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AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN
BIG EVENT OF WAR
Continued from Page u

CONTINUED from rage -
Chinese embassy, but it was stated
that no statement will be made here
regarding China's position until some
word has been received from Picking.
The complete accord reached be-
tween the United States and Japan,
it was authoritatively explained, does
not mean tina tan alliance has been
created between the two countries
such as exists between Japan and
Great Britain, although both nations
do pledge themselves to a definite
line of action.
Emphasis was laid in official cir
cles on the last paragraph of the
agreement. This is the declaration
that both countries are opposed to
the acquisition by any government
of any special rights or privileges
that would affect the independence
or territorial integrity of China or
that would deny to the subjects or
citizens of any country the full en-
joyment of equal opportunity in the
commerce or industry of China. This
it was explained, was precisely the
same as the altruistic Pan-American
ism and both Japan and the United
States by this declaration bound
themselves to see that China obtain
ed a square deal not only at the
hands of other nations but from
themselves as we'll.
From State Department.
Following is the state departments
announcement: "On Friday, Novem-
Der 2, 1911 the secretary of state
and Viscount Ishii, the special Japa-
nese ambassador, exchanged at the
department CT state the following
notes dealing with the policy of The
United States and Japan in regard
to China:
"Department of State.
washington, November ,, 1917.
"Excellency:
81 have the honor to communicate
herein my understanding of the
agreement reached by us in our re-
cent conversation touching the ques-
! tons of mutual interest to our gov.
ernments relating to the republic
of China.
"In order 70 ~sil.:nce mis- hievous
rerorts that have from time to time
been circulated, it is believed by u:
that a public announcement once
more of the desire and intention:
shared by our two governments with
regard to China is advisable.
"The governments of the United
States and Japan recognize that terri
torial propinquity creates special
relations between countries, and
consequently the government of the
United States recognizes that Japar
has special interest in China, parti
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SHEPARD'S
HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES.

sheltering, some a few, some quite
a number of men. The Artillery is
always at work and the men in the
trenches do nothing but await an
attack or make raiding parties. The
thing of waiting, waiting, while all
over and around you shells are
bursting, schrapnel screaming, etc.,
is enough to try any mans nerve.
This is nothing compared to their
warming up" before al. attack. At
the hour set for attack a "creeping
barrage" is put down. This means
every available gun takes one line as
it's objective and pours all the lead
and steel it can on that spot. Then
theline of fire is raised a bit and
the infantry follows it up and wait
till it raises a bit further.
You have heard and seer a hail
storm? Well the bullets and shells
arethicker than that seems. You
have seen chickens escape to cover
through a hail storm? Well, I sup
pose it is analogous to a human be-
ing living through a barrage, for it
seems nigh an impossibility. When
this all starts, of course the German
puts down an opposing barrage.
Lucky you are if you are caught be-
tween these two, one in front and
one behind for if not you have to
advance through the German bar
rage-and then you see all sorts of
casualties. If you take your objec-
tive, then you try to consolidate it
before the German makes a counter
attack as he most surely will do. 1t
is in these that he loses so many
men and we wish him to counter at
tack again and again.
The work of the Medical Corps is
to follow the infantry and collect
the wounded. You all wear Red
Cross brassarts but it is no guaran-
tee that a sniper won't try to spot"
you while you r doing so. They
are treacherous brutes! Will cry
out to "Kamerad" and when you
lower your gun or pistol to give him
a chance he will drop and begin
firing at you. Hence so few prison
ers are taken, all are killed outright.
You spend a certain time in the
line then are relieved. If by chance
you learn the hour of relief, you
spend a most agonizing time waiting
for it to come. If you are busy all
is we'll, but to have nothing to dc
but wait and you get nearly frantic
You sit in your "dug out" and lis,
ten to the shells, aeroplanes, etc.
wondering will the next shell gel
you, you think all kinds of thoughts
some most disconcerting. 1 wei
remember while waiting n day
some influence or other caused tt
flash across my mind the poem
REQUIEM" by Robert Louis Steven
son, that goes something like this
"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me die!
Gladly did I live, and gladly die;
And l lay me down with a will"
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INTERESTING LETTER FROM
DIR. JOHN E. EVANS
in France.


