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The Washington times., 1917-04-19
REUNION FUNDS TO
BE- APPORTIONED
Executive Committee of Con.
federate Veterans Meets
Today.

Appropriations for the various fea-
lures of the twenty-seventh annual
reunion of Confederate Veterans, be-
ginning here June 4, will be author
lied at a meeting at 4:3o o'clock
this afternoon of the executive COM
mittee of the reunion at the Willard.
Col. Robert N. Harper will preside.
The funds now available for the
reunion are collected under gen
eral head and apportionment OF the
amounts to be expended for the par
ade, decorations, badges, motor trips.
and other features will be authorized,
Colonel Harper said.
Mrs. Cordelia p. Odenheimer, prest-
dent general of the United Daughters
of the Confsderacy, who has been
chosen matron of honor for the vet
Grams, announced today the appoint
ment of her star. It includes Miss
Mary Lee Custis, of Virginia.: Mrs.
George P. Harrison, of Opelika, Ala,
wife of the commander-in-chief OF
the veterans, and Mrs. Samuel Spen-
Ger, of the District
Colonel Harper announced today
the appointment Of the following
subcommfttees:
Committee on mounts-W. H Ma
honey, chairman; 8. II. Rogers, vice
chairman; L. p. Boteler, J. NJ. Cham
berlain, J. H. Corning, w. NJ Dougal,
R. o. Evans, L. w Glazebrook, George
w Harris, Charles Howser, w. n.
Klopfer, Alex. Mckenzie, William
Muehleisen, James T. Petty, H. L.
Rust, Thomas Somerville, John L.
Weaver.
Information committee-M. A Leese,
chairman: Charles J. Columbus. vice
chairman; 2. D. Blackiston, s. d. Cow
Ington, John d. Carmody. c. 1. Corby,
John Dolph, George w. Evans, Her
man Gasch, Fred s. Gischner, d. F.
Harris, George P. Hoover. Harry King.
w. H. Mcclure, C. K. Mount, w. H.
Parsons. Samuel Ross. Thomas w.
Smith, Harry Wardman.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
ASKSD.A. R. TO URGE
CONSUMPTION LAW
Mrs. Story counseIs Members
to Act-Wilson and Roose-
welt Cheered.

Declaring that Congress is blocking
President Wilson's selective conscrip-
ton plan to raise an adequate fighting
force, Mrs. William Cumming Story.
president general Of the D. A. R, today
urged the members Of that organization
to exert their influence to effect enact
ment Of the legislation.
Mrs. Story said the D. A R approved
universal military training. The society
adopted a second resolution to that ef-
feet last night. and the daughters should
write or call, upon Congressmen and
Senators and demand that the conscrip-
ton bill be passed. she declared.
The daughters were exhorted to work
for the passage Of the bill following
several addresses on preparedness. The
speakers included William Aather
Lewis. John Barrett. Miss Grace Parker,
John Temple Graves. Lieut. Goldwin
Lloyd Faulkner Of the British Flying
Corps. and Mrs. Algernon Sartoris.
Lieutenant Faulkner almost broke up
the meeting when he asserted: you
have two great men in this country
woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roose-
velt"
The daughters stood up, cheering,
clapping their hands and waving
flags for several moments. While
the demonstration was equally in
favor OF the President and Colonel
Roosevelt, this was the second time
during the day mention of the former
Presidents name had provoked
stormy applause. Earlier in the day
he was cheered to the echo for his
letter in behalf of French orphans.
Don't get the idea that Germany
is beaten" said Lieutenant Faulkner.
Germany is powerful-very, very
powerful The war is only begin
ming. II you knew what I know
about Germany's strength, you'd
thrill yourselves awake. 1t will not
be enough for America to pay the
price of war ships, money and sup
plies. America must pay in blood"
John Barrett, director general OF
the Pan-American Union, informed
the daughters that South America
and Central America are largely pro-
ally, but added that some parts were
badly Germanized."
Touching on preparedness, John
Temple Graves said:
I'VE have not enough machine guns
and cannons to equip 1000 men.
This is not due TO the present attitude
Of our national leaders, but to the
terrible apathy that has prevailed
during the past
The best OF all guarantees for peace
is preparation for war and 1t is the
mission Of the woman gathered here
for this congress to take back to
their men the message that America
must prepare and continue to pre-
pare"
All OF the speakers on prepared
ness were warmly applauded.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
D. A. R. TO HEAR ENJOYS
Invitations Extended to French apd
English Ministers.

