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Photo by American Prena Anwoelutlon.
Merchant Marine
for United States
Administration Plana to Spend $25,-
000,000 Buying Shipa to Trana|>ort
American I’roducta.
Washington, Aug. 27.—The ud-
miniatration today mapped out com
prehensive plana for building up the
American merchant marine with gov
ernment money for the immediate
purpose of transporting products of
the United States to warring Euro
pean nations and to South and Cen
tral America.
President Wilson, in consultation
with democratic congressional lead
ers, approved a project contemplat
ing the expenditure of approximately
$26,000,000 to purchase ocean-going
vessels to be operated under the direc
tion of a government shipping hoard.
Government insurance of Ameri
can ships and cargoes against wur
risks would lie provided for in a hill
submitted to congress after it had
been approved b v the president. The
bill Was introduced in the senate by
Senator Clarke, of Arkansas, and in
the house by Representative Alexan
der. It would create a temporary bu
reau of war risk insurance in the
treasury department and would ap
propriate $5,000,000 for payment of
losses and $100,000 to operate the
bureau.
To Create a Shipping Bonrd.
Plans agreed on for the purchase by
the government of ships include the
creuting of a shipping board to com
prise the president, the secretary of
the treasury, the secretary of com
merce and the postmaster general. It
is proposed U> use the ships principal
ly m foreign trade and the udministru-
tion hopes that great impetus will he
given to trade between South and
Central America.
The present plan is to obtain money
to carry out the projei by the sale
of Panama canal bonus, it was de
cided it might take some time for suf
ficient ships to take advantage of the
recently signed amendment to the
Panama canal act, allowing foreign-
buill ships to register under the
American flag, and the necessity for
moving the crops of the United St:\tes
is so pressing that extraordinary
steps wore decided on.
It is planned to organize a company
similar to the Panama Railway com
pany, controlled by the government,
for the actual operation of the shins
after they have been purchased.
The president conferred with Secre
tary McAdoo, Senators Clarke and
Simmons and Representatives Under
wood and Alexander on the entire
shipping question. The war risk in
surance bill was approved at the meet
ing. The president was told that it
would he ulmost impossible to move
exports unless the government step
ped in and he finally consented to the
scheme.
Ships on the Market.
No offers to sell ships to the gov
ernment have been received, but it
was the general understanding that
owners of many vessels now tieo up
in American ports will be glad to dis
pose of them.
Immediately after the conference
work was begun on the proposed legis
lation and senate and house leaders
plan to bring about the completion of
the movement ns quickly as possible.
There already is pending before the
house naval affairs committee a bill
to appropriate $25,000,000 for the
purchase or construction of a fleet
of twenty vessels. Another bill of
this character is pending in the senate
naval affairs committee.
Before the house naval affairs com
mittee Rear Admiral R. M. West,
chief of the bureau of construction of
the navy department, discussed the
type and size of vessels which would
be useful as trading ships, and at the.
Change for Better
in New Fall Fashions
In the September Woman’s Home
Companion, which is a fashion fore
cast number. Gruce Murguret Gould,
the well-known fashion editor, pres
ents a great array of news and sug
gestions which she introduces with
the following general comment on the
fall fashions:
“Good friends, a change for the bet
ter h«.s taken place in the fashion-.!
“T.te American woman this fall will
be permitted to wear c'.'llies that !;t
i.u- f.gi re, and take real -Ups like a
sensible humun being, a.i she has hon
estly in her heart longed to do, ap
pearances to the contrary notwith
standing
“Let me tell you just exuctly what
iias happened!
“The spineless woman has become
a stutely creature. Thut tired feel
ing has retired, and loose and care
less has made way for lithe and cure
ful.
"The slouch lias retreuted, as it is
the very nature of n slouch to re-
treut, while the new style, trim und
erect, hus marched in to victory.
“Women ure to have backbones this
season. They ure to have arms again,
clearly defined ones, I mean.
"Hips ure coming into their own.
They are to be fashionable.
"And the wuist line is to put in an
uppearnnee again. The dear old waist
line, which brings buck memories of
the tight, prim basque, and the encir
cling arms of uffectionate husbands.
