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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
EXPECT NEW PEACE OFFER:
German Conquest of Courland May
Have Effect on Russia.

1t was predicted in well-informed
neutral quarters here yesterday
that separate German peace Offer
to Russia will follow quickly on the
German conquest of Courland. 1t Is
elsewhere predicted that the offer
will meet with refusal.
The latter prediction is based upon
assurances early made by the pr"
visional government to the United
States and the other allies and trotn
time to- time renewed that the obi
cations Of the old government would
he sustained 10y the new. and upon
the interpretations placed here upon
TIE peace terms yesterday skctched
nv the council of workmen'S and $|I-
diers' delegates.
Washington officials were some
wha. amused at the boldnesS OF me
Russian conference in proposing the
intcrnationaliZatio Of the Ianama
Canal. But they see in one 'ghase "f
the peace terms of Russia'S< mos
radical and at the same time mos
powerful group AN assurance Wh''h
l. more than welcome here.
Assurance that the herenSky gov
ernment will stick by its bargain 10
fight until Germany is beaten nave
been made in terms strong enough
to warrant the United States III
,oaning Russia a hundred million
dollars AS shortly AS for weeks
ago. ;.
No one will venture t" Pr"u'c'
that the conquest OF Couriah" ""'
no difficult for the Germans. ne
climate of this country IS no more
severe at this time of year IMAM
that Of New England. 1t Will per-
NIT Of vigorous campaigning for at
least another month.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
H3IG STRIk ES AGAIN.
Highly Successful Operations ABOUT
Pnelranelle Reported.

London. Oct 23.--Highly success
fuj operations in the neighborhood
of poeIcape!e and in conjunction
with the French south of Houtnoi''
Forest are reported in the commune.
cation from Field Marshal Haig last
nirht. The whole Of the obJect'ves,
Including many strong points, were
captured.
, The British carried other valuable
nos.ions southeast Of Poelcapeile
and their obiectives and. iurfnes
north, cooperating with the French
captured the southern defences Of
Houtholst farms.
Tn, Allies are established firmly
weII beyond the southern boundary
| Of the forest. IN
.,p PARIS, Oct. 23.--lhe French troops
! spent most Of yesterday along tn
+, front to the left Of the British IL
consolidating the ground which the!
gained in their early morning al
tack. when appreciable progreS:
was made. on both the Aisne ann
| Verdun fronts heavy artillery ac'
tions were in progress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
TO The Retail Merchants OF
Alexandria.

Gentlemen
In order to comply with the proc
lamation of the President of the
United States, the Liberty Loan Com
mittee have arranged public dem
onstration in the shape of parade
for Wednesday, October oath, whlcn
has been designated as Liberty Loan
Day.
The retail trade of the city have
been requested to close for the al.
ternoon. with the understanding that
their employees participate in the
celebration by lining up with the
business section of the parade.
We trust that we can depend on
your cooperation in this important
work and request each and every one
of your employees to assist in max
ing this demonstration as forc'hle
as possible.
The Retail Merchants ASST
s. W. Pitts, President
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
FRENCH TOWNS SACKED.
Germans Dismantie Glass Works at
Chauny and Take Attractive
Ycung Women for Servants.

President Lyman Powell, of llo
bart. College, who has just returned
from tour of. England and France,
where he was sent to investigate
conditions as representative of the
Presidents Association of Colleges
and Universities Of the United
States, in an address in New York
on Sunday declared FRENCH villages
and towns recently evacuated by
German troops have been sacked be-
vond description.
Dr.. Powell described the fate that
befell the town of Chauny, in the
Aisne department of France. The
little city, he said, was Of 10000 in.
hahitants, and almost from the time
of its founding, in. 1864, had been
the center of glass manufacture. x
came into the hands of the Teutons
in the course Of their invasion. but
last June or July they evacuated it
'"rhe Germans were not content
with the misery they already had
caused" he said First they dis
mantled the glass factories, then
they herded all the young women and
Young men into a parking space,
and selected the young men for ser,
vice of one sort or another behind
the lines.
Then they lined up the young wo'
men. according to rank in beauty
The highest official chose the falres'
as his servant, the next highest 'of-
ficers made their selection, and hnal'
ly the common soldiers took theil
pick. At.the time l arrived in Chaun5
only 800 Of the original inhabitants
were left, and these were old mer
and women"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
THE SYNOD OF VIRGINIA
Over Two Hundred Delegates EX-
pected to Arrive in the City to
Attend Opening Session Tonight.
lars each,

