Claremore Progress. And Rogers County Democrat (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHARM
OF MOTHERHOOD
Enhanced Bjrj Perfect Physi*
THE CLAREMORE PROGRESS
cal
Tho experience of Motherhood Is a toy-
ing one to most women and mark* dis-
tinctly an epoch in their livoft. Not one
woman in a hundred is prepared or un-
derstand* how to properly care for her-
•elf. Of course nearly every woman
nowadiiys has medical treatment at such
times, but many approach the experi-
ence with an organism unfitted for the
trial of strength, and when it is over
hor system has received a shock from
which it is hard to recover. Following
right upon this cornea the nervous strain
of caring for the child, and a distinct
change in the mother results.
There is nothing more charming than
• happy and healthy mother of children,
and indeed child-birth under tho right
conditions need be no hazard to health or
beauty. The unexplainable thing is
that, with all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting from
an unprepared condition, and with am-
ple time in which to prepare, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
Every woman at this time should rely
Upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, a most valuable tonic and
Invigorator of tho female organism.
&
Table Dainties from Sunny
Climes
of the
California
Asparagus
and
Hawaiian Pineapple
From tropical Hawaii, home of the sweetest,
most luscious pineapple, comes the one; and
California, where the tenderest asparagus grows, supplies the other. The Libby
care and cleanliness back of both is a warrant of a product that will please you.
Insist on Libby's at your grocer'i.
Libby, McNeill * Libby, Chicago
In many homes
Once childle3.s there
fire now children be-
cause of the fact
that Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable
Compound makes
womon normal,
healthy and strong.
If you want spccial advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkl'iim Medicine Co. (ronfl-
deutiiil) Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
Woiaau and held In strict couUdcucc.
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GAVE A TOUCH OF REALISM
Member of Congregation Helped Out
Minister Who Was Discoursing on
the Theme of Hades.
Gov. James F. Kielder of New Jer-
sey smiled when reference was made
to realism. He said he recalled an in-
cident that happened In a little coun-
try church.
One Sunday night the good parson
of the aforesaid church chose Hades
for his theme, and even as lie elo-
quently discoursed an absent-minded
member of the congregation began to
toy with a nickel-plated match safe.
Finally the matches caught fire and
the same was necessarily dropped to
the floor and covered with a large
foot.
"It is wonderful, Mary." whispered
an elderly woman to a friend in the
Beat ahead of the match-playing par-
ishioner. "It is simply wonderful!"
"I suppose you mean the pastor's
remarks, Sarah," responded the other
In a subdued voice.
"Yes," answered the first, gently
Sniffling the sulphur-scented air, "1
have beard Brother White preach
many a sermon, but none so realistic
as this."
N the bureau of supplies and accounts
of the United States navy at Washing-
ion some surprising changes have
iieen made In the past year in methods
of doing business. The bureau is the
business office of the navy. Also It is
the butcher, the baker, the hanker, tho
tailor and the grocer of the navy,
pays out some $145,000,000 a year. ..
saves Jack's money for him and the
savings bank It operates has deposils
aggregating $253,000. It operates two great clothing
factories, one at Brooklyn and the other at Charles-
ton, S. C. In another aspect it is one of the biggest
purchasing agencies in the country.
So remarkable have been Its achievements In the
twelvemonth that many requests have come to It
recently from business establishments, public and
private, for information as to its new methods.
The spirit behind the change is that of a hoylsh-
looking, wl(\c-eyed, ever-smiling officer, who. Just
forty-five years old—and he does not look it—holds
the rank and draws the pay of a rear admiral, he
being paymaster general of the navy and chief of
che bureau. Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan he is
to outsiders. Mr. McGowan is the form of address
he insists upon within the bureau. But in the navy
generally, by all ranks and all grades, he is dubbed,
behind his back of course, Sammy McGowan.
In the 14 months he has been paymaster general
he has made over his bureau. What is more, he has
secured the hearty and enthusiastic support of the
entire force. That, to anyone who knows how any
government organization is wedded to precedent, is
amazing.
