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NOVEL WAYS FOUND
 TO RAISE FUNDS.
 TO EXTEND WORK
Twelve Million Sheets of Letter Paper a Month Furnished to Soldiers for Their Correspondence
By HAYDEN CHURCH

London, February 10.-(Special Cor espondence.l l-One of the really big things in connection with this war is the part that the Y. M c. A. is play ing in it. One refers, in saying that, to the Young Mems Christian associa- ton of Great Britain, whose strenu- ous leaders, however, are the first to make mention, with admiring praise, of the fine work which the sister or ganization in the United States is do- ing in looking after the welfare of the prisoners of war and the inmates of internment camps in the various belig- erent countries.
 This war gave the British Y. M c. A. the biggest opportunity to make good hat it has had in it's seventy odd years of existence and it has risen to
 it in a fashion that is nothing short of marvellous. Its war organiza ton is worthy of admiration by the Germans themselves. It has enlisted the aris- tocracN,- from the King down, in the great work which it is doing for the bodily. intellectual and spiritual wei fare of the British fighting man. At it's behest, women of wealth and title are working as cooks, waitresses and harmaids at it's 'centres in this coup- try and France. With my own eyes, the other day, saw Queen Alexandra be- hind the buffet at the Y. M. c. As newest centre" close to the American embassy in Grosvenor Gardens serv- ing out buns and cups of tea with her own royal hands to grimy Tommies rust back from the front and to others ,n their way thence. The Queen moth CT, in this novel role, was assisted by
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avail themselves of them. In France, Egypt, India and the other foreign coun- tries where Britons are fighting the lan- guage of the country is taught in the huts and lectures on it's history are given. The Y M. c. A. holds it's own simple religious services, of course, but it's huts are available for those of any other sect, and are constantly utilized for such. Thus a Church of England service will be succeeded by Dissent ing'' one, the latter by a Jewish religious ceremony. and this by Roman Catholic gathering.
 NO moralizing, but an antidote,'' is the policy of the Y. M c. A, but it is. after all, primarily religious organiza- ton, and asked A. K. Yapp if, as such, it really left it's mark on the soldiers who flock to its huts.
 '-It does, and to a remarkable extent said he. ''Even men who, at the begin hing resent the prayers and singing of hymns which are always part of our evening programme. soon begin to like them and say so frankly. What they are going through turns them to God, and the least religious of them enjoy singing familiar hymns like Jesus Lover of My Soul and the rest. Only the other day I had a report from one of our workers who is stationed at Sails bury Plain. Of late the patrons of his hut there have been Irish ex-navvies, men coarse of speech who used to swear at him when he asked them to join in prayer or sing a hymn. Now practically the lot of them stay through our serv- ices and take part in them. Yes, T sim cerely believe that, after the war, we shall keep hold of great majority of the men"
 Mr. Yapp summarized the religious policy of the Y. M. c. A. concisely "We' come to the man of any creed or of no creed' i
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of their names. would make perfectly amazing reading as showing the social status of a big percentage of them.
 LETTER WRITING
 One of the great features of these huts are the facilities that are give1, for letter writing. Stationery, ink, blot ting paper, everything but stamps, which may be bought at the counter, are provided free at cost of S6000 a week and to keep up with Tommy Atkins epistolary demands over 12, 000,000 sheets of paper per month have to be available. As a result there must be few people in the British em- pire who have not received at least one letter with the now familiar red triangle signifying "body, spirit and brains,' which is the war emblem of the Y. M. c. A., up in the left-hand corner of the envelope.
 Everywhere, too one sees the triangle on lamp posts, indicating that a Y. M. C. A. hut where Tommy can eat, rest CT sleep, or all three is near at hand. and one of the comnonest sights in the street is the motor cars, similarly labeled, and usually driven by pretty. but bus- nesslike-looking girls, that dash about
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carving supplies for the 'huts' or con veying soldiers to or from railway sta tons or taking wounded "Tommies" out fer drives.
 fou run up against the activities of the l. M. C. A. s constantly If a sol oier friend has arrived in town. ten to one he is putting up" at the big r. M. C' A. headquarters in Tottenham Court road. If you read that yet another peers oaughter is going out to France it's dollars to doushnuts she is going to work like nigger in a Y. M C. A hut where they get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to have coffee ready for the men coming m rom the trenches at s O o'clock. When the Persia" was torpedoed in the Medi- terranean; there were two Y M c. A. men on board on their way to India. and it isn't certain yet whether one of them is alive or dead
 Thus, strangely enough, considering that this is the land of it's birth. is the Brltsh Y. M. C. A. playing for the first time a part in the lite of the nation comparable to, if not, indeed, vastly more Vltai than that played by this organiza- ton as 1t exists in America. In Eng land, up to the opening of Arnageddon, the organization that was founded back in 1s44 by old Sir George Williams had never really caught on to the extent Of being taken serio~.sly. The line in the popular ditty, q sit alone in the Y. M. '. A., was much more truthful satire in England than it was in the land where the song was written. There were r. M. C. A. branches everywhere throughout the country and the organizations Eng fish membership must have been large, but 1t never really counted because there was no pep in it. About five years ago, however. the English Y. M. c. A. woke up. It brought A. K. Yapp who, as general secretary, is the directing genius Of it's war activities. from Derby, where he had proved himself born hustler to London, and imported from Australia J. J. Virgo, who now has charge of the work outside Eng; and, and who has had experience in the United States as we'll as at the Antipodes, and told these two to go to it and shake things up
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Helpful Hughes

