Plans for leasing hotel sites, camp sites, store sites, and cottage sites located in the Appalachian national forest in Maine and New Hampshire, are being formulated by the forest service, in compliance with a provision in the new agricultural appropriation bill.
"Palm kernels and the palm kernel oil trade in Africa have been hard hit by the present war in Europe," says a statement issued by the National Geographic Society at Washington.
That five million acres of non-agricultural land should be secured by the federal government in the southern Appalachians and six hundred thousand acres in the White Mountain region of New England to form national forests for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams in the East, is urged by the national forest reservation commission in its latest report.
The president of the National Conservation Association has issued a statement on the Shields water-power bill recently reported to the Senate, in which he says: "The Shields bill for the granting of water-powers on navigable streams is the bill of the water-power monopolists.
A summary of the world's output of mercantile tonnage, steam and sail, during 1914, just issued by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, shows that vessels aggregating 2,852,753 tons were launched during the twelve months.
Employers may require employees to sever their connection with labor unions as a condition to employment, if they so desire, according to a far-reaching decision just handed down by the United States Supreme Court.
Official announcement has been made by Secretary of Commerce Redfield of the discovery of a practical navigable channel from Bering sea into the mouth of the Kuskokwim river, thus opening the second greatest river in Alaska to commerce.
The General Electric Review says: "A process has been discovered for heating metals in revolving drums with mixtures containing, among other things, finely divided aluminum, by which a surface alloy containing aluminum is produced.
