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The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
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FAC TORY MANNED"
ST WOME N

uSumenL as well as the requirements
of other nations during that period.
OF especial interest TO Americans is
the Indian Cotton Committee, which
is studying the cotton market with a
view 10 the development of hong staple
c"tton~ In india
In the direction of developing new
industries the Engineering Trades
Committee is compiling list of the
articles suitable for manufacture, by
those with engineering trade expert
once, which were either not made In
the United Kingdom before the war,
bat were imported or were made In
small or Insufficient quantities and for
which there is likely To be consld-
cradle demand after the war. All the
problems connected with promoting
these new Industries viii he taken up
by this committee
Another important field is the devel-
opmeut OF mineral resorces. The I'm
perial Mineral Resources Bureau Com
mittee is preparing n scheme for es-
Cahlishing an Information bureau in
London To study mineral resources and
requirements mud suggest plans for de-
veiopment along this line che Depart
ment of Scientific and Industrial Re
search has more than score Of com
mittCes devoted 10 the Investigation OF
specific matters such as metalurgy
glass and optical instruments, llumi-
nation. ahrasives. vitreous compounds
per. Along this line also the Board OF
Trade has had At work since 1915 com
mittceS 8n lhe Coal Fr8deS, IroH aBd
Steel Trades Engineering Trades,
Electrical Trades Non-Ferrous Metal
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09

Preparatory to this development,
Great Britain is taking what is proba-
bly, the most remarkable inventory
ever attempted. Under the direction
of the Ministry Of Reconstruction, The
Ministry of Munitions, Department Of
the Foreign Office and Board Of Trade
and other governmental agencies near
~ a hundred committees are collecting
information throughout the empire
These inquiries touch the life of The
British people in all its phases.
For example the Prime Minister'S
Committee on Commercial and Indus
trial Policy is considering what indus
tries are essential to the future safety
st the nation ana what steps should re-
taken To maintain and establish them
what should be done TO recover home
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
OPTIMISTIC REPORTS
ON SHIP BUILDING

Washington, July S-Optimistic re-
ports Of shipbuilding on the Pacific
coast were made today to the ship
building board by Director General
Schwab and Vice President Piez of the
emergency fleet corporation, tele-
graphing from Los Angeles.
Everything look good" declared
Mr.. Schwab, who drove the first rivet
in the lG,e00-ton tanker West Mistick
at the Moore shipbuilding plant.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09

is inquiring into the natural resources
and trade possibilities of the five self
governing dominionS Then there Is
the Financial Facilities Committeee
charged with ascertaining whether the
normal arrangements for financing
trade viii be adequate for postwar
need, sad, If not. how they should be
SUPP temcuted. This Commission will
alst consider The problem of financing
the conversion OF munitions plants
into factories for normal peace pro-
duciDn. Another Important body uu-
der fte Ministry OF Reconstruction is
the central Committee of Materials
supply which is considering rhe un-
rare amH amount ot supplies ot maer-
rial required by The various parts of
the empire during he period If read
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
TWO AMERICAN AIRMEN
KILLED I'M BATTLE

With the American Army in France
July S-Allan Ash. OF Chicaso. a
member of the Lafayette flying
squadron. has been killed i'm combat
with several German machines over
scissors. His machine when failing
was seen TO burst into flames
Warren T Hobbs, of Worcester
Mass. another member of the LaFay-
ette flyins squadron, was killed June
% Forced to fly low because of en-
CINE trouble he was brOueht down
ay anti-aircraft guns
w ill., Hall and wife and Miss
Goldie uillow leave this morning for
New York and other eastern cities.
They will travel in an automobile.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09

