Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 6, 1917, Page 8

will wear Rocks of the Grand Canyon. The visitor who looks into the Srand Canyom from the vicinity of El Fovar may, when the first overpow- tring impressions give place to par- ‘icular observations, note the great series of nearly horizontal rock iayers ~hose varied colors and cyclopean ‘arving give beauty to what might >therwise be a gloomy and terrifying .ight. He may perbaps wonder how hese beds of rock were formed, how hick they are, and how long it took ‘or them to pile up, inch by inch, on :he bottom of a now vanished sea. He is not_likely, however, unless he is a irained observer, to have his atten- EASTER HATS FOR MEN Complete stock of the season’s best styles, becoming shapes, splendid qual- ity and excellent values— $2.00, 32.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 AND OF COURSE NEW CLOTHES The Easter Parade is but a section of the march of progress. Correctly dressed men in this year’s procession, as in the past, Manhattan Clothes Made by The House of Kuppenheimer You will find our assortment of styles so complete as to embrace every man’s preference, young or or old or in between. The fabrics are exclusive and pure virgin wool in the most fash- “ionable Spring shades. COMPARE OUR VALUES IN SPRING SUITS at $15, $18, $20, §22, $25 FURNISHINGS FOR EASTER Everything a man needs both for com- fort and appearance—New Shirts, Neck- wear, Gloves, Hosiery, Footwear and all the essentials of dress are here. * Store Open All Day Today--Good Friday The WMankratan 121-125 Main Street tion attracted by the dark, less con- spicuous rocks in. the very bottom of the canyon or to see that these are fll | | I I m m I m | | @ J rock. All these materials became solidified, and later they were slowty heaved and crumpled into mountains very different in-many ways from the |which were in time worn down by rain, etratified rocks above them. Yo thege rocks—mostly tough crystalliné gr: ite gneiss and schist—which the river, after cutting through thousands of feet of the overlying beds, is now bat- tering and grinding with its boulders, have an interesting story for -those who may be able to read it. They are the oldest rocks in the canyon and in fact, among the oldest in the world. They were in part deposited as sands and muds in a sea, in part accumu- iated as lava flows, and~in part in- truded beneath the surface as molten -ivers, and perhaps the waves of the sea to a nearly 1ével land surface. fisheries and the cost and geodedic sur- vey. 8 Warship Construction. In order to expedite naval con- truction rore than . $100,000,000 au thorized by the last congress is being spent on naval and private shipyards, the eight hour labor regulation as ap- plying to naval works has been sus- pended by order of the president and various agencies are helping insure an adequate supply of skilled and un- skilled labor. Builders have laid aside private work on which profits amount to as much as 50 per cent. to give precedence to navy work on a basis of cost plus 10 per cent. profit. New Naval Bases. Detailed plans have been worked out through most of study by a spe- cial naval board for realigning_the whole system of naval bases. Rec- ommendations are before congress and as soon as authorization is given the establishment of new bases and the enlargement existing ones can begin. Around some of the bases and other strategic coast points great steel sub- marine nets have been swung and contracts forwarded 1,000 more nets. Boom in Recruiting. In addition to the 183 midshipmen commissioned ahead of time anothar class of more than 200 will be - uated at Annapolis in September. For the first time clerical and other shore positions in the navy have been open- ed to women, and recruiting stations have been unable to handle the flood of applicants of men . and women which has followed the call for re- cruits. There is a boom in recruit- ing for the marine corps too, which has been raised to an authorized war strength of 17,400 and soon is to Be further increased. 15,000 Naval Militiamen and Reserves Passage of the war resolution is the signal for mobilization of 15,000 naval militiamen and reserves to support regulars. > For the coast patrol of submarine chasers hundreds of contracts had been let and many other small craft hiave been offered by private owners. So far has the origin of the mosquito fleet progressed that more than a score of bases have been established along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and a senior officer has been delached to command this new navy unit. The vessels ranging up to a length of 100 feet are armed with guns large enouzh to sink the largest of submarines. 