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A co-ordinated program of diver-] ? ion and training to improve the ( spirit and morale of America n wick, and wounded soldiers, with the view , to their more rapid recovery, has been ' adopted by the American Ited Cross I and the Surgeon General of the army. 4 and will be applied in the forty army i reconstruction hospitals now in oper- I stion in the United States, it was an nounced last night at the headquar ters of the Red Cross here. Dr. Elbert K. Fretwell. head of the I department of recreational leadership 1 of the Teachers' College. Columbia University, has been made director of the program. Dr. Fretwell. who has been granted indefinite leave from the university, has already started on a' tonr of the reconstructed hospitals j along the Atlantic seaboard. He anu j Ilia assistants will visit all reconstruc tion hospitals, and will standardize the recreational program. He will fravel under orders of the Surgeon General's office and as director of recreation of the Red Cross. What rrtima Provides. Such extensive arrangements have been made for the diversion and training of the sick and wounded toldlers. of which &pproxflhately 190. 000 must eventually be cared for in tbls country, it is tstlmated. under the program, that It is thought the soldiers will not consider it a hard ship to,be confined to hospitals. Following are the phases of the program which the Red Cross will earry out in the convalescent houses: The maintenance of a library of tech nical works, approved flcuon, current magazines and honie-town news papers; organisation of story-telling Hours; training in amateur theatri cals; development of bands and or chestras and singing and the supply 's* of instruments and music: fur nishing player-pianos and phono graphs; Inauguration of card games, checkers, chess, dominoes, etc.; fur nishing cf stereoscopes and educa tional photographs; presenting mo rion pictures, professional talent, con certs, musicals at regular intervals: supervising of social functions, such ?ta dances fnd receptions; supplying of fruits, smoking materials and ap proved refreshments, aad the super vising of "winter evening" recrea tions. such as popping corn, roasting apples and marshmal lows. In jr ards where the sick and wounded are bedridden all of these features will be provided ia^modifled form. Ontd*?r RftrfitUa. For outdoor recreation, the Red Cross will provide tools, seeds, etz.. ror the piantAsg of flower garden*, window boxes of plants, and vines rbout the convalescent houses. It also ' will make possible automobile ride* for the convalescents. % For the able-bodied personnel, the Red Cross will provide reading and writing lactllties, games, entertain ments. Rebates, lectures, and social ' unctions. ~ The medical officers at th* hospi tals. throuch the Surgeon Mineral's ??ffice. will supervise the participation >f the soldiers in baseball, indoor baseball, basketball, handball, tennis, wrestling, soccer, croquet, golf, horse back riding, bowling, camping, canoe ing. rowing, rifle shooting, pistol prac tice. route sketching, and other special .tames for one-arm and one-leg men. HERE IS ALIBI IN TICONDEROGA CASE I ailurt of the V. S S Galveston to come to l^e aid of the Tlconde roga. when that vessel wa3 torpedoej by a German submarine on Septem ber 30. is attributed to the fact that it was thought the .Ticonderoga was a west-bound merchant vessel, ac cording to a report issued by t.ie Xavy Department. The Galveston at the time of ths attack was cov.oying fourteen ves sels bound for England, the captain st?led in bis report to Secretary Daii :els, and was not aware of the fact that the Ticonderoga had dropped behind her convoy. When the first gun flashes were 'seen, the Galveston headed for the region of the Ticonderoga and opened lire with her five-inch guns. After sighting a second round of flashes, ihe stopped tiring because of the pos sibility of hitting a friendly vessel, the captain stated. Tlie captain assumed it was hi* duty to remain with the convoy rather than remain with one ship when there was a chance lor her es cape. A court of inquiry to investigate [occurrences on the Ticonderoga has been ordered by the Navy Depart ment, the report concluded. URGES BETTER PAY FOR U. S. WORKERS Declaring Government employes in many cases work for "the merest pit tance," and the wages paid by the Government in many instances are to tally inadequate. