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THURSDAY, JANUARY io, 1918.
They're All Hero??.
The Germans were raiding; the American first tine
trenches in Alsace.
Deadly artillery 6re splintered shells all about our
bos?, new and untried in repelling trench attacks.
Even the bravest hid behind anything which seem
ed to offer shelter from those screaming messengers
of death.
Two of our boys were hit by shell splinters. One,
Charles Box, of Oklahoma, was half buried under a
ton or so of earth. His "bunkie," worn from fighting
aad weak from loss of blood threw himself down be
side his fallen comrade.
The commander saw the boy kneeling there digging
into the earth with his bare hands.
"Come!" he ordered.
But Charles Orr, a Kansas farm lad, only 18, for
the first time refused to obey his commander's order.
"Come!" the commander repeated; "You'll be killed
there, get down below!"
"I can't," Private Orr said. "Don't you see my
bttnkie's wounded? I can't leave him here."
Ar. ? lie didn't, not until others came and dug his
bunkie out of the earth. Then, when Hero Orr and
his hankie got back into the dugout the former insist
ed upon staying right there to battle with the Huns
while the more severely wounded comrade was carried
to the hospital.
When Private Box opened his eyes he whispered to
the nurse :
"That's the kind of a bunkie to have."
It is!
George Pattullo, telling about that first raid of the
Germans in the Saturday Evening Post, calls Charles
"The First American Hero."
ie is a hero. There'? no doubt about that.
Charles Orr, brave and fearless, is only one
-?iireds of thousands of American boys who
H^Ufccmselvcs to their country'? cause. Con
"?**li?ve that any one of tho??: boys would
s .rut of German shells and court death itself
( * t? ti:e battlefield the u..i:-.'lnl ka?j o? a
ra*l?- .~ b iiiicj?. !
For u.at's the kind of boys our boys are
There can't be any "bravest" when all are equally
brave. There can't be any "first hero" when all have
offered the sacrifice of their lives that the Htm horde
ma> be driven into defeat.
A New Union.
? new local union is about to be added to the
ranks of organized labor. It will comprise the
grade?! school teachers of Washington and will
probably number nearly a thousand members.
The Herald wishes the new organization every
success and hopes that it may obtain a new wage
scale for teachers who arc at present horribly un
derpaid.
The salaries of Washington school teachers is
below that which is paid to a number of their pu
pils when they leave school. The scale may have
been an equitable one fifty years ago but today it
is at least 50 per cent too low.
The teachers are using the.proper methods in
fighting ior their rights and this paper will support
them in their elTorts.
Wets t?. Saloons.
California drink interests, with approximately a
hundred millions invested in grapes, hops, etc., have
already begun campaigning against the prohibition
?????rndrnent, and it is significant that the growers of
wine and brewers of beer propose to make the hard
drinks element "the goat."
The plan, which will be voted on next Novemlier,
U to abolish the saloons and stop the sale of gin,
; **rhi?ky, mm, brandy and such. Hotels, cafe?, clubs
and summer resorts are tn be permitted to sell wines
and beer? with meals. Beverages so sold, however,
taust contain less than 14 per cent of alcohol, and for
home eon?ttmption the limit is to be 21 per cent.
Undoubtedly, the hard drinks men will consider the
plan very, very llo!sh:viki and refuse to support it.
Such a split in the wet forces, considering recent votes
m I.OS Angeles and San Diego, might be fatal to
alcoholic moi?tttre in California but there is strong
sentiment amone the drys, or not-too-dr> s, that it iv
rescue the undoubtedly great ?rape and hop growi.is
interest?.
Of course. Senator Romin?er's bill is a long way
from real prohibition. It will nibstitute for saloons a
lot of rank eating houses, and there is no sincere gent,
or lady, m all California, who canno/, by conscientious
endeavor, get perfectly drunk on beer, wine, water or
any other old liquid containing 14 to ai per cent of
alcohol.
The Righting of u Error.
David Lloyd George made a misstep in h:s
statement of allied war aims before the British
Trade Unions Conference.
The President saw the error in the twinkling
of an eye and hastened before Congress to cor
rect it before fatal damage was done.
Here is an account of an interview with Leon
Trotzky just before he left Petrograd for the re
sumption of the peace negotiations at Brest
Litovsk. It is related by Arthur Ransome, Petro
grad correspondent of the London Daily News:
He was leaving with the mistaken convic
tion that the entente governments wanted
Germany to succeed in making an advantageous
separate peace with Russia, so that guarding
herself in the East she might agree more will
ingly to surrender what the allies want in
?e?.*. The allies, would then blame the
evjki for the lost freedom of Poland,
aad Courland. He was under the
hat Lloyd George had made a
; allowr.l such an interpretation.
