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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
KING GEORGE SENDS
LETTER TO WILSON

The British Ambassador, Sir Cecil
Spring Rice, handed TO President Wilson
at the White House yesterday an auto
graph letter from King George, Of Eng
land, explaining why Great Britain could
not agree to the Polish relief proposal of
this government. The letter, 1t is under
stood, places the blame on Germany for
refusing to give safeguards that the
foodstuffs would not be requisitioned for
army purposes.
lnasmuch as the Phelan provision au-
thorizing a mail, telegraph and wireless
embargo against nations interfering with
American malls had been stricken from
the revenue bill in conference. the ques-
tton Of retaliatory legislation was not dis
cussed between the President and the
Ambassador. 1t is understood that the
other retaliatory provisions Of the rev.
onue and shipping bills will later be taken
up by the Ambassador direct with Score
tary Lansing.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
WILLIAMS APPOINTED
IN WHITEFORD'S PLACE

Robert L. Williams, third assista Mt
corporation counsel Of the District. has
been promoted to second assistant cor
poration counsel to fill the vacancy OF
Roger G. Whiteford who resign d yes
terday.
Mr. Whiteford will be associated in the
future with the new law firm Of Darr,
Peysor, Whiteford & Darr. He was tho
Youngest member OF the Districts legal
department, being but g years old. and
was the first appointee under the present
Board of Commissioners
Attorney Whiteford has a very dis
tinguished record with the citys legal
department. He was graduated from the
National Law School in 1911.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
"ITNEY SPECIAL" HERE
FOR DANCING SEASON
SPECIAL to ne Washington Herald.

Special 70 ne waAhinzton HsrH
New York, Sept G-The dancing teach
ers have an idea that Presidential candi-
dates In need Of q campaign issue might
do well to study some Of the new dance
steps, such as the jitnsy special or the
corkscrsw glide. So seriously do the
members Of the American Society of
Dancing Professors take themselves that
II was suggested in the course Of the
organizations convention, now in session
at the Hotel Majestic, that a Presi-
Dental nominee would pront II he made
an Issue Of the dancing steps.
- The jitney special Is to share h0nors
with the corkscrew glide in the coming
season. Il was said at the convention yes
terday. The Terre Hauts fox trot, bet
ter known as the IT H." also came up
for consideration before the convention
and Louis Chslif gave an interesting
Greek dance.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
You Must Purify Your Blood
In the Spring

Are you simply dragging your way
through life, suffering fortunes from
some blood malady that has stolen your
health, robbed you of the ability to en-
JOY life's pleasures. made the future a
hopeless uncertainty, and left you but a
shadow OF your former strong self?
If so, let US warn you to look to your
blood, and you will likely find the cause
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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
H. S. BAKER REMAINS
WITH EXCISE BOARD

Henry 5. Baker will continue to serve
on the Excise Board. although the Senate
failed to act upon his nomination yester-
day before adjournment
The confirmation or Baker has heen
bitterly opposed by the dry forces They
assert there l~ equally as much ason 70
oppose Commissioner Baker as there was
to oppose Gen. Robert G. Smith. who was
rejected for confirmation some time ago.
Under the law Commissioner Baker can
serve until his successor is appointed and
confirmed and the prevailing opinion is
that he will be gwen a recess appoint
ucnt by the President
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
CALLS ATTACK ON
0WEGO UNATTENDED
lBy the International NV, Seryic..,

by the International News Servicep
New York, sept. "details Of the firing
on and stopping OF the American steamer
OWegO by German submarine while
she was in the English Channel wers
given today by Capt F W Barlow on
The arrival Of the OwcC0 from Rotterdam
Capt Barlow confirmed cable reports
that he was unable 70 set the submarine
on account OF thick haze. He said that
apparently there was no intention or the
part Of the U-bOat's captain 10 hit the
Owego. Capt Barlow added that he had
no complaint TO make
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
Political Notes

