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New Britain herald., 1918-01-25

we had been pitted against any for midable enemy able to keep the seas, we would have paid in disaster for it. Dating from about October there has come 8 remarkable change in the navy department. From that date to this, on the whole, the navy depart ment's work has been we'll done.
 Having said that the navy depart ment is now doing we'll, I want to make ono small reservation. I wish the secretary of the navy would no longer punish the men in the navy by refusing to allow hundreds of thou sands of good women to give them sweaters and knitted mufflers and everything like that except by indirec- ton, because he has had a quarrel with some men.
 ''In standing by the Chamberlain committee, l mean that I earnestly hope that we will adopt legislation they have demanded, and enact into law the propositions for a war board and a head of the munitions depart ment. I am we'll aware that no change in scheme of government can accomplish anything unless the right men are put in; and if, after having a war board and a munitions head if incompetent men are put in, or their powers are narrowly or loosely defined. and there is conflict among them, trouble will come in the future, just as in the past. But the proposal means that at least a proper scheme of administration will be adopted.
 At least we will recognize certain vital facts. One is the need of hurry. Nine-tenths of wisdom is be- ing wise in time. Nine-t -tenths of eff fciency is being efficient so quickly that the time for efficiency will not have passed before it becomes evil dent. It is cruel thing and bitter wrong to our allies to delay need lessly one day, let alone six months or a year, when the war-weary Allies are With the blood of their best and bravest fighting the battle to which by every consideration of honor, we should now be sending our fighting men by the million. The prime need is the need of haste.
 "Second only in importance to it | is the need of organization. Here in Washington you have had a good many star players, but mighty little team work.
 Would Take Locomotives.
 'T'ake, for instance, a matter that was authoritatively called to my at tention. You all know the fuel shortage. You know it has been due largely to an insufficiency in the num- Der of locomotives, and you know that ships needed to carry food to our troops in France have been at the docks for some weeks because they could not load on account of the failure in locomotives. There arc here 200 locomotives built for the Russian government and the Russian minister here. as I am in- formed (and if necessary, if the question is queried, I will give my informants' names) agree to our talk ing them. The Russian minister as- sented two months ago, and for eight weeks, we have been leisurely dis cussine as to whether we could under
New Britain herald., 1918-01-25

rails and returning with the same steel rails for ballast; of cargoes sent over and not unloaded; of ships, needed by one department and seized by another. I could give you a concrete instance of that which they were trying to remedy just yesterday, in order to keep a ship that was needed to send over food to our soldiers.
 Instead of having three or four or ganizations each fighting the other, III order to get ships, and each doing the work more or less inefficiently get an organization with one strong, trained expert to handle all the shipping op- erations and coordinate all the work. If that were done, it would mean an increase in efficiency, which l verify believe would be the equivalent of the addition of a million tons to our ship ping facilities at the present time.
 '"rhe big steel manufacturers should be appealed to to drop all less tmpor- tant work and devote their whole at- tention to building frames, plates and angles. the essential components or the shirs Their mills should be turned purely to war purposes. Our house IS afire. and we are not to be excused II we fail to try to put 1t out with every means at hand, and no man IS to De excused if he fails to do his best, with an eye single to getting up most effl- ciencv ill the national work at thls time.
 Let the government supervise the work of the ship construction men, Let it see that no improper profit IS allowed to the big manufacturer. Shame and disgrace to the man Who makes a fortune out of this war! Al low no profteering. Allow simply the profit necessary in order to run the business to advantage
 Responsibility of Worl1mcn.
 "so much for the employer. Now for the employe. Let the government have it understood that in work such as the shipbuilding works, the mu- milton works, all the work done TOT the government for the purpose ol aiding the war, the employer ana the employe alike are to De held to Ihe responsibilities of the soldiers ln uhl- form. Give them the highest honor if thov do the work we'll; give them medals such as were gwen TOT WoFh on the Panama Canal; do everything for them if they do the work Weu' and do not permit for moment any practice of the big man or the small man that interferes with doing the work well.
 "The government should see that the workingman gets the amplest wage that is compatible with con- ducting an industry; that his housing and working conditions are excellent in every respect; should see that ne gets a first class wage, and that ne does first class job for the first class wage. I do not know the technlcal term, but if a man can fix 3oo rlVeIS and is fixing 140, he is shirk
 Protect the laboring man m every way. See that he has full representa- ton and allowed to organize in the industry and of the profit from the industry But in return see, by gov
New Britain herald., 1918-01-25