This very interesting letter was
written to Miss Maggie Evans, a
sister of the writer:
Dear Maggie:
Perhaps you would like to know
lust how the battle line here looks
I don't know that I have already
tried to give you some ldea OF IT,
First of all you must forget all for
mer conceptions of a battlefield
formed from reading history.
Had you no ears the approach to
the line would be quite peaceful Tor
all about you, you see innocent and
harmless looking mounds, something
like the piles of dirt seen about the
roots of a tree that has blown down.
However, as you happen to have the
sense of hearing you soon learn that
each of these seemingly natural
mounds conceals several guns OF the
size that such a distance back war
rants. For miles back you see or
rather, hear these guns. Some have
range of from fifteen to twenty
miles. 1 have passed through one
town that had been heavily shelled
though it was seventeen miles back
Of the lines.
As you go marching up past these
batteries you cannot only be beset
bv thei rnoise but the German coun-
ter batteries are busy dropping
stuff over. The air is continually
astir with the shells, both going and
coming, making a peculiar, sinister
whistle.
If you hear a German shell you
know you are safe for they travel
faster than their sound and have
usually struck before you hear them
You soon get so you can tell what
size shell he is sending over and
you hear men say on all sides "a
sixty FOUNDER" "a nine two" "a
seven three" etc. Then you will
say, "A Dud," meaning a she'll that
fails to explode. A "Flying Pig
is n that explodes only after pene'
trating to a certain depth. "Nine
twos' and "Armour piercing" are
the ones that concern you most fol
they stop for nothing short of five
feet of concrete.
You go on past battery after bat
terry, each busy, day and night, ant
come up to the communicating
trench. 1t is sort of a marrow
trench built up at sides, just Wild
enough to squeeze through. Thi
leads you up to a series of intricate'
winding and twisting trenches. The
another and still another series. Al
are built up with parapet-now an
then having a small slit for a maj
to fire his rifle through. Forward o
this is "No Mans Land" Well name
too, for it is a most dreary, desc
late, and ploughed up piece of lane
At different intervals along thes
trenches "dug outs" are formed
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Okla.

Okla.
W. U. Sarratt, seaman, nothAk,
Mrs. W. D. Witt, North Fork, ". VI
w. W. Smock, seaman, father, ..
F. Smock, Des Moines, Ia.
s. J. Towle, seaman, mother, Nh.
Mary Vonderwall, Jamaica, L. L.
]. R. Daniel, seaman, father, 5.
A. Daniel, Darlington, S. C.
H. A. Pacciano, boiler maker, Hs-
ther, Mrs. Teresa Pacciano, End
colt, N. Y.
Robert McCray, (negro), seaman,
father, Capus McCray, Charleston,
S. C..
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more credence in spite Of the earnest
efforts which were made on both sides
Of the Pacific to c%ounteract q move
ment which would jeopardize the an
cient friendship or the two nations.
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THERE are queer little
Rlimpses Of life to be
cleaned from the letters /
receive every day, situA-
tions and incidents which might
often serve to stimulate the imag-
ination Of a playwright or novelist.
Almost every one who writes to
me has q problem 20 which they
have not found the answer, q dif-
fculty which they see no way to
surmount. It IL q sort Of clinic Of
souls. Some Of the condolences i
get are 30 pathetic they move me
to tears; some are grim and tragic.
Yet, on the whole, the effect is not
depressing.
On the contrary, It Is inspiring,
for the general impression ! gain
is that most people are trying to
do the verv best they know how,
and that they are not going to al
low any obstacle TO daunt them if
they can find a way to over
come It.
They write to me on the chance
that I may offer some suggestion
that they can use: but back of this
always feel that their chief re-
lance Is on themselves-on that
American grit and ingenuity which
never admits itself beaten or per-
manently baffled.
Able to Read the Souls Of Girls
Who RepOse Confidence in Her
and Seek Her Advice.
The problem they present is
usually a personal one. and in the
stating Of it one gets curious side
lights on character and tempera-
ment. But more often than might
be imagined the question relates
to some subject of general well
fare, or to the predicament in
which another nerson is involved
and in which the writer is only
vicariously interested. Oh, there's
lots Of genuine altruism in the
world, after all.
Here, for instance, is a letter
from q girl Of seventeen, who has
evidently become greatly worried
over the behavior Of a still younger
girl a mere chance acquaintance
at that
Dear Mrs. Woodrow" she
writes, while going to business in
one Of the foreign quarters OF New
York i happened TO meet a little
girl OF fourteen. Now. the people
OF this neighborhoOd rather keep
TO themselves, and have made no
effort TO seek any Acquaintances
among them. But this little girl
attracted my attention. She some
how ssemsd different from the 9TH
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By Mrs. Wilson Woo drow

