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The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
MACNATES VOW
FLAG SUPPORT
Herbert Hoover Compli-
ments Rail Service at
Banquet Here.

This is a time for the railways to
serve the country, Samuel Rea, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania system, told
the National Association of Railway
Commissioners at q dinner last night,
I'VE are instituting a system Of prI-
GRITTY shipments, we are moving empty
cars; we are carrying materials for
cantonments; We are transporting
coal; we are moving 200. 900 men," said
Mr.. Rea.
"All this means forcing traffic out
OF normal channels. foregoing profit
able business and making great imam
c!al sacrifices at q time when II is
difficult to conserve railroad revenues.
Materials are high. wages are higher
than ever before. labor is difficult to
obtain. But the railroads wish to
serve the nation"
Speaking on the subject OF State and
Federal regulation, Mr.. Rea said that
the presence of war did not indicate
that the States had suspended or an
nulled their rights.
Herbert c. Hoover. the Food Con-
troller. sounded a war note when he
complimented the railroads on their
services, saying they had given most
extraordinary assistance"
War is a losing proposition" said
Mr.. Hoover. There are but two
compensations. One Is the increase
of our commerce. The other Is far
greater. 1t is the suppression OF in
dividualism through devotion to ma
tional issues-the spirit of self sacri-
fee we will obtain. II We secure
that end, we will have been amply
compensated for the war
Senator Francis G. Newlands, OF
Nevada. chairman OF the Congress
sional committee now investigating
American railroads said:
The successful prosecution of the
war depends more than anything else
upon transportation by rail, river
and ocean. And yet that is the only
thing to which the energizing aid OF
the government has not been given,
Railroad rates are stationary and
railroad increases are increasing.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18

paper men DR.. Garfield issued a
statement to the public. outlining the
general coal situation. 1t follows:
The question uppermost IN the
minds IL every one is this: Is there
a shortage Of coal?
The Car supply.
This question cannot be answered
by a simple yes or no. On the one
hand, We have an increase produc-
ton as compared with 1916 of nearly
10 per cent, and when compared with
1915 the increase is around Is per
cent. On the other hand, We have
a greatly increased demand from
munition factories and other indus
tries working on necessary govern
ment orders. The production OF three
factories is needed by ourselves and
our allies il We are to fight the war
successfully. In addition to this. the
railroads must have more coal IL they
are TO move the troops and supplies.
Whether the increased demand will
be met by an increase Of supply
which will also leave for the domes-
tic consumer all the coal he needs will
depend, first, on the war supply. sec
ond on the energy and patriotism OF
the miners. coal operators and lab
orers. third, on the loyal recognition
by every citizen that he is respon-
sible for conservation and limita ton
in the use OF coal to the utmost pos
sible extent.
THE question Of car supply is put
first. because at present the limita-
ton Of production of coal is Influenced
more by the inability OF the mines
TO get sufficient cars every day. sc
that they may operate continuously.
Many OF the largest mines are able
to run at only half capacity much of
the time, owing to the inability OF
the railroads to supply the necessary
cars. The mine will run at full capac-
ity one or two days OF Cie week, and
at partial capacity for two moro
days. and is often unable to run al
all the remaining two DAYS because
there are absolutely no cars to take
the coal as it comes out OF the mines.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
u. S. BANKERS
PLAN WAR AID
Financiers Also Discuss the
Feasibility Of Helping
Out Farmers.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE tremendous
task of financing the nation for the
greatest war IL was ever involved In
was the theme of an address by w.
p. G. Harding, governor Of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, at the closing
session of the Southern Commercial
Congress yesterday. Helping the
farmers with government money so
that agriculture could do Its utmost
for the nation was also discussed by
experts
Touching upon war time banking"
Mr.. Harding said:
There have been changes in bank
ing methods ever since the Federal
Banking system has been installed.
but the greatest change ever imposed
on banking in this country, was
caused by the war. For this reason
the banker must Lot only discriminate
as far as the security offered Is con-
cerned. but must demand to know
the objects for which credits are re-
quired. That railroad stocks and other
standard industrial securities must
suffer in times such as these is to
be expected. that is part OF the
patriotic debt we have to pay. But
the wholesale slaughter Of values
must be prevented. I do not believe
that the recent marked depression in
values on the Stock Exchanges was
an organized bear raid. But / am
glad to know that the slump appears
TO have been checked and that there
is going TO be no great loss OF values.
The people are getting what may be
called their second wind and are
ready. not only to correct conditions.
but to insure the successful fotation
OF the Second Liberty Loan.
Mr.. Harding said that no Nancy
crisis was possible IL the bankers kept
their heads and said he was "grate-
fur for the support given the Fed
eral Reserve System.
What Federal farm loans can do for
southern formers and planters would
be too good to believe" by that "over-
burdened and discouraged" class,
Loan Commissioner. Continuing he
said:
II. T. Davis. president OF the Fed
eral Land Bank, of New Orleans. was
another speaker on Uncle Sans
money for farmers and planters.
Judge Julian Mack. of the United
States Treasury Department. ex-
planned the details of insurance for
soldiers and sailors.
Mr.. Hamilton Holt. speaking for the
League TO Enforce Peace. declared
that no inconclusive peace must be
allowed Germany. The world must
be made safe for autocracy." he said.
United States Senator Gore also
spoke.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
LOCAL BOND CAMPAIGN
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.


