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ing of twelve of the shipping
boards fleet down the James early
in December was not bad omen.
He believes, furthermore. that
should an economic conference fol-
low close on the disarmament con-
ference Americas revival in trade
might come almost immed ateIy.
That would mean repair work at
once and might mean new CONNER
cial ships for the ways in the next
five years.
Meantime. If contracts can he Sc
cured. shops and foundries at least
could be diverted to the manufac-
ture of steel products. and the yard
at Newport News has a blast fur
mace. The Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Company is
already bidding on types of work
which 1t has never undertaken be-
fore. The car repair work going on
suggests car building as a fine OF
work which might well take tho
place Of shipbuilding. At any rate.
the bouquet" as Newport News
calls il. which Mr.. Hughes has
thrown to the shipyards has served
to bring city TO see itself in the
light of its responsibility to its
citizens: responsibility which
may mean stability and normal
r-owth. AS the president of the
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depend on other industries than
shipbuilding-an excelsior factory.
lumber mills, paper mills, cotton
seed oil factory. a veneer company.
glass factory. silk mill and largest
OF all, the yards of the Seaboard
Air Line company. The navy yard
is, Of course, the largest local en-
ployer. None the less. the business
elements of the two cities do not feel
that everything hangs on shipbuild-
Ing,
The navy yard itself has a hope
full air about II. in spite Of the fact
that 1t is building one battleship, the
North Carolina. listed for the pro-
posed scrapping. The bulk of the
work In the yards. however. Is repairs
and alterations. Here are Shipping
Board merchant ships in for repairs.
the Langley being altered as an air.
craft carrier: destroyers In for gen.
eraIeoverhauling; the Msynower. the
Presidents yacht. white already. is
being made still whittier with its new
coat OF paint. There is a general
feeling of activity-of something to
be finished-rather than of something
that is a program on paper and that
may be scrapped with a pen. =
Great Lonely spaces.
The shops. huge bulldogs of the
war period, where paint, gas engines
and metal furniture for battleships
are made, are. for the most part,
fiat. Great lonely spaces. And there
is a foundry where but a handful OF
men are scattered about the cold
ovens.s 1t Is over in the low. white
buildings. where the metal furniture
is made. that the interest is especially
centered today-worksh shops that may
spell a future for the navy yards OF
the country. For. il the Hughes pro-
gram goes through. there are. gen
orally speaking. but three proposed
plans for the government yards. The
first is to close down three OF the
six yards on the Atlantic coast; the
second is to keep all the yards open
with just enough care to prevent
those not in use from deteriorating;
the third is to divert the shops. in
the yards not needed for construc-
ton and repair work, to the making
Of peace-time manufactured goods
fod use in the various departments
OF the government.
The last is the program OF the
organized machinists today. District
Union a of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists, which has
jurisdiction over all workers in the
government yards. has already
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Shipyard Workers Go Back
To Farms AS Shops Close
Even Churches Built in Prosperous Times Feel
The Pinch of Poverty As Result of
Naval Limitation.

ready been established in the gov
ernment arsensls. where. following
the war. provision was made by law
for the arsenal orders branch TO
bid on contracts for making gov
ernment supplies other than for the
War and Navy departments. RyS
this scheme the arsenals take their
chance with private compeuters.
but for some time they have kept a
skilled labor force together through
these orders. To the argument thar
such a policy will merely divert
business from private concerns and
so throw men out Of work else
where. advocates OF the plan reply
that the government s.ouid keen
its force OF skilled men together.
and that IL has an obligation o.
workers who have made their
homes In these communities
And so. Whatever the cause. Ports
mouth. with its thousands Of unem-
ployed and its threat Of breadlines
later in the winter. t.. nsvertheI.ss-
optimistic. Whether this optimism
Is born OF the feeling that the gov
ernment will take care Of it's en-
ployes by some such plan or
whether IL comes from the approach
Of prosperity. IL is there. II may
he that IL comes from something
that reaches deeper-somethinE eN-
pressed by a negro worker still en-
ployed, when he said:
People here are just betwiNt a nd
between. They want to see work
and they want TO See peace. But IL
pears to me there is just one thins
about this. II won't do no good u
throw all these ships away nor to
stop building others. whatIl do
the good is 10 treat your neighborI
right. That's what we need in this
country and seems like II might be
what they need in other countries"
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called upon the Bureau OF the Bud
get to canvass the supplies needed
by the government. and IL is under
stosd that Gen. Dawes has issued
orders for. such a canvass.
wosId Make Instrsments.
The union advocates the manu-
facture in government yards Of
scientific instruments for the
weather Bureau. to be manufac-
tured in the yards where instru-
ments for determining latitude and
Longitude are already made for the
ships; Of motors for the airplane
mail service for the Postoffiee De-
partment. pointing to the washing
ton yards. where Liberty motors
are manufactured. as a possibility
for such diversion; of dredging ma
chimes for Improvements of rivers
and harbors; machinery to carry
forward irrigation projects; lock-
gates for canals and various otlcT
things.
There seems to be almost no
limit TO the variety Of manufacture
to which the yard shops could
readily be diverted from an engi-
neering standpoint. 1t Is chiefly a
question Of scrapping patterns and
making new ones. and Of modifying
tools. The Norfolk yards manu-
facture OF metal furniture for naval
ships is the most effective IIlustra-
tion OF the possibilities in this
line. Everything, from desks and
berths TO sideboards and book
shelves, is being made-and at a
saving of 80 per cent TO the govern
ment. The commandant at the yards
is an enthusiast for the develop
ment Of this government industry
TO supply furniture for all govern
ment departments.
A precedent for this work has al
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CIVILIZATIONS TIDAL WAVE
/. LEAVES WRECKAGE BEHIND
Newport News Harbor Already Shows Re-
suits of Plan for Scrapping Battleships.

