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Evening star., 1916-10-13
WILL OPEN WINTER SEASON.
Federation Of Women's Clubs II
Meet to Law Plans October "A.

The Federation of Women's Club is
to open its fall and winter season with
n meeting October "a at pm.
at the New Ebbitt House. Plans for
the season will be made and reports of
chairmen of committees heard. 1t is
probable that Mrs. Augustus Knight,
director of the local federation, will
tell the federation of the meeting of
the board Of the national federation in
Chicago in September.
One activity which the federation is
going to push this fall is that of proper
motion pictures for children. Mrs.
Court Wood. president of the fedora
tion. declares that the organization is
in no sense working against managers
of local picture houses, but desires to
work with the managers to secure bet
ter pictures for children.
Mrs. ]. J. Locher. chairman Of the
committee which has this work in
charge, has already had a meeting OF
her committee, and will outline plans
for the work at the first meeting of
the federation.
Evening star., 1916-10-13
The Anomaly

While riding in my buzz-buzz
cart, l hit Bill Wax and spoiled
his frame, and knocked his mar
row-bones apart, and he remark
ed, 81 was to blame!' l said,
This dark disaster, Bill, to my
sad life new sorrow lends; | do
not run my car to kill or mutilate
my dearest friends. I'll pay the
surgeon if he'll fix the bones I've
broken. rent and bowed; and if
you journey DER the Styx, I'll see
you have Palm Breach shroud." !"
'It was my fault" l heard him
say, "and you don't have to pay
a cent, for I was walking like
jay, and wasn't looking where l
went. l busted every rule, l
think, which ought to govern
gents on foot, and now you've put
me on the blink, | think while
l should stay put" Bill Wax
shines brighter than a star; Bill
Wax deserves immortal fame he
says the owner of a car is not in
every case to blame! Hereafter,
as ! tour the town in my new
car that swiftly hies, I'll always
try to run him down in preference
TO other guys.
WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1916-10-13

Quickest Service to Baltimore.
Every hour on the hour. Baltimore &
Ohio. s1.75 round trip. Saturdays and
Sundays, 1.50.-Advertisemen
Evening star., 1916-10-13
GOLDEN JUBILEE OBSERVED.
Members of John A. Rawlins Post
No. /. G. A. B., Celebrate.

The golden jubilee of John A. Raw
Inns Post, No. /, of the G. A. r., was
celebrated by veterans and friends at
G. A. r. Hall last night. The history
and achievements of the post since It's
organization were reviewed by Capt
Newton Ferree.
A feature of the evening was the
presentation of $50 in gold to James
4. Allen in recognition Of his twenty
Ave years service as post adJutane.
Col. Samuel r. Strattan made the
Dr.. Gotwald, chaplain Of the Depart
ment Of the Potomac. opened the even /
ing with prayer. Spirited patriotic ad-
dresses followed by Corp. James Tan
ner, Department Commander Dr. A. j;
Buntoon, Capt Thomas H. Mckee and
Col. John McElroy.. Patriotic songs
were sung by E; Albert Lang M; !, a and nc,
Home Orchestra furnished the instru-
mental music Refreshments and dane
ing closed the evening.
Evening star., 1916-10-13
Activities of the Order, Topic.

The activities and accomplishments
of the organization during the past
year were described by Mr.. Rover, in
part, as follows:
I'VE have cared for the sick, buried
the dead. secured work for the unem-
ployed, furthered social and athletic in
terest among our younger members and
interest in the arts as WELL" he said.
But what have the Knights of Colum-
bus, 400, 900 strong in the United States
and Canada, done for humanity, for the
benefit of mankind"
The answerings back: We have at
tempted to destroy root and branch
from the soil of liberty-loving America
the tree of religious prejudice and ran
cor"
Orchestral selections were given al
well as solos by Bernard P. Fitzgerald
Miss Agnes J. Whalen and George
| O'Connor The committee on arrange
ments consisted of NJ. D. Schaf1er
chairman, Washington Chapter, ex
officio; Joseph NJ. McCann, Distric
deputy; James Z. Callifiower, Washing
/ ton Council: John J. Keenan,, Kean'
Council; Frank A. Kidd. Carroll Coun
Gil; Dr. ]. Rozier Biggs, Spalding Coun
Gil, and Edward L. Tucker. Potomac
Council.
Evening star., 1916-10-13
TO ORGANIZE COUNCIL
OF ORDER IN BALTIMORE
First Step Toward the Nationwide
Extension of Independent
Sons of Jonadab.

