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BILLION DOLLAR
NAVY. IN 1919
IS HOUSE PLAN
Appropriation Bill Provides
Everything Asked by Sec
retary Daniels
Wasltington, March B.—A naval
strength of 300,000 officers and men
is provided for in the naval ap
propriation bill authorizing the ex
penditure of approximately $1,040,-
000,000 during the next fiscal year,
rompleted by the House Committee
on Naval Affairs and to be reported
early next week.
The committee grants to the Navy
Department virtually all funds re
quested of Congress by Secretary
•Daniels last December, the total es
timates submitted having been sl,-
047,914,027. The bill as it now
stands carries less than the total
appropriations for naval purposes
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FRIDAY EVENING.
during the current year, but the
1918 appropriations were supple
mented materially by urgent defi
ciency bills.
Secretary Daniels Is authorized by
the bill to increase the enlisted
strength of the Navy from 87,000 to
180,000 men; the number of ap.
prentice seamen from 6000 to 24,000
men; the enlisted flying corps from
350 to 10,000 and the marine en
listed men from 30,000 to 50,000.
The Increased marine corps will
bring that body of the navy beyond
the strength of one division and the
appointment of an additional major
general is authorized by the com
mittee.
Major General George Barnett at
present is the only major general of
marines.
The committee provides $184,397,-
000 for increases in the navy, this
sum to be expended in the construc
tion of torpedoboats, destroyers, ar
mor and armament and ammunition.
This is in an increase of $10,000,000
over the big appropriations of last
year.
New batteries for ships are pro
vided $48,309,523, against only 52,-
201,000 carried for 1918; funds for
ammunition for vessels aggregating
$39,259,180, a purpose for which
nothing was carried in the 1918 bill,
and the ordnance and ordnance
stores appropriations total $24,194,-
045, an increase of $16,000,000 over
last year.
An appropriation of $50,000,000 is
carried for reserve ordnance sup
plies, an increase of $44,000,000.
FROM BASEBALL
By H. C. WITWER
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH COLLIER'S WEEKLY
On Board S. S.
Dear Joe: Where did I leave off?
Oh, yeh? Well, I went around to
the navy office, which was only five
flights up because that's as high as
the buildin' was. A guy in uneyform
behind a desk looks up at me as
friendly as if I was double pneu
monia. .
"I have come to fight for Uncle
Sam!" I pants, all outa breath from
them stairs.
"The war is in Europe just now,"
he says. "Anyhow, we have filled
our quota and are not taking any
more men. Try the marines."
The marines was in the next block
and only one more flight up in a
buildin' that had no use for eleva
tors. There is also a guy in uney
form there, and he glares at me like
I was one of his wife's relations.
"I tried to force my way Into the
navy." I says, "and they was full
up. The manager told me to tell It
to the marines, so I come here.
When do I leave for France?"
"The Marine Corps is recruited to
full strength!" growls this guy. "You
had better try the army."
"They ain't no chance of anybody
bein' laid off, is they?" I asks him.
His answer was nothin'.
By this time I was satisfied that
they was a plot on foot to keep me
outa Berlin, and I made up my mind
I was gonna join the IT. S. Army
if I hadda break in with a cold
chisel. I fdund the army recruitin'
station without much trouble, be
cause they was a soldier outside and
a big picture of what the doughboys
wishes life in the army really was.
I nailed the soldier. "Where's
the guy that hires the volunteers?"
I asks him. He gimme a grin.
"Wanna join up, eh?" he says.
"Well, that's fine! Army life is the
greatest life in the world!" He
takes a short wind-up and lets go.
"The food is somethin' marvelous,"
he says. "The livin' is elegant, the
clothes is knockouts, the experience
is worth money in after years, there
is a great chanct to save, and —"
"Hey!" I butts in. "What are you
—a capper for the army? Lay off
that stuff and show me the guy that
does the hirin' and firin'. I—"
"Every young man should do his
bit for his "country," he goes on
without battin' an eye. "We gotta
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make the world safe for the Demo
crats, and then look what Belgium
lim went through! We—"
1 grabbed him by the arm. "Lis
ten!'.' I says, shuttin' him off. "Will
yeu kindly cease that patter of yours
and show me where your master is?
I wanna get in this brawl in Europe
before they play out the schedule!"
" —-and last of all, remember the
Lusitania!" he says. "You'll find the
office four flights up to your left."
"Where's the elevator?" I says.
"It ain't!" he tells me. "You get
achanct to advance yourself mental
ly and physically. A willln' young fel
ler can rise himself to be an officer
if—"
I rose up to the fourth floor, three
steps at a time.
