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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-05
cHuRCH LEAGUE.

Results Of Last Weeks Games
Friends, 15;> Madeley. 13.
Friends. &c; Old SwsdeS. is.
NadeIey. eS: EpwOrth- 26.
Second Baptist, 40; West, 36.
Emmanuel, 80; Westminster, q.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-05
Standing Of the Teams
rhis Meek,s Schednle.

This Weeks Schedule.
Tuesday Hagley VS.. Eden. at keiss'
man Hall. Referee, Gemmel. ,
Sat,irday-Montclair VS.. 6enerai
Chemical. at Reissman Hall. keierees
Morris.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-05
poirt, SCORED By and Against Teams.
BASKETBALL

CITY LEAGUE.
Results Of Last Weeks Games
EDEN. "a, General Chemical %
Montclair.Hagiey, postponed
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-05
BASKETBALL RESULTS
Y. N. c. A. LEAGUE

Results.
Tigers "a; Meteors 81.
Chester 80; Wilmington 81.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
new SESSION BEGINS
At SERVICE SCHOOL
Increased Enrolment of 100 Girls Is
Noted at Opening of Second Term.

So successful has been the first annual
encampment of the National Service
School for Women that Sthe opening Of
the second two-weeks session this morn
ing finds an increased enrolment of
nearly 100
Many OF the f1rst-course students have
consented to aid in the reorganization Of
the new encampment. No formal exer-
cises were held yesterday, the entire day
being spent in preparing for a fresh
start this morning. Appropriate cere-
monies will, however, be held at the
school this afternoon.
Women and young girls who were sue
cessful in obtaining membership in the
second session Of the schools work began
to arrive early in the morning. BY )
o'clock everything in the Conduit road
vicinity was bustling with activities.
Special attention will be paid to the
instructions given in the new encamp-
ment in economical camp cookery. As
in the past week, regular army sergeants
will act as tutors OF the girls in this
phase of the camp work.
The quotas allowed for the present en-
campment are as follows: Washington,
Is additional students; Baltimore, Is;
Philadelphia, Is; Richmond, Va, Is; New
York City and Brooklyn, 15; Boston, Is;
Wilmington 10; Pittsburgh, 10; Chicago,
10. and Atlanta, 10. In addition 20 new
students were selected from the country
at large.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
Women Wage Earners
For Back to the Farm

Gardening and its many advantages
was the subject under discussion at a
meeting of the Woman Wage Farmers
Association, 7o4 T street northwest, yes
terday afternoon.
DR.. Ernest A. Robinson spoke OF the
many ways by which gardening could be
made a profitable occupation during the
summer months, and advocated a back
to-the-farm" movement among the col
ored people to solve in some degree the
high living cost. IF the colored peo-
ple," he explained, would take up in
tensive farming and agricultural pursuits
they would better their own condition
and render signal service to their
country"
The committee on gardens made a re-
port on the activities under way at the
orchard owned by the association at
Herndon, Va Miss Jeanette Carter pre-
sided.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
Telegraph Tips

