Bridgeton pioneer., 1914-01-15
UNCLE SAM AS
MERCHANT PRINCE
Buys and Sells Everything That
One Gan Think OF.
DOWN TO NURSING BOTTLES
Almost Seventeen Thousand Articles
Are Specified In Schedule of the GEN.
eraI Supplies Committee, From Which
Purchases Are Made by Administra-
tive Departments.


Purchases Are Made by Administra-
tive Departments.
Uncle Sam buys everything under
the sun. even to nursing bottles Proof
of this statement is found in the sched-
ule of the general supplies committee.
Stationery and drafting supplies;
hardware, metals. cordage and leather
and saddlery; dry goods and wearing
apparel; drugs and medicines; chemi-
Gals and reagents; laboratory, hospital
appliances and surgical instruments:
electrical engineering and plumbing
supplies; lumber. mia work. packing
boxes and building -aterials: paints.
oil, glass and brushes; furniture and
floor coverings; groceries, provisions
and household supplies; forage, -four
and seed; Photographic supplies and
special equipment; engraving, print
ing and photographic supplies; fuel and
ice; incandescent electric lamps; in-
candescent gas lamp supplies; motor
trucks; typewriting and computing
machines; electric service; telephone
service.
These are the general classifcationf
under which nearly every conceivablo
thing on earth is sublisted
Services Which Can Buy Direct.
Under the law and regulations all
items scheduled by the general sup
plies committee. if in any part or
quantity needed by any administra-
tive department or bureau in Wash
ington, must be purchased through
the medium of the committee Only
the field services. such as the army,
navy, revenue cutter service, postal
service. internal revenue service, the
various secret services. ETC.. are al
lowed to make purchases direct with
out consulting the general schedules.
Also, If an item is not listed on the
general schedules, but that seems inn
possible. an administration depart
ment or bureau can get its own esti-
mates and make direct purchases.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
4NCN LOA ID III Chdl VI tuG SGuGIdl
supplies. 1t was in the pursuit of in
formation to permit him intelligently
to direct these affairs that he delyed
into this marvellous dictionary of COM
merce, which is given in the Washing
ton Star.
Everything from a needle to a hay
stack is to be found listed in the gen.
eral schedules. Needles. darning and
sewing needles. engravers' and lithog-
raphers' work needles. surgeons nee-
dies and other sorts of needles are
marked down. Hay? There you find
1t against the cabalistic number 11.O16.
and there is nothing to prevent pur-
chase in haystack bulk.
Apparently there is no real estate
hsted-the one item of barter really
missing from the list.
If person is taken sick there
are medicines to cure all the ills that
man is heir to. If that doesn't help
the hospital is available. where all
sorts of devices and Instruments and
materia medicus are to be found.
Coal. wood. ice and coke are listed.
There Is telephone service to be had
from the same source One can buy
typewriter. and for the expert and spe-
cialist in scientific endeavor. for the
book lover. for any one at all with a
fad or fancy. the means to satisfy 1t
are available
An Endless List.
You-can buy an adj OF ale or other
alcohol for beverage or other purpose:
alfalfa. an angle iron. an apple or an
apron, bride. saddle and spurs; arnica
or court plaster for wounds; breakfast
bacon or bag; rubber and paper
bands. bandanna and cotton and linen
handkerchiefs; barley. wheat and oats;
a basket or button or nursing bot
tie or some other sort of bottle. or
thodox or unorthodox. for spirit con-
tainets or chemical experimentation
and other varied uses; bromide and
benzine. boots sand boot blacking.
books and blotters. chairs. chalk. car
penters' tools: carriages and whips.
etc.; chains and chisels. chimneys.
chocolate. dishes and dishcloths: cord.
SAuShCios tdcN4HdlOISs 4dL4S. udSkS,
gum shoes. chewing gum, fresh beef
and furnaces. hammers and tongs and
nails: horseshoes and hose: crowbars
and iron and quinine; cameras and
lanterns: soap. towels. toothbrushes.
wrapping paper and cord: beef liver.
milk. mutton and mutton tallow: neck.
ties and gowns: ointments and I'M
guents. paper and pins; paste. peaches.
pens. pepper. pickles. pipes. pots.
pumps. rat traps. revolyers and other
arms: ribbons and laces; rings. rods,
sarsaparilla, sausage. sauces and sau.
ccrs: scythes and reapers; shirts and
thread; soda. soda crackers; soda
water. stamps. straw hats. razor
strops. sunflower seed and other seeds:
tape and tapioca; tooth extractors. tea.
tags. tacks. tin cans. thyme. torches.
automobiles and motor trucks; uni
forms. varnish. vaseline, china. water
colors. wire. yellow pine and zinc.