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Have Yon $55.59?
That Is Yonr Exact Share.
Too Much Water at Niagara?
Rockefeller Forftme Too Big?
Bx ARTHim BBISBAXE.
The amount of cash la circula
tion in the United States, in your
pocket and the pockets of others,
if,. - onsand five hundred and
arty-nine millions the greatest
amount on record.
The floating supply of money
nan Increased seven hundred rail
lions In the last year and one hun
dred and seventy-five millions in
ins last month.
Five thousand five hundred and
llfty-nlne millions sounds like a
jf5iati Jcal of monev Your share,
QlVidinC the lnf.il gmnnnl hv tha
i number of Inhabitants, would be
exactly S55.G9. What a mysterious
thing is money The amount in
circulation dbes not represent the
wealth of the country, just as the
chips on the tabic do not repre
sent the wealth of those playing
poker.
The, total amount, of money cir
culating in the nation is a little
more than five thousand millions.
The average annual income of the
nation is at least fifty thousand
millions ten times as much as all
the money in existence. This shows
how quickly the money chanjes
hands, in the bank and out again,
in the shops, or payrolls, and out-
The national income, fifty thou
sand millions, and the populatiop,
one hundred millions, would make
the nation's Income of each man,
woman and child about five hun
dred dollars a year. The average
family of five is far from having a
net Income of twenty-five hundred
dollars. The exceptional Income is
far above that, runlng as high as a
. hundred millions a year for one
i famllv
It is natural to say, hastily, .that
such a system, very little in one
place, a great deal in another,
MUST be extremely bad for the
nation, that there can be no argu
ment about it.
But perhaps that isn't so.
There Is only a certain amount of
water within the borders of this
country. A great deal of it goes
over the rocks at one spot, Niagara
Falls. That seems more than the
share of Niagara.' But it makes
possible the power plant of Nia
gara. A million little waterfalls
with Niagara's supply of water
divided among, them wouldn't be
worth anything they wouldn't be
worth harnessing up.
Perhaps it Is' so with money, al
though many Americans, including
the .Communists, Socialists, and
others, don"tthinksjff .
ir may T5etangooa51hlns That
Rockefeller,- having a thousand
millions. Is able to establish his
institute that in years to come will
save the lives of millions of human
beings and to establish great uni
versities, as his money pours In.
investing in national industries by
the hundreds of million . If his
Standard Oil were divided up
among ten thousand "Coat Oil
Johnnies," those ten thousand
gentlemen would squander It and
have nothing to show for it like
the little waterfalls not harnessed
up.
It is a good thing perhaps that
five packers with their power unit
ed on a gigantic scale all are able
to supply to our army in Francs
sixty million pounds of beef on
sixy days' notice. Sixty thousand
little butchers couldn't have done
It it would have been impossible.
It was perhaps good for the
country to have Huntington build
a railroad across the continent
even if be did get the land and
money from the people. They
wouldn't have known enough at
that time to take It for them
selves and build the railroad.
When we want real power it is
necessary to havo cataracts like
Niagara now a million little catar
acts wouldn't do.
If we want great power In com
merce or philanthropy it is neces
sary to have great fortunes In few
hands as we nave now.
Will It always be thus?
Not necessarily.
When men learn to harness the
power of the sun and tides tbey
won't need Niagara's power. They
will divert the waters. Irrigating
every desert, watering evory gar
den When that day come3 the
stream over Niagara's brink may
not be as big as your arm. It
won't be missed, for the sun will
be doing Niagara's work.
Human beings will learn some
day to names the human mind
and its sense of justice. The day is
coming when democratic govern
ment will be a complete success,
wnen the truly ambitious man will
want to see bow much he can give
out to others, not how much he
can pile up for himself.
A day is coming when powerful
minds will feci toward their na
1 Uon, toward weaker brothers, as
the great football player of a uni
versity fcls 'award his alma
mater, and the boys of his class
anxious to serve them.
When science succeeds in har
nessing the sun and tides we won't
need waterfalls.
When patriotism harneshos tne
conscience of able men and puts
within them altruism instead rl
selfishness, it will not be neces
sary for them to pile up great
fortunes. They won't be needed,
or wanted. ..,.,
If ljrenzo de lledicl, who looked
ery much like John D. Rockefeller,
r hadn't piled up a great fortune
that enabled bis boys to encourage
artists, the world would have
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WEATHER:
Probably showers
today; cooler; to
morrow fair.
NOIBER 10,030.
BIG AMERICAN OFFENSIVE
PREDICTED BY GERMANS
Htl TARTS
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SOLVE PUZZLE
IN ROY CASE
From his cell in the Fairfax county
jail Lou Hall, a young woodcutter,
will conduct, through bis counsel,
Walter T. Oliver, an unofficial In
vestigation which has for its avowed
purpose trailing the murderer of
fourteen-year-old Eva Roy.
The girl was assaulted and
strangled to death on August 6 last,
while she tended her father's herd o
cows -near Burke Station, Va.
