The Washington times. [volume], August 26, 1918, FINAL EDITION, Image 1

About The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
-rmi utiir(r?i "JmwuWy'-Wjiiwy' i
f
El"
Today
-
Kipling Sees Americans.
He likes Them.
Mothers' Boys.
Collars Tight.
Br ARTHOR BRISBANE.
f Rudyard Kipling, who sUll has
-m x-ray eye in Ws gray head, has
teen looking at the American sol
idlers and writing about them.
Kipling reports of the Americans
that they say very simply, "We are
' here to Mil Germans," and make
no bones about It
The English, It seems, still use
a politer word when they mean
killing. Many of them think per
haps it wouldn't be quite nice to
. send flying machines to drop dyna
mite on German cities.
Kipling is right in his notion
that there Is so such self-searching
delicacy in the American mind.
The American young men are
oxer there" to kill In order to stop
tilling, and get home as quickly as
possible. And they haven't any
other thought
Kipling observes that the young
( Americans, with their politeness
' tad, to put It plainly, their appar
ent dislike of indecent IangnageH
show signs of having been brought
tip by women.
Kipling's observation is correct
The average American boy has his
cravat and his collar fixed for him
by his mother until he is taller
than she is. He gets from her his
ideas as to what is rigfit
The American mother, sending
her boy to the public school in the
morning, ready to listen to him
and hear his confidences when he
comes back In the afternoon, cer
r tainly has great Influence on that
boy, which is lucky for the United
; States.
Kipling Judges with his usual
accuracy that being brought .up as
a mother's boy does not, however,
make it particularly wise or safe
to bully the young American.
He has talked enough to the
American soldiers to know that
when they became convinced of
German (rightfulness, the fright
fulness will not be all one-sided.
We pass on to the War Depart
- stent Mr. Kipling's very soundcojg.
ent 6n"therextfemely lightnot,
uncomfortable and harmful uni
form collars that this nation fas
tens around the necks of its sol
diers. This kind of a collar, it seems,
was Inherited from the early Eng
lish uniform of our Revolutionary
days.
It didn't matter much what sort
ef collar the English put on the
Hessians that they hired the
tighter the better.
But the collar of the American
uniforms Is a good imitation of a
dog collar, not loose enough, and
It ought to be done away with.
No other nation squeezes the big
blood vessels on either side of the
soldier's neck, keeping the blood
from going up to the brain and
from coming down again, and
pressing on the pneumogastric
serve hidden away so carefully.
Mr. Kipling In the arrival of the
Americans in England and in
France sees a sequel to the sailing
cf a hundred and twenty beings in
the old Mayflower.
Mr. Kipling is mistaken If he
thinks that what he sees is chiefly
the Mayflower crowd grown bigger.
Jn the million men that we have
sent abroad there are hundreds of
thousands whose names th May
flower crowd never heard and
couldn't pronounce.
In the crowd that all look alike
to him, Kipling sees the descend
ants of men from Sweden and
Norway, from Italy and France,
from Ireland and Greece.
And best joke of all, on the Prus
sian Kaiser, is the thousands and
thousands whose names are Ger
man, whose hearts arc United
States, and who on land, on sea
and in the air will do their fight
ing share with any other, man for
man.
' It may be added that Kipling
seems really to like these Ameri
can soldiers, to welcome them,
and to be glad to see them.
That is pleasing, for that "cer
tain condescension in foreigners"
has not entirely disappeared.
When he was over here in Chi
cago especially Mr. Kipling saw
many things that he didn't like
and felt bound to tell ns so.
The sight of a million young
Americans, with another million
or so to come, marching in the
direction of the German trenches
will do a good deal to eliminate
prejudice especially after the
record made by the young men Is
obliihed. .
WEATHER:
ClomJr. probably Halt
rain tonljckt aad Tuesday,
Nat math clang la tem
perature. Temperature al "
a. au. 72 4(Pn. Normal
temperature an August 24
for tka last thirty year,
73 decree.
NUMBER 10,631.
BYNG'S ARMY REACHES
D.C.BUS1NESS
MENU
U. S. IN FILLING
LABOR NEDS
By BILL PRICE,
The community labor board, of
which E. M. Kline is chairman, is
pursuing its program of arranging
to obtain from District industries
not regarded as strictly essential to
the prosecution of the war as many
unskilled laborers as possible.
