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Show i i i 4 IPEIMJNA GOOD A STA1BAI3 3AK11! For Ordinary Crip; All Catarrhal For Conditions; For Prevention of Coldx An Excellent Remedy MILEAGE OF CONCRETE ROADS For The Convalescent; For That Irregular Appetite; For Wtokened Digestion. Growth in Popularity Indicated by Rapid Incraaka In Racant Yaara in Unitad States. I i i Ever-Ready-to-Ta- ke The mileage of concrete pavements In the United Statea baa lqcrepaed and It la likely to contlnuo Cpidly, according to a new bulla tin of the United Statea department of agriculture. Thla bulletin givea the estimated amount of 'concrete pavement In the United Statea in 1914 r m. jISSdow 'flhll Ae aa49.t00.000 square yardcr-t- o lP99-4- t was only 364,000 aquare yarda. The principal advantage of concrete pavements which have led to thla in crease In popularity are said to bei .. 1. Durability under ordinary traffic -- ill! L mill TOR OLD AND YOUNG Tatt's UvarPffla acta kbidlronthe SeHcxts icadt r leans aid age, tks Aha lataaMS mas iIM1 TTf f 5 tva toaa sad etrancth ta tbs . kawtla, kldaera sad bladder. -- 1 1 s ; - I I 'I wide-eyee ever-smilin- years old g Jersey State Road, Bituminous case small excontains a remarkable current. of hibition prices Charted on cards are the market price movements for seven years, week bya week, of important For example, the butter card shows a welt defined curve tor each of the seven yeara indicatwheh buting the weeks ter Is high and when low. As these curves closely It parallel, a glance at most the Is shows when advantageous time for buying butter In quantity and storing it So systematized has the method of securing and charting this Information become that It requires little labor and its cost, asby comparison with the results achieved In low. in Is remarkably Intelligent buying. sisting Other charts, corrected dally, keep the bureau Informed as to the amount of stocks on hand In every detail, not only at the storehouses but on the ships as well. Since the navy through Its extensive wireless system is in constant communication with every ship afloat, the task of keeping up these charts is not so difficult as it seema Or the bunch of cards making up a ship's company also is producible on the Instant Machines have reduced the amount of work la the accounting section more then 60 per cent There are refinements of cost keeping in a military establishment that are not known In a private establishment for all expenditures must conform to some specific item of an appropriation bill, and appropriations tor the naval establishment are found in three different appropriaA p p r f I i V i ; ; Increases Farm Value. The better the roads to a farmer's residence, the closer it brings his farm to town, thereby increasing the value of the farm. 4 Isolated Town. If the roads around a town are bad It might aa well be on an Island. . t t, 1 v I 1 years oPsee duty. And thus with all records No effort has been spared to reduce them all to the simplest and most graphic form. The messenger, force was ' reorganized and a squad told off to act as express messengers. This Insures speed In the movement of papers from desk to desk and to the secretary's office No paper remains more than 5 minutes awaiting transmission. ue of the very first things Paymaster General - card-filin- g eta-ple- s p ! gested. officer, who. Just communicating. Macadam. The paymaster generals office Is the end one In Justified, although It Is possible that a suite of live room. Across the hall are seven future Investigation may change the more rooma In the navy annex building, In a street situation In this respect In the pree-n- t near by, are some more offices of the bureau. state of road science, however. It When Paymaster General McGowan took over the seems that where traffic conditions job he inaugurated at once a clean-ucampaign, are such that a bituminous surface Down from the walls came the dusty old pictures. on a concrete road Is practicable a Bookcases and file cases went out Current and bituminous-surfac- e macadam road absolutely necessary bureau files went Into one would he equally practicable andeqf room In a set of ateel vertical containers, for talnly cheaper. Where trafflo la too general purposes, and In the purchasing end, heavy for macadam road the bitu- across the hall, they likewise were reduced. minous surface Is likely to give way .Private libraries also went out Upstairs the and the uneven manner In which It navy department maintains a splendid naval lifalls tends to produce excessive wear brary, and this la available for all purposes. on portions of the concrete. "Abolish roll-todesks," was the word. Where flat-toFor a successful concrete road, harddesks were not