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TODAY'S THE ? * ? LAST SUNDAY in March ? * ? ' AND THE beginning * ? ? OP THE Daylight- ? * ? ? SAVING SCHEDULE ? * ? DONT FORGET ? ? ? TO SET your dock! * * ? GEE! ? * ? AINT IT great! ? ? ? ? THERE'S JUST one thing's ? ? ? GOT ME puzzled. ? ? * DRAW UP close * ? * WHILE I whisper ? ? * IN YOUR ear * * * "WONT IT be ? ? ? ONE AWFUL job ? * * CHANGING THE * * * HANDS OF the clock * ? ? ON ALL the * * * SILK-CLOCKED Hosiery? HA! HA! HA! * * * WAIT TILL ? * * ABE KABIBBLE * ? * "LAMPS" THAT one. I THANK YOU X. Y. Z. Eat With Us Today A splendid menu has been provided and everything is in "apple-pie" order to entertain you most sumptuously. We feel confident you will appreciate tho atmosphere of the TEA CUP INN and our eagerness to please our patrons. 611 Twelfth St. N. W. Lettucak Qicuaber, R*di*k. ( Baet, Carrot. Psrsoip, P?**. Be*n*. Incogb for your fir ,c <i?i. Onto. MriJ. BlnOEl, 25C PINE TREE NURSERY, Round rood. Me. Vegetable Exclusive of Sums' Taken Out of $50,000,000 for Grain Corporation. The Itemized accounts of the rood Administration, filed with the Senate and Home yesterday, show that the total disbursements out of the Con gressional appropriation for the month of February are J148.68S on ac count of the Food Administration. They also show that out of the ISO - 000,000 invested by Uncle Sam in the grain corporation for the purchase <>t wheat, flour, beans, etc. for the allies, the government and others, were JW6.92S for general ex penses; JU7.743 for storage and insu ranee. These expenses, hovever, are covered by the Grain Corporation on I the small differentia] charged between I purchase and sale, so that Uncle Sam | loses nothing in the .operation. The total disbursements of the I Food Administration since its founds-1 Uon on August 10, 1917, to February I 3. has been for salaries and ex p*nse under the Congressional appro- 1 priation. JK9.824. p , The total disbursements on the con servation program provided by the! President out of Presidential funds ' since Au*u?t 10. when 1 the rood act was passed, and 1294 ion Prior to that date. ^ ^ j A^?,tali1SbUrSenMnU 0f the Food Administration outside of the 150,000.-1 2,*S2- m 5*? Graln Corporation has, therefore, been 11,697,337. The foregoing includes Federal ex J1" forty-eight different State administrators, the District or Columbia Alaska. Hawaii and Porto *?* c,,y "d C?Unt' The Food Administration has three thousand volunteers giving the ma rm to the work- and ST.r" ?fflcUI?' Th? expenditure. tha^B3ft'^iP to da,e> amounts ?o less ! io??iS^.?2S ^Ison ?c?vely at work for the Food Administration OPERATiC SINGERS WILL GIVE CONCERT San Carlo Company Appears To night in Varied Program. As a fitting and delightful close to a week of opera ,n W ashington, Impresario Fortune Gallo,' ?^e. San Carl<> Grand Opera Com pany. has arranged for a superb pro con?rtn.1 k? 5? of a Krand operatic Klven at ">e Belasco The- | ater this evening, wherein all princl-' pais of the .organization, complete or- 1 chestra^nd chorus will participate The affair will be upon the same or- ' helrS ^ose excellent performances' heard at the Metropolitan Opera House. New York, each Sundav even ing during the opera season in the I S Sn r Th? enUre raembership ot tne San Carlo company win be brought! forward upon this occasion. The pro- 1 gram: i part r. Overture. "Barber of Seville.- ROS inl, orchestra; prayer from "Caval lej-ja Rusticana." Mascagni. Mile Luisa Darclee and chorus. ?'M Appari" (Like a Dream"), from ?'Martha," I ?AhiT' ^nor Giuseppe Agostlni; I ni0^;,LU:" ("The ?ne ?f w?om \ ^ m "Traviata." Verdi. <^". D cran; Toreador. from Mons Giuseppe Tr? f ? choru=; "Nile Scene- (en-, ? . tmm "Aida," Verdi. Mile and"e^r!et' M"Sr5' Sl'a21r- ? , PART II. ' Hoftlnan ' (*lth the 1 r, OSenbach- Mtnes. De ^e,Ue,and Darclee and Messrs. Ingar aod An tola; Intermezzo from "The 'hrHoSfr,the,Mad0nna" and "Dance of I w F,lr, T La Gioconda." W. | w. Ferrari, orchestra; Prologo (Pro a.