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VOL. V. NO. 16
Commerce in Europe’s Great Re
public Is Now Nearly on a Nor
mal Plane—Precise System Is
Bearing Greatest Results.
Prisoners of War Are Put to In
dustrial Tasks and Are Paid
Good Wages—Chinese Import
ed to Help.
By BOERSIANER.
CHICAGO, July 21.—~France indus
trially redivivus must bea surprising
spectacle to the enemy. Despite her
appalling loss of life, notwithstanding
the tremendous destruction of prop
erty in the north, France is steadily
recovering her commercial poise.
It was noted here recently that the
internal trade of France had quite
reached a normal plane, and that her
foreign business was riding rapidly
in the teeth of what appeared to be
insurmountable difficulties.
M. Raoul Blanchard tells of the
commercial resurrection of his coun
iry. Following the complete paraly
-Bis of business in 1914, it did not take
long, Professor Blanchard says, to
discover that this stoppage of all
work was an egregious mistake.
The most pressing duty was, of
course, the manufacture of products
necessary for national defense. These
were various, and southeast France
could produce a good many of them.
Paper Industry.
Though the region is not supplied
with material for heavy iron works,
and could not manufacture guns, ni
was at least possible to work on shells |
and grenades, to manufacture explo
sives, to prepare cotton for po\\'do»r.“
to produce timber and cement for thel
trenches, stocks for rifles and many
other utilities. l
At the same time an attempt was
made to restore the activities of paper
mills and to give an impulse to glove
making and silk manufacture.
Difficulties were enormous. Every
thing was lacking; labor, coal, raw
material; transportation services were
utterly disorganized. But little by
little these difficulties were studied
and solved with the help of a new ad
ministrative organization. Each par
ticular problem was solved by the
most practical means, the power of
the State being a help and not a hin
drance to private initiative.
Took Men Out of Army.
The first move was to take men out
of the army and send them to indus
trial work. This was done with great
caution during the winter of 1914-
1915 and reached its fullest extent in
1916. The specialists in steel work
were the first to be taken out of the
trenches; these were far from being
sufficlent; and unskilled workmen
were added to them.
Then chemists and workmen trained
{ in the manufacture of explosives were
recalled; electrical engineers were
sent back to the hydro-electric plants; |
miners above 35 years of age, who
belonged to the territorial resiment-,‘
were sent to the mines; papermakers
and cardboard makers who could be‘
employed in the preparation of ex
plosives were put to work; cabinet-‘
makers were put to manufacture rifle
stocks; wood cutters were brought
back from the front in order to see
that there was no waste in providing
the enormous amount of wood needed
in the army.
Methods Adopted.
All this recalling of mobilized men
was effected at first according to need
and without method. By degrees it
became clear that the output would be
greater if these soldier-workmen were
assigned to the plants or factories
where they had worked before the
war. As it would have been unwise,
Professor Blanchard thinks, to have
taken too large a number of men out
of the fighting units, hundreds of
thousands were taken from the auxil
iary troops of the interior, men who
through lack of physical ability to
fight were employed in sedentary
tasks,
Thus in/ 19156 and 1916 auxiliaries
were swept away to become workmen,
foremen, secretaries, bookkeepers, ac
countants, ete. Finally, the Adminis
tration decided to draw from the old
,~st classes of men still under the mil
itary law. These were called in 1915
and sent to the factories.
A further draft was made on tbe'
Continued on Paae 3. Column 1.
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Great American
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Encyclopedia To Be
Iscsyuedpi: 144 Vols
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(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, July 21.—Adolph
Lewisohn, milllonaire banker, at
whose palatial home the Russian
mission stayed while lin New
York, has announced his Intention
of financing a new American en
cyclopedic library, embracing the
entire fleld of human knowledge.
The new work will be in 24 sets
of six volumes each, each set to
be devoted to the history and evo
lution of some race. The first set
will be the Slavonic encyclopedia,
which will be devoted to the
racial, social and political devel
opment of the people, The library
will Include a more complex and
detailed history of the evolution
of the United States than has
ever been published. The edi
torial board will be made up of
noted savants from American
universities.
Dr. Isidor Singer, managing ed
itor of the American Library of
Encyclopedias, will direct the new
work.
