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Evening star., 1917-09-28
ENDOF COAL STRIKE
BELIEVED IN SIGHT
DR.. Garfield Likely to Settle
Mine Troubles in Kentucky
and Tennessee.
OTHER STATES CONSIDERED

Settlement of the strike of coal min
ers in eastern Tennessee and Kentucky
through the mediation of DR.. II. a. Car
field, fuel administrator. appeared in
sight today. following a meeting of
representatives of the miners and op-
orators.
After being addressed by DIR. Garfield
late yesterday the men went into con-
ference with Rembrandt Peale of the
fuel administration. and expected to re-
port to DR.. Garfield at 1890 o'clock
this morning. but at that hour they
asked to be given until this afternoon
to reach agreement. 1t was said
shortly after noon that the outlook for
an amicable settlement of the difficult
ties which led to the strike was very
encouraging.
A number of coal operators from
Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and western
Pennsylvania are comforting with DR..
Garfield today relative to coal cond!-
tions in those states, where some of
the larger cities fear coal famine un-
less production and transportation IA
cilities are kept at maximum efficiency.
Increasing costs Of labor, il is urged
by many operators. should be met by
higher prices and this will be given
close attention by the fuel admiuiStra-
ton.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Two-Master Changes Owners.

The two-masted bay schooner George
H. Meekins. owned by local interests.
has been transferred from Capt. ]. H.
Bohannon of Baltimore to Capt. Web
ster w. Phillips Of Sharptown, Md. Capt.
Phillips will continue to operate her in
the bay trade.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Banks to Plan Their Part.

Monday evening the District Bank
ers' Association is to meet at the
Chapter rooms. 1914 F street northwest.
to consider the needs of the campaign
and the part the banks will play in the
big bond sale.
That they will do their full share and
a little extra is practically assured.
On the first loan they reported sales of
more than sl9,000,000, and with a per
cent bond instead OF a 31S per cent they
expect to make an even better record
in the second liberty loan campaign
John Poole, c. J. Bell and NJ. f.
Allies We're in Richmond today confer
ring with other prominent bankers of
the fifth district. and they viii have
something in the way of advice from
headquarters for the meeting Monday
night.
Tuesday evening the subcommittee on
publicity is to meet in the Gridiron
room at the New Willard Hotel to map
out plans for doing their utmost in the
campaign.
h A speakers bureau is to be organized
in the immediate future under Sec"e
tary Thompson. and the gospel of the
second liberty loan will be promul-
gated from every platform, pulpit,
stage and gathering by men imbued
with the work in hand and by women
who are determined to do their full
share.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Mine Sinks Russian Destroyer.

PETRoGRAD,~ September 2s.-The
Russian destroyer Ochotnik was sunk
by a mine in the Baltic Wednesday.
The Ochotnik. 246 feet long, Of 615
tons displacement. was built in 1905.
She was armed with two 4.7-inch guns
and six six-pounders. Her normal COM
plement was ninety-eight men.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
DISTRICT BANKERS
BACK LIBERTY LOAN
Continued from First Page.)

Continued from First Page.)
George W. Harris, H. T. Shannon. l.. S.
Taylor, Fred Berger, W. H. Rapley,
H. NJ. Crandall. Tom Moore, Lawrence
Beatus. A. Julian Brylawski, e. K. Fox,
Arthur Brisbane, Edgar D. Shaw, John
B. Smallwood. Frank B. Noyes, Theo-
dore w. Noyes. A. d. Marks. w. p.
Spurgeon. Myer Cohen, William
Knowles Cooper, l.. Whiting Estes, W.
]. McNally. c. Melvin Sharpe, Or.
George Otis Smith. Joseph NJ. Stoddard,
d. J. Callahan, Edward Clifford. f. J.
Walsh, w. j. Turkenton and G. A.
Lyon
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Resolution Not Before Committee.

