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rASHI.VGTOX. IX CThU Utter
U a story of Industrial sffl
cUner. Hortonr It Is ths starr
f irovsrnmsBt department at Wash-
U (too. It Ktmi ths accomplishment
f ths inposstbls- Ths department
with which It is connected arldently
realises this. At least It seems so, for
Its business manager has a card w hich
rsads as follows:
: It Can't Be Pone? :
: BUT HERE IT 131 :
The department I refer to Is that of
ths L'nlted States Nary. When ths war
besan. most of ths branches of Uncle
8am's bis; machina wars so tied up with
red tap that the wheels could more
only so fast and no faster. Ths wheels
of ths Nary began to buss as soon as
ths power was turned on. and they
-whined on like a dynamo as mors
power was demanded. According to the
report ot the subcommittee on com
merco of ths House of Representatives,
which haa been Ineestlsatlng the sub
ject, the American Navy stands with
out parallel in efficiency. a-d Ita sys
tem organised In the Urns of peacs. la
working equally well la thees times
of war. This report st: tes that ths 100.-
men and 110 ships now In ths
service ars as promptly and as well
provided for as were Iks tS.So men and
the loe ships which ws had before the
war began. It says that ths Navy is
unjumij ciomeo. lea ana equipped,
and that ths vast spproplationa made
are being economically and wisely
spent. It tells Congress that all la well
with ths fleet sad that ths 111 de
stroyers will be built in from one-third
to ons-balf ths time prescribed by pre
war conditions.
Indeed. I doubt If a mors compllmen
tary report concerning a government
department has sver been mads by any
congressional Investigating committee,
and on the heela the committee on
aval affairs asks for an appropiatloa
for ths Navy ot l.i:S.0OO.a to be
spent during the next fiscal year. Of
and 111.09,000 for aviation alone.
Thirteen, hundred and twenty-five
million dollars to be spent In twelve
months. That gives yon soma Idea of
the enormous growth of our naval ea
laoiisnment. The gourd which sprang
up ta a nignt. by ths walls of old Nine
vih, so that Jonah was able to sit In
its shadow or ths beanstalk upon which
Jack climbed Into ths heavens to kill
the great gtant waa as nothing to ths
expansion of our great fighting machine
of the seas. It Is now a year since war
was declared, and the civil ee ablleh-
nent of ths Navy has Incrsased more
than too per cent, while ths money
spent Is considerably mors than 100
per cent. Thirteen hundred and twenty
five million dollars! that means more
than Il00.tf.ed a month. It means
more than lJ.cee.eoe a day or mors
than tl34.ee an hour, day and night
an me year through.
I have before me ftguree showing ths
cost ot the Navy since Ueoree Wash
tngton waa President down to the time
ws entered the war Ths first records
ars for 17)1. Ths total amount spent
on ths Navy during that year was less
than one-half as much aa we now epend
la ens hour. In ths wsr of ISIS ws be
came, famous as hsvlng ths most daring
sea tis-ntsrs on earth. Under Capt. John
Iaul Jones we defeated the British and
our veesels of war becami the terror of
Europe. Imrtng that war our yearly ex
penses were never aa much as they win
be In any threo days of ll. During the
civil war the expenditures of the Navy
began at a little more than Ill.Md.tOt
per annum, and at Ita close ths yearly
cost was not much more than we are
sow spending each month. Our total
appropriations for ths Navy during the
whole war with 8pala was less thaa
IU..N and that sum covered three
years. Ws shall spend mors within ths
gut five or sis weeks.
And then ths slse of the Navy and
the change In the shipping. The ves
sels of ths war of the Revolution were
not mark bigger than our harbor tugs
now and their cannon were popguns
la comparison with the It-Inch mon
sters of ths present-day dreadnought
The largeat ships we had In our war
with Tripoli and those la ths Wsr of
1111 were aot half as big as the Ferris
type of wooden ship we are now buiM
Inc. and the largest ves0l of the Meal-
raa War waa of only about 10 tons.