“This new encyclopedic library,”
Dr. Singer said, “will be the first
attempt on so large a scale to
place our institutions of learning
on the same level with the cele
brated institutions of learning of
Europe.”
Adolph Lewisohn, whose finan
cial backing will make the publi
cation of the encyclopedia possi
ble, has made numerous gifts in
the cause of education and philan
thropy. He is the donor of the
building for the Columbia Uni
versity School of Mines and the
City College Stadium. It was
made clear that Mr. Lewisohn's
furtherance of the library was in
the nature of an offering to cele
brate his fiftieth anniversary in
this country. He was born in
Hamburg, Germany, and arrived
in this country on August 1, 1867,
It was stated that t?e‘ extent to
which the banker would finance
the library would depend largely
upon the success which each sec
tion of the encyclopedias would
meet upon publication. It was
clearly intimated, however, that |
Mr. Lewisohn intended, if it was |
found necessary, to bear the en
tire cost of research and publica
tion. The house of Harper &
Bros. will take charge of the man
ufacturing and selling.
l .
American Names
Difficult for Swiss
BERNE, SWITZERLAND, July 21.—
The difficulty of spelling American
names is almost as great for the aver
age Swiss paper as it is for an Ameri
can paper to spell correctly a Russian
name.
When Brand Whitlock, the American
Minister to Belgium, came out recently
on his way to Havre, The Journal De
Geneva refered to him fatteringly as
“Sfr Frandt Chitlock.” The mistake
§waa called to The Bund of Berne,
‘which in its next issue rectified the
“ridiculous misspelling of the name of
the American Minister to Belgium,
Whitlock Brand.”
Witness Fee Paid
After 43 Years
|
MURFREESBORO, TENN., .luly‘
21.—Colonel Hickman Weakley has
just collected from the Chancery
Court here a witness fee of several
dollars which he bought in 1874, or
forty-three vears ago. \
In the year named Weakley was
Clerk and Master of Chancery, having
keld the office for more than thirty
years. During his incumbency a wit
ness put in a claim for attendance
upen court and in order to obtain the
cash without a long walit for the liti
gation to end, sold it to Weakley.
The latter filed the transfer and
forgot all about it. The present (‘lerk
resurrected it while rummaging
among court records, turned it over
to the owner and then redeemed it,
i Profiting by th
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lWar Union With the Oriental Re
public, Naval Expert Says,
Would Enable America to Cap
ture the Dardanelles.
Awakened Asiatic Democracy Is
Ready to Show Its Vast Man-
Power on Side of Humanity,
Declares ex-Congressman.
| ———
By Richmond P. Hobson.
The quick restoration of the repub
lic of China (a triumph of democracy
;m'er reaction), the failure of the Ger
man intrigue to obtain a separate
‘[pnm-o with Russia and the resumption
'n! effective fighting by the democratic
army in Russia-—-these two great
‘events of the past week encourage the
hope that democracy is to be extend
ed to the ends of the earth.
' Indeed, the whole human race seems
to be affected by the same mighty
convulsion out of which will come
better opportunities for all mankind
for life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
The great objective we must all
keep in mind is the prosecution and
successful conclusion as speedily as
possible of the great war.
As the cause of democracy is the
paramount consideration, we must
not lose sight of it for one moment
either in the prosecution of the waror
in the terms of peace. Both will be
greatly and permanently affected by
the rising spirit of nationalism in
Russia and China. We are deeply
concerned in the future of both coun
tries. Within their borders live n\'e'ri
one-third of the whole human r:uw‘
and over one-half of all the popula
tion of the world not under fnren;:ni
rule. \
United States Holds Key.
America, the elder brother of all
democracies and the first product of
modern nationalism, holds the key to
the future. We have sent a commis
sion to Russia and recelved a commis
sion from Russia. We should now
send a commission to China and in
vite China to send a commission to
America.
- China should speedily be brought
linto the fold of democracy in the
struggle against autocracy.
