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NAYY DEPARTMENT VERY MUCH
PLEASED WITHSTRIKE SITUATION
“There is no doubt that every
body was greatly relieved when
it was finally settled that the
threatened railroad strike would
not come off, but it is very doubt
ful,” says a statement issued by
the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, “whether anybody
drew a deeper breath of relief
than certain people in the Navy
Department—and no one who
knows what the navy people were
up against will wonder that this
18 so.
“The work of building and re
pairing battleships and other na
val craft must, of course, be done
in shipyards located on the coast,
but practically all the material
used both for construction and re
pair comes from the interior,
much of it from points hundreds
of miles from tidewater. For in
stance, armor plate comes from
Bethlehem, Pa., and steel, in
many shapes for many uses, from
Pittsburgh. |
“It is vitally important that this
material shall be moved regular
ly and continuously from the
points where it is made to the
places where it is to be used,
and this movement has been en
tirely by rail. Just as soon, chere
fore, as it was seen that a general
strike on the railroads of the
country was actually impending,
an investigation was started to
see if there were any routes avail
able for its movements by water.
For instance, if work was to be
continued on the battleship ‘New
Mexico’, it would be necessary to
move 2,500 tons of steel within
six weeks from the mills at Pitts
burgh to the navy yard at Brook-
Iyn. Could it be done at all? Was
there more than one route that
could be used? If so, what route
was the best, the shortest, and es
pecially, the quickest?
“The first thing discovered was
that there is no map or document,
official or otherwise, that shows
or describes the waterways in the
United States. The reports of
the Chief of Engineers give the
fullest possibleginformation as to
the rivers and %rbors under con-’
trol of the War Department, but
nat a word about state-owned or
private ‘canals. The General
Staff and the War College have
maps showing all lines of trans
portation in certain areas, special
studies of which have been made
in working out problems of de
fense, but no maps or data cover
ing the country as a whole or any
considerable portions thereof.
Commercial maps and atlases
were found to be worse than use
less, since most of them do not
even pretend to show any water
ways except the principal rivers,
and of the rest no two agree in
what they show.
“It is only a little way from
Pittsburgh to Lake Erie and a
canal across this short cut has
been both proposed and opposed
for many years. So far the oppo
sers have won, but if the Navy
Department could have got hold
of Aladdin’s lamp two weeks ago,
that canal would have been built
quicker than a wink. With a sigh
for what might have been, and
ought to be, but isn’t, the naval
investigators turned hopefully to
the three canals across the state
of Ohio, only to find after a stren
uwous search that the best of the
lot has sections twenty miles
long which have no water in
them, and that the only way to
get from Pittsburgh to the Lakes
by water is to go down the Ohio,
up the Mississippi and the Illi
nois and through sixty miles or
more of the out-of-date Tllinois
and Michigan canal to Chicago.
Another possible route from
Pittsburgh to Brooklyn was
down the Ohio and Misgissippi
and then by ocean steamer from
New Orleans. “
“A little further search reveal
ed the fact that no dependence
could be placed on the Ohio, be
cause this ils the season of low
water and not one-third of the
dams needed to insure nine foot
channel have yet been completed.
Material started down the Ohio
might get through, but {11! the
prnbtj)iliti‘cs were that 1% would
get shick on a sandbar—and stay
there until the November rains
should bring a rise in the river.
Sometimes it happens, too, that
the November rains do not come
until January. Almost in despera
tion at the situation with which
they were confronted the navy
men were trying to arrange to
ship by trolley cars from Pitts
burgh to Cleveland, and thence
by lake to Buftalo and Erie canal
and Hudson river to Brooklyn,
when the emergency legislation
passed by Congress caused the
strike to be called off.
“If the word ‘desperation’
seems too strong, it must be re
inembered that, besides the ‘New
Mexico’, there were under con
struction five other battleships,
ten destroyers, four auxiliary ves
sels and 32 submarines. Work
on every one of these would have
to stop it a strike should last two
weeks. More than that, Congress
has just appropriated nearly
$315,000,000 with which to build
something like sixty additional
vessels for the navy, and not one
of these could be begun. And in
addition to all the rest, when the
threat of a strike became acute
the navy had only a two week’s
supply of coal on hand. By buy
ing everything within reach a
sufticient supply was secured for
ten days or two weeks more. But
if a strike shoud last a month,
every ship in the navy, except the
very few that use oil for fuel,
would have to tie up to the dock
and lie there as helpless as ‘a
painted ship upon a painted
ocean’. ‘
“Because it leads out from one
of the greatest coal fields and
from the greatest steel manufac
turing center of the world, a com
pletely improved, definitely de
pendable Ohio river would, in
case of such a strike as has just'
been temporarily averted, be
worth more to the navy alone
than its improvement will cost.
If the coal and steel that it could
carry should save us from attack
by an enemy when our navy was
helpless, it would be worth more
to the nation than all that ever
has been or ever will be spent on
all the waterways of the United
States. Yet the filibusters con
ducted by former Senator Burton
have seriously delayed the work
upon the Ohio—and on every oth
er waterway and harbor in the
land—and the senator who led
the filibuster against the River
and Harbor bill of 1916 tried to
cut out the whole appropriation
for the Ohio and stop the work
entirely.