Representative Britten of Illinois
asked: Did your committee give any
consideration to resolution for the
expulsion of the gentlemen from Ala
bama?"
Representative Pou said the rules
committee did not have such a resolu-
tion before it.
That's the kind of resolution that
ought to be considered here and now"
said Mr.. Britten-
Representative Steenerson of Mime
sofa said that it leaves Congress in an
embarrassing position to have these
charges made against it and to leave
the matter in the air. and Chairman
Pou explained that the great ramifica-
tions of the German corruption fund
were more important than anything
else at the moment.
Representative Moore of Pennsylva-
la asked, us the dispute between
Congress and one of the departments
or is the dispute between Congress and
one of its members?"
Chairman Pou said very plainly that
If the House wanted to order an in
vestigation the rules committee would
certainly carry it out. but that the com
mittee did not think it ought to start
one itself.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Senator Chamberlain Better.

Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, suf-
fering from appendicitis. was reported
improved today, with prospects of
avoiding an operation.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
U. S. Attorney Schoonover Resigns.

United States Attorney Schoonover,,
at Los Angeles. has resigned, effective
tomorrow. TO take up special work for
the government in connection with the
pending case against the Southern Pa
cific Company to recover valuable oil
lands in southern California
Evening star., 1917-09-28
The Long Arm
OF Uncle Sam
Extends to All the
Nations Kitchens

THIS Is a food conservation de-
tective story. It Is an effort
to ferret out the processes by
which the long arm Of Uncle Sam
has extended to the kitchen Of
Mr.. lumberman's wife in Mlchi-
gan, who Is using meat but once a
day; or to Mrs. RockerbIit's cook
on Riverside drive, in New York.
who is being painstakingly careful
of !eftoVers, or to MRS. Cotton
Growers family. In the southland.
who is experimenting with bread
substitutes In soy beans and pea
nuts. And the problem has its
complexities, DR., Watson; II affords
some astounding phenomena to the
trained observer"
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Civilization Threatened.

"Prussianism. kaiserism and militar-
ism as conducted by the present Ger
man government threaten civilization
itself They began the war; every day
they have been the aggressors Every
peace proposal they have made has
been conceived in treachery, fraud, hy
pocrisy. If Germany succeeds. it will
be written in history that democracies
are too weak to grapple with mon
archy There are but two sides to this
controversy. We must this day choose
between the two.
I'VE must win the war, for to lose 1t
is not alone to lose our country, but to
lose our liberty. To lose the war is to
let freedom and liberty welter in the
blood of the fathers and to say that
free government cannot survive. To
lose the war is to say that the soldier
and not the citizen will make the
state To lose it will mean that lib
erty will go cringingly out the back
door. while militarism comes in at the
front. To lose it is to say that the bat
tie for liberty is to receive no word of
hope from US. 1t would mean that
America is unwilling to defend her cit
izens in their undoubted rights on land
and sea. 1t would mean that patriotism
was not dying, but dead"
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Type of the Argument.

Representative Scott Ferris of Okla
homa furnished a type of the kind of
argument that will be largely en-
ployed.
I'VE entered the war not for dollars.
not for empire, for conquest, nor for
hope of reward. but only for the pres
ervation of our modest and undoubted
rights" he said, in speech in the
House. Could any nation enter war
so completely without selfshness and
without guile? Ours is a war against
crime. submarining. murder, autocracy.
militarisr9. Ours is war to prevent a
ing tide OF seeking to first crush the
world and then rule 1t. Ours Is a war
to preserve liberty. freedom. our insti-
tutions and that free government may
not perish.
ours is a war of democracy, for JUS
tice, and that not only this republic,
but the republics of the world may live
and endure. If we win the war to-
morrow we neither ask nor receive one
farthing: If we win the war tomorrow
we neither receive nor ask one acre
of land. Is it not. therefore. our boun-
den duty to obstruct the slanderers,
object to the. propagandist and refuse
aid and comfort to those who would
impede the progress Of the country
when it is in peril?
IAN old doctrine with a new name has
! spiung into existence called pacifism
Euphonious in sylIables, attractive in
its exterior. but unsound 1t the core.
Pacihsm means peace at any price.
| Pacifsm is today what toryism was
during the revolution. Pacifism is to-
| day what coppe~headsm was during
the civil war Pacifism emerges from
! the darkness we know not where. while
the country is in peril. strikes, and
returns to its hidden lair. Pacitism
means that the honor of the family,
home and country may be measured in
dollars.
such doctrine shall not find lodg-
nent here, where every man is free
/ and no man dares to wear crown
! The republic cannot successfully fol-
| low the dim and f,ickering light of
| pacihsn. 1t will but lead rs in the
! pathway of dishonor. to disaster. dis
| integration and shame. Let US hope,
; let us pray. that it will soon return
| to the darkness from whence 1t came,
| never again to inject its Shiny form
/ into the body polite.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Taxes on Travelling.