2,000 Patrol Boats. Secretary Daniels hopes within a sort period to have at least 2,000 such bouts in_operation, and said the facilities for their construction. or for the building of other naval craft prove inadequate all plans are ready to com- mandeer private shipyards under the authorization of congress. The Army’s Great Need. The army. whose great need is trained men and officers, is_employing unusual means to prepare for the or- ganization and training of any force congress may. authorize. Hundreds of applicants for commissions in the offi- cers’ reserve corps are being accepted and for the grade of second lieutenant the bars have been let down to men who never had military training. More comprehensive plans than ever have been drawn for training camps for fit :ing these officers and others for ?lul)h Units of the reserve officers’ train:ng orps have been established in many lleses where groups of students are der traiming, and enlisted men who could take commands have been desig- nated *for commissions from ever: regiment of regulars. Graduation A 36 of the June class at West Point has been ordered by Secretary Baker. For increasing the enlisted strength 4 vigorous recruiting campaign is un- Jer way with the co-operation of other branches of the government, including postal officials all over the country and many patriotic societies. To decen- tralize the milltary organizations the United States has been divided into six military districts instead of four, with two extra departments added to the Atlantic coast. Enormous Contracts for Army. In the matter of supplies, the army is well equipped with rifles and other equipment for a vast army already on kand, enormous contracts have been placed by the guartermaster’s depart- ment and the contracts are so that other miilions can be spent as soon as appropriated. Clothing manufacturers have united in expediting the making of ‘uniforms, as have other concerns in ing quickly other necessary ma- terial. To end a difficulty due to fail- ure of the army appropriation bill the federal reserve board came to the aid of the war department, ordering re- serve banks to discount the quarter- master general’s pay warrants at cur- rent commercial rate: Equipment for National Guard. Much of the new equipment will go to the national guard, which is being ted rapidly and otherwise made ready for service, In several states the governors have called for volun- teers to bring the guard units up to masimum strength. The adjutants general of all the states have been or- dered to. make every preparation for quick mobilization of the state forces. For the first time the organizatin of imall detached units of this branch of ne military has been authorized for the benefit of rural communities. Plans for Army Expansion. The plans for army expansion pre- pared by the general staff are consid- ered complete in every detail, regard- less of what sort of expansion may be authorized. Universal seryice is the method favored, and as a result of months of study on a universal service scheme everything is ready to make it effective. Machinery for a volunteer army of 500,000 or 1,000,000 has been provided. however, for immediate . uSe | should that method be chosen, or the staff is ready to go ahead as best it <can with the present regular and na- tional guard system.- Knowing the un- This sucface finally sank beneath thg |certainties of congressional action, the sea and became the floor on which | fresh. sediments began to accumulate. Twice at least was this mighty cycle repeated in the Grand Canyon region. *Branford—Easter Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock there will be the annual egg hunt and folk dances, given by the Everychild mission of the Congre- gational church. staff has overlooked no alternatives. Work of National Defense Council. The work of the national defense council in cor-ordinating all defense measures not strictly military or naval nas been regarded by officials as quite as important as any other task of pre- paredness. The council is composed of a majority of the cabinet members and it has an advisory committee of seven leaders in the secen fields on- which agreemen 48 a unit in war time, and virtually to put ives and their working forces un government orders. The road under the plan are to continue in ‘their present offices and Pperform their nt duties, but they: ?n? to become ‘M: if_not “m‘i'lt]x’ name . officials. e plan, worked out for the defense coun- cil by Daniel Wil president of the Baltimore and ), has the endorse- ment of the American Railway asso- ciation, which bas. undertaken .to or- ook arter the specift mects of oo i a ny 4 the military departments. fecn o Transportation on the Seas. As to transportation on the seas, aside from the military, preparations || brociamation sarly In Feoruans roclamation early in Fe Presi- dent Wilson prohibited the transfer of Amercian mercharitmen to f flags. In conferences with builders, the federal shipping board has mapped out a plan for construction of many wooden ships of 3,000 tons and upward which could do great service in the important work of breaking down the German submarine campaign and car- rying food and supplies to the alifes. War k Insurance. They can be built in a short time. The shipping board also is seeing to it that every available merchantman not needed by the navy does its share for the public service, and with this end in view has made a survey of all the nation’s shipping resources.. To the same jend the war risk insurance bu- reau recently extended protection to all classes of goods listed as contraband by the FEuropean belligerents except actual war munitions. Labor