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Evening star., 1915-02-15
Increase of Clerks Salaries.

To the Editor of The Star:
Permit me the use of your valuable
space to call attention to a simple
but pertinent question. For many
years the cost of living has risen
out of all proportion to the salaries
of the majority of wage earners. thus
seriously affecting the mode of living
and comfort in general of many peo-
pie. 1t has produced deprivation of all
sorts, and with it discomfort and even
misery. When we consider the COM
pensation of wage earners we must
concede that 1t has been improved
throughout the country from time to
time, until there is a marked increase
in the salaries of many. But what has
the government done for it's employees
during all these years of higher cost
of living? 1t may be true that a small
percentage of these clerks have had
their salaries raised, but what about
the rest? The average salary of the
government clerk is not much over
$1,000. How can they afford to live
with any kind of comfort. particularly
with a family, under the circum-
stances? The result is that many have
to resort to borrowing money at a
high interest. This keeps them con-
stantly in debt. The government clerk
should be raised to a wage commensu-
rate with his living expenses. He could
then have an, easy mind. do better work
and the government would gain in
stead of lose. A. LISNER.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
CAMPAIGN FOR NEW MEMBERS
Young Women's Christian Associa.
ton Has Teams at Work.

Members of the Young Women's
Christian Association today started on
their campaign for new members. The
first reports are to be made by those
at the head Of the several subdivisions
tomorrow at noon.
This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the
teams are to hold a meeting at the
headquarters of the association, at
which Mrs. Woodbury. Pulsifer. chair
man of the membership committee. Is to
assign the dates on which the respect
i've teams are to be at the association
rooms to act as guides for visitors.
Every day during the campaign. which
lasts until February 81. the Y. w. C. A.
is to be open for inspection by inter-
ested persons.
This evening the Gymnasium Club is
to meet, at which time 1t is expected
impetus will be given the campaign. A
meeting of the Princeton-Petworth
Chapter was held this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. J. Bright Handy, 1853
Rock Creek Church road.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
MEDAL FOR COL. M0SBY.
President and Faculty of University
Of Virginia Express Esteem.

A beautiful bronze medal. expressing
the affection and esteem of the presi-
dent and faculty of the University of
Virginia for Col. John S. Mosby was
recently presented to the colonel by
DR. Charles w Kent in behalf of the
university authorities.
The medal. which testifies to the
pride of the university in its renowned
graduate. is embossed with the presen-
tation address. reading, in part, as fol-
lows:
Your alma mater has pride in your
scholarly application in the days of
your prepossessing youth, in your mar
tial genius manifested in a career sin
gularly original and romantic. in the
forceful fuency of your record of the
history made by yourself and Your
comrades in the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia. and in the dignity, diligence and
sagacity with which you have served
your reunited country at home and
abroad"
Evening star., 1915-02-15
FAVORS WOMAN SUFFRAGE
DR.. McKelway So Informs Members
of Conpressiona1 ITn;on

speaking before large audience at
headquarters OF the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage, DR.. A. ].
Mckelway. secretary of the national
child labor committee. announced that
he was an ardent supporter of the
Bristow-Mondell resolution for the
granting of woman suffrage by amend
ment OF the federal Constitution.
Dr. McKelway further announced
that he was southern democrat" He
asked 70 De made member of the
Susan B. Anthony memorial commit :
tee, which will raise funds on the ap-
preaching birthday anniversary of the
pioneer woman suffragist for the work
before Congress for the desired amend
ment.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Baumgardt Lectures.

