The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-01-01
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence.)

ry has advised Mr.. TAFT that the
armed cruisers North Carolina and
Montana will be placed al his dis
posal when Mr. Taft and his party
go to Panama next month. The two
cruisers are now at Norfolk and will
be fully prepared for the trip
a Big Civic Parade-The represen-
tatiOn of civic organizations in the
Inauguration parade viii be one Of
the great features Of the day Chair
man Thomas f. Morgan OF the com
mittee having ~ do with this branch
OF the street pageant has just made
il known that i'm addition to those
organizations which already have ap-
piled, a number have reached the de-
termination TO come, but because no
formal application has been made by
them for q place in the great parade
the committee is unable 10 make the
necessary arrangements. II is the
earnest wish Of the committee that it,
be definitely advised AT the earliest
program in this regard may be per
iected.
The American Sweet Tooth-Fig-
res gathered by the bureau of sta
tistics show that tnc average Ameri-
can citizen consumes half his own
weight in sugar every year and that
the cOuntrys sugar bill averages
million dollars a day A statement
issued by the bureau reads more like
popular fiction than the ordinary gov
ernmcnt report. The total consump-
tiOn OF sugar in the United States in
1907, which is the latest year for
which statistics are available, reach
ed the almost unthinkable figure Of
1853, 9,G67, ,975 pounds. Calculating this
enormous total at the average retail
price of 5i2 cents a pound" the re-
port says, we get a total Of $372,-
100000 as its cost to the consumer,
or more than million dollars for
each Of the 3Gj days of the year"
The United States sugar record for
1907 was unique in that the quantity
of that product imported from for
eign countries was larger than ever
our island possessions was larger
than in any previous year; the guam
tity produced at home exceeded that
OF any other year the quantity eX.
ported was larger than I'm any year
of the past decade, and the per cap
ita consumption was the largest ever
recorded, an average Of S2.6 pounds
for each man, woman and child Of
continental United States.
Sham Naval BattIes-Competitve
battle manoeuvreS for men and
ships of the American navy are an
assured feature of the coming spring
and summer. They will be practical
ly the first competitive battle man
oeuvres in the history of our navy.
In "A way they are triumph for the
critics. 1t means there will be little
t,lde for social activities at the New
England resorts. There have been
battle drills. The public, little cdu-
Gated to the distinction between
drills and competitive manoeuvres,
have not understood much about the
bandying Of words between naval au.
thorities on that subject. 1t has been
asserted that the American navy
never had moro than 10 days of bat
tie manoeuvres, although the British
navy is engaged i'm battle manoeuvres
a goodly portion Of every year. Re
plying to such critics veteran officers
have declared that there have been
battle drills galore and dates and
places have been cited. Battle man
oeuvres, by which term navy officers
mean competitive manoeuyrcs, are
much better for the instruction of of.
licers and men than battle drills The
distinction is about as marked as is
the distinction i'm the army between
manoeuvres on the parade ground
and vigorous sham battle The
men of war ON the Atlantic station
have been put through tactics often.
There has been much practice i'm the
turning of ships in manoeuvring by
different formations, and even in get
ting an advantageous position at
mock warfare.
Good Business PoIicy-EXplaining
his bill increasing the salaries OF the
President and Nice-President, SCna-
tor Bourne of Oregon said that, aside
from all sentiment in the matter, he
is 6f the opinion that the man who is
big enough TO be President of the
United States, the biggest corpora
tion in the world, is certainly as big
in the business of government as Il
railroad president or the manager of
manufacturing combination. and
should be paid, as a business PROPOSE
ton, what the demands of the posi-
tion indicate as a fair compensation
lie declared that he also would make
the extra hazardous risk Of the posi-
tion a basis for the justice of his
bill He said that while the salary of
today's business manager is meas
ured by the magnitud~of the enter.
prise as well as by his fitness, the