New York, Sept. s-National Dem
ocratic Chairman Vance Mccormick
talked with President Wilson at the
White House by telephone today.
The President is not worrying about
/ the probable increased activity of Col.
Roosevelt in the Hughes campaign" said
Mccormick after his conversation with
the President Campaigning by proxy
won't 60" he continued, "and the Re
publicans can't do too much Of that to
suit US. 1t will be another Henry l..
Sttmson story, that is ALL"
Turning to the further attacks made
against the Wilson-Adamson eight-hour
railway bill by Hughes last night in
Maine, Mccormick said:
Just as I said, Mr.. Hughes dares not
make a real issue of 1t. He does not
say what lie would have done in the
Presidents place. And II is lust as we'll
to remember that the elght-hour day was
Included in the Republican platforms or
1908 and 1872"
Leaders at the Democratic headquarters
continue getting good reports from
Maine, and today Daniel Roper, chair
man OF the organization bureau SAID
that not a few Republicans were ex-
pected to vote the Democratic ticket IN
Maine.
New York. Sept s.-Republicar Ma
tional Chairman Wilcox is to confer with
Charles E. Hughes at Syracuse on Mon
day. Before they part, he Presidential
candidates New York itinerary and his
supplementary Western trip will be
mapped out. They will also frame Col.
Roosevelts tour.
Wilcox will report to Mr. Hughes the
result of his conference with Roosevelt
today and suggestions submitted by the
against Wilson by all the Republican
and Progressive orators until election
day.
New York, Sept. S-Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Mccormick started to-
day to try to make Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic. He left for stroudsburg to con-
fer with A. Mitchell Palmer and other
leaders. Prior to his departure. Chair
Van Dyke, Of the Pennsylvania State
COMMITTEES.
Democratic enrolment in our cities
exceeds all records" said Van Dyke
Reports from other districts are that
more voters registered as Democrats in
a single day than voted for Wilson in
1872 The thing that makes me believe
the President will carry our State is
the Republican factional fight-Vare and
Governor Brumbaugh on the me. hand
and the Republican National Committee
men and Senator Penrose on the other
are at one another's threats. The Ware
Brumbaugh faction has everything to
lose and nothing to gain through Hughes
election"
Portsmouth. n. H, Sept S-Seventy-
eight Pennsylvania ProgresSves who
served as delegates and alternates to the
convention OF 1912 which nominated
Roosevelt have sent a telegram to
Hughes pledging their support.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
BIRTHS REPORTED
W HITE

WHITE
George and Kati. Jackson, girl.
James c. and Madeline X. Kraft hoy.
Walter and Mary Lacey. girl.
Joseph and Arithmetic Tavarnssa. girl
Arthur B. and CAROLYN 5. Pierce. girl
James ]. and Annah, IA Murphy, girl
Joseph and Emma (.thsus. hoy.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
LIGHTNING STRIKES HOUSES.
\" One Injured when Bolt Strikes
Homes

Lightning struck two farm houses late
yesterday afternoon during the storm,
damaging the roofs OF the buildings prob
ably to the extent Of 800.
The premises are occupied by D. A
Lusby and DR.. A. ". Meloy. 24ll and
240e Nicholas avenue southeast, respec-
lively. None OF the occupants OF the
homes was injured by the bolt
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
COppers Active.

The following analysis O. The New
York market situation was rrce we'd ,es-
terday by w. B. Hibbs & Co. from
Logan & Bryan, their New York cor
respondents:
Strength wa not uniform Reading.
as a result Of arze earnings and talk Of
a dividend increase, moved gradually
upward. the floating supply being Of
such a limited extent as to make the
stock respond easily TO moderate buying.
1t is reported that a Russian order for
a substantial amount OF Copper metal
was placed, and that further inquiries
are in the market. This lent encourage
ment to bHllish endeavors in Copper
shares. While the list has a strong under
tone and numerous selected issues ad-
vance very easily, the Ions account has
expanded considerably a 5 a result Of the
dealings in the past week or So ana
many shorts have been driven to cover
resulting in a contraction in the bear
account Therefore, unless q substantial
volume Of new outside buying can be
fostered, II would appear that reaction
Of moderate extent will be essential in
order to adjust the technical position OF
the list"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
DEATHS REPORTED.
WHITE.

