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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09
EVANSVILLE Meeting
IN INTEREST OF LEPERS

The sixth of the series of nine CONS
munity meetings in the interest OF
lepers, given under the auspices of the
Woman's INSTRUMENTATION Missions
airy Union and the Washington City
Auxiliary. Mission TO Lepers. will DO
given by the union OF Hyattsville, Mo.
tomorrow. with morning and afternoon
sessions at Pinlney Memorial Protests
ant Episcopal Church. Mrs. Mary u.
Morley will preside.
1.-THE Call from Armenia and SYRIA
will form the theme of an address by
Rev. DR.. William Spur2eon at 11:15
o'clock. Miss Kate Mexican, field secre-
tary of the Mission to Lepers. from the
Indo-China Leper Hospital. also is to
speak at the morning. session
In the afternoon Mrs. John n. Gull
bertson. president of the Woman's In
terdenominational Missionary Union,
will speak on Cleanse the Lepers."
Mrs. F. E. Ellington also is to speak.
Four pastors of Hyattsville. churches
are cooperating with the union. They
are Rev. Samuel Rose, Memorial NJ E:
Rev. John Slack, First Presbyterian;
Rev. S. V. Hilderbrand NJ. E. South,
and Rev. A. K. Stockebrand, First Bap-
tiSt.
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BETTER TO FIGHT HUNS ON
SOMME THAN IN N. Y. HARBOR
DR.. Talcott Williams Says United States
Wisely Chooses to- Check Germans
Somewhere In France

divine right. and their ministers. APP
pointed by them. drew thes constitu-
ton which created the imperial Ger
man government.
Our federal Constitution was drawn
by representatives of the people. 1t
was ratified by their vote. This Consti-
tuition created government of the
people, by the people, for the people.
The German constitution created a
government of sovereigns, by sove-
relgns, for SovereignS.
Rules by Divine Right.
These men believe, claim and act as
rulers by divine right and not respon-
sible to the people ruled. Three free
cities were included. They had no
power. This German constitution gave
next to no power to the popular legis-
lative chamber, the reichstag. 1t is a
debating club. 1t talks every day.
What has come of it in this war? The
reichstag cannot change the constitu-
ton: it cannot control the kaiser; it
cannot decide his choice of ministers.
The German constitution put the ulti-
mate. active, effective power to rule
Germany in the hands of the kaiser,
and the upper chamber, the bundesrath.
The upper chamber is not chosen by
the people. 1t is chosen by the govern
ments appointed by these twenty two
men ruling by divine right and accept
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09
DEATH OF ISAAC LEVI;
Fer Twenty Years Official of Ada.
Israel Hebrew CONGREGATION.

Isaac Levi, for twenty years vice
president Of the Adas Israel Hebrew
Congregation. and one Of the directors
Of the building Of the now synagogue
of the congregation at 9Th ana streets
northwest. died Friday at his home,
1915 \ 7th street northwest. aged seven
ty-eight years.
Mr.. Levi came to Washington from
his birthplace in Calvrie. Poland, in
tional Guard unit, seeing service in the
south during the closing days Of the
civil war. In 1858 he opened q paint
business on It'll street. retiring in 1900.
since hts retirement Mr.. Levi devoted
his time to charitable work.
He is survived by three sons, George
W., Samuel NJ. William W.: two dauEh-
tiers. Estelle and Lillian, and ten grand
children.
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WATCHES SNOW As IT FALLS
First Senator johnson Has Seen in
Fifteen Years. He Saws.