The Gazette takes pleasure III
welcoming to Alexandria the two
hundred or more delegates who will
arrive in the city today to attend
the both annual session Of the
Presbyterian Synod of Virginia
which will open this evening. II
sincerely hopes their sojourn here
may prove profitable TO them from
the good that shall come from the
discourses and discussions they may
hear as we'll as pleasant socially.
The Synod embraces all the
PRESBYTERIAN churches in Virginia, a
portion of Maryland and the District
of Columbia. The local church will
be represented by the pastor, Rev.
Pr John Lee Allison and Elder
George Uhler. The Second Presby-
terian church is observing its Cen
tennial this month. and last fall at
Lexington, Va, invited the Synod to
be their guest at this time, thus adj
ding interest and significance to the
occasion.
The following order of business
and exercises will be observed with
some changes. possibly. This after
noon at :, o'clock enrolment of min
jStcrs and elders. At s o'clock tonight
the opening sermon will ba preached
bv the moderator. Rev. Dr.. w. T..
Laird. Of Danville. Va.
Wednesday mornings session Will
open at 9:30 with devotional eNercI-
ses, followed by reports from COM
mittces. At II o'clock the Synodical
communion service will be held,
Rev. Dr.. George l.. Pctric of Char
Iottesvile preaching the sermon. AT
3 o'clock the subject Of foreign mis-
sions will be taken up, ;;iu report
riv.n by chairman Rev. DR.. +. W
NcCorkle. .of Rockbridge Baths, Va
The subject of Evangelism will come
nm at o'clock with a report ny
Rev. H. NJ. Mofett. In the evening
# 8 o'clock Rev. DR.. Edward Mack
~ the Union Seminary. Richmond
will deliver an address on the Pro-
testant Reformation.
Thursdays Program.
The program for Thursday will in
,,ude the following: II O'Clock a. m.
Svnod's Home Missions. Report b!
Rev DR.. J. f Booker. OF HamPde'
Sidney. Va; 2 o'clock p. m.' sun
dav schools; report by Rev. }. J. FIX
Of Roanoke. Va; and addresses i!
members of the Synod Hampdel
Sidney College; address by DIR. a
" NcWhorter. acting President
IL the evening at o'clock. addres
nv Rev. DR.. Fl. H. Sweets. of LOUIS
v;,,e XIV. on the "F'ourfoId Cause.
Fridays Program.
Friday 10 "a. m. Bible Cause. Re
mort by Rev. pr. j. Calvin Stewart
of Richmoni. Va. At y ocioet
Memorials on deceased ministers foI
lowed by adjournment.
!, Owing to repairs being made o
The Second Presbyterian churc
building. the business sessions an
popular meetings will all he held ;
:: the old First church on south tairFa
street. Committee meetings vi v
all be held in .th!s Westminster bull>
ing. s@.'. t",'I,
Mr. Robert L chairman c
the entertainment committee. an
, DR.. c. L. Lindsey, vice chairman
with the..r assistants, are doing all
their power to have the delegate
enjoy their stay while in the city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
From Virginia.

Among those cited by Vice Adj
miral Sims for their GOODNESS and
qualities of leadership in the tor
pedoing of the u S. S. Cassin was
a son of the Old Dominion. William
Arey Heath. blacksmith, of Norfolk
county, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

About 30 per cent of Hindenburg's
cannon fodder in the recent fpres
sector fighting-nearly one-thlrd OF
those whose mangled bodies carpetes
the ground in the British adaance or
we're included in the constant stream
of prisoners-were of the 1918 class
Of Youths. Nothing could illustrate
Germany's waning man-power more
rorcibly than this crowding of mere
bows into the front ranks. Head
CHARTERS figures showed that of the
total German draft Of 1917, approx
matclv one-half had been made uF
of what was really the 1918 classes.
Thousands of. these German boys
have been sacrificed in the terrible
British artillery fire. One letter
found in the pocket of just such a
bcar,lless boy soldier declared. "Of
my company Of l40 men All have
been lost except eighteen. and the
same ratio applies to my whole regI-
ment. One German diariest entered
this note: I'm four days the Brit
iSh have smashed seven of our divis-
;cns."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
Advance in Price.

