be greatly aggravated in any system of Government operation. It would be "out of the frying-pan into the fire;" but the practical question is one of preventing the issue from coming up, and this can be done only by the railways making a better showing in the next few months with the physical facilities they have. The ARCO WAND has shut out the drudgery of housecleaning from my home, and I never worry about extra help. Easy stroking for a few minutes with the light ARCO WAND tools keeps my house dust-free, and preserves the color and fabric of carpets, rugs, hangings and upholstery. I use the ARCO WAND all over the house-for floors, mouldings, stairways, bookshelves, drawers and mattresses. It costs about a penny a day to operate. The ARCO WAND is noiseless in operation, and the light hose and tools are easily connected to the openings on each floor-no heavy machine to drag around. 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FREEMAN THE NATION'S INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS (Continued) and is not the immediate problem, which is one of improving the performance of the existing facilities, by improvements in methods, by the rendering of better service by every one connected with the railways, from the highest official down to the common laborer, and by greater co-operation on the part of the shipping public. No one should delude himself by thinking that the test of American railroading is guaranteed to last for the whole period necessary for the making of the physical improvements that are needed. If the traffic situation is not speedily improved, within a period of months, the issue of Government ownership and operation will be presented again, and he is a resourceful and ingenious man indeed who can outline how it will be possible to meet propaganda along that line. There can be no doubt whatever that the shippers as a body do not desire a change from private to public ownership and operation. They recognize clearly that the present difficulties, involving both methods. of conducting transportation and the spirit in which men engaged in the business of transportation render their service, would THE MOTOR TRUCK-AN ECONOMIC NECESSITY (From "Service," published by the Service Motor Truck Company) Ask the next ten men you meet what industry is the most vital to the Nation, and every one of them will answer farming-raising food. But the foodstuffs do very little good until they are transported to our cities, and transportation in this country is very badly demoralized. The railways are short 700,000 freight cars and 4,000 locomotives. This equipment could not be built in the next three years, even if all railway shops were to work full blast. But even when this shortage of equipment is met there will not be enough rails to run it on. The railways are tied up, not only from the lack of cars and engines, but from a shortage of rails and adequate terminal facilities. Think of it! The average freight car moves only twenty-five miles a day. This slow progress is due almost entirely to congestion. Relieve this congestion, and you can increase the average rate of travel to thirty miles a day. This increase in travel would mean an equivalent of 600,000 cars, which would almost make up for the cars the railways are now short. The point is, the railways now get very little good out of the cars they have. What they want is less conges There are 2,400,000 freight cars in use, and they can take care of the country's transportation, provided they are not held up by the short-haul business that is responsible for the present tie-up. That's where the motor truck steps in. It must take the short-haul business-hauls up to sixty miles. The railways admit they lose money on hauls shorter than this distance and if they are to survive they must either raise freight rates to offset this loss or turn the short haul over to the motor truck. But an increase in rates will not relieve this congestion; will not solve the problem. The motor truck can and must solve it. The railways see this. They are not hostile to the truck. The motor truck is not running in competition with the railways. It is simply helping them out of a bad pinch, and turning the loss into a profitable business, which will solve one of the Nation's most vital problems. Motor-truck transportation is one of the vital necessities of the country to-day. . In these days when bankers are not looking around to find some one to whom to loan money, they are supporting the motortruck industry in a manner which indicates that they realize not only the growing de mand for trucks but their absolute necessity. The motor truck is a good investment. It pays for itself. It is a business proposition, pure and simple, and is helping solve the transportation problem that is one of the most serious considerations that the Nation has to face at this time. BY THE WAY England has decided to put her soldiers into the brilliant uniforms of pre-war days. One reason is said to be that the gay uniforms appeal to the average nursemaid, and therefore enlistment is brisker under the old system. It is estimated that the cost to the country for changing uniforms will be about three million pounds. The London "Spectator says: "The old uniforms with their color, their highly distinctive marks, and their gay appearance have a great value for recruiting purposes; and that, as money has to be spent on advertising for recruits in any case, the money may just as well be spent in this form of advertisement." The energetic press service of the United States Marine Corps sends us a bulletin from Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the following curious, if not important, information: A piece of beef cooked in 1805 is still being carefully preserved in a little silver pitcher by Edward B. Manwaring, of this city. This is not being kept in anticipation of a further increase in the cost of beef, but is a genuine heirloom. Sergeant Joseph Hobbins, of the British Royal Marines, saved this piece of beef, which he was eating when assaulted with an ax by a cook on a French vessel which had been captured by Lord Nelson at Trafalgar. The cook missed his aim but the sergeant got the beef. Sergeant Hobbins was the great-great-grandfather of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward B. Manwaring, of the United States Marine Corps. France has been investigating the subject of her pre-war pensions with a view to possible economy, and has found seventy-eight pensions dating from the days of Napoleon the Great, and a few of still earlier date. Among these was one payable to the descendants of La Boissiere de Chambord, "who had the honor of being killed at a shooting party by Mgr. le Dauphin." This pension, it is said, ceased only a few months ago by the death of the last of the descendants. A pension to Montcalm's descendants also became extinct recently. The "ladybug," enemy of minute insect life, has been commercialized. A reader sends us a clipping from the Redlands (California) "Daily Facts" (a novel newspaper title, by the way) which contains this advertisement: For Sale-Ladybugs. Orders taken, $2.50 per pint. Eat young scale and aphis. H. C. Emm, 126 Sonora. Green 951. There is no end to the ingenuity of the evil-doer. A London newspaper is responsible for this story about a "new Raffles." The other day a lady and her daughter who live in a service flat in town received by post two stalls for a theater, an accompanying note running: "Perhaps you from whom these come. Hope guess you will have a pleasant evening." They used the stalls, enjoyed the play extremely, and, returning home, found their flat ransacked by burglars. And awaiting them was another note: "Perhaps you can guess now who sent the tickets." will It is related that Augustine Birrell some time ago, while traveling in a third-class railway carriage in the north of England, sat down hurriedly next to a little girl in shawl and clogs. Happening to glance at her a moment or two afterward, he saw that she was regarding him with no great favor. It dawned upon him that he was sitting on her newspaper. "Here, my 85% less for breakfast A Quaker Oats breakfast saves 85 per cent compared with the average meat breakfast. It supplies supreme nutrition for the first meal of the day. It saves the average family about 35 cents toward costlier foods for dinner. Quaker Oats The choicest one-third of the oats In Quaker Oats you get just queen grains flaked. All the puny, insipid grains are discarded. A bushel of choice oats yields only ten pounds of Quaker. Yet these rich, flavory oat flakes cost you no extra price. Be wise enough to get them. 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