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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30
Work for the UNEMPLOYED,

Ebert H. Gary and George W. Perkins, retr-
ing from the mayors unemployment committee,
scarcely need words of commentator added to
the story of things well done, as told in the com
nittee report In a year of industrial stress the
finding of 2I542o days work for the willing was
piece of most practical benehcence. And the
training of thousand girls in classes fitting
casting of food anchor to wndward Results
for others were the visible rewards of the com
mittee's endeavors for the year, although the
whole community absorbed benefit. And it is to
be said that Messrs. Gary and Perkins STAYED at
their posts until men begging for work gave
place gratefully to places begging for men-New
York World.
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NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY

SPECIAL Correspondent OF The Washington Herald
New York, March 29.-Bin Handy, of
Chillcothe. Mo-. has come to town. For
years he has been writing and sold
100000 words to New York editors and
now he has seen them for the first time
Years and years ago he made up his
mind he WAS going to be a writer.
He began writing things and sending
them East TO editors. He kept 1t up
three years. and at last ianded-he &C
tually got two dollars and a half for
the first yarn he sold to a cheaper mag
azine.
Thus encouraged he kept It UP more
industriously and now he has arrived
out in the Ozarks, where 1 was born -
he said, I'VE have an idea that New
York is a chilly place for a stranger.
Why, say. the people here have been
far nicer to me than our ten thousand
people in Chillicothe."
He has an office over bank building
in ChilliCothe and it has fourteen win
dows in it. He says the entire floor of
the building costs him less than a five
foot office in New York.
Charlie Somerville the worlds fash
ion plate reporter. knows n widower
down on Long Island who was married
recently for the third time. and whose
bride had been married once before her
self. The bridegroom-elect wrote across
the bottom of enc of the wedding invita-
tons sent to particular friend:
BE sure to come; this is no amateur
performance"
New York's real estate is capable OF
doing amazing things to investors. but
the depreciation of a $4,000 estate to
nothing in eight years which is alleged
to have been the fate of the bequest to
st. Luke's Hospital from a former
wealthy New Yorker surpasses under
standing Even II he had lived, it is
believed. he would have died "a pauper.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30
District Field ARTILLERY.

Battery B. Field Artillery, District Ma
tional Guard, started campaign for
recruits last Friday night and eleven
men we're lined up. Three were sworn
in, George r. Naylor. William f. Lewis.
and Frank s. Robinson. Five are await
ing examination. and three applications
have been made for transfer from the
infantry
The new dismounted drill regulations
were put in force for the first time last
drill night.
FOrO0ral Herman Stewart well known
As Spider" who has charge OF the
stock Of Batteries \ and B, has volun-
teered, with the assistance Of Sergeant
6. McGrath. to instruct B Battery men
in the monkey drill, and this will be
taken up this week Before the annual
encampment Battery plans to spring
several surprises on the remainder Of
the guard.
Sergeant Nanderhoff nstruCtor-ser-ser-
geant, has been assigned to the new RaIti-
more battery. in addition to the District
batteries. Every Tuesday he takes A trip
TO Baltimore. Battery BIS chiefs Of sec
tions and a number Of the non-coms are
going to pay a fraternal visit to Ralii-
more in the near future.
Trumpeter West, of Battery B. has 1ust
returned from a trip to Mexico and is
busy entertaining the battery with in
cidents of his trip and the work Of the
regular army in concentration and cross
ing into the land Of cactus and scor-
pions.
Sergeants McGrath and Glachctti took
a large riding party SUNDAY through the
hills OF Maryland.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

