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which will keep busy the 100000
tons of shipping we shall then have
in carrying such goods to foreign
lands
Our iron and steel output alcanA
ought to satisfy any one that his : in !
is absolutely safe. The amount Of
iron ore we mined last year was up
ward of 100000 tons. We then
made 35,000,000 tons of pig iron and
produced more than 100000 tons of
steel ingots. The pig iron was worth
ports of iron and steel. including ma
chinery, sold for more than $1,000
100000
Germany is beginning to wonder
where she will get the raw materials
for her big manufacturing industries
after peace comes If had the say
1 would not give her bale of cotton.
a pound of food. a gallon of oil nor
an ounce of iron or steel until she had
absolutely secured the payment of
every cent of damages caused by this
war. By that time she will have lost
the mines of France. Belgium and
Alsace- Lorraine, and the petroleum of
Rumania and Russia will be in the
hands of her enemies She will be
begging also for copper. another big
asset which you men who are buying
liberty bonds should consider in fig
uflng up Uncle Sans wealth. We
are now producing 65 per cent of all
the copper that comes out of the
mines, and in 1917 we sold enough to
pay about twice the interest charges
on the $6,OO0.OOO.0OO loan of the pres
ent drive. At the average price of 81
cents a pound the amount was
$51O.0O0.O0O. The total amount of cop
per produced was almost 1000. 100000
pounds. 1t was considerably more
than the half of all the copper taken
out the earth that year. OF that
amount over one-third came from
Arizona, and about ONE fourth from
the two states of Montana and Michi-
gan. We are now annually getting
more than SO.0O0,00O pounds of copper
from Alaska. and Utah is yielding in
the neighborhood of 100000. 900
pounds. The Utah Copper Company
has neW Teaching plant which often
handles as much as 1000 tons of ore
In one day. and the Navada CONSOLE
dated has plants which handle 1900
tons within the same time. Some of
our biggest mines are operated by
steam shovels and the ore is gotten
out at a cost of about 81 cents Il ton.
The cost of our copper produced in
1917 ranged from to 10 cents a
pound. The average price in the mar
ket last year was alsut 81 cents. so
YOU can see there is 4 fair margin of
profit.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Copyright, 1918. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
- 1T down with me and take ac-
count of stock. I'VE are going
to lend Uncle Sam another big
slice of our savings. and we
want to be sure that our money is
safe. The amount of his notes in
which we have already invested is the
enormous sum at about ten billion
dollars and now he wants six billions
more. Is he honest? Is he good?
And what has he except his word to
back up his loans?
AS to the honesty Of Uncle Sam he
has been borrowing money in bales
for 142 years, and he has never yet
scaled note or been short on his in
terest. His signature is more than
a scrap of white paper. 1t is as good
as gold in any market all over the
world, and there Is no doubt that
he will pay to the last cent if he can.
But can he? The amounts he is ask
ing are so great they stagger the
mind. Six billion dollars represents SO
much gold that if loaded on motor
would take two Thousand to haul it;
and sixteen billions. the total amount
of the loans at the close of this drive,
is more than $500 men working year
in and year out could earn from the
beginning of time until now. l have
friend who recently answered an
advertisement, Sure Way to Get
Rich-Send Fifty Cents" He sent it
and the reply came. work Like the
Devil and Don't Spend Cent" Now
IL 1900 men had started to work that
way at IS a day. shortly after Adam
was showed out of the Garden of Eden,
and had kept on working every day,
workday and Sunday. throughout the
ages, saving every cent. the total
amount Of their earnings during those
5000 long years would just about
equal the total amount we shall have
lent Uncle Sam for this war at the
end OF two weeks from now. DO
you wonder we want to know some
thing about the security back of our
loans?
