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The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
HOLLAND LETTER
The Biggest Daily
Financial News Feature of
the Counhy's Best Newspapers.

A few days ago public attention was
called to a report that came from
Washington which showed that there
had been a considerable falling of in
the money value of exports from the
United States in the month of July.
IL seemed strange that in view of
the fact that enormous orders had
been received here from the allies of
the United States there should sud-
I denly have been a decrease in the
amount and money value of our eX-
ports. Investigation now shows that
this was an almost accidental de-
crease. 1t was partly due to short
age in shipping facilities and partly
10 the fact that many of the commoG:-
ties which the allies have bought here
were not ready for shipment.
Apparently there will be a great in
crease in amount and money value of
our exports in the remaining months
of the autumn and in the early winter
If only adequate shipping facilities are
secured. For in addition to an enor-
nous sale of commodities of all kinds
and especially munitions of war which
American industries have made to our
European allies there is inevitably to
be n great increase in our exports of
commodities to South America. There
is not a steamship which does not
bring IN these days from South Amer
lea business men or government rep
resentatives who are commissioned to
buy in the United States substantially
all of the commodities we produce ex-
cepting, of course, those which the
South American nations produce.
Af l..
creased commerce with South Amer
lea can be obtained by anyone who
visits the office of the Brazilian Con-
sui at New York any afternoon. His
office is thronged with men who are
seeking his o. X. upon bills of lad
ing, representing purchases of Ameri-
can commodities. At this office it is
assumed that there will be an in
crease of our sales to Brazil of not
far from 800, 900 in the present
fiscal year. In the spring it was not
possible to obtain shipping facilities
to Brazil oftener than once a month.
Now the lack of these facilities is
made partially good. One steamer
sails every week to Brazilian ports,
loaded to its capacity with American
commodities and these DO not carry
the commodities fast enough in the
sense that not one of them is able
to take all of these American pro-
ducts which have been bought by
Brazil in the United States. whose
purchasers seek as early shipment
as possible.
A few days ago a representative of
Brazil arrived in New York commits
stoned to make large purchases of
certain American commodities. With
in three days after his arrival he
bought American-made cotton goods
of the money value of $l5O,0O and
these are now on their way to Bra
zil. The intimation was that there
would be further large purchases Of
this product of the American cotton
mills.
Before the European war began
Brazil would have bought these cot
ton goods from English and German
manufacturers and a small amount of
a peculiar weave from Austrian man.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
Keen OF the MALI

There was a tilt in the House yes
terday over the building Of huge
temporary frame structure on the
Mall-on the site of the old Pennsyl-
vania station-to house government
clerks.
In the course of 1t the old hue and
cry over Washington real estate men
was raised. The conventional charge
was made that these men had reaped
a harvest over the erection Of scores
of buildings which are rented to the
government. 1t was made in such
way as to indicate that the govern
ment was unable to protect itself
from the greed of these men.
OF course. it is true that Washing
ton is full of rented government build
ings-and no one deplores that more
than the washingtonians themselves.
They have consistently called 1t a
penny wise and pound foolish pol
icy," which Congress has persisted in
because it did not want to appropri-
ate the money for urgently needed
buildings, rather than let the job be
done by the real estate men. who
are now so roundly denounced.
i Now the proposal is made that the
! Mall be invaded by an unsightly wood
ed building, that the very site Sc
Iected for the new Washington me-
mortal be employed for this purpose.
1t Is said that this building will be
only temporary. But how "tem-
porary" is the question. Is space
so precious in Washington that one
of its national parks has to be ruined
for a period which may. perhaps. be
the better part Of a decade. or even
more than that? Is the present gen.
GRAFTON to be defeated in its plans
for the development of the city. or Of
the great Mall project, which was
adopted by the government nearly If
teen years ago?
II Congress has the real interests
of the city at heart. it will not per-
nit Representative Fitzgerald to build
any temporary buildings on the Mall
1t will find plenty of other sites if
it will look for them.
| 1t is high time that Congress did
its duty" by the Mall. For the pas.
decade not a single inch of progress
has been made of it, unless perchance
the erection of the Lincoln Memorial
is considered a part of its develop
ment. Nine years ago the govern
ment promised to open the develop
ment on Fifteenth street. between the
| Avenue and the Mall proper. That
project. to the shame of Congress be
it said. still lies dormant, as does
the removal of the Botanical Garden
to some more appropriate site. When
the land on the south side OF the
Avenue between the Capitol and the
Treasury is finally purchased by the
government, it will cost tens of mil
lions more than it would have II
bought when the project was first
determined upon.
But that is the way Congress does
things.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
SENTA'S SONG.

