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The Washington times., 1917-04-04
MARRIED THROUGH WINDOW
Bridegroom, Guaranteed, Uses
Sians=Minister Shouts Service.

LION, N. Y. April 4.-Silveria Hop
kinson was married today to Charles
Monroe through the window OF a
house. The window opened from his
room. He Is in bed with scarlet
fever.
Quarantine officers watched to see
that the law was strictly observed.
The Rev. ]. +. Wilds, OF Herkimer.
substituted for the bridegroom in
placing the ring on the brides finger
and also gave the kiss at the close
OF the ceremony.
The minister had to shout part OF
the service while the bridegroom gave
acquiescence by the sign language.
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
II. F. Keith. Vaudeville.

At the B. F. Keith's Theater next
week May Irwin will preside. The
added attraction will be Florence
Moore and her brother, Frank Moore,
in songs and drollery. Others on the
bill will be Bennett and Richards;
the Travilla brothers; Claude and
Fanny Usher, Maleta Bonconi, Ed
Morton, the Jordan Girls, the pipe
organ recitals and the thirteenth
episode. THE Winged Death" OF
"Patria," starring Mrs. Vernon Castle.
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
Gayety-BurIesque.

Arthur Pearson;s "Step Lively,
Girls" is the attraction scheduled to
hold forth at the Gayety Thester next
week. Rich (ShOrty) Barnes heads
the cast OF performers, which also in
cludes the names OF Maudie Heath,
Dick Knowles. Harry T. Shannon, Mae
White, and Tillie Cox.
The opening scene is laid in a fash
ionable corset emporium, and is fea-
tured by a parade OF attractive models
arrayed in the dainty creations on
display at the shop.
Other settings include scenes at the
San Diego beach and at the Golden
Gate. Incidental specialties will be
introduced by Knowles and White in
Bright Chatter" Ruby Cline, The
Aerial Venus" and TIllie Cox in The
Tillie Glide"
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
Garden.

Nine. Petrova will head the pro-
gram at Moore's Garden Theater
Sunday to Wednesday inclusive in
THE Waiting Soul" 1t tells the
story OF a woman who is endeavor-
ing to forget and live down her past
life. On Thursday, Friday, and Sat
urday Dorothy Dalton, remembered
as the star of "a Gamble In Souls"
and THE Female OF the Species" as
sisted by Charles Ray and Margaret
Thompson, will be featured in Back
of the Man" 1t is a story of senti-
ment as a factor in big business in
which a young man is nearly con-
victed of murder on circumstantial
evidence. Other first run pictures
will be shown daily, and special music
will be rendered by the Garden Sym
phony Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
REHEARSALS UNDER WAY
Central Alumni Players to Give
Comedy on April 27.

N0HeoJ OF HPTu Ef'
Rehearsals for Never Say Die"
the three-act comedy by W. H. Post,
which is in preparation for produc-
tion on April %, at the new Central
auditorium are progressing salts
factorily. The Alumni Players, the
dramatic branch of the Central High
School Alumni Association, plan the
production of other recognized stage
successes from time to time, all to
be staged in the new Central auditor
ium, which is well suited to the pro-
duction of the modern drama.
Tickets are on sale at numerous
downtown places and at the school
building.
Those in the cast include the fol-
lowing: Miss Mary Minnix, Miss
MadeIin Merkling, Miss Mary Jones,
Detlow Marthinson, Frank Myers
Charles Gates, William Flood, Allen
Jones and Tom H. Chapman.
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
Loew;s CoIumbIa-FiIms.

Sunday and continuing until Thurs
day, Fannie Ward will be the pic
tured star at Loew's Columbia in
"The School For Husbands"
Thursday and for the last half of
the week Blanche Sweet will be seen
N a perturbation OF F. Hopkinson
Smiths famous novel, 1.-The Tides OF
Barnegat"
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
GEORGETOWN PLANS FOR WAR

A meeting Of the deans of George
town University has been called for
Saturday by the Rev. Alphonsus J. Dom
Ion, g. J., president Of the university.
70 discuss. the most practicable ways of
enabling the students TO take part in
the movement Of national preparedness.
Many Of the seniors Of the law school
are members OF the national guard.
while at least thirty-fve have made
application in the officers reserve
bcorps.
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
POlPs-Stock.

Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
dramatized by Mrs. Anne Crawford
Flexner from the stories, Mrs.
Wigs and 'Lovey Mary" written
by Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice, will be the
Offering of the Poll Players next week.
The Washington times., 1917-04-04
LIKE CLOCK-WORK

The healthy human body should, and
does function with the regularity of a
metronome.
Have you that kind of health?
Or are you one of those nom occa-
sional or periodic constipation pre-
vents from enjoying 100 per cent.
healthP If this. condition is allowed
to continue, or II it is aggravated by
indiscriminate pill-taking, the conse-
quences may easily be serious.
The use of Nujol, an internal lubri-
can't is a safe and effective means of
promoting regular bowel movements
Nujol is not'a drug or a physic. Itis
entirely mechanical in its action;
The Washington times., 1917-04-04

hence, is not absorbed by the system.
As Nujol is not a physic but a lubri-
cant, it does not gripe or upset the
system. Being tasteless, it is not un-
pleasant to take.
The Standard Oil Company (New
Jersey has used its worldwide re-
sources in producing Nujol and its
reputation is behind the product.
Nwol is the only remedy for constipation
tce mGpEtdcfure. The genuine sold only
in pint bottles bearing NWoI trademark.
All bottles filled at our NEjOI plant, ab-
sOLHfety modern and sanitary.
WTts today for an Instructive book
let on NUoI and its uses.
Evening star., 1917-03-25
U-B0ATS ARE SUPPLIED
FROM SPANISH COAST
Elaborate Organization. Maintained
by Germans, Unearthed by the
Spanish Authorities.
of the Associated Press

Correspondence OF the Associated Press
MADRID, March 12.-An elaborate or
ganization, by which a far-huns cor.
don OF German submarines, stretching
around the Spanish and Portuguese
coasts, has been maintained in nro,is-
ions and supplies. has be en- uneartbed
by the Spanish authorities. A rigid
censorship has been established. but il
Is known that at least four men have
peen arrested. one of whom was SUM-
posed to have been an American. bur
ia'er proved to be a German 1t was
reported that other suspects hailed from
the United States, but this was later
shown to be due to the fact that thew
mad used many aliases ami had found
American names to be the most useful. .
most ingenious method was used
in getting the supplies and provisions
10 the submarines. Lines of automo-
biles were run from Madrid TO certain
coast points, IN order to avoid using
the regular train service. At designated
points fioating depots We're established
beyond the limits of Spanish waters.
These depots consisted of a series of
small stout wooden floats, about the
size of fsherman's dory. Each float
formed a good sized receptacle, secure
ly built to protect the contents against
water. nder cover of night small
boats loaded these floats with proyis-
ions Of all kinds, grease and fuel oil
ana any other articles required by the
Subna rines
Evening star., 1917-03-25

By Tuesday. March 20. which is the
date on which this article is written, it
is possible TO get some idea, not OF
how far the German retirement may so,
to be sure. but how far it must go now
in any case In the last four days We
have seen an advance of the allies
along a front of more than hundred
miles and for distances ranging from one
to twenty-five miles. At the moment they
are still advancing, and the front from
Arras to Scissors. which was once wide
curve outward into France toward the
channel, has now become straight line.
This new line bears the same relation to
the old that the string does to the bow.
We know that the Germans have de-
cided upon withdra wal which must now
extend as far as their second position
in France the position formerly described
as the Cambrai-St. Quentin-l.aon line, and
now rather more frequently mentioned as
the Hindenburg line. We do not yet Know
whether they mean TO stand on TINS line
or go all the way back to the frontier al
though every bit OF evidence at hanu
points to a stand at the line.
Before this article reaches my readers
the answer to the present riddle VIII be
unmistakable, but at the moment II is
necessary TO deal with both possibilities
that of a halt on the Hindenburg line ana
that OF a. retreat to the frontier, to the
line that extends from Charlevllle, on the
Mel1se to Lille
Evening star., 1917-03-25
Discovered by Coast Guard.