In brief. the security is the United
States and all 1t contains. 1t consists
OF the land and all that is on ii. in
Guiding the brains and muscle of every
one of our one hundred millions of
people. 1T represents one sixteenth of
all the land upon earth. and more than
one-twentieth of all the inhabitants
Capitalizing the property at 10 per
per cent OF its income last year. the
amount is 500 billions of dollars, or
over thirty times the amount of the
loans. Five hundred billions OF dol
lars! That sum Is equal to half the
est mated amount of the wealth of all
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keep doing so for generations to
come. We have, in fact. about the
richest mineral property on earth:
We are producing about one-fifth Of
and one-third of all the coal and iron
that the human race uses year in and
year out. We have in our mines half
of all the coal that God has stored
away from the sunlight of the past,
and the amount we are mining now
on all the loans we shall have made
at the close of this drive. The value
of that which we take out in twelve
months is upward of ssoo'ooo,ooo'
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The money received from the btu
minous coal alone would pay the full
interest charges, and we have little
patch of anthracite in northern Penn
sylvania which brings in something
like $2OO.OOO,OOO per annum. We have
70OO,OO0,0OO tons of that anthracite
vet to be mined.
Now coal and iron form the basis
OF all modern manufacturing. Our
supply of iron almost equals that of
our coal. We have one ton in three
of all the iron ore upon earth. and
the most of our iron lies SO close to
the surface that it can be gotten out
WIFI SlcdIH oAONClS. lHO AoldA
amount of that now easily available
is almost five billions of tons. and
there are something like seventy bill
lion more which c. w. Hayes. one of
our ablest biologists, has said may
become available at some time in the
future. OF this vast amount 72,000,-
100000 tons is on the shores of Lake
Superior. where we take out the ore
with steam shovels and send 1t down
the mountains by gravity into
steamers which carry it at the low
est freight rates on earth to our
steel mills on the edge of the coal
bed. This combination Is such that
we are bound always to be the chief
of the manufacturing nations, and
the income from our exports will be
enough to pay the principal and in
tercst of all the debts Uncle Sam
may contract.
Our foreign trade is steadily in
creasing. 1t amounted last year to
more than $4,000, 0O0, 900, or to double
the highest figure ever received in
normal times. The greatest gain was
in exports which exceeded our imports
by over $500 millions. That was our
balance of trade. We sold more goods
than we bought to the sum of $780,
100000 day and of this $4,000, 900, 900
worth came from our factories
Those factories are all working now.
Their work has been standardized
and spcedcd up by the war. and when
peace comes they Will have an output
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the world at the time this war began.
1t equals $1,000 for every one of us.
or $4,000 for every family in the
United States. Invested at S per cent
every family $3.50 a year for all time
to come. This in the large is the Sc
curity back of the loan. 1t Is what the
property should bring under the auc-
tioneers hammer. 1t makes the in
terest Uncle Sam has to pay look like
thirty cents.
But where does all this wealth
come from? Is it real? Is 1t con-
crete? Or Is it the super-heated air
Of the psychological moment fired up
by the war? Let us look at some of
the items. First the land of the
United States. 1t is a common state
ment that all riches must come from
the soil. If all the land upon earth
were divided into 1GO-acre farms
Uncle Sam would own ten acre field
in every one of those farms, and in
value his folds would be the choicest
whole. Take the tracts devoted to
farming, those already under cultiva-
tion have brought in during the past
year, in crops, live stock and products
of one kind or another, the enormous
amount of $21.OOO,O0O,OO0. We have
picked out of the soil, as 1t were,
more than one and one-fourth times
our whole war Indebtedness, and the
Same land will yield that much or
more every year for all time to come.
1t is equal to more than eighty times
the interest Uncle Sam will have to
pay on the fourth liberty loan. and
this money rolls in that much faster
than the interest accumulates. More
over, our farms grow larger and
larger. Last year we cultivated
23,OOO,OO0 acres more than ever be
fore, and we have tens of millions
more to bring under the pillow.
Let us stop moment and look at
this item. What do we raise? Are
our crops staple and In steady de-
mand? The three great wants of
man are food. shelter and clothing
l will not speak of the shelter cXcep,
to say that our timber still standing
is so great that if cut into boards
1T would make a tve-foot pathway
from the earth to the sun and belt
the globe at the equator with a
wooden band an inch thick and al
most two miles in width 1t would
make millions of houses. and if mar
keted at the low price of 81 per hun
dred would bring IN $4,000, 0OO. 900
or eight times the amount we expect
to subscribe for this loan.
