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BAA@ssa~ LISTING AND
 CGsp CALCULATING MACHINE

Write 53o2 on the DALTON-simply touch the numbered keys-5-3-o-2. You can't strike the wrong 5 because there's only one 5 to strike-not nine fives as on other machines. The DAL- TON automatically places the 5 in the fourth column-if you were writing 539 it would put the in the third column.
 You give its position no thought what eyer-tle machine takes care of that.
 Seems almost human-yet it's wonder fully simple. That's why the U. s. Gov ernment is using DALTONS--why more than 35,OOO are used in offices, big and little, all over the country-why your business would find in it means of cut ting down overhead charges.
 Telephone, write or call on the under signed and request demonstration. You are in no way obligated.
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A number of girls will leave Eng land shortly to work as gardeners in the military cemeteries in France.
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This table is full of surprises. The first is the great difference food value of staple foods. We see glance that potatoes at 90 cents peck (untl ths year unheardof prce) are much cheaper than eggs at SC q dozen.
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R. H. E.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

At Kansas City 6, Milwaukee 2. At Louisville 0, Toledo 3. At Indianapolis 0, Columbus 1. No others scheduled.
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much of beef possible feeding family
   by  
 
   Ten cents will buy
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At New York R. Il. E. Detroit -- BOP 001 202-10 13 O New York -.-4- 900 120 OO0- 3 2
 Mitchell, Dauss and Yell; Cullop, Shocker, Love and Walter.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE.

At Birmingham R. H. E. Nashville - 900 900 000-0 ? 1 Birmingham - 010 010 00x-2 s o Cavet. Meador and Marshall; Hill and Smith.
 At New Orleans R. H. E. Memphis -4-- 900 GOO 010-1 z 0 New Orleans - coo 001 20x-3 6 ? Fentress. Blodgett and Ruei; Smith
  .v,, =. Little Rock-Mobile rain.
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At Philadelphia R. Fl. E. Chicago --3O1 900 O00-4 9 0 Philadelphia - GOO 900 0O0--O 0
 Scott and Schalk; Seibold. Ander- son and Haley.
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B A S E B ALL

. &sss ssss
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Chattanooga-Atlanta rain.

Little Rock-Mobile rain.
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V. G. HINTON, Sales Agent. '& o32 Southern Trust Bldg. Little Rock, Ark.

