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The Washington times., 1917-06-20
Washington and the Red Cross

In subscription to the Liberty
bonds, Washington stood before the
country in the first rank of cities, so
far as the amount subscribed per
capita is concerned- having more
than doubled the allotment for this
city. That was an investment, though
no reflection is cast by that state
ment upon the patriotism of the sub
scribers.
1t is up to Washington this week
to prove that when it comes to out
right gifts to such a cause as that
of the American Red Cross, Wash
ington will again take the lead. And
what a cause it is! Doctors and
nurses from this city have given up
their work to minister to the
wounded and dying in France. Soon
they will have our American boys to
care for. Shall they not have the
needful funds contributed by this
city itself? Washington boys are in
NLdAllAA4k dL ALG OAllCGIs CAMP dIc
in the national guard, and the reg
ular army, and the marine corps, and
the navy. Thousands more will be in
the new army. They are willing to
sacrifice their lives for their country.
Fathers and mothers of Washing
ton are freely giving their sons, life
Of their life, to their country's cause.
The least sacrifice that can be
made is that of money. The gift to
the Red Cross should be large
enough TO entail sacrifice on the part
Of the giver. 1t will take sacrifice to
round out the half million dollars
that Washington is asked to give. In
doing more than its share, we shall
again show to the world that the citi-
zens of Washington can lead the ma
ton whenever it is necessary TO an
swer the call of duty and of pa
triotism.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

ample of woman's effectiveness in
the business of war was the moving
cause for the change of attitude to-
ward the subject of equal suffrage
on the part of England's public men.
The work that such suffrage leaders
as DR.. Shaw and Mrs. Gait are doing
in connection with the Council of Ma
tional Defense will undoubtedly make
for the same fortunate result in
America.
Mrs. Pankhurst's militant imita-
tors in this country have not been
her followers of late. At the very
time when the British Parliament
was passing the suffrage bill, she
was on a war mission of helpfulness
and cooperation in Petrograd. In
the face of her example and the sue
cess of her cause in England the
picketing of the White House and
the Congressional Offices seems more
inane than usual.
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Today's Calendar
WEATHER FORECAST

For the District Of Columbia, Mary.
land. and Virginia, probably fair to
night and Thursday: not much change
in Temperatures; gentle southerly
winds.
The weather has become unsettled
over much OF the country east OF the
Rocky mountains, and during the last
twenty-four hours local showers fsIi
over the Plains States. the region Of
the Great Lakes, the Ohio valley, and
the Southeastern States.
Temperatures are considerably low
er in the region Of the Great Lakes,
and they have changed little else
where.
The pressure is high off the Allan
tic coast. low along the northern Dor
der from the st. Lawrence valley
westward to North Dakota and In the
the northern Rocky mountain region.
This pressure distribution will be at
tended by considerable cIoudiness and
scattered showers and thunderstorms
over much OF the country east Of the
Mississippi river within the next thir-
ty-six hours.
The temperature will be lower to
night In the Interior Of the North At
lantic States, and II will rise some
what in the upper lake region.
The winds along the New England
and middle Atlantic coasts will be
moderate southerly; on the south At
lantic and east gulf coasts gentle
variable.
Steamers departing today for Eu-
ropean ports will have fresh south
10 west winds and overcast, showsry
weather to the Grand Banks.
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Ancestry and Sentiment