Organization Of council in Balti-
wide extension Of the Independent Or
der, Sons Of Jonadab. hitherto confined
solely to Washington, was authorized
at the closing session Of the fourteenth
meeting of the Grand Council last
night.
A committee, consisting of Wayne
w. Cordell, Mark Kelley and Elmore
w. Sanderson, was appointed to CO.
operate with William ]. Haner Of Bal
timore In organizing a council in the
Maryland metropolis.
Officers Elected.
Capt. John c. Daley was reelected
grand chief of the order. Other Off
GERS elected were John R. Mahoney.
grand visitor and lecturer: Joseph D..
Buckley. grand vice chief; Elmore w.
Sanderson, grand secretary treasurer;
G. NJ. Mcintosh, past grand chief; DON
aid E. Leslie, grand chaplain; Robert
S. Talbert. grand herald; John Man
gan, grand guard, and William B..
Johnson, grand sentinel.
Past Grand Vice Chief S. D. Tennyson
installed the newly elected officers,
after which addresses were made as
to the work to be accomplished during
the coming year.
A resolution was adopted thanking
Grand Vice Chief Joseph D. Buckley for
decorating the hall for the session.
Under good of the order Daniel
Myers acted as chairman, and short
speeches were made by the following ::
j. j. Spellman, William J. Creamer,
John l. Nau, George E. Ourand, James
P. Regan. Philip H. Webber, Edward
Clementson, Mark Reiley, John McBeth.
c. A. B. Boyd. ST.; c. A B. Boyd, jr.;
John H. Jaeschke, Lee Nevitt and S.
D. Tennyson.
It was recommended to the executive
council that the next annual session
be held in 1917 in Baltimore, October
5 and g.
Evening star., 1916-10-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Georgetown University Law School
debating team is getting ready for its
winter work and a series of debates
with some of the big universities in the
east is being arranged by a committee
of students of the school. The commit
tee consists of Robert ]. Whalen, Mas
sachusetts; William D. French, Okla
homa: Edward T. Hogan. Rhode Island,
and James F. Giblin. Massachusetts.
With G. A. Gambs as leader. the Wan
derlusters Sunday are to walk from VI
resco over roads and trails in the vi
cinity of Pimmitt run. a distance of
seven miles, more than half over roads.
The start will be made from 36th and
NJ streets at As and pm. and return
tickets should be purchased for vi
resco. At TySon'S cross roads, which
is included in the walk, Is the highest
point in Fairfax county and there are
still some remnants of the stockade
erected during the civil war. Visitors
to the city are cordially invited on any
and all of these walks.
DIR. John Van Schaick. president of
the board of education and pastor of
the Church of Our Father. is to be the
principal speaker this evening at the
initial meeting of the season of the
Mu-so-lit Club at the colored Y. NJ. c.
A. His address is to be on with the
War Relief Commission Abroad" Wal
ter J. Singleton. president of the club,
to be given by quartet from the Eu
terpean Club Several members of a
New York club are to give brief talks
on the drama.
Katie Hawkins. coIored. 1884 29th
street. was treated at Georgetown Hos
pital last night for a severe flesh wound
in her left arm. She received the
wound, she stated. while engaged in an
argument with another colored girl.
Mary Henry, cOlored, seven years old,
2236 9Th street. last night was bitten
on the leg by dog while in the
grounds at Howard University She was
taken to Freedmens Hospital. The po-
lice reported that the dog is owned by
Mary Cook, 2222 6th street
free kindergarten has been started
IN the parish hall of Grace Episcopal
Church. Georgetown, under the direc-
tion of Miss Baker. The sessions are
held from to 11:30 o'clock each morn
ing. Rev. George W Atkinson. the rec
tor, urges all mothers of the parish to
send their children TO this school.
Plans for the participation of the
Holy Name societies of the Catholic
parishes of the District of Columbia in
the Holy Name parade in Baltimore
,'unday will be put in final shape to-
night at a meeting to be held at the
Immaculate Conception Church. sth
@nd y streets northwest, according to
announcement today by John Hadley
Doyle, who will head the local dele
ations. This meeting will be attend
by the presidents of the local So
l-eties and their spiritual directors.
Numerous complaints of the thefts of
probes from automobiles have been
'.-ade to the police in the past few days.
The police think that a little care on
.he part of motorists would reduce the
number of such thefts.
Evening star., 1916-10-13

Thermometers. Schmidt. 1921 18th st
Evening star., 1916-10-13
DEVELOPMENT
THEME Of ADDRESSES
DR.. Abram Simon and Leo A. Rover
Speakers at Columbus Day
Celebration.

