The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1918, Page 6

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1918. | BRITAIN'S LUMBER INDUSTRY NOT LAGGING ~ FOR LACK OF WOODSMEN' By FRANCIS H. SISSON, Vice President Guaranty Trust Com- pany of New York, Great Britain has approached her problem of commercial reconstruction after the war with an enthustasm and thoroughness which holds both sugges- tion and inspiration for the United States, If America fs to retain and enlarge on the astonishing growth of her foreign trade in the last three and a half years she will do well to follow the British example. British reconstructionists take due cognizance of the two periods of post- war activities—the period of readjust- ment to a new peace basis and the de- ‘velopment of business upon that basis. But in the plans of Great Britain's Ministry of Reconstruction these two periods largely overlap. It is the vital aim of that body to make the period of transition as brief as possible, The idea of British leaders is that if the empire is to endure there must be such refitting of men and industries to meet changed circumstances and such redirection of effort as will insure the utmost development of other resources. Upon the‘surplus of these resources in goods and services which she can dis- pose of to other countries depends Great Britain's ability to get out of debt and to resume her commercial and financial leadership, Throughout the empire the idea is being fostered that the. future rests upon increasing pro- duction and reducing consumption, BiG hs FACTORY “MANNED” BY WOMEN Trades, Shipping and Shipbuilding Di dustries and Textile Trades, a | The reports of these latter témmite tees have already been subrfitted and} constitute a formidable array of ace curate and detailed information as to! the situation confronting various in-: dustries, 8 In addition to these inquiries by committees sanctioned by the govern: ment, many other investigations ar being made upon the Initiative of In dividual manufacturers or merchanta. With all these arrangements for in- creasing the volume and improving the character of the things. that can: be, Produced in the British: empire have | gone plans for building up a great sell- ing agency, The government has cre- ated a new joint Department of ‘the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade, which Is known as the Department, of Overseas Trade, Development and In- telligence. This body controls the: Board of Trade’s Trade Commissioner Service within the empire and the For- elgn Office's Commercial Attache Serv- ice in foreign countries, The Trade Commissioner Service and the Con- sular Service are to be strengthened ; and enlarged. Better-trained men are: to be sent all over the-world. to watch for chances to sell British goods, The: Department of Overseas. Trades to! undertake the bringing of buyer and seller together more quickly and cheap- ly than ever before, j ‘The British Government {s also giv- Ing close attention to the possibilities of electrical power. It has a scheme. for dividing the United Kingdom into districts in which super-power plants: would be erected for supplying motor power and heat on the theory that less coal would thus be consumed and less A GREAT, BRITISH GREAT BRITAIN (S PREPARING FOR AFTER WAR SEA TRADE g Preparatory to this development, Great Britain {s taking what is proba- bly the most remarkable inventory ever attempted. Under the direction of the Ministry of Reconstruction, the Ministry of Munitions, Department of the Foreign Office and Board of Trade and other governmental agencies near- ly a hundred committees are collecting information throughout the empire. These inquiries touch the life of the British people in all its phases. For example, the Prime Minister's Committee on Commercial and Indus- trial Policy is considering what indus- tries are essential to the future safety of the nation and what steps. should be taken to maintain and establish them ;| what should be done to recover home! THE BANK OP ENGLAND, GREAT BRITAIN’S FINANCIAL CENTRI and foreign trade lost during the war and to secure new markets; to what extent. and by what means the re- sources of the empire should and can be developed; to what extent and by STANDING OF THE CLUBS AMERICAN LEAGUE, Chicago 5; New York 4. Philadelphia 5; eDtroit 1. Boston 2; Cleveland 0. | NATIONAL LEAGUE. | Boston 4; Chicago 1. St. Louis 4-7; Philadelphia 3-4. New York Pittsburgh 4. Cincinnati 7-5; Brooklyn 0-0. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. | Indianapolis 3-4; Toledo 1-3. i \St. Paul 9; Kansas City 1. Louisville 5; Columbus 4. Minneapolis 3; Milwaukee 0. ———aey wes. s— i i | ———_—_——..,| INESTERDAY'S SPORT SUMMARY || pa a PE Sa is ' Chicago, July 1--Charles Weegh-| man and his associates in the owner-| ship of the Chicago Nationals were | held not liable by the superior court for rent on a 99 year-lease of the old West Side baseball park. It was held | that the present owners had not ta- ken over the lease when they bought the club. Toney Zill, lightweight, was appoint- ed boxing instructor at Camp Sher- man to succeed Johnny Kilbane. | J.C. Fennell of Kansas City was re-| elected president of the Missouri state | golf association. Shortstop Brubaker, formerly with | the’ Western league, was purchased | by fhe Toledo American Association | club. | Blanch Carter captured the Ohio $3..| | 1 000 purse at the Cleveland grand cir- cuit races for the half mile event. BUY W. 8. 