Something of "the glory that was
Greece and the grandeur that was
Rome was admirably conveyed to a
Washington audience yesterday after
noon at the Belasco Theater by B. r.
Baumgardt in a lecture on "Pompeii,"
the first in Mr.. Baumgardt's 1915 lee
ture course. The lecturer, with his
well modulated voice and artistic grasp
of the romance in things European that
appeals to the American mind, brought
the ancient buried city home to his
hearers III a way that seemed to pre-
clude the need of the moving pictures
which followed the lecture. Views of
Naples and nearby towns preceded
those of Pompeii and the lecturer was
happy in associating the heroes of by
gone days with the different cities and
places shown upon the screen. Napo-
leon. that incarnation of law and or
the great bandit, under the spell of Mr.
Baumgardt walked hand in hand al
most with Caesar. Brutus and other
great worthless of the days when Pom
peii was buried beneath ashes and
lava from Vesuyius.
The lecturer let no opportunity pass
to bring in men with his views of in
animate things. and to this effort on
of the worth of his lecture. Bulwer
Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii' was
brought to life by Mr. Raumgardt
Nydia, the blind girl, and all the other
characters of that romance walked
once more in their native haunts. The
views shown by the lecturer were well
varied, including several interesting
restorations of Pompeii and reproduc-
tions of frescos found in the excava-
tions- The chief charm of the after
noon. however, was the appeal made to
lovers of the ancient Roman days.
Mr.; Baumgardt described and pictured
the land of sagas and vikings in his
evening lecture, Sweden and the
Swedes." Emphasizing the power of
environment a factor in the devel-
opment of progress, the speaker gave
an impressionistic sketch of Sweden
from the god Wooden to the present king.
and with a knowledge gained by years
of residence in Sweden paid tribute to
people who have always been in the
vanguard of freedom and righteous
ness. where illiteracy has been ban
ished and where in no country in the
world, not even in the United States,
do the women exercise a wider infiu-
ence." To his usual number of beauti-
fully colored slides was added a motion
review of the activities. sports and
quaint customs of Sweden. This is Mr.
Baumgardts first presentation in this
city of moving pictures, and while they
conveyed realistic conception of Stock
holm, the Venice of the North" it is
after all, Mr.. Baumgardt himself who
creates the supreme interest of any
| lecture he gives.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
NAMED LIGHT KEEPERS.
John B. dudley and John B. Jen-
nett Are Appointed.

Announcement is made by the light
house authorities in charge of the fifth
district of the appointment of John
B. DUDLEY to be keeper of the Bogue
sound and Core creek lights, North
Carolina. The appointment of John B.
Jennett, in charge of the lights at
Newbern, on the Trent river, Is also
announced by the lighthouse authori-
ties.
With supplies for the 1ightships on
the Diamond shoal and Cape Lookout
stations on the North Carolina coast
the lighthouse service steamer Orchid
left Norfolk yesterday. In addition to
supplies for the lightships the tender
has aboard new gas and whistling
buoy which is to be placed on Wimbie
shoal, N. c. The lighthouse authori-
ties give notice that this new buoy
will be established about February 16.
1t is to be a cylindrical buoy with a
skeleton superstructure to show a
flashing white light every three Sec
onds, flash three-second duration, OF
800 candle power. sixteen feet above
water.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
FRUIT MEN HERE TOMORROW.
Eastern Growers Association Mem
bers to See President.

Delegates from all the eastern states
are expected to attend the annual con-
vention of the Eastern Fruit Growers
Association. to be held tomorrow at the
Raleigh Hotel. They are to be received
at the White House at noon by Presi-
dent Wilson.
Among those scheduled to make ad-
dresses at the convention are L. Grant
Border, secretary of the Apple Adver-
users or America, Baltimore; L. NJ.
Eastbrook. chief of the bureau of crop
estimates; R. G. Phillips, secretary. In
ternational Shippers Association, Ro-
chester, n. Y: Wells A Sherman office
markets: P. NJ Rothwell, Martinsburg.
W. va: Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia
A L. Quaintance, bureau of entomoI'
ogy: 5 H Fulton, Sleepy Creek, w. Va:
T. r. Close and H. P. Coined.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
The Old Book Shop

I dig around in dusty hooks
it's less a habit than a vice-and
ponder over ancient books I'd
like to own-but lack the price.
The shop is dark. and cobwebs
hang down from the ceiling and
the shelves; and every day the
same old gang drift in there to
refresh themselves. The same
old fans in rusty black, with old
time lids upon their domes; the
workday world may Jump the
track-they'd care not, if they
have their tones. The same old
sports with misty eyes come in to
paw the volumes old: they paw
them. but none ever buys, for
book fans seldom have the gold.
The owner, in his rusty black, the
most impractical of men, puts
time-worn volumes on a rack.
then signs, and takes them down
again. In this old shop trades
always slack, for who would buy
such junk and trash? And
everything is rusty black, and no
one cares a cent for cash. The
owner and the ancient fans, who
chortle DER some printed treat.
don't understand our modern
plans, which rest upon a balance
sheet. They do not comprehend
the hosts who wear away their
lives for gold; they're living al
ways with the ghosts of all the
mighty men of old. If you should
seek the old book shack, to spend
roll OF money there. the old, old
men in rusty black will fume with
anger and despair.
WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
MOTORISTS CAUGHT IN TRAP.
Maryland Officials Arrest a Number
for Speeding.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, February 15.-Sev-
eral Maryland and District of Columbia
automobilists were caught in a speed
trap located on the Washington-Balti-
more boulevard near Riverlale yester-
day afternoon. and in each case Justice
of the Peace Robert E. Joyce required
a collateral of IS for their future ap-
pearance.
Those charged with exceeding the
speed limit gave their names as H. L.
Cote of 4125 9Th street northwest and
Edward F. Fauer. address in Washing
ton not given; L. J. Willinger of 1904
East Chase street. H. NJ. Price of 1921
West North avenue and J. Lippold. 1902
West North avenue, Baltimore: Fred
Grienersen. Irvington, Md. and Law
renee p. Timanus. Catonsviile, Md.
The trap was set and operated
by Deputy Automobile COMMISSIONS er
Thomas H. Wildman and Constable E.
&c. Kerns According to the officers the
machines ran at the rate of twenty
eight to thirty-one miles per hour with
in the confines of the trap.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
DR.. JOSEPH H. MOORE DIES
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Noted Specialist Long a Resident Of
shington-Funera1 Awaits
Arrival Of His Daughter.