The inexhaustible industrial man
power of China can now be drawn on
by all the Allies. This would not only
liberate additional men for the front,
but would relieve in part the strain of
hard labor upon women and children
that is beginning to threaten the fu
ture industrial nations now at war,
1 lived for a long time in China,
most of the time at Hongkong. For
more than a year | inspected day by
day the workmanship of more than a
thousand Chinese workmen in the re
construction of Spanish vessels sunk
by Dewey at Manila, the Don Juan de
Austria, the Isle de Luzon and the
Isele de Cuba. From observations at
first hand 1T know the great industrial
possibilities of C‘hinese labor,
In control of the sea, the Allies
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1017,
August to See End
Of the Present War,
Asserts Soothsayer
LOS ANGBLES, CAL., July 21,
The war will end In August.
Germany will never be a re
publie.
The present Crown Prince will
never rule Germany. In seven |
vears Prussianism will again be as
strong as today.
Another world war will take
place in 1943,
These predictions were made in
Los Angeles by Kendor Yoshoda,
Japanese soothsayer, psychic and
philosopher, who predicted the
Russo-Japanese War, the election
of President Taft and more re
cently the election of President
‘Wilson,
Midnight incantations beside a
Japanese god, under the red glow
of Japanese lanterns, shrouded in
solemnity and mystecy, preceded
the prognostications of the Japa
nese soothsayer.
Kendo Yoshoda, in addition to
being a soothsayer, psychic and
philosopher, is known In the loe
Angeles Japanese colony as a lec
turer and a scientist, student and
man of religion and a world-wide
traveler a.nd\aoldier.
Whenever there is some inei
dent that distresses the minds of
the' Japanese in “Little Tokio,”
down In East First street, the
question is submitted to Yo
shoda, ’
Recently the Japanese there, ‘
who have an intense interest in
the world war, were distressed at
the report that Germany was at
tempting to negotiate a separate
peace with Russia. The Japanese
were particularly concerned be
cause of the effect that such a
peace would have on the Asiatic
policy of Japan.
So Yoshoda was asked to advise
them.
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Lost Dough on Train;
)
Was Real Dough, Too
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, July Zl.—lhto the
Lost and Founa Department of the
Subway Company fluttered Miss Hel
ena Judson, of Waterbury, Conn., and
announced:
“l lost some dough today on the
subway.” |
“Yes, ma'am,” replied the clerk po
litely. “How much?”
“Oh, a whole pan full!” returned
Miss Judson brightly. “You see, |
was just returning from a school
where 1 was teaching some students;
how to make it, and I had it in a
pan.”
| The clerk looked interested and po
lite, but he nudged a companion.
“Say,” he whispered, “you talk to
her, 1 am afraid. 1 don’t quite un
derstand.”
Miss Judson proceeded with her ex
planation, which gradually enlight
ened the clerk to the fact that she
is “doing her bit” by teaching women
to make “war bread” at Red Cross
headquarters, and that the pan in
question contained some dough she
had mixed and was carrying with her,
It was returned to her an hour later.
.
Chicago Motorman
. .
Leads Musical Life
CHICAGO, July 21.—1 f you want a
musical treat, take a ride on the Wil
son avenue elevated express operated
by Motorman James (. Darby, when
you are in Chicago.
Darby, while an engineer on the
Rock Island, discovered that the
harsh “whoosh” of an airbrake could
be converted into a concord of sweet
sounds by the application of the index
finger over the exhaust,
The airbrake virtuoso plays recordsi
which, in his mind, fit localities his
train passes through.
When he whizzes by the stockyards,
the alrbrake aria renders “"Where the
'Balmy Breezes Blow.” At Thirty
first street his passengers are enter
tained by “Walkin' the Dog."
On the last run, as Englewood is
reached, the Westinghouse jazz ten
derly plays “The End of a Perfect
Day.” Then Darby folds up his lunch
box and gbes home.
City Made $75,000
ity Made $75,
Out of a $25 Horse
OTISVILLE, N. Y. July 21.—Ne
807, which is the only name that a
big horse on the tuberculosis farm
here is known by, was turned out to
pasture for a long rest, No. 397 has
done his bit.
According to Health Commissioner
Emerson, No. 397 was bought for $25.
Since that time he has made §7i
for the city.
