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Evening journal., 1915-04-29
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
United Press STAFF Correspondent.
1915. bv the United press)

United Press Stau Correspondents
Copyright 1915. by the United Press)
Copyright IN Great Britain
FIELD HEADQUARTERS or THE
BRITISH ARMY IN NORTHERN
FRANCE. April 27.-(Via London.
April 2SD-The Germans are now
employing a new method of hurling
their poisonous gas. Il is by means
of shells from their seventeen inch
guns one of which fell just outside
of PoperinEhe tonight
As details OF the action of the gas
utilized by the Germans in their at
tacks are received, high headquarters
officials unite in charaeterizng the
use of the vapor as complete vio-
1ation OF all of the rules Of civilized
warfare. Some of the victims taken
to the hospitals have died after thirty
or forty hours of quick pneumonia.
All of the victims suffered greatly
from the pain in their throats and
their lungs and respiration some
times runs as high as fifty a minute
in the vain gasping for breath
Doctors in attendance on the suf-
ferers declare that the Germans
might as well utilize bombs filled
with diphtheria. enteric or cholera
germs only those who we're strong
enough physically 10 struggle out of
the gaseous zone reached the hospi-
tails. MANY ere left In the trenches
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMNs,

United Press stan Correspondent.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AT
THE FRONT, April 13.-By Mail to
New York. April 29D One of the
things that has caused amusement
where it was. not understood has been
the pleasure expressed in the official
communications over the gains of ter
rltory numbered I'm yards and feet.
You smile when you read. In this.
the greatest of all wars. where the
BelgiaDs hold IS miles of trenches I;
the British S2 the French 543. not
TO mention the Russians 1876 miles and
the Servians' geo. they speak OF win
ming a few yards as though ii was
football game. Yet it takes only
visit to the actual scene to under
stand and appreciate just what a few
yards mean.
Imagine yourself in Arras. the beau
tiful city in French Flanders. north
east OF Amiens whose fourteenth CEN
/ tury city hall one of the most Won
derful examples of Flemish Renais-
sance in the world, is now a mass of
ruins You make your way TO the
railway station, pile of debris, then
swing to the left and continue a
mile and half Here is your obiec-
tive.
Arras is surrounded on three sides
by the Germans. The French hold
one side and the city itself our su-
burb is on the east. The eastern half
of il is in the hands of the Germans.
the French hold the left This is a
small suburb like any American viii
lage Some homes. a factory or two,
and some stores Then there is the
finest home in town where the
richest man lives You enter o deep
communicating trench that zig -zags
across the front yard Of the finest
| home The house. i'm this case, the
Chateau Rouge is completely in ruins
You keep on toward the east Now and
/ then you reach a point where you are
told to run as trees overlook il that
contain German sharpsbooters.
on you 90 through the piles OF
bricks that used to he cottages. They
/ were once held by GermaDs. hut the
French mined and blew them up.
You start to say something, but the
guide warns for silence. You are toe
near the Germans and a word would
mean a hand grenade
BY and by you come to a brick wall
another ruined house, but this wall
is reinforced by many bricks. Stand
ing al lOophOles arc French soldiers.
They pay no attention to you. You
have watched a fisherman and noted
the eXpectative look on his face as he
holdes his pole just after getting a
big bite Well. that is the look on
every soldiers face. Nobody makes
sound You wonder how close the
Germans are. Then your guide touches
Your elbow. You can have a look
The soldier steps aside There they
are, the Germans, within a short 80
feet of you. You don't see them. but
YOU sense them and their trench is
business looking.
The German trench is cut through
the flower garden of a French work
ingman. The back door of his cottage
is seen forty feet away. A pitiful
little lopsided dishrag is huttering on
the porch.
Between the wall which shelters
YOU and the German trenches is a
row of yellow ionquils nodding their
1 heads in the sunshine. A broken
water pitcher, a battered old hat and
some tin cans are near the flowers
while a blue and white bandana has
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
new Home FOR
cecil COUNTY insane
Special to THE EVENING JoURNAL

Special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL
ELKTON, Md, April 29-The TWEEN
ty-three insane patients. now cared
for in the Insane Asylum at Cherry
Hin, Cecil county. on May is will be
removed to the new Eastern Shore
State Hospital. for the Insane, near
Cambridge.
Al an unusually early date. home
grown asparagus is now being sold
in the Elkton markets.
Fire on the Turkey Point farm,
owned by Dale B. Fitler, Of Philadel-
phia. destroyed the gardeners cottage.
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get at The
Cause and Remove It.

