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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
Out Of Date

Today | have motor car as fine
as any wagons are. 1t has all
kinds OF modern traps, invented
by long-headed chaps. I'm all
swelled tip with pomp and pride,
when | scoot' DER the country
side, and get the everlasting goats
OF those who own back number
boats. And when in town | stop
my car, to buy my face good
cigar, the people crowd around
and say, Gee, but that car is
reshershay!" Tomorrow when l
drive around the courthouse and
the village pound, I'll be too
grouchy to relate; my auto will be
out of date. And l will hear
cheap skates remark, at came
across in Noah's ark All, mel
ancholy is the fate of one who'd
be right up to date, and have the
latest things in cars! His spirit
soon is scanned with scars. Those
brisk inventors should be canned,
who spring new schemes to beat
the band, who make the triumph
OF today look cheaper than the
one-hoss shay! 'Twould break a
John D. Astorbilt, and send him
poorhouseward full tilt, to own
modern car sublime, for more
than two weeks at time.
WALT MASON,
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Joseph Letter Heads Army League

Joseph Letter has been elected presi-
dent of the Army League of the United
States, succeeding Gen. Robert Shaw
oliver. The following officers have been
reelected: Vice presidents DIR. Esnja-
Belmont, DR.. William 7. Hornaday;
treasurer, H. G. Meem; SECRETARY, George
Hewitt Myers: corresponding secretary,
T. B. Johns. The following have been
chosen members of the executive coun
Gil: William Phelps Emo, Murray A.
Cobb. George w. G. Drexel. Thomas 7.
Gaff, Clark Howell Gen. John A. john
ston, John B. Larner. Thomas Nelson
Page, Col. George Truesdell and Frank
lin McVeagh.
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HONORS ITS PRESIDENT.
Commercial Club Gives Dinner Com
ELEMENTARY tn w C.. Johnson.

Members'of the Commercial Club ten
dered a dinner to William C. johnson
in honor of the elimination of three
years of active service as president of the
club last night in the club. About 200
members were present.
Mr. Johnson's service to the club and
as chairman of the building committee
was lauded by the speakers Those
who spoke were John l.. Weaver, who
succeeds Mr.. johnson as president: IL. Z.
c. Stiles. Cuno II. Rudolph, Simon Wolf,
E. c. Graham and Milton e. Allies. d.
j. Callahan was POSTMASTER.
One of the features of the dinner
was the presentation of gold watch
to the retiring president as gift from
the members of the club.
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CITY ITEMS.
3 Cans Peas. 2sc: 4 Bots. Vanilla or


Lemon, Csc; 3 lbs. Evap. Peaches, csc: 4
lbs. Head Rice, Csc; Sugar Waters, &c;
N o. Molasses. 15c; Gold Medal Wheat
Food, 1212c: Gold Medal oats, 7hc; Lima
Beans, 10c H.; Pure Pepper, 29c; lbs.
Layer Raisins, 25c. 926 Pa. ave. and
all the J. T. D. Pyles Stores.
Flower Studies. Schmidt. 1921 18th st.
Ciafin Optical Co., 90. F ST.,
When YOU need glasses.
Red Hearts. all sizes C=crpl's, 9Th and l.
High School Books. peariman's, 931 c NV.
Plush Coats Steamed. Best Results. 81.
Suits French or steam cleaned. S1.00.
Wash. Tailoring Co.. 10 9th st. NJ. 1887.
Fine Silver Plating.
John A. Gottsmann & Co. NJ. 3O33.
For Dependable Life Insurance
Cc~sult d Fulton Harris. 206 Col. bldg.
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Orchestral Concert.

BY the L. s. Soldiers Home Bapd
Orchestra. in Stanley Hall, zat
$50 o'clock this evening. John
S. NJ. Zimmerman, director.
March, salute to Williamsport."
Duble
Overture, "Desdemona,"
Schlepegrell
Intermezzo, "Pulcinello, .Alettei
Selection, THE Count of Luxem-
bourg" .Leber
Fox Trot, Come Back to
Arizona" .............M Murphy
Waltz Suite, You and l. .Langey
Finale, Listen to That Dixie
Band" Cobb
1.-The Star Spangled Banner"
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Cranda.rs Savoy. 18th md Col. Rid.
TppAY-WILLIAM s. HART. in THE
DEVILS DOUBLE.
roMoRRow-FRANK MCINTYRE. IN THE
TRAVELLING SALESMAN"
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CrandaIfs Thenter. 9th and e Sts.
roDAY-ALICE BRADY, in THE HUI
CRY HEART"
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CrandaIps Apollo. 624 Fl st. NE.
'ToDAY-LENoRE ULRICH, in THE ROAD
TO LOVE" Also FRANCIS " BCSHMAN
and BEVERLY BAYNE. in THE GREAT
SECRET 2i Episode.
TOMoRROW-CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
in THE DEEP PURPLE
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Revere. Ga. Ave. mt Park I'd. NV.
ToDAY-BESSIE BARRlSCALE, in 'TH
LAST ACT" Also keystone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02