WHITE
Charles s. Moss q ,,ars. rs 81 NV
Margaret Ledane. =. E76 /. st. sw
Henry Kaufman, G.. 623 Irving st NV.
COLORED.
Beaie LomsI 20, It. E.iEabeth's Hosp.tsI
Margaret Fletcher. SC. 81. kHZabeth's n ,sp.:ll
Rose Woodland. =. ITovidtIics Hospital
Robert White, tbs 'O7 I'd St ~.
Infant OF IaITeg Ill Ahco Ssltus, nay. II Cd
mems Hospital.
Infant Of Jsr,LL and Itry Dozier, day, III Z
st ~.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Horatio H. Carter and Carroll Thomp-
son. two Belfast Me, letter carriers,
have completed twenty-three years OF
service and in addition have the distinc-
zion Of being the first two letter carriers
appointed in Belfast.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Earnings Of the New York Central
lines for July, reported yesterday,
gave further evidence Of the manner in
which the prosperity of she country has
been reflected in railroad revenues
Operating revenue for the month was
$50, 40S, 524, an increase as compared with
the corresponding month of 1915 OF SIS
74S1lJ. The increases were particularly
large on the Eastern lines. as a result
of the relief from freight congestion a;
tidewater points and the speeding up of
plant production at Eastern manu-
featuring ccntcrs.
Virginia is the leading State in the
production Of sOapstone, Vermont rank
ing second.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
Fools with Gun; Now in Hospital

With an ugly bullet wound in his chest,
which he told the police had been in
tlicted accidentally at his home. while
fooling with revolver, John Harvey,
colored, 3l5 c street southwest, is at the
Emergency Hospital. The physicians say
he will probably recover.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Chesapeake and Ohio reports for July
gross earnings OF S3.972I54. increase
S329.576; net after taxes 81 LASS. $50 increase
S213,255; surplus after charges S718, S43 in
crease 500 81
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Frlternities Of the University Of Call
fornia have been prohibited from build
Ing houses costing more than $4,000.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
STEPS THROUGH sKYLIGHT.

Injuries from Fall.
Eleanor Shoemaker, II years old. while
playing in the attic of her home, 29l9
Fourteenth street northwest, yesterday,
stepped through a skylight and fell to
the floor Of the first story
She received scalp wound. body
bruises and shock but did not lose con-
seriousness. She is at the Emergency
Hospital. where the physicians say she
will recover. The child is a daughter
of George w. Shoemaker.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
BOND TRADING LEADS
ON LOCAL EXCHANGE
Washington Gas s. Sell at los.
Values Steadier.

Values were steadier at yesterdays
session Of the Washington Stock Ex-
"hanGe. The bond list I'd ia the trading.
Washington Gas IS Vold a lJ5. Potomac
Consolidated 6s al l"1, and Railway IS
at 50 IS. Capital Traction sold at IS.
Vas hinSton Gas al . a. and odd lots
Of Columbia Title Insurance At G.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
American GraphOphone Thriving.

The American Grsphophone Company
IL doing thriving business The con-
ern has just completed d new factory
and is behind in orders for e0,uOl machines
and 10000 records Gross ea~njngs for
he first six months OF the cu-rcu: yea
were sS,557,36s. an increase OF ! per cent
over the earnings for the corresponding
period last year. Net earnings for the
same period inc.cased IS per cent
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
Nutshell NeuDs