Bin? thai he was mistaken, but
?It to convince. He said: "THAT
?LLIF.D POLICY." Q
thn ?reiitlent j-ted just in the ni&
of time?and even as it i* the wireleai communica
tion between Petrograd and Brest-Litovsk, within
the German linea, is the solitary dependence the
world has that Trotzky may be informed the
American democracy has spoken firmly and de
cisively in sympathy and fraternal appreciation of
the travail of Russia.
The Trotxky interpretation of the Lloyd George
speech was neither irrational nor far-fetched?as
a matter of fact the British premier laid himself
open to the exact statement of his position made
by the Bolshevik leader.
Lloyd George said that the salvation of the
Russian people was in their own hands; that they
must be left to shift for themselves; that Russia
must return to the allied camp before she could
be considered in the framing of peace terms.
He said it as. a blend of a threat, a warning,
and a promise; said it with the assurance gained by
British statesmanship as the result of the sorry col
lapse of the first peace conference at Brest-Litovsk
between the Russians and the Germans. He missed
fire completely. The Russian Embassy in Wash
ington immediately pointed out tlic glaring blunder
he had made. Instead of widening the breach be
tween the Kai>er and the Bolsheviki, his studied
aloofness had the opposite effect of tending to
close it
The historian of the future will celebrate in
glowing phrases the speed and skill witK" which
President Wilson acted to repair the unwitting
mistake of the British premier.
He accepted L?nine and Trotzky as the spokes
men of the new Russia and threw the power of the
American people squarely behind them. He did
it not through love of them, or acceptance of
their political creed, but because he saw a great,
aspiring people groping their way towards the
light?because he knew they would reach the light
only through great suffering and after many mis
takes, and because he felt that a democratic nation
refusing to aid them in their travail is a poor
nation indeed.
Even if Russia falls into the toils of Luden
dorff and Hindenburg and concludes a separate
peace, America is still her friend, awaiting the
dawning of a greater day.
That is the point that Lloyd George missed.
A Bankrupt Censorship.
Ridicule over American war pretensions has already
crept into Parisian satire, gently, of course, since the
French are a polite?indefatigably polite?people, but
' none the less pointed and acidtilous. It is a ridicule
which our army folks have brought tumbling on their
, heads through a union of tactlessness, stupidity, and
that braggart streak of self-assurance and self-satis
faction which has been offensive to Europeans ever
since the American bourgeoise first began to make
Cook's tours of their beauty spots.
It is inconceivable that many "doughboys" or Amer
ican officers with a thimbleful of brains, in the Persh
ing forces, should show condescension towards the
French or anything savoring of that "oh, well, we
Americans are on the job now; we are going to end
the war for you" spirit. Yet Heywood Broun and
Wythe Williams, both war correspondents of the first
rank, say that such is the case; and that a definite re
action has set in against us in France, not alone be
cause of this crude tactlessness, but because the mere
mite of an army we have in France has been pampered
and pr:ss-agented out of all proportion to its impor
tance.
The correspondents themselves are contributing in
voluntarily to Gallic gayety by sending piffling "human
interest" dispatches home, the ivory-domed censors
having barred anything of real interest or importance.
For instance, such twaddle as that about the "red-head
ed Irishman" firing the first shot at the Germans over
the trench-top ; the great to-do made about the first
German prisoner captured; the little brushes of the
night patrols worked into sensations, have caused the
French to wonder whether the Americans think they
have gotten into another guerrilla scrap with Filipinos
or into a Comanche uprising.
"Good morning; how is your prisoner today?" was
a favorite French jest flung at the American troopers
after the great scare-head stories over the first capture.
Every correspondent writhes about the kind of "hunk"
he is forced to cable by reason of the stupid double
liarrelled censor-hip he is fighting against. They know
that self-respecting French and British newspaper men
laugh at the kind of stories they are turning out for
the delectation of the "provincial and unsophisticated"
American public.
Intelligent Americans have made the same kind of
criticism of the literature emanating from the Persh
ing headquarters. Let them know once and for all
where the blame belongs. It is not on the heads of the
newspaper correspondents, but on the censors, who are
pursuing, under the direction of old-fogy, dry-rot army
officers, a wrong-headed policy, and one which will
shortly produce an explosion unless some remedy is
found.
Suppression of military information is one thing;
suppression of facts which the Germans already know
and have published is quite another. If an American
Congressman can return from a trip to the front and
inform the American public of conditions of which any
mention is forbidden the correspondents in their cable
reports, is not some sort of inquiry necessary?