the circumstances, take these 200 To- comotives and use them. l under stand that the discussion is inching along to a favorable conclusion, and that in few days, or a week or two, we will have the locomotives But it will be two months after we ought to have had them. What I think, of course, in my views of the proper governmental policy, should have been done, was to take the 200 locomotives and then discuss
 That was the course that I fol- lowed, and to which I have ever since looked back with impenitent satisfa ction, in reference to the Pan anna Canal. If you remember, Pan- anna declared itself independent and wanted to complete the Panama Canal, and opened negotiations with us. I had two courses open. I might have taken the matter under advise ment and put it before the senate, in which case we should have had a number of most able speeches on the subject. We would have had a number of very profound arguments, and they would have been going on now, and the Panama Canal would be ir the dim future yet. We would nave Iliu Ildll q century or dlSCuS- sion, and perhaps the Panama Canal l preferred we should have the Pan anna aCnal first and the half century of discussion afterwards. And now in- stead of discussing the canal before it was built, which would have been harmful. they merely discuss me-a discussion which I regard with be- nign interest.
 "(1antIoneu ayayx- mon of ,,c sr tho country needs to understand that the first requisite is to get ships. There is no use whatever in preparing every thing on this side of the water if we cannot get across. There is no use of filling up the bottle unless you take the obstruction out of the neck of the bottle. The failure to build sufficient ships means that we leave the neck of the bottle clogged and that we are unable to do anything until the ob struction has been removed.
 Work of Submarines
 The submarines during the last few months have destroyed a greater ouan- tity of tonnage than is being built If that situation is not reversed sooner or later we shall be in the direst straits to feed our Allies, to feed our own army, to send over men or muni- tlons. Certain things should be done at once. One of the great needs in establishing the war board is that we should establish some man who should have complete control of the shipping operations. We have excellent men engaged in ship construction, but we have no trained expert directing the shipping operations. They are con- ducted under three or four conflicting organizations or bureaus.
 Here I speak not only of what know and of what you know, but of things that have been told me in the past forty eight hours of ships sent abroad without manlfests, because the excellent army officers who were sud- @--.y plunked down in the business of sending them did not know about manifests; a ship sent over wit%ta steel
New Britain herald., 1918-01-25

ernmental action, that he gives thd amplest return for the protection thai he receives, for the wages which hd gets. Tolerate, neither from em1 ployer nor from workingnan, neitherj from the man of big fortune, no1 from the strongest labor unionl neither from the biggest corporation nor from the wealthiest private indi1 vidual any practice that interferes irt the smallest degree with the speed and efficiency which it is necessary for us to show in making ready i'd enter the war. And now you newspaper men tell the truth. No man is to be excused in peace or in war, if he does mol tell the truth. Punish the untruthful man. Punish him a little quicker fl he belongs to the newspaper profes1 sion than to any other, because Ind has greater power for mischief
 Where the work of the censor id necessary for the world efficiency o1 the government, it should be con1 tinued But it is a perversion of thd censorship to interfere with the tell ing of the, truth when the truth ij a necessity for the people to knowI
 
