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The Washington herald., 1917-06-25

Dominoes are said 70 have been In
vented by the Chinese in the twelfth
century. Whether or not this Ia 90
cannot be definitely decided But
there Is no doubt that the game OF
dominoes. wherever Il was originated,
was perfected in China and was dis
tributed from there TO all parts OF
the earth
The Washington herald., 1917-06-25
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

District Of Columbia and Maryiand-FAir and
cooler Monday. Tuesday probably fair, with
rising temperature; gentle variable winds. Vir-
ginis, fair Monday. ccoler in north portion,
Tuesday, probably fair; gentle variable winds. .
LOCAL TEMPERATURE.
Midnight. -: q. m, n {; 1 a. m, II; q. m.
Y; 8 g. m, n; 10 q. m, s.; Il noon, %; .
p. m. %; 1 D. m, %; .. m. 'ss; p. m.
g; 10 p m, u.
Highest, 81; lowest Co.
Relative humidity. 8 a. m, %; p. m, a.;
p m, IS Rainfall % p m. 70 s p nj. O.
Hours q sunshine, H.s. Per cent Of possible
sunshine, 100.
Tempcrature same date last yesr-Hishest, D.;
lowest, 81.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-25
! Georgia Politicians
Shy at This O6ee

Atlanta. Ca. nine 2l-The -
Ienniuaf has arrived. for he...'.
Job that politicians cont Want n
sounds impossible. hut ttir fy41e
Tor every politician IN the Rfefe
has petiuoned the governor moi \,
make him serve on the army -
emption boards. The objection h
that everybody WI want 10 he ~
on from army service and II VIII
ruin any political career not 70 lef
em on as fast as they ask IL Anf
II the exemption boards DO let lem
on. Uncle Sam win probably make
ne board members serve time. 50
tne poor politicians are up aealnel
u GOV Harris has refused 20 lem
sympathetic ear 20 any OF them.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-25

LOOK the line shows graphically how the telephone is
used from hour hour the District of Columbia The high
points, you will observe between nine and eleven the
and and four the afternoon. Our problem handle
the traffic during these busy hours.
Each switchboard must be large enough for the traffic
be handled at the busiest time of the day. The operating force
in each central office be adjusted have the proper
number OF duty that particular we'll
other hour of the twenyou The busy hour brings
the real test of the system.
1t we atten the curve will better service and pos
by much more expeditions for the Government which,
in the minds of all of U.S. comes first =
Flatenng the flow of traffic. less
gestlon and better service for all.
You help Aan the restricting your teephoning
much possible during the busy hours of the day, by avoid
ing unnecessary calls and making your talks brief
Your consideae cooperation will help give effective
NAA The Chesapeake and Potomac NAM
49, Telephone Company 49,
The Washington herald., 1917-06-25

,,d%sIs Mosst All. Alto ZIGrs-s. Trees.
cah "et lsf -Ads.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-25
OTHER TEMPERATURES.
Health Restored Without
Or Worse Than Useless Operations That Often De-.
The Vacuum-Neuropathic Treatments

Great value is that will RESTORE the CIRCULATION
The Washington herald., 1917-06-25

TISSUES, NERVE CELLS and
fENTERS and at the same,
7ui the one OPERATION, ABB
ORB the DEBRIS, WASTE
rnd WORKOUT MATTER OF
.HEASE, and through the
EGANs of CIRCULATION
nd ELIMINATION ExPEL IL
:lIe debris and waste of dis
..;Se) FROM the BODY
ELIMINATING DISEASE and
,ESTORING HEALTH.
THAT THIS Is q RATIONAL
STATEMENT In AAIPLIFIED
by its MANY near-MIRACU-
LoUS CURES OF LOCOMOTOR
ATAXIA, BRIGHT's DISEASE,
HEART DISEASE, DIABETES.
ASTHMA, PARALYSIS, IN
SOMNIA, INDIGESTION. NEU-
RASTHENIA, NERVOUS EX-
HAUST1ON md OTHER sERI-
0Us, CHRONIC INCURABLE
jsO-called) AILMENTS of the
NERVES, STOMACH, EYES,
respiratory and urinary Or
CANS after every other sys-
tenn of treatment has failed,
In fact, nearly all Of the DIS
EASES OF MANKIND YIELD
readily to RESTORING the
BLOOD CIRCULATION to the
PART.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
HE WOULD BE A BOSS.

