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PUBLISHED DAILY UNDER ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT BT THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION GEORGE CREEL, CHAIRMAN

Vol. 1. , FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1917 No. 81. TO SEND DIPLOMATIC a LIBERTY LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED ; IS A GENUINE MISSION TO TRIUMPH FOR DEMOCRACY" SECRETARY M'ADOO

The Department of State authorizes Secretary McAdoo made the following protection of American rights and the the following: announcement to-day : reestablishment of peace and liberty The Department of State is advised of the intention of the Japanese Govern " The Liberty Loan has been over throughout the world to a swift and ment shortly to send a diplomatic mis subscribed. It is impossible to state successful conclusion. sion to the United States. This will be the amount of oversubscription at the " I am deeply grateful to the bankers, headed by Baron Kikujiro Ishii. Baron moment, but the exact figures will be Ishii was formerly minister for foreign the business men, the women of Amer affairs. He was born in 1866 at Chiba. given out as rapidly as the returns are ica, the patriotic organizations, and the He graduated in law from the Imperial received at the Treasury Department. people generally, without whose cordial University in 1890. He was an at " The success of this loan is a gen cooperation and enthusiastic support tache in the legation in France in 1891. uine triumph for democracy. It is the He became third secretary of that lega success could not have been won. It tion in 1893. In 1896 he was consul at unmistakable expression of America's has been an inspiring campaign and it Nitisen. He went to Peking as second determination to carry this war for the has had a glorious finish." secretary of legation in 1897. and was promoted the following year to be first secretary. He went through the siege of Peking during the Boxer trouble. He was chief of the telegraph section of the WITH PERSHING IN PARIS, AMERICA ACTIVELY BEGINS foreign office in 19(H) and director of the HER PARTICIPATION IN WAR, SAYS SECRETARY BAKER Commerce Bureau in 1904. He was ap pointed vice minister for foreign affairs in June, 1908, and was afterward ambas The Secretary of War has given-out the following statement: sador to Paris. Following that appoint " The arrival of Gen. Pershing awl his staff in Paris marks the ment he became minister for foreign af beginning of America's active participation in the war. The splendid fairs. reception given these American officers, as well as the officers of our In addition to Viscount Ishii. who Is made an ambassador extraordinary and destroyer squadron, in England, and France, shores the harmony of plenipotentiary, the mission includes: spirit with ichuh three, great peoples are pursuing a common end. Isamu Takeshita, vice admiral, Impe Our combined armies from, now on wiU represent a league to enforce rial Japanese Navy. peace with justice. llisaichi Sugano, major general, Im perial Japanese Army. , " Newton D. Baker, Matsozo Nagai, secretary of the for "Secretary of War." eign olfice. Masataka Ando. lieutenant comman der, . Seiji Tanikawa, major, Imperial Jap A great many distinguished lawyers anese Army. ATTORNEYS SEEKING TO SERVE and legal professors, men of national Tadanao Imai. vice consul. standing, applied to the Judge Advocate's Vice Admiral Takeshita was formerly ON ADVOCATE GENERAL'S STAFF department early after the declaration of naval attache in Washington. war and even before the President's final Mr. Nagai, secretary of the foreign The War Department issues the fol word was read. Tlioy were eager to act office, was formerly Japanese consid gen lowing : as soldier, lawyer, or to accept any post eral at , and at one time where there was a chance to offer them was third secretary at Washington. The Judge Advocate General's olfice selves to their country. has received a great number of applica Some of Men Chosen. tions from attorneys seeking the commis WOMEN DEFENSE COMMITTEES. sion of major on the staff of the Advocate After a painstaking weeding out, sev General In the field. The men who have eral majors were created, umong them Divisions Organized in About 30 States sought appointment have been so highly Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of with Permanent Officers. qualified — and many of them have been War, who was assigned to duty at the so distinguished in the law — that it War College. < »ther well-known men The women's committee of the Council has been hard at times to sel(«t a few who have made similar offers and re of National Defense announces that or from so much good material. ceived similar appointments are Prof. ganization of State divisions of the com It would be well to disabuse the public Eugene Wambangh and Prof. Felix mittee, with permanent officers, has been mind of any superstition to the effect Frankfurter, both of the law faculty of completed in approximately 30 States. that the applicants under the legal branch Harvard ; Dr. James Brown Scott, one Six States reported selection of perma of the Army are looking for a " snap " of the country's leading authorities on nent chairmen to-day, as follows: or for a " silk stocking " position far in international law ; Prof. John II. Wig- South Dakota — Dr. Helen F. Peabody, the rear of the actual fighting. more, dean of Northwestern University ; Sioux Falls. and Gaspar G. Bacon, son of Robert Texas — Mrs. Frederick Fleming, Dal Will Be in Fighting Force. Bacon, former ambassador to France. las. Ohio — Mrs. George Zimmerman, Fre The officers acting on the staff of the mont. Judge Advocate General will be members COUNSEL FOR SHIPPING BOARD. Alabama— Mrs. James F. Hooper, of the actual fighting force and, in the The United States Shipping Board an Selma. pursuit of duty, will be brought into the nounces the appointment of Mr. Alfred Iowa— Mrs. Francis W. Whitley, Web danger zone just as often as other Huger. of the firm of Huger, Wilber & ster City. specialized commissioned men, medical of Guerard, of Charleston, S. C, as admi Colorado — Mrs. W. H. Kistler. ficers, for instance. ralty counsel of the board. mMM*

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air fleet which we are planning to build. The idea is so vast that it would read "PUT THE YANKEE PUNCH INTO THE WAR !" like the dream of an old-fashioned fiction writer. No young boy could be concerned BY AIRPLANE ROUTE, URGES GEN. SQUIER, in a story of adventure more wonderful than this ' Yankee punch ' should furnish DIRECTOR OF NATION'S AVIATION SERVICE to actual experience, and the Prussians have never dreamed of an expedition so Should Be Able to Produce, in Short Time, an Absolutely Over mighty or so sensational. Our air pro gram should have the effect of working whelming Aerial Fleet, He Declares — Sweep the Germans both ways — crushing, the nerve out of Germany and inspiring our folks at home From the Sky and Blind Prussian Cannon, with renewed enthusiasm for the war. * Is What He Favors. " We have seen Germany, time and time again, take 100,000 or 200,000 men back or fortli for the gain or loss of a The Committee on Public Information little ground. Then there is more digging " The American punch must be j^iven in, more building of shelters, more living Authorizes the following: through our airplanes. " Put the Yankee punch Into the war ! " " I haven't the slightest doubt of the in the mud and dust, burrowing like is the way Gen. George Owen Squier, Yankee's nerve and ability to endure any moles. Our young men can not go wild who directs the Nation's aviation