From the Saturday Evening Post
 When Senator William Hughes of New Jersey was judge in Paterson he was presiding at trial in which a woman who kept a boarding house was trying to establish an alibi for a board CT. The man was accused of crime committed at ? o'clock in the morning and she swore he was at home at | o'clock on that morning.
 How do you know?" asked the cross- examiner,
 Why, he always comes in at I o'clock. He doesn't vary five minutes in year.
 And you heard him that morningY
 "Yes. sir.''
 And you are sure it was o'clock ?'s
 Yes, sir; it wask1 o'clock exactly"
 Did you look at the clock?"
 Yes. sir.'' ! But" persisted the lawyer, If he always comes in at 1 o'clock in the morning, why did you look at the clock on this particular plarning9
 Perhaps said Judge Hughes, "she wanted to see whether the clock was right!"
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her daughter, Princess Victoria, and by the Grand Duchess George of Rus sia and Lady Ponsonby, the latter of whom, just back from doing similar work within sound of the guns in France. will be in charge of the new hut" these Y. M c. A. depots are called.
 For the most part these ''huts' are places where the British soldier, when off duty, can get food and drink ttem- perance ones, of coursf) and the right kind of recreations in the form of games, concerts, lectures and the like. The Y. M. c A. has established them over 1500 of them--wherever British soldiers are now stationed, throughout the world. There are Y. NJ. C. A. huts all over Great Britain, in France, in Egypt, in India, at Salonica and in Mesopotamia and there were a couple in Ga1lipoH right up to the time of the execution. Some of these huts were formerly circuses, theatres, convents, breweries, all kinds of things. Some thing like $900,000 has been spent on building them and there are 129 huts in France alone. All the people who work in these huts, numbering over 5000, are unpaid volunteers and a roster
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years in carving companies of giant fig ures representing the Confederate army and it's famous generals on the march. Should MT. Borglum wish to complete the task alone. he would have to live for centuries. The central portion of the group, bearing the likeness of the leaders of the army on horseback, will be approx imate'y S5 to 50 feet high. The line of marchers will be nearly two thousand feet
 in length.
 Cut into the heart of the mountain wilt be memorial hall, running the entire length of the colonnade. Tn this imper- ishable hall will be kept the. valuable records and relics of the Daughters of tho Confectionery, as well as records of the southern states.
 A park of 80 aces will be laid out at the foot of the mountain, and from it's
 path a suitable view may be obtained of the principal figures carved in the rock
 The cost of the work which is now esti. mated at about $2,0O0,O0O will be raised by individual contributions from the en-
 tire people of the south. It is said that several wealthy people have offered to
 i1nance the entire project, but it was
 deemed best to make this popular un-
 dertaking, so that it may more truly represent the spirit of the American south
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Splendid Dress Value

