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Show THE GRANT8V1LLE WORKS TO STOP WASTE FOR LIBERTY LOAN UTAH. NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, NEW DEVICES CUT - IN ABUT CAMPS TOLL OF U-BO- Admiral Benson Tells of Meth- - War Department Prepares Plans to Enforce the Most ods Adopted to Foil Submarines. . Rigid Economy. SOME USE FOR EVERYTHING EDISON Effect of New Plan le to Turn Into Large Profit What Hitherto Hae Been a Very Considerable Smoke Bombs and Smoko Screens Are Proving Effective Camouflage Employed to 6urpriSi Ing Extent Expense. Washington. The war department has taken elaborate and comprehen- sive precautions to prevent waste In the army cantonments, which will soon contain more than 2,000,000 men, and In the embarkation camps. In the feeding of the men waste will be minimized through the fact that the food will be prepared under the direction of mess cooks, who will be trained by special courses In army t cooking' schools. The officers training camps have not been under the control of the war department so far as the food supplies are concerned, and the waste In those camps has been due to the lack of skilled management In the handling of food. committee representing the war department and the United States g two-ca- n 8avng Through Garbage. The greatest element of saving Is through the garbage. This bus been sold for an annual price of The garbage from 13 of the cantonments will be used for feeding swine. It is estimated on the basis of e experiments conducted at the cantonment, that the garbage waste from 10 to 15 men will feed one hog and enable It to add to Its weight one pound per day. At this rate, the $440,-894.5- 7. Chilii-coth- HAS PERFECT BRAIN; BECOMES AN AVIATOR j t J Boston. Thomas James Aber-- J nethy of West Pembroke, Me, whom the late Professor Muen-- $ sterberg found to be mentally perfect. Is one of 999 New Eng-- $ land candidates selected for in-structlon as aviators. He heads STEAL MORE CHINESE SEALS Prominent Official of the Republic appears With the Presidential Washington. An encouraging account of the success of the devices being used by American ships as a means of escaping or destroying German submarines la given by Admiral Benson, chief of operations of the navy Several of the methods under trial at present, one of them the Invention of Thomas A. Edison, the admiral regarded as Inadvisable to describe, but he discussed without reserve the devices In general use on merchant ships and naval vessels. It was admitted that the naval convoy furnished the most effective safeguard against the submarine. Admiral Benson thought that the number off convoyed ships sunk was even less than the average up to a month ago, when It was estimated that only of 1 per cent fell victim to the submarine. The Impossibility of convoying more than a small per cent of the merchant fleet leaving American shores, however, has made necessary A striking example of the value of the adoption of other protective measwomen In helping America in the great ures. Devices Employed. fight Is Miss Antoinette Funk, a member of the woman's committee of the Among those most in use on mercouncil of national defense. chant ships, the admiral said, .were The photograph shows her hard at smoke bomba and smoke screens. work In her office In the treasury build- Camouflage also is being employed to ing where she Is doing wonderful work a surprising extent, but particularly In the interests of the Liberty loan. on naval vessels. The smoke bombs of the are merely containers filled with chemShe is executive women's Liberty loan committee, of icals which when cast overboard which Mrs. McAdoo Is' the chairman. throw off a dense black smoke, obscurShe was asked to take the post by Sec- ing the ship from an attacking submaretary McAdoo because of her powers rine. of logical appeal, her ability as a A great variety of experiments In speaker and her untiring activity in camouflage have been tried on naval any work connected with the great vessels. They have been painted evcause for which America Is fighting. ery hue of the rainbow that might tend to merge the sblp In its backcantonments 13 these from ground and make It indistinguishable garbage Admiral will produce 18,980,000 pounds of pork to investigating periscopes. devices had of these said Benson many per year. When not used for feeding, the gar- been demonstrated to be of great are equipped bage will be reduced, that is, cooked merit Warships, too, the proxindicate which exwith detectors at high temperature, the grease other of ships. and remainder the and ground imity tracted, More and more of the merchant used for fertilizer or feeds. so as forof incineration method the ships, of course, are being armed By of account a to good all would these to be able give merly in use, not only valuable waste materials have been themselves In encounters with uie and experiments constantly destroyed, but It would have cost apon In the navy to Improve Installathe for are $700,000 going proximately anand an the weapons of offense employed tion of Incinerator plants ennual charge of approximately $505,000 against the submarine. A special the to made perfect to we add When Is being deavor for their operation. it this saving the amount annually re- operation of depth charges so that to more frequently from these the be possible ceived by government may as they submerge wastes, the net saving the first year pot the with only their run os along to $1,707,840. or amounts they thereThe effect of this new plan, periscopes showing. Balloons are employed on the ships fore, Is not only to conserve large use quantities of valuable food wastes, fer- for observation purposes, but their Into a to turn but new. etc., large all at t tilizers, was said today, In contradiction profit what has hitherto been a very considerable expense. recent