I hear the rnirth of them the
And built the pale green s -.
i hear the song of them that spin
And wind the silvern fax,
But long 1t Is that 1 must wait
Though harvest dusk falls soon,
To hear the great sea tell of thee
Beneath a sickle moon.
No ring or chain has plighted US,
No Jewel red as wine.
II Is the deep seas fatefuI gem
That links thy love and mine
A jewel brighter than the gold
That decks the Love-bird's plume,
And darker than the purple cup
That is the NightShade's bloom.
The sea that lured thee long ago
Far down the royal wind,
The sea whose spell would break thine
heart
In pride of youth that sinned.
The sea that parts us by the span
No ships can sail beyond,
Whose doom has wrought thy need OF
me
II Is our dear loves bond,
ANNIE W. YOUNG.
In the New York Times.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
Rate Discrimination
On Salt Is CHARGE

The Portland Traffic and Trans
portation Association. an orsanizl-
tion formed for the protection OF
shippers in Portland. Oregon, have
filed charges with the interstate Com
merce Commission. alleging unju--
and discriminating rates on saI iu
carload lots to destinations outside
of Portland sad between points ia
Utah. Idaho. washin --on and Oregon.
The complainants are represented
by Attorneys Joseph y. Teal and
William c. McCulloch.
The railroads involved are the Ca-
caGo. Milwaukee and 81. Pau. Cam
Prairie. eEon-Washin-ton. Oregon
Short Line. Northern Pacific. Spokane
International Spokane. Portland and
Seattle and the Great Northern.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
Ex-Captain Files Reply
To Wife's Divorce Suit

Earnest Manning Reeve. ex-captair
Of the Twenty-third Infantry. Com
pany A. filed answer yesterday TO the
suit for absolute divorce instituted
against him by Grace Parker Reeve,
The wife named five known core
spondents and mentioned other per-
sons whose names were unknown.
All OF these the husband fiatly denies
knowledge Of.
In the reply 10 his wife's charges Of
non-support, filed by Attorney John
! Ridout. he states that at present he
is unable to contribute a great deal
toward her support, as his employment
as a private detective is unsteady and
he AYERS that he is financially en-.
barrassed at this time.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
THE HEIR OF THE AGES.

For me the Empires waxed and waned
And Homer sang of ancient wars;
For me Columbus sought the West,
And Calico read the stars.
For me the heroes fought and fell;
Twas for my sake that Shakespeare
wrote:
And they that broke the pride OF
Spain,
For me unknowingly they smote.
For glory not. and not for fame
Did Cromwell strike at tyranny;
King Charles was shortened by a
head
For my sake. and twas. too. for me
That Revolutions torch was lit
And kings and mobiles knew the knife
When France was to a shambles
turned.
I was the object of their strife.
And when this storm of war is stilled.
And men the victor fain would see,
'Tis / alone shall be proclaimed
Yea, / alone. Liberty
C. w. LANE,
In Canadian Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
The Leopards Spots, Etc.

II there Is anything more purely
Teutonic in its callous naivete than
this we would like to know r;:
The pan-German newspapers,
which have taken a longer time than
the remainder of the German press
to digest Count Luxburg's famous
! dispatches TO the German Foreign
/ Office through the Swedish legation
| in Argentina, complain of the count s
| lack of discretion and caution, and
appear to be very cross with every
one concerned. The Tagliche Runds-
chau, of Berlin, says it was not abso-
| lutely necessary for the count to an
nounce by cable that he regarded the
Argentinian foreign minister as a no.
torious ass. 1t thinks that might have
been said later
There We have it again-''that might
have been said later" If this journal
had deliberately tried to deepen the
original insult to the Argentinians.
could it have done better? But to the
of regret" is all that the Argentine
government will get-all that it de-
serves. forsooth. What the German
Foreign Office really says to the Ar
gentines is this: 1--WE are sorry you
accidentally learned that our minister
to your country regards your foreign
minister as a notorious ass; but, of
course, that opinion is absolutely
right"
This is Teuton diplomacy. 1t lends
strength to the theory that Prussian-
ism entails not merely corruption of
all manners and tact in the relation
Of man to man and nation to nation,
but warps the seat of judgment itself
in the brain-judgment on everything
that does not involve the use of force.
1t breeds arrogance and more arro-
gance; and when the Prussian comes
face to face with the fact that he
is loathed and detested as we'll as
hated. he whines and means in the
search for the reason, which he has
not found yet.
II am utterly unable to understand
the German mind.' said a high Off
cial of the American government re-
Gently. THE manner in which it op-
crates is a mystery to me-
His bewilderment is shared by the
world. When Foreign Minister Zim-
mermann was faced with the damn
ing evidence that he had attempted
to embroil Mexico and Japan in a
plot against the United States and
Germany, as well as his duty, and
then added the true Prussian toucn:
Compared to the conduct of the
American government, which fiIched
private diplomatic correspondence,
our conduct was exemplary indeed
Which tells the whole story of the
failure of German diplomacy 1t
seems to know nothing about diplom-
acy in the true sense of the word
whatever. A German diplomat must
be before all things a master of in
trigue and a leader of spies and ter
rorists.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
Railroads Are Accused
Of Excessive Charges

