The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-18

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it Is found just what portion Of The food
was retained IN the system and went TO
maintaining or building up the frame,
IL Is BY experiment with various foods
Tor the same food variously prepared
that the calorimeter registefs is most
valuable information for the housewife.
/ Il Is this information. translated from
/ technical terms and reduced to plain Eng.
/ lish, that Uncle jim Wilson will use 10
his campaign for the conservation Of
kitchen resources
Very soon the United States will have
enough hattleships to maintain on the
Pacific as well as on the Atlantic, a
feet Of no mean proportions. Since the
voyage Of the feet around the wogld. q
humber Of the older battleships have
dropped out and given place to new
ones. The Nebraska and Wisconsin we've
added before the journey was completed.
Since then. the New Hampshire. MisFis-
sippi and South Carolina have taken
tltir places tn the line The Delaware
AMI North Dakota have Just been com
miisioned. The Florida IS about % b.
launched at the navy yard at New York
and will be followed in q short time
by the Utah When the Arkansas and
the Wyoming now building, are conplet.
Cd. and the two battleships which will
probably be provided for by the present
Congress slide from the ways Ter the
finishing touches, there will be but few
ships 81 the original aeet which went
around the world left III the first line
Before the end Of the present year, i
will be possible to place in commission
feet Of twelve hattleships on the Pa.
cihc without touching the sixteen BATTLE
ships 81 the Atlantic fleet. They are the
Missouri. Alabama, Ohio, Kearsarge,
Kentucky, Illinois, Maine and the four
hattleships dating from the Spanish
American war--the Indiana, Massachu-
sets. Oregon and Iowa. Some 81 these
ships went around the world and are still
first class fighting ships Altogether
they would CONSTITUTES force Of such
strength Tint no feet. after crossing the
Pacific. could attack them with lmpunity
or take any chances with them.
What 20 DO with these ships Is one Of
the questions that is beginning To per.
pick the navy department They are far
too valuable TO be discarded or allowed
10 deteriorate, although none OF them is
match for the huge dreadnughts which
the navies Of the world are now building.
When the newer ships 90 into commits
sion, It will hardly BE an advantage to
keep them on the Atlantic coast. which
is becoming better defended every day
in the way OF ships, coast artillery forth
frations and submarines The adysn
sage 81 establishing d bsttleship fleet ia
the Pacific. on the contrary, is obvious,
and viii, within q very few Years, be
come still more obvious. as the trade Of
the orient develops and the competition
for That traae becomes more keen The
question. therefore Of sending the ships
to the Pacific Is one OF serious considera
ton with the department
The Pacific Is lust now the field Of POI
Htical interest The splendid isolation
81 the United States So far as the At
lantie is concerned. does not apply 20
the Pacific In the past the Atlantic
coast was not likely to attract any fleets
but those 81 merchantmen seeking the
products which the United States had to
offer. That condition no longer prevails,
and the United States, now overAowing
with capital and bulgFng with the prod
Hcts 81 It's factories mNst seek out new
markets ID the awakening East. The
complications that have arisen IN the
struggle with other nations are already
disconcerling Japan algeady has Al
TRANCE hpld I'll Manehuria To tile injury
NJ American and other trade. There are
the Philippines to look after There
n3l be ships needed 10 eounterbalance
the embryo navy now being constructed
by Australia. For these general reasons.
not To mention others IT IS very prob
able that the Pacific hattleship feet Is
only few years, at Most from realiza
ton
Many problems must he solved how
ever. before this i accomplished. To |
keep thirty-tw battleshipl ii eommis
sion not To speak Of cruisers. subma
rines, torpedo boats and destroyers and
craft would mean 4 Bic I'M
crease ii tie enlisted force 81 the navy, |
aad Il IS 8 question whether the big
middle western states, where the con-
Of the necessity Of sea power +
Il very inactive. would look with favor /
81 such an increase Besides the prob I
lem Of providing more officers would I
arise as this is already a difficulty with I
the number Of ships now ia commission. L
II ii rot difficult Re get the men, butt
The officers, who must have years 81
4peeia training are not at hand Be
sides, they are necessary to training the
crews who could be enlisted in time Of
war
All Of these win probably become seri-
ms questions Of naval administration By
he time the Panama canal is opened to
lie trade Of the world This will make
.he Pacific more important than ever
rom the commercial viewpoint and It's
itrategic Importance viii increase like.
wise.
A picturesque letter d complaint, sent
IT j. J, Clark, lawyer and Civil war
,eteran Of Canton, Ohio, to Senator Dick
# Ohio, was filed in the Senate the
,ther day as petition, Clark says that
while visiting Washington recently he
ipened an unmarded door to get a
Glimpse Of the Senate chamber. the
senate not being in session. A page
an up and told him cuftly: