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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1918
Page
2
A 1918 Beho editorial warns of economic risk as Reconstruction nears. It condemns the selfish rich and union leaders while urging reason, moderation, and fairness to preserve prosperity. It argues food prices stay high for 18 months to 2 years to reward farmers and ensure markets.
An editorial says poetry is unsuitable for publication, citing low reader demand and cost concerns. It mentions favorite readers who prefer dog fights and farmers' tips, arguing poets live on imagined bread while newspapers need real sustenance.
The piece urges farmers to increase production next year to feed a hungry, postwar world. It emphasizes the farmer as key to global food stock and notes the U.S. as a uniquely unaffected industrial nation bearing the largest burden to supply food.
The argument condemns sinking captured ships as childish and calls for repurposing hulls for relief. It notes excess vessels already lie at the ocean floor and suggests distributing ships to Belgium or using them to haul food and fuel to needy peoples.
The late James J. Hill the Empire Builder urges a simple test for life prospects. If you cannot save money you are headed for loss and failure. Plant the seed of success by thrift and self discipline before habits ruin you.
Frank Branch Riley famed northwest lecturer will appear on the Washington State Good Roads Association program at Pasco on December 5 and 6. He will show natural color pictures of northwest attractions and deliver an hour and a half lecture. The program includes W C Baldwin, national defense council rep and highways committee chair, stressing better roads and heavier construction.
Classified note advertises old papers for sale at Echo office price 25ers per hundred. Mentioned uses include packing wrapping cleaning and kindling for fires. Contact Echo office for details.
An Illustrated World account describes German tank defenses using carbon dioxide gas to stop tank engines. The tactic halted tank advances until Allied engineers allegedly developed a mask to seal air intakes, restoring movement and signaling a possible future return to action.
E. Z. Russel of the U S Department of Agriculture swine division toured Gulf coast fisheries and southern marketing centers to promote fish meal as a tankage substitute. Tests show fish meal matches tankage in feeding value, with about 57 percent protein, and Beltsville experiments use it to replace tankage. Menhaden fisheries on the Atlantic coast could yield 10 000 tons of fish meal annually.
Reports outline efforts to repurpose wasteful Mississippi River fish into fish meal for feed, and to cut hog feed costs by green forage. Pennsylvania tests show half the grain bill may be saved with greens. In Nebraska, sorghum mills meet sugar substitution demand. five mills operate with local cooperation and a planned stock company to sell sorghum cane.
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