At Otlsville they manufacture se
rums which are sold throughout the
United States and Europe. Most
Forses die after a few months’ service
in serum production. But not No, 397,
With but a few rests between, he has
had eight quartg of blood drawn from
him each week for the last four years,
This blood has-provided serum which
has saved the lives of many thous,
of ehildren
/Eery “Big Bertha” Is Fired by
Pressing a Button for a Spark.
l The Wireless Telephone and
l Telegraph Are Always Busy.
iTrench Orders Given by Wire.
- Powerful Magnets Aid the Army
' Surgeons in Saving Lives and
i Preventing Agony to Wounded.
| NEW YORK, July 21.—Electricity,
| child of peace, has been adopted by
i“:-r as its own especial ward, With
out electricity this war could never
- have reachel the proportions which it
;Ihafl perhaps could never have been
| fought at all. Kvery Big Bertha is
"flred by an electric spark. Kvery
order from headquariers reaches the
‘trenches, not by courier as in days of
old, but by telephone. The wircless
crackles a stacato accompaniment
to every sailing of ship and subma
rine, The torpedo itzelf is propelled
by electric motors.
Invention has been stimulated al
most hysterically by the demands of
war. Armies on the march or in the
field have now a hundred convens
lerces which were not known Ilast
year. There is a radio telephone and
telegraph equipment, for instance,
iwhu'h can be uttached to a motorey
cle. It was given to American only
a little while ago by a New York in
ventor. The transmitting power is
approximately one Kkilowatt, with a
resultant radius for the wireless tele
graph of from 80 to 100 miles and
about half that distance for the radio |
telephone, i
Current for this compact field set is |
supplied to the telephone or telegraph |
by a high voltage direct current g(n»!
erator connected directly to an mer
pendent motorcycele engine connec tndi
with the side car. For the equipment |
is contained in a sma’ll metal side <'u.‘lv
attached to the cvcle |
Wireless Equipment.
The wireless equipment comprises a
completely independent unit, which
can easily be detached and pushed hy
hand or loaded on a wagon and trans
ported over rough ground. An extra
wheel is provided which can be at
tached to either hub of the side car
or to the front or rear of the motorcy
cle The antenna is supported by a
lightweight metal mast of tubular
construction. The telescopie form of
it makes it possible to collapse the
mast and strap it cut of the way on
the car's gide. And when erected, it
cen take messages from fleld and
aercplanes with equal ease,
The French have developed the
wireless to a fine point. They now
have what they call an “ondophone”
|d9tector for receiving messages, the
value of which lies in its small size
and extremly compact makeup. The
whole affair, as a matter of fact, ean
be carried in an officer’'s breast pocket.
With this little detector at a dis
tance of 20 miles from the transmitter
all that is needed Is an open umbrella
held as high as the hand can reach—
lor a gword, if you prefer—while a
‘small metal contact piece connected
+o a cerd lHes npon the ground and
makes the earth circult. At 60 miles
one need only plant a knife in a tree,
preferably a vine tree, or a gimlet will
answer as well. One of the ~ords wit 4
its metal clip is attached to this “an
tenna” while the other clip 1s placed
in the ground. The entire receiver
weighs hut thirteen ounces and yet In
spite of its size it is meticulously
made and is a most accurate appa
ratus.
For Long Distance Work,
For long distance, for instance to
the extreme borders of France, one
clip is joined to a telephone line which
serves as an antenna and the other
goes to gas or water pipes for the
ground. But at a smaller digstance
there can be a wider choice for an
tenne—a kitchen stove, a balcony, a
metal hed or the like, or even a bieyele !
or an automobile, The operator mny'
use his own body for the ground by
attaching tha metal ¢lip to his finger,
while the other clip goes to the tele
phone wire. In the way signals have
reached Paris from a distance of no
less than 270 miles,
Most interesting of all, perhaps, an.
particularly so frem a construction
viewpoint, is the invention of an eiec
trical ~ontrivance to remove particles
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Acute Situation Is Relieved by the Summer
Vegetables—Bread Allowance Remains Seant.
Government Seizes the Grain Harvest.
By KARL VON WIEGAND, |
Staff Correspondent of the International News Service.
COPENHAGEN, June 15 (by mail).—Germany soon will be through
the severest of all the food crises it has experienced since the begin
ning of the war.
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one bread throughout Germany, the so-called “einheits brot, the in
gredients and mixture of which are prescribed by the Government.