Ths bea-lnnlng of ths armored ship
datea back to the struggle of the ilonl
tr and the Merrlmac during the Civil
War. and tbe biggest battleship ws
had daring ths wsr with Fpain was
ths Oregon, of a little more than 11.00
tons, a pigmy in comparison with the
Idaho, of !!. tons, or some of ths
big battle cruWere now being built In
our Navy. yarda The Navy of today
is a big Navy In every mbm that the
word Implies. When ths European war
began it ranked third la the order of
warship tonnage among the world's
navies, although It dropped far behind
that before we entered the wsr. Gincs
then It has been growing at tele
gTraphlo speed, and with the present
programme end ths mighty expendi
tures now making. It will be surpassed
only by ths navy of Great Britain
.when ths war cloaea.
no trouble n finding out how business
Is dons. The oureaa of supplies and
accounts, which haa to do with feeding
and clothing the Navy, with the pur
chase of all Its material and tbe psy
Ing of all ths bills. Is under Her-Ad-
mlral Samuel McUowan. who had held
hla position ssveral years befors the
war bea-an. and bad put the depart
ment on a war basis. Secretary Dan
Isls does not believe In one system
rr oaece and arrbther for war, and
Rear-Admiral McUowan (ays that
peaeo-tlms Navy la like a policeman
without a club. For this reason ths
Nr has seen on a war basis ever
since Secretary Daniels looa conns.
Ir haa feean run on ths motif of John
n. Calhoun when ho waa Secretary of
War In ths Cablnat of President Mon
roe. Mr. Calhoun said that his bust
ness ws To get .ready, and tay
ready all the time." voicing the sama
spirit aa that of ths young officer in
command of our first flotilla of de
stroyers sent abroad last year. Lpon
the arrival of the ships In England ths
Kngllsh Admiral asked this officer
when his chips would be ready to atart
fighting the eubrasrlnes. He replied,
"We ars ready now."
This spirit waa la evidence a I went
through room after room of the naval
section In the big building of the State.
War and Navy department. Business
wss going on everywhere, and that
without the red tape so oftsn com
plained of as to other departments
since our war with ths Oermana began,
in fart the manacement of ths Navy
business Is mors lilts that of a modern
n.nnfjrKirlnr Institution than th
otd-style Oovsrnment plant. The rooms
of the naval branch of the State. War
and Navy building have been thrown
together and In order to glvs morSj
rapW accesa from one .to anoiner. mi
doors have been taken off their hinges,
so that on can scan a long ssrles ot
rooms at on glance.
The business of ths Bureau of Sup
pliss requires six tlmss aa many em
ployes aa It did tsn months ago, and
nsw buildings fcave had to be erected
to accommodate the overflow. Tbe first
of thsss waa put up within a few weeks
after th war began. All of the de
partments wer crying for mors room
when Admiral McUowan obssrved the
vscant spacs taken up by th court or
hollow square around which the State,
War and Navy building runs, us com
msndeered a part ot the court and
within 11 days built a frame structure
called Sanda Court. It la about 10 feet
eauar and four atorlea high. It was
filled as soon as It waa completed, and
the demand for more room waa not met.
He then went to the other aide of
Seventeenth strset and built what la
now known as Corcoran Court, so called
because It I on the ground and adjoin
th Corcoran Art Gallery. This Is an
artistic structure of two stories with
several arrea of floor space. It was
built within two or three weeks, and It
Is ona ot ths roost comfortable of the
many new office atructurea In Washing
ton. ' Llks Sanda Court. It has long
since failed to supply ths necessary
room for clerka and at present a large
part of the great ten-acre building in
Henry Park, erected for the Ordnance
Bureau, haa been tamed over to the
Navy. Tbla also Is filled with clerks.
and the demands ot the futurs ars
such that an sntlrely new building for
ths Navy Is to be constructed. Th
money for this hss already been ap
propriated, and th building will be
coins; up by ths tlms this letter is pub
lished. It Is to be situated in Potomac
Park within a rifle shot of where th
State. War and Navy building now
stands. It Is Just below the white mar
ble palaco.of the Pan-Araerlcan Union
and under the shsdow of th Wash
Ington Monument and the new Lincoln
Memorial. It will be by far the largest
o ft les b'ulldtng In Washington, cover
ing more grouod than the combined
areas of ths National Capitol and ths
Library of Congrees. It will have about
acrea of floor space. It la to be of
concrete, and aa far aa posslbls It will
be nreproot throughout.