 telling of the full truth is to be thd| rule: that though it may be and vii ! be necessary, from the standpoint of expediency for the censor to stoII certain truths from being told that the burden of proof must always bd1 on him to show that it is for the publ lie interest that such truths should not be told.
 You men, who probably repro{ sent (not even excepting the sena tors and represcntatives) that body of public servants whose function i more important than the function ot any other men in public life, remem
 Der that you fall short of your duty if you fail to tell the truth. If you tell an untruth. shame to you!
 The American people is a strong people. We are told now and thel
 that the truth would frighten ou people so that they would not go or with the war. If they are such s set of weddings and towards, then nothing car save us. On the con trary, I believe that the full telling of the truth will wake the Americalf people up to a sterner realization ol the task that is before them, and therefore to a sterner resolve that cost what it may, every deficienc1 shall be remedied. every wrong unI done, every failure by government officials turned into an achieyeme enl and a success, so that as speedily aI possible we may harden our gianI but soft and lazy strength, and exerI it to the fullest degree necessary tl bring the peace of liberty in thiI mighty conflict for civilization and tho welfare of mankind"
New Britain herald., 1918-01-25
ROOSEVELT REPLIES
 TO SENATOR STONE
Refers to His Alleged Bargain
 ing for PrO-German Vote

Washington, Jan. 25.-Before rowd that packed the assembly room If the National Press club yesterday afternoon, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt pleaded for a speeding up of the war, lndorsed the efforts of Senator Cham Ierlain for increased efficiency in war administration, specifically approved he War Cabinet and Munitions Direc- orship bills, and made sharp answer 70 Senator Stone for his attack on himself during his speech in the sen- ate on Monday.
 Colonel Roosevelt did not critcise President Wilson. His only reference D the president was to mention his tatement while he was a professor in lis work on Congressional Govern nent," that the country would be helpless unless congress scrutinized he acts of the executive and interro- rated it's administration. Nor did the !, Colonel make any attack on Secretary Baker, although he referred to illness md lack of uniforms in the army.
 He insisted that there must be no craftsmanship in this war, but con- ended that it was proper to criticise where criticism would bring good re- mlts.
 He urged the support of every off, ial as long as he was efficient, but aid it was just as much the duty of everyone to expose those who were in- efficient in the speeding-up process. It was the duty to tell the truth, said he former president, and he defended lis attitude as a critic by calling at ention to his criticisms of the admin stration in 1898 for what he regarded ls shortcomings in the Spanish war. \ Coonel Roosevelt held that the peeding up of shipbuilding was of rital importance, and generally called Eor haste in helping the Allies.
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke of Senator stone as the same man who had dis !ussed the German vote with Bernard Ridder, voted against the declaration If war, and engaged in flibusterlng operations against taking action to de- fend ourselves.
 Colonel Roosevelt said the navy had done poorly in the first six months of the war, but since October its work had been well done"
 American or Not an American.
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke in part as follows:
 At this time no man is a gooc American unless he is all American There is no such thing now as ar American with some alloy in him Either he is straight United State or he is not United States at all. Il he is not anti-German he cannot bf pro-American. If he is not in favo' of putting this war through to thf peace of complete victory he is not { loyal American.
 'rThe two men whom at the mo ment we should hold in especial sus picion are the men who, however lout their protestations of devotion to this country, nevertheless hint. or directly or indirectly advocate, an inclusive peace, or who in any way object tt the quick efficiency in putting the wal through. The man who endeavors tt make you not formidable to Germany is endeavoring to make the United states false to itself and at the same time to make it incur the contemptu. ous hostility of Germany
 "Our rule should be the same fol $he nation as for the individual. DC
New Britain herald., 1918-01-25