Members OF the French and Eng
lish commissions sent to the United
States to confer on war plans will be
invited to address the Daughters Of
the American Revolution in Memorial
Continental Hall.
On motion of Mrs. George c.
SQuires, candidate for president gen
eral, the congress adopted q resolu-
ton providing that Arthur Balfour,
British foreign secretary; General
Joffre, former commander of the
French forces in the western theater
OF war In Europe, and other distin-
guished members of the commission
be. invited to make addresses to the
daughters.
The motion was carried by an en-
thusiastic vote.
After making this motion, Mrs.
Squires announced she had just con-
tributed 500 to help pay OF the debt
on the hall. This announcement from
the candidate was responsible for an
other noisy demonstration.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
uNHoRsED BY AUTOMOBILE.

Mounted Policeman J. II. B. Swain,
Eleventh precinct, was thrown from
his horse and injured when struck
by an automobile operated by Martin
Frydell, 1928 c street southeast, on
the Pennsylvania avenue bridge
southeast shortly after midnight.
Justice William Hitz, Of the District
Supreme Court, and Mrs. Hitz were
cut by flying glass when their auto
mobile collided with a car of the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company at Four-and-a-hAlf street
and the Mall shortly after o o'clock
last night. The judges car was dam
aged.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
MRS LEWIS REToRTS SOME
candIate for Chief D. A. r. Office
RepIIea to "steaIIna" Charge.

In reply to the charges made yes
terday Sy Mrs. Guernsey that Mrs.
James Hamilton Lewis had attempt
ed to "steal" some of the candidates
on the formers ticket, Mrs. Lewis
today made this statement:
After consulting many OF my
friends and officials of the admins
tration as to the propriety of such
q thing, I decided to place Mrs. CAL
houn, of South Carolina. upon my
ticket. Mrs. Calhoun also was on
Mrs. Guernsey's ticket. did this be-
cause / wanted to assure the cleo
tion Of Mrs. Calhoun, who is a South
Carolinian, as am 1. desired to
make her election doubly sure, even
II 1 were defeated. and thus confer
honor upon both Mrs. Calhoun and
our State.
Il was shocked and panied at the
reputation Of some of the candi-
dates who had been served in this
way"
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
PRISONER ABLAZE.

The cry OF "FireT rang through the
corridors OF the Eighth precinct sta
tion house last night, and policemen
found Ernest Robinson, colored, In
the center Of his cage, his shirt
ablaze. Policemen beat out the fire,
probably caused by q cigarette. The
prisoner was transferred to Washing
ton Asylum Hospital
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
Removes Hairy Growths
Without Pain or Bother
Modes of TodaYl

It Is not necessary to use a painful
process to remove hairy growths, for
with a little delatone handy you can
keep the skin entirely free from these
beauty destroyers. To remove hair,
make a stiff paste with a little pow
dered delatone and water. Spread this
on the hairy surface. and in about .
minutes rub OF, wash the skin, and
the hairs are gone. To guard against
disappointment, be careful to get real
deIatone-Advt.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
OLDEST DAUGHTER" IS 1o7
Mrs. NelIIs' Father Was In General
Washinaton's Bodysuard.

Asterogen Chapter, d. A. R, OF
Great Falls, N Y, boasts OF having
the only real living Daughter of the
American Revolution" among its mem
bers.
The "real Daughter" Is Mrs. Susan
ma Stanton Nellis, of Naples, N. Y.
She Ia 107 years old, and her father
was a member of General Washing
tons body guard.
Although unable to attend the
twenty-sixth congress of the D. A.
R., Mrs. NeIlis sent greetings to the
Daughters through the regent of AS
terogen chapter.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
BALLOTING WEARIES
D. A. R. CONGRESS
Delegates Feel That Many Bal
lots for Officers Will Be
Necessary.
CONTINUED from First Page)

