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The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
HOUSTON urges
ROAD BUILDING
Promises Dollar Result for
Dollar Spent" Under Fed
eral-Aid Road Act.

At recent meeting of the State high
way officials in Washington to discuss
tentative rules and regulations for carry
ing out the Federal-aid road act, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Houston said:
The Federal aid road act and another
law-the cooperative agricultural exten-
sion act-that the department is charged
with the duty of enforcing, establish a
new principle in American government,
the principle OF cooperation between Fed
eral and State officers. They are the only
laws I recall which recognize and insists
upon this principle. They are therefore
very significant.
'Herstofore Federal and State officers
he : too frequently looked at one another
across the line, sometimes with apprehen-
sion as to what the other was going to
do OF think, sometimes with jealousy, not
infrequently with friction. We serve the
same people. They have a right to the
best service Of the representatives of both
jurisdictions. You represent the States,
! represent the Federal Government. To-
gether We are charged with the execu-
ton Of a very difficult and very important
law.
The main question that am immedi-
ately concerned with, that the people OF
the nation are Immediately concerned
with, Is whether we shall get a dollar {
result for every dollar we expend for
roads. I am quite sure that if we do
so, and We can convince the people that
we have done so, they will be willing to
put much more money into good roads
where they are needed.
Therefore, the matter of administering
this law, of devising good roads systems,
of careful selection of roads, of formu-
lating projects, of developing plans and
specifications, OF having all matters con-
sidered on their merits by competent
men, seems TO me to lie at the root OF
this business. If, as the result OF this
act, the people are induced fully TO real
ize the necessity of placing skillful and
experienced men in charge Of road build
ing and road maintenance a great ad-
vance will have been made. and the er-
forts OF those who labored to secure the
legislation will have been rewarded"
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
ZOO HAS Prize
FOOLISH QUERY
DO the Animals Ever Die?"
Most Frequent Question
Of Visitor.
Do the animals ever die %,

DO the animals ever die?
This question has been elected by the
different keepers of the Zoo as the cham
pion foolish question of them all.
During the present summer, accord
ing to Head Keeper Blackburn, larger
crowds than ever before have visited
Washington's wild animal colony in Rock
Creek Park.
Along with the large crowds come a
new crop Of foolish questions. Many are
funny. others pathetic, but the old ones
are still put over.
Nearly every day some one will walk
up to Sokko's cage, and, after watching
the almost human antics of the educated
Chimpanzee. will inquire from a guard
or keeper If he can talk. Every few
days some one does this but when 1t
comes to the champion question the keep
ers say they hear it several times a day.
Several keepers were questioned. and all
agreed that the enc in reference to the
mortality was leading all others by a big
plurality.
1T is hard" it was said, ito get peo-
pie to believe that such a question as
this would be on the minds of so many
people, it may be hard to explain, but
We have been asked that question so
often that it has become old to US now
Two men. evidently painters, were dis
cussing the possibilities Of the animal as
a Sokko yesterday afternoon.
He would make some painter" one of
them said. he could hold a brush in all
four of his hands"
Those two bottom ones are not hands,
they are feet. What is the matter with
You? Don't you know hands from feet?"
We'll, he uses them for hands. look
now he grabs that ring with them. You
can't tell me he couldn't hold four paint
brushes
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
FROST in JULY,
100 YEARS Ago
Centenary of Record Cold
Year Finds Humidity Break
ing All Former Marks.
special TO The Washington Herald

