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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-18
German Resources.

The resources Of Germany before
the war were estimated to be $780,
0O0,O00,0o0. The annual expcnds-
lures then Of the imperial goyerns
ment were abour $s00,00GOCO. Her
debt now Is $30,00OO00, 900, ana her re-
sources ana man power have been se-
verely impaired After the war she
is confronted with additional expendi-
lures growing ont Of the war totaling
some $4,000, 100000
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-18
whea. Products Exports.

Sir William Goode of the British
food ministry. says that from July
1917. 10 April. 1913. the United States
exported TO The allies s0.oo0,ooo bush
els OF wheat products. OF this 1t Is
asserted that 50.000.0o0 bushels rep
resented voluntary sacrifices by the
American people In their consumption
II aa-l,nnl
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-18
Real Vacation.

s'You say you are on u vacation?"
"Yes," replied the philosophical pers
son. "For the next few weeks ! am
going to quit riding on the cars Or
talking about the weather"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-18

Every motorist should show
mis- eoIors on the good roads
bond issue. Carry banner in
your car asking your nelehbors
to vote Eyes" on the S6O,o0o,o00
good roads question on the little
ballot Nov. 5.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Dollars Coaxed From Pockets
By Many Clever Pleaders

Cast of Broadway" yesterday attest
ed the truth of Kipling's words that
the "Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady
are sisters under the skin" For near
Mott and the Bowery three women
were seeking funds for the Red Cross.
One, slant Of eye, wore the robes of
the Flowery Kingdom; the second, in
a rich brogue, asked help for the mercy
organization that is "aidin' the b'ys,"
and the third, whose ancestors probably
once beat the tom-tom in the faraway
Congo, sought few pennies "fo' de
Lawd's sake"
Three touring cars, loaded with kid
dies chaperoned by Red Gross nurses,
were bowling down Centre Street yes
terday when tire on the first car
burst. Did the kiddies lament the mis-
nurses, they started singing. A crowd
gathered. Then the nurses took part
and separated the gathering from a
neat sum-all for the cause.
A collie, a perfect specimen Of its
breed, with a Red Gross bag dangling
from his neck, stood at the entrance
to the Brooklyn Bridge and aided his
owner, an attractive looking woman ir
regulation Red Cross garb, to raise 6
goodly sum for the cause AS pas.
,, serby dropped coin or bill into the
bag, the collie raised paw in thanks
BY sundown, he was tired dog.
John Parnell Dunn Goodman John
from Flatbush), who is devoting every
available moment to war relief chari
ties, started in yesterday to aid thu
Red Cross fund. Johns son, George
Richard, now on the firing line II
| France, wrote recently to his fathe,
that the Red Cross nurses are reall,
angels in human guise.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21

the old soldier happier than ever bv
taking a great white ribbon sash with
the words "Red Cross" on it, which she
wore around her waist, and tying the
bouquet of carnations with it.
That was how it happened, Incl
dentally, that the little girls were the
first to turn in their report to head
quarters last night. The present had
taken every carnation they had.
s126,o4e Raised in Day
1c dollars and cents the s~st day o.
the drive in Brooklyn .etted Sioe.-
049.77. This was exclusive OF TIE
money collected on the street. from,
songs and in the theatres. Reports
from these sources Will be made at n
luncheon to be held to-day
Ihlrty-fve teams participated in the
first days collections. Throughout the
week the members of the teams plan
to personally solicit contributions from
$500 families, and it is hoped to secure
at least $1,oOO,00O from this source
alone.
approximately 100000 men and
women have enlisted in the Brooklyn
campaign. The team captains, in max
ing their reports last night, said that,
Judging from the willingness of the
responses made to their requests,
Brooklyn will have no trouble in ex.
ceeding its quota of 100000 The
real drive is to see just how far over
that amount the borough can go.
Outstanding features of to- DAVIS drive
are mass meeting at noon, at Borough
Hall, and big vaudeville show in the
afternoon and evening at the Academy
Of Music
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
British Yards Make
Very High Average
In Repairing Ships

LONDON, May 2o-striking figures
of the work done in the shippingrepair
yards were published to-day. From
August 8, 1917, when the directorate
got the organization to work, to April
25, 1918, the yards have repaired and
restored 5,307 vessels, representing a
gross tonnage of 16,15O000. This gives
weekly average Of Ala, ,105 gross tons.
But the weekly average for some weeks
past has risen to more than 100000
gross tons, and is steadily rising. The
amount restored in one week reached
$4,000 gross tons.
Five Ships, each over 10000 tons,
have left the yards ready for service in
a single week.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Place on Ship Board
Offered by Hurley
To J. A. Farrell
Steel Corporation Head
Asked to Become Direc-
tor Of Operations