Resources. . Even more complete is the mobiliza- tion of labor resources. The American Federation of Labor has undertaken to furnish trained workmen for any gov- ernment or public. service. Unskilled iabor is to be provided by the public cmployment service of the labor de- partment, which is working through more than 80 branches throughout the country. The postoffice department will do the necessary advertising and the 3,000 local boards of the civil ser- vice commission and the field forces of the immigration bureau, the nat- aralization bureau and the bureau of labor statistics will lend their active a __The organization of this vast work is proceeding under the direction of Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation, a member of the defense council’s advisory commission. Pledges of Mu ns Plants. In the field of munitions production, pledges have been secured from the reat plants which have been supply- ing the allies, and a_thorough co-ordi- nation system has been perfected, In addition manufacturing concerns ev- erywhere now engaged in other indus- tries have been surveved and inform- ed just what changes would be neces- sar¥ to transform their machinery for munition making. The council had been given advantagze of the experi- ences of many experts, including E. R. Stettinus, who has charge of the enormous munition business done in this country by the allies through J. P. Morgan and Company. Canvass of the Country’s Wealth. A thorough canvass has been made of the country’s wealth of new ma- terials available for military usage. Copper manufacturers have agreed to supply the army’s need of that pro- duct for the next year at 16 and a fraction cents a pound, or about half Steel _companies the present price. have indicated & willingness to aid in a similar manner and many other in- dustries have offered to do their bit in any way the federal government might require. 32,000 Plants Offered. No ‘less than 32,000 companies have offered to turn over their plants en- tirely to the president in war, and among them are the great establish- ments of Henry Ford, the Bethlehem Steel company, the United States Steel company, the Fore River Shipbuild- ing company and the United States Rubber company. The General Elec- tric company is willing to give its exXtensive research laboratory to the naval consulting board and the Mexi- can Petroleum company_has offered five tank steamers and 5,000,000 gal- lons of fuel oil. May Seize Plants. Any who may fail to meet the gov- ernment’s requirements at reasonable prices will face prosecution and seiz- ure of the plants, under authority granted, the president under the na- tional defense act and the last naval appropriation bill. The question of a food supply also has occupied a large place in thé preparedness con- siderations. Agricultural Outlook. Although the agriculture department believes the country can continue not only to be self-sustaining but can send great quantities of foodstuffs to the allies, it is realized that the advent of war calls for a retrenchment in consumption from a basis on which the nation has placed itself during the recent yvears of prosperity. Secrctary Houston has appealed to the farmers to increase production, to eliminate waste and to conserve all surplus. As- sistant Secretary Vrooman has con- ferred with agricultural and industrial interests in an effort to secure such crop diversification and conservation as will make each section self-sup- porting when the need comes to use nsportation facilities for the mili- ta¥y. The department also is co-op- erating in many campaigns being waged along these lines by private organizations, including that of the emergency food garden commission for utilization of all waste city lots for gardening. : Financial Strength. So far as finances are concerned, officials believe there is little to be feared. = One treasury authority has estimated that the United States now can withstand eight times the strain under which it labored during the pan- ic of 1907. To put national and pri- vate banks and other concerns on a g HANDSOME Just a little find in_ the exclusive shops—just which are uniformly lower. at prices ranging from 25c to $1.00. Reversible Ties at 55c. exceptionally good showing $4.35. 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S8ilk sound economic basis the reserve board has taken many precautions, its preparations even including the print- ing of a great quantity of reserve notes which now are ready to be put into circulation ¥f the need comes. For the first tige in history the gold bul- lion held treasury vaults recently passed the three biilion dollar mark. Watching Foreign Agents. No small place in the preparedness plans has been occupied by precau- tionary measures against the activi- ties of foreign agents. With the dis- covery of German plots in this coun- try early in the war, the department of justice greatly strengthened the fa- cilities of its investigation bureau. In the months that have elapsed since then with their ever-increasing reve- lations culminating in the disclosure of the intrigue to embroil Mexico and Japan in war against the United States, the department’s preparations