Owing TO the increased cost OF
materials and labor, the price OF
shining shoes will be advanced from
five to ten cents on and after Oct
2i, at our shop.
Alexandria Shoe Shine ParIors.
25i-3t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

WANTED-at once, several young
men to complete quota of the
University of Virginia Hospital
unit. Applicants Must be possessed
of irreproachable'" characters. and
be in good physical condition. For
further information. apply to Mr.
A. D. Peyton, 1l9 south st. Asaph
y street, between 6 and / o'clock p
N 254-2t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
Notice to Business Men.

a section of the Liberty Loan
Parade to be held Wednesday, Octo-
Der oath, in obedience to the proc
lamation of President Wilson, has
been set apart for the business men
of. Alexandria. All business men are
urgently requested to close their
places of business at noon, and, with
their employees. meet at the corner
of King and Washington streets at
one o'clock to perform their patriotic
duty.
K. L. PAYNE,
I Marshall, Business Mems Section,
Liberty Loan Parade:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
GERMAN LOSSES 3.25O.00G.
Casualty List From August. 1914 to
September. l9l7-22.OO0 Pages.

Amsterdam. Oct. 23-The Cologne
correspondent of the Tiid reports
that the German casualties lists
comprising killed wounded, prisoners 5
ara missing from August 1914. TO
September, 1917. fill 80 fo'io cr,un1es
of $4,000 pages He calculates the
total number OF names a $3.50 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
Youths Found.

Officer Garvey yesterday arrested
a youth named Joseph Oroscoe, Who
It alleged, ran away from a school
a. Front Royal He will be turne"
over to officers of the institution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

The Virginia. Carolina Chemical
Company and The Bryant Fertilizer
Company of this city have advised
their customers that they will ac-
cept the new Liberty Bonds at par
in settlement of accounts due to the
amount of one hundred thousand dol.
lars each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

The Reliance Engine Company will
fold an important meeting tonight IN
their house at s o'clock. Immediately
following, an oyster roast will be
given, to which ali members are cor
Ciallv invited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
Fourteen TO Forty in Five Reels

At the Richmond Theatre t"ih't-
row. Fannie Ward. the popular eN-
ponent of young thinking, "a she
calls It will appear in "pn the Lever
in which she gives remarkably VIVA
portrayal of the life Of girl from
barelootcd shepherdess days, through
scenes that are intense IN their real
;tv in western dance halls ana
ranches. to a mature womanho"1 "i
wealth and luxury. The Transition
from one epoch in the life oi the
woman she was picturng, to another.
was extremely difficult and for less
'cxper:enced actress than Miss WARD
would navc been well nigh lmposHi-
BILE.
At the Richmond Theatre tonight
Vivian Martin will be seen in Little
Miss Optimist.
''The Black Crook" with an al
star cast vii! he the attraction at tnt
! Surprise.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
llii!S
Alexandria City and Suburbs

The Catholic Women's Benevolent
Legion will hold the euchre tonight
IN st. Mary's Hall instead of 4l2
Prince street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
Notice to- Confederate Veterans.

R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate
Veterans will assemble in uniform
at the Camp Hall tomorrow, oct.
"a. at 80 p. M, to join in the Ii,
berty Loan parade. A full turnout
is enjoined. By order of Commander
Zimmerman.
EDGAR WAKEFIELD,
o54-It Adiutant
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
Notice to City Officers.

All members of City Council and
other city officers will please meet
me Il the corner of King and West
streets tomorrow, Wednesday, at
las p. nj. to participate in the Lib
e,ty Lean Parade. s."2-.
THOS. A. FISHER, Mayor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

Tie Gazette has been requested to
state that the rooms of the Red Cross
are open on Wednesdays at the usual
hours and that workers are invited to
do their bit" by calling and getting
work.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

WANTED - Three rooms. LIVING
room. sleeping room and bath.
Must be heated. Would like them
in central part of city. Address
gentleman. care Gazette office
254-6t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
CASE OF NEGLECT ANDdNHUHANITY

Foreman of Diving Crew Sends Divers Down to Bot
tom of Potomac River and then Neglects to Pump
Air to Them Causing Death-Foreman has Mar
row Escape for his Life from Relatives of Men who
were Lost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

Commonwealth's Attorney Samuel
G.. Brent will speak at the Richmond
theater tonight on the Liberty Loan
bonds and Hon. J. K. Cation at the
Surprise theater
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
IN THE BATTLE FOR BUSINESS
OTICK ACTION WINS.