Every advance civilization leaves its
wreckage That history Of
industrial revoutcn power looms left OF
Manners That has the history OF moral reforms: Witness
prohibition OF brewery workers. The challenge
progress sharpen wits nd against
of inevitable docatons of the fortunes of individuals families
and often whole Newport News harbo with
poppycolord hull OF superdadnought which will be
missiond the Hughes naval ratio through and its
pulling his primitive rake registered social
ing in their wake their shadows and their miscrcs
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When. more than a quarter of a
century ago. Coils p. Huntington,
owner of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, formed the Old Dominion
Land Company and bought up the
peninsula made by Chesapeake Bay.
hampton Roads and the James
River he visualized in Newport
News. with its uneXcelled harbor
facilities. one OF the greatest shin
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Gone Back to Farms.

Most all the single men had left
s'wn as soon as they were laid off.
>They'd gone back to the farms. One
mustn't forget that all North Car
Diina moved into Newport News
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Disarmament Plan Gives
/: Death Blow to Busy Centre
Once Huge Shipbuilding City Now Deserted
Village, But Idle Workers Think Only
Of Ultimate Good to Whole Nation.

The toIloIcin1 Interesting account Of
hoo Limitation Of Sauol armament may
react on a good shipbHildiH0 city IS re-
printed through courtesy Of editors of
The Surrey.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-08

Plain tailored and dress
styles. with a mode for almost
every occasion.
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Misses sizes, 10 to 20 Go
Women's sizes, "a to ~ pU,1
Stout sizes. AZ to 52Ll
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Be here when the doors open tomorrow
at 915 Be here to share in the most
wonderful sale of dresses you are ever
likely to at $13
Be here dresses with the atnosph
Paris with the substance of fine fabrics and the
marne of spring styles
of dresses

Upward OF 600 such dresses. Five styles But
sketched scores of others are nofbut all in Crisp fe
array styles that fashion presenta- canton crepe
'ioil lotedu Vi d SAFE for the fabrics
Plenty OF styles and plenty of shades; Plain tailored andd
Frnchbhe.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-04-28
UnwrItten Law of Hospitality.