service, hardship as well as — perhaps better over warfare in the trenches, however expresses it in discussing the huge aero than — the citizen of any other country. splendidly they will do their duty. But plane program which, if passed by Con But what' I am considering is how to put the war into the air — and watch us gress, will involve aji appropriation of give American qualities to our brothers fight ! " something like $600,000,000 in the begin in arms at their maximum efficiency. ning. It may grow into an expenditure The answer again is airplanes and yet NEXT CUSS TO ENTER NAVAL of a much larger sum. more airplanes. Every young American " By the Yankee punch," says Gen. worthy of the name would be keen to join ACADEMY WILL BREAK RECORD Squier, " I mean a characteristically our flying army. The game ideally suits American way of working to get big re our national temperment. With the The Navy Department authorizes the sults. We have a reputation of looking wealth we can devote and our unquali following: at old things from a new angle, and there fied facilities for manufacturing there is The largest class on record will enter Is no reason why the American Army, no reason in the world why we should the United States Naval Academy this when it takes the field, should not live not be able to produce, in a comparatively summer, the number being estimated at up to what they stand for. The field of short space of time, an absolutely over between 750 and 775. This increase is glory for us will be in the air, sending whelming aerial fleet. An army in the due to the granting of one extra appoint our myriads of airplanes over the Ger air, regiments and brigades of winged ment to each Senator and Representative man lilies to teach Germany that we have cavalry, mounted on gas-driven Dying in Congress, a total of 531. come to win. horses, could blind the eyes of Germany There are 200 midshipmen in the class until her gunners, absolutely deprived of America Not Good at Plodding. which will lie graduated on June 28. and range finders, would be put out of busi it is expected that not more than two or "Airplanes are the logical fighting ma ness by the allied artillery. x three of these will fail in the final ex chines for Americans because we are an Aero a Terror to Big Guns. aminations. With the class of 183 gradu imaginative people, and when our imagi ated on March ,29, the academy will have nations strike tire nothing can stop us. " The modern type of land war is de furnished some 380 naval officers this We are impatient of plodding methods, a pendent upon two things above all year. Nation of individualists. We are willing others — aviation and artillery. They are Statement by Capt. Eberle. cooperative elements in a fighting army, to send our hundreds of thousands to the Capt. E. W. Eberle. Superintendent of front if needs be to dig holes and burrow and against an enemy a flying machine is a terror and a mennce to big guns. That the Naval Academy, who was here yester in the soil for interminable months ; but day in conference with Secretary Daniels, we don't enthuse over the Idea. We want airplanes are positively essential for di recting artillery fire is an axiom among said : something that appeals to our knack for " We have taken over the Marine bar inventing things, for getting over ob military men who have seen action in the sort of battles being fought on the west racks and prepared for the largely in stacles in an original way. And the air creased number of midshipmen who will ern front. The .magnificently obvious way is our way. soon enter the academy. It is estimated " It might be of Interest to point out thing, then, is to knock out Germany's that there will be between 750 anil 775 in that all the picturesque features in the eyes by a thrust through the air. But my this class, much the largest on record, ' matter of inventions and innovations of idea would be something vastly larger which will give us about 1,500 midship a startingly modern nature have been, than a thrust, and inundation of air men at the academy next year. up to now, advertised exclusively by the planes would better express the idea in its magnitude. Sweep the Germans from " Congress has appropriated $2,270,000 German side of the European argument. for the enlargement of Bancroft Hall, the sky, blind the Prussian cannons, and The talk of coming Zeppelin raids, of $300,000 for addition to our power plant, artillery ponderously magnificent, of the time would be ripe to release an enor mous dock of flying fighters to raid and and $300,000 for the department of ma schools of U-boats was spread through rine engineering and naval construction. out Germany. Every housewife, every destroy military camps, ammunition de pots, military establishments of all kinds. When these improvements are completed, butcher's boy in Germany impatiently together witli the quarters we now have, awaited the results of the Kaiser's sen The firing upon troops by machine guns the academy will be able to accommodate sational inventions. And when Count from airplanes Is becoming commoner and Zeppelin's monsters went after England more accurate. Once given an upper hand 2,200 midshipmen. with bombs while ' big Berthas ' began the flying machines become frightful en Academy in Fine Condition. dropping unbelievably gigantic shells into gines of destruction. " The Naval Academy is in fine con Belgium it was a signal for the German Bigger the Fleet, Safer the Flyer. dition. In fact, when we had 1,225 mid spirit to go wild with patriotism. shipmen in Bancroft Hall, which was " The greater the air fleet the safer it built to accommodate 800, we had better XT-Boats Next Sensation. becomes to the aviator connected with it health and discipline than ever before." " The U-boats were the next sensation and the more deadly to the enemy against Nominations of candidates for appoint for popular consumption and, whatever which it is sent. ment to the Naval Academy are coming their effect on Germany's beloved ' free " Six hundred million dollars looks like into the Navy Department, a total of dom of the seas ' they have had their a lot of money. Considered in the terms nearly 3,000 nominations, principals and stimulating effect upon the Teutonic of winning the war It is a positive bar alternates, haying been received. Each psychology. They helped Prussia press gain. England is spending $39,000,000 a Congressman and Senator is entitled to agent her war. Zeppelins, supercannon, day for her share in the war. At such a nominate one principal and three alter and U-boats have furnished the German rate per diem it would take something nates for each vacancy. Examinations of punch. like a fortnight to more than pay for the these candidates will be held on June 27. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