Addresses by DR.. Abram Simon of
the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton. and Leo A. Rover, state deputy
for the local organization. were fea-
lures of last nights celebration OF Co
lumbus day by the Washington Chapter.
Knights of Columbus, in its hall at
sos E street northwest. A discussion
of the development of the nation dis
covered by the famous Genoese and
speculation as to what might be ex-
pected in the future of the United
States marked each address.
Americas Message to World.
Speaking upon The Message of
America to the World" DR.. Simon said
in part:
THE discovery of America by Column
bus was a brilliant accident, but 1t lay
in the pathway of destiny.
"One of the latest discoveries is that
of the American conscience. For a
long time we had the individual and
the municipal and the state conscience,
but now we are learning what the
fundamental conscience of the United
States is, the thing that expresses it.
self through myriad new movements,
labor rights, temperance, woman sur
frage, clean politics. We are no ag-
gregation of 100,o00,000 persons now.
but unit to speak in times of danger
with voice that rings about the
world That is the national conscience.
Last of all comes the international
conscience, that conscience which is
crying for a hearing here and abroad.
No longer are we an isolated nation.
no longer can our national conscience
be detached from those Of other ma
tions. We have come to the time when
the United States is having placed upon
its shoulders the tremendous RESPONSE
bility of carrying forward this inter-
national conscience, and courageously.
but cautiously, blaze the path which
the nations will travel in international
Evening star., 1916-10-13

Spanish Lessons with Slides.
Free Trial Lessons Tonight
and every Friday and Monday at 8:15 I'm.
at Congressional Union, Madison place,
next to Belasco Theater
Under the direction Of Mrs Sirvent =
Evening star., 1916-10-13

ments are to be made for the reception
Of DIR. r. r. Motion, successor TO Booker
+ washington as principal at Tuske-
gee Institute, and Emmett J. Scott,
secretary of the school, who are to
speak here next month in the interest,"
of negro education. The committee IN
charge consists Of 100 residents. with
Henry Lassiter as chairman and X
w. Thompson as secretary.
Evening star., 1916-10-13
Aid Students in Finding Way About.

Because new Central High School is
80 vast and it is no easy matter for
cffe to find his way over the building,
plan Of the structure has been printed
and is being sold for 2 cents apiece. BY
use of the plans, IL is stated a pupil
may be able to find his or her way
about without losing much time.
The plans also are unique souvenir
of the city's most magnifcent school
building
Evening star., 1916-10-13

Clafiin Optical Co., 0O7 r ST.,
For l-framed glasses.
Evening star., 1916-10-13
To Aid Booker Washington Fund.

Members of the citizens committee
in charge of the collection of the $780,
900 Booker T. Washington memorial
fund are to open their fall campaign
with a meeting tomorrow evening at
7:30 o'clock, at the Colored Y. NJ. C. A.
1916 18th street northwest. Arrange
Evening star., 1916-10-13
CITY ITEMS.
Wonder Coffee, zoe: Wonder

Wonder Coffee. zoe; Wonder Tea. zoe;
4 lbs. Black-eyed Peas, 25c; lbs Head
Rice. 26c; cans E. J. Peas, 25c; Wis
consin Peas, 71sc; large cans Aspara-
gus, 1sc; Peanut Butter, 1oc: II lbs.
White Meal soc; Grape Juice, quarts,
22c; Jelly Mints, 15c; large Mackerel
71ac; White Potatoes, 40c PIX: loaves
Bread. 10c; Corn Flakes SC; WINS
Cakes. 15c to 24c lb.; 3 10-lb. bags Salt
2bc; Howard's Salad Dressing, 20c; Star
Of the East Flour, $500 bbl; "a lbs
Old Time. s1.00. 926 Pa. ave. and all the
]. T. D. Pyles' Stores
Evening star., 1916-10-13

When Arthur and Walter Karfgin,
nine and six years old, respectively. en-
tered the cellar of their fathers store
at Baltimore they found him hanging
by a rope from a rafter dead. He was
fifty-six years old.
Evening star., 1916-10-13

Laurel Races-6O Cents Round Trip.
special trains 12:45 and / pm. week
davs. Baltimore & Ohio until Oct. 90
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
Made Up Into Pretty Gifts