Charges of unjust, excessive and un-
reasonable freight rate. have been
lied with tine Interstate Commerce
Commission against the Atchison. t.
peka and Santa Fe. Missouri Pacific.
Great Northern, Chicago & NorthwC St
crn, Chicago. ST. Paul * Minneapolis
Chicago & Omaha. and the Chicago,
Burling gton & Quincy railrOad.'
The complainant is James 4. Coad.
dealer in oils and gasoline at Alton.
Iowa, and at Pipestone. Mui.. Nu-
merous instances of excessive freight
charges are cited, all Of which are
protested and request nade for Ie-
fund. Mr.. Coad demands an inves-
tigation and a hearing.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

advertisers and their readers on this ever on-rushng
current of progress there can be but one result for
the business men who use the columns of The
Washington Herald
The Herald, having the largest percentage Of
home circulation in the city of Washington, brings
to its readers the news and advertisements that are
fit for the home and family. To its advertisers
it brings the results
There is no yellow glare about this paper-t is
always steady glowing organize voice of the
people.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
IRON MASTERS COMING,

Price fixing OF iron and steel and
their products is made legal in an
important bill introduced by Senator
Pomerene, of Ohio. Hearings upon
the bill, at which some of the coun-
trys greatest iron masters will ap-
pear: will begin here Friday. septem-
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
NEED 100 MEN In DISTRICT

One hundred men are needed to fill
the Districts quota of 662 for the
reglar army, according to figures
given out by the Adjutant Generals
office yesterday. Five men were re-
cruited in two days, September Is
and 16. making the total of 562 men
recruited from the District.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
RECEIYERSHIP DISMISSED.

Justice Stafford, sitting in Equity
Court yesterday, dismissed the rule
against the Hutchinson Vapor Heat.
ing Corporation, issued in the suit
for injunction and receiver, recently
instituted by Edward A. Keys. a Bal
timore representative of the corpora.
ton. Attorney w. C. Sullivan ap.
peared for the corporation.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
A LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.
By John kcndrIck Bangs.
AS TO FOOLISHNESS,

Being foolish now and then
Is a privilege that men
Shouldn't really quite despise,
For all the foolishnesses old
All have helped us to the gold
OF the Wise.
All the nuggets of the Sage,
All the wisdom of the Age,
All our colleges and schools.
All the Teachers we have got,
Would be idle were it not
For the Fools
And besides for Man or Woman
Being foolish is so human!
Copyright. l9I7J
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

An American citizen named Osborne.
% years old. who has lived since
infancy in Costa Rica, has ar
rived in New York to see the country
whose flag is his own. We hope he
does not get homesick for Costa Rica.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
SENATE RECESSES.

In order to rea-range its legislative
program, the Senate recessed y-estcr-
day until Friday. \ disposition 20
ward an Adjournment sorle time IN
October is steadily growing.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

The Italian aviators now in the
United States have a new mark to
shoot at. for a Russian flyer has just
made a nonstop voyage of 800 miles
in eight hours.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Germany may give up all claims
on Belgium''-wouldn't be surprised if
the Huns gave up claims on a good
many other things.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Sixty-five thousand children enter
the schools Of the District. And it is
to keep them there. that many thou
sands are going "over there"
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Fifteen cent loaf of bread grain
dealers aim" Headline. Easy
enough to aim, but let's hope that
they're poor shots.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
What They Say at The Washington Herald
FORWARD

Always forward-al-
ways progressing
never lingering when
we know we are point
ed in the proper direc-
ton. That. in a nut
shell, is the secret of
success. Carrying the
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