san Juan Del Sur, May 6-The Eco Uni
versal. German propagandist newspa-
per. has suspended publication. giving as
reason that 1t Is deprived of direct
news from the Fatherland.
Philadelphia Pa, May 6-In st. Mar
tins Episcopal Church, Radnor, Miss
Ethel Sewell Hardy became the bride OF
Maj. Frederic May Wise, U. S. NJ C. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
George Lamb.
London. May 6-There has been a re-
crudescence Of cotton fires in Bombay,
says q Reuters dispatch from that city.
Twenty-eight fires occurred in April and
another Friday. The damage done up to
this time is estimated at s3O0, 900. Incen-
diarism, 1t is added, is suspected.
Boston, May 6-Alumni Of the Harvard
Law School have started a campaign to
obtain an endowment fund of 81, 900, 900 for
the institution. This is independent OF
the effort under way to raise $4,000 900
for the general uses OF Harvard Uni
versity.
Havre, May s.-The Belgian govern
ment has been advised that the United
States will devote 100000 for provis-
ioning the population of the occupied dis
tricts of Belgium and France. OF this
sum $4,000, 900 will be devoted to Belgium
and $50, 100000 to the occupied districts of
France.
Cambridge, Mass, May GA tail to
VOLTS comet, six minutes in length. has
been discovered by Prof. Edison Petit,
director of Washburn College observa-
tory. Topeka, Kans, according to advices
received at Harvard observatory. The
comet was observed on the evening of
April 30, and was 266 degrees. The nucleus
was fairly well defined
Mount Vernon, n. Y, MAY 6-Several
employees of the New York Telephone
Company residing here are among the
400 men selected for the first CONTINGENT
of the volunteer signal CORPS organized
for the government. In all twenty-five
companies Of expert telephone and tele-
graph men will be supplied by the Bell
system to the government Twenty
eight hundred already have volunteered
Clermont Ferrand, France, May GA
woman and a man previously her chauf-
feur were arrested by the police here on
charge OF OBTAINING illegally James
Slater, said to be an American. During
an extended automobile tour the man and
woman are accused of having induced
Slater to go to a chateau, where he was
held for many days with little food and
heat.
Paris, May 6.-The inter-allied par
liamentary conference, which is made up
of representatives of the British, French
and italian parliaments, held q secret
session. Lengthy reports concerning the
status OF international rates of exchange
and the worlds supply of wheat were
submitted and discussed.
Boston, May s.-Mobilization of soldiers
and seamen for the new American
merchant marine Is to begin at an early
date. Arrangements are being formu-
lated by Commissioner John A. Donald
of the United States Shipping Board, ac-
cording to an announcement here by
Henry Howard, of Brookline, speaking
as the representative of the commits
sioner.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
BY cLEvE II. sTAUFFER
(Staf Correspondent

NoNdAA SOAANSNOAA0CAAA.y
Christiansburg, Va, May 6-Family
honor. romance, hospitality and types,
but the greatest Of these-family- as vir-
ginia Of earlier days lived. combine to tell
in five words the story of the famous
Vawter murder trial, now entering its
second week and which will be recorded
in criminal annals as a case without
parallel
The actors in this drama-a husband,
wife and lover, the eternal triangle of
crime-are Charles E. Vawter, until sew
eral days ago. professor Of physics In the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Mrs. Vaw-
ter and Stockton Heth, jr., the man muir
dered by Vawter.
The family Is the crlIx of the whole af-
fair. Picture this scene in the court
room:
STOPPED with grief and his last years
being hurried to an end, sits Capt. Stock
ton Heth. father of the murdered man.
Capt. Heth was the brother of the late
Gen. Harry Heth, Of civil war fame.
Captain Read of Crime.
Capt Heth was visiting his sister in
California when his son was murdered.
A telegram was sent him, but he had
already departed. While travelling
through Texas, the captain bought a
country newspaper and read several lines
about the death of his son. 1t was his
first knowledge of the tragedy.
By the captains side sits his brother
in-law, a real Virginia gentleman both
in appearance and spirit, ]. Hoge Tyler,
former governor of Virginia.
Near the governor is Lieut. Clement
c. Heth, U. S. A.. stationed at Fort
Hunt Nd, below Washington. He is a
Lieutenant has appeared at all sessions
Of the court in service uniform, lending
a colorful touch to the scene and
demonstrating that the fighting stock
of his family Is still being perpetuated
in this generation.
Mrs. Vawter is the daughter OF the
late Capt. Thomas NJ. Henderson, also
OF civil war fame. Vawter himself is
Of one Of the best families Of Virginia.
Nearly Everybody Kin.
Practically every inhabitant Of this
part of Virginia was at one time either
Heth. Vawter or Henderson. They
are the familiar names of this commu-
nity-therefore the family element Of this
tragedy.
DR.. T. p. Campbell, dean of the faculty
by the prosecution in rebuttal, was
vehemently attacked for his interest in
the side of the State, the defense no
doubt being noted that he is related to
the murdered man.
This is the nasty element of this trial.
Because OF the interlocking OF relation
ship each side fears partiality on the
part of the others witnesses. And the
verdict OF the jury will no doubt smack
OF this bond of blood. Also, when every
thing Is over, some members OF a family
will no doubt hold themselves aloof from
others.
VIII the word honor and all that its
true application means acquit Vawterf
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
"EAT TOUGHPART, TOO," !"
FOOD PRODUCERS URGE
Would Also Give Interstate Commerce
Body Full Control Of Transportation.