If the of this big. Overgrown town, and
the high cost of living problem worrying we
would officially that every idle lot that in
weeds public property for the of any family
that needed it raise food Moreover. the city
would provide tools and seed, and city teams would
break the ground the lot farmers would repay in
crops the loan.-EditOr Angeles Record.
Yes you would. and in about buzzes of a blue
bottle you'd find yourself cedownwards the
knees of the supreme court.
What Confscate the lot of old Mr. Compound In
terest that he's been holding for years almost unaxed
until the towns growth raised it's value? Put unim-
proved. useless private land into potatoes merely
folks hungry?
Why. doGgone it, Mr.. Record Editor you're assault
ing the sacredness of private property rights and
you're disputing the fundamental principle that is
land animal only when he and hold land
against all other men!
To be sure, the high food would be if
people titled land and be sure, a form of
government and society that can't help folks when
they starving is open improvement by both God
and but what you propose is illegal sacrilegious
conhscatory. arbitrary socialstic. drastic de-
parture from regularly established charity methods.
It's helping people to help themselves, rather than
skinning while the skinnings good it doesn't
sound good in Indiana, anyhow.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
hklhngs and Thinklhgs
By Wex Jones

al
ha would
pepper
following bill of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PEPPERPOT
CHILE
ALMONDS
to have i nc o pric o seed potatoes
Louis
Fort sake Of
Broadway in
amo synonyms
our idea of food gambler is who cranberry
Cuba needs spoonful o molasses
Embe Two re-~He
Or is
me is a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.

Prest Wilson'S second inaugural address is exactly
what was TO bc expected particular times of
stress an expressed demand for popular allegiance TO
the American government and unstnted public serV-
ice part of the peoples servants on the heels
of his statement given Sunday night, following the
expiration 10y limitation the 64th congress, without
performing its duty TO it will be record
ed as among the great state documents of the age
For even temperament, the face Of most aggravat-
ing difficulties only encountered from without but
as well within Wilson stands if second to
anyone then only to Lincoln.
Indeed the president is an artist when comes to
dealing with fundamental principles and expanding
them to cover governmental activities, with all their
complexities and ramifcatons. All loyal America
would that of United States senators
who have blocking the much needed progress Of
day. broad conception of their proper re-
sponsbiities and as capable of expanding them
10 embrace our international relations well. The
presidents inaugural address splendid appeal to
satesmanship superior politics and the welfare
az the nation against the world, against the
political individuals, the clannishness
or VIII ms of particular natonalties distinctly Of
American order.
Talk about America having been discredited in the
eyes of the world! Never has there been such ex
ample as appears the blackboard of the pres
emit with administration endeavOrng to pursue a
foreign policy highly essential the preservation Of
United States or the upper house of it, Withholding
authority so plainly in support OF internal allegiance
10 the foe Nothing short of very even-tempered
individual presidents position. could have
faced country yesterday without unloosng the walls
Of "a very righteous wrath.
The address an invitation to America to stand to-
Ecther nation. resardIess OF the multiplicity Of
races and so far concerns foreign relations,
without division 10y parties. The presidents second
f1f1,- so
than the first lie faces it, might say almost
with soics. IL plain enough that re realizes that
needs. with preparedness
deal with aggressive foreign foe is centralized
American mind and American purpose. We must be
securely welded together at home, and in need
vital reforms legislative methods enabling
the popular viii TO find congressional expression. be-
fore expect the outside world have much re-
spect demands. rights. diplomatical-
Is announced purposes.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
NO TEA FOR BREAKFAST.