DER had had to lead in his train as he
moved dusky host of pitiful refugees.
IL was mere act Of imperative mercy
10 care in some sort for the helpless
creatures, to give them food, II nothing
eise' out of the army's stores: and yet
10 reed them was but to increase their
numbers, as the news of bread without
work spread through the country -sIdes.
When the fighting nesred its end. and
II was likely that the whole South would
De In the hands of the federal comman-
GERS through long season of unsettled
anairs, 1t became obviously necessary
that. for time at least, Congress should
take the negroes under the direct super
vision and care of the government.
On the Sd of March. 1866, therefore,
while Mr.. Lincoln still lived, an Act had
been passed which created In the War
Department a Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen. and Abandoned Lands"
whose powers were most elastic and
paternal
1t was in every way to succor the
negroes: to supply their physical needs
when necessary, to act as their repre-
sentative and guardian in finding en-
ployment and making labor contracts. to
settle labor disputes and act as the next
friend of negro litigants in all trials and
suits at law. to lease to them tracts of
abandoned land temporarily in the hand q
OF the government because Of the re-
moval or disappearance or technical out
lawry of their white owners-in all things
to supply them with privilege and pro-
lection.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30
NAVAL ORDERS.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS


Ammsn arrived al Snithtowu Bay. Ma-rS ?
Arethuss arrived al GUSntBnsno March /. Bro1s
I'm arrived al shanghai. March =: RurrUvs arrived
at WhItessOns Landing March D Cleveland srTivrd
a. San Diego. March = Cyclous arrived ~ Norfolk
yard MErCh 3; Duncan Eruved al Hampton Roads
March q. Gloucester SrTIved a. NrN NOrk yHrd
Msr-h .; JOustt arrived al smithtC~n Bay MGrch
y; JuIlt-r EH1rsd AZ GuzntGn.mo M.-ch = Ms
nettS sailed for nHnpiop MKrch = Nero sailed fo-
GusymAs March = Pittsburgh sailed for San
Diesn March = Potomac arrived al Cnsaobsl.
MEruh = Prime Errived a, GuHutsnsmo March
3 Raleigh sailed for Counto March = TouoTzh
arrived Al BOok Island, March p Wilmington
arrived al S~sOw March =
NOTES.
The hlel ship PruteIs vii all frurn OMAN
about Ap-il for the Atlantic oo~st Of the United
States va the Panama Canal.
Tie fuel hip NersH Will sH FROM OlnnEzpn
sbDut Apri % for The Atlantic cu.sJ q The United
StRtes Guam and the Panama AntI
ORDERS To OFTTCERs
PAY CleTf Jos-ph OReiIy. o~tAched 10 n,ry
yard. New York, April Is 1876
Wood can be hardened and water
PROCEED by boiling for few minutes In
o'fNe nil
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

The Virginia legislature has enacted law to
protect the shad in waters of the Potomac River
and Chesapeake Bay. This is good news, if the Viz
GINA law goes far enough, but it would seem
that action by Maryland and perhaps by the Fed
eral government may be necessary if this vaiua.
bic food Ash is to be saved from extinction
The catch has fallen off steadily in recent years
and it is TO be expected that the approaching sea.
SON will show further shortage.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

A committee of the New York Chamber OF
Commerce has discovered that 70 per cent of the
litigation concerning wills arises from disputes
as to their meaning and legal effect and Der
cent involves their execution, revocation and
alteration. Suggestions asked for the guild
ance of laymen in the prevention of unnecessary
litigation Why not advise the laymen to draw
their own wills as a starter?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Fort Monroe. Va. March e9-Lieut
and Mrs. H. B. Kelly had dinner at the
country club for Mesdames Tench TiIgh-
man, Hugh n. Page, S. Earl Barber
Constructor Harry G. Knox and Capt.
Andrew T. Long
Miss Margaret Van Patten has returned
TO Portsmouth from visit TO friends in
Washington and New York
The ladies Of Fort Monroe sent A num-
Der of bags to Washington for the Red
Cross bag sale
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

