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descript scattermouche crews or by
stolid "squareheads," mostly the off,
scourings of European ports. Then
true "sailorizing" had become an al
most lost art.
*
But the lost art is to be revived as
ing the Hun and equipping the nation
to keep the commerce of Germany
from the seas, once the kaiser has
been driven within his own borders
and defeated. Not one of the ancient
traditions of the American seaman
is to be overlooked when the thou
sands of American boys, destined to
take the places of their tarry, hard
bitten forebears in fo'csle and on
quarterback are trained.
Even the ch1utN will come arHin
into it's own. There are still old salts
who, in so good cause, will sing
again the songs of the sea. Wherefore
it may chance that again THE Banks
of the Sacramento" will sound when
the anchor is raised on some new
wooden shin: that "Hqnging Johnny
and whisky Johnny" will float out
over the waves OF the western ocean
while youthful crew are hoisting
away; that some astounded landsman
Will learn tnat 'OlQ storm Along w as
a Good Old Man." while the pumps
suck the bilges dry; or that
I'VE will heave
Aye! Aye!
And we'll swing
Aye! Aye!
And pay Paddy Doyle for his boots"'
while the sails of some yet unresur-
rected square rigger are being furled.
The shipbuilding program for 1918
and 1919 calls for from 100000 to
100000 tons of shipping, and that
the vessels turned out to fill this re-
quirement may be sufficiently manned
means that from $4,000 to 100000 Of
ficers, engineers and sailors will be
needed. 1t was to train men and boys
sufficient to meet this demand that
the shipping board established its
training service.
The establishment of this service
dates back to the early days of the
war, and in part to the long cherished
dreams of a Boston business man,
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boy who would heed the call of the
sea.
Scattered throughout forty-eight
states are more than $500 druggists
signlfied their desire to aid the gov
ernment These druggists are to be
found in 6,300 cities. towns and VIII
lagos. and any boy who wants to en-
list in the merchant marine service
has but to sign application papers at
the nearest drug store properly au-
thorized to accept them. He will then
be referred to physician, hundreds
of whom throughout the country have
undertaken to examine applicants for
this service as q patriotic work. If
he passes The recruit is then ordered
to report to Boston headquarters or
the nearest training port, where ne is
examined by a physician of the ship
ping board.
!. \
Each recruit is required to pay his
own fare to Boston, but If he is re-
ceived into the service the fare is re-
funded. Apprentices are paid $40 a
month while training, and exempted
from military duty as long as they
are regularly employed in the mer-
chant marine. The uniform of the
service is blue, and all men accepted
receive their uniform and working
clothes. Upon graduation the ship
ping board undertakes to place each
man in a merchant marine vessel.
The training courses cover period
of six weeks intensive instruction,
and include all phases of work per-
tanning to duties on steel and wooden
ships as we'll as steam and Sailing
vessels. The Meade is used exclusive
ly as a receiving ship. The other hulls
of the fleet, however, are at sea four
or five days in every week. during
1T nYfn
given practical instruction.
An instructor is provided for every
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Agriculture Scientists Are Sore Needed by the Government

200.000,000 cans of fruits and vege-
tables were preserved through the
activities of the home demonstration
agents in 1917.
"By cooperation with the bureau
of chemistry, the Council of National
Defense, War IndustHes Boards and
other public offices in Washington
we were able to distribute to the
proper communities in the south two
million tin cans for farm women's
home canning"
And then DR. Knapp's audience was
to discover that wheat and oats are
from 1909 to 1918, 162 per cent addi-
tional had been the wheat increase,
and 1873 per cent the oats, cotton, the
proverbial product of the south, mao
been practically at a standstill Corn
showed almost so per cent increase
in the nine years.
A further question revealed that
the work of the county agent is per-
formed in conjunction with the eX-
pert advice and assistance OF spe-
cialists from the state college force,
and that much of the success of a
years efforts depends upon the uen-
mite plans outlined minutely at the
beginning of the year. Being spe-
cific in his mission to the farmers is
first requisite.
\ X
The program of agricultural produc-
ton for 1918 shows very definite figures
and facts, and is somewhat Of an eye
opener to one who may have thought
vaguely of farming as something ever
to be done by somebody else and alto
gether prosy.