WASHINGTON, May 2o.-James A.
Farrell, president of the United States
Steel Corporation, is the latest captain
of industry to be asked to help the
government win the war. He has been
rendered the position of director of op-
crations of the Shipping Board.
Mr.. Farrell has not yet replied to
the invitation. Edwin F. Carey, the
present director of operations, recently
was made chairman of the boards port
Improvement committee, which will
have charge of one of the most monu-
mental undertakings ever launched in
the United States. The task of reor-
ganizing dock and harbor facilities
throughout the United States will re-
quire so much of Mr.. Carey's time that
he will not be able to continue in both
capacities.
Hope was expressed at the Shipping
Board to-day that an early acceptance
from Mr.. Farrell would be Forthcoming.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Committee Adds $2o2, ,s4o,-
600 to Measure as 1t Came
From House
Personnel of 1850
Is Authorized
Appropriation for the New
York Navy Yard Is In
creased 100000

WASHINGTON, May 20.-Carrying a
total of s1.5S7, 100000, or 1902, $4,000
more than provided by the House, the
naval appropriation bill was completed
late to-day by the Senate Naval Com
mittee and will be reported to the SEN
ate tomorrow
The measures total is $63,o53,1 ,127
less than was appropriated for the
navy for this fiscal year in the regular
naval bill and in deficiency measures.
The Senate Committee re-drafted to
make more emphatic the provision in
the House bill for the beginning of
work on the three-year building pro-
gramme by July, 1919. Construction
of the great fleet of superdread-
naughts and battle-cruisers provided
in the 1916 naval bill has been held
in allegiance in order that the build
ing of destroyers to battle German
submarines might be rushed.
Increase in Personnel
TO man the capital feet when it is
completed, the Senate provided for a
permanent increase in the enlisted per-
sonnel of the navy to "131,54O, nearly
three times the number of men in the
navy before the war" The President
also would be authorized to increase
that strength by $4,000 men for the
war.
New projects added to the House bill
by the committee included:
Construction, at cost of $9,15OO00,
of a nitrate plant at Indian Head, Md,
for the manufacture of nitrate for ma
val explosives.
Purchase, for s425,000, Of 4,900 acres
of land at the Marine Corps training
station at Quantico, Va.
Erection of new buildings at the
Naval Academy to provide room for ad-
ditional midshipmen, S2,50O,O00
Reserve supply of equipment for the
Marine Corps to replace material de-
stroyed by fire or otherwise, 1851, 200.
Equipping navy yards for ship con-
struction, S6,O0O,0O0.
Mine depot, s3,0o0,000.
Dental Corps Recognized
Other amendments by the Senate
committee provide:
That members of the dental corps
may attain the rank as high as com
mander and pay as high as captain.
That state naval volunteer forces of
1900 men be transferred to the Naval
Reserve.
That the commandant of the Marine
Corps receive the rank and pay of a
lieutenant general in the army and
that the Marine Corps also have ono
major general permanently and two
for the period of the war.
The increases made in the bill by the
committee include: New batteries for
ships. s45.537,712; ammunition, $34,-
53o,350; torpedoes and appliances,
s10,oo0,00o; reserve ordnance supplies,
$4,000, 900; Boston navy yard, $780,
600; New York navy yard. 100000;
Washington navy yard, 100000 sub
marine base, Key West, s2,500,ooO;
Mare Island, Califoria, navy yard
s15oooo; s15o 0o0 Puget Sound navy yard,
Head, Md, railroad, $525,00O; torpedo
station, Newport, R. l., $SOO,OO0; naval
fuel depot, San Diego, Cal, $175,OoO.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21

