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Show v THE CITIZEN 16 more, the engines may be effectually cured largely abroad. Another nefd silenced, and, as the number of ex- is the systematic study of stocks wi tfi a viewe to their improvement and bet'When mixed with a posed wires is almost nil on rigid airHYDROGEN of air is vioships, the monotonous whistling of the ter adaptability to the wide variety lently explosive, while helium, being wind due to the vibration of wire stays of conditions and needs that exist here so notable on fast airplanes is also and that are likely to develop as the chemically inert, is not explosive at fruit industry becomes more complex. all. The combined danger of fire and done away with. Then there is the possibility of hav- If fruit industries are to be maintained, explosion limits the utility of the hydrogen-filled airships even in time of ing a spacious promenade deck atop of the department thinks it is imperative peace, while these dangers are, of the hull, which should prove a great that there be available full supplies inducement for long distance trips. All of the ordinary stocks, and it is decourse, greatly enhanced by the condthis installation is difficult to conceive sirable to find or develop stocks that itions of warfare. The substitution of helium, by re- on airplanes, where noise, vibration may prevent some of the losses from moving these disabilities, bids fair to and restricted space are prominent insects and diseases. features. Review of Review. If stocks are to be produced in this revolutionize air navigation. The encountry to lake the place of those hithgines of the future airship can be safeerto secured abroad, the statement ly placed inside the shell of the balIMPORTING FRENCH SOIL continues, it would seem proper that loon, instead of being suspended underneath, and a much more efficient vesThe soils of France and America, as efforts should be made by the government to aid those who are anxious to sel will thus be produced. Baron well as the souls of those two counknow where the work can best be done dOrcy declares that the major, if not tries, have been blended literally. and how it may be done to the best all problems, of aerial transport will The most notable instance of the inin the near future be solved by the corporation of American soil into the advantage. The problems involved are airship, and not by the airplane. soil of France was the taking to so complex that private interests can For commercial purposes the airship France of several barrels of American not well handle them. The chief probis superior to the airplane in the matearth in which to bury the body of lems are to find regions and soils in ter of security, reliability of the power Lafayette, but French soil has been in- this country where stocks may be complant, loading efficiency, comfort, corporated into American soil in lit- mercially grown and to demonstrate prime cost per pound of load carried, erally millions of places. Probably on a commercial scale that such stocks r and required for operation. every county in the United States has are equal to or better than those grown It is inferior to the airplane only with its admixture of French dirt, and it is abroad. Correlated with the problem of commercial stock production is that respect to speed. scarcely too much to say that some of securing seeds for stocks. There While an airship can stay aloft reparticles of it have found their way to is need for developing our home supgardless of engine stoppage (accidenpractically every farm throughout the tal or voluntary), a failure of the air- length and breadth of the country. proposition, plies. This is a long-tim- e as there are few recognized sources plane's power plant necessitates an How did it come? On fruit stocks. immediate descent in gliding flight. The above ground portion of your fruit of supply here, such as exist in This feature furnishes one of the most trees may be pure American, but the Europe. serious objections to the use of the underground portion is very likely to airplane as a passengeer carrier, for a be foreign. With the exception of the BASIS FOR TARIFF forced landing is not very pleasant to apple and peach, most of the seedling visualize when occurring on vast plants on which grafting or budding The Republican Publicity associastretches of wooded or mountainous is done are imported, and even with its president, Hon. Jontion, country, or the Northern Atlantic in the apple, though considerable prog- athan through Bourne, Jr., gives out the folfor example. If a fog bank ress has been made in producing lowing statement. covers the aerodrome, an incoming American-growimseedlings from The cost of production in the counairplane will have to fly round and ported French seeds, many nurseryround until the fog clears away or men have thus far preferred to import try whence comes the bulk of our comthe fuel supply gives out; undr the apple seedlings from France and to petition in the particular commodities same circumstances an airship will pay more for them. Just now, how- under consideration should be tbe barates in the Repubstop its engines and hover until a ever, rather determined attention is sis for protective lican tariff revision of the near future. landing can safely be effected. turned toward a solution of the probCertain protectionists have regarded it The supeeriority of the airship over lem of fruit-stocproduction in this as a difficult problem to lay a rate the airplane in affording security to country. All of the peach stocks are on a given commodity which 'would passengers under the most difficult opnow home grown from seeds proprevent too excessive competition erating conditions is thus manifest. A duced in this country. from the Orient, for example, without Zeppelin-typairship, in which flotaFruit Culture Depends on Stocks. utterly closing our market in