“But perhaps the best news of all l
am keeping for the lust. Women are
to walk, really walk, again I Little
mincing steps and odd, curious jumps
ure no longer the pitiful substitutes
for walking.
“Skirts are to be* wider. The slit
has gone. And, after all, when you
come to think of it, it was a pretty
bard task to combine self-respect and
a slit skirt.”
SENATE ADOPTS
COTTON MEASURE
The Bill Provides For The Government
Licenses Of Cotton Warehouses
And Certificates
AMENDMENTS ARE ACCEPTED
To Include Provisions, Grain, Tobacco,
Naval Stores and Canned
Goods In Bill.
Washington.- The senate has adopt
ed the Smith cotton warehousing bill,
which provides for government licens
ing of warehouses and the issuance of
certificates which It is believed will
be attractive security at banks, and en
able farmers to bold their cotton.
The bill was amended to Include In
Us provisions, grain, tobacco, naval,
stores und canned salmon. An attempt
on the part of Henator Chilton, of West
Virginia, to bring under Its provisions,
peaches, apples and oil was defeated.
Senator Smith agreed to the grain
and tobacco amendments because he
was assured It would be impossible to
pass the bjll through the house unless
this was done.
It Is expected that the measure will
bo amended In conference to provide
that only "cotton and other agricultur
al non-perishable articles” shall be
within Its provisions.
POPE 18 LAID TO RE8T
same time would be available as aux
iliaries to the navy. He said the ships
should be from 10,000 to 12,000 tons
displacement. He added that the navy
needed twenty or thirty such ships
fov use in emergencies.
Krt>d Woods, president of the Mary
land Steel compuny, said that twelve
or fifteen auxiliaries of the type de
scribed could be constructed in eight
or nine months.
Grain Tied Up at l’orts.
Secretary McAduo made public
figures on grain in port along the
gulf coast and the Atlantic seaboard,
showing that neurly 50,000,000 bushels
either are in terminal elevators or in 1
transit and that few ships are loading. I
In New Orleans he said there are 16,-
700,000 bushels, in Galveston 25,623,-
000 bushels, in Baltimore 3,600,000, in
New York 939,000 and in Boston 641,-
000.
Railroads have refused to accept
further grain ^shipments to New Or
leans and Galvefcton, and while at
New Orleans six ships are loading
grain, virtually none of the grain at
Galveston is being touched. Even if
all these millions of bushels of grain
are disposed of the secretary thinks
the situation will become acute again
when the cotton crop is offered for
shipment.
P. A. S. Franklin, director of the
International Merchantile Marine,
came to Washington the other day
to cosuit with the president and oth
er government officials.
Mr. Franklin proposed that the gov
ernment provide means for the pur
chase of available foreign-built ships,
declaring the step imperatively neces
sity, owing to the difficulty of rais
ing capital necessary from private
sources.—Atlanta Constitution. t
Election of New Pope Confront* Cardi
nals at Rome.
Rome.—The entombment of the lute
Pope Plus X took plnce at sunset.
The great basilica of St. Peter's was
In semi-darkness. A flickering light
came from the perpetually burning ta
pers about the shrine of the Apostles
and the caifdloH In the chancel where
the catafalque Btood.
Those who witnessed the cefeuiony,
numbering about one thousand, came
by special invitation, anti included
diplomatic representatives, accredit
ed to the Holy Nee, the prelates and
members of the Roman aristocracy.
The procession formed In the chapel
of the Blessed Sacrament, where, for
hours, the body of Pius X lay In state.
The cutafulque was surmounted by the
triple crown und the body of the pope
was clad In the pout Ideal robes and
surrounded by the emblems of his sa
crod office. During the course of the
day many thousands passed by the
bier.
The bier was removed and placed on
a low platform on wheels. At the
gates of the chapel the urch-pricHt of
the basilica, in violet robes and sur
rounded by the chapter, joined the
procession.