Send your messages by the IoStal
telegraph Cable Company. The
fastest telegraph service in the
world. Local office, 427 King street,
Roll Phone 81 ..254-2t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

Salt Water and Potomac Oysters
J. Brill, No. Q, King street Phohc
3C-.rr. .~-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23


Surprise theater.
There will be a called meeting Of
the Columbia Steam Fire Engine
Company tonight at 7:3O o'clock. All
members are requested to attend
this meeting as their showing in to-
morrow's Liberty Loan Parade de-
pends on the number of members
present at tonrht's meeting.
Mr. Charles a. Sheets will be or
dained to the ministry at the Second
Baptist church in this city this even
ing at s o'clock. Rev. DR.. E. 3.
Jackson of the First Baptist church.
will preach the ordination sermon.
Rev. F. Hez Sven, of Washington,
will deliver the charge. Other clergy
men will be present and participate
in the exercises from Manassas,
Clarendon. Fort Myer Heights. Del
Raw and Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

There will be special called
r,aeting of Relief Hook and Ladder
Company Tuesday. Oct, %. 1917, al
40 D. m. Every member is urged
to be present. BY order of the Presi-
dart.
Relief Hook and Ladder Co:
lsI3-2t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23
SACRIFICING BOYS

About 30 Per Cent of Hindenhurgs
Cannon Fodder Are Beardless
Bows.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

254-lt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-23

If you want to reach the
people in the homes in .AIaxan-
dria and its, suburbs place
your announcements in the
Gazette. If your goods and
prices are right you will get
the customers. II
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-07-12
he senate and his location, California

the senate and his location, California
is against him. Things will have to
change great deal if the next nomi-
nee of the Republicans and the next
president is not Theodore Roosevelt
the only man in the United States
the president has "kept out of war;
-Abilena (Kan) Reflector.
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He that marrieth for love hath
good nights and bad days. = French
proverb.
Two carloads of brand new, up to
the minute furniture arrived yester-
day for the b. f. Snyder store. Make
your selection while the lines are un-
broken. 7-l1-SW1t.- 3t-D.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-07-12
WHAT WILL THE RAILROAD
MEN HAVE TO DO IN FRANCE

Many people are asking what the
American railroad men who will be
sent to France will do, toward assist
ing in the war. Perhaps the follow
ing will suffice as an answer: 1t is
proposed to organize nine regimentA
of railroad men in this country and
send them to France. The French
railroads are badly run down, ano
France can spare no men from the
front to rebuild those railroads. Be-
lore America can send many soldiers
TO France, America can send lot OF
railroad men. Every Colorado rail-
road man who goes to work in
france will be ranked as a soldier.
1t is proposed to make up five con-
structlon regiments OF six companies
each, to rebuild the French railroads.
Each of those regiments will have an
engineer officer of the United States
army as colonel and another army
officer as adjutant. The other officers
will be railroad men except that the
commissary will be provided by the
United States army. The lieutenant
colonel will be chief engineer of a
railroad. The captains vii be selected
from the engineers of maintenance
of way, the lieutenants from super
yisors or roadmasters, and non COM
misisoned officers from the track and
bridge foremen. To privates will be
bridge laborers. Those regiments now
feel pressing need for officers.
They will require five chief engineers
thirty engineers of maintenance of
way, ninety supervisors or roadmas-
ters, sixty track foremen and thirty
bridgeforemen. Each company will
have $50 track laborers and fourteen
bridge carpenters as privates. The
next requirement of the French rail-
ways calls for shop forces. France is
short of men for locomotive repair
ing. 1t is proposed to make up a shop
fegiment,the neutenant-colonel to be
superintendent of motive power, the
captains to be master mechanics, the
lieutenants to be shop foremen, and
the commissioned officers to be
gang foremen. The rest Of the COM
pany will be made up of boilermak-
ers, machinists. blacksmiths and
their helpers. Three operating regi-
ments will be raised. with the officers
from superintendents. trainmasters,
yardmasters and others, and the pri-
Yates to be train crews.
- -
Being good fellow should begin
at home.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-07-12
SPECIAL STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING

