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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
SWEDISH LABOR REGRETS
A. F. L. WILL BE ABSENT
Americans Refuse to Participate in
International Congress Of
Unions in September.

STOCKHOLM. June 3o.-The refusal
Of the American Federation of Labor to
participate in the international con-
gress of trades unions, called to meet
disappointment to the Scandinavian
labor declarations, and particularly the
Swedes. who issued the call. This dis
appointment is voiced by Herman Lind
quist. president of the Swedish Fedora
ton of Labor. In statement to the
Associated Press today he said:
The officials of the labor federation
of the three Scandinavian countries
have met frequently during the war
an international trade union confer
enoe might be held In March, at the
suggestion of the Swiss federation. we
issued summons for conference at
Stockholm in June. Delegates came
garia. Holland, Switzerland. Finland
and the Scandinavian countries In
view of the lack of representatives
from SO many large countries, we de-
cided to call another conference, and
in order to give plenty of time for the
notification to reach everybody and for
everybody to come We set the date as
September Is and the place as Switzer-
land and we notified the various fed
erations by telegraph and also by letter.
Il cannot but express the deepest re-
greet that the American Federation of
Labor has taken stand against official
participation. Our purpose never was
to assume any attitude whatever to-
ward or even to discuss the war, either
as to its conduct or the responsibility
for it's origin. What we wanted was
simply to get the worlds federal labor
men together to discuss problems which
| must be faced by labor after the war
| and to formulate the demands of inter-
national labor for n period when. more
than ever before, it will be necessary
for the worlds workingmen to stand
| united"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
KEPT OLYMPIA AFLOAT.
Engine Room Crew Stuck to Posts
and Saved Cruiser From Sinking.

NEWPORT, r. l., June 3O.-The story
of the devotion to duty of the engine
room crew of the United States cruiser
Olympia, which probably saved Admiral
Dewey's old flagship from going to the
bottom off Block Island when she
struck an uncharted rock late Monday
night. came out today. When the ship
struck her port engines were put out
of commission, and water poured into
the engine room. Her momentum car
ried the cruiser into deep water, where
she was in imminent danger of sink
ing.
When Capt. Waldo Evans telephoned
down for more steam in order to bring
his ship into shoal water, where he
could beach her, the engine room crew
responded to man. Standing water
up to their waists. they kept the star
/ board engine running and drove the
ship ahead until she brought up on
a shoal.
Naval officials tonight hoped the
Olympia would be saved. She is rest
ing easily and efforts to pump her out
will begin Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
EARLY CANNING EFFORTS
SHOULD NOT DISCOURAGE
Housewives Urged to Persevere Un-
til They Have Mastered
the Art,

Don't judge the success OF canning
by your first effort with whatever
product you happen to find in market
when YOU begin operations" says a
statement just issued by the United
states Department of Agriculture. 1T
Is more than likely that if you are a
beginner at canning you will start with
Strawberries. the first fruit available.
II you do you should realize that straw
berries are one Of the most difficult Of
all products to can satisfactorily IT is
next to impossible. in fact. to can this
fruit, as distinguished from preserving
IT Tin which case a much larger pro-
portion OF sugar is used). so that its
color. size and texture will be pre-
served.
1T is normal. if ordinary canning
practices are followed, to have straw
berries shrink. turn more or less brown
and float to the tops of the Jars. The
product is palatable. however. and will
keep perfectly IL the sterilization has
been done properly
Don't feel. therefore, that your
styawberry canning is failure. Above
all. don't become discouraged and fear
mat all YOUR canning will be unsatis-
factory. Practically every vegetable
hed and kept in condition fairly COM
parable in flavor and texture to the
fresh product
Canned food will be needed next win
ter as 1t has never been needed before
Let your slogan be, therefore: Can all
the food you can; dry the succulent
foods which cannot be kept well other
WISE
IN canning specialize on nutritious
foods and concentrate to small bulk by
cooking down all vegetables high in
water content"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
WILLIAM WINTER DEAD;
NOTED CRITIC Of DRAMA
Succumbs at the Age Of Eighty-0ne.
Poet and Master of Eng
lish Prose.