livered the principal address. ex-
pressed the belief that his hearers
would lose no time in subscribing to
the new issue OF the bonds and con-
cluded saying that he would save his
voice and his time in urging the ones
who were not so faithful in subscrib-
ing to the bonds as those present.
Strong competition prevails in the
various departments in the Govern
ment service where the clerks are
conducting a heated campaign for
Liberty Loan subscriptions. Sub
scriptiOns taken in the Department
of Interior are recorded on a bull
letin board in front of the build
ing Latest figures from that de-
paTtment gives a total of sl50.65O
for the 1855 employees.
The employees OF the Giesboro
steel plant will hold a Liberty Loan
meeting tomorrow afternoon, the
speak ers at this meeting have not
yet been announced.
Addresses We're made in the pub
lie schools of the District yester-
day in hopes to instill in the hearts
of the 10000 children. the buy-a-
bOnd-spirit. 1t is planned to have
meetings in the public schools each
day until the campaign closes.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
U. S.LADS, PRISONERS
| IN GERMANY, SAFE
Comrade of Moewe Survivors Es-
cape with News.

Stockholm, Oct 17.-Goods news for
the parents of these American lads:
Barney Boyle, Des Moinss.
Bill Fitzgerald, New York.
Oscar Bird, Charleston. w. Va.
Walter and Harry Mason, both of
Baltimore.
They're all alive and safe in the
German camp at Luebreck. With
them UP to six days ago was Willett
Charles Smith. of Norwalk. Conn. He
is now considerably more alive and
safe than his former fellow prisoners
taken from a British vessel by the
famed Teuton sea raider Moewe.
Smith got here today. He hid for
six days in the hold of a German
ship that arrived today from Kiel.
For six days he went without a drop
of water.
Tell the folks back home that the
bunch is safe" said he with a
countenance that was all happiness.
He had made one unsuccessful at
tempt to get away from Lubbock
camp, and had spent fourteen days
in dark cell for it."
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
KNIGHTS OF MALTA
HERE IN SESSION
The Thirty-fourth Convocation Of
Order Will Conclude Today.

