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U. S. KEEPS TAB
ON 7,000 SHIPS
Every Six Minutes a Merchant
Vessel Moves at an
American Port.
TRAFFIC CHARTS ARE USED
Every Minute of Time and Pound of
Cargo Noted and Thus Each Ves
sel Is Used to Utmost to
Speed War Plan.
Washington.— Every six minutes a
merchant vessel arrives and another
departs from Amercan ports. From
north Atlantic seaports there is a
departure every eleven minutes —one
for Europe every forty minutes. This
rate of operation does not include ves
sels in the service of the army or
navy.
The merchant fleet of 1,500 ships
under the control of the United States
shipping board is run as a railroad, on
a time schedule. The duty of measur
ing ships’ performances, with their
tasks, is lodged with the planning and
statistics division of the. shipping
board, headed by E. H. Gay, formerly
dean of the Harvard Graduate School'
of business.
Obviously the division must know
the tasks in detail, and so it co-ordi
nates with the war industries and war
trade boards in determining and pro
viding for the country’s needs from
abroad. It works on month to month
schedules, or as far in advance as it
is feasible or possible to forecast.
Works With All Departments.
In planning the use of ships the di*
vision works with the food administra
tion in determining the shipping re
quirements for food; with the war de
partment in correlating shipping with
the requirements of the line of sup
plies for the western front; with the
war industries board in seeking solu
tion of the problem of bringing neces
sary raw imports into the country, and
with the war trade board in preparing
AID TO REDFIELD
In appointing a woman to become his
private secretary William C. Redfield,
secretary of commerce, has set a prec
edent. Mrs. A. C. Stewart of Port
Richmond, N. I\, Is the first woman
thus honored. Mrs. Stewart was Mr.
Redfield’s confidential clerk for a num
ber of years.
TOO GOOD FOR THIS EDITOR
Chinese Newspaper Man Returns Di
vine Manuscript With Great
est Sorrow.
London. —A correspondent of the
Daily News forwards to the editor
the following Chinese method of re
fusing a contribution which has been
received from a Peking journal;
“We have rea<V thy manuscript with
infinite delight Never before have we
revelled in such a masterpiece. If we
printed it the authorities would ordain
us to take it as a model, and hence
forth never to print anything inferior
to it. As it would be impossible to
find its equal within 10.000 years we
are compelled, though shaken with
sorrow, to return your divine MS.,
and for doing so we ask of thee a t*.*.„•
sand pardons.”
Romance in the Trenches.
Clinton, la—A “romance of the
trenches” in France was revealed in a
letter received recently by a Clinton
woman from a cousin with the.Ameri
ca’'. expeditionary forces. The cousin.
the lists of essential imports and ex
ports.
As the country has gone more and
more on a war basis, it has been re
garded necessary to limit the list of
essential Imports to less than 100.
Data on the ships and their trade pro
vide the basis for operation of the
vessels under the shipping board’s con
trol. Likewise records are kept of
neutral vessels coming to this coun
try or linking up with its foreign
trade.
Thus the division checks daily about
7,000 vessels, 1,500 of them being those
of the shipping board, 3,000 engaged
directly in American commerce and
2,500 scattered over the globe and
trading for the most part with the al
lies or their colonies. Roughly, one
fourth of the merchant ships of the
world are watched by the shipping
board.
Ship performances against tasks are
recorded by “progress charts,” which
show at a glance what the vessels have
to do and how they are doing it. Each
set of charts is divided into ten di-
YANKEES VISITING IN BATH, ENGLAND
Wherever American troops set foot on English soil today nothing but
kind words and all the comforts of home greet them. Patriotic-minded Eng
lish men and women arrange excursions and celebrations for them; in fact,
everything possible is done to make them feel as if they were back home.
This picture shows some Yankees inspecting the old Roman baths at Bath,
England, near which city they are stationed.
U. S. WILL ENROLL ALL DOCTORS
Washington.—Dr. Franklin Martin,
i chairman of tlie general medical| board
of the council of national defense, ex
plains the scope and function of the
volunteer medical service corps, in
which it is proposed to enroll every
legally qualified physician in the
j country, including women, without rel
-1 erence to age or physical disability.
“It is a method of recording all phy
sicians who are not yet in service and
of classifying them so that -their serv
: ices when required will be utilized in
a manner to inflict as little hardship
on the individual as possible,” Doctor
Martin writes. “It is a method by
J which every physician not in uniform
will be entitled to wear an insignia
; which will indicate his willingness to
i serve his government.
“The object of the corps is to place
on record all medical men in the Unit
ed States; to aid the army, navy and
| p&lilic health service in supplying war
[ needs; to provide the best civilian serv-
Daniel Livingstone, ten years ago,
when he was fourteen years old, then
a resident of Cedar Rapids, while in
Davenport on a vacation visit saved
a girl from drowning in the Mississippi
river.. He had never seen the girl be
fore nor since until, as he wrote his
cousin here, he met her near the firing
line in France. She is a Red Cross
nurse. He did not reveal whether or
not a sequel is to be expected.
