Evening star., 1918-06-02

| "SSAA AAASA 6oii6 the ASSl VI "oA 80.
| a little more than a year.
Our Navy It's record so far is one
=. of increasing power. Oh
az wal. developing resourceful-
ness and of cooperative achieve
ments which the American people
may well survey with national pride.
For the very reason that we are at
war officials OF the Navy Department
are unable to make public many or
| the interesting things that are taking
place from day to day with our sailor
boys, and it will only be at the ter
mination of the war that the public
will come to a full realization OF the
glorious work that has been done by
our Navy.
The spirit of the Navy of today was
the senior in command of our first
| fotilla of destroyers sent aEroad TO
| combat the submarine menace. When
| asked by the English admiral. upon
when they would be ready. the Amer
ican officer answered. I'VE are ready
now.' This was not the language of
/! boasting. 1t was the prophecy and
ing in a common CAUSE. In the try
ing months that have followed the
readiness and fitness of our men and
ships have been tested and established
amid perils more insidious and baf-
fling than those that ever before con-
fronted nation at war.
The declaration Of war found many
naval dispositions already made in
anticipation of possible developments.
No ships had been sent abroad, but
ships a distinguished officer with a
small staff was on the other side Of
/! the Atlantic available for consulta-
tion as to general operations and
ready to take charge of any force to
| be sent.
The United States soon assumed its
| part in the antl-submarine operations
| being conducted in the European
waters. On April 16 six destroyers
were directed to be prepared for pro-
! sailed for European waters on the
oath. Since that date other vessels
Of various types have been dispatched
| from time to time and are rendering
important and valuable that service
| Is will be the subject Of reports when
| victory is celebrated.
| The most difficult problems before
the Navy Department since the begin
| ming of the war have grown directly
From a force of $500 officers and
| $4,000 enlisted men in January, 1917,
the Navy has expanded to $4,000 off,
GERS and 254.000 enlisted men. includ-
| ing regulars. reserves and national
| naval volunteers. Further expansions
| are inevitable. The Navy had 1870
stations of all kinds on January 1.
| 1917. It now has 363. The number
Of employees at regular navy yards in
the United States has increased from
| $4,000 to over 10000. On shore and
afloat. including civilians and sailors,
| the naval esta blishment embraces
| more than 100000.
| At the beginning Of the fiscal year
| 1917 the monthly expenditures for all
naval purposes were about 100000;
they are now about s60.000,000
In war time countries fall back upon
| their reserves. Corn is the food re-
serve of Americans
Calling on the "a tried and true
Corn Reserve. anah,a @ u ~. II mo-. no.
| colonists to win their wars with the
Indians. the people who taught them
not only how to grow this food but
how to eat It? And did not George
Washington's armies fight our first
war for democracy eating "hasty pud-
din" no-cake. samp and all the rest
of those famous corn meal dishes?
Why not give this veteran American
democracy?
| officials of the Department of Agri-
culture say that it is time to call the
duty devolves upon American house.
wives, but the department intends to
help. The department. through it's
| office OF corn Investigations, has
meal making on farms so situated
that satisfactory qualities of corn
meal at reasonable prices cannot be
had. Where commercial mills are dis
tant 1t Is believed that home grinders,
owned comparatively If not individ-
wholesome food product and save
transportation costs. Accordingly
the departments corn Office has is
sued instructions to its field men.
Among other things the agents are
being told that they should consider
the various ways in which farmers
and communities remotely situated as
regards grinding mills and fresh sup
plies of good corn meal can prepare
and utilize corn for food. The de-
to give practical directions that would
diminish transportation and the re-
purchasing Of corn in the form of
meal and other corn products at prices
many times that of the corn from
which they are made. Economic con.
ditions will cause considerable sub
stitutfon OF corn for wheat as food,
making this. the officials feel, the on
perfume time to demonstrate that by
prompt and proper preparation of new
corn, the substitution causes no sacri.
hces, not even of palatableness.
| The most important work of the bu-
reau of education In negro education
| during the past year was
Colored the completion Of the re-
c..1. port on colored schools.
9oAe' With the publication of this
report, the bureau brought to a close
the first step in a project Of increasing
national impor.ance-adequate educa-
tion Of the colored people Of the United
States.
This report was the result Of three
years f1rst-hand study Of existing negro
schools in the southern states under
taken by the bureau in cooperation
with the Phelps Stokes fund, a founda- =
ton established by the late Caroline
Phelps Stokes for the improvement OF
the condition Of negroes and other ra-
cial groups. The bureaus report on
transferred the problem OF negro educa-
ton from the field of guesswork to that
of science. 1t is not only the most inn
portant study of negro education ever
made; 1t is In many ways one Of the
most important, most comprehensive