Special to The Washington Herald
Kansas City, No., May 6-At a pre-
limiKary meeting Of officers and dele
gates to the National Producers and
Consumers Association held here this
afternoon, resolutions were passed de-
claring that the agricultural activities of
the United States must be Immediately
that the Council Of National Defense
be given power to deal with the problems
OF production, manufacturing and dis
tribution OF farm products.
The active cooperation of the orEani-
zation was pledged to President Wilson,
to Congress and the Council Of National
Defense, and 1t was asserted that every
plowman and laborer in the nation stood
ready to render service to the country in
its hour Of peril. The operation OF the
railroads, waterways, telegraph, tele-
phone and express business or any part
of them necessary for public safety or
defense is a power which should be
given to the President and the Council
Of National Defense, according to the
resolutions, and an increased member
ship Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, giving that body exclusive con-
troll over all rail. telegraph, telephone,
express and water rates was also advo-
Gated.
As a measure for increasing produc-
tion, the government was asked to guar
antee a profitable price on all farm prod
ucts, covering a period OF not less than
three years, and also to fix a reasona Bile
price, which manufacturers engaged in
preparing farm products for the market
should receive for their service, which
would guarantee a reasonable return on
their investment Consumers throughout
the nation are urged in the interest Of
patriotism, to eat the whole OF the wheat
bread and other cereals, to consume all
Of beef and other food animals, and not
confine their diet to select portions.
The convention proper of the associa-
tion, does not take place until Monday,
and the preliminary meeting held this
afternoon was called by President Henry
n. Pope in order that the views Of the
organization might be placed before Con-
gress in its discussion Of food legislation
on Monday. President Pope, John T.
Smith, of the American Federation of
Labor; H. II. Schenick, representing the
Grange and the National Farmers Asso-
citation; Peter Radford, of the Texas
Warehouse and Marketing Department,
and others, left last night for Washing
ton to present their resolutions to Con-
gress, and to request that the nation be
considered as one big farm ranch and
orchard to be managed by the Council of
National Defense during the present
struggle, to the best Of the producers,
consumers, and to the country at large.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
CONVERTS RECOUNT
BILLY SUNDAY POWER
Washington Sinners Beware Viii
Get You, Say Baltimoreans.


The first guns Of the mammoth relig-
ious campaign ito make the Nations
Capital for Christ which will be staged
in this city by Billy Sunday at the be-
ginning OF the new year. were sounded
last night BY a score OF Baltimore po-
hcemen-Billy Sunday enthusiasts-dur-
ing the afternoon and evening services
in the auditorium OF the Gospel Mission
in John Marshall place.
These police officers were detailed at
the Billy Sunday tabernacle In Balti-
more, some Of them even being trail
hitters," and their enthusiastic tesu-
monials OF Billy sunday, the man, and
the far-reaching and lasting effects OF
his work, as personally evidenced. sent
their audiences home keenly anticipant
Of the noted evangelist's arrival here.
Both the afternoon and evening services
at the Gospel Mission were given over to
the visiting policemen.
Charles E. Lenderking, the police clerk,
told of his conversion after he had lis
tened to Sundays famous booze ser
mon"
It had no more idea of going forward
and declaring myself" Lenderking said.
than had Of jumping through one of
the small windows Of the tabernacle.
Some persons say that Sundays work
will not last. and that those who have
do not believe this is so. I know it Is
not 50 in the many cases which have
come under my personal notice"
Many Of the other policemen who
spoke. after giving their experiences at
the tabernacle, wound up by saying,
You may not be convinced Of what 1
am telling you now. But wait until Billy
Sunday comes to Washington. Then you
will understand"
Capt Charles e. Hurley, of the Bal
timore police force, gave powerful and
convincing message to the "down-and-
cutters"
During the Sunday campaign in Balti-
more, which was supervised by a detail
Of nearly sixty police officers, nearly
20 per cent were converted. The police
men told proudly that although they
handled millions OF people during the
Sunday services, they did not have a
single accident. record unparalleled in
police history. Also the police patrol
was not once called in the vicinity Of the
tabernacle.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
Blood, Honor and Dark Sin
Mingle in Vawter Tragedy