Dump Kaiser in Basin.
Boston. —Students of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology nailed
an effigy of the kaiser in a specially
prepared coffin and afterwards threw
the coffin, kaiser and all into the
Charles river basin. The ceremonies
were preceded by a funeral march
and a dirge.
Kidd, 106, Works on Farm.
Bellaire, O. —William Kidd, one
hundred and six, is assisting in the
farm work on the Charles Rosser farm
and is doing a real day’s work every
day. Kidd was born during the War
of 1812 and served In the Confederate
*rmy during the Civil war.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. MoDONOUGH. GEORGIA
visions —one each for movements of
vessels, turn-arounds, ships’ charts of
commodities, individual commodity
charts, summary of imports, individual
trades, summary of trades, ship charts
of exports, performances in ports and
dock performances. Copies are dis
tributed every ten days to govern
ments which require constant informa
tion about the movement of supplies.
By these movement charts any In
formation regarding locations and
movements of vessels is accessible,
and from past performances one may
forecast the time of future voyages.
The summary on shipping and trade,
prepared every ten days for the war
industries and war trade boards and
the food administration, helps shape
the larger policies underlying the use
of American ships in war time. The
charts tell whether the ships allocated
to a certain trade are enough, too
many or too few; whether they bring
in too little or too much; whether
they are on time, ahead of time- or
behind time, and whether the trade
movement is too slow, too fast or just
right. The charts also serve to guide
the ship control committee in the as
signment of vessels to various trades.
By comparing import requirements
against deliveries the charts show
when vessels may be transferred from
one trade to another or released to the
army.
ice possible; to give recognition to all
who record themselves.
“Civilian service will be supplied
under a fixed plan. Every one in the
corps will receive proper credit for
service rendered, and ample medical
attention will be assured for all re
quiring it. There will be four tenta
tive classes, consisting of fit-to-flght
men under forty, reserves under fifty
five ; home forces over fifty-five, and
ineligibles. Reserves inay be called
on occasion for army, navy, public
health and civilian service, the home
forces being those able to perforin
only civilian service.”
Service of members of the corps will
be called and rendered in response to
requests from the central governing
board, in which the management of the
corps will be vested. State boards will
appoint executive committees to re
ceive applications for enrollment in
the corps and will make recommenda
tions concerning them to the central
governing board.
“HAIL, HAIL;’ greets
YANKEES IN FRANCE
Gary, Ind.—“ Hail, hail, the
gang’s all here!”
Thousands of the 1918 edition
American tourists who are daily
arriving “somewhere in France”
look up, joy in their faces and a
warm glow in their hearts, as
groups of little French kiddies
sing this hbme'y refr in as they
line the gangways.
According to ? letter received
here recently early arrivals of
the American expeditionary
forces have taught this greeting
to the children, who pass it on
as each new contingent arrives.
“Hail, hail, the gang’s all
here!”
The remarkable intelligence of the
horse is shown by the rapidity with
which the animal learns the signifi
cance of the bugle calls In the cavalry
service.
Newsy Paragraphs
Of State Interest
Atlanta. —Capt. Charles Famel, in
charge of the army recruiting service
for Georgia, with headquarters in the
postoffice building, has received or
ders to close the recruiting office and
’will proceed to do so at once. No
enlistments have been received for
some time in the army and the orders
were expected.
Amerieus. —A land sale of interest
was consummated here when R. D.
Moore, a prominent planter of Walker
county, Georgia, bought from J. L.
Lewis a fine tract of 880 acres in
Myrtle Springs neighborhood, fifteen
miles west of Amerieus. He paid a lit
tle more than S3O an acre, and it is
announced will make his home here.
Atlanta. —While talking with two of
his comrades about the world series,
when they were among the crowd
viewing the scoreboard from the
Peachtree viaduct, Sergt. Maj. George
A. Mayer, formerly in charge of the
local army recruiting station at Five
Points, fell unoonscious in the street
and died a few minutes later before he
could be given medical assistance.
Atlanta. —Dr. George Brown, the
well known Atlanta specialist, has
been appointed by the gas defense di
vision of the chemical warfare service
of the United Statese army, to dissem
inate information in Atlanta concern
ing the collection of certain materials
needed by the government in the man
ufacture of the particular kind of
charcoal used in gas respirators. These
materials are as follows: Peach seeds,
apricot seedsfi prune seeds, olive seeds,
date seeds, cherry seeds, Brazil nut
shells, English walnut shells, black
walnut shells. It is urged that all of
the above seeds be saved and the Red
Cross authorities will announce just
what disposition is to be made of
them.