erA Before long ! got 10 speaking
TO her, and soon she came to con-
hde in me, as she had no one else
to whom she felt free to talk.
She passes, as the daughter OF
a married couple Of the section, but
these people are not her real par
ents, she told me. but adopted her
from an orphan asylum when she
was a mere baby. They regard her
as their own, however, and being
rather well-to-do. expect TO leave
her their money. They also spend
a great deal on her for clothes and
Jewelry.
"As / gather, though, It is a Gus
tom Of the country from which they
came to engage their children in
their babyhood, and as soon as
they adopted this girl they planned
TO marry her to the son OF a friend
He is a grown man. He comes TO
her home and tells her what to do
She won't stand for It, and tells
him to mind his own business.
This always results in a quarrel.
One day she was standing near
her house. She is never allowed
to go farther. A young man passed
and flirted with her. Nobody was
watching her. and she went ahead
and made his acquaintance. Now
please don't blame her. She has
no liberty at all. and when she gets
a minute Of 1t she naturally takes
full advantage Of IT.
The little girl Is hungry for
love, and thinks she is getting It
now. He tells her wonderful tales.
| advised her to have nothing to
do with him, as | had found out
about him through an acquaintance
and had learned nothing good about
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him. But she told me / said this
because l did not know him. He
has gone South now, but he writes
to her and she answers him. All
this her foster parents do not know.
IL they should find out I really do
not know what they would do to
her. Still she says she would do
as they wish and accept the man
TO whom they have engaged her as
her husband II she could feel It
right to marry a man she does not
love. She asks me, do / think II
right?
Dear Mrs. Woodrow, how can /
answer such a question? / am too
young myself to know enough about
life to answer it for her. / am
only seventeen. / don't know
enough about love to tell her II she
dare do this. But l don't think life
Is worth much without love, do
you? l have told her to wait for
my answer, but / find / can't an
swer her question. Won't you tell
me what to do"
l can tell you one thing very
definitely, my dear girl, and that
is that no child Of fourteen should
be encouraged or abetted in filrt-
ing with q strange young man. In
the present instance no great harm
seems to have been done. and as
the lad has gone away, the affair
will lprobably die OF itself.
She should, however, be dis
suaded from attempting any further
experiences OF the sort, and should
also be urged to abide by the rules
Of the kindly people who have
adopted her. From what you say.
she certainly owes them something
better than deception.
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A Poorly Paid Postofice Clerk Writes.

Why the difsic1lty7 Why have
scores and scores OF men been en-
ployed as clerks. only to quit after
working a few weeks? Simply be-
cause, after finding conditions a.
they exist, they were not content to
endure the same. with less pay than
the ordinary laborer working any
where receives, and who works under
no nerve strain as the average poor
ly paid Postoffice clerk.
ONE OF EN-.
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Once-Overs
OVER THE ToP-ANo DOWN.

IH7 Intern News servieel
Another day has ssed, and what have you learned!
Are better pepexlte OF
mens today than yesterday at this time!
II not, have tgntyfour hours OF your me- .
Perhaps have yourself and 1t right that you should
have some pleasure but couldn't have managed moments
doing something which mentally ana pnysy stronger
without interfering seriously pleasure programT
Lack Of few thought and concentration today may mean
loss of opportunity tomorrow
ou nope TO Of course?
10 one better than that: do
1t you whether YOU notch of usefulness in
line - -
Might shock realize when passed the top notch
and began to backward
You cannot know much somshnG new every day.
The Washington times., 1917-11-09