The frst snowstorm I have seen IN
fifteen years." was the comment Of
Senator johnson Of California as he
looked out of the window Of the Senate
ONCE building yesterday. Senator johnson
has just returned to Washington from the
west. He arrived too late to vote for
the resolution declaring war on Aus
tria. because, when Ne changed cars
at Chicago. he found the train he ex-
the schedule.
Mrs. johnson and L have been
watching the snow fall with great
interest. the senator continued. He
any statement in regard to tho rail.
road situation and the questions it
presents for solution. The sentiment
for the war in California, he said, was
strong.
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cipal activities were against men in
the orthodox church. Here he was
about as venomous as q rattlesnake.
An obscure monk. 1t filled him with
pride and joy to. humble q bishop, to
unfrock a priest, to influence appoint
ments.
Rasputin had a small, mean mind.
and his egotism was Colossal OF
course, the woman fools at court who
fiattered and deferred to him. perhaps
worse. fostered this egotism until Il
reached the limit of imitation. But Ras-
putin. I believe. will live in history
more as a scandal than as a menace
to Russia.
The Intellectual Glasses.
Keeping from being assassinated is
quite a career in Russia just now. and
the intellectual classes for the most
part are doing the best they can to
avoid being conspicuous. Many estate
owners have gone to England or the
spent last summer in Finland. AS for
Prof. MiliukofT. he is stu the leader
Of the constitutional democrats. or
cadets. and he has worked hard to
keep the party alive. to keep it con-
stantly in the foreground as the lib
eral- force which will
probably take over or at least share
the permanent republican government.
Last Of all to those questions which
socialist. but" I have to reply that
any one who thinks I am unsympa-
thetic to the Russian revolution. or to
the masses Of the Russian people. has
read these articles with prejudice.
care a great deal for the freedom of
Russia and / have great sympathy
with working people everywhere.
believe the world Is for the many. not
for the few. But / see no advantage
in taking all the power out Of the
hands of one class in the community
and giving IL to another class / think
that too. much power rests now in the
hands of the rich. But that power is
abused less by the rich anywhere than
1t is now in Russia. where the poor
or the comparatively poor-have taken
il over.
1 am just as much OF socialist now
as ] was when I went to Russia-and
just as little an anarchist. I believe
that the next economic development
will be common ownership of the
means of production and the admins
tration of all departments of govern
ment for the common good Of all the
people. Fhe lesson Of Russia is pa
tient. intelligent, clear-sighted prep
aration for that next development.
Beginning with the youngest children
We must educate the next generation.
in order to create in the United States
thinking working class which will
accept responsibility as well as de-
mand power, and into whose hands we
can safely confide the destinies of the
nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09
ALLEGES ERRONEOUS VIEW.
Food Director Urges Production and
Consumption Of Perishable Products

To clear up any public misconception
of its attitude. the food administration
has reiterated its advocacy Of continued
and extended production and consump-
ton OF foods OF the "perishable prod.
ucts group
THE food Administrations said the
statement, desires to emphasize these
facts and to assure all producers and
handlers Of milk and dairy products.
poultry and eggs. hsh, fruits. potatoes
been placed,on suchs food materials. or
are liable to be-"
Approval by President Wilson Of the
appointment of Walter p. Innes OF
Wlcn1ta, as federal 1000 administrator
Waters resigned. was announced by
the administration.
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Foe of Liberty for Generations.

EOS VI blUcILy 4OI ASIde4oA5s
Based on the principle. immoral in
ethics. tyrannical in operation and per-
ilous to all liberty. that certain men
are born to rule, the Imperial German
government has for a generation been
the foe of liberty and the enemy Of
freedom. It's whole influence has been
thrown to suppress freedom in the four
Balkan states. 1t has prevented their
peaceful development, refused to en-
force the treaty of Berlin, which would
have brought peace, and is responsible
for four Balkan wars. A score of years
ago it supported the bloodthirsty Sui
tan of Turkey in Armenian massacres,
and the officers OF the Imperial Ger
man government have aided and abet-
ted these massacres now because the
Armenians worked and planned for lib
erty when other races in Turkey were
quiescent. 1t is the Imperial German
government" which is responsible for
5000 Armenians starved to death, as
Germans themselves testify.
In 1908, when the revolutionary Turk
iSh government was for freedom, Ger
many opposed it; when it became ty-
rannical, Germany made this govern
ment its ally. The German govern
ment harassed France not merely be-
cause it was its ancient enemy, but
because it's success as republic made
the French people. perilous to princes.
The German government has this very
year plotted to restore the Manchu en-
peror and the Russian car to their
thrones
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VIII Join Braxil Commission.

