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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09

I PARIS. July 9.-Maj. Gen. John ].
Pershing. commander of the American
forces in France, has been comforting
with his stafr concerning plans for the
permanent training camp = France and
American participation at the fighting
front. The permanent camp already
has been established. and one battalion
is undergoing intensive training. 1t Is
expected that the remainder Of the
f1rst-expeditionary force will be in camp
behind the fighting line within week
Gen. Pershing expected to confer this
week with Field Marshal Sir Douglas
Haig, the British commander, but be-
cause of the pressure Of other business
he was compelled to send a member Of
his stan to British headquarters. Gen.
Pershing will visit Field Marshal Haig
later.
Issues General Order.
Gen. Pershing has issued the follow
I ing general order to his troops:
For the first time in history an
American army finds itself in European
territory. The good name of the United
states of America and the maintenance
of cordial relations require the perfect
department of each member of this
command.
TT is OF the gravest Importance that
the soldiers of the American army shall
at all times treat the french people,
and especially the women. with the
greatest courtesy and consideration.
The valiant deeds Of the French ar
mics and the allies, by which they to-
gether have successfully maintained
the common cause for three years, and
the sacrifices of the civil population Of
France in support of their armies, COM
mand our profound respect. This can
best be expressed on the part of our
forces by uniform courtesy to all the
French people and by the faithful OBJ
servance of their laws and customs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09
CARD OF THANKS.

SAMPSON. 1 desire to express my sincere
thanks to nv relatives, friends and neighbors
for their Kindness, loving sympathy and beau
tiful floral offerings on the occasion OF the
death Of my dear husband. .
HIS WIFE, W. SAMPSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09
List Of Those to Attend.

Acceptances Of invitations to attend
the meeting tomorrow have been re-
ceived from the following: Federal
Council of Churches, Charles 9; Macfar-
land. New York: Y. w. C. A.. Mrs. r. e.
speer. New York; Baptist Young Peo-
ple's Union. Rev. James A. White. Chi
cago: Lutheran General Synod. Rev.
DIR. John weidley. Washington; Presby-
terial General Assembly. Rev. Thomas
H. Law. Spartanburg. S. c.: Jewish Re-
formed Church, Rabbi Stephen Wise:
America. Rev. George A. Dougherty.
Brookland. D. c.; international commit
tee. Y. NJ. C. A.. Alfred E. Marling. New
York: General Synod Of Reformed
Church In America, Rev. J. P
Scare, Brunswick. Md: Presbyterian
Church. ]. S. Crutchfield. Pittsburgh.
Pa: World Sunday School Association,
Pittsburgh, Pa; General Assembly.
Presbyterian Church. DR.. W. H. Rob
erts. Philadelphia: Epworth League.
Mr.. Brummitt. editor, Chicago: Church
Pension, Fund. Mcneil Sayre. New York;
Reformed Episcopal Church. Bishop
Samuel Fallows. Chicago: committee on
publications. Christian Science Church,
Hiram w. Hayes. Washington: Baptist
Church. Rev. J. ]. Muir, Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09
DIED.

BELL. On Monday. July Q. 1917. at lle2 lfth
street northwest. MARY LEE BELL. eldest
daughter of the late Col. William Bell.
Funeral services at the residence Tuesday. July
TO- at 3 pm Relatives and friends invited.
Interment (private) at Congressional cemetery
COLEMAN. Departed this life July B. 1917.
JOHN COLEMAN. husband OF Floretta Cole
man and father Of Catlusa Coleman.
Funeral private. Cincinnati papers please
coy.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09
STEPS To ENLIST
RELIGIOUS BODIES
Conference on Conservation to
Be Held Here Tomorrow With
Food Administration.
NEARLY ALL SECTS TO JOIN