me annual banquet of the Washing
ton Alumni Association of Tau Beta Pi
VIII pc heid tomorrow evening at z
O'Clock at the New Ebbitt, Marcns Pen.
5amin. vice president of the organiza-
ton, presiding. The following officers
for the year were chosen at a recent
erection: $ W. Stratton, president;
Marcus Benjamin, vice president: f. r
Squarr. treasurer: L. W. Schad, ascot
ate editor Of the Bent. and H. ]. Jack
son, secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02

Empire Theater. 0l1 Fl ST. NE.
TODAY-GLADYS HULETTE, in HER
NEW YORK" Positively one of the great
est pictures ever filmed.
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Circle, PIGS Pm. Ave. Ph. w. o53.
TODAY-GAIL KANE and CARLYLE
BLACKWELL, in ION DANGEROUS
GROUND"
ToMoRRow-First Time in Washington
COL. ". +. CODY. in ADVENTURES OF
BUFFALO BILL" Shows at 1880 am,
200, 800 $3.50 to 1890 pm.
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Especial Film Features

CrnndaIrs Ave. Grand, 6I5 Pa. Av.S.E.
ToDAY-zSIR BEERBoHM TREE. in ''OLD
FOLKS AT HOME" Also FRED MACE.
in THE LAST SCENT"
NORTHUMBERLAND FREDERICK, in :
ASHES OF EMBERS."
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Ciafin Optical CO., 90. F ST..
When you need glasses.
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Home, 1920 c st. NE.
TODAY-CLARA kIMBALL YOUNG, in
THE DARK SILENCE"
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The Lincoln Park Citizens Associa-
lion Is to hold a business meeting Mon
day evening at o'clock in the lecture
room of the Chapel of the Nativity, 18th
street and Massachusetts avenue south
east. Appropriations for the northeast
section or the city during the next year
Will be considered
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Liberty, North Capitol and r SITS.
ToDAY-WALLACE REID and CLEO RlDG-
LEY, in THE YELLOW PAWN"
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VH1CerS We're fTeCfed the HnnUnI
meeting of the Hebrew Relief Society
and Hebrew Friendly Inn Sunday at
Adas Israel Syna gogue. The officers
are: Marcus Norman. president, for
the ninth term: l. Cohen, vice presi-
dent; John Wolf. second vice presi-
dent; ). Atlas, treasurer; S Rosen
financial treasurer, and S Gordon. re-
cordins secretary. The report of the
secretary also was read
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21
THE COLOMBIAN TREATY

That the senate adjourned without rati
lying the Colombian treaty is matter of
deep regret. Roosevelt's Panama land
grab is the one black spot in the scutcheon
of nation that has always paid for what
it got. Even if $25, 100000, the sum named
in the treaty, is little high, surely SEN
ate that so recently authorized a $25 ,000,
OOO, payment for West Indian islands that
few years ago could have been gotten
for five, should not haggle over the price
at this late day.
If Colombia had the land and was try
ing to drive a shrewd bargain, the case
would be different. But II took the Canal
Zone" says Roosevelt. Even so, II took
Belgium" the kaiser might say-an I'M
pleasant parallel but one that can not be
denied. Fortunately it is unique in our
history.
Not that we should buy Colombia's ia
ver. We would not do that But we owe
something to Colombia, which is unable to
enforce collection, and if, to close the mat
ter as soon as possible, we do pay a little
more than Is due, we will be going ,ong
way toward convincing Latina America of
our desire to deal fairly with our weaker
neighbers, and controverting the dark in
fuence of German intrigue in that receipt
i've country.
An early ratification of the treaty is a
duty not only to Colombia, but to Am
erica.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