available the department ness, toughness and uniformity are carpenters took off the roll tops. Since then the most essential qualities. These standard office furniture baa been adopted for can be secured to a great extent by the entire bureau. care In the selection of the constltu All Intercommunicating doors In the suites nt materials and the proportions In were taken off the hinges. Walls were painted which they ire mixed. Sample spec! in light colors. Then the chief of each room or flcatlons are Included in the bulletin. division chief was required to put hla desk la No. 349, "Portland Cement Concrete the middle of the room with his force grouped Pavements for Country Roads." about him. Now the paymaster general can These specifications are believed to stand In his room and look down the line and typify the best engineering practice see exactly what is going on. as It has been developed up to this But that Isnt exactly the point The object time. They cover such points as ma- Is not to keep an eye on the people so much as terials, grading, subgrade and con It Is to convey the idea of unity. The division etructlon. chief who, sequestered in his own little nest might be tempted to write a letter to the chief next door, doesnt do It under these conditions. Good Roade Appreciated. "Motor cars, said Mr. Chuggtns, He says, "Say, BUI, how about so and so?" or - '"have done more than anythtng else goes over and discusses It at close range. to make people appreciate good . Stationery in use was reduced to the fewest J possible simple hinds. , Toads." On a shelf handy- - to the paymaster general's "But your machine la constantly hands is a book some 14 Inches long by It Inches breaking down, regardless of the wide. In It Is all the Information that once ocroad." "Yes. But its a great comfort not cupied a hlg flleroom. This Information pertains to have to climb around In a mud-hol- e to the present duty and availability for sea or shore duty, as the case may be, of all of the 230 while I am fixing It" officers making up the pay corps. The pages of the book are faced with transFarmer Saves His Horses. In considering roads, remember that parent celluloid. When a pay officer is sent on a . so town looks so good to the farmer cruise his name and the essential date are Inthat he will kill his horse to get there. scribed on a typewritten slip and Inserted at the bottom of the section devoted to pay officers on sea duty. Place by place the slip moves np auI Improve Rural Conditions. Good roads will Improve every contomatically, and in this way one may observe dition of rural life; and they will at a glance who is due tor shore duty and who cost you no more than poor roads are for sea duty as, under the law, for every two .years of shore duty a pav officer must take three costing you now. li most automatically and he does not look It holds the rank anl draws the pay of a rear admiral, he being paymaster general of the navy and chief of the bureau. Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan he is to outsiders. Mr. McGowan is the form of address he Insists upon within the bureau. But In the navy generally, by all ranks and all grades, he la dubbed, behind his back of course, Bammy McGowan. In the 14 months he has been paymaster general hq, has made over his bureau. What la more, be has secured the hearty and enthusiastic support of the entire .force, That, to anyone who knows how any government organization Is wedded to precedent, la amazing. 8omewhat given to the making of epigrams In his Instructions, oral and written. Admiral McGowan has uttered two that give a hint of the predominating Ideas behind his reforma "Make It bureau with a small b and navy with a big N, is one, and "Remember that the stores exist for the fleet, not the fleet for the stores." The paymaster general and his bureau of supplies and accounts have their offices In the great pile known as the state, war and navy building, on Pennsylvania avenue, flanking the White House on the west When the building was erected some forty years ago It was the largest office building In the world. Each corridor In It has the appearance of a battalion of barrooms, for each of the many corridor doors has Its middle masked by a shutter door. The rooms are all Interforty-fiv- I The selection of the time for restocking thus Is al- boyish-lookin- two-third- New NAVYmiMW$ - McGowan did was to put a stop to promiscuous The true bureaucrat dearly loves to write letters. He thinks he is at his best when he Is writing letters for the chief to sign, division heads dictating many of the letters which take the bureau chiefs signature. It gratifies the soul of the bureaucrat to grow arrogant and sarcastic in such dictation. Nothing