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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-23
ROAD IN GOOD CONDITION.
Highway Between Washington and
Fredericksburg, Va. Now Better.

The road between Washington and
Fredericksburg, Va. is in good condi-
ton according to reports received by
The Star few days ago. Last Monday
w d. Reamy accompanied party
from Fredericksburg to this city via
Dumfries in an Oldsmobile touring car
weighing 5000 pounds without pas
sengers.
The motorists negotiated the trip
without a single mishap. in exactly
three hours. which is considered good
time. taking into account a portion of
the road through Chapawamsic swamp.
Just south of Dumfries. The party left
Fredericksburg at LEO o'clock and
pulled into the National Capital at APO
in the afternoon.
In the run through Chapawamsic
swamp they were not bothered with
the mud. although for about three miles
they found the going rather rough at
times At one point below OccoQuan
they encountered stretch of mud,
which was avoided and the trip con-
tinued without any trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-23
BRIDGE TOLLS LOWERED
BY MARYLAND SENATE
Rate Over Span Between Havre de
Grace and Perryville Cut
in Half.

At the session of the Maryland legisla-
ture which recently adjourned a bill was
passed by the senate by vote of % to 1
making radical change in the toll rates
over the bridge across the Susquehanna
river between Havre de Grace and Perry
vile, Nd. The new bill fixes the toll for
automobiles at so cents for pleasure cars
as against 81 formerly. and the sum of $
for motor trucks instead of SO for single
trips.
The vote was taken at o'clock on the
morning of the adjournment, notwith-
standing the fact that strong lobby is
said to have sought to prevent the passage
of the bill. The rates provided for in the
bill are to be IN operation until the pub
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serves as a means of securing road i'm
provement in this vicinity and as a
source of touring information for Wash
ington motorists. The club has grown
TO such proportions and received such
splendid support from the National Cap
itars leading citizenship that President
Wilson deemed it advisable to appoint
an advisory board to represent the club
in local legislative matters.
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LAS part of the great national or
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lie service commission can determine the
reasonahleneSs of the charges.

lie service commission can determine the
reasonableness of the charges.
1t now has developed that within the
made to have Gov Harrington veto the
bill. The bill. it is said. was put through
after desperate fight. The hackers of the
bill contending that the rates now charged
by the bridge company are exorbitant and
oppressive 1t is commended that when the
commission takes up the question OF tolls
the bridge company should be required to
show cause why it should receive more
than the rates allowed by the bill
Only One Bridge Charges More.
One of the adherents of the bill in the
senate has said that, with the exception
of this bridge, there is only one bridge in
the country which charges more than 90
cents a single trip for automobiles, and
that is two miles long. in Connecticut,
where the charge is 60 cents He says
the charter of the Havre de Grace and
Perryvile bridge concern fixed the rates
for traffic other than motor vehicles.
which had not come into use at that time.
and that the bridge company has used its
liberty to fix rates on these vehicles eX-
travagantly. He also said the company
no taxes are paid. although the PennSyl-
vania Railroad Company gave 1t the
bridge outright.
Those who ask that the bill be vetoed
argue that the fixing of rates is a matter
for the public service commission: that
all other measures fixing rates since the
passage of the public service law have
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Has Long Sought Committee.