No less binding than the Hippo
cratic oath, taken by physicians on en-
tering their profession. promising
never to divulge any secrets obtained
through their practice as physicians.
is the great unwritten law of hospi-
tally that makes it obligatory on the
host or hostess or members of the
hosts household, to respect the per-
sonality Of all those who tarry within
their gates. Recounting peculiari-
ties or petty faults of our neighbors
and acquaintance is at best a mean
way of diverting ourselves and our
friends-though it is something that
we all do at some time or other-but
when the persons about whom we
gossip are our guests, or the infor-
nation we have about them was de-
rived when they were our visitors, our
conduct is beneath contempt
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that she might at least We waited a
little spell afore she run off with Char
ley Fullerton. Maybe we've been
jumpin' at things too sudden. Stannie.
What made her ride way up yonder
to Greaser sidin' to catch that train =?
And how come Charley Fullerton to
marry her one day and be up here
with his bunch O. gunner by daybreak
the mex morning."
Has JEANNE friends in Angels with
whom she could be staying?' 1 asked.
Not a single soul. He'd a-had to
leave her at the Chinks hotel; and
that amt no place for a woman, mar
ried r t'otherwise"
But supposing they didn't go to
Angels?'
There amt no other place they
could go and let him get back, as you
might say, in the same day"
Say it all, Daddy" I prompted.
There amt much to say, Stannie.
boy, 'ceptin' what I said afore, that
maybe we'd been jumpin' at things
sort o. blind-like. Jeannie's got a heap
O. sense-if l do say 1t as shouldn't
and the whole gee-ripittin' thing, as we
been putin it up, amt no more like
her than winters like dOg-days."
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you can just keep an eye on Barney.
If anything goes to stirrin', he'll know
it afore you will"
Nothing did stir; and after Daddy
had gone to wrap himself In his damp
blankets, I had my work cut out for
me keeping awake; IN fact, shouldn't
want TO swear that was fully awake
during all of the one hundred and
twenty minutes that my sentry-go last
ed. No matter about that Fullerton
didn't spring any more surprises on US
during my watch; and when 1 turned
the fortress over to Daddy at two
o'clock I was able TO pass the "all
quiet" report back TO him and go to
the blankets with an easy conscience.
I had just dropped asleep, as IL
seemed to me-though In reality ! had
slept like q log for more than two
hours-when Daddy Hiram came to
shake me awake.
'Somethin' doin'," he announced
quietly. and when I sat up I saw that
the collie was moving uneasily from
one door to the other, stopping now
and then to stand motionless with his
ears cooked and his head on one side:
Barney hears something" I ven
tured; and a moment later Daddy
broke in:
Huh it's plain enough for my old
ears. now; it's wagon comm across
the bench"
TO BE CoNTINUED0
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gy clothes; stared across at Daddy
Hiram sitting backed up against the
hoist with his legs jackknifed and his
hands locked over his knees; 1t was a
grotesque pipe-dream; there was no
other name for it, I broke out in a
laugh that was a below.
Split it up, Stannie," urged the old
man dryly. II allow you amt goin'
to be close-fisted enough to keep a good
joke all to yourself in no such a hoe
down as this"
I'll try" l said, and did it the best
knew how, giving him some idea of
the life l had lived and it's earth
wide, abysmal difference from the ex-
perience Of the past six weeks.
Silence for a time and then:
"Book-learnin' and good clothes and
eatin' with fiat fork r all right
Stannie, but they don't make the man
mr. the woman; there'segot TO be some
thin inside; somethin' heap bigger
than any O. them things"
Quite So l admitted.
Another silence and at the end of
it the old philosopher again:
you been sort o. sore about my
jeanne, since yesterday She's
been eatin' your gran-paw's bread. like
me, and you thought, and l thought,
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-04-28
TRAFFIC CENSUS OF TRUCKS
Information as to Speed and size Of
Average Vehicle Obtained in
New England.

How large is the average truck and
how fast does IL travel? This question
and others of interest To truck owners
and users of the highways are an-
swered by information obtained la q
recent traffic census taken bv rhe hu-
reau of public roads, United States
Department of Agriculture. ou eua or
the most travelled highways n New
England. The census di@cla~e~ rrar
40 per cent of the trucks were af b ton
capacity or less 81 per cent between
1 and 21a tons; . pei. cent between
21s and . tons. and thar less than
per cent of the trucks were Of more
than tons capacity.
On a level stretch Of road over
which the speed of motor vehicles
was timed it was found that more
trucks Travelled at a speed Of 20 miles
an hour than at any other rate. Thir-
ty-seven per cent Travelled 30 miles
an hour or faster. One truck. whose
driver said he was i'm a hurry So get
there, was found To be travelling At
speed Of As miles an hour.
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Daily Routine of Married Woman, De
scribed by Herself. Surely Suffi-
cient to Prove Ii.