Maj. Walter 3. Martin Of the Omitted
States infantry has been ordered "a
this city for temporary duty with the
Braxilian military commission which
has just arrived at New York on its
way to this city. Maj. Martin will be
attached to the commission and will &C.
company 1t on its visits to the United
States Military Academy at West Point,
N. T., and other places in this country.
It IL explained that the Commission
has NO diplomatic status and q here
simply TO- observe ana study Unlt0&
Statee-m1lifaxy mekAolA
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BY DIR. TALCoT WILLIAMS.

one of the leading newspaper editors of the
country. s-pew director Of the School Of Journal
ism at Columbia University. He has written
the following article for the National Security
League.)
The people of the United States
through their Congress and President
declared war against the imperial
German government Not against
the people of Germany" not against
Germany" not against sovereign or
nation; but against the imperial
German government"
What is the Imperial German gov
eminent? 1t is not rooted in obscure
antiquity. 1t was made in the open
light of our oAn day. The German
people wanted German union; they
wanted German independence; they
wanted German security. They fought
for all three in 1870 and 1871. They
won all three. but they did not make
the Imperial German government"
It was made for them by twenty two
kings, princes. granddukes and dukes.
They proclaimed the German empire at
Versailles in 1871. They made the
King of Prussia the German emperor.
These twenty-five men. rulers all by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09
Var Department Flag Has 432 Stars

A service flag. seventeen feet by
twelve feet, having a red border and
432 blue stars on a white field. haS
been displayed on the wall facing the
main entrance of the War Department
building. as a-notice TO the world of
the number of its employees who had
Joined the fighting forces of the coun-
try since the declaration. of war
against Germany in April last.
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Has Been Secret Enemy.

Because the American people by its
prosperity and power made liberty de-
sired by all the world, the German gov
eminent has been it's secret enemy
Thirty years ago 1t plotted against our
treaty rights in Samoa; it sent it's feet
to worry and threaten Dewey at Ma
Mia in 1898; it offered to England
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09

which refused. to overturn the Monroe
doctrine in Mexico. 1t has in fifteen
years threatened Venezuela, Mexico,
Haiti and other American states. This
very year when we were maintaining
peace under great provocation 1t pro-
posed to Mexico and Japan to attack us,
both refusing. 1t has betrayed inter
national faith in the dispatches sent
through the Swedish minister. It has
filled our land with spies, sought I'M
availingly to embroil us with those OF
German birth, resident in the country
slaughtered our citizens on the high
seas, contrary to all law. national and
international. human and divine.
Waited Long, Bore Much.
we are now sending our sons to the wal
declared against the Imperial German
government" because the record OF
thirty years shows that neither liberty
nor democratic institutions are safe
the world over while that government
is powerful. We wisely prefer. afte
what Belgium suffered. to fight Ger
many somewhere in France" rather
than in New York harbor; on the
somme, rather than on the. Hudson. II
one or the other we should have hat
to fight. In 1875 we sent out our son.
to fight for American liberty. and we
won. it. In 1912 we fought for thu
freedom of the sea, and we won that
In 1861 we sent our sons to fight fol
the liberty of the slave. and we wor
that. Today we send our sons out tc
fight for the liberty of humanity, an6
we shall win that.
When all is over and peace, the last
peace of humanity, secured by a world
union of nations, has existed for hall
a century, as southern veterans came
to Gettysburg in 1913, rejoicing thai
slavery was gone, so German veterans
fifty years hence, will come to the bat
tlefields of today, rejoicing that the
imperial German government is
gone.
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Salute Is to the Uniform.

a woridngnan in Boston writes that
he cannot understand why the French Of
fcer spoke of resented being approached
by Russian soldiers, who did not even
they touch their caps? Are officers little
gods and SO much above the rest of hu-
manity?'
That L. not the reason why soldiers
6h6uld salute their officers The salute Is
not an admission of inferiority on the
part Of a soldier. Officers salute each 9TH
/, er. please take notice. The salute. as
Gen. Pershing recently said. is a symbol
sof alertness. intelligence. readiness. II is
an admission Of leadership, and it means
that the soldier knows his job and is
:. ready 10 carry on to the finish Lastly.
the salute Is part of army courtesy.
, The spirit back Of the refusal to salute
officers Is the principal cause Of Russia s
fpinous plight TODAY
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.B|RD'S-EYE VIEW OF
AFFAIRS in RUSSIA
Woman Soldiers, Land Cues
, ton, czarina and Raspu-
tin, the Salute.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
BY RHErA CHILDE DoRR.