- aalpn.4s 1na -slpnan,slgs il.
TITS and Textile Trades
Inc reports of these hitter comr,fr-
'c'S nave already boon submltred AMI
constitute q formidable array Of nc.
c'''"'c ana detai;ed information MS "a
NC SITUATION confronting various il.
III Addltlon 70 these ipoulrios ~
.' D"'"'''leeS sanctioned by the govern
r 800 many other Investigations are
n'Hnt mad" mon Tho Initiative NJ H..
~, ",u'" manufacturers ~ merchants
N''' aii ihrse arrangements for in
'''>'''g Of" volume ana Improving tha
'"' q" ''' 'l me things thai cnn no
'''' III tte british empire hive
, lone pans for building IN \ greo, salt.
'h@ agency fhe government t,.e nr.,
~" DrW loiht Department of the
V'',An oIrc" ANA The Board of rrnde
""''h IS Known rs The Department ~
'NeINeaS Trade, DEVELOPMENT and Ia.
IriilEchce This body controls ,,,.
h"Ard Of Trades Trade Commlssione,
service within The empire and The isor
eish ohice'S Commercial Attocba cory.
zoe IN foreign countries. The 'v,o,..
"f''''lNNoher Service and The Con.
~u'or service are 10 he strengthened
auu enlarged. Better trained men mr..
/" ne sent all over the world IA wot,l
Tor chances 10 sell British goods 'rhe
/ department of Overseas Trade is IN
undertake the bringing of buyer am,
seller together more quickly and chean.
~ than ever before
me British Government is also civ.
my close attention 20 the possibilities
az electrical power. II has scheme
Tor dividing The United Kingdom lnfo
districts In which super power plants
would be erected Cor supplying motor
power ana heat on the theory that less
coal would thus be consumed and less
labor needed
Naturally the most attention is civ
en- to the restoration of the merchant
navy, Great Britain Is arranging for
the improvement OF her harhors
throughout The world and has already
mapped out Lew transportation routes
and In connection with thcm Is push
Ing railroad aad canal Development.
In general, the British reconstruc.
florists adhere 10 the principle II
amalgamAtion, rs 10 is believed thar
only by methods OF quantity prodns-
ton at lower cost. the division Of fields
both IN production aud distribution
and concentration of certain phases OF
the work in accordance with demon
strated SIKH can single industry hope
To compyC with German concerns.
They holl that competition after the
war will be between nations rather
than bet cen individuals.
The British banks are aware or the
great demands that will be made upon
them to tlnGneC this colossal program
They are concentrating on reserves of
capital upon which 10 build an ade-
quate credit structure These amalga-
nations nre significant Of the growing
feeling that TO win their way, or even
10 survive, the peoples Of the British
empire must draw closer together So
cially, POLITICALLY and economically.
AS the war has welded them into CO.
originating. interdependeut tlshring
machine, SO apparently is the prospect
of wonderful opportunities combined
with an appreciation of the necessities
Of The case urging them 10 unity Of
purpose and breadth OF understanding
in their Preparations for peace.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
eRlTAlN'S LUMBER
INDUSTRY NOT TAGGING
FOR LACK OF WOODSMEN
BY FRANCIS n. sIsSoN,
Vice President Guaranty Trust Com
pany Of New York.

pany Of New York.
Great Britain has approached her
problem of commercial reconstruction
after the war with an enthusiasm and
thoroughness which holds both sugges-
ton and inspiration for the United
States. If America Is to retain and
enlarge on the astonishing growth Of
her foreign trade in the last three and
half years she win do well to follow
the British example.
British reconstructlonists take due
cognlZance OF the two periods Of post
war actiyities-the period of readjust-
ment to new peace basis and the de
velopment of business upon that basis.
But in the plans of Great Britain's
Ministry of Reconstruction these two
periods largely overlap. 1t is the vital
aim of that body to make the period
of transition as brief as possible.
The idea of British leaders is that If
the empire is to endure there must be
such redtting of men and industries to
meet changed circumstances and such
redirection of effort as will insure the
utmost development of other resources.
Upon the surplus of these resources in
goods and services which she can dis
pose of TO other countries depends
Great Britain's ability to get out of
debt and to resume her commercial and
financial leadership. Throughout the
empire the idea r. being fostered that
the future rests upon increasing pro-
duction and reducing consumption
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
PRESIDENT WILL VETO
$40 BUSHEL WHEAT BILL

Washington. July S.-The annual
AGRICULTURAL bill which members of
congress have been informed, Presi-
dent Wilson will veto because of its
legislative rider increasing the gov
eminent minimum wheat price to
$40 reached the white house today
and was sent to Secretary Houston
for his review before action by the
President.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09

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The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
EASTMAN K0DAKS AT
THE MORRIS DRUG co