Germany has been howling for terms. Now
that she has them, what is she going to do with
them?
Trotzky hits two-faced plot, comments a contem
porary. In hitting anything two-faced Trotzky is likely
to belt himself one on the jaw.
Chicago women propose to stoke their own furnaces
to save coal. The report of the organization of a Hus
bands' League of Protest is doubtless untrue.
Had Tried in Vaia.
Speaking at a dinner. Senator Robert L. Owen, of
Oklahoma, referred to the wonderful influence wielded
by little wifey in most affairs, and fittingly recalled
this anecdote:
One afternoon two acquaintances chanced to meet,
nr.d diirins t'ie gabfest that followed one of them took
the other to task for the latitude in boasting that he
allowed his mist
"Say, Jim," said he, "why on earth do you permit
your wife -o go around telling the other women that
she made a man out of you? You never hear my
wife say a-iythint- like that."
"No," rejoined Jim, with a merry little chuckle,
"but I have heard her say on more than one occasion,
that she had tried her hardest."?Philadelphia Tele
graph.
INSPIRATION.
Fame called him loudly, but he never heard;
Wealth beckoned, but his drowsy eyes were blind;
Love whispered, softly, "Seek and you shall find
The golden goal, but lo, he scarcely stirred;
His mind was mazed with dreams, his vision blurred
With cloudy, formless thought?, but half-divined;
His work lay unattended, undesigned
Awaiting Inspiration's magic word!
a figure, ugly, scowling, drear
rged this dreamer till his task he (Ought
in mingled wonder, pain and fear,
iod time a masterpiece was wrought;
tion had brought this to be
sic of grim Necessity!
i-ER?QN BRA*-*Y.
SH-H-H!
A lare* question 1? likely to come up
In thi* country (or political settlement
within the next year or two. Line*
of cleavage upon it ar. going to be
without retard to party. But thi* will
not prevent the very energetic waging
of a political encounter upon It.
The question has to do with the fu
ture ot our military activity in this
country. Universel training Is one part
of it. Ther. are other parts of
quite a* Important aa this, and upon
which there will be quite a* pro
nounced difference* of opinion.
Th* coming of peace will hasten the
coming of thi? great question to a
head. It may be delayed ?or the great
er part, until that time, although the
universal training aectlon will most
certainly be fought out before the ar
rival of the fabled dove.
The greatest headway made toward
an Ideal settlement of the question
wa* in the Inference* drawn by lorn?
of the member* of Congres* from the
Prealdent'* message. The section re
lating to disarmament meant to them
?or will until the President says *ome
thlng more ?peelfle?that disarmament,
after the war, will be generally en
couraged among those nations that
really want an enduring peace In the
world.
There are many very good peor-I
In thi? land who are Insistent that
universal military trainili?; and a ?*tg
orou* after-war policy are not only
to be desired, but urged a* a necessity.
There are many other very good pen
pi? who believe that universal train
ing should not be promoted at thi?
time, and that no thought ?hould 1?
taken of what our military atatu?
will b? after the war. The pacifist.?
are to be numbered in thi* group, but
they do not make up Ita principal pai t.
There are proponent? of thi* plan
who are for the present for unrelent
ing proaecution of the war. who hav?
been for war for two or three year?.
and who have been sturdy friends of
any cauie that meant death to Gor
man despotism.
And there are member* of Congr???.?
who ar? taking little account of t!??
matter. They po.se.?? the sanguin??
belief that the President will speak lit?
mind on the matter when It comes tu
a show-down. They believe he will
take the precise ground that will con
form to America'? Keneral plan? in
the remodeling of the world. They
?re favorable to leaving th. matter
to the Pre?ident. They want to do
4,u*t what he say?.-and they do noi
want to do anything. In this vital
matter, which he does not counsel
An influx of telegram* from ?pot?
not ordinarily known a* warm advo
cate? of preparation meaaure? indi
cates that a studied fight 1* being or
ganized to pas* the universal train
ing bill at the present session. Thi?
Is the bill which many members think
is most obnoxious to any clear-r'it
disarmament eeheme we inay have for
poet-war use.
storne member* of ConTres?. lookinc
over the President'* unexpected mis
page to Congress on American war
aim*, say very frankly that it woulil
be the height of inconaistency, to in
dorse the universal military trainimi
bill and then endeavor to conform to
the President's outline of aims. Anil,
naturally enough, the friend* of the
l?gislation ?ay U la all very well to
have those alms, and they are for
them. "But?'* th. protective legisla
tion I* necessary and we should not
be caught unprepared" for any fu
ture war that might come.