When Gonzales, of the Columbia
State, was sent to Cuba as the
American minister, the peculiar fit
ness of the appointment from the
sentimental point of view was not
generally known. His father had
been a Cuban patriot Of bygone days
and upon the failure of the revolu-
ton in which he sought the freedom
of his country, moved to South Caro-
line and married there. 1t was only
natural that the son should have been
a soldier of the Spanish war, and his
appointment as minister to Cuba, his
competence for the task being un-
disputed, was in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things.
1t now appears that General
Pershing is the descendant of an
Alsatian emigrant to America, him
self belonging to the fifth generation
of American citizens. The knowledge
of Pershing's ancestral right to fight
for France will add to his welcome
as the leader of the American forces.
Sentiment as a factor in war is not
to be despised, and there is some
thing of the dramatic after all in the
fortuitous chain of events which
leads through many years to the
presence in France, on an errand of
delRerance, of a soldierly scion of
old Alsatian stock.
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Engineer Officers Reserve Corps, Dis
charged from his enlistment at the
training camp, Fort Niagara, ". Y,
assigned to Ninth Engineers at Phil
adelphia. Pa
Capt S. Davis BoaI<, Dental Corps,
will proceed to Louisville, XIV. to
conduct examination OF forty-five ap-
plicants. graduates OF the Louisville
College Of Dentistry. and others who
desire to enter Army Dental Service.
Majs. John E. stephens and Alfred
A. Starbird, inspector generals, are
relieved from detail in the Inspector
Generals Department. They will re-
main on present duties until further
orders.
Following officers detailed for serv-
ice and to NIL vacancies in INSPECTOR
Generals Department: Majors Hamil-
ton s. Hawkins. Fourth Cavalry;
George Vidmer, Seventeenth Cavalry;
Americas Mitchell. FOrty-seventh In
fantTy: Thomas A. Pearce, Eighth In
fantry. and Charles II. Bridges, Thtr~
ty,ninth Infantry.
First Iieuts. Alexander C. ConIey,
jr., and James Lawrence. Signal Of
ficers' Reserve Corps, assigned to 40
tive duty and will report to command
ing general. Southern Department.
First Lieut. Edward r. Guyer, Ord
nance Officers Reserve Corps. assign
ed to active duty at Rock Island A.
Senal, Rock Island. Ill.
First Lieut.. Rice W. White, Engtn-
Ger Officers Reserve Corps, assigned
to Seventh Reserve Engineers. at At
lanta. Ga.
Capt. Samuel Wiley. Ordnance Off
GERS Reserve Corps. assigned to active
duty Washington, ID. c., reporting to
chief of ordnance.
First Lieut. Esley T. Lake. Medical
Reserve Corps, relieved from further
active duty in the Medical Reserve
Corps.
F."~t Lieut.. Richard X. Thompson,
Dental Reserve orps. assigned to
active uuty at Washington Psrracils,
ID. c.
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Suffrage in England

The House Of Commons has passed
By large majority the woman suf-
frage bill. The only diversion Gre
ated was a reference to Represen-
tative Rankin's attitude in Congress
on the war measures, but that was Of
no avail. One swallow does not make
a summer.
Mrs. Pankhurst's example follow
ing the outbreak of the war is one
that cannot be too highly commend
ed. She Immediately threw all the
energies Of her organization into the
task Of winning the war, and the ex-
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Field Marshal Haig Is DeUouf:
7avo of His Heroes Americans
Idol of British Army Believes Bible Is Magma Cata OF
Race-AdmHeS Confederate Generals.

I When the present war started nc
went across the channel In command
OF the first army of the British e1pe-
dictionary force. Here he became the
idol OF the army. though not one In
ten OF his men would know him II he
met him face to face. But he did
things. He knows how to decide. He
gets action, when the time for action
comes. But he Is patient in prepare
ton for that action. For months and
months he has been getting a great
army ready for the drive, and the
nibbling, the drive and the nibbling.
Here are his own words:
In your civil war II was a case OF
raising armies OF unframed men to
fight armies of unframed men. while
with us the small nucleus OF regular
officers who survived the retreat had
to train even larger forces to meet a
military machine which had been
forty years in preparation" And he
goes on to speak of the greatness OF
the task OF training the new army and
organizing It to meet the perfect ma
chine OF the Germans.
Likes Music and Reading.
''In quietness and confidence shall
be your strength" That Is Haig's
faith. The man and his ways are as
quiet as the room where he makes his
headquarters. He has few people
about him: his aides are for the most
part men who have been wounded and
are not fit for line service. The staff
officers are not quartered near him.
but come daily to make Iheir reports
and receive their instructions. It IL a
quiet order from a calm man.
The field marshal Is slim and grace
full, his complexion swartny~ in Its |
tan, his hair and moustache grizzled. |
the hair plastered on the head. He Is |
and has the strong chin OF |
He can sleep like . |
child with a big battle impending. He |
Is fond of music and OF reading: he |
loves Bobbie Burns. but never in
1ulges in fiction. He knows German,
French. and Arabic well. has a keen
sense OF humor and a charm OF man
ner.
Perhaps the secret OF his standing
with the troops is that they know MS
,aying: I'VE are all here. brothers in
lrms," and they know his sincerity.
PAUL MOORE.
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Have you lost Gnytk ing?"
ayes, nv Rihiein