DR. Edwards Olive Tablets. the substitute
for calomel act gently on the bowels and
positively do the work
People afflicted with bad breath find quick
relief through DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets.
The pleasant sugar-coated tablets are taken
for bad breath by all who know them.
DR. Edwards Olive Tablets act gently
hut firmly on the bowels and liver. stimulat.
ing them 10 natural action, clearing the
blood and gently purifying the entire sys.
tenn.
They do that which dangerous calomel
does without any Of the bad after effects
All the benefits Of nasty sickening grip
ing cathartics are derived from DR. Edwards
Olive Tablets without gripping pain or DIS
agreeable efects Of any kind
DR.. r. NJ. Edwards discovered the formula
after seventeen years Of practice among pa.
tients afflicted with bowel and liver complaint
with the attendant bad breath
DR. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive oil
YOU will know them by their olive color
Take one or two every night for a week
and note the effect. loc and CSC per box
All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company. Columbus O.
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
GETS GRIM TROPHIES OF WAR.

The first known trophies of the war
now in progress in Europe. to reach
here, arrived today, consigned to
local resident. The consignment en-
braced bayonets of a German make,
which were stained, but whether it
was blood on the steel was not known.
Included in the relics we're shells that
were broken, a. well as head pieces
worn by the soldiers. Judging from
the condition of the articles, they had
been gathered from some battlefield.
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
Guns OF Rival Armies Now
Threaten TO Make Wreck OF ArFas

been spread across the top of the
German trench to dry.
To the left and right of you there is
the occasional crack of Lebel and
about as often you hear the Germans
replying. At the base of the brick
wall, under the loophole you look
through. many fragments OF brick
have heen shipped off by hostile bull
let's. The line of battle as you follow
it extends through brick cottages.
across streets, past vacant lots. fac
tories, stores, pretty homes, vegetable
gardens and what not Through the
sides of one little cottage the sol
diers are firing at loopholes in the
wall of another only 25 feet away.
Sometimes they use cannon at close
range. Guns capable of hurling shells
many miles lombard houses only the
streets width away
And all this time suhterranean war
fare is being waged From the Gel
lar of cottages or factories the French
are tunnelng toward the German
lines. the Germans toward them.
When the tunnel reaches the proper
place a heavy charge of dynamite is
exploded and a new slight gain was
made You see now the reason for
these little yard gains boasted of in
the communications At Vermelle. i'm
this same region gain of only a few
yards determined the abandonment of
the whole town by the Germans after
So days of fighting and the digging
of about four miles of tunnels.
Now YOU know about the situation
near Arras. Watch the communica-
tons for what happens there.
The Wants are for the Industrious
those who have the ambition. energy
and stick Effectiveness to gain advance
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
COrR-Mad? Use
"GETS-IT," It's Sure

Makes Corns Vanish Like Magic!
A hard cap of skin makes up every
corn. When you put drops OF GETS
1T on H. II shrivels up and comes
right off-and there's your corn-gone
by thunder Simple as taking of you5
hstl That's why corn millions have
Evening journal., 1915-04-29

kitchen
all Of the noise spo that going help SNOW
ball Snowfall with
bone in her throat and although he had told her cough she didn't
10 be able {
All spoty had idea his little friend he
his her mouth and down her throat and second out the
bone
Snowfall thankful life she
him tell grateful
walking they where
catch
FISH and at and
7 will divide with
her the hst
FISH hhday
double meal
Evening journal., 1915-04-29

gone Wild over -IT'-nothing
ike IT ever known. Some folks. TO
this day, putter around with bandages.
sticky tape. thick plasters. corn pull
ing salves. gouge corns out with
knives, snip them with scissors. make
them bleed and then howl because
they can't get rid of sore corns. Use
-GETS-lT' There's nothing 10 do but
apply drops. The work is done
"GETS-IT' does the rest No pain, no
fusslng. no changing shoes. no limp
ing. Il never fails. Try IL tonight for
any corn. callus. Wart or bunion BE
sure that you get GETS IT. and
nothing else.
~GETs-IT" is sold by druggists
everywhere, 25c bottle, or sent di-
rect by z. Lawrence & Co. Chicago.
Evening journal., 1915-04-29
SNOWFALL and the Fish
Bone
BY vIRGINIA VALE.

