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Show ' A , 'rt: ft Rapid Rise of United States as a Naval Power WASHINGTON. The rapid rise of the United Stales us H Mtl v;i I power during the past two years is graphically demons! rated in figures compiled Y the ii. ivy department's ollico of nfival intelligence. The I'nitetl Stales, mm closely pressed by I'' ranee in J 01 ( lor its place as third naval power in the world, is now second only to Great Uritain and is pushing to completion a building program that will make the American navy a formidable contender con-tender for first naval honors. A little more than two years ago, the figures show, Germany, then second sec-ond naval power, boas' od more than 100 more ships of all classes than the United Slates, with a total tonnage exceeding that of the American navy oy icany jiio.ihio tons. Great Hriiain's fleet at that time numbered a total of f'.SO ships, aggregating 2,:i7ri,.r(i4 tons, as compared with Germany's 202 ships and l,01.S,2-;0 Ions and the United Slate's HI! ships and 800,017 tons. The completion of all vessels now building and projected will add 21!) ships totaling HOI), 000 tons to the I'.ritish navy, as compared with 1510 ships and J.l Ki.ItS!) tons for the United Stales. 24 ships and 1(17,200 tons for Japan, and l.'t ships and 00,1)00 tons for Germany, according to the most authentic figures available at the navy department. The completion of the present building programs, a matter of about three years, will find the chief naval powers of the world with the following relative rela-tive strengilrs: Great Britain, 0.1.1 ships aggregating 2,772,512 tons; United States, 008 ships totaling 2,117,922 tons; Japan. 170 ships, 785,23!) tons; France, 2.1,'S ships, 710,237 tons, and Germany, 643 ships measuring 923,437 tons. U. S. Army Lists Emphasize "What's in a Name?" THI3 bureau of war risk insurance has compiled a statement showing that there were 53.200 Johnsons in the army, 51,9.10 Smiths, 49,000 Williams, 48,000 Browns, 28,000 Jones, 22,000 Andersons, and 18,500 Walkers. Of the Johnsons there were 2,133 with the first name John and 2.0G2 answering to William. Of the Smiths, 3,412 were Johns and 2,025 Williams, with 1,200 of thetn using the buttling title of "E. .Smith." Twenty-three men in the service carry the famous name of "Robert E. I. re," who have no middle name, using merely the Initial "E." Of "George Washingtons" there are 123, and there are six with the modest name of "Gen-. "Gen-. eral Washington," 47 "John Quincy EH-QHH34H3-t JOHNSOrl TO si V-iC' ' ' LOOKUP -Ar)' "-VrTVi ,VVTHERE ARE J 'AS. W,H53.200 ofXfl Adams" and five "Abraham Lincolns." Every prominent man has his many namesakes in the bureau files. General Grant, General Wellington, General Pickett, General Jackson, Napoleon Bonaparte, and other famous war figures are all there, although their rank in the world war was that of private. Localities sometimes run to similarity in names. There were 89 Porto Ricans in the army named Rodriguez. There were but seven first names--" Domingo, Francisco, Jo'se, Juan, Ramon, Tomas and Antonio. The most unusual names include these: Isaac Pidnot Butcher, the mystery of the bureau. 1 Asad Experience Wilson, Van Hook, N. V. Mih Gosh, 220 Halsted street. Chicago, 111. Green Horn, Statesboro, Ga. , . " Velvet Couch, Briukiey, Ark. Will Swindle. Cenf- Tex" Paris (Ireen, Huntington, W. Va. . ; iSTaughter Bugg, Oscar Tarbin. La. - - Chocolate Candy Clark. Prescott, Ark. Harry Cries-for-rib, White Eagle, Okla. Owen Money, Middlcsborn, Ky. Willie Darling, Washington, ft. C. Toy Brush, Kenton. Teun. No Civilian Successor to "Stars and Stripes" AMIOMORIAL to congress from Harold W. Ross, former managing editor of the Stars and Stripes, has been referred to the committee on military affairs. It says, among other things: 8ACK WNEMnV: ' ' Vs AJ J "In behalf of the six soldiers who made up the editorial council of the Stars and Stripes, end expressing Ihe unanimous and often-voiced sentiment of all men who, from first to last, wrote the text and drew the pictures of that weekly journal of the American expeditionary forces, I respectfully urge that the right to use its name as the title of a publication be reserved by law as tiie property of the United States army, to be used by that army if and whenever the need of the nation calls for another such expedition as gave birth to the Stars and Stripes. "The official publication of the American expeditionary forces, which was born in France, February S, 1918. published its final number in Paris on June 13, 191'.), a fortnight before the signing of the treaty at Versailles. Its columns announced then what several earlier issues had forecast, that the Stars and Stripes: was being hauled down to be folded and put away beyond reach of any trafficker in the publication market. Many proposals to continue it into civilian lift proposals worthy and unworthy, from big men and little wore, made to its editors ami by them rejected. This rejection had the hearty and oxplieii support of the secretary of war and of the commander in chief of the AmeriCm expeditionary forces," fso Dangsr f'ow of Extinction of American Bison PROVISION is made in the current agricultural appropriation act for th. secretary of agriculture to give buffalo to municipalities and public institutions insti-tutions from any surplus which may exist in the herds now under the conirol of I lie department of agriculture. This provision is made because of Ihe surplus sur-plus of bulls in some of Ihe department of agriculture's buffalo herds, particularly particu-larly tlie one in the Wh-hiia National forest and (hime rn's.-rve. in Oklahoma, Okla-homa, ami because the department ia Hearing the realization of the first stage in tlie piv-vrvalion "f t he species spe-cies the acquisition of at least 1,000 head of buffalo by the government. There are approxima i ely 7."0 buffalo in Noriii Atn-ricii. ' ';mtiil:i has .TV,, I'LL LOOK ," -V; V " Out for. Vt something over "..'itio and the total number in the I.'nilcd Stales is more thnu :;,O0O. This is about seven limes the number in the X'nil-il Slates ; i 1SV), when the lirst buffalo cen!i was taken. Individuals in the I'liileil Slates own Ii pprox iina I ey 2.0(10 of the total number in Ibis country. Then- are oighl government, herds, six of which are under the control of the department of agt mull ure. The largest herd in this country is in ch'irgu of the iulerior depn rt tnait and is located in Ihe Yellowstone National park, where ihi re art; about .10 bisons. The Sn ; I iisotra n inslilulion now has a herd of IS al the National Zoological park, Washington, I). ' '. The lirst herd of buffalo und T the department )" a"ricti!l lire was established estab-lished in 1000 on the Wichita preserve. The 11 animals have now increased to more than 100 animals. |