A Massachusetts, shoemaker who went to New
York to see the prize fight bet all his money, his
overcoat, hat, necktie and return railway ticket
Moran. and then sent to the workhouse;
so that for weeks to come he will even be
denied the privilege of sticking to his last
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Astonished Mother Why, Tottie.
you never told me you had invited so
many children to this party" Small
Hostess-Thats cause you said that /
could never keep a secret-Life.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Berlin hears that peace was discussed at the
conference of representatives of the allies in
Paris; and so it appears from the words of ono
Of the part1 pants, who said: THE image OF the
enemy we must reduce ever before our ewes. "
The only difference is that the subject of peace
was approached in different direction from what
Berlin imagined.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Some day, probably, form OF insanity will
be discovered that impels its victims to go about
doing good deeds, instead Of committing murder;
or it may be that a later generation will reject
the theory we seem to have accepted that a muir
derer is necessarily insane.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

A great many strange things are still being
done in the name OF religion, and there is yet
10 satisfactory explanation of why people give
so much money to the rich Billy Sunday and so
little comparatively to the poor churches that are
constantly doing some good in the world
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

German spy, prisoner OF war OF the British
whose life was spared because he exposed the
plots in this country in which Won Papen and
Boyd were concerned has been brought to New
York to testify in a involving the provision.
ing OF German warshps. 1t would seem that he
is entitled to some sort of reward in this coun.
try.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

The name of the Bowery is not to be changed
to Central Broadway, so that visitors who get into
trouble on that historic thoroughfare, if trouble
still turks there, will not be able to claim that
they went there by mistake.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Col Roosevelts private secretary has been
sentenced to thirty days in jail, though he was
only accused of putting the big stick theory into
practice and beating some one to FRAGILE
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

so ruthlessly trample over better feel
ings.
On Lincoln, how your heart would
bleed IL you were here today!
Lincoln. do you hear us calling?
Copyright. 1851
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her nose, and sfte-vs-c
it spread al over h-f
nose and mouth and
formed . black scale.
Every time she would
cry it would burst open
and bleed. 1t itched
and burned causing Der
20 scratch and irritste
her face. The trouble
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30
Another Famous Victory.

Another great German victory is recorded A
o-months-o old child was killed on the sontheas -
coast of England by a bomb from a German sea-
plane. Hurry up the milk for the starving babies
OF Germany, but never mind about the babies of
other countrv-Hartford Cour,p.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30
CASTLES IN THE AIR

Castles IN TIE AK.
A golden castle in the air
Is mighty good to build
II we erect it with due care,
With touch both firm and skilled;
And il when built we next set out
To make ourselves quite fit
Beyond all question Of doubt
At last to dwell IN i'll
CCoynsht Ns)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Voice from below-Are you a good
girl now, DEAR" Defiant daughter of
the house tsent upstairs for naughti-
ness)-No! Use pit on you hat, and
Ise pit on you coat. and now Use
waiting for more 'pit.-Pashing Show.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

The community forum promoters are probably
lust about as near to obtaining the use of the
public schools as they are to locating enough
interested persons to I'll Anaeostia street car
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

So far it is not apparent whether the suffra-
gists or the prohibtionists are the indignant
because the House committee disposed of the
two proposals to amend the Constitution by a
single vote.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

The correspondents seem to be taking the view
that as the President has warned the public
against sensational tales from the border they
NAV now 20 as far they like.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Tn. Kaiser has sent Prince Eitel Frederick
and Field Marshal Won Mackensen to CONSTANT
nopIe to present sword and baton to the Sultan
No parcels post there?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

A new fluid has been discovered which turns
the human flesh into sort Of transparent jelly
when injected. It certainly must have been used
before, on some of our statesmen.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Some people are so inconsiderate of
the feelings Of others" What's the
matter now" 81 asked Miss Nottavofce
TO sing for us And she refused -
mo, she sang"-Detroit Free Press.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30
Morning Smiles.