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury E. C. Leffingwell, be fore a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, yesterday, came out forcefully In favor of in creased compensation for the Gov ernment workers. Mr. Leffingwell said he had come to Washington with the preconceived no tion that Washington was "the refuge of loafers," and that the first thing he discovered was that he was wrong. In the interest of the Government itself, Mr. Leffingwell said, the clerks should be given " a square deal." "It is Just enlightened self-interest on the part of the Government to give them a square dep.1," ho said. He spoke of a number of civil serv ice employes who, he said, could step out into private life and get $10,000 a year. He said m??st of them stayed in the Government service because of loyalty, and he added they were mas ters of the technique of their labors and the laws relating thereto. He said they had served the Government In war time without thought of health or personal advantage. sEccafrrr league probe lags. No hearings <n the National Secur-J ity League investigation were held yesterday. The special Congressional committee making the probe held an executive session and decided not to call any further witnesses until Tues day. Your Eyes! YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET! Optometry vs. Guess Work When you have reason to suspect the existence of eye-tioubles, you rannot afford to take chance?. Too delicate and t?o valuable by far are ttiey to intrust to any save the most skilled car? Lose no time in seek ing the services of a qualified optometrist?eyesight specialist?who has laade refraction a study and is qualified to prescribe the proper glasses. Bring your eye-troubles to our optometrist. Dr. L H. Kraskin, upon whose advice you may with confidence rely. If glasses r.re needed, he will prescribe them: if not. he'll frankly tell you eo. Guaranteed Gold-Filled Society or Shelltex Frames or Glasses Fitted With High-Grade Pure Crystal Spherical TORIC LENSES SPECIAL $3.00 A Most Remarkable Value. That Means a Grefct Saving To You. We Do Our Own Lens Griraiing on the Premises. ADOLPH KAHN 935 F St. N. W. ? i oo W YOU CANT SELL YOUR I J- OWN ABILITY LET AN If ADVERTISEMENT IN THE "BETTER SITUATION WANTED" COLUMN OF THE Washington Times j. DO IT FOR YOU. Free to Discharged Soldiers 1 The Days of Real Sport , Copyright. ISIS. ' by th? TrTiun# , Association. By Briggs TH6 FOLKS FROM Tkc other end > OF TOWN Demobilizing Troops As Fast As Feasible, March Tells Critics Denial of the frequent criticisms made on the floor of the House re cently against the War Department for unreasonable defray in discharging soldiers was made in a letter from General March, chief of staff, to Re publican L>eader Mann, which was read in the House yesterday. General March went into great detail to ex plain the m< thod of granting rdis charges. and declared by following this plan t"he de?ired result would be accomplished with the least delay. His letter reads in part: "The determining principle is that all of our soldiers, whose services are no longer needed, are entitled to dis charge. The method adopted, it is be lieved, will accomplish that result with least delay, and without favor to those' who m^ht have influential friends to intercede for them or to take up their cases individually with the War Department. 800,000 Men IH*ehar*e<l "As a result of the unit demobili zation scheme of the War Depart ment. during the past six weeks up wards of 800,000 men and approxi mately 50.000 officers have been dis charged from our temporary forces This constitutes an average for the whole period since demobilization go* fairly under way. of over U0.000 a day for six days a week. Certain large units organized for overseas service were promptly demobilized en bloc, and during that process th? daily discharges ran well over 30.000." The chief of stalt pointed to orders authorizing commanders to release enlisted men where there is sickness or other distress in the soldier's fam ily, or when he Is needed to resume j employment in which there is urgent 1 need of his service. He continued: "Both soldie.s and civilians, or j learning of the^e instructions, seem to have assumed that a soldier had merely to submit a request for his discharge, stating that he hail definite employment waiting for him and that he should immediately be discharged. Only such soldiers as could .-how themselves to be within the terms of the order were entitled to be dis charged. Favorable action could b'r ADVERTISEMENT Miller's 4ntl?eptle Oil, Known an SNAKE OIL Aecom pitching Moat W ontlrrfnf Kr?til*? "I want to thank you for your wonder | ful oil," states Mr .T (\ Gibson, of ,|(?n-? ? boro, Ark. "My little girl was very low I with diphtheria; I had given her Uo { closes of incdicine which co*?t me $10 witn | no?restilts. 1 bought a lT>c bottlo of your oil and one application relieved h -r v j she iy well. It id tlto gr?-?,t?'M r?-n?<*dv ? t ever ?aw " Mr Oihaon . inrd*? this slat ' rnent before hundred** of? peoplr M f Florence Meager. 2 i 1 Whitney Han ' ford. 