It is very dark, almost “gun metal in color, rather coarse and heavy,
but well baked and palatable, especjally when toasted. !
RATIONS FOR MAY,
Almost everything requires “cards” now. Although the rationing
is on a fairly uniform scale, the cities do vary according to the sup
plies available, which are not always what the cards call for.
To give an idea of the rations in addition to bread and meat, I
will give the following so-called “Zusattz” or “additjonal” food cards
for Charlottenburg: Three-fourths of a pound of sugar for the last
two weeks in May, one-fifth of a pound of sage between May 11 and 19,
“if any on hand;"” 2560 grams, or half pound, of “kriegsmus,” a mixture
of beets and similar vegetables; one pound of “weiskoh]” saverkraut
between May 9 and 16; thirty grams of dried vegetables between May
17 and 26; forty grams dried “rutabago outlets” and 125 grame barley,
Each family could have alsg one pound of dried mushrooms. Smok
ed and fresh fish were in any quantity.
The butter allowance was fifty grams for the week, and in addition
thirty grams of margarine. Fist, grams is one-tentk of a pound. There
were three eggs allowed for twelve days. The poptato allowance was
five pounds,
Germans have almost forgotten the taste of real coffee. There is
still some tea,
Only 3 Wooden Cars
Built in Year 1916
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, July' 2l.—Bullding of
wooden rallway cars has virtually
ceased, according to a report issued
by the speclal committee on Relations
of railway operation to legislation.
Only three wooden cars were bullt In
1816 and but ten are under construction
at present,
There are now in passenger serv
ice 38,000 wooden cars, but they are
gradually being replaced. The report
shows that the enormous cost of re
placing wooden cars by steel coaches
prevents wholesale changes, but it adds
that it is only a question of time be
fore wooden cars will go,
.
Red Cross to Train
.
Maimed for Jobs
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, July 21.—The Red Cross
will start here without delay a plan
whereby men malmed in the war and
ordinary occupations will be trained
and fitted for new vocations,
A big bullding in the business part
of the city has beéen turned over to
the organization by the Central Coun
il of the New York Charity Organiza
tion Society. The only provision to the
gift is that preference shall be given
to the helping of permanently crippled
sgoldiers and sailors to become self-sup
porting. The organization of the en
terprige is under the direction of Dr,
Edward T, Devine, director of the New
Yark School of Philanthrony,
(Copyright 1013 by the
Georglan Company.)
tighter around its ‘“‘national
wajst line” than in the period
since February of this year. Al
most every week since then It
was found necessary to draw
the belt “angther notch” in some
particular article of food.
With the coming of June, the
Germans have been able to slip
their tightly drawn belt a notch
or two. Vegetables and green
things have made that possible.
But in the matter of bread, the
Government and municipal au
thorities propose to keep a very
firm hand upon the string
around the tgp of the German
“flour sack.”
The optimistic view that the
end of the war was in sight, the
popular econviction that it will
end withh this year, is not to
relax the strong grip of that
hand on the nation's bread sub
stance,
TO SEIZE GRAIN FIELDS,
Even if the war should end, it
i 8 realized that the people will
consume no less bread in peace
than in war and that there is
little prospect of increasing the
bread supply immediately. The
Government, therefore, has pre
pared to take even more drastic
measures than last Summer to
gather, conserve and dole out
this year's crops.
To make this more effectjve
and to close up every leak that
might mean a weakening of Ger
many’'s national “stomach resist
ance,” it is prpposed that much
of the grains shall be confis
cated in the fields, and threshed
under Government supervisjon.
This, it is asserted, will save to
all the people many a sack of
grain that disappeared last Sum
mer for the benefit of particular
individuals.
Instead of the “semj-gray"’ or
regular “war gray” “white rolls
for br"eakl’aal. there has been but
School History Sti
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~ Up Row in Portland
! (By International News Service,)
PORTLAND, OREG., July 21.—-Objec
tlon to an American history textbook
’unw} in Oregon high schools because, it
is charged, it fails to inculecate patriot-
Ism, has caused warfare in education
circles of this city,
Justice Wallace McCamant, of the
Oregon Supreme Court, is the chief com
plalnant against the book, which was
written by Saville Muzzey, of the Co
lumbia University taculty. Justice Mc-
Camant says that it is impossible to
write history for purposes of instruction
unless a perspective of from ten to twen
ty vears Is taken by the author. Mr.
