Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1919 — WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS

Inventor Lifts Terrors of the Fog From Harbors . * . . .. ' ~.• 1 - , W ASTITNGTON. —Ocean fog tins been tamed-by the navy, so that It will no longer be necessary for .. battleships and liners to lie outside harbors waiim- a ehttnee er.-«tdn when the weather lightens. In a e-nH-aet -tened with Earl Hanson, a young inventor

Of Los Angeles, the navy department • took lh/first_step to makeTO-CClgh*- 0 new device to control vessels In a. fog■vmtside' harbors, Tests will 6e made at once at the mivtti base til New l,ondon~iitid„ liitd!n Ambrose channel in New York liarb'or.By the use of the invention jn_ coumM-tion with the radio compass, which the navy has now perfected, delay.iu ocean travel due t<<weather is to be eliminated. The radio compass

brings.nd shipping "in sight of land" and the new ihalee, like a friendly hand, rea< lies out and takes the bi.c--i ships through the most tortuous clainnels s:.f» ;v ; : ; @ y . j , r The new device is a simple-one.' A cable is hd<l in the center of the ship channel/ Through it Is sent an electric current of low frequency, which through the listening devices on board ship gives off a- sound of certain pitch that cannot be mistaken for any other sound. The ship hugs the cable from harbor line to the dock. <>n the bridge and in the captain's cabin listening devices like‘telephone receivers tire placed and attached by wires to the hull of the ship. The ship follows the jcour.se of the cable. . 4

Boys’ Working Reserve Proves aTireat Success FEW things that came out of-fhv war have been of greater significance than the benefits derived from the United States 'Boys’ Working reserve/ I hough we are still too close to'the movement to appreciate its - results., Back in the

—early summer-of 1!*1~ I’residm.it WHsmgjuo roTev- "1 bodii‘d..bovs of the laud to turn In - hordes to Uu^-fapms-tmd-uttrke certain in this, great nation/' l . The result was that "our second line-of defense." as Mr. Ib-over tir-t ""cuTleT H 7 TH e Boys' Working reserve, was. fornietl- Inhere was a spontaneous rcs|M>nse in every state, ninny schools and other organizations under-

—taking the work of pdacTfig - nioiisa'nds of boys who went out to help the'farmers with their work. In 191 b this army of boy> from sixteen to twetuy-one years old was more than 2<>0,000 in the United States. ' Of these 250XW no less than 21.000 were from the high schools of Illinois. So a glance at the Illinois report wilt give at? idea of the results in the whole country. ■ • ; ? _ ' —— r The Illinois .boys produced crops worth 523,0<H>.000. and earned for themselves irrX'odjlOd; Less than 1 per cent of the boys have prov'ed unworthy of the opportunity given them. About the same proportion of farmers proved unworthy of having a good boy sent them. v . The boys made the farmers open their eyes, and in a few weeks the skeptical farmer was saying: "Send me more boys; the boys are certainly making good." -Il yvtisn’t long.until there were boys scattered here and there bv the thousands. This meant much to 'he farmers, for there was an average ; of one worker/roll) every farm in service, and the boys took their places. - T»"i ch ■■vs bear witness- that the effect upon the boys’ was exceedingly beneficial in all ways. . . .

“Buck Privates” Would Have “Dugouts” Everywhere IN THE long night warc)ie<'<m the tiring line or in hospitals or rest billets, ■ot.r fighting men found that tempos failed to fugit with its customary alacrity They y.-i.rmm for iiiniisi'iiii'iiL—To be snre,—there vVere various patriotic organizatMfffc catering to the

social instinct, but somehow they did not satisfy. So one day there sprang into being' the Buck Private society. Its success was instantaneous. Originally organized in the Sixth United States field artillery of the First division, which artillery regime i it, by the ivay, fired the first American shot in the war, the Buck I’risoon "numbered thou~ sands of iheihbers in every branch ol the service. 'There was no formality

of meT’iicn. The only qualification was that you had to be an overseas buck privntt . . . ’ I:: order that the society may become a permanent institution the charter members. now discharged, are —beg in ni n g—ft cat■i p■ ■ i gn. for organization. The origin;. I overseas organizer. Private Paul F. Collins, Battery Ik Sixth field art, • ■:>. ?.«•» in Lus Angeles. ■ He is president and chief buck private. Rut one of his comrades. First Sergeant Edward M. McGuire, opened Headquarters the oilier daj 1 in Chicago aS national field representative. "The Buck Privates' society -in no- way vmUl+efs—with the American Sergeant McGuire said. “In fact. I jnight say one of ifs aims is that of C' -.qu-ration with the legion. There is no question .that it will'be the-means of strenmix iiing that body. We hope to establish a dugout in Chicago with a ■ member'lii] of at least 507000 men.” As its ’■ lai form the.society has adopted these planks: Broader educational work; cleaner politics: compulsory schooling for all boys under sixteen it eT'lvr to make-bigger ami Fetter Americans, and active study of .conditions in industry, commerce and labor. _ • .u?

Women as Special Agents Under Food Control Act OFFICIAJ. consideration is to be given the appointment of women as special agents for ;he department of justice jn the enforcement of the . food control act. It.lufs been <;dd informally that m recommendation will be

made to name 1 ' women among the a gents necessary to enforcement of thisv new legislation. This recoin-’ mendation will be placed before Frank -Earke: ciitef of the bureau of iiiXesilgallons of the department of Justice. t —of justice lias employed women ag'-nts previously. *• A number of them did spy work jn this country during the war. They . were in many of the larger the country —New York,

Boston, Chicago? Baltimore and others. “I think women .would be most valuable as agents in the enforcement of 1 this profiteer act, not, only for clothing overcharges, but for food as well." said one of the officials of jhe department of justice. “Women have been the purchasers of these commodities for years and they ought to make good detectives of profiteers.” Housewives who have long cherished the desirejio get legal action against the retailer who has taken too much fot-ilftie Johnny s shoes or the family beefsteak may yet have the gratification of pouring their woes into tfie ear of a- feminine department of justice agent. Jt will be interesting to watch the effect on clothing and f6od prices should women agents be named. As the food administration acts during the war educated the women of the country, this new bill may give them additional insight Into themiatter of buying and selling In