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are 11,000 firms on '.he mailing Mat, and
21.000 bids were received for various
articles last year.
The old system of copying letter In
a book has long since been thrown
away. The new Navy has the most
modern filing system and moreover
much of ita filing is don by machinery.
In Corcoran Court there are tabulat
ing and accounting machlnea each ot
which takes the place of a score or more
clerks. Some of the machines. In the
words of Rear-Admiral McGowan, can
do everything except sing a song or
chew tobacco. All that you have to do
In recording the accounta of a great
battleship Is to press a button or so
like those of an adding machine and a
card will be punched representing by
hole the complicated figures of each
Hera or special conditions. These
punched cards form the code words, as
It were, of the record, which when run
through other machines are automatic
ally sorted Into months and th other
classification necessary to make a com
plete record for the bookkeeping. After
th card are sorted they go through
other tabulating machines which print
on shssts of paper about half th slse
of the page on which this letter Is
77iese ers Wner Suffs- yon. fAa
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printed th exact record of the opera
tlons and make all the calculation
and addition required in connection
with th accounts. Th machines are
ao constructed that they cannot make a
mistake, and If there la an error all
that Is necessary Is to go back to the
man who first punched the card and
see if his work was done correctly.
After the papers leave the machines
they are bound Into books, which con
tain the full reports of the business
and that without the scratch of a pen.
Moreover, the work Is so condensed
that it requires only six or seven vol
umns of this kind to record in detail
all the expenditure of the Navy for
one year. The same work formerly
took an enormous number of books
which were kept in pen and ink, every
calculation being subject to tbe math
ematical skill of the clerk and having
to be checked again and again to know
that they were correct.
And then the addressograph and the
machines for making the stencils for
the thousands of addresses and ac
counts to bs kept. There are 100,000
men m tbe service or the Navy, and by
the present system of allotments and
war risk Insurance th hundreds of
thousands of the families of .the men on
the seas have to be corresponded with.
month. Each of these with whom the
Navy does business Is represented by a
stencil made of aluminum, in which is
stamped, by a machine like a linotype,
many others in Its proper order in the
machine, which prints the names upon
checks or cards or upon ths envelope in
which they go out through the mails.
There are also machines for signing
the checks, 90.000 of which go out every
month. One of these machines consists
of a table with a framework above it
holding 10 fountain pens. The frame
work is so adjusted that each pen rests
on a different check, so that the cashier
can sign 10 checks at one time by mov
Ing the penholder .connected with the
framework. The work Is done so fast
that 1000 checks are signed in 10 min
utes, and each bears the actual auto
graph of the man who does the signing:
Even the cutting apart of the checks is
done by machinery. The machinery will
cut eight or ten at a time, running off
thousands a day.
As I went through the various rooms
I learned something of how the pur
chases for the Navy are made. The
articles bought include almost every
thing under the sun there are 10,000
different items and they come from all
parts of the world. The Navy has men
who keep track of the changes and con
ditions of the business. It deals direct
with the manufacturers, and in many
cases it goes to foreign markets for
certain supplies. Much of the work is
done under contract, and there is a
chain of cost-inspection officers' which
covers all the purchases ot the 17
shipyards which are building new
vessels, and with the 60 yards doing
repair work, as well as the manufac
turing plants making the ordnance.
The contracts are so worded that no
and, in some cases, checks sent every decrease is made for war profits and
Income taxes, and on certain fixed con
tracts reductions amounting to millions
of dollars have been made after going
over the manufacturers' cost items.
