The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-03-07
NATIONAL AND GENERAL WAR
ACTIVITIES.

Summarized from Official Bulletin
Published Under Order of President
Waterway TranspOrtatiOns Committee.
Director General McAdoo has ap-
pointed committee of three members
to Investigate the inland and coast
wise waterways of the country and ad-
wise him as to the best means of put
ting them TO advantageous use in solv-
ing the transportation problem. The
personel of the committee is as fol-
lows: Major General w. M. Black,
chief of engineers, U. S. A, chairman !;
Walter S. Dickey, Kansas City, Mo. !;
G. A. Tomlinson, Duluth, Mimi; Col
onel Charles Keller, Corps of Engin-
GERS, u. S. A, is made secretary.
The Limit ON Insurance Extended.
All persons in the military and naval
services whose time for making appli-
cation for government insurance would
have expired February IL, are given
an extension to April II, 1918, in which
to make application. President VIII
son has approved the joint resolution
passed by congress extending the time.
1t was found that February II was too
short time in which many in the SER
vice who desired insurance could get
in their applications.
To systematic Technical Schooling.
The secretary of war authorizes a
statement in which he says In part !:
with a view Of mobilizing the educa-
tional institutions of the country and
their facilities for special training,
there has been created in the war de-
partment q committee on education
and special training. Associated with
this committee will be five civilian ed
ucators, known as the advisory board
of educators. The functions OF these
committees will be to mobilize the
country's schools and colleges behind
the army. 1t will encourage and ar
range for the technical education OF
men needed by the several branches OF
/ the army, particularly the ordnance
| bureau the signal corps and the engin
GERS"
Pass the Fifty Million Mark.
Treasury receipts from the sale OF
war savings stamps passed the 500,
100000 mark, the secretary of the
treasury announces. They are now go
ing at the rate Of $11 100000 per week
The sales for December amounted Il
$1O,236,451; for January they rose t.
$24,559, 722, while February sales 81
far reported amount to $40, 790,17O
The sales are being pushed in all part
Of the United States. Even in Soutl
America the stamps are popular ant
are pouring funds into the treasury de
partment. These stamp savings ar
now running at a rate double the tota
! receipts of the postoffice department
and double the customs receipts be
fore the war. The sales are In exces
of the total interest payments to tn
holders of railroad bonds, in excess o
the average new capital expenditure
for railroad development and equal t.
the entire cost of running the govern
ment ten years ago.
No Standard Recipe for Victory Bread
No standard recipe for Victor.
bread" will be issued either for com
mercial bakers, hotels, restaurants ant
public eating houses, or for household
which bake their own bread, according
to an announcement made by the Q
; S. Food administration. The only re
: quirement is that 1t must contain no
) more than so per cent of wheat fiouI
. the remaining 20 per cent to consist o
: corn meal, corn -four, rice or rice -four
{ potato -four or any other cereals recon
! mended by the food administration
D Victory bread" is appropriate for con
: sumption In public eating places o.
, wheatless Monday and wheatless Wed
I nesday, and at wheatless meals ever
day In the week where 1t Is not praC
: ticable to make an even larger savin
: of wheat by serving breads made en-
: tirely of other cereals.
I Attorneys to Form Legal Committees
] The Council of National Defens
has issued statement to all stat
< councils of defense to assist men Il
: the service of the country with thei
= legal affairs. The advisory board
n created to assist In the second draf
e In the matter of questionnaires is t
a he used.
Propose National Volunteer Industrial
Army
The Custer county council of dc
Tense proposes to the nation the form
: alton of National Volunteer In
T dustrial Army" The purpose of tn
! proposal Is to get concrete action be
hind host of workers who will hel
i'm the planting of the nations GRO
q and see that it is harvested. Throug
: circulars the plan has been brough
g by the council to the attention of ever
+ governor in the United States, ever
: member Of congress, every state an
] county council of defense. 5000 news
g papers, 1000 commercial clubs an
e 1000 labor union offices. In fact
n has been sent direct to Presiden
S Wilson by the enterprising members 0
e the council and citizens of Mackay
! Consideration and Endorsement of tn
y plan is solicited from those to whoI
e it has been mailed direct Upon II
d citing in a preamble that the pert
s nent question of the immediate futur
t Is the solution of the emergency labo
: problem" the Custer county defens
: councils proposals is set forth as TO
lows: After very careful analyst
+ of all the conditions, the following pla
:. was formulated and presented {
b thousands of people of all classes
4 the western states who heartily IL
} dorsed it:
e First, the United States govern
n ment to organize, through the Nations
e Council of defense, the National Vo
& unteer Industrial Army to solve th
It emergency labor problem. Second
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