BUILDING OF
SCHOOLHOUSES
MERGED
Contracts for 800 public school
houses, totaling some eighty million
dollars, have been held up as a result
of the war, according to but a partial
tabulation of building conditions
throughout the United States, which
has been made by the statistical sec
tion of the Division of Public Works
and Construction Development, U. S.
Department of Labor. It is estimated
that the completed tabulation will
show that these school projects, now
being held in abeyance, aggregate
more than $100,000,000.
In round numbers, this is about one
dollar per capita throughout the Unit-'
ed States. As school buildings are
customarily financed on twenty-year
serial bonds, this means an install
ment payment of about five cents per
capita per year by the people of this
country, if they would have their
school program put through at the
present time.
Assuming that a decrease of twenty
per cent in constructive costs might
develop during the next four or five
years (and this is regarded by many
as a maximum decrease), the immedi
ate completion of the nation’s school
program would involve on excess of
only one cent per capita per year over
the per capita cost, even if construc
tion were delayed for several years.
The educators of the country ask,
shall the country have its schools now
at five cents per capita per year, or
delay having them for four or five
years in order to buy them at four
cents per capita per yew1?
To interest the nation in forward
ing this particular work is one of the
undertakings of this new division of
the department of labor. In this pur
pose it has the support not only of
educators, but of sociologists. They
believe that the nation-wide lack of
public school accommodations, which
is known to all, is one of the earliest
problems that must be solved with
others that belong to the reconstruc
tion r “iod.
AS! I TREES* BOUGHT
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VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 28.—The Jap
anese, profiting by the low value of
the ruble, have bought up all the
aspen trees in the Ussuri region and
this has caused a scarcity of fuel for
the use of the Ussuri railway, says
the newspaper Dalekaya Okraina,
which adds that all the local inhabi
tants have been mobilized by the
Japanese to prepare the wood for ex
port. A proposition is under con
sideration to increase the tax on ex
portation of the aspen logs so as to
stop the Japanese from shipping them
out of the country.*'
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IN MEMORY OF WAR HEROES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—A park
planted with trees in the heart of the
town is being planned by Clinton,
Mass., to keep fresh the memory of
that town's sons who paid the supreme
sacrifice in the war, says a report to
the American Forestry Association.
SPARTACANS DISORDERLY
AFTER DEMOBIUZATIOh
MUNICH, Feb. 1 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—The return
ing and demobilizing armies here, it
great part, come quietly home, pul
down their arms and disband without
trouble. A small percentage of the
unruly element, such as compose the
Liebknecht - Spartacus anarchistic
group, however, have made as much
trouble as possible, and has shown
special fondness for crooked horse
deals.
The peasants’ council of Munich
makes public a report to show that
hundreds of returning soldiers have
been permitted to keep a horse as a
souvenir. The permission naturally
does not come from the military au
thorities, but from Underlings, and the
soldiers have put the animals thus se
cured on the market at ridiculous
prices.
One regiment that should have had
800 horses returned with but eighty,
the rest having been sold, in many
cases, it is feared, for slaughter—an
easy way of concealing all traces. The
city authorities recently confiscated
ninety-seven animals that had been
sold in this underhand way for slaugh
ter. The peasants’ council has organ
ized a guard of forty men to help put
clown the evil.
ANXIOUS TO JOIN ARMY
BUT NOW WANT RELEASE
LONDON, Feb. 5 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Incidents
of men stretching the truth consider
ably to get into the British army when
England needed every man and then
resorting virtually to mutiny to get
out after the armistice was signed
have been shown at Folkestone dur
ing an investigation of the first de
mobilization demonstrations there.
After several hundred men had de
clined to embark for France at the
end of their Christmas leave the mili
tary authorities began investigating
each case separately.
One man who might be judged any
where from 38 to 50 years of age, ap
peared before the examining officers.
“On what ground do you think you
should be released now?” he was
asked.
“I’m more than 41 years of age," he
said, relying upon the rule that men
Ot. tlgLt age' or more-fekouldV be re
leased as soon, as possible.
“But your army book shows you
enlisted fifteen months ago at the age
of 35.”
“I gave that as my age to get in, sir.
I am 50 years old now.”
“You will have to prove that,” came
a quick reply, whereupon he turned to
a middle-aged woman spectator, his
wife, who had anticipated the situa
tion and produced a birth certificate.
He will be released at once and the
methqd by which he volunteered will
be conveniently forgotten.
During the last year of the war no
miners were allowed to join the army.
Their ranks already bad been deplet
ed until barely enough coal was being
produced.
Another demonstrator claimed he
should be released because he was a
miner. His record showed he repre
sented himself as a flsh-monger in
order to join the colors. When he
proves he is a miner he will be re
leased.
MUNITIONS PLANT TOWN
DEPOPULATED SINCE WAR
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Feb. 28.—
When the United States entered the
war a monster munition plant was
projected at Nitro, fourteen miles
from here on the Kanawha river, and
a city sprang Into existence almost in
a week. Twenty thousand men were
working there, and long rows of
houses were built by the government
to shelter its employes and their fam
ilies.
Activity at Nitro practically ceased
at the signing of the armistice and
thousands of men left Nitro and
Charleston. The last, developments
are an inventory of the plant and
equipment, just begun, and the chang
ing of the plant into an ordnance sup
ply station. There are now only 1600
men here engaged In taking inventory
and guarding the buildings. The war
department has recommended the raz
ing of every other row of the bunga
lows so hastily constructed. This
step has been ordered as a matter of
Are protection.
The wheels of the plant have been
silent ever since the Hercules Powder
company turned back the Industry to
the government two months ago and
no official announcement has been re
ceived from Washington as to what
disposition will be made of the ex
pensive proposition.
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BAVARIA USING FLAGS
TO MAKE CLOTHING
MUNICH, Feb. 28.—Bavaria is so
short of material for children’s cloth
ing that the government has issued an
order confiscating all flags measuring
more than 20x20 inches so as to use
the material in them for the manu
facture of children’s underwear. A
call has been issued to the public to
donate unnecessary flags for the same
purpose. It is presumed that the col
ors will be extracted from the flags
before they are manufactured into
clothing.
The manufacture of flags of any
size is forbidden.
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office, .
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