1t bad enough to limit the British beer supply
the English people before the drank beer
than the Germans-but what shall be said about the
new antluxury order prohibiting the importation of
tea? How any Englishman Englishwoman get
along without for breakfast?
Deprivation of coffee may be endured The Briton
little for coffee. But start the day without
dish of tea-it is unheard Of Nothing in all Lloyd
Georges anarchistic career has been so radical and
subversive British Institutions
Bamboo ware and canned Holsters may be dispensed
with. John Bull gan doubt worry along without
such commodities diatomine and unfusional earth,
ornamental feathers. mops, live quails. quebracho,
stereoscopes perfumery and mating for bottles
But life be endured be
fought without that morning dish of tea 1t is the
ultimate frightfulness.
The = boat campaign is succeeding 1t is the be-
ginning of the end. A little pressure, the
marmalade supply will be shut of-then what will be
left surrender?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
The CASE OF GRANT MANNING.

Disclosures made in the columns of The News-Times
in editions night this morning, forced
upon defence Of fairness sincerity, and in
previous lack OF knowledge. would aggrieve
US indeed should they effect the defeat which
the challenge TO US doubt aimed that Of
Grant Manning the republican nominee for the
orally.
Mr.. Manning in this connection is victim Of cir
cumstances; the circumstance Of being Kellers
controller thereby attached TO the Keller admin
istraton He has had about much to do with the
law enforcement lack of it, of which the disclosure
complains perhaps the superintendent of the water
works has had Manning is honest sincere,
sonable, with mind with high ideals. Passing
from him the line of republican possibilities we
see nothing him anywhere. though he were
associated Kellerism worst that would dis
qualify representing the republican party
its best.
We said before it here. that
of the type of candidate prom oters for the
opposition party. who that party nominate its
worst. thus making it the easy to defeat him.
We both political parties to nominate their best
men difference which wins in November. the
people need lose
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
PROMOTING TRUTHFUL CANDIDATES.

As the Indiana SEVENTEEN general assembly passed
history night there closed OF the most re-
snarkabe sessions in the history the state 1t has
been harmonious session, too the main where
politics injected it, and much good work
has been done The constitutional convention, the pro-
hbition woman suffrage bills, of them prom
ised by either the parties in their platforms.
the credit of both parties, brewery and utility
Hobbies i'm beleaguered opposition. for mutual help.
Notwithstanding Too there has been much other leg
islation OF non political nature upon which republi-
and democrats worked together in harmony only
when Gov. Goodrich alone with administration
measures has anything like partisan lines appeared
These wranses. no doubt all of them. viii be heard
from In The future
In the main, however, il, democracy, de-
cidedy p the minority the house but equal TO its
opponents in the senate. has nothing The
"obstructionists hardly applies for the reason
that instance did the democrats "obstruct
successfully without republican help. and otherwise
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.
THE FELINE POINT OF VIEW.

The cat is mysterious unfathomed quadruped.
Who counsel ate head
He does not empty out his soul in antics n
tail supplement his 9th Lana helps
To who questions him regarding
He the stately attitude
We duly love the honest barks
and
We let nim share confidence
So rewards a
And when his soul chase the rabbits
We build for
unsociably
which the moderate requirements
obvious emuatns
To the dogs impression -he mushy
The thing which feline intellect
u
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
FOOD PROBLEMS.

According to dispatch from Los Angeles. a group
of boys in the San Maeo high school have asked that
cooking for boys made part of the schools
domestic science department The high of living
has driven the youths TO make this demand They
have to the conclusion that a we'll as wom-
should understand the science OF their home.
We have always understood r.lst had a nat
genius for cooking-as well for everything else
and that without training. they could step
the kitchen at a moments notice and do the work
more scientifically and economically than do
it However. there's why these lads
should improve their gifts by little train
ing.
In the meantime. there problems of food pro-
duction and food distribution that solving
boys haven't time for this kind Of thing hope the
girls will do little studying along this line The
country should again face crisis like the
present
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

could 'obstructed' all. Besides il makes
difference what that being INSTRUCTED Gov.
Goodrich in his attempted so-caed economy and eff
cheney has in the face Of his fall campaign
merely proved himself most colossal humbug. and
there is nothing impolitic in mailing such humbug TO
the Democracy has taught future candidates for
governor OF Indiana that the people depending upon
them for truth. viii allow them TO blanket
their prevaroations with other false pretenses, and it
has been prevent this that the democrats in the
present assembly have made their big aght
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
MARCH o, 1917.
THE WISE PATRIOT.