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soldier cities was ever undertaken be-
fore in twelve weeks In the three
months between June 1 and September
more money will have been spent
than went into the Panama canal in the
course Of any one year, moderate es-
innate of the amount being $4,000. 600.
The count of materials used nearly
staggers the imagination when it is cal
culated that over 1000 freight carloads
of materials will be used in the con-
struction of each camp. over 1900 car
loads of lumber. something like &c.
100000 feet, going into the buildings
alone
Here are some of the other items:
Over $4,000 squares of roofing. sixty
cars. twenty carloads of nails and hard
ware, 20 carloads plumbing, 1872 car
loads tanks. heaters, stoves, ranges.
piping. refrigerators and the like: rail-
road materials for five miles of track.
divided into thirty carloads of ties
and other timber, twenty carloads OF
spikes. rails. etc, and ia carloads OF
ballast: 10 carloads Of electric light
poles. wires. insulators. etc. Materials
for 10000 cubic yards of concrete Will
take seventy carloads of cement. $50
carloads of stone and It's carloads OF
sand
The men of the cantonments will
sleep in double hunks. This
means that there will be 10000 separate
hunks. each with a mattress To trans
port the mattresses les cars will be
required and the hunks will take sixty
two more. Water and sewer lines Will
take sixty-five carloads each. and $50
carloads of hospital equipment will be
necessary. Three carloads. of screens
are also included in the estimate.
To handle this vast quantity of ma
terials and the work of actual con-
struction. nationally known town plan
ners and landscape architects are now
on the Job both in Washington and at
the cantonments. Contractors are on
the ground with their forces. number
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studies would be worth a great many
more millions in providing the means
for construction. His will provided in
detail for the expenditure of the money
to encourage communication from one
end Of Africa to the other
This bequest was made more than a
dozen years ago. and 1t is presumed
that some of the money has been spent
by his executors, for there has not been
lacking means of pioneer work for the
through Cape to-Cairo line in sections
of the country where large sums had to
be spent on engineering recoanols-
sances before definite information
could be had as to the practicability of
the plan.
The Cape-to-Cairo project contem-
plates through communication from
the Mediterranean to the southernmost
corner Of Africa. This is easily feas-
ible by rail and river and lake links.
but Rhodes and others maintained that
it also was feasible as a railway line
pure and simple. The northern link
from Cairo to khartum, 1900 miles
in length, is complete.
The southern link extends from Cape
Town northward for about 1000 miles.
The gap between khartum and rail-
head. somewhere north of Victoria Falls.
on the Zambezi river. is said to be
between $500 and $500 miles. of which
1900 miles Is a practicable transporta-
ton route through rivers and lakes.
The northern section of the Cape-to-
Cairo line was carried through by the
British authorities without much
thought of a through railway to Cape
Town. After Kitchener broke the
power of the mahdi and his fanatical
followers, the necessity of through
communication along the Nile to Khar-
tum, in order to hold the Sudan. was
apparent. and the closing up of this
line was carried forward.
railway also was built from khar-
tum across the desert to the Red sea.
a distance of about 300 miles. This in
vided for the agricultural development
of a considerable section of the Sudan
by the encouragement it gave to irri-
CATION The British authorities in
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ONE OF THE TwO-sTORY HOUSES
ing something like 1000 men for each
camp. and the houses spring up over
night. The one great aim is to do the
best possible job in the time allowed.
Many general features of the canton
ments have been Professionally adopted
by the specialists who are cooperating
with the military authorities. The
losses in the French army due to in
adequate housing and sanitary pro-
visions in the concentration camps
were carefully considered in planning
the American buildings. The difficulty
of making unframed men obey the
sanitary regulations of the regular
army was fully recognized.
The scheme of payment for this work is
another of the unique arrangements
worked out by the committee on emer-
gency construction and contracts and ac-
cepted by the quartermaster's depart
ment. 1t is a fee system Of contracts
whereby the fees vary from 10 per cent
on small contracts of 100000 or more tc
per cent on contracts of $500, 900. with
an upset limit of s250,000. The fees in
all cases cover both profit and overhead
expenses. SO that clear profit in any con-
tract will rarely exceed 3h per cent. the
modest accrument on a liberty bond The
contractor furnishes a bond for $3.50. 000
A recent statement made by Col LitteI
is interesting in connection with this
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es to Be Homes of Our Big National Army

