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Newspaper Comment on live
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WORK FOR ADVISORY BOARDS.
(Seattle Star.)
Fur eleven yearn a man named
sstukes haunted the war office of En
gland with a design for a gun.
He failed to secure even an inter
view.
When the war broke out the minds
>,l England's army men were opened,
they gave Stokes a hearing; and then
u test for his guu. It proved just the
tiling for trench warfare. He wua paid
well for his design, and given an office
in which to perfect improvements upon
it. The gun itself is doing good service
u the trendies in Flanders.
How uiiiuy Stokes, do you suppose, I
have oeen trying to get a hearing from
truly men and navy men in this coun
iit is with reference to Just such
iaoes tout the navy boaid of invention
and development ought to do some o£
its best work.
A GROWING BUSINESS.
vuepai uuelii ul Coiiiine.ee itepon.i
i ne number ot lelepnoues pui i.Uou
population in llie entire culled Staler
lose trom 30 in i9UZ to Vi in 1907 and
to !»i in 19iz. Toe gieatesi telephone
density was lound, In iowa, where
mere were ill telephones per 1,000
^population, CaUlOlhia was a eiuse se<
ouu, wltn ibS, and Nebraska stood
Lniru, with lbu. i ne siuaiiesl nuinbei
Ol leiepholleu per 1,UU0 population, Zi.
was found in South Carolina.
The number of mesages pel capita
tor the Lniieu states as a whole tea
elusive of those sent over the lines ot
companies having annual incomes ul
,ess than i&,u00; increased trom Oj in,
iOoz to 1ZZ in lou7 and io 144 in 1U1
i ne greatest number ol messages per
capita Uurtng tne later year, Zt>Z, was
reported from California, wnile unio,
wun zbti, and Micnigan, with Z4U, rank
ed second ahd tnird. Nortii Carolina,;
with 40, had the smallest number o, j
mi is per capital.
I he net income of the telephone
companies with incomes ot $6,ut)0 o
mure increased ll'om $41,ZOO,UUO in 1001
to $01,300,ouu in 191Z, or by nearly Zu
per cent, wliile during the same period ■
the net income of the telegraph com- j
panies decreased from $9,000,000 toj
$6,400,000, or by about one-third.
TRYING TO FORCE US ON7
(Wall Street Journal.)
it Is of extreme Interest to hear of
ihe report that has been brought to
New York bankers from Turkey by
an American who conversed with the
German officers who are directing the
defenses of the Dardanelles and of
Constantinople. The American had
stated to the German officer that the
United States would under all condi
tions keep its finger out of the pie.
•Ah!" replied the high German offi
cer, “but we do not intend that you
shall stay out. We shall force you Into
it. No matter who wins this war, we
will all be economically exhausted both
victor and vanquished. If Amcrioa can
keep out, she will when peace is de
clared have the world's trade in the
palm of her hand, and all the nations
ol’ Europe will be too exhausted to
compete against her. That is the rea
son America must come in and will bo
forced In. Wo do not fear her as un
opponent. It makes little difference to
iis no"w whether there are fifty or a
hundred more war vessels opposed to
us, and it Is quite impossible that
America can get at us with her army,
or at least an army of such a size as
io be an important factor.
“But it Is important to us that Amer
ica must undergo an industrial and
economic paralysis such as would bo
brought about by her entrance into the
v(ar. She cannot equip an army or a
navy soon enough to do Germany any
great amount of harm, but when peace
is declared, all the nations of the world
must start again after the world's
competitive commerce on an equal foot
ing. and we do not propose that Amer
ica shall have ten years’ start of the
rest of us. We will force her In."
It might possibly be the Idle vapor
ing of a conceited German general, but
the American took the trouble to check
up. He found that other German of
ficers held the same view. Was the
Oulflight incident Intention or acci
dental Do all the reasons for the
Lusitania’s sinking appear on the sur
face?
SMALL 8AVINGS ARE IMPORTANT.
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
A wise man said 150 years ago that
it was better for a youth to learn to
shave himself limn to receive a gift ol
1,000 guineas.
The man who shaves himself every
morning saves a great deal ol time and
. iso the Income of a good $1,000 bond
for that day.
The man who cuts out one lo-cent
> igar every day saves at least the divi
dend on twelve os ol i ennsy 1 v anno
railroad stock
One less drl vf ordinary whisky a
day would pa. the bread of two
persons for that uay.