An answer to the bill of complaint
in the case. of Mrs. V. Mott Pierce,
ct al. VS.. H. L. Flowers, c. H. Noble
and Brady Goodwin, recently brought
in the federal court to restrain the
defendants from hunting and fishing
on st. Vincent's Island, was filed
in the court yesterday morning, and
has as its chief contention that the
respondents have never been on the
island
The first allegation in the answer
states that the bill of complaint is
insufficient in law and equity, for the
remedy should have been sought in
common law.
1t is secondly alleged that it is in
sufficient because it does not allege
that the trespass complained Of
tends to the impairment or destruc-
ton of the property. Thirdly, it is
denied by the respondents that on
February %. or any time prior to
that date st. Vincent's Island was
posted in the manner provided by
section 3407 of the general Statutes,
or amendments to it.
Fourth: The respondents deny
that they or either of them tres
passed upon or in any manner went
or were upon or Immediately about
the said st. Vincent's island or any
part thereof on the 22nd day of Feb
ruary, A. D., 1917, or at any time
prior thereto or at any time since said
date except that the defendants after
their arrest on the 23rd day Of Feb
ruary, A. D., 1917, upon false ac-
cusation charging them with tres
pass on said island went upon the
shores of said island from a boat al
the advice of their attorney and
walked along the shore of said island
at about high water tide line and
measured the distance between two
notices posted on said lands.
/ The sixth count IN the answer OF
respondents claim that the people Of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21
The SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DAeNEY.

Soon there won't be enough kings
in Europe to open jackpot.
"Suffragists waive their rights, "
says headline. But not if they are
cork.
The girls of Pensacola are so pref
ty that we don't blame the dear crea-
lures bit for their interest in the
looking glass.
Possibly it is the litter in the liter
acy test that causes some people to
think congress made a mess of the
immigration law.
Every day Stone stays at the head
of the foreign relations committee
increases the feeling that the senate
ought to be abolished.
Every time the Germans fall back
on 20 to as mile front, we hope no
banshee joker reminds them of the
famous "Take Calais or Die" order.
This is the time of the year when
newspapers announce higher prices
of living on the front page and de-
nounce them on the editorial page.
In view of his ability to fall off
horses, we suggest that Officer Hol-
land make up like King George if he
attends that police masquerade ball
When the bone dry law goes into
effect, thousands of thirstsmiths, de-
prived of the Midnight Ride of Pau,
Revere, will long for the jug In jug
gernaut.
The average man looks with awe
upon baby, and we'll ne might, be-
cause putting your toe in your mOutl
is one of the most remarkable accom-
plishments there is.
That German author who says
Kaiser Bill is "godIike" has no doubt
been hurled into the donjon keep by
now for lese-majeste. To think Of
comparing him to the Junior member
of the celebrated firm!
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/, Peter Gridley

for Lenore Ulrich's new pitcher, The
Road TO Love Lenore wuz to rush up
to door wot wuz locked and try to
push de door in. When de scene was
bein' taken some one forgot to lock de
door. just noticed dis in time an
ran up an braced it from de outside.
1t wuz a long scene and wuz going
great-better dan any of de rehearsals
If / hadn't been on de job believe me,
one grand big scene would a been
spoiled cause she'd a gone through dat
door on de first push. 1t took all me
strent to hold it!
"Wot gifts me goat do is when de
director tells you to do sometin and
don't tell you enough. Yesterday 1
gets a note from one Of de directors
out on location which SEE: Bring over
de shells Immediately I didn't know
| If dey wanted, sea-shells, gun-shells or
oyster shells. Well 1 had t do some
tin and do sometin quick. Dat note
was meant for one of de OddeT prop
boys but wuz de only one here, so
had to git busy. beats it around
/ to de flsh-man and buys every kind
Nv a shell could see, den goes to a
sporting-goods shop and buys up all
kinds Nv gun shells. Wild a baskit full
Of junk I beats it 10 de location and
when gifts dere everybody gives me
de ha ha. Dey wanted de fish-shells
awright but de gun shells came in
handy too" Here a roar for 'Props"
resounded and Immediately my friend
disappeared after a hasty promise to
give further particulars on the NOR
row.
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Defendants in St. Vincerts
Island Case Enter De7nals

