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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
TAKE HONEYMOON
"TRIP IS YEARS LATE
0kIahoman Too Busy Before to
Take Time Off.

CoMMANCHE. Okla. Oct. l.-when
r. L. De Lung. publisher OF the Reflex
here. was married thirteen years ago. he
promised to take hin bride on a tour
such az other brides take.
asked.
Well said young Mr.. De Lung.
not right away You'll have to give
me time, my dear
Mrs. De Lung gave him tIme-thir-
teen years OF II, and had nearly for
gotten about his prenuptial promise
In the early years OF their married life
she used to Inquire now and then about
that promised honeymoon journey, but
De Lung always said he was too busy.
Some other time" he would say.
Recently the newspaper mans con-
science went to work on him and gave
him the drubbing OF his life.
You ornery cuss." his conscience said
to him, you have been promising that
good woman honeymoon trip thirteen
years, She believed for a time that YOU
meant II. too. but now she knows bet
ter. She must think you have a soul
about as big as mustard seed, YOU
tightwad, and that your word Is worth
about as much as a Mexican peso"
Editor De Lung slipped out and
bought an automobile. Then he learned
to engineer II without letting his wife
know about II. When all was ready he
invited her to take the honeymoon trip,
They are now touring Texas and New
Mexico and having the time of their
lives.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
.TT MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED
AGAIN"

Colonel Roosevelt used President
Wilson himself to prove the wrong
Of the ADMINISTRATORS surrender to
the Big Four in the railway strike
matter. II the surrender was right,
IL 1t was defensible. why did the
President himself say at must
never be allowed AGAIN."
From the very beginning Of the
Presidents mediation in the railway
affair, it was apparent that he was
seeking to do exactly what Colonel
Roosevelt declares he was doing: to
avoid an issue that would have been
embarrassing, and to make political
capital with the side that he thought
could do him most good in the COM
ing election. He miscalculated. The
country was Disguised at the capitu-
lation, and even the great majority
Of railroad employees, who did not
benefit by the wage advance granted
to a minority, are dissffected along
with the public that will have to pay
the bills.
It was a case in which the public
interest was entitled to first con-
sideration, but got last and least.
Instead Of being safeguarded, the
public was sacrificed as to its direct
interest, and handed the burden of
paying the bills. 1t was doubly
sacrificed. When it came to count
the costs in all the terms in which
1t must pay, it discovered that the
money itemization is the smallest
part of the account. The great prin-
ciple Of arbitration has been cast to
the winds. in the effort to make po-
htical advantage. The country con-
fronts a period in which, because
of this performance, there will have
to be new and well-nigh impossible
readjustment of all relations among
the three elements involved in such
controversies-labor, capital, and
public. Its determination to risk no
further bungling explains the OBJ
yious and countrywide trend against
the President and his party.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
Butch Wants Statue
At Shore Returned
"One-Day Millionaire Tells Allan.
tic City to Prepay Ex-
preSsage.

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. Oct. L.
John Jay (Butch) McDevitt. press agent
premier of Wilkesbarre. Pa. and self
acclaimed candidate for the Presiden-
tial chair respectfully requests re-
turn of his famous statue. He fur
Their issues orders as to It's transporta-
ton and warns against any defacement.
In his humorous communication. Nc
Dewitt sends his regards to ALI the good
fellows and few of my old girls"
In his letter to City Clerk j. A. Nc
Nance received today, Butch said;
~ will expect that the city pay the
express on the statue, as the original Is
broke: and II 1t comes c. o. D. II will
have to make a speechor rob some poor
devil to get the required amount.
give my regards to the mayor and
our good friend the ex-mayor and also
TO the commodore and all the other good
fellows and n few of my old girls.
will be leaving soon for New York on
my Presidential trip and will while in
the big town think of you and yours.
Let me know when the body will arrive
and other details. With a God be with
you, a. as ever.
JOHN JAY MepBvITT.
One Day Millionaire"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
TONNES GRATEFUL
FOR TOBACCO G|F is
Lady Nicotine Receives Humor-
GUS and Sentimental Cards
From Trenches in France.

