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Evening star., 1918-02-03
BY HERBERT QUICK.
United states Farm Loan COMn missioner.

Where should We go to trial in & case
In which our most sacred interests are
at stake? In one place only. We should
appear in the court where the great issue
is on trial
The welfare of the whole world is on
trial in France today. Germany has set
out TO make herself mistress of the world,
just as Napoleon did III his day. Germany
must be fought where there is d, chance OF
defeating her. just as Napoleon had to he
fought a hundred years ago. When the
nations gathered at Leipsic to give him
his first defeat. that was the proper place
to fight Napoleon. When they came to-
gether again to give him his final over
throw at Waterloo, that was the exact
place to meet the great Corsican.
1t was a home fight for every nation ar
rayed in arms against him. II any one OF
them had said. I've will wait until Ma
poleon comes to our gates or our shores;
when he comes we will fight him; until
then 1t is not our fight" that nation
would have been contributing to the en-
slavement of the world by Napoleon. and
sooner OF later he would have appeared
ut their gates. and not even the gates OF
he'll could have prevailed against him
Germany must be fought where her
armies are found.
She must not win a foot Of territory in
this war.
II she does she will be able to point to
the war as victory. and the German peo-
pie will believe her.
After the war there Is only one hope
for the future Of the world. That hope
lies In the German people. In de-
feated Germany the people will sooner
or later unsear the Hohenzollerns and
the tunhers and take from the hands
of that insufferable crew of egomaniacs
and murderers the sword with which
they threaten the whole world. A vic
tortous Hohenzollern dynasty will hold
the German people in the thraldom OF
the triumphs they will claim to have
won, The German people are sleep
walkers ravagtng the world under the
hypnotic suggestion Of the mightiest
mesmerist that ever made subject the
human mind. They are mad with mob
psychology-homicid mania. The
French under Nspeleen needed defeat
Evening star., 1918-02-03
WAR POISONS.
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
Copyright, 1s1s.)

We have heard much of the poison gas
introduced by the Germans as a new
and terrible means of wasing war. We
Gus poisons to which many war work
ers back of the lines may be exposed
in their EFFORTS to support our men fight
Ing the barbaric Germans.
The war. in fact, has developed some
novel Industrial dangers. It is impor-
tant for the public to know of these,
so that Official action to safeguard the
workers will have behind 1t the full
force of an enlightened public opinion.
Special danger from poisoning 10 in
yOlved. for example, in the manufac-
ture Of high explosives, notably the
deadly explosive trinitro-toluene IT. N.
To, which caused the Halifax disaster
Unless certain precautions are taken
the T. N. T. worker is liable to develop
any one of q variety of disease symp-
toms. He may suffer from skin troubles,
from gastric catarrh. from a fatal toxic
jaundice.
What makes his danger greater In that
T. N. T. sends out poisonous fumes at
la temperature as low as 90 degrees
For safety. therefore, no worker on
molten T. N. T. should be required OF
permitted to work In room that does
not have the most efficient ventilating de-
vices.
when the circulation OF air is de-
ten trinitro< toluene." the journal Of the
American Medical Association wa{ns
editorially, "the toxic effects become
more frequent. Whereas good ventila-
ton is accompanied by freedom from
Illness"
Further. T: NJ T. may poison through
contact with the skim as 1t is readily
absorbed by the human system. Every
care needs to be taken to keep hands
face. hair and clothing free from pow
And, as additional safety measures
it Is recommended by eminent medica
authorities that T. N. T. workers be EN-.
ployed in frequent shifts. be given the
most nourishing food and be prompt,
signs of failing health.
Danger from poisoning may likewise
be present in some phases of aircraft
manufacture.
| The wings of airpIanes have to b,
called in the factories. Some of the
chemicals used for this purpose hav.
| proved TO be highly dangerous to the
"dopers."
!
| Is tetra-chlorethane, which has caused
numerous deaths in England and Ger
many.
| Its victims lose weight. suffer from
idrowsiness and nausea. pass blood ant
bile. and if kept exposed to T. C. fume.
die from fatty degeneration Of the liver
English factory inspectors consider
even 10 per cent of T. c. in airplant
dope" dangerous.
i Amyi acetate, benzine and methyl al
cohol. also used for doping" are poten
| industrial poisons. Their use SHOULD
be permitted only under the striotes
regulations.
In fact. whatever the dope" used or
Iairplanes. ventilation Is again a prim,
necessity safeguard for the work
ers So is their employment in fre
auently changing shifts and frequent
examination by competent medical men
! For our own sakes as well as their.
we can never be too insistent on tn,
protection of the munition workers. Il
Ia not si'lply a humanitarian question
4 1t is d question also of national Ell
cienc, and of national survival
Evening star., 1918-02-03
TO INSPIRE sHIPW0RKERS,
New York Clergymen Selected tt
Arouse Patriotism and Energy.