Analysts have not started their
rhorua in Congre?* aa to the ef
fect of euch promllitary legisla
tion on the world, but they soon
will get busy. They will point out
that, tf we are to denounce mili
tarism, we cannot at the war's elioee
Install a more formidable military
program tn thi? nation than we had
at the outset of the war. This
would arouse the suspicion of the
countries of the world, and it might
seriously embarrass peace negotia
tion*. Moreover, If pursued with
?ome releotlessnes*. for some time
after the war, it might reduce all
the treaties to scraps of paper. At
least, so several member? declare.
It would mean that all other na
tions could not be blamed for in
stalling universal military training
in their affair*?and then we would
be back. In a few year* or dee?dee,
to where we ?tarted from, with the
probability that ?ome of the coun
tries would be ready to leap Into
another war.
But the question I* not to he set
tled here In Washington. The people
ar? going to bave an opportunity
to ?peak oa it The friend* of the
profumai wax legislation ai* anxi
A LINE 0* CHEER
EACH DAY 0* THE YEAR
By John Kendriek IIana*
GOO? A!\D EVIL.
I looked about for ugliness.
And found it sure enough.
I truly did not have to press
To find tho ?orry ?tuff.
But I disco vi-red everywhere
I cast my eager eyes.
Despite the ugliness, there
Were lovely things likewise.
If there were weeds some flower nigh
Was always to be seen,
>"d whr?** *'ie clouds obscured the sky
T.e ea .h was lustily green,
A i laughter playing round.
' ? amid the blur
And tt ? ?*?* ' crime?rid hearts I found
' ot character!
?? it it to the people for]
? J the men who counsel
co.I - ? ? ? id slow adjustment of
ou fter peace shall have
co-"'-.. ?>> ?t as anxious to sub
mi It -"?j . people.
1 odore Roosevelt had j
not betti't-o rttical of the attitude]
of ' .? us -, stration upon several ?
ma? t-s ?-? would have been an;
idea? \*.??. * t*. inject into the Rus
m-.it )'s'a.r -ral, because his char
oct?r \? tun character that the
? ave: - ? Rimili likes to meet, the
I kind * ' A es In, the kind he
I will loiiow. the kind that can
achieve results with the Russian.
Hut with his continual asinine
? nagging, members of Congress as
! sert. ? R*. has put himself in a po
! M tion where he cannot do real
! service for us in the pla?*e he is
I most admirably qualified for. and
which hi would doubtless be glad
to mi.
No one will ever know?at least
until after the war is over?wheth
er President Wilson thought of T.
G?. as a possible Moses to lead the
I.usslans out of the wilderness.
Rut If the President did have the
former occupant of the White*
Hou>e In mind he knew him better
than T. R. thought he did. and he
must have foreseen that, before our
light had gone very far, the Col
oncl would he an opponent of the
administration's war plans. Aa
some member.?-, at the Capitol have
frequently said, it is a pity that the
Colonel didn't begin right and stay
riuht from the outset. lie could
have performed meritorious service
in Tetrograd. He could have, per
haps been the means of bringing
Russia into the equation at a time
when Germany was most ?iiscour
iiued, and when a Ann stand on the
part of Russia would have meant
? ;. ? many's withdrawal from the
held.
There is one point, however,
upon which the Colonel can yet
right himself. He can become a lit
tle more disposed to urge those
things upon the American people
which tally with the ideals of after
war existence, as contemplated by
President Wilson. And he can be
gin at once to boost for the Presi
dent's way of handling the present
situation.
T. R. has It In him to remain a
useful citizen. He cannot be as
useful as he might have been., of
j course, but he still can derivato
himself to a task for which be is
still qualified, even l h ou i*. h he has
made himself useless for another
and a greater task.
His friends in Congress hope T.
R. will forget self and rc^neml)* %
America. The country will live
long after the Colonel is gone. It
makes precious little difference
what bi-comes of him-?hereafter?
but it does make a great deal of
difference what becomes of this
country.
THE nnSKRVHR.
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New Tork, Jan. S?It I? funny what !
a goldfish can do to disturb the peace
fulness of placid live?. Some one lent j
Miss liaird Leonard, the pungent para
graphs of the Morning Telegraph, a
goldfish for a present the other day.
When the elevator man Informed her
that he had put a goldfish In her
apartment she looked st him sharply
to eoe if he was registering imperti
nence or Imbecility.