Dear Mr.. Goodwin:
In your issue OF The Times Of
7th inst. referring to clerk in drug
store postofnces. you rightly say
give the clerks more money"
In another. issue OF The Times we
find that girls and women are being
employed as an experiment In the
City Postoffice. and the cause given
'ths difficulty N obtaining men for
work in the Washington Postoffice." :"
The Washington times., 1917-11-09
HEARD AND SEEN

As ROE FULKERSON said at the
dinner of the Retail Merchants As
sociation last night:
Washington has always been .
political guinea pig, into which Con-
gress injects any serum with which
it wishes to experiment"
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As for the man to whom she Is
engaged and whom she dislikes,
that is hardly a question for i'm
mediate settlement, Is It? In the
very nature of things, three or
four years must pass before he
can claim her; and in that time,
who knows? a thousand things
may happen. Her sentiments
toward him may have completely
changed, or some one else may ap-
pear whom her parents will be
willing to accept She has time
as her ally. 1t is certainly not a
question for either of you to
bother your heads about and take
SO seriously at present.
theoretically speaking young
people should be as free to mate
as the birds and butterflies, and
natural selection. But we are not
living in a world of theory. We
are all subject to a thousand arti-
hclal restraints and conventions.
And as marriage and home-build-
ing with US are a much more COM
pllcated venture than with the
birds and butterflies, conditions
must necessarily be taken into ac-
count.
Young Folk Should Be As Free to
Mate As the Birds and But
terAies, Says Writer.
Love and romance are the two
most beautiful things in life. Any
woman who has not known them
has been cheated Of her birth
right. But to imagine that these
are all, or that "love is enough
though the world be waning" is
roseate dream of the teens. It's
dream worth dreaming, and q
vast mistake not to have dreamed
II, but the quality of the breakfast
coffee is also important, likewise
the payment of the butcher, the
Daker, and the candlesfickmaker.
In America the custom among
parents is to grant rather vide
latitude to their children in respect
10 engagements and marriage. The
elders generally sink their own
preludices and acquiesce In the
choice made by the young people.
Yet the results Of our method do
not show up any better than the
system in vogue In many countries
where marriages are arranged en-
tlre'v between the parents, ana
sentiment has little or no place.
Mutual interests and mutual
aims very often create a stronger
and more lasting affection than
that which has its root in mere
romantic attachment or ephemeral
attraction.
The Washington times., 1917-11-09

I went up to a merchant I
know and said, MISTER LANS-
BURGH-" Whereupon he stop
ped me right off. ~ am the one Of
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That dinner, by. the way, Is the
first one Of importance to be held In
dry Washington. Sparkling wit took
the place Of that other sparkle which
has been lost forever.
The Washington times., 1917-11-09

JOHN H. MAGRUDER, native
son of Washington, is one Of the
few old originals who can say the
house he was born in is standing to-
day. It's on E street, between Sixth
and Seventh streets northwest.
The Washington times., 1917-11-09

And my hat is off to CHARLES ].
COLUMBUS and ROSS P. AN
DREWS. I am bored to death at
most dinners, but last nights was q
corker.
The Washington times., 1917-11-09

When you those fighting from the ocean,
those young Americans preparing to CO. those American
business ready and to devote every to
the wars prosecution knew this have only
ending
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The Inspiration That Our Allies Bring
to America
to America
CONTINUED from First Column.

country will sweep Prussia clean. If it cannot be done
year. in ve 1t will be done in ten in twenty IT
WILL BE DONE.
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Lies Tragedies Barred to Mrs. Wilson Woodro

to
Is n
Deprssn n
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the LANSBURGHS whom you must
call HENRY"
So after this it's just HENRY
LANSBURGH with me.
I'm not scared Of Mr.. NEWBOLD
any more. After this I'm going to
call him FLEMING.
The Washington times., 1917-11-09

There is q man In this town that
have heard about for years and al
ways wanted to see. He Il PERCI-
VAL g. HILL. head Of the American
Tobacco Company. lust at present
he Is giving up all his time In an ef-
fort to get smokes to the boys in
France.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
TO INSPECT WAR PRISONS.