Following the announcement tina
we had reopeneC our Kodak Depart
ment we wish further to announce
that we have secured the Eastman
Kodak agency and will carry a fun
line of all their products, including
films. kodaks. velox paper. etc.
Our Kodak finishing department Is
In charge of Mr.. Joe NJ Seihar. wac
Is we'll known to all amateur pho
fographers. He will give his personal
attention to this work and will guar
antee that all work turned out eau
not be excelled
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-09
is KILLED:
CADET SLIGHTLY INJURED

Beneviue, Ill., July Lieutenant
Richard II Fawcett IS years Of age
Of Alexandria. Va was instantly
Killed at O'Clock tonight and Cadet
Lester II Cox, of New York, was
slightly injured when an aeroplane
Went into a tail spin and fell GOO ieet
ia the ground about two miles south
east OF Scott field here.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
A Greater Submarine Offensive

In one of the latest of his reviews of
the war Mr.. Baker ventures the opinion
that "the most powerful submarine often
sive hitherto undertaken may be expected
to be launched against our lines of COM
munication with France" and he intimates
that with this end in view "enemy subma-
rines have been recalled to home ports to
he refitted." This circumstance might ac-
count for the relative inactivity of the
U-boats, as indicated in the British Ad-
r,ralty's returns of the last two weeks;
hut since such fluctuations have been OBJ
served more or less regularly since the in
tensified warfare began, it may be pre-.
sumed that Mr.. Bakers prediction is based
on more precise information.
In the curves referred to by Sir Eric
Geddes in his speeches of December g and
February J., given out in rough form by
the Secretary of the Admiralty, it was
shown that since last June the losses
of merchant tonnage, including that
CT neutral nations, had declined steadily.
while the number of German submarines
sunk had increased every month since Sep
tember, 1916 Nevertheless, the First
Lord OF the Admiralty insisted that the
menace had by no means been mastered.
The curves did show sustained improve
ment which was far more encouraging
than week or a month of small losses in
merchant tonnage, but it must not be for
gotten that while the defence has been
strengthened the Germans have vastly in
creased the output of submarines. In fact,
it is not doubted that in spite Of all losses
they are not materially weakened.
1t is true that in three months of last
wear as many submarines were lost rs dur
ing the whole of the year before, but facili-,
ties for building have in the mean time so
nuch improved that the rate of destruction
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Mothers of Men

The sea is not so wide, nor the war so long.
The dead so many, nor human misery grown
so old,
That we forget the words you did not speak
When your sons went off to war.
You did not speak!
And yet we heard you say more noble things
and brave
Than any man or woman has said aloud
We heard you speak Of dear-remembe re d
days,
Of tiny. silly fists that clasped your fingers
You said this, more than all your life you'd
give-your son.
And yet you did not speak
LIEUT.. IoHN TEMPLE GRAVES, JR.
Fort Washington, Nd
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Non-Essential

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sic: In The Tribune Of January 80 were
three items which attracted nv attention
and gave rise to the following query in nv
mind: How much of our own wheat is being
how much wheat do our alles--France and
Lngland-use for the same purpose?
What effect would the conservation of the
amount used for that purpose by the three
countries have upon the supply needed? In
other words, how far would it ro toward
filling the demand?
In the article Hoover Plans More Effective
Food Control" he is quoted as saving: "It
appears to me we should attack the non
essential uses of foodstufs, and that we
should attack the points of unnecessary con-
sumption of foodsturs"
Would it not seem that the manufacture of
beer comes under this head?
That England is still manufacturing hear
from It's own or from our wheat, it matters
not. may be confirmed by reading the short
ieem on the same page entitled "Aged Poor
IN English City Drink Beer Instead of Tea"
l. seems the Mayor of Southport gave a din
ner 10 f've hundred of the city's poor, but
owing to the marked shortage Of tea he was
obliged to substitute beer, showing conc,u,
slvely there was no shortage of the grain
consuming drink.
Another item is headed "Eleven Ounces If
Bread Voted Daily Ration in Franco !"
would not some, at least, of this scarcitv Of
wheat be relieved if the attack Mr. Hoovor
mentlons on the non-essential uses Of food
sluns should include the manufacture Of
Deer MARGARET G. WARD.
Ellenville. N. Y, Feb. 1, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Pounds and P;nts
the Editor of The Tribune.