by tne ASsoclated fresS.
NEW BRIGHTON. Staten Island. June
30.-William Winter. famous as a
dramatic critic, died tonight at his
home here as the result of repeated at
lacks of angina pectoris. He was
eighty-one years old.
Mr.. Winter was first stricken on Feb
ruary 9, 1916. but continued with his
literary work until June last. He was
unable to leave his bed after that, but
for several days carried on his work by
dictation. He grew steadily weaker,
however, and was compelled to re-
linquish the labor.
Only a few days before he first be-
came i'll Mr.. Winter received one of the
most notable tributes ever paid to an
American man Of letters. 1t was a
memorial signed by the President of
the United States and many men and
women whose names stand high in
every field of art requesting that he
accept. in celebration of the eightieth
anniversary of his birth, testimonial
in recognition Of the great service he
had rendered to American literature
and. more especially, to the American
stage.
MIR. Winter was master of English
prose. AS dramatic critic he had few,
if any, equals. With Edwin Booth he
edited the fifteen plays which formed
the principal part of that actors roper
toire. furnishing prefaces and notes.
and he prepared elaborate prefaces for
many Of Shakespeares plays and those
of other authors as produced by Angus
tin Daly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
DARIS Luna OF

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, June 20, 1917.
THOR the ruined gardens and nurseries
of the French territory which
has been evacuated by the Ger
man armies it has been announced
that France will do the rebuilding. the
United States will do the furnishing
and England will supply implements
and seeds. Before all this-even for
the present summer. wherever it may
be possible-it is urgent that the
wasted farmland should be got into
condition and begin producing. There
has never been more thrifty and
laborious farming people than the
French, and all of them who are left
available are only too anxious to get
to work. But there are no villages and
no houses left where their land is. and
the soil is in a state which no farmer
ever saw before. Americans have been
planning. very practically. how to re-
build quickly all these homes, but it
will take time.
How can all the wasted land be
brought under cultivation at once
this summer and the coming autumn:
This is a question which ought to
interest many Americans. for they may
be able to give immediate help. And
their help will enable French farmers
to get to work and produce food for
themselves a year sooner than might
who is a member of the superior coun-
eli of agriculture of France. is just
back from a thorough investigation of
the state of the lapd. This is a short
summary of his answer to the question:
Take the department of the Somme,
which has been fought over in every
direction. and where there are now i'm
mense tracts of farming land freed
from the invader. Before the war
wheat. fodder or sugar beets. with
choice cattle raising. No land in
France was more fertile.
Today the land is left, but that is
about all YOU can say OF II. where
there were flourishing villages TIL ere is
often not a vestige of them left-not
a human habitation. not farm or
farming material. not trace of cult
walton. There is the land, but what
is it like?
NJ. Hitter divides it roughly into three
regions or zones as war has left it.
The battle zone was freed in the last
few months and it is a desperate chaos.
Everywhere, like. wide, deep tunnels.
are the excavations made by the big
shells of heavy cannon. Between
these there are the holes dug by thou
sands of ordinary shells as they fell
and exploded-or. perhaps, did not ex-
into account when farming begins
again. And covering all the soil is the
scrap iron and metal hail and dust
covering up the good soil from tor
rents of shrapnel and bullets fired in
the battle.
What are you going to do with such
land? Nothing-until engineers can go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01

from unorganized territory and repre-
sentatives of state organizations or
the roll call.
die. Milwaukee, are serving as chair
man and secretary of the temporary
convention. and the organization com
mittee consists of Albert 7. Clark
Kansas City. Kan: G. A. Will. Mime,
apolis; Edwin P. Bodley, Chicago, and
Ernest T. Conlon, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Headquarters will be at the La Sale
Hotel and meetings will likewise be
in the La Sale convention hall. 1t rs
the intention to make the national as
ISOLATION the parent body to state and
local associations and to handle the
various questions affecting dealers that
are at present uppermost in the motor
world through an executive. The tenn
porary organization took a leading
part in eliminating the per cent tax
from the war revenue bill after 1t had
reached. the Senate finance committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Work to Be Done i'm the
Wasted Land of France