The naming of committee to repre-
sent the club when the inevitable read
justment of local traffic regulations comes
up for discussion has long been sought
by the clubs members.
Aside from the route directions to all
sections of the United States It gave its
members. and it's generous subscription
10 a fund for the improvement of. the
Washington-Ri Richmond highway, the fin
est work the club did during the first
year OF it's existence, say officials of the
organization. was in providing visiting
motorists with an adequate bureau of inn
formation and all of the numerous facili-
ties and courtesieS that motor clubs in
other cities extend Washingtonians
touring abroad This service, they say,
Is OF far more Importance than the aver
age motorist attaches to it. because
practically every town and city in the
United States has its motor club and
these clubs are usually responsible for
the improved and signmarked highways
leading into their home towns and the
signs OF warning often encountered which
point the way to avoid arrest for in
fractions of unfamiliar laws. This ex-
pense is incurred for the benefit of the
brother motorists from distant parts, To-
cal motorists being familiar with local
laws. and the man whose home club
makes the way smooth for visitors ex-
poets equally good treatment when en-
tour Ihe local club in behalf of Wash
1nSton motordom last year PLAYED host
to these visitors.
Until the organization of the A. A.
~ District club was effected WASH
!nston motorists gave practically moth
IN. in return for the many courtesies
sHtenGed them while touring in other
tit.cs- SAID A. g. BatcheIder, chair
f.;a;I Of the A. 4. A. executive board
hey toured far and wide. returned
A2ni+ aid enthusiastically told of the
l-uoon roads and the remarkably well
marked roads they had travelled over
:tad how an official OF the clUp at San
francisco. So. Louis Or Hartford Rad
f,to,ed them through the city and
started them Alright On the road to the
next town, when they had become con-
fused, out 1t seldom occurs to the ma
3ni 'ty of motorists to provide for the
ctner fellow when he comes to visit
their home town.
Will Work for Adamson Bill.
LAS a part of the great national Or
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been vetoed and that If the legislature Is
allowed to fix rates for utilities the serv-
ice commission law will be vitiated and
the legislature will have on its hands an
old-time corporation fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-23
Joins Goodyear STAFF.

Roy Witt. well known locally. has
Joined the sales star of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company.
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things, and you are doing mighty little
thinking about your employees. II
you expect your men to be contented
and stay with you and become more
skilled, you must get next to them.
You must show that you are genuinely
interested in their welfare. You can
DC this, but you cannot hire anybody
else to do it." Surely there is food for
thought in this little conversation.
Probably most employers. If they had
heard it. would have said it is abso-
lutely impossible to show the personal
interest suggested, because there are
SO many employees and because large
numbers of them do not speak the
English language, or are 50 ignorant
that it is out of the question to come
closely in contact with them. There
is. of course, much truth back of this
feeling, and yet we believe that most
employers could do much more than
they are doing to establish more
friendly personal relations with their
employees and that the relations of
employers and employees will not be
greatly improved until this is done.
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CoNsTANTINoPLE, PEACE BLOCK

Even as the Indian dream has en-
thralled England for generations, so
the Russian imagination dreamed in
noble circles of the possession of Con-
stantinople ever since Peter the Great
writes H N. Brailsford of London in
The New Republic. The program
which has resulted from the blending
of these two imperial dreams, the
British and the Russian, may find it
self in opposition, before the war is
over, to the more disinterested pur-
poses which the Entente entertains If
we concentrate our forces on Turkey
and IL our gains in Turkey cannot be
hartered away. 1t is possible that some
part of our program for the settlement
of sundry claims of nationality in Eu-
rope itself will have to be abandoned.
The program itself suggests some I'M
easy reflections. What, for example,
is its bearing on the future liberties
OF the Balkan states. two of which live
by access to the Black Sea? What
again win come of our aspirations to
set up some assured international ma
chinery in Europe. II our faith is not
equal to the strain Of internaticnaliz
ing the Straits? The extension of our
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own empire by the acquisition of Mes
opotamia will make one argument the
more for the per-nanence % conscrip-
ton. Every conquest won by force of
arms is a foundation for the nlilitar-
ism of the future. Worst of all. to
my thinking, is the bearing of this
partition of Turkey on the future
mood of Germany. Fatally she had
been led to see in Turkey her pre-
destined economic sphere. Close that
sphere to her. and at the same time
annex her colonies and subject her
trade to enhanced tariffs. and you be-
get in her the temper which will drive
her first to arm and then to fight,
merely that she may live. The salts
faction of these two dreams seems in
short to compromise all the more
allowable purposes of the war. They
promise a program of victory. They
proclaim the eclipse Of the interna-
tional ideal"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-24

- have observed" said Mr.. Humble
Citizen the other evening. as he toyed
with a postcard that had a kodak re-
production on the back of 1t, that
when a man has his picture taken with
the fish or fishes he has caught, or has
in his possession, he invariably holds
said fish or fishes out in front of him
as far as possible. This places said
fish OF fishes as close to the camera
as it is possible to get them and is
also a neat little way of emphasizing
the size of the fish tale. The women
haven't a mortgage on ali the foxi-
ness on earth"
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A TRIBUTE TO RILEY.

