Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

lamps, live animals Except for breed
ing purposes), feathers, eggs, cocoa
and chocolate and all fruits. except
Dineapp!es and bananas. DR.. Gay
holds. are not needed in the United
States at this time.
Tc these things he adds jewelry,
matches, pencils, malt liquors, wines.
candy. pipes for smokers. toys, per-
fumery. umbrellas. penholders. GER
tain chemicals. musical instruments
and so forth. Altogether there are
hundreds of articles, prior or impos-
slble. in their relation to ships bound
for America.
Each article has history. 1t has
source and q use. Over 1t may be
one or n dozen flags Behind II are
men and their money, foreign men
and Inhabitants of this country If a
II native Is injured he cannot pay
war taxes or buy liberty bonds and
savings stamps
Hence the scientists were Obliged
at once to- be historians. diplomats
and statisticians; also geographers
and commercial experts. Sources Of
supply had to be ascertained. Guam
titles on hand, the world over, had to
be tabulated. And always Whose OK
is being gored?' was written in large
letters on the walls of the rooms
wherein questions were argued and
decided
Blondln at Niagara never balanced
himself more perfectly than did Gay
and his political economists Linseed,
wool. hides and quebracho extract are
exports from the Argentine Republic
yes-linseed for Gil. wool for clothing,
hides for leather.
Some Argentine wool. however. is
not suitable for clothing. AS to hides
the supply present and the supply
prospective had to be learned and es-
needed? was another question that re-
CURED an answer. And of what quail
ity? Again. Can hides be procured by
a shorter route?
The distance is long from, Boston or
Baltimore to Buenos Aires. and ships
We're sorely needed between New
York and Southampton and between
Bordeaux and Philadelphia. Nor
could Calcutta. many thousands Of
miles off, be excluded from the grave
grown in India. The English make
bags Of it and fill them with sand
for the trenches. Americans make
bags of it for wheat and rye. oats and
corn. scarcity Of bags in this coun-
try would cause loss of millions Of
of instances, is threshed in the fields
and directly hauled to market
While rivets were being driven,
speeches We're being made, articles
were being written, timbers were be-
ing hewn, steel was being rolled and
masts were being felled in the forests.
these men, Gay and his economists
their names unknown, their voices
unheard. were adding and dividing
and then subtracting to make the
troops and products go into the holds
4 And the torpedoes were working
greater and still greater ruin. To
them also must honor be given in the
future for helping to clear the barred
road to Berlin.
Their 1abors, moreover, continue
Ten thousand tons eliminated" they
declare. ARE ten thousand tons trans
ported on the North Atlantic. IL the
machinery works." So their facts, ma
tional and international, separate and
collective. go to Hurley of tho ship
ping board, Baker Of the Army, Dan
iels Of the Navy. and Lansing, Secre-
tary of State. that the machinery may
work to the rout of the Prussans
Furthermore. the facts, IL important
internationally, are submitted to the