But yesterday was only the start of
drive for tremendous lot of money,
and the really big efforts are to come.
This afternoon, for instance, former
President Theodore Roosevelt is to
speak on the Red Cross at Carnegie
Hall. He will divide honors with
Josef Holman. who is to give piano
recital: Mr. Hoffman, has come here
from Aiken, S. c., to give this recital
and Colonel Roosevelt's speech will be
perhaps. the only one he will be able
to deliver during the drive.
The 7th Regiment will parade in the
sheep meadow in Central Park or Fri
day afternoon, ard Cor Friday night
William: Fox, capta:. Of the allied TIE
africa! and motion picture team, has
arranged q big patriotic concert, to be
followed by boxing carnival at Madi-
son Square Garden. The same evening
Nine. Alma Gluck will sing at the
Cooper Union Red Cross festival to be
given by the ST. Cecilia Club chorus Of
one hundred voices.
Jan lgnacc Paderewski, the pianist,
Will address Polish citizens Saturday
afternoon in the list Regiment Armory,
and saturday night the big allied the
atr'cal and motion picture ball will be
held: More than 10000 worth of tick
cts for this affair have been sold thus
far.
In the meantime in the subway. on
the elevated, at your home, in your Of
nee and even in your favorite movie
the contribution box will be placed be-
tore you at frequent intervals until
you can honestly say deep down in
your heart that you have fallen in line
with President Wilson and "given un-
til it hurts"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21

was a-plenty upon every other street
corner. One soap-box orator displayed
rare gifts in diplomacy which would
probably never have been discov-
cred if it were not for the Red
Cross. After accommodating a crowd
about him with the aid of a popular
actress who braved the acoustics of
Seventh Avenue with a French song.
the young orator found himself re-
duced to desperate step when at the
completion of the song the crowd dis
played symptoms of melting away like
an ice cream cone on the way home
from the drug store
STOP" he yelled in the deepest
tones of which his vocal cords were
capable. "Any one who takes a single
step away from this stand is German
sympathizer."
And with sheepish laugh the crowd
rallied to the Red Gross.
At another corner another young
oartor acted upon the old proverb that
"all's fair in love and war"
"Ill bet any one in this crowd $50
that | can collect that amount in five
minutes" he challenged.
"1ll take you up on that, partner"
man IN the rear of the crowd de-
clared.
The young orator leaned forward and
took the bills the man pressed forward
to tender. "Now, don't let me lose this
bet" he pleaded to the men and women
about him. Come on, boys, dig down
IN your jeans and help me out"
Fifty dollars was forthcoming, and
the man who had accepted the young
orators challenge, dropped back into
the rear OF the crowd minus that same
amount But he was not dismayed
because he had been betting that same
500 500 to that same young ora
to all appearances, continue to bet
that $50 until the quota of their par
ticular stand was oversubscribed
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Roman Legion Will Combat
Germany Among Italians

eve pledge our lives. our possessions
and our all to the President of the
United States and the government" is
the motto of the Roman Legion, an
organization begun coincident with the
plans for an America-Italy day. DR..
Antonio Stella, president, announced
yesterday that national headquarters
has been opened in the Metropolitan
Tower. 1t is the first national organiza-
ton of Italians in this country.
BY weekly bulletins the legion will
carry on a campaign among Italians
laboring people to combat German prop
aganda. The organization has re-
ceived the Endorsement of President
Wilson. The legion is completing plans
to celebrate, on May "a, the third an
niversary Of Italy's entrance into the
wa
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Many Tolurs Already
Haze Giuer1 Quotas in
Red Cross Drive

WASHINGTON, May co. - Enthusi-
astic reports of the progress of the
American Red Cross drive for a sec
ond war mercy fund of $100,000,0 900
come to headquarters here in a steady
stream throughout the opening day Of
the campaign.
Messages telling of over.subscrip-
early in the day. Conflicting claims to
the honor of first subscribing their
allotments already have been received
from several points. Governor Pink
ham cabled from Honolulu that Hawaii
had oversubscribed it's quota of
$250000. Peabody, Mass; Kossuth
County, Iowa; Pontotoc County. Okla,
and Yolo County, Cal, were others
that reported early in the day that
they had gone over the top.
Much rivalry in the auctioning of
wool clipped from the Presidents
from Governors. Governor Boyle, of
Nevada, wired:
Estate that realized $275,oo0 by sale
of Gridley sack of flour for the Sani-
tary Commission in the Civil War has
not forgotten how to bid for liberty"
Every dollar contributed will help
the boys who are going over there to
shear the Kaiser's goat" telegraphed
Governor Cats, of Florida.
Lively bidding is expected" wired
Governor Frazier of North Dakota,
and kilograms of similar purport came
from Governors Riggs Of Alaska, Pink
han. o. Hawai-; 9:lbo Of Mississippi,
Pleasant os Louisiana, Cappe- oe Ka..-
sas, Whitman Of New York, 9eec!;.: y
Of Rhode Island, Harrington of Mary
land, I.owden Of Illinois, Louis F. Hart,
acting Governor of Washington, and
others.
Wishes for the success Of the mercy
drive were expressed by the British
Red Cross in the following cablegram:
"The British Red Cross Society. On
the occasion of your Red Cross drive,
cordially wishes you success in your
great appeal. Your splendid work
speaks for itself in every war zone,
and your civilian relief work has
brought fresh heart to those of our
allies whose countries have suffered so
severely from the devastation of war.
Good luck and God speed, and may
your fresh efforts beat even the won
derful record that your yourselves
achieved last year"
The largest single subscription re-
ported tonight was 100000, by the
United States Steel Corporation. Of this
amount $500,00O was allotted for New
York City and the remainder for Pitts
burgh and other cities where the cor
poratiOn has plants.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Congress Leaders
Hold Out Against
New Tax Bill Now
Confer With McAdoo and
Treasury Experts, but
Are Unconvinced