T am the woman whom you thanked so nicely for the white gloves for your pupil. l am wondering about your work, and if it takes you among the poor. I have made an offer through the H. H. C. get any otherwise. The Cornerites have responded beautifully. My mind goes out particularly to young girls who get less than good living wages and, loving pretty adornments-a perfectly womanly crav-
 ing-os often are tempted from good patrs Such a girl would rejoice in and be made better for a bit of pretty adorn- ment. Others are furnishing the materi- als, but I am trying to make them up into whatever they may best accomplish. I am getting great pleasure out of making them for people whom probably I will never see in this life. I dare not promise too much because those who have sent in silk pieces, etc. may ask me to help some one in whom they are particularly inter- ested But 1 came across your letter in an unexpected way last night, and, be- Iieving that God leads me when I en- deavor to realize it, I just thought I'd write you this letter. N. M. w."
 The reader who may query why so much space is devoted to one letter will hearken to a simple comment from the work CTS of the writer. All the provisions of this admirable communication were at tended to through the mail. There would seem to be no reason why it should ap- pear here. We offer it al specimen of the work the H. H. c. has sought to ac- complish during the year which has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
R MARION W THARLANDS \ HELPING HAND Ie1zz1ys3,z K4Szsud
Building In a Library

T have for sometime wondered how I could get some magazines and books for our church, where we expect to organize public library. We ask for your help in this matter. Our church, which is at- tended mostly by children and young peo- pie, is a mission and used as an institu- ton I hope many of your readers who have books at this season will be willing to pass them on for our library. I know the children and young people will be glad to read them. R. J. C."
 This is not call for the expenditure of money None of us is flush for the first month after the holidays. The habit of giving, indulged for weeks past, should make us restless in the reading of this letter I cannot urge too strongly the duty of preventing books from degener- ating into rubbish. Yet what else are the rows of volumes none of your family will even open again that are arranged in forlorn desuetude upon top shelves or in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
CROP REPORTS ARE ENCOURAG|NGFOR MAMMOTH YIELD Wheat, However, Will Prob ably Not Equal the Past
 Two Years OBSERVATIONS OF
 LATE JAMES J. HILL The Money Value of Hay This year Will Probably Exceed That of
 Cotton-The Harvests
 of 1916
By HOLLAND

New York, July 5.-(Special) )-As the season advances and real summer weather begins, better and better reports come from the great farm lands of the United States It is regarded as a safe predic- ton that this year as in other years the somewhat gloomy reports of crop condi- tions which were published in the spring will be found by the harvest time to have been unjustified
 The experts agree that the wheat har- vest this year is not to be as large by perhaps 200000,00O bushels as was the crop of 1915. They are inclined to think, from many points of view is the most i'm portant of our food products. will be found to be an excellent one.
 From some parts of the northwest re- ports have been received within a few days which indicate that the farmers have well learned the lesson taught by James J. Hill, Howard Elliott and by some of the scientific experts, so that the wheat lands are producing more and more bushels per acre and of excellent quality. MT Hill used to say that there was no reason why the American farm CTS, at least upon the best wheat lands should not be able to harvest a crop of 30 bushels per acre. The English farm CTS do as well as that and their wheat fields have been under cultivation for a thousand years or more. The time is United States is to feed it's own people with flour, the wheat fields must be com pelled to yield much larger number oi bushels per acre than were harvested from them even when the seed was put into virgin soil.
 In the last years of his life, Mir. Hill received information from representatives whom he sent to China which led him tc suspect that as soon as the Chinese gov ernment is thoroughly reorganized at tempts would be made to cultivate with wheat the vast areas of superb wheat lands in northern China. The land is cheap and it possesses excellent wheat growing qualities. The Chinese harvest hands are paid in silver which is about 50 per cent cheaper than gold, and fur thermore, the best of them readily work AOi ~ NSiieo o NoS' III tiiliC3 lHSfolOIc China will be found to be raising wheat in such amounts as will make it impossi- ble for the United States to compete in the Chinese markets.
 So, also, in Peru there will be develop ment within few years of the very rich wheat lands which stretch away from the eastern slope of the Andes. The late William R. Grace, who was familiar with the natural resources of Peru and who established the great house of William R. Grace & Co.,, which is now occupied with attempts greatly to increase oui commerce with the western coast of South America, predicted few years before his death that with the opening of an Isthmian canal for navigation and with the perfecting of adequate transpor- tation facilities in eastern Peru there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
LITTLE NEW YORK STORIES
 BY A BIRMINGHAM MAN
By ALLEN GRIFFIN JOHNSON