DR.. Carl Vogel, of Elroy, Wis, has
been appointed special assistant to
the American embassy at Vienna,
and will act as inspector of war
prison camps in Austria-Hungary, it
was learned at the State Department
today
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
URGE ATTENDANCE
AT MODEL MOVIES
Leaders Hope Showing at Matt
nees Win Prove Chill
dren'S Interest.

Tomorrow afternoon the first of
this weeks series of motion picture
matinees for children will be held
at six of the picture theaters. On
Saturday six other theaters will show
special chiIdren's matinee programs.
This week the performances will
not be free, as they were during the
previous weeks of the campaign of
the Federation OF Women's Clubs Of
the District for cleaner and better
movies" An admission fee of 8
cents will be charged for each child.
Hope for Good Attendance.
The admission charge will go d.
rectIy to the theater management in
payment for the show, and the fed
Grafton and other organizations who
have interested themselves in ppocur-
ing the model performances for chill
dren hope they will be able to dem
onstrate to the motion picture eX-
hibitors tomorrow, through the box
office receipts, that the children of
Washington want and are willing to
pay for clean movies"
''If the children attend the pay
matinees in anywhere near the num-
bers in which they f1ocked to the
free performances they will definitely
convince the exhibitors that the peo-
pie of Washington want better class
of movies and will gladly patronize
them," said Mrs. j. ]. Locher, chair
man of the motion picture committee
of the Federation of Women's Clubs.
Tomorrow Performances.
The performances tomorrow win be
held from , until 5. o'clock ip the
afternoon at the, following thegters:
Avenue Grand, Prince and Paupsr."
Marguerite Clark; Apollo. "Hulda
From Holland" Mary Pickford; Lyric,
shadows and Sunshine" Pathe;
Olympic, youths Endearing
Charms" Mary Miles Minter; Vic
toria, "HanseI and Gretel," with COM
edy: Howard (coloredl, Little Eve
Edgerton.' Blue Bird Special.
The exhibitions to be held at the.
same hour Saturday will be at the
following theaters: Masonic Temple
Auditorium, Circle, Dumbarton, Trux-
ton, Home, and Blue Mouse (colored).
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Twelve Women of Bureau of
Labor Statistics Make House.
toulouse Canvass.
PURPosEWELLU UNDERSTOOD
Investigation of Incomes and
Expenses of Families Will
Continue a Month.

Investigation of the high cost of lv-
ing In the District got under a full head
Of steam today, when the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics OF the Labor Depart
ment placed twelve women in the field
to gather information on the subject
All of the preliminary work incident
to the investigation has been practically
completed. The bureau now has not
only q dozen well trained and expert
enced women in house-to-house canvass
ing for information, but a great many
housewives are today listing their pur-
chases Of foodstuffs and assisting in the
compilation OF records.
Purpose Well Understood.
The agents reported to DR.. Royal
Meeker, head of the bureau, who is su-
perIntending the investigation. that the
purposes of the inquiry seemed to be
we'll understood by the housewives OF
Washington, and that this doubtless
would facilitate their labors.
Practically all the housewives Wis
tied in the northeast and southwest
sections OF the city, where the agents
now are working, announced to the
investigators, "I have been waiting
for you and wondering If you would
come to my home" Because of the
publicity given the canvass many OF
the housewives had the desired in
formation on the tip OF the tongue, or
written on pieces of paper.
Inquiry Covers a Month.
Although no definite time limit has
been set by Congress or DR.. Meeker
for the termination OF the investiga-
tion, II is believed 1t will cover a
period of at least a month. There
is little probability of the report of
the bureau being made before the end
of the present session of Congress.
The Keating resolution which au-
thorized the investigation provided
$4,000 for all the expenses, which in
clude the printing of several thou
sand schedules, salaries of the inves-
Hgators, car fare, and other items.
Bat Six Extra Employees.
With a view to economy and max
ing the appropriation last as long as
possible and accomplishing the great
est results, DR.. Meeker is utilizing
the service of six women employed in
the bureau.
The investigation will be confined
to families whose income is $1.SO0 or
less a year. The agents are working
on the. theory that persons earning
more than $500 do not have to
wrestle so hard with the problem OF
making both ends meet and that
they spend considerable money for
other than the absolute necessities of