ageously and understandinS1y - 60
that It IL put through, as far ~ esssn-
It recently has been decided 70 name
the cantonments Of the new national
army after American military heroes OF
past wars. In each case the name 80
lected fs that OF man from the eeodon
represented by the troops concerned.
Short names were chosen FOR convon-
ienoe, and names Of immortAia Nike
Washington and Lincoln were onfefed
because Of the temporary nature e eAs
camps.
The name Of Camp DSvsnO - 03vua
10 the cantonmsnt At Aver. AA0- IA
memory Of Gen. Charles Dsvsna q. B.
", OF Massachusetts. The troops VIII
60 there from Maine. New Hampshire.
Vermont, Massachusetts,. Rhode Island
and Connecticut. Camp Upton. at YAp-
hank, l. L. in memory OF MAJ Gen.
Emery Upton. Z 5: v, native OF Nsw
New York city. Camp Dix, Wrtghts-
town, n. J.. is named after MAI. Cen
John Adams Dix. u S. ". and will take
troops from New York state and north
napolis junction. after Gen. George c.
Meade. L. S. A, is for troops from
southera Pennsylvania Tho camp At
Petersburg, Va. bears the name Of
E. Lee. and will care for men from New
Jersey. Virginia. Maryland. Delaware
and the District of Columbia Camp
jackson, at Columbia, s. C. 10 named
after Gen. Andrew Jackson. U. 6. A.
and will have troops from Tennessee.
North Carolina and South Carolina
Camp Gordon, Atlanta. Ga, for troops
from Georgia. Alabama and Florida, 10
named after Gen. J. b. Gordon. C. & A.
Camp Sherman. at Chillicothe. Ohio.
caring for troops from Ohio and West
Virginia, is named after Cen w. T.
Sherman. Z. s A. Camp Taylor. At
Louisville, KY. is called after Maj Gen
Zachary Taylor, Z. S. A. and will hold
the men from Indiana and Kentucky.
Camp Custer, Battle Creek. Mich
named after Maj. Gen. George A. Custer,
is for troops from Michigan and Wis
consin.
Camp Grant. Rockford. Ill. is named
after Gen. L. S. Grant, L. =. A. and
will care for troops from Illinois. Camp
Pike. Little Rock. Ark, is namc1 after
Brig. Gen. Z. NJ. Pike. u. $. A., and will
contain troops from Arkansas. L.oufsi-
ana and Mississippi Camp Dodge, Des
Moines. Iowa. is called after Maj. Gen.
Grenville NJ Dodge. L. S. A. and Will
care for troops from Minnesota, Iowa.
Nebraska. North Dakota and South
Dakota Camp Funston. at Fort Riley.
Kan. is named after Maj Gen. Fred
erick Funston. Z. S. A. and win take
care of troops from Kansas. Missouri
and Colorado. Camp Travis, at Fort
Sam Houston. Tex, for troops from
Texas, Arizona. New Mexico and Okla
homa. is named after Lieut.. Col. w. b.
Travis, the defender OF the Alamo.
for troops from Washington. Oregon.
California. Nevada. Utah. Idaho, Mon
tana and Wyoming, has had no reason
announced for its name.
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around the equator made of the waste
would be considerably narrowed. AL
most twenty four hundred billion OF the
flfty-two hundred billion which was
the extent of the original stand nave
been cut away, and the amount left in
our whole country is now only twenty
eight hundred billion board feet. This.
if we take no account or the grown,
at our present rate of consumption
would be entirely used up within the
next generation. Nevertheless. the
amount still standing is enough to
make cottage homes for all the people
on earth.
Until the time of our civil war the
most of the lumber consumed in the
United States was cut from New Eng
land and the Allegheny mountains. For
the next thirty years the vast white
and Norway pine regions of the states
along the great lakes furnished most
of the lumber: and the industry then
moved into the southern yellow pine
belt along the Atlantic ocean and the
Mexican gulf. That region is now the
chief center of our lumber industry.
The cut there is about seventeen billion
feet per annum. and at the present rate
twenty years will practically exhaust
the supply. The total stand of south
ern yellow pine is estimated to be about
three hundred and eighty-four billion
feet or more than enough to load
lumber train reaching from the earth
to the moon.
The work of telling the trees is go
ing on everywhere, and the timber cut
tiers are moving from one forest to an
other In little houses SO made that they
can be carried upon the railroad and
lifted on and off the cars at will. Other
loggers have community cars, which
are screened and equipped for the pur-
pose. Some of the cars are used for
sleeping quarters, others for eating
compartments. and many of the loggers
even have private cars to carry their
families with them. The men are eX-
perts in destruction and they cut down
the trees at remarkable speed.
The next great movement of the lum-
Der industry will be to the Pacific
coast, where they are already cutting
something like eight billion feet per
annum. and where the cut of Douglas
fr is steadily climbing. The forestry
men tell me that 1t Is simply a ques-
ton of years before the lumber product
of Oregon and Washington will exceed
that of all the lumber regions of the
east The Douglas fir is one of the
most important of our woods. and the
available supply still in the forests is
said to be more than five hundred bill
lion feet board measure. These trees
give more lumber than any other spe-
cies grown in the United States. Many
of them reach a height of two or three
hundred feet, and some of the dense
forests will yield as much as sixty
thousand board feet per acre. There is
one instance in which an acre of woods
produced as much as one-half million
feet. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Organizing Lumber industry for the ARMY and Navy

