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Evening star., 1917-11-11
RETAIL MERCHANTS
HOSTS TO SOLDIERS
Patriotic Dinner Occasion for
Endorsement of Guest
Program.
FOR BIRTHDAY INVITATION

All the enthusias site zeal of the Retail
Merchants Association is pledged to
further home hospitality for soldiers,
sailors and marines on Thanksgiving
day and many times thereafter. All
members of the association are called
upon by r. 2. Andrews. their president.
not only to throw open their own
homes. but to encourage their business
associates and neighbors SO to do.
This most emphatic promise of coop
GRAFTON in the project of The Star to
have service men in every home on the
holiday at dinner, and thus promote
friendships between the homes and the
camps. is an outgrowth of the patriotic
demonstration at the patriotic dinner
of the association Thursday night The
organization at that time officially in
dorsed The Stars program by inviting
enlisted men from all branches of the
military service to dine with them.
President Andrews Enthusiastic.
In speaking last night of the intention
of the Retail Merchants Association to
encourage in every way possible home
hospitality, not only on Thanksgiving
day, but many times thereafter, Mr.. An
drewS said:
Members of the Retail Merchants As
sociation gave a thorough demonstration
at their patriotic dinner meeting of the
desire of this organization to cooperate
heartily in the plan to entertain soldiers
in the home on holidays, beginning with
Thanksgiving. and, in fact. as many
other periods as possible during the war
The merchants of Washington were
stirred by the fighting men of our nation
and those of our allies as never before.
IN nj n
chants generally, whether members Of
the Retail Merchants Association or not,
to take steps in their own way to have
one or more soldiers, sailors or marines at
their fireside for the coming Thanksgiv-
ing day. and for as many Saturdays and
Sundays and future holidays as they can
arrange for.
81 know full well that If our people will
those who are familiar with the soldiers
they will find any number OF men who
will be an ornament to their family
table. Beyond this is the assurance that
there is no service that We can render
the individual soldier, sailor or marine
than by inviting them to our homes and
making them happy by permitting them
to enjoy for time the human side OF
the home. We must realize that these
men have all been suddenly drawn from
the home and placed in surroundings that
are new and untried.
Certainly it is the least that we, who
are fighting on the back of the line. can
do to share with those who are making
such a profound sacrifice in the cause
of humanity in our personal behalf.
Through the entertainment of the
soldiers in the home. as has been so
fittingly suggested by The Star. I am
sure that we will be able to accommo-
date thousands where, through any
other plan, we would reach a few and
leave the many.
IT know that many of my brother
merchants are doing this already, but
trust that from now on they Will
make this a regular practice-entertain
the soldier, sailor or marine In the
home on holidays and over Sunday"
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Makes Plea for Volunteers.

We would like to make plea. not
only for our boys, but for all the boys
who have volunteered. who went and
are going because their country needed
them, and who did not wait to be
drafted.
We hear a great deal about the
GRATED force, and all honor to them
and we take off our hats to them; we
cannot pay them too high a tribute
but can't we also remember the VOL
unteer. Can we not give him little
praise and remember his sacrifice and
loyalty?
I'VE are not saying this because Just
pur two boys have gone, but because
we feel and realize what the volunteer
boy will think and what he will have
. right to think when he sees and
knows what has been said and done:
and should we not give each one the
praise justly due him, and make him
teel that We appreciate him and what
he is doing for us?
volunteer. as well as the drafted man.
9eel we are standing back of him: that
we, too. are sacrifcing: that we are
keeping the home fires burning and
That we are trying to make and keen
our United States fit place to which
ne can return: place where he can
Qnd comfort and cheer when he comes
nome with a shout of victory won, the
consciousness of duty well done. and
that he has had part in giving the
world liberty and peace that will
last
Evening star., 1917-11-11
PROUD Of HAVING
MENFOLK ENLISTED
Three D. C. Families Send Roll
to Red Cross Gift
Editor.
A WORD FOR VOLUNTEERS
A WORD FOR VOLUNTEERS

Each Washington youth who
has gone to serve sswith the COLI
Ora." whether he Is soldier,
sailor or marine. with n flying
unit or an ambulance corps. will
get Christmas present from the
District Chapter of the Red Cross.
Names nnd addresses of the
men In service should be written
with the utmost care or printed.
The names and addresses of rela-
tives or friends sending in these
names for registration should
also he given.
Write nIl names carefully and
send to:
Red Cross Gift Editor.
The Evening Star, Washington.
ID. 4.
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Government Workers Plans.