Once upon q time Snowfall
and Spotty we're eating their din
ner together. This didn't happen
very often as Snowfall was usual
~ there before Spotty She was
eating as fast as she could and all
al once. she swallowed a fish bone
and began 10 choke She coughed
and coughed. but there the bone
stuck fast in her throat and very
soon she would have strangled
but for her little friend Spotty
AS soon as he saw what had
happened he began to bark for
Evening journal., 1915-04-29

The Wants are for the industrious.
those who have the ambition. energy
and stick-to-itiveness to gain advance
ment and demand success.-Adv.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
GEO. McANENY, MUNICIPAL PATRIOT
the Adoption of Transit Plans in Which the Future
Loomed Large the Present. and the Present Large
the Future-A City Builder
By ELLIS RANDALL

neering and financial problems involved
And so it was with every other qYeston with
which he dealt. He always had the facts
and figures, and he always had them thor
oughly organized and ready for immediate
use on any occasion. His memory, by the
way, is remarkable. He is a walking en-
cyclopedia of New York history and munich
pal statistics, and when the charter is un-
der discussion he takes the place of an index.
His FavOrite Study
Slight in build, indeed, almost frail. he
looks the scholar that he is. The subject
he studies most is very live one, the sub
ject of municipal government; he was one
of the incorporators, by the way, of the
Bureau of Municipal Research. The bottom
idea in this subject, he believes is the well
fare of the people. Acting on this principle
he has precipitated some hot fights One of
these followed his proposal of utilizing
part of the city's electrical power equipment
during idle hours for the manufacture of
artificial ice to be sold at cost to the city
poor through the municipal milk stations.
From the howls that went up one would have
supposed that McAneny was seeking to COM
NIT the city to an entire system of socialistic
municipal ownership. TO most of us the
proposition may seem harmless enough, but
when a mans in politics the good he tries
to do makes headway over a rough road.
McAneny was born in Jersey City, Decem-
ber "a, 1869. and is, therefore, in his 46th
year. He was graduated from the public
schools and then became a newspaper re-
porter. 1t was his work in the city room
and the enthusiasm Of a city editor, as he
himself testifes that started him to work
upon municipal problems, so his return to
journalism is not at all surprising.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
BIBLES AND WAR

THE American Bible Society, which will
l. celebrate the centenary Of its founding in
May of next year, reports that 1t distributed
6.40o 900 Bibles and Testaments last year, but
that it has received $4,000 less this year
than in 1914.
The demand for Bibles increases, but the
money to pay for printing them is becoming
scarcer. Those who wish occupation for an
idle hour may find it in speculating about
the reason for this. The rest of US will be
more interested TO know that the Bible So
ciety circulated last year four times as many
volumes as in 1901 and almost as many as
in the twenty-five year period from 1925 to
1850.
The Philadelphia Bible Society, founded in
1908. is eight years older than the American
Society in the organization of which II par
ticipated. II is the oldest Bible society in
the United States And the first English
Bible printed in America came from the
press here in Philadelphia in 1882.
The Bible may be old-fashioned, but 1t still
manages to hold it's place. even in time of
war as by all odds the best seller.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

TO insure our ability to meet any invading
torce within a few months after Il had sailed
for our coast.
We have no such army and no such navy
at the present time. Our sea-hghting force
must be increased 30 per cent. and Mr.. Taft
thinks that after Withdrawing the men
needed in the Philippines and for manning
the coast defenses there should be at least
seventy-hve thousand soldiers trained and
equipped for instant service.
This Is certainly modest program, and u
II is adopted we shall not have to depend
so much upon Providence in world In
which the law OF the survival OF the httest
is one OF the ways in which Providence
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
AN INCREDIBLE STORY