Quoting from this program: Before
the war the United States received dairy
products from about twenty foreign coun-
tries. These supplies having stopped, 1t
has become necessary to not only re-
place them at home, but to export large
quantities. In 1914, for instance, we i'm
ported approximately 64,000,O0o pounds
more of dairy products than we exported,
not Including fresh milk and cream. Last
year we exported 320,000,00O pounds
more than we imported"
In every paragraph of the program is
seen the guiding hand of the far-seeing
Department of Agriculture, who feels IT.
self sponsor for the upkeep OF America
and her allies until the war shall have
been fought to finish. In the matter
of wool, for instance, 1t Is n little disturb
ing to hear that we furnish only about
half of what we need In normal times,
and that to equip 100000 soldiers and
clothe them for one year would require
the entire quantity of wool grown annu-
ally in this country.
The departments plans for 1918 hope
to develop sheep husbandry, especially
in the eastern and southern states. Pred
atory animals, now as of old, when fables
were written and sung of lambs and wild
animals, are regarded as a stumbling
block in widely Increased production of
all kinds of live stock. On the western
cause yearly losses averaging s25, 900, 900.
In the case Of rodents, particularly, the
department, which announces that rats
and mice levy toll of s200,000.000 upon
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the nations food supply, lis having ex-
cellent success of late in eradicating
them.
4 X
Pork production will be increased.
Pork constitutes more than one-half
of all the meat produced in the United
States and is the mainstay of the
ration of the laboring man and the
soldier. The need for increasing the
supply of fats is particularly acute.
The reported decrease In the number
of hogs in the allied countries also
has been very great. Before the war
we exported on the average 100000
900 pounds OF pork products yearly.
Last year our exports had Increased
to LAG, 900, 900. pounds. the excess
largely bacon. In 1917 the acreage or
corn grown was the largest in the
history of the country.
Record crops have been produced
in the last twelve months, but these
achievements do not call for COM
placency. The necessity of again Sc
curing large yields from the farms
and ranges this year already has
been strikingly emphasized by the
President in his message to the farm
ers of the country.
The creed of the southern extension
work in particular takes In four
points for production during the war:
introducing good methods in farm
ing, increasing the production of ex-
portable foods. to have every com
munity feed itself and not to produce
an excess of perishable foods.
In the county agricultural work in
the north and west it is stated that
the most significant outgrowth has
been the increased popular concep-
tion of the farmer as business man.
"Greater net profit per farm" has
been from the beginning the domi-
nant idea there. Thousands of farm
ers have been persuaded to keep
books.
Farm communities have been taught
to pool their orders and to get to-
gether in the matter of marketing.
Many thousand farm hands have been
detailed for northern and western
farms through the county agents
ministrations. Work in relation to
soil Improvement has been invaluable.
In some parts of the west the diking
of districts had multiplied the cul-
tivatable area more than three times.
~
1t used to be the opinion of some
that anybody could work on a farm.
that results were all about the same,
anyway; that pigs turned out to shift
for themselves made hogs of them
selves in time; that goats from little
shavings grew; that cattle were
merely calves grown tall and less
wabbly, and that a "hired man" at $50
a month and his keep" was the sole
requirement of a small farm. 1t is
growing more and more true that the
great farm lands of the United States
require scientific handling If the enor-
nous increase in food production is
to be more than evanescent.
To show how Germany regards the
technically trained farmer, a para
graph in one of the numerous ac-
counts of prisoners of war. that now
come flooding into weeklies and dali
American as to his qualifications for
work A nice Tommy Atkins, know
ing what was coming Sammy's way
and discovering that said Sammy
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clipper ships" at San Francisco.
whore the Barbary Coast sucked in
the old-time sailor man, stripped him
or his gold and cast him forth upon
another three-year voyage; at New
York, where South and West streets
still harbor what is left of the drab
structures that were the sailors
boarding houses at these ports have
the training ships been stationed.
And others will soon cast anchor in
the harbor of New Orleans, where
from time out of mind ships in the
Caribbean trade have touched: and at
Newport News, where the River road
still holds the tang OF the open sea.