over it with tractor plows and sifters
and Jewelers. the like of which have,
perhaps. not yet been invented.
The second, or intermediate. zone is
that of the evacuation and retreat,
which was fought over here and there.
but not so universally nor for so long
a time. Here there is more solid soil
between the she'll holes. and where
there are big funnel holes grass is al
ready growing in little valleys.
There, says NJ. Hitter. you can pasture
sheep.
Farther still to the rear there is the
third zone, the most interesting for
| immediate cultivation. There the soil
is not SO revolutionized with only now
and then remains of old trenches and
barbed-wire barriers which can easily
be done away with. OF this third zone
there are thousands and thousands of
acres stretching away like our prairies.
now that the human habitations which
prairie. and here, says NJ Hitter. some
thing can and must be done
Now. what cannot be done-at least not
for the present year-is to rebuild viii
lagos and houses and sugar mills. But
the ground can be cultivated now.
First. the peasants and farm hands
must have some sort of shelter put
up for them. Tents would do. if moth.
ing else can be had.
Second. farm tools and all the agri-
CULTURAL implements which the ruthless
invader either carried off or destroyed
before retreating must be replaced. Fol-
these poor farmers such tools and i'm
PIGMENTS represent working capital
of $3.50 an acre of his wasted land
And then he must have blowing cat
tle-horSes or oxen or cows, for these
too. are profiting by the inevitable
women's rights movement
The French government is already al
work trying to help the inhabitants OF
this region to go back to their land
which is all that is left them now
But right away, concludes NJ. Hitter
hay might be cut on thousands OF
for the pasturing of sheep and cattle
And there are other thousands of acres
at which work should be begun, 50
that they may be SoWn in autumn or
at latest. in the spring, for next years
crops.
AS soon as the German armies be-
gan retreating. nearly three years ago
after the battle of the Marine, English
Quakers set to work in France to build
temporary houses for those who had
been made homeless. Their work has
become endless 1t is said that Ameri-
can Quakers are coming over to help
Perhaps American farmers, whose ma
larger prairies-though with none
harder to handle-may find a way to
lend helping hand
The land that for thousand years
gave food tb this people is here, but
its cultivation has to be begun all over
again. The people who cultivated ii
like garden are here capable and
anxious to clear and cultivate again
But there is no house. nor pillow, nor
seed. nor cattle to draw the pillow. That
is the question.
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
PORTO RICO IS STIRRED
BY CONTROL OF FOOD
Purchase of Large Quantities of Rice
by Government Causes Mer-
chants to Protest.
Especial Cablegram to The Sunday Star
and New York WOrId.D

Especial Cablegram to The Sunday Star
and New York World1
Copyright, 1917. by Press Publishing Company.
New York WorId.D
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. June 40
The first actual attempt at control Of
stirred up a hornets nest in Porto
stirred up a hornets nest in Porto
Rico. but it seems likely that the peo-
pie will win.
Acting under authority granted by
Gov. wager. the food commission ap-
pointed by him has quietly purchased
and brought to the island $4,000 pack
ages of rice from the United States
That such a purchase had been made
was not generally known until two
weeks after the order had been placed
and accepted and instructions for ship
ment given.
Then the merchants and others who
had stocks of rice on hand protested
to the commission and intimated that
an appeal Will be made to the insular
courts. The protesting rice holders
claimed relief on the ground that the
commission had not called for bids, and
that the commissions purchase would
bankrupt the merchants who now have
rice on hand.
The commission proposes to sell the
rice 1t has purchased at Z, s and 9
cents per pound, less 10 per cent The
merchants asked the comm:Ss to
fix the prices at 9. 10 and IL cents per
pound, asserting that rice now in stock
here would cause heavy losses for its
owners II competing rices were offer
ed at prices lower than these In reply
the commission told the merchants
that it knew approximately of every
bag of rice that Is held in the island,
and also knew the price at which the
last purchaser had acquired it. 1t was
after having obtained this information
the commission said, that the price of
the commissions rice had been fixed.
Answering the complaint that it had
not asked for bids. the commission said
it was not bound by the government
regulation to do SO. 1t had, however,
secured samples and prices from sew
eral reputable rice brokers. and pur-
chases were not made until satisfac-
tory samples and prices had been OBJ
tanned.
When the report that the commission
had purchased large quantity of rice
was verified there was something of a
scramble on the part of speculative
rice holders to get rid of their stock
Several lots of speculative rice were
offered to the commission at much less
than previously anticipated prices.
The action of the food commission
regarding rice is looked upon as an
indication that the prices of other
staple foods may be fixed by that body
in similar manner. especially the
price of beans. Goldfish. meats and -four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
CANTONMENT BUILDING
CREATES LABOR FAMINE

