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SO, 600, 900 in Profits.

Questions brought from Admiral
Bowles the fact that the American In
ternationaI Corporation at Camden. N.
j.. will make a profit of 100000 on
the construction of 100 steel vessels.
On this construction. 1t was disclosed,
the government furnishes all the capital
and pays all bills.
Asked what the corporation furnish
es, Admiral Bowles replied:
They put up the know how and
the organization"
II 1t becomes advisable for the gov
eminent to build and operate ships
after the war the investment in fabri-
eating yards, Admiral Bowles said, will
be found to have been a profitable over
ture for the government"
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SAYS WOODEN SHIP
PROGRAM |SFA|LURE
Admiral BowIes Tells Investi-
gators of Contracts and No
Timber to Build.

The wooden shipbuilding program
was pictured as an almost complete fall
ure today by Rear Admiral F. A Bowles
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
testifying at the Senate commerce COM
mittee's investigation of shipbuilding.
Contracts were let. Admiral Bowles
1t is possible to complexion schedule
by reason of a lack of Available timber.
Producers, he said. have fallen down on
deliveries because the country does not
produce enough timber to fill the con-
tracts.
The maximum number of wooden
ships that possibly could be built. even
if all available ship timber was de-
livered to the corporation. he said,
would total next year only $40. al
though the corporation has contracts
outstanding for the construction of
459. Neither the south nor the west
said the admiral, has been able to pro-
duce one-half of the timber counted on
when contracts were let
THE effect" he said, will be con-
siderable delay in the output of wood
en- ships"
No More Wooden Ship Contracts.
No more wooden contracts will be let,
Admiral Bowles said. unless the builder
convinces the corporation that he has
available under his own control
proper supply Of timer.
Il want it understood in justice to
myself" said the admiral. ''that I had
nothing to do with placing these con-
tracts
Admiral Bowles assumed entire re-
sponsibility for changes made in the
design of the wooden vessels, but de-
clared the changes caused little delay
in construction. So few vessels &C
tually had been started in October.
when the changes were ordered, that
the delay, he declared. could be classed
as inconsequential.
Admiral Bowles said he personally
ordered the changes in design to
strengthen the ships, although con-
sensus of opinion among experts was
that the ship as first designed was
stout enough for ocean service. Lloyds,
he said. declined to classify the vessel.
either before or after the changes were
made. although the American bureau of
shipping had approved it. both before
and after.
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CARDS OF THANKS.

LANGLEY. wfsh to express 10 my many
friends and relatives my Appreciation Of sym
on the occasion Of the death Of my dear sis
ter. ROSA DAY LETTNA.
PRICE. I wish to express my sincere thanks to
my many friends and neighbors for their kind
expressions Of sympathy and beautiful coral
offerings extended to my beloved husband.
BY HIS WIFE. ANNIE PRICE. IT
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committee on expenditures in the De-
partment of Agriculture, and Repre-
sentative Joseph ]. Mansfield Of Texas.
Both of these congressman are recog-
nized as being strong men and workers
for any cause they believe right.
They both declared today that they will
seek an opportunity to speak in behalf of
justice for the federal employees when the
committee hearings on this subject are
resumed during the first week in January.
DIR. Aswell was formerly state superin-
tendent of schools in Louisiana and is
Known nationally as an educator. His
sympathies are with the workers, for he
put himself through school and college by
working as a hired hand.
Il am in favor of any reasonable in
crease for the government employees.
he said. It want to see all the fed
eral workers throughout the country
share in the increas. and that 1t shall
not be confined to the clerks in Wash
ington The rural carriers and the
fourth class postmasters endure hard
ships and work at meager salaries or
which are not realized by
members of Congress generally or by
the public.
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Tennessee. who is chairman OF the sub
committee holding hearings Tor the ap-
preparations committee on the heaeing
bill providing graded salary increases
from 5 to 80 per cent, has returned to
Washington early in order to expedite
the work of his subcommittee AS
chairman of the subcommittee on ex-
penditures in the legislative. executive
and judicial departments he will be in
charge of hearings and will pass upon
all questions concerning salaries OF
federal civilian employees.
Representative Edward Heating Of
Colorado. who is Gathering the union
bill offered by the National RECREATION
of Civil Service Employees. which pro-
Vides for increases from 10 81 per
cent. has spent his holiday recess IN
sentatives of the federal employees. He
will hold a conference tomorrow with
Representative Byrns to arrange Tor
hearings upon his bill. which would ap-
ply to all the civilian employees OF the
government in the District.
Sympathies to Be Spared.
The hearings on the Heating bill will
not take up much more time of the
committee. Those arguing for the bill
do not propose to introduce any sob
stories. They are going to lay down
facts as a straight business PROPOSE
ton, without playing on the sympa-
thies of the members of Congress. They
are going to show that they cannot
meet expenses; that they can get
larger salaries in employment outside
the federal service and that they must
accept these positions to live II Con-
gress does not grant an increase bal
ancing the tremendous increase in cost
of living.
But very few additional witnesses are
to be called. They will be typical wit
nesses showing the committee the wide
spread need for. an increase and en-
phasizing it's urgency. They will call
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TOSPEAK IN BEHALF
!. OF A RAISE IN WAGE
Representatives AsWelI and
Mansfield Favor Increases
for Federal Employees.
is A MATTER OF JUSTICE