of that sort Is tolerated by Admiral McGowan. He Insisted that letter writing be reduced to a minimum and that nothing unkind or contentious be put Into a letter, especially to another bureau. After his first general remarks on the subject he followed It up with an "Intrabureau order," Intrabureau orders being one of his methods of reaching the personnel of his organization. But the striking changes In the service have been worked Jn the detail of the machinery first of accounting and then of supplying. Aboard each one of Uncle Sams fighting craft Is a pay officer, the ships business manager. Each ship has a base or home station at some navy yard. At each navy yard Is a storehouse, presided over by a pay officer. It la the business of this storehouse to provide for the ships attached to It Then there are fuel stations coal and oil also under jurisdiction of the pay corps, for the pay corps buys everything, save arms and ammunition, needed by the ships and their personnel. At present there are In the custody of the storekeepers general supplies worth 122.000,000, exelusive of fuel; 34,000,000 worth of clothing, and 33,000,000 worth of provisions. The problem is not alone to supply Immediate needs, but to be ready to supply emergency aeeda Just as an army moves on its belly, so is a navy department on Its supplies. When a portion of the fleet was dispatched the other day to Santo Domingo It required a lot of things not ordinarily carried. It got away promptly because those particular things were forthcoming without letter writing. - delay. Always the bureau Is In the market buying In huge quantities on bids and under rigid; specifications. for delivery at the most advantageous points. Two simple record books contain all the data on current bids which have been opened, and these are always open to public Inspection. But the characteristic of the purchasing system Is the simple and graphic methods used In keeping Information up to date on existing stocks of fuel and supplies and on current prices. Much of this Information is reduced to charts on sectional paper. Thus simple chart tells la figures and lines up to within 13 hours the. exact quantity of coal and fuel on hand at any supply station, and another gives the same Information aa to the amount on board any ship of the navy." aecpMhave it know ii ir good result ,nd doat want Swamp-Roo- t, it 'arATZ, VAR Am) U the bureau of supplies and accounts of the United States navy at Washington some surprising changes have been made In the past year in methods of doing business. The bureau la the business office of the navy. Also It Is the butcher, the baker, the banker, the tailor and the grocer of the navy. It pays out some 3146,000,000 a year. It saves Jack's money f6r him and the savings bank It operates has deposits kggregating 1263,000. It operates two great clothing factories, one at Brooklyn and the other at Charleston, S. C. In another aspect it is one of the biggest purchasing agencies In the country. Bo remarkable have been Its achievements In the twelvemonth that many requests have come to it recently from business establishments, public and private, for Information as to Its new methods. The spirit behind the change is that of a - t esa maka Kilmers N weak ataauch. y0U no mlstqka by using Dr the great kidney remedy. At druggists In fifty cent and dollar sixes. Sample siae bottle by Par. cel Post, alao pamphlet telling you about Address Dr. Kilmer A Co., Bingham ton, N. T., and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper. you smooth, even surface offering little resistance. S. Absence of dust and ease with which it may be cleaned. 4. Comparatively small cost of maintenance until renewals are necessary. 8. Availability aa a baae for another type of surface If desirable. . Attractive appearance. In commenting upon these advan- tages the bulletin states that the dur- ability of concrete roads has not yet been proved by actual practice, be cause there are no very old pave-ments aa yet In existence, but from the condition of those which have un- dergone several years service it seems probable that they will be found to wear well . ' The disadvantages of concrete as m road surface are; ; 1. Its noise under horse traffic. 