MO MAN will believe the confession OF
IN Robert Fay, lieutenant of the 18th SAX
ony Infantry No one will be convinced that
he was sent here by the German Imperial
Secret Service to cripple or destroy steam
ships destined for the Allies. The story is
preposterous.
Germany. after all. is not a child among
the nations She knows all too well the dan
gers Of being caught, and the penalty She
hardly wishes to involve this country with
all its resources in a war against her. She
knows that after the war she must look to
neutral nations, not TO former enemies, for
first aid in re-establishing her commerce. And
the plotting her lieutenant could do could not
make the game worth a tallow dip.
The argument is all against this conspiracy.
No man will believe in it-unless 1t is proved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
TAFT ON THE VALUE OF SENSE

We seem 10 think. for periods at least
that God will take care OF us and we don't
have 10 use any sense at aI-Ex-President
Tat
U1HE attitude OF mind OF the good people
a who are opposing preparation for national
defense has never been more aptly described
Mr. Taft has been AZ the head OF the War
Department. and he knows something about
the problems Of raising and equipping an
army and moving Il about the country
With great charity he calls Mr.. Bryan's re-
mark that IN the event OF war we could
raise an army Of million men over night
IL mere ngure OF speech. Mr.. Bryan must
know that II takes six months 70 train an
infanfryman and a year 70 train cavalry
man or an ariilleryman-
Mr Taft ia Of course. IN favor Of prepara-
ton for defending the country. He thinks
that reasonable preparedness" would con-
1Iat n the creation Of navy stroag enough
70 keep al bay the navy OF any country
which has standing army big enough 70
1.I1ch two OF three hundred thousand men
- form an Invading force And there should
~. !. ~ rr~>0s n - army BIS enough
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
TRANSIT AND PUBLIC HEALTH

proper and effective adjustment Of the
ventilation and the avoidance OF the over
crcwding in street will greatly assist
In ahating the nuisance created by vitiated
atmosphere and thus protect the public from
the possibility of the spread of disease.-Dr.
Ziegler, Director of Health and Charities
IMPROVED rapid transit apparently. is
i not a matter of convenience only, for the
preservation of the public health depends
on II.
We have learned that coughing and sneez-
ing spread disease, yet the well have to be
crowded into the street cars night and morn
ing along with those suffering from colds of
one kind or another. And then they wonder
where they contracted the case of grippe
that confines them to their house for a week
or two.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
AGAIN THE SACRIFICE

YESTERDAY it was Pittsburgh that paid
i the penalty. Months ago the blow fell
on Chicago Years ago 1t fell on New York,
When will It fail us?
The story of the Pittsburgh fire is the story
Of hundreds Of fires every year. perhaps
every month, Of our existence. The workers
were trapped on an upper story OF the burn
ing building It is said that the fire-escape
broke, and that the hose-coupling was in
effective. The building had been condemned.
And there is not lacking that most sinister
echo Of the Triangle fre-the windows are
said 10 have been barred.
When. in Heavens name, will II end? How
large is the price in human lives which this
country must pay7 What blind confidence
have we that the lightning which strikes
everywhere will not strike us? And what
end will there be 70 the greed and negligence
and the waste which make us a barbarian
among civilized nations?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
vALoR OF DISCRETION

THE only kind OF courage that the organi-
l. zation leaders seem TO be displaying is
the valor OF discretion. They march right
up to an issue and when Il does not run
away they march as boldly back again and
, refuse to face 1t.
This happened with Smiths challenge to
Porter to debate the issues of tho campaign.
Porter accepted so quickly that Smith dis
covered that a debate would interfere with
his scheduled addresses, and declined to meet
his antagonist.
When the Organization demands an inves-
tigation Of its own charges that Mayor Blank
enburg's superintendent of Supplies has ac-
cepted and paid for coal below the quality
called for in the specifications, and the
Mayor hastens to second the demand, the
Organization announces through Speaker
Amber that it is not "expedient to appoint
an investigating committee until after the
election is over"
Never was a truer word written It is not
expedient for the interests of the Smith can
didacy to allow the Mayor to tell what he
knows about the ways of Gang government
and to show how he has displaced them with
methods that can stand the light of day.
The Mayor called the bluff so quickly that
the only way they could show any dscre-
ton at all was to take to the woods and
hide behind the tall tree of expediency.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
PEACE IN SPRING"

