Show Hund hundreds keds of z millions saved war unscrambling almost finished technical committee will be dissolved FROM POWER TO CASTOR oil incidentally the crocodiles adjusted the great ke kansas R rabbit able it med meat claim along with S sortie awe othera other washington after assisting 1 ID mv na ing the country countr several millions millio Ea of doll dol lais 11 thigh adjusting more mom than 24 war mar contracts which were abrupt ly terminated by the armistice til fit technical ad advisory tsoy committee ot of the war claims board of the war depart ment beut is about to be dissolved accord ing to campbell scott who organized the committee under the direction d thin or of benedict crowell assistant si secretary of war and director of munitions the committee which was mes composed of ex ports in practically I 1 ly every branch of engineering and was wa organized organised sed to meet the critical situ situa thin which developed as soon as th war claims board attempted to etc settle the 0 contracts in existence at it tin close of th the me war the grea greater er number of these con coal tracts involved ii questions scions of a highly technical nature and it was use to settle these that the committee wai n organized many of the contracts at to i a evolved had bad been let I 1 on a basis awal of the war mar lasting four or five file y yeara car r more the ait majority lied had been placed during uia the last a six months ot of the con fact let A an idea of their S sim scope im Is oh 11 bawd nh when it Is understood that there were war more than 20 contractor 4 who in turn had let sub contracts ty to more than ono others rn in tier to tn hes have fin finished thed the war nor contracts tor for munitions and ad supplies up ot at every con im ret cef fable cable nature which chich were in exit exist benm on armistice do day would have meant the fling up of practically 60 per cent cut of the manufacturing re ounces of this country an outstanding feature pf af the great ok of if the investigations which shill were care completed by the technical committee to Is the fact contrary to general belief mo more e than 89 99 per cent of the condrac dign tora for s were ere found to be alv honest in their dealings nith uncle sam we found that the great majority of tile the contractors silt chairman scott I 1 ie elter dav had undertaken their work milli the prime price idea of assisting their country in a time of peril while chev did not or target forget that b 1 Is business abric of the them might light have halt bad wall much more am money thin ther dil did of course a it lg Is true that filet the small minority took the viewpoint that tin the government had made ad fit the war and therefore should be made to pay for it hut or when ullon it came to adjusting their claims chimi even these arre round found to he e fair and reasonable indicative of he spirit which or pro ailed 0 only ly 20 out of 24 contract oM have on an prolog to the court of 1 el elmas claims mas from the awards made to them this all the painstaking work done or he tta tile technical committee of the war he claims board claims big and little some of the claims will adjusted isted were of an I 1 extraordinary trad wory nature fall nay hey ranged from the adjustment of tte fhe great power panel contracts in tire the puts pitts uh burgh district which involved 1900 horse power to the ro re g ment meat of the meat industry Indu ir which lied had sprung spring up in 1 in the castor oil cent contracts in acts the oil to be used tor for liberty motor inie come up rip before tile the technical the tact fact that the tha entire amount of more than 3 old worth of war our contract Is waa settled fit al 32 12 per of their total low fae face value home that real americanism per vadi tho h in industries Indu we s or of this country it A Is the biggest job of arbitration bitti i vh he world be baa aser aier knees 1 Is tile y in which a prominent member club a 0 he administration ti character led th fit work vf 1 unscrambling the war ono one of the must most highly technical doers and ad 1 one I which deep W kimt ion ana a that affecting idle 1 power 1 id of t the he pittsburgh ller 1 llila his it district brict if the chief p prod it acta CO or of which b feie me no millions find and blebel act of eiery kind ad was mas tied up in go government eminent nork during th tin test dinst bear ear of lz the war werl war ailt to plants eilum thousands ads of new em all ru huldd and as soon a ns if alie contracts vier flere well sell under model way may a serious I 1 power shortage developed n 0 only Y 4 40 0 per der cent ot of I 1 the necessary pow poll or er was vue available ind find the one companies n were forced to arrange their shops shape so that chev could use th poll power a in TI tins cut do down oil tile the possible output peati practically ay 60 per cent and the go gov eminent immediately undertook to pro pr ride file the additional power needed co con ir tracts were made with three compa chourp ales Is to supply pilly 90 kli kilowatt oatt hours a of af electric power old which c h at thi th ordinary flow bew bork ork rate won would 1 d he worth about ate QUO this to e art an were increase of if 1900 horse home power and the government a agreed I 1 to assist t in financing the construct construction of the a new a power pence plants when the armistice fallen came in these plants were mere not completed and there mas a clause in the contracts contract whereby the go government smaller atleed to use p pow mv or er tor for a certain length of time in ad the cent contracts cis bound the gue gov 7 eiro eminent vent to pay it ita proportion of tile cost of tile the plants on a basis of their value three y years after the signing or of peace in settling these p pr power r I 1 con 11 tracts all these thee factors factor had to be con call tile the tell technical ml I sidled the 1 which aich was nag co considered dered fair to all 11 con can earned