President Wilson yesterday afternoon
ordered the remittance of the 5000 fine
imposed with two-year prison sentence,
upon Z. M. Mcmahon, of Philadelphia.
convicted with six others In 1913 of using
the mails to defraud in the International
Lumber Company case.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Portsmouth. n. H, Sept S-Seventy-
eight Pennsylvania Progressives who
served as delegates and aternates to the
convention OF 1912 which nominated
Roosevelt have sent a telegram to
Hughes pledging their support.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Secretary Of State Lansing yesterday
formally notified the Danish government,
through Danish Minister Brun here, and
American Minister Egan at Copenhagen,
that the Senate had ratified the Danish
American treaty for purchase of the
Danish West Indies for s25,0O00Oo.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Serenty-five cheap Graphophcne records
were stolen yesterday from the home OF
Slondins Bolden, 2441 N street northwest.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

Eldbrooke Chapter, knights Of St
Paul, had an installation of officers las
night at Tennallytowh. The cha pier
Which IS new one, has forty-ope mem
oers. Officers installed last night were
Herbert Fawcett, Elmer Goebel, Russo
Birch Charles Derrick, Robert Scrog
gins, Lawrence Harry, Gilbert Vaux
Frederick Robey, and John waIther.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
sPIRTTUALTsM.
Master or Slave "

ns EIhoi SFIRlTUALIST CHURCH Alfred
eTy. lecture followed by spirit messages
IOlz 9Th St NV. fourth floor elevator Al ,toI
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

A gray horse. pulling no-top Dayton
light wagon, owned by Rev. II. E. Ryer-
son, Oxon Hill, Nd, was stolen yester-
DAY morning at o'clock from the whole
sale section Of the Center Market. Under
the seat of the wagon there was a box
of groceries,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

The monthly report of the ONCE of
Markets and Rural Organiza ton, De-
partment OF Agriculture, on the cold
storage holdings OF creamery butter
shows lO2,S43 1892 pounds held by I66 firms.
one nundred and forty-three firms re-
ported holdings OF this year to be 100,
sS9,Se pounds, as compared with lol,-
66l'68 pounds last year. The reports
show lo.6 per cent more butter III storage
than on August l.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
GUNToN.TEMPLE MEMORIAL,
itth and sts.

C. Everest eranss1. D. D., pastor viii preach
=. ! a n PrsE~ Meeting N ths ehIpsI rsurp
~ psnza<A
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09

In pineh-back English and
conservative models. Fine
ly tailored of fast color
blue serge and made right
to fit and wear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-29
Again Throwing Stones.
Fom the Savannah News.


In a holier-than-thou ecstacy the Cincln-
| natl Enquirer calls attention to the sending
of small boy to the state reformatory at
Miledgeville the other day and talks as if
he were thrust into a formidable prison
filled with thugs, perverts and murderers. >"
Evidently the Enquirer is more anxious to
say something unpleasant about Georgia
than to get at the facts in the case. Eyi-
IDENTITY it has never visited the reformatory
at Milledgeyille or read an accurate descrip-
ton of it. Apparently it just read that this
boy was sent to N1iledgeville, and bounced
upon the item with intent to take advant-
age of what appeared to be an opportunity
to throw verbal stone at Georgia.
How infinitely better it would be, said
the Enquirer, If the state of Georgia pro-
vided a correctional institution for children,
in which they might grow to useful man
hood and womanhood." Well, that was
what it thought it was doing when it pro-
vided the state reformatory. 1t has not
locked up this boy in formidable prison"
because the state of Georgia has no formida-
Bile prison; and it did not thrust him in
among thugs. perverts and murderers,' be-
cause the reformatory is forbidden by law
to receive anybody over 16 years of age.
The Enquirer takes Georgia to task for
not doing something she already has done;
it recommends that she do the very thing
it criticises her for doing. 1t is infinitely
hard to please critics of that sort. Georgia
the state, to grow UP to be good man;
she sent him to the correctional institution
at Milledgevile with the hope of preventing
him from growing up to be an idler and
thief. She is trying to help him. There is
opportunity at Milledgeville for him to learn
to use his hands in useful labor instead of
in stealing, and his mind in something worth
while to himself and the state rather than
in planning theft What more would the
Enquirer give him?
At the reformatory there is instruction
in farming, in shop work, and there is
school The boys themselves even get out
little paper called The Future Citizen, ,"
which it might be well for the Enquirer to
send for and examine. The object OF the
reformatory is to make future good citizens
out of boys who get a wrong start in life
Much of their time is spent in the open. 1t
is true that the refOrmatory is not the best
place of its kind in the world, but the state
is doing the best it can with limited re-
sources for the unfortunate youngsters who
have tendencies that need correcting.
If the Enquirer has tears to shed it can
surely find persons and things closer at
home to weep over. 1t can save it's tears
sometimes at any rate, by making sure in
advance about conditions in Georgia. 1t has
painted a correctional institution for chill
dren'' as a formidable prison full of thieves,
thugs and murderers-men almost though
perhaps not quite as bad as the Cincinnati
'sluggers" who, according to the confession
of one of them, were paid 81 apiece for Kill
ing man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-29
The Price of Paper.
FOm the Triton Gazette,

