Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-13

officials always have frowned on even
the suggestion.
There is a possibility also that Ger
man agents may have sent secret code
messages, hidden in commercial and
personal cables, via the Pacific cables
to the orient and thence to agents in
Russia, whence communication with
Berlin has been comparatively simple.
After discussing all other possible
routes, including that via Buenos
Ayres, persons discussing the matter
always come back to the likelihood
hat the channel of communication en-
ployed by Germany is the cable mes
sage sent In secret code to agents In
neutral countries most accessible to
the German frontier.
Both military and naval experts are
agreed that nothing which they have
seen published regarding the "
ments of troops to France could have
been of any real service to Germany.
Few newspapers even limited at troop
movements. No newspapers limited at
the time Of departure or the port of
embarkation.
Every German spy and secret agent
In any Atlantic port whence the troops
sailed knew about their departure.
There Was no secret about it.
Uniforms Are All Ready.
Every mar called to the colors under
the ~selective draft will find his uniform
ready to be donned. There is to be no
shortage of clothes, tents nor supplies.
This has been made possible through
cooperation between the committee on
supplies of the Council of National De
Tense and the quartermaster's depart
ment at a saving to the government
and without increasing prices to the
individual. When the wheels turn In
the great army lottery Uncle Sam will
be ready for the soldiers.
Arrangements have been perfected
whereby every national guardsman
will be supplied with his full outfit
before he leaves his state, and every
youth mustered In will be provided as
soon as he reaches his training camp.
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the
committee ON supplies, said:
Through doing away with the sys-
tenn of competitive bidding in the open
market we have been able to place con-
tracts for uniforms and equipment at
prices varying somewhat in different
localities, but nearly always at a fig
ure below that which the private
wholesale buyer would have to pay,
giving only a fair margin of profit to
the manufacturer.
Through personal conferences with
the manufacturers the market has re-
manned comparatively steady, eliminat-
ing the dangers Of price imitation
which a big government project usual
" brings when bids are advertised In
the open market. The result has been
not only a big saving to the govern
ment In it's supply contracts, but the
prices which the general public has
had to pay have not been materially
increased as a result of the govern
ment's purchases"
Prepare For Adjournment.
Leaders Of the senate and house
rested preparatory to finishing the
work of the present session They
hope to quit Washington aboet the
middle Of August for several months,
and their aim now is to complete the
presidents program.
-Four important measures must be
put through before adjournment. They
are the food control bin, which the
house has passed and the senate Is
now considering with the prospects of
a final vote, the var revenue measure,
the trading with the enemy bin and the
aviation bill
The controversy over prohibition In
the senate has passed the acute stage.
President Wilson's appeal to the Anti
Saloon league and the decision of the
leaders of that lobbying organization
to keep Glands off, and let congress
men vote as they see fit made it posi-
BILE for Senator Chamberlain to put
through a compromise proposition to
prohibit the use of food, food material
mrd Goods IN fho mopufoNtrpo oP dis.