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rs possible and brighten British
commerce into port.
But if it was good strategy for
the Germans to make the dash with
their cruisers for the open ocean,
1t is not at all apparent why they
should have announced the escape
and the locations of their vessels by
a futile and casual Smelling of a
group of provincial coast. towns.
Doing that, they gave the alarm,
and commercial vessels will be
warned off the sea. The British
cruisers get knowledge of where to
seek their enemy.
The British naval authorities have
from the beginning insisted that il
the Germans attempted naval at
tack on England, or undertook the
seemingly insane project of in
vasion, they would strike, not at the
channel coast and London, but at
the north coast, the great industrial
section of Yorkshire. This dash
verifies expectations in this regard.
1t is difficult to believe that the dash
indicates a German purpose of COM
ing out with the line-of-battle
dreadnaughts and seeking a general
engagement. British power is al
together too overwhelming to per-
nit this; and if there has been any
fatuous impression on the part of
the Germans that, unit for unit, they
were highly superior to the British
ers, that impression has probably
been removed by the results in the
battle off the Falklands.
The three towns of Britain that
were bombarded are all of consider
able historic interest. Whitby pos
sessed in the famous abbey one of
the oldest architectural monuments
in the kingdom. Built first almost
1900 years ago, it was destroyed by
the Danes, just as now it is reported
partially wrecked by the Germans.
1t was rebuilt near a thousand years
ago. A sleepy old town along the
cliffs, builded in terraces, has been
Whitby, a famous resort, but
its population has stood still or even
shrunk in recent years. 1t numbers
now perhaps 10000.
Scarborough has near $4,000 peo-
pie, and is also a terraced cliff city,
a noble mark for the guns of a
marauding warship. Its fashionable
section testifies its popularity as a
watering place, in which regard per-
haps no British town surpasses it.
There is a fine old castle of the
twelfth century, and some consider
able manufacturing, as we'll as very
extensive fisheries, which are the
basis of the towns industrial estab-
lishment.
Hartlepool is the most northcrly
of the bombarded towns. Here,
also, was famous old abbey. The
town has been commercially i'm
portant probably ten centuries. 1t
is now a shipbuilding and IRON
working center, and approaches
10000 in population.
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THE TRUEST CHARITY

1t is the verdict of the most hui
man and also the most practical
charity workers. that it is better to
help the poor in their homes than
in institutions. No unit of social
organization takes the place of the
home. The widowed mother S
struggle TO keep her family to-
gether is the most appealing and
the most deserving effort that char
ity Investigators encounter. 1t is
the one to whose appeal response is
most willing and prompt.
The Associated Charities has for
a number of years presented to the
public the facts concerning a group
of especially deserving cases of
restitution. asking the public to
contribute to help them. This years
list has been published; fourteen
cases. 1t is a pitiful fact that sew
eral of the cases represent deser-
lions of families by the father;
others stand for the misfortunes
following illness or other physical
incapacity of the father; and yet a
larger number for widowhood.
In all these cases, the best policy,
decided upon by the charity workers,
has been found to be to keep the
family together; to keep the chill
dren in a home; to teach mother and
children alike the lessons of the
home, of home economies; to give
the opportunity of as much school
ing as possible to the children; TO
avoid institutional care of the little
ones. Without doubt, it is the right
policy; and the more, therefore, the
appeal of the Associated Charities
for help deserves hearty and ample
response.
In these cases it has been de-
cided what amounts of money, con-
tributed in installments throughout
the year, will be necessary to keep
the families together in very simple
comfort. The money ought to be
forthcoming, as it has been in the
past, and doubtless will this season.
Only a determined national effort
to take care of the suffering within
our own gates can quite justify
sending abroad so generous and
well-meant contribution to the
sufferers of other lands.
To The Times it has been an es-
pecial satisfaction to give indorse-
ment, publicity, and encouragement
to this particularly intelligent effort
of the Associated Charities. This
paper has always taken a keen in
terest in the work of the charity or
CARNATIONS, and especially in the
efforts to do charity work without
sacrificing either the family or the
self-respect of its members. In the
present instance it most heartily in
dorscs the appeal of the organizs-
ton for the assistance in caring for
these deserving families.
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m olDss1 InxAs SCI
"Allus wondered
what kind O. razor
tn Teller who in
vented tn safety
razor uses"