Atlanta. —During the month of Au
gust, 1918, the internal revenue offi
cers in the state of Georgia destroy
ed 201 moonshine stills; secured suf
ficient evidence against 187 of the op
erators to warrant prosecution; made
40 arrests of persons working in the
said distilleries and captured four au
tomobiles, a team of mules and a wag
on. ’ The revenue officers state that
two years ago the number of real bad
moonshine districts in Georgia was
less than a dozen, but since the enact
ment of the bone-dry law, and the ex
tremely high price of moonshine
whiskey, illicit distillation has spread
all over the state until there is hardly
a county that is not infested more or
less with operators of moonshine
stills.
Atlanta. —The selective service office
for Georgia announced the list of of
ficial estimates of men who will reg
ister for service in the army on Sep
tember 12, when all men who have
reached their eighteenth birthday and
who are not yet 46, jgo to the polls to
put themselves at the disposal of Un
cle Sam. According to these estimates,
Georgia will register 309,460 men, and
Atlanta will send to the polls nearly
thirty thousand of this number. A
number of the local exemption board
officials have already made all their
necessary arrangements for the day
and have officially notified tlie military
department that they are ready. Maj.
Joel B. Mallet, in charge of the se
lective service for Georgia, stated that
he had already received advices from
a number of counties throughout the
state to the effect that their organiza
tion for the big job on September 12
was already completed and that every
thing is in readiness for the da}.
Atlanta. —Urging as a war measure
the construction of a barge canal
across the Florida peninsula, a com
mittee of Georgia officials, headed by
Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey, presented a
plan to President Wilson.
The proposed canal runs from St.
Marys, Fla., to St. Marys, Ga., using
the St. Marys river and the Suwanee
river as part of the route. The pro
ject was indorsed by representatives
of a number of Southern states who
met this summer to discuss it. The
total length of the canal would be
216 miles, of which 100 miles would
be new construction. The construc
tion of this canal would enable opera
tors in the Illinois coal fields to barge
coal down the Mississippi river to
New Orleans and across the existing
inter-coastal canal to St. Marks, when
it could be taken along the proposed
new canal to St. Marys on the At
lantic coast, where it would be availa
ble for supplying steamships. Ala
bama coal fields also could utilize this
new project in getting their coal to the
Atlantic coast, the Alabama fields be
ing connected by water with St. Ma
rys. The proposed canal also offers
opportunity to coton growers in south
ern Georgia and northern Florida to
send their cotton at a low water rate
to New Orleans. The committee
poined out that an immense saving
of transportation costs could be effect
ed by the construction of this canal,
and the railroads would be relieved to
a great extent.
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
HURRY, MOTHER! REMOVE POI
SONS FROM LITTLE STOMACH,
LIVER, BOWELS.
GIVE “CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF
FIGS" IF CROSS, BILIOUS
OR FEVERISH.
No matter what nils your child, a
gentle, thorough laxative should al
ways he the first treatment given.
If your little one is out of sorts,
half-sick, isn’t resting, eating and act
ing naturally—look, Mother! see if
tongue is coated. This is a sure sign
that the little stomach, liver and bow
els are clogged with waste. When
cross, irritable, feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad or has stomach-ache, diar
rhea, sore throat, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the con
stipated poison, undigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of the lit
tle bowels without griping, and you
lwive a well, playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless “fruit laxative,” because
it never fails to cleanse the little one’s
liver and bowels and sweeten the stom
ach and they dearly love its pleasant
taste. Full directions for babies, chil
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of “Cal
ifornia Syrup of Figs;” then see that
it is made by the “California Fig Syrup
Company."—Adv.
MADE MARCHING MEN SMILE
Appeal of Groups of Parisian Midi
nettes Got Desired Results From
Passing British Soldiers.
The Paris Figaro recounts the fol
lowing picturesque episode at a review
recently, which admirably expressed
the enthusiastic admiration of the
Parisian crowd for the British sol
diers. The latter marched past, stern
and impassive. Groups of nddinettes
observed that the soldiers were not
smiling. “Smile, please, smile,” they
cried in French. The men did not
falter, but continued to march, grave
and meditative, because They did not
understand. “Cry ‘Smile’ to them,” a
linguist in the crowd suggested,
whereupon the group of mldinettes
cried in English, “Smile, please,
smile.” And then the British smiled,
to the great delight of the girls.
L’Oeuvre writes: “We may say with
out hesitation, because we know we
shall lie understood by our incompar
able Poilus, that it was the British
troops, and especially the Scotch, who
produced The greatest Impression.”
Btate of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
A Co., doing business In the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that
said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
CSeal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE is tak
en Internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Druggists, 7oc. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Practical View.
“I am so obsessed with my love for
you,” wrote the sweet young thing to
her soldier, “that I cannot eat a bite.”
“That is the kind of girlie for me,”
said the rookie; “with the price of eats
havin’ a blue sky limit, I could just
about support a wife who didn’t eat.”
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