"DCT in April we will have peace" they
ID are saying in Berlin. 1t is a grim jest
when the Imperial Government takes charge
of the entire food supply and the order goes
out that meat may not be eaten on two days
a week. 1t is followed, of course, with a
1--WE have plenty; but the assurance is in
falsetto.
Apparently there is to be but one great
victory in this war-the victory Of Starva-
tion. The peace that follows is the peace of
death,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
POOR John POOR DOG

The iamentable case OF John Poor Dog, an
Indian accused OF stealing hogs, an offense
70 which he pleaded mot guilty" Is told thus
BY an Oksahoman; John Poor Dog was ar
faisned before the Judge. who inquired whera
John Poor Dog said mo Witnesses" said the
JuoFe; mo one 70 speak Tor you who knows
anything about this7" John Poor Dog shook hts
head sorrowfuly "Oniy one man knows about
this.' he said. He's the one helped me steal
the hoge and he's sud liar he c0uldn't ten
tho truth. 50 fion't 80 him"--kansan City
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

Board of Estimate
and Apportionment,
of the City of New
York, and is soon to
return to newspaper
work, calls attention
again to those serv-
ices which have won
for him the high
title of municipal
patriot" Many of
us are far fro m
b Elm G ardent wor-
S h ipp ers of the
mighty city at the
foot of the Hudson,
but nobody, let 1t be
hoped, is unwilling
to take his hat off
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

pave" Lane is all for little variety. Yes
terday by way OF a change he attacked
Blankenburg. The idea 10 about as exciting
as senator Penross making the taFiff a local
issue
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

Al Smith rally last night ths candidate
arrived while Senator McNichol was speak
ing The crowd shouted 90 on. Jim. Don't
lei that stop youlH Jim has no intention Of
letting Smith step him. That's Why 4 was
en1ih.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
A YEAR OF DAYS

TT YOU are inclined to forget that 1916 is
J. composed of 366 days, and IL you aren't
quite sure that every one of those days is
interesting, provide yourself with one of the
almanacs which the Atlantic Monthly is CIV
ing away to those who care for such things.
You will be advised admonished, amused,
instructed, edited perplexed and intrigued.
You will learn that on st. Agnes Eve you
may expect high winds and that cold does
not hurt poultry. but draughts are fatal.
The Almanac grows positively sSittsh when
it reminds you that January 26 is the ami
versary of the first Ford Joke G492). You
may doubt it, but can you doubt that "a
sparrow trap will be found useful" (Febru-
ary 13)? Moral reflections are hard reading,
the Almanac knows, yet who is not exalted
by the reminder that "a man and his over
shoes are soon parted" March 22)? April
reminds you, rather suddenly, that on the
second the Allied fleet withdrew from the
Dardanelles 0915), and it is a safe bet that
you thought the fleet was still there. Turn
to astronomy and you will find with mathe-
matical precision the observation that, on
the 18th, "Billy Sunday reaches greatest bril-
lance" (19l5). How strangely events COM
pose themselves! On the very day that Italy
entered the war there was partial eclipse
Of Mr. Barnes by Mr.. Roosevelt" 1873.
On the first OF August "the care lal bird
cries What cheer What cheer!'" as far
north as Pennsylvania, and the 22d OF Sep
tember is made glorious because 1t was on
that day that Treitschke was discovered by
Americans $50. On the Both Of the same
month Mars will be in Libra. DO you know
when st. Luke's summer is? Or when the
alternating season for tennis racquets be-
gins? Do you know how to prevent "the apo
piexy"? Or 10 cure "the toothach"? The
answers are written down for you, in this
new book OF days Bickerstaff never did
better
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

The French have smashed the Bulgarian
army ana the way TO constantinople Is now
open--to the Germans. For whom are the
French aghtIng, anyhow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

Georgia has recovered from its hysteria.
but not from it's stain. Ex-Governor slay-
ton is back home again and no one talks Of
ivnohfng him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

THE announcement that George McAneny
i has resigned his duties as president OF
the Board of Aldermen and member of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

The Rheims Cathedral has been destroyed
but the Cathedral Of St. Marks in Venice
Is stin intact. though bombs have fallen In
the SQUARE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26

Doctor Dumba got what was coming to
him on this side OF the ocean. and now II is
said that he is going TO have the same ex-
nerfence at home.