NCOn11nueQ from FlrSI -FdBo.l
bined to prevent Mrs. Guernsey from
being put over on the first or any
other ballot"
To prevent Mrs Guernsey from get
ting 6SI ballots it would be necessary
for each of the other three to hold
225 votes. Spokesman for the three
aspirants said they had the necessary
225 and more.
Leaders of the administration
forces, who have lined up solidly be-
hind Mrs James Hamilton Lewis,
wife of the Senator from Illinois,
whom Mrs. William Cumming Story,
president general, is supporting,
were anxious for announcement Of
the first ballot results. They said
they did not expect to elect her on
the first ballot, but that she would
pick up a great many votes on sub
sequent ballots.
Adherents OF Mrs. John Miller Hor-
ton were absolutely sanguine that she
would be the next president general
They based their confidence upon the
belief that a compromise candidate
would win.
Mrs. Squires Runs Well
Mrs. George C. SQuires was reported
to be polling q much larger vote than
was expected on the first ballot. Her
supporters said "she is bound to win"
The delegates are balloting for officers
to serve three years instead of for two
years, as in previous elections. A change
In the constitution increased the terms
Of officer by one year. without possibil-
ity Of reelection
Friends Of Mrs. J. Charles LInthicum,
- Ill g.
bining In voting for her as vice presi-
dent general
Because of the absence Of so many
delegates from the hall. victims Of
fatigue inconsequence Of yesterdays
tempestous. dramatic, and lengthy ses-
sions, little or no business was trans
acted before noon
The handful present, however. voted
unanimously to turn over all available
space in Memorial Continental Hall to
the Red Cross, at the suggestion Of Sec
retary OF War Baker, when the present
Congress adjourns. The space will be
used for offices and storage rooms. Mrs.
E g. Boone. Of Kentucky, Immediately
asked that the Red Cross be invited to
use the Kentucky room first This
brought forth storm of applause.
Pleads for the Indians.
Mrs. Story announced that a report
printed to the effect that $50, 900 was
due on the Memorial Continental Hall
was erroneous, and that the amount
due at the beginning OF the present
congress was only $4,000.
Mrs. Rhett Goode, vice president
general OF Alabama, asked the Daugh-
ters to send 5000 petitions to Con-
gress demanding that the lawmakers
pass President Wilson's selective con-
scription bill.
Mrs. Walter Roe, attired in the pic
turesque costume OF an Indian squaw,
made an impassioned plea for assist
ance for an Indian school IN Wichita,
Kan. She declared the United States
had ''bungled the job of handling the
Indian problem" and at is up to the
Daughters OF the American Revolu-
tion and other patriotic people to
right the wrongs perpetrated upon
the original Americans"
Mrs. E. G. Boone, State regent of
Kentucky, gave the congress several
hundred large engraved cards bear
ing an American flag and IAN oath
to the flag" She was warmly
thankA5 by Mrs. Story for the gift
The Washington times., 1917-04-19

-of Wool Poplin and
Serge, In tan, navy, Co
penhagen, and checks.
Belted. plain. and plait-
ed styles. In misses and
women's sizes.
Only twenty saifs-buf
each very special at Ss.zs.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
BISHOP HARDING TO CONFIRM.

Bishop Harding will hold a con-
firmation service and will preach at
St Matthews Chapel, NJ and Half
streets southeast, tonight at s o'clock.
The Washington times., 1917-04-19
20 SALOONS IN cHIcAeo7

CHICAGO, April 1e.-All Chicago
saloon licenses except twenty expire
May 1, and a committee of "drys"
has asked Mayor Thompson, on ac-
count OF the war, not to reissue them.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19
MARRIAGE
By Rev. W. A. M. Plaxco
1Continued from last week.l

fContInued from last week.
Marriage is eminently conducive to
the interest of the church Of God.
When entered into, when regulated by
biblical law, marriage shuts out many
evils. of which even to think should
crimson the cheeks with the blush of
shame - evils everywhere condemned
in the scriptures-evils always sub
yersive of thrift, good order, quiet
ness and harmony in society. The
name of these evils is legion, for they
are many. They are secret, and they
are open; they are insidious, and they
are impudent; they torment men and
thew provoke God. All of them i'm
pair both physical and mental energy,
waste health and deprave morals, pol
lutte the mind and Danish Christianity
ity from any community where they
become prevalent.
But the prevention of these dire
evils is not all the good accomplished
bv marriage in the cause of Christian
ity. For it is only in communities
where marriage is properly regarded
that we are able to make the most
solemn and powerful appeals in be-
half of virtue and piety. Who has
ever listened to the passionate APP
meals of ministers of the gospel adj
dressed to husband and wife, parent
and child, brother sister, to pray and
labor for each others salvation, or to
come and 60 with the pious members
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19