“Recent dispatches from Ger
many state that, although the
railways are given over almost
entirely to military use, a thriv
ing commerce is being carried on
with Switzerland, Holland, Den
mark, Norway and Sweden over
the network of waterways which
reaches every part of the empire.
Because we have failed to develop
and use our waterways the peo
ple of the United States, have
within the past few weeks, been
brought face to face with the por
tentous fact that, just as long as
we depend solely on one method
of transportation, our commercial
prosperity, our national existence
our very lives may be imperiled
by a dispute over wages, hours,
and conditions of employment.
“No lesson is more clearly
taught by the anxious days of the
recent past than that the work of
improving our natural waterways
and joining them into a great,
connected system should be
nushed with all possible speed—
and it should be made sure be
yond all peradventure that the
needed appropriations can neither
be Burton-ized nor Carter-ized.”
GOMPERS TELLS OF THE
STRIKE IN NEW YORK
New York, N. J., Sept. 11.—
Appearing unexpectedly at the
opening here today of the sth bi
ennial convention of the internat
ional steam and operating engi
neers, Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of
Labor, spoke on the New York
street railway strike.
“We are going to do anything
and everything within the law
and within the moral code of man
to see that the rights to organize
shall not be interfered with by
any corporation or individual,”
he said. :
It was reported that Mr. Gom
pers had come here to confer with
Matthew Cammerford of St
PesfSthe national president of the
‘engineers, on the chances of the
Lsaid to be pending in New York.
union joining in the general strike
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1916
M—_—__k,fi AP R S e
WOMAN SHOULD
' SEEK THE MAN
| Ames, lowa., Sept. 11.—Miss
Tura A. Hawk probably is the
only college graduated woman
blacksmith in the country.
She has taken a course in the
blacksmith department of lowa
State College, and carries a di
ploma stating she is eligible to
work at the trade.
In college Miss Hawk has
taken her turn at the forge, hand
led white-hot iron, welded, rivet
ed and repaired just like men.
But her idea of the profession for
women is wifehood and mother
hood. Here are the woman black
smith’s views of life:
“All the issues of a woman’s
life are centered in the home.
“Is it any more than fair that a
woman should be permitted to
ask the man of her .ideals to help
her find and operate that home? ~
“Must woman, because of cus
tom, wait only to be chosen by
some man who is not her ideal or
else never enter her life profes
sion ? |
“Every woman, if she is to live
up to her ideals, must do one of
two things—get the special man
she desires or live an unmarried
life!
“Marriage is an episode in a
man’s life ; marriage is a woman’s
life.
“As the situation stands today
a girl may see the man who is her
ideal, but must stand in line and
hope and pray he will come and
choose her.
“If he doesn’t she must accept
the man who does come or never
enter her chosen profession—
wifehood and motherhood.”.
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ANOTHER NOTE
EXPECTED SOON
Washington, D. C., Sept. 11.—
Secretary Lansing said today that
another communication from Au
stria-Hungary regarding the at
tack by an Austrian submarine
upon the American oil tanker Pe
trolite was expected shortly. The
United States has demanded an
apology, punishment of the sub
marine commander and repara
tion.
TEUTONIC ALLIES IN
WAR CONFERENCE
Berlin, Sept. 11.—The visit of
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria to
the German emperor at eastern
headquarters is being made the
occasion of an important confer
ence on the near eastern situa
tion, particularly that in the Bal
kans.
King Ferdinand is accompanied
by the chief of his cabinet, while
the imperial German chancellor,
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, is in
attendance on the Emperor as his
responsible political adviser.
The other Teutonic allied gov
ernments also are represented at
the conference, which it is under
stood will not be without effect
upon the future grouping of the
Balkans.
While apparently there is no in
clination to divide the lion’s skin
before the animal is killed, it is
considered advisable and timely,
in view of Roumania’s entry into
the war and the Greek attitude, to
discuss certain questions of gen
eral policy and the aims of the
Teutonic allies in the near east.
Concrete proposals, however, so
far as the Associated Press is in
formed, are not under review.
The conference rather is devoted
to a general survey of the situa
tion and study of the general
lines of the Balkan policy.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Corner Grant & Palm Sts.
There will be regular services
at the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P.
M.
All members of the congrega
tion are urged to be present and
visitors will be cordially welcom
ed.
R. M. MANN,
Pastor.
White Swan Laundry
Good Work, Prompt Service
Phone 35
SIZE OF 5-CENT BREAD
LOAF TO BE REDUCED
Chicago, Sept. 11.—Reduction
by one-third in the size of the
five-cent loaf of bread appeared
tonight to have been decided up
on by Chicago bakers instead of
an increase in price.
City officials announced that
bakers had purchased large quan
tities of municipal stamps for
half-pound loaves instead of the
three-quarter pound stamps form
erly used. j
United States District Attor
ney Cline, who is investigating
the bread situation with a view to
possible prosecution under the
Sherman Anti-Trust law, said to
night that the weight of the five
cent loaf had been recduced by
some Chicago bakers a week ago.
: MILADY’S HOSE
The short skirts the women |
Are wearing today,
Whether walking or swimmin’
Show us the way
Their stockings are shifting
By fashion’s decree. .
Where are we drifting
With this hoisery?
There once was a time
- When Mabel went walking;
‘She cut quite a shine
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By wearing stockings like this:
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For hose of pure white;
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Under fashion’s new lights;
The women are strong
For stockings with stripes
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