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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
LAW IS WORKING WELL
Commissioner Peters Comments On
Results of First Six Months of
Dry Regime.

The end of the first six months OF
prohibition in Virginia finds those
who are directly responsible for the
new State policy, and into whose
hand the duty of enforcing the law
has been committed, enthusiastic
over the results of the experiment
and the changed conditions it has
wrought.
THE results have been fine" said
Commissioner of Prohibition J.
Sidney Peters. I'm Richmond they
have been good. and if the Mayor
would change slightly police regu-
lations, so as to use in the enforce
ment of the law experienced men in
the place of inexperienced men, we
will have even better results.
But, in spite of the difficulties we
have been forced to face in Rich
mond and few other places, prohi-
bition in Virginia during the first
six months has worked out better
than in any of the prohibition states.
In court costs alone, we have saved
the sum of $l2,669.51 from Novem-
Der |, 1916, to April l. 1917. And
this saving has been Elected in spite
of the fact that the dockets in No
vember and December were crowded
with old offenses.
Records will show that the mum.
Der of prisoners in the city Jail has
been reduced under the prohibition
regime over so per cent, while less
than half the number of convicts
formerly received at the State Pen-
tentiary now go over the hill'."
In discussing the first six months
of prohibition, Mayor Ainslie said that
he did not believe the period sufficient
ly long to judge the effect of the
Statewide law and it's operation.
Conditions marking the change IN
the first month"; he said "for ex-
ample, were not sustained in SUBJ
sequent months, but varied to such an
extent that we were kept guessing.
It would be difficult to pass definitely
upon the situation and at the same
time intelligently. The time has not
been sufficient for the test"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
SATURDAY is ROAD DAY.
Governor Stuart Issues PrOclama-
tion in Accordance with Joint Res
olutiOn of General Assembly.


Saturday of this week, May 5th,
has been named as "Road Day" in a
proclamation issued by Governor
Stuart of Virginia. In it he says:
"In accordance with joint resolu-
tion adopted by the General Assem-
bly, at its session in 1914, | hereby
set aside and proclaim, Saturday, May
5, 1917, to be observed throughout
the Commonwealth of Virginia as
Road Day. The annual celebration of
Road Day has come to be an institu-
ton in our State. 1t is hoped that 1t
may receive loyal and hearty support
this year, and that the contributions
in labor and material will be eXten-
sive, and that much good work may
be done. AS far as possible, the work
should be done in harmony with def
mite plans of supervisors and road
boards. The cause of better highways
can be greatly stimulated and promo,
ted by the adoption of spirit Of mu'
tual aid and community interest, and
thus the roads become the means o5
preparing the people for the bettel
use of them in the advancement of tn
religious, educational and social wei
fare of rural communities >"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
AFTER THE SONS OF REST
The Aid Of the Law to be Invoked to
Compel Street Loafers to Go to
Work.

Nearly every city and town is al
f1icted with too many members of an
order known as the "Sons of Rest.
Alexandria has its allotted portion
and then some, to use slang express
sion. Who are they? The class of
men who are to be found habitually
standing around street corners, re-
fusing to work when their services
are needed and idling away their
time. when they should be earning an
honest dollar.
Repeated efforts on the part Of
business men of the city to induce
some of them to get busy have met
with failure, recently, and the matter
was this morning brought to the at
tention of the authorities. As result
Judge Cation has given orders to the
policemen to keep an eye out for
them and further says that if the
employers ,of labor will notify him of
the number of men they are in need
of, he will make an effort to see that
the aforesaid "sons of rest 60 to
work, either for the firms in the city
that want them, or at the workhouse
1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
effort to induce the "slackers" to get
off the streets and get busy will meet
with the success it merits. With
plenty of opportunity for honest work
on all sides. there is no good excuse
for able bodied men to be loafing
around the streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
PLANS LAID FOR DRAFT
Final Choice From Those Found
Qualified Likely to be by Draw
ing of Names.

