SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ISSUES REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 11.—
Expansion of the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce to enable
^ it to give effective aid to American
B manufacturers and merchants in
taking full advantage of after-the
war world trade opportunities is
the chief recommendation of Secre
tary Redfield in his annual report
made public today.
The secretary also reiterates his
approval of the proposed develop
ment of a government-owned intra
coastal waterway to link up the
great cities of the east, from the
lakes tp the coast and down the At
lantic seaboard.
Dealing with post-war trade and
the part the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce can play, the
report emphasizes especially the
need for additional commercial at
taches and trade commissioners.
The balance of trade in favor of
the United States for the fiscal
year 1918 was $2,982,226,238; the
total of the merchandise export
trade was $5,928,285,641 and of
the import trade $2,946,059,408.
“Measured by the economic
needs of the country and by the
grave responsibilities of post-war
competition,” the report says, “the
bureau should be expanded sub
stantially in every branch of serv
ice
“New attaches should be assign
ed to a number of important capi
tals. especially Athens, Rome, Mad
rid. Ottawa City and Santiago,
Chile We should also establish
at .he earliest possible moment res
ident trade commissioners in Swed
en. Norway, Great Britain, France,
Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Mexi
co. Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, » o
lombia and Venezuela, Dutch East
Indies, China, Philippine islands,
British India, Japan, Malay penin
sula, Egypt, South Africa, Austral
ia and New Zealand. The value of
resident representatives is too ob
vious to require any argument for
the extension of this feature of our
service.
“The field for European investi
gations by special agents immedi
ately upon the conclusion of the
war will be so extensive that the
bureau will require greatly increas
ed funds. American concerns have
a tremendous field for service to
our allies in helping them rebuild
and for future business.
“Too much emphasis cannot be
placed on the desirability of em
ploying trained economists, statis
ticians and experts in banking,
shipping, etc., in excess of the bu
reau’s present force. These types
>f economic authority are constant
ly needed to conduct work equal
in importance to that performed by
the great federal commissions in
Washington.
"Our country is looking to the
bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce to do its share in pre
paring the country for economic
security and prosperity after the
war, when the chief industrial and
commercial forces of each hemis
phere will be ready to launch great
organizations on the commercial
seas in quest of trade. The in
stinct of commercial self-preserva
tion demands organized action.
This is not the time for short
sighted thrift. Other countries
are looking ahead and spending
money to organize for their com
mercial security.
“A wisely liberal preparation
now will mean millions of income
some day to this country, will
mean industrial prosperity for our
labor and will mean strength for
our economic structure against
conditions or sharper competition
from any quarter. No country has
excelled us in the type of commer
cial service which we have for six
years past rendered to the busi
ness community, and this position
should be maintained by us re
gardless of our temporary absorp
tion in military defense."
EXAMINATION FOR
NAVAL ACADEMY
A competitive examination for
three appointments to the United
States naval academy will be held
at the university of Nevada, com
mencing Jan. 21. 1919.
The government examination for
entrance to the academy will be
held either on Feb. 9 or April 16,
as elected by the appointee, and
appointees will enter the academy
on June 19, 1919.
This examination is open to all
bona fide citizens of Nevada be
tween the ages of 16 and 20 years.
Candidates must be between the
ages of 16 and 20 at the date of
the government examination, Feb.
9 or April 16, 1919.
Notification of intention to take
the examination dtoulcf be address
ed to the president, university of
Nevada.
All applicants will report to the
president, university of Nevada, at
9 a. m., Jan. 21, 1919.
Examinations will be held in the
I. W. W. AND THEIR ALLY
CAUSE TROUBLE IN CUBA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12.—
Information reaching the state de
partment today indicated that a
general strike has been called in
Cuba as a result of Industrial
Workers of the World activity and
enemy propaganda. Order is be
ing maintained in the affected dis
tricts. According to the report a
strike call for railroad and elec
tric company employes is still ef
fectivce. No information was giv
en regarding men actually out,
further than to mention taxi driv
ers and traction employes in Ha
vana and Mantanzas.
WEDDING LAST EVENING
In the presence of several friends
W. W. Clark of Los Angeles, a
traveling salesman, and Ruby De
war of Tonopah were united in
marriage last evening by Rev. John
Telfer at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Robinson. Mr. and
Mrs. Clark have gone to Los An
geles, where they will reside.
following subjects: Grammar, ge
ography, United States history, ar
ithmetic, algebra and geometry.