Notice is hereby given that spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the East Mesa Ditch Company will be
held at the sunnyside School House
in La Plata County, Colorado, on
August ls, 1917, commencing at
o ociock p. m. for the purpose of levy
ing an assessment to enlarge the
East Mesa Ditch.
S. A. MASTERS, Sec'y.
j. M. NELSON, Pres.
First publication July 12.
Last publication August 16.-W.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-07-12
THE RED FLAG IN IOWA

The news comes to The Capital
that at Ottumwa, Iowa, on the Fourth
of July certain anarchists, as a part
of their celebration, carried and dis
PLAYED the red flag of anarchy. The
men who carried this flag were for
eigners, unnaturalized. we presume.
These aliens do not know what lib
erty is or what it means. They never
had any liberty in the countries they
came from and they think if the lib
erty of republic is good thing why
not have the liberty Of the anarch-
lists.
Anarchy finds, an easy home and
thrifty roofing ground in republic.
Careless politicians who are running
for office talk about the lack of liber-
ty in the United States Thus they
encourage anarchy. This does not
seem to concern the politician who is
in search of votes.
The question will be before the
American people after the war. Have
we real liberty in the United States,
or must we have anarchy, communism
or socialism? You might have a law
ess government if all men and wom-
| en- were Christians in truth and in
fact with no hypo cricy intermixed. If
| all men and women were Christians in
the true sense, country like ours
would not need laws excepting far
enough to insure cooperation in en-
ierprise for the good of all.
But the world is not made up of
| christians. This free republic has a
good sprinkling of Christians. but
here is enough of the original sin in
ven our human beings to require law
ourts, police forces and armies.
Our form of government is the best.
t is free enough to satisfy any man
Who really wants to be decent and
| get on in the world. This govern
nent is not perfect. 1t is being i'm
roved from year to year in details
nut we certainly are better off than il
,e had anarchy and the red flag. We
'ancy that anarchy represents envy
represents desire to have what
ther people have without doing any
hing to achieve the same.
If the Des Moines Capital were run
ling the government, the waving OF
he red flag and lawlessness woulC
lot be permitted anywhere at any
ime in this broad land. You say that
his would not be freedom. If mar
wants more freedom than he has il
his country he must go to the jun
lie; he must go back to the hole il
he ground.
We do not believe that this cont
rent was providentially discovered
md held in allegiance by the human
race for century between discover.
md settlement in order to provide
, home for the barbarian spirit Of an
.rchy.-Des Moines Capital.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-07-12
HOW TO HELP THE FARMER

People who come closely in touch
With agricultural sections find that
much of the talk urging farmers to
raise more crops has not taken ac-
,ount of their real difficulties. The
railroad and bank people of Aroostock
county, Maine, the famous potato
ountry have this spring made an eff
'ort to encourage more wheat grow
ng. The intelligent and systematic
way in which they went about it is
worth widespread attention and imi-
tation.
They did not content themselves
with appeals for more food. Instead
they got right out among the farm
ers and talked over the situation.
They found two great obstacles to a
bigger wheat acreage, first lack of
financial ability to buy more seed
and fertilizer; second, lack of help.
The farmer dislikes to place mort
gage to farm when he merely wants
money to tide over the busy season.
1t is question how far the new
farm loan banks will meet this exig-
ency. What the farmer needs is short
term loans to cover temporary emerg-
encies, similar to the temporary ac-
comodation that a manufacturer gets
when he has the most money locked
up in stocks. The Apostock people
arranged to let the farmers have these
temporary loans. They also secured
the country for help, with some re-
suits.
The trouble has been that hitherto
the farmer has had to wrestle with
these problems alone. He brooded over
them in his solitary way, but that
didn't get him anywhere. He was too
busy to take time to form with his
neighbors cooperative machinery to
meet these problems. So he let thigs
drift and raised the same old crops
in the same old way.
In any farm section there can be
a big increase in production, if the
business men of the district will take
hold of it in this practical way. Civ
ing the farmer the same accommodation
that the other business men get, it
will help every business interest of
the district.
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The Capital thinks Hoover and Hi
ram johnson will be high contenders
for the Republican nomination for
president in 1920. Hoover as food die
tator will make more enemies than
he can count-and the better he does
his job the more he will make. John
son has vet 70 ahow his inf1uar.a 4.