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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-23
BOYS MUST LEARN TO SHOOT IN WOODS, SAYS
 BANGOR, ME, SENATOR

Augusta, Me-, March 1B.-Action on a bill requiring the Heansing of resi- dent hunters was indefinitely post poned by the senate today. Senator Gillin of Bangor, in opposing the measure, declared that 35o,ooo men and boys who w6uIG be affected should be taught how t0handle a rifle and the. place for them to learn was in the woods.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-23

French street, Thursday evening, April 12. The principal diversion of the evening will be three boxing matches, some of Bridgeport's best amateur talent having been procured for the occasion. The committee con- sisting of Attorney John A. Cornell James Barrett and Thomas McCor. mick announced that there will bs plenty of vocal talent also.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-23

As United States attorney, d1n anxious to vigilantly prosecute eacn and every violation of United States laws. Permit to assure you that your suggestions and information will pe appreciated, and there will be a hearty cooperation upon the part of the de- apartment of justice, not only to pros ecute violations of the law, but to take such steps as may be necessary to preyetn any violations of the law.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-23
DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF EIGHTH DISTRICT WILL
 HOLD ENTERTAINMENT

At a meeting of the Eighth District Democratic club held last evening at the club rooms, 2032 Main street, ar-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-23

the Legislature in 1903 and received an unfavoralble report by the committee on judiciary then. MT. Ginty told the
 committee that, in his opinion, it was the duty of city to help a nearby town.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06
THE GREATER UNITED STATES

veloped, protected and made most efficient
Tor the present and future. 1t is my plan to
visit our chief food producing centers, and
show something of what part each has in
the nations prosperity. | want to go down
into the mines and find out their place in
Uncle Sans account sheet | want to take
up the chief industries, and especially the
new industries which the troubles in Europe
have made SO necessary to our industrial in
dependence.
A large part of my travels will relate to
the farms. We need these to supply our
own wants and to aid in feeding our allies
in Europe The farms are Uncle Sans bic
gest asset. They brought in almost Sl4, 1000.
100000 last year, which is more than s.. $780,
100000 above the receipts of any crop of the
past. Nevertheless, the department of ag-
rculture believes that these crops might be
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06

we have buried in the rocky heart of Old
Mother Earth. We have more minerals than
almost any other country, and we are now
digging them out at the rate of something
like $2,4OO,OOO,O0O a year. If the product
were divided, it would annually give us $24
per head We lead the world in copper and
zinc, minerals of enormous value in war
Last year we got $25O,OOO.0OO out of our
copper, and 81 100000 from the sale of our
zinc. The zinc of that year brought in more
than our gold mines, and the copper sold for
more than six times the amount OF our silver;
this. on account of of the high prices of those
metals caused by the war
AS to our mineral resources, they alone
would make us the richest of the nations. We
have coal in 80 different states, and if our
coal fields could be brought together, they
would make one great bed seven times as
large as the coal fields of all Europe, and
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06
Frank c. Carpenter Writes Of Our New In
dustrialEmpireF From Standpoin Of Preparedness

Ject OF Uncle Sans water power. / expect
to show what the falls of Niagara are doing
and how we have hundreds OF other water
falls working day and night all the year
through to add to the wealth of the nation
1t is claimed by government officials that we
have about 6O,OOO,OO0 horsepower which is
still undeveloped and that in addition to the
amount already in use. This means that we
nave that vast force going to waste 1t is as
though we had 100000 horses pent I'D n
our stables from one years end to the other.
he engineers estimate that the force is
equal to the energy produced by 100000
600 tons of coal 1t would be enough to or
crate all the factories, run all the street cars.
ight all the houses and heat all the homes
OF the United States. This force represents
a loss In coal and labor of more than $500.
ooooOO per annum. and this loss will con-
tinue until the hydraulic engineers round M
the water power bronchos and break them
to harness.
But 1t is impossible to mention all the as
sets IN the great balance sheet of Uncle
Sans wealth. | might speak of Our forests
past are still enough to make boardwalk
80 feet wide and an inch thick from the earth
to the sun; OF our railroads, whose tracks ar.
long enough to reach ten times around the
earth at the equator; of our domestic com
merce. which surpasses that of anv other
land upon earth, and of our foreign trad,.
winch last year amounted to S. 500 600 (Ej
might show how the money of other ma
tons has been rolling into the United States
IN great streams and how the hard gold coin
and bullion now in the treasury vaults here
at Washington amounts to more than So
oooooO,OOO. | have written enough how
ever to give you glimpse at our wonder
ful wealth and to show that our resources
and industries are we'll worth mobilizatio.,
In this letter have mentioned only so-,e o.
the principal items. crowding world. rs it
were. into nutshell. Ny correspondence to
come will be along the same lines. as 90 tn
and fro over the country. NV first letters
Will relate to the south. where expect 10 be
travelling for some months to come
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06