Upon these ships American boys are
learning to read, hand and steer"
the necessary accomplishments of an
A. B. in the fo'c'sle of n windjammer,
since the speedy American wooden
schooner is being built more extern
sively than ever before and even the
entines and brigs-have been dragged
from the mud of a hundred rotten
rows" to be rebuilt and patched and
painted so that they may take up
again their burden in the coastwise
carrying trade.
= s:
Also upon these ships American
boys are learning the less romantic
duties which mark the difference be-
tween a sailor in steam and one in
sail, and each is being given the
grounding which will At him some
day ito sleep aft"-officer of some
stanch American ship.
Time was when the American sea-
man was race unto himself. Into
the farthest reaches OF the seven seas
he drove the fleet-heeled clippers of
the ffties, while his wife ashore
raised sturdy sons to take up their
fathers work when the tricky sea at
last had claimed him. Then came
the days when the American mer-
chant marine sailed into the doldroms
of decay, when the few sailing ships
were no longer manned by Down East
sailormen. but were driven by nom
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Special Correspondence
WA SHINGTON, D. C..

WASHINGTON. D. c..
~ nee again is American bone
n " andn Drawn TO man American
u merchantmen. once again is
~ the American flag to fly over
millions of tons OF shipping scattered
through every harbor where a cargo
for the States can be scraped together
to flll yawning hold or where an
empty warehouse waits for American
merchandise.
**
Old ports have awakened from long
sleep, Jared into sudden wakefulness
by the crying need for men and ships.
When these ports were in the heyday
Of their tarry glory they were the
hunting ground of greasy crimps,"
VINO piled their bloody calling
shanghaiing unwilling crews aboard
deep water craft about to clear for
the long voyage. But the old ports
have come to life to find that the
crimp and his chief imp, the sinking
boarding house runner" are no more.
Men are no longer lacking. Crews are
no longer hard to fill
Instead, thousands of young Ameri-
cans are docking to the age-old
water fronts. They are the boys who
saw their childhood dreams of some
day running OF to sea vanish with
the passing Of the American clipper
ship, and the later triumph of steam
over sail. And now with a newer,
greater American merchant marine
just below the horizon, they art the
boys who will make the new mer-
chant fleet possible. They are flocking
to the old ports to sign articles" on
some one of the big training ships
which are being operated by the
United States Shipping Board recruit
ing and training service and from
which will be supplied the officers and
men for the American ships of the
future.
At Boston, where along India street
still hang memories of the fteet-heeled
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this need, on New Year day, 1918.
there went into commission as
training ship in Boston harbor the
Calvin Austin. Once a coast-wise
passenger ship. the Calvin Austin had
board the November before. 1t was
this vessel which came into promi-
nence about that time because of be-
Ing the first vessel to reach Halifax
after the great disaster there.
With facilities for training between
300 and COO men, the Calvin Austin
was soon taxed to her utmost. and
the Governor Dingley. a sister ship,
was added. Later third coast-wise
commissioned in this training serv-
ice. A short time ago the old Army
transport Meade was brought up to
Boston from Newport News and Will
be used as the mother ship of n
squadron that will shortly be in ac-
tive service turning out young men
for service on the vessels destined to
take troops and cargo across the
ocean. The Meade was originally the
City of Berlin, a famous liner, hold
ing transatlantic records both ways.
She has facilities for training more
than 1,400 students, and while too
old for sea service is an ideal train
ing ship.
Nt San Francisco has been stationed
rines. This is the first training ship
to be stationed on the Pacific coast.
Another training ship, the Dorothy
Bradford, will have its base in New
York harbor. Present plans also call
for the placing of training ships at
Norfolk, Va; New Orleans and Seat
tie, Wash.