While exact information as to the
War Departments plans for drafting
an army under the bill which Con-
gress is now whipping into shape has
not yet been made public, it is known
that the procedure will be along these
lines:
When all details have been arrang-
ed President Wilson will issue pro-
clamaticn to the country, calling upon
all male citizens between the. ages Of
q or 27 Cor 40, as the case may be-
to go to their nearest voting places
on certain day and register. This
registration will include name, date
of birth, occupation. family relations
and other important facts. The reg
stration probably will be handled by
the clerks and judges CT election n
each precinct. After the registration
is completed the citizens may return
home to await call for physical eX-
animation or the action of the local
board charged with passing upon
claims for exemption from service.
II physically sound and otherwise
qualified fer military duty, the citizen
will be so informed, and must then
hold himself in readiness to answer
call from the War Department for
muster at mobilization camp to be
designated.
ANY male between the ages liable
for service who fails to register will
be tried in Federal court, and, if
found guilty and punished, will after
serving his sentence, be drafted into
the army. The law provides that the
man liable to service must be Il on
or before the day when the registra-
ton is to take place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
WOULD RAISE COAL RATES.
Railroads Ask Permission for to
25-Cent Increase.

The so-called anthracite coal rail-
roads yesterday petitioned the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
an increase in freight rates on an
thracite ranging from to % cents
q ton from the mines to all points of
consumption.
The increases asked are 5 cents a
ton on sizes smaller than pea coal
from the mines TO New York and
other tidewater points, ID cents
ton on larger sizes to the same
points and Buffalo and 25 cents ton
from Buffalo and Erie to all points
in the Middle West.
The proposal is supplemental to
the recent petition Of the railroads
for general freight rate increase,
coal being among the few commodi-
ties specifically exempted from the
general application. :.
Application of the roads to in
crease rates from iron ore from lake.
ports to furnaces in the Pittsburgh,
Johnstown and Mahoning and Shen-
ango valleys were approved by the
commission. The new rates are a.
part of the general advance pro-
posed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
RECRUITING STOPPED D
Captain Johnson Receives Orders to
Suspend Efforts for Securing More
Recruits in Alexandria.

Captain Conrad Johnson received a
telegram last night ordering him to
close up the recruiting Office which has
been open in this city for several
weeks past for the purpose OF secur-
ing recruits for the Alexandria Light
Infantry.
The order was promptly oheyed
and the Office closed at nine o'clock
p. m. 1t is expected that sufficient
number of men will be secured to
bring the company up to war
strength. $50 as soon as the new
draft law takes effect. The company
at present has about 103 men that
are known to have passed the recent
examinations.
Orders calling the company to the
mobilization camp at Petersburg, va,
are looked for at any time now, ac'
cording to reports current upon the
streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
LhSHES GERMAN POLICIES
MaXimilian Harden Warns Against
Undertaking L. S.


Undertaking L. s.
Copenhagen, May 1.-Maximilian
Harden, the German "enfant terrible"
publishes in the latest issue of Die
Zukunft another daringly frank arti-
Gle exposing to German readers the
"shams, pretences and mistakes,' of
their Governments policy.
The article is devoted to the entry
of the United States into the war,
which, Herr Harden warns the people,
must be taken most seriously, both
from the moral side, as symptom Of
the weakness of Germany's appeal
to the neutral world and the failure
of her foreign policy, and because OF
the physical aspects of the weight
that America will ultimately be able
to throw into the scale.
in the article he reviews the steps
leading to the German and American
peace proposals, the proclamation RI
unrestricted submarine war and the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
FOOD CONTROL PLANS|PU and POLITICS
Bill in House Designed to End Price
Manipulation.

The Administration food control
legislation was introduced yesterday
in both houses of Congress.
In the House Chairman Lever, of
the Agricultural Committee offered
a bill to give, the Agricultural De-
partment direct supervision of food
production and distribution. The
program was put before the Senate
in resolution by Senator Gore,
chairman of the Senate Committee.
The measures proposed do not
cover price-fxing or control of grain
entering into the manufacture of liq-
uors. Both these subjects will be
dealt with in measures to be drawn
later.
Twenty-Five million dollars is ask
ed for the Agriculture Departments
use in administering the program.
The legislation calls for an immedi-
ate survey of the country's food re-
sources and confers power on the
department to prevent speculation
and price manipulation. 1t would
provide for equitable distribution
and would suspend the law prohib-
ting the mixing of flour. 1t would
establish and enforce standards for
agricultural products and for ferti-
lizer.
Under the measures asked, the
Secretary of Agriculture could, if
the Government thought it neces-
sary, license or operate any business
of manufacture, storgae or distribu-
tion of food, food materials or seeds.
He could compel concerns SO licensed
to loose boarded stocks of food, to
refrain from unjust or discriminatory
practices pr charges and could force
them to exact fair prices only.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
Big Bill at Richmond Tonight.

