Island, N. Y. Scale, 1:10,000. 50c.

381. Philadelphia water front, Schuyl kill River, Pa. Scale, 1:9,600. 50c. 4109. Honolulu Harbor, Oahu. Scale, 1:5,000. 50c.

BUREAU OF FISHERIES.

Quantities and values of certain fishery products landed at Seattle, Wash., by American fishing vessels and fishery products taken in Puget Sound and landed at Seattle, Wash., by collecting vessels, July, 1918. Statistical bulletin 419. 1 p.

Quantities and values of certain fishery products landed at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Me., by American and Canadian fishing vessels, July, 1918. Statistical bulletin 420. 1 p.

BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
COMMERCE.

Commerce reports Nos. 179-205 (vol. 3, series 1918), Aug. 1-31, 1918, p. 417-848. (Daily except Sunday and holidays.) Single copies, 5c; $2.50 per annum; clothbound quarterly volumes, with index, $6

per annum.

Contains reports by American consular officers and commercial agents of department on commercial conditions and trade openings in foreign countries.

Annual reports from consular officers, formerly published in Daily Consular and Trade Reports, are now issued as supplements to Commerce Reports and will be mailed to all persons receiving that publication. Each supplement will be so numbered that at end of year they may easily be assembled by countries and bound. Each country has been assigned definite number (for example, Austria-Hungary No. 1), and reports from various consular districts in that country will be distinguished by addition of letter (la, lb, etc.) in order in which they are issued.

Total values of imports and exports of United States, July, 1918. 2 p.

Shows total value of imports into and exports from United States of merchandise and of gold and silver for several past years by months and by accumulated periods of calendar or fiscal year. Monthly summary of foreign commerce of United States, June, 1918. 98 p. 15c; $1.50 per annum. (Printed also as H. doc. 601, pt. 12, 65th Cong., 1st sess.)

Shows imports into and domestic exports from United States, by articles and principal countries, during month and accumulated periods of current year, compared with like periods of two preceding years; also total values by countries and by customs districts, movements of gold and silver in foreign trade, merchandise remaining

in warehouse, and trade with noncontiguous territories of United States.

Miscellaneous Series.

68. Wearing apparel in Argentina; prepared by Lew B. Clark. 158 p. 4 p. of pl. 1 text fig. 20c.

Gives results of careful study of market, made with particular reference to extending American trade in Argentina.

69. Wearing apparel in Bolivia; prepared by William A. Montavon. 84 p. 10c.

Sets forth unusual conditions in Bolivia, with regard to climate, type of population, etc., that affect market for wearing apparel.

71. Wearing apparel in Brazil; prepared by William C. Downs. 64 p. 10c.

Forms a part of an investigation into wearing apparel in South America. Survey was made both comprehensive and detailed.

72. Consumption estimates. 14 p. 5c. Extract from Statistical Abstract of United States, 1917, showing production, imports, exports, and amounts available for consumption of various articles in United States by years specified.

Special Consular Reports.

81. Abbyssinia: Present commercial possibilities for American trade; by Addistatus of country, with special reference to son E. Southard. 71 p. 1 text fig. 5c.

Discusses principal trading centers; agricultural, pastoral, and industrial production; transportation facilities; financial and banking conditions; and gives detailed analysis of market for various commodities.

BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES.

Notices to mariners Nos. 31-35 (series 1918). Aug. 2-30. (Weekly.) Various paging. (Issued jointly with Coast and Geodetic Survey.)

Gives prompt notice of changes in aids to navigation and of obstructions or changes in channels, which are to be noted on charts and light and buoy lists.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

No publication issued during August.

BUREAU OF STANDARDS.

Scientific Papers.

325. Spectroradiometric investigation of transmission of various substances; by W. W. Coblentz, W. B. Emerson, and M. B. Long. Aug. 8, 1918. 26 p. 20 text fig, 5c. Circulars.

27. Properties and testing of optical instruments. 2d ed. Aug. 9, 1918. 41 p. 1 text fig. 10c.

STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE.

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As we go to press reports come that the Germans have surrendered. This indicates that the war is over and that our nasty task is completed. Thank God! Let us again go to our peace-time tasks. Let us forget this nightmare of the past four years. Industrial teachers have a tremendous task and an equal opportunity in the next few years. There will be a prosperous period with its attendant industrial development. This means an increased demand for trained workers. The machinery for meeting this need is here in the SmithHughes Act and the established industrial schools of the land. The operation of this machinery calls for intelligent and industrious effort from industrial education leaders and instructors. No time should be lost in meeting the coming tide.

Mr. Alfred W. Lawson, former editor of "Fly," and at present a manufacturer of aeroplanes at Green Bay, Wis., is enlisting the aid of Congress to put into operation a system for getting American aeroplanes to Europe in greater numbers and shorter time.

The plan which he is proposing would enable land planes to be flown from our factories to European battlefields with the aid of what he calls the Trans-Atlantic Float system. This system is a series of landing floats stretched across the Atlantic at distances which would enable fliers to land on them for repairs, replenishing of fuel supply, or any other emergency that

sition on the fact that aeroplanes have been successfully landed on such floats as he proposes, in American naval experimental work. He points out further that his system would enable us to send all of the aeroplanes we can build to Europe; that the planes could be gotten over in ninety per cent less time than it now requires; that the number of planes lost in the present mode of transportation by torpedoing would be eliminated; that a 24-hour mail and passenger service between the continents would be established; and that the system would establish a safety lane for shipping between us and our allies.

Mr. Lawson also presents figures to substantiate the practicability of his proposition from the financial viewpoint. He says that under the present way of transportation it costs $6,460 to transport a plane to Europe, and that under his float system the cost would be $1,342.80. This would net a saving of $5,117 per plane. It is a mere matter of multiplication to arrive at the saving which would result in our program of sending 10,000 planes.

To the ordinary citizen this entire proposition appears to be a dream. It is only the exceptional one who can speak authoritatively on these matters. Opinions are worth nothing. But, from all appearances and the claims of Mr. Lawson, the idea looks practical. Dream or no dream, we have the past, and the accomplishments during the present war to put an effective brake on many who would say it can't be done. It is not so long ago since aeroplanes and submarines were as theoretical as Mr. Lawson's float system. While it may be too late to inaugurate his system or to enter into any uncertain program during the present war, yet we believe that his plan will be a realization in the near future.

The United Typothetae of America, which is the organization of employing printers of nation-wide scope, has a committee on education which has been doing