RICHMOND. Va. June Correction
of three great government canton
ments-one at Jamestown, one at Pc
tersburg and third at Quantico--is
draining Virginia workmen to such an
extent. it is claimed by large employ
ers of labor and farmers that an or
ganized protest to Washington is being
planned. Employers of labor in Rich
mond and in practically all of the coun-
ties contiguous to The environments
complain THAT such high wages are
being offefcd for the lowest grade of
labor that thousands of men are leav-
ing the factories and farms.
According to information received
here today unstilled labor Is being pa id
81 cents an hour at Petersburg while
workmen at jamestown are being Of
fcred IS cents and those at tluantico
G2N, cents an hour. With pay and a
half for overtime and double pay for
Sunday. IL Is claimed these rnen can
make wages Of practically 81 an hour.
II is claimed that 400 men left one fac
tory in this - ton Of the state yestar-
day and sought work mt Petersburg
while all the carpenters engaged in
work on n wholesale grocery building
here struck today and went To that city
when their demand for so cents an hour
was refused
Farmers say II is proving impossibIe
to get men to harvest their crops or
help in the late planting, aud Industrial
plants. whose products are vital ueces-
stiles, are alleged TO be IN Hprc straits
for labor. Labor leaders here Aay that
the entire Industrial situation In the
state is in danger or being upset and
the farmers complain that while one
branch Of the government tx trying to
induce them To raise lHrEcr crops, the
War Department, by the methods OF
labor il permits to ic uard al the cnu-
tonments. IL making II impossible, In
the protest to WnnhiuRton which IN
being planned. II Is propoHrd 10 HHts the
government to authorize tho employ
ment of the National Guard In erecting
the various captonmenta. nn that other
labor VIII not be drawn from its usual
SIlIfluelS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
10000 AUTO DEALERS
TO HOLD CONVENTION
Will Meet in Chicago in July.
Thirty-Two States to Be
Represented.

More than ten thousand organized
~ be represented IN at int the eonvension
of automobile distributors and dealers
in the La Sale Hotel. Chicago, July 10
and IL, by $50 delegates appointed to
organize the National Automobile
Dealers Association.
The delegates to the convention will
represent thirty-two states and about
one hundred automobile dealers and
automobile trade associations. There
will also be a number of delegates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
TO SETTLE FOR RIOT DAMAGE
Hungary Pledges Compensation to
Property Owners of Budanest

AMSTERDAM, June 30-A ccordine to
budapest adviccs the Hungarian min
ister OF the interior announced in the
house OF deputies that the chief of
police had resigned as result of -
r.otous demonstration In Budapest. The
Hungarian government. it was am
nounced. would compensate those per
sons who sustained property damage
during the rioting.
Budapest advices to London yester-
day reported great demonstration de-
handing universal. equal and secret
suffrage. Twenty-Five thousand per-
sons took part in q procession which
resulted in minor disorder. and the
police had some difficulty dispersiny
the crowds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Native of Massachusetts,.

Born at Gloucester, Mass. July Is.
1886, Mr.. Winter was descended from a
race of mariners. but was dominated by
IA literary temperament. He was edu-
Gated at the Boylston School in Boston,
and was graduated from Harvard Law
School in 1857. He was>admitted to the
ticed.
The first volume Of poems written by
Mr.. Winter was published in 1854, and
was dedicated to Henry w. Longfellow,
who was lifelong friend. His second
book of verse appeared in 1858. The
following year Mr.. Winter removed-to
New York. where. for several years, he
was assistant editor of the Albion. He
became dramatic critic for the New
York Tribune in 1865 and held that po-
sition for many years. He spent much
of his time abroad, and his books on
Enela and Scotland have been widely
read.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
MIR. FLETCHER COMING HERE
Ambassador to Mexico to Confer
With Secretary LANSING

MEXICO CITY, June 3O.-Uenrv p
Fletcher, the American ambassador to
Mexico. Will leave here tomorrow for
the United States. travelling by way of
Laredo. He interSs to confer with See
rotary Lansing on affairs CONCERNING.
the two republics before the Secretary
goes on his vacation early in july.
No Significance is attached to the
ambassadors departure at this time.
other than the desire of Mr.. Lansing to
discuss with him questions that REQUIRE
more amplification than cable communi-
cation permits.
Mr.. Fletcher expects to reach Wash
ington July 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
ATLANTA NOT TO QUIT.
Decides to Continue Campaign 70
$4,000 Red Cross Fund.