The attraction tonight at tire Rich
mond is one that will appeal to the
children as well as the grown ups.
Iola's Dog Circus and Hippodrome
acts, featuring Costello (Mr. Geo.
Turner. former Alexandr!an) in an
acrobatic act. Nine Petrova will b
shown in pictures in "The Secret OF
Eve" powerful play; secret every
woman must learn. First show starts
promptly at Z o'clock. Prices 1e and
Is cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
Former: Alexandrian Declines to Con-
Form to Request of Ministerial
Union of Richmond.

Instead of preaching Sunday morn
ing on the duty Of citizens to pay
their taxes and to exercise their fran
chise, as he had been requested to Go
! by the Ministerial Union of Richmond,
Rev. j. Calvin Stewart, D. D., pas
tor of Grace Covenant Presbyterian
Church, native of Alexandria ad-
dressed a message to the congrega-
ton in yesterdays church bulletin,
The message was as follows:
To my People,-It will neip me to
make the following statement: | am
sure that l wish to do my. duty in I'll
things, but sometimes it is hard to
see ones way clear to do all that you
are asked to DO.
| have received lately letter from
committee of the General Minister'S
Association, asking me to make an
appeal from the pulpit, urging the
duty of the men of the church to pay
their poll tax and prepare themselves
properly for voting May next. All
will agree, at once, that. this is a
pressing and valued duty to perform;
but | am not quite convinced that
the pulpit is the place from which to
press such causes. I want you, my
dear people, to fully understand me
in this premise. take for granted
that you will hear that all over our
city, the pulpit will be used for this
purpose today.
Now let me say that | do not en-
pect to preach from our pulpit on
such matters. | seriously question
whether have any right to take the
Sabbath day and the people assem-
bled in the sanctuary Tor divine wor-
ship, to harangue them on such po-
litical themes.
Ny commission is to preach the
Gospel, to bring its comforting and
enlightening grace and peace to toll
ing and burdened men and women.
You hear these political things all the
week. On the Sabbath you need to
have your minds divested of all per-
picking cares, to come to the house Of
God quietly and reverently to wcr.
ship Him and to gain that spiritual
refreshment that every soul needs
week by week.
1t is true that there are many
things about which we should speak
to the people from the pulpit-to
exhors to prayers for ration and
rulers, to sobriety of conduct, our
duty to live for God in all things, 70
love our fellowman, our country and
our homes. These are great principles
Of truth and righteousness and are
enjoined upon US in the Scriptures.
The discussion of such political
questions as requested should be re-
legated to some other day and some
other place of assembly, can, how
ever, urge you as men and as Chris
tian citizens, to do your full duty mi
ali things in the sight of God and
men-The Pastor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
MAY BALL
Junior German Club to Give PatriO-
tic Party on Friday Evening.