coast guard patrol boat discovered
one of these depots as a number of men
were busy restocking It from some of
the small sailing craft used by coast
fishermen. The coast guards used their
revolvers and captured several prison.
ers as well as large quantity of sup
plies and considerable correspondence
Later investigation showed that one or
more members of the coast guard itself
were implicated.
Information gathered by the Spanish
secret police and naval and port officials
tallies with reports by travellers from
Berlin as to the number of subma rines
employed in the German patrol Ac-
cording TO this information the peniu-
sula Gordon is a link in a great chain
stretching from the Baltic u the Aiedi-
terranean, one submarine being allot-
ted to every ten miles. Each of tho
undersea boats is supposed to be able
20 sail ten miles in an hour and thus
keep In close touch with its neighbo.s
in the line.
The Spanish ministry of marine per-
mitted the news of the first four arrests
to be made public. but since then abso-
lutte secrecy has been observed in off,
cial quarters in regard to the entire az
fair, although a number of suspects are
known to be under surveillance.
Evening star., 1917-03-25
A Weak Sister.

From the Kansas City Star.
During recent dance in the RUM
pus Ridge neighborhood In Arkansas
the usual fight took place among the
attending swains. There was consid-
erabie shooting and some bloodshed.
The battle was regarded with eque-
nimity by most of the beauties present,
but one girl. stranger to the greater
part of the assem- mblage, swooned.
who was II that tainted away?
asked Miss Duckie BuEcher. a little
later.
"D'know," replied Miss Pearlie Smoth-
ers. Some town gal, i reckon; they're
most all s,cl<iy."
Evening star., 1917-03-25

ship of state through the prevailing
hazardous shoals.
If most recent events are to be be-
lieved. the present Russian regime bids
fair to completely avoid the dangers
on every hand.
The people as Il whole, including the
socialists and the workingmen's parties,
seem to realize that they have 1t within
their power to undo the good that has
been accomplished merely by too
radical action. Fearful lest their acts
lead to the establishment of the old
order, their demands have been eX-
tremely few and 1t is reasonable to sup
pose that this pacific attitude will con-
tinue until there has been time to es-
tablish definite form of government
1t has been announced that the pres
ent council of ministers will govern
Russia until the plan of selecting a ma
members. is drafted and elections held
The entire army and possibly the
women will participate in the selec-
ton of the national assembly.
In the meantime the council of min
listers is making rapid progress in re-
organizing Rus
Rapid Progress in sla's economic and
Reorganization. for the continu.
ance of the war.
Already there has been a quickeninr
of military effort due to the added i'm
pulse of liberty and perfected organiza-
ton. The Russian army, loyal to the
new government in the extreme, long
was the victim of the old order It ia
declared on completely reliable author
ity that the pro-German clique domi =
mating the cZar'S court actually refused
offers of guns and munitions in lgl4-I5
when Grand Duke Nicholas armies on
the eastern front Were being cut to
pieces by the Germans. on the pretext
that they were not needed. The bu-
reaucrats' real purpose is said to have
been the fastening the defeat Of the
Russians, that a separate peace might
be brought about. No such conditions
ever will prevail again.
Everywhere there Is pronounced ef-
fort on the part of the new govern
ment to remove the economic ills of the
past so that the Russian people may
suffer the least inconvenience on ac
count of the war. which is to be vigor-
ously prosecuted. Prices of foodstufYs
In the larger centers Of population al
ready have fallen.
exalted the Russian people are looking
forward They have little time now to
look into the past.
Though possible events in Germany
and the reformation which has been
wrou g h t in
Big Events Along Russia have
Ine Weste1u EAon'' worlds atten-
ton in a large measure during the past
Continued on Sixth Page.)
Evening star., 1917-03-25
Two Weeks to Decide.

The test, of course, of all their pur-
poses will be when we see whether
they stand or retire along the Hinden-
burg line. We shall know that before
this article is published, We shall not
know their purpose if they go beyond
that line for perhaps TWO weeks more.
Now, turning to the broader question,
what does the German retreat mean in
the larger possibilities OF the war? IL
it is comprehended in retirement to
the Hindenburg line it may mean
merely a local withdrawal to a new
position stronger than the old, since
the old has been battered and bent by
the battle of the Somme. II may mean
withdrawal. the Germans will stand on
the defensive in the west from the
North sea to Switzerland and strike
against Russia. against Italy or In the
Balkans. 1t may. on the other hand.
mean that the Germans will strike
either against the British In Flanders
or against the French in Champagne
or in Lorraine on the western front. If
the Germans do not feel that their
western line is safe against the allies
for anather summer campaign, they
could not leave the west in peril and
send the masses OF their troops to the
east. as they did in 1915. or to Galicia
and Rumania, as they did in 1915. after
their own operation at Verdun had
had failed.
Personally. my judgment is that we
shall see a German attack directed
either against the French or against
the British. an attack which will be
Evening star., 1917-03-25