At the rate Kerensky is making ar
rests in Russia. Siberia. emptied some
time ago by the dictator, will soon
become a thriving rural resort again.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Marshall Denounces War Obstruc-
tionists." Well-where.s the news IN
that? Everybody does.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

With a soap shortage threatened
We look for a sigh of relief from
that Hobo Union that was organized
some time ago.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
WILL TALK ON PATENTS.

meeting of the Kiwanis Club will
be held at the Cochran Hotel. tomor-
row afternoon at 1870. Joseph Milans
will deliver a talk on Patents" which
was postponed last week. Others i'm
sartAnt mattef will be discussed.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Guess it's bad war policy to make
fun Of the name of an ally. but what
can you do when you read Of Premier
Painleve?
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
MRS. SPEAKS GETS DIVORCE

Stelle +. Speakes was granted an
absolute divorce yesterday from Lev
]. Speakes, by a decree signed yes
tcrday afternoon by Justice Stafford.
The decree also allows the wife the
custody of their one child.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
VACATION HERALDs.

m vrshington herald will be mailed.
upun request, to regular subscribers on vacation.
ct their vacation address. anywhere IN the
United States or Canada. at the same % cents
per month rate, as they pas on delivery OF the
PAPER to their Washington address.
Give old As well as new address whAn Hr1tins'
and stare definitely how long the paper IL to &c
mailed md when to resume dts'erJ ct the
home addres-
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

"Teuton Peace Note to Be Theoret-
ical." says headline. Almost aca-
demic, one might say.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Add list of slackers-2S,O 90 strikers
at a Pacific naval yard.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

Queer. isn't it? A silver dollar will
soon be worth-just a dollar.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19
BAND CONCERT PROGRAM

Today at the Capitol. at $50 p. m. con-
cert by the United States Marine Band,
William Fl. Santelmann. leader.
March. The Boy Scouts Of America"
Won Bayer
Overture. "Fingals Cave. ...... .Mendelssohn
Ballet music. ''Coppelia" .Delibes
Cornet solo. la Reve 6'Amour" -. .Millars
Principal musician. Arthur s. Witcomb.
Waltz. "1n the Vienna Woods :. Strauss
Siegfried's funeral march, from The
Dusk Of the Gods" Wagner
"Reminiscences Of Weber. Godfrey
The Star Spargled Banner"
The audience is requested to stand. men
with hats removed. while the national air
is played
The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER l. 1911.
Milford chronicle., 1917-10-05
OCEAN VIEW.

Miss Mary C. Evans is attending
the Delaware WOmen's College a
Newark.
Mrs. Harry Jump and son Harry
of Atlantic City. visited her mother
Mrs. A. f. Burbage, this week.
Miss Catherine Tunnel is teaching
school near Bethel
Captain /. A. Burton has returned
from Philadelphia, where he purch-
ased fall goods.
Ulysses Evans. who holds posi-
tion at Middletown. mOtored here and
visited his parents on Sunday. Mr. O..
and Mrs. Henry Evans. Miss Carrie
Evans, accompanied him on his re-
turn as far as Delaware City.
Mrs. Edward Hickman entertained
the Larkin Club Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Ida Pennewill and Mrs. En-
ma Truitt were entertained on Sun
day for supper at the home of Mrs.
AlonzO Evans.
VIM. H. Belts visited friends in
Jersey City. n. j.. and Dr. James
Belts and family at Bloomsbury, n.
].
Edgar King of North Beach Coast
Guard Station visited his sister, Mrs.
George Keene, last week.
J. Horace DerricksOn and three
sons and Rev. G. 2. Sterling motor
ed to Philadelphia on Thursday.
Miss Cora Derrickson visited Mrs
Frances DerricksOn on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1917-10-05
MILLSBORO.