Have you lost Gnytt lng?"
ayes, my Bible"
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hals
/ now in command OF the British forces
on the western front, once gave that
reply to that question, just after =
battle. 1t was during the Goldberg
operations in the Boer war. Sir
Douglas is through and through re-
ligious. He believes the Bible is the
Magma Carta Of the human race, and
1t is an interesting fact that his own
birthday falls on June 10. the ami
versary of Magma Carta, an ever
memorable day to all free peoples.
Two Of the field marshars heroes
are two great American leaders. A
great cavalryman himself, Haig Is
said to deem the Confederate, ]. f.
B. Stuart, the supreme cavalry gen.
ius, while he is a great admirer. too,
OF Stonewall Jackson. And the latter
he resembles in his strain Of evangel-
ical piety. For he is a Presbyterian
fond OF doctrinal sermons, and he
steals away every Sunday to a little
chapel service. When at Aldershot
he kept library well stocked with
pOlemlCdl DOCKS.
Early Ambitions Literary.
Born in 1851. Haig Joined the Sew
enth Hussars In 1888. There Is a
story that he entered the army as the
result OF a boyish wager. But no
one who knows him can imagine
him, even as a boy. making a bet.
The truth Is he was a good horseman,
and the fortunes OF his house having
changed while he was at Oxford, he
decided on the cavalry for q career.
His early ambitions were literary.
and he did good work at the univer-
sity. When he went into the army
he did so to master the military pro-
fession.
Quiet. undemcnstrativn in a way, he
in turn studied the German and
French armies on their own soil.
gave him a chance in the
some say because ne was I'M
but It developed that Kitch-
ener really admired him Later Haig |
did marry. He was mentioned in dis |
patches and won further honors in |
South Africa and India, finally be-
general officer commanding |
at Aldershot, the great British army /
headquarters.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20
Prachcing Law in the Senate

Senator Tillman is an expert al
uttering apt phrases. He remarked
yesterday, 81 wish / didn't have a
suspicion that some men were prac-
ticing law in the United States Sen
ate" The Senator refused to ex-
plain his remark except by emphatic
iteration, adding that the food gam
blers should be jailed.
What the Senator meant we leave
to his colleagues. If such an accu-
sation were made by an official of one
of the executive departments con-
corning brother officials, the temp
tation would be irresistible to have
a Senatorial investigation forthwith.
Hoover's estimate of fifty millions a
month of graft to food spectators is
probably within the truth. That is
merely a quarter of billion dollars
in five months. The race to pass the
food bill is a race against time. If
it is delayed beyond July l, the
golden harvest of grain cornered will
bring a far greater golden harvest
to the gamblers than fifty millions
a month. Delay in the passage of
the bill is working directly in the
interest of the gamblers however fer
vent the protestations may be Of
uure and patriotic motives by filibus-
tering Senators.
Perhaps Senator Tillman had ref
erence merely to the police court
methods so notably exemplified yes
terday in the cross-examination by
Jim Reed of Herbert c. Hoover, as
though Hoover were a criminal at
the bar and Reed the prosecuting at
torney. In this he was somewhat
feebly seconded by Gore. The coun-
try was given a new opportunity to
measure the stature of some of its
misrepresentation by way of con-
trast with a VANISHED man. But it
took the measure of its fiour-fush
radicals in the Senate long ago.
Stubborn facts remain, such as the
rapidly mounting scale of prices in
this country, in spite of the adequate
supply for present purposes. The
contrast between the cost of barrel
of flour, in England and America on
May II, is a sufficient example, $500
in England, $3.50 in the United
States, more than double.
The President has added his
phrase to the discussion, saying that
it was not the control of food but
the control of the food spectators
that was desired. In other words:
Shall the Government or the food |
gamblers control the prices of the
of life? On that issue
the people are being heard from. The
people finally have their way even
in the Senate of the United States
and in spite of the tendency of SEN
ators to practice law in that body.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20
Education of Colored Race
Is Discussed in u S. Report
Surrey Is Result of Three Years of Intensive Study of 747
Private and Higher Schools.

is further weakened in effectiveness,
DR.. Jones finds, by the fact that
many Of the teachers show only a
half-hearted interest in their subject.
He, therefore, stresses the import
ance of making the instruction en-
thusiastic, so that the pupils will be
Inspired with a love for the soil
upon which most Of them are to live
out their lives. Extensive land and
large equipment initiate against the
proper fostering OF this enthusiasm.
and they also entail an expense which
even the most prosperous schools can
stagger under only with the utmost
exertion upon the part of the prin-
cipal. who is often forced to spend
more OF his time on trips soliciting
contributions than he does in direct
ing the work Of the school.
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Interesting Events Of lmportanes
Scheduled for Today.