factories, and our product is worth more
than $250O0OOOOOO year. We have about
twice as many men as there are in Our
standing army engaged in making iron and
steel Of one kind or other and the additional
men in the foundries and machine shops are
more than one-third of a million We have
about 100000 hands engaged in the lumber
industry and more than $4,000 employed in
the cotton mills. Altogether we have more
than 100000 men and women who are
earning their living by the work of their
hands, and their wages are greater now than
ever before.
Our manufacturing product steadily in
creases, and the variety of our industries ex-
tends from year to year. The great war in
Europe has forced us into new lines of labor.
and we are now making hundreds of articles
which we formerly brought at high prices
from over the oceans.
want to investigate the new chemical fac
tories which have recently been established
in different parts of the United States. and
to show how they will make us independent
as to paints, dyes and drugs. Germany has
invested vast quantities in the making OF
dyestuffs, and she has almost 5000. OOO. 900
devoted to the production of potash. The
United States ought to be industriallv indie
pendent, and we shall manufacture great
proportion of such things in the near future.
we shall get our colors from our own coal
supply, and shall eventually grind our pot.
ash out OF orr rocks We hope to become
independent even of Chilc. and congress has
lately appropriated S2G.OCO,OOO to squeeze
nitrate out of our own circumambient air,
| want to visit our great electrical works.
which are among the wonders of the world.
There is company at Pittsburg that EN-
poys 10000 hands, and another at Science
tady whose factories cover the area of a
good-sized farm. They are making new
things in electricity for the factory, the house
and the farm, and the day will come when
all that wen will have to do will be to press
a button and this lightning in harness" will
do the rest.
Speaking of electricity brings up the sub
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06

more than IS times the area of those OF
Great Britain. West Virginia alone has
more coal than Great Britain, and Professor
Tyndall has said that the seat of that coun-
try's greatness lies in her coal mines AS it
is now, we are supplying 40 per cent OF the
worlds coal and at the present rate of con-
sumption we have enough left in the earth
to keep us going for 1000 years We took
out enough last year to equal p tons for
every family i'll the country, and the black
diamonds were worth at the mines more
than S7O00O0OOO. There is one little patch
OF anthracite i'll Pennsylvania, whose weary
output is worth more than one third of all
the gold that is annually mined.
We have the biggest oil fields of the world.
want TO visit those of California and of the
great southwest. This is the age OF gasoline
ana fuel oil. Gasoline moves the war tract
ors, the military automobiles and the scout
ing aeroplanes; and the fuel oil sends the
trains ever the railroads and our naval YES
sells through the water at express speed.
Petroleum has become vital necessity in
Tune OF war, and a nation is powerful or
weak IN proportion to its supply of this mir
eral. Here again the United States leads
the powers 1t is now producing more than
haif OF all the oil that comes from the earth,
and our annual product from Texas, Louisi-
ana and Oklahoma alone is worth more than
S2OO,OO0,0O0. So far. we have furnished sc,
per cent OF all the petroleum that has ever
neen used by mankind and today our oil
ilelds are turning out four times as much as
those OF Russia. with war spurrue the latter
TO their fullest activity. | want to de scribe
the new things in oil production The fuel
mas become so valuable that hey are ircreas
ing the flow and eliminating the waste. They
arc also spending large sums to save the
natural gas which SO o1ten lies in Great
oed over the oil This gas sold for more than
all we got from our gold mines and millions
more were lost in the waste Our output of
petroleum is now SO large that if it were di-
vlded evenly it would give 10 gallons week
the year round for every family under Uncle
Sans flag.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06