from fires and insects. SO that the an
nual drain upon the United States for
ests is said to be in the neighborhood
of one hundred billion board feet The
annual growth Is only about one-third
this amount, SO that it will be seen that
we must have better forest protection
and economization or our forests will
in time disappear
woodlands of the United States has
been cut away. When Capt. John
Smith landed at the mouth of the
James. not far from where they are to
erect the great training camp for the
navy. this country had stand Of
understandable timber which has been
estimated by the forestry authorities
at more than Ave thousand billion
board feet: 1t was enough to have made
a boardwalk a foot wide and an inch
thick one billion miles long. 1t would
have been sufficient to have covered a
boardwalk ten feet wide from the earth
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ton that the profits must be kept down
to the lowest level consistent with high
grade work Some firms have offered to
do the work on a cost basis. but we have
considered this unwise policy both
economically and nationally. The utmost
speed and efficiency must be developed in
these and future building jobs for the
government. and the acceptance of Of
fers Of free service might easily disrupt
the high grade contracting firms best
qualified to do the work effectively
Steps are being taken by committees
also to safeguard the government from
paying unreasonable prices for mate
rails. These committees are mobilizing
the resources of materials in the vari-
Gus branches, co-ordinating the supply
and demand and fixing prices which
will give the material interests a fair.
low margin of profit. but with ten
dency in all cases to make these prices
somewhat lower than the prevailing
market rates for each commodity.
The War Department bespeaks of the
country in this great undertaking both
its sympathetic understanding and its
active cooperation. 1t must get out Of
the way while materials and men are
rushed to the sites of the camps. Its
useful suggestions will be welcomed
This is the country's work and the
whole country should combine cour-
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the line reached Victoria Falls. on the
Zambezi river. a distance of 633 miles
from Cape Town. These were the falls
that Livingstone discovered. There
was a celebration when the railway
reached the Zambezi. but an even more
striking observance of the opening of
Sc nth Africa to civilization was In the
following year, when the British So
ciety for the Advancement of Science
held its meeting at Victoria Falls. and
savants from the United Kingdom
made the journey in a body.
The Zambezi river was spanned by a
bridge more than mile in length, and
then the railway construction was con-
tinued north to the Broken Hill mines
about go miles farther on. 1t was
then approaching the tropical forest
region. and also territory which was
not under British control, and there
was less inducement to carry the prof.
ect forward. There was, however. con-
siderable discussion of the project.
some of which was of diplomatic
character At that time it was Bel
his Kongo kingdom, that stood across
the path.
= <
The engineering reconnaissance that
have been made were over route ap-
proximately 400 miles in length through
the Belgian Kongo. This presented all
the physical difficulties of equatorial
forests and marshes.
The projected line from Stanley Falls
to the Nile was said to traverse a
country almost impenetrable with OBJ
stacles unequaled in any section of the
world where vast railway projects were
under consideration.
Almost" was the saving word. Trop-
ical jungles that are almost impene-
trable are like mountain barriers that
are almost unconquerable, but the rail-
way engineer conquers the mountain by
means of tunnels and switchbacks, and
he conquers the tropical forest, al
though at a heavier cost of human life.
Moreover, no section of the kongo
country presented physical difficulties
that were greater than those which
were overcome in the Amazon coun-
try, when. after half century of en-
deavor. the Madeira-M amore was con-
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new national army. with the addition OF
over 1900 officers and extra men who
will take up their serious military life on
September /. will make their homes in
sixteen model army environments now IN
course of erection throughout the coiin-
try in sections where population is most
dense. The military towns containing
their equal superintendent of the men VIII
tants each. They are to be made as com
Portable and convenient as is compatible
with their purpose and with the time at
the disposal of the constructors.
The sites of the sixteen environments
now being completed for the reception of
their soldier citizens were chosen care
fully with view to their general fitness
of purpose. which meant that the ground
must be high and well drained and To-
cality healthful, that pure water sup
ply must be at hand or could be readily
made availa BILE. that for transportation
facilities and general convenience they
are accessible to cities or large towns.
The locations of the cant onnnents are
Aver. Mass; Yaphank. L. l.; Wrights-