AR schwab OF the Bethlehem steel CO. announced
that in case war great plant would be at the
Service OF the government
Hurrah, There's patriotism you, There's the
true spirit of Amercanism. the and stripes
up to the top of Bethehems taest smoke-stack Three
cheers Tor Schwab
Later: bethlehem steel has just submitted bids
for castings for navy y420OOOO0 Navy experts
sly that the government could make these castings for
900 schwab thus grabbing only $4,000 600
prodt this job.
Hur--well patrotisms thing and profits an
other Three Cheers for-weI, think about it,
the party engaged running up flags might use the
.SkuIl and Crossbonesr on Bethlehems smOke-stack
aforesaid.
It's a wise patriot who knows his flag
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
HER BRONCHITIS
IS RELIEVED IN
A SINGLE NIGHT
Altoona Mother Tells of Her Ex-
perience With Vick's
VapoRub.

Every mother owes il 10 her fam
hly 10 investigate the Southern rem
iedy-Vick's NapoRub Salve. In the
South II is universally used in place
OF Injurious internal medicines for
treating all forms OF cold trou bles-
from head or chest colds. down 10
sore throat, bronchitis or incipient
pneumonia. In addition. il has a
hundred uses in the home as a
soothing, cooling salve Usually
Group is relieved in fifteen minutes
and most colds over night
Last January Mrs A. \. KENNEDY.
502 2nd Street. Altoona. Pa. was
asked by her druggist. Welsh
Brothers. to give this preparation "A
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

AZ staples been found that three petroleum. prun
" hay-havent advanced in price in the last
Supposing potatoes o sight
And onions costly and few;
While is high that hardly
Enough a week for a
Though carrots and cabbages, parsnips and peas
Are sailing aloft like balloons,
You stand the wolf off with triumphant scOn
BY filling yourself full of prunes
And if prunes, taken three times "A day.
In time your palate pail
CAS- they're likely to do in a fortnight twO).
You don't them all.
Pick up the papers and the page
OF market quotations today,
And you'll at glance there has been advance
In the price of nice timothy hay
OF courst you may weary of hay before long
(Some people don't like it a Bit,
But don't hair in despair
For you still keep healthy and fit.
Cut out all the and the vegetable chow.
And when you get ready
Just fill up your mug from the kerosene jug
Petroleum hasn't
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
ONCE-OVERS
ARE YOU GREETED WITH A SMILE?

4
churches responsible
of
is
nero
But II
a HIM
IS
Of the
a feeling that IS o
please"
Chrtia and in
OF
Of hand the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
N O More Desire
for Tobacco

Arthur krouse b. a locomotive fireman
who had been using tobacco since he
was a boy. About two years ago DE- be-
gan 10 have spells II illness. His mem
orv was getting very bad and his eyes
bothered him q good deal lie bad tried
I'm vain 10 conquer the habit Until he got
"a certain book and now he r. freed from
the thraldom Of tobacco and his health
H. wonderfully improved Anyone who
desires o. read the book can obtain 20
absolutely free by writing 90 Edward j
Woods 1891 +. Station + New York
CITY. Il tells how the habit ~ smoking
chewing or shuh taking can De con-
quered In three DAYS Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

But how much vaster the inter,
est that is offered by the lines Of
growth of our continent and of the
earth itself. which you can see in
the unheaved bottoms of vanished
seas. that were turned into rocky
layers and then puffed and rolled
UP into hills and mountains millions
Of years ago, They need no halls
10 display them: the landscape is
their museum.
Compressed into a rocky layer. a
few feet in thickness. there may be
the product Of uncounted aeons OF
deposition. slowly formed at the
bottom OF a primeval sea. into which
rivers. that the changed earth has
forgotten. flowed down from paleo-
cosmic mountains which were
crumbled into sand so long ago that
the sun himself may then have been
a star of different color.
Did YOU ever know that half the
Hudson river was drowned by the
ocean ages ago and that, when you
sail out of the harbor that il has
formed for the greatness Of New
York. its submerged and sand-silenc-
ed valley still runs beneath you, a
trench in the sea-hoOr. which. of
the Navesink highlands. lies 500
feet below the level Of the tide that
heaves your ship. II is a great mis-
take that the earth was not an in
teresting place before Adam and
Eve came 10 live on il.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