WASHINGTON, May 2o.-Congres-
sional leaders were not convinced in
conferences to-day with Secretary Nc
Adoo and Treasury experts of the ne
cessity for immediate revenue legisla-
tion. After hearing a statement on
the governments financial situation
spokesmen for the Senate and House
held to their opinion that the enact
ment of new law can wait until De-
cember, and were more than ever dis
inclined to abandon their plans TO,
adjournment in July.
Further conferences will be held
later in the week, and President Wilson
may be called upon to speak the de-
Gliding word. Secretary McAdoo is said
to have been considerably impressed
to-day, if not by the arguments against
the necessity for action now, at least
by the difficulty of holding Congress in
session.
Bond Issues Proposed
The Congressional leaders are un-
derstood to have proposed to authorize
bond issues to meet any possible
Treasury deficit. and to have a new
revenue bill framed during the recess
and ready for prompt passage when
the session begins, in December They
contendedthat in this way more sat
isfactory legislation would result than
by attempting to hurry a bill through
this summer, with members of both
houses anxious to get home and pre-.
over, it was argued that tax legisla.
ton on the eve of elections would be
the worst possible political strategy
Secretary McAdoo and his assistant!
presented data indicating that increas
ing war expenses might result in {
large deficit by January /. They alst
insisted that new law should be pu
on the statute books as quickly al
possible SO that proper preparations fo,
enforcement could be made before it.
effective date.
Deficit Not Feared
All of the conferrees are said to have
agreed, however, that actual expendi
lures this year would be below the
appropriations, even though the huge
appropriations for war should exceed
the sums of money received during thu
year from taxes and bonds.
Members of Congress who partici
pated in the conference included Demo
cratic Leader Martin, of the Senate
Chairman Simmons of the Senate Fl
nance Committee, Chairman Kitchin o:
the House Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Sherley of the House Appro
priations Committee and Representa-
tive Garner, of Texas, a Ways ant
Means Committee member.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
81, 500, 900 Raised
In First Day of
Red Cross Drive
Continued from page l

Board of Aldermen, opened the meeting
with the statement: "a cup of water
given in His name will bring it's reward
to the giver. When you give to the
Red Cross you may be giving cool
drink to your wounded son out in No
Mans Land"
$4,000 from James B. Duke
Then somebody announced that Mr..
and Mrs. James B. Duke had given S25.-
oo0, and there were rouslng cheers for
the Dukes. Then the leader of the
Street Cleaners Band turned in $50
from the musicians and there were
cheers for the white wings"
Daniel Frohman, the theatrical pro-
Queer, made a speech and he was fol-
lowed by E. H. Sothern, the actor. And
all the time the crowd kept giving,
giving.
"Lufbery has been killed in France!"
shouted flying cadet from his seat in
a Broadway theatre yesterday after
noon. I'm learning how to fly, and
expect to die. What right have you
got to sit here in theatre and enjoy
yourselves? Now, then, let's see YOU
give and give and given'
White-clad young women with red
crosses on their brows passed baskets,
and the people in the audience gave.
Melody ard patriotism were mingled
at st. oarls Ckape! - the asternoo-
= psocess:oaa, OF clergy and nurses at
ssscsed big c-owc. There was an
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Schwab Places Order for
13O Ships at Conference
With Builders
Will Be Delivered
By Close of 1919
Vessels Are To Be of 4,2OO
Tons and With 1,5OO
Horsepower