win the Virginia viewpoint Of honor see
the murder as justifable?
you must have known Stockton Heth
Jr.. to understand him in this trial. He
was feet, inch tall and of graceful,
athletic form. No social function was
complete without the presence of stock, :
as ne was known among his associates.
de was the embodiment of the Yirginian
in love for sport, gentlemanliness and
fairness. and alteration for lovely women.
Mrs. Vawter is a lovely and truly ador-
able woman. She has been pictured and
described before, but justice cannot be
done her beauty. Look at the clear-cut
cameo and you see Mrs. Vawter. Look
at the Grecian Interpretation OF Adonis.
and you see stock" Heth.
Here is significant fact which devel-
oped in this case. On the third day, the
trial almost came to an abrupt termina-
tion after a lengthy conference between
counsel for both Sides
Was the family element In this? Was
the Virgtnian principle Of honor striving
to shield some fair name even though
the price was a supreme sacrifice?
Often the trial was a sickening recital.
The courtroom at times has reeked with
unsavory testimony of licentiousness, de-
pravity and intoxication.
There is something ironIcal which ap-
proaches travesty, in the fact that a
church convention has been holding ses-
sions all Of this week beside the little
Christiansburg courthouse.
Eat All the Time,
There are three little bare-footed boys
court pages-who make the overcoat-clad
judge shiver with shame as he slants at
their scanty dress on these cold morn
ings. The station Of the messengers is
on end posts of the railing about the
bar They literally fall all over them
selves to chase copy to the telegraph Of
flee Tor the newspapermen. They cannot
be real messenger boys as the city
knows them, for they are actually scared
when they receive tip. But they are
real boys.
They are having the time of their life.
They are very thrifty, however. They
are everlastingly eating. Their financial
prosperity can be accurately gauged by
their eating. If they receive a tip It is
quite certain that upon their return they
Will be well supplied with eats. One boy
VIII take his perch and start on q
bag OF peanuts. the other perhaps piece
Of cake, and on the coolest morning of
this week, the third lad made his appear
ance with a plate of ice cream. Judge
Mofrett shivered.
The court room is placarded with signs
which caution that it means a ie of IS
Ito spit on this floor" II this law were
enforced the fines collected would have
been enough to build an addition to the
court house. Pounds OF tobacco are
daily consumed by the male portion of
the audience, the front rank Of which
finds considerable space for relaxation
because they can stretch out their long
legs and stack their brogans up on the
bar rail.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
Watch Your Egg" Warning ;
Millions Cracked in Transit

There is many a crack twixt the hen
and the cold storage-so watch your
egg" More than 100000 dozen eggs,
most OF them spring eggs, are spoiled in
cold storage because their shells have
been slightly Cracked in handling, the
Department of Agriculture announced
yesterday.
Farmers and egg collectors are appeal
ed to that they may be more careful In
the handling of eggs and stop this enor-
nous wastage in this important food
product.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
All About IL in Free Book

Just write for our free book-cIoth bound y
separate articles l0 pages-snd find out everything
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
Forward Washington"
Boost Dinner Ready

Forward Washington" dinner details,
II was announced last night, are being
rapidly completed, and judging from the
number Of acceptances to the invitations
sent out few days ago there will be
a record-breaking attendance on hand
at the New Willard next Monday even
ing.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07

Charles J. Bell, president OF the Ameri-
can Security and Trust Company. and
chairman Of the Forward Washington"
committee, will act as chairman Of the
evening. The toastmaster will be John
Temple Graves. Those who will make
addresses include Senator James Hamii-
ton Lewis, Of Illinois: Ashley NJ. Gould.
Justice Of the Supreme Court OF the Dis
trfct: the Rev. James Shers Montgom-
cry, d. D.; Edward NJ TrefE. Of CALI
fornia, and Col. Robert ~. Harper
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07