marriage relation. See l Cor. 7:1-15
But this is a much contested passage
There are two preliminary consider
atoms which throw some light on it.
First, the apostle had to speak
about marriage as he found it. Hence
he makes no allusion to that which
is the main argument for, and the
only justifying motive to marriags,
viz, love.
Secondly, not only had the apostle
to speak of marriage as he found it;
but he was giving answers to some
disputed questions, and not discuss
ing the subject in all of its phases.
The questions referred to him re-
solve themselves into two: ()
Whether the unmarried are to marry;
and (2) whether the married are to
continue to live together as husband
and wife.
First, then, we have the apostles
answer in regard to the unmarried.
When he says, Let every man have
his own wife, and let every woman
have her own husband, do not mis-
understand him; for this is permission
he is giving them, not commandment.
He does not say you must or ought to
marry; he says you may, and in GER
tain circumstances you ought. This
advice of the apostle proceeds, not
from Essenic or ascetic tendency, but
from the practical bias Of his mind.
He did not conceive of marriage as a
morally inferior condition; but, on the
contrary, he saw in it the most per-
feet symbol Of the union Of Christ and
the Church.
Second, we have the apostles an
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19

Prophet Malachi makes one of those
broad spiritual utterances which SO
distinguish his prophecy. To him
the fatherhood of God is, not merely
a relation of power and authority, re-
quiring reverence from the nation, but
one which constitutes the individuals
of the nation one brotherhood. Yet,
on account of the criminal and unnat-
ural cruelty of divorce, he declares
that the altar Of the Lord was so COW
cred with the tears Of the wronged
women that the gifts were no longer
acceptable in His sight. He exposes
their feigned ignorance and innocence
implied in their words, "Yet We say,
Wherefore ?" and assures them that
they can not hide their sins in this
matter behind the specious semblanee
of ignorance and innocence. Because
the Lord hath been witness between
thee and the wife of thy youth,
against whom thou hast dealt un-
faithfully: yet she is thy companion,
and the wife Of thy covenant. And
did not He make one? Yet had He
the residue of the spirit. And where
fore one? That He might seek a
godly seed. Therefore, take heed to
your spirit, and let none deal unfaith-
fully against the wife of his youth.
For / hate divorce, saith Jehovah, God
of Israel, and that a man cover his
wife with cruelty, saith Jehovah, of
Hosts. So take heed to your spirit,
and deal not faithlessly." No higher
word on marriage he's been spoken
except by Christ, Himself. It breathes
the spirit of our Lords utterance, and
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19

we might almost say without doing
violence to the scripture that, in a
prophetical ways it anticipated the
letter.
The prevalence of divorce claims in
creasing attention of all who love
home, country and church. 1t is to be
feared that we are growing into too
great complaisance with legal separa-
ton of husband and wife. In one of
our county courts, few months ago,
we were told that there were forty
one applications for divorce. Let us
beware, lest, after the sad example of
revolutionary France, we be drawn
into the whirlpool mania of divorce
The Able Gregoire, speaking of the
statute of DIVORCE said: "This law
will soon ruin the whole nation"
Legislative enactment should con-
form to the teaching of the bible on
the subject of divorce. In Matthew,
5:S1, 32; 1879, our Lord Jesus Christ
explicitly states that divorce, except
in the case of fornication, is a certain
breach of the seventh commandment.
According to the word and will of God
in the original law of the institution
of marriage, nothing can violate the
bonds Of marriage and justify divorce
between man and wife, but the defil-
ing of the marriage bed by fornica-
ton.
Another case, clearly settled by the
Apostle Paul, according to the general
concensus Of judgment of the Christ
ian world, is that of wilful desertion;
that is, where one party persistently
refuses to perform the duties of the
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19

of their own family to their promised
inheritance, that has not felt that
there was chord that might be made
to vibrate in such way that all, who
were not "past feeling, must know
its power?
Moreover, where there is no proper
marriage, there is no family religion.
In all such cases, the children grow
up without proper moral and religious
training in the home. They are not
taken to the house of God. They are
not taught to revere the name of God
and to respect and love the ordinances
of His sanctuary, neither by the pre-
cept nor pious example of their pa
rents. The longer / live, and the
more | see of the operation Of moral
causes, the more ! am convinced that
the Christian home is the rock-bed
foundation of society," state, and
church: and that God designs to reno
vate society, Christianize the nation,
and perpetuate the church by family
religion. Indeed, according to the
teaching of the scripture, the great
design of preserving marriage pure
between one man and one woman is
the propagation of true religion
throughout the world. But where the
institution and biblical law of mar
riage is prostituted the domestic altar
is never reared except to sacrifice
to devils.
In his second chapter, writing Of
his countrymen's criminal and fire.
quent divorce of their native wives, in
order to marry into influential fami-
lies Of their heather neighbors, the
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19
PERSONAL MENTION

