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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
INFANTRY ATTACKS NORTHWEST OF FORT
 GROW MORE VIOLENT SAYS PARIS REPORT
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forward in the Argonne forest and the expulsion of small British detachments frcm captured German trenches north east of Vermelles are related in the latest German official report. The British are defending the famous Hohenzollern re- doubt position against German bombing attacks
 Despite the report from Rome that 20 German dreadnaughts have come into the North sea from their base at Kiel and other reports which seemed to pres age the imminence of naval battle, nothing definite has come through to show that German warships are out maneuvering or seeking battle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
DATE CHANGED FOR \ WOMEN'S TOURNEY

New York. March f.-The executive committee of the United States Golf as- sociatio nannounced today that it has changed the date of the wonen's national championship from September Il to Octo- Der l. The tournament will be held on the links of the Belmont Springs Country club at Waverly, Mass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
SUMMERFIELD FIVE
 DEFEATS SOUTHERN

Selma March 7.-(Special.) .)-Girls from Selma Summerfield college tonight de- feated the basketball team of the South ern university by score of 19 to 8. Tho game was one of the snappiest evel staged on the local court. Two week. ago the Southern university defeated Summerfield, to 6.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, March 7.--Forecast for Alabama and Missssippi: Fair wednes- day, somewhat colder in interior: Thurs day fair.
 Georgia; Fair Wednesday, somewhat colder north and west portions; Thursday. fair
 Tennessee: Fair; somewhat colder Wednesday; Thursday fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
Admiral Walker Dead

Washington. March 7.-Rear Admiral Asa Walker, retired, 70, one of Dewey's commanders at Manila Bay, died today lat Annapolis after two weeks sick ness of pneumonia. His home was at Portsmouth, N. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
THE GOOSE GIRL,

Little Marguerite Clark is again seen to decided advantage ill "The Goose Girl,' Famous Players Paramount feature at the Colonial today "The Goose Girl' is another of those Limitations of foreign opportunity to wear short dresses and allure the prince charming, as in the fairy tales of old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
THE PRIMITIVE STRAIN

Edward Arnold and Miss Nell Craig are co-stars in "The Primi- tive Strain," three-part Essanay feature at the Odeon Two today "Freddy's Last Bean," a Vitagraph comedy, with William Dangman, is also booked today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
FREIGHT MEETING ADJOURNS WITHOUT
 ANY DEFINITE PLAN
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trunk line roads, supervised by the commission to handle all embargoes.
 At least two speakers declared that properly to relieve congestion at New York an immediate temporary embargo against all freight movements to that port was necessary. Others thought some of the immense volume of traffic seeking an ocean outlet at New York should be diverted to South Atlantic or gulf ports.
 F. WEST NEEDS CARDS
 Charles Kimmich of Charleston, s. C., told the commission Charleston was able to take care of much export busi- ness, and that New York would be re- iieved if. the carriers would make suf- ficiently low rail rates there from the west to divert traffic. H. H. Haines of Galveston said the west was greatly in need of the cars of her railroads now held on eastern lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
mI.ITTLE PEPPINA

It is far cry from the tender little Japanese Cho-Cho- San of Madame Butterfly to the heroic figure of Poor Little Peppina,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
Local Data
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at Uni ted States weather bureau stations dur ing the "A hours ending at p. m., 18th meridian time March z, 1916:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
SUTHERLAND URGES SENATORS TO STAND
 BEHIND PRESIDENT
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 thereto. of the newly developed sub marine.
 ''The proposition now insisted upon, baldly stated,'' he declared, lis simply this: That when a new engine of de- struction is invented that cannot be made entirely effective without violating the law, the law is ipso facto automatically modified. Under these circumstances my own view of the matter Is that the new weapon must yield to the law. To con- cede the right of a submarine to sink a vessel armed for defense only, without giving warning, would be to invite the sinking of unarmed vessels without warning as we'll" declared the senator. "If commander of a submarine de- clined to act upon appearance we should never be able to determine whether these appearances Justified his conclusion un- til after the vessel and her crew and passengers had gone to the bottom or the sea-
 SHALL CITIZENS BE WARNED?
 The question next arises and indeed 1t is really the crucial question-saaM our citizens be officially advised to forbear from travelling upon belligerent merchant vessels armed for defense only? Or, in deed, shall we go further and forbid their uOlng so unuef penalty TOT ulSOpcIluiciC0' If I am correct in what I have already said, namely, that these merchant ships have the right to carry defensive arma- ment, it follows that such a ship has the same status as though unarmed and that the right of a neutral citizen to transport his goods or travel upon either. is the same and not a different right, and that in fact is the decision of our own supreme court in a case decided many years ago and never since over- ruled or modified
 '1f, therefore, citizen take passage upon ship so armed and lose his life by the sinking of the ship without warn ing what must be the contention and claim of this government, neverthelesse To my mind it is clear: The citizen | in the exercise of a clear right, has been deprived of his life by the delib- erately illegal act of the belligerent gov ernment, which sent the submarine on its mission of deal h. can conceive of nc other position for this government to as sume. and unless it is unwilling te ! forfeit the respect of mankind by be- coming a craven thing, 1t must be pre- ] pared to sustain that position at what ever cost or. consequence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08
|HEOOnI0NS @ 2 zAnD 2SGREEN
By RICHARD F. LUsslER