H. P. DAVISON TELLS OF WAR REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO OFFICERS' SERVICE FOR THE RED CROSS TRAINING CAMPS SOON WILL BE MADE PUBLIC Speaking this afternoon before the Washington chapter of the Red Cross, Mr. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the The War Department authorizes the higher commands up to the rank of Bed Cross War Council, said : following : lieutenant colonel. Citizens with marked " How many of our people know that Within a few days The Adjutant Gen ability for leadership, noncommissioned the United States is really at war? How eral's office will have ready for distribu officers of the lino in the armies of the many realize that we are to-day not only tion a pamphlet prepared for the purpose allied powers ; members of the Officers' fighting for the principles upon which our of giving all necessary information to Beserve Corps who, through no fault of Republic was founded, but for our very prospective applicants for the new offi their own, were unable to attend the first existence? I think a very small per cers' training camps which will open on series of camps ; reserve officers of staff centage. August 27 and close on October 2G. These corps with at least two months' service " I doubt if more than 1 per cent have pamphlets are to be given free circulation in war ; ■ noncommissioned officers of the a true appreciation of our present posi through the Military Training Camps As Begular Army who were recommended in tion and of what confronts us. To me sociation and through the headquarters March, 1917, but unable to attend the this is not altogether strange ; indeed it of the military divisions of the United training schools; resigned officers of the would be rather strange if any considera States. Over 250,000 will be printed. Begular Army ; men made eligible for the ble number of our people did grasp the. Our great Army must go to France as Officers' Beserve Corps by the appropria full significance of what it all means. a citizens' army, an American army, a tion of May 12, 1917; men qualified under Even in England, within 150 miles of the democratic army commanded by men care General Orders, No. 42, 1915 ; and citizens trenches, the situation was not grasped fully selected for their gifts of leader with valuable military experience and for many mouths ; in fact, not until the ship. On this principal it is obvious that adaptibility for commissions are encour enemy awakened them by their stupid men taken into the Army under the se aged to apply. The age limit is 44 years Zeppelin maneuvers. lective service law, will, on their merits, except in the case of " citizens with val Observed Results Upon People. be advanced as rapidly as volunteers. uable military experience " or " capacity The main object is to get officers who for leadership " or those who have served "But now, what a changed people! demonstrate ability. The fact that a man as officers or noncommissioned officers in It has been my fortune to visit England has already been drafted for Federal the allied armies, the limit in these cases and France In the fall of each of the service will not stand in the way of his being 50 years. three years of the war, and to observe being accepted for the forthcoming series. not only the military situation but the The new camps will be for the develop How to Avoid Mistakes. situation In their respective Govern ment of officers above the grade of lieuten A member of the National Guard may ments, and, to some degree, to note the ants and will offer a last opportunity to apply through the proper channels and, if results of the war as it has progressed men desirous of obtaining commissions accepted, become part of his State quota. upon the people. through the intensive system. Mature To avoid a mistake made by a great " You may read of It all, you may be and experienced men will be preferred as number of prospective students for the told of it all, but you can form no appre they will be chosen, when eligible, to fill first series of training camps applicants ciation of it without yourself observing should take pains; in reading the forth it. Perhaps the most striking change in the people is the change in their ideas coming instructions, to find out the place of values — the value of life is so differ SITES FOR SIXTEEN ARMY to which their applications should be ' ent, the attitude of each toward the CANTONMENTS SELECTED mailed. To write directly to the War other is so different, their ideals are ex Department only means confusion and alted. It seems as if their affection and The following cantonments' for delay, and many good men lose their regard for mankind had immeasurably the National Army have been an chance of entering the first series, due to increased. They seem to be without nounced by the War Department : the necessity of opening their letters in malice or design, envy or jealousy, with Central Department : Bockford, Washington, finding out where the cor out sordid ambition — to be living on a 111. respondence should be forwarded, and higher and better plane. Even with their Eastern Department : Yaphank, finally sending it on over a roundabout terrible sorrow and suffering they seem South Haven, Long Island, N. Y. ; circuit. to be stronger and surer and more con Annapolis Junction, Md. ; Peters The War Department's circular will ex tent to meet whatever may be given them burg, Va. plain all points clearly. There will be to meet. These 4, with the 12 sites hereto plenty of copies and every effort will be fore announced, complete the 16 can made to get them into wide circulation. Picture Far from Dark. tonments. They may be had upon request at Di " From this point of view the picture is The 12 cantonments already se visional Headquarters, which are as fol far from (}ark ; it is indeed altogether in lected are as follows: Ayer, Mass.; lows: spiring. The process of fire which has Wrightstown, N. J. ; Columbia, S. C. ; Where Circulars May Be Had. thus purified them has been for our ac Atlanta, Ga. ; Chillicothc, Ohio; count as well as their own, What must Louisville, Ky. ; Battle Creek, Boston, for the States of Maine, New happen to us that we may be awakened Mich.; Little Bock, Ark.; Des Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and purified? I wish for no ill, but I Moines, Iowa ; Fort Biley. Kaus. ; Bhode Island, and Connecticut. hope and pray that whatever may be Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; American Governors Island for the States of needed to arouse us to a sense of sacrifice Lake, Wash. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and cleanse us from our selfishness will Camp sites already selected for Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the Dis come to us. If it does not, we shall be National Guard mobilization are as trict of Columbia, the Canal Zone, and the 111 prepared to live and meet our responsi follows : Fort Worth, Waco, and island of Porto Bico with the islands and bilities with respect to other peoples so Houston, Tex.; Fort Sill, Okla. ; keys adjacent thereto. cleansed and strengthened. Deming, N. Mex. ; Linda Vista, Cal. Charleston, S. C, for the States of Ten " I hope you will not think me an This leaves nine more camps to be nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, idealist; I was never more practical in selected for the National Guard. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, my thought. It is perhaps an apprecia Louisiana, and Arkansas, together with tion of this that has caused me to go to the coast defenses of Galveston. the Bed Cross. Chicago, 111., for the States of West "For I firmly believe that through the women of this country will, in a not far Virginia, Kentucky. Ohio, Michigan, In Bed Cross we can not only render a serv distant day, rejoice in sacrifice — in real diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, ice to the people of our allies — to those sacrifice — and demand that the Bed Cross North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Mis who are to-day fighting for us — but we shall carry to the peoples then living of all souri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. can bring forcefully to our own people our allies the heartfelt appreciation of Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for the States a sense both of their obligation and of what they have done for us, and express of Texas (except the coast defenses of their opportunity, and I am optimistic such appreciation by every possible aid Galveston), Oklahoma, New Mexico, and enough to believe that the men and and support within their power to send." Arizona. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