NEW YORK. February 2.-Announce-
ment was made today that Rev DIR.
Charles A. Eaton. pastor Of the Madison
Avenue Baptist Church OF this city, has
been appointed chairman of the national
service section OF the United States Ship
ping Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration.
In this capacity DIR. Eaton VIII visit
every shipbuilding plant in the country
where government work is in progress or
in contemplation. and endsavor to arouse
spirit Of patriotism. thrift and industry
among the workmen.
That DIR. Eaton might meet the heads
of departments of all shipbuildinx plants
Of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, he
was the guest at a luncheon given today
BY Vice President J. II. Powell, at which
States Shipping Board, also was present,
Evening star., 1918-02-03
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO. February 2.-Hogs-Ro-
ceipts $4,000 head; strong: bulk, 16.20a
1855; light, i5.75a16.45: mixed. 16O0a
1855; heavy. 15.s0a16.60; rough. l5sea
1910; pigs. 1S.25al5.35.
Cattie-6,000 head: steady: native
steers s.65a14.15; stockers and feed
|ers, 7.45a1060; cows and heifers, 64ea
l. so: calves, 9.50a16 500.
Sheep-Receipts, 5000: steady: weth-
ers, 10. 00a1s.50; ewes. s.75a13.1o: lambs
|14.75alf.7s.
NEW YORK, February 2.-Beeyss-
Receipts, 675; steady; steers, f2.se;
bulls. s5e; cows and heifers, 6.58aS 5a
Calves-Receipts. 35S head: steady:
yeals. IL. 6.00a19 100: culls. la-s0a14.00.
Sheep and lambs-Receipts. 145s
head: weak: sheep not quoted: good
Buffalo lambs, 1876.
HogseRecsipts, 1880 head; steady:
state hogs 17,2si rouEhA 1k0a
Evening star., 1918-02-03
THOMAS L. HUME, Broker,
1412 G Street. Tel. NJ. 1886
Nine Million Lost" by Wire.

Nine million dollars in gold was lost
by telegraph last week by the federal
reserve banks, according to last nights
financial statement of the Federal Re-
serve Board. The apparent decrease Of
that amount in gold reserves was due
mainly to delay in transmission of tele-
grams from one bank to another giving
notice of transfer of gold. Conse-
Quently neither bank recorded the gold.
Federal reserve notes in circulation in
creased by two millions.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
xEw work. PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK. February 2.-Evap-
cots and peaches, quiet: raisins, un-
settled. Corn, spot. armer; kiln dried
No. 5 yellow, 1.s1 II No. 5 mixed. l.7s Y.
cost and freight New York prompt: Ar
gentine. 2.06 fob. cars. Oats, spot,
ar; middle west. zs.35a2s.ss. Other ar
tieIss unchanged.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
DRY Gaons MARKET.