but the art of Mary Pickford has enabled her to bridge that gap and to make of the near-Italian girl, who lives as a boy, one of the greatest characterizations of her long list of successes on the screen. In the Famous Players Paramount Pickford feature, Poor Little Pep pina," in seven reels, from the pen of Miss Kate Jordan, and directed by Sidney Olcott, Miss Mary Pick ford gives an entirely different in- depreciation from anything that she has ever attempted. Her smiling society buds, her petulant school girls, her mountain maidens, her prim little misses and her adorable Japanese girl are all cast aside for this sweeping character, in which she is a kidnapped child working in a Sicilian vineyard, a stowaway dis guised as boy, a "newsie," a boot black. a fruit vender, an employe of an opium den, a messenger boy, and finally the restored million aires daughter. Guess that's rather enough for one little girl to DOT tray in one picture. Poor Little Peppina" will be shown at the Strand theatre again today.
 THE MARBLE HEART
 Miss Violet Horner, newcomer. will make her local screen debut today at the Trianon theatre in The Marble Heart a William Fox feature. This is a pleasant little photoplay, which tells of a young woman who marries without love, and then plans to kill off her hus- band Friend husband is drowned accidentally" and the bangs of conscience are felt. The whole thing ends with the young widow committing suicide, together with her gentleman admirer. It is boosted by the New York critics as "a horror of horrors"
 THE CHANGE OF HEART"
 A Lubin special feature, "The Change of Heart,' with Robert Gray, will be shown at the Princess theatre today. This is a three-part photoplay of intense dramatic &C., tion. A Vim comedy will also be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08

A D pl culCleu. luG CIOWQS at- "A tending "The Birth of a Ma 4 A tion" are increasing daily. This great 12-part photoplay from the historical novel, "The Clans man." by the Rev. Thomas Dixon, is proving a magnet for the thea tregoing public at the Jefferson theatre this week.
 THE SALAMANDER'
 If you are a working girl and want to know how to get three square meals a day without toiling behind the counter of a department store see The Salamander," a five part photoplay adaptation of the successful novel of Owen Johnson's at the Alcazar theatre today. The Salamander" also shows that after all working for the pleasure of life is the best way to attain lasting happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-08

5 predicted, the crowds at
 tending "The Birth of a Ma ! tion" are increasing daily.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14

procedure Of prize courts and ap-
peals has been concluded, and Great
Britain pays for cargoes which from
time TO time IL has been charged she
intended to confiscate.
Mr.. Chandler Anderson, who has
represented the packers in this mat
ter, pays high tribute to the fairness
and consideration shown by the
British authorities. The seized car
goes are being paid for today. and
Mr.. Anderson is returning home,
thoroughly pleased with the treat
ment accorded to him and his clients.
II is only fair that attention be
called, in a most public manner, to
the character of the settlement in
these cases, because the British gov
eminent has been misrepresented 80
persistently and egregiously as,to its
attitude. It has yet long way to
go IL it would give to neutral COM
merce as high-handed treatment as
was accorded to it during our civil
war. The United States cannot rea-
sonably expect to be better treated
now by the allied countries than it
treated them when conditions were
reversed.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14

