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Evening star., 1918-10-13
Veteran Shipbuilder Breaks RiVeting Records

night I'll stack my huskies against
the cream of the famous Scottish
'What is the secret of the success
of my gangs? Well, it's as simple as
the nose of your face. The first thing
I do is to put my huskies next to the
big idea in the shipbuilding game.
hammer it into their heads that every
rivet they drive Is equal to a stout
nail into the coffin Of that arch child
murderer. the kaiser. In other words,
I make their part in this war gamc SO
real that they pound rivets like the
boys over across pump machine guns.
ITO hit the bulrs-eye In a riveting
drive you've got to prepare for 1T, like
the YanllS arrange for drive against
the Huns on the western front When
Gen. Pershing gets 1t into his head
that he wants to give the Hun good
hard bump he takes few thousand
Yank huskies back Of the line and
puts them through stiff course Of
sprouts, in the way of intensive train
ing. When the boys have completed
nails and they can wade through any
thing.
X "
IT lined things up for my drive in
much the same way. When things
opened up / had the holes all reamcd
and the proper tools all in place. So
when the drive started we had
whirlwind start, and the way we
walked away from the other gangs
was good to see.
according to my way of figuring
this thing called morale is blamed
important In any game. I don't care a
rap whether it's soldering or drlv-
ing rivets, you've got to have the
boys mentally and physically UP to
snuff. I aim to keep my huskies
standing right up on their toes most
Of the time. In the respect of keeping
the boys in a fighting mood, l am
aided by my boss riveter, Joe Dia-
mond. who has been in the game for
more than twenty years. and mas
worked in shipyards all over the
country. How about 1t. Joe"
Wolf turned to stockily-built man
in soiled overalls and jumper, who
stod nearby.
Joe shifted bashfully from one foot
to another, and said:
II try to do my bit, boss" ne SAID,
"but all Of US would go through any.
thing for you. John. you know that.
Wolf grinned pridefully.
"You see the spirit of my huskies,
don't your" he said. "Why, when the
drive was the hottest even our super
intendent, Walter Blandford, got the
Fever. He chucked Off his coat. gra6.
bed riveting hammer and drove $50
rivets. My huskies have the spunk
and the ginger, and that counts.
Evening star., 1918-10-13
Some New Fuel Suggestions

set aside for special consumption in
the open fires upstairs, as they made
too attractive a fuel for the furnace"
paper moistened with paraffln. then
dried, and many other things Of
amateur manufacture have been actu-
ally used to ameliorate in some de-
gree the worldwide shortage of coal.
Especially has this been true abroad.
where human ingenuity has had to
go to great lengths to keep life In
the body.
It is commonly said that the rural
Frenchman is the most thrifty per-
son of the civilized nations. Last
in the hands of the enemy. the poor
made little attempt to obtain coal.
There was SO little of it and 1t was
so expensive that many of them fixed
up cylindrical metal boxes as con-
tainers, and in these they stuffed
the top, lighted match and there
was fire in the little household for
many hours.
Also to the French is attributed the
opening up of new possibility for
our southern states. A big motorship
has tried out peanut oil for it's en-
gines. 1t Is said that a certain type
OF engine is necessary to the usage
of this oil, that naval motor vessels,
equipped with this engine and the
pure extract of "pa a'ched goobe's" need
not make demands upon the supply
of mineral oil. Peanut oil is not ex-
pensive. 1t has long been advised for
household use In place of olive oil.
Last winter committee of scien-
lists from Australia looked into the
possibilities of commercial alcohol as
substitute for gasoline in internal
combustion engines. They were
pleased to find that an engine runs
smoothly on, alcohol, and thae tits
somewhat higher than with gasoline
fuel" But the price Of alcohol was
and still is a stumbling block to the
popular usage of alcohol for this pur-
pose.
Asbestos paper soaked in coal oil is
substitute that will produce heat, IL
better substitute" says an Illinois
United States Fuel Administration
files, "is found in bricks saturated
with coal Oil. Firebricks are roughed
on the surface and put in coal oil for
several hours. each brick absorbing
about two thirds of quart Of oil
ana burning about half an hour before
another immersion 10 necessary" AM
other correspondent places the reouis.
ite time OF saturation at an hour and
kerosene.
Hoboken last winter agreed with tho
bTooklyn navy yard that the wood
taken from the interior, OF the seized
German o1ern. n. liners lying at fIoboken piers
Ing more, would fan the flame. so the
mayor OF Hoboken accepted 200 loads
OF wood from the Army piers when
coal was az premium. and made the
-
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IKE all other extraordinary sit
uations. the fuel problem has
4 daualnnad its share of nninna