Mr.. R. C. Omar, of Fulton, KY,
was visitor here Tuesday.
Mr.. F. B. Bradford, of Gates, visited
this city Sunday.
Mr.. w. P. Crider, of Jackson, Tenn,
was in the city Monday.
Mrs. A. S. Hull, of Memphis, came
up Monday on visit to her daughter,
Mrs. Paul Hull.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Hewett and Mrs.
H. C. Pittman, Of Rosemark, were Wis
itors here Tuesday.
Mr.. j. L. Webster, of Jackson,
Tenn, was the guest of the family of
his brother-in-law, Mr.. P. D, Cothran,
Tuesday.
Messrs. ]. H. Flippin, E. L. Worrell,
T. 0. Bond and 7. J. Dumas motored
through the country to Brownsville
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Stitt, after
visit to the family of Mr.. j. d. Hall
for thre weeks, returned to their home
in Union City Tuesday.
Mr.. C. T. Booker, of Mason, and lit
tie grandson, Thomas Runnells, Of
Chattanooga, Okla, were visitors here
Tuesday.
Mrs. Marion Hall, Of Memphis, af-
ter visit to the family of Mr.. o. S.
Hall in the Mt. Carmel nieghborhood,
home Friday.
Mr.. ]. j. Erwin, of Pine Top, Harde-
man county, arrived Saturday on
visit to his sons, Messrs. Will and J. j.
Erwin, of the Solo neighborhood.
Miss Eunice Brigham, who is in the
nurse-training school at the Gartley-
Ramsey hospital in Memphis, came up
night to spend day with
her aunt, Mrs. ]. F. Ports, and also
a few days with her mother, Mrs. F.
A. Brigham. Miss Brigham returned
to Memphis Tuesday night
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19

This five passenger Maxwell stock touring
car running 22O12 mlesA and n9hs-WITHOUT
A MOTOR STOP, AND WITHOUT ANY REPAIRS OR ADJUST
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-19

There Maxwell daily which have already
$780, 900 miles Think of ore than 20 years OF average drne
There Maxwell the mountains and in sections where
there rough roads roads, that have gone miles
$4,000 miles that would wreck and to pieces
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-08
ct NIiNNTEES ARE DEMANDED
ny THE GERMAN GOVERN NMI;N1

Luuduo, Feb. N.-Thc ,icrmap gov
crnmcnt viii Require guarantees that
Count Won Bcrnstorn former amhas.
sador at Washington and the men ON
German ships boz American ports viii
be permitted to leave the United
States before allowing Ambassador
Gerard and other Americans in Ger
many to depart from that country. nc-
Cording TO the Copenhagen Politikcu.
% quoted in Reuter- dispatch from
that city
Dispatches reporting that Germany
is holding Mr. Gerard and nal Amcri-
cans In Germany q, hostages for the
safe return OF Count Nou Bcrnstorft
and large number OF Germans.
eclipscd ali other news in the Lon
don e, cnng papers today. Talk ia
the streets soon became focused ON
4 possible resultant dcN cNeiopmcnt-.
The general opinion here was that
there probably would be no iusupci
able objections uu the part ~ the
allies Co the granting of a snfc CON
duct to Count Won Brrnstorn nut that
/ II was unlikely any such safe conduct
| would bc extended Co considerable
number of Germans whether uhical'
| or civilians
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-08
GERARD De tanned IN
GERMANY UNTIL Won
bERNSTORFF SAILS
Sensational Reports Abroad Lead
to Temporary Detention of
Americans; Ambassador Still at
Berlin and Not at Berne.

49, Associated Press
Washington FEB. 4 Ambas ssador
Gerard. American consuls aud the
American sailors brought in on the
prize ship Nnrowdale. are beng held
in Germany until assurances have
been received from hers as To- the
safe departure of Count Won Bern
sturn and the German consuls and
the safety Of German war bound ships
In thls country Ambassador Gerard
is still az berlin and not al Bernr.
Switzerland. a. was reported II was
said at the state department today
that sensational reports have become
current IN Germany that the German
shipy here have been conhscatcd and
their crews pcized Pending conhr-
nation, Germany has detained the
Americans.
Officials here are Inclined to min
!mizc the Importance % the detention
because they believe II largely has
arisen from a misunderstanding and
soon viii be straiVhtcucd out
Probably l50 Americans are affect
ed .l the American embassy at Ber-
In and twenty-five consulates In Ger
many. the four .u Belgium and the
one at Warsaw