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Published Every Week Day, Except OF ARMED SHIPS WHICH ENGAGE U-BOATS Legal Holidays, by the Committee on Public Information. TO SAVE LIVES OF CAPTAINS IF CAPTURED Office: No. 10 Jackson Place, Washing-ton, D. C. The Committee on Public Information makes the following statement : Copies of the Official Bulletin will be fur nished without charge to newspapers, all post "A prime concern of the voluntary censorship imposed upon itself by the press offlies In the United States, Government offi has been the suppression of the identity of armed merchant vessels that may engage cials, and agencies of a public character equipped for the dissemination of official in defensive encounters with submarines. news of the United States Government. — E. S. Rochester, Editor. " The captains of these vessels, not being a part of the recognized naval organiza tion of the United States, are outside the protection of the laws of war, as the si'Bsci'.irrio.N bates by mail: German Empire interprets them. In event of their capture, denth would be their Dally /0ne 3'ear *B- °° ually \Sii months 3. 00 fate. The judicial murder of Copt. Fryatt, of the Wrexham, makes clear the German attitude to these men. EXECUTIVE ORDER. " The peril of the destruction of the vessels themselves in subsequent voyages also I hereby create a Committee on is intensified by establishing identity as the destroyer of a submarine. The added Public Information, to be composed of the Secretary of State, the Secre danger to the picked gun crews of fine young Americans is equally apparent. tary of War, the Secretary of the " Silver Shell " Incident. Navy, and a civilian who shall be charged with the executive direction " The agreement of secrecy was shattered last week by cable dispatches from of the committee. As civilian chairman of the com- France naming the Silver Shell as the victor in a submarine combat. The act mittee I appoint Mr. George Creel. was unintentional, and the Government of the United States has since been assured The Secretary of State, the Secre that both the French and the British Governments will cooperate in the future for tary of War, and the Secretary of- the protection of our merchant ships and their captains. the Navy are authorized each to de tail an officer or officers to the work " In the case of the encounter of another merchantman with a submarine, reported of the committee. Wednesday, the voluntary agreement was broken, a few New York evening news WOODROW WILSON. papers printing the name of the ship and the name of the captain. In spite of this, April 14. 1017. all but three of the morning newspapers of New York City kept the faith, though aware that in this particular instance the damage of publicity was done. The effort LOAN CLOSES ON HISTORIC DAT. was to prevent error from establishing a precedent. Guarding Against a Fryatt Horror. Secretary HcAdoo Calls Attention to " Happy Coincidence." " The agreement must be restored. In no other way can there be lessening of the danger of future attacks upon the ships that fire on submarines, or their cap The Treasury Department authorizes tains saved from ignoble death in event of capture. It is a Fryatt horror that is the following: being guarded against. Secretary McAdoo pays : " The Navy Department of the United States makes formal request upon the "June 15, liberty bond subscription press for restoration of the agreement to Its original force. No matter from which day, Is by n happy coincidence the anni side of the ocean comes the news, it is asked that the names and identities of versary of Magna Clinrta. This great captains and ships damaging or sinking submarines be withheld from publication." document, the very cornerstone of human liberty, was signed June 15, 1212, just 705 years ago. Again the world faces a new FIFTY-DOLLAR LIBERTY LOAN SHIP INSPECTION RULE CHANGES. and supreme struggle for universal lib Fifty Supplements to General Regula erty -and democracy. The liberty loan, BOND AS A SAVER OF LIVES tions are Promulgated. which closes Friday, will find its success A statement of what a $.r>0 liberty loan The Department of Commerce author ful consummation on the anniversary of bond will do toward saving the lives of the day which gave birth to the great American soldiers and sailors has been izes the following: charter of human freedom. sent by the liberty loan committee of the The Steamboat-Inspection Bureau of " Gen. Pershing, the valiant leader of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to the the Deportment of Commerce, through-its Secretary of the Treasury. It follows : America's forces, has jnst arrived In executive committee, has promulgated the "A .f oO liberty bond as a life-saver : 50 supplements to the general rules and France to return the visit Lafayette made "A .$50 liberty bond will buy enough regulations regarding inspection of boilers, to the struggling American Republic 140 ether or chloroform to anesthetize at least life preservers, and the examination of years ago. As gallant France then helped 250 patients during average operations. candidates for license as deck and engi us win our liberty, we now join France " It will buy 25 treatments of anti- neer officers of merchant vessels. A num upon her bloody fields to fight for im tetanic serum for gunshot wounds, which ber of changes have been made In the re periled liberty and to restore peace to a might otherwise develop into 25 cases of quirements for applicants for license as stricken world. lockjaw. masters, mates, and engineer officers of " To gain the victory quickly means the " It will buy enough smallpox vaccine vessels. saving of countless invaluable lives and to make 500 soldiers immune from the A provision has been made whereby the inestimable treasure. Every humanita scourge, which otherwise is almost an un- examining inspector may exercise discre rian and every lover of liberty and democ preventable army condition. tion In the matter, and in cases where racy prays for this result. Every liberty " It will buy enough typhoid vaccine to the experience of an applicant for license bond, however smnll the denomination, make 100 men Immune from typhoid, re does not meet the specific requirements bought by a patriotic American citizen, gardless of the condition of the water of the board other service which the local will hasten the return of peace and the which they may be obliged to drink. Inspectors consider a fair and reasonable reestablishment of justice and liberty " It will buy a base-hospital laboratory, equivalent may be accepted by them in throughout the world. enabling correct diagnoses which wlirpre- lieu of the specifications prescribed in the " I hope that no American, having the vent countless deaths. rules. This will have the effect of ad means to do so, will fail to make a sub " It will buy 50 gallons of peroxide of mitting to license many men who are now scription to the United States liberty loan hydrogen or 4 gallons of tincture of io competent but debarred by the somewhat before 12 o'clock noon Friday, June 15." dine. drastic requirements prevailing. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