thing. Men wondered that he managed
70 know all about everything. II bill
nad 'R Joker In II. Mann knew the
Joker, ana had the courage to expose
u. ne found time TO make himself inti-
inate with everything that was going on
N any committee. II a bill came from
the Senate, he knew what had trans
spired In the Senate committee, and in
the debate on the Senate fioor; and
generally he had few bits of pertinent
new information to tender.
Whenever Mann rose TO oppose some-
thinE. the House would sit up and take
nouce; the advocates or the measure
knew they had real trouble ahead. If
there was something about II that they
wanted to keep dark, they knew that
that particular something was likely 10
De dragged out and thoroughly exposed
But this is beside the river and harbor
ssue. Frear has mastered the subject:
he has counted a big and eminentIy
respectable minority OF the House in
opposition to the old method OF making
appropriations for the waterways; and
he has a following in the Senate as
well as the House. There is every
reason TO believe that the Senate will
make. as usual. a better showing
been made in the House.
The enort will be to substitute a
general, lump-sum appropriation of
sZVWoCOO. to be expended under the
War Departments control. instead OF
the itemlzed total Of SSs,6OO,OO0 that the
The reformers in this waterways
business want a commission established
TO dominate the whole waterways inn
provement, with authority to spend the
money where II is needed and will DO
this session, and are CONFIDENT that N
they don't win now they will in the next
Congress.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
Objects to Heavy Taxation Fol
Road Improyemenfa

To the Editor OF THE TIMES,
With toll gates established on our
pixies and the county bonded, the poor
farmers OF Fairfax are reminded Of
what our forefathers did TO the tea In
the Boston harbor In the pioneer days
Of cur republic. We are a patient peo-
pie as q whole, and We often submit to
einbnrrassments that are of limited
duration, for the sake OF harmony, but
there are limits to all things. We do
not envy the automobile enthusiasts
VINO desire to ride over smooth roads at
our expense, even IL their machines do
scare our horses at times and cause
accidents that land us N city hospitals
ana country graveyards, We remember
when the Aqueduct bridge was toll
institution and how we kicked and
squealed' on account o. It's excessive
Toll levy, and we longed for that re-
lief which finally appeared and abolish
ed the toll on the Aqueduct bridge. We
are advocates OF improvements compat-
tble with our ability to foot the bills
as they are showed under our doors. but
VIC are inclined to call a halt when toll
gates become too numerous or oppres-
slve. because we are imbued with the
same instincts as those who have gone
Defore us, and We have often hoped
that their experiences would not again
show up TO haunt their offspring with
an additional tax problem.
Falls Church Va. Apr1l 10,
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
MISTAKES IN THE FORUM
MOVEMENT

With the idea embodied in the
community forum movement most
Washington folk have the heartiest
sympathy. The Times has advocated
the development of such forums, and
there is no reason why the gather
ings should not be held on Sunday
afternoons if neighborhoods desire
and arrangements at the school
buildings permit.
For the conduct Of the forums no
additional legislation is needed. The
Board of Education had the right to
grant the use of the Grover Cleve-
land School on Sunday afternoons
for the forum, and it made mistake
in refusing the application for such
use. The board, however, has some
ground to stand on when it comes to
forbidding a general Sunday after
noon use Of the schools while there
is no provision for the extra employ
ment of teachers and janitors.
If the advocates of the forum had
backed a measure which would have
solved this question of secretaries
and janitors, the Board of Educa-
tion, under the law already existing
to throw open the schools for COM
munity center use, could have gone
as far as the patrons of the schools
demanded.
Instead, a bill was introduced
turning over the forums to the Com
missioners; which later was amend
ed, with the Commissioners ap-
proval, providing for secretaries but
making no provision for their pay
or for extra janitor service, or for
additional fuel. Now the time of a
portion of the District Committee is
being taken up with hearings on the
advisability Of community forums,
which is a question the community
will settle anyway, by going to them
or staying away from them; but no
progress has been made toward pro-
viding a way to run them.
1t is a great pity that advocates
Of such excellent ideas as the COM
munity forum movement will not
pause and shape their plans in prac-
tical and workable fashion.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
BRITISH FAIRNESS TO COM
MRRCE