AS to food and clothing. we raise
one-iifth of all the wheat grown upon
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earth. We raise one-fourth of the
oats and more than three-fourths OF
the corn. We raise so much cotton
that if the United States should cut
men. women and children on earth
would have to go naked. We can in
crease this crop by the millions of
bales, and cotton grows so well no.
500 and upwards a bale, and the
yield Of one year is more than enough
to pay six times the interest asked
for this: fourth liberty loan, and 1t
will pay more than that interest for
all time to come.
And then there is the corn crop
This is SO amazingly large that it's
amount of the crop we are now taxi
ing out of the fields il loaded on cars
at 1000 bushels to the car, would fill
train reaching clear around he
globe with many miles to spare. The
total is about 3.000,0O0.000 bushels,
teen selling from $3.50 to 81 per
bushel. At the latter figure its value
is more than the amount Uncle Sam
asks for this loan, and at the former
it would pay more than six times
the interest on all of Uncle Sam 8
war Indebtedness. with hundreds of
millions Of dollars to spare. If any
German questions the values back Of
your bond you have only to shake in
his face this great cotton blanket or
bury him under our annual product
of more than 5000, 100000 bushels or
corn.
These are the chief crops. but we
can figure out others which Will
more than pay all of Uncle Sans
interest. The wheat of last year at
81 bushel brought in considerably
more than $1,000, 100000. and the oats
were worth enough to pay twice the
annual interest on all of Uncle Sans
bonds at the close of this drive. The
potato crop figured up in excess of
400.O0O.0O0 bushels, and the little
item of peanuts was worth in the
neighborhood of 500, 100000. Our fish
crop amounts to upward of 100000
900. and the value of the meat and
live stock ran into the billions. The
amount of live stock now on our
farms is worth considerably more
han half We shall loan Undle Sam
during this month Of October. and
our meat producing plant is said to
be worth more than three times the
amount Of this loan.
so much for the riches we pick out
of the soil Now for the wealth we
have stored away in our rocky treas
tire vaults under the ground. This
Is worth hundreds of times all of
Uncle Sans loans. and the amount
we are taking out now is enough to
pay the interest over and over and
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OF equipment Is entirely out OF the
question. BE patriot" says Uncle
Sam, land stay at home"
The government had very consid-
cradle problem to face in taking over
the railroads. and when this very
change was being effected, there were
additional war questions to meet and
conditions never before encountered
Many rather drastic changes had to
be instituted Immediately. For in
stance it had to be arranged to run
far fewer regular trains in order to
move troops. Troops must be moved
as comfortably as possible. and if they
must have pullmans. A pullman
coach cannot be made while one
waits, hence it is imperative for the
government to appropriate coaches
which in pre-war times went to make
up regular trains. This all put the
sure, but few of them seriously OBJ
tected, for 100000 soldiers were be-
Ing transported in a single month.
This was a feat in itself of which to
be proud.
Reducing the number of trains en-
tailed a change in schedules. There
have been complaints that the sched-
ules for connections at some of the
big terminals were rather awkward,
not infrequently necessitating long
and wearisome wait for very busy
person. But time, experience and the
new bureau are all serving to correct
this difficulty, 80 far less valuable time
is being consumed in purposeless de-
lays on the part of the hustling busl-
ness man.
There is tale told of an Army
officer who made a direct appeal to
the bureau for suggestions and COM
plants. In the course of his travels
this man learned that at the Penn
sylvania station in New York sixty
cent charge was being made for each
piece of baggage transferred, though
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departure from one station to an
other. The baggage merely changed
hands.
X +
To the Army officer this seemed a
because it was his wish to help his
country in every possible way he sat
down and wrote friendly letter to
the new bureau. The bureau was very
glad to receive the letter. for it SEEM
ed to the men In authority that a
practical solution could not be very
far off and they proceeded to inves-
tigate.