Interesting story, that no ktlon had been perfected In the n Health of Dr. Miehaelis Bad. sd States navy which would the deflect to to A Berlin attacked ship Amsterdam. telegram was fired, the Rhelnische Weatfallsche Zeltung ie of a torpedo once It Ben-ha-d Admiral to state ofhealth the of Essen says that report, according no foundation whatever, mak-th- e of the German chancellor, Doctor Miehaelis, "leaves very much to be deother report which has been s sired. rounds is that German It making been have recently 8anta Claus Too Old to Go. nctice of sparing all passenger The only bcni Arthur was listening to his parents i they encounter. mentioning different people who were his belief, It was said, is the fact been going to the war. "Mother, he Interfewer passenger Alps have how-brupted, Tm glad that Santa Claus is They have been attacked, too old to go to the. war. In most cases have escaped, ere have been no German subma-- i near the American coast since appeared with the seals of the house entered the war, so far as nation of representatives. When the atA navy department has learned. tempt at monarchinl restoration had in larine has been sighted nearly been defeated and Premier Tuan Chl-JAtlantic, but that is the nearest rebeen declared the republic had each one is known to have made, stored, there was much consternation ie navy department has evidence because of the disappearance of the of Germany is Increasing the size seals of the republic. Gen. Ting Kwan propor-othe to submarines nearly was arrested In Shanghai, and after a small cruisers. This evidence hard legal struggle was brought back obtained by ocular observation, In to Peking, together with the missing and also from the fact that the presidential seals, and Is to have a now are mounting guns of mrines hearing before a Chinese court. ly six inches in bore. Fragments hells falling on merchant ships Anomalies of War Prices. ' Kansas City. it is a rather extraordinary fact that in some parts of the Worthless Ores Will Be Valuable. Southwest wheat Is fed to hogs, being bureau of mines has decided to which Is corn now The $2.05 cheaper than a bushel, and scarce at thot This prac- establish at Minneapolis a laboratory tice Is not general, however, as there for experiments in the treatment of iron ores. This move on Is a sentiment against using wheat for the part of the government Is dne to such purposes. e ores of the fact that the are district being Lake the Superior Cattle, 8heep, Hogs Diminishing. , Herds of cattle, sheep and hogs in rapidly exhausted. Experts say that they will not last 80 years. In another Europe haye been diminished by most of our Iron will be since the war, and they will ores that are now not of out made even more until the decrease rapidly considered worth digging. war is dosed. lf vice-chairm- . . ts en-a- sub-nc- ut ul V 4 IN USE one-ha- food administration will also assist In dealing with problems of eliminating waste. The food administration has received from the secretary of war an announcement of a thorough-goinplan for conserving all the waste material of the National army camps, which will result In salvaging many thousands of dollars. Collecting the Waste. The army's first consideration In planning this work has been the sanitary and hyglenid problem. At each cantonment the wastes will be collected and transported to a single "transfer station under the direction of the sanitary inspector. Through the use of the system, wastes will be .tightly enclosed throughout their collection. Sterilized cans will be substituted for the filled cans at the kitchens, the nuisance of disagreeable odors and danger from files being reduced to a minimum. Every step In the process of reclamation and utilization Is carefully safeguarded and is under the absolute direction of a sanitary force, each contractor being placed under heavy bonds. At the transfer station, the wastes are turned over to a contractor, who will remove them to a point at least three miles distant from the reservation. There the wastes will be completely sorted. Bottles will be sterilized and sold for commercial use. Tin cans will be baled and the solder, tin and Iron reclaimed. Paper, which is estimated about five tons per day, will be baled. Bones will be kept separate and ground for fertilizer. The hides of dead nnlmala will be removed and the carcasses "reduced" for grease and fertilizer. The chief items of waste will be the garbage and the manure. It Is estimated that there are 1,200 animals at each cantonment, producing 120 tons of manure per day. At the date of the report the manure from 11 cantonments had been sold for $240,900 annually. Big INVENTION Dis- 8tampa. Peking. Peking is much agitated over the disappearance of official seals. was When President Li Yuan-hun-g forced to give up the presidency, the keeper of the presidential' seals, took them to Shanghai. Another prominent official has now dis f low-gra- high-grad- 114,-000,0- half-centur- y Old Pala Minion. pilgrims to Canterbury walk upon a way polished by the feet of history and rich In an atmosphere of majestic antiquity. Association with Roman, Briton, Piet, Scot, Dane, Celt and Norman has clothed It with personality, glorifying what would otherwise be mere geographical locality, and the spirits of humans of all later times are drawn to It as the dividing point between paganism and Christianity to THE the English-speakin- world. g But if we of today were to walk upon the historic highway In the far West, called El Carnino Real, we could not dream ourselves back Into the day when the brown-robeFranciscans went forth and buck upon it, treading the tender grass of winter or raising the golden of summer, because that way Is today, and the pilgrims dream would be sadly broken by the dodging of the automobiles which have claimed the way as a personal possession, writes