She opened the door of her apart
ment and beheld a glittering three
fourths of an inch object darting
through the channel* of a Bockltn pic
ture in a Japanese bowl. Caesar?
cryptic triple verb message about hi*
conquest of the Gaul? went double for
that goldfish. Miss Leonard w
changed more quickly than the Gent j
in "Marouf" from an Independent!
voter to a slave beset by responsibil
ity.
First, the fish had to be named. So j
she christened him "Stuyv??ant." Sec- |
ondly, he had to be cared for. Every
body, except Miss I.eonard, It seemed
knew all about goldfish. Some Raid to
lie careful and change the water every
| day. and other? said to change it
? three tune? a week. And then ?ome
said feed it twice dally and others
tnrlce daily.
An apartment neighbor dropped In
and ?aw the lone goldfish and shud
dered. There wa.? only one thing to I
do??aid th?? neighbor?get a compan
ion for Stuyvenant or he will die.
So she started out and drifted Into I
one of those drugle?? drug store? that
keep everything In the world but
drug*.
"I am looking for a minnow to plav
with mv goldfish." ?he said to the
clerk. The clerk turned her over to
the chief of the minnow department
There was a paucity of companionable
? minnows. The clerk believed it was
? the war??tt least everything was be?
, ing blamed on the war.
I So Mis.? Leonard went home t. ?ee
| her goldfish die of lonelim ss. While
I ?l.e had gone something had happened.
There was Stuyvosant and two little
goldfish. And now it *eem? that she
will have to change Stiiyvcsanr?
name.
Theatrical manager, are huddling
into their fur eoats these day? Hirty
weather, mates, aloni the Kiatto.
| Ticket speculator* go alioiit -rit? tear?
in their eye* wishing they had stuck
to burgarly or sneal?n_ tr Ik can*
where It would he possible to have a
dinner at Child'? now and ilion.
W. A Brady said i. nth that It
would l>e only a short while before at
least twenty theater? in N<w York
would be dark. A. L. F.rlanger. the
]?anie day ?aid about tl-.e .?ame thing.
When Brady ?nd ??langer? say the
??me thing* it nu ans something. For
year* they have increased the work
ing hour? of lawers to prove the an
cient adage that .Ian? are several
Iside? to a question. If F.rlangor say?
It Is going to rain. Mi. Brady uredlets
a long, dry ?pell
The theater is In an alarming state
Seventy new production.? thus far nn.1
forty-nine liave expired with low
gurgle?. And the poor star? are as
free of money a* nn unwaihed Ru?
nlan 1? of a clean collar. William
Faversham and his lovely eyes lasted
? two week*. Henry Miller one. Bllli
Burke suiAived thirty-three perform
I anees. Alice Nielsen achieved two
A new ?ong on Broadway fhot ??
proving quite popular is a big mouth
ful for convivial ?outs who xtwnre
chirp the latest dittle? homeward
bouiid in the morning dawn. It \t a
rou*in~ sea song and has the word*.
"We'll Knock the li. Ugo Into Hellgo.
?out* of Heligoland" Three young
| blade* In' evening clothes and allk
I toppers, nrtm linked, were weaving
up Broadway cheering late pedestrians
with tunes. One started the Hc'iltf"
song. The other? tried to follow ?nd
after several false starts they sud
denly switched to "Over There." Ami
not one of them smiled?but the laic
pedestrian? had ? good laugh.
Wafts SnspentW from 4? Roof.
One of the queerest structure? in
the world if an electric station build
ing et Ciistob-il. In the Panama Ca
nal Zone, according to the popular
Science Monthly. The roof ta *upport
ed by powerful central column* and
the ?Id. walls bear no weight what
soever but are eusponded from the
rave* by mean* of cantilever beam?,
on one ?ide of the building, the w*lt
is made fast to the foundation with
. nchor bolt*. This uni?|iie construc
tion was adopted to prevent the build
ing from settling ?t a dangerou? an
gle, ?houkl an earthquake tremor
*_u*t t_* foundation?
Sammies Rely on French
To Furnish War Supplies
Lack of Material Retards Training of Persh
ing's Men; Shortage of Labor
Also Cause of Delay.
?7 HEY WOOD BUOI tf
"???.??lai Cabla to W'aaalaat.a Herald
aa? Hum Tark Trihaa.
? or-mt-ht. BO. br Tb? Tnbaa. Aaa-eattaaa.)
With tha American Army. Jaa. ?.
When th. flrat unit ot the Amarict-n
army landed tt waa obliged to borrot?
motor truck? from the French.