have gone steadily forward to an ever-broadening scale. .Edison Making Secret Tests. The extent to which science has come to the aid of the government, providing new means of warfare and systematizing the naval and military establishments will not become ap- parent_until there are actual hostili- ties. Since Secretary Daniels org- anized the naval consulting board months ago important e€xperiments have been under way in the interest of national defence and recently Thom- @s.A. Edison has prsonally given much attention to the secret tests. The in- tercollegiate intelligence bureau, head- ed by Dean McClellan, of the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania, is enrolling train- ed technical experts from among the alumni of America nscientific schools, and the bureau of mines, with the co- operation of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the American Chemical Society, is conducting a cen- sus of experts in every technical line who could serve their country as Ger- man science has _served behind the fighting lines in Europe. Medical and Surgical Suppl Relief plans, worked out in the light of the lessons of the present war, have reached a maturity which officials be- lieve will guarantee against any recur- rence of the blunders of the Spanish War, when more men died from im- proper care than from wounds. As an important part of this work a special committee of the defense council has prepared a scheme for standardizing medical and surgical supplies in co- operation with the manufacturers and after consultation with such authori- ties as Dr. Alexis Carrel, who direct- ed laboratory work for the French army, and Herbert C. Hoover, director of the Belgian Relief Commission. Red Cross Can Care for a Million Men. The Red Cross is prepared to care for an army of a million men. The bureau of mines has opened its first aid course to thousands of wives and daughters of miners. The Prepared- ness League of American Dentists has enrolled 20,000 dentists for public ser- vice and has offered to aid recruiting for the army and navy by preparing applicants to pass the dental examina- tion. With the aid of Sir Herbert B. Ames. organizer of tho anadian Pa- triotic Fund, the Navy League is or- ganizing a fund of $10,000,000 for the families of naval volunteers. Wire Faci In the long list of patriotic offers, accumulating to a maximum which has astonished officials, apparently no line of effort valuable to the nation in war time has been offered. Thomas Vail of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company has assured the de- fense council that the wire facilities of the country are at the government's srvice and plans are ready for taking them over. Rear Adimral Peary has offered the services of the National Arial Coast Patrol Commission, the Aero Club of America, its equipped station at Port Washington, and the leading airship manufacturers their co- operation in hastening construction of army and navy planes and dirigibles. The National Foreign Trade Council and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States are helping co-ordinate commercial resources for defense, and the Associated Advertising Clubs, the Advertising Agents and the National Advertisers’ Association are aiding in government advertising in the recruit- ing campaign. Women Pledge Public Service. Fro mnifie leading women's colleges has come a united pledge of public service. The National Woman Suff- rage Association is organizing clubs.to train_women in agricultural work to provide emplyoment and teach loyal- ty to immigrants. Women who can take the places of me nin factories and other industries are being enrolied by the National League for Woman's Service and the National Council of Women, which embrace in their mem- bership the National Association Op- posed to Woman Suffrage, the 'Wo- man’s Christian Temperance Uhion, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Congress of Mothers and many ofher societies. Both the League ot Enforce Peace and the American Peace Society have lined up behind the president. In every state an active campaign, to aid recruiting is being carried o nby the Natonal.Committes of Patriotic Societies, whose member- ship includes the Daughters of the American Revolution, the _National Civic Assoclation, the Boy Scouts of America, the Army League and the Navy League. Patriotism Evident Everywhere. From the governors of most states have come fullest assurances of state aid. New York and.other states are conducting definite state mobilization operations. Massachusetts is among the states which have made large in- dividual defense appropriations. At mass meetings everywhere the large and small communities have prepared to do their bit and have pledged what they have to the president. ~The ‘pa- triotic awakening has . swept _every corner of the nation, stirring alike the Indian, who has sent his terse assur- ance of allegiance, and the allen jm- migrant, who has besieged the natu- ralization office with a new eagerness to_become an American. It is this awakening of Americanism which the president has told his friends and advisors he prizes above all the many other assets of national defense.