Special to The Washington Herald
New York. Aug. 20-It may not have
occurred to you that this is the cente-
nary of the time that has come down to
US in meteorological history as 1.-The Year
without a Summer" One of the rea-
sons for overlooking the anniversary
may be found probably in the fact that,
counting the thirty-one days beginning
July and ending August s, the mean
relative humidity in this city has been
S3.4 per cent. This is higher than any
monthly mean since taking of records by
the Weather Bureau began. The highest
monthly mean of record for July is 81
per cent-ln 1896 and 1897.
The months of June and July. years
ago, were. respectively. 5 and SIS degrees
below the normal. Frosts occurred in
every month. Indian corn did not ripen.
Fruits and grains of every sort were
greatly reduced in quantity, or wholly
cut Of On the sth of June, 1916. snow
fell in all parts of Northern New Eng
land. reaching depth on the highlands
and mountains of five and six inches.
On the morning of the 9Th ice was one
half inch thick in shallow standing
water, and icycles were formed a foot in
length. In July frost occurred as far
south as Philadelphia.
Any of our oldest inhabitants and
weather prophets who remembered these
tipes doubtless felt encouragement in
predicting similar conditions for the pres
ent season-that is. If they started to
predict in June. The mean temperature
for that month was 64.2 degrees, as COM
pared with an average or normal of SIS
degrees. Rain in appreciable amount
occurred on thirteen days. which is three
more than normal. although the total
amount, 294 inches, was only IS inches
above the average. Things continued to
look good to all such prophets of pessi-
mism until the second week of July, when
the apparently defeated forces of sum-
mer weather rallied and drove the other
fellows out of the first, second and third
lines OF defense.
Summer Is regularly scheduled to begin
on June q, but on the occasion of the
hundredth anniversary II was not much
In evidence until July I, since which date
it has been like the proverbial poor. Per-
haps you have noticed how persistently
1t has stuck around. Even the weather
man referred to it the other day as sticky
weather
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
REBEL ON NIGHT FIDDLIYG.
Wife of Player Made IL Worse by
Dish Accompaniment.

Reading. Pa. Aug. 2o-John @. and
Mary ORoUrlIe, husband and wife. 20
and q years old, respectively, certainly
love music late at night according TO
testimony given before Alderman May
er at Police Court
II was brought out that o'Rourke plays
the fiddle as late as o'clock in the
morning. Neighbors objected, especially
when Mrs. O'Rourke threw q china dish
at the husos nd-hddler, missed him and
nearly struck a pssserby.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
delay LAMENTED
BY GUARD POET
Strain Of Repeated Leave
Takings Drives Militiaman
to Verse Making.

Not to be outdone by the French and
German poets Of the European trenches,
the District Guardsnen have written
war poetry. Acting Corporal W. P.
Lane, OF Company H, has become a little
discouraged at the failure OF the District
troops TO move TO the border after many
promises, and the muse has forced him
TO put his questionings into song.
There is little time during the soldiers
day for verse making. but at night think
ing Of girl in town, perhaps, many have
been known to turn to verse making for
balm. Poet Lane said he wrote his
verses by moonlight while seated on the
Arlington Cemetery wall. He says the
poem is written because he wanted to ex-
press how It feels TO get into the city every
week and bid all your friends goodbye.
and then not 10 start for the border.
Here is his effort:
There was JOY and there was gladness
In Company H last night,
And the heart OF every soldier
Was filled with great delight
For US II was a pleasant thought,
We heard we were TO so,
When the orders should arrive here,
To the land of Mexico.
Indeed, ne'er tired OF waiting,
Our equipments now complete
1t is our daily effort
To appear quite fresh and neat.
The regiments reached its numbers.
But our departures slow.
So We still ask the question,
When are We sure to go?
So men. I wish to warn you
Not yet to say "adeu'
To your friends who come to Ordwsy
To see and chat with you.
Just wait until We do entrain
And really start to 60
Then wave your hand and sing the song,
We're goin' to Mexico
Cus'om in China discourages the photo
graphing of women.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
GARD AIDS SALISBURY
in SENATORIAL fight
Representative Will Direct Democratic
Campaign to Fill Vacancies in
Absence of Senator.

At the request Of Senator Salisbury. of
Delaware, chairman of the Democratic
Senatorial campaign committee, Repre-
sentative Warren Gard. of Ohio left
Washington yesterday for Chicago, to
act as the formers aid.
In the absence of Senator Salisbury,
Representative Gard will have charge OF
the campaign to elect Senators to fill
vacancies occurring March 4. 1917.
Representative Gard served with Sena-
tor Salisbury on the commission which
Investigated the financial relationship be-
tween the United States and the District
of Columbia. Letters announcing the Sc
lection Of Representative Gard to be his
aid have been sent out by Senator Sauls-
bury.
In addition to the seats which have be-
come vacant by deaths in Indiana and
Maine, there are thirty-two Senators
whose terms expire March 3, 1917. Rep
resentative Gard expects a hard fight, as
the political balance is finely drawn.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
find BABY BELIEVED
dead FOR TWO YEARS
Parents Weep for Joy as Girl Given
Up as Lost Is Returned
to Them.
SPECIAL to The Washington Herald.