LONDON, Sept. 20 (by mail'.-Prl-
waite Whisbang. OF IL Lyddite square.
somewhere in France. must be a reg
ular kidder when he's home on leave.
Just now Mr.. whizbang Is in the thick
OF things. tossing lead Mt Fritz Bochc.
but he finds II in his heart to joss WITH
his Lady Nicotine in a military post
card from his dugout.
Mrs. Catherine Hitch. of Missoula.
Mont. happens to be Lady Nicatine.
Collecting money for the tobacco fund
is her hobby; reading the grateful
acknowledgment her pleasure.
Many thanks for the smokes" wrote
Private WhiZbang. "Lyddite Square rs
Just off the Strand, and when. things
are dull in our business we close up
shop for n while and 20 strolling, smok-
ing your cigarettes. Sometimes We got
as far as Piccadilly. and one of these
days we're going to march up Bocho
Strasse Just over the way where every
thing Is 'verbotcn.'
The boys Of the Old Brigade salute
YOU, Lady Nicotine. (signedE "Private
Whizbang."
Made Everyone Contribute.
Chaperoning her daughter. Catherine
Powell. an American dancer, Mrs
Hitch canvassed Pullmans and hotel
United States last season for Tommy's
smokes. Her son Alfred. born In Mis-
soula- Is a British dispatch rider Mt the
front: which may account for her in
terest in Iomnlies generally. From
Boston to san Francisco her victims
included Americans, English. the ny"
phenates and the hyphenless. all buy
ing pills for Tonmy.
II receive some funny cards" said
Mrs. Hitch. One Tommy called me
his darling, and got all mushy over u
package of Egyptians. My son Alfred
happened to get some Virginias from
me. so he wrote card, too. just like
the strangers.
THE mushy trooper was balmy with
love. After the darling" he orened
his heart and dished up . close .penned
cardful of soul.
Interesting War Souvenirs.
I'm every wreath of smoke was
blown the lovely phantom of your
face" he drolled. land there's a
gnawing in the heart of Re to see your
sweet self. II | am fortunate enough
to return 10 old England l devotedly
hope that this acquaintance may wing
beyond the mere friendship. Good-by,
my dear, e. G.. c."
Altogether. the card correspondence
forms an interesting war souvenir. But
of them all. except the one from her
son, the cigarette woman will cherish
the humor OF Private Whtzbarg, of
Lyddite Square.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
THE SECRET NEWSPAPERS OF
BELGIUM

Being the editor Of an uncensored
newspaper in Belgium is a mighty
lively business, chief among its de-
tails that of keeping out Of Jail. The
German military government has un-
dertaken the suppression Of all pub
locations save those that are prac-
tically edited by the German censor.
ship. But the Belgian patriots con.
tinue to print, illustrate, publish and
circulate papers that the military au-
thorities are utterly unable to sup.
press.
The number Of these publications
a. we'll as their quality, is amazing
The ingenuity that makes it possible
to continue their existence is only
equaled by, the bitterness toward
the conquerors. Thus Free Belgium
carried this derisive description OF
itself:
A bulletin Of patriotism. submitting
to no censorship whatever.
Price per copy elastic. from zero to
Business office-Not being handy to
have an established address. we are
installed In movable automobile
cellar.
Observation-Disclosures being nil
under German domination, we have
suppressed our advertising page and
counsel our patrons to keep their
money till times get better.
Telegraphic address-Care OF Ger
man commander at Brussels.
Another paper printed a cartoon,
"scenes in He'll" Showing helpless
women and babes being trampled
down in hell by German soldier
with the countenance of the Kaiser
The author of that cartoon, and the
publisher likewise, would get short
shrift if General Won Kissing could
get hand on him; but he doesn't
not yet. A number Of editors and
writers have been caught; some are
said to have been shot; others have
been locked up; but always there
are other adventurous spirits to take
up their work. The Belgian people
are kept in pretty intimate touch
with the truth about the war, and
the allies side of it, through these
secret publications.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
NEW Works. MILK FAMINE