Prospect of substantial increases for
government workers not only in Wash
ington, but throughout the country.
were strengthened today by emphatic
declarations by Representative James B.
Aswen of Louisiana, a member of the
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Salary Basis of Ten Years Ago.

'T will be glad to appear in behalf
of the postal employees when hearings
are resumed next week by the sub
committee of which Representative
Thomas NJ Bell of Georgia is chairman
and which is considering especially the
needs of the postal workers.
This hard-worked. specially trained
branch of federal employees was the
only class omitted last year when the
and 10 per cent graded increase was
allowed. They are working on sal
airy basis fixed ten years ago, when food
prices were only a fraction of what they
are today We must give them an in
crease that will more nearly equalize
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BORN.

DEANS. To Robert NJ 8. and Loretta Deans
Of 1881 Irving street, December 26. 1917. =
daughter. ADA LOUISE.
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MARRIED.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. At Henxada, Burma.
December %. 1917, JULIA HALL STlCkNEY
Of Washington, D. C., to HENRY PARK
COCHRANE Of Pyapon. Burma.
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their incomes to the increasing cost of
the necessities of life"
DR.. AsweH says he has found that the
cost of living has increased well over 80
matter of justice to give the govern
ment workers enough to live on.
Representative Mansfield of Texas, is
another who will plead the cause of the
low salaried workers with personal ac-
quaintance with hard work since he
was a laborer on a farm and in a
nursery. He feels especial interest in
the government workers who are help
ing to do war work because he organic
ed two companies OF the Texas Noiun-
teer Guards in 1885
q. S. Can Afford to Be Liberal.
1.-The government can afford to be just
as liberal to it's employees as any private
business enterprise said Representa-
tive Mansfield, who is a member Of the
District committee. Il believe the gov
eminent will pay the workers just as
much as they can get in outside en-
ploymenu, as a matter of common JUS
ice and to promote efficiency in the
federal service.
Il want to see the government work
ers, not only in Washington, but
throughout the country as well. get all
that is reasonable and equitable. 1 am
going to give very close study to this
question and the federal employees may
be sure that 1 will try to get for them
all that l conscientiously believe they
should have to meet the high cost of
living.
1.-The condition of the postal employees
appeals especially to me, and I want
an opportunity to speak in their be-
half. If the time is afforded Pie /
will appear before the appropriations
committee and the committee on post
offices and post roads both of which are
holding hearings on the question of in
creased salaries for those who are do
ing the governments work"
Representative Joseph w. Byrns OF
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TYLER-wASHINGToN Mr.. and Mrs. Archi-
bald Robinson announce the marriage Of their
daughter. IDA D. WASHINGTON. to DR.
ROBERT B. TYLER Wednesday evening. De-
cember 20. 1917. by the Rev. Emory B. Smith
of Lincoln Temple Congregational Church. No
cards.
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HURST-DUEN. In Baltimore. December p
1917, GEORGE J. HURST and NARY J
DI-NN
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ODonnell's Korn Paint

Wonderfully effective in cases
of hard or soft corns, bunions,
warts, moles callouses, etc, re-
moving them completely. You'll
find it very effective and salts
factory.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
BARE KNEES TO BE STYLE,
Kits May Replace Trousers For civis~
ian Dress In ENGLAND.