For Instance, take some of the sav
Ings. I have a list of certain Hems
bought in 1918 which show a saving of
more than 12,000,000. Of this 120,000
came from buying tin at Singapore,
near where the tin mines are located.
Sixty thousand .dollars was saved by
going to Chile for nitrates, and 1100,000
was saved In the New York Navy-yard
on the scrap of brass and some other
metals. The scrap heap had Just 1.000,
000 pounds of this stuff and it was
worth Just 10 cents a pound.
During the same year almost a mil
lion pounds of material was saved in
making castings from scrsp, and some
thing like 1200,000 was saved upon coal.
The Navy has been making money by
buying its hemp for its. rope in the
Philippines and using the naval colliers
to carry it home. It buys its shellac
from Calcutta and makes thousands of
dollars a year over what the same
would cost in this country.
The Navy saves a good deal on doing
its own business in feeding and cloth
ing the soldiers. It has its own cloth
ing factories, and it is through them
that it has been able to keep its men
supplied, notwithstanding the enormous
demands of the war.' The prewar
plans called for clothing for 90,000 men.
but, as soon as war was declared, out
fits for 200.000 were needed. The cloth
ing factory at Charleston was then put
on a double shift basis. It was In
creased in size and the great factory
recently established at New York was
strained to its utmost. Additional
clothing was gotten from outside
sources, and the whole was so speeaea
up that there has been practically no
shortage whatever. Between the first
of April and the 15th of last December
about 200,000 blankets were Issued and
40,000 more blankets were ready.
Among the other items on hand wero
890.000 pairs of cotton socks. 580,000
cotton undershirts and hundreds of
thousands of woolen socks and heavy
clothing of one kind or another. The
Navy has been delivering its clothes
right along. It had 170.000 enlisted men
to outfit last . year and the . articles
needed ran Into the hundreds of thou
sands and there are thousands more
under contract. The Idea now. is to
keep on hand' at the Navy-yards a six
month supply of clothes for all of tho
ships, and in addition 100,000 complete
outfits.
And then the food. It has been often
said that our Navy is better fed than
any other that sails tha seas. Neverthe
less the cost of the feeding in these
times of war has increased much less
than the coat of food prices in the mar
kets on shore. In 1916 the average ra
tion was 37 6-10 cft-.ts. and last year it
rose to a little more than 6 cents high
er. It is now under 50 cents. If tho
increase in the cost of the ration had
been proportionate with the Increase
in the cost of food, we would have had
to pay 11,500,000 more to feed the Navy
than we actually did. That means a
saving of more than 14000 a day, and
this was accomplished by prohibiting
the purchase of patent and proprietary
foods, by making such things as pies.
cakes and ice cream on board ship and
by watchinsthe leaks in every possible
way. Matters of this kind are figured
out to the one-tenth of a cent, and even
before the war a saving of a half cent
on a meal meant more than liooo a day
year in and year out. That saving was
made in 1916. Nevertheless, the surgeon-general
says the Navy is the best
fed body of men In the world.
It I not many years ago that
th farmer and poultry keeper
with a small flock depended al
most entirely on the broody hen
as a means of renewing tha flock
from year to year. To some ex
tent this is true today, but with
the wonderful progress made In
artificial incubation and brood
ing, tha hen has been largely
discarded as a mean of hatching
and rearing chicks.
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Jn rdr to tall you how this 'big
aval eatabliahment Is managed, and
kow the enormous expenditures are
Bandied. I have spent some days in go
ing throua-h ths various bureaus. Th
department la wide opea and. thcr i
These new building of th Nary are
nothing Ilk th old-time office atruc
turea of Waahlngton. where rooms wer
set apart for one. two or a half dosen
clerks, who plodded away as It wer un
disturbed, la what might almost be
termed solitary confinement. They wer
famoua places for goaslplng and for
the leisurely red tap method of trans
acting business.