New York city has every prospect
Of real milk famine beginning to-
morrow, The milk producers have
succeeded in gathering into their
Dairymen's League a large prepon-
derance Of the production Of the
State, and the New Jersey farmers
who also ship to the metropolis have
Joined in the movement. The agree
ment is that these interests will on
October l cease shipping to their
former dealers unless their price Is
advanced. The State commissioner
Of food and markets declares that
100000 of the $4,000 dairy cows
in New York are controlled by the
strike movement, and the big deal
ers in the city are now admitting
for the first time that the situation
is most threatening. They have no
means to get new supplies Of milk
to take the place Of that which will
be cut off tomorrow. Effort will be
made. with the greatly reduced sup
plies, to provide for babies and in
valids.
New York confronts the situation
that would have faced Washington
If strike had been ordered here.
The producers Of milk find that
everything contributing to the max
ing Of milk has advanced in price,
but are assured that they can hope
for no increase in the price at which
they must sell. A stock dealer who
has been cruising about one county
in the dairy district tributary to
Washington, recently declared that
fully 1000 cows would be disposed
of by dairymen in that one county
in the next few months; their owners
are Disguised with the effort to con-
tinue a business in which they are
not earning fair returns, while so
many other branches of farming are
returning good profits. On this basis,
if conditions are at all similar in the
other Washington milk counties, the
shortage will presently be here,
strike or no strike.
The producers of milk for this
market adopted the policy of moder-
alton and Cancellation. They do not
want to starve a community into
submission; they do ask that their
case be fairly considered. 1t is not
pleasant to consider the possibilities
of a milk famine, such as New
York is likely to experience, or Chi
cago recently went through. In Chi
cago the producers won their point.
The New York food and markets
commissioner is prepared to receive
milk sent him by members Of the
Dairymen's League, and to distrib-
ute 1t as effectively as possible. But
he has not pasteurizing capacity to
care for more than a small share of
the trade. and inevitably there will
be serious shortage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
FrenchClingtoHon1es
Amid Rain of Shells
On the North Front
Men and Women Grow Gray From Worry, While
Children Unconsciously Use Wreckage of War
for Playthings in Battle-Scarred Argonne.

mothers OF the children. But war
does not respect civilians.
AS one rides from town to town In the
war zone one wonders what has become
lagos Today we were in Agreement.
Earlier today. we were acress the Mouse
from FORCES. In these two towns there
not living being. Not even a SOL
aler Is to be seen. I doubt whether even
explained. Apremont was under the fire
OF French artillery for several hours. IL
must have been a beautiful old city.
standing as II does on a height over
looking wide stretch OF country at the
edge of what the Germans term the Ar
gonne Forest. The town cathedral still
stands, but so many SHELLS have ex-
pIoded around II that its sides are pep
pered and Its tower splintered. 1t may
faIl TO pieces at any time.
But not even n church spire Ii left In
oFrges. 1t is a total ruin.
Apremont a Tortured Village.
Apremont might be called a tortured
village. Imagine a town the size OF
Eaton. Ohio. or not quite as large as
Plainfield. N. J. Imagine all the in
habitants away. Imagine a combined
thunder, lightning storm and tornado.
Picture every house, which was once a
home. I'm ashes, Picture the streets
strewn with destroyed household articles
dropped by the inhabitants after rush
Ing away from the burning. crumbling
town.
Picture this scene months after tSa
evacuation. Picture this mass of wreck
age being torn almost daily by fresh
artillery attacks and one can obtain
some idea OF what mixture of houses,
bricks. boards, baby carriages, stoves.
furniture. clocks, and cloths would look
like. Then one can have a meagre idea
OF what Apremont looks like today.
Picture to yourself not one town. but
hundreds like this in northern France,
all among the battle line from the Chan
mel to Switzerland and you can imagine
what this war Is doing to this beautiful
country.
Even some of the soldiers get senti-
mental when they go through this de-
struction. and more than one OF these
remark that they don't think of
Frances losses, but OF the losses of the
people, who were once "at home" In
these towns. One can imagine, too. how
many years II will take after this war
to rebuild this country. II will probably
take more than one generation to re-
build what has been leveled In two
years OF fighting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
Gospel Mission Plans
More Tent Services

The Gospel Mission will continue the
tent meetings until cooler weather and
tomorrow at o'clock Evangelist Thorn
as L. Phillips, of New York. will speak
The Rev. 8. r. Maitland, a well-known
prison worker and evangelist, will
speak at Mission Hall tomorrow at
o'clock.
The Rev. DIR. John II. Troy, OF the
National Bible Institute, OF New York.
will deliver his third lecture OF the ex-
tension Bible course on THE Acts OF
the Apostles" next Wednesday from
4:4h to 5:4j p. m.
Superintendent Herbert W. Kline and
the religious work committee are ar
ranging for the eleventh fall Jubilee OF
cial speakers and singers from out-of-
town will be here for the occasion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01