For many months there have been
periodical outbreaks against Great
Britain, based on the assumption
that British conduct of the blockade
was interfering with legitimate COM
merce. The Anglophobes in this
country have summoned high heaven
to, witness that England's control of
the seas was being used to drive
American trade from the waters.
There have been people sufficiently
prejudiced to believe these stories,
even at time when every intelligent
person knew that this country was
doing more foreign trade than 1t ever
dreamed of doing before, doing more
Of 1t with Britain and her allies, and
getting bigger prices for the COM
modities.
Particularly has there been pro-
testation at the holding up of car
goes of foodstuffs from America,
destined to neutral countries Of
northern Europe. Every effort has
been made to give the impression
that Britain has been using its block
ade as a means to destroy American
trade with neutrals.
Therefore there is particular sig
nificance in the announcement that
these differences have been adjusted,
and that the British government has
paid for $15,0OO,OO0 to $4,000, 900
worth of meat which, many months
ago, was seized on the seas, con-
signed by Chicago packers to neu-
tral countries. The long and tedious
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY

a camp play. The Making OF q Man" BY
boys department. Y. N. c. A., q D. m
Meeting. Washington Society OF Engineers.
Cosmos Club. 8 D. m.
Bsnent sale. Washington Eye. Dar and
Throat Hospital. s2ss Eleventh street north
west all day and evening.
Annual spring Play. Dramatic Association Of
, ,i eastern High school. at the school. D. m.
5y Harry c. rnoke. New National Museum,
Lecture, Nutrition and Food Eoonom,c. :.
by DR.. Graham Lusk, professor Of physicl-
oE. Cornell University. New National
Lanosson i Of /" W:shinrtOn Z III K.nn., Club r.
Judges OF dog show. Ebbitt House. RSo
Nesting. Brookiand citiu.ns A,.oo,.,,o,
Masonic Hail. Brookland. SD. m.
Dog Show opened at RidinE and Hunt Club
Twenty-second and p streets north vest. al
y Lieut., col. oscfss p. Howell i. p :. 4.
AGSsai SS:%0i ssnaS.s eSs United % State. co,.,.
Veterinary Surgeons. Raleigh Hotel. 7:so
.iiy aiu%ai at jane: oT%onS oFsSf wl.Un 9niy:r E:r
continSstica % of T eh... tournament HON.
Recital, E:,sii. Nsuhau,. pianist. New VIII.
MssOnio-st. lnsS; c. JOINTS, No. IL: Hope, No ~,
le; Cathedral, No. Ni St. Johns Lodge No.
IS Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Csntral, No. l: Phoenix, No, a.:
Odd Fellows Home Association; Martha
bly, Home Circle supper, g. to D, m, saSs
street northwest. Rebelahs.
knights OF Pythias- yracusians, No. 10.
Rathbone- Superior, No. -; Rathbone Tam.
pie, No. s. Sisters.
Royal Arcanum-Anslostan, Pythian TempIe
Improved order OF Red Men-Mineola. No. IA,
National union-National Capital, National
Capital Bank Hall; Mckinley washington
Hall; Georgetown. Potomac Bank Hall
Socialist Party-Local Central washington.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
TO MAKE PLEA FOR
VOLUNTEER ARMY
U. S. Association to Urge Con-
gress to Retain Provision.

Members OF the United States volun-
teers' Association have authorised their
officers strongly TO urge upon the two
houses OF Congress the advisabilfty OF
retaining the provision for volunteer
army in the army bill.
The association concluded Its biennial
session yesterday after electing officers.
II adopted resolutions advocating the
provision OF pensions for widows ana
dependents OF soldiers and sailors or the
Spanish war, ana the enactment Of
Hesitation giving It's members prefer
the civil service of the Federal and
stat governments.
The new OFFICERS elected are Can't.
Frank s. Clark, of Indianapolis. presi-
dent; Capt. william =. F'edriek. Of Tren-
+. Ellis Reed, OF Milwaukee second
vice PRESIDENT G. NJ; McCorkle, third
francisco. fourth vice president; WI.
liam c; Liller. of Indianapolis. general
Brownstown, Ind, solicitor: Charles u,
Jones. OF New Orleans. historian.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
Connecticut Man Wins
c. u. Oratorical Contest