^nl , PaglieccI," Leoncavallo. Slgnor Angelo Antola; Aria from ..f"" ? Delilah." Saint-Saens! Miss Stella de Mette; Basso Aria from the opera Salvator Rosa," Gomez -lSSI ^etIr? de B!aJ": Sextet from v,?? d! Lammermoor.- Donizetti. Mmes. yaccari and Homer. and r""3\^05ti,ni' Antola. Rossini and Cervt, Musical director. Carlo Peroni. | Elephant Swallows - $800 Thrift Stamps New York, March JO ?Jennie, the Hippodrome elephant, la worth >800 mora t^an ahe waa a day a*o. For ballyhoo purpose* aha . waa lent yfaterday to the war afVlnta com mittee that waa trying to eell "baby bonda" on a Broadway cor ner. While standing there In the thick of the crowd Jennie reached out her trunk and gathered hi over Woo worth of war thrift stampa that were on a tray, and promptly de voured them. U. S. BOYS SHOWN FIGHTING IN EUROPE New Official Film* Taken with Troops to Be Exhibited. Uotlon plcturea showing- the American troopa in action will be given at the Washington Theater. Eighteenth and U streets north west, today, tomorrow and Tuesday, for the benefit of the summer camp of the clerka of the general staff of the army. These exhibitions are given under the auspices of the Army War Col lege Club, and special permlaslon had to be secured from the general staff before they could be released to the public. The reels have been carefully kept in the aafe at the War College, and It was not Intended i to have them exhibited except to j the members of the general staff. Several reels will show the Amer ican troops in their various progress i from the training camps - in , this country to the actual front line I trenches in France; thrilling scenes! of actual engagements on the bat tle fields are said to surpass any films of this nature that have yet been shown In thla country. In addition to the pictures taken of the American troops in action, which will be exhibited, through the courtesy-of the British war col- j lege office a number of "over the top" pictures taken by Brtish offi-' cial photographers in the height ofj the most exciting battles, will be! shown. The admission fees will be 20c for adults, and 10c for children, and' there will be no war tax. The time of the exhibition on Sun-1 day will be from 3 p. m.. until 11' p. m.. on Monday and Tuesday from I 7 p. m. until 11 p. m. - I WEATHER CONDITIONS. j District of Columbia*. Fair and moderately J warm Sunday and Monday, gentle to moderate south winds. Maryland: Fiir. warmer Sunday; Monday fair;' gentle to moderate south wind*. I Virginia: Fair Suoday, warmer near the coast; Monday fair; moderate south wind*. LOCAL TEMPERATURE*. Midnight. 41; 2 s. m.. 41; 4 a. to.. 40. 6 a m 37; 8 a, m.. 41; 10 a. m., 51; 12 noon, 62; - P- m, 64; 4 p. m.. 67; 6 p. m, 64; 8 p. m., 51; 10 p. m . 54. B?glie*f. ?6; lo?wt. 3?. Rela tive humidity? 8 a. m , 70. 2 p. m , 2b; 8 p. is , 40. Rainfall (8 p. m. to 8 p. mi, none; hours of sunshine, 11.5; per cent of possible sunshine, Departure*?Accumulated eicee# or . deficiency of temperature ?nce January 1, 1T.S, ?51; exr*** or deficiency of temperature since March 1. 1913, +171; accumulated axceaa or deficiency of pre cipitation e:nce January 1. 1318. -0.22; excess or deficiency of precipitation since March 1. 1918, + '.45. Temperature same date last 'e?r. highest, eo. icwegt. 40. TEMPERaTCRE in* other cities. Lowest Big treat laat Rain _ A . today, night I r . m. falL Boston, Mass .64 54 M Buffalo. NY 42 3) 42 .... Chicage. Ill bj 42 63 Davenport, Iowa (A & (2 Denver, Col 63 cA 64 .... Indianapolis. Ind fA 41, ft? Kansas City, Mo TO 44 Los Angeles, Cal 3* 62 8> Memphis. Tena 66 S *4 New Orleans. La 74 62 .13 New York. N. Y.. 60 34 ?? .... 1 Portland. Ore . *4 43 63 SaJt Like City, Utah- 63 4) 82 .!!! TIDE TABLES. (Compiled by the United States Cc%st and Geodetic Surrey.) Today-Lew tide. 4 :39 a. m. and 5:19 Pl m.; high tide. 10 3 a. a. and 10:49 p. m. CONDITION Or THE WATER. Temp?:ature and condition, of water yesterday: Great Falls?Temperature. 46; condition, misty. Dalecarlia rtservair?Temperature, 48; oonditun at north connection, cloudy; condition at south connection, very cloudy. Georgetown distributing reserroir?Temperature. 