Dear old Whitcomb Riley
It's a shame such men must die.
We read of him in sorrow
And our hearts give many a sigh
For the famous Hoosier poet
And his passing to the shore
Where the angels have received him
With all his brilliant lore.
Dear old Whitcomb Riley
And his "Old Sweetheart of Mine"
Smoothed many paths of trouble
His teachings were divine;
His Little Orphant Annie"
And the good "Old Swimmin Hole"
Are bequeathed to all Gods children
AS a message from his soul.
All read his gentle lyrics
With profit and with love,
And there's universal sorrow
That our old friends gone above,
For his mission here was noble
And his lines were ever true,
They carried fragrant wisdom
In a manner known to few
A wreath we'd Irvine about his brow
AS Riley's laid to rest,
In humble supplication
That his soul be truly blest,
For we know the good that he has done
win live throughout all time
Let us spread our humankindness
AS he taught in all his rhyme.
M H. Gardner.
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4HE MOST IMPORTANT WORK

An employer OF many men in a
large city in the central west. says the
Iron Trade Review. recently APP
preached a man who had been very
successful in getting along with work
irE people. saying, I want YOU to tell
ne where I can hire a man to handle
la5or problems in my plant" You
a.ready have that man in your plant"
vas the prompt response. The manu-
fncturcr looked very much surprised
nnd asked his friend what he meant.
II mean this was the reply. You
are sitting AZ Your desk, giving almost
your entire time and though; to prob
l.n,s OF finance. OF seliing. and other
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al Perhaps she was too piqued at
first to listen to an explanation" said
Elsie promptly. to ward off Amys
further conjecture, but. I'm sure that
when she did know all about it she
was sorry she had acted childishly."
You are quite sure, Elsie? ?" asked
Fred, as if they were alone. And, in
deed, they were practically alone, for
Amy and Jack had exchanged know
ing glances and had drawn the other
two men over TO the doorway to see
whether the rain was slackening
Quite sure, Fred" said Elsie, very
softly, land bless those dear Smiths
for making me both sorry and sure"
Amen" whispered Fred, as they
went in answer to Amy's delighted
call to come and see the wondrous
sunshine that had broken through the
s.-(Copyright. 1916, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Why should the sharks be more at
tracted by the bare legs Of the girl
bathers than those of the boy and
the men. One of the experts in the
premises declares that it's the bare
legs of the girl bathers that is respon-
sible for developing the cannibalistic
tendencies that the sharks are show
ing these days. AS a matter of fact,
though, most of the girl bathers wear
stockings, while none of the boy and
men bathers ever do. So this experts
suggestion is nothing more than pif-
flc, and there is not a leg ON which it
can stand, as it were.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
Cry the Atchison Globe.)

(Ry the AtchlSOn GlODe.)
A fat man must either sweat or
die.
In union there is strength, but a
suicide pact is foolishness.
Sometimes it is not far between
getting hired and getting fired.
Sometimes the keynote speech
doesn't unlock anything but big
mouth.
There may be exceptions. but the
rule is that the parade never starts
on time.
Sometimes. after a person has paid
his doctor bill, all he has left is his
temperature.
Unless a man wants to sell his bust
ness, he is apt to say business isn't
very good.
One trouble with the denial is that
it takes it SO long to catch up with
the original statement.
You hear a good deal about oriental
luxury, possibly because there is so
much poverty in the Far East.
In this country men seldom kiss
each other, but they haven't such ex-
eellent taste in some other particu-
lars
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GLOO NJ
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Jelly From Non-JeIlying Fruits