uations, the fuel problem has
L. developed its share Of unique,
If not actually humorous side
lights. Now that everybody Is ask
ing everybody else If the households
proper supply Of coal is tucked away
and buttoned UP in the coal bin; II 6S
degrees maximum Of heat, as lately
decreed by Mr.. Garfield, is going to
keep us warm, "and what the signs
are, anyway, for a bad winter" it Is
hammock entertainment, II no more,
to see what the prospects are for a
smile in the general solemnity.
The advice that has poured into the
United States Fuel Administration on
the subject Of substitutes for coal
would make book. as far as bulk Is
concerned. An oyster fisherman, for
instance, who could scarcely keep
shells from piling up and hiding his
shanty, such a thriving trade he drove
on the shores Of Chesapeake bay,
wrote advisedly to his state fuel ad-
ministrator: "Oyster shells. when the
rain didn't soak 'em continually, made
mighty fine fuel. When dry they
crackled and sent up a flame man
could warm his bones by right COM
Portable" The principal drawback to
this suggestion appears to be that few
1t is a little different with the sug-
gestion received from New Orleans.
A certain man, in a fuel emergency
in that city, went to a merchant maxi
ing a speciality of shelled pecans for
northern trade. The merchant was
wi tn <riH h{no OF 1,o F,In1 hn
could carry. away providing pecan
waste was fuel. The pecan man had
been going to- considerable expense
to have the waste carted away He
Is said to have visions now of the
possibilities Of a new business. He
too far to suggest that our industries
will be run by pecan shells. Here,
however, is a never-ceasing, ever-fn-
creasing, source Of fuel for the south.
As the girls are busy with their knit
ting wherever they go, so may the
they go. and putting the shells in
their pockets to keep the coal scuttle
From Florida comes the earnest ap-
peal for people to use orange peel to
CRATE. Particularly the CRATE. That
everybody, everywhere, uses oranges
ig the opinion OF the writer in Flor
ida. Thousands Of boxes of oranges,
lemons and grape fruit are sold every
week in New York alone. The rinds
are thrown into the garbage. though
they are combination Of wood pulp
and essential oil-the fundamentals
Of good fuel" he says.
II have experimental on refuse
citrus rinds and turned them into
valuable fuel In q large household In
the country. where It has been the
custom to bury garbage in pits at
considerable cost of labor. I had some
rough wire netting frames made six
feet by two feet, which could be easily
handled in the furnace room and even
the refuse rinds were spread on them
ana dried. They took a week or two
to get dry enough to burn and then
burned like pitch pine, with beauti-
grant perfume. Dried skins were soon
Evening star., 1918-10-13
Reviews of New Books

content the reasons why the line Of
federal control has strengthened.
brushing to an increasing dimness the
line Of state sovereignty He shows
ment. the evolutionary nature Of It.
And the movement is still progress
ing, progressing toward government
by the feW-an oligarchy-and then
government by the one-an autocracy.
Mr. West leaves this concise and au-
tion-what are you going to do about
it7 Do you want an autocrat In the
White House? If you do not, 1t Is
time to be moving, and there are GER
tain definite things that may be done
to impress this evolutionary move
These measures are stated In their
aims and their execution. The book
is an exceedingly competent study OF
q special, and pressing, sub1ect, one,
too, about which 1t is imperative Ior
informed. An admirable book for the
student Of our political structure ana
growth.
FROM BERLIN TO BAGDADs Behind
The Scenes I'm the Near East. by
George Abel Schreiner, author OF
'The Iron Ration" new 1orh:
Harper & Brothers.
A brilliant panoramic view of the
staged military performance in the
Constantinople region. with many
glimpse behind the scenes where I'M
portant play makers and stage man
ayers gather to give form and direc-
tion to the play that is going on be-
fore the public eve. It is the all
around quality Of this book, its pic
turesque inclusiveness, that sets 1t of
from many another book of similar
intent, Mr.. Schreiner does not aim to
pass upon the war strategy of this
particular fighting zone. though he
does. nevertheless. give more than
one highly Illuminating view of the
war as 1t Is managed in the near east.
These special views are set, however.
in the full complex Of life In Constan.
tinople. a city to which Mr.. Schreiner
gives an actual iridescence of surface
effect while he. at the same time,
brings out innumerable Of its inner
feelings and meanings. BY a most art
ful use Of material-personal and
things combined In telling relations
he has made of the city of Constan.
tinople an actual personality, vivid,
alive, oriental. Within this structure
he sketches tho German scheme for
the completion of q German middle
and rejects In order to achieve g very
complete and vital picture Of this
locality In Its present signincance. Mr..
Schreiner has the gift. not SO much
of communicating to one as Of trans
porting one to the place under his
there. O movement over yonder-and
the streets OF Constantinople rise be-
fore one peopled with their motley
crowds and redolent Of the orient
Neither an ambitious book. nor pre-
tentious one. II 10, nevertheless. an
Illuminating and highly informing
one.
RUPERT BROOKE, A Memoir. BY
Edward Marsh. New York; John
Lane Company
A little volume Of posms-young
noble. inspiring posms--and the tragic
story Of death on bis interrupted way
4 to the Dardanelles, wA1e eil that one
Evening star., 1918-10-13