DR.. Joseph H. Moore, sixty-four years
old, specialist in o-therapeutics
for more than twenty-five years in this
city, died yesterday at his residepce,
1916 G street northwest, following a
short illness. Awaiting the arrival Of a
daughter, Miss Gladys Moore, from
Texas funeral arrangements have been
made. Miss Moore is expected to ar
rive in Washington some time today.
Dr. Moore was born near Danville, Va,
a member of a well known Virginia fam
lily. Following graduation from the
Missouri Medical College at st. Louis he
engaged in practice in that city for a
number of years. He was head physician
in the quarantine hospital at St. Louis
during the yellow fever epidemic. He
later came to this city and practiced
here until short time before his death.
His wife and daughter survive him.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
ASK MORE WHARF ROOM.
D. c. Commissioners Want U. S
Land at 1st and O Streets s F.

Several months ago the War Depart
ment ceded Jurisdiction over a portion
OF the unimproved United States reser-
walton at the intersection of 1st and o
streets southeast to the District Com
missioners for use in the operation of
the municipal wharf at that point on
the Anacostia river.
because OF the increase in the busi-
ness at the wharf the Commissioners
now have asked the War Department
to cede them Jurisdiction over the re-
mainder of the reservation
The application has been referred to
Col Harts. in charge of public build
ings and grounds. for report
Evening star., 1915-02-15
c. & o. Canal Being Repaired.

While the Chesapeake and Ohio canal,
connecting this city with the coal mines
in the Cumberland. Nd. region probably
will not be opened for navigation for
about six weeks. improvement work on the
waterway is being pushed and probably
will be completed long before the time
comes for starting coal to this city. Locks
and levels are being strengthened and
other work done so that when navigation
starts it will be continued without inter-
ruption barring accidents. The outlook
for a big year in the coal business is said
to be excellent.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
MISS MARY E. REDFERN DEAD.
She Was a Prominent Worker in
Catholic Church Circles.

Miss Mary E. Redfern, who would
have celebrated her eighty third birth
day anniversary Wednesday, died late
last night at her home, 1920 10th street
northwest, following short illness
Funeral arrangements have not been
made. Interment is to be in Rock Creek
cemetery.
Miss Redfern was one of Washing
toms Oldest inhabitants and prominent
workers in Catholic church circles. She
was at all times actively interested in
st. PauIs Catholic Church, and in the
doings of the church in general.
A nephew, Edward Redfern, and a
niece. Miss Marie Clothilde Redfern
survive her.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
British Envoy at Ghent Peace Service

Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. the British am
bassador, was among the attendants at
the services yesterday in ST. Thomas
Episcopal Church. held in observance
of the celebration of 100 years Of un-
broken peace between England and the
United States. The form of service and
prayer prepared for the occasion by
the Archbishop of Rupertsland. pri-
mate of all Canada and the presiding
bishop of the American church, was
used by the rector. Rev. DR.. c. Ernest
sermon THE Centenary of Peace"
Evening star., 1915-02-15
To Argue for National Defense.

Branches of the National Security
League are to be formed in every state,
county and congressional district of the
United States. according to an announce
ment made last night by S. Stanwood
Menken of New York, president of the
league. The purpose of the league, it
Is declared, is to arouse the country to
the necessity of a better national de-
fense.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Burned Trying to Put Out Fire.

Firemen early last night extinguished
FIRE Of unknown origin in the store of
Samuel Finman. 1907 18th street north
west The damage to the stock amount
ed to $1,000. while the building was
damaged $500. Mr.. and Mrs Finman
burned their hands while trying to ex-
tinguish the FIRE.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Bishop Talbot to Speak.

