The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15

Mr.. Walsh then cited specific instances
OF great waste of paper by the Alien
property Custodian in announcing the
ssie OF some enemy property by the
FEDERAL Board for Vocational Educa-
ton ana other bureaus and commits
sions and boards and the like.
the shipping Board has broken out
win printers ink-eolitis' in several
places" he continued. I'VE see the
merchant mariner published ut Boston,
winch has its counterpart at Hog Island
ana probably other communities where
SHIPS are built, printed on a good grade
OF paper, Illustrated, and printing in
FORMATION and news that Of course could
not De printed in n newspaper. Head
INES INFORM benighted public that
New York policeman training for a
soldier likes 1t too. Dungarees just now
mean more than police uniform. An
Illustration accompanies this inspiring
article.
"A two-thirds page illustration, show.
ing recruiting service enrolling agents
with Louis Lissett In centre background
win an announcement that the service
mas $500 official enrolment stations
AT Rexall Drug Stores. in charge of ar
agent who receives 81 Der year. Nc
doubt to landlubbers who enroll sea.
sickness cures are offered at usual re.
tail rates.
Tales OF the Sea.
we are told in a column editoria
nat there Is only one American Merchant
marine This announcement Is probably
the principal reason for the publicat ior
OF this chronicle, as the daily press ha,
undoubtedly been insisting there wer,
two American Merchant Marines, on,
In Boston and the other in Idaho Their,
IL that Illustrated daily Emergency Flee
News filled with sea breezes and cpl
grams OF the deep.
"The Shipping Board has, II seems, &
health and sanitation section Of the in
dustrial relations group. through tn,
United States Shipping Board Elmer
gency Fleet Corporation. The manage
OF the bureau tells us in an eight pag,
release Of No. 527 that as an 'impedi
ment to the machinery Of war the mos
quito has proved to be quite as siniste
factor as the German propaganda o
the jellyfish pacifist'
This heart throb will undoubtedly b.
reprinted. Watch for It in the from
page Of the metropolitan papers on Sep
! TENDER 20. II you cannot. abide you
soul in patience until that date. read OF
September 22 six page release No SO
entitled 'Everybody's Doing It. What
Why driving ship rivets. This from tn
education and training section of tn
industrial relations group.
Some Other Publications.
''The Department of Agriculture issue
| several bulletins. news letters. crop re
ports and food surveys weekly and SUP
plements with loose sheets containin
| much Of the same information in table:
do not include farmers bulletins.
THE Fuel Administration has pub
| iished Fuel Facts a booklet on coate
paper with information much OF whic
| appeared heretofore in the daily pres
as news.
1.-THE Surgeon-General prints a maya
zine Carry On OF the lot. this lie ev
de.ltly worth printing and II shows car
and forethought in its makeup.
| "Our old friend The Recldmdtio
Record is still coming out. The Ser
TENDER issue contains extracts from seN
eral members of the Senate and Hous
three or four pages Of reprints froI
editorial articles. a list Of farm name
which will be a great relief to the sturd
wheat grower OF Minnesota. He can no
christen his farm by smashing bott
of buttermilk against the silo after II
ship launching style and dub his far
anything from island Home to Mour
tain Glen
1.-THE list is too long to enumerate sp'
officially. but II Is OF such proportion
that It ought TO be speedily and effe
lively shortened. The taxpayers OF u
republic ought not to be levied upon
war time to pay for paper. ink. brair
or services OF would-be Horace Creole!
and Jack Londons. to splatter ide;
about items which II real news. or
public interest, can be. and ought to b
and in fact usually ara. published In Il
daily press.
"The newspapers Of America are p
trotic and they ought not to be by Fe
eral decree made victims of demands I
the ground of economy and conservatio
while wastefulness and extravaganza a
given free hand in governmental boar
and departments"