There's a bunch of guys sittin' in
a room with a soldier guardin' em,
and they look like a gang in a den
tist's office waitin' their turns whilst
a hysterical soprano has ten teeth
pulled. The soldier gimme one look
and points to a room past that. I
breezed in, and there's the young
feller that poses for the male lin
gerie ads in the magazines sittin' at
a table. He's dressed like the re
cruitin' posters.
"Slip me a gun, general!" I says.
"I wanna get in this quarrel. '
"Sit down," he says.
"Take off yer hat!" hisses the sol
dier.
I did both.
"Married?" says the officer.
"No, It ain't that," I says. "I wan
na go over to Germany as quick as
possible because —'
"France, you mean?" He smiles.
"Is it France?" I says. "Excuse
me, I thought we was fightin' Ger
many. Well, that's neither here or
there. Wherever It is, it don't make
no difference to me; gimme a gun
and —"
"Fill this out first,' he interrupts,
handin' me a sheet of paper, "and
then we'll see."
"I don't even need a uneyform." I
says. "Just gimme a gun and a couple
handfuls of bullets and —"
He waves me off and points to the
paper.
I give this thing the once over. It
didn t want to know nothin' but the
history of your life from the nursery
to the undertakers. The U. S. is also
interested in your parents, and they
was a lot of personal questions on it
like how long since you laid off the
booze and did you ever have diph
theria and why. I finally filled it out,
and the officer looked over like he
wanted to learn it by heart. No
doubt I had most of the answers
right, for I'm passed into another
room that looked enough like a doc
tor's office to be one. It was.
A little guy in his shirt sleeves or-
ders me to take off everything X had
on from the Liberty Bond button to
the lucky rabbit's foot I'm in the
habit of wearin' on a string around
my neck.
"Wait a minute!" I says. "No
doubt I have got into the wrong
joint. I got all the insurance a sane
maji can carry, and—"
"Strip! ' bellers the little guy,
which had pinched his voice from a
lion somewheres. "You fellers have
the idea that you're doin' Uncle Sam
a favor by enlistin', eh? I suppose
you think we take anybody and
everybody. Well, we don't—under
stand that! You gotta be pretty lit
to get a chance to do your bit in this
man's army!"
Before this bird got through with
me I was satisfied that a guy has
not only got to be fit to get in the
IT. S. Army; he's got to be lucky!
This medico had me right. Like a lot
of other guys I really did feel I was
doin' the country a favor by enlistin ,
but when they got through with me,
Joe, I was proud they took me! I
felt just a little better than these
birds that can't get in or won't go
in. I forgot all about Mac cannin' me
off the team. I commenced to pity
the guys that couldn't get a uney
form. I throwed out my little old
chest at the slight expense of two
buttons off my vest. Might'nt be good
enough for big league baseball, but
I was good enough for Uncle Sam,
and that's good enough for me! And
when this here doctor slapped me on
the back and says I'm healthier than
livin' in the mountains, it didn t do
me any harm either!
The officer outside must of got a
wireless that I was Three-Star stuff,
because when I come out he also
grabbed me by the hand and made
me a present of a pleasant smile. He
says I must of been brought up on
nothin' but horseshoes and four-leaf
clovers, because I'm the luckiest fel
ler he ever heard tell Qf, outside of
Jess Willard. It seems they need
twenty guys to fill out a regiment
that's goin' to the front right away,
and I come along just in time to
make up the set. Me and the other
nineteen, which could prob'ly have
fell over Niagara Falls without get
tin' damp on account of bein' so
lucky, is to leave for the camp in an
hour. While he's tellin me this the
phone rings.
"Humph!" says the officer. "Some
one to speak to you."
"I suppose the Kaiser has heard
I enlisted," I says, feelin' in a kid
din' humor, "and he s callin' up to
ask for mercy."
He laughed like it was a new one.
Well Joe, the guy on the phone
was no less than Mac himself. Can
you imagine him phonin' me? Hon
est, you could of knocked me over
with a six-inch shell!
"Here!" he says, "I just been talk
in' to Higgins, and he says you have
crashed off of the water wagon.
Don't do nothin' foolish. I might of
been a little hasty when I give you
your unconditional release, and I
think 111 start you against the Reds
Thursday if—"
"Don't make me laugh!" I cuts in.
"You can't start me against no Reds;
I'm pitchin' for Uncle Sam now!'
"You wanna stop readin' them
dime novels!" he sneers. "Quit hand
in' the telephone operator a laugh,
and come up to the hotel. I wanna
talk to you—"
"Mac,' I says, "all bets is off. I
have not two minutes ago sighed up
In the army!"