Read this offering twice. then here to it's true value This dress is beautiful neat model made of the livery Susquehanna popn, with embroidered belt, organdie cuffs and collars in gray, wisteria, Cc TX
 rose Belgian black colors. $10 value pOs
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Methodist church Thursday evening, March 9.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Vine Street Presbyterian church will meet Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. L. w Coffee. 300 Tusca- loosa avenue,
 The Woman's Missionary society of the Methodist church will meet Monday aft ernoon at the home of Mrs. W. c. Gewin, 916 Tuscaloosa avenue.
 The Princeton Forty-two club will be entertained Tuesday afternoon at o'clock by Mrs. John B. Farrell
 The Missionary society of Walker Me morial church will meet Monday after noon with Mrs. w. N. Wood.
 There will be thimble social Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. E.. Walters, 1424 Cotton avenue, for the bene- fit of the West End Methodist church.
 Thursday evening at the Walker Me moriaI church a musicale will be given under the direction of Mrs. Marie Kern Mullen, Mrs. Oliver Chalifoux, MT Owen Gillespie and Mr. Wyatt Heflin. small
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admission will be charged for the benefit
 of the building fund. 1 The Civic league will meet Tuesday aft ernoon at 2:30 in the assembly room of the library.
 Mrs R. B. Day of Flint is the guest of Mrs H. G. F'ellers 1 Mrs. w. J. Newman is in Knoxville, the guest of her father | Mrs w. V. Holmes is convalescent aft l CT her recent illness. 1 Miss Theresa German of Lynchburg, Va, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. c. R. Heath.
 Mrs. Carl Ormond expects to leave about the 10th for Detroit, Mich, where she will join her husband, who is in bus- ness there. l MT. and Mrs. B. Benson have moved from Woodlawn to West End. | Dr. R. G. McGahey continues ill at his l home on Hawkins street.
 Mrs IT. c. Vance has been called to Jasper on account of the Illness of her l father. 1 Mrs R. T. Cutten of Rome, Ga, will arrive Monday to visit her sister, Mrs. . M A. Hall.
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Stone Mountain Monument

From the Popular Science MonthIy. A monument to be carved. out of the living granite of a mountain, monu- ment of flawless granite two miles long and a thousand feet high-to be built as an everlasting memorial to the people of the south and the cause of the Confed- eracy-such is the gigantic task allotted to Gutzon Borglum, one of Americas s foremost scu!ptors.
 This great monument is to be carved from the solid granite composing Stone mountain which is located near Atlanta Ga. and which is called "the largest pebble in the world" since it is one solid stone, two miles long, without a flaw or a Assure in it's entire surface.
 Upon the face of the mountain hun dreds of men will be engaged for eight
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CL0GGED NOSTR|LS OPEN ATONCE,
 HEAD COLDS AND CATARRH VANISH

drug store. This sweet, fragrant balm d1ssolves by the heat of the nostrils; penetrates and heals the inflamed, swollen membrane which lines the nose, head and throat; clears the air pas- sages; stops nasty discharges and al feeling of cleansing. soothing relief comes immediately.
 Don't lay awake tonight struggling| Tor breath, with head stuffed; ncssrsl sl closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrhl or cold, with it's running nose, foul| mucous dropping into the throat and, needless.
 Put your faitll--just once in SESl lyS s, Cream Balm and your cold or patarrhI VIII surely disappeaar.-Adv.
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In one Minute Your Stuffy Nose and Head Clears, sneezing and Nose
 Running Cease, Dull Headache Goes
Try "Ely's Cream Balm"

Get small bottle anyway. just to try it--Apply little in the nostrils and instantly your clogged nose and stopped-up air passages of the head will open; you will leathe freely; dull- ness and headache disappear. By morn ing! the catarrh. cold in head or ca tarrhal sore throat will be gone.
 End such misery now. Get the small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm at any
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MANY TITLED RECRUITS

Lord Haddo. the Marquis of Aber- deems heir, who is staff officer, is che of our most indefa tigable workers, while Lord Kinnaird, who is president of our organization, dsvotes nearly all his time to it. Eard1y day passes without bringing us some new titled recruit, one of the latest Icing Lady Bridget Coke, youngest daughter of the Earl of Leices- fer, who has just gore to France to work in one of our refreshment booths
 Tn France and elsewhere Yapp went on. i've have rented hotel buildings, for the use of the friends of wounded sol diers, at moderate charges, in order that they remain near these men during the time when their lives hang in the bail ance. We meet every packet boat con-
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See What Spring Brings

l hats to the ladies of Birmingham. 9 are the styles, how individual to
 made in a hurry to sell in a hurry, Il for the price, as your judgment
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Allen-Curd
CappS-Pa Parker

William Centen o a in Centre
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10
SEEK DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
Eighteen Candidates for Secretary
ships Appear for Examination.

