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THE SPRINGFIELD NWS THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1017. tjjjipringfield News TO BUILD SHIPS AT COST PRICE Bethlehem Steel Will Make Of lout mimouui amoihib why w-ft tut iomccm cm war J my routii or vc-a cur tobacco liH-r A4 bi as You loose fAPtn SACK. BUT IT atrrin J. C. Dlr WALTER R. DIMM Editors and Publishers AND OUAPtR, AlCAUSt IT c! JUOCtCtMAt rtllOW MAI CAUGHT ON TO IT All 4c Ubhoh amd (mhxxMb, """in una lMJ IQNOtW. Published ; Every Monday and Thursday jinn ouk - - RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION . OAbVfiaf : : : - "o Aioniifl., . ;J; lSKlngthmtb8 turned appll f cation. fer to Un&ig 5am, CP BIDS ON 16 INCH NAVY SHELLS r V l -3. Jim i , .wl OUR CORRESPONDENTS CAliP CHEEK nuby Crabtrce MAHCOLA Audrey Lewis iKuitDcrnM m. Walter EJmlaton nnNNA Charles Heck COBUItO TirnCT CPniKOPIElJ). Mrs. Clara Chllds Elsie Anderson Mrs. Anno Morse Member of the WllUmette Valley Editorial Association. THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 191" CRUELTY TO MULES ' A late cable dispatch reveals new atrocity of the war, and it is not charged against the Germans, either. This time it is the French. They, it is well known, have bought and are us ing many of our mules, but they complain that the song of these animals too often conveys to the enemy information a8 to the pos ition of supply trains, and invites showers of shells that otherwise at least, would not be as well directed a they are now. So the French veterinarians have devised a method a lary ngeal operation of some sort, ap parentlythat deprives, wholly and permanently, the mule ofi his justly celebrated bray! Now, that is not right. Bray ing is the only joy that a mule has in life. Of all others he wa5 long since robbed, and a muted mule mavell complain of man's inhumanity. In our own armies the mule, if not exactly loved, was always respected, bray and all, in spite of his uncertainties of temper and heels, if the French didn't like him as he was, they had on ly to leave hin The following was handed us by a subscriber: POOR THINGS! Of course it's none of our business, but we just can't help wondering what there is about the female form that keeps some of our young girls from freezing these cold winter days. You understand, now, that we don't know a thing about it, but we've been told that they just don't wear hardly anything. Why, only this week we heard a girl eay that another girl was old fashioned because she wore long sleeved (pardon us) under ap parel. She didn't say "appar el." either; but it means that, and the girl who was doing tho talking about the other girl did n't have on that kind. Anyway she said she didn't. But she had on some hose that were fully as thick as a cigarette paper slit twice. We can easily see how a girl might powder her face thick enough to-keep it from frezlng; and since we don't know any thing about them, and it aint any of our business, we just guess they powder right goo'd and plenty all over and then put on a few clothes to keep tho powder from blowing off. What's The Use? "Knock and the knocker is rith you, boost and you hear a groan: the town's dead broke and about .o croak and tho lrnocker says leave it alou;. Knock and the knocker will cheer you, bo Bt you are hand ed a brick, he makes an oxcuso and says it's no use, to boost for a town that's sick. Knock and the knocker adores you, fooott and yoaie up a stump; ho lctfl out a y dp and refills ko help and buhiness goes bum dty-bump. A banquet wont liclp the knocker he'd knock If you'd fed him pie, ho would not trive to make things thrive, he'd lather see Springfield die," No Chanea For Profit In Them Undar Prasant Taata, Graca Saya Poaalbla Explanation of tha Prleta Mada by an Engllah Firm Which Bid Undar All American Manufacturer. Speaking recently before the Terra pin Club of Philadelphia, Eugene O. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Company, said In part: In a peculiar sense Bethlehem Steel serves the American people. For exnmple, though we hTe been j note "to obtain fu Europe" 'almost an? j price, we have adhered, In our charges to the United States (Jorernment, to the basis of prices established befo're the war becan. We agreed If the Government would abandon Its plans for a Federal plant to make armor for our Nary at any price the Government ittelf might con ttder fair. Our ordnance plants are at the dis posal of the nation at a fair operatlne cost, plus a small margin, thus saving tin. ?u'vpriituint Investment and de preciation. One of the sec!al needs of the new mivy Is slxteen-lnch guns suns sixty feet long and capable of hurtling a 2000 pound shell with such power and accuracy us to hit a 50 foot square tar get fifteen miles away. We have undertaken voluntarily to construct, at cost of $4.o00,000, a plant titted to build slxteen-lnch guns. Under no conceivable circumstances can orders wlitih we may receive for this plant pay even a fair return on the Investment. Considerable comment has been made upon the fact that a Urltlsb manufac turer recently bid less than American manufacturers for sixteen and four- teen-inch shells for the navy. . 