5 Slogans That Have Counted. One of the big factors in arousing the people of the United States to the great patriotic service they could per- form through war gardening was through the slogans sounded from time to time, writes Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden commission, in an article in the Garden Magazine. “Every garden a munition plant,” is the slogan on the design drawn by James Montgomery Flagg, “Can vege- tables and ‘fruit and can the kaiser, too,” is the slogan of another striking Poster. : “Grow food F. 0. B. the kitchen door,” ts one of the forceful slogans coined and used by the ‘commission. “Hohenrakes versus Hohenzollerns” {s another of the phrases which has hit the reader between the eyes, “Get into the garden trenches ;” “The hoe is the machine gun of the garden ;” “Food must follow the flag” are slogans that have done their bit. “Keep the home’‘soil turning” is a. clever paraphrase of the title of a famous song., Qther — successful phrases used by the: commission are: “Speed up and spade up;” “Tune up the spading fork.” gael ‘Tribune Waai-Ads Bring Results. A GOOD INDIAN’S A DEAD INDIAN That’s What Rest of League Thinks of Fohl’s Redskins Now pitcher; Tris Speaker, catcher and R By PAUL PURMAN. There is an old saying in baseball that the club in the lead of a league July 4 will be in the lead at the end of the season. The rule is rather distorted, but it remains baseball history that the club in the lead by the middle of July is us- ually the club which collects at the wire. On July 4 the:Clevelo4 club won two games from St. Louis while Bos- ton and New York were breaking ev- en and moved into first place. With the Cleveland club there are more reasons than the old time-hon- orded belief about the Fourth and the club will he out in front’ in October and that Ohio will see its first world series. Pt ort STEVE O'NEILL IL y ay Chapman, shortstop. Considering the fact that the club went into the lead with Tris Speaker, the leading hitter,,in a batting slump which colplaned his batting average down under the .300 mark at one time —that Jack Graney, the regular sun- fielder and one of the bast lead-off men in the league has been out of the ‘game practically all season and that the initial sack has only been satisfag- torily filled within the last few weeks Cleveland’s ability to butt its way into the league lead at this time is truly remarkable. .For many weeks I have heard pball- players on several of the American league clubs predict... that the club which could beat out the Yanks would win, the pennant. Clark Griffith said it and said he would have the club-to is Inquiring into the natural resources and trade possibilities of the five self- governing dominions, Then there. is the Financial Facilities Committeee, charged with ascertaining whether the normal arrangements for financing trade will be adequate for post-war needs, and, if not, how they should be supplemented. ‘This Commission will also consider the problem of financing the conversion of munitions plants into factories for normal peace pro- duction. Another important body un- der the Ministry of Reconstruction is the Central Committee of) Materials Supply, which is considering the na- ture and amount of supplies of mate- rial ‘required by the “various parts of what means the sources of supply with- in the empire can be prevented from falling underforeign control. Anothefimportant committee is the Justment, as well as the requirements of other nations during that period. Of especial interest to Americans is the Indian Cotton Committee, which is studying the cotton market with a view to the development of long staple cottons in India, In the direction of developing new industries the Engineering ‘Trades Committee is compiling a list of the articles suitable for manufacture, by those with engineering trade experi- ence, which were either not made in the United Kingdom before the war, but were imported, or were made in small or insufficient quantities and for which there is likely to be a consid- erable demand after the war. All the Problems connected with promoting these new industries will be taken up by this committee. Another important field fs the devel- opment of mineral resorces, The Im- perial Mineral Resources Bureau Com- mittee is preparing a scheme for es- tablishing an information bureau in London to study minéral resources and requirements and suggest plans for de- velopnient along this line. The Depart- ment of Scientific and Industrial Re- search has more than a score of com- mittees devoted to the investigation of specific matters such as metallurgy, ‘glass and optical instruments, illumi- nation, abrasives, vitreous compounds, tin, tungsten, lubricants, zine and cop- per. Along this line also the Board of ‘Trade has had at work since 1916 com- mittees on the Coal Trades, Iron and Steel” Trades, Engineering ‘Trades, Electrical ‘Trades, Non-Ferrous Metal Dominions Roy IN | TO Lee Fohl, manager Cleveland Indians and his four best bets—Steve O'Neill, catcher; the empire during the period of read- \ | NY : Stanley Coveleskie, do it. Members’ of: the*Ked Sox said the same thing, adding thatthe Bos- ton outfit would be<the one which could beat the Yanks. One of the smartest players of the White Sox sized up the Yanks\as the most. dangeroug club in, the,league. Right now it looks ‘like a nip and tuck, race to the wire betwéen‘the In- dians, aad Yanks,. providing, of course. that the Growder order: and ‘the draft, ja not ruin. both clubs. before Octo- ber. ; ees The Indians ate .a well, balanced club in every respect with ‘the excep- tion of a rather erratic pitehing staff. Jim Dunn, the owner,’ has been. try: jing to improve this department by @ Judicious purchase, but has ‘been un: cable to find anyone in thé league who! cared t part with any of his available material. , The infield is one of the fastest in the league since the’ first base situa- tion has been solved with Doc John- ston. The _ outfield, with Graney, Speaker and Roth,gs the class of the league. O’Neill has only one rival as a catcher. The Indians’ ability to keep up ahead will depend upon the sort of pitching Fohl can get from Coveles- kie, Bag>y. Morton, Coumbe, Groom and Enzman. Coveleskie has been un- fortunate all year, wonderful ball. Bagby and ‘Morton have been erratic. Groom has just be- gun to show his best form and Enzman is showing well for a recruit. Coumbe, the lone southpaw pitcher on the club, has been one of th emainstays. The uncertainty of Lagby and Mor- ton is now Lee Fohl'’s biggest prob-| lem. BUY W, 8. 