50; condition at influent gatehouse, cloudy; condition at effluent gate house, cloudy. Automobile lamp* must be lighted by 7 p. m. -USif/tjfrlrqT Gcvnea&&7sz& ^WlUtURTOWNSlNOfG rfi '&/ieSmartjl/ec ^feasfaf/7lelactyrfy' flHANMGMftW &Jfv7lirn,-fiifure ?M.##ART^ 'THE DAWN MAKERS ^ . ~ tllfyl'l ? ~ SWEENEY WILL. HAVE WORLD'S BIGGEST HOTELI Noted Boniface ' Plans to Open Commodore with Innovations. It is doubtful if there Is an active hotel man In the United States who his more friends and acquaintances than George W. Sweeney, of New York, who was in Washington last week attending a national food con ference.* Twenty years ago he was the real boniface of the popular Hotel Vic GEORGE W. SWEEXET. toria, of New York, then the ren dezvous of wealth and fashion. The very best people, using the terra as indicating men and women of real accomplishment, made the Victoria their New York home. The large hotels farther up town made in roads. but as the business pros pered. so did George Sweeney. He is now managing director of the Ansonia, and also of the Hotel Kim ball. at Springfield; but his chief concern just now is to get the new Commodore ready for occupancy by next fall. The Commodore will be the worlds most commodious hostelry. With accommodation for thousands, with a service that will be un equalled, with furnishings that will challenge the admiration of all, with a central location in the heart of things doing, it will be the meet ing place of the millions who go to New York. Big Shopper. Mr. Sweeney has been termed "the , greatest shopper in the world," and his excellent taste for fine furnish ings and appropriate settings is only equalled by his rare ability to , buy. For instance, one order for ' silver alone was for 1?0,000 pieces.! and totalled over $250,000. Complete equipment to accommo date and serve 4,000 persons in one day has been installed. The laundry will turn out 75.000, pieces of flat J work daily, and there will be over i 1,250,000 pieces of linen necessary.! Other figures that astonish are! 86,000 yards of carpet; a telephone equipment with 200 trunk lines and fifty operators. Picture to yourself a hotel with 2,000 rooms, every one with a bath. "Two! and a half for a room and a bath" I will be the commodore slogan. The | ball room, the largest in the world, will when used for a banquet seat 2,300 persons. Every floor will have its own clerk. There will be running ice water in every room, and the tem perature of the rooms will be regu lated by the guest?and a thermometer. Patience and Tact. It takes a man of patience and tact and rare ability to run a big hotel nowadays. These Qualifications are Mr. Sweeney's, but his greatest talent is an ability to select subordinates. Courtesy and efficiency are Sweeney slogans. He has Installed In New York a welfare department which will have charge of all research work in cidental to securing the service of the best available help. This system Is as rigid as regards bell hops as it is In the employment of managers and chief clerks. Each is \ selected after a thorough investiga , tion into his or her character. Pay i ing the highest wages, Mr. Sweeney j demands the highest service possible. | During his visit to Washington, Mr. Sweeney studied systems inaugurated in the larger Washington hotels which have been overrun with business since | the war began. Civil Service Seeking 2,500 Char Women Twenty-flve hundred forms will be distributed to applicant, for appoint ment as charwoman in Waahlncton by the Civil Service Commission to morrow, th? commission announced yesterday. Applicants should call at the offlce of the commission. 1724 F street northwest, and all applications must I be filed before the close of business on April 15, the commission stated. | Fresh-cut Sprlnr Flower*. FlMjt home-frown ?pedm??? the loGs-Ustinj kind??t Gu'ie's, m? Y.?AAi. LOCAL MENTION. Electrle Irons and Toasters. Electric Webster, 719 9th St. N. W. City Tenants* Protective Lehise ?City Tenants who have been ask ed to pay higher rental, or riven 10 days' notice to vacate, would do well to Join without delay. For particulars, phone Franklin 2821, or call ,or addreas: City Tenants' Pro asSrlMa VmX HERALD'S SUNDAY SERMON. The following Euur sermon vu written especially for The Washing ton Herald by the Rev. John E. Brlggs, pastor of the Fifth Baptist Sbureh. Text?"Blessed be the Lord my itrength, which teacheth my hands to war and my Angers to light."