" TheOnlr Sngpect
irilSar 'thVnlfsupecr'-SieW in
connection with th case. He con
tinues to assert that he Is innocent;
that he is a victim of circumstances;
that he was arrested because he was
the only man missing from the com
munity when the girl was found dead
and tied to a tree near an old spring.
After his arrest at Accotlnk. where
he went on the afternoon of the day
of the murder. Hall admitted having
passed the sprins at which the Kir!
ate her dinner, but said that he
neither saw her nor heard the bells
on the cows that were crazing; nearby.
Ollm'i Theory.
"If the murderer of Bva Roy was
no strancer In the vicinity of the
crime, then we believe that the kill
ing took place some distance from
where the body was later discover
ed." Attorney Oliver asserted last
night.
We know that searching parties
who we-e beating the bushes from 4!
o'clock on the afternoon of the mur- ,
der until S o'clock on the following
morning, when the body as found.'
repeatedly passed the tree hr. the
body had been tied to make It ap
pear a case of suicide
"We Intend to investigate and de
termine If possible whether the body
was removed to that tree under cover
of darkness and placed there to make
it appear that the crime had been
committed near the spring where the
girl was wont to eo and look after
her father's cows."
Mr. Oliver declared that th fur
ther the Investigation proceeded the
further suspicion was being removed
from Hall
"Hall will never be convicted on
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INllOiLL
PASSED BY336I02
The firt of the September calls
for hclcctiio nervier men was is
sued last night by Prottut Mar
shal General Crowdcr and Is for
186,778 men.
The rail Iniohrs li'.,000 while
men for general military mlre,
who will entrain during Ihe
period from September 3 lo 6;
2170 colored selrclhes for gen
cral military scrticr, tiho ui
entrain September I; 40,500
while bclerthes, for limited mili
tary service, to entrain Sep
tember 3 to C
Before passing the bill to extend
the draft ages from eighteen to forty
five, by 336 to 2, the Hmi.-f defeated
decisively the Madden amendment In
tended to make Government clerks
and employes liable to the draft
The vote which knocked out the
Madden amendment, a.i taken by fil
ers, was 110 to 12S. On a riving vote,
it was defeated 142 to 115.
Congressman Madden, with numer
our supporters, took the position the
amendment mas necessary to rearh
slackers in the departments who are
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Foe's Last Hope Gone, Says British Admiralty
LONDON, Aug. 25. "Germany's last hope of winning this war has gone for
ever," declares the Admiralty wireless today. "With each proceeding stage in the
present fighting, the certainty of her defeat becomes more clearly apparent Week
by week, the American troops are pouring cross the Atlantic. Germany railed to
win the war before they came. They arrived in time to play a great part in the
breaking of the German thrust"
The "Admiralty wireless" is a daily wireless press service of the British gov
ernment The above declaration is therefore regarded as equivalent to a direct
statement of England's government itself. '.
our Aircraft production
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4,000 BOHEMIANS
STARVE TO DEATH
ZlT.iril. An?. JZ Ofnclal statistirs
Fho 'there were 4.000 deaths in Bo
hemia of "hunger sickness" since Jan
uary I. according to the Keue Presse.
The burgnmaMfrs of Cracow, Przr
mysl. Prclet, and Togolodo have
threatened to resign unless the peas
ants bring in more provisions.
FIVE BURNED TO DEATH
MARTIN'S KnnrtY. Ohio. Aug. ;s.
Mrs. Vladimir Scerhullcx and four of
her hlx children were burned to death
when their home was destroyed by
fire here.
It Is believed the oil stove exploded.
WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,
OopTrtrtt: int: Bar Jefca T. KcOotebem.1
TODAY.
STRIKING FIREMEN
FORCED BACK
TO WORK
PITTSnCntlll. tur. S3. rcvrry
fireman of the 1,000 who resigned
trom (be rltyVi servlc at noun
yeeterday ttmm back at fcla sta
tion In uniform at S o'clock last
ntKbt. OfTlrlals of the Federal
War Labor noard In Washington
told tbe virtual striken Iste In
the afternoon tbat tbey most re
turn to work.
Immediate arrest by the mili
tary of every man who failed was
the alternative.
This action was taken shortly
after "00 student soldiers from
the reserve officers tralnlna
camp at Cernrgle Teeh had vraa
a battle Tilth flames that de
stroyed several houses In Pen
aieane, and threatened to spread
to a munitions plant of the West
Inshooso electric cancer.
ONK YSAR AGO.
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sffvws3agfegs?iR,firas -g-g
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SINCE ONE YSAR AGO.
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Refusal of Heir Helferrlch, nnder ap
polntment aa Herman ambassador to
Russia, to go to hla post at Pskoff waa
Indicated In diplomatic advices received
here yesterday.
The Deutsche Zeltunr la qnoted a
commenting that Helferrlch Is reluctant
to enter Russia because he believes he
could not accomplish anythtnr "in a
diplomatic way" at the Isolated, town
selected aa the so-called diplomatic
headquarters of the Germans in Ras
sla. The suggestion Is offered that Hel
ferrlch Is not In sympathy with the
policy of "Secretary of State von IllnUe
In regard to Russia.