Another large increase ordered was
in passenger transportation and Pull
man accommodation taxes Amusement
admissions also bear a considerable in.
crease, with Senate exemptions of out
door parks and their attractions re.
jected. The Senate provision exempt
ing motion picture theaters charging
% cents or less from taxation was
changed and provision made for ex-
empting only much cheaper theaters.
The exact exemptions have not been
disclosed.
Revenues from automobiles. patent
m edicincs, perfumes and cosmetics and
other rnanufa cturers also would be in
creased by the conferees' agreement
The 1-cent stamp tax on bank checks.
eliminated in the Senate and estimated
to raise $4,000, 900, is reported to have
been restored to the bill.
Among important House provisions
abandoned were the retro ctive tax on
1915 incomes, estimated to raise $685.
600. .0o0 for a general 10 per cent tarin
levy, estimated to raise 100000. 900,
and consumption taxes on gas, electric
and local telephone service, estimated
to bring in S30, 100000.
Another important action understood
to have been taken was restoration OF
the special tax of Is per cent on NUM-
tions manufacturers, estimated to
raise S2s. .e00 000. The Senate provision
for its repeal was stricken out.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
French Check Enemy
Attacks in Argonne and
Near Beaumont

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. September 2s.-The Germans
made an attack last night in the Ar
gonne region. Today's official state
ment says they were repulsed three
times. suffering heavy losses. The
statement follows:
There was unusual activity last
night over the greater part of the front
The Germans undertook series of at
tacks on the Aisne front. in the region
of Pantheon, south of La Royere. in
the region south of Allies and against
our trenches northwest of Courcy. All
these attacks were repulsed by our fire
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Some Taxes Rearranged.

The only change in the Senate i'm
come tax section was to rearrange and
harmonic n few graduated surtaXes on
incomes over $4,000. without substan-
tial change in revenue returns or in
diVidual taxation. Normal taxes on in.
dividualS and corporations and the
lowered individual exemptions as re-
vised in the Senate were approved.
Liquor and tobacco sections of the
Senate draft also were practically un-
changed, although slight decrease in
revenues from whisky and manufac-
tured tobacco probably will result.
OF the $3.50, ,000,o0 to 5000, 600 adj
ditional agreed to by the conferees.
about one-third was placed upon post
age. The House 1-cent letter tax, estf-
mated to raise ST0,000,0 900, which was
stricken out by the Senate. was restored
by the conferees, and their agreement
for a graduated zone increase on second
class mail rates is estimated to raise
some millions more.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Confident of Approval.

The great body of senators and repre-
sentatives are confident that their
course is already justified to the vast
majority of their constituents They ex-
pect to hear protests-indeed, have
heard them already. But for one doubt
ing Thomas. for one weaker sister, who
has voiced dissent they have received
scores of expressions Of approval and
encouragement They are going home
expecting to hear the greeting: We'll
done, thou good and faithful servant"
from the mass of the voters.
While there is no campaign on this
year, as they do not come up for renom-
ination and election until 1918, many
members Of the House will get around
their districts and talk with the peo-
pie during the recess before the as
sembling of the regular session in De-
cember. Some of them have made
speeches in Congress explaining why
this nation is at war.
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Three Successive Attacks.