1 am unable to state the oasis upon which the English bid was mnde. It should be remembered, however, that this bid was for a specific shell, sam ples of which are belli; sent over for test a test not yet made. Two years ago we took an order for 2400 fourteen-Inch nrmor-plerclng shells at a contract price of $7(53,000, to be delivered within a certain time or we had to pay a large penalty. The only specifications for making these shells are that they shall be of a certain size aud must pierce armor-plnte at a certain velocity on Im pact. It Is Impossible to foretell the exact conditions of the tests. We had made large quantities of shells in the past which had been accepted. But In placing this particular order the Department altered the angle at which the tested shells must pierce nrmor plate. The result, however, has been absolute Inability on our part to pro duce In any quantity, shells which will meet these novel tests. In fact, we know of no process of projectile-making through which It Is possible to pro duce in quantities shells which will conform to the requirements. The result is that up to now on that -ontract of $7(3.000, we have put Into actual operating expense $447.881.. and have been peimlized for non-delivery $49:i.74f. a total of $913,025., with no receipts whatever. Such was tho experience In the light of which we were called upon recent ly to bid for slxteen-lnch shells. We bid on these shells at approxi mately the same rate per pound as that of a fouiteen-lncb shell contract of one year ago upon which the Gov ernment awarded contracts. We have not the slightest Idea what profit there will be In the making of these shells. We do not know tlrat there will he any. There is no certain-, ty that It would be possible for us to deliver a shell to meet the test For ofllters In the Navy to assume that any bid made under such condi tions U "exorbitant" Is utterly unfair. We bid on the new battle-cntlers sums.whlch Navy department experts, after examination of our books, found would yield a profit of less than ten per cent. We agreed to assume risks for Increased costs of materials and la bor,' that made It possible that' these contracts might yield no profit what ever. The costs run bejond the amount ap propriated by Congress on tho basis of the cost estimates made a year ago. And because shipbuilders could not alter the Inexorable cost facts and re duce bids to early estimates of (he Navy Department, the prices are called "exorbitant" It would be a real advantage to be relieved of this naval construction. The. profit from It cannot possibly amount to much, and the responsibility is enor moud. We have determined to make this offer to the American Government, '"If you will build two of the battle crutoers In Government nary yards we will build the other two at the aa certalned cost of building the ships In the Government yards, without addi tional expense or commlssioos of any kind. We will also contract to have our hlps ready for service ahaad of tho Government ships." HERE'S something curious about W-B CUT Chew ing it takes less out of your pocket and puts a better chew into your mouth. No big plug sagging your pocket, no big wad sagging your check. Half as much of this rich tobocco goes twice as far as ordinary plug. W-B saves your siber and gives you a silver-lining feel ing of happiness all over. You can't help from telling your friends about W-B. KaJ j WEYMAN-BRUT0N C0MPANT. 50 UaUa Soaart, New Tatk Qty , The Making of a Town ny Frank L. McVey THE FIRST FUNDAMENTAL HEALTH. "The public health la the foundation on which roposoa tho happiness of tho people and the powor of the country," Bald Lord Baconsllold forty years ago. Tbo statement made then Is still truo. In tho course of tho next twelvo months a million and u halt persona wl'l dio in the United States; mora than four million two hundred thoua and will bo constantly sick, which la to say that over llvo million homes, containing twenty-million persons, will bo affected and made wretched sometime during tho year aa a result of morbidity unit mortality. Tho cost of such wholesale slcknoss and death amounts to millions of dollars annually. Individually the American tnkoB more baths than tho average man of any other nation, but looked at from i communal point of view ho Is nearly as dirty as tho people ot 'what nro usually referred to as tho less enlightened lands. In Spain the death rate per million or population In tho period from 1305 to 1908, from the most typical of filth and disease, typhoid. waB 302; in the United Stntes It was 288, whllo in Iroland It wub 91, In Kngland SO, In Prussia 61, and in Switzerland 40. In the American community this condition of affairs may bo traced to tho want of cooperation on tho part of citizens and thu Indifference of public officials, duo largely to their lack of Imagina tion and understanding of tho meaning of sanitation, Ab a people wo fall to appreciate tho Importance or honlth and tho effect which it has upon the gsowth and progress or tho community. Thoro an a number or weighty problems Involved In tho growth or every town which are closely associated with Its health and tho extent or its death rate. They mny be enumerated as. those dealing with tin removal ot garbage nnd ashes, the care or sewage, tho Bourco or water supply, the protection ot milk nnd roods, nnd tho prevention ot epidemics in the public schools. It has been tho custom In tho smaller communities to allow every citizen to determine for hlrasoir how his ashes and garbage and othor refuse shall be handled, though