WORK OF CONGRESS AMERICA MUST ENTER WAR IN AIR ON VAST SCALE BRIEFLY TOLD WARNS HEAD OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION BOARD (From Noon June 14 to Noon June 15) Supremacy In Flying Probably Will Prove Deciding Factor In Struggle, SENATE. Says Mr. Coffin — Declares U. S. Should Spend June 15. The Military Affairs Committee met Hundreds of Millions on Its Aerial Fleet. this morning to consider a large number of Army nominations. their official Representatives in Congress Senator Nelson reported favorably n In a statement by Howard Coffin, chair bill to increase tlie salaries and provide man of the aircraft production board of for their hearty support of the plan. for retirement of lighthouse keepers. the Council of National Defense, the - " In the meantime it must be made plain that the struggle for the supremacy Senator Chamberlain reported favor American people ' are warned that they ably a bill to enlarge the scope of the con of the air is perhaps the most vital of all must be prepared to enter the war in the demnation law. This is proposed as a the methods of fighting in which the means of speedily acquiring sites for air to an extent hitherto unthought of if United States can take part. A superior military camps where the land can not be their power is to have any real effect on ity in numbers of several hundred thou purchased satisfactorily at private sale. the result of the war during the next sand men on the western front means Senator Sterling Introduced a resolu year. The American authorities have little comparatively under modern condi tion calling for au investigation of the been informed by the British and French tions of lighting. All the men we can cost of building cantonments. It was re that if the United States will supply them send from now on are needed badly, but ferred to the Military Affairs Committee. immediately witli airplanes and aviators we can not send an army large enough The resolution of Senator Smoot call commensurate with this country's manu the first year to become the deciding fac ing upon the Secretary of War for infor facturing resources it will unquestionably tor and we must strike in some way at mation regarding standardization of contribute more to the success of the once. The air furnishes the way. A vast arms was adopted. allied cause and the defeat of Germany superiority in aircraft means the com than the sacrifice of thousands of Ameri plete blinding of the enemy. If his ma June l.'i. can lives on the western front later on. chines are driven out and kept out of the The nomination of Capt. Hugh Hod " We may as well realize now," Sir. air it means that lie has no facilities for man, of the Navy, to be a rear admiral' Coffin says, " that the domination of the sighting his long-range guns ; it means was confirmed. air will in all probability prove the decid that he has no means of getting charts To meet objections of certain Senators ing factor in the struggle in the present and photographs of the opposing lines nor a compromise agreement has been reached war on sea perhaps as well as on land. of preparing and meeting attacks prop on the preferential shipment bill and the Military authorities of all the allied na erly, and it means that his own communi measure is expected to pass now without tions are agreed that unless the allies cation lines are constantly subject to dam further delay. can secure a preponderance of aircraft aging raids and even to complete destruc With the indorsement of the commit with which to overwhelm the German tion. In modern warfare the army with tee which has considered the measure, lines the war may, and probably will, drag out aircraft Is practically helpless against Senator Gore has introduced a bill which on for years, with a constantly increasing one fully equipped with air fleets. is intended to prohibit the use of non- toll of lives. We should not hesitate to sacrifice any perishable foodstuffs or feed in the man " We believe now that we have worked number of millions for the sake of the ufacture of any intoxicating beverage for out a program which will make it possible more precious lives which the expendi the period of the war. The bill among for the United States to secure to the ture of this money may save. We need other things provides : allies next year the permanent supremacy not speak of the much greater amounts " That whenever the President shall of the air. and with that we hope to be of national wealth which an immedi ascertain that it is necessary to conserve come an Immediate deciding factor in end ate expenditure of generous proportions the food or feed supplies of the Army, ing the war. Whether this program can made now may save. Great Britain's Navy, and people of the United States be carried out will rest with Congress. last appropriation for aircraft alone he is empowered to give public notice of It has progressed far enough, however, was $600,000,000. Her appropriation for the fact so ascertained and thereupon for us to say that a greatly Increased the present year will probably approxi restrict or prohibit the use of any perish American output of aircraft and aviators mate a billion. France lias spent an equal able food or feed product in the manufac seems a practical possibility. As soon as amount on her air program. The United ture of intoxicating liquors for beverage the proposal is placed before Congress States, in the face of the existing situa purposes. " we shall ask the American people and tion, can not afford to be niggardly." " When the question is raised as to whether any particular product is perish able or nonperishable, or as to whether than beverage purposes (or for the forti Representative Ferris, of Oklahoma, In it is suitable for food or feed, the ques fication of pure sweet wines as defined by troduced a bill that has been favorably tion shall be certified by the Secretary the act of Sept. 8, 1916), under such reported that is intended in considerable of the Treasury to the Secretary of Agri rules, regulations, and bonds as the Com measure to provide farm labor through culture, Whose finding in the premise missioner of Internal Revenue, with the out the West during the coming season. shall be conclusive for the purposes of approval of the Secretary of the Treas Under this proposed law homestead set this act." ury, may prescribe." tlers and entrymen would be granted The Finance Committee, in the consid Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the air leaves of absence to engage in farm work eration of the war-tux revenue bill, also craft production board of the Council of for the period of the war. While en lias provided for the prohibition of the National Defense, before the Senate sub gaged in this work of aiding in the pro use of food cereals in the manufacture of committee considering the bill to estab duction of foodstuffs for the general good distilled spirits during the war. as a food- lish a department of aeronautics, strongly the homesteader would not subject him conservation measure. Under an amend urged that legislation. self to coutest and would lose none of his ment to the House bill agreed to in com rights in the homestead upon which he mittee, a tax of $60 a 100 pounds will be HOUSE. ' had entered. levied on all grains, cereals, and edibles ./idle 15. The House has agreed to the confer used In the manufacture of distilled spir Consideration of the rivers and har ence report on the bill amending the its, and a tax of $"> a gallon on molasses, bors appropriation bill began this morn Federal reserve act, that will make sirups, etc., used for the same purpose. ing under the 5-minute rule. $350,000,000 of additional gold available This tax, however, does not apply to June llf. for war purposes that under existing law grapes or fruits nor to other fermentable Representative Hicks, of New York, ad Is locked up in vaults. The purpose of products, including edible molasses, dressed the House for an hour on Flag the bill is to reduce the gold reserve re which are not fit for human consumption. Day and told the story of the origin, de quirements. The amendment also per The exemption extends also to " materi velopment, and significance of the flag. mits banks to make a collection charge on als used ti\ the production of distilled The rivers and harbors appropriation checks and drafts at a rate to be fixed spirits withdrawn exclusively for other bill was under consideration. by the Federal Reserve Board. 6 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN. IVar Department Orders to Officers and Enlisted Men