people. The railways are rushing arms
and munitions to the fighting men at the
front. the ousted regime having shown
pronounced disinclination to aid the
armies more than absolutely necessary to
avoid popular outbreak.
The new government has set up a sys-
TEN OF things in Petrograd, where true
democracy reigns. No longer is elaborated
has won the hearts of the millions of
lower class Russians. who see ahead bet
ter economic and social conditions
Where the former government was COM
pletely intolerant of the views of any and
all supposed to be in anyWise the cham
pions Of the rights of the people, the new
regime is considering the people first
Where absolute mercileSS persecution
formerly was indulged in the new govern
ment has shown its feeling of brotherhood
by announcing general amnesty to all
political prisoners
Where but few days ago there was no
posing the bu-
Fair Legal Trials reaucrats, the
Are Assured for All. mant NEW hss so'e,n Al
clared that there shall be few executions,
and all prisoners. political and otherwise.
will receive the fairest of legal trials. This
thing alone SOUNDS almost unOelieyaD Bile
to students of the old Russia
Finland. that prosecuted bit of the
old world, prospers by the new regime.
Already new and liberal government
has been set into operation with home
rule for all Firms.
The great munitions factories para
lyzed by strikes of discontented and
hungering workmen have resumed
work, the countless thousands of once
sullen laborers going about their tasks
with rejoicing.
The great Russian army, always a
catspaw of the ruling monarchs of Rus
sia, also enters Il new era. Many civil
rights have been extended to the pri-
vate soldier. No longer Is he wooden
man with no privileges. He may enter
the theater does his officer. He may
participate in the governmental at
fairs by the right of his ballot. He is
to be consulted as a flesh and blood
creature.
Those provincial governors, appointed
previously by the minister of interior
with full rights and privileges to
govern their particular territories as
they saw fit and who more than any
other persons stained crimson the pages
Of Russian history with the blood of
prosecuted peasantry, have been GUST
ed. Everywhere governors fully in
sympathy with the beliefs and desires
of the under classes have taken the
reinS.
So swift have been the changes that
considerable apprehension has been
voiced on the part of Russia's allies
that the new order of things may prove
retroactive and lead to bitter clashes
enthusiasm would establish too radical
practices In the new government. and
the more conservative elements who
are intrusted with steering Russia's
Evening star., 1917-03-25
Bavarians See
Germany's Defeat.


Germany advocating the overthrow of
the Hohenzollerns and the seating of
the WittIebachs in Berlin. ignoring the
merits of such a change, the following
utterance graphically depicts the
lengths to which the present unrest
has reached:
..What are our victories but Pyrrhic
victories, They have no tomorrow
they are of today only. Defeat is
now mathematical certainty, despite
all of our exertions, all our sacrifices,
ma 81 and to come the Germany OF
William ii is bound to give way pe-
meath the crushing weight of her enc
mics lust as was France under Ma
Whatever steps the present German
government may take to combat the
growing tendency to open outbreak
within the borders of the German en-
nira tbey undoubtedly will find their
task infinitely harder at the present
juncture than before.
The Russian revolution started with
food riots in Petrograd AT present
Berlin is shaken with a series of pop
ular demonstrations against the short
age of food and the alleged govern
mental ineffciency in meeting the ma
tion's distribution problems
/ Even the munitions works in Dus5el-
dorf are declared idle owing to series
| of strikes by munitions workers who
| have complained of the extremely
small amount of food allowed to them
This latter fact is significant for the
reason that the German government an
nounced that its chief food stores would
! go to the army at the front ana the
army of workers at home who maze
continuance of the war possible by uh-
broken streams of supplies to the front.
| II the munitions workers are striking
! because of the lack of food. if the men
t in the trenches are iaboring on cur
+ tailed diets as has been reported by
| prisoners taken by the French and
! British on the western front, a fair idea
| may be CLEANED to the food situa-
| tion as it affects the civilian population
generally.
! With suffering every hand, with
| open preaching of the gospel that Ger
| many is doomed to failure in the pres
| ent conflict. with the example of Rus
| sian democracy before them. thorough
ly weary of the war in every respect,
| the German people have at present
more than at any time previous grounds
| upon which to base a revolution. II they
| for a moment consider one.
Evening star., 1917-03-25