Although the number of training
ports where American youths may
1t themselves to man American ves-
iels are comparatively few, there Is
yet no reason why any able-bodled
American boy between the ages of
twenty-one and thirty should not
sign articles" with some training
ship IL he so desires. To this end the
shipping board has inaugurated a
thorough and far-reaching system of
recruiting that should reach every
village and hamlet as we'll as the
large cities, and find the ear of every
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How ChapIainS Are
l. Equipped for Service
m HE following supplies are fur

TT HE following supplies are fur
nished by the Episcopal diocese
of Massachusetts to it's chaplains in
military service: Communion set,
recreation tent. motion picture ma
chine with screen. two fiber trunks
for carrying motion-picture outfit,
portable altar, CROSS and candlesticks,
stationery with name of regiment,
talking machine with attachment to
play any record, large type
writer, small typewriter and auto
truck for motion-picture equipment.
These articles total cost of 81 ,644.52,
as stated in a report from the joint
commission on social service of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
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Today there are thirty schools OF
navigation throughout the country,
scattered from Maine to California,
while ten schools of marine engineer
ing have been opened around the
coast and at inland cities such as
Chicago and Cleveland.
But great as was the demand for
officers, equally great was the need
for sailors. firemen,. coal passers,
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Correspondence

special correspondence
WASHINGTON, D. c., -
EIHE subject of food conserva-
tion, for wars sake, may seem
threadbare, but the need for
& agricultural scientists in this
most necessary activity seems to be
understood by but comparatively few
people. These few-chiefs of the vari
Gus divisions of the Department of
Agriculture who have been mission
aries to the farmer during the last
several years-are almost ready to
throw up their hands in despair, If
the vast number of skilled assistants
who have left since April 6, 1917, is
in the least augmented.
Considerably more than 5000 men
and women have stepped out of the
ranks that are lined up for increased
food production, large percentage
having entered military or naval
service. Under the food production
act of August 10. 1917, Congress made
available to the department an addl-
tional appropriation of S11,346,400 for
the extension and development of its
activities in many directions, and di-
rected the department to carry out
it's intentions in this respect.
The department, therefore, has been
its forces very considerably when, at
the same time. it has been losing large
numbers of its most effective and
trained employees.
That this is knotty problem is the
opinion particularly of DIR. Bradford
c. Knapp, head of the southern divl-
sion of the states relations bureau
of the Department of Agriculture. Dr.
Knapp's father was the father also of
the wonderful extension work now in
danger of deteriorating If helm in
some form does not come.
*
The war has served to exhibit to
the country at large, as the country
never quite realized before, It's de-
pendence upon agriculture and the
manifold problems which beset our
primary industry" is the statement
of one authority in the Offices of Sec
retary Houston.
THE southern states extension
work." said DIR. Knapp, was ma
terially. affected when war was de-
clared in April, 1917. Plans. for the
year were definitely changed to meet
emergency conditions. 1t was decided
in a conferenc Of all the agricultural
workers of the country that the most
important problem of the American
farmer was to increase the food sup
ply. Consequently, the larger portion
of the time of all agents and other
extension workers was given to pro-
ductive and conservation work.
ut has not been so long ago that
this work. emanating from Washing
ton, but cooperative with local and
state boards, was considered nom
sense. Constant care was used to in
culcate the idea that our efforts were
entirely in the interest of the farm
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ers. The county agent stands out
among the effective aids we have as
the pivot of many a triumph. He
might be called the priest of an in
different flock grown greedy now for
advice that leads to better things.
And let me tell you" said the
speaker, earnestly, "the county agent
and many others of our men, If they
happen to be in the draft age, have
been in a state of mental confusion
that is next to torture. They, one
and all, l believe, without exception,
want to go to war. This is their per-
sonal desire. But to know what is
best for their country is a decision
harder to make. Letters by the hun
dred have been pouring into the
states relations service ever since the
draft regulation was instituted. From
Louisiana, with a date of May IS last,
comes a letter from a county agent
who has been of big service in the
development of new agricultural ideas
in the south.