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Oic car tl.ket carta war. i taken on "only those ' applications which disclosed ca^es of exceptional j merit/' , tails Discharge* Prompt. Demobilization is divided into two \ parts. General March explained. First is the demobilization of men from carnps in this country, and, second, j the demobilization of the men being | sent back by General rershing. All I men returned from overseas are promptly discharged, the chief of Btatf stated. Attention of Mr. Mann was called to the fact that there are practically no troops to relieve the soldiers who are in the service for the emergency only in performing the necessary military duty at home and abroad. The Secretary of War's recommenda tion for legislation to permit a Re sumption of voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments in the army has not yet been acted upon. The gen eral wrote in this connection: "We find a number of men at all camps who would like to stay in the regular seivice if they could enlist at once, but the uncertainty of legis lation is likely to induce them to look for employment in civil life, qjid, therefore, to lake the first chance to secure discharges.'' Forvr on Border. A considerable I'otee, lie said, will be needed for some time at port.-" of debarkation, supply depots, demobili zation and convalescent centers, us well as to garrison posts along the Mexican border and the insular pos sessions. Taking tip statements mad" in the House ^hat demobilization orders were not being obeyed in good I'aith. Gen eral March declared it t<> be the pur pose of the department to release all! members of th? temporary forces in j this country, except those whose serv ices are essential to the administra tion of the demobilization and the duties outlined in the foregoing para graph. "The only question is iK.tf this de mobilization can be done in the prompt est, lairest, and mo.st efficient manner," j he continued. "Where individual re-j quests for discharges have not been I granted in th<* past, such refusals have I been based upon considerations of the greatest gnod for the greatest number. "If facts supporting the ehargest of denying meritorious application? for reatons of personal advantage are sub n.ilted to the War Department, prompt a'tion will be taken against the offend I crs. Information is welcomed in all cases, and concrete examples of failure to follow out War Department in | st ructions anw of abuse of authority to ' hold men whose services are unneces-i sary will be investigated and correct-' ed." j 14 SUFFRAGETTES JAILED : FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT ; ?? ac<ire*.?? b. Tore j AT?-.Mahon in I'nlirr t'ourf vr.-. tourt'-^n su C! ru.>rct of the Viit ion.i i Women's rarfy w#,r ,sni. I' iM 't] ;? I Mstri< t |?.r forty-| ?iijit hours, finrorxJiatfly after their j ? ? r * v }, I ;:t 11??* prison th?- women d?-. H.trccl tln*ir intention to p;n on hun -ii-i'..- a., a protest against their ar rc.-t . Mp; v .Viiijm of .1 a<-|<-011 vil lo, 1 it tvL' k< ing twith .Miss ila Arnold, <?,( Denver. Coin., on cl?*(g..;: . j building til s in Lafayett ?? ^ X??len, who is ove.r ? ? i-'l i.v 5' ar.- ol<|, dec lare d "all her 1 ? f# r"?t <? -t ed lor wiim&n suf ? .'ii L" Il" .*? vi'11 *1 ^ e11es 1 ,i 11:? < 1 i! '*t room V i I?:? qui.brought ' I- I'll*' tl.? .oil,; 1 hey were -? 11 ? ii#*' <| for contempt. . ?V|;":s Arnold wa .-cut need ;o live -a. imprisonment, and .Judge .M ? " 'oji i< sei v(ij deei-1011 in tiv case " . I \o!;-n until Monday. i?i:si:j; \ k.s it. ? oniric:.. m:u, flntridler of Oklahoma ' K V,: ' 1 r,,du<-i-d into the House on; proxidim; a pension for Koot v. -( oolp-lah-r;. -e-r0,.?*, j?. ? ii scout 'I'll.- twenty. ix letters ami' 1 y 11 hyphen make u Congress re-j r'l lor a surname. x I GERMAN-AUSTRIAN UNION-IS PLANNED BERLIN, . Jan. 26.?Union of Ger many .with German-Austria will be the first question to be taken up by the national assembly at Weimar, For eign Secretary Brockdorft-RanUau announced. The .total of ballots polled in the national elections was 29.000,000, ot which the majority Socialist delegates received 13,500,000. The German ministry is attempting to reorganize the army and strengthen the Polish front "sufficiently to resist aggression." WARSHIP GOING TO MEW YORK. The battleship Connecticut, which sailed from Prance January '20 -with 1.000 troops, reported yesterday that sh? had changed her course and was proceeding to New York instead of Newport News, as announced Thurs day. The vessel is expected to reach New York February 2. HURLEY SAYS IS. - MUSI AIU FRANCE 4 2 i t PARIS. Jan. 26.?Tli* United State.* must aid France in the commercial i war which that country faces with Germany, Edwar4 Hurley, chairman) of the United States Shipping Board, declared at the Franco-American din-' ner here last night. He said that the : end of the war could not be consid ered to have been reached until' France is entirely rehabilitated com mercially. American assistance. Hurley said, will consist chiefly of furnishing the ships to increa&e France's merchant marine. Distribution of raw materials depends upon fair and equal rates for shipping, he pointed out. Germany has devoted half her ef fort for twenty-five years to building up & great military machine, said Hurley, and the remainder to commer cial pursuits. As her war machine has been permanently eliminated, she can devote her whole energy to com merce and industry in the future. "Say what you will about her methods. Germany *ias demonstrated her efficiency in commerce, and with iter whole effort devoted in the fu ture to trade, other nations 'will al ways have in her a formidable com petitor, no matter what restriction it becomes advisable to put in her path," said Hurley. "To solve this problem, France .must organise, as .?