'1n the Argonne. at Four de Paris,
northwest of Tahure and west of Nava-
rim the enemy made three successive at
tackS against our positions, but the
vented him from approaching our lines,
fnflicting heavy losses on him.
Spirited artillery engagements oc-
CURED on the right bank of the Meuse
and also in the region of Hill 3O4.
Notwithstanding unfavorable atmos-
pherfc conditions our aviators last
night dropped large number of pro-
jectiles on the aviation grounds at Mar
Vile and Mars-la-Tour. the railway
stations at Brieulles Fleville and Ro-
magne-sous-les-Cot and on barracks
at Peuvillars and Sivry-sur-Neuse All
our objectives were attained"
Last Nights Statement.
The official statement issued by the
war office last night reads:
There were intermittent artillery
actions over the greater part of the
front; the action was more spirited in
the sector south of ALLIES and north of
Douaumont. An enemy surprise attack
In the neighborhood of Beaumont, on
the right bank of the Meuse failed
under our fire.
Belgian communications: The artiI-
lery has been quite active during the
last two days We carried out a bomb
bardment in the night on the enemy
communications and shelled several of
his works and observations. Our trench
artlliery ended to our advantage a
bombing action north of Dixmude
yesterday, In cooperation with the
ter1es took to task several German bat
teries In the region of Dixmude Today
m enemy reconnaissance was repulsed
with grenades north of Dixmude"
Evening star., 1917-09-28
MUST MEET QUERIES
or THOSE BACK HOME
Senators and Representatives
Soon to Face Task of Ex-
planning Legislation.
MANY EXPECT APPROVAL

Within the next fortnight or SO some
434 members of the House and ninety
senators viii return to their respective
constituencies and render account of
their stewardship. Doubtless in the
dreams of some of these statesmen their
districts assume the form of a great, big
"3" mark. Many queries will be pro-
pounded to them. "Whya' is probably
the word they most frequently will hear.
1t is but brief six months since
they set out for Washington, many OF
them new in office. but in that time
they have made history-national his
tory and world history. Moreover, this
legislative history touches the hearts.
pocketbooks and material interests of
every soul within their bailiwicks.
In those six months they have by
their votes in the lawmaking branch
of the government done many great
and important things. They have de-
clared a state of war to exist with the
greatest military power on the globe.
They have, through the selective draft,
sent $4,000 sons of the nation into can
comments as q step preliminary to ex-
pected military service beyond the
seas
Evening star., 1917-09-28
American Quakers
DO Reconstruction
Work for the French

nNE hundred young members of
~ the American Society Of
Friends have been In trainino
at Haverford, Pa, for the purpose
OF creating a skilled unit to 40 to
France. They 90 to that war-rId-
den, heartweary land to follow the
example OF their fellows of Great
Britain, who have been quietly la
wake of the Huns, for two. wears
and a half.
A number OF them, well equipped
and hardened to systemstlc o,,tdoor
work, sailed a few weeks aoo for
France. "Nots to destroy, but to
build; not to wound, but to heal, -
Is their slogan, and their work. in
the language of the layman. will
be to reconstruct communities de-.
stroyed by the INVADING Cermsns
Evening star., 1917-09-28
Authorized Huge National Debt.