CLEVELAND, May 20.-An agree
ment tantam0unt to q contract to build
130 vessels, to cost approximately $780,
900 each and totalling about $100,OO0,-
900, was reached here to-day between
Charles NJ. Schwab, director general of
the governments snipbuilding pro-
gramme, and Great Lakes shipbuilding
companies.
Every shipbuilding firm on the Great
Lakes from Duluth to Cleveland was
represented at the conference, and the
programme was outlined by Mr.. Schwab
and Charles Piez, vice-president of the
fleet corporation.
Vessels Are Apportioned
The order was apportioned among
the following firms:
American Shipbuilding Company, CO.;
Great Lakes Engineering Company. OF
Detroit, "a; Manitowac Shipbuilding
Company, IL, and the remainder were
divided between the Toledo Shipbuild-
ing Company, the McDougall Duluth
Shipbuilding Company and the. Glove
Sh;pbuilding Company, of Duluth.
The ships will be of 4,20o gross tons
horsepower. They will be full Wei
land Canal size of the greatest depth,
which is little more than twenty
eight feet.
Deliveries are to be completed by
the end of the lake shipping season in
1919. Contracts will be signed later.
Yard Extensions Authorized
Yard extensions necessary to take
care of the new programme authorized
to-day by Mr.. Schwab and Mr.. Piez will
be commenced Immediately, it was said.
Mr.. Schwab made tour of the
American Shipbuilding Company's yards
and complimented the men on the work
they have turned out 20 date, and urged
upon them the vital necessity of speed
and unquestioning loyalty to the COM
pany and the government in completing
the shipbuilding programme on sched-
ule time.
"You are just as essentially mem
bers Of the fighting forces Of this
country as any set of men in the ser
vice of the country" Mr.. Schwab told
the workers. "The nation must have
one million tons more ships than it
had last year. l know we will get
them. You men and the rest of the
ship workers in the country will
produce the ships. Every blow you
strike at rivet is a blow struck at
the Kaiser. The United States never
lost war and we are not going to
lose this one"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Farrell Ideal Man
For New Position,
Says Steel Industr,

James A. Farrell, the third president
OF the United States Steel Corporation,
is regarded by the steel industry as
a man prominently fitted to handle
JOB involving a knowledge of shipping.
Through his development of the for
eign trade of the Steel Corporation he
has acquired information and expert
ence which will be of great benefit in
increasing the governments capacity
tor transporting men and supplies to
the European war front.
In 1903 when Mr.. Farrell was amde
the head of the United States Steel
Products Company this country's for
eign trade in iron and steel had
dropped to a little more than 100000
tons. In 1912, one year after he was
elected to succeed William E. Corey,
as president of the Steel Corporation,
the United States did an export bust
ness in steel amounting to 100000
tons. This big jump has been attrib-
uted largely to Mr.. Farrell's initiative
in broadening the American markets
The head of the Steel Corporation
has been called the "man with the head
full of figures" He earned this
sobriquet when he was called as wit,
ness for the defence in the Federal
suit, still pending, for the dissolution
of the company. His testimony, which
consumed nine days, was a remarkable
story of business achievement He
showed that the exports of the cor
poration were of a widely miscel-
laneous character, ranging from cotton
ties for Egypt to highway bridges for
Iceland; from wire products for the
Holy Land to light rails and pipe for
the diamond mines of the Transvaal;
from galvanized sheets for the houses
of Borneo natives to the steel skeleton
work for the artistic buildings of
Buenos Aires.
Born at New Haven, on February IS,
1868, Mr.. Farrell started his steel
career in wire mill, while he was yet
in his teens. While his work in the
shops was considered satisfactory he
gained an early reputation as a sales
man with the Pittsburgh Wire Com
pany. Soon after this concern was
taken over by the American Steel &
Wire Company, Mr.. Farrell was made
general sales manager. He filled this
position with such success that when
the company decided to enter the for
eign field he was offered and accepted
the post of foreign sales agent
When the Steel Corporation absorbed ID
the AUerican Steel & Wire Company
he continued in the same capacity and
finally upon the organization Of the
United States Steel Products Company
he was made its head, from which posi-
tion he jumped to the presidency of
the Steel Corporation.
In addition to being president of the
Steel Corporation, M. Farrell is presi-
dent Of TIE National Foreign Trade
| Coucc;l
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
India Quieter During War
Than in ANY Previous Time

S1MLA, India. May 20 (via Ottawa)
Sir George Roos-Keppel, Government
Commissioner, speaking at a war meet
ing at Pessawar, stated that the
frontier had been quieter since the
outbreak of the war than it had been
for the four years before.
The Viceroy had stated. said the
speaker, that relations with the Ameer
Of Afghanistan were never more cord
ial. Representatives attending the
meeting had seen for themselves how
the Ameer had kept the country peace
full and prosperous when Nhe rest of
the world was afame.