Somewhat given to the making of epigrams In his
instructions, oral and written, Admiral McGowan
has uttered two that give a hint of the predominat-
ing ideas behind his reforms. "Make it bureau with
a small b and navy with a big N." is one. and
"Remember that the stores exist for the fleet, not
the fleet for the stores."
A Mystery.
"What did I do last night?"
"You remained at home and went
to bed early."
"Then where in thunder did 1 get
this headache?"
If the baby is reared on the bottle
half the women sniff in disdain. If It
Isn't, the other half sniffs.
8T0P THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS
"Femeaina is the wonder worker for all
female disorders. Price #i.oo and 50c. Adv
A woman's lite is full of trouble. If
ehe has no children to worry over, she
1b pretty sure to try to grow a fern.
Can't Do the Work
A bad back
—- makes hard
work harder.
I A1I day the
I dull throb and
?the sharp,
I darting pains
jl make you mis-
= erable, and
, there s no rest
I, at night.
Maybe it'§
your dally
work that
hurts the kid-
!r«neys, for Jar-
ring, jolting,
lifting, reach-
tog, dampness and many other
■trains do weaken them.
Cure the kidneys. Use Doan'a
Kidney Pills. They haye helped
thousands and should do ma well
for you.
DOAN'SW
SO* at all Stores
Eo«teTvMltWn Col Buffak^N.Y
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome *
CAKTEfS LITTLE
UVEIPnJLS.
Purdy vegetable
—act surely and
Head.
ache,
Dtsal.
—a,iwdfsMaifli1 They do their duty.
MALL HLL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PtlCI.
Geariae mi bear Signature
mcipaS
The paymaster general and his bureau of supplies
and accounts have their offices in the great pile
known as the state, war and navy building, on
Pennsylvania avenue, flanking the White House on
the west. When the building was erected some
forty years ago it was the largest office building
In the world. Each corridor in it has the appear-
ance of a battalion of barrooms, for each of the
many corridor doors has its middle two-thirds
masked by a shutter door. The rooms are all inter-
communicating.
The paymaster general's office is the end one In
a suite of five rooms. Across the hall are seven
more rooms. In the navy annex building, in a street
near by, are some more offices of the bureau.
When Paymaster General McGowan took over the
Job he inaugurated at once a clean-up campaign,
Down from the walls came the dusty old pictures.
Bookcases and file cases went out. Current and
absolutely necessary bureau files went into one
room in a set of steel vertical containers, for
general purposes, and in the purchasing end,
across the hall, they likewise were reduced.
Private libraries also went out. Upstairs the
navy department maintains a splendid naval li-
brary, and this Is available for all purposes.
"Abolish roll-top desks." was the word. Where
flat-top desks were not available the department
carpenters took off the roll tops. Since then
standard office furniture has bej:. adopted for
the entire bureau.
All intercommunicating doors ;n the suites
were taken off the hinges. Walls were painted
in light colors. Then the chief of each room or
division chief was required to put uis desk in
the middle of the room with his force grouped
about him. Now the paymaster general can
stand in his room and look down the line and
see exactly what is going on.
But that isn't exactly the point. The object
is not to keep an eye on the people so much as
It is to convey the Idea of unity. The division
chief who. sequestered In his own little nest,
might be tempted to write a letter to the chief
next door, doesn't do it under these conditions.
He says. "Say. Bill, how about so and so?" or
goes over and discusses It at close range.
Stationery In use was reduced to the fewest
possible simple kinds.
On a shelf handy to the paymaster general's
hands Is a book some 14 Inches loig by 18 Inches
wide. In it is all the Information that once oc-
cupied a big flleroom. This Information pertains
to the present duty and availability for sea or
shore duty, as the case may be. of all of the 230
officers making up the pay corps.
The pages of the book are faced with trans-
parent celluloid. When a pay officer is sent on a
cruise his name and the essential date are In-
scribed on a typewritten slip and inserted at the
bottom of the section devoted to pay officers on
sea duty. Place by place the slip moves up au-
tomatically. and in this way one may observe
at a glance who is due for shore duty and who
for sea duty as, under the law, /or every two
years of shore duty a pav officer must take three
years of sea duty.