They have authorized a new public
debt of eleven billions of dollars and
appropriations of public moneys for
loans and all purposes of nearly twen-
ty billions. They have esta ablished new
forms of taxation, increasing the bur-
den of direct taxation materially. and
extending indirect taxes by manifold
ramifications into the daily necessities
Of the whole people.
They have struck a body blow at the
liquor traffic and have in many ways
centralized government. They have
placed in the hands of the chief execu
tive control of the material destinies
and business of the people to an ex-
traordinary degree.
Now they are going back to the
voters to justify their actions. A very
small minority among them will be
able to say, Il didn't do it; I voted the
other way" 1t remains to be seen
whether that answer will be received
to their credit or censure by their con-
stituents. They coppered the card ac-
cording to their judgment. and now the
dealer will turn. to their loss or win
ming
Evening star., 1917-03-07
America First"

h. +. keith's Theater next week will
offer the Washington premiere of the
new martial musical spectacle. Amer
ica First" with its impersonators of
spruce West Pointers, natty Annapolis
cadets. jolly jacktars "punky rockies
and the usual pretty and piuuante
maids, who flutter around the gallant
flag defenders. There are three scenes.
one at West Point. another on the bat
tieShlp pennsylvania and the last on
the Mexican border. Home Again
played by the Four Marx brothers, with
a supporting company of eleven mu-
sical comedy players, is the added at
traction. and it is said to he a scream
OF laughter throughout. Dorothy Toye,
the dual voiced singer. is another star
feature. Other attractions are Harry
Beresford & Co. in the comedy, "Twen-
" odd Years: Harold Du Kane June
Edwards and Gladys Taylor in n dance
revue; the Musical Johnstons Xylo-
phone artists; Roland Travers, the ill.,
lusionist: the pipe organ recitals and
another episode Of 'Patria," picturing
Mrs. Vernon Castle.
Sunday at 3 and SIS pm the bill will
be composed of Sallie Fischer & Co. in
The Choir Rehearsal; Emily Ann
Wellman & Co. in Young Mrs STAN
ford,' and the other acts of this weeks
program.
Evening star., 1917-03-07
San Carlo Opera.

The list of operas announced for
presentation by the San Carlo Grand
Opera Company at the Belasco next
week contains at least four operas that
can be accepted as distinct novelties.
none of them having been produced
here before. upon a dignifed scale. in
many years. These are Won Flotow's
Martha" Ponchielli's Venetian work.
La Gioconda," Bzet's Carmen" and
the Wagnerian opera, "i1ohengrin.
Each of these works calls for masnifi
cent scenic effects. The following are
detailed casts for the season:
Monday. Carmen"-Manuel Salazar,
Giuseppe Battistini Luciano Rossini,
Natalie Cervi, Pietro de Bias. l.. Dele
molle, Anna Haase, Alice Homer, Luisa
Darclee, Ester Ferrabini.
Tuesday. Lucia di Lammermoor"-
Angelo Antola, Edvige Vaccari. S. Sci
aretti. Natalie Cervi, Alice Homer, An
tonic Cetti. Luciano Rossini.
Wednesday matinee, March IA,
"Martha'-Edvice Vaccari, Stella De-
mette, S. Sciaretti. Angelo Antola, An
tonic Canova, Natalie Cervi.
Wednesday evening. "Cavalleria Rus
ticana'-Mary kaestner, MaudaieEa
Carreno, Eugenio de Folco, Anna Haase.
G. Battistini Followed by .Pagiiacci''
-Luisa Darclee. Manuel Salazar, An
gelo Antola, l.. Dellemolle. Luciano
Rossini.
Thursday. March Is. La Gioconda'-
Mary kaestner, Stella Demette, Mad
dalena Carreno Manuel SalaZar. Pietro
de Biasi, Natalie Cervi. q. Battistini
l.. Rossini, l.. Dellemolle.
Friday, March 16, "Rigoletto'-S
Sciaretti, Edvige Vaccari, Angelo An
tola, Stella Demette, Pietro de Biasi
Natalie Cervi.
Saturday matinee, March Il, 'Lohen-
Grin"-Pietro de Biasi, Mary Kaestner
Manuel Salazar, Stella Demette q. Bat
tistini. Davide Silva.
Saturday night, March is, II Trova-
tore"-Luisa Darclee, Davide Silva
Stella Demette, Eugene Defolco, Luz
clano Rossini, Alice Homer, Pietro de
Biasi, l.. Dellemolle.
The evening performances will be
given at S:15 and invariably will be
over by IL o'clock.
Evening star., 1917-03-07
TENNIS STARS CLASH.
Doubles and Mixed Doubles Feature
Opening Day at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES. Cal, March 1.-THE
three matches marking the opening to-
day of the East VS.. West tennis tour
nament found some of the leading rae
ouet wielders of the United States op-
posing one another.
\ doubles match between Theodore
Roosevelt Pell. middle states cham
pion, and Bernon S. Prentice. Seabright.
N. j., champion, representing the east,
and Maurice Mclaughlin, former national
champion. and Willis f. Davis, clay
court champion, representing the west,
was scheduled as the opening event of
the tournament.
In the second match a special mixed
doubles event. Miss Molla Bjurstedt,
national turf. clay court and indoor
champion, and George NJ. Church. orient
and metropolitan champion, represent
Ing the east, are to play Mrs May
Sutton Bundy, former national woman
champion, and Thomas c. Bundy, for
mer national doubles champion. repre-
senting the west.
Clarence J. Griffin of California will not
play in the east-west tennis matches,
which start today. according to DIR. Sum
ner S. Hardy, head OF the California Ten
mis- Association. Griffin was scheduled
TO play with Johnston in doubles. but in
stead of leaving for home from Honolulu
he turned the other way and sailed for
Australia. Not only will he be absent
from the intersectional matches, but he
will not be in this country to defend the
national doubles title at Longwood next
summer.
Evening star., 1917-03-07