Seems unsportsmanlike for colleges 70
announce their football schedules for
next year and take all the interest out
Of the war
Telephone tax on all calls over NJ
teen cents will curtail the friendly con-
versations between property owners
and Ben Johnson.
Cold weather great stuff Expect 4
bumper crop, too.
Got no kick coming against the frost.
Made III America.
Nobody seems to heed our advice.
Shop early.
60 to il.
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Here Are Fourteen Unusual Chances to
Gipe Someone Greater Christmas Joys

YOUR play Santa Claus and bring real hap
the es of your brothers. The Times and
the Associated Charities asking help Every penny
contribution nil directly the family in Whicn in
ieresed The Times Mil sponsor the fund and Mill
be received BY The Christmas Editor office Munsey
Building
Opportunity No. 1-Eyes for the Blind. $500.
blind mothermade such by accident-and father whose
eyesght rapidly failing daily problem of how shell
feed, cohe children, all school
These children learning
for their and their ultimate The plan for this
next is have the father trade which he fol-
Who will help bring Christmas this family by
contributing the $1,000 required the home
intact while the father school for the blind? $50
Contributions Mrs R. NJ T., $50. Still needed, $40.
Opportunity No. "A Spartan Mother. sos.
Last Christmas this a happy wife with all
loved about her. Her bought
land which he planning build with his hands
that would be their death
Now the wife struggling alone make home for eight
little mans employers burden
small monthly devoted mother
with what little the working
nishes the sole of this family If the
supplemented to the of 81 S208 with
careful management the family be together
this worth while Christmas gift?
Opportunity No. "a Fourteen-year-od Hero. $780,
Fourteen old and facing the world this
determined to wrest from the of his mother brother
and The mother, refined we'll
clerical work She is nearly blind, and strong
Despite this. however, 81
This brave should
for her youthful the
enjoy rest herself and the build
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the trouble 10 find out that this
''vision" of young Mr.. Sherman has
been realized in the accomplishment
Of the most progressive cities.
1t would be a great thing if Wash
ington could Some day find its
municipal destinies in the control Of
some body that l-new something
about municinal afrairS.
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Tomorrow,

Meeting, Washington Chapter American In
stitutr Of Ranking. red room. New VII
lard. S p. N.
Magonic-N Naval. No 4. Hiram. No 10: la
Ft,.tfc. No. .. william H. Singleton. 40
70. AdDuirLu. Council, No %. Royd! and
select MaSpns. Esther. No. S. Eastern star.
Gdd Fellows & Olu.ab!I. 10. 10. ENcr.siug,
40 l.. salem. No =.
Knights 81 PythiaS-ilHrIUOny No. Il.
Maccab"cs- Cicorg town Tent No. G: Dts
trirt TENT No g.
National Jnion-Mount Vernon 'o.ncil; Ma
tioual Council.
SociaIist Party-GerElan branch SI = street
northwest. SIS p. T..
Frustrated lecture. The Eruption Of NJ
larsen" Prof pilloT. HON" IIvb 9 Jac,.
son place northwest. p. M.
NF,,fia-. po'H.untsa M.H"ria. N-s s,.i4 .Dr
E.,.r! bellevue 40 j.. m.
E,h,n,t. r"rcoran Art GALLERY. ? a. NJ. e. So
%
E,h, .,..., c,-rrHsAS Is.itsHss .iisis7:h -"d
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AmuSements.

Natiuna!-''Een-IIur. p. az. and S D. III.
Eelasco Damon and Pythias' motion pie
lures 2::0 and $50 o. IA.
Columbia Thirty Leagues Under ths sea, -
motion pictures $50 and Sis y IN.
poIi's.''C hdrl.y's Aunt. 2:i5 ana s:l5 p. ~.
u J. KcIth'S--Naudcvflie g:iS and s:l5 p m
Gayuiy. Burl'sque lii and s.l5 p
Nsicst lc- BuriesqUe. c:lj and S:iJ n m.
Straud-Photoplsys n a ~. to II p. ~.
Carden- PhotOplays 10 a. IN. &c :. ." m
trf.ndall's -Photoplays
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magazines. not to the sc per cent
saved" for the benefit of the pork
barrel.
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Opportunity No. 14-Deserted. $3.50.

Before birth of her youngest child three IN
good deserted by the who should have been her
the only her Separac0
from her children she placed of them temporarily IN ns
efforts of the raised
supplement the and her church could do and h
coy happy The unusually brghchden show the
Of and training. All efforts have failed
locate the
In TO what the relatives and church do, 50
week will 500 days of Christmas cheer
fort family
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o,,ort,n;tv No. ia Result of Timely Help 1912.