Cherries, peaches. pears. rhubarb
and huckleberries all have so little
pectose that it is impossible to make
a good firm jelly from them alone.
Any surplus juice from these should
be strained through jelly bag and
carefully sealed in pint jars.
At any time that apples are pared
in a considerable qua ntity, as for but
ter. put the parings on to boil in just
sufficient water to cover. Boil until
soft Put in a jelly bag and allow
to drip over night In the morning
there will tie a dish of pinkish juice
that is SO full of pectose that it is
sticky to the touch, and IS as though:
thickened with gelatin.
Measure this and add an equal
amount of cherry or other desired
juice and put to boil in a broad-sur-
faced, porcalain-li lined kettle.
A half gallon Of these mixed juices
may boil rapidly for ten minutes, then
add as many cups of graduated sugar
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as there were cups to the mixed juice
before boiling them together.
After sugar is added boil rapidly
and continuously until a little put in
ice water will ''jell-" Lift from the
fire at once and turn into sterilized
lasses, and stand to cool III sunny
window if possible.
When cool cover with white paper
that has been brushed over with the
white of an egg, pressing it down
around the glass. Store i'll a light,
dry cupboard
Apples are so mildly favored that
the jelly resulting from the mixture
will have the taste of the desired fruit.
OF course, the whole fruit could
be used instead of the parinGs. but as
most of the ielly-forming substance
is near the skin of the apple, the use
of the parings is more economical.
Apple Relish.
Chop or coarsely grind in food
chopper enough apples to make about
six pints; also pimento or sweet Span
ish peppers to make about two CUPS
Mix with two cups sugar and two
tablespoonfuls salt. Cover with cider
vinegar and seal in glass cans.
Chopped celery or celery seed added
gives delicious flavor.
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SIDE TAIL X S
The Eternal Question.
" RUTH CAMERON.

Is there anything the employer of
labor hates more than the eternal
question?
dentist told me the other day
that he should have to get rid of
his assistant She seemed q sweet,
willing little thing and 1 asked him
why
because she asks so many ques-
tions," he said. 1T seems as if l
to answer another question.
THE other day." he went on, IT
asked her tc do an errand on B
street (naming one OF the best known
streets in the city, She said, What
B street? The one over back?' Now
there isn't another B street in the
city and she must know it. What
under the sun should make her ask
me that question"
What indeed. but just habit?
The eternal question is always the
thoughtless question.
1t is easier to ask questions than
| to think. and so the person who fol-
lows the line of least resistance gets
into the habit of responding to every
request of his employer by a string of
questions Some relate to things he
needs to know but might have thought
out if he had tried. Others, like the
one the dentist quoted, are absolutely
without any excuse.
OF course you remember the en-
ployer Ebert Hubbard tells about
in his Message to Garcia" who
asked the clerk to look up Correggic
in the encyclopaedia.
The clerk" says Hubbard, Twill
look at you out of his fishy eye and
ask one or more of the following
questions:
Who was he?'
Which encyclopedia?
Was 1 hired for that?'
is he dead?'
q" Is there any hurry?'
Shall l bring you the book and
| let you look it up yourself?
What do you want to know for p .
1 know just how that employer feels
once had a guest who tried to hell
me with my work Every step she
took was accompanied by a question
until 1. who was trying to concentrate
4 on what 1 was doing, felt as If my
brain were being torn into shreds
Yes, 1 know it is not easy to go into
another persons home and find youl
way about, but 1 have seen plenty Of
women who could do it with one-quar.
ter the questions this girl asked.
| People who consume their owr
smoke and people who answer theil
own questions by applying their brain.
to the matter are always needed.
The employer can forgive an oc
casional mistake better than he car
| forgive the eternal question.-(Copy
right by George Matthew Adams.)
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JAYMAWMER JOTS