This diversion of unskilled work
men is to be accomplished by co
operation between the board and
Washington business men, many of
whom have already assured the
board that they will spare every pos
sible man for release to industries
that are ranked as "essential" 'to the
success of the war. Employers arc
not being pressed about the matter
and are being allowed opportunity to
work out their own problems. "
"Kop-BsseHtlaT List
Officially there Is tio list of "non
essential" Industries in the District
but the list heretofore announced ia
one from which the labor board ex
pects to obtain a large number of un
skilled men through processes of pa
triotic Co-operatjon. The little squab
ble that occurred was over the ill-
advised use oHnon-essentfal."
. All the blsr governmental amende
r-tfcewar Indastrtea, eae4y for ; (1a-li
iace-rbas M31x'4eemecd to' di
rectly put nuy rnaustry on a non
essential list. They bare, however,
created lists that are "essential" to
the prosecution of the wax, and tbeje
are to have priority in fuel and rail
road transportation. ISott of theui
are engaged In vital war work, and
the repeated warning conveyed for
months has been that Industries
which wished to be placed on the
"essential" list should engage In war
contracts If they wanted to be as
sured of coal and transportation.
Froeesa ot Kllpiluatloa.
By process of elimination, of
couve. Industries not on the "es
s-nUal" or priority list were to some
extent regarded aa "non-essentlaL"
(Continued on Page 3, Column 3.)
1
'21'
There will be no national drawing
to assign order numbers for the
twenty-one-year-old men who regis
tered Saturday under the selective
service law.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced that the registration
cards of each board wjll be sent to
the State adjutant, who will draw
them from a hat one by one. assign
ing to each card as drawn the order
number next following the last num
ber given to that local board at the
June 5 registration.
This registration, which will be
concluded today by the enrollment of
men of Jewish faith, marks the pass
ing of registrations confined strictly
to twenty-one-year-old men. since the
new man-power bill eliminates this
distinction.
NO U
DRAWING
F NEW
IN
I TCbcTClnv imes -?jj?!!5pM"---
I ' -v.u.' 2.j-
te hfMto
Pvbttsfcad tit T-.nlnr (Inelndlo SvBd&T
EaUrtd a aocoDd-cUM matter a pot
ffle at WashlastoB. D. C
SEAPLANES COLLIDE;
THREE U.S. FLYERS
ARE MISSING
Three men are missing as the
result of a collision of two Unit
ed States seaplanes in a fog
Saturday night twelve miles off
Fire Island, the Navy Depart
ment announced today. The
missing are Ensigns Donald
Pero, W. C. Jaegle, and F. A.
Newman.
Persistent search for the craft
failed to (how any trace of the
missing men. Following the col
lision, both planes went into a
tail spin. .
One, commanded by Ensign H.
Stevens, landed immediately and
searched vainly for the surviv
ors of the other plane for forty
minutes. Stevens' plane was
towed safely into port.
The other plane, commanded
by Ensign Donald C. Pero, went
straight" down after the collision
and disappeared. .Mine sweepers
and patrol vessels later search
ed the vicinity for the missing
without success.
F,
APPLE THIEF DEAD
Frank Sheney, twenty-one years
old. a farmer living on uiaaeoBours
mid. three miles from Washington.
who shot and killed Herman Sum.
thirty-eight years old, of loot iion
iiA . northeast. Yesterday
afternoon, today told thev story of
how' he shot Sum. who he said was
stealing apples ,ln his orchard.
saw e
"I did .not raise my snoigun mui
that man reach' xorJU-mp
3nho"8hh"eiJntKe.iio-.
draw a revolver." safd Sheney,
who lAeld at the Ninth precinct po
lice station.
The body of Sum was IdentlfleoMo
day by bis two stepdaughters, 'Sirs
Amanda Leavy and Miss Elsie Lan
ham. both ot the Montello avenue ad
dress. Sum was missing from home
last night, and the stepdaughters re
ported It to the police Just before
noon today they identified the body
at the morgue.
Sum was thirty-eight years old and
employed In the Corby yeast factory
Sbersey'e Story.
Sheriff's story is as follows:
"My brother William and my mother
live near where the shooting took place.
Every year our crops have been the ob
ject of farm thieves. Since the war the
thieves have been worse than ever.
"Yesterday afternoon my sister-in-law,
William's wife, saw three men In our
cornfield. They each had a basketful of
corn, and one had a sack of apples. I
was not near at the time, bat later I
saw a stranger In our orchard picking
apple?. I went Into the houe and got
my shotgun. Intending to place him un
der arrest and take him to the police
station and make an example of him. In
order to pat a stop to the stealing.