EDSCl2l % Inc " aSnL1gLOD heralcs
New York. Aug. 2O.-There is unbound
ed happiness today in the home Of Sal
vatore MIgliorsi. where three-and-a-half
vear-old baby. mourned for two years as
dead. is playing with a heap of toys, both
old and new.
The baby is Josephine. the daughter
whom Salvatore and his wife sent to
Bellevue Hospital Soon afterward came
word the child had died at the Metro
politan Hospital, on Blackwells Island.
but it was all a mistake.
The child was registered at the hospi-
tai as Josephine Miliaris. and after she
had recovered, investigators for the de-
partment of charities were unable to find
any trace of her parents.
That you think We know how the child
gets lost said Mrs. Migliorisi," when
a reporter called on her to interview her
about the returned child. I'VE do not.
It is a great joy. How much I feel I
cannot say.
Il cry because my baby dead" she
continued, waving eloguentt hands. II
dream of my dead baby every night. And
I get her back alive. 1t is-it is. (She
hesitated as If trying vainly to find the
right word in unfamiliar English for
some feeling she might have beautifully
expressed perhaps in her native tongue)
and concluded simply:-'Tt is too much
glad
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
Nature Often Needs
Help to Hold Health

The first requirement is to offer
something that will not harm the suf-
ferer by poisoning the system or cre-
ating a habit-appetite that may lead
to a worse condition.
That is one reason why Eckman's
n successful treatment in pulmonary,
asthmatic and bronchial troubles, has
attained success.
II is absolutely safe to take. It con-
+ains nothing to poison one or induce
habit. Yet it's combination of call
.ciun chlorid is such. that most per-
sons can assimilate it easily.
If YOU are suffering from the serious
erfecfs of a neglected cold or in the
grin of a deepseated pulmonary infet-
tion. a trial is worth while.
O'Donnelrs Drug Store, and other
leading druggists -.-...- r
ADV,
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
'NIPPERS GRIP GERMANY
DECLARESLLOYD GEORGE

Special Cable to The Washington Herald
Cricieth. Wales, Aug 20-In a speech
to his fellow-townsmen here. David
Lloyd-George minister of war, said:
81 am satisfied with the way things are
going. I feel for the first time in two
years that the nippers are gripping, and
before long We will hear the crack. Then
we will be able to extract the kernel.
I'VE shall see that there will not be
another war in our day. The British
people have made greater sacrifices than
We ever thought possible. Three years
ago nobody dreamed that Great Britain
would pour four millions Of young man
hood into the battlefront. The vigor of
our demand must be according to the
measure Of our sacrifices"
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
DEPOSIT TWENTY-FIVE
CENTS WITH YOUR
DRUGGIST

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stlpatlon or disordered stomach. for a
box Of Natures Remedy CNR Tablets) =:
have a beneficial action on the diges-
tive and eliminative organs the
stomach. liver, kidneys and bowels.
Take one Mr. tonight: you'll feel bet
ter in the morning. Your money back
II you want it Get Csc box. At all
four Peoples drug stores: Seventh and
K streets northwest, Seventh and
z streets northwest, Fourteenth and
streets northwest-Adv,
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
Foreigners BUY MAY
wheat At LONG PRICES
Hold Ten Million Bushels. But High
Market Causes Them to Unload
at Big Profit.


Chicago, Aug. 2O.-It has developed
that foreigners are big longs in May
wheat An accepted authority says
that they intend to stand on their
lines and demand delivery. 1t Is said
their holdings were at least son, 600
bushels ten days ago and that they
have since quietly but persistently
absorbed as much more.
It is believed in some circles how
ever. that on the sensational price
gains made that considerable Of this
wheat was thrown overheard in order
to take profits. Traders who are
short May wheat and who have learned
that foreigners are the principal hold
ers in this market have displayed
considerable unessiness Of late.
They know that on a declining mar
ket they would be able to get a fair
amount Of the May future but on an
advancing market it would be an i'm
possibility to purchase even moderate
quantities without forcing values to
sensationally higher levels.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
DRIVE OF MERCY FATAL.
Chauffeur Delivers Man at Hospital,
Is Injured on Way Back.