And thus with all records. No effort has been
spared to reduce them all to the simplest and
most graphic form. The messenger force waa
reorganized and a squad told off to act as express
messengers. This Insures speed in tbe move-
ment of papers from desk to desk and to the
secretary's office. No paper remaina more than
15 minutes awaiting transmission.
One of the very first things Paymaster General
STATZ, l/AR AttD
//Ayy 3uuj)uy$
Hia Uppermost Thought.
Mrs. Blank—How had 1 better have
my new dreBS made?
Blank—8mall in the bill.
McGowan did was to put a stop to promiscuous
letter writing. The true bureaucrat dearly loves
to write letters. He thinks he is at his best
when he is writing letters for the chief to sign,
division heads dictating many of the letters
which take the bureau chief's signature. It grati-
fies the soul of the bureaucrat to grow arrogant
and sarcastic In such dictation.
Nothing of that sort is tolerated by Admiral
McGowan. He insisted that letter writing be re-
duced to a minimum and that nothing unkind or
contentious be put into a letter, especially to
another co-ordinate bureau. After his first gen-
eral remarks on the subject he followed it up
with an "intrabureau order," lntrabureau orders
being one of his methods of reaching the person-
nel of his organization.
But the striking changes in the service have
been worked In the detail of the machinery first
of accounting and then of supplying. Aboard
each one of Uncle Sam's fighting craft is a pay
officer, the ship's business manager. Each ship
has a base or home station at some navy yard.
At each navy yard Is a storehouse, presided over
by a pay officer. It Is the business of this store-
house to provide for the ships attached to It.
Then there, are fuel stations—coal and oil—also
under Jurisdiction of the pay corps, for the pay
corps buys everything, save arms and ammuni-
tion. needed by the ships and their personnel.
At present there are fn the custody of the store-
keepers general supplies worth $22,000,000. ex-
clusive of fuel; $4,000,000 worth of clothing, and
$3,000,000 worth of provisions. The problem la
not alone to supply Immediate needs, but to be
ready to supply emergency needs.
Just as an army moves on its belly, so la a
navy department on its supplies. When a por-
tion of the fleet was dispatched the other day to
Santo Domingo It required a lot of things not
ordinarily carried It got away promptly because
those particular things were forthcoming without
delay.
Always the bureau Is In the market buying In
huge quantities on bids and under rigid specifica-
tions. for delivery at the most advantageous
points. Two simple record books contain all the
data on current bids which have been opened,
and these are always open to public inspection.
But the characteristic of the purchasing system
Is the simple and graphic methods used in kcell-
ing information up to date on existing stocks of
fuel and supplies and on -current prices. Much
of this information is reduced to charta on sec-
tional paper. Thus a simple chart tells In figures
and lines up to within 12 hours the exact quan-
tity of coal and fuel on hand at any supply sta-
tion, and another glvea the same Information
as to the amount on board any ship of the nary.
The selection of the time
for restocking thus is al-
most automatically sug-
gested.
A small card-filing case
contains a remarkable ex-
hibition of prices current.
Charted on cards are the
market price movements
for seven years, week by
week, or Important sta-
ples. For example, the
butter card shows a well-
defined curve for each of
the seven years, indicat-
ing the weeks when but-
ter is high and when low.
As these curves closely
parallel, a glance at it
shows when Is the most
advantageous time for
buying butter in quantity
and storing it.
So systematized has the
method of securlug and charting this Information
become that it requires little labor and its cost,
by comparison with the results achieved in as-
sisting in intelligent buying, ts remarkably low.
Other charts, corrected daily, keep the bureau
informed as to the amount of stocks on hand
in every detail, not only at the storehouses but
on the ships as well. Since the navy through its
* extensive wireless system is in constant com-
munication with every ship afloat, the task of
keeping up these charts Is not so difficult aa It
seems.
Or the bunch of cards making up a ship's com-
pmy also is producible on the instant.
Machines have reduced the amount of work in
the accounting section more than 50 per cent.
