Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22

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Second.-The recent jump In U boat
sinkings.
A great fleet Of aeroplanes will solve
both menaces A program of building
a minimum of 100000 flying machines
has been worked out, it is understood,
by the aircraft production board of
the defense council. 1t will soon be
submitted to congress, with the request
that an appropriation be made liberal
enough to carry it to complete success.
The deadliness of the aeroplane in the
recent raid as compared with the pre-
yious casualties In Zeppelin raids has
spoken incisively to those who have
opposed a vast aircraft program. Har-
ry Payne Whitney of New York was
reported here to be under consideration
for membership on the aircraft pro-
duction board.
British and French authorities, 1t
vas learned aut~horitatively, have in
formed the production board that If
America meets the aircraft program as
outlined it will constitute the greatest
and most valuable action for fastening
the end of the war that could be I'm
dertaken.
May Control Print Paper.
Announcing failure of its plan to re-
lieve the news print paper situation
and predicting panic prices unless the
government steps in, the Federal Trade
Commission has asked congress to au-
thorize a government pooling scheme
to insure both an equitable distribution
of the product to consumers and a fair
profit to manufacturers.
Under the new plan all producing
plants would be operated on govern
ment account and a federal agency
would be created to set a fair price and
effect fair distribution. The Canadian
government would be asked to create a
similar agency to act Jointly with Off
Gals In this country in distributing the
big Canadian output. If such a Cana
dian agency were not created all impor-
tations into the United States would
be under government supervision.
The recommendation is the outcome
of months of investigation by the com
mission, which undertook the inquiry
In response to a senate resolution. The
distribution plan worked out to restore
competition and give relief from high
prices failed, the report says, because
there was no authority to enforce its
terms, and the manufacturers did not
abide by it.
Working on Draft Plans.
Americas rules for selecting her ar
mics under the CONSUMPTION law are
ready. Within a few days, it is esti-
mated, the nation will know the an
swer to its inquiry, will our son or
brother be In the first army-hew will
he be picked and when"
This answer will be given in the form
Of a proclamation from President VIII
son, which will set In operation the
great human lottery system and the
machinery which will Gull out the ex-
empt.
PRONUNCIATION of the rules follows q
labor of weeks. A nationally known
lawyer, whose name and works have
been withheld, has toiled to make the
AulSo elultdDlC uAo cAeNl4NOs ILLS ut-
torney, struggling with the mighty ma
chinery for the first half million army,
has consulted frequently with the pres
ident's military advisory board and
with the president himself.
This much of the result of his labors
is known: The regulations provide for
some 5000 local exemption boards, one
to each county or large city, and for
eighty-four appellate boards, to which
any man believing himself wrongfully
included in the call may appeal.
Further, the rules provide for a lot
terry drawing which shall be proof
against politics and other favoritism,
and they contemplate a physical test
system which shall pass the fit and
leave out the unsound. In SO far as
possible the work Of gathering the first
new army Is decentralized, and local
authorities are given power of exemp-
ton and draft,
With the actual call imminent, the
department Of justice is continuing its
drag for cutters.