kits may replace trousers for efyf}-
ian dress. Their adoption is under se-
rious consideration in many parts as
England as a result Of the govern
ments advice that men should wear
material of one hue to econonize In
dyestuffs.
In support of kits government
fashion expert says they dispense with
the nuisance of pressing, and there aan
be no question Of their durability be-
cause Scottish families have passed
one kilt on from generation TO Genera
ton. Another argument advaneed in
favor of the kilt is the advice of physs-
clans, who say that it is the ideal drsss,
for boys because it gives them the
greatest warmth around the stomach
and greater freedom than trousers
Many important newspapers hare
come out for the kilt The Liverpool
Post says: Certainly something should
be done to abolish the hideous eyffr-
drical bags in which we hide our legs
today. Whoever saw a statue that
looks dignifled in trousers?"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16


and gains little throughout the entire
world. Despite the vicissitudes this
ideal will triumph.
"While the curve of German force
has sunk, the curve of the strength of
the allies has risen year by year, and
the entrance of the United States into
the war has given it a sudden and for
midable impetus. Germany's fate is
determined.
"Henceforth France particularly can
show with elation its balance of the
last three years. Bleeding, still in
vaded, she is not only greater and more
glorious, but she is stronger miltarily
and politically than on Aug 2, 1914. If
Germany, stripped Of its hegemony,
ruined in its commerce and reduced to
an alliance with several groups of ad-
venturers, today compares itself to
France it will show what three years
of war have cost it."
Joseph Thierry, minister of finance,
said
"On the third year Of it's entry into
IhC al lauSe has lHe IlSuC W dSSelt
that it has maintained and is main
tanning it's financial situation in shape
that no one would in advance have con-
sidered possible had one been able to
foresee the duration and development
of the conflict.
lin addition to maintaining a mill
tary effort without pecedent in history
and without analogy in present times,
in addition to the mobilization of its
active population in larger proportion
than any other people, in addition to
having submitted and submitting still
to the invasion of parts of its territory,
it has raised it's fiscal receipts to
point which at present constantly ex-
ceeds it's peace time product"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
SINGING NEW WAR ART
FOR TROOPS ABROAD
They Quickly Follow Example Of
the French When on a
Long March.

When W. HohenZollern of Potsdau
put singing lessons in the curriculum
of his soldiers training a tremor of
military giggle was heard around the
world. Three years ago, when Mars,
sriled at the sight of those same so7--
diers marching to the frontiers-eass.
south and west-under the throaty bar
rage of Deutschland, Deutschland
Uber Alles," the derisiye giggles began
% die out until now they are not. 1t
must be admitted that it was q case of
he who laughs first lives to yodel
All of which is somewhat distantfy
related to the fact that the American
soldiers in France are not only sing
ing as they train, but are actually be-
ing trained to sing. One of our officera
said:
I'VE are training with the blue dew
lis and they certainly deserve their
name. They are the toughest set OF
understood gentry that have run into
in France.
"They barred to the waist e91 weno
through three hours Of era.f..Ge ans
bombing practice thai - tie Insz
word in strc9 l0slty N! 1p u.a-"hed
them as thei. cor.r:t;ittr IS .5ied
them for the marcl bach - the vii
lare. At the command '.Attentionr
their heels clicked, their heads went
back, their ch1ns up, and their right
hands were pasted rigidly against their
right trousers legs.
'At command, March, all of them
started off, punctuating their first step
with the first word of their marching
song. 1t was not any sickly chorus
either. There was plenty of beef and
lung power behind every note My
men, however, lined up opposite, were
not missing a bit of it. Most of them
seemed to know what was expected
when l said: On the command to.
march the company will begin to sing.
keeping time with the music The first
sergeant will announce the song,
THE first sergeant responded with
out change of color, as If the cou1-
mand to sing was an old regulation. I
know that he was puzzled. but he did
It well. The name of the soqg was
!'dSseu co"H tne fi!c i"8'f GEGh To-
man. When gave taa ordVr f@, ~ trs T.
tie company, almost half of item new
re ruits. wheeled in squads OF tours
and started OF down the road singing.
Hail, hail, the gangs all here"
1--WE swung into camp that night
with every voice raising Justify ON 81
yrasshopper hoped on grasshopper's
back and after dinner the billets Just
spouted melody, everything, from rag
time to Christmas carols and baby Iul-
abies.
Il have found that, while song thas
popular on the march. a sentimentaf
love ballad is sure winner in the Good
Of the evening"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
MIL|TARISM ENDS
Enemy of Progress MortaIIy
Wounded, Says PainIeve.
FRENCH HAIL UNITED STATES.