Copyright, 1917. by the Evening MailD
This closing article will be devoted
to answering questions which have
come to me during the past few weeks.
Some questions 1 cannot answer. /
know too little about vast Russia's land
problem to speak with authority about
It, 1t is one of the greatest of Russia's
problems, I admit, and I am sorry that
/ had so little opportunity to survey
1t. Travelling being SO difficult at pres
emit. I saw nothing of country life.
1 heard from the lips of half dozen
estate owners stories of devastation on
the part of peasants. and they were
enough TO convince me that the land
question is not TO be solved as easily
as the Tavarishi claim. Their solution
As simple: Confiscate all the estates.
public and private. and divide the land
among the peasants.
Such a solution would be utterly I'M
fair both to the estate owners and the
peasants. A great deal of the land is
unfit for agriculture, much of il is
covered with forests and much more
of 1T is too remote from railroads 20 be
OF great value as farm land.
Rural Russia seems to be in con-
r-dition of unrest almost as bad as the
cities. A woman estate owner told me
that her tenants had plundered her
house and forced her to fee to Petro-
grad almost without clothing or per
sonal belongings. She had fine for
est on her estate and each year the
peasants were permitted to cut enough
wood for free fuel to keep their cot
fages warm. This year they we're told
that the forest belonged to them. and
when she left they were recklessly
burning and destroying it.
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ing no other title. 1t is made up of
the representatives of sovereigns. They
control 1t. No one can change its pow
erS but these German SoverelgnS. Inc
kaiser alone can block all change in
this imperial German government, its
constitution and the bundesrath. Peace
and war. army and navy. tariff and
taxation. railroads and canals, COM
merce and colonies, internal and exter-
nal mails and telegraphs. industrial in
surance for death, sickness and acct
dent. treaties and foreign affairs-all
that goes to make up national life
these sovereigns control. through the
bundesrath, which is the central gov
of this council the German kaiser has
chief control.
Did Not Stay at Home.
If the German government had stayed
until it changed But it did not stay at
home. All German commerce has had
behind it not merely the Imperial Ger
man government" but kaiser and kings
dukes and granddukes. shareholders in
krupp's great munition and arms works,
in German steamship lines, in colonial
companies, in the great railroad across
the Ottoman empire. extending German
power to the Persian gulf, and German
ascendency from the North sea and the
Baltic to the Black sea and the Medi-
terranean, the Persian gulf and the Red
sea. Never before-has there been such a
combination between a score of rulers. an
imperial government and national and in
ternational trade Banks, factories and
steamship companies. the German navy
and the imperial German government. its
diplomacy and its influence all fostered
and directed by the bundesrath. named
by the kaiser and twenty-five sovereigns.
Add the Austrian emperor. and there are
in all twenty-three rulers controlling
105. 900, 600 people in 1914. today ITO. OOO 900,
through the war; its alliances and its
occupations. These men scorn to marry
outside this ruling Caste in all not more
than 500 men. women and children. Ev-
cry day you read of this prince and that
in command--of this tarmy group and
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women's Conduct Above Reproach

!. I have had a number of requests for
Snore details concerning the woman SOL
diers. One unknown friend writes that
: he fatly disbelieves that they exist
They do, except the eighteen or twenty
who were killed in battle last July.
: have no official figure on the number
of deaths.
There were $50 women in Botchka-
reva's regiment She had rejected
nearly fifty others as physically or
morally unfit for service Four women
were put out of the regiment after
we reached the field base. These -FOUR
girls were insubordfnate and their
manner toward the men was decidedly
unsatisfactory.
This will answer questions as TO the
smorals of the women's Battalion OF
Death Most of them. and this includes
the commander. were very religious.
and grace before each meal was sung
in concert One Of the wounded women
told me that before they went into bat
tie they said the prayers FOR the dyine.
Botchkarevas regiment Is notthe only
group of hghting women in RUSSIA
although II is the only one which saw
action last summer. In MOSCOW resi-
ment of 900 women Is drilling under
fine lot of man officers. including
veteran colonel
In MOSCOW I attended garden party
and benefit concert given in = oeautiIai
Thousands of rubies were collected
that evening to buy beds and warm
blankets for the women's corps the
patrons Of the affair and the men ana
women who danced and sang were the
cream Of Moscow society. This indi-
Gates the attitude Of the best Russians
toward the woman soldiers.
1t is not intended to form very many
woman regiments Between ten and
twenty thousand women was the desired
number was told. There Is no inten-
ton Of supplanting men by women It
Is simply intended to send regiments Of
woman soldiers all over the battle fronts
TO encourage. shame. inspire and. If nee
ess2ry. to lead the demorahzed men into
the fight
The women are offering themselves as
q sacrifice to their beloved country.
They expect to die. and their simple,
whole-souled, almost religious, devo-
ton to the cause of liberty and democ-
racy Is so wonderful that cannot
ind words to express what feel about
then I can only repeat that a country
that produces such women cannot be
permanently crushed.
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No Proof Against the Czarina.