Here is a sample of why one woman
is too busy to be unhappily married
as she writes it herself:
"At Z 80 o'clock breakfast is on the
| table. Dad is ready, but where is the
| school girl? Dad, you go on and eat ;
1 have to get that child ready for
school, She is standing on one foot,
holding her stocking in her hand.
"'Mother, if we caught a bluebird-
could we catch a bluebird, motherT
Eyes, dear; now lace up your shoe
while / brush your hair
1--WE could give it to Dorothea; she
has cage
Honey, hurry up. You will be
late
"'Well, 1 want to catch bluebird.'
Now, darling, brush your teeth
while l fry daddys eggs
Did you brush your teethP
"Do I have tor
"'Of course Do you want to be
uglyT
won't I get to go to parties If am
ugly?'
"No; but for goodness sake come
TO breakfast.
Mother dad cries, come and eat
with me-
az simply can't. dad. See that this
child gets something inside her, will
you? I have to dress little sister.
She's up now
After dad and the school girl go,
sister is made ready for breakfast.
Mother puts the iron on to heat. Sis
ter viii not eat her cereal, and mother
has to feed her. The iron gets too
hot. While 1t Is cooling mother puts
the vacuum cleaner TO work on the
living room. She makes the beds. She
cleans the house. She irons until
11.30. She hurries to get lunch. She
rushes TO finish a pair of boomers
She makes buttonholes while the
oven heats. She makes a pie while
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-04-28
TREES FOR STATE HIGHWAYS
If Planted so or go Feet Apart They
Will Not Harm Roads and VIII
Add Pleasure.

The Minnesota forestry department
in the capitol at ST. Paul is Offering
nut trees for planting ON the high
ways Of Minnesota The planting OF
these state highways with shade. orua-
mental or fruit trees should De begun
at once. If the road is properly made
so that it drains well and the trees are
set 30 or 60 feet apart they viii not
harm the roads in the least and wiL
add much To the pleasure Of driving
along them in the furure-LeRoy
Cady. associate professor of horticuI-
ture. University Farm. ST. Paul
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There appeared 70 be little enough
time for any defensive move. The as
phyxiating gas was coming stronger
every moment. and any search for its
source seemed utterly hopeless. Yet
we went at it. coughing and choking.
and stumbling over everything In the
| darkness. as q matter Of course.
After all ii was Barney who Il honor
him with the human pronoun because
| he certainly deserved itl IT was Bar
ney who showed US the devils door
way. The red glow was now sending
/ enough light through cracks and crew
| ices and the bullet rippings overhead
10 make our inner darkness a degree
or so less than Stygian. Missing the
dog for a moment at our common
breathing hole, we saw him circling a
particular spot in the floor and Snarl-
ing at IT as If ii were something alive.
At that we both remembered that
the shafthOuse floor was raised a foot
or SO from the rocky ledge on the
down-mOuntain side, and that The
space underneath was partly
Daddy pointed to the circling dog.
'Barney's got it" he painted.
They've run their chimney up under
the fOorI" Then: where in Sam
Hill did you leave that ax?"
The ak was near at hand and I ran
for it. Holding my breath 1 began TO
chop madly at the floor planking. BY
this time the air was so bad that IT
was impossible TO breathe il. and after
few blows l had to drop the AK and
run to the breathing gap. Daddy took
his cue instantly, snatching up the ak
as l flung 1t down and hacking away
as long as he could hold his breath.
When he was forced to make a bolt
for the life-saving hole in the door. I
ran in again; thus got a couple of the
floor planks loose and pried them out.
In the space beneath the open
cracked floor we found Bullerton's
chimney end; an old discarded boiler
t1ue, it seemed TO be, leading up from
the bench below. From unearthing
the deadly thing TO muzzIing it with
one Of our wet blankets was the
breathless work of only a minute or
two; and with the gas-main thus shut
off, the air in the shafthouse soon be
came bearable again, the hole we had +
chopped through the floor serving as /
a ventilator through which the cool, 7
crisp night air came rushing in a re- /
vivifying blast.
Our first care, after a prolonged I
silence led US to believe that the raid /
ers had withdrawn TO study up some /
fresh scheme for getting rid of Us, was
to get a bar and pry our two doors +
open so that the breeze might blow +
through and air the place out a bit. /
Closing and barring the doors after I
the sulphur stencil had been reduced /
70 a mere matchbox OdOr, we estab- I
lished our nlght-watch, Daddy Hiram /
taking the first trick under q solemn I
promise to call me at the end of a 7
couple Of hours. This time he behaved [
better, rousing me a little before mid /
night He reported everything quiet I
and pointed to the sleeping dog as evil T
tence that there were no intrUders
within smelling distance
'Been that-away ever since you
-urned in he said, meaning as took
{, that the dog had been resting easy.
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GOOD
HIGHWAYS
GRADING AND PAVING ROADS
Average Figures for Whole Of Unitsd
States Given Out BY Bureau o.
Public Roads