Allentown, Pa. Aug. Con- his
way home from the Allentown Hos
pital. where he had taken an in
jured workman Michael Mcknight.
driver of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pans motor ambulance. was fatally
injured today.
His automobile was overturned by
a gutter at Rittersville.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
DEATHS REPORTED,
WHITE

Harriet W. Benton, S years, Home for Inc,,ra BILE,
Antonio De Laooulage. 2 months, Emergenc,
Hospital.
Dorothy Herbert. months, Ch'.ren's HospitaI,
Maria Paccini. l month Childreil's HOSPITAL
CODORED.
Henry Watkins, s. years, 745 Navy plaee 80
Rosie LAndon, g, 16 F St sw
Henrietta Liverpool, "a, 800 G st. ..
Carrie Bell l. 81 st. sw
Charles Bell, .. Casualty Hospital.
Irene johnson, 81. 400 18th st NV.
Albsrt Shaw. u months. LIS LIT It. nv.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
ALLIED VICTORY sure,
SAYS GEN. SAM HUGHES
Unrelenting Pressure Bound to Break
Foes Resistance. Declares Cana
dian War Minister.
CBy the international News Service,

(By the international News Service.)
Paris, Aug. 2O.-GGen. Sir Sam Hughes,
the Canadian war minister, arrived in
Paris today from weeks inspection of
the British front on the Somme. He
said:
No easy task or spectacular rush for
ward must be expected. but the unre-
lenting pressure of the allies armies is
bound to break the enemys resistance
Il cannot prophesy the exact date of
the end of the war, but it is certain
that it will end with a complete victory
of the allied armies
Everywhere in Canada we are working
double time making shells"
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
BIRTHS REPORTED,
WHITE.

WHITE
Harold NJ. and Charlotte R. stumph, boy.
Frank C. and Eva Pope, girl.
James n. and Esther LANGLEY. girl twins.
George A. and Alice W. Kingston. girl
Paul D. and Marie G. Johnston, Boy.
Wallace A. md Adelaide A jackson rirI
Lyman F. and Bessie E. Hewins.. girl.
Alvin W. and Elizabeth NJ. Haase bov
Charles z. and Marion z. Gebhardt. how
John W. and Catherine R. Branzen, boy.
Eric o. and Katherine Brssch, girl.
Frank s. and Marcy P. Allen, boy.
COLORED.
Willie and Jeanette Young. boy.
William and Goldia Pointer, boy.
John C. and Florence E. Mattinvlev yirI
Arthur and Louise jackson, boy.
George and Carrie B. Cook. girl.
Garrett c. and Ruby A. Brooks, boy.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21

When a poplar plank fSom Tennes-
see was split open by Junius B. Bishop,
of Binghamton, N. Y, it was found
to contain eighteen bullets, which,
from their shape and caliber, are
thought to have become inbedded in
the tree in the civil war.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21

Philadelphia has 600 charitable institu-
tions and organizations. OF these forty
eight are indorsed as reliable by Chamber
of Commerce investigators.
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
Shoots Bob Cat in River Hills.

York, Pa, Aug. 2O.-The first bob cat
killed in the York county river hills in
the last half dozen years fell last even
ing before the rife OF Herman Mayer.
Of this city, at Buttonwood Park, near
wrIghtsviue. It weighed twenty pounds
The Washington herald., 1916-08-21

Bv new French process aluminium can
be so substantially nickel-plated that the
metal can be hammered and bent without
cracking.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05


Government making time study of his operations by other
device also orbds paying workman bonuses
addition his regular days In short ban1she-n respect
laborwat known scientific from its last
ditch stand in Government work.
advocates of scientific discovers the most
sk energetic wokmen and by of bonuses premiums
and the regular days them for their
skill and that thereby all workmen to become
kfu energetic possb whereas the old system of
dollars many hours work. irrespective of the product
contains encouragement develop skill and
But labor generally speaking does not like scientific
management 1t the effect of the sopwatch system
simply speed up the working force pace that only the most
sku hardy then finally that selected
force than the DID, nweedd force would have 1t
employers like the because finally gives them
labor for the
"On hand have the praised obvious
of beneg labor On the other hand have denounced
obvious exploiting notwithstanding the nveteate
of labor capital capital toward labor which
kernel Of whole labor trouble
ha the House voted by hundred and against
hundred and fifteen Danish scientific from Govern
work nothing, the of the
troversy 1t merely registers the political pressure"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
WONDERFUL WAGE INCREASE.