Havre, May s.-The Belgian govern
ment has been advised that the United
States will devote $l6O,O0O,0o0 for provis-
ioning the population of the occupied dis
tricts Of Belgium and France. OF this
sum SS0, 900 will be devoted to Belgium
and s6o,OooOOO to the occupied districts of
France.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-07
PERSIA PLANS REPUBLIC

Diplomatic dispatches received here
say that as result Of the Russian
revolution the democrats OF Persia have
started an agitation for the establish
ment OF republic in that country.
The centers of the movement appear
to be at Tabriz and Teheran, and the
movement is winning sup
port in Northern Persia.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-06

One of the most despicable, one of
the most heinous, one of the most
outrageous, crimes that has been COM
mitted against American liberty, in its
whole history, has been the loose, free,
unsurpassed, irresponsible, malicious
use of the epithets of ''disloyalty,"
''treachery," etc, etc, against honest,
true, intelligent, and loyal citizens.
We know for a certainty that there
are millions of American citizens who
this very hour are smarting under the
injustice and the outrages assump-
lions of those who have disregarded
the high standards of American man
cended to become low, mean, and
bigotted browbeaters, taking an adj
vantage of their fellow citizens SIM
ply because they could hide behind the
extra ordinary condition of impending
crises. These men have been cowardly
and mean enough to seize an oppor-
tunity to make these unmanly and I'M
godly attacks on their honorable fell
low citizens simply because they knew
that those citizens would not be in a
position to defend themselves without
seeming, under the attacks made by
, sailants have falsely proclaimed them
to be. Under other conditions such
procedure would be called by its prop
| er name, and its name would be a
procedure of blackmailing-min ex-
tortion of money.
Under these conditions we venture
TO become spokesman for millions of
our fellow citizens who resent an un-
| heard of and illegal suppression into
silence.
Our word is word of defense for
conscience. We do not appeal for
mercy. We do not petition for priv
ilege. We simply demand the recog-
milton of right.-American Lutheran
Cf1ruev
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-06

time of war should be more zealously
preserved than in the time of peace,
because upon its protection and pres
ervation the return of peace depends
upon it even in larger degree. Any in
solve subsequent problems depends
upon it even in lagrer degree. Any in
f1uence which initiates against the
observance of these principals is tenn
porarily destructive and permanently
menacing.
Nothing but a claim of infallibility
in judgment on the part of those who
temporarily bear representative res
possibility, and in the discharge of it
determine national policies, can just
ify those who demand absolute and
blind subservience and approval of
such policies.
Let it not be for one moment for
gotten, or ignored, that the truest and
country may honestly and faithfully
obey the laws promulgated, while,
without any inconsistency whatso-
ever, he may honestly disapprove the
considerations leading to the enact
ment of the law, and to the ultimate
purpose sought through the policies
supported by the law
The Observance of these distinctions
and the protection of these rights are
necessary to that high regard for
freedom of individual conscience to
which, above all else, this, country in
its ideals is irrevocably committed.
1t is sad day in the history OF this
country when even the expression of
sentiments like these can be construct
ed, or rather misconstrued, by an class
OF citizens, so as to make 1t appear to
be an expression of disloyalty, when it
is indeed essentially nothing else than
the expression OF the highest and the
nuest loyalty to the life and welfare
OF the country. If there is ever a con-
dition which requires of those in auth
ority fair, manly, high and noble
tolerance of conscientious difference
OF opinion on great and vital queS-
tions, it is condition like the present
one Those in authority are indeed
the technical official Representatives
of the people, and should the issues
with which they are compelled to deal
be submitted fully and clearly to the
people themselves the majority might
fully approve of policies adopted and
thus lalStruct their representatives in
course which is the full and legiti-
mate expression OF the viii of the mai
ority, but, as a matter of fact, the
greatest and most vital issues with
which the official representatives OF
the people are dealing at the present
have not been submitted to the people,
and in dealing with these issues the
representatives assume personal res
possibility in the absence of public
instruction Under such conditions
nothing could be fairer, nothing could
be more essential in the observance of
the principals of our democratic gov
eminent than to guard, above any
thing else, the liberty of the Individual
conscience, and mind, and tongue