the state of Florida have always en-
joyed the common right of hunting
and fishing on the island until within
the past few years when it has been
reputed to have been set aside by
the owners as a game preserve and
hunting and fishing thereon has been
forbidden. 1t is alleged that the only
legal right that the owners of the
island have to prevent others from
fishing and hunting thereon is de-
rived from certain acts of the legis-
lature which permit unfenced lands
when bounded by rivers, creeks, CULTS,
or bays to be posted against tres
passers under certain restrictions
therein provided.
1t is further alleged that prior to
the 22nd Of February the complain
ants had not complied with the re-
quirements of the statutes. 1t is
claimed that the compliments have
long wished to secure an Injunction
in the federal court against some
person to prevent hunting on the is
land, and that a reward has been Of
fered in an advertisement published
in the Apalachicola Times for infor-
nation which would lead to the ar
rest and conviction of trespassers.
The fifth count alleges that Asa
Warren, possibly from a desire to
obtain the reward made affidavits
against the respondents, and that
they were tried in the county judges
court and acquitted.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

props greeted me with a smile that
indicated the world was treating him
well. when you come to flyer it out"
confded he, de life Nv a prop boy
amt so bad after all. We have lots
Nv fun, and den Ioollit all de big stars
we meet People always talk about
desc stars bein' up-stage. Well, dat
might be true in some places, but 1t
amt so in our studio. Lookit Dusty
Farnum. He Just comes in a few min
utes ago and hollers: Hello, Props!
How's de kidp He's dere wild de smile
all de time and when he's got nOtin'
special to do he comes around and tells
US stories, and believe me, boy, dat guy
kin spiel out de funny chin goods. He
likes to kid wild de bunch, and IL we
kid him back he takes 1t wild a grin.
He don't git sore, like lot of guys
would.
"Den dere's Kathlyn Williams. Say,
kid, she's some gal! Everybody is in
love wild her. When she comes in
every morning she just spills sunshine
all over de place. She usually has a
bunch of flowers from her garden and
hands dem around. Vivian Martin
Lenore UIrich, Colin Chase-de whole
bunch is de same. Always smilin' and
,-and-democratic OATS it-democrat
ic. You know-dey mingle wild de
bunch.
Its jes like a big family at oul
studio; but, believe me, it wouldn't b.
such a happy family if it wuz not foI
us props being on de Job all de time
De other DAY we We're taking a scene
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VoxPobuh.
PLANT GARDENS SAYS
COMMISSIONER McRAE

Editor of The Journal:
l endorse most heartily your edi-
torial entitled Teach Gardening at
School" AS you we'll say the world
gets its living from the land. At
this time there is not only scarcity
of food products in this country, and
there is intense suffering in the Eu-
ropean countries for want of food, in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21
CATS AND AMERICANIsM

Every true American heart will throb in
sympathy with Sidney ]. Cats when,
asked what his course would be with Ger
many, he says:
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saying that although he lived outside
the limits of Lake Forest, a suburb,
he derived many benefits from the
town and felt obliged to pay sepss Of
its taxes
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21
ODD, ISN'T IT?

Chicago-Thomas E. Donneley,
publisher, complained to mayor Of
low taxes and sent check for $500,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

during ne ss , Ess her Of Sq 9So
Entente She is probably ready 70 ere" st. big
materials needs"
While millions of tons of allied and neu-
traI ships have been sent to the bottom,
German ships have been lying safe at
home. or informed abroad; in addition she
has built twenty-eight huge merchant yes
sells since the war began.
From Belgium France, and Poland,
Germany has taken factory machinery,
with which she is turning out goods at
home; she is stripping Serbia's copper
mines; she is filing enormous reservoirs
with oil from Roumania; she is draining
forests captured from Russia, of ros1n; she
is working the captured mines back OF the
battle lines-and sparing her own resour-
ces.
Moreover necessity has discovered new
and cheaper processes of manufacture IN
various lines Thus valuable oils are ex
tracted from nuts, seeds, and coal; and
mighty factories have been erected to mine
the air of its nitrates-for the process has
been so perfected that Germany instead.
of importing this basic element of war and
agriculture from Chile, will export it. Nor
are the two million men in prison camps
allowed to be idle. Many of them welcome
the prospect of doing something to vary
the monotony-and earn little money.
Those that do not are compelled-the Bel
gian deportations, for example. Thus-to
give only one instance factory at Solin
gen needing fifty skilled laborers, applied
to the government, and secured them from
among the prisoners at $1.10 day, or con-
cfd nv f1or he ~
was paying German skilled labor in the
piping times of peace!
The secret? 1t lies in the amazing CO.
operation between government and indus
try Make it easy for the exporter, is the
watchword? Hence an elastic freight
schedule, so factories can operate inland
at the source of supplies, and their waste
hauled to other factories able to utilize it
for byproducts Hence too, government
buying and selling agencies, dealing in raw
material, to keep down the. cost to the
manufacturer AS the kaiser is advised by
military and naval experts in the conduct
of war, so he has drawn around him the
greatest captains of industry of the nation
for the conquest of peace.
We are now able to understand why the
Allies are unwilling to consider peace on
the status quo ante. With its merchant
marine proportionately greater; its indus
tries increased by machinery taken from
abroad, where it can not be replaced for
two years at least; with its own mineral
resources spared while those of its enemies
have been glutted; and with its warehouses
crammed with goods produced even
cheaper than before, Germany would win
this supertrade war even if she lost Talk
of trade alliances by the entente, revived
by the Chinese break, take an added sig
nifcance and the determination of the al
lies to fight it out shows that they intend
to exact toll from that merchant marine
for the ships they lost, and an indemnity
fot their industrial and commercial losses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21
THE CURSE OF MEROZ