-?he cannot meet it relying on isolated individual efforts." French products should be protect ed b^' a "Hade in France" trade-mark, Hurley proposed. "The commerce and industry of France are now free to make her a greater nation than she ever was be fore," he said. "You will, with your energy and skill, place her in the po sition in which the world wants her? one of the leading nations of com merce and industry. If the people of France will enthusiastically support their commercial and industrial lead ers as they supported their gallant army, I have no fear but that her de vastated districts will quickly be re habilitated, and her trade and cqm merce restored as important factors throughout the world." 250 WOUNDED YANKS SEE SHUBERT-GARRICK SHOW Between 200 and 2S0 wounded sailors , and marines, convalescing at the Naval , Hospital, were guests yesterday after noon of Mary S. Covell and the man agement of the Shubert-Oarrick Theater at the matinee performance of "Just Around the Corner." During the week more than 5M woundfd service men were entertained at the JJhuhrt-Garrick Theater, and the management plans to continue provid ing such entertainment for the convales cent soldiers, sailors, and marines. HINES ASKS AID OF STATE RY. BOARDS B< ( ilrrrul Vriift With pr*c( time conditions i<-turn in* all the nation's railroad'. Di rector General Walker D. Hints yes terday enlisted the aid of State rail way commissions In developing tha policies of tba Railroad Admlnlstra tlon Director General Hinaa. wspressing his opinion on tha aid which Stats commissions would be able t* offer, said: "Since 1 have become dlreetar gen eral. I have bean irlvtn* careful can sideration to the development of tha policies of the Railroad Administra tion along Jlne* adapted 40 paace con , dlllons. One of theae questions which I b<>rkn to consider at once was the question of rolatlonahlp with tha , various State commissions, fully be Moving thst the nation's transisnr<? ' tlon functions are no isnctr pri ! manly war functions, and that it Is I of great importance to Invokd to an {increasing extent the aid of the Statr : commissions. I "Mr. Max Thelan expects to assume his duties as director of public aerv ice February 1. and immediately thereafter. I hope, with his assist ance. to be able to get a clear and helpful understanding with the State commissions on this highly Important subject." Gad* will furnish the pr?tu*?i aowcrs ud most artistic decorations. 1114 \T? Advt REDUCE YOUR GOAL BILL BY USING Pea Coal % I Can Supply any Quantity at tha Lowest Price W. W. Griffith 1245 1st St. I. L Tel. Franklin 4S40 I W ashington Railway and Electric Company Notice to the Public Beginning today, Sunday, January 26, 1919, the prepayment method of fare collection and registration will be effective on all cart in service. * ? The front door will be used for exit purposes only. Conductor will remain on the rear platform collecting and registering fares as passengers board car. * ? In order to prevent congestion on the < front platforms of cars and to permit the conductor to properly collect and register fares the public are 0 respectfully requested to board cars at the rear, permitting the front to be used exclusively by those desiring to alight. The co-operation of the pub lic in this respect will insure a greater degree of safety to those boarding and alighting and will avoid the annoyance occasioned by conductor pass ing back and forth through the aisle of the car. Passengers will kindly assist the conductor by promptly moving to ward the front as they enter the car. Fare Boxes on the "Columbia/' or H Street, Line Also beginning today all former pay-a*-you> enter cars on the Columbia, or H Street, line will be equipped with fare boxes. Kindly assist the con ductor by having the exact fare ready and deposit same in the fare box. % Conductors will give passengers requiring St the exact change for any amount up to $2.00. Where change is desired, the ENTIRE amount will be returned to the passenger, who is requested to then deposit the proper fare in the box. Fares for two persons may be paid by a dime deposited in the box, but if it is de sider to pay only one fare, the dime should be handed to the conductor and change received from him. We fully appreciate the spirit of co-operation and believe that these changes will work for the general good of the service as well as the personal comfort of our patrons. Respectfully Submitted. WASHINGTON RAILWAY AND ELECTRIC CO