The fourth annual May ball of the
Junior German Club, under the dir
ection OF Mrs. Robert S. Barrett,
will take place on Friday evening OF
this week, from 8 to ~ o'clock, in the
Elks' auditorium. The ball this year
will take the form of patriotic al
fair. TIE reception committee is Miss
Nina Fulton. Miss Isobel Boswell,
Miss Marie Gasson, Miss Sarah ken'-
per Miss Mary Hunt Roberts, Miss
Collins Jones, Miss Sarah Cox, Miss
Julia Hopkins, Miss Lucy Anderson
and Miss Hilda Schneider, with the
wee fairy ushers, Miss Courtenay
Cochran. Miss Elizabeth Demaine and
Master Lowell Wicoxen.
The program of dances is as fol-
lows:
Rroom Dance, Evelyn Lewis Pickett
THE little French maids thoughts
ara with her soldier-boy lover).
German Figure Introducing Del
sarte Nbvement) Club Ensemble
Leaders: Caroline Wattles, Ellzaoeth
Brvant, Mary Fauntleroy, Virginia
Keith Tom Wattles. Waller Barrett
Robert Steele, Hugh Marsh.
sailors Hornpipe-Margaret Yates
v;rg;n;, NcCuen. Courtland Wartie!d,
Bernard Yates. :
Louis XVI Gavotte-Rosa Murphy
Albert Smoot. u, - 80,
German Figure "The Stars and
ctrincs"-Elub Ensemble Leaders:
Margaret Linn, Elizabeth Schneider
Edward Oliver. Urban Lambert.
Tarantela-- Louise Carlln' Lou''e
Finke.
Waltz-Club Ensemble.
waltz Observation-Disclosures Ram
age Rosella Burke, Josephine Ram:
age. rl,o.
Leaders: Columbia-Hilda Pul'maH'
Uncle San1-Everett Pohl.
! Folly Dance tMlmlcry OF 'he p'o
vious dances) Viola Haywood Bar
rett.
One step-Club Ensemble
A welcome to Spring - Dancers;
Josephine Gregg, Esther 1apoert
Inez Moore. Irva Kemper, Edmonls
Baker. Regina German.
Fox Trot--CIub Ensemble.
Nav Pole Dancers: Frances Cox
Marcy Wattles. Jeanette Cochran
Marion Dienelt. Virginia wilkins
Dorothy King. Gordon Burke. Jaci
Roberts. Robert Wheat, Charles Shep
nerson. Everett Swan. Leroy Piser
Accompanist for Fancy Dances :
Miss Cora Pullman.
No one will be allowed on the floo
to dance unless in fancy costume un
til after the supper intermission. Ac
mission will be by card only.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
ANTHRACITE UP % CENTS TON
Will be Advanced 10 cents Month
For Next Four Months.

New York; May An advance of
% cents ton over the April circular
prices of coal was announced here
yesterday by the Lehigh Valley Coal
Sales Company as result of the in
crease in wages granted the anthra-
cite mine workers by the operators.
TIE new tidewater prices for May
will be as follows: Broken and egg
$3.50 ton; stove, s5.55 and chesnut,
$3.50.
These prices will be Increased 10
cents a month for the next four
months, when the full winter schedule
will be reached it was said.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01

American declaration of a state of
war, and declares, with a daring to
which probably no other German pub
licist is equal, that Germany's peace
overtures were put forward only as
a bridge over which Germany could
pass to relentless submarine warfare.
Consistent with his earlier atti-
tude, Herr Harden has only words of
high praise for President Wilson and
his policy, and. reveals in various pas
sages a, a,slighting opinion of Dr.. AL
fred Zimmerman, which he did not
conceal at the time of Zimmermann's
elevation to ministerial rank.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
Another Peace Offer Thursday.

The Hague, Netherlands, May l,
via London, 3:43 p. m.-Dr. Won
Bethmann Holweg. the German i'm
perial chancellor. will make another
peace offer in the reichstag on
Thursday of this weeE, according to
an announcement made today by
the Berliner Tageblatt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01
Masonic Notice.

There will be a called communica-
ton of Andrew Jackson Lodge No.
12O A. +. & A. NJ. in Masonic Tem-
pie, Tuesday evening May 1st, at !:3O
o'clock, for important business. AT
8 o'clock, reception to Grand Master;
A full attendance urged on part OF all
master masons. BY order Of W. M.
1O3-2t. Jas. E. Alexander, Secty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01

street, leaves for Strasburg this
evening for weeks visit with her
parents.
The Red Cross Chapter requests
that all who have work at their
homes will please return it tomorrow
to the work rooms, over Burke and
Herbett's Bank, which have been so
kiudly loaned by the bank. All con-
tributions of old linen will be
most gratefully received and any one
whether a member or not will be
cordially welcomed at the work
rooms on Wednesday. and Friday
mornings from 10 to ! o'clock.
Mrs. Ada NJ. Peyton, widow
of Millard T. Peyton, died yes
terday at her home, 1929
Duke street. Her funeral will
be held tomorrow at II a.
m., at her late residence, the Rev.
m., at her late residence, the Revs
Z. Y. REGISTER and Rev. Edgar
Carpenter officiating, interment in
the old Methodist Cemetery. She
is survived by two children, Mrs
Ethel Mitchell and Wilbur Peyton, of
this city, and two brothers, DR.. R.
Lee wilkins, of this city, and f. P
Wilkins, of Charlotte, N. C. Her
husband died in January last.
Corporation Clerk Greenaway re-
ports total of one hundred mar
riage licenses issued by him during
the month of April ending yesterday.
This is the largest number ever re-
corded in one month in the history of
the city, it is said. Eighty were
granted to white and twenty to color
ed people. A large number were OBJ
tanned by non-residents who are be-
'ieved to have hurried up their we'd
ding arrangements in order that the
bridegrooms-to-be might escape pos
sible war service through draft. Dur
ing the same period there were SO
deeds placed on record fcTs the trans
fer of real estate.
Miss Marie Virginia Mansfield and
Mr.. Hiram Clay Phillips, both of
this city, were married yesterday
evening at s o'clock, at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James H. Mansfield, ST King street.
The parlor, in which the wedding
took place, was decorated in palms
and spring flowers. The bride wore
beautiful gown of white taffeta,
and was attended by Mrs. Charles
Duffey, as matorn Of honor. Mr..
Phillips had as his best man, Mr..
William Aaron Abbott. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev.
DR.. Z. V. REGISTER. pastor of the
Southern Methodist Church. Only
immediate relatives and few
friends were present. and following
the ceremony reception was held,
after which Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips
left for a trip through the North.
the bride wearing a going away
gown of navy blue cloth and picture
hat. After their wedding trip Mr..
and Mrs. Phillips will spend several
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Mansfield,
before going to Washington, where
they will make their home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01