PERMANENT WAGE
FOR RAILROAD
MED URGED
NEW YORK, Dec. 7. — The es
tablishment of permanent wage
rates for 2,000,000 railway work
ers in the United States to continue
after the cost of living has decreas
ed is the aim of the United States
railroad administration, according
to W. S. Carter, director of the
division of labor, who spoke on
“The Effect of Federal Control of
Railway Labor’’ before the academy
of political science.
Carter mentioned the fact that
under the existing act the lines
will revert to private control with
in 21 months after the declaration
of peace and expressed the hope
that the “rights and aspirations of
labor in the operation of the rail
roads will receive due considera
tion if congress decides to enact
additional legislation affecting
them.”
HE HAS ANSWERED HIS ROLL CALL-WILL YOU?
By courtesy of Fitzpatrick.
11 THE “DESERT PAL”
By ARNOLD WAYNE.
*Oopyrl*9t, 1918. Wtatera N*w«p«p»r Lstoa.)
“Who is her
“What’s he running?"
A crowd gathered as there jangled,
roared, clattered up to the edge of the
pavement a nondescript mass of
wheels and ragged and dust-deluged
canvas. A form sprang out Covered
with dirt, face and hands splotched
and speckled with oil and grease,
bright, glowing eyes only showing an
Irresistible animation, there was added
to the already startling presentment
humanity in its strangest phase.
The vehicle was what might havQ
been an automobile. It had solid rub
ber tires, it was uncouth of shape, odd
and old of make, yet it had come rip
ping down the street like a cyclone.
Across the back was what had once
been a black-lettered strip of white
muslin. Barely traceable was the
legend: “The Desert Pal—Home or
Bust!”
“The Desert Pal,” spoke Its owner,
broad of smile and resonant of tone—
“twehty-three days from the old alkali
stretch. Home, that's here. You don’t
any of you remember me? I’m Bart
Morton; left here ten years ago, made
a few thousands, got homesick, traded
my camp togs and horse for that old
9uto and I’ve hit the end of the trail.”
Only a few of the townsmen recalled
<he homeless vagabond boy living her^ I
. ler'', anywhere, over a decade since.
It was a far home cry, for he had never
had any. Somehow, however, his
brusque bearing, his fearless ways,
the tung of courage and venture to his
words stirred up the crowd. The old
est inhabitant warmed up to a friend
ly chat, the youngest one admiringly
regarded man and vehicle that had
spun half way across the continent,
homely, yet sturdy-looklng, arousing
rare fancies of daring and variety in
the juvenile Imagination.
For three days man and machine were
the current topics of interest. Then
Burt Morton cleaned up the old rattle
trap, donned a more modern attire and
became a familiar figure around the
one hotel of the place.
“It got lonely out there and I’d
about reached my ambition—five thou
sand dollars,” reported Bart. “I’d like
to buy into some respectable business
and settle down among real humans.”
Then one day Bart asked the hotel
keeper what had become of Evan
nughitt. “You know I worked for him
for a year and he was like a father to
me,” he said.
Evan Hughltt was dead, came the
Information. He had died five years
previous. His wife and Juanltu, their
daughter, lived at the old place, but
for three years had been fighting day
by day, Inch by inch, the claim of
Wolfe Dysart.
The blood rushed to the face of Bart
Morton and he uttered what resem
bled u ferocious snarl as he heard the
name of the man who had nearly
horsewhipped him to death, who had
led Evan Hughltt into evil ways.
“Dysart Is under indictment in this
county and does not dare to appear
here, but through a scheming lawyer
he is keeping Mrs. Hughltt in litiga
tion, hoping to finally force her to
give up a part of the property,” ex
plained the landlord.
Two days later Bart Morton saw
Juanita, the child of eight, now the
girl of eighteen. Within the week it
was known thut he had supplied to the
Awyer of Mrs. Hughltt what was
most needed—money to battle the un
scrupulous Dysart.
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Desert Pal as Bart would wfc** by,
Juanita by his side. If Bart had not
yet found a home he had found love,
which eventually always leads to the
happy hearth.
One night Bart, returning from the
Hughltt place, chanced to pass the of
fice of the lawyer of Mrs. Hughltt.
Glancing up at its lighted front he
checked his machine and set his teeth
hard. For the first time in ten years
he saw his old soulless persecutor,
Wolfe Dysart. The lights went out
and a moment later Dysart came hur
rying to the street, a package under his
arm. A quick suspicion came to the
ready mind of Bart. The plotter had
ventured here to steal documents upon
the production of which rested the
widow’s chance of winning her case.