"What?" he howls, "You in the
army? Then this here war's nothin'
but a frame-up!"
"Why, you big stiff!' he yells, "if
the Alleys was really tryin', would
they of took you?"
I hung up on him.
I'm writin' this letter on the ship<
Joe, and we are allowed to mail 'em,
but they won't be delivered till the
boat reaches the other side or the
oottom, whichever it turns out. Then
it's got to go through a set of glooms
called censors. They call em that be
cause they take all the sense outa
everything a guy writes.
If you don't get this, lemme know.
Yours truly.
ED. HARMON,
(Formerly the famous southpaw.)
FINNS ASK OSCAR
TO BE THEIR KING
[Continued front First Page.]
Bolsheviki, who captured it more
than a month ago from the Ukrain
ian Rada, which later made peace
with the Teutons. Berlin's announce
ment of the capture of Kiev was
made just as Russia and Germany
agreed to peace terms and since then
there have been no reports of mili
tary activity in that region. In five
days Germany i has forced peace
terms on three different governments
—Russia, Rumania and Finland. The
Finnish government apparently sub
mitted to the German terms in order
to gain military Aid against the rev
olutionists, who hold much of south
ern Finland along the Finnish gulf.
With Finland and Esthonia under
German suzerainty, the Gulf of Fin
land is taken from Russian control
and Great Russia has less than 150
miles of coastline along the gulf.
Humiliating Terms Imposed
Although the Germans apparently
will permit King Ferdinand to con
tinue to rule Rumania, the victorious
enemy has compelled his victim to
agree to humiliating terms. Impor
tant wheat, oil and salt concessions
are to be given Germany, which is
to control the Rumanian railroads
for fifteen years and is to have a
most favorable trade agreement with
Rumania, which loses the Dobrudja
and control of the Danube.
American Consul at
Helsingfors Leaves
the Finnish Capital
' By Associated Press
Stockholm, Thursday, March 7.
The American consul at Helsingfors.
Thornwell Haynes, has advised the
American legation here that he is
leaving the Finnish capital Friday
with about twenty American resi
dents.
Some SOO refugees of different na
tionalities. including many Ameri
cans. are at Abo and BJorneborg and
Minister Morris has asked the Swed
ish government to Bend an Ice
breaker to brin- them across the
Gulf of Bothnia to Getle.
A Stockholm resident has received
a letter from a friend in Helsing
fors, dated February 23, in which it
Is said that Instead of a regular ra
tion of grain flour and a half ration
of potato flour that was to have been
issued that week, only fish was dis
tributed. The letter, which was sent
by courier, expressed the hope that
the United States for humanitarian
motives would send grain to be kept
at Narvik or Hapar&nda and ra
tioned out only on condition that the
Finns stop fighting a'mong them
selves.
Tar and Feather an
Alleged Pro-German
Pittsburgh, Pa., March B.—Strip
ped of hia clothing as he stood on a
hill near the Hollywood Cemetery at
midnight, then given a lecture on
the impropriety of prospering in
America and at the same time mak
ing unpatriotic remarks, John Prys
musalla, a building contractor of
West Park was treated to a heavy
coat of tar and feathers.
A quiet crowd of 100 persons
whose leaders had lured the con
tractor to the scene of the tarring and
feathering on the pretense of taking
him to inspect a building site, at
tended to the job, according to re
ports which the police are investi
gating.
The only evidence left by the
crowd was some tar and feathers and
parts of a man's suit. The contractor
could not be found to-day. It is said
he was warned not to exercise too
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much haste in reporting the affair.
According to the story in the
hands of the police, the contractor,
considered wealthy, had made sev
eral unpatriotic utterances and had
expressed implicit faith in German
righteousness. He is married and has
a family. He has been a resident of
fifteen years. *
TEACHERS MAY STRIKE
Reading, Pa., March B.—A com
mittee of teachers of the Boys' High
school served an ultimatum yester
day on City Superintendent Foos that
unless the pay of the faculty is im
mediately raised they will quit to
day. At least ten of the professors
will walk out, it is asserted. The
boys of the senior and junior classes
held a meeting yesterday afternoon
and decided to stay from school if
the teachers quit.
The teachers' demand has been re T
ferred to the school board. Crepe
was pinned on then door of the board
president, J. Edward Wanner, late
last night. It bore a card, "Compll-
I ments of the Boys' High School."
Hoys in sympathy with the teachers *
demand for more pay are blamed
for the joke.
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