Bishop Ethelbert Talbot of Bethle-
hem. Pa. is to be one of the speakers
at the missionary meeting in Memorial
Continental Hall Thursday. He is vis-
iting his brother. Rev. Robert Talbot,
rector of st. Paurs Episcopal Church,
evening services in that church yester-
day.
Evening star., 1915-02-15

New Georgetown Branch Agency for
Star Want Ads has been opened at FP
Weller's Pharmacy. Both and NJ sts NV.
Your little cent-a-word Want Ads will
De phonsd to The Star. Help and Stu
ations Wanted. Lost and Found, Rent
Rooms, etc, are cent q word.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Missionary Society to Meet.

meeting of the Women's Missionary
Society of Gunton-Temple Memorial
Presbyterian Church is to be held at
11:ao o'clock Wednesday morning. In
the chapel Of the church for the dis
cussfon of matters of Importance con-
nected with the work Of the society.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
CITY ITEMS.
By Pop.

Large Cans Cal. Peaches, 10c, Cans
Baked Beans. 25c; cans Peerless Milk.
1oc: cans Peas. 25c: cans Corn. 25c:
paragus. soc: Pink Salmon, &c: 4 lbs.
Choice Evap. Peaches, 25c: 2k-lb. cans
Karo Syrup. 10c; lbs. Buckwheat. 25c:
IL lbs. White Meal. soc: 2 1O-lb. bags
Salt, 15c; Fat Norway Mackerel. SC and
10c: Wonder Coffee. zoe: 3 doz. Safety
Matches, 10c. 1920 7th st. NV. and all
the J. T. d. Pyles Stores.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Militiamen Return Tonight.

The officers will not be detached from
the Sylvia until this afternoon, when
their orders will be signed by the COM
mandant of the Norfolk navy yard. re-
lieving them from further duty with
the Sylvia. During the day the en-
listed men of the local naval militia
will be attached to the U. S. S. Franklin.
receiving ship at the Norfolk yard. where
they will receive their meals. The officers
and men will begin their homeward voy-
age tonight, coming to Washington
aboard the Norfolk and Washington
steamer
After about month in the Norfolk
yard, during which she will be thor
oughly overhauled inside and out, the
Sylvia will be returned to her berth
here for the summer practice work of
the battalion.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
MILITIA TAKES SYLVIA
SAFELY TO NORFOLK
District of Columbia Sailors and Of
ficers Will Return Tonight on
Washington Boat.

After two days and a night on the
Potomac river and Chesapeake bay the
U. S. S. Sylvia, training ship assigned to
the Naval Battalion of the National
Guard of the District of Columbia, arrived
at the Norfolk navy yard yesterday after
noon at 4 o'clock. Commander Joseph A.
Dempf. commanding the vessel, in
brief dispatch received this morning by
Lieut. Col. A. L. Parmerter, United
States Army, adjutant general. Dis
trict of Columbia Militia, reported the
safe arrival Of the vessel. and said that
the voyage was a successful one in
every way.
The fact that the vessel did not ar
rive at the Norfolk yard until o'clock
yesterday indicates that Commander
Dempf kept to his original schedule
He estimated that 1t would take until
or o'clock Sunday afternoon to
reach the yard if the Sylvia anchored
at sundown Saturday night in Corn
field harbor, at the mouth of the Po-
tomac.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Memoranda.

Schooner Ella and Ora Is at a lower
river point to load oysters for the mar
ket here: schooner ]. 2. Robinson is in
Upper Machodoc creek making ready
to take up general towing work on the
river; schooner Oakland is in Bretons
bay. from this city. to load cord wood
for Washington dealers; schooner
Rover is at Baltimore with lumber
from a Rappahannock river point;
schooner Clara Howeth. at this city
with cord wood, will return to Mary
land point to load for this port or Alex
andria; schooner $. L. Bowen Is at
Maryland point making ready to take
up wood and lumber freighting from
river points to the market here
Evening star., 1915-02-15

Phone Your Want Ad to The stas.
Main 2440
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Entertainment for the Blind.

A musical for the blind will be given
at the Library of Congress this evening
at S:15 o'clock. in pavilion 2. The pro-
gram will be rendered by Earl Car
baugh. baritone; Donald H. Freeze.
pianist, and Edwin .Callow. reader. =,
Evening star., 1915-02-15

Landscapes. Schmidt. 1927 18th St
Evening star., 1915-02-15

Stone 4 Fairfax Make Loans at l%
and lowest interest rates.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1915-02-15
Mcwnii.m.' Ph.rmaey,e ,eoR.Iax.NE

Will take your little Want Ads and for
ward them to The Star Sale Miscella-
neous, Help and Situations Wanted
Rent Rooms and Lost and Found are
only one cent word a day for each
insertion.
Evening star., 1915-02-15

for good Lumber being lowest. Compari-
son proves it. Auto deliveries. 2109 7th
Evening star., 1915-02-15

Keystone Daily. Virginia. COS 9th
Evening star., 1915-02-15
HOLLAND AN EXAMPLE
TO WARR|NG NATIONS
Peace and Contentment Cited by
Rev. DR.. Charles Wood
in Sermon.