Wolfe Dysart swung into the saddle
of a mettled steed standing at the
curb. In a flash he was plunging down
the street. In an instant Bart had
i urged the Desert Pal into action. The
horse turned Into the highway leading
out of town.
Dysart glanced anxiously behind
him and urged up his steed, Bart rea
lized that his suspicions were aroused.
Along the sides of the road for a mile
ran deep ditches. Where they ceased
the horseman could turn into the tim
ber. where Bart could not follow.
Everything depended on his overtaking
the man within that mile.
Kloppetty-klop! the horse. Whizz,
whang! the Desert Pal, nearer, near
er. Dysart was fully aroused now.
Bart reached behind him with one
hand. It was to seize a lariat, a faith
ful memento of his old desert days.
Whiz! Just where the road turned,
the faultless lasso encircled the rider.
Bart found, as he expected, the
stolen papers. He bound and conveyed
Dysart to town. Within a week the
miscreant was on his way to the peni
tentiary and the widow’s case was won.
There was a wedding procession to
town shortly after that. The Desert
Pal led It, no longer covered with the
alkall*of the barrens, but with roses.
GASSED MEN LIKE CHEWING GUM
PARIS, Dec. 9. — Fifty-three
dollars, collected by a small group
of engineers employed by a copper
company at Valparaiso, Chile, for
wounded American boys, came all
the way to headquarters of the Y.
M. C. A. In Paris the other day,
and this is what happened to it:
E. C. Carter, chief of the Y. M. C.
A. overseas activities, gave the
money to his secretary telling her
to spend every cent of it on boys
in a certain hospital who needed
some extra comforts.
The secretary and two other
girls, all in the uniform of the Y.
M. C. A., collected a lot of the lat
est newspapers and magazines from
home,4 bought up cigarettes, chew
ing gum, chocolate, jam and a
basket full of fresh white grapes,
and then, laden way beyond the
limit of their ancient hack, drove
to the big base hospital on the
world-famous race track at Ateull,
just outside of Paris, once the
home of sport and now the home
of a thousand or more wounded
American soldiers.
Cigarettes were given to every
man in four wards, also a box of
matches. Then the three girls
went into the gas ward, where
boys are not allowed tobacco in
any form until the gas is entirely
out of their systems. Each of
these boys was given chewing gum,
and some of them were so glad to
get it that they actually cried.
Others were not so far down with
the ravages of the attack and sang
out glad “hurrahs,” but there
wasn’t a man in that ward whose
day was not made easier by that
package of gum.
The grapes were taken into the
medical ward, where four patients
with parched throats were relieved
by the cooling fruit. The jam was
given to various nurses, for there
was none too much of it and not
nearly enough for all the boys.
The nurses take these little ex
tras and hide them under lock and
key in their medicine chests. And
now and then it is given to bed
ridden patients whose appetites, as
well as their tired bodies, need
nursing.
TAJIRI GRADUATE OF YALE
New Mayor of Tokyo, Japan, Finished
His Education in Great Ameri
can University.
Viscount Inajlro TaJIrl, newly elect
ed mayor of the city of Tokyo, Japan,
is a graduate of the class of ’79 of
Yale aniversity, where he specialized
In economics, finance, politics and his
tory, says Christian Science Monitor.
Returning to Japan, he was appointed
a secretary in the department of
finance and also to a chntr In the im
perial university at Tokyo. Subse
quently he was director of the bureau
of the national debt, banks and reve
nue.
In the course of time he was admit
ted to the house of peers, and was vice
minister of finance, first in 1892-1897,
and again in 1898-1904. He was made
a buron In 1895 and a viscount In 1907.
More recently he has been chief of
the hoard of audit. To knowledge of
the technique of banking, nutional
finance and international credit the
viscount adds interest In and mastery
of natural science, and In both fields
he is an authority.
His selection as mayor comes after
a long and futile effort of the munici
pal assembly to agree upon a candi
date chosen from the ranks of poli
ticians or ordinary civilians.
It Didn't Work.
A wee four-year-old was having
Thrift stamps explained to her by her
young uncle, an enthusiastic canvass
er. To illustrate his talk he ended
It by giving her two quarters. “Now
these will buy you two Thrift stamps,”
he said.
“Two Thrift stamps,” she repeated,
smiling. *
A few minutes later her grandnwth
er came into the room. The uncle,
eager to display the effect of his ora
tory, ordered: “Mary Ellen, show
grandma what you have.”