Tb? American major sanerai ex
plained that the War Department bad ?
made a mistake and ?hipped th.
truck? on the ?lotreit ?taamer ot the
rentoy. The?? truck? came tn about
five days later and a era put to worm
after a little gasoli*-? had been bor
rowed from the French, but the bad
?tart ha? never been overcome. From
that day to thl? our man hav? always
been ahead of tbelr material.
Material ?tow.
?'nit after unit arrive, and wait?
for It? wagon, and motor truck?.
Sometime, the?, come In a week and
?omettme? It take? longer, but always
there Is a wait. Not once has a di
vision arrived and found it? trucks
and wagons waiting. The Rainbow
Division was h-mdicappod in thl. way.
Arrived tn It? training area, th? di
vision had mule? but not wagon?.
At the end of a week there arrived by(
rail a number of case? containing]
wagon parta. Eargerly the quarter- j
master unpacked the.? eratea. He ;
found wagon bottoms, sideboards and {
barkboarda. but no wheels. They sr- j
rived a week later.
The American army now haa a good
many automobllea and motor truck?.
There are not enough to be sure, yet
there Is a respectable showing. But ?
we are itili depending almost entirely i
on th? French for gasoline. We have ?
leaned much too hard upon the
French. We use their ?.isoline and
their airplanes and their field guns j
and their heavy guns snd their bombs ?
and their automatic rifle?. We take
nothing from the British but ga? '
maska and helmet?.
But there I? one commodity which la
comparatively plentiful In American
and very scarce In France, and that '
I? labor. Tet we are uiing French
labor largely for our preparation? In j
France. French soldi?? build many I
of our wooden barrack?. French
women and men are handling our
auppliea at the Quartermaster-, haa*t
The question of labor ia closely al
lied with th. question ot housing.
Thl? haa not been handled well. The
first unit arrived here in summer and
the officers were billeted In houae?.
while the men went Into barn?. A?
far aa possible, these wer. bann
which bad been used for storing grain.
A very few hsd been used for cat tip.
These French villages were not clesn,
but a little work and a little persis
tence did much to remove mud and
manure. Perhapt the?e little red
Sly Shots st the Solons.
By TBE OBSERVE*.
Can it be possible that men who
voted for tb? Walih oil leasing ball ia
the Senate wanted to give tha Stand
ard Oil Comrany what Arthur Blie
ben? says tt ?ill get out of this bill
By the way, wher? doea Mr. Brisbane
get this information which make, him
so cocksure about this Standard Oil
business? Did he appear before a
committee with It?or hat he given it
in epistolary fashion" Congreaa would
like to know.
If there ever waa a time for a dem
agog now 1? that time. In spite of
th? richnes. of opportunity, however,
there are few of this brand of crit
tera tn the Congressional corral. For
which the country 1? thankful.
Senator Fletcher took occaeloa to
-till alleged His which hav. been go
ing the round? with reference to the
swamp land where Camp Joe John
.-ton Is located. Evidenti? other Sen
ators will have to follow a similar
??uree with reference to camp? in
their sections of Um country.
There are rumor, th.t the MeKel
iar amendment. In a modified form,
may be fought for at the present
seaalon by thoae second claa? postal
rate experts who find the pr?sent pro
vi.ton ot th? war revenue law on the
.?uh)ect decidedly unbearable and ?up
rotvedly unworkable.
Senator Galllnger took a rood r??t
?luting tbe final two month? of the
extra session. Conaaquently he I? now
found to be .er)? much on the Job.
It wa? Smoot, of Utah, who men
tioned something about free trade,
and his opposition to it, when inter
viewed on the President", Tuesday
message to Congress. Can It be- that
Mr. Smoot thinks the President be
lieves one thing we ?re fighting for i?
free trade?as the Senator thinks of
ttt
Member? of Congres? are ? ing
flooded with letter? from civil war
veteran? who make a rlghtooua plea
for higher pension?. Since the war
rl?k bill became operative the vet
eran? realise that, after all. the; have
been dealt vith. with th. mon ex
treme frugality.
Speaker '"lark dine? -Billy" Sunday
and "Ma'' Sunday Is there, and ao I*
Mrs Clark. And thl* hapen? on the
day the house votes on toman auf
trage. And they all four ate for suf
fragi?verily, politics and affairs on
the hill are getting to be domestic In
the strictest sense, are they not?
/ _
Of the hundred e-unties of the na
tion which auained the signal honor
of recording more voluntary enlist
ments than their draft quota* called
for. most of them were from the West
or Middle West. An Interesting f?ct
to recall when one realise? that ?ome
of our great men insisted the Wm
wa? ao full of pacifism that It
wouldn't respond to the colors.