While I was getting the gun he left the
orchard, and I fonnd him on the adjoin
ing farm.
Shoot the Man.
"When I told him to throw up his
hands that he was- under arrest. lie
dropped the basket of applea and
came toward me cursing me. He
reached for his back pocket as If
to get a revolver. He was only a
few feet from me. I raised my shot
gun to my shoulder, and as I did so
it went off. I don't know whether
I pulled the trigger or whether It
got caught In the twigs of the
bushes by which I was standing. I
was excited, and when I saw that
the shot had struck the man and
torn away half the right side of his
neck I realized that he must be dead.
I did not stop but ran to the house,
and then came here to the police
station."
ARMER SHOOTS
WASHINGTON, MONDAY EVENING.
REED-THOMAS
STRIKEBANPUT
IN DRAFT BILL
BY SENATORS
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee reasserted its support of the
lleed-Thomas antistrike amendment
today, when it substituted the man
power bill as passed by the House
for the Senate measure and tacked
on the disputed amendment.
The substitution was made in or
der to expedite the work "of the con
ferees after the bill is passed by the
Senate. .
The Senate committee struck from
the bill several minor amendments
adopted by the House. Chief of
these was the Treadway amendment,
which authorized a complete recomb
ing of the present deferred classifi
cations. The Senate committee be
lieved the provost marshal general
has power to order a recombinjr or
reclassification at any time he deems
it necessary.
POSffFiCElBBED
Fire today destroyed the postofflce
at Ttlverdale, Md., after the building
hsd been robbed of a bag of mall
W. P. Armstrong, postofflce In
spector, of Washington, is conduct
ing an Investigation. The fire was
discovered about 2:30 a. m. The
building was burned to the ground,
causing a loss of $2,000.
After daybreak, a bag of mall
which had been opened and searched
was found near a creek about a
tauarter mile from the postofflce.
Mrs Agnes Kllnger. postmistress at
Rlverdale. left Saturday for her va
cation In her home was kept the
safe and money Only TO cents and
some stamped tnvclopes were In the
postofflce. In addition to a number of
letters. The bag which had been
opened n believed to have contained
only sMvertlseraents and a few per
sonal letters.
REICHSTAG TO GET CUE
LONDON". Aug. 20 The Imperial
German chancellor will deliver an
important speech upon the reconven
ing of the Reichstag within a few
days, according to an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch today from Copen
hagen, which quotes the Berlin Oer-
manla. According to the Gcrmanla,
the chancellor will discuss foreign
political questions.
SENATE AIDS RED CROSS.
The Senate this afternoon adopted
bill to allow gifts for the Ameri
can Red Cross to come Into the coun
try without payment of duty The
bill already had been passed by the
House.
PRESIDENT TO OPEN FETE.
President Wilson will presi a but
ton hero tonight which will set
Coney Island. N T.. ablaze, and of
ficially open the Knights of Columbus
celebration to be held there this
week.
AND THEN BURNED
BRITISH GAIN TWO MILES
FRENCH FORGE AHEAD
SCORE GAINS ;
CLEANING UP
FOE POSITIONS
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
IN FRANCE, Aug. 25 (night).
American troops advanced their line
500 meters (a third ot a mile) ju a
front of two kilometers (a mile and
a quarter) immediately east o'
Flames today,' driving the Germans
from the railroad and capturing what
had been an advantageous enemy po
sition. As this Is cabled, sharp infantry
fighting is keeping the whole Vesle
front stirred up, but the boche count
ers are fruitless. s
Tanks Cleaning Up.
The Americans, In the last few
days, hsve begun a systematic clean
up ot obectlonable positions. Tho
tannery .wai first taken. Then an
attseJt-fjXi x more pretentious scale
v.eslaunched this morning. ,
The Boche had dug ffl'along the
railroad, skirting the south bank of
the Vesle. and had established num
erous machine gun nests. The Amer
icans were In a dip south of the main
Solssons-Rheims highway. They had
to advance across the high ground oa
which the road ran, then across open
country toward the railway.
A stiff barrage was put down on
the railway at 5 a. m, the Infantry
starting their advance simultaneous
ly. Quickly they topped the high
way and charged across the open
space In the face of a terrific ma-
(Conttnued on Page 2. Column 3.)
U. S. WILL
The Emergency Fleet Corporation.
at the request of the food administra
tion, will begin to construct a neet or
seventy five deep-sea trawler of the
most modern tjpe. It was announced
today.