8 -— Companions on Service Flag. A thirteen-star service flag has just becn raised in Baltimore. It repre- sents thirteen inseparable companions, One star is golden and honors the memory of Louis Cohen, a bontswain's mate on the United States steamer Manley, who made the supreme sac- rifice when his ship and.a British ves- sel collided somewhere in the Atlantic, The other twelve stars represent his mourning companions, who are now preparing to go “over there.” Four are in the navy, one at Camp McClel- lan, Anniston, “Ala, and another: at Camp Meade, Md. The flag hangs from tle window of a. store kept by H, Mankoditz, at °1430 Baltimore Street, where the “crowd of thirteen” used: to meet before being called to the colors. Cohen was a son of Louis Cohen, living at 13 Ridger place, New York. The Manley collision occurred March 19 last. A depth charge aboard the ship was exploded .by the impact, killing one officer and three enlisted men and injuring a number ‘of others, , Fresher Symbolism. Symbolism has a more direct rela- tion to our conduct than we are always. ready to grant.’ The old conventions of,burial and of grief overemphasized the. importance of physical and indi- vidual loss, and so were in themselves an obscuration of the new light we are seeking upon the marble face of death. The growing practice of wearing white rather than black for,mourning, or of continuing the habitual colors of one’s dress; the moyément for placing upon the service flag a:gold star in memory of a soldier killed, are attémpts toward a-fresher and'trucr symbolism express ing our growing protest against, the depression and ‘paralysis too often re sultant upon the passage of loved one from the. known world to the un- known.—Winlfred Kirkland, in Atlan- tie Month! BUY W. S. ——— Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. Porat Stainp! but has pitched | CHAMP OF By PAUL PURMAN, The billiard world may soon ‘be looking .for a new champion. Willie Hoppe, champion of cham-} pions, greatest of all billiardists, p:; or present, is seriously considering entering the navy. ! Under the Crowder “work or fight” order Willie, as champion knight of the green cloth, isnot engaged in a useful occupation. ‘Hoppe is just in- side the draft age. ‘So Hoppe believes the navy is the place for him to land. Hoppe is too much_of an American to seek ‘a subterfuge in some occu- pation which would permit him. some time to practice billiards. He is too much’ of 'an American to complain against the Crowder edict. but he de- clares that it will end bis career-as a champion »competitive - billiardist. Three gionths of: miliitary service would be enough to shatter champion- ship billiard form* beyond all “hope,” ‘Hoppe said. recently in. New ‘York. “By entering ‘the navy ¥ will’ be auto- matically announcing ‘by. retirement from the game: “Billiards is a game of exact science that demands ‘delicate hair-spring ten- in their preparations for, peace. CHAMPS MAY QUIT BILLIARDS TO JOIN THE NAVY labor needed, Naturally the most attention fs give en to the restoration of the merchant navy, Great Britafn is arranging for the improvement of her harbors’ throughout the world and has already mapped out new transportation routes and in connection with them is pushe ing railroad and canal development, In general, the British ‘reconstruc tionists adhere to the principle .of amalgamation, as it is believed that only by methods of quantity produc- tion at lower cost, the division of fields both in production and distribution and concentration of certain plrases of the work in accordance with demon- strated skill can a single industry hope to compete with German concerns, They hold that competition after the: war will be between nations rather than between individuals, The British banks are aware of the: great demands that will be made upon: them to finance this colossal program, : They are concentrating on reserves of; capital upon which to build an ade: quate credit structure, These amalga-; mations are significant of the growing} feeling that to win their way, or even: to survive, the peoples of the British; empire must draw closer together so-; cially, » politically and economically, As the war has welded them‘into a:co-. ordinating, interdependent , fighting machine, so apparently is the prospect! of wonderful opportunities combined with an appreciation of the necessities of the case urging them to: unity of ‘purpose and breadth of understanding. ene] tion, | Any other employment would destrov the efficiency a. champion must have.” Hoppe believes other athletes will e similarily affected, although per- haps in less degree. Baseball players, boxers, athletes of all sorts with their nervous systems impaired by long months in the‘trenches and the rigors of battle will find they have lost their cunning. Hoppe is the greatest of all billiard- ists. He has never been defeated in his particular line, balk line billiards. His records are comprehensive. Ev- ery now and then new styles of tho game have been invented fot him and he has always showed his supreme mastery, BUY W, 5, S———, sion and. absolute accuracy. This can only -be ‘maintained by constant prac- tice and@™ freedom ‘from * counter “ac- a &