First steps in a nationwide campaign
to line up all the great religious or
CARNATIONS of the country in food con-
servation will be taken tomorrow with
the assembling in Washington Of ex-
ecutives of these bodies for q confer
ence with Herbert C. Hoover. DR.. Ray
Lyman Wilbur. head Of the conserva-
ton section. and George A. Cullen. In
charge Of tho work through religious,
patriotic and fraternal bodies.
1t was explained by DR.. Wilbur that
the conference tomorrow Is a prelimi-
nary one, held mainly to obtain advice
from these leaders in religious work.
and that other conferences. more
broadly representative, will be ar
ranged later.
Mr.. Hoover will tell the gathering to-
morrow about the world food situation.
and he will emphasize the moral need
of spreading the gospel of food saving
SO that this country may help feed the
allies and thus win the war.
DR.. Wilbur will outline the plan for
registration of women, and he will tell
how the churches and their affiliated
societies may help in this effort.
Mr.. Cullen will describe the methods
by which the entire campaign may be
promoted through the united backing
of these great bodies, such as the Y. M.
C. A.. the Christian Endeavor Society,
the Epworth League, as well as direct
ly through the churches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09
MARRIED.

PIERRE - MAxFIELD. On Monday, July ..
1917 at Rosslyn Va. by Rev. William A
Carter. DR.. SAMUEL NJ. PIERRE and Miss
GoNEvIA B. MAXFIELD. No cards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-09

Eighty thousand women of Washing
ton are expected to go to schoolhouses
tomorrow and register in the food adj
ministration. just as their husbands,
brothers and sons enlisted for military
service on registration day.
Every schoolhouse in the District will
be open to receive the signed pledge
cards of the food administration from,
noon until O'Clock. Not only housewives
are wanted. but all women, whether
they board, live at home or dine at
restaurants.
In the evening at twenty-seven
schoolhouses there will be lectures on
food conservation by speakers of ma
ttonal note. Both men and women are
urged to attend. Both colored and
white schools will be used for these
lectures. The lists of schools and speak
ers follows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-06
GAMBLER SAYS He
MAY ENTER RACE
WANTS AN EXPRESSION FROM THE
PEOPLE BEFORE HE DECIDES
WOULD LIKE TO BE A CANDi-
DATE.

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 6-Without
at this time making formal an
nouncement of his candidacy, Charles
Murphey Gambler, chairman of the
state railroad commission, let it be
known Saturday that it is his pur-
pose to become a candidate in the
next democratic primary to succeed
United States Senator Thomas w.
H.arwlck.
Mr.. Gambler declares his position
ia the matter in a letter to Emerson
H. George, of Madison, in response
to a direct inquiry from Mr.. George
asking him to let his friends know
whether or not he intends to make
the race. Mr.. George stated that it
was persistently rumored that Mr..
Gambler would run, and that the time
has come when Mr.. Gamblers friends
are entitled to know the correctness
of the rumor.
Mr.. Gambler, in reply, stated that it
is his purpose to run, but that he de-
sires to defer his formal announce
ment for some time until he las COM
pleted certain work before him in the
railroad commission and in order that
a protracted campaign may not be
precipitated while the people of the
state are busy and greatly concerned,
as they now are. with matters of in
dividual as we'll as national impor
lance
Mr.. Gambler outlines no platform in
the letter which he has made public,
but he makes it clear that he stands
squarley behind the national admins
:ration's policies and that it is his
belief that every true pathrot should
zealously support the administration
and all well-considered and constita-
tional measures proposed by it t.
bring the conflict to an eadly and
successful termination"
At the proper time and in the prop
er manner, Mr.. Gambler states, he
will discuss these questions before
the people.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-06
MAY EXCLUDE SWEET
POTATOES AND VANS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
CONSIDERS GUARANTEEING IN.
PORTS ON ACCOUNT OF INJURI-
Gus INSECTS.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Nov. g.
Public hearings on proposed quaran-
tines against the shipments of sweet
potatoes and yams to the continental
United States from Porto Rico and
Hawaii and all foreign countries are
announced by the Secretary of Agir-
culture to be held at 10 a. m Novem-
Der 20, in Room IL, Federal Horti-
cultural Board, United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, Washington, D.
&C
This guarantees are contemplated
because of information that two in
furious insects, the sweet potato root
borer and the sweet potato scarabee,
not widely prevalent in the United
States, occur in Porto Rico and Ha-
wall that; that sweet potato weevils
occur in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Brit
ish Guiana, India, China, Cochin Chi
ma. Friendly Islands, Sumatra, For
mosa, Philippines, Australia, NADIA
gascar and Liberia; and that the
sweet potato scarabee occurs in the
Barbados, Antigua, Nevis, ST. Vincent,
st. Kits, Jamaica, Brazil, New Yea
land and Guam.
The insects referred to are describ-
ed as very destructive to sweet PC
tatoes and yams.
The total importations of sweet pc
tatoes and vans during 1912 to 1916
inclusive was 4O,27S bushels. OF
these importations 62S per cent came
from Cuba.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-06
MAIL DELAYS CAUSED BY
HEAVY BURDEN OF RAILROADS