Reminded by his wife. Squire Por-
ser recessed court in Ashtabula, o.,
cranked his hivver and raced home.
where he hoisted the rear end OF
mis- car. attached a belt and started
the butter churn-gone from court
seven minutes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

There, i'm the landscape. as you
fly by, is the very substance of those
old sea bottoms and beaches now
swelled up i'm hills and rocky knobs.
You will perceive that the rocks are
in layers or strata, one above an
other strangely twisted in places.
These layers come out very plain
to view when bare OF shrubs and
MOSES and yet unblanketed with
snow. Sometimes bright, crinkling
lines Of ice or little lodges Of snow
lodged out of the reach of the sun
shine, make palmer the divisions of
the strata, like the streaks of white
paper between the lines of type.
Except for their picturesqueness
which even a faded eye may notice,
these rocks and lodges are COM
monplace enough to those who see
them without understanding their
gn-ianguage. Hundreds OF thou
sands of passers-by In the whirling
trains have glanced indifferently at
them and taken no second look
unless they happened TO catch sight
of a goat or a dog perched on a
giant rock.
Yet all the books that were ever
printed contain less history than is
there plainly displayed
IT is the Book Of Chronicles of the
Earth. the worlds Bible, that
stands opens II is absurd. II is
humiliating. in this age OF supposed
universal learning and sharpened in
telligence. that whole trainfuls OF
educated people should see these
things and not notice them, never
say a word about them. but only
talk of stocks or bonds or dresses
or the latest dancing step or bury
nose and brains in a novel while
Historic Time. the oldest and great
est of photographers. is running
reel after reel of the picture drama
OF creation in an endless panorama
| before them.
Perhaps you have stood looking
at those astonishing sections of the
great sequoia trees of California, 20
or 80 feet in diameter. fastened up
on the walls of the American
| Museum Of Natural History, and
have counted with a thrill almost
/ OF awe, the circles of annual growth
lines. which show that those trees
were a thousand or two thousand
years expanding their mighty trunks
! in the sunshine OF past centuries be-
fore tempests and lightnings over
threw them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
just a Suggestion.

One way TO bring down the price
of cabbages is to forbid the Connec-
ticut farmers making them into
campaign cigars.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

Severance OF diplomatic relations doesn't mean
war" Cousin Bill Taft. Maybe not Bill. but it
knocks the chocolate fudge My Dear wiz
My Dear Theodore" correspondence pretty sudden:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
present one

Teddys holding back, he's holding back. He offers
himself and four in of but doesn't peep
about son-n-law, Nick Longworth. And Nick would
so a trench!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
Waste of Good Advice.

What's the use of counseling the
poor not to eat potatoes when pota-
toes cost five cents apiece?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
Like All the Rest of Us Now.

The vegetarian's argumen. that his
diet solves the cost of living prob
lem was good last year, but it is
worthless now.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
The Limit.

BY the first of next year Washing
ton will be as dry as the congress
sional record.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
The Upstart,

The potato is now sneering at the
alligator pear.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

Mrs. Wilson will go with woodrow when ne takes
ing you?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
Let's Get Immunity.

What we need more than anything
else just now is a preventive serum
for war fever
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
just the Right Time.

The Baltimore man who wants TO
sell one of his arms in order TO get
an education has wisely chosen a
time when arms are at a premium.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06
No Applicants.

Where are we going to get the
privates to take orders from all the
officers that have been trained for
the army reserve corps?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

The High Cost of Illness.
All drugs have gone up, and bread
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

pills aren't so laundering cheap,
either.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-06

test. AIRS Kennedy writes
81 have used your trial far 80
Nick's NapoRub and now would MOT
be without it I'm the house I found
IL cured my little sirl of "a spell o.
bronchitis over night without the
aid OF Internal medicine have
used il myself for pleurisy. and DOB ID
few minutes the pain was gone DO
Three sizes 1lr 30. LIZ 81 al