eter, ana during his last twelve years
at the yard he was in entire charge
Of the ways.
In 1908 he went to the Boston navy
yard, where he served as q quarter
a in Roston % ae he buiit ,hh fuel I shins b tarret
boats and coal barges for the United
States government. and did a lot Of
repair work.
When this country entered the big
war and Uncle Sam needed q great
Evening star., 1918-10-13
A PROSTATE People.

A SENATOR was discussing the
Russian situation.
president Wilson," he said, has
cleared the air by announcing that he
will stand by Russia"
The senator smiled and added:
Nov, Russia, stand UP, so that
you can be stood BY" 7H''t
Evening star., 1918-10-13

Every one Of my forty three gangs
of riveters were as green as fresh pine
only short time ago. got 'em from
the training school which has been es-
tablished in the yard by the industrial
relations group. United States Ship
ping Board. Emergency Fleet Corpo-
ration.
II have worked like q coal HEAVIER
whipping this raw material into
shape, and want to say right now
there are no better working buddies In
the world. Any time Of the day or
Evening star., 1918-10-13


4ers-Mr. Webster creates. as 1t were.
life. repeats itself innumerably in tho
United States. Business prestige. so.
cial substance and personal power in
here in this dynastic unit which is
definitely planned to constitute a per.
manent and exclusive family right
And Of this family Mr.. Webster makes
b striking and interesting portrayal.
a. mere story. whose appeal Is to
the seasoned and critical taste. tho
novel Is an exceptional one. It is q
discriminating drama Of modern life
within the purlieus Of prosperous
business. Its appeal Is varied and
strong. There Is here a serious love
story. tragic at one point. but moving
but into cleaf and bracing atmos.
phere. There are absorbing prob
lems Of business-labor trouble with
the union and the /. w. w. and the
bpen shop, sometimes playing at odds
with one another. but always at odds
hre carefully developed in a clear dra-
matio realism. But the climax Of the
whole matter comes-and the real
bigness Of the story appears-when
through gradual and we'll sustained
approach this business dynasty ceases
TO be such and opens up real opportu-
Mities to the laborer himself. II this
business were nation, one would say
that 1t had abandoned an imperial
policy for truly democratic one.
That it embodied an industrial revo-
1ution, with the revolutionists Them
telves the representatives of big busi-
ness. And that Is exactly what tho
etord does show. 1t takes up what.
pnder tho war awakening. the rich
business men of this country have
fattzatton OF business, embodying
this idea In q novel of modern Amer.
tcan life. An admirable work for the
Authos. a. It u . fine experience for
the reader.
CEDERAL POWER. Its Growth and
/ West. New York: George ia 4 poran
J Company.
On the political map Of tho United
States Mr.. West here traces the
growth Of federal power az opposed
to individual state sovereignty. From
the beginning these two political
ideas-by nature 50 hopelessly hos.
tile-pushed and jostled for an equal
accommodation In the political scheme
Of the new nation. The Constitution
embodies this struggle. It is. there.
fore, to this instrument that Mr.. West
koes back for q starting point from
Which to summarize anew the condi-
tions that sourced this double line
Of political development. Advancing
through the full content OF American
1tfe-through the rich economic, 90.
DIAL, Industrial and political web OF
N-ths writer. In . marked economy
Of gesture and In an energetto prYs
danos Of speech. draws from this
Evening star., 1918-10-13
E<n EFORE the American troops
i over yonder make q drive
ON the Hun they mako