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov 6.--Why is the
mail delayed? Business men all over
Georgia are complaining to know the
answer, and an investigation has been
made here to find it out, with inter-
esting results.
1t has been discovered that the
railroads are called on to perform
greater transportation service than
is possible to perform with existing
equipment, which is part of the cause
of delay 1t has been found that
mail is delayed in the criminal station
in Atlanta because of the shortage OF
negroes to truck it from the cars to
the terminal distributing Office, where
expert mail clerks work day and
night And also it has been found
that much of the mail which was for
merly distributed by railway mail
clerks in their cars while speeding
along on fast trains is now distrib-
uted in terminal offices, owing to the
fact that the government is now pay
ing the railroads the space basis for
hauling mail, instead og paying them
on the weight basis.
Mail cars used to be lightly loadei
Now, when the government pays for
space, it loads them 70 capacity. The
railroads claim their revenue for haul
ing mail has decreased, and the spec
IL the mall service reduced
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-06
LABOR SITUATION IS
SERIOUS EVERYWHERE

NEW YORK, Nov. 6,-The national
City Bank in its October bulletin
says that the labor situation is dis
quoting in all parts of the country,
and, except for the good crop yield,
which gives promise that foodstuffs
will not generally go above present
levels, it would be alarming.
The bulletin points out that it is
not surprising that with high prices
prevalent on all sides, wage earners
should claim more pay, but calls at
tention to the fact that the disquiet-
ing thing is that higher wages mean
still higher prices, thus furnishing
AL argument for still more pay.
"At least" says the bank, "the eX-
PLANTATION is that the country is trying
to do more work than there is labor
to do it with. A vast amount of work
is being done under rush conditions
for the government, and the contrac-
tors have offered wages that would
bring labor out of the regular indus
tries. Sixteen environments have been
built in differen. parts of the coun-
try at a cost of $150,000o00, in three
months, and about 5000 to 10000 men
have been employed on each. The
influence of this upon the labor situa-
ton has been widespread.
Numerous shipyards are under con-
struction, steel works and munition
plants are crowded with orders, ana
hundreds of new coal mines are strug-
Cling to get share of the labor sup,
ply. The point has been reached
where it is a serious question whether
any further construction work should
he done unless directly required by the
the war emergency. Where is the use
in enlarging capacity, when the pres
emf capacity of the industries cannot
be manned? 1t may seem to an IN
diyidual that he can enlarge his busl-
ness proftably, but if he can only
onerate the new capacity by hiring
labor away from other equally impor-
tant works there is no gain, and the
entire level of costs is being constant
" raised by this process 1t is re-
ported that the government in some
instances has taken step to prevent
it's contractors from hiring labor
away from each other, where all were
working on a cost plus per centage
basis. but something like that compe-
tition is occurring all around the IN
dustries. A movement to check 1t
would probably be resented by the
wage earners, and, like all price fix
ing. is open to serious objectionse
The real remedy all around is indi-
Gated by the high wages and prices
Il is for the public to curtail con-
sumption in order that labor may b.
released for the war work"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-06
Dedicate Rnilding.

TOXIC, Nov. 6-The new building
for the national headquarters OF the
Young Mems Christian Associations
throughout Japan was dedicated on
September "a. Its beauty attracts
attention in the midst of hte great
student center of Togo.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09
Country's Lowest Death Rate.

The lowest death rate on record for
the registration area of the United
States Is shown in the 1915 figures just
compiled by the United States bureau
of the census. This rate is 1875 per
1000 estimated population. 1t was
based on 900, 155 deaths returned from
20 states lin one of which, North Caro-
lima, only municipalities of 1000 popu-
lation and over in 1910 were included) :,
the District of Columbia and Al cities
In nonrcgistration states. The total
population of this area in 1915 was es-
tlmated at 67.337 900, or GIL per cent
of the total estimated population of the
United States.
The most favorable year prior to 1915
was 1914, for which the rate was 1876
1t was markedly lower than the aver
age rate for the five-year period 1901
to 1905, which was 1862.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09
Radio Picks Up Australia.