The Royals yesterday treated the duck
pin quint from Lawrence Mass, just as
they have been in the habit of treating
AL other tives in regular matches, to a
beating. The local alley stars cleaned up
the first four games. but lost the fifth
The Royals led by more than 100 pins
in the totals. getting 2.7S3 against ISIS
Pop HALEY led the Royals with the best
scores made by the players of either club
He got set of COL, knocking down 10S
12l. 140. 9S and 1874 pins in his five con-
tests Eddie Howser. rolling second for
the Royals. got the highest game-153
Crowley. with game of 1856. and Ross
with $50 set, registered the best counts
for the visitors
The Lawrence team was made up of
good bowlers. practically every one in
the lineup being an alley man. but they
were not as clever in shooting the balls
down the runways as the local aggrega-
ton On alleys in Washington or on any
neutral alleys. with the game now being
played here. the Royals probably could
defeat any regularly organized duckpin
five in the country.
Here are the scores of last nights
match:
Evening star., 1917-03-07
"The Case of Lady Gambler" 7"

For local theatergoers who enjoy
first nights" treat is promised at
the New National Theater next Monday
night. when the Charles Frohman Com
pany will present for the first time in
this country THE Case of Lady Cam
ber." a four-act play by Horace An
nesley NacheIl.. which ran all last sea-
son at the Savoy Theater. London, with
H. Il. Irving in the leading role. Here
the leading part will be played by Lyn
Harding. the accomplished English ac-
tor. He will iNpersonate a renowned
surgeon called to attend Lady Gambler
who is suffering from a mysterious
nalady that has baff,ed the skill of her
own physician. The patient dies sud-
denly and unexpectedly in the surgeon s
house. and the nurse who has been at
tending her is suspected of having
poisoned her. The surgeon. then. for
the first time realizes that he loves the
nurse, ana he brings his scientific
knowledge to prove her innocence and
.oeS it.
Miss Mary Boland will play Lady
Gambler and Miss sydney Shields Will
appear as the nurse. Other members
If the cast will be II. T. Herbert, w. l..
Abingdon. Kate Sergeantson, Louie
Emery, Shirley Aubert and Henry
Dornton The sale of seats will open
tomorrow morning.