Muzzey says that the views in his book
are absolutely impartial and that what
is contained in the text are facts solely
and not beliefs. The outcome of the
case is awaited with great interest
Boy, 10, Had Never
.
Heard of the Bible
LONDON, July 21.—A boy of ten,
called as & witness at Marylebone on be
half of the education department of the
London County Council and deseribed as
very intelligent for his age, told the
magistrate he had never heard of the
Bible and did not know what it was,
He also said he had never been to church
or Sunday school, ‘
“You can not do anything with lhlfll
boy," sald the magistrate, ‘“‘He does;
not seem to know the nature of an
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Pupils Show Astonishing Apti«
~ tude, and Many Will Be Fin
ished Pilots in Four Months,
Records Are Already Broken.
Sons of Bankers and Workmen
Are Proving Equally Skillful,
Progress Amazes the Army Ex
perts in Charge. X
| WASHINGTON, July 21.—After &
Ifrw short weeks of practice the vole«
unteers in Uncle SBam’s military avia«
tlon training schools have indicated
thut America will surpass the nations
of the world in flying. The hundreds
of volunteers gathered at the four
training fields now in operation have
shown a greater aptitude in aerial
navigation than did the British or
‘F‘rvnch novices.
. In some instances men have learned
the ticklish art of equilibrium within
three hours after they began to fly.
So uniformly successful have the
new aviators been under the instrue
tion of American officers that their
teachers are now laying greater stress
upon their duties as machine-gun
operators, photographers, mape
eketchers, ete,
“They learn to fly easy enough,” is
the universal decision of the War De
partment experts,
| The four fields now in use are lo
cated at Rantoul, Ill.; Dayton, Ohio;
Mount Clemens, Mich. (near Detroit),
and Belleville, 111. (near St. Louis).
The Wilbur Wright field at Dayton,
largest of the group, will accommo
date 300 students at a time, and now
has 1,700 volunteers on its list. These
include the machinists, canvas repair
ers and others who are not actually
studying aviation. Three hundred
students may be taught in one class
on this immense field.
The other fields accommodate from
800 to 1,000 men, and have facilities
for the instruction of 150 men at a
time. This constitutes one aeroplane
squadron,
Under American Experts.
Contrary to the impression, which
has been spread abroad, the Ameri
cans are not learning flying under the
instruction of French and British ex~
perts. These latter are (frequently
on the field, but they serve simply in
an advisory capacity. The actual work
of teaching the young alrmen is in
the hands of United States commis
sioned and noncommissioned officers
who, in the signal crops, have been
studying the subject for years.
- The progress made by the young
luimen has caused army officers to
revise hastily certain schedules which
‘they had prepared.
~ When the first camps were opened,
the belief was generally expressed
‘that the men could not be trained in
less than eight months. A fatal ab
sense of that mysterious “sense of
equilibrium” was feared in many of
them. Within a week this time was
cut to six months, and before the sec
ond week was out the officers ex
pressed their belles that the rank and
file could be made ready for France
in four months. Now they are talk
ing of “graduating” some of the
classes in two months.
Miscellaneous Group.
Among the group of newly acquired
aviators, there are college men, auto
mobile salesmen, mechanics, chauf
feurs, yatchtsmen, horsemen, poio
players and policemen. Such names
as J. P. Warburg, of New York, son
of Paul M. Warburg, of the Federal
Reserve Board; Henry P. Davison,
Jr., and F. T. Davison, sons of the
banker who is a partner in the com
pany of J. Pierpont Morgan & Com-~
pany; W. A. Rockefeller, E. R. L.
Gould, G. C. Depew and J. M. Vorys,
of New York, and R. A. Lovett, of
Boston, are found on the lists,
The Aircraft Production Board of
the Council of National Defense, of
which Howard Coffin is chairman,
has co-operated with the Federal
Government in a plan of instruction
which will probably remain effeciive
as long as the war lasts.
It has been necessary for the board
to amplify ite original plans cogider -
ably since it began operations. It
may be necessary to amplify them
again, But it is safe to predict that
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