Observation-Disclosures Centennial Lodge. Ne
IL; Osiris, No. g, and East Gate. No. "a;
Columbia Chapter, No. /. and Brightwood,
No 2. ROYAL Arch; Potomac Commandsry,
No. J, Knights Templar: Areme Chapter.
No. 10, and Unity, No p. Order Of The
Eastern Star
Odd Fellows-Eastern, No. !, degree: Ear
mony, No. .. degree; Federal City, No. %
degree; Friendship. No. Il.
Encampments-Mount Nebo. No. So
Knights CT Pythtas-Aount Vernon. No. s:
Equal No l.
Graduating exercises. James Ormond Wilson
Normal School, 40 p m
Concert by L. S. Soldiers Home Band, band
stand. D. N.
Annual meeting alumni Business High
School. D. n.
Meeting OF Washington women and wou,en
OF Council Of National Decenss. Rauschsr's,
p. m
Baseball. Washington W.. Philadelphia, Anar.
lean League Park. 3.31 p. m.
Concert by Z. S. Marine Band, Capitol ..
m.
Meeting OF State regents and officers. Distriss
branch. Daughters Of American Revolution,
New Willard. D. m.
Luncheon by Kiwanis Club. Cochran HotsI.
go D. m.
Thirty-hfth annual sncampmsnt. Maryland
division and auxiliary. Sons OF Veterans, u
s. A. New Ebbitt
Services by Epworth League Of Foundry N
E. Church, under direction Of Miss VII
hanson. Gospel Mission tent Eleventh aaA
e streets southeast. $50 D. N.
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Belasco-FIlms. Joan the Woman" IN
and $50 p. m
National-'-The FIrehy." By Aborn opsra
Company. 2:l5 and $50 D. m.
B =. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2:l5 and Sis D. n
Poh's-"St. Elmo" by the Poll Players, I:B
p. m.
Loew,s columbia-MOtion pictures. 1919 u y.
TO II p. m
STANDARDIZATION pictures. 1910 a. m. to Il >
m.
Contamination pictures. 1870 a. m. to II >.
m.
Glen Echo Park-Free motion pIctures. dauS
cling and amusements. D. m.
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing and other arnuss-
ments
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The Maple Dell of 20.


our possession, entitled. THE Maple
Dell OF 70" 1t is almost an epic. We
propose to share II with our readers.
The first cantos deal with the love
| OF Adelia, a good and beautiful young
woman who resides in Maple Dell. in
the year 1875, for a lawyer named
Jurist- Jurist is handsome. but AIDE
las mother warns her that he is
probably deceitfuL
We begin with Adelia's answer to
her mother:
ADELIA:
Oh. mother. I love him! Do, do let
me go!
Without him my heart is an organ of
woe.
Young Jurist is wooing so charming
and bland,
Farewell to the orchards and fine cuI-
tured land.
Please give your consent, and his for
tunes I'll try,
He never will cause me to famish and
sigh.
He's brave and he's handsome, the
best one OF all
The valiant coterie that ever did call.
My mind is fixed on him and he is
my choice,
Enraptured l listen to hear his dear
voice.
He sings from best poets the sweetest
OF songs,
He never was guilty of criminal
wrongs.
He loves from pure motives OF honor
and truth,
He says. Wen live happy as Boaz
and Ruth"
MOTHER:
Though his words and his deeds seem
genial and kind.
No friend like q mother . daughter
can find.
Home comforts and blessings are
treasured in store,
And loving ones faithful. why wish
you for more?
The hives flow with honey and bowls
flow with cream,
Oh. why should a lawyer be your
chosen theme?
Paths wind through the meadow and
fine shady grove.
Your time is your own: you can work,
read. or rove,
You can drive through the valley the
sorrel or the bay,
Your marriage may Danish home COM |
forts away.
ADELIA:
Ny present and future, for sorrow or
veal,
Depend upon Jurist; tits true love I
His standard of virtue is noble and
high,
Upon him my future can safely rely. |
lis true love illumines his dark fash
ing eyes,
And for me he's pleading with elo-
quent signs,
Oh. mother, I know that he brings a
good fate,
For me he has come from Paclnc's
gold State.
MOTHER:
Ny child. you love deeply. l sigh a
consent,
Nay God in his mercy pitch safely
your tent
Maternal affection like mine suffers
pain.
The thoughts of your welfare are NIL
ing my brain.
But as you're a captive and love Is a
snare
hope that your captor will give you
good care.
ADELIA MARRIES THE LAWYER.
70 festal rejoicing, no feast was
prepared.
The fiocks and the herds from slaugh-
ter were spared:
Ter mother and brothers refused to
attend
% see her united with Jurist, her
friend.
Twas less than one year since her
father had died
md sable Grape hung on the form I
OF the bride,
While hope. blessed hope, filled her I
heart and her head.
he judged OF the living by him that l
was lead.
he thought of her father, who al |
ways was kind.
nd thought best OF virtues in man
hood combined.
70 science had taught her that flesh l
from a hOrse'
ould make man inconstant in loves :
sacred course. '
% vision presented a wine glass or y
flask 6
hat time in the future would ever I
unmask. Y
he pastors own parIor was cheer a
full and bright. O
della and Jurist were welded all q
right.
ITO be Continued
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