AT THE FRONT IN, NORTHERN
FRANCE. Early in Sept fby maiD.--
De you see that church," said an
officer pointing from his seat In the
automobile. THE French fliers
dropped bombs in this town yester-
day. One OF them fell at the side
entrance. See the window. broken
to pieces and the steps gone. That's
what the bomb did"
We were riding through the town
en- route to the Argonne Forest and
the captain from the staff of the
commanding general was telling OF
the activity of the aviators on the
West front. AT no time since the
beginning OF this war" he said, have
the aeroplanes been 80 active. Every
clear day there IL an-air raid on some
town near Verdun."
IL the air raids take place over
some town between fifteen and
twenty miles back of the front, as
Is frequently the case, II becomes az
dangerous for the French inhabi-
as IL may seem, every town back OF
the front. even some of the towns
within the radius of the artillery
fire, are Inhabited by a large mum
Der OF frencn women ana cnlldren.
They live In their houses as uncon-
cerned as II there was no war. AL
though all the houses a block away
may have been razed by the artillery
their houses are still their homes
and they prefer to stay.
Grow Gray Through Worry.
1t is a pitiful sight. however, to see
these people. While many of the
women appear to have forgotten that
they are citizens OF France there are
others who have grown old and gray
through worry and fear and they
stand In their doorways like statues
representing misery.
Most of the children. however. have
forgotten what IL was like before
the war and they are contented and
happy with their old worn play
things or with new wooden dools
which some OF the old Landstrum
soldiers have carved for them. The
old Landstrumer with a family back
In Germany almost adopts the chill
dren at the front. but IL Is as pathetic
for the old fellow rs 1t is for the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
Ancient Mariner Builds
Boat to Sail Round World

NORTH BEND. Ohio. Oct. 1.-Capt
Michael Koelo, seventy-two, Is building
a sailboat sixty-four feet long and four
teen feet wide. In which he intends to
Ne will sail down the Ohio and Mis-.
sissippl rivers to the Gulf OF Mexico,
thence through the Panama Canal to
the Pacific ocean. In his cruise he
will touch at ports in Australia and
Tasmania.
Captain Koelo is a sea captain Of
the old school and was identified with
Captain Slocum. who successfully
cruised around the world in a twenty
four-foot boat years ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
ARGENT|NA'S NEW
PRESIDENT STUDYING
Devoting All His Time to Post
BeIIum Financial Affairs.
Sees Crisis.
BY CHARLES P. STEWART.

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 80 (by mai).-
Hipolito Irigoyen, who will become Pres
Ident Of Argentina October IL. IL re-
porting devoting all his time to the
study of his country's financial condi-
tlon. In anticipation of post-bellum
money and trade troubles.
This Is only a report, for the Presi-
dent-elect is such a hermit that almost
nobody knows exactly what he is doing
He is living at present at his city resi-
dence in Buenos Aires instead OF on his
ranch.
All Must See Her.
His town house In presided over by q
very old Spanish woman. with no more
idea OF politics than an armadillo. The
numerous exalted personages who want
to see Irigoyen have to seek appoint
ments through the medium Of this an
cient dame. They are seldom success
full.
However, the report concerning the
President elects financial studies rests
on excellent authority.
Though times are hard in Argentina
the country, from money standpoint
Is basically in an excellent condition. II
has one Of the largest gold reserves
VI dhy SSuHAS tilC
world.
Sees Grave Situation.
Irigoyen is said to believe. however,
that the South American republics will
face a situation Of grave stress at the
end Of the war In Europe which, pre-
sumably, will come some time early in
his administration.
He is believed to hold that the ques-
tions of finance and Of population will
be mingled and that immigration to
Argentina must be encouraged.
That is, though the country has
money enough and immense potential
resources, II has a population OF only
100000 to develop an available agri-
cultural territory almost as large as the
whole area drained by the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
BRITISH NAVY NETS
TRAP BREMEN IN.
CHANNEL, REPORT.
Unofficial Reports Reach Here
g. OF Sub-Sea Fre,ghter's
Capture.
SAY NOW At RoSYTH STATION