The present rooms ara all large.
Soma of those of Corcoran Court will
cover at least half an acre and the hun
dred of clerks work away side by side
at long lines of desk that run parallel
throughout the room. Th whole room
Is In view of th chief and there la no
chance to puj your feet on th tab!
and read the morning newspaper with
out attracting attention. Indeed, there
la no temptation to do so, for the busi
ness Is so speeded that th man who
lax bids fals to be run over, and the
spirit of getting things don and "doing
it now' Is contagious.
There are no letter baskets for files
and papers on the desks of th clerk.
Th principle Is that everything must
be done a It goea over the table, and
th mall must be answered aa It comes
in. ' Throughout tha room above each
deeV ta a little sign showing Just what
bus'.nesa la don there and It is pos-
ille to find your way without asking.
If you want to know about tha atael
which th Navy la buying, you go to
the department marked with that aign.
ana II you are iniereatea in food, dotti
ng, munition or any of th thousand
and on other article which make up
the supply It Is no trouble to find Just
where such matter are handled. There
BY CHARLES I OPPERMAJf.
formerly State Poultryman of Maryland.
our 10th century puoltry keep
ing th extensive commercial hatch
eries ara taking the place of "old
biddy. Th progressiva farmer and
poultry keeper are finding It more
profitable to purchase baby chick or
have their eggs hatched at these es
tablishment at ao much per hundred.
thua doing away with the trouble and
Inconvenience of fussing with a lot of
sitting hen.
Such a plant not only gives the busy
poultry keeper more time for other
work, but It also make It possible to
keep the hens at work producing eggs.
Instead of wasting, several weeks of
their valuable time In hatching and
rearing a brood of chicks. Our pres
ent day efficiency calls for breaking
up the broody hens as quickly as pos
sible and getting them back to laying.
Time Lost la Broodlnesa,
How important this is from an eco
nomic standpoint can he readily ap
preciated when we atop to consider
that the average hen waBtes at least
two months in hatching and caring for
her chicks. If she Is taken in hand
as soon as she shows signs of broodi
ness and treated with a view of break
ing up this tendency, her production
can be increased at least two dozen
eggs. Figuring on the basis of 10
cents a dozen for eggs, the possible
saving from 10 broody hens properly
broken as soon as they manifest a
tendency to sit, will be sufficient to
purchase 50 baby chicks. Further ar
gument should not be necessary to con
vlnce the progressive poultry keeper
that it pays, and pays well, to break
up the 'broodies.'
Braoaj Heaa Arc Heavy Producers.
A very interesting relation between
the number of times a hen goes broody
and her egg production has been es
tablished by our egg-laying contests.
rose: coxb white bastams.
HIS Is on of th smallest of the
bantam family, standard weights
' calling for 10 to 22 ounces for fe
male and 22 to ! ounces for males,
although roost of th best specimens
exhibited ara well under these weights.
Rose-comb bantam, both black and
white, ar bred in large numbers In
England. Canada and tbe United States,
although the best specimens appear to
be produced in the former country.
whence many ar Imported each year.
Rosa-comb whit bantams were origi
nated In England, and they have
reached their best perfection during
the last 25 years. This variety is a
diminutive Hamburg in general shape,
with rose comb, whit earlobe and a
big, well-spread tall, carried low. Like
all bantams, 'it Is a good layer.
But like all other bantam th rose
comb white is strictly an ornamental
fowl, it cannot be reckoned with as a
utility proposition, for its eggs are
smslL The young fowls themselves are
good to eat. being so small that they
pass for quail. They may be Jcept In a
very small house and eat so little feed
that the amount consumed 1 hardly
noticeable.
The average of five contests conducted
at the Missouri state experiment sta
tion showed that 5301 hens went
broody on an average of two times
for each hen. All varieties where the
hens averaged going broody four or
more times averaged 132 eggs per hen.