Count von Mlrbaeh, former ambassa
dor to Russia, was assassinated.
GERMAN
NVOY TO
RUSIASH1SPS
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1918.
FIVE CITIES
OEM ALLIES
LOXDOJT, An. 2i The cap
tare of Bray, Xaicpral, and Irles,
as well aa ieteral small towns,
is aaaoBBced br tie British war
ofoee.
The war office. aaBonaeement
co afliuml earlier report that
the.Briilia troops have foagbt
their mx forward fato the oat
sUrts of. Bapanme.
Aaftraliaa troops 'Captored
t2nj at raidairtt. iwt airat.
eki Xortk Coaster troops cap
tared La Befsselie, OrriDeres,
Xoaatt Fans, Taiepral, and
Grand Court, takiag 2,000 prii
oaers. Ifew ZeaJanaers, strtalag to
ward Bipaame, hare takes Lon
part Wood wit M0 prisoaers.
Pressia? on, ikej took Gre
Tillers, Biefellrrs, and reached
Aresaes-leS'BapaaiBe, a mile
north of Bapaaate. Ther are
bow la the ootskirts of Ba
paoBM. Br ED U KEEN',
United Press StafT Correspondent
IXNDON, Aug. 25. Bapanme,
N'oyon, Concy-Ie-Chateau, Chanlnes,
and Roye those were the Important
cities almost within the grasp of the
victorious allied armies today.
The allies were within a mile, or
little more, of each of these places.
The British were driving upon Ba
panme, while the French were
rapidly approaching Koyon and
Concy-Ie-Chateau. Chaulnes has
been menaced by the British, and
Roye by the French, for several
days.
Front Spread Oat.
The active British front has spread
out until It extends from just south
of Arras to the vicinity of Chaulnes
a distance of about thirty-five miles.
The French were exerting their
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CHICAGO, Aug. 25. Former Con
gressman Buchanan, who was In
dicted with Capt. Frana von Rlntelen,
of the German navy, David Lamar,
and Henry B. Martin on charges of
having conspired In 1915 to disrupt
the munitions traffic between Ihe
United States and the allies, today is
fit for a hospital, according to his
wife, who last night attacked ttuchvn
an and Mrs. Dorothy Hunt as the pair
were entering a cabaret together.
As Mrs. Buchanan tells the story,
her husband has been "going with
that woman for several years." They
separated some time ago. Buchanan
promising to provide $ 100 a month f-rr
the support of their three chlldrsn.
"I took her by the throat." Mrs.
Buchanan said, "and slapped her face
Then I snatched en umbrella awav
from my husband and hit her with
that. And I hit him. too. I had my
hands on his throat, and I nrarly
strangted the woman. Some men made
me atop."
HAIG TO BE PEER
LONDON. Aug 28. The Weekly
Dispatch says that Sir Douglas Halg.
commandar-ln-chief of the British
armies, soon will be raised to the
pserage.
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HUSBAND
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WEST OF
GAIN
PARIS, 'Aug. 25. German newspapers
are printing a story from Swiss sources that
r a great offensive by American troops in the
Vosges region is imminent, according to the
Echo; de Paris. The story says that a con
centration of American troops, has been
noted. ( , -''
By Universal Servicer-""
PARIS, Aug. 25. America's troopa on tfxs Veale,
after several weeks of impatient waiting for the word "Go,"
at last received it yesterday, and promptly they went over
the top and smashed forward on a front of 800 metres,
bringing up their line to the Soissons-Rheims road west
of Fismes.
The advance is reported in the war office communique.
It was a local action a dash to a valuable jumping-onl
place but it is believed to mark the initial stroke inrthe
long-expected resumption of the Franco-American push
against the Aisne-Vesle front. It fitted excellently into
Foch's scheme of operations, for far to the northwest of
Rheims he now stands about ten miles above the Aisne,
while the Germans north of Fismes are still nearly six
miles below the river.
The hour is believed near when one of the greatest
pincer movements of the whole war will be launched, with
Pershing's boys in the fore in a great frontal attack against
the Crown Prince's army.
Fresh progress was made by the French between the
Ailette and Aisne rivers, where Mangin's army is pushing,
further and further northward on the flank of the German
Aisne-Vesle forces. Yesterday's advance was made in the
region south of Crecy au Mont, just below the Oise canal,
according to the night communique.
French Make Progress
Near the Ailette River
PAEIS, Aug. 25. Further progress between the Ailette
and the Aisne was reported by the French war office last
night.
The Americans carried their line to the Soissons-Bheims
road, west of Fismes.
"Between the Ailette and the Aisne we progressed to
day," the communique said.
"In the region south of Crecy-an-Mont' (two miles south
of Coucy-le-Chateau) we took a hundred prisoners,.-
"West of Fismes the Americans carried their line to
the Soissons-Rheims road."
Quick British Drive
Advances to Croisiles
AVITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE. AnS f"i.
- -British troops, surging suddenl yforwnrd on their le'"t
wing, are reported to have reached Croisiles, ntidwax I -tveen
Arras and Bapaume.
(Croisiles is an important railway and IsJirhv.-.tv town,
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