The thirty-fourth convocation of the
Ancient and Illustrious Order of
knights of Malta opened here yester-
day morning, at Pythian Temple with
a large representation from different
sections Of the country, there being
five grand Jurisdictions in the order
and one under the supreme jurisdic-
ton. The fraternal organization will
continue its deliberations this morn
ing at the same place, and probably
conclude its session early this after
noon.
At the session yesterday morning.
John Nicholson, of Pressque Isle
Commandery, No. 499, Erie Pa, was
awarded first prize of merit for gain
ing the most members during the
year. having secured ninety-five
through his personal efforts,
Representative Clyde NJ. Kelley,
from the Thirtieth Congressional dis
trict of Pennsylvania, was the prin-
cipal speaker at the morning meet
ing. He paid a tribute to the govern
ment for the fraternal spirit 1t had
displayed in securing the enactment
by Congress OF the soldiers insur-
ance bill.
Last night the College of the
Ancients, side degree of the knights
of Malta, held a secret session in the
red room of the Hotel Ebbitt, after
which banquet was given at which
all the prize winners were invited
guests.
The commandery showing the larg-
est percentage of increase in mem
bership will be awarded a standard
of colors as a trophy at today's ses-
sion.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
STOCK DISEASE
MEAT DEpLETER
Agricultural Expert Says
100000 Is Lost
Annually.

Conservation Of food animals Of the
country, through the control Of dis
eases which annually destroy more
than $4,000 900 worth of meat animals
in the United States was urged as q
patriotic duty by DR.. John R. Mohler.
acting chief of the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the Department of Agri-
culture in a paper read before the
closing session of the Sixth Annual
Convention of the International Asso-
citation of Dairy and MIX Inspectors
last night.
II was the duty, Or. Mohier said,
of every official present to do his ut
most to reduce the loss of food ami
mails through the education of the
stockraiser and farmer.
A resolution pledging the aid Of the
association to Herbert Hoover, Food
Administrator. in the conservation of
infant life through the control and
distribution of the milk supply. was
passed at the executive session held
yesterday afternoon.
The importance of proper pasteur-
ization of milk was emphasized in
dHOtncT duOp1cu Ut N1c
session and the convention went on
record as favoring the pasteurization
of all milk.
Tuberculosis In Stock.
The necessity for the eradication of
tuberculosis from cattle and swine
was told in a paper by DR.. ]. A.
Herman. of the Bureau Of Animal
- ~ -,
Culture. Thousands of meat animals
were lost annually. DIR. Herman told
the convention, through tuberculosis
and the failure to take precautions
against the disease.
Public Health Studies Concerning
Cheese" was the subject of a paper
by Dr. f. c. Shredder and George
w. Brett which was read by DR..
| Schroeder.
Alferd w. Lombard. was elected
president for the ensuing year, at the
executive session, held yesterday aft
ernoon. Dr. James o. Jordan. OF Bos-
ton. Mass, was elected first vice
president; Hayes Lloyd, of Toronto.
Canada, second vice president: DIR. c.
l.. Roadhouse, third vice president.
and Ivan C. Weld. of Washington, d.
c., reelected secretary trea sursr.
Samuel G. Sharwell. of Newark. n.
J., and DR.. Harry States. of Detroit,
| were elected auditors,
! The convention was urged by Her.
! bert Hoover of the importance of the
milk and dairy supplies of the ma
( ton at the present time, at the Food
Administration Building on Sixteenth
| street.
The date and place OF the next
annual convention of the association
| has not been decided
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
FORCE PRODUCTION
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without interruption. But there are
evidently some who fail to understand
the gravity of the situation and who
do not hesitate TO advocate strikes
at the present time. as a means of
forcing the government TO. at once,
decide whether the wage increase
agreed to at the meetings recently
held in Washington by the operators
and miners Of the Central District.
should justly be covered in the prices
fixed by the President.
THE matter has ben submitted TO
me and all concerned are expected
to cooperate. ! am giving immediate
and close attention to the question
and hope to reach a decision at an
early date The only circumstance
within my control which will delay
that decision will be the violation of
the spirit of the arrangement between
the operators and the miners. which
was that under no circumstances
should the production of coal in the
United States, at the present time,
be allowed TO diminish.
Will Postpone IL.
IF either the operators or the miners
attempt to bring pressure upon me
to, reach a decision. I shall postpone
it and use whatever powers are nee
essary to compel the production of
coal to meet the country's needs"
When asked to explain what powers
he had in mind. DR.. Garfield replied
that he preferred to let the wording
nN the fe1aOrarpo 70 he
The government, he added, can do
many things in time of war that il
can not do in time of peace.
He described the regions where the
strikes are most serious as being
the Springfield and Peoria district.
Franklin and Williamson Counties.
ILL.,, and the Gillespie mines near
Belleville, Ill; six mines in the south
western Indiana district, end the
Bershld. district, in Ohio. In each
case the strike was caused by the
miners demanding immediate wage in
creases. The Increases should come
at the same time the Presidents coal
prices went into effect, according to
the miners.
DR.. Garfield declared that the union
officials were playing square. but that
they simply were unable to hold the
men in line in the emergency. He
could not estimate the number of
strikers out. beyond saying that the
number included about 1000 in ILL
nois, and several thousand in Indian.
These men, and other strikers, DR..
Garfield said, evidently were acting
under no influence except their own
desire for higher wages. The Fuel
Administration, he added. had found
no inkling whatever of the working
of German or 1. w. w. propaganda
among the coal minors.
Following his conference with news
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
Train Runs Into Packed Troop Car
One Soldier Killed; Several Injured