Course We Meroz said the angel of the Lord,
Curse re bitterly the Inhabitants thereof;
Because they came not to the help Of the Lord,
To the help OF the Lord against the mighty"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

Meroz, when expressions heel crushed
the flower of freedom centuries ago, STOOD
neutral. 1t hung back when the cry for
patriots was heard in the land; not being
in immediate danger, it thought more of
dollars than of duty.
In 1881 Phillips Brooks preached ser
mon on the curse of Meroz, and the fol-
lowing lines are especially appropriate
now:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

Deborah and Barak had gained a great victory
the plain OF Esdraeon along skirts O the
mountain Of Little Hermon. Their enemy Sisera had
fed away completely routed, and the wild. fierce.
strong woman who Judged Israel in those days
and the captain of the Isaeitish army sang SPLEEN
did, proud song of triumph. In they recount the
tribes who had come up to their duty who had
shared the labor and glory Of the hght And
them in the midst of the
this other strain of Hery Indignation One
village, Meros had hung back. Hidden away In
safe valley, 1t had heard the call which sum
ger, It had felt the shook battle side
of the hills, and nestled and hid
snualy, Curse We Meroz, saith the angel the
Lerd curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof be-
cause they came not to the 3Sp of the Lord the
help of the Lord against the mighty" is a fierce
allied, furious woman. But 1t declares OF the
most natural fndignations of the human heart.
Meroa is done. No record Of II except this verse
remains The most Ingenious and indefatgable
plorer cannot where 1t
the curse remains. Meroz stands for the shirker
battles of life. while he simply in take the
spos
Notice that the sin for which cursed is
pure inacton We hear much about the danger
of thinking, and the danger wrong-doing.
There is the other danger not doing right
thinking right of not doing and not thinking all.
IL IS hard for many people to feel that there Is
and harm in that the worst Of and danger.
And the trouble comes think, from the
dttion Of spiritual vitality. from the enpha-
sis and vigor in the whole conception of a mans
life.
We can sympathize with Meroz-curse
with pacihsts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

'T would send Germany any other nation that
would attack American citizen within TWEEN
ty miles France of the British Isles anywhere
else, either uitimatum of twentyfour hours tell
them that II they killed single American citi-
zen that they would have me and the whole United
States whip, and I would direct the admirals Of
navy and the generals of the United States army
prepare for battle, and in twenty-four hours
would meet them, and revolutionary general
said The enemy would be or Mollte Stark wouio
be a widow / do know whether this is proper
or not, do care; but these my sentiments.
and they would be the that would live up to
in regard to the loss and destruction of American
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

The federal reserve board has ruled
that drafts in payment for advertising
shall be considered trade acceptance, if
for the promotion of agriculture
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

Paper bill OF United States government
for 1917 will be s., 350,OOO, against 81 ,371,-
600 last year.
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GERMANY'S PEACE PREPARA-
TIONS

A country that prepared for war SO care
fully as Germany, would be expected to
prepare for peace just as scientifically.
Edward Lyell Fox. just back from Ger
many. telling the story of this prepara-
ton in an Illuminating article in System,
Says:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-21

The girls of Pensacola are so pref
ty that we don't blame the dear crea-
lures bit for their interest in the
looking glass.