? Ps. 144:1. Christianity and War. By REV. JOHN K. BRIGGS. Christianity and War! There is much confosion concerning it in the public mind. Therefore every Chris tian should study the matter In the light of the Bible teachings, and should have clear conceptions and leflnite convictions concerning It. Christianity and war. Not Chris tianity and any particular war, be it revolutionary, civil or pan-Euro pean. but war as a tribunal for the settlement of disputes and as a means of working out moral pur poses and securing moral ends. What shall we say of war? Is It right? Is It necessary? Is it Chris tian? Or Is it everywhere unneces sary. un-Chrlstlan and wrong? The world gives a divided answer. Jesus came not primarily to build I up a state, but to create a new dls-' position in the hearts of r.\ n out of which future states should A me Jesus said to Pilate: "M? ktng Som is not of this world. To this snd was I born Into the world that [ should bear witness to the truth." lesus was a teacher, not a state official. Mep who follow Jesus must give up the savage principle of re taliation. They must forgive their enemies and obey the golden law of love. But la this the law of states ? States also must come under the law of love but may not love sometimes employ force? Must a community do away with all of their processes and compulsions of government? Must a state go unarmed and submit to every Injustice which its own citl tens or foreigners Inflict? never discussed that ques Uon and so we are left for guidance science , ned Cl""lstlan con rl*ht secure order and ! Justice in Washington? What makes Washington a desirable place ^hn?.teHent peopIe7 Schools and I church do. you say. Well, they help ?r*r? not a,one sufficient. We need schools and churches plus public opinion and police force.! as things are now we could not live without policemen. Insane men, brutalized men. defective men. ruf-1 fians and desperadoes come here, and these men would be kept from I outrage and violence only by the ' Iron hand of the law. I Take the police force from here and we would have pandemonium in twenty-four hours. What is a po liceman but a soldier? His value I lies In the fact that he is armed. | Wherever he goes he carries a club and a gun. The club Is made In conspicuous but it is a club heavy enough to crack a man's skull. The gun. though shortened and carried in his pocket Is a gun Just the same-and a gun that can Let the word go out that there are no policemen in Washington and what would happen In twenty-j four hours? The Treasury would | be robbed, banks broken into and safety vaults rifled. The seven I thousand policemen of New York are an army. Without policemen teachers and preachers could not do their work. Under the present stage of de-1 velopment and progress they seem to be as necessary as teachers and 1 preachers. But in more places than In the city policemen are needed. The State and the United States possess the right of self defense. This govern ment must protect her citizens wherever they are. In large cities or in small ones. In villages, cross roads and isolated farm houses. All of these must be protected by the State. The lives of men. women and children and their property t must not be left to the mercy of i rioters and mobs. must have State policemen. A ? body of men under command of the government, everyone of whom is trained to shoot and capable of using steel in putting down frenzied mobs. If the State must protect itself bo must the nation. Not one locality must be unguarded nor one citizen left exposed. In other words the na tion must have policemen. A body of national policemen are known as a standing array. Instead of calling them "policemen" we call them "regulars." I don't see how we can say that a standing army