She-You know. Mr.. Jones, I thought
you much older than you are" He
On no: not bit. l assure you
Boston Transcript.
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A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing OF original poem. written aAh'
for The washington Herald
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

At the birthday dinner Tactless Lady
Friend to Hostess-"By the way, what
birthday is this we are celebrating 80
Hostess-"My 35th." But haven't we
celebrated that before?" oh. yes! 1t is
one Of my favorte birthdays.'-Life
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Now, Johnny" said the teacher, SUP
pose you wanted to build a 5000 house
and had only 800. what would you do?"
spose I'd have to marry a girl worth
600, answered the young financier-
Kansas City Star.
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|NFLAMED ECZEMA
ON CH|LD'S FACE
Spread All Over Nose and Mouth.
ltched and Burned. Child Very
FretfuI. Badly Disfgured.
HEALED BY CUTICURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT

My little girl had eczema on her fsceN
The trouble first started on her upper LIP
by a small pimple breaking out just under
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Il didn't know your little boy had to
wear glasses"
We'll, y'know. he's not obliged to, but
they were good pair of poor dear
'Enry's. and / thought it such pity to
waste 'em."-Passing Show
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

The Self Made Man-"Forty years age
got my real beginning. l started oul
IN New York with 800. What do YOU
think OF that?'' New Yorker-"WeIl, II
all depends on where you were going
Judge.
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By
O. O. Mcintyre

i call them one button people" said
the Lady-from-Gotham. She was discuss
ing the tea-time types to be found every
afternoon in such super-fashionabIe
hotels as the Ritz. Plaza, Majestic, Wal
dorf and Claridge.
Why" she continued. because ~
three buttons were perfectly useful and
proper, and fashion decreed two for a
change. those persons would have only
one, just to be different"
1T is strange We don't see them hack
home. said the Lady-from-the-w West.
NO: they're not suficient in numbers
You can find only enough Of them in
New York at tea time to remark the
fact And in but few places here. They're
what man know calls 'psychopathical-
ly smart II We wear short skirts theirs
come almost TO the knee: II our hats are
small theirs are microscopic. When
slenderness Is the thing they become
marasmatic in their thinness Should
checked materials be the mode they run
to mastodonic polygons. It's the war
that keeps them here"
And the men-are they in business"
oh. yes; in the business of spending
their money or somebody's else's-mostly
the latter.
But why do they call it time? 1
don't see anybody drinking tea"
bedr-no' mat only the excuse"
The bread lines and free coffee houses
In New York have been found to be the
haven of many loafers and STRIKERS, So
fragrant have been the abuses that il is
even being talked of abolishing these
charitable enterprises.
The Evening Mail, under new manage
ment, announces itself as an American
newspaper for the American people. And
the first new special writer under the
new regime signs himself Svetozar Ton
jodoff
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,aused the c,lild 10 be very fretful and rest
ess at night, and she was badly distgu-ed-
Then we used CUticurs Soap and Oint-
ment, and after using them for one month.
the eruption all disappeared" Csigned)
J. c. Houston, Evarts. Ky, July Il. 1915.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Our romance began in a most romantic
way. My wife saved me from drowning
shes magnificent swimmer, you know. -
Il notice you don't go out very far
now. NO. I don't know If she would
save me again. louisville Courier
Journal
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With sap. Skin Book on request Ad-
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tom Sold throushout the World
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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

Tomorrow Remedial Legislation.
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That reminded of those automobiles
we used to hear in the street that, while standing
perfectly still, would begin to rattle and shake
with such violence as to suggest they might tear
themselves to pieces. So many people, reflected
I heard the go on, like him. Most
of them, however, were too careful to talk aloud
They all let their thoughts tear and rend their
minds.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-30