The German super-submarine Brem-
en-. sister ship of the Deutschland.
while enroute to the United States with
a costly cargo. was trapped in nets by
British navy patrols or the Scottish
const. according to information re-
ceived In official quarters here.
According to this report, which is
credited by many high military Of
ncials. tho Bremen is now cid at the
British navnl base, Rosyth, Al the
mouth Of the river Forth. on the east
coast OF Scotland.
The fate of the Bremens crew was
not made known in the report reach
ing Washington. but It In assumed the
crew was DIST when the boat was trap
ped, while making a. submerged aesh
to elude tho British patrols.
One thing that gives credence to the
report Is the circumstnntiai story of
how the British naval patrols stretched
mammoth steel net. l5O yards long and
1S feet deep. tho mats fitted with mines
to crash agains he sides OF ne SUBJ
marine caugh In the trap. break her
plates and make escape impossible.
officials making public the Bremen
report made IT plain that II was not
came
from unofficial sources. Neyertheless
there strong inclination to credit n,
since the absence OF news from ne
Bremen. though the vessel IL long over.
due. Inclined military officials to the
view that the vessel has been trapped. :.
The silence Of the British Eoyern.
ment In Withholding announcement OF
It's capture. II the Bremen rallly has
been trapped, was not considered sig.
nlhcant, as II Is In line with the policy
OF the British admiralty.
Arrival Reports English Born7
On the contrary. there were indica.
lions that the recent report given wide
publicity In Berlin. and causing rejoicing
throughout Germany. that the Bremen
had arrived at New London, came from
British sources as part OF a design &c
rouse raise hopes In Germany and thus
cause All the more litter dIsappoint.
ment when subsequent news OF the Bre.
mems capture leaked out
Inc British admiralty has been repre-.
sented as holding TO the theory that alb.
soiute silence as to Its submarine cam.
TO the German heart, as IL left the Ger,
man admiralty without news OF tn,
rate OF boats that went out until anx.
lefty over the long overdue boat turned
to certainty that II would never return
Bremen Agents Hopeful.
Despite the apparently reliable char
acter Of the latest Bremen report
agents OF the submarine freighter
which was expected to duplicate tn,
epochal performance OF the Deutch
land In making her way safely to por-
past allied patrols on both coasts, hay,
not given up hope that the Bremen Il
safe and will yet make her way to New
London. Conn.,. her announced port o.
arrival.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
Win on Greens.

Mrs. Myer Cohen won the third COM
petition for the Fl, c.. Sheridan putting
trophy at tho Columbia Country Club
yesterday afternoon. defeating Mrs.
Frank Nj. Phelps In the ANAL by 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-01
GUAM T|CO URGED AS
ARMOR PLANT SITE
Fredericksburg Presents Me.
mortal Advocating Sister
Towns Claims.

FREDERICKSBURG Va, Oct. L.
The people Of Fredericksburg are alive
to the Importance of having the great
Government armor plant. soon to be
built at a cost of 81, 0O0. 900. erected at
Quantico, which would lead to the de-
veiopment of the whole OF northern
Virginia. They have Just learned that
their sister town, Manassas, has also
gotten behind the same plan, it's Board
OF Trade having passed resolutions
strongly indorsing the ouantico site.
The memorial OF the Fredericksburg
Chamber of Commerce, to be presented
to the Secretary OF the Navy and the
Naval Advisory Board. is in part as
follows;
Va, Is situated on the main channel OF
the Potomac river. At the wharf in
Quantico the river Is thirty-fiVe feet
deep. and from there the steamboat
channel to Chesapeake bay is from
70 H iHr aseI aGe Pme from
the wharf at Quantico, commands a
view of the Potomac river for more
than thirty miles. Crescent hill, forth
fed, could sweep the river from shore
pregnable and the passage Of the river
impossible.
Near 70 Capital.
"Quantico is located within eleven
miles of the Government testing sta
ton at Indian Head. and Is thirty-five
miles from Washington. near enough
and yet not too near the Capitol to be
in touch with the military officials.
Its commanding position offers an
arm of defense against warships and
transports and protection for the cities
and country north of It,"
The great water power OF Fredericks-
burg has been unused and undeveloped.
Witness the fact that one OF the power
plants could supply 35.00O-hofsepower
but is only using $500 kilowAtts. She
has machinery. which could at once be
put in force, to develop $500 kilowatts.
Liberal Offer Made.
fredericksburg claims that the liberal
offer that Quantlco has made of from
eighty-five to 800 acres, for the con.
sideration OF 81. must In the nature OF
events be a saving OF at least 81, 900. OOf
to the United States.
Before many days. petitions other than
these from Manassas and Fredericks.
burg, will be sent to Secretary Daniels
and the Naval Advisory Board asking
that ouantico be given this plant.