doubled, and improved farming is being in
PRODUCED into every part of the country The
south has been getting 20 cents pound fol
its cotton, and the west about So bushel
for wheat. The farmers received more than
one billion dollars for each of those crops il
1915. They now have the capital to inaug-
urate better soil cultivation MANY of them
are using motor cars to carry their grain to
the markets, and they are blowing the fields
with gasoline tractors. ! want to describe
the new discoveries in farming. and to give
some idea of Our crops and the livestock
which so affect our meat and bread baskets
and the high cost Of living.
AS it is now, we raise so much on our
farms that one would think that bread and
meat should be cheap. In 1916 our grain
crop amounted to more than 5000, 100000
bushels, enough to give 90 bushels to every
man, woman and child in the United States,
or 800 bushels per family OF this, almost
5000, 100000 bushels were Indian corn, the
best all-round food ration for the body of
man. We raise almost all the corn produced
by the world. Our crop was equal to 80
bushels per family, and in 1915, we led the
world in wheat. We produced that year one
peck OF every bushel of all the wheat raised
upon earth. The amount was equal to 50
bushels per family, and it sold for more than
$50 per bushel. The crop was worth more
than three times all the gold that was dug
from the earth in that year.
So much for the bread Now for the meat.
We have, altogether, about S6,OOO.OOO,OOO
worth of livestock, and Our domestic animals
are more than 800 millions in number. We
have SO many farm animals that if we could
round them up and divide them evenly
among every family in the United States
would have five hogs, three cattle, two
sheep and horse. In addition, there are
countless turkeys, chickens and ducks and
more than 100000 mules to spare.
Moreover, this industry is at its beginning.
We are raising more and better animals
every year. Just now the boys of the south
and west are starting pig clubs and baby beef
clubs and the girls have their fowl clubs, and
with the aid of Uncle Sam they are teaching
their fathers how to raise better stock. |
want to visit the great packing centers in diff
terent parts of the country, and also to talk
with the farmers as to the meat supply Of
the country.
want to show you the enormous wealth
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06
copyright, 1917, by Frank q. Carpenter)
WASHINGTON, D. C.

THRILLS me when i. |
think of my job. l am 20
write a series of letters
about our new industrial
empire from the standpoint
of national preparedness. |
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06

The farms and the mines are only the basis
for our great manufacturing industries. Here
is another asset Of Uncle Sans wealth,
which is SO great that the human mind can
not comprehend it. We are only at the be-
ginning of our national existence, but we
have become the workshop of the world. We
have more than $22,OOO,OOO,OO0 invested in
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-06

| want to show you the enormous wealth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-10
BUREAU PREDICTS
FROST MAY COME
Weather Station Warns TT May Arrive
Tonight With Warmer Weather To
Follow Tomorrow.


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Continued From Page One.)
nave on the cynical brutality with
which Germany fights. 1t is surely
here Among the personages to whom
the German public service appears 70
afford refuge in such numbers, Count
L.uxburg German charge Of af1aires
in Argentina is entitled 70 very
prominent place.
The Daily News thinks Il is scarce
lv credible that Argentine public
opinion, even if the Argentine gov
eminent were willing, viii tolerate
a continuance Of friendly relations
with Germany
Breach OF Neutrality.
The Times declares that the swe-
dish disclosure on its face lis a gross
breach Of the elementary obligation
OF neutrality and adds. the offense
is more grave because Sweden had
been warned both in London and
Stockholm that II had been detected.
Reviews Wilson'S Words.
Continuing, the Times says
sweden cannot expect the entente
allies and the neutral nations in which
the Swedish legations were used as
German information stations, 70 ac-
Quiasce I'm the continued abuse OF her
rights and privileges as neutral.
The Times says that President Wilson
has told how Germany dared to apply
policy of intrigue towards the
United States during her neutrality,
etc and mentions how a member OF
the swiss national council and Swiss
minister were modified 10 make
German peace offer to Russia and
how later high explosives specially
prepared 10 destroy ships were dtscor-
cred in the baggage Of Baron Won
Rautenfels" in Christiania.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-10
GIRLS DONATE SALE
PROCEEDS TO LOCAL
RED CROSS CHAPTER

The Rock Island chapter of the
American Red Cross was enriched 70
the extent Of 1880 today the pro
ceeds from q sale of flowers. candy
and bakery goods which Evelyn Err
hart and Dorothy Sersig held 5atur-
day at q booth which was erected in
front of the home Of the former 1880
Seventeenth avenue.
The girls are bat - years OF age.
Anxious to do something 70 aid the
noble work Of the Red Cross they cor
csiyed the sale idea and worked hard
for its success The officers of the To-
cal chapter are deeply grateful for the
donation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-10