One wear ago this little with four children felt that her
load was more than could bear and rather than have he
I;ren suffer she ready place them IN institutions. Tbs
Associated finally persuaded her to accept help IN keep
inc the family together During the she has become
~ resourccfu The family living in better and tie
mother has and ambition She learning TO dc
Ioin sewing and able make little income for herself
BESIDES this relatives giving all they from their c
store Their combined efforts however not sufficient keep
the home together.
S6 90 peT week will bring continued Christmas cheer
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Opportunity No. 11-Repong Dividends Last Years hive.
mens 1894.
OPPORTUNITY No. 12-Neutrality in Charity. $3.50.

We all practice neutrality when it to charity at home
This time little French woman the sole support OF
lies seriously Ill IN the hospital The
wife visits him as often as possible The eldest girl has
started TO take hoping to be able another
years time 10 take her fathers place The
Younger children are attending school regularly the
little sx-yearod GIRL has just entered kindergarten Who
Will helm 10 furnish IS $500 year. that this
home NAV be kept together for another when the eldest
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our hero and enable him to keep his family, So p
heeoed ......-.....-........
Contributions W. B. NJ, So. Still needed, 81
Opportunity No. 4-Lets All Back Martha SlO4


Opportunity No. 4-Lefs All Back Martha. $1O4
Three the society
os f1'f S a h p Es r d sn gf da
tbe aimsbope e SG pan n was f fod the R d % ms %
they could and kin s people did the rest friendly visitor
mothers place and s she has become eco model hogsekesper Now
the says: 800 school
School until she has learned to be Citing dresSmaker She
sts T week. keep sIo 1rhs at year
Opportunity No. 5-Citzens in the Making. $500.
Alone, fighting against nvadism and poverty
many years doing duty training of
. sss Ssd & Who s a5s a dsgePng
Of the oldest lad is become farmer and his sister
ss ssss ssss IL Ss3. Ssis: ss3
aa s The s Happiness D an S S f s sssy
sienaed their desire continue their cooperation.
Rss fi health year. for this
Contributions: Mrs j. p 81. Still
Opportunity No. s-Our Friend Mrs. Wigs Again $3.50
"IIowdoyou-do, dear" is the CHEEKY greeting all
of dear old gandmpther who has undertaken to bring
wigs Of the Cabbage
midst s' Of f0 adsr The caught GsT
oGi T FRf ss E %s ba oS
with the heroes yesterday whom he takes great delight
for a oh a1d s'o ns saa cam al % Tse 5
Opportunity No. THE Brm of the Melting Pot $3.50.
Without relatives help her but with her church doing what
ss ta od S5a1" five naRGRpea Dg PaDr e9s s
% Rs h S%eSs rn bey do fP tSei @ n The s
mission minister. family highly respected
neighborhood.
Opportunity No. s-Never Say Die. $3.50.
to give
supported children
refuses being
eame the n P Ss Bes smaller quarters
the doing sewing she is able home Her church
children, needed
family to ALT year
Opportunity No. s-Enforced Separation. $46s.
guiding spirit family bravely facing
separation incuraby husband
ceiving hospital She working hard make good home
months Unaded she will fail health and for this
mother arrested of tuberculosis and should not be
needed these children home and happy with their
Opportunity No. 10-A Homemaker At All Odds. $46s.
Whether work, hours from her children
and be their real
protector, problem facing little will
The fathers homebreakerhe is
saving FROM repeating
relatives who help the mother depend upon outside
week needed for the family consisting of the old
blind the mother and three small children S46S
Contributions E. G. S, ST. Still needed, 1857.
Opportunity No. 11-Reporns Dividends on Last Years Invest
1894.
Holiday contributions furnished Christmas gift
children This gift has
been bringing into this family its of and good vii
little children food shelter, and clothing but
also brought improved living s9 new bf Sp d ngp d
grateful mother She has to be
children All efforts locate deserving
failed Shall continue to give this mother an opportunity 70
paid throughout the current year We earnestly ask
your continued interest and cooperation IN extending tins
Christmas opportunity 81 week Is needed 1904
O,,or+,ntv No 12-Neutralty in Charity $3.50.
all when charity at home
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keep long hours away from her children
while they Wild at home and be their real
protector problem the little whom will
call Smith. home-breaker-he is
serving in the penientiaryhowd the need Of
saving children repeating their fathers mistakes With
help mother depend outside
earning with her needle home
family consisting of the old
grandmother blind the mother and three small children
Contributions: E. G. S., 81. Still needed, S467
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No. s-Enforced Separation sass.