r.irasrraph Do, Special Orders. No. 123, May 28, 1917, War Department, Is amended to read NATIONAL DEFENSE COUNCIL ASKS REPORTS aa follows : " First Lieut. Raymond K. Den- worth, Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, Is assigned to active duty and will proceed to this ON WAR COOPERATION WORK IN THE STATES city and report In person to the Chief of Ordnnnce for assignment to duty In his office." So much of paragraph 2, Special Orders, Questionnaire Sent Out Deals With Safeguards to Health, Registration No. 113. May 10, 1917, War Depart ment, ft§ relates to Jfaj. Casper H. Conrad, Third Cav Day Activity, the Liberty Loan, Labor Laws, and alry, is revoked. Cnpt. Alexander II. Jones, Cavalry, De Other Matters. tached Officers' List, will proceed at once to Kansas City, Mo., for temporary duty pertain ing to the purchase of public animals. The Council of National Defense has safeguards existing before the war as to First Lieut. Russell P. Hartle, Twentieth sent the following questionnaire on na the health and welfare of workers? Infantry. Is relieved from duty at the Army tional cooperation and on local organiza Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and tion to the several State councils of de National Board of Fire Underwriters. will proceed to join his regiment. fense : 1. What plan has been developed, if First Lieut. Henry L. Stlckney, Medical Inclosed please find blanks for informa any, for utilizing the assistance of the Officers' Reserve Corps, is assigned to active duty. He will proceed to Fort Snelling, Minn., tion with regard to the activity under National Board of Fire Underwriters in and report in person to the commanding officer taken in your State in response to the the conservation of foodstuffs and other of that post for duty and by letter to the suggestions and requests of the Council commanding, general, Central Department. products? of National Defense and with regard to Medical Committees. First Lieut. Henry Power, Medical Officers' the organization of local councils. A Reserve Corps, is assigned to active duty and more detailed statement than is possible 1. Has a member of the State commit will proceed to Fort McDowell, Cal., and re tee of the medical section of the Council port In person to the commanding officer of in the space allowed on the blanks of any that post for duty. activity in which you are particularly in of National Defense been appointed to the State council or committee thereof? If Capt. Ray w. Bryan, Medical Corps ; Capt. terested or have had any special success Byron Q. Jones, junior military aviator, Sig is desirable. not, has any plan of cooperation been de nal Corps : and First Lieut. Henry J. Damm, Will you kindly fill out these blanks vised ? Infantry, Detached Officers' List, are detailed as members of the board of officers appointed and return them to us at your earliest Federal Reserve. In paragraph 12, Special Orders, No. 198, convenience? If you are not able to give 1. What activities, if any, have been August 24, 1910, War Department, vice Maj. this information in full at present, please William R. Davis, Medical Corps ; tyaj. Frank make a preliminary answer to each ques undertaken or are planned by your coun P. Lahm, junior military aviator, Signal cil to assist in bringing State banks and Corps, and Capt. William A. Robertson, junior tion now, and later, when full information trust companies into the Federal reserve military aviator, Signal Corps, hereby relieved. is available, make a supplementary report system? The following-named officers of the Quarter on the duplicate blanks transmitted here master Officers' Reserve Corps are assigned to with. You will appreciate that it is es 2. Has a committee to have charge of active duty and will proceed not later than this special subject been appointed? five days from the date of receipt of this sential that we have this information order to the stations to which assigned : and be kept up to date on State activities TJ. S. Boys' Working Reserve. Capts. Harry H. Cheal, Arthur E. Daman. if the section on State cooperation is to Ernest lierkel, Albert J. Chappell, Robert 1. Please state what you have done or II. Harris. Capt. Cheal will report in person fulfill its functions as outlined at the to the depot quartermaster, Jefforsouville, national defense conference of May 2. are planning to do toward organizing Ind., for assignment to duty as his assist Very truly, yours, boys for farm work in your State. ant. Capt. Daman will report In person to 2. To what extent are your hoys en the commanding officer, Fort Riley, Kans., for W. S. Gifforp, assignment to duty as commanding officer, Director. rolled in the U. S. Boys' Working Re Bakery Company, and by letter to the com serve? manding general, Central Department. Capt. 3. As a separate Inclosure (or to follow- Berkel will report in person to the quarter The questions follow : master, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., for assign later) please send a detailed statement of ment to duty as his assistant. Capt. Chap Safeguards to Health. your boys' organization, giving your ex pell will report in person to the depot quarter 1. Has any legislation been enacted perience in this line. master, St. Louis, Mo., for assignment to duty as bis assistant. Capt. Harris will report which delegates to the governor or to the Local Organization. in person to the depot quartermaster, Philadel State council of defense the power to sus phia, Pa., for assignment to duty as his as pend or modify labor laws when requested 1. Describe organization of county and sistant. by the Council of National Defense in local defense councils and similar bodies Under the provisions of an act of Congress accordance with council's request In at in your State. If any systematic organ approved February 27, 1911, and section 23 of an act of Congress approved June 3, 1910, tached letter? If so, kindly attach a ization of such councils has been under the following-named officers arc honorably copy of the statute to this sheet. taken or planned by your State council discharged from the service of the United 2. Have any laws safeguarding the describe fully, attaching such charts, bul States to take effect this

STRIKES AVERTED OR SETTLED VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OF THE U. S., BY GRAND DIVISIONS AND COUNTRIES