gresham Henry T. Rainey of Illinois
and others fought the scheme be-
cause they claimed it did not provide
for a genuine deep water way.
The war department held that
congressional action would be neeae-
sary. but the opposition of Rainev
made this impossible
The supreme court Of Illinois last
spring upheld the validity of the
water way act. but the failure TO OBJ
tain o permit from the war DEPART
ment has made the law in0neratfve
The water way board created under
the Dunno act was abolished and it's
powers vested IN a superintendent Of
water ways under the consolidation
bill passed by the legislature last
winter
Mr. sackett who was appointed by
Governor L0Wden as superintendent
Of water ways. was a member Of the
Illinois and Michigan canal commits
sion under the Deneeu adminIstra-
ton and resides at Morris. which is
situated on the canal II is regarded
as probable that he would view with
favor the rehabillts tion Of the cid
canal
Engineers 3.8ka Report.
The Illinois and Michigan canal
commission toward the end OF the
Deneeu administration made an in
vestiga1ion Of the feasibility of deem
eninE the canal for barge traffic lis
engineers reported that the work
could be done at a cost of 81 100000
and that IL could be completed in
two years time.
Former Governor Dunno rejected
the recommendations when presented
s. "a .
The federal engineers have taken
the reeommendatio Of the old canal
commission and added an extra
81 900 600 to allow for an increased
cost of Ia Dor and material
II is. proposed to deepen and widen
the canal to the dimensions Of the
HenneDin canal which was built Bv
the government many years ago from
FTeuneuin on the Illinois river IN
Rock Island but has remained idle
because Of the failure of the state 10
supply the connecting link between
the Illinois river and the sanitary
district canal leading to Lake NicaI-
gan
The Hennepin canal is seven feet
deep. 81 feet wide at the bottom and
about eighty feet wide at the surface.
a canal OF this size viii accommodate
harges carrying son tons of cargo
The inland water ways committee Of
the council 0f national defense is Coz
operating with Secretary Of Commerce
Redfeid and the shipping board 70
promoate water traffic throughout the
country as a means of relieving rail
road congestion during the war
The committee has been iusrr1l~
mental in bringing about the ship
meHt Of southern Illinois coal Inv
barges from East ST Louis 10 S.
Paul One feet Of harges contain
ing $4,000 tons Of coal already has
made the trip. q cargo of iron ore
being brought back ON It's return An
other shipment Wtu be made within
the next few DAYS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-10
TWO AT-rnS COLLIDE

t4Et 1Te-p passenger touring car
BADLY damaged in a collision with
-z3ty automobile ar the corner Of
eg-aT s-nirh street and Fifth avenue
is-sFaaE afternoon at = o'clock. The
7eI machine was driven by p man
grove, who resides i'm DaTen-
H-s car escaped with a twisted
.e15er and smashed lights No one
vas hurt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-10
ARGENTINA STUNNED
BY TRICK Barred

continued From Page oue.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-10
DEEPENCAnAL AS
HELP TO TRAFFIC
Government Looks with Favor Oh
Plan to Make Illinois and Michi-
gan Sa9igable.
NECESSARY IS A wan MEASURE
Governor Advised IT Would Be Ac-
ceptabIe as Substitute for Dunno
Waterway Scheme.

Illinois state officials have been in
/ formed unof7calIv that the govern
ment would view with favor the pro
+ 5ect for deepening the Illinois and
Michigan canal, which extends from
Joliet to La Sale. according 10 q
Washington dispatch in the Sunday
. Chicago Herald The dispatch con
Assurances have been given that
such q scheme would be an acceptable
substitute for the Dunno water way
plan rejected year and ha& ago
hy he war department.
Rough estimates of federal en-
zinears are that the cost would not
exceed 81 o00 GOO. as against $4,000 COO
contempt under the Dunno water
way act.
Forming q connecting link between
the sanitary district canal at Joliet
and the Illinois river at Ia Sale. it
would permit barge traffic between
Chicago and the Mississippi both by
way of the Illinois river to Grafton
and by way of the Hennepiu canal
TO Rock Island.
Renewal of the discussion Of the
proposition is invited by the govern
I'm line with efforts being made to
relieve the burden apon the railroads
lin order that no time might be lost
lt Will he pleasin Eto the authorities
at Washington If Governor L0wdeu
viii cal Ia special session Of the Hi
uois legislature this fall to amend
The Dunno water way act and make
the necessary appropriation.
Governor Lowden at no time since
his election last November has made
"a statement Of his policies ON the
water way question Advices re-
cajvad I'm Washington are that he has
promised TO give thorough c0nsidera-
tion TO the matter
The committee on inland water
WAYS of the national council Of de
Tense is responsible for the sugges-
rions no Illinois officials.
General n. H. Black. chief Of en-
Einears Of the United States army.
Is chairman of Fhe committee. and
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Keller Of
the corps of engineers lis secretary.
Colonel Keller formerly was stationed
at Rock Island and IS familiar with
the Illinois situation
II was upon the recommendation Of
General Blacks predecessor as chief
of engineers that the Dunno water
way plan was rejected by the secre-
tary OF war
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