've had it cleaned and once I exchanged it in a restaurant for one that was entirely new." The coming back of the full-rigged sailing ship is one of the wonders of the war. Recently a round dozen of these old-time monarchs of the deep were counted in New York Harbor lying off Staten Island. Two of the dozen were four-masters. Speaking of the shortage of copper in Germany, Cyril Brown says in "Germany as It Is To-Day" that "about the last of Germany's famous church bells to go into the melting pot has been the so-called 'Kaiser Bell,' out of the belfry of Cologne Cathedral, the largest church bell in all Germany, weighing sixty tons. Hung in 1877, it pealed its last on New Year's, 1918." Other authorities state that this bell weighed 271⁄2 tons, that it was cast in 1874 from French cannon captured in the war of 1870, and that it was exceeded in size only by the famous Russian bells of Moscow and by certain Chinese bells. Negroes who can trace their ancestry to the Coromantees of the African Gold Coast have reason to be proud. A recent book entitled "American Negro Slavery," by Professor U B. Phillips, quotes from a letter written in 1701 by Governor Codrington, of the Leeward Islands, as to this tribe: "The Corramantes are not only the best and most faithful of our slaves, but are really all born heroes. There never was a raskal or coward of that nation. Intrepid to the last degree, not a man of them but will stand to be cut to pieces without a sigh or groan. My father, who had studied the genius and temper of all kinds of negroes forty-five years with a very nice observation, would say, noe man deserved a Corramante that would not treat him like a friend rather than a slave." A subscriber writes that the translation of the Indian word "agawam " in our issue of June 12, "Great salt meadows of the Atlantic Coast," is somewhat too specific. "Great," he says, would be some form of missi, as in Mississippi, “great river.” Salt, he affirms, was a word unknown to the Indians, as was Atlantic. "The word," he concludes, "is undoubtedly derived from agwaam, meaning 'ground overflowed by water.'" Without questioning the philological knowledge of our correspondent, we may express our surprise at his statement that salt was unknown to the Indians. The numerous" salt licks" of the West, it would seem, must certainly have had a descriptive name in the Indian languages. It is unprecedented, unconstitutional, and otherwise quite out of the question for a man to be Senator from two States at the same time; yet if this were conceivable, there is no one who could carry this double burden with better grace than Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama. That must be our excuse for referring to him two weeks ago as "Oscar W. Underwood, of Georgia." We trust that Georgia, Alabama, and the Senator appreciated the compliment. Summer guests of an unusual character are solicited in the following advertisement in a New York City daily : Woman with genuine affection for dogs, understanding care of same, spacious grounds, wired runs, will accept five dogs only as boarders. Boston bulls preferred. Address etc. The French word bijou (jewel) is a popu lar one in America as a name for a small theater. The pronunciation of the word is difficult for the average playgoer, who is probably innocent even of boarding-school French, and it is sometimes Anglicized as "By Joe." A Newport (Rhode Island) newspaper advertisement frankly accepts this pronunciation; in the announcement of a moving-picture theater the name appears in large black letters as BIJO. Cherry-pit bean bags are the latest device of the conservationist. Bean bags make nice little gifts for children at Christmas, and now is the time to save the cherry pits for them. Beans are too costly to use for this purpose any longer, and, besides, it is said that the cherry pits are lighter and make better bags for children's use. "One can't realize the magnitude of this war till one sees it," says John Kautz in his book "Trucking to the Trenches,” "The other day we passed five solid miles of horses and guns going up-it is not an uncommon sight, but a wonderful one. We are only one section of twenty-four trucks out of more than 200,000, yet every time we load with shells the load is worth from $78,000 to $100,000, depending on the kind." "The old adage, Talking is still done by hand in France," continues the author above mentioned, "has just been borne out again. I've had to tie up a Frenchman's elbow. He sprained it trying to translate Crank up your motor' from French into English-that's a fact. His two favorite American expressions, out of a vocabulary of about a hundred words, are, It is a gift, and You darn fool. He uses both indiscriminately, but he is the best friend I have among the French in spite of his frequent use of the last compliment." THE OUTLOOK CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Advertising rates are: Hotels and Resorts, Apartments, Tours and Travel, Real Estate, Live Stock and Poultry, fifty cents per agate line, four columns to the page. Not less than four lines accepted. 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