Tuere are refinements of cost keeping In a mili-
tary establishment that are not known in a
private establishment, for all expenditures must
conform to some specific item of an appropria-
tion bill, aivd appropriations for the naval estab-
lishment are found in three different appropria-
tion acts.
Roughly speaking, 3,000,000 separate accounts
must be kept properly to meet the requirements
of the law and to furnish the information as to
costs, gross and detailed, needed. Imagine a
ledger with 3,000,000 accounts!
Here the cards and mechanism have come In to
the extent that half the number of men needed
15 months ago are now required to do the work.
In addition a great deal of new work has been
taken on.
The use of new card punching machines is re-
sponsible for tho larger economies.
The machine is so arranged that it sorts the
punched cards, arranges them in proper groups,
ascertains the totals of the figures lndi-tated by
the punched holes and prints on a sheet the
results. It is accounting reduced to mechanism.
Of course the usual machines, such as adding
machines and the like, are part of the equipment.
In fact the whole trend of the reforms in this
section has been to reduce everything to a
mechanical basis.
The result is great economics in operation, in-
creased efficiency, Increased accuracy and In-
creased speed. To the casual observer the strik-
ing thing is the disappearance of books, few
indeed are the books In sight, remarkably slim
the files. In other words, the accountancy sys-
tem has been reduced to the simplest dimensions.
Ask any man, officer or civilian, in the estab-
lishment how the whole organization has been
made over In such a time, and he inatantly will
tell you that Sammy McGowan did It. And then
he will grow confidential and tell you what he
esteems is the secret of the whole accomplish-
ment, the spirit that McGowan has put Into hia
entire force. "We don't tolerate grouchea," your
informant will aay. "We all belong to the Don't
Worry club and McQowan Is Its president."
Another thing this paymaster general has done
Is to establish in Washington, with the approval
of the secretary of the navy, a school for navy
pay officera. These officers are appointed from
civil life on a competitive examination. They go
into the service equipped with a good academic
education, but with no knowledge of tbe navy
and its needs. Hence the new service school,
which has In this year'a clasa 15 young officera
who are Joeing trained In their new profession.
Admiral McGowan hlmaelf la a product of
civilian training. When he secured hia appoint-
ment in the pay corps In 1894 be waa a 8outh
Carolina newspaper man who had worked hia
way through college and law achool by running
a brick yard and serving aa a ticket agent at a
railway station Maybe there he got the training
which baa made him a great buainess executive.
The fact that he haa spent moat of bia naval
career at aea accounta for his Insistence that the
fleet and not the bureau la tbe thing ever to be
kept In mind.
When he left the Atlantic fleet to go ashore u
paymaster general hia commanding officer. Ad-
miral Badger, aald of htm. "He haa made the pay
department of the fleet a smoothly working mil-
itary machine."
That la the ideal he bolda up to hia bureau
and corps: "Make It a smooth running military
machine."
COMMENTS
Usually we do not know; but we
might find out oftener than we do.
When a man la henpecked, one of
hia first dutlea is to tell everywhere
that he Isn't, and that he wouldn't be
a bachelor again for anything in tbe
world.
Suapicion la a vicious thing; but
sometimes It la Justified.
The Sober Secootf Thought la usu-
ally so alow that much alachief ta
m
Just how much can be accomplished
In overcoming natural tendencies. 1 do
not pretend to say; but I have noticed
that with the whip properly laid on,
a lazy horse does very well.
Men who re reasonably fcJr with
neighbors, develop a roguish Instinct
as soon as they deal with the public.
The public never watches aa closely
aj do the neighbors.
I walk around some men as 1 walk
around a mod hole.
The average man's cooadeace Is
POSTSCRIPTS
A Colorado Inventor's electric flat
Iron Is propelled by a motor driven
roller, an operator having only to
control the current and guide It.
W ireless apparatus tar spherical bal-
loons that a German haa Invented uaea
loops of wire that encircle the gaa
bags vertically tor antennae.
Experts have estimated the avail-
able water power of the streams of the
United Statea all the way from ILr
404,MO to M.MMM bona power.