Eighteen candidates for appointment
as secretaries in the United States diplo-
matte service today appeared before
board of the civil service commission In
this city for examination as to their
qualifications The examination. which
is written, will continue tomorrow and
will be followed Wednesday by an oral
examination at the State Department
conducted by board consisting of As
sistant Secretary Philips, Solicitor john
son. Appointment Clerk Shand, Mr..
Smith of the diplomatic bureau and MIR.
Wales of the civil service commission.
The subjects of examination, six in
number. are international law. diplo-
matte usage, French, German or Span
ish: natural industrial and commercial
resources and commerce of the United
States; American history, government
and institutions and modern history of
Europe. South America and the far east.
The names of successful candidates are
placed on an eligible list, from which APP
pointments are made from time to time
as vacancies occur. initial appointments
being made to class five in the secre-
tarial corps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10
THE COURTS.
United States Court Of Claims.

Chief Justice Edward K. Campbell
Judge Fenton w. Booth, Judge Samuel
S. Barney, Judge George w. Atkinson
and Judge George E. Downey.
The Bethlehem Steel Company; judg-
ment for claimant; opinion by Judge
Barney.
Winchester Repeating Arms Com
pany: judgment for claimant; opinion
by Judge Booth.
Clarence w. Turner: petition dis
missed; opinion by Chief Justice Camp
bell.
Judgment for claimant in:
Harry E. Jenkins.
John Smith.
Samuel ]. Samuelson: defendants de-
ant to amend petition within thirty
DAYS
Judgment for claimant in:
P. X. Hickey, executor. 6. A. and
j. f. Blackaller. executors: Thomas +.
Mcclure. administrator; John III. Ken
nedy: James p. Hagler. administrator
r. S. Park. administrator. Jose Perea,
administrator; Martha A. Daley, adj
minstratriX; Thomas Davenport. ad-
ministrator; Samuel c. Mortenson. ad-
miniStrator.
Congressional-Findi of fact and
conclusion in:
Fanny F. Colgate. administratrix;
Thaddeus P. Jackson. Lbbe NJ. Mich
ols. widow; Celso PeruCci. John ii.
Davis. Jackson Elmer. Samuel X. Han
way, John W. Taylor. Louisa Y. Rhea,
widow; Mary f. Cowell. heir.
orde- Diminishing petition in Mar
garet c. Lamme ct al. heirs.
81. IL. Joice agt. United states: Mr..
Seth Shepard. ir.. was heard 10" de-
PENDANTS and argument concluded by
Mr. c. V. Church for plaintiff.
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and efforts will be made to substan-
tiate it and to locate his alleged ac-
completes. according to the authori-
ties Meantime he will be held in jail'
here.
IF I am taken to New York You
will find I am telling the truth" Mo
ran assepted to government officials
in making an explanation of discrep-
ancies between his story and the
known details of the robbery
In his first statement. made at San
Diego. Moran fixed the date at about
January IS.
When / said II was in January" he
said. Il was crazy from liquor or
would not have said anything
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10
Effort Probably Futile.

There does not seem to be anything
the colonel can do. however, to coun-
teract the Hughes sentiment in New
York. 1t is gathering force. The Root
sentiment also develops. The prospect
that the two movements will come into
collision and that Col. Roosevelt will
be the beneficiary is not accepted
among the political wiseacres. Thelr
view is that the two movements, while
representing much that Is locally an
taponistic. are harmonious in their ma
tional tendencies.
Should this opinion prove to be cor
rect there is a prospect that the New
York delegation, eighty-seven strong
may vote as a unit at Chicago. espe.
other states are ready to center on
New York candidate. G. M. +.
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STICKS TO ROBBERY STORY.
Federal Officials Not Convinced
James Moran Is Telling the Truth.