Cncle Sam will carry a letter for you
ten thousand miles for what you paid
for that one Turkish cigarette you t ie
molting.
If you had all live morning newspa
pers sent to your home you would
giumbie at your own extravagance.
That single cocktail before dinner
osts you more than twice as much. <
ltu.st.el Sage insisted that the easiest
way he knew to earn the income Of a
dollar for a whole year was to walk
to his office once.
NEW STEAMSHIPS ORDERED.
t Philadelphia Record.)
u seems altogether probable tout
.vbat tile Baldwin Locomotive VV orka
an do m wond-wide competition
damps shipyard can do if it liuifs ii
! .leceasary. t hey use the same mate
uals ana tlie same classes of mechan
ics. A few uays ago Allure w Carnegie
wiote oi having exported slop plates
o Behast wnen he was in tne stem
usineas; lie believed that ships cuuio
ne buiil here as cheaply as in Europe,
anu liis former partner, Charles
nohvvab, is hunting fur loreign slap
milling orders. The Iron Age says,
ompbuilding business continues u
mom up large." luree more contracts
for ocean steamers were placed week
uefore last, and orders about to be
given out win equal all tlie contracts
f the past three months. “A long idle
shipyard at New London is lu be re
i uDiiiiaied to lake advantage of tin.
active demand for ships." The Alary -
uid Steel Company is enlarging iis
• 'id at fc.pariuw’s Point in order to be
ole to turn out more vessels. It looks
as if American shipping might take
vare of itself if the government wouiu
let it alone.
THE COST OF A LOAF OF BREAD.
(Dallas News.)
The Wall Street Journal has been
trying to find out what a loaf of bread
is worth. In New York it costs—a
'loaf of twelve ounces—6 cents, and the
Journal was moved to its inquiry by
the suspicion that there was a largt
element of human greed in this price
So it betook itself to figures, the most
■ lUtlten'lc it could get. It learned thal
a barrel of flour, weighing i!0> pounds,
will make about 330 twelve-ounce
loaves, which at 5 cents a loaf would
y ield $10.50. Another inquiry brought
forth the information that the high
est price for the best flour to be ob
tained in New York is $8.25, so that
the bread to be made out of a barrel
of flour yields even at 6 cents a loaf
an amount twice tho cost of the Hour
But, of course, only a small part ol
the flour used Is of the highest grade,
; and it ostimr-icdd that tho average
price paid'for flour is between $0 and
$7 a barrel. The Journal concluded
that, at the utmost stretch, there is
not more than 2 1-2 cents' worth of
flour in a twelve-ounce loaf, and it
ventured to say that at 5 cents a loal
there Is ample margin of profit for both
the makers and dealers In bread.
CITIES AND DEBT.
(New York World.)
The net debt of American municipal
ities was more than double between
1902 and 1913, and nearly quadrupled
between 1890 and 191. Their total debt
per capita was $14,79 In 1890, $20.74 in
1902 and $35,81 in 1913.
It la evident from these figures that
the problem is chiefly a municipal prob
ed States is chiefly a municipal prob
lem.
That the aggregate debt of cities
should increase greatly in tho past
quarter centeury was to bo expected.
It has been a time of enormous in
crease in urban population. In 1890 lit
tle mofo than a third of the people ol
(ha United States were living in cities
or towns of 2,500 population or more
Now practically one-half the people
arc found there, and the urban tend
ency is stilt strongly operative.
Cut if city debt must have Increased
along v^lth Increase In city population
why should it have increased so mucl
muro Ilian population, as tho per capita
| figures show? Is this a reasonable
• f ■ t, or rather evidence of a growth so
input ami hotel ogeneous as to over
whi'.m the forces for honest and elll
ient public administration through
on upt politws and organized graft'.
There is but one answer. Our cities
I mu'-' clean house politically or fact
1 ■, nkrvptey.
3ANK MESSENGER
AND BANDIT DIE
V. P. A. Service.
NEW YORK, Dei >) Allan Gardner,
bank messenger, in the employ of
the State flunk and Geo Debrosa, a
i,audit, died in the hospital late last
ight as the result of bullet wounds
received in a pistu) duel between the
' uair following a sensational attempt i
| natle by Debrosa to snatch a bag eon- |
mining four thousand dollars in th< j
Mth street subway station The at - !
cmpted robbery occurred during the !
evening rush hour at the subway sta- j
'ion and it is considered almost mirae- ’
ilous that no one aside from the prin- i
Inals was wounded in the fight
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