The thousands of workers in the
government service are moblllzing to
show how they honor the enlisted men.
With the women of the Department of
the Interior setting a notable example.
the employees of other government de-
partments have consulted with the sol7
dier guest editor of The Star as to hoF
they can best cooperate in making
this Thanksgiving day one ever to be
remembered by all the soldiers. sailors
and marines near Washington.
The utmost care will be taken to see
that the home" spirit is preserved
throughout this display of hospitality.
Those who have organized these efforts
say that> the most appealing feature
will be not SO much the dinner that
is provided for the soldier or sailor
guests as the warmth of hospitality
and the home greeting, the family as
sociation and the consequent realiZa-
tion that their uniform is badge Of
honor.
The highest officers of the govern
ment service, civilian and military,
heartily indorse the plans for home
hospitality. To prove 1t they are In
vi:ing enlisted men to their own homes.
AS the members of Congress are re-
turning to the city they take up
the service from their home states and
extend to them invitations not only to
Thanksgiving dinner, but to Sunday
dinners.
chants of the city are taking in this
the soldier guest editor that any one
who hasn't a talking machine In his
home and who wants one Thanksgiving
day to help entertain soldier or sailor
guests can have the use of one free
with his compliments.
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Boys Birthday Party.

The interest that children are ak
ing in this effort to make the service
men feel at home and to do them honor
is particularly interesting. Here is a
little boy who does not feel that his
birthday celebration would be the real
thing this year unless he has soldiers
to help him eat his birthday cake. So
his mother, Mrs. Anna L. Jackson, Vir-
ginia Highlands. writes:
"My little boy wants two soldiers to
eat Thanksgiving dinner with him. 1t
will also be his birthday. and he wants
to tell the boys he will have a cake
with ten candles. We live in Virginia
Highlands. which is midway between
Washington and Alexandria,"
Some other letters received by the
soldier guest editor follow:
From Mrs. r. w. Fuller, 1927 10th street
northwest:
Il would like to invite two soldiers to
my home guests for Thanksgiving day.
I want them to come with a feeling that
to have a party of young people and can
promise n pleasant time. Dinner will be
served at 1:30, SO l want them to come
in time for dinner. prepared to stay for
supper. and spend the evening. will
consider it an honor to have chance to
entertain some of Uncle Sans soldier
boys
From Mr. and Mrs J. H. Hartly. 1902
street northwest:
1--WE shall be pleased to have two of our
soldier or sai'nr boys for dinner on
Thanksgiving day. Dinner will be served
about 3 O'Clock and the rest of the even
ing will be spent in music and dancing.
and they will be entertained to the best
of our ability. Give them my card and
tell them they are welcome"
Others who are eager to have service
men assigned to their homes include:
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Eckhardt, 114O
18th street northwest ca.
VI
lu1nbia road northwest (2).
Mrs Emma Iimell. East Woodford.
Fairfax county. Va. (2).
Besides these there is a long list of
Washington people awaiting a chance to
show the home spirit to these who wear
the uniform.
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Trocs No. Is-SunnOwer-I1eut Flea
nor Putzkl. commander.

"A meeting was held ny the glr1s OF
this troop in the Webster School
last week. and the following officers
elected: first senior patrol leader.
Josephine McConaghy; treasurer. Zenai-
da Bailey: scribe. Jennie Phillips: flag
bearer Eva bailey: doctor. Genivieve
Hamille and historian. Gle Hollander.
The girls are preparing to knit wash
cloths aud various other articles. for
thc soldier boys."-Jennie Phillips.
Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-11-11

"A very proud sister," Miss Helen Z.
McTwisgan, 24o9 18th street north
west. is candidate for the honor
roll of Washington families which The
Star is making of those who have Civ
en- their men folk generously to the
service of the United States. She en-
rolls the names of three brothers:
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Three Brothers Enlisted.