NEW YORK. February Cotton
goods here today were firm, with prices
advancing on print cloths and coarse
sheetings. Retailers were more active
Yarns and wool goods were arm. Linz
ems grow seaFcer.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES
Corrected to the Close of Bushes. February z
at the Office of The Evening Star.
Railway and Miscellaneous Shares.

lowest
sale. and change. Of uie. sold the New Yo. x @
1917 and the
O
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| Will Sell

81 900 Potomac COnsld. 50 at 8s.
$1,000 Wash. Rwy. 4 Eslec. 40 at slAs
q, 600 Washington Gas Sc at 10.
25 Capital Traction mt 81.
10 Wash. Rwy. & Flee. com. at %.
33 Wash. Rwy. d Eiec. pfd. at 81.
100 wash. Va. Ryvy. pfd.
SEQ Washington Utilities.
so WashinEtdn Gas at 10 ex.
10 MerEenthaler.
23 LnnstOn at 81.
5 Riggs Nat. Rank at $50.
20 franklin Nat. Bank At l39.
10 Continental Trust at 1:1. :. 5,
10 Munkey Trust Co.
10 American Sec. & Trust Co. at 20.
100 Bank Of Commerce & Sav. Mt l31z.
800 Miller Train Control tbid Hanteai.-
200 American Paper Can ibid wanted.
1000 Oklahoma OIL Mt 3. -=.-'.-
30 buell. Signal & Train Mt IA.
80 Imperfal Theater.
Ii i. MaurY Dove Go. AT 80.
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| viii Buy

d Capital Traction at S1tz.
| % Wash. Rwy. & Eiec. pfd. Mt 81.
| Is Wash. Rwy. e. Elec. com.
100 Washington Gas at 81 ex.
| 20 Commercial Nat. Bank to6er).
20 Munsey Trust at S21s.
% Northwest Savings at 10 A. r.
Exclusive of commissions. Subject to
previous acceptance or cancellation.
Bonds plus accrued interest All exc
cutions for cash. Deliveries fer cash at
Oxyn hank
Evening star., 1918-02-03

The Year 1918 to Date on the Washington
Stock Exchange
Furn,.hed by B 6 bhs Building.
The Benson signal., 1918-10-19
Wyoming.

Deep drilling at Zimmerman dome
makes progress.
Warm Springs field produces four
wells in last few days.
Thornton oil field has boom, oil be-
ing found at 600 to 700 feet.
The Southwest Oil Company has
frame work completed for refinery.
Developments are in progress at
Rock Creek oil field said to equal pc
riod of excitement following the bring
ing in of pioneer we'll on Big Muddy.
Ohio Company to build fourteen-mile
pipe line from Rock Creek field to
Rock River station.
West Salt Creek, which was passed
up as a bad job as far as oil is con-
c2rned, gets we'll with initial produc-
ten Of 700 barrels.
A Cheyenne telegram states that the
first big we'll on the Buck Creek dome,
I4usk field, Niobrara county, was
brought in by the Ohio Oil Company
The we'll is located on section SO 63,
and first reports were that the initial
Glow veg estimated at LOCO barrels.
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Colorado.