ir a libel upon our civilization unless we are ready to say the same of police men. VI hy should not a nation as well as a home or a city protect Itself? Wc lock our windows and doors over night to keep out those who would rob or kill us. should not a na tion lock its doors? Every harbor Is a door and every ,'s * ,dof ? each one of which should be locked. The police force of the sea is the navy. Instead of stationing a man on so many blocks on the sea it Is t0 place them 1,1 groups, the patform on which they stand be SfiS? batteship ^e revolver of irt i^tiiC^ln Cn hls beat ,a 'engthen- ; d until It becomes a mighty cannon carrying a 16-inch ball. st*te has a right to make ! war on a mob or to quell a riot then i the nation has a right to strike an-1 ?i fr.v, .01!.wh0 tramples under her feet the rights of humanity and defies the eternal principles of Justice. I am a disciple of peace, an ad vocate of peace, but peace with honor rather than peace at any price. Mill- | tarism ls. a running gore, an inex cusable blunder, an unspeakable crime and an unpardonable sin. of the so-called Christian world. That nation does the most for men and for Ood which does the most to carry the world to the golden time when nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and all have ac knowledged that the Prince of Peace is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. English Markets Get Small Meet Supply The English markets reports. Just r.ecelved by the United States Food Administration, show the amount of home-grown meat of all kinds coming to the principal markets has averaged 65.000.000 pounds of meat per week since January 1, as against 227,000,000 pounds average for the same period of 19X6. < The number of cattle coming to market has decreased 65 per cent. sheep 40 per cent, hogs 68 per cent, compared to the same period In 1916. HOWARD?"ONE DAY." The attraction at the Howard The ater this week will be "One Day." a sequel to "Three Weeks," which will be presented by the Quality Amuse ment Company with Cleo Desmond. Charlotte Freeman, Andrew Bishop, and other popular colored players in the leading roles. There will be Bshinls* 0A ?Thursday and fHKSl It's Time to Buy Your Spring Footwear Now, let this modern, efficient Hirsh Shoe Store service prove it* worth to you to morrow. Leave nothing to doubt?make certain that the style. quality and price of your spring footwear are right by coming direct to Hirsh's?out of the high-rent district. Women's New Spring Oxfords and Pumps Six of the Styles are Illustrated Above m ^ vt>/1I .OJ Gray and Tan Patent Colt Pumps and Oxfords; also in tan calf, gun metal and dull kid. With full Louis covered heels and flexible hand-turned soles. In this line of footwear you have a perfect blending of style and comfort. Full range of sizes. Misses and Growing Girls' White Nnbnck English Walking Boots for Spring. The ideal light-weight boot for spring w?ar. Made with \-inch military heels, broad toes and low flat heel styles. AUo !n solid shades of dark tan. Ko Ko, brown and gray: also In cloth tops to match and many otbtr smart -ombinations for growing girls. J Special 1 Price* on Footwear for Boys ?in dark tan and gun metal 1 ?English lace styles. H IRSH'S SHOE STORES 1026-28 7th St N.W. $4.85 White Nubuck Shoes for Misae* and children. In white Nu buck. The Woman Throws. "Jedge, Ah seed two flatirons come sailln' at me. En Ah flggered dat dey gwine to hit me right hard. "Ah ducked 'em. Den dat woman. Lucilla Bass, she picks up an empty beer bottle and blams me In de eye wid It." Lucilla had John Walker arrested, she said, for kicking her all over the kitchen. John had come downstairs for his breakfast, with some bad whiskey under his belt, and started to talk. Lucilla told him that she didn't care for any drunken talk. And then John fired a chair at her, she said, but he was too drunk to throw straight. The pair then got mixed and there waa a lively scrap. Lucilla called to a man upstairs to come to her rescue?but that guy be lieved in aafety first and stayed where he was. The girl's eye was blackened, her head cut and she was pretty well banged up. "Ah tuk good care of dat woman." John explained to the court, "en dla la how she 'predates wot Ah has done fo her." ,There was nothing for the court to do but to fine John $35?and he didn't even have 35 cents. Some Hard. "How did this man break up your chair?" The court Aked Carrie Munson. who was compainlng against Howe Jackson. [ / "With his haid Jedge Tonner." answered Carrie. w ?'