From the huge federal wireless tow
ers wireless record, the second with
in week and which will stand out in
the history of radio telegraphy, was
made recently.
Messages were sent across 4,4GS and
4,546 miles Of ocean space to the liners
Sonorna and Ventura, between Page
Pago and Sydney. australia.
For more than half an hour the
shore operator and the operators on
the two vessels conversed, exchanging
the news of the day and making rec
ords of the weather both here and in
the waters in which the liners were To-
Gated. Through the entire period the
messages came back and forth clear
and true.
A few days before the local Marconi
operator was able to converse with a
japanese government station near
Yokohama, and regular service be-
tween the two stations is soon to be
installed.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09
CLING TO OLD WAYS
WOMEN SLOW TO ADOPT LABOR
SAVING DEVICES.
Abolition Of Dish Towel Is Forbidden
by Traditions of Good House.
keeping" - Indifferent to
Washing Machines.

Women who Just love to cook"
often Just hate to wash dishes" And
no man blames them.
Domestic science teachers have in
vented new methods of diShwaShing
which are shorter and easier than the
way mother did," but really intelligent
women fail to adopt them. There are
no stronger human traditions than
those which govern good housekeep-
Ing
The most sanitary way of washing
dishes takes the dish towel out of the
kitchen. In the best-equipped hotels
and hospitals dishes are sterilized by
steam and dried without handling.
The nearest approach to this meth
Cd in the average kitchen is to wash
the dishes with plenty of clean hot
water and soap, to rinse them with
more hot water, stack them on edge
In wire basket, pour kettle OF boil
ing water over them and set them
aside to drain dry.
But the feminist who abolshes the
dishcloth from her kitchen too fire.
quently is sharply denounced by all
the conscientious good" housewives
of her neighborhood.
1t takes a woman of courage and
daring to adopt any innovation in do
nestle management as opposed to in
herited practice.
1t takes a woman with the faith of
Aladdin to buy a small mangle which
will do up" the bed linen and other
flat work of weeks wash in 80 min
utes.
Women think Aladdin credulous
rather than imaginative. This ac-
counts for their Indifference to wash
ing machines which loosen the dirt
by steam instead of hand rubbing, and
to vacuum cleaners which collect the
dust from carpets instead of redis-
tributing it about the room by the an
cient sweeping process.
But labor-saying machines cost too
much" explains the housekeeper.
On the other hand, it may be argued
that Labor saving devices which will
wear ten years cost less than dresses
which will be out of fashion and dis
carded in three months; and that the
use of such convenienceS will do away
with the half-educated maid altogeth-
er by enabling the housewife to do her
own work. This will soon be the only
solution of the servant problem if
manufacturing conditions continue to
attract woman's labor to the shop and
factory.
OF course Saving herself" by any
process, has never been part of the
average w0man's theory of duty. IN
less she can complain every night that
she has tired herself out in the serv-
Ice of her dear ones, she feels that she
has somehow failed as a wife and
mother.
This, too, is an "old lamp" which
ought to be snapped for a new one
Atlanta Journal.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09
Old papers for sale at this office.
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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09
WHY NOT MAKE ARkAN- :;
SAS BONE Dry? :,
'.s... .s..-..... ...........'................-..