rabbit meat profile kroblen 0 I 1 in contrast to the potter never contracts was the settlement of the rabbit meet meat clioma these arose from an excess of f patriotism and ft A ere am not covered ill bi co hen food corier conservation ill zhen n was as being advertised as a g generally 1 I ries eally aas espiry ry a public spirited ell citizen of f hut chinon challon kon co re received leed ID forma firm that the me war department would world be glad to obtain a supply of rabbit meat for the men in training camps history does not state just where the hutchinson man alit obtained a load tass th 1 far mation but he male made all speed for till this city ty and d here obtained the financial backlog backing he needed shortly afler oCt erward mard there them began a abol wholesale le slam slaughter luter of rabbits 1 in the vicinity of hutchinson 1 aan 11 three carloads of ammunition aniced there and me was distributed to nil all those who mho agreed to procure A packing plant was mas erected and there ensued a detract deluge of rabbits of all kinds fro from n tile the domesticated belelo iw hares to tho fleet tooted footed jackrabbits jack rabbits of tile the As soon us me a carload of cold str stor age meat was jadv it was shipped to a nearby near by training comp camp to the dismay ill ormy of the rabbit roan man the q atia refused to accept it holding that it was nt na an article of issue one as g government lommori regulations have it I 1 it then than developed that the war mur department part ment merd could not at use e tile the rabbit melt ct and the carload was vas shipped to this fins city the mark markets st I 1 here lem refused to ab aba arb rb it aal ml in despair it w as ial shipped to cog england nil the fabir impression be being g that the british were more quite hun gry enough b bv that time to han sus aws rabbit however hanover fate intervened the hip aus set on fire by shells from a german U boat and the rabbit meat ma v as entirely deat destroy md ed when abe war mile ended tier tl ere were nten more th than rabbit carcasses in storage th these were finally sold old as fertilizer 1 to the in farmers 1 in till the vl 11 anty ot of H a tile the promoters promote ot of the he abbl meet meat dwar war baby appeal nor fl ad to tile the war claims board and the technical committee pad pa d on their claim A settlement resulted which the claimant accepted as satisfactory despite tile the fact act that it depre represented an onla ll 11 a small f fi action betm of if the amount C claimed aimed A an interesting claim dd advised on b bv G the a t technical e committee was waa that arl aris ing g from the gnp unprecedented co dented demand for castor oil 11 which the liberty motors developed cast cantor oil in was mas then the only oil all thee motors could use and when nhen it was no decided to t produce liberty motors for by the I 1 tens of thousands nil the goi ament set out procuring an aa adequate supply of this lubricant all aft the castor oil it beans in the world would no not 1 b have ave me made it a a sufficient quantity of oil it e even if tile the allied airala airplanes I 1 Is had ili not needed their supply the gave govern a I 1 sent cut out at scouts on all over mor the coriel foriel lva south to induce the farmers e to p plant act castor atis of b beans and oil more than d agri agriculturists jurists put 1 in crops probably the greatest castor st oil ell fier acreage mago lit a the world we was I 1 in I 1 the he oo 00 southern at states a tea during that period perit t the he seed being supplied by the he de pa of agriculture former farmers plowed up other crops to put in castor oil beans and the goll government goern ment did everything possible to a tr tra supply of castor oil in was cases cabes men were even exempted from military am benlee ace to grow th the blame beant because a the need led me was so vital however the there followed ft sad d da awak A saing the liver bean vines in grew I 11 luxuriantly I theo w h ant nit there was less than one bean pod dod per plant and there them was practically en ay I 1 no an crop investigation showed that if t u chile hill the seed b h id d been 8 successfully imported the small I insect act which forrill for fertilizes till the hid bid been forgotten As the result of at this nine futile carter oil 11 culture there was lodged with the war ca has board claims aggregating several arul millions of dollars and additional claims eftim are still coming 1 in so tar far I 1 no boat basis ot of settlement ba has been or ar rived at but the former farmers as seem satisfied its that tha will III get a square if tere deal the he men who did it other claims claim of 0 all 11 made kinds were adjusted through the advice of the technical committee slid and it Is stated rated that not of more am the than 1 per cent mt of the 3 worth tb of claims went ard through without change although a doy settlement was reached in all but a score core of cases among the experts prominently concerned la in this work mark were campbell scott of new york chairman of if the committee W D emd who he handled the be p power and d me chaa ici contracts F most P goodrich of new yolk who abe placed valuations on plants and structures built for war nor c contracts I 1 or I 1 acts colonel frank B malt hv be of philadelphia who acted as expert on 03 construction old and contracts inching hing cli civil engh arthur W hlson of new york who mile ed on cher chemical nerl and reet metallurgical fille 1 I 1 contracts reed fred E F rogers of now new york whose work mark concerned m achini cat am abitt a machina equipment ind and george if frank forter of III minneapolis poll 11 who investigated chemical ad it explosive contra oia all told there u were ere nearly a score of the lead lending ng engineers and industrial experts of the country who of spent practically a sear of th their ir time in assisting the war claims board in clow clos lug ing up it its contracts wt at |