JNe Navy,
Sergt Thomas l.. McTwiggan and
Sergt. Russell y. McTwiggan. in the
repair unit at Camp Meigs. this city.
These boys are descendants OF a line
of lighters she writes Their great
grandfather, grandfather and father
were veterans of the civil war. These
boys have served in the United States
Navy and were in the Mexican and
Santo Domingo campaigns,
Have we not a roll OF honor" she
concludes.
Two Uncles in Service.
Boosting of two uncles in the service.
Miss Martha Allen has registered their
names:
Henry L. Pitts. radio electrician. L. s.
S. Pennsylvania.
Louis H. Nance. third-class electri-
clan. u. S. A.. transport Tenedores.
Each has given himself to our dear
country" she writes. Louis deserves
fourth trip to France and has just
reached his twenty-first birthday" In
referring to the Red Cross gifts she
says: Il am sure they will enjoy a
ing remembered by their home folks"
The spirit of pride felt by the folks
at home in having their sons in the
service and the opinion that honor
should be shown to those. who have
gone forward as volunteers is expressed
in a letter from S. F. Shrout. 1868 +
street northeast. who has sent i'll the
names of his two sons who are Serv-
ing in Uncle Sans Navy. They are:
Shrout Boys Volunteers.
Clarence H. Shrout. care Army and
Navy Y. NJ. c. A. armed guard. Brook
1yn. n. Y.
Roscoe NJ. Shrout, L. s. s. Texas.
care postmaster, New York.
They enlisted in April as soon as the
United States entered the war.
The fathers letter is as follows:
Clarence has been to France twice
first time on a transport, the next time
on merchant ship. and we think he
Is on his way again. He is first-class
gun pointer and has seen actual serv-
ice. He is nineteen years old.
Roscoe is aboard the Texas. He.
too. is gun pointer and is ready to
go into the armed guard. He. to use
his words. is standing by and hopes
to go soon. He is sixteen years old
The boys are proud to have the
privilege of serving their country and
fighting for the flag they have been
taught to honor. respect and love, and
TO fight for democracy. liberty and
Veace
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Daisy Troop. No. u-Mrs. Norman
Jones. C0Dt2in.

Jones'. Captain.
The troop met last Friday night at
the home of the captain. Semaphore
was practiced and several girls who are
shortly to take their second class test
were questioned on points regarding
that test. The annual election of patrol
leaders and corporals was held. and the
following girls were eleced: Patrol
leader for Patrol No. l. Florence Der
rick. corporal for Patrol No. I. Julia
Jones: patrol leader for Patrol No. 2
Mary Burke: corporal for Patrol No. 2
Rosalie Galliher."-Florence Derrick
Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-11-11
Troop I9-Red Poppy-Mrs. r. p. Will
l,nra faln

cox. Captain.
''rhe troop met Thursday at the resi-
dence of the captain. Mrs. L. Z. Will
cox The two patrols elected officers.
The leader of patrol is Gertrude
Skinner; corporal, Adelaide Woodford ::
Patrol B. Dorothy Cohen. leader. and
Julia May Sommers. corporal. The
treasurer is Evelyn Hodge and the
scribe. Kathryn Franks. Four new
scouts have been admitted to the troop.
They are Katherine and Eliza beth
Griffith, Virginia Morgan and Kather-
ine Poindecllster The troop is plan
ming a hike for Saturday. Among the
matters discussed was the war
kitchen."-kathryn Franks, Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-11-11

William F. GUIDE has been invited 10
deliver an address to members. .,oa OF the ne
cerberv es,lb school Alumni Association; Ii;sS 10
Sa' be held Saturday at Eastern asaI on h,6e t6e
School Mr.. GUIDE is ,na to speca cnntinuins
need of young Americans
III air education.
Evening star., 1917-11-11

a,rol1ed at Business. This was orousA
o,,t ~, a recent census taken uhoe'
49,, a;rect,on of Principal Allan Davis
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
Hoover's Single-Mindedness