! On tn0 hun they mako
careful preparations days
n advance. I follow the same princi-
Pie in getting ready for a riveting
hrive."
30 suoke John Wolf. veteran ship
builder and champion general fore-
tnan riveter Of the world, who on
Friday. September 13, swept all past
fiveting records into the discard at
the Hog Island shipyard.
The record for the entire yard on
that day was l95.242 rivets in eight
hours. or thirty -eight rivets per hour
per production gang. But the record
pf Wolf and his forty-three produo-
1ion gangs in yards Nos. and 8
lowered over the work Of all other
gangs in the mammoth shipbuilding
plant
His gangs drove 10.O37 rivets. or an
Average per hour per gang of fifty.
ave rivets. Wolf also has supervision
over two school gangs. who drove
p03 rivetS, or an average per hour
bsr gang Of thirty-one rivets.
- ~
&, II X
VOLTS achievement is considered Of
vital Importance to every shipyard
IN tho United States. In all yards
speed 10 one Of the prime essentials
In tho building of ships. The faster
ships are turned out the quicker will
the allies bring the war to a victori.
ous conclusion. In the Hog Island
yard Wolf has been confronted with
conditions which are prevalent In
every yard in the country. He has
swept aside all handicaps and whip.
bed Into shape the speediest riveting
hang IN the world. There Is q feeling
that his methods could be adopted
with splendid results by every yard
wolf IL fifty-eight years old. ana ,
seasoned shipbuiider Of the old school,
building ships. and he is familiar
with every turn and wrinkle OF tho
1hipbuilding game in this country. In
his time he has had q hand in the
building Of between seventy ana
eighty steel-riveted ships. Many OF
them have been steaming to and fro
In the channels Of ocean commerce
tor q score or more of years. He Ia q
email, dark-complexioned man with
taco leathered by years Of work in
the open, but in his brown eyes burns
1mperishable hres Of enegy. He began
~ q heater boy when fourteen years
Old In the famous shipyard Of John
1uocessively driller. reamer and riv.
Evening star., 1918-10-13

Of notice, Wolf became one Of the
most priced men in the United States.
He knows most everything there Is
to know about building ships. He Is
admittedly one of the great ship
yards powerful driving forces. In ad-
er. he is a natural leader Of men.
"Riveters," he said, were as scarce
as monkey wrenches in a parlor when
Uncle Sam opened tho bali in the
shipbuilding game. We've had to make
'em, that's all.
Evening star., 1918-10-13

more OF this radiant young English
poet. Mr.. Marsh's memoir meets that
the boy a home, and family. and
friends and familiar associations and
Occupations-an set in the bit of ma
tive England that Rupert Brooke
loved so much. Beyond this Geographic
outline the book is given over to the
wrote from one and another point of
travel, from one and another of the
swift-changing states of mind that
were so much part Of this vivid tenn
permanent. These letters complement
the poems. Without them the realiza-
tion of Brooke is incomplete. They ex-
plain and illuminate the verse making
1t a part of the poets own substance.
And what one gets out of 1t all-let-
ters and poems and connective stuff
Is that Rupert Brooke was SO glorl-
ously young, and knew 1t, and gloated
over 1t, something as IL he knew, al
ready, that he never would be any
thing else, in years, than young.
OUR HUMBLE HELPERS, Familiar
Talks ON the Domestic Animals.
BY Jean-Henri Fabre, author OF
etc. Translated from the French
by Florence Constable Bicknell.
New York: The Century Company
a bee or a bug an amazement and a
delight to us. A profound and pa
tient scientist who sees life whole, a
chronicler of beguiling simplicity,
Fabre makes the behaviors of a
beetle ones exclusive absorption for
the time So, it is reasonable to ex-
pect that when Fabre gets ready to
talk about the animals whose kim
ship to ourselves we half recognize
dogs and horses and cats. our farm
yard neighbors and the pasture folks
why, that talk may reasonably be
calculated to take one into COM
plete captivity. And 1t does. And it
should. For it is fine and out-far-
ing adventure to walk into the
world of other animals than our
selves and to find there a. share of
the doings and thinkings to which
we humans, as rule, make exclusive
claim. The best Of these wonder
tales Is that they are true. One can
take them as exact reports by an
eyewitness. Fabre is a scientist, and
chausen tribe This fascinating book
Of true stories about the animals OF
the household is intended primarily
for children. But the grown folks
will miss a chance II they. too, do not
partake Of its delightful substance.
THE PATHETIC SNOBs. BY Dolf
Wyllarde. author Of Exile" etc.
New York: John Lane Company.
This story smells Of lavender--like
Crawford" An English village
stirred to q general energy Of war
work furnishes the setting for this
neighborhood chronicle. A feature OF
the common zeal to do something for
the war Is a very uncommon mixing
OF the various distinct layers Of Eng
lish society. In this yielding medium
the writer sets group Of snobs, each
bent, after her own fashion. upon
warming herself in the radiance Of
the class above. Very lifelike people
these are. BY virtue Of the fact that
this author has chosen to be sympa-
thetic and understanding, rather than
to be satirical. the story has a gentle
pathos and a childlike candor that
lifts 1t into the kindly atmosphere Of
natural human aspirations. A love
story Of fresh substance makes Its
difficult way through this entangie.
ment OF harmless snobhishness. It Ia
an engaging story OF everyday life.
Evening star., 1918-10-13