Holland was held up as an example
to the warning nations of Europe last
night by Rev DIR. Charles Wood of the
Church of the Covenant, who is preach
ing a series of sermons on the moral
and religious aspects of the conflict.
Hollands efforts in the interest of
world peace were reviewed. Hate. am
bition, pride and envy were given as
the impelling causes of the war. In
part, DR.. Wood said:
"Self-sacrifice for a great and glori-
Gus cause is never useless. never too
costly, is never regretted by those
who make it and those who under
stand 1t. The sword that cuts the life
of faith and hope is the sword swung
in the hands of hate or ambition, of
pride or envy, the sword whose swish
sounds in the ears of five or six mil
lion soldiers in Europe tonight.
To Make Death Glorious.
ITO die fighting as heroes have died.
to make men free, to break down prison
doors and open all Gods world to Gods
children, to educate the ignorant, care
for the sick and wounded in hospitals
more comfortable than any oriental
palace, to tell the dying of eternal life
of endless growth and blessedness is
to make death so glorious that the
splendor of it illuminates life's most
commonplace details.
ITO die as those fearless men are dy-
ing today in the trenches of France
and Poland. in the passes of the Car
pathians. who do not know why nor
for what they are dying, is a holocaust
of horror over which coming genera
tions will wiring their hands in shame
and pity. Little Holland, peaceful and
contented. is asking only to be let alone.
cultivating with plodding Dutch as
siduity all those arts of peace which
produce plenty and prosperity and
intense density of the shadow that
darkens the rest of Europe. where the
great powers are struggling to become
greater by destruction and slaughter"
Evening star., 1915-02-15
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooners Willie Clarence and J. R.
Dixon, oysters. from the Ragged point
beds. at 11th street wharf for the mar
ket here; steamer Southland from Nor
folk and Old Point: steamer Three Riv-
ers. from Baltimore and landings in the
mouth of the river: steamers Wakefield
and Frederick de Barry, from Potomac
river points.
Departures.
Schooner william H. Mcguire, light,
for Nomini creek to load canned goods
for Baltimore; schooner Martha A.
Avery, light. for Blackstone Island to
load oysters for the market here
schooner D. P. Milford. light, for a
lower-river point via Alexandria. to
load and return; steamer Newport
News. for Old Point and Norfolk
United States Army steamer Capt. A.
M. Wetherill, for Fort Hunt and Fort
Washington with army stores and pas
sengers: schooner John Fisher, light,
from Alexandria for a Potomac point to
load railroad ties or pulp wood to re-
turn.
Tugs and Tows.
The James o. Carter arrived towing
oyster-laden boats from the mouth of
the river; tug Louise left towing light
ers laden with supplies for the District
workhouse at Occoquan. Va; tug Eu-
genia left with lighters for sand dig
ging beds opposite Alexandria; tug NJ
Mitchell Davis is at 10th street wharf
for minor repair work: tug Capt. Toby
| arrived with lighter from Alexandria
to load oyster shells: tug Standard Oil
Company No. IL arrived at Baltimore
towing two light tank barges from this
city.
Memoranda.
Middletown transcript., 1915-12-04
FARM MACHINERY A
VERY HARD PROBLEM
Difficult Matter for Farmer to
Determine How Much and
What Kind Is Needed.

A difficult problem on the American
farm is to decide how much and what
kind of machinery should be pur.
chased Some farms are so over
stocked with machinery that the de
probation, interest and repairs eat
up much Of the profits.
Assuming the average depreciation
on machinery at 10 per cent, and the
interest on the money invested at 6
per cent, we have an average yearly
expense Of approximately $13 on each
800 invested in machinery. A man
who has $500 worth of machinery
would have $195 expense on this alone
in interest and depreciation. If his
work could be done with half this
amount, he could save $9750. This
would be equivalent to the interest on
$1,625 at per cent.
A farm of so acres cannot profita-
bly, use four-horse machinery because
three horses should do the work on
farm of this size. In buying ma
chlnery too large in proportion to the
size of the farm unnecessary expense
is added. This comes not only in the
increased cost of machinery but also
in the maintenance of any extra
horses required.