was a colonel in the army, when l was asked to report. spoke of the Cuban campaign in November, 1890, a year after the campaign and year before the presidential electloIh I stated that the artillery had been for thirty-five years unpracticed and was worthless. I stated that during that campaign the bureaus of the war department at Washington had been held by elderly men of fine rec ords, absolutely enmeshed in red tape, and unable to show initiative or accept responsibility. I stated that the campaign itself was a welter of confusion, and that we were saved from disaster only by the incompe- tency of our foes.
 II should like any man to point any difference in frankness between what I then said of the administra- ton which I was a part of the party to which I belonged, and what l said during the last six months, except that have been more moderate and guarded in the last six months:
 Tn an official report in connection with the army in Cuba, l said it, not to hurt anyone, but because it was true, and in the same way I speak of the conditions that have led to the outbreaks of spinal meningitis and the outbreaks of pneumonia, of which the most distinguished victim has been Ex- Congressman Gus Gardner. l Ispeak of that now because it is true. T spoke of the truth then in order to remedy the conditions. I speak the truth now in order to remedy the con- ditions and for no other purpose; and exactly as no fear of what might hap pen to me personally or politically be- cause of telling the truth about my own administration influenced me then, in the same way Mir. Stones hints as to the awful things that may be done to me if I go on will have l less than no effect in making me re- frain from speaking that minimum of i truth which I think it necessary to speak in order to secure a betterment in conditions in our army at home and abroad.
 One of your fraternity. Caspar Whitney. has published in The New York Tribune a statement as to con- ditions in France, and that article is worth your while reading when you are encountered with the statement that there are shortcomings in our camps here because everything has been sent to France. It may have pGeil SCIIl IL utu not get lIeIe It has not been distributed. I wish that article could be circulated throughout the length of this land, so as to wake our people to the prime need of do- ing everything that can possibly be done to adequately equip, arm and l train the men who are upholding the honor of the United States in Uncle Sans uniform
 Improvement in Navy.
 Tt is our duty to tell the truth If conditions are good, tell the truth If they are bad, tell the truth. If they have been bad and become good, tell the truth.
 Take the navy department Tn the
 first six months after this war opened
 the navy department showed poor
 work, very poor work. owing to inde-
 cision and delay-work so poor that if
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10
SUSPENSION OF
EIGHT HOUR is
EXTENDED

The Juneau Dispatch OF the 9th
says:
Acting upea telegraphic request Of
he Secretary Of the Interior. Governor
Strong yesterday issued an order sus-
ending the provisions of the general
sht-hour law tChapter So, Session
Laws OF 1910 in so far as they may
apply 10 the regulation of the hours of
employment of all wage and salary
earners in Alaska employed in the
manufacture of fertilizer. oil. and 9th.
er food fish industry in Alaska waters.
lie suspension is effective for one
sar from April 5. 1918, an dno longer
unless the present war shall not have
-een terminated by that time.
This order directly affects the Alas
ka Fish Sailing & By Products Com
snoo and the Fish Can
Us By-FEoduets company, whose
plant is located at Point Ward. near
ketchikan. as well as any other con-
Germs engaged in the manufacture OF
fertilizer, oil. or other by-products
from the waste Of food fishes.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10
NO DOCTOR AND NO
GRAVEYARD NEEDED
At MARSHALL CITY

y letter from Marshall city. which
IS CT a s.ream tina. flows into the Yu-
kon about I35 miles from It's mouth
contains ne information that the win
ter in that part Of the Yukon basin
has been gery fine with little real cold
weather and no wind or SNOW. Il is
quiet Ii MARSHALL. but the writer says
be Is JUS beginning 10 like the place.
We a2ve no hospital no doctor or
surgeon and 10 grave yard. and no
respectahl person would care TO die
unless he could have the benefit Of az
least some o. thes emodern blessings.
We hare a big skating rink, first
class movie show and the other night
we had Z wedding.
''Jrngletown, town near Marshall
is very quiet this winter, so much
so that some OF the blind pigs have
actually gone out OF business.
The Keystone drill that was work
ing or Willow creek. in the Marshall
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10
DIET KITCHENS FOR
FRENCH HOSPITALS