The upholding by the United
States supreme court of the Webb
Kenyon law, giving states the right
to prohibit shipments of liquor from
coming into their borders is regarded
by the friends of prohibition as one of
the greatest victories ever won for
the cause. The decision sustained and
applied the law in its fullest sense,
according to attorneys for the liquor
interests, and, according to Wayne
E. B. Wheeler, attorney for the Anti
Saloon League of America, ''the
states may now prohibit the posses
sion, receipt, sale and use of intoxi-
eating liquor and not be hampered
by the agencies of interstate com
inerce."
Under this decision Arkansas has
the opportunity, through its legisa-
ture now in session of doing what ev-
cry real friend and what many oppo-
nents of prohibition favor-that is,
to make prohibition absolute; to
make the state bone dry" State
wide prohibition is good thing; it
is a tremendous benefit to the state:
but when millions of dollars worth
Of intoxicating liquor were shipped
INTO the state within single month,
as was the case in December, can
the state be said to be really dry?
Yet we read with sincere regret a
statement by George Thornburgh,
president of the Arkansas Anti
Saloon League, that he is preparing
and will have introduced in the
legislature bill Limiting" the ship
ment of liquor to Arkansas from
other states. According to the Ar
kansas Gazette, Mr.. Thornburgh said
the bill he will have introduced will
provide that no person shall be al
lowed to receive in one month more
than one-half gallon of fermented
LIQUOR, wines, etc; more than one
quart of spirituous liquors, such as
whiskey, rum or gin; or more than
three gallons or "a pints of matted
liquors, such as beer, ale or porter.
A person may receive in one month
only one class of liquor. Thus if he
receives a shipment of beer, he will
not be allowed to order whiskey or
wine in the same month. The bill
will also prohibit the express com
panies and railroads from delivering
more than the required amount to
any one person, and will make it I'M
lawful for liquor to be stored or for
liquor to be provided on election days.
1t will also be unlawful for any per-
son to have in his possession at one
time more than the prescribed
amount of liquor. The bill unquali-
fiedly prohibits liquor advertising in
newspapers.
The Log Cabin Democrat confesses
its surprise that so ardent an ad-
vocate of prohibition as Col. Thorn
burgh should, when the opportunity
presented itself to have real prohi-
bition in Arkansas, favor such a
measure as this. Under its provis-
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09
Homes for Rural Teachers.

Though the idea is apparently new
In this country, it has long been the
custom in England, the Scandinavian
countries, Germany, France, Denmark
and Switzerland to furnish residences
for the teachers who are employed by
the year and often lifetime IN the
same school.
The teachers cottages greatly cacill-
tate the development of social centers
and lead to the use of the schoolhouse
for many community purposes. The
schoolhouse thus becomes a continuous
ly operative plan for better citizen
ship.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1917-01-09

ions any person could secure one
quart per month of straight alcohol,
| which, when diluted, would provide
material for at least two good
"jags.' Or, by ordering a quart at
a time of whiskey in his own name
and in those of members of his fam
| lily or friends, he could keep himself
Comfortably uncomfortably, as
one may prefer-drunk all the time.
If it is an economic, social and
moral evil for person to receive or
be IN possession of a gallon of liquor
two or three times a year, will the
evil be greatly alleviated by making
the quantity a quart a month? The
state of Arkansas has unequivocally
decided that the use of Intoxicating
liquor as a beverage is an evil of
which it desires to be rid. Many of
the highest authorities in the medical
world now claim that alcoholic liq-
uors have slight if any medicinal
yirtues. There are, OF course, a few
people who can use Intoxicating
liquor as beverage with such mod
GRAFTON as to cause them no appar-
ent harm. For the good of the
thousands who cannot thus control
their appetities for strong drink,
these should be willing to sacrifice
the pleasure that moderate drinking
brings them.
Several states have already adopt
ed the so-called bone dry" laws,
which absolutely prohibit the impor-
tation Of liquors in any quantities.
with perhaps a few rigidly-defined
exceptions in favor of wine for sac
ramental purposes and alcohol for
scientific and mechanical uses.
The overwhelming reputation of the
initiated bill to repeal the statewide
prohibition law shows the temper of
the people of Arkansas on the liquor
question. There is now in the state,
we believe, a stronger sentiment for
a "bone-dry' law than there was for
statewide prohibition law when
the latter was passed two years ago.
Instead of making half-hearted, in
effectual effort to reduce liquor con-
sumption within the state, why not
press this opportunity to make Ar
kansas dry in fact as well as in
name?
After all, such step would be an
ticipating by only few years con-
dition that will come regardless Of
any state legislation. AS certain as
anything in the future can be certain,
nationwide prohibition is coming, and
soon. When it arrives the quart"
legislation and "half gallon" legisla-
ton of Arkansas would be dead let
tiers, anyway. The Log Cabin Dem
ocrat earnestly hopes that Col. Thorn
burgh will reconsider his plans and
that if he does not reconsider the
general assembly will ignore his
and will instead
pass a law making prohibition a
reality.