Not only the printers but every industry
using blank paper is feeling the advance
made necessary by scarcity of materials. The
Gazette quotes from a letter received yes
erday:
Owing to the continued advances by
manufacturers We are forced to ad-
advance our prices 80 1-3 per cent over
list price on our entire line, with the
usual extra percentage for cOlOrs.
This from a wholesale dealer who has
three times advanced prices since the out
break of the war, and who notified us six
months ago that prices on practically all
cOlOred papers had been raised % per cent,
and that some cOlOrs could not be had at all.
An authority says the paper manufact-
urers of the United States have never be-
fore-not even during the period of the
war between the states-faced conditions
comparable with those that nov confront
them" To show the reasons for the higher
prices We quote the advances on some of
the materials entering into the manufacture
of the fine grade of papers since a year ago:
Rags. from so to 400 per cent.
Bleaching powder, 600 per cent
Alum, 300 per cent
Sizing material, over 200 per cent.
Sulphite pulps, 200 to 23O per cent
Labor, 10 per cent.
Felt, wire and general supplies, an
average of at least 30 per cent.
The sale of the finer grades of writing
papers alone in this country amounted to
$26,000.000 last year. This does not in
clude the enormous amount of the cheaper
grades of printing paper The worst of it is
that no one knows where the thing is going
to stop. The mills have now been plunged
because of the war in Europe into a stua-
ton for which the history of the trade af-
fords no presidents. When an outbreak of
cholera abroad has awaited in the past to
lessen the Importation of rags it has been
N 41oN ncn,
would probably be soon under control and
the embargo lifted. When war is concerned
one mans guess is as good as another's."
Owing to continued rise in the price Of
Iaper printers have been Obliged 10 advance
puCez on nearly all their finished products
Newspapers cannot we'll advance their sub
scription rates, and therefore nearly all Of
them are pOCketing a loss.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-29
"WarnS Against Lawing'

One form of cooperation that should be
more generally practiced is that of settling
disputes between arbitration in
stead of going to law. And right to the
point in this connection is the story which
Uncle Walt Mason told in one of his recent
outbreaks in prose-verse:
Il iaunted in my motor car an ran over
Jimpsons shote, and from that creature
Knocked the tar; I surely got its goat. Of
fered payment for the pig-'twas neither
large nor fat-but JimpsOn made the price
too big; I wouldn't stand for that. The
rankest graft ever saw I cried with rising
ire; before I'll pay I'll go to lava lawyer
I shall hire We went to law; the case
was tried by judges near and far and now
see the lawyer ride in my nice motor car.
trudge along on weary feet all burdened
with disgust; the lawyer scoots along the
street and covers me with dust. Old jump
son had a hundred pigs that fed on cookie
burs; they've gone to purchase gowns and
wigs for stately barristers. We stood last
night by my abode, to cuss the legal rich;
my lawyer motOred down the road and SHOW
ed us in the ditch. For such dark and
dismal shame there's nothing can atone
the car that climbed my palsied frame was
formerly my own. Oh Jimpson had a hun
dred hogs and I a choo-choo cart; and he
has nothing now but dogs. and I broken
RI