The Telescope Mountain Mining
Company has started operation at its
mine near Silverton.
The Silver Swan mine, owned by A.
o. Arms, is entering the ranks of the
important producers of Rico.
The Yak Company, Leadville, is ex-
periencing considerable difficulty in
keeping the lower workings in the
Cord and White Cap drained.
The Ouray has fallen from a pro-
duction of nearly 100000 few
years back to less than $1,O00,000
(Which will be it's record for 1879.
The potash deposits of the Colorado
Alunite Mining and Milling Company,
on Calico peak, near Rico, are attract
ing the interest of many mining men.
The manganese deposits recently
discovered in the Cripple Creek dis
trict have aroused widespread inter
est and may prove of great Importance
to the state.
Vindicator Gold Mining Company of
Cripple Creek has declared a dividend
of 1 per cent for the current quarter,
payable Oct. 25 to stock of record
Oct Is.
In Silverton district the Mayflower
mine, which is being worked under
lease to j. H. Slattery and his mining
associates, is one of the properties
that has been active the year around.
At the Syndicate mine, near Rico,
Manager H. Godet now has a force of
six men engaged in driving ahead to
determine the extent Of a fine looking
BODY of contact ore. rich in silver,
which was encountered there some
months ago in virgin ground
August net returns on ore from the
Cresson mine at Cripple Creek
amounted to $104 $50, according to the
report of President A. E. Carlton sent
to stockholders, accompanying checks
for the regular monthly dividend of
$4,000.
The cement power house and other
permanent buildings which the Akron
Mining Company is erecting on its
plant at White Pine, Gunnison county,
are nearing completion and things are
being put in shape for a heavy cam
paign of ore production and concen-
tration this coming winter.
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TeCnca lining of Seasoned Mechanics Solves Problem OF Keep
ing Up Adequate Supply of Licensed Men to Drive New
Ships-Land- Trained Engineers Taught Secrets
of Engine Room Practice on Salt Water

Washington-"Where you going to
get engineers for all them ships?"
This somewhat colloquial inquiry
was directed many times to represen-
tatives of the United States shipping
board recruiting service when the big
ness of the plan for bridging the At
lantic with American cargo carriers to
supply our armies and allies in Europe
first projected itself upon the lay mind
Of the country.
The public had been told there were
not even enough marine engineers who
were citizens to man the ships flying
the flag in peace times. So the man
In the street could not see where the
supply was coming from for the thou
sand ships to be manned as merchant
men out of the 1000 to be built by the
shipping board for the new merchant
marine.
The shipping board has provided,
and continues to provide, an answer to
the question through training system
for marine engineers which it has de-
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City, and at the Pratt institute, Brook
Ign.
The attendance at these schools to
date has been more than $500.
The course of instruction Is based
on the premise that the man taught
is already thorough mechanic. IN
struction is given him in the things he
would find hard to pick up by rule of
thumb experience.
Some of the schools hold day ses-
sions only, others have evening class
es in order that the students may fol-
low their usual occupations by day.
Subjects for Intensive Study.
In day school, as at the Massachu-
setts 'Tech" the forenoons are usual
~ devoted to lectures and the after
Moons to laboratory and demonstration
work.
mathematics and given text book to
aid them. They are then instructed in
such subjects.aS the action of salt wa
ter under heat, chemical tests of wa
ter, the character and use of fusible
plugs for boilers, capacity of coal bunk
ers, the character and combustion of
coal used on ships, the relation of coal
consumption to speed, the character of