LOS ANGELES, Cal. Aprid 1o.-Fed-
eral officials said today they were not
convinced that James Moran. alias Ar
thur Maggs. told the truth in state
ments made at San Diego and here
Saturday that he and three companions
were responsible for the robbery in
New York last February of mail
truck, from which valuab BILE securities
and bonds were taken.
Details of the so-called confession
have been telegraphed to Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10
Tinkham Bill Laid Aside.
Instead of debating the Tinkhan

Instead of debating the Tinkham bill
revising the status and scope of the
Juvenile Court of the District OF Co
lumbia today the House continued its
discussion Of the rivers and harbors
appropriation bill. 1t should be Dis
trict day. and Representative johnson.
chairman of the House District COM
mittee. was prepared. However. Chair
man Sparkman Of the rivers and har-
bors committee made a preferential mo
ton to take up his bill and the House
voted with him.
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Court of Appeals.

Present: The Chief Justice. Mr.. Jus
tice Robb and Mr.. Justice Van Orsdel.
No. 1859. American Security and
Trust Company agt. Ferrero: judgment
affirmed, with costs: opinion by Chief
Justice Shepard.
No. 290S. Morrison agt. Lane ct al :;
decree reversed with costs and cause
remanded for further proceedings not
Inconsistent with the opinion of this
court: opinion =. Mr.. Justice Robb.
Nos. 1928 and 1929. Doyle agt. Dis
trict of Columbia: appeals dismissed
with costs: opinion by Mr.. Justice Van
Orsdel.
Nos 2s97 and 2S9S District of Co
lumbia agt Georgetown Gas Light
Company and District of Columbia agt.
Washington Gas Light Company: judg-
ments affirmed with costs above and
below: opinion by Chief Justice Gov
ington, who sat as member of the
court in the absence of Justice Van
OrSdel.
Adjourned from day to day
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To Talk at Parent-Teachers' Meetine

A. w. Harmed is to speak on Com
munity Singing" at the last meeting of
the season of the Webster Parent
Teacher Association. Wednesday after
noon at o'clock. "Encouraging q
Savings Account" will be the subject
Of an address by r. B. Devereux, pres
tute. while Miss Estelle wheeler, su-
perintendent Of the Washington Diet
Kitchen. will speak on Baby Week..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10
Cape Cod an Island.

Some years ago there was discovered
In the British records Office an elaborate
map OF the North American coast. from
Cape Cod to the Navesnk Hills, which
is believed 70 date from about 1715 1t
gives a wonderful Illustration of the
changes that a coast line may undergo
IN zoo years To begin with IL shows
mat Cape God was at that time an
island. and that near the point where
the natural passage from the Atlantic
10 Cape Cod bay. The point Is located
where the channel existed, and the fol-
rowing notation was put in by British
ofhcer, probably Capt Cypian Southbac ok.
sent out TO capture Rellamy, the pirate /:
fe place where came through with a whale
boat, being ordered by ye Governor to look after
ye pirate ship Wilde. Beliamy. Commander,
,asidway Ss--eth day OF April, 1917. where
buried one hundred and two men drowned
'On this chart the islands of Nam
rcket and Marthas Vineyard are
SHOWN as a group of six islands. A very
great number Of other changes in
shoreline topography are noted.
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Root Sentiment Repressed.

The Root sentiment was more repressed
1t could not be expected. of course, that
Justice Hughes would give any encour-
agement to a movement looking to his
nomination, but Mr.. Root was in differ
ent position. His aloofness consequently
discouraged many of these who We're for
him. S.nce the manifesto of the seventy
odd distinguished citizens urging his can
didacy the outlook is changed Nor is il
likely to escape attention that score OF
the sgners of this declaration are dele
gates to the convention. This does not
mean that Mr.. Roots supporters are linn
tied to a score.
asked one of the very practical re-
publican politicians how he thought the
delegates actually stood in their personal
preferences.
IAN even split as to Hughes and Root
he replied, with the balance for Roose-
Welt"
Others who were Intercepted were in
clined to give Justice Hughes more than
half the delegates, although they agreed
that the matter of personal preference
was likely to he subordnated to the ques.
ton of availability
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10

Mr.. Earnshaw was president Of the
Congress Hall Hotel Company. the di-
rectors Of which have adopted resolu-
tions. After setting forth their sense
Of personal loss due to his death. they
point out that Mr.. Earnshaw was q
philosophical and charitable citizen,
who was at all times generous in his
support of plans for the betterment Of
the community, and who had the re-
spect. confidence and love of all who
knew him.