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Show "EYES FOR HAVY" ., FROMTHE PUBLIC CIVILIANS HAVI SLMT IN 6,000 GLAS8ES OF VARIOUS KINDS, BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. ! APPEAL TO PRIVATE OWNERS General Crozler on Age Limit Enlarge- ment of Selective Service Law LI- cense Required to Ship Goods ! Abroad by Parcel Post. I (From Commute en Publlo Information.) WaKhington. Over 6,000 glasses hove be'n received by the navy In response re-sponse to Its call through the newspapers news-papers for binoculars, spyglasses, telescopes, tel-escopes, sextants, and chronometers. There Is urgent need for many more. Heretofore the United States has been obliged to rely on foreign countries coun-tries for most of Its supply of such articles. ar-ticles. These channels of supply being be-ing closed, It has been necessary to appeal ap-peal to the patriotism of private owners own-ers for "eyes for the navy." All articles should bo tagged with name and address of the donor and sent to Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant as-sistant secretary of the nayy, care of Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. Those not suitable will be returned to lenders. Careful records will be kept of accepted glasses so they may, If possible, pos-sible, be returned at the termination of the war. As the government under the law cannot accept services or material without payment, $1 will be puld for each article accepted. Discussing enlargement of the age limit for selective military service, Provost Pro-vost Marshal General Crosier said: "A pronounced majority of the boards favor some enlargement, bnt there is great diversity of opinion as to the proper age limit. Nineteen and thirty-live are perhaps the limits most frequently suggested ; but aome recommend recom-mend forty or forty-five years as the upper limit. There is a distinctly stronger demand for raising the muxl-mum muxl-mum age than for lowering the minimum." mini-mum." General Crozler estimates that 1,389.-388 1,389.-388 acceptable single men would be made available by an Increase In the age limit to Include men up to forty-Bve forty-Bve years. The estimate places the number of acceptable single men between be-tween eighteen and twenty-one years at 1,546.283. The number of probably acceptable single men already registered, regis-tered, but not called. Is 1,321,845. According Ac-cording to these figures, should the age limit be enlarged to include men of from eighteen years to forty-five years, Inclusive, 4.28T.516 physically and oth-1 ' erwlse qualified unmarried men would be open for call to service. The war trade board Is calling attention at-tention to the fact that license Is required re-quired to ship abroad goods on the conserved list, even when sent in small quantities by parcel post In many cases this has been done by persons Ignorant Ig-norant of the president's- proclamation proclama-tion concerning exports, or who do not know of the many ar J3s which may be exported only under license. For violation a fine of not more than $10,000 or Imprisonment for not more than two years, or both, form the penally. pen-ally. Licenses may be applied for at the bureau of exports, Washington, D. C or any of Its branches which are located at Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nogales, El Paso, Eagle Pass, Oulveston, New Orleans, Or-leans, Mobile, Savannah. St. Louis, Cbl-i Cbl-i cogo, Boston and New York. ' A copy of a broadside forbidden In Germany has reached the committee on public Information. It Is a single sheet of foolscap size, printed on hots sides, and bears a coarsely executed woodcut representing a soldier In arms, a workman In a Mouse, and a woman nhovlug a rock off a precipice, beneath which Is seen the head and bust of the emperor, crowned and sccptered and mustached, looking up In terror at the fate Impending. The last puragntpn of the text Is as follows: ! Man of toll, awake from alumberl Reroanlie thy growing might. All the wheels will lose thrlr motion ) Without thy strong arm a devotion. Down with the war! Down with the government! gov-ernment! Peare! Freedom! H'ead! I |