people to turn to themselves a dishonest gain.

Therefore I would suggest, first of all, that you men before even considering the question of publicity, study your own work. Make yourselves so familiar with it that no reasonable question will find you unprepared to answer. Study the difficult angles so that there can be no emergency that will find you unprepared at least to reserve judgment. For usually it is the fellow who is least sure of his facts and his law, who lays up trouble and embarrassment for himself, by hasty conclusions, or in feeling that he must have definite ideas, even radical ideas on tap at all times-this in order to make it appear that he is upon the job. The public soon discovers whether a man in public office, is competent. The public likes to back up the competent official. It always seconds his actions with a unanimous and emphatic applause. In act the public gets the habit of backing a popular official even when the popular official, whose popularity is based upon a good record-oversteps himself and blunders. In this relationship popularity is sometimes a dangerous thing, for it takes away from the official a very jealous regard of the right, of the proprieties in all circumstances. He had better be unpopular and misunderstood while clinging to his honest convictions as to what his job calls or, his duty to himself and to the public.

In twenty years of newspaper experience, I have never known a newspaper to succeed in a campaign of misrepresentation and abuse against a public official, honestly trying to do his full duty. Sure, many men have claimed they were misrepresented and abused. Maybe they were misrepresented and abused politically, But had they been as zealous of their legal duties as they were of their personal right to dabble in politics, I feel sure they would not only have escaped criticism, but would have been applauded for their success in office.

The newspaper attitude toward you and your work is normally a perfectly human attitude. The reporter and editor see in you and what you are doing, only you as an individual with such tools as the law provides and prescribes. You are an object of public interest because you are on the public payroll and rightly you must expect your official acts to be reviewed and paraded in the spotlight of public attention and in the columns of the newspapers. If you carry yourselves well, make a conscientious effort first of all to inform yourselves fully in your own particular field, and then go about your business determined to do the best you can under all circumstances, you may be sure of a cordial reception. The newspapers will not be long in singling you out for approval. Then, I know from experience that it will cultivate you-and if you do not have a "nose for news" the enterprising reporter will see that you know just what he wants for his paper. And you will work together to a mutual advantage.

There is no royal road to public confidence. Many men deserve this goal who do not reach it. There are pitfalls and obstacles. But no man can excuse his failure in a public office on a plea of a lack of proper publicity if he has failed in these essentials:

First-Knowing more about his own business than any one outside.

Second-Determining at all times to

do just what the law prescribes in the accepted way,

"and

Third-Being willing, even anxious that the world know just what he is doing and how he is doing it.

The world is a curious thing, in more ways than one, and it will find out somehow, sometime. It is the wise official who strengthens himself and his hold upon the people by making them partners in his enterprise, early in his public

career.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNER-
SHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCU-
LATION, ETC., REQUIRED
BY THE ACT OF
CONGRESS OF AU-
GUST 24, 1912,

Of Scale Journal, published monthly at
Chicago, Illinois, for April 1, 1919.
State of Illinois,

}ss.

County of Cook, SS.

Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared E. L. Perry, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the business manager of the Scale Journal, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit:

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are:

Publisher Scale Journal Publishing Company, 230 S. LaSalle St., Chicago. Editor-J. A. Schmitz, 99 Board of Trade, Chicago.

Associate Editor-C. A. Briggs, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. Business Manager-E. L. Perry, 230 S. LaSalle St., Chicago.

2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.)

J. A. Schmitz, 99 Board of Trade, Chicago, Ill. M. Pickell, 230 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill.

C. A. Briggs, Washington, D. C. F. A. Foss, 99 Board of Trade, Chicago, Ill.

H. L. Schuyler, Chicago, Ill.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If they are none, so state.)

None.

4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation` for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and behief as to the circumstances and condi

tions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.

E. L. PERRY, Bus. Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31st day of March, 1919. (SEAL.) JOSEPH A. SCHMITZ, (My commission expires Nov. 2nd, 1920.)

CANADA'S MINERAL WEALTH. The preliminary report of the Ontario Bureau of Mines shows a large increase of the mineral production of Ontario in 1918. The total value amounts to $80,165,720, an increase of $8,071,888, or 11 per cent over 1917, and marks much the highest point yet recorded. In part the increase was due to large production, and in part to higher prices. This was true, especially of nickel and copper, essentially war metals, Silver, while falling off in quantity rose in value; on the other hand gold fell off slightly.

In 1914, the total value of the mineral production of Canada was $128,863,000, or nearly $17 per capita of the total population. In 1917 the total value was $193,272,000 or $23 per capita. At the end of the last century the value was only about $64,421,000 so that in 1917 the value is nearly three times as great. At present the two leading mining provinces are Ontario and British Columbia, the former accounting for 46 and the latter for 18 per cent of the total value. Nova Scotia came third with 13 per

cent.

The Germans have agreed to the Allied conditions regarding the surrender of the German merchant fleet. On their side the Allies agree to give Germany 300,000 tons of cereals and 70,000 tons of fat, i. e., meat or lard, per month.

In their conditions the Allies formally demanded the immediate handing over of the whole German mercantile marine, as well as the payment of a considerable sum of money, in return for which they are prepared to deliver in exchange provisions at the rate of 370,000 tons per month until the next harvest and so long as Germany observes the conditions imposed. The German delegates pointed out that the quantity of foodstuffs to be supplied was low in relation to the tonnage to be given up and asked for a larger consignment of food, especially of condensed milk, on the ground that, according to recent statistics child mortality had doubled in Germany during the last three months. The reply was given them that the Allies regretted not being able to comply with the request owing to the limited tonnage available and the necessity of feeding the whole of Europe. Certain concessions relating to sea-fishing were, however, accorded to them so as to increase their source of supply.

The primary physical need of our railroads is larger and better terminal facilities, rather than cars or locomotives. So, the world's primary traffic need is larger and better port facilities, rather than more ships. When a boat load of iron arrives in Great Britain eight days are consumed in unloading against an average of less than eight hours on our Great Lakes.