The . varieties showing no broodiness
averaged to lay 125 eggs each. All
varieties going broody from one to four
times produced the highest averages
of eggs. This practical data, which
is based on the performance of sev
eral thousand hens, is a strong recom
mendation for the assertion that It
pays to break up the broody hen.
To illustrate the absurd methods
that some people practice to break up
broodineea in hens I will cite an inci
dent that came to my attention last
Spring. Mrs. X, who keeps a small
flock of hens, read or heard somewhere
that by ducking the hen in a tub of
water and holding her there for a few
moments the desire to sit would quick
ly vanish. Sh immediately proceeded
to put the plan into action, with the
result that the two hens treated will
never sit again. They are dead. It
seems that she got mixed up on her
time and held the hens unt!r the water
a little too long. As practiced by Mrs.
X. this plan will give positive results,
but it Is rather expensive. There Is
no need to resort to cruel or extreme
measures In curing the broody hen,
since we have simple, practical meth
ods which have long since proved their
value.
How to Discourage Broodlnesa.
Confining the hens to a slatted crate
Is probably the simplest and most prac
tical method of eliminating tha broody
tendency. For the commercial flocks
of several hundred layers, the best
plan Is to have one of these slatted
crates in every pan. A good location
is at one end of the dropping plat
form. A practical size for commercial
plants where the layers are kept , in
flocks of 100 Is a crate 4x6 feet and
It Inches high. The floor and sides
of the crate should be made of slats
bout li Inches wide, placed two
Inches apart. The top can be made of
plain inch lumber. Tha crate can be
hung from the celling or allowed to
rest on cross-pieces supported by the
dropping platform.
For the farm flock a similar crate
minus the bottom can be employed, i
The crate can be kept in the henhouse
until the weather permits its removal
out of doors. It should then be trans
ferred to the orchard or some good
grass plot and moved as often, as the
ground under it becomes foul.
For the backyard noctc a coop two
feet square' and 16 inches high will an
swer all purposes. This size Is large
enough to accommodate about four av
erage size hens. If space Is available
the crate should be kept out of doors
as soon as the weather permits.
Object f Slatted Coop.
The essential point In breaking a
broody hen is to keep her from a sit
ting position, and the slatted crate ac
complishes this trick with little or no
trouble. From three to four days is
generally sufficient to break up the
ablt in the average ben, while the
more persistent sitters will usually suc
cumb in six or seven days.
While the hens are In the coop they
should receive the best q attention.
Pure water, feed and grit should be
before them at all times. For this pur
pose small galvanized-iron cups, such
as are used in the poultry shows, will
be found very satisfactory, as they ca
be easily fastened to the outside of the
crate. By feeding the nens lioerau
while they are confined In the brood
coon thev do not lose flesh, but remai
In Kood condition ana are ready to r
sume laying in a few day's after they
are released.
HOUSEBOAT ON THE STYX
(Continued From First Page.)
a banner in the Kaiser's face, in
scribed:
"Behold the fate of the despoiler
of woman.'
"And as a grand finale to this show,
said Richard Coeur de Leon, "I have
Just one suggestion to make. Finish It
off with a haunt by the dying Herod
despised of all, suffering from a loath
some disease, frustrated in his at
temnt at suicide, and saying in his
last breath:
"I, too, have murdered little chil
dren .'
"I decline to serve,'" said Herod.
"Absolutely. No use asking me."
"I hardly thought you would," said
Richard contemptuously. "Birds of
feather flock together."
"On the contrary." said Herod, "thl
Is a time when ona of the birds would
lose his feather rather than flock.
was a fairly tough customer in my day,
Richard, but I do draw the line some
where, and I refuse to associate with
Bill Hohenzollern even in his dreams.
The babies I killed at least irad
chance. Bill's have none."
"I wonder if the scheme would
work." said Bonaparte.
"It worked when I rose up at Phillipl
and threw the fear of retribution into
the heart of Brutus, eh. Brute? said
Caesar.
"Nothing of the sort not at all,
said Brutus.