Diet kitchens have been esta blished
by the American Red Cross in France
for the use OF base hospitals Miss
Ruth Morgan. who has been active in
developing this service. has worked
chiefly with the French authorities,
and the French doctors are fully
aware OF its possibilities" states W.
S. Patten. director OF the Department
OF Military Affairs of the American
Red Cross in France.
Our diet kitchens could not be es-
tablished in moment; data had to
be collected. lists OF delicacies made
out, and. as we wished TO work with
the French, the proper negotiations
had first 10 be concluded" says Mr..
Patterns report While negotiating
with the French Bien Etre des Blesses
20 establish diet kitchens OF more or
less experimental character in French
hospitals. We ordered in America spe.
cial diet delicacies for our own base
hospitals, with the result that today
we hare in our warehouses delicacies
for the United States base hospitals
against the time when military au.
tforiries will requis;tion them
Far from being luxury, the diet
kitchen is an invaluable time saver,
not 10 say q necessity. In jaw cases,
TO cite one instance, doctors have been
handicapped in some hospitals by be-
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10
JUNEAU LAND OFFICE
APPROVES APPLlCA-
TI0NS FOR PATENTS

The United States land Office at
Juneau has been busy during the last
Few days issuing patents and final GER
tlaeases 20 land in various parts OF
Alaska.
Final certificates have been issued
10 lands selected by the kennecott
Copper Company on Latouche island:
and similar certificate was issued
10 the Alaska Packers, Association for
IS acres Of land at Mine arbor. These
lands were taken with soldiers addi-
,ional homestead script.
This script was issued TO soldiers
OF the Civil War who took up less
than I6Q acres OF government land.
Such acreage as they slacked under
$50 acres entitled them TO Script,
which they secured by making appli-
cation foz same 10 land department at
Washington, D. c.
This right 70 additional lands was
made transferable The holder of
4l4S SEEAkt- NOSS AQN nave ~ o-A
the land fled upon. 1t can be used
On any vacant public land, subject TO
the approval OF the land Office.
4 final certificate for homestead
patent was issued 10 John Nash AT
Seward. and another 10 George J..
. also OF Seward
lie onestead application OF Jo-
seph 2. hoffman. for lands near Sew
ard. was approved.
All o. these cases are actions from
me Juneau Office pursuant 10 an execu-
tive order from the President OF the
United states excluding the lands in
VOWED fso ma withdrawal order sur
rounding Seward whereby the opera
ton OF the land laws is permitted
The land office has received ca pat
en.s fc- TOWN lots situated in Seward.
Juneau Dispatch.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10
W'1 OLE GERMAN
ANNiIilLAfEL

LONDON, April 2.-Regarding the
losses sustained by the Germans in
the battle of Picardy, the Times says:
Although as yet our information is
very incomplete. it is certain that the
German losses in the battle of the
Somme have been enormous. Pris-
oners who were questioned on the 18th
OF March, for example, that the SSth
division OF infantry was almost COM
pleteIy annihilated and that the 206th
division suffered heavily. The losses
were chiefly due to the machine guns
which installed with determined men
in shell holes, moved down to the
very last the dense enemy forma-
tons
The bodies of both friends and en-
emies are stripped as soon as possible
by the Germans and left entirely nude
The booty obtained by Selling the
equipment and clothing is collected
and sent TO the rear, SO great is the
scarcity of clothing and leather.
The prisoners, when questioned,
10 not conceal their amazement at
the very small number OF English and
French dead which they passed in
the course of their passage.
Finally they admit the great sur
prise OF their command in tn eresist-
ance OF the Allied troops. They had,
in fact, been promised that all would
be over in a few days
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10

district. has stopped drilling A com
pany has been organized TO cross-cut
Wilson creek. Good prospects are re
ported 10 have been found 25 miles
northeast OF Marshall
The letter also contains the infor-
nation that Albert Edwards, q trader
and mine operator in the Marshall
district. will in all probability run for
the observation-disclosures Times.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10

THE Allies are all in the same boat,
a long way from shore and on limited
rations, and Uncle Sam is running
the relief ship.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-04-10
AT THE POODLE DOG
FROM THE FIRST

OF soup TO the last morsel you'll find
dinner here delightful occasion.
Food Of the best, quickly and deity
served. attractive appointments and
coneeniai company make this an ideal
Place 10 dine for those who would
know ne JOY of living, Tables can
be served for a party of any number