The Department of Labor has, author Total values of merchandise imported year, have been made public. by the Bu ized this statement: from and exported to each of the prin reau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce " The department is just in receipt of a cipal countries during April and the 10 of the Department of Commerce, as telegram from one of its commissioners months ended April, 3917. compared with follows : of conciliation to the effect that the corresponding periods of the preceding strike of carpenters in the shipyards at Brunswick, Ga., has been adjusted. There were 500 employees involved. Month of April— 10 months ended April- These ship companies were engaged in the construction of ships for the United States Government. " The commissioner of conciliation who was recently detailed to cope with a num IMPORTS riiOM- Grand divisions: ber of strikes in the coal fields of West Europe $51,332,285 $53, 484, 660 $197,934,192 $490,181,615 Virginia has advised the department by North A merica 75, 656, 403 59.815,057 583,002,149 454,705,102 telegraph that an agreement has been South \merica 55, 911), COS 40,904,497 424,580,847 312,205,683 Asia 57,653,711 46, 786, 275 465, 219, 192 333,571,503 reached with seven operators in the thin Oceania 8, 336, 844 7, 1-02. 668 52,072,028 78,538,113 vein field between Grafton and Tunnel- Africa 5,021.113 9,283,210 49,193,774 53,097,030 ton, W. Va. Also that an agreement was signed by the operators of the Delmar Total . 253,916,906 I 218,2)0,397 2,072,009,082 1,722,899,115 and Davis mines at Flemington, W. Va., Principal countries: which involves about 950 men. Austria-Hungary 30, 1(11 205. 988 1,292,571 Belgium 164 62,565 1.027,007 1,199,102 Other Strikes Settled. France 400, 449 9,804,732 91,817,707 83,673,004 Germany 3, 0S9 432,128 1,521,322 12,682,015 " The commissioner of conciliation who Italv..." 062, 888 5,968,768 38,694,231 45,536,668 was recently detailed by the department Netherlands 109, 554 2,501,957 28,687,173 25, 018,793 Norway 158,301 583,085 4, 942, 249 5,867,718 in connection with a strike nt the Loco Russia in Europe 116,427 481,854 5,289,634 3,149,793 mobile Co. of America, located at Bridge Spain 691,991 2,743,654 29,983,329 21,396,998 port, Conn., reports a satisfactory ad Sweden 609,087 1,302,401 19,244,557 9,827,400 Switzerland 317,337 1 , 4S9, 962 10,637,031 17,295,108 justment, and that the men have re United Kingdom 552,596 25, ail, 717 844,446,774 245,194,118 turned to work. He also advised that a Canada 731,545 15.913,365 236, 829, 775 165,224,688 settlement has been effected between the Mexico 412,770 9, 275, 685 90,104,488 79,021,437 Cuba 454,942 27,477,120 193,748,456 165,121,402 Lake Torpedo Boat Co. and its pattern Argentina 483,548 11,603,7.55 122, 906, 106 90,638,021 makers, Bridgeport, Conn. The com Brazil 028, 844 13,206,712 125,211,113 108,590,015 missioner has ascertained that as a re ■ Chile 0.52, Ills 6,911,4111 79,794,400 46, 496, 705 China 455,537 8, 752. 809 72,185,883 56, 446, 685 sult of the Locomobile Co. and Lake Tor Brit ish East Indies 564, 873 18,574,970 172,056,402 133, OS), 407 pedo Boat Co. settlements, -the Crane Japan OHO-, 01S 14, 840, 437 160,991,135 116,986,207 Valve Co. and all other establishments Australia and New Zealand. 115,591 5,231,710 14,187,976 54,162,344 Philippine Islands 005. 730 2,586,013 34,562.654 21,421,077 employing pattern makers have settled Egypt 533,924 5, 609, 4.54 24,897,300 29,337,484 their controversies. EXPORTS TO- Railway Strike Averted. Grand divisions: Europe 259, 784, 139 3,597,827,011 2,355,591,200 "All the mechanical employees on the North America. 72,404,009 898,915,653 583,103,093 New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail South America. , 14.456,300 207,181,135 141,600,593 Asia 40,318,104 324,230.342 197,480,30-6 road recently threatened to strike, and Oceania 8,114,230 90,950,314 81,409,532 the department immediately detailed a Africa 3,491,144 48,115,533 34,808,508 commissioner of conciliation to effect, if possible, an adjustment. The commis Total. 530,252,205 ! 398,568,532 5,167,222,988 3,393,993,292 sioner wires the department that a satis Principal countries: factory agreement has been reached. An stria-Hungary 140,392 Belgium. s2: 1 750 355,182 36. 946, 362 16 163,724 " One of the department's commission Denmark 721 017 2, 930. 588 45, 375, 674 47 127,422 ers, who has been detailed on several France 6.83 979 55, 822, 792 827. 023, 913 475 94 1, 101 drop-forge cases at Cleveland, Ohio, re Germany 2, 196. 171 283,433 Greece. 40 234 4,850.271 17, 050.810 26, 989; 2tH ports a satisfactory adjustment at the Italy 29. 080 439 19,381.592 2«5. 949, 890 219, 586, 733 Champion Machine & Forging Co." Netherlands 13, 955 418 8,211.597 97, 220. 350 80. 489, 326 Norway ■ ('., "us 435 6,34.8,925 63, 015, 302 43, 568, 987 Russia in Europe 29, 310 S40 11,310,179 375, 310,342 139, 981,912 Spain 1 o:s;i 012 3,969,586 63, 282, 442 42, 9211,999 APPEAL TO CONSERVE FOODS. Sweden 1,' 208 994 3,238,913 40, 061,772 16, 430, 028 United Kingdom 173, 301 524 139,771,291 ,707. 641, 122 1,191, 311,550 Canada 730 134 48,914,013 602, 209, 543 308, 126, 764 Department of Agriculture leaflet on Central A merica 8SS, 086 3,073,476 41, 904,321 33, 702, 254 Mexico 197. 068 3,955,670 54, 698, 032 39. 716,512 How to Prevent Waste. Cuba 058 183 12,321,491 147, 831,572 102 493.583 Argentina 431 915 6,038,115 66, 490. 381 52: 946', 38.3 To encourage the canning and drying Brazil.. 002,811 2, 162, 590 45, 057,642 31 225, 023 of vegetables, the United States Depart Chile 349 5 12 1, '.His. 203 34, 270, 945 18 487,595 ment of Agriculture is inclosing in its China. 101 251 2,512,563 29. 269,507 is 664,151 British East Indies 005 687 2,332,247 29, 941,505 20. 072, 509 correspondence leaflets bearing the fol Japan 402 982 8,040,972 105, 971,439 50. 51S, 94 1 lowing appeal : Russia in Asia 115 090 26, 413. 583 124, 252,342 81 903, 707 Australia and New Zealand. 131 !50 0,104,114 68, 051.012 01. 750,954 CONSERVE FOODS — BEGIN NOW. Philippine Islands 875 7>'4 1 , 879, 062 20 958.358 18. 571,114 British Africa 937 241 2,211,437 29. 855, 420 22. 000,908 Prevent food waste by being ready to can, preserve, dry, pickle, salt, or store surplus fruits and vegetables. See that everything needed is at hand and ready ties sealed with cork or paper and okra, etc. Pickle or brine suitable vege to use. paraffin. tables in crocks. As tin cans may be scarce — (3) Concentrate products, especially (5) Make your fields or home gardens (1) Can for home use in glass or sou]) mixtures, so that each container produce dry beans, peanuts, soy beans, stoneware containers. will hold :is much canned food and as cabbage, potatoes, and root crops that (2) Reserve tight-sealing containers little water as possible, can be stored in pit or cellar. for canning. Put vip jams, jellies, pre (4) Dry such vegetables as corn, string Don't have an empty container in your serves, and fruit juices in glasses or bot- beans, navy beans, mature lima beans, neighborhood next fall. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN. ■ . . —sr — n

ADMIRAL BENSON'S REPORT ON CONDITIONS AT GREAT LAKES TRAINING STATION

At the direction of Secretary Daniels, " While all the men did not have com George W. McCoy, director of the Hy Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of" plete regular outfits of clothing, practi gienic Laboratory at Washington, to in Naval Operations, has just made a thor cally all the men had uniforms of some vestigate sanitary conditions at the Great ough personal inspection of the Great kind which, pending the receipt of official Lakes Training Station and to advise as Lakes Training Station, North Chicago, clothing of all the various kinds, an to any condition that should be remedied. III. He reports that the general condi swered the purpose very well. I consid Surg. Gen. Braisted has received the fol tion of the station is " very good," and ered the general appearance of the men lowing telegram from Dr. McCoy : the morale excellent; that the men are In this respect very satisfactory. The GllEAT LAKIS, II.I/., well fed and well cared for ; and that men, except those actually sick, presented June u, an. Fully equipped laboratory enr arrived yes certain features, incident to the large and an unusually healthy, robust appearance. terday, work of detecting