happily wo have passed beyond tho day when the household refuse was spilled In tho streets and slopj thrown rrom the windows without regard to tho finery or tho passer by on tho paving below. Tho method much In voguo was for each individual to haul outside ot the town limits tho refuse rrom hto household and deposit It where it could bo done with tho least In convenience; but the rerusal or land-owners to permit this sort of thing rorced the creating ot a municipal dump, which In most In stances becomes a community disgrace, tho abodo or flloa and stench. In tho courB? or time every community will bo brought to the main tenance of some sort of collection system, especially In vlow of tho fact that It will not cost any more In the aggregate than tho method of the individual dump. The arrangements made for the disposal of community wastes are classified as the license, the contract, tho municipal dumping systems. The license system lB ono undor which an Individual h given the privilege of visiting tho various houses of the community to take away the refuse; this usually means an unsatisfactory col lection, as the license does not wish to take all that ho 1b asked to carry away. Tho contract system is one undor which tho town en ters Into an arrangement with some Individual to remove tho rofuso at so much a cubic yard or at a stated prlco for tho year for tho wholo Job. While the municipal system is ono that tho community oper ates, undertaking to carry on the collection, paying tho cost from public funds. Any of these methods, however, may result In tho plan of dumping on land where burning, plowing under, or reeding may follow aa a means of destroying tho accumulations. Tho erec tion of a municipal Incinerator ror tho purposo or destroying tho organic material Is by faif tho most satlsrnctory, though dump burn ing has much to be said tor it as against allowing accumulations without any attempt at disposal. Another question looms large In tho disposal or community waste. House sewerage amounts to about thirty gallons per person por day, and the problem or disposing or this becomes exceedingly difficult for any community. The cost of building a proper sower system Is one that forces some short cut method or dealing with tho waste, speaking in b'road terms', remain to the community; either tho drain ing or it Into the water or a stream or allowing the soil to tako earn of" It, There Is a limit to the capacity of water to ahsorbo and purify Itself after contamination with sewage. Tho usual method bad been to carry It off in some stream or lake, but as populations grow very eerjous objections arise to a method or this kind, slnco tho burden is merely shifted and tho problem of drainage and freedom from stench Is left unsolved. Sewage Is largely water, containing very llttlo Inorganic matter, and this fact has made tho method of sedimentation attractive to a good many sanitary engineers, because by confining tho offluont to tanks and stimulating sedimentation by ohoraicala tho water can bo drained off without a heavy charge of organic matter. - The best known of these is the septic tank through which the sowago flows slowly, relying upon bacteria to break up tho solid matter. It pro vides for tho first stage of bacterial action, breaking up tho sludgo by tho'lmcterla and bring about a reduction of tho organic raattor. Dr. ADALINE KEENEY FERRIS Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon Office, Tlaptlst Parsonage Corner Second and C Streets HOURS: 9 TO PHON'E '.' HERBERT E. WALKER NOTARY PUBLIC Office fn City Hall, Sprlnotleld, Ore n u--ii'.a i NOT A MISTAKE When you buy ono of these casings. 34 x 4 non okldB 6000 mile Guarantee $24.10. (Replaced here) Distillate, Monogram oils, Grease etc. Stoddard Dayton Garage 8th Ave. E. 242 Phono 148 East of Hotel Osburn Half Block Bugeio FORD 8WITCH KEY SERVICE STATION NO. 1 Oregon DON'T YOU READ ALMOST DAILY ABOUT BURL'ARS BREAKING INTO SOME HOME, COM MITTING MURDER AND GETTING AWAY WITH A SACK FULL OF VALUABLES. THIS CANNOT HAP PEN TO YOU IF YOUR PAPERS AND VALUABLES ARE IN ONE OF OUR SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES. BURGLARS HAVE A WAY OF "SPOTTING". THE HOUSE WHERE VALUABLES ARE KEPT AND THAT IS THE HOUSE THEY ROB. WE CHARGE ONLY $2.00 FOR A SAFETY DE POSIT BOX FOR ONE YEAR. BE A CAREFUL MAN AND RENT ONE. BANK WITH US mmmmaammmmmimMwwimmmami i mil iiiiil We Are Making Good We arc not depending on luck. Wo aro making good and taking a chance on what hnppeiiB, If wo please you and glvo you your money's worth of fresh Groceries. Wo can't help but succeed. Wo, will give you a square deal and send you away satisfied, so you will coino again. It Is your regular custom nnd confidence we are aftor. Come In, and wo will con vince you we aro making good. The Fifth Street Grocery THOS. SIKES, Prop. PHONE 22 NEW SERVICE: We aro authorized under tho Federal Reserve Law to act as an Executor, Administrator, Guardian or Trustee. This Is a new service our offlcors will bo glad to dlscusB with you. FIRST NATIONAL BANK. EUGENE, OREGON What Will the New Year Bring? More business for you if you go after it right. And good printing helps the "rightness" very much. Try our kind of printing in 1917 the kind that represents you ab you should be represented. Costs no more than it is worth. .!. gf .Kr. - 1 ,! The Springfield News Phone 2 9 1 r