Declare That Entry of America Is
Companion Piece to Marne Victory
In Assuring Defeat of Germans-Fi-
nances of France In Splendid Shape,
Says Joseph Thierry.
Paris.-Militarism. the great enemy
of progress, actually has been mortally
wounded by war itself. This summa-
rizes the progress of the last three
years, according to Paul Painleve, the
minister of war. in reviewing the war
Minister Painleve's summary follows:
"Three years of war! Imagination
at first conjures up mourning and dem
onstration. However. we dare to say
that humanity has progressed during
these three years. The great enemy of
all progress, militarism, actually has
been wounded mortally by war itself.
The ideal of the nations of peace ex-
presses itself very precisely against
the brutality of nations of conquest
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
FINDS BOYHOOD WEALTH.
Oregon Farmer Digs Up Coin Buried
Sixty-five Years.

Salem, Ore. - Sixty-fve years ago
when John Carpenter, now a farmer
east of this city, was five years old,
he had boarded together $1S5. His
parents, needing some ready money.
borrowed a dollar from the boy Fear
ing they might want more. he buried
the other S5 cents-a half dollar, a
quarter and dime-in field on the
farm. But he forgot where he buried
the money, and all his bOyish searches
proved futile.
The other day while plowing Mr..
Carpenter turned over the half dollar.
and a little search revealed the Other
two coins. He is in Salem displaying
the long buried treasure. One of the
pieces was coined in 1774 and another
in 1880. The third is so badly wo!n
the date is obliterated.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
NOW IT is liberty BREAD"
Loaf of Flour Substitutes 20 Have New
Name Given 1t,

Liberty bread" is the term to be
encouraged by the food administration
as applied to loaves made of substi-
tutes for wheat flour, rather than the
phrase "war bread" used in other war
Elng countries.
"The name war bread gives the i'm
preston that there is something in
9erior about the breads made cf substi
futes for wheat SAYS an announce
ment. The fact is that breads mal
from wheat substitutes are healthcu
and just az tasty as those made froh
Mheat." Use of substitutes viii be G..
Eouraged ~ the food training ca,9,
70 be held IA connection with the fan
md expositions in the near future
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
"Amexes" choeen by "sammies.s

FNIIseNSs OlIO5cT py OdTInTISS,
The American troops in France have
chosen their own soubriquet, according
to the Paris Matin, adopting the name
"Amexes." This was formed by piex>
ing together the first two letters of the
words American expedition" i'll n man
ner similar to that adopted in forming
the word "Anzac," by which the AIS
tralian and New Zealand troops IN the
British forces are known.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16

++-f+-f-@
There Is certain port in France,
We may not know it's name
And there the little wavelets dance.
The sun shines just the same,
On ships that fly the starry flag
As though at home their anchors drag
And jollyboats glide to and fro
Filled with the boys In blue,
Who show the way for row on row
OF lads in khaki too.
You'd almost be inclined to say
Twas Hampton Roads or New York har.
Inc streets may seem a trifle odd,
TIE language somewhat strange,
But silent speech of smile and nod
Has an extensive range,
And wheresoe'er their course extends
The eyes they meet are eyes of friends.
The seas that knew Decaturs men
Now know his men once more,
And what was in Paul Jones ken
Appears along the shore,
And up above perhaps they gaze
From some sidereal bridge these days
Maurice Morris In New York Sun
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16

en- leg
And he couldn't steal a ride, not a ride
could he beg,
So he bought back yard and he planted
some beans
And raised enough cash to buy a dozen
machines.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-16
Makes Bomb of Pencil, Loses Hand.

"""NSS bUFIIU OF SIIN1I, IOScS T's''-7'
Lorain, O.-Aspirations to be a real
munition worker just like some of lis
grown up companions, cost fourteen
year-old John Katonak his right hand
and lacerated his knee. Johnny took
the lead from a pencil, filled the h0l-
low tube with powder and plugged it
with dynamite cap in each end. lie
attached electric wires to set off the
charge. and when the wires became
crossed the explosion followed.