! don't. see any marks on hi# head." said the court. "I can't be lieve It was done that way." "Dat s 'cause yo haid ain't as hard as his haid is," explained Carrie. It was perfectly true that Howe had broken up a perfectly good in stalment chair with no other Im plement than his "haid." In the first place the chair wis ! thrown at him by Carrie's brother. Howe ducked?and then he i rammed the chair like a billygoat. "Dere yo are." he said when he smashed it, "no darn fool is gwine thow dat chair at me agin." At first everyone thought that j Howe had a hammer of an axe in his pocket?but he didn't. ! There was not #a mark on his "haid." But the witnesses were dead sure that the man used his ! toppiece to do the damage. "Pay a fine of ten dollars." said the court. Toby ?arly Gets Tabbed. "Surfferin* cats, Jedge," said Toby i Adams, when his wife. Annette^ haled him into court for the forty-sec ond time. "Hit sems lak Ah was bawn undah a streak ob hard luck. "Every time Ah says ennything?ef Ah eben axes her fo MY own money ?she Jes* goes wild en lights into me." It happens that Toby lit into his wife this time?and he almost put her in the hospital. She asked him to go around to her mother's house and bring back a bundle of soiled clothes that she might wash them. He balked at going and she chided him. And then the scrap started. Toby picked up a piece of wood from behind the stove and Annette got it behind the ear. She screamed for help and the neighbors ran in and got Toby tinder control once more. Annette's mother arrived, too. and the two women went out and got a warfant. "I am going to give you one more chance," said the court to Toby, "and if you are here again you will have to go to jail." "Awright, Jedge," said Toby meek ly, "Ah will let dat woman do enny thing she w^nts ter do?'cept kill me." Bonds to keep the. peace for him. He WU1 V* ork Nsw. Dr. Osier was wrong. To look at Fred Watson, a 70-year I old man, one would never think be needed chloroforming at any tiro# u his life. Watson had been working steadilj ?until Washington went dry. That la. he had no record?the police had never arrested him, until afcet November 1, 1517. Just what whisky had to do with it can only be surmised. Since that time Watson hasn't don* a lick of work. "I am Just as strong as I was forty years ago. Judge." he told the court "But why don't you work, then?'* demanded th? court. "You seem to have no friends?you haven't any money!" "Every place I go to look for a job." explained Watson, "they tell me I am too old; but. by gosh. I am strong." "Well," said the court finally. **I will give you one more chance. Get a job and keep it?and stay awa> from here."1 Ml W*rt h *f Temper. A wise man once s&i^ "If you hava| a good temper, keep it. If you & bad temper, don't lose It." When Dan Forsythe. a flower ped dler, tried to sell his mares the other day on Twelfth atreet he didn't ha"^e this advice in mind at all. When a prospective customer re fused to buy. Dan got hot in the col lar. He used some very bad languar* ?language not At for the ladies in the place to hear. He was put out. And then be darel the man to come outai&e and put him lout again. The man came out. Dan shied ? flower pot at him and miased, but broke a plate-glass window na&t do* I Several more flower pots wera thrown, but becauae Dan was a trifle pickled they did no harm. A cop came along and hustled to No. 1 precinct In the melee Dan had gotten cut over the eye and hta shirt front lookea like It had been painted red. Forty dollars ia a lot of money to pay for an exhibition of temper, but neverthelesa that la what the court told Dan to ahell out. . " ? * LOAN5 HORNING