o the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of January 19 Won have
letter from Hugh +. Fox, secretary of tha
United States Brewers Association. in whicb
he disputes the estimate of Mr.. e D Laacb
that 1t takes pound of coal to brew q mint
OF beer. There is wide difference between
24S pounds of coal per barrel of beer and
the 40 to so pounds Mr.. Fox mentions.
wish We knew the facts
MY suspicious are aroused by the bit of
arlthmetical camouhage in Mr.. Fox's letter
lie states that the consumption of two mill
ION tons OF coal year by our breweries is
to be voluntarily reduced "by seventy thou
sand tons. or approximately 80 per cent. in
the current calendar year" like that "an-
proXlmately.' Of course the ratio of round
numbers beginning with and is 81 NOT
80, but he has placed the decimal point in
the wrong position. Seventy thousand is NOT
30 per cent of 100000, but only 81 ner
cent. Shall we (when our schools are able
to re-open) revise our arithmetics to fit the
brewers claim, or is this but clever b;+ If
camoutlage on the part of the WORTHY secre-
tary? John A INCuA,I
New Brunswick, N. j., JAM %. 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
A Food Famine Next Winter?

The largest single food producer in
the United States and a far-sighted judge
Of markets and conditions believes that
unless there is radical change we shall
have next winter food famine, just as
this winter we have had coal famine
and for exactly the same reason: Price
fixing and governmental interference. He
is not alone in this view.
We print on this page a remarkable
address from Genesee County farmer,
Mr.. Samuel Frazer. 1t is Il carefully
studied document and deserves wide at
tention. One portion of it deserves spe-
cial emphasis.
We now know from endless testimony
of travellers returning from Germany
and from the printed reports of the COM
missions appointed to investigate the
scandals growing therefrom that price
fixing, even in that state-controlled and
we'll disciplined land, has been practical
failure. There is food to be had-for the
rich--for those who can pay, but not
for the poor. And that may be in the end
the strongest force in determining Ger
many's final attitude toward the war.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Frazer shows that the
production of proteids-of actual food
values-has, under the price-fxing policy,
fallen about one-half. And we know that
there has likewise been serious shortage
of fats and no surplus of the starches and
sugars. Germany has been upon war ra-
tions with vengeance.
The people of the German nation may
stand for these things under the spell
Of half-insane lust for aggrandizement
and power. But it is nearly as certain
as anything that the people of the United
States would not. There could be no surer
way to make the war unpopular than to
attempt to introduce bread rations into
this country. Their operation could be
only farce and an injustice, exactly as
they have been in Germany and else
where They would bring endless dscon-
tent and precisely that same corruption
which has been such scandal in every
country where price fixing has been tried
Last summer. when the price of coal
was fixed, experts and authorities in the
coat industry cearlN predicted a coal
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04

famine this winter and pointed out the
reasons why. The famine came ON sched-
ule time Must we repeat the folly next
winter and add food to fuel? Coal is a
relatively restricted industry, involving
not much more than six or seven thousand
large producing mines, Food. as Mr..
Frazer points out, involves the activities
more or less Of forty-ive millions Of peo-
pie in this country, and, rs he so clearly
sets forth, a widespread effort to control
prices could result only in strangulation
Of this most vital Of all industries.
We hope that every reader will care
fully consider Mr. Frazers article.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Changes in the Senate