AS consequence it was discovered
that this charge was the natural out
growth Of old conditions existent
prior to the erection of the station.
certain line and bound for GER
tain destinations were obliged to
cross the city to reach another sta
ton from which their trains left.
Under these conditions certain
charge was made for each piece of
baggage handled. which was quite as
it should be. Upon the completion of
the Pennsylvania station service at
Che old station was discontinued, and
no cross-city transfer was necessary,
much to the relief of passengers. Yet
through some unaccountable negli-
gence no cognizance was taken OF the
transfer charge and it was left for
the new bureau to discontinue 1t.
This they lost no time in doing after
verifying all the facts Of the case. -.
At a rate of 60 cents per piece Of
baggage handled it can be readily
seen that in years time the accumu.
lation of very considerable sum Of
money would be possible. This is
now saved to railroad patrons, thanks
to Uncle Sam, who no doubt hopes
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not be expected in times of peace.
The demand for additional en-
ployes in these railroad offices has
SO outstripped the supply that the
start a school, introducing women to
the intricacies of ticket selling. After
completing a course of instruction
the women are put into the positions
left vacant by the men. But these in
novations all take time, and patriotic
ticket offices cannot expect to be as
efficient as In pre- war days until they
have regained the assistance lost
early in the war. But the government
treasures an anxious public as to that,
and declares all things can be done
in time.
-
crowded conditions can best be elimi-
mated largely by people staying at
home unless travel is absolutely es-
sential. This is the simplest possible
remedy and one which many thought
full people believe should be applied
without delay. There is no doubt that
the American people are lovers OF
travel In war times the government
does not believe this tendency should
De encouraged. lnoeeu IL Is conHoenC
that much travel is quite unneces-
sary. The fact is to be deplored when
the country finds 1t so imperative to
move large forces Of men about with
all possible speed. In all seriousness,
the public is earnestly requested to
at home unless trip Is posi-
lively urgent.
Were it possible to improve travel
ing facilities and increase the num-
Der of coaches and locomotives with
out seriously curtailing some essen
tial war activity, the government
would be delighted to do so. For the
present any appreciate enlargement
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ME bureau for suggestions and
complaints has taken up brand
new quarters In a brand-new

complaints has taken up brand
new quarters In a brand-new
building In Washington. Under
tho direction of Theodore H. Price,
actuary to the railroad administration,
1t has been actively operating since the
first of September.
The purpose of the new bureau Is to
discover the "sore spots" to quote an
official, and to effect first class remedy
wherever possible. The public is invited
to cooperate with this department by
free criticisms Of conditions which 1t
finds existing in connection with the
new railroad administration, of condl-
lions can be improved.
When the bureau was introduced
those in charge were fully expecting to
he showered with documents, filled with
complaints more or less absurd.
penned by cranks and chronic letter
writer's. but the correspondence Is sur
prisingly free of anything of this ma
ture. In the main letters have come
from substantial patriotic citizens whose
very earnestness betrays their eagerness
to assist the government in locating
infrequently valuable suggestions. which
are given by the writer. are ADOPTED by
the bureau.
X
The mail received daily varies. There
are days when as few as 200 letters ar
rive. There have been days when twice
that number were handled. The COM
plants with which some OF them are
laden, concern general conditions;
others bear directly on local conditions.
Tho complaints against general condi-
ttons are fewer for the reason that a
diflculty which has become general Is
Conditions arising from local causes
are frequently far more prevalent and
the right solution for many Of them
proves most perplexing.
tho. extremely crowded conditions
found at ticket Offices, and again
those attendant upon train travel
Others resent hotly rudenesses and
discourtesies of employees. Many let
ters ask an explanation relative to the
and there are those covering every
conceivable question relating to rail-
road operation.
Many persons object to excessive
whistling of locomotives. while others
sary smoke aiioWed to u escane ns frem
the engine. and this causes serious
annoyance among the passengers.