3. The wearing of the necessary joints In the pavement, and the tendency to crack, with Its consequent rapid deterioration, 3. The difficulty of repairs when these become necessary. In the past efforts have frequently been made to overcome these objections to a certain degree by covering the concrete pavement with a bituminous wearing surface. At the present time, the specialists In the department hold that this cannot be economically 3, A . KIDNEY- TROUBLE conditions. v child .It isnt always the clock with the loudest tick that keeps the best time. When all others fall to please Try Denison Goffeejfe Its well to appreciate the good things of life, but dont be a good thing. To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach. Ad. If a hostess did not go to extra trouble mighty few people would stay to dinner. The man who does hla best will hold, his job longer than the man who could do better but doesn't. , Tht Only Way. "So you are saving money? "My, yea! Im buying less than I cant afford than ever before." Pleasant Work. yes hov a foine job, eh?" "Sure I half! I was chief designer in a pretzel factory!" So Running Wild. "Papa, whai is meant by the call of the wild? " Honk-honk- ! The First Step. I'd like to meet a few lively girl What would you suggest?" "Invest 36,000 in a roadster." Unpopular. Higgins doesnt ceem to have many friends." He hasnt. Last Saturday be had three tickets to the football game, and he couldnt get anyone to go tion acta with him." Roughly speaking, 3,000,000 separate accounts must be kept properly to meet the requirements Hie Share. of the law and to furnish the Information aa to was around again yester"Jiggers a needed. costs, gross snd detailed, Imagine day collecting money for. his tfet ledger with 3,000,000 accounts! Here the cards and mechanism have come In to charity." , Huh! I wonder if he ever conthe extent that halt the number of men needed 15 months sgo are now required to do the work. tributes anything himself?" In addition a great deal of new work has been "Oh, yes; he furnishes tha fountain taken on. pen for the rest of ua to write check The use of new card punching machines is re- with." sponsible for the larger economies. The machine Is so arranged that It sorts the Old Songs. Don't you wish the good old songs punched cards, arranges them in proper groups, ascertains the totals of the figures indicated by could be heard again?" the punched holes and prints on a sheet the Such a thing would be Impossible. results. It Is accounting reduced to mechanism. With Zeppelins and submarines everyOf course the usual machines, such as adding where, Imagine anybody trying to machines and the like, are part of the equipment arouse joyous enthusiasm by singing In fact the whole trend of the reforms in this Balloon, Boys,' or Sailing Up in section has been to reduce everything to Over the Bounding Main." mechanical basis. The result is great economics in operation. creased efficiency, increased accuracy and Increased speed. To the casual observer the striking thing is the disappearance of books. Few indeed are the books In sight remarkably slim the files. In other words, the accountancy system has been reduced to the simplest dimensions. Ask any man, officer or civilian. In the establishment how the whole, organization has been made over In such a time, and he Instantly will tell you that Sammy McGowan did it And then he will grow confidential and tell you what he esteems is the secret of the whole accomplishment, the spirit that McGowan has put into his entire force. We dont tolerate grouches," your informant will say. "We all belong to the Dont Worry club and McGowan is Its president" Another thing this paymaster general has done is to establish In Washington, with the approval of the secretary of the navy, a school for navy pay officers. These officers are appointed from civil life on a competitive examination. They go Into the service equipped with a good academic education, but with no knowledge of the navy Henc the new service i!t8u Deed school, has in this years class 15 officers who are being trained In their newyoung profession. Admiral McGowan himself is a civilian training. When he secured product of his ' t. , C Carolina newspaper man who had worked his wsy through college and law school by running a brick yard and serving as a ticket agent at a hn.WhVUtl0 M,b ther tot executive! vhi The fact that he has tre,t most spent of his naval sjtjj & rr ,or "" r to , u When he left the Atlantic fleet Ur go ashore reneral M commanding officer Ad mlral Badger, said of him, "He has made ttrsr teet Bm0oUil Un the Ideal patcorps Make ithea holds up to his OureSU smooth running military machine Is A Powerful Physique Is a valuable asset, but Strength of body must be healthy, combined with active , nund,sjt make for succesa. It is well established that both ' body and brain are nourished and rebuilt daily from food each taking up the particular element required. Grape-Nut- s food made of wheat and malted barley, supplies all the rich nutriment of the grains, including the vital mineral elements necessary for budding stout bodies snd active brains. . 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