Rear Admiral Sims in command Of
the British fleet in Irish waters is
enough to make Paul Jones turn in
his grave with a question or an eK-
clamation.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

King AleNander's boyish proclama-
ton that he will follow in his fathers
footsteps means that he will also
take the road to Berlin IL he persists
ir his present course.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

The broker who sold his Liberty
bonds below par on the Stock Eek
change has agreed never TO do so
any more. and to contribute 100000
to the Red Cross.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

What has become OF the old-fash-
Toned preacher who always made you
feel as II you had ripped out an oath
when you laughed light-heartedly in
his presence?
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

II that Indian baseball player Ben
Lineup keeps on pitching no-hIt games
pretty soon he'll be petitioninG the
courts to change his name to silver
cup.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

The American delegates to the Stock
holm Socialist meeting appear TO
represent the American people about
as well as the pro-German socialists
who were refused passports.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20
Don Marquis
Column

II oil the books-edch BY friend
That zee hare promised to revieio
We're laid together end TO end
They'd reach from here to TirbTctoo
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

After all, 1t isn't the tentative
price. whether it be So5 or $50 a ton.
but the final price that will decide
the cost of the steel for the ships.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

Judging by the latest reports from
India Mrs. Annie Besant has tired Of
her astral element and is working for
a place in the sun.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

The President has settled many
controversies. We wish him luck
when General GoethaIs lays his case
before him Friday.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

Many a man is said to have a weak
ness for booze when in reality he has
a strength for it.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

Benjamin De Casseres writes Of
Seismic laughter" Regular mirth-
quake, Ell, Ben?
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

Castles in Spain, Has Imagination
ever built more airy and improbable
structure than a Spanish democracy
favored by a successor to Philip II?
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

THE author % the poem has this eTplana-
tory note. "Adelia does not vet believe the
unscIentinc new tangled notion that man was
originally created from horse flesh dog
flesh. although the fidelity Of biped like
Jurtst Is very diminutive when compared
with that OF faithful quadruped"
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

The problem OF passing the time is
as old as the world. and as stern.
Our group was reduced to such straits
the other evening that we staged a
lying contest between Buck and
Bounder and Believing Ben.
Everybody Clipped in to pot, a
total OF SO, To go to the one who
should toll tho biggest lie
Ben won the toss and led on
We'll" ne began, there Is a gen
tleman come -ted with the German
government
Buck touched him on The shoulder
wait a minute. Ben" he pleaded
Just take the money. ! can't bent
that" -DIXOS MERRITT.
When a girl says. Il knoD YOU
think I'm friOhtfully unconventional"
and you say. "NO. think you're rrry
she gets peeyed. Ana
II you say. "Yes. do think you're
unconventional" she gets
peeved. And II you say it hasn't &C
CURED 10 You to notice whether she's
conventional or unconventional she
gets pecved. DON MARQUIS.
The Washington times., 1917-06-20

HIGH TIDES. Low TIDES.
IS 4. M: height 5si AS q m: height ~
SIS D. m: height 2oi 3.u p. m: height ~
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SUN AND MOON TABLES.

Sun rose l:I q. m. Moon rises s:Sa D. =.
sun sets IN .. NJ. Moon sets s;41 - -.
Light automobile lamps At s.G ,. n
Observations At United States wsathsr b.
rean stations taken At a. M today. seventy
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TIDE TABLE,

a q 80 snYerAIure TOT InIS o4I' I0F u
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LOCAL rEMPERAruREs