Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15

monthly publication merging WAT
THE Shipping Board has broken out
with Printers 1nk-eoiitis IN severn
places. We see the Merchant Mariner.
published at Boston, which has IT'S
counterpart in Philadelphia. Hog
Island and probably other communi-
ties whore ships are built, printed on
a good grade of paper. ilustrateo'
and printing information ana news
that, of course, could not be printed
in a newspaper. Headlines inform
benighted public that New York po-
liceman training for soldier. likes
1t, too. Dungarees just now mean
more than police uniform. An illus
tration accompanies this inspiring ar
ticle.
1--WE are told in column editorial
that there is only one American mer-
chant marine.' This announcement is
probably the principal reason for the
publication Of this chronicle, as the
sfsting there were two American mer-
chant marines'-one in Boston and the
other in Idaho. There is that illus
trated daily. Emergency Fleet News.
filled with sea breezes and enisrams
Of the deep.
Mosquito Gets Publicity.
1.-THE shipping board has. It seems, a
health and sanitation section of the
Industrial relations group, through
the United states Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation. The
manager Of the information bureau
tells US In an eight-page release No.
527 that as an 'impedinent to the
machinery of war the mosquito has
proved to be quite as sinister factor
as the German propaganda or the
jelly fish pacifist"
Read on September % six-paEe
release. No. sal, entitled 'Everybody's
Doing IT. What? Why driving ship
rivets. BY the same Boswell. setting
forth the experiences Of men with in
tellectual faces, businesslike faces and
men wearing overalls. This from the
education and training section of the
Industrial relations group.
THE Department Of Agriculture is
sues several bulletins. news letters.
crop reports and food surveys weekly
containing much of the same infor
nation in tables. I do not include
farmers bulletins.
Fuel Facts Printed.
1.-THE fuel administration has pub
lished Fuel Facts" booklet on
coated paper. with information. much
Of which has appeared heretofore in
the daily press as news.
lie surgeon general prints q mag
azine. Carry On. Of the lot. this is
evidently worth printing and it shows
care and forethought in it's makeup.
Our old friend. the Reclamation
Record. is still coming out. The Sep
tember issue contains extracts from
several members of the Senate and
House, three or four pages of re-
prints from editorial articles, a list
of farm names. which will be great
relief to the sturdy wheat grower of
Minnesota He can now chr:sten his
farm by smashing bottle of butter
milk against the silo-after the ship
launching style-and dub his farm
ANYTHING from Island Home to Noun
tain Glen
public Roads is the title Of maya
zine issued by the Department Of Agri-
culture. containing some impressive il
Illustrations and interesting Information,
but might well be discontinued until
after the war closes.
Daily Press Enough.
'The list is too long to enumerate
specifically, but it is of such proper
tons that it ought to be speedily and
effectively shortened. The taxpayers
upon in war time to pay for paper.
ink, brains or services of would be
Horace Greelys and Jack Londons
to splatter ideas about items which
If real news. or of public interest. can
be. and ought to be, and, in fact. usually
are. published in the daily press.
THE newspapers of America are
patriotic and they ought not to be
by federal decree made victims of de-
mands on the ground of economy and
extrava canoe are given free hand in
governmental boards and depart
ments."