Scene Was Impressive
First came a jeweled cross held
aloft, then the cardinals and high pre
lates, each carrying a candle. In the
center of the procession was the bier,
the cortege passing amid the kueellng
crowd, while through the vast and
silent church whh heard the Miserere,
sung by the Nlstine choir.
The tomb of the late pontiff is on
the right at the entrance to the sub
terranean chapel, close to that of sev
eral other popes. At this point sev
eral ancient marble tablets were re
moved to make room for the tomb of
Plus, which, while partly within the
wall, also projects into the passage.
The body of the pontiff lies In a
cypress wood coftln on which rests a
gold cross. Tills Is encased in nine,
and flnnlly in an oak casket. On the
cusket Is the Inscription:
"Here lies the body of Plus X. Horn
June 2, 1835. Died August 20. 1914.”
The coftlu was placed within tho
tomb, while Cardinal Della Volpe re
cited prayers for the dead, accompa
nied by all present, kneeling. A monu
ment to Plus X will be erected In the
crypt.
Plans to Elect New Pope
The congregation of cardinals has
already met for the second time. Car
dinal Della Volpe presided. Among
other matters dealt with was the ques
tion of the holding of the conclave
for the election of the new pope.
Two opinions, diametrically opposed,
were offered. One was thut. owing to
the perturbed condition of the world,
the election must be hastened and that
the conclave should begin lts work
soon. The other advised deluylng the
conclave that all the cardinals might
reach Rome.
IA Good Way
to Keep Young
In the September Woman’s Home
Companion Ralph Waldo Trine, writ
ing an article entitled "What Is
Youth?—What After Youth?” writes
in part as follows:
"A very general rule with but few
exceptions can be laid down as fol
lows: The body ordinarily looks as
old as’ the mind thinks and feels.
“Shakespeare anticipated by many
years the best psychology of the time's
when he said. ‘It is the mind that
makes the body rich.’ 'An eminent
modern writer has given utterance to
the same truth more fully and more
helpfully, perhaps, in the following:
‘The prevailing state of mind, or
character of thought, shapes the body
and features. It makes us ugly or
pleasing, attractive or repulsive to
others. Our thought shapes our
gestures, our mannerism, our wulk.
Tile least movement of muscle has a
mood of mind, a thought, behind it.
A mind always determined, has al
ways a determined walk. A mind al
ways weak, shifting, vacillating and
uncertain, makes a shuffling, shambl
ing, uncertain gait. The spirit of de
termination braces every muscle. It
is the thought-element of determina
tion filling every muscle If you
send from you in thought the ele
ments of worry, fret, hatred, or grief,
you are putting in action forces in
jurious to your mind and body
Look at the discontented, gloomy, me
lancholy, and ill-tempered men or wo
men, and you see in their faces proofs
of the action of this silent force of
their unpleasant thought, cutting,
carving, and shaping them to their
present expression. Such people are
never in good health, for that force
acts on them as a poison, and creates
some form of disease.’ ’’
Much In 8lmple Klee.
A kiss Is a simple little thing and
yet It Is priceless. .You may have
noticed that the man who never for
gets to kiss Ills wife before he leaveti
the house doesn't purchase many au-
totfioblles for divorco lawyers
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you tee »n
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Florida's Road Law Contested
Washington.—Whether making a
man work on the public roads is im
posing "involuntary servitude" in vi
olation of the federal constitution is
the novel issue raised by Jacob But
ler of Columbia county. Florida, in a
case just docketed in the Supreme
court. Butler was arrested for fail
ure to comply with the provision of
the Florida statute requiring able-
bodied citizens to work on the public
roads six days or pay $3 Into the road
funds.
Wilaon'a Peace Plan Accepted
Washington.—"Difficulties in Santo
Domingo seem to have been settled
by the acceptance of President Wil
son's peace plan,” said Secretary Bry
an. "11 includes the selection of a
provisional president by agreement
atnoug all candidates for the presi
dency."
Yeggman Rob Safe in Savannah
Savaunah, Ga.—Robbers entered the
office of the Gulf Refining company, in
the outskirts of Savannah, and ex
tracted $1,300 from the sate.
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