Neeta Marquis in the Los Angeles Times. But to the automoblllst who has a mind for the past as well as an eye for the present, there Is a wealth of charm to be found on the road marked by the mile-pobdlfe, particularly In traveling from Los Angeles to San Diego, at the roads very beginning. It was cool and delldouBly foggy when we left Los Angeles, soon after eight o'clock, and one of the first surprises, when we reached the real country, was to find the air sweet with the fragrance of orange blossoms and roses. I had fancied the orange trees not yet In flower, and the roses very largely gone for a while, but acres of both were there to confound me. Dahlias almost as big as cabbages nodded their gorgeous crimson and magenta heads from country .and in a bowcrilke river bed we saw a compuny of tourists out of their machines gathering green castor beans, perhaps under the impression that they were horse chestnuts. In the open stretches, the blue distance of fog were artistically set off by golddn hedges of wild mustard and sunflowers. At Intervals all along the road the rose racks set up by an enterprising public spirit were often full of bloom, mostly with the "Ragged Robins, of velvety crimson. We even met a country girl driving, who, having the prettiest of pink faces and being dressed in pink, looked like a Duchesse rose herself. To San Juan Capistrano. We crossed the great San Joaquin ranch through miles of small, golden ' bean stalks, which shaded Into disd tances of amber against the hills. It looked as If It had taken os mnuy Mexicans 'as are enlisted with Villa to rake those stacks into such geometrically spaced order. In the hill country beyond, the rich brown of tarweed, whose sweet pungency filled the air with healing, wholesome balm, covered all the landscape, and exquisitely subtle colors were d brought out under the n sky. Ever and again the of eucalyptus clumps made picture-lik- e effects agqlnst the tawny fields. Faith, this was a long road, and leu varied, when the padres trod it In the olden time I It was down a canyon dotted with great sycamores that we finally came ruins of Misupon the sion San Juan Capistrano. This spot is crassly modern compared. with really ancient things, yet It has its own atmosphere of relative antiquity. I never have gazed on the pyramids or the Sphinx. St Peters at Rome, Notre Dame and St Martins at Canterbury are, so far, only names and pictures to me. Even Ply-d dust-clou- hard-pave- d st door-yard- s, warm-scente- d blue-veile- clond-mottle- black-gree- artist-haunte- d month Rock Is very remote In personal association as well as distance. Bat my latent reverence for the fingermarks of time and the monuments to human Ideals camewp at sight of these singularly quaint and beautiful remains of a period rich In romance and devout dreams on this golden western slope. Beauties of the Ruins. Pomegranate trees and dusty red geraniums grew In front of the ruined walls rising against the pale blue off a noonday sky. Where the whitewash was gone, the ruins were a rich golden brown In tone. The front of the build- ing was disappointing at first glimpse. The yard was bare and bleak looking, the monument raised to Junlpero Serra, and a luxuriant green pepper-trebeing the only outstanding reliefs. But It was when we wandered unguided through the long arcades on the Inner court, penetrating Into musty rooms within the three-fowalls and swinging the massive wooden doors to behind ns, treading upon the worn old flagging curved to fit the feet of priest and neophyte of long ago, that the real atmosphere of the place comes over us. auI tried to forget the tomobiles standing outside on and the groups of tourist-folwere making perwho, curious-eyefunctory pilgrimage there at that same hour, and Instead of taking a cursory glance and motoring on again, I asked permission for our small party to eat our lunch In the long shady arcade overlooking the inner court, where the kindly green of Ivy was clinging to the bared bricks of the arches. ,It was not hard to rebuild In memory those broken arches encircling the patio, even across there where a small laundry was dangling In pathetic Inand Imagine the place congruity, rich with green growing things luscious figs and grapes and oranges, and other transplantings from Catalonia, Castile and Old Mexico. Then, upon Just such a quiet, peaceful noonday as this, Padre Anselmo and Padre Miguel might have been sitting on this selfsame old bench, looking across the luxuriant greenness to where the brown arches merged into the summer brown of that selfsame hill beyond, against the same soft bine sky. The hill and the sky remain unchanged now, but the arches are crumbling and the padres are dust. We bade farewell to San Juan Capistrano and took the carving road again. A great brown hill sloped down to meet an unbelievable bine ocean, and from here on the sea was scarcely once ont of sight "Truly, I said, drinking deep of that beauty of color and contour, this Is a picture country, If there ever was ot half-doze-n the-road- , k, d, . one I Those stretches along the water, down close to the sand where the ice plant grew, were a delight After long miles marked off by the picturesque bells, we passed San Onofre canyon and San Onofre creek opening Into the sea, the canyon widening to hold as magnificent a grove of sycamores as there Is In southern California. We climbed the scarred and picturesque heights where the Torrey pines crouch In the wind like giant bodies with craven spirits. , From this commanding vantage point we looked across the valley away from the sea, where colors of vegetation and colors of soil mingled In singularly rich va' . riety. And at last we saw the city of our destination shining ahead In the afternoon light, a white city, like Cadis, overlooking the sea. A threat usually la the bark at n. |