prepared BY the United States Departu- ent
of Agriculture
What part Of the cost Of a road goes
into grading and structures that are
more or less permanent. and what part
goes into the paving. which may
eventually wear out2
This question is answered fully by
statistics compiled by the bureau Of
public roads OF the United States De
partment of Agriculture oH I.Szu sar1-
pleted federaI-aid roads. invoIvlnE q
500 miles of road. at total cost OF
S112oOO.O00. OF the total cost III per
cent went into grading. il per ceur
into structure. 81 per cent into paw
ing, and > per cent for engineering
These are the average figures for the
whole Of the United States. bur there
IS considerable variation in different
sections.
In the Middle Atlantic states.
where grading is not heavy and paving
must be built for heavy traffic. the
cost Of the paving rises TO 75. pei. cent
and the grading and structures fan O.
10 per cent and 9 per cent. respective
Y.
In the Mountain states the prob
EN- is very different. much Of the
work being new construction with
heavy grading. and the highest ryVe
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CHAPTER xIV-continued.

It was a little after noon, while we
were squatting on the floor to eat
another meal warmed up over the chip
fire that we found out the answer
to all the guesses and learned what
the mechanical noises Of the night
and forenoon had been leading up TO.
one of the Ieft-Overs from the work
ing period Of the mine was a good-siZed
steam force pump which, we took it,
had once been installed on one of the
lower mine levels and had been hoisted
ont Of the shaft ahead Of the advanc-
ing water flood and put under shelter
in q corner Of the boiler shed. As
1 was passing my tin cup for more Of
Daddy's excellent coffee the rattle and
cIank of a pump began TO make itself
heard, together with the coughing
chug-chug of the steam exhaust there
from.
That's that low-level pumpp I ex-
claimed. They must have connected
IT up with the boil"
Whooshl that was just as far as I
got. In the middle midst of the word
boilers" d two-inch jet of muddy wa
ter came curving up through one of
the window openings to arch over and
fall, splash, all over US as we sat
munchlng our dinner. Everlastingly
ruined the dinner, put out the fire, up
set the coffee pot, and made drowned
rats of both Of US in less time than it
takes to tell it-much less.
So much for that. OF course. we ran
and ducked and lodged, like the
drowned rats I speak Of hunting for
"a hole. But now Bullerton's devilish
engineering ingenuity came into play.
BY some means as yet unknown to US,
he had contrlved movable nozzle to
his squirt-gun, and in another minute
there wasn't a single dry spot left in
that shafthouse. I venture to say that
Daddy and I and the dog ran q full
mile trying to get out of range of that
demoniacaI sozzle-machine. but there
wasn't a corner of the place that it
couldn't. and didn't, reach.
During the night the scoundrels had
laid q pipe line from the pump In the
boiler shed alongside of our prison
fortress; this with an upright exten-
sion on the business end of It, At the
top Of the sandpipe stem there was an
elbow with a short joint of pipe
screwed into 1t to point our way; and
on the end Of this nozzle there was a
piece of rubber hose. Under the jerky
impulses Of the pump strokes this f1ex-
fble extension of the nozzle Topped
up and down and around and side
wise, like the nose of a patent lawn
sprinkler; and there you are-or there
we were.
"Gosh-to-SOlOmOnl :" Daddy splut-
tered, I'VE amt on the water wagon
We're spank inside of it! Are you re-
Stannie, that they can keep
this gosh-dum thing up f'rever? All in
the world they've got to do is to put
a stick O. wood on the fire now and !
then Say, son they got US goin' and |
comm; we can't eat, and we can't |
sleep no more whatever"
BY heavens, 1 own those boilers, |
and if 1 could get a stick of dynamite |
under 'em, I'd fix the fellow that's fir |
ing EN- - I shivered; and then the |
bright idea was born. Say, Daddy, |
we can stop IT" l yelled; and Just
then the water devil outside made an
other iendlsh flop and got me square
" in the face.
But 1t didn't drown the bright idea
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Dances Borrowed From Birds.

Like the art of song, that of the
dance is employed by many birds prf-
marily In the courtship Of the female.
The biggest bird of all-the ostrich
is a most interchangeable dancer, par
ticularly enjoying the waltz. The
moor cock is another dancing bird.
from which the peasants of upper
Bavaria have borrowed their famous
fiat shoe dance" or clog dance.