When Herbert c. Hoover has a Job
in hand he is apt to have rather
single-minded purpose. In Belgium
he developed the idea that the reason
he was there was to feed the Bel
gians. And that idea was life-pre-
server for the Belgian people. Few
men have ever had the temptations
that were given Hoover to throw
down a task. When the situation be-
came completely hopeless Hoover
was wont to remark, But we must
remember that we are here to feed
the Belgians," and grit his teeth and
go on working. Sometimes the provo
cations became so intolerable for
some of the other Americans that
after working upon one another's
feelings thew would decide that the
time had come to stop the whole bus
iness as punishment to the Germans
or to some set of persons. But it
never went any further than that,
for a few words from Hoover were
always enough to put everybody back
on even keel and to cause them to
wonder that with millions of inno-
cent lives at stake they could have
thought of anything so preposterous
as abandoning the great work they
were privileged to share in.-Hugh
Gibson. in the Century.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
Wasting Coal
[Chicago News. ]

War, the well-known twentieth
century educator. perhaps, will teach
us how to eliminate the smoke null
sance. 1t promises. at any rate, to
effect this marvel, and the threat of
a coal shortage should prove sharp
goad in the f1anks of wasteful fuel
users.
The United States Bureau of Mines
asserts that fully $500, 100000, or
one-fourth the issue of Liberty Loan
bonds, was wasted last year in this
country through the inefficient use of
coal" This declaration is approved
by the federal department of the in
terror.
Director Manning. of the Bureau
of Mines, estimates that many small
power stations which generate cleo
tricity get only about one-half as
much energy out of the coal con-
sumed by them as efficient power
plants obtain from a similar amount
OF fuel. Steam plants, he thinks,
make so poor a showing that the
average energy developed is only b
or per cent. of the potential energy
in the coal burned by them.
Here Is presented an inviting and
profitable field for investigation and
experiment. Owners of power plants
ought TO secure from the federal
bureau of mines it's various reports
on fuel saving methods. Then they
should set themselves seriously to
work to increase the efficiency OF
their furnaces and boilers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
AHEAD OF THE TIMES
: ARRISBURG is again a little
ahead of the times in the mat
tor of thrift In tho schnnl

T ARRISBURG is again a little
III ahead of the times in the mat
ter of thrift in the school
pom. The school banking system
Introduced by Superintendent F. e.
Rownes and then President A. Car
pm Stamm is recommended for
doption elsewhere.
According to dispatch from New
ork, America will be the first ma
on in the world to rewrite her text
ooks so that the school children of
his country will be taught thrift. Ac-
prding to an announcement by the
hrift Education Committee of the
ational Education Association, rad
al innovations in the American
Fhool curricula are about to take
lace.
The lives of James j. Hill, Mar
hall Field, John Wanamaker and
ther great American business men
Fill be studied in the schools, and
ext books on arithmetic, history,
Nclll B'olllOllt uOlllCSllN
cience and household economics
fill be subjected to radical changes.
or the first time in the history of
he world, thrift and personal ef-
cheney will be given scientific con-
liberation in the class room. Not the
hrift of mere money saving, but
he broader thrift of individual pre-
aredness for practical life will be
aught, declares the committees s
'tatement
This is the sweeping significance
! 4 the resolutions adopted by the
National Council of Education at
IS meeting in Portland last week.
Fhe resolutions were written and pre-
ented by S. w. Straus, of New
ork, president of the American So
/ siety for Thrift. They point out that
n account of the war America must
rom now on eliminate waste of ev-
7ry character; that President Will
on's first message to the public
! fter the declaration of war was on
thrift; that the only way to safe
guard the economic future of the ma
ion is through better understand
ing of thrift, which can be made
possible only through the school
toom, and that at the forthcoming
'neeting of the Council of Education
n Atlanta, Ga, the school organiza-
ion will be expected to have before
I a comprehensive plan for the
practical study of thrift in the
.chools of America.
The plan as worked out here is
hot so comprehensive as that sug-
|kuested, but it is step in the right
direction and indicates that the
kchool executives of the city have
been thinking along modern, pro-
|gressive lines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
Four Million Aliens
Knoxville Journal and Tribun

