The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-08
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sRlllAeIolIIl Letter / ]: I!
INTEREST STORIES GATHER
EDS ABOUT THE CoRRl1 oRs OF
he ADM ihllsTRATloN BUILD
tNAst9INGTo& April S.4Twelyc
Thousand sailors of the Atlantic aeet,
I'M Hambtia, Roads, Va, are disgrunt-
led oyer otders from the Navy Depart
ne1t calling Off Share liberty" PRIV
ileges until Alter the April sea prae-
tiee. The bliejaekets have had but
little liberty since christmass except
Ia few: baseball games and other
sports al Glant ammo f5snss
Annual target practice of the At
lantic squadron will begin during the
FIRST week in. April. The battlesllips
will prncticeo OFF the, Virginia eapes.
Telsc emnandments.
I Contrasting trade sentiment in the
limited States and Germany John +.
Queeay, OF 81 Louis, a witness he
fore the Senate Finance Committee,
took a dig at the House Ways and
Means Committee which drafted a
tariff schedule threatening, manufac.
turers claimed, great damage to the
chemical Industry in this country.
1.-THE Ways aAd Means; Committee"
said Queeny, "has certainly shown
very little loyalty to producers Of
American manufacture,
'How differently the Germans feel
toward their own prodAct is well II
Iustrated in ten commandments given
to every employee and posted IN every
German business house the world
over"
These areSthe ten commandments:
l.. In all expenses keep in mind the
interests fyour own compatriots.
2. Never forget when you buy for
eign article that your own country is
thus made poorer.
8. Your money should profit no one
but Germans.
4. Never ;brotane German factories
by tusing foreign machinery.
/ 5. Never allow foreign eatables TO
be served at your table.
6. Write on German paper, with a
German pen and German ink, and use
German plotting paper.
Z. German flour, German fruit and
German beer alone can give your body
true German energy.
8. II you do not like German malt
coffee, drink coffee from German col
onies.
3. Use only German CLOTHES for you
dress, and German hats for your head.
10. Let not foreign aattery distract
you from these precepts; and be firm
" convinced, whatever others say,
that German products are the only
ones worthy Of citizens Of the Ger
man Fatherland.
"Areo Gun"
Experiments are being held at the
Indian Head naval proving grounds,
on the Potomac River, OF the newly
devised "aero gun" for use upon
aeroplanes.
Commander Cleland Davis, U. S,
~. invented the gun, which is of a.
inch .callber. 1t is SO designed that It
can be fired from delicately balane-
ed aeroplane without displacement by
the recoil. A dummy proiectile, fired
| from the opposite direction from the
bullet, counteraets the shock of the
discharge.
Ice Cream a Tropical Luxury.
Ice cream as tropical luxury is an
EAmerican Innovation on the Isthnlus
| of Panama, according to a report by
Col. Goethals, superintendent of the
Canal Zone.
Six hundred gallons~o of Ice cream
are consumed daily among the canal
workmen and employees, Colonel Go
ethals says. And this is not sufficient
Ito meet the demand. Two new Ice
cream freezers, each six feet high
which will turn out 100 gallons of the
frozen delicacy every hour, are being
Installed.
Natives are enthusiastic patrons OF
the Governments ice cream parlors
lin tile commIssary stores.
Ammonia cooling systems are used
Ito freeze the cream. 1t Is not frozen
lstiff, but to a semi.solld consistency
land then placed in cold storage vaults
lat a temperature OF degrees, to hard
en slomly.
Consumption Of ice cream on the
lCanal Zone is encouraged BY the gov
eminent, because OF Its food qualities