that if they held out Germany would
dictate peace and dominate the world.
They have lied to us. They said the
German submarines would cut off
England's supplies. and England would
be made to crave for peace, and thus
the war be ended. These are only fairy
tales for children. The submarine war
fare viii bring more enemies on our
back. but there is possibility of
cutting off England's supplies, now or
ever. even if Germany had ten times as
many submarines as she actually has.
Then it has been dangled before our
eyes that the offensive against the
Balkans would give US more breathing
space and relief. Abundant food sup
plies, too. would come from Turkey.
This was a deliberate lie, for all who
know anything know that the Turkish
government cannot feed it's own army
any longer.
And now they would console us by
pointing to the next harvest. All suffer-
ing will end when the new crop is har-
vested. they say. This also is de-
liberate swindle.
Men and women of the laboring
population, we bear the responsi lity.
Either the laboring masses continue in
sheer Indifference, with the result that
they will suffer lasting disease and
miserable wasting away to death, or the
proletariat will wake up and will re-
fuse this government and these ruing
classes their help, and will bring about
peace. There is no other choice. Now is
the time for action. Pull yourselves to-
gether. you men and women. Let your
will be felt. and let your voice be heard
in clamor, saying: Down with the war
and long live thoch) the international
solidarity of the proletariat.
In the reichstag the socialists openly
have assailed the government. Philip
Scheidmann, one of the party's leaders,
declared:
TT does not require many words to
,,,11 Tnflh yS
against us. The answer is given quick
ly The whole world sees among our
enemies more or less developed forms
of democracy and in US it sees only
Prussians."
Thus is there tacit admittance that
something is wrong with Germany and
her present governmental forms. Thus
is unrest made apparent.
Evening star., 1917-03-25

comparable to that of Nerdun. and will
nave as its primary purpose an antici-
patton of an allied offensive in the
vest this year. With all its failures,
the Nerdun attack did materially
weaken the allied drive in the west
last summer, and I think ii will be
agreed that an offensive is the best
defensive under the conditions which
exist now in western Europe
We must face the possibility of some
sudden German blow following imme-
diately upon the present retreat, and
such a blow will proba bly, fall some
where along the western front The
German military critics, quite Justly.
point to the retreat of Hindenburg from
warsaw in 1914. which was followed
by the great advance upon Lodz in
November. The greatest mistake that
could possibly be made would be to be-
neNe that the Germans have not the
man power to strike again, and that
their Withdrawal from their old lines
Is a confession of complete weakness
and Is prelude to L general break
down.
A Recoil to Leap the Better.
we have not reached such a time. II
may be questioned whether we shall
reach 1t this year. The present German
retirement is, to use TIE French phrase
recoil to leap forwa d the better. 1t
is thartegic: it is an incident in
larger strategy which is not defensive
out offensive. and we may be verv sure
mat there Will shortly come gigantic
German enort- The German general
stair is enduring a temporary loss of
prestige incident to a retirement and the
momentary depression in Germany
winch must result. iut 1t is pre-
pared to expect this Germany is fol-
lowing out her own plans logically.
Sne is shortening her lines preparatory
TO attacking. Where she will attack
we do not know. If she did not in
tend to attack she woul3 not have made
SO considerable with ,'rawal already
II she goes back to the French frontier
then we may conclude that the attack
VIII come either in the shape of a drive
Tor Calals. or in another effort to ,e-
gam the road to Nanry, or, what i.
more likely, an attack ipon Russia
however. in view of what happened
IN humanla last year, when all the
opening moves seemed 10 forecast a
great reverse for the .entrai powers
we shall do well now to await the dis
closure of the actual German purpose
ana OF the real, as contrasted with the
apparent, reason for the withdrawal