Spartansburg S. c. Oct I7-Three killed tonight
and at least twelve dangerously injured when worens
crashed into crowded the Piedmont North
ern Railway spur to Camp Wadsworth.
The dead
Corporal Arthur Wright, of the Thkd Field Artillery, Bat
terry B.
Two civilians, unidentified
The injured soldiers rushed the base hospital
The accident is said have been due the lights
on the rear car OF the electric train blownout fuse had
the system of commission. One mile
workmens train bearing bore
the train The consisted of three
y 400 soldiers damned the
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
You've Had Last Iney Shine!
War Makes Shoe Polish a L uxury

With the setting OF last nights sun
the reliable "jit' piece lost every mite
Of its potency as the proper piece OF
currency to give for one perfectly
black and shiny shoeshine.
From this morning on until shoe
backing condescends to rehabitat its
former normal level and competent
shine boys" are willing to forego
lucrative war Jobs to brush up wom-
ems and gentlemen's boots. each shine
will cost not less than 10 cents at
each of the city's fifty-four parlors.
A. A. Mantzouris. George Papps and
Nick Karvelas. proprietors of three
of Washington's largest shoe shining
emporiums, are the emissaries who
last night dealt this blow to an I'M
suspecting public. but they did so only
under the incorporating pinch of
necessity.
This trio declares that they have
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
Small Boy Walks Here
To See Sick Mother

Driven to desperation in his great
desire to see his mother. who is sick
IN a hospital in Washington. 7-year-
old Carl Edward Davis walked from
MS nome in Tuxedo. Md, yesterday
morning to this city.
lie was found yesterday afternoon
wandering along the street at Ninth
street and Massachusetts avenue by
a cltlzen. The child was lost in the
intricacies of a large city.
He was taken to the District House
OIL Detention. Acting Inspector Evans
notlned the postoffice at Tuxedo. who
told the father of the boys plight.
he was taken home by his parent.
But first he was rewarded for his
iong walk when he was taken to the
hospital to see his loving mother.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
old FOLKS need
"CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
Salts, Calomel. Pills Act on Bowels
Like Pepper Acts in
Nostrils.
Enjoy Life! Don't Stay Bilious,
Sick. Headachy and
Constipated.
Get a Decent box now.