German railroads have found that
the maintenance of electric locomo-
tives is more economical than operat-
ing can fitted with Individual mo-
tors
Easily attached to or detached from
a window sash, a wire acreen has been
patented that la rolled or unrolled aa
a window la cloaed or opened.
Om Charm ef Wealth.
Make a noise that rings like wealth
ad nay number of visiting tarda will
Not Gray Hairs hot Tired Eyrs
make us look older than we ro. Keep your
Eyes young ami you will look youn^. After
the Movlcr always Murine Your Eyes—
Don't toll your age.
In Days of Yore. '
Daughter—When father was young
wasn't he more romantic?
Mothqr—He was less rheumatic.—
Judge.
Friendly Suggestion.
Alyce—I'm learning to paint on
china.
Grayce—Don't you find it hard to
become accustomed to such a hard
surface?
The sweet music that children
make in a home has nothing in com-
mon with piano lessons.
■t
DEATH LURK8 IN A WEAK HEART,
so on first symptoms use "Renovine'
and be cured. Delay and pay the awful
penalty. "Renovine" Is the heart'a
remedy. Price fl.00 and 50c.—Adv.
Right always'triumphs, but the fel-
lows who think that they are right
sometimes get it in the neck.
Improving an Opportunity.
Burroughs—I know a man who
looks so much like you that one could
hardly teH you apart.
Lenders—You haven't paid him that
fiver I lent you three monthR ago,
have you?—Boston' Evening Tran-
script.
Motor Troubles.
'"I suppose you find tire troubles the
most expensive item in the upkeep of
your touring car?"
"No, I can't say that I do. With me
the big expense is attire trouble. My
wife and daughter can't go on a fifty-
mile trip without laying in a new
stock of dry goods."
Trapping the Elusive Mouse.
Every housewife has had the experi-
ence of llnding a carefully prepared
mouse trap denuded of its bait, but un-
sprung and minus Its victim. This
can be avoided and Mr. Mouse's cap-
ture assured by using for bait cheese
•rumbs instead of a large lump. To
get the crumbs the mouse must press
down and thus set off the spring. A
lump, on tbe other hand. Is easily
stolen
Can't Beat 'Em.
"The boss notified me last night
that I'm to have a raise in salary."
"Good for you. Take my tip, old
man, and don't tell your wife about
It."
"Oh she knew about it two weeks
ago. The boss' wife told her."
He Got Them Mixed.
A Missouri farmer had ordered a
fancy pig from a breeder. The pig
was a mere mite of a pig, and the
farmer sent It back. "Dear Sir," he
wrote. "From the comparative size
of the pig and the bill, I am forced
to the conclusion that you got .them
mixed. You should have sent the pig
by mail and the bill by express."—
Youth's Companion.
What Came Up.
"London's a dreary sort of place,
and the smoke's something awful!"
the returned countryman was telling
his ewed village friends. "It's so thick,
the air is, that I wonder anything
grows there. I planted some corn in
a box on my window sill, to remind
me of home, and what do you think
came up?"
"One suggested wheat, while anoth-
er thought oats more likely. But
most of them remained silent, looking
at their venturesome friend with re-
spect.
"All wrong!" said the returned trav-
eler, presently. "A policeman came
up and told me to take the box down
at once!"
Nothing Stops
This Man
The man with vigorous, virile health, and a clear
mind, who brushes away obstacles, and rejoices in
overcoming difficulties, is bound to succeed. His is the
joyous outlook on life.
Physical and mental conditions like these come
largely through proper eating—"Food makes the man."
Now it is a fact—attested by food experts—that
the modern dietary la woefully lacking in the very
elements that put success into a man. They are
the mineral salts—Phosphate of Potash, etc. White
bread is almost wholly lacking in them. But there is
one food that richly supplies these vital elements, and
that food is
Grape-Nuts
Made from whole wheat and barley. Crape-Nuts
contains all the nutriment of the grain, including the
valuable mineral salts. It is easily digested, is concen-
trated and has delicious taste. A daily ration of Crape-
Nuts along with other food helps build vigorous bodies
and keen brain*.
"There's a Reason"
—said by Grocera everywhere
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