The purpose is to Increase the nsn
production and to make up for the
loss In vessels and producing units
which the fisheries have suffered
through the war and naval enlist
ments Through arrangement, with the
fishing industry, the vessels will be
put Into operation early In 1919 on
both coasts and In the Gulf
Increases In production of haddock,
small cod and other salt-water fish
is expected to result, enabling car
loads to be sent to Interior markets
each week In the year
Reductions In price are expected to
follow, and efforts will be made to
stabilize prices at low levels.
BUILD
75FISHINGS1GKS
VH4WvJ edition.
AUGUST 26, 1918.
HINDENBURG LINE
ilSHIMTM'S FIRST ACE
GETS. HIS SIXTH PLANE
ixHsiiMeiBPKK-!.rX"'5iixixi;
LIEUT. DONALD HUDSON,
Son of Paul Hudson, of 1714 Kilbourne place northwest, is the first
airman from the District of Columbia to gain the coveted rank of
ace. Hudson brought down three German planes in one fight, lastr
ing twenty minutes. He is officially credited with bringing down a
total of six German fliers since he has been fighting on the western
front. Hudson trained at Fort Mycr, Va.
(See article concerning Hudson on page two.)
cppig
JgJtM
Wit, CMmk TrVn
PRICE TWO CENT&
TEN MILES ARE;' )
ADDED TO LINE :
OF. BATTLE M
GENERAL FflCH"'
s
LONDON, Aug. 26 (2:15 93
Tfie xiriusB, ib tae&rqrttrtt
tack along tie Scarpe, fcaie
reached the old Bladeskug Hbc
They arriied at the Wetaisee
tioa of the Use at Jfeaehy-le-Freax
and Gaemappe (hto jHes
oatkeasi of Arras ea the CJ1
rtier), eaptarfag both of taese
vfiteges.
Field Marshal Foci today added
another ten miles to the everwide
fiijr' fighting front in the west. The
allied geseralissimo 'today- brought
VhVleft wins ojrSnf-JuHaavng'a
Third British -army-into K&i,
againstrthelRny aa. the Scaarpe as-?
tor eastof Arras.
At 1 o'cJfek this afternoon. Lot
dorr officials were advised thai Mm
chy-le-Frev, Gaemappe, aad Waw-i
court had fallen to the British, and
the German lines have been pierced
to a depth pi two miles:
Carnoy (five miles east of Albert)
and Orange Hill are also reported
captured.
The. attack in the Scarce sector
was made between Fampoux (on the
nprth bank of the Scarpe, four .miles
east of Arras) and the height
northeast of Neuville-Vitasse,
Fighting is proceeding at Hernia,
east ofJllerilSfsEaitfccKeoir'-
in the ratxfcrrtsi cf IC:dsSlcs.
British 1 1- ;ow?rcMturd'Mar7 'asuLi
proceed.- eeiwKtal-Fi$j-i
euii. Avcsnes-ie-ij.pi3ie'7aEarf,
was reached Saturday, "is now en
tirely in British hands.
Southward, Eaucourt has been cap
tured, and the British are holding
Martin Puich and the line nmaiajr.
east of Mametz, Carnoy,.and Bioourt.
FRENCH PUSH ON
TOWARD SOMME
PARIS, Aug. 26. (4 P. m.) The
battle was resumed on a large scale
between the Oise and the Alans t
day. The French are pressing north
ward and eastward in the Alletta
salient to force the defenses east ot
Noyon and west of Coucy-L-Cha-teau,
preparatory to opening the way
for a decisive drive toward the
Somme In the Ham-St. Simon region.
Strong forces have pushed across
the Ailette and Coucy-Le-Chteau Is
already outflanked from the north.
The Germans are resisting energeti
cally along the ridge and forest north
of Coucy.
East of Bagneux, French troope
there have passed eastward beyond
the Solssons-Chauny railway.
PARIS, Aug. 28 (12:15 p. m.). Ar
tillery fighting last night between the
Ailette and the Alsne rivers and la
(Continued on Pate 2, Column 1.)
FOR RENT ROOMS
TVf O large front rooms and two large
fall memU for four nice yomg ladles,
with jo ot parlor and plana; $f.St.
week; modern city home: 'tr
llthl. N TU1 V 1
h
Mr. A. D. DeasmtMl-
1811 3d St N. E., re
ports that the above ad
brought over 15 appli
cants in 2 days.
Phone The TIMES
your ads. Main 5260.
?