yet d lucent DOX now.
Most old people must give to the
bowels some regular help, else they
suffer from constipation. 1t is lust
as natural as IL is for old people to
walk slowly. For age is never so
active as youth. The muscles are
less elastic. And the bowels are
muscles.
So all old people need Cascarets.
One might as well refuse to aid weak
eyes with glasses as to neglect this
gentle aid to weak bowels. The bow
els must be kept active. This Is inn
portant at all ages, but never SO
much as at fifty.
Age is not time for harsh phy-
sizes. Youth may occasionally whip
the bowels into activity. But a lash
can't be used every day. What the
bowels need is a gentle and natural
tonic One that can be CONSTANTLY
used without harm. The only such
tonic Is Cascarets, and they cost
only 10 cents per box at any drug
store. They work while you sleep
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
u. S. Seaman Killed;
Another Is Scalded

One man net death and another was
seriously scalded in an accident
aboard United States patrol vessel.
according to Navy Department an
nouncement when a complete report
reached Washington today.
Dennis Sheehan, seaman second
class. was so badly scalded when a
return tube fell out of the vessels
boiler, that he died while being taken
ashore. Sheehan's next of kin is John
Sheehan. a7 Throop avenue, Brook
Ign, N. Y.
Vance I. Parkinson. chief boatswain's
mate. was badly scalded. but 10 ex-
pected to recover,
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
To Erect Wireless Station.

Baltimore. Nd. Oct. 17.-Anna-
polls will soon have a gigantic wire
less telegraph station as powerful
as the government station at Ar
lington, Va. The new station will
rank among the most powerful in
the world and will be a connect
ing link in the system of coast
wise communication being provid-
ed by the government.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18

suffered material losses in their shops
for some time and that they have
held up under them as long as pos
sible. thereby making it possible for
this city to be the last one in the
United States to have to pay double
for establishment to their footwear.
Unless 10 cents is charged for shoe
shines here. proprietors of the estab-
lishments declare, they will have to
go out of business.
White boys who used to work for
them at 81 and IS a week can only be
hired now at SIS and SIS. and are
scarce at that price, they declare,
yhile colored boys demand wages of
more than SO per week. Furthermore
rents are higher and backing itself
nearly $50 per cent more costly than
hitherto. There will be no increase
over 10 cents for shines given on the
Sabbath.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
Evil Spirit, Reported.

Picking. Oct. 17.-Since Chang
Hsun's overthrow and the defeat OF
the short-lived monarcy, evil spin
its have been reported by super
stitious Chinese in the vicinity of
Chang Hsun's headquarters in the
Forbidden City. They are alleged
to be the spirits Of Chang Hsun's
soldiers who were killed in the
bombardment of his headquarters.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
American Escapes
From German Prison

Washington, Oct. 1.-THE State
Department yesterday received a
dispatch from the American min
lister at Stockholm confirming the
arrival of the first American pris-
oner Of war to escape from a Ger
man pricon camp. He is willet
Charles Smith, of Norwalk, Conn,
an American citizen. Smith was a
hostler on the British steamer Es-
meralda. captured by the German
raider Moewe nearly a year ago.
Smith told Minister Morris that
were it not for the Y. NJ. C. A. and
Red Cross food rations the pris-
oners in the war camps could not
live. He described their diet as
a small piece of sour black bread
once a day and a pint and a half
of soup" which was mostly, warm
water. favored with turnip."
The Washington herald., 1917-10-18
No Date Too Early For
Christmas Mailing

All Christr IS packages going to
your soldier boy Somewhere in
France" should be mailed not later
than November Is.
If you want your khaki sweet
heart, now training to fight the
Boche overseas to receive your gift
by Christmas morn. you will have
to do your holiday shopping early
with a vengeance. The Postofrice
Department says so. Even the six
weeks leeway now deemed ade-
quate may be nullified by the Ger
man submarines.
No date is too early for mailing
Christmas parcels, marked for
Christmas delivery" says the DOS
tai authorities, who add that all
packages going to any destination,
no matter how near, should be
mailed not later than December p,
and preferably before December Is.
War business is putting an I'M
precedented strain on the mails.