The Willard W. C. T. U. Will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 3 O'CLOCK IN
Trinity NJ. E. Church.
Tie Rev. Edward T. kirkley and
Mrs. Kirkley left today for their
new home in WhaIeyville. Maryland.
Mrs. John A. Marshall, OF New
York, is the guest of her brother,
Mr. Peter Francis, at his home, 1l15
Prince street.
Mr.. Carroll Ashby, who has made
his home in Kingston. Ontario,
Canada, for the past few years, ar
rived in this city Sunday and will
make this his home for the present.
Lieutenant J. Douglass Mclean,
u. s. NJ. c., who has been the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H. Kemper,
left on Sunday for Port Royal, South
Carolina, the marine officers training
station.
Among the Second Lieatcnants' Of
Infantry of the Officers Reserve
Corps ordered to report to Fort
Mvcr for training are Stanley G.
Blanton and Richard ?. Williams, Jr.
of Alexandria.
Lieutenant Bryan and another Of
liccr from the Mayflowcr' will speak
this evening in the opera house in
the interest Of navy recruiting. The
officers will be accompanied by the
band from the Mayflower and an
Hawaiian orchestra.
Mr.. Tom Swarzmann, of Altoona,
Pa, and Dr.. +. Waring Lewis, Of
New York, who were the weekend
guests Of DR.. Lewis cousins, Mr..
and Mrs. William Woolls, left today
to visit relatives in Morattico, Lam
caster county, Virginia.
The funeral of Edward Klock,' who
died yesterday, will take place to-
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Wheatley's Chapel The Rev. Edgar
Carpenter, pastor of Grace Episco-
pal Church, will officiate and the
will be in Bethel Gene
terry.
There will be q called communica-
ton of Andrew Jackson Masonic
Lodge in their rooms in the Masonic
Temple this evening at 1870, follow
ing which the lodge will tender a re-
ception to Grand Master Henry X.
Field, at the Young Peoples building
on Washington street.
There was family reunion held
last night at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Julian d. Knight in celebration
Of the birthday of the twin brothers,
Mr.. Julian D. Knight and Mr.. Her
bert Knight. Among those present
we're the Rev. A. Z. Speilman, pas
tor of Trinity Methodist Church,
Mrs. Speilman and family.
Mrs. Frederick Schoff, of Phila-
ielphia. was reelected. president Of
the Mothers Congress and Parent
Teachers Association at the confer
ence being held for the past week
in the ballroom of the Raleigh Ho-
tel, Washington. Mrs. Kate Waller
Barrett, of this city, has been one of
the most prominent speakers at the
congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01

The Home Club Players of the In
terror Department will present "Mr.
Bob" the side-splitting comedy in
two acts, Tuesday, May l, 1917, 8:15
p. m., in Lyceum Hall, Tickets, %
cents. lU4-lt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01

W. NJ. Priest will have for sale a
barrel of small smoked hams at %
cents pound. on Friday and Satur-
day, May 4th and 5th, 800 north Pat
rick street. l04-3t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-01

Mrs. H. c. Phillips and son,
Charles, were called to Eddystone,
Pa, this morning on account of the
serious illness of Mr.. Phillips.