propellers, the element of "slip,"
pumps, valves, gauges and Indicator
cards.
For demonstrating work the class Of
into small groups, each under an in
structor, who conducts the tests. These
for the first week include engine de-
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new idea for training engineers. Pro-
fessor E. f. Miller, head Of the engin-
eering section of that high-class insti-
tuition, holds a marine engineers IL
cense, and is an authority on marine
practice in engineering.
The first shipping board class at
'"Tech" approved of Professor Miller
and the college stuff" so decidedly
that it had not been at the college a
week before the value of the new sys-
TEN was fully demonstrated.
Professor Miller had been designated
by the board as it's chief instructor In
marine engineering, and classes were
started at other technical lleges, in
Guiding Tulane university at New Or
leans, Armour Institute at Chicago,
the Case School of Applied Science,
Cleveland, University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins university,
Baltimore, and Washington university,
Seattle. Later schools were started at
the University of California, (Berk-
eley). in New York City and Jersey
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tails, slide-valve setting. gauge testing,
indicator card taking and finally indi'
Gator card reading, which involves
familiarity with special instrument,
the planimeter.
During the week every man in the
class has his special practice in these
matters. In the second week the SUD-
jects are measurement of horsepower
lining up of engines, piston valve SET
ting and the condenser and air pump.
The third week the laboratory SUD-
jects are the salinometer, duplex pump
water column and safety valve. Whlle
in the last week there are exercises
with injectors, turbine-driven pumps
and an afternoon spent in large sta-
tionary power house.
Special Courses for Special Work.
This is the course at Massachusetts
''Tech' 1t may vary at other Schools
but the underlying principles OF IN
struction are the same. In the school
at Philadelphia, the largest in attend
ance, now holding it's sessions in the
Bourse building with class well over
a hundred, special attention is given
to refrigerating machinery.
1t is part of the plan of the board TO
train men in a knowledge Of every
kind of special equipment carried IN
the mechanical outfit of a modern ship.
Turbine ships, for example, must
have specially trained engineers. The
latest development in these wonder
machines for driving ships are in the
geared turbine, complicated and high
ly delicate piece of mechanism.
To provide a proper proportion of
turbine engineers to meet coming de-
mands the shipping board has sent
picked men to the works where most
of it's turbines are made, with instruc-
tons that the men "grOw up with their
engines" An engineer so instructed is
supposed to watch his engine grow
from the castings to it's final assem-
bling in the shop, and then follow 1t
aboard ship, superintend it's erection
there and run it when finally the ship
is ready for service.
The same idea OF special instruction
is applied in the case Of watertube
boilers, the engineers who are to han
die them being given special course
in the works where the boilers are
made.
One of the most recent developments
in the driving machinery of ships be-
ing the so-called Diesel type OF crude
oil engine, the shipping board is now
planning to instruct Diesel engineers
in addition to those trained to handle
the ordinary types of engine.
In order to reach the men 1t wishes
for training, the shipping board re-
cruiting service employs officials IN
various parts of the country known as
section Chiefs" who supply informa-
ton to constantly growing number
of applicants. Much of this is contained
in a pamphlet entitled GLOW to Be
come an Officer in the Merchant Ma
rine." National headquarters OF the
recruiting service is at the custom
house, Boston.
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Montana,