Knoxville Journal and Tribune.1
There are four million aliens in
the United States. that Is unnatural
lied foreigners. Many of them have
resided in the country for years with
out making any attempt at natural
ization. They do not mean to become
Americans, they did not mean to ever
be Americans when they came here.
They came for no other reason than
they thought 1t was easier for them
to make money here than 1t was in
the land of their birth.
Many of them came for jobs in
American industrial establishments,
some of whom may have been given
employment for the reason they were
willing to work for lower wages than
that expected by native employees. 1t
is more than possible that some of
the labor troubles we have had in
this country might have been traced
to the presence of these aliens.
1t may be said of the presence of
aliens in the country. who have come
with no intention of becoming Ameri-
cans. some of them at this time are
source of concern. Not all of them
are enemies Of the country. n ma
1ority of them doubtless are not, but
of course they have less interest in
the success of the nation in the war
than those who have been born here
and who have lived here all their
lives
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
Propaganda-Or Hysteria?

The credulity of those inhabitants
of India who have accepted the re-
port spread broad by German agents
that King George was killed by u
bomb dropped on Windsor Castle
does not greatly exceed that of some
American victims of German propa-
ganda. In this country we are being
fed on tales of disaster which have
no more basis than that surreptiti-
ously sent out from Bombay. Yester-
day Secretary Baker very properly
scotched a mischievous story, sent
out from Washington, purporting to
give the substance of reports made
to the War Department by officers
just back from the British and
French fronts. The Secretary of War
showed that no such reports had
been made and, moreover, that none
of the officers referred to entertained
any such views as those attributed
to them. Investigation proves that
the secretary's denial is fully justi-
fed.
Hardly had that lugubrious effu-
sion been disposed of than another
in somewhat similar strain made it's
appearance. The difference between
the two is that the first bore all the
earmarkS of fake" while the second
avoids the pitfall of spurious author
ity. 1t is distinguished, rather, for a
superabundance of obviously amateur
strategy and for the presence in it of
the familiar man of straw created
for the sole purpose of being demol-
ished. In 1t we are solemnly told
that the British and French armies
cannot possibly roll back the Ger
man armies by turning the German
lines-when if any one thing should
be clear even to a press association
strategist 1t is that the idea of
turning" the German lines finds no
place in the plans of Haig and Pc
tain.
From Washington comes the sug-
gestion that the effusion in question
was inspired by persons in high Of
fetal position for the purpose of
waking the country to the seriousness
of the task ahead. That may absolve
those responsible for it's production
of the suspicion of playing the game
of German propagandists. but where
does 1t leave the supposed sponsors
for such a work of folly?
The country is not in need of the
man -of-straw spectacle to wake 1t
up. The country is all right. 1t will
be happy when it is certain that
Washington has walked up.-New
York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
The American Ambulance

The transfer of the American Am
bulance from the control of the
French government and of the com
mittee that has had Immediate
direction of its work to representa-
tives of the American army gives
a new status to an institution that
has made for itself a magnificent
record in relief work and at the
same time has been. an important
instrument for the expression of the
friendship felt by the American
people for France from the begin
ming of its gallant struggle against
a ruthless invader. On August IA.
1914, the American Ambulance had
it's birth. Founded by Americans
then in Paris, appeals for support
brought ready and unceasing re-
sponse from Americans on this side
of the Atlantic-Americans eager to
join with their fellows in giving
practical aid to the sister republic.
and in showing appreciation of the
greater aid the French of an earlier
day rendered to this country. This
support has been not one of
machines and money alone, but one
of men. To this work of relief con-
Quoted under the flags of the two
greta republics hundreds of young
Americans have devoted themselves,
have risked-and some have lost
their lives, honoring their country
as well as themselves.
It has been a great work, a work
we'll worth doing. work we'll done.
Small wonder. then. that the exer-
cises attendant upon the formal
transfer, which are described in q
special cable despatch to the Herald
from Paris, should have been
marked by a display of deep emo
ton. BY special request tho flag
that has flown over American Am
bulance headquarters since it's foun-
dation has been presented to the
Minister of War to be retained as
one of the precious souvenirs of the
days of trial.
Under the American army and
the American Red Cross the ambu-
lance organization will continue its
labors for France and for humanity
but no new record can eclipse that
already made.-New York Herald