X
x X
els there not some way that I can
be of greater service to my country,
in this great hour of need, than as a
county agent? I know / am doing
good here in this community, but nv
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1918-12-04

80 widely accepted IN theory marks
ihe bcrinniur ~ another epoch ln hu-
man history. hut ID should ia nowisc
rlonc our eyes to tho great difficulties
that must hc overcome before Il can
lie accepted Va pfactlcc. 40 ono who
staidlcK the composition " humanity
today VIII fail 10 fo.ilixr that racial
gclieinuS ana chronological differences
stiii exist which seem almost hopeless
y irrcconccivablo but when the COM
position 81 to5ay Is compared With that
VI a thousand or two thousand years
ago. thorc Is reason to believe that
even these apparently unbrldgahle
chasmH may be Spanncs
Il IS only within recent times that
any great number ~ people have bccn
able to dwell Together peacefully UNI
der government Of common consent
and agreement Tho republic ~ swift.
efland. the republic Of France the re-
puhlics ~ south and Central America.
and. best OF an. our own republic are
an promises Of world wide peace
league OF a iei4n Of law based on tho
consent ~ the governed and sustained
hy the organized opinion Of mankind.
II has taken thousands OF years and
nnnmclahic stfuggles 20 establish the
principles OF democracy rs applied 20
nationai!sm. We must not expect "a
establish them on an international ba p
sis with any less difficulty But II the
prospects seem hioak. the purpose is
excited and Il the course ahead an
pears rough the goal IL worthy Of at
tairment
OF course. there will be failures
hundcrs. discouragcments mistakes.
and periods Of reaction, but what great
task can be successfully accomplished
without them2 There win be tlnos
when aii VIII be doubt and detection
and when everybody but the fearless.
and far seeing viii lose faith. but II
what great achlcvcmef ss%~a such
times hccn csrnpcd2
Not only DOES President Wilson face
the most trying labor ~ his career {:
layine the cornerstone of "a peace
league. but we and succccsing genera.
lions are going TO face equally hare
lahors in erecting ana maintaining TN,
super structure paradoNicai though
II may seem. the establishment OF O
practical. workable peace league Is so.
ing 20 mean strifc--not in ono CRANE
aad conclusive spasm. but chronic. in,
tcrnittcnt and protractcd like that
amina which national democracy was
born ana fostercd.- Houston Chronicle
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ECHOES OF SCIENCE

sour milk often VIII remove iron
rust stains from white fabrics.
spain deNotcs more than 400 900
acres ~ Hand to olive culture
New York leads the States aud Mich
( iisun ranks second ia salt production.
some lavancso spiders make webs
80 Atrone Il requires a knife TO cut
thcm
TINY magnets set into ihp wood holp
10 hold new toy building blocks to-
eothor
Web fingered gloyos To holp swim
mars arc the invention uf Honolulu
physician
Scissors viii wear hottcr aud keep
their edges longer " left OPEN when
not IN use.
The English nneuagc ~ spoken by
lust about ten per cont Of the worlds
inhahitnnta
a r'nnsy lNania scientist Is ,rying to
raise Australian eucalyptus trees in
that State
Binding stone made in Germany
from blast furnace sing ANA lime grows
harder as n ages
Tho velocity Of earthquakes Is reg
storcd two hundred fold 10y a scismo.
graph invented by Japanese scien
list
An automobile tire pump has been
invented that b. snnpcd over the crank
shaft at d car and operated hy It's
engine.
several native plants that yield flores
suitable for textiles have been found
Wv nn Argentine poverumcn; commit
tee
The making Of sicrcoscopic photo.
graphs Of minute objects with u hinuc
ular microscope rs me purpose OF a
new camera.
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SOME LATE ONES


a story Is going the rounds that
originated in draft board at Rich
mond. a darky who WINS eager t.
eVade the draft had been told that the
easiest way out was TO declare his owe.
sight was poor. ''i'ut watch out. he
cause they n do everything they can
TO trick YOU
Sam had this in mind when they be-
gan 10 question him and sure enough,
after ne had declared his eycsight was
no good the examining physician
pointed to a card on tho wall aud said.
How much of that sign can you read.
sam ?"
sign? Say. boss where am dat
wall2r Sunday Times
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Refused TO Play viii Him.

Il met our new minister GA my way
20 SUNDAY school mother said While.
and he asked me il I ever played mar
blcs on sunday"
what did you answer asked the
mother.
II simply said. Get thee behind me.
Satru' and walked of and left him %
was me triumphant response. Utica
Observer.