carriers and In rapid increase in the number of recruits " I found quite a number of men in the creased accordingly. Sanitary conditions at received, which have caused complaint, hospital, most of them suffering from the both station and hospital satisfactory. are rapidly remedied. He says : " Taking various contagious diseases that are In MCCOY. them altogether, I have never seen a cident to bringing together of large num Oapt. Moffett, commandant of the healthier, liner-looking lot of young men." bers of men from all parts of the coun training station, on June 8 telegraphed Admiral Benson's Report. try, and especially so at this time, when to Surg. Gen. Braisted : it is a well-known fact that these dis Spinal meningitis situation most favorable Admiral Benson has submitted the fol and constantly improving. No case since 4tU lowing report, which wus to-day made eases, such as measles, mumps, scarlet Instant. No seriously 111 case at hospital. public by Secretary Daniels: fever, and spinal meningitis, are preva Everything possible has been done and is be lent throughout the country. ing done. Laboratory being rapidly installed " I visited the Great Lakes Training at station. Also laboratory facilities of North Station on .June 11, and before I left was Many Completely Recovered. western University being used for cultures, and all necessary assistance by Chicago phy assured by the commandant that I had " It should be borne hi mind, however, sicians and hospital being received. No real seen virtually every man on the station. that there is a very natural and reassur grounds for wide publicity concerning situ I visited all the camps and buildings, . ation here. It has always been well in hand ing explanation of this large hospital and under control. No buildings occupied and Inspected all the housing and cook roll. It must noffbe supposed that all of and nil men In tents. Am not at all con ing arrangements, questioning the men the men are still ill. Many are com cerned about the situation, for I feel that as to conditions, food, and general treat everything possible has been done to meet It pletely recovered. Men recovering from and that the alarming reports published have ment. contagious diseases are necessarily kept been entirely without Justification. "The morale of the training station Is segregated and under medical care mucli excellent, and, taking them -altogether, I longer than in ordinary cases, in order to have never seen a healthier, finer-looking prevent the spread of contagion. It can COMMITTEE ON INLAND WATER lot of young men. I was assured by all readily be seen how these hospital figures that the food was excellent, the treat are based oh precaution rattier than on TRANSPORTATION CREATED ment considerate, and that while the ar actual illness. The medical officer In rangements for serving the meals were charge of the hospital reported that con The Council of National Defense to not all that could be desired In some ditions were Improving, and he was par day announced the creation of an inland cases, none of the men had any com ticularly encouraged with regard to the water transportation committee, with plaints to make. cases of' meningitis under his treatment. Gen. W. M. Black, Chief of Engineers, United States Army, as chairman; Daniel Health Precautions Taken. All Convalescents in Tents. " In order to prevent the possible spread Willard, chairman of the advisory com of contagious diseases, and for the gen " Not only because of the crowded con mission of the council, who has special eral health of the command, the com dition of the hospital, but for sanitary charge of matters relating to transporta mandant has taken all of the men out of reasons, the medical officer places all tion, is a member ex officio. the buildings and placed them in tents. convalescents in tents- He Informed me Members of Committee. that he found this practice very success Bedding is aired every day, the tents The other members of the committee are provided with good plank floors, ful. The condition of the camp in which fhe convalescents were placed was not in are: raised several inches from the ground, Walter S. Dickey, vice chairman, Kan and during the day these floors are raised some particulars satisfactory, but I was assured that the faults to which atten sas City, Mo., president Kansas City- to an angle of 30 degrees to allow for Missouri River Navigation Co. ventilation and airing underneath. tion was called would be immediately cor rected. Altogether, the doctors had made George E. Bartell, president of the "A large percentage of the men are Philadelphia Bourse. camped in what was recently a field and most strenuous efforts to control the situ ation -and handle it in an efficient man Capt. J. V. Ellison, Cincinnati, for naturally the ground is more or less soft, merly secretary of the National ltivers but board walks were placed along each ner, and there Is every reason to believe that if there is a continuance of good and Harbors Congress. street of the camp, and work is going on Joy Morcon, Chicago, director in many which should soon put the streets in good weather health conditions will very soon be quite normal. financial, mercantile, and transportation condition. " I found that the doctors were giving companies. CookingArrangements. every man at the station a hot vapor James E. Smith, St. Louis, president " Due to the sudden and very large ex bath containing certain medicinal in Mississippi Valley Waterways Associa pansion in numbers, the cooking arrange gredients that have been found very effi tion. ments were very unsatisfactory in some cacious. This eradicates germs and ren M. J. Sanders, president New Orleans instances, but notwithstanding, the food ders the men much less liable to illness. Board of Trade, representative Harrison- seems to be very well prepared. A very It is believed that those precautions will Leyland Lines. satisfactory type of wooden kitchen is be effective not only in reducing the pres Lieut. Col. C. Keller, of the Corps of rapidly replacing the tents used, a new ent illness but In preventing sickness in Engineers, will act us secretary of the kind of range is being installed, and, future. committee. judging from what I saw, I have reason " While, due to the very rapid increase Function of New Committee. to believe that within a week or ten days from 1,200 or 1,400 men to 8,400 in such It will be the function of the new com the cooking problem will be solved. a short space of time, there were many mittee to bring together the companies "A large number of the men encamped features that were not satisfactory or engaged in inland water transportation, in the field referred to are compelled to ideal, there is every evidence of earnest including those on the Great Lakes, in eat their meals in the open. But this effort on the part of all the officers at the order better to meet the war situation matter is receiving earnest attention, and Great Lakes station, and the results I and increase and make more efficient the I believe will very soon be remedied. consider as being, on the whole, very freight-carrying facilities of the country's Water pipes are being laid, in order to good." waterways. It is hoped through the supply ample drinking water throughout During the past week, upon request of agency of this committee to aid in some the camp, and washing and toilet facili the Surgeon General of the Navy, Dr. degree in meeting the existing shortage ties are being prepared as rapidly as cir Braisted, the Surgeon General of the of freight cars in the sections where wa cumstances will permit. Public Health Service, detailed Surg. ter transportation is possible.