New York, July 5.-(Special) )-In dry dock in the Erie basin today is the largest 'freighter" in the world; she is also a vessel absolutely unique to this port in view of her system for handling freight. She is the Italian steamship Milazzo, on her maiden voyage from Genoa, during
 which she broke a propeller, according to her captain, Simone Guli, who speaks English so well that he seems glad to talk to reporters in that language. The Milazzo is equipped with cars and
 elevators for handling freight in bulk, and as result can discharge her entire capacity of 14,OOO tons in a much shorter can get rid of theirs under the old sys- tenn. Tunnels run through the bottoms of the holds, and in these the cars are oper- ated She seems to be about the last word in steamship construction for freight handling purposes solely.
 The Miazzo is HAT tons gross, and 7537 tons register. Her length is 512 feet, her depth 33 feet. She has a displacement, loaded. of 20,400 tons and steams Il knots an hour.
 From the tunnels through which her freight handling cars run, they can be hoisted high enough to load their con- tents upon another vessel by means of gravity,
 Captain Gull says that she Is soon to be followed by sister ship, the Volturno,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
Filthy Morris Avenue

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: | An observation of the gutters of Nor ris avenue for the past year would show where every case of typhoid fever in the city could originate.
 The water wagon washes the middle of the avenue and leaves a filty ooze in the gutter that is never removed. When the trash wagon goes along in the even | ing their sweepers move in and out among the wagons backed up for load l ing and so there is never any continuous cleaning of the gutters
 The packing houses maintain the filth | fest conditions in front of their doors. Meat is laid on the floor in the door ways and ledges to be contaminated by 1 the feet from the street and wagons containing uncovered meat are con- stantly over the oozy gutters. Negroes i wear coats in handling beef that are so dirty they would defy anyone to name | their original color.
 | There is one spot at telephone pole | in front of one packing house that has never seen a broom for years. and it's ] very appearance would turn anyone from ] ever eating beef.
 ] The vegetable wagons are daily subject
 | to the contamination from Morris avenue
 | filth and also great contributors to it
 l It is a common sight. daily, to see vese- tables temporarily laid out on this most
 filthy sidewalk. I am very familiar with l the markets of Knoxville and Cincinnati.
 l and can say that conditions on Morris
 l avenue would not be tolerated Tor one
 lhour in either. city.
 It will take a strong man to keep Nor I ris avenue in sanitary condition. diff fering from the one who saunters along
 now and never sees anything.
 i GEORGE H. ROGERS. <
 1 Birmingham. July 5. 19l6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06

| also to be built at Spezia for the Naviga- zione Generale Italiana line.
 New York is to have another immense amusement park. It will be ready next Decoration Day and will be in the West Farms section of the borough of the Bronx. The site was secured from Baron Waldorf Astor on long lease.
 For years this was known as Wilson Farm, before it was bought by Baron As tor. Standing by the bank of the river which runs along one side, can still be seen the ruins of the old Delaney mill of pre-revolutionary days. The shallow waters prevented it's products from being shipped to New York-then a distant city
 Another landmark on the property is stone mansion, the history of which has been handed down by tradition for more than a hundred years, though the exact date of it's erection is not known. It will be retained by the West Farms Exposition and Amusement company. Building operations will begin at once. and before winter will be well advanced, while you who visit us next summer will have another sight to behold in Gotham
 Men at the beaches are complaining of lack of attention. At last, it appears, the bathing suits of the women have drawn the attention of all beholders-or is it the suits themselves-exactly?
 And the summer war cry of the less wealthy classes is, "On to Coney!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
Mosquitoes on Snow Banks

From the Popular Science Monthly In both the Rocky mountains and Alaska geologists and engineers oe The United States Geological Survey
 ave as part of their regular equip |nent mosquito nets for their heads. .Iven when working in deep snow, head lets and gauntlets are necessary to 3rotect the field men from the blood .hirstiness of the. pests. The mosquito oeS not vanish with increasing alti- |ude. At 11.000 feet. or timber line, he |s as prolific as at sea level, and
 moke. no matter how dense and pun lent it may be. will not eradicate him The only sure relief lies in the net. In
 ome. sections of Colorado the mountain
 atives let mosquitoes bite them until
 heir systems become thoroughly inoc-
 lated with their poison. After this
 hey are bothered no more. The first
 dvice given to the "tenderfoot' by
 he old timer is '1et 'em bite; they
 fon't keep it up long"