The guiding spirit of this family bravely facing the hal
situation separation ncuraby ill husband
eving hospital She is working hard good
little children the eldest eleven and the
Unaided she will fail in health and purposes for tn
mother tuberculosis should
lowed struggle alone make ends meet 5000 per week
needed to keep these children at home and happy with the
thor
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Opportunity No. THE Brm of the Melting Pot $3.50.

Without relatives help her. but with her church doing what
thrifty German widow handicapped by poor eyeght
bringing in model fashion, five bright future
the oldest thirteen Reports from the chdren
they their studies The oldest
already ambition physician
field The family highly respected
neighborhood.
IS per week. $3.50 for the year. asked for Christmas
present family.
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opportunily No. s-Never Say Die. $3.50.

Forsaken by her husband and forced by broken health
up the work by which she supported her children this
refuses surrender Search being made for the husband
compel him his part it is doubtful he be fo
Meantime, the family has been moved to smaller quarters
the doing sewing she is able at home Her chu
relatives of their meager stores, doing what
help the mother her children but s. week
addition other possible income $3.50 for the year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Part of Wickersham
Jewels Recovered
Man Attempting to Pawn Them Is
Taken in Pistol Fight in Which
He Is Wounded.

Half q dozen rings and a la val
liere, part of the $4,000 worth of
gems stolen from the home of Charles
A. Wickersham in College Park Fri
day night, were recovered by the po-
lice late Saturday night. when Po-
licemen McMichen shot a white man
who was trying to pawn the Jewels
in the Dixie Pawnbroking Shop on
Decatur street The wounded man
was taken to Grady Hospital. He
gave the name Of John Banks.
When the man tried to pawn the
jewelry, the owner of the shop called
the police station, and Policemen
Jones and McMichen went to investi-
gate. AS they entered the store the
man ran out and fred two shots ct
them. McMichen returned the fire,
shooting the man in the hip. The
jewelrv was found in his pockets
A man who gave his name as c. c.
Eckels was arrested few minutes
later and is held on suspicion of be-
ing the wounded mans accomplice.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18

a bag containing three enormous red
apples.
If the family of Colonel Peters were
not altogether rational and sensible
people, they would feel something un-
comfortable and uncanny in the mys-
terry Of the gifts. No intimation OF
their source has ever come
At first the family feared poison
and would not touch the dainties But
the three big apples proved irresist-
BILE, and were eaten. The fact that
there were three apples, and only
three, In the family led to the belief
that the gifts were made with den 70
mite purpose. But what that purpose
is they can not say.
Mrs. Peters has a rather prosa,c
explanation for the occurrence, be-
neving the things left in the yard or
safe keeping by children who skate
along the sidewalk and who forge
to come after them. But the others
in the family believe they are really
gifts.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
ODD CIT IS LEFT
IN PETERS YARD
WORRY FAMILY
First, a Sack Of Grapes; Then
Candy, Then Beans; Latest,
Little Cakes.
IT'S AN UNCANNY MYSTERY
At First Feared as Poison, Inves-
tigation Proves Dainties To
Be Harmless.
IT'S AN UNCANNY MYSTERY

Very important. in the philosophy
of Thomas Peters, is the doctrine that
cleanliness Is near to goodness. Con-
sequently, when he looked out upon
the lawn in front of the Peters homo
at No. 272 Forrest avenue the other
morning, and saw a yellow paper
bag. a discordant note against the
usual neatness OF the front yard, he
said: ooh, bother" and went out to
throw 1t In the street But 1t was full
of grapes.
The next morning there was an
other paper bag, again yellow, and
again laden, but with chocolate can
dy this time. The next day it was a
pile Of lima beans, then little cakes.
The latest of the mysterious gifts was
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Fresh Appeal Made
For Starving Pulgars
Red Cross Urged to Send Money
and Supplies-More Than
100000 Needed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1T.-John
Bassett Moore, chairman of the
American Red Cross International
Relief Committee, received another
appeal to-day from Theodore Holway,
of the Red Cross Relief Committee
at Sofia, Bulgaria. Queen Elonora
is honorary chairman of this commit
tee.
Mr.. Holway's cable tells Of a pitiful
state of restitution in Bulgaria. 1t
reads:
zone hundred thousand more refu-
gees arriving besides others. Esti-
mated $4,000 not receiving Govern
ment relief. Need food, clothing
fuel. Government and private relief
entirely insufficient, especially IN
provinces; 100000 would not meet
immediate needs"
1t is said here the relief fund is
growing very slowly.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Old Superstition Disproyed, for
Both Students Possess Other
Attractions as Well.