Mr.. and Mrs. George H. DOdd and
family spent Sunday with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. John DerricKsOn, near
StOckley.
Mrs. B Frank Jones accompanied
her son Jesse Jones, to Philadelphia
on Sunday, where he will take up a
course of study at the Pierce Busi-
ness School. Louis Ableman and
Floyd Lingo also left Sunday to at
tend school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pemrose Wilgus and
their son Arthur were Sunday visitors
of his father at Roxana.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Burton, Mrs.
Theodore Burton. Mrs. Elsie Lingo,
Mrs. Hettie Lingo and little daugh-
ter Helen, mOtored to Philadelphia
last week. and spent a few days.
Miss May Hickman, a teacher in
the Bridgeville schools, spent the
week end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. o. Hickman.
A fine baby boy arrived last Tues
day to make its home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Lingo.
The Ladies Aid held its monthly
meeting on Monday night at the home
of Mrs. ] S. Hickman.
Joseph K. Lingo is in Jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia, where he is
receiving surgical treatment.
Leroy Carey. who is attending the
Academy in Dover, spent the week
end with friends in town.
Mrs. Ella Dixon is spending a few
days with her children in Whining
ton.
Rev. J. L. Sparklin has begun the
series of revival services at Unity.
Rev. W. A. Ellis filled the pulpit
here last Sunday.
Miss Minnie Ableman has accepted
the Long Neck School and will begin
teaching there next Monday.
A meeting of the Red Cross was
held last Thursday afternoon at the
rectory for the purpose of making
comfort bags for the selected men of
this district.
Mr.. and Mrs John Lingo have
been spending a few days in Phila-
delphia this week.
Milford chronicle., 1917-10-05

The Ladies Aid Society of the NJ
E. Church met at the home of Mrs
Lizzie Quillen Tuesday evening.
Mrs Annie Belts was the guest OF
J. P. Belts and family on Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Gray and Mr. g..
and Mrs. H. C. Wagamon, Of Milton
motored heer on Sunday and called
on Mrs Annie James.
Captain and Mrs. Warren Evans
gave a supper on Saturday evening
to a number of guests.
Mrs. G.. F. McCabe will be the
leader at the Epworth League service
on Sunday evening in the NJ. E.
church Rally Day will be observed
on Sunday afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1917-10-05
BOWERS.

Any new enterprise that will give
employment to the working man is
always acceptable with us. Such an
enterprise is being inaugurated and
put in operation since October came
in, and it is one that meets the ap-
prOval OF all. The Milford Oyster
! Company has secured quarters suita-
Bile for their operations and have op-
ened up a shucking house that will
require dozen or more men to do
| their work. The enterprise opens
up market for the oysters caught in
our rivers, which amount TO hundreds
| Of bushels daily. When the oyster
men had to depend on the transcient
trade the supply was much greater
than the demand. But with the shuck-
ing house in operation the demand
from that source will give the oyster
men an excellent outlet. The season
for taking oysters from the waters
of these rivers opened on Monday of
this week. and many persons availed
themselves of the opportunity. The
oysters in these waters were never
better and more plentiful and the
majority of them are of large size and
single
sfAA AAOAAAeA9 ~ AANAAAAEugF ~ MAOoE
husband is engaged in work at Car
ney's Point, left her home here on the
goth of September for a visit with
him. While away her year old child
became critically i'll and died
The canning factory will about
close this week, so far as the canning
Of tomatoes is concerned but will
start next week and be engaged for
the next three or four weeks canning
pears.
Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson and
daughter and Mrs. L. Kruger, left
for the Philadelphia homes Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew Mitten.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Mitten, of near
Milford, were Sunday visitors at the
home of Alex Minner.
Miss Jenetta Salevan of near town.
left on Monday for Philadelphia,
where she expects to visit for an in
definite time.
W. S. Davidson spent a part of the
week in Philadelphia on business.
Mrs. Blanche E. Hubbard was
week end visitor in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lima Dare left for her home
in Philadelphia on Monday of this
week. after having spent two weeks
visiting relatives and friends in town.
Lemuel R. Rudderow of Philadel- !
phia, has sold his home on Canal
street to a Mr.. Peden of Essington.
Mrs. Helen LitZ, whose husband, |
Fred L. Litz was called to Camp Dix, |
having been selected in the selective !
draft, left for her new home in Ches- |
ter. Pa, on Monday of this week.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
Friday evening of this week at the
Johnson Hotel and be entertained by
Mrs. L. G. Johnson and Mrs. Will
liam M. Short. A full attendance of !
members Is desired.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M.
E. Church will give one of their !
famous oyster suppers and festivals |
on Saturday evening, the 9Th inst. !
in the Elizabethian Hall. Supper |
will be served from to 10. Aside |
from oysters in various ways prepar- |
ed and served la Bowers, the re-
mainder of the menu will consist of |
roast chicken, boiled ham, chicken |
salad, Delaware biscuit, coffee, pick !
les, spices, ice cream and cake, all at |
popular prices. The public is cor |
daily invited to meet with them and |
by their patronage aid in a good cause |
and by their presence spend an en-
joyable evening.