A matter of particular Importance to
the owners of low and medium grade
manganese ore-at present cut off
from markets outside of Colorado-is
the successful operation of the Boston
and Montana manganese reduction
plant at Great Falls, which "blew in"
Sept. Is. The plant at Great Fails Is
the worlds biggest erro-manganese
plant. One furnace was fired on the
date noted. The plant consists of five
furnaces and when all are operated
the plant will produce ninety tons of
ferro-manganese daily, or enough to
treat 10000 tons of steel.
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Golden Spoon Handicap.

81 presume this great artist once
starved in a hall bedroom, as most
men of genius are supposed to do early
In their careerS?'
"No. Strange to say, his people
were wealthy. l think he deserves all
the more credit for his achievements"
"Why SOP
ale won fame without ever missing
q meal or having his trunk contiscated
by hard-hearted landlady.
mingham Age-Herald.
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New Mexico.

The first orders have been placed
for the new surface tramway of the
Oaks Company at Mogollon. This will
run from the new Central shaft to
tram line of the Socorro Mining and
Milling Company, distance of 1900
feet Counter balanced skids will be
used and has capacity Of seventy
five tons in eight hours. Ores mined
by this company from Maud S, Deep
Down, Eberle and Clifton mines will
be handled by this tramway. In the
meantime burrOs will continue to be
used for moving ore
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veloped since the war began. This
system is entirely novel and distinctly
American. Under it no outside talent
has been required to provide .instruc-
tors and no student not "a citizen has
been given instruction.
When the war began the board pro-
ceeded on the theory that there was
plenty of material in the country for
an adequate supply of marine engin-
GERS. 1t estimated that there were sew
eral thousand men in the engine rooms
and firerOOms Of existing merchant
ships--oilers, water tenders and fire
men--whO could be made into engin-
GERS by little encouragement and in
Struction. 1t estimated also that there
were many hundreds of marine en-
gineers following other pursuits ashore
when the war began, who could be in
terested by the government in prOpo-
sitiOn to return to the sea.
Finally it estimated that there were
thousands of stationary engineers, To-
connective drivers aud machinists who
had worked on marine engine construc-
ton or repairs ashore who could be
quickly trained to become marine en-
gineers. These men were known to
have the groundwork of knowledge
necessary for handling marine en-
gines 1t remained merely a question
Of teaching them the things they should
know about saltwater practice in en-
cheering and to give them their ''sea-
legs" before starting them off on yOy-
ages in the new merchant feet.
college Stuff" Makes Its Bow.
Of the many revolutionary training
practices growing out of this war, none
was more striking than the shipping
boards plan for giving these men tech
Boston with Henry Howard the
boards director of recruiting. Mr..
Howard, is a graduate of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and q
firm believer in the value Of technical
training to every kind of mechanical
worker.
His idea was to give the men needed
as marine engineers snort. intensive
course of training at the best techni-
cal colleges before sending them to
sea.
The idea was so novel that the
grimy handed mechanic was a little
inclined to shy at it. college stuff
seemed too "hifalutin' " to be worth
much. The old-fashioned engineer got
his knowledge in the same way as the
boys in the Dotheboys hall, by manual
demonstration. He was Showed" by
his superior on the job. That had be-
come the accepted way of training en-
gineers on American ships.
But the new method had not long
made its bow before mechanics SEEM
ed to see something in it. The fremen
and oilers took to it; and they came
out with second or third assistant en-
gineer's licenses in such surprisingly
short time that the method Of their
advancement commanded respect.
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology was chosen to launch the
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Chicago Live Stock Quotations.

1850; light, $1775 @1S.25; packing,
81 Is a 1900; rough $16.75 q 1870;
pigs, good to choice. 1925 1925.
Cattlo-Beef cattle = Good, choice
and prime, STATS 019.50; common and
medium, $9.5OQ14.75. Butcher stock:
Cows and heifers, $7.25@135O; Gamers
and cutters, $500 7.35. stockers and
feeders: Good, choice and fancy,
$10.50@1350; inferior, common and
good and choice, $16.75@17.50 West
ern range: Beef steers, $13.50@17.50;
cows and heifers, $S.E3@13.O0.
Shecp-T-ambs: Choice and prime,
S1575 G01625; medium and good, $13.75
@1575; culls. $8.0O@12.50. Ewes:
Choice and prime, s1O.25 D1o.50; me-
dunn and good, $9.00Q 1925; culls,
$3.50M7 100.
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a Land of Mourning.

At dinner parties in France no flow
erS are now seen on the dinner tables
and people never go arm-in-arm.
This custom of mo flowers" always
prevails among families In mourning
and as long as French territory Is in
the hands Of invaders a "deuil du
pays" will be observed.-London Ex-
press.
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college STUFF DOES WONDERS
in SHAPING OUT MARINE ENGINEERS
HUN HATES COLUMBUS;
He FOUND. AMERICA

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Rev. Daniel
L. March, just returned from
the western front after a SIX
months visit, tells this story:
A German prisoner was out OF
humor and was being "kidded
by the Americans.
"Why so glum, Fritzie?" ask
ed one doughboy. care you
sore at France?"
No. Fritzie wasn't sore at
France, nor England, nor Bel
gium.
swell, what's the matter?'
'T'm sore at Christopher Co
lumbus," was the reply. HE
discovered America"
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Chicago Grain and Provision Prices

= Chicago 2 yellow, -$146
@1.47; No. 9 yellow, $1.a5 q 1877; No.
yellow, $1.20M12S.
Oats-No. 8 white, Ce@6S%c; stand
ard, 67@671ac.
Rye-No. l. $1.621a.
Barley-S5 q &c.
Timothy 1000.
Lard-$2605
Ribs-$21 .50M2250.