Many letters have begun either the
!s9irst or second paragraph with the
words Don't you known" I have in
Aisnantly been asked If did not know
that the Empress of Russia was a GER
man SPY; that she was responsible for
sending to certain death more than a
million soldiers, etc.
No, don't know this. Neither do
! know that she was an immoral woman,
the slave of the monk Rasputin. /
don't even know that the former en-
press forced the car. by fits of violent
hysteria, to do her will in things po-
iitical
never saw the former empress. I
DON'T know her. l see no reason for be-
Meving all Of the gossip about her.
History will examine the evidence in
hsr case. and there may be such docu-
eDsntary evidence that she will be
branded az the would-be betrayer of
her country. I was told by a man
very near Kerensky and the govern
inene that no documentary evidence to
that effect was as yet forthcoming
The former empress was q German
~ birth, but she had an English
! AZ for the immortality charges. I
agree with Nine. Viroubova that they
are very easy to bring against any
woman and very difficult to disprove.
J would never make them unless had
absolute proof, and even then would
{ not unless had to.
y Rasputip a Weak Man.
Rasputin. in answer to queries. Is
!. ¬her actor in the drama who will
have TO be Judged by the historians. I
6rmly believe that Rasputin as Q dark
Horce was very much oyerrated.
- have no doubt that he was wicked.
4pceftful. plotting creature, monster
bf sensuality, an imposter and an all
around bad lot. That seems to be
settied. But ! cannot find much evil
Hence that he was anything more than
y tool Of the German plotters. whoever
they were.
He exercised great influence, but 1t
Seems to me that almost everything he
:. did was out Of personal splits. He de-
inst ATTACKED him, the removal Of q
minister Who fnsuited him. His prin-i
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that. Their names are everywhere in
the war save in the lists of the killed. and
fore God and man for 10000, 600 human
lives.
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If you want work read the want col
umnS of The Star.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-18

faster still. In other words. the de-
be better.
Big Squirt Shown
Receipts tonight Of official returns
from all twelve OF the federal reserve
banks up 10 the close of business Octo-
ser 10 gave rise TO much optimism. The
total shows STHn.tIH.l50. or S1I5.900.0nQ
more than was reported At the close OF
business the previous day. This is by
far the greatest sincl. days gain shown
by the official reports since the sale
started. The official ilSurSs follow:
Boston S11.T0n.nn0: New York S34I SOD
900: Cleveland so. 250. Gnn: Philadelphia
SOS S+S. nQ6i Richmond $2S.3I36nn: At
lanta SS153. 9hh: Chicago STI.tSS.1nn: St.
Louis $5.16J.35n: Minneapolis. Sl5.I50.-
GEO: Kansas City $500. ono: Dallas S.
7cS.750 and San Francisco $34.71l.550.
"Carefullx compiled unofficial esti-
mates indicate that the actual sales to
date as as follows: New York $3.50. n6n.-
600: Chicago $500. n0n. 300: Cleveland
S165. 900. Don: Boston 100000. 300: Phila-
delphia 500. non. 900: Richmond S5Q.Gno.-
900: st. Louis S45. 100000: San Francisco
$1,000. 00n: Minneapolis sS0.0Go:hnD:
100000 and Dallas $l3.000.00U To:al
S1.2T5.000.
Granted that the unofficial figures
are correct. the daily average sales be-
tween now and the close Of the drive Oc-
,tober -. must exceed s400.0nn.000 IL the
maximum Is to be obtained"