If men drank only for the purpose
of warming up on their insides, says
the Ottawa Herald, 1t would not be
necessary for every physician in his
what not to do in hot weather" talk
to warn against the use of alcoholic
drinks.
Nor do good things always come to
those who wait. The Burlington Re-
publican notes that some farmers
near Junction City who declined $3.50
a bushel for their wheat last year,
holding out for 81, have just sold 49,
600 bushels at 81 per.
The Town SLOUGH of the Ottawa
Herald. alias Ellis NJ Clarke, OBJ
doesn't preach about his practice.
1t is a common fault, says the
Wichita Beacon, among all the re-
Gently invented devices for carrying
eggs through the mails in summer
vided for the chickens to get out af-
ter they are Matched.
Observations by the Lebanon Times:
When a man is down his enemies stop
kicking him and his friends begin.
The pessimist believes that the milk
in the cocoanut is watered. Many
girl who can't sing is afflicted with
the idea that she can. =. The average
man would rather compromise than
| fight. :. 1t is easier for the modern
girl to knit her brows than darn her
| hose. =. When we get so we don't
care whether we are contented or not
there is no longer anything to worry
about. When a free press was
guaranteed by the constitution, it was
not agreed that readers should let
| their subscriptions go unpaid. A
good story teller is usually popular
but he isn't in it with the fellow who
has never heard the other fellows
| story,
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BED T HME TALES

BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

'I don't exactly know what's the
matter with me today" said Billy
Robin, fretfully; but I don't feel
hungry for worms"
How Mrs. Billy did laugh.
Just as though that was to be won
dered at" cried she, as soon as she
could speak. IF you had seen your
self go after those great, big worms
yesterday, you wouldn't have thought
you could eat a worm for a week. In
deed you wouldn't have, BILLY! For
my part, I'm only too thankful you
are not sick"
THE very idea" said Billy tartly,
for above all things he hated to be
laughed at. you and Mrs. Chirpy
will never get through talking about
the way stood on my head. i guess
you would have done exactly the sa me
thing if you had been there. 1 know
Mrs. Chirpy would have. too. if she
liked worms as well as 1 do mean
as we'll as 1 usually do added Billy as
he remembered his grievance.
'T'il tell you what YOU might do,
Billy" said Mrs. Billy, thoughtfully,
for she always liked to help Billy out
if she could You might fly over to
the next block. 1 think there must be
something good in that third garden -
$50" asked Billy. as he perked up
his tail and looked interested. why ?'-
because I've noticed that all
morning birds have been going over
there and I'm sure they wouldn't un-
less there vas a good reason
Then why didn't you go yourself 20
asked Billy suspiciously.
Because l had all I could eat right
here at home. This is very good
garden here, Billy, and you know it.
Strawberries Rows and rows and
And anyway, m not as brave about
investigating as you are"
That settled it, Billy would not
have stayed away from that garden.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The glad hand is no place for the
finger of scorn.
Those WHO look on the bright side
don't always get below the surface.
Many a mans conversation is so
polished that he slips up on the truth.
The people who cry over their own
spilled milk are most apt to crow over
other peoples.
The matchmaking Mamma may
start things. but she doesn't always set
the world on fire.
The man whose prayers are most
apt to be answered is the one who
does little hustling on the side.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Much of the bashfulness in this old
world is simulated.
x X X
Some people cannot be blamed for
not wanting to be photographed.
x X *
There are all sorts and conditions of
men on earth and a few other kinds of
women.
x X x
This much can be said to the credit
of envy. 1t is mighty satisfying to the
person who is envied.
x X \
Many vacation trips never get be-
yond the stage of contemplation and
the picking out of routes to travel.
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as robin might dream of eating b,,t
never expect to findi
That's surely one time when Mrs
Billy knew what she was taILin1
aoout.' exclaimed Billy in deIiehf
ano then he swooped down and began
eating And such eating, He took a
taste OF one berry, nibbls of another
berry.
And he was not the only bird there
dear me. no, There were a lot Of
blackbirds and some robins. hut th.ra
were SO many berries that each bird
quarre1s. 10
Billy Eever Thought of the nei-hhor
whose gar6en he was robbing-wnv
should ne! He had a fine. big mi
ana then new off to his home. hsonv
Judson-) m
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Governor Capper does well to praise
the foreign-born of Kansas for their
patriotism, loyalty and thrift. They
are among the most valuable of the
Kansas assets in the citizenship line.
Hnd were all Of their brethren the
country over of the same fine mould
not so very much would have been
heard during the past two years of
the "hyphen" that is so out Of place in
America