ATLANTA. Ca. June 3o.-Atianta.s.
campaign for its quota of s25o,ooo Red
Cross funds which was to have closed
tonight has been extended into next
week. The exact time was not stated
by the committee in charge.
Up to last night sl5o.0Oo had been
raised Women and girls dressed as
Red Cross nurses made appeals on the
streets today. The committee an
nounced that the amount obtained to-
day would not be made public tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Aliens Are Free to Leave.

Entente consuls In the United States
are receiving many inquiries from
aliens resident in this country as 10
the effect upon their freedom of move
ment OF their enforced registration
under the military consumption act
The entente embassies here explain
that aliens are free to leave under pass
ports issued by the consuis in the usual
terms Registration of aliens was in
tended only to secure a census Of males
within certain age limits and does not
involve any liability to draft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Canadian Northern Train Derailed

TORONTO. Ont. June 30-The ca
madam Northern express from Ottawa
for Toronto was derailed today near
Thurlow. five miles east of Re!leville
II was reported an attempt was made
to wreck the train. No one was in
jured. Sir William Mackenzie, presi-
dent of the road. was asleep In HIS
private car. at Tic lea. of The train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
New Wheat Brings So Bushel.
acial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, June 30.-The
first sale of 1917 wheat in the Shenan-
doah valley made today brought So a
bushel. This is the earliest sale of new
wheat ever recorded in the Virginia
valley. Wheat harvest is in progress
generally, and the yield is much better
than evrected three weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
Revision Under Way.

The revision is being worked on now
by Sergt. w. f. Boughton of Troop B
and Lieut.. Walter F. Neibhur of the
Illinois Cavalry, who is in charge of
the preparedness extension bureau.
While this picture is being shown at
the theater a recruiting stand will be
opened up. 1t is expected that this
will start about the middle of this week
Troop A yesterday broke camp and came
into the city about noon. 1t was met
by the Boy Scout Band. which escort
ed it in parade up street. Troop B
will go into camp at Congress Heights
today for a week. Sergt. Boughton
will be in charge of the recruiting
headquarters at 1927 F street north
west this week
Members of Troop B. under command
of Capt. Leroy w. Heron. were the
Gardens at his theater Friday evening
Capt. Heron spoke in the interest of
recruiting. The Mems Club of Takoma
Park attended the show in body.
Friday was the biggest day en-
countered so far in obtaining applica-
tons for enlistment, nineteen applying
Fourteen Of this number made their ap-
plications between and 10 o'clock Friday
night.
Ten men who failed to pass the ply
steal examination were rejected on ac-
count of being under weight. However,
they will be back in the near future for
another examination. In the meanwhile
they have been told by the army sur
geons to eat a certain number of ba-
nanas and dates day to add the neces-
sary weight for enlistment. These men
have been called the diet squad"
Members of the troop had a big
time last night in the recruiting head
quarters at 1927 + street. With a num-
Der of guests they held a dance, and
were given a luncheon by George l..
Larsen, proprietor of tho Crescent
Lunchroom on F street.
Fifteen applications for enlistment
were received yesterday from the fol-
lowing: NJ. E. Dent, jr.; Thomas j.
Luckett, John A. Kersey, Robert F..
Ford, Archie Hughes, James l.. Dyer.
Harry P. Stansbury, Robert E. Walsh,
J. B. Kirkley. John w. Lehman, Thoma s
F. Byrne, William H. Berney, F. Z.
Neil, Blake Dyer and Hollis v. Mese-
role.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01

Land now above the sea level. U.s.
900, 900 square miles, if uniformly
spread over the globe. would make a
crust 500 feet thick.