Warren Maxwell, of the class OF 'ls.
Connecticut. was awarded the laurels in
the annual oratorical contest OF the
Catholic University last night under
the auspices OF the Leo XIII Lyceum,
Mr.. Maxwell spoke on THE New Inter-
nationalism." John NJ. Zebrey, 'l6, Penn
sylvenia, won second Donors, taking as
his subject. The stage and Its De-
cline"
Other competitors elected in prelimi-
nary contests were ]. A. Blanchette,
'1S. Rhode Island; Richard f. McMul-
Ter. 49, Maryland, and Alfred -
John ]. Fitzgerald of New York; the
Rev. NJ. j. Riordan. pastor OF the
Church OF the Immaculate Conception.
and Michael NJ. Doyle, justice OF the
Municipal Court of the District of CO.
lumhia. George a. Kehoe. president or
the lyceum, presided.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
Loi the Poor Writeri

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
In your editorial, "Do Not Despise
the Hod Carrier" do not exactly get
your point-every hod carrier has his
day. and he is getting his'n now. so he
doesn't really need your defense No
reasonable person despises him, II he is
a wortny man and minds his business.
II Is only when he claims he knows
more than the architect who plans the
building that he gets on our nerves.
And, as for other classes OF labor, a
good. domestic servant. as rule, is
highly priced and anyone with common
sense will treat her with respect. hut
II she comes to work arrayed In q lace
waist, silk skirt and stockings, and ball
room slippers. and. furthermore. boasts
that she can dress better than the mis-
tress OF the house. respect fades.
False pride and pretense. envy. and
blatant ignorance posing as wisdom are
the qualities despised. and these are
being fostere6 diligently by dema gogues.
So be loyal TO your class. Mr.. Editor.
and say good word for the discour-
agea newspaper man who has to sell
bis brains to an ungrateful public.
HINDA BURKE.
Washington. April u.
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
VINO IS REALLY RESPONSIBILITY

Whose is the brain that, In the
last analysis, is managing the for
eign relations Of this country?
Patience, even the most plodding,
willing, burden-bearing sort, loses
confidence in its virtue in view Of
such management as has brought the
country to the condition it confronts
today.
Is it true that an army was sent
into Mexico without the consent Of
Carranza?
Did the Administration imagine it
had his consent, and did it inaugu-
rate its campaign on that hypothe-
sis, when in fact it did not have that
consent?
This is highly important. There
ought to be a publication Of every
document, every exchange, every in
timation Of conditions surrounding
this Mexican movement.
The Administration seems to have
failed utterly to understand its po-
sition. In the matter of submarine
warfare there is no more cheerful
situation. Pledge after pledge has
been given that certain forms of
murder would be barred; but the
murders continue, and we get leer-
ing explanation that is little better
than a hooting insult.
How long will the American public
be satisfied with this kind of direc-
ton of it's vital affairs?
The Washington times., 1916-04-14
Falls Church. Va, April 10.
Rises to Explain Why He Arose to

ETOtebIs
TO the Editor Of THE TINES:
do not mind a little newspaper SEN
sstionallsm until It has a tendency TO
ALLEVIATE friends and inJure a cause in
whose success am interested. Your
reporters version Of my remarks at the
Community Forum Sunday are highly
colored. perhaps through misapprehen-
sion. had no occasion to Jump to
my feet and clamor for recognition.
nhd Chairman Driscoll always courte-
GUS enough to recognize me In due
order. and I never proceed to make re-
marks until thus recognized. That 1
threatened to retire II not heard 10 born
IN heated imagination What l said
was. that IL we, as forum, failed to
discuss the subject matter presented be-
fore us, we failed in an essential feature
OF our organization. This was not d.
rected against the chairman, but against
disperse after Senator Nolan's retire
ment. Discussion was the feature that
dlnerentiated us from other prcpa-
ghndists. and II we only intended 20
come and listen TO the main speakers
we might as well disband and each ally
himself with his own particular cult.
This is the remark that has been dis
torted into q threat to withdraw.
felt no impatience with Chairman
Driscoll In asking me to confine my ex-
sion. I was ouly interested in showing
hun that they were pertinent.
l aimed to strike the superstition that
the Government, by its own action. can
raise the standard OF wages. Mr.. Oyster
and others. In their eagerness to sup
port Mr.. Nolan. were disposed to put
me in the false light OF advocating Gov
fernment penuriousness.
The Community Forum is the begin
ming Of good thing. and do not wish
n
DAVID EILLkS.
Landoyer. Nd. Anril III.