town. n. J.: Annapolis Junction. Nd:
Petersburg, Va: Columbia. S. c.. Atlanta.
Ca; Chillicothe. Ohio. Louisville. KY:
Battle Creek Mich; Rockford, H.; Little
Rock. Ark: Des Moines. Iowa; Fort Riley.
Kan: Fort Sam Houston, Tex. and
American Lake. Wash.
The areas of the cantonments vary
with the topography. the minimum
pelnS from i.0O" u -,oou acre 1dhtoii-
ment architects declare that the adj
justment of the architectural schemes
to the land are among the interesting
features of the planning of the camp
cities Provision must be made not
only for the domestic life of the SOL
diers but suitable space for parade
grounds, maneuyering fields. target
practice ranges etc, must be arranged
for.
Each cantonment will be virtually a
city in itself, with streets. blocks.
sewers, electric lights. its own railroad
tracks and yards, water lines. a thou
sand houses for the men, beside officers
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and they will require at least $4,000, 900
feet of high grade yellow pine and oak.
And then the soldiers must have poles
for their tents. They must have cots
to sleep on. and every rife has to have
gun stock. which is made of wood.
The gun stocks should be preferably
of walnut. but they have been using
birch in the contracts for the allies
and probably birch and gum will be
used for the new rifles 1t takes about
ten feet of lumber to make a gun
stock, and 1t will take 100000 feet
to make the stocks for a million new
rifles. Our army Of million men will
probably require 100000 rifles, and
this means 100000 feet of the finest
hardwood.
Among the machines which require
fine lumber are the airplanes. 1t is
said that the allies have 10000 flying
machines on the western front. and that
Uncle Sam will probably ship thousands
to France. The requirement here is
light strong material. Ash is used for
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matter Of payment. He says: 'Tn decid-
ing on the environments contracts We have
had to consider three main points Of prac
tically equal Importance. The first has
been the absolute necessity of speed: the
second. proper construction. including
sanitation and communication and trans
portation facilities: the third, economy.
Taking all three into consideration and
also the fact that time will not permit the
completion of drawings and specifications
which would be necessary in order to ask
for competitive bids before the work must
be started, the Quartermaster Corps.
acting in conjunction with the emergency
construction committee. decided to make
contracts on the percentage. or cost plus.
bases. at the same time using all possible
safeguards in the shape OF guarantees
from the contractors as to their capacity
and integrity.
THE profit system was decided on only
after weeks of study to find a basis for
the fees which would assure the country
OF the highest grade of work from the
contractors and at the same time prevent
extravaganza through the payment of ex-
cessive profits. 1t is a pleasure to pay
tribute to the loyalty and patriotism Of
the great majority of contractors who
have come here to discuss the question
with us. With a few exceptions they
have acquiesced willingly il our conten
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been regarded. But most of the dream
ers who have advocated it have been
very practical men. Cecil Rhodes was
one of the number. There was also
Alfred Belt, the German-born British
subject. who acquired immense wealth
from the South African mines. He
made a specific bequest of $6,000,000
for furthering railway construction in
South Africa, and the Cape to Cairo
line was included in his legacy.
would not go very far in actual rail-
way construction. but he also knew
that the possession of a fund which
could be expended in preliminary
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adapted to its locality. and these speci-
fications have been made interchange
mates, based upon the plans of the War
Department, are that 13.50o,0o0 feet of
lumber will be needed for each infantry
division of 81. zoe men, or in all about
600, 00o, 600 feet for barracks alone A
million feet of lumber would just about
floor twenty acres, SO that the barracks
for each division will need enough to
cover go acres and those for the army
would make floor an inch thick over
the whole of IL, 900 acres and leave some
be sufficient to make a boardwalk an
inch thick and four feet wide around
the world at the equator, with enough
waste to extend the walk from Chicago
to where our allies are fighting in
northern France.
And then take the item OF ships. 1t
has not yet been decided Just how
many will be built. but 1t is pretty
certain that two hundred and fifty
vessels of standard type will be con-
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Egypt were of somewhat different
cast of mind from Cecil Rhodes. and
they looked upon the subjugation OF
the Sudan as sufficient, without link
ing up the Nile with Cape Town.
In South Africa, however, Egypt did
not seem SO remote. All railroad con-
struction northward was carried on
with the fixed idea that some day Cairo
and the Nile would be reached.
The epochal event in the railway CON
struction in South Africa was when