OR Victor Rose? ?ter, of Omaha
Neb. who wa? acting chairman of
the Republican National Committee
previous to the 1?; convention, was
in the city yesterday. He .??ont some
time In interviewing some of the hie
men about chances of the party ror
the coining year. Also, he wa? trying
to And out If any of them knew "pro
dsely what President Wilson meant
by "that third paragraph" of hta
peace conditions.
NEW YORK HARBOR CROWDED
The probers iato the Shipplng
Board yesterday heard Edward V.
Carry, director of operation, in tin
hoard, tell of the crowded conditions
In New Tork harbor.
A subcommittee of the Commerce
Committee, composed of Senators
Harding, of Ohio, and Fletcher, of
Florida, ?tscured from the Shipping
Board the *?.??.??? advano, to the
Newport New. Drydock 8bipbullding.
?o that tt may erect house, for us
laborer? and relieve tb. crowded liv
ing condition?.
roofed town* dM not (listen bet tfcey
wer? sanitary enou.rt..
It ara? alno fortuna t? th.it :?,e m--??
and officer? IiTod et*-V by eld*? with the
French villafers and relation? arara
pleasant and cordial
But the days were rrowtnc shorter
and they raced on much faster than
wooden hs_j-r*e_e went up Now the
tra?iing area of the A tuerte* ? army
ts In a teflon noted for rifforou*. win?
tars. Cold carne early and It foen*
most of our men tn airy billets jt hi
not feasible to beat those barns wtth
stoves, snd our men are cold. Ho far
the number of eases of pneumonia i?
not treat, but tnf.ucn.__ is extremely
prevalent, and cold M one of the worst
enemies tn the world to morale The
men In the wooden barrack.? are a lit
tle better off. for here they have heat.
They burn wood boro wed from tbe
French. Like gasoline, cy?,] nesem* ta
have been overlooked a mon ? our mili
tary necessities. The hsrrnc.-?'*? h.ivr a
rood deal of Individuality Some ate
better than others. When it rains."
said one enlisted man. "tve pitch shel
ter tents over our berrsc-* to ke-p
the rain out."
Clothing Is almost ade-q.ua >c There
are Just about enough overcoats ?? ice
round, and blsnkets are a bit inore
plentiful. .
Mea u p? Fe-4.
Cominr. to a mure vital matter. It is
pleasant to r? por t that In the main
the American army has been well
fed tn France, once or t-rfka M *
unit* have found HM__mSPH O'jt of
touch with thetr food suprlies t-rx-r.
arrival In s trainine ir?e. b-Jt hsr..
shlps have been temporary. We"). ? <
some thincs. Our bakery in pnmliv?-.
In fact, we are usine ? fi ?--Id baker ?
for a base bskery. and rot f*ll the
me? receive white bread. On the
other hand, t-ood ia abund..nt si
quantity and the quality ia rood ei
ceptinr only .n th?- Am?*-.cati arr.iy
headquarters In rsria
Dinner la pleasanter far t. e sofd ? r
than the perioj 1mm. ftat-1
ward, for the American ftn
not aeem to be ?Able V> Le?p
the demand for ton-e o At r ? m ?
limes there h;.?? been sn absolute
?hortete in ciffaref?*-. |M nrvei he?
the aupply kept up to <b rand ?G
floera say that th?? bsjMI rt pet paid
too much money. .-<-?!1.- r- ? ? ?. - -
be. l'Ut not oft4-n ewou h The pur
system of th?? Aaerioan ?_rr?.. :? fear
fully complicated snd .
Allowances to folks at K* bm ari de
duction? for liberty Tx.nd-> h-.'e ? ???
it almost necepsar> for
? pan? to have a traine?. (.-.Kkt'
Red tape about pay .? en?
I Added to this, the moverne?! '
-
Lcmou?. |
whereabout? h??r Ine????*?* tt
ficultie* of hcad.iunri'--s. As -i re
sult, a ?Treat mar.? ?oklier? ?re f*r
| behind on their par Three ?ninth?
1* the furthest encountered
THE TOWN CRIER.
_
et tk? re?rala?
meetln?; of ihr gjff-*r? ????? ??.???
of Sh? District of Columb-.a. scheduled
for tod???, ?"?? ?anno.need free
quarter?, 14?( Rhode lal*nd avenue?
Ute last nicht
luiiam.. la . ... ..? ,,r-...
?ion will beirm at t o'cloek IM* . ?eli
ine at the T. W. C. A. under th? di
rection of *1??* Kthel Bitnlett. Nor.
mal School instructor
Catoael Ai-chlbal* Maaki?? ota?
re-elected ch*iim*n of ilie !??