II Is something to be good and
beautiful together, just like the
fairy Processes. When Mrs. w. w.
Reid. of College Park, was informed
by The Sunday American yesterday
that her daughter Ruth had been
voted the prettiest girl at Lucy Cobb
College by her schoolmates, she said:
Il don't know about that being so.
But | do know that she Is a very
sweet daughter"
Anyhow. Miss Ruth Reid, of Col
lege Park. dignified senior at Lucy
Cobb, and graduate two years ago of
Washington Seminary, is by com
mon consent the prettiest girl in
college. There was hardly a doubt
Of 1t, It's said, when the votes of the
college maids were counted.
Miss Reid is a brunette with the
softest, thickest dark brown hair, and
with eyes as soft and as deeply brown.
Her nose is straight, but not too
straight. with a wee adorable suspi-
cion of a tip-tilt
And, wonderful enough. she seeks
no aid to beauty sleeps nor anything
else.
And, more wonderful her own
pulchritude concerns her less than
anything else in the world. All Of
which her mother atteSts.
Another Atlanta girl honored by
her college mates at Lucy Cobb is
Miss Ellen Wolf, daughter of DR..
Bernard Wolf. OF No. 9 Ponce De-
Leon Place. BY the same ballot Miss
Wolff was accorded the title Of the
best writer In college, which IL but
another way Of saying that she is the
most intellectual
Miss Wolff herself Is not to be re
garded as giving way to anybody in
his matter Of beauty this disproying
the old. old superstition that good
looks and brains do not go together
with girls. The Sunday Americans
correspondent, telling Of the vote by
which the two Atlanta girls were
honored. wrote about Miss Wolff like
this:
Miss Ellen Wolf, of Atlanta. who
won the contest for the title Of the
best writer is one Of the brightest
girls In Lucy Cobb College, besides
being popular with students in ev-
cry class and course"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Oklahoma Forces Oil
Down to Eight Cents

OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. 1.-THE
Oklahoma State Corporation Com
mission has issued an order fixing the
retail price of kerosene at s cents a
gallon in certain territory in Western
Oklahoma. The price had ranged
from IS cents to 20 cents a gallon.
This is said 10 be the first time in
history that state officials have fixed
the price at which kerosene should be
sold. The penalty for violation is d
fine of $500 and a Jail sentence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Sex Control Possible,
SaysDoctor; CitesCase

BOSTON, Jan. 17.-Dr. Arthur
Lane declares he has discovered what
scientists for many ages have sought
"a law of control of sex. DR., Lane
states that his law has worked with
out a single error in fifty cases.
Mrs. John O'Brien, of Hollston, last
week became the month of a baby
whose sex DR.. Lane and the mother
and father agree was predetermined
that it was settled upon in ad-
vance.
Mrs. O'Brien planned to have a
girl baby. Her husband agreed upon
girl baby. DIR. Lanes rule was fol-
lowed. Behold! A girl baby was
born.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Police Seek $1,000
Horse, Lost or Stolen
Alderman Gambler Anxious to
Recover Kentucky-Bred Animal
With Famous Ancestry.

horse that Is horse sorrel
worth $1,000, with the bluest equine
blood in its veins. an eminent line OF
ancestry, and a recent memory OF the
blue grass fields of Kentucky, is be-
ing sought everywhere by the police.
II left its quarters on the estate OF
man, Saturday night, but whether
through connivance Of a horse thief
or because Of its own wanderlust,
Judge Gambler is unable to say.
Judge Gambler. in telling the police
or his loss, announced that the horse
was recently purchased for $500
from a Kentucky dealer
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Jim Hams Clothes
Turn London Green
snecIaI Cable to The American.

Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Jan. Ex-senator James
Hamilton Lewis, Of Illinois, who Is
attending the conference on safety al
sea as a representative of the Amer
lean Government, has created a sar-
torial sensa ton in London. AS the
Senator strolls along the principal
streets clad In the test Lewisesque
creations the schoolgirls sigh and the
young bloods" turn green with
envy. At the Hotel Savoy, where Mr..
Lewis is stoppins no one has any
chance of attracting attention while
Mr. Lewis is about.