Show l I I. I o I The Benicia Arsenal I COMMENTING on the efforts of the Benicia chamber of commerce commerce com- com v-j v merce to have the Benicia arsenal established as a manufacturing turing arsenal the San Francisco Chronicle in in a recent issue isue declares that the government for manufacturing purposes should should make large expenditures at Benicia and nd not invest a dollar for j jew new ew plants of this kind anywhere else This same sentiment has I In een n expressed by The Telegram and by many nany of the leading newspapers newspapers of the Pacific coast Advocates of the improvement have hare pointed out to the authorities at Washington that there are pr practically no army manufacturing facilities on the coast while th they y are spread all over the Eastern states Boards of investigation tion appointed by the war department have reported in favor of I expanding the Benicia plant The members of these boards have been over the ground and have reached their decisions after personal investigation where every condition entering into the subject was given careful consider consideration tion and exhaustive study In Inthe Inthe Inthe the face of this the war board has put its stamp of disapproval on cv every ry effort of the California delegation at Washington to secure de decent ent consideration for the Benicia establishment This same board suggests the expenditure of millions for Eastern arsenals but cannot see the necessity for expending an extra cent on the only ar arsenal enal west of the Rocky mountains The Benicia chamber of commerce believes that the war board should be given to understand understand understand under under- stand stand that the Pacific coast is a considerable and very important part of the United States and is des deserving of just treatment and ad adequate quate protection even in times of peace 1 I L' L |