I manager* of the Associata?! tritai ut? ?
at th? rearular mwmtatg ? ?etlnc - f
th. board yesuidey ?f lei novn at II.
Social Servie Hou.c. K% H ?atre? t
northweet.
?Si.? Knaaaa 4?ra?. ?G??1*>?.? .f ?b.
National Ne?- Thouphi ' ? nter. ?po.a
on "Mental Poisoninjc" at a ?? -'??*
of the Center last ni-rhl.
The ??.? aaelal ?.mi? ut tba
Cnlleg-iaie <*lub for the aeator, ??ill b?
I held at S:3N o ?lock ? ?,- ?t
th? T. M. If. ? re-c.li? y ?- '
! ?ylvan?t s.emie no-<i-i??t I" '
i menta ?nd ?moke? ? IU I?
Mea?her? af ?be - ? ?all a>r*a?>l?rd
?Interior DepaSamrni Ik? - I .'id a ?
I to meet at '..'?" ??'? '?? ? thi' ?
th. auditorium al ? Im ??? ? Ii
Department l.iiildase. Kid Ir.' ? *?
j I?loye* of the ^ nrlou* hjreau>
?applied fei incTol?-rahij? Vlc'.-r I.
! Doel.e ia r .vicient ef the ana .?1 ???
! Cam??tion, ?' ? ?. ll-c
?aad 14 It. Rudolph du-c |???
-.?altera af -?. Aaa'a ?aalliar?.
? KiiitmiI af >" i
. lueeted lo ettend ip.-i. >???? eif ??!
' ftoer? th?? ???enirn- ?' '? ? si >''? '
'rectorv, s?-eond .nd ' . ? ? l% ?e . -i
Tbe art ara-tlaa a? ?be T.fr?'l?
? Ontuiy i'luh ??ill ? ?-? ? .1 ihe
'of Jlr?. DasSaa *?/*?**. K*?* iJm\mmm
road. I hi? afieni.icn ?t
I aathject. "The Wnmei. of the 1;.
?aaan " ?in ??, ire.ied ?.? ??, ? i
I CVandnll
Ml?? I rar. r. 44.11?. aad
?t Will. Astea* ??? Id like .ill I?I
I ?;iil? 10 n?e?t In the l:?*tc ? ft?i?j
? !cii?n i'hiirch. Sixth ?tr?e:
land a\-cnue north???t. st
evenin* for ?n li ?portant ? -
Sandwich?? and ?iiplr? ?ill !..
?a?*. All Ctrl? ?ho would 1IU. 10 J
lone to tlie Council ??lrt? are ?t^nl
lr Invited.
Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
in the Morning
Wash ?way all the stomach,
liver and bowel poicon* be
fore breakfast.
T.. fi . I y. tir I? -t day in ??
out. tn lcel clean infid. a?
! to coat your lungi.e and i-ieken your
? breath or dull y.iiir head: m> ?.?*?It?
jpeti.in. hiliou? atta-k?. *?*? hnear*
'?ehe. Ci'ld?. rlieuir.?iti?-m ?r ?ja?- .
! ?cid *ln?aa?l? >??<? inn?! hail?. ..?? it..
infide lik?.- >???? halb* out?ide Tin?
lia v??lly rann? important, bec?u???
|(he ?kin pore? do not ab?"rh tr ?
purilie? into Ihr blood, ?hile MM
buarei i>cr?-? d.?. ??>? a ? <ll-l.n??? a
I phy.iciari.
T?? keep the*. |ioi?on? and toxin?
??ell fl?ie?hed f'om the ?tonaaeh.
luir, kidaay? and bo?el?. drink be
iforc breakfast < ?eh day. ? al??? ?'
I hot ??tei ?t-itii a ????????oarul ?'
!llme?ti>n?' idioa_ltat_<B It- This ori I
Ich am-?', ? ? the ? n
liiicMlini ' ? bet?r.? pull ?J
?note food Hj^HHSSk-'1
cet a qaalru? ?>??'??* of Um?
phosphate frrUB ?an?. ?
li? ineipen?!.. ?Jl^^fc?? la?t?i? ?
Prink ybonfaaaaaaaMa. ?? ^lrr ?
mornlna to rM rafJrmtetn of the?,
rile pol.on? US MM tl?o lo pre?
vent their f?ra-?
A? ?<>?p ??* "*?'. ?J?r a?-? on th.
? kin. ? lianat^^^^Benin?
purifying. ?_J ?H plio.pliai?
and hot ? tier mH? JUeabtamu ?ct
on the ?! (ta ?dn'5? A?t
? u ? m ? M