Deaths have come fast in the Senate
since the G5th Congress was called in
extra session last April. William Hughes,
of New Jersey, man of broad sympathies
and patriotic courage, whose service had
been steadily improving. in quality, was
the fifth to go. Harry Lane, of Oregon.
died in May, 1917. Paul Husting, of Wis
consin, died last October. Besides Mr..
Hughes, Mr.. Newlands, of Nevada, and
MIR. Brady, of Idaho, have died since Con-
gress reassembled last December.
Three Of these five vacancies have been
filled. The legislatures of Oregon, Nc
vada and Idaho having given the gov
ernors of those states the power to make
temporary appointments, Charles l.. Nc
Nary was named to succeed Mr.. Lane.
Charles B. Henderson to succeed Mr.. New
lands and John f. Nugent to succeed Mr.
Brady. A Republican replaced Demo-
crat in Oregon; Democrat replaced a
Republican in Idaho; Democrat sue
ceeded a Democrat in Nevada
Two vacancies remain to be filled from
Wisconsin and New Jersey. In our opin-
tion Responsibility for states repre-
sentation in the Senate should rest, as far
as possible, with the voters.
There arc now fifty-one Democrats ir
tho Senate and forty three Republicans
Should New Jersey and Wisconsin elect
Republican Senators the Democratic ma
jority would fall to six. Next fall the Re-
publcans are counting on gaining one seat
each in Idaho, Illinois, New Hampshire
and Kansas. If no Republican losses are
sustained this net gain of four would make
the Senate Republican, by majority of
two. Party lines may be ignored to x
large extent in the midst of war What
the country wants is not Democratic or
a Republican Senate, but an all-Amcrican
Senate. Yet it is clear that the Demo-
cratic majority maintained in the upper
branch of Congress since 1913 is now a.
most on the point of fading away.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Don t Badger!
the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Mr.. Roosevelt is. believe. great
admlrer OF Abraham Lincoln, and the follow
ing from "Lincoln's Own Stories,o published
oy Harper Brothers in 1912, might bs
worth his reading again just as this time,
"neh conditions are almost IDENTICAL:
AT the White House one day some gen.
.1emen from the West were much excited and
troubled about the commissions or omissions
o. o. 'he Administration. The President heard
ehen patiently and then replied: Gentle
men suppose all the property you were
worth was in gold. and you had put it in tho
nands OF Blondin to carry across Niagara
"'Vef on rope, would you shake the cable
or Keep shouting out to him. "Blondin. stand
up little straighter-Blondin, stoop little
nore-go little faster--lesn little more 70
the north-lsan little more to the south! =
NO. You would hold your breath as well o.
youf tongue and keep your hands off until
ne was safe over. The government is carry
ing an immense weight Untold treasures
are az, IN their hands. They are doing the best
'ney can Don't badger them. Keep silencs
s"o we II get you safe across"
JOHN c. DEMPSEY.
New York Jan. 81. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Uncompromising Sinn Feinism

The entrance Of the United States into
the war caused a reaction in The Sim
Fcip fraternity which was clearly visible
in the speeches Of several of the leaders,
1t is certain that the event caused many
to reconsider the doubtful benefits of their
voluntary isolation and shook their faith
in the prospect of the peace conference
and the establishment Of an independent
Irish state after the war. There are
some, however, who still hold so strongly
to the opinion that the rest of the nations
ought to adapt themselves at all times to
their own conception of Ireland's future
that they can hardly conceive how Amcri-
cans of Irish descent can fail to look out
upon the world as they do themselves, and
believe that their descendants should at
least enjoy the exemption that a benevo-
lent British government has granted to
the Irish at home
A curious example Of this uncompromis-
ing Sim Feinism is found in letter pub
lished lately in "The Irish Independent" :"
'of Dublin. The writer is priest, one of
whose parishioners has two sons in this
country, both Of them now serving in the
army. TO the priest this seems nothing
less than an outrage. Had they remained
in their own downtrodden country they
might indeed have played at soldering
with the Irish Volunteers, out not even
their Saxon oppressor would have dared
to send them to Europe to face their "gal-
liant allies" the Germans. That, rre-
sumably, is what was in the mind of the
parish priest, who proceeds to appeal to
the spirit of justice in his own people as
follows:
Is this fair-is it just? To whom is this
deplorable state of things due? Who is
responsible? President Wilson, the anti
Irish President Of the United States. the
sham neutral, the sham pcacemaker. Who
forced these two boys into military service
by conscripton? Who picked them out for
conscription? But, above all who selected
them from all the millions conscripted in
America to be sent to the firing line after
q few months training? Was that selec
ton made by accident? No; certainly not
Was it made by lot? No. But it was made
in the councils of the American govern
mcnt, under the direction and guidance OF
the British government The Irish boys OF
tender years are first compelled by Ameri-
laws to join the army and then are
picked out specially for the Western front,
the principal European shambles
1t should be remarked that the boys
themselves are not at all responsible for
this extraordinary outburst, and will
probably be ashamed of it if by any chance
it ever meets their eyes. AS an example
of Sim Fcinism gone mad it is, however,
an interesting document and typical one,
which will serve to illustrate some of the
difficulties encountered in the endeavor to
make all Irishmen happy and contented
in troublous times.