"Well I notice you shivered some
and threw fits all over youn tent the
minute I pointed my oozy thumb at
you. ssld Caesar.
"That." said Brutus coldly, "was not
fear, but a sudden attack of chills
and fever it was a very malarious
region."
"Well, It may not- cure the Kaiser,
said Aesculapius, "but it would at
least drive him mad."
Which," said Macchiavelli, "is my
reason for doubting Its efficacy. Will
iam the Second is already mad. What
Is really needed is something that will
drive him sane. If we could give Bill
Just one single moment of sanity we
could drop the task of destroying
him."
"For that moment?" said Napoleon.
"No forever," said Macchiavelli, "for
If Bill were ever sane for a moment.
Boney, he'd destroy himself.
NEW CONDITIONS IN GOTHAM
(Continued From First Page.)
ation to stick to the ship until the
crash came is but a continuation of
the tenacity which made the great or
chestra the triumphant power that it
has been all these years until it suf
fered at the hands of the world-
wrecker, as has everything else which
came under the curse of that hand, by
blood or by-sympathy. Major Higgln
son, after 37 years of control of the
orchestra, retired as its sponsor and
the future of this orchestra will lie in
charge of nine trustees who have al
ready filed papers for what will be
known as the Boston Symphony Or
chestra Company, Inc. These are
Frederick P. Cabot, Ernest B. Dane,
M. A. De Wolfe-Howe,. John E. Lodge,
Frederick E. Lowell, Arthur Lyman,
Henry B. Sawyer, Galen P. Stone and
Bentley W. Warren.
Aa ardent patriot and pro -ally. was.
heard to say the other night following;
the remarkable performance for the
Brahms second symphony under tho
baton of Gabrilowltsch, "Thank Heaven
that Brahms Is dead!" which in plain
English means that otherwise Brahms,
too, would have been relegated to the
shelf until "after the war." It is to
be commended that Gabrilowltsch re
moved from his third and last pro
gramme of this season the offending
Richard Strauss number originally an
nounced and it is to be hoped that next
season the different orchestras of the
country will give themselves to the
building up of the tastes of their pub
lio salong lines that will enable them
to hear the beauties in music from
France, Russia, Italy and especially
America.
In no field has the Teutonic Idea that
might Is right been shown so relent
lessly as In music, where the propa
ganda in its behalf has met with such
results as to crowd into practical
desuetude the large works of all other
countries. The Boston Symphony Or
chestra was compelled to make a show
ing of catholicity of tastes. Frederick
Stock Is noted throughout the entire
world for his devotion to the cause of
American compositions, the New York
Philharmonic had its barriers broken
down when the list of visiting conduc
tors came and a few of these, such
as Cononne, Sir Henry Wood, Safonoff,
made it Imperative that other works
find a place on our programmes, while
Walter Damrosch saw the path open.
for one who waa not sworn to a cause
as some others may have been.
McAdoo Likes Man's-Sized Chance.
After addressing 3000 young aviators
at the California station, Mr. McAdoo
expressed his intention of making a
flight in an aeroplane. As he was about
to enter the car Admiral Grayson
forced his way through the crowd about
the Secretary and buttonholed him long
enough to enter a fervent plea of pro
test; the element of danger, the import
ance of his service to the country. As
well try to stop a stampeded herd of
buffalo with a wave of the hand. He
went up.
I have a boy In the aviation service,"
said the Secretary, "and I want the
youngster to know that he hasn't any
more nerve than his ratner, and be
sides I am going up to see what it ia
like up there; I am going to have a try
at the same sensations that my boy
experiences in his work. If he will
take a chance, then I will, too." From
"McAdoo Administrative Dynamo, by
Richard M. Wlnans in Physical Culture.
If Bobby doesn't like his cereal with
ilk, serve it to him with a little syrup,
lly or fruit and never whisper the
fact to him that it was cooked in milk
stead of in water. Skim milk may
often be used for cooking cereals and
any of them will absorb many times
their own volume when cooked In this
way. The Mothers Magazine.
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