that comtion is secured by 20 or more separate to We are beginning appreciate to Whence comes the gas bags, is fully comparable as to more and more, says one of the plant modityof Europe. bulk that competition? The ansafety to a steamer fitted with water- pathologists of the United States De- swer should determine the rate basis. tight compartments. Just as a steam- partment of Agriculture, that our fuGreat Britain has controlled 90 per er may spring a leak and have sever- ture successful fruit culture is inticent of our imports of cotton cloths. al watertight comparments flooded of the associated with problem mately She has latterly supplied us with 95 without sinking, so can a Zeppelin stocks. With the of the exception And per cent of our maintain its buoyancy even if several no studies have grape, on pig iron, textile machinof its gas bags should be pierced. In- been made on stocks in this or any our rates woolen cloths, dress goods, wearjury of this sort may, by the way, be other country. We have followed cer- ery, ing apparel, and boots and shoes must mended in flight, because balloon fab- tain in the past, be postulated on British production empirical practices rics can be patched like automobile but as competition becomes greater costs. In lace edgings, Inserting and tires; it follows that airships of the and the demand for the highest grades plushes and velveteens, she rigid type have little fear of accident of fruit and plant products increases, galloons, shares the American market with on this score. rewe must know more of the actual France. Not only is the question of weight lation of stocks to quality of product, Our rates on argols, feathers for of minor importance on airships; the to the or of tree of life the length millinary, perfumes, cosmetics and whole architecture of these craft is clito soil to and adaptability toilet preparations, silk laces and more adaptable to comfort than even plant, to resistance into and disease mate, wearing apparel, and gloves must be the large airplane. It is obvious that sect attacks. drawn with an eye to French produca hull some 700 feet in length affords Would Produce Stocks Here. tion costs. On clocks, watches, and a splendid opportunity for fitting cabOne of the questions to be solved, parts of, laces and embroideries, with ins, dining rooms, lounges, etc., at such a distance from the propelling according to the Department of Agri- respect to Switzerland, who is also culture, is the practicability of produc- now furnishing 90 per cent of our apparatus as to virtually suppress in Ireland suping in his country the millions of or- imported phonographs. the living quarters any noise 9 caused dinary apple, pear, plum, and cherry plies 75 per cent of our linen fabrics; stocks which hitherto have been se by engines and airscrews; further British India, 90 per cent of our jute VALUE OF ZEPPELINS man-powe- mid-winte- r, n k e bags and burlaps; Brazil, 90 per cent of our manganese; Mexico, the bulk of our lead and zinc; Chile, the bulk of our copper matte, regulus, and pig copper; Ceylon, over 80 per cent of our plumbago or graphite; British South Africa, 66 per cent of our angora hair; Australia continues our chief competitor in wool, with Argentina crowding her; Italy supplies 80 per cent of our imports of marble; Canada, 98 per cent of our print paper and wood pulp, and the bulk of our belting and sole leather, harness and saddlery, rails, and lumber. And, most interesting to note, Japan now sells us 70 to 90 per cent of our brushes, 65 to 90 per cent of our buttons, 80 per cent of our mattings, 60 per cent of our matches, 60 per cent of our silk fabrics, 50 per cent of our peanut oil, nearly all our soy oil, the bulk of our decorated china-warand toys, and splits with Italy the market on straw hats. With respect to agricultural products, Argentina supplies 90 per cent of our imports of corn, and the bulk, of our fresh meats; Asia, 90 per cent of our rice; Cuba, 90 per cent of our pineapples, nearly all our sugar (on which she has a 20 per cent preferential) and the bulk of our tobacco leaf; Spain, 95 per cent of our raisnis, 90 per cent olives, and the bulk of our onions; Italy, 98 per cent of our lemons, and the bulk of our macaroni and of cheese; Greece, 98 per cent our currants; Canada, over 90 per cent of our wheat and flour, 75 per cent of fish, 95 per cent of hay, and the bulk of our butter, cream and milk, flaxseed and potatoes; Japan, per cent of our peanuts; China, 90 per cent of our egg preparations. Following the proclamation of peace it is confidently expected that Germany will rush her invasion of foreign markets, and our rates on potash, colors and dyes, chemicals, wearing apparel and knit goods, cutlery, glove leather, lithographs, etc., must be drawn with that probability in view; while the rehabilitation of Belgium means a renewal of her intensive competition in our markets in window and plate glass, unless steps are taken to moderate it. Finally, the fact that our wage-scal- e today as compared with shows a present European wage-scale- s greater differential than in pre-wa- r days must be taken into account. These factors, will be the chief considerae, 50-8- 0 tions in drafting the new protective tariff. ferro-manganes- e. far-reachi- -- - i BRAINS Vs. BRAWN. Observing that a young workman on an excavation job was accomplishing about twice as much work as any one of his fellows, the superintendent kept a close eye on him. When a problem was presented of lifting a heavy piece of steel from a point a hundred feet beyond the reach of the derrick boom, every workman was .caled to the task. After a few minutes of fruitless effort the zealous one suggested that the boom be lowered to the ground. He then led the cable to the steel beam and fastened it. The engine started, easily drawing the beam along until it reached the boom end. The boom was then Tjp |