In riding one day in street | happene,
TO sit beside of those with the habit o
thinking aloud. He very we'll dressed an,
looked like man OF means and of character. A
first l paid attention. Then, from the SCUM,
he made, | saw that he was angry. Presently hi
words became more distinct. They consiste,
largely of vigorous profanity.
Evening star., 1916-07-17

that the Government has been at the mercy
of combination.
Our reply is that the Government has
pursued policy making any real competi-
ton in armor-plate ineffective. The Gov
ernment has asked for bids from the three
manufacturers, but no matter what the
prices quoted, each years business was
divided among them. If the Government
had desired real competition it would each
year have given the entire order to the low
est bidder. It has been the Government
itself, and not the manufacturers who have
prevented competition.
We must say in all candor that we feel
the Government policy has been correct.
The Government is practically the only GUS
toner in the armor business. The question
is somewhat similar to that of railroad
transportation: the solution of the problem
is Government investigation and regulation.
When the people felt that the railroad
rates should be controlled, they gaze neces-
smy power to the Interstate Commerce
Commission; they did not build Gouern-
nrent railroads to supplant those already
existing.
8. It has been said the existence of pri-
vate armor plants creates an insidious
temptation on the part of the manufactur-
ers to encourage preparations for war; in
deed to promote war itself.
Our reply is our offer to manufacture ar
NOR at any price the Government may fix,
leaving it in the power of the Government,
if it so wishes, to fix rate of profit on ar
NOR SO low as to counteract any unwhole-
some or undesirable ambitions to make
profits out of war"
We undertook armor making at the behest Of
the United States Government We have in
vested S7,000000 in our armor plant which is use
full only for that purpose. If Government fac
tory supplants our own, our plant is rendered
valueless-and the Government is deprived of
valuable reserve factor of safety in national de-
fense.
We cannot believe that when the Congressional
program to authorize Government armor plant
was decided upon, all of the foregoing consdera-
tions were in the minds of Congress-; we are very
sure that many Members of Congress did not real
ize how earnestly desirOus were of doing the
fair and square thing by the Government, pur-
pose which we have sought to express in our offer
to make armor at the Governments own price,
Our Company is not in politics. We cannot see
that there is any Democratic or Republican aspect
to the quality of plate or the price paid for
it. 1t is business question, which, we respect.
fully submit, ought to be determined solely upon
engineering and business grounds
Evening star., 1916-07-17

~ ENATOR OLIVER has introduced an
amendment providing that the money
~ for the Government plant shall rot be
available until the Federal Trade Commis-
sion has investigated the facts, determined
what ought to be fair price for armor-
plate, and the manufacturers have been af-
forded an opportunity to make armor at or
below that price.
We maintain no lobby at Washington to
urge our views on any subject; we have ad-
vocated no plan of preparedness; our desire
is to serve the United States Government
to the extent and in the manner which the
Government itself wishes to be served.
We have been seeking earnestly for sew
eral months past to bring to the attention
of Congress and the public the reasons why
we believe it would be wasteful to construct
Government armor plant. We have sought
to answer candidly and frankly every criti-
cism which has been made, and every rea-
son urged for a Government plant.
l. It has been said that we have charged
extortjonate prices for armor-plate.
Our reply is that, according to official
records Of the Navy, this Government has
for twenty years paid less for armor than
any other great naval power.
2. 1t has been said that it costs only $3.50
ton to manufacture armor; whereas we
have been paid $425-an "exhorbitant
price"
Our reply is that s269 is the estimated
shop cost in 2O,0OO-ton plant running full.
The Naval Bureau of Ordnance reported
June %, 1918, that in 10,O00-ton plant run
ming at one-half capacity the cost would be
1894 per ton-with no allowance for inter-
est. If interest we're charged, the cost
would be $40 per ton more
Our plant in over 20 years has been
operated at an average of about one-third
capacity. We could at any time have manu-
factured armor much more cheaply if or
ders had been more nearly equal to our
capacity. If we had put into commercial
steel plant the same amount of money we
have i.>ssts9 in an armor factory our
profits from the steel plant investment
would be as great as have been our annual
gross receipts from the armor plant. Armor
Manufacture in fact is the most difficult and
the least profitable feature of the steel busi-
ness.
8. 1t has been said that our offer is a
"death-bed repentance" that if the Govern