Obediently Mary Ellen displayed her
two quarters. “Now, tell grandma
what you’re going to buy with them,”
he smiled In anticipation of the
answer. t
But his smile didn’t hold. In Mary
Ellen’s sweetest tones came the in
formation : “Tandy and tookles.”
Beet-Sugar Industry.
The United States and Spain nro the
only countries which produce both
cane and beet sugar in any consider
able quantity. The development of
the beet-sugar Industry in the United
Stntes has been one of the great ag
ricultural and manufacturing growths
of this country. From 1898 the beet
sugar production in the United States
Increased from 50,000 tons to approxi
mately 800,000 tons In 1915.
Avoid Brooding.
Tt Is a salutary thing *o regret past
rrcrs a.id sincerely resolve not to fall
tin them again, but it is a foolish and
■iosi dangerous tiling to brood over
mstakes *ve nave made, sins we have
omm.tted. Mrooding ctnmot possibly
end to lio.'.lthy-minded action. Its
vndeucy, rather is to develop a state
if udnd that may pass over into in
finity. Yet many people indulge in
his dangerous luxury ol brooding. Far
iculorly is this likely to be the case
vilh people to whom life lias not been
is kind as it might have been.
Arteries of Commerce.
The Romans were the great road
builders of history. Roads were the
girders which sustained the vast super
structure of their empire. When a
new province was conquered it was
lnced to the empire wllh roads. Over
these highways there poured into
Rome the products of the four quar
ters of the rhen known world—silks,
laces, birds, animals, tropical fruits
•ind slaves. And out from Rome pour
rt the legionaries and the chariots.
Taking No Chances.
Two mothers, one with a flve-year
oiu girl and the other with a seven
year-old boy, set out for a walk. For
convenience it was suggested that the
children wn'k together and ahead.
Said the boy “T •••»’' if they won’t call
f marrv'
“FLU” ORDINANCE
WILL BE EUFOUCEO
Exactly as other places have suf
fered where protective measures
against influenza have been relaxed,
so Goldfield is suffering now as a
result of carelessness in the past
few days. There are eight cases
here now.
This morning the board of coun
ty commissioners and Dr. J. D. Mc
Carthy met to consult regarding the
situation and the result is that the
schools will not be permitted to
reopen until at the earliest the
commencement of the new year
term. It was also decided to again
enforce the mask-wearing ordinance
strictly and the officers promised
to enforce the ordinance rigidly
and arrest all persons found with
out masks. Dr. McCarthy also
pointed to the fact that lodge meet
ings have been held, which is
against present health regulations.
The commissioners and peace of
ficers are evidently determined to
go the limit with persons found
without masks and from the tone
of the meeting this morning arrests
wifi surely be made if the ord
nance is not obeyed to the letter.
It was decided that the masks must
not only be worn, but must be
worn properly and the commis
sioners migt have added to this
that it would be well for some peo
ple to wash their masks at least
occasionally and replace them with
new ones when they become so
ragged that they are nothing short
of a disgrace.
Ciiiiurutuieui ui uif uiuiunuto
will start tomorrow morning and
it has been placed up to the peace
officers to see that the law is obey
ed. If arrests are made there is
no doubt but that public opinion
will be solidly behind the officers
in the step and there is also no
doubt that if tne ordinance is not
strictly enforced public opinion will
be solidly against the officers.
After a period is which there
were no new cases reported, it is
evident that influenza has gained
a second hold on the town and it
is also evident that the malady will
reach the epidemic stage this time
if quick and drastic steps are not
taken to prevent it from spreading.
SOX OF GOLDFIELD MAX
LS MISSING IX ACTION
A. C. Hitchcock, a well-known
mining man and prospector of
Goldfield, has received word that
his son, Craig W. Hitchcock, a
member of the American expedi
tionary forces, has been missing in
action since Oct. 18. The soldier,
who was 28 years of age, entered
the army at Camp Dix, N. J., on
April 1 and when reported missing
was a member of Co. B, 310th in
fantry, fighting with the 78th di
vision. Previous to entering the
army he was in charge of steam
shovel work for the Erie railroad.
The aged father in Goldfield is
hoping against hope that his son is
still alive, but realizes that this
is improbable. He has two other
sons in the service.
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GOVERNMENT TO CANCEL
WOODEN SHIP CONTRACTS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 11 —
The shipping board has decided to
cancel outstanding wooden ship
construction contracts where the
builders have not spent more than
$200,000 on a ship.