El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-12
We Are Busy
Have we walked up?

Have we walked up2
The New York Home Defense League has
a fleet Of half a hundred fast power boats.
D. q. Perkins, director Of mobilization,
i4o Times building, New York, is organic
ing the Motorcycle Minute Men Of Amer
lea" for dispatch riding, first aid, scouting,
artillery fire observation, mobile machine
gun squadrons and other branches of ac"
tivity. Local companies are to be found In
all cities and towns and Santa Fe motor
cyclists should get in touch with Perkins
More girls are e~nlisting for the navy at
San Diego than men. Twenty young women
applied In one day for clerical positions in
the yeoman branch and for radio work.
Plans for the mobilization Of as many of
the 1,750,0o0 Ford car owners In the United
States as will Volunteer their services and
the use of their cars to the government as
a National Ford Machine Gun Corps, have
been completed at the National Ford Own
ers' Club, 1777 Broadway, New York.
The plan has been presented to General
Leonard Wood, Secretary of War Baker and
other army officials, all of whom have APP
proved It and praised the idea, declaring
that a corps Of Ford cars equipped with
rapid-fire automatic machine guns and un-
der the supervision Of army officers would
prove invaluable for coast defense and
other army work.
One Of the most important steps in avn
alton preparedness yet undertaken Is the
effort of the national advisory committee
for aeronautics to establish an theological
survey, designed to serve aviation much the
same as the photographic office of the
coast and geodetic survey advises on ocean
navigation.
During the past twelve months the corn
mlttee has been exercising every means
possible to advise and assist the aerial
arms OF the government, both for land and
sea operation. This committee has been
able to assist In standardizing aeropIane
construction to a certain extent, has met
with manufacturers of aeropIanes and aero
plane motors in an effort TO expedite the
delivery of machines to the government,
and has been of great assistance in the so.
luton of many other problems.
Now 1t proposes the serious consideration
Of the vital necessity Of recording and
charting the Irregularities Of the atmos-
phere so that our a~viators in peace and
war may have the benefit of exact informa-
ton both for their own safety and as an
expedient to efficient operation Of aerial
messenger, reconnaissance and fighting
service.
The committee believes the time has
come when Astrological stations should be
established and maintained,
~ l. $1,000 49, &c
100000 from the government for the pur-
pose.
Mrs. Vincent Aston, Mrs. Marian Harri-
man Rumsey, Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt
and Mrs. Daniel Gugeenheim, in co-opera-
tion with Frank TrumbulI of the chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad, who is president of
the National Anericanlzation committee,
and with other prominent men, have COM
pIeted plans for the immediate publication
of 100000 copies of a small volume of
patriotic songs and stories for distribution
among school children, factory employees
and the general public.
-Four up-to-date ff0-foot submarine chas-
ers are being built for the government at
the Herreshoff yards in Bristol, X. l., with
the entire cost Of construction, equipment
and ordnance met by {. !. Dupont, Com
n,odore R. E, Todd, Payne Whitney and
Harold Vanderbilt, all miIIionaires.
Each of the boats will be of is feet beam
with steel hull and buIkheads, and fitted
with oil fuel engines. Their speed will be
25 miles an hour-higher than any subma-
rine can make. Each crew will consist of
10 men.
President Frederick D. Underwood Of the
Erie Railroad company has donated his
Yacht "Alice," ITO feet long and 22 feet
beam, as a submarine chaser. Three one
rapid-fire guns can be mounted on
her decks.
{, The copper producers have offered the
government forty-five million pounds of
at one-half the market price. The
brass Industry offers unlimited brass at
cost. The U. s. steel corporation offers its
at one-haIf price,; Charles NJ.
schwab has offered the enormous plant Of
the Bethlehem Steel company to the gov
to be operated without profit;
Henry Ford has done likewise.
An organization In New York is securing
Of sisners to the following
~ hereby demand that the Congress of
The United States shall Immediately enact
legislation providing substantially for the
following war measures:
Il. That, in case Of war, all net in
Of $4,000 or over shall be subject to
the following annual graduated war contrib
butions..
ION all net incomes from $4,000 TO $10,-
boo, a contribution Of oN per cent.
Nnp all iu1an,ao aua, Q1n mn /. vo.r 81
increasing ON a sliding scale
beginning at 10 per cent and rising to a
point which will permit of no Individual
retaining an annual net income In excess Of