An AMERICAN FAMILY. A Novel Of
To-day. BY Henry Kitchell Web
ster, author Of 1.-THE Real Adven-
ture." etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
A BIG novel-big both in idea
~ and treatment. BY way of an
~ American family-father, SON.
rrandsons and Eranddaugh.
Evening star., 1918-10-13
RUPERT BROOKE, A Memoir. B,
Edward Marsh. New York; Johi
Lane Company.

4 little volume Of posms-young.
noble. inspiring posms--and the tragic
story Of death on bis Interrupted way
TO the Dardanelles. wA1e eil that ono
had Of Rupert Brooke.Ahd one want ed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-11-13
WIRELESS TO LINK
ESKIMO AND THE
rVrpcrr,x, xv-rDUn

NOME, Alaska, Nov. 11.-Eskimo
wireless operators at Noorvik, ma
tive village north of here, soon will
be able to catch messages sent from
as far away as San Francisco. it is
expted.
Delbert Replogle. government teach
er at the Norvik native school, who
recently fitted the village with an
electric light system and small
wireless plant. arrived here today
from the states with larger wireless
equipment.
The new machines will be installed
at Noorvik in the near future. Ac-
cording to ReplogIe, Noorvik then will
be able to chatter with stations in
nearly every part OF Alaska and lis-
ten to points far to the south and
east
Noorvil1 is The only village In the
Eskimo country with electric lights.
With the installation of the new wire
less the envy Of the other VILLAGES win
increase. Eskimos have been taught
to operate both the wireless plant and
the electric light system.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-11-13
VIENNA DELIRIOUS
WITH JOY AT NEWS

GENEVA, Nov. 11.-Vienna was
delirious with joy when it was learn
ed that an arfnistice had been de-
clared. The streets were soon crowd
ed with men and women and children
crying and embracing each other.
The general opinion is that food
win follow peace.
The report that Emperor Charles
has abdicated reused little interest.
The Austrian press is attempting TO
calm the people. emphasizing the fact
that the armistice terms are of most
severe nature and involve great sacri>
fices to the empire and the people.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-11-13

fought Spain, the average cost Of the
daily ration was 1891 cents man.
The cost increased gradually until It
reached 1856 in 1908.
During the campaign in Mexico the
rotion reached 25 cents a day. In
1916 it reached 26.s7 cents. The be-
ginning of the war with Germany
brought sharp advances. the figures In
1917 going as high as 40 cents. From
July /, 1917. to March 81 of this
year, it averaged 40.46 cents. The
higher cost of feeding the men IN
France is due to the expense in pack
ing for overseas delivery.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-11-13

the division of horticulture at the
Oregon Agricultural College. THE
government has no intention of pen
alizing the Northwest growers, but is
asking them to come out and say
what it is they want.
THE Northwest has been boxing
apples for a good many years. We
have earned a worldwide reputation.
If any changes are to be made in the
classification they should be made
only after thorough discussion and
lagreement.
"Some men are advocating only
two grades, while now we are using
fourA-extra fancy, fancy. choice and
cooking. Not more. than three grades
at most may be called for in the
present movement-two for shipment
east, and one to be known largely as
the cooking grade to be used at
home.
Oregon should be well represented
at the Spokane J. convention by all
means"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-11-13
Intellectual Union
of u. S. and Britain
Urged by Academy

LONDON, Nov. 11.-At a meeting
of the British academy last week for
the purpose of commemorating the
Raleigh Tercentenary the following
resolution was unanimously adopted;
THE British academy desires to ali
firm its wish to cooperate. with Am~
erican scholars in the Advancement
of intellectual culture The alliance
between the great English-speaking
peoples which has been so fruitful in
war should have it's victories no less
renowned in peace II is the hope OF
the academy that scholars on both
sides of the Atlantic will in future in
creasingly collaborate In rhe organ-
ization of research, in the cultivation
of intelligent citizenship and in the
promotion of intellectual progress"