When Samuel Gompers recently said that
aborers this country being rewarded with
creased he had all the figures behind him his
The Secretary Labor been making interesting study
the labor conditions with the
nearly where has been asked has
been granted where asked has
gaciou awarded by the employers who feel the benefits of
wide prosperity Plenty of there in which the
wongman has been taken profit sharer of the increased
net earnings
asceraned by the Secretary of Labor that in 493
of S6 increase between July 1915 and May 5 1916
there total raising of of 1901 22 aborers The total
of l4S6 settlements in which wages increased similar
basis would indicate that than 100000 affected
If the average individual income 5000 and the
only of wage
by these would be $OOO Large
as this only return from of the
entire American labor. alone pre-
mnary the 1915 indicates approximately
100000 last year whose wages aggregated $OO
00OOOO
We know that 1916 will show marked both number
of and in of wages 1915 If the number
poyed has increased for 1916 only 10 and the of
has increased only 10 volume Fl
larger for 1916 than for 1915 This produces wage total of S5
324OOOON which $OOOOOO larger than the 1915 total
and $SOOOOO than the total volume of paid
1909 reported in the of 1910.
There nothing program today which speaks
in stronger and more convincing of the prosperity which the
American people he New Freedom Democracy,
than the envelope of the workman. The OOOOON
the envelope which American labor realizes 1916
compared 1909 mightest
lift OF American civilization that is listed statistical inventory
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
MINERS REFUSE TO STRIKE.

Pittsburg, Pa.-At a conference of
representatives of district No. 5, United
Mine Workers union, motion to strike
against the New York agreement was
voted down. About $4,000 miners are
affected by this decision, which means
that the wage scale recently recommend
ed by the wage committee of the inter
national union is acceptable. While the
agreement is unsatisfactory in some re-
spects, friends of the agreement insist
that a 530 cent ton increase over tom
mage rates of last year and other bet
termcnts, which make possible increased
earning power, and industrial peace,
more than offset claims of opponents.
The question has been debated with
much feeling and at the conference Dis
trict President Van Bittner resigned in
the interest of harmony. He is succeed
ed by Philip Murray.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
MAYOR mitchell FAILS
To Effect Settlement of Street Car
Mems Strike.

New York.-Efforts towards media
ton in the street railways strike by
Mayor Mitchell failed at conference
held here with representatives of the
union and the street railway lines. w.
d. Mahon, President of the union, told
the Mayor that the men demanded rec
ognition as a union. This demand, c. A.
Maher, Jr representing the railway
companies, said, would be granted.
I'VE will recognize the men as indi-
viduals, or as collective body OF en-
ployeS, but not as a union organization"
MIR. Maher said.
Neither side recedng, the conference
adjourned. The Mayor warned both
sides that disorder would not be toler-
ated. There is little change in the strike
situation.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
BON VOYAGE.

The shown by the of the Deutschland has
admiration of American who wishes them Godspeed
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
$40 A YEAR is MINIMUM.

New ork-Director of the Bureau
of Standards Tirrell says an unskilled
laborer's family of five persons can not
maintain standard of living consistent
with American ideals on wages that fall
below $s4O year. He has studied this
question, and now, as a practical applica-
ton of his belief, he recommends that
no minimum rate below that figure be
established in the Street Cleaning De-
partment for unskilled laborers, stable
men, hostlers and drivers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
DEMANDS OF UNION LABOR.

The Mansfield Convention of the Ohio State Federation
of Labor 1915 outlined the Legislative demand of
Union Movement in Ohio when it unanimously adopted the
hna report and recommendations of its Committee Legis
lation. These recommendations provided
l. Regulation and limiting the of the injunction
T. Prohibiting the Importation Of strikebreakers.
Prohibiting the exercise of police authority by others
than those in control Of the State.
That the incoming Executive Board and the legislative
agent be instructed to prepare and introduce in the
General Assembly bill to amend the Worknens Compensa-
ton Act prohibiting sensiers under the
ferring their insurance risks liability companies
). Eight hours for workers.
o. Providing for the Australian ballot system at primaries
Find out before you vote if the whom select
IN favor OF the above demands not vote for else
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
LET US HAVE 1T.

Industrial activity has become positive
only world peace to develop its possibilities
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
ALLIES DURCHEINANDER.

The further the Presidential campaign goes the harder
Tor the German Americans and with ANYBODY
fact complications keep bobng up American
will not know where he stands.
The German American Alliance for Hughes
ago and now that gentleman that e believes
womans suffrage amendment should once-tat
means national prohibition if II
In order the Kaiser get Wilson, will they
vote to give up their beer?
We all mixed
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-08-05
SAME THING.

The Deutschland is as hard to catch as Villa