There is q practice of smoking in
mems dressing rooms In the Pullman
coaches, and this has been source of
irritation to a number of men. Shaw
ing in these dressing rooms, when
they are Allied to capacity, has like
wise brought forth many remon-
A large percentage of the COM
plants are directly or indirectly
brought about by war conditions.
Congestion in railroad offices cannot
be relieved Immediately. The selling
Of railroad ticket is less simple
thing than Is generally supposed. The
war has taken a great number of men
from these offices-men who were
thoroughly familiar with their work.
They are now going "over the top" in
France, many of them, and. in order
to help them and others like them, it
is necessary for the public to exercise
a forbearance and patience that would
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26
SUBMARINE ATTACK ON
MASSACHUSETTS COAST.

Orleans, Nassau enemy submar.
Inc attacked a tow of the eastermost
point OF Cape Cod sank three barges,
set fourth and their tug on fire and
dropped four shells on the mainland.
The action lasted an hour and was I'M
challenged except for two hydroplanes
from the Chatham aviation station.
which circled over the Ulboat causing
her to submerge, for only moment.
to reappear and resume firing.
The crew OF the tow numbering Al
and including three women and Ave
children, escaped amid the shelfre
in lIfeboats. Several were wounded.
but only one seriously
The attack was without warning and
only the poor marksmanehip OF the
German gunners permitted the escape
OF the crews. The one.sided fight
took place three miles south OF the
Orleans coastguard station, which Is
located midway between Chatham, at
the elbow. and Highland light at the
extreme tip of the cape. The firing
was heard for miles and brought
thousands to the beach from which
the flashes OF the guns and the out
line OF hte U-boat we're plainly visible.
Possible danger to the onlookers was
not thought OF until a shell whizzed
over their heads and splashed in a
pond mile inland Three other
shells buried themselves In the sand.
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GERMAN CONTROL OF THE
METAL INDUSTRY CUT OUT

Washington-German control OF the
metal industry in America has been
wiped out by Alien Property Custodian
Palmer In the seizure OF several OF the
largest metal concerns in the United
States with ramihcations into South
America, Mexico and Canada.
Mr. Palmer announced that he had
taken over the business OF l.. Vogel.
stein & Co.. Inc. OF New York City.
with assets OF more than $4,000. 900
and Beer. Sondheimer 4 Co.. Inc,
also of New York City. with asets of
upwards OF s5.0O0,0O0.
In addition the custodian has seized
the enemy-owned interest In the
American Metals Co., controlling some
l6 companies In this country and
Stallforth & Co.. OF New York. dealers
in silver bullion, with capitalization
OF 100000.
II was revealed that the Beer. Sond-
heimer and vogelstein companies
were closely affiliated with the Ger.
man Metal Gesselschaft, which, for
some years. has dominated the entire
metal market OF the world. and that
they, with the American Metals Co.
controlled most OF the principal metal
and smelling companies OF this coun.
try.
These two companies are believed
by Mr. Garvan TO have supplied Ger.
many with vast quantities OF copper,
zinc and other necessary war mate.
rails after the war began
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Conclusion Comes Abrup,Ix.

Definite refusal Of The corporation
commission 10 allow arother contin.
uance Of the hearing OF the petition
Of the Southern Bev Telephone Co
To- increasing the rates in Whining.
ton. Charlotte. Winston. Salem. Ashe.
vile Raleigh Greensboro and other
exchange towns twelve in all OF
North Carol.aa. brought the evidence
and arguments 10 a conclusion. and
there remains the preparation and
PRONUNCIATION Of the ruling which II
Is understood will be forthcoming be-
fore Chairman Ira is re;ires from the
cors.SSon August ! Mayor Ne
Ninch, q Charlotte. Mr. Kimbel. and
o'fers OF counsel for those resisting
the Increases pleaded in VAN fGr fur.
Their time 60 days II possible and Ger.
,ainly 30 days in which 10 90 into the
Bel company. contract with the Am.
erican company, and for getting ex.
pert testimony.