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The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
more MOVIES PLANNED.
BY REALTY MEN HERE.
New Theater May Be Built in Thir-
teenth Street.

Many new and beautiful buildings here
are IN prospect as the result Of important
real estate deals consummated last week.
The Anchor theatrical Corporation
bought eight buildings in Thirteenth
street, sos Ia to so. for q consideration
OF 100000. A large motion picture
tneater will be erected on the property,
1t Is said.
Another deal Of interest to motion pic
ture fans was the purchase Of Penn Gar
dens' popular movie theater at
TWenty-nrst street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest. Edmund K. Fox
bought the property from Albert F. Fox
ana Clarence Corson. trustees. under the
deed of trust.
Eighteenth street and Columbia road. one
OF the string OF Crandal motion picture
houses here. is progressing rapidly. 1t
VIII be one Of the finest and largest mo-
don picture theaters in this city.
Among other buildings In course of con-
structton is the new Film Exchange
Building on the site OF former buildings.
eOs to S14 inclusive. Sixth street north
west. The building will be fire proof and
one Of the most modern structures of its
kind in the East.
The old Gibson Building at the corner
OF Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth
street northwest, is rapidly being razed
TO clear for the proposed home of the
Autocar Company. of Ardmore. Pa. b.
Stanley Simmons is the architect
Washington real estate investments and
loans for the first quarter of 1917 amount
ed to S14.360,00O. This Is an increase of
more than s. 900 900 over the corresponding g
period of 1916. Sales numbering l.57S were
reported for the last three months, in
volving 3.1S3 lots and parcels of real
estate. In the first quarter of 1916 there
were 1886 sales, involving 1854 lots.
Investments for the last month totaled
$5,300.OoO Only 4s6 sales were effected
and 81 lots changed owners. In Feb
ruary the brokers closed 5O7 sales. in
volving 1.2o9 lots.
In the last six days 12s sales were COM
pleted by the brokers. In the sales, 2S4
lots and parcels Of real estate were ex-
changed.
Twenty-Five deals were recorded for the
half-holiday Saturday, twenty sales Mon
day. twenty-one Tuesday. sixteen We'd
nesday. twenty-six Thursday, and twenty
one on Friday.
The loan market showed a decline Of
EearIy $4,000 from the previous week.
The loans for the past six days were
SG25, 500 %, secured by 211 lots at an ever
age interest rate Of So per cent. Straight
loans aggregated SB9s572g. The sum
o: all the notes given for deferred pay
ments on purchases totaled 1928, 472. Mem
bers Of building associations were ad-
vanced S142,6O0.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
THE open FORUM
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world to come. even the memory Of it is
wiped out forever. Marden's religion is
one of despair. not OF hope.
The proposition Of mo possibility of
retracing ones steps. and beginning all
over again." is the devils suggestion OF
despair against the Lords assurance of
the possibility OF having all things made
new. The salvation of Jesus Christ pro-
vides not only for the remission Of sins.
and thereby the deliverance from the
torment OF guilt. but it also provides for
the restoration OF opportunity and the
new nature that spontaneously i'm
proves 1t.
The proposition that poverty Is a hell
is without basis in fact. Poverty often
reaches the painful stage, but 1t is not
at all in the nature OF the torment of
any hell.
The proposition that there is mo King
dom of Heaven, except that which Is
within u.s." and, conversely. there Is
no kingdom OF hell. except that which is
in u.s." is entirely contrary to the Word
of God, and the suggestion OF reason,
teaching that both are objective realities.
not merely subjective conditions.
The proposition that a good God could
not provide a he'll for erring children
assumes that the common notion accuses
Him of so doing. II there is such no
ton outside the fancy of certain who
like to put up straw men to battle
against. whence did It come. except from
false teachers who are given to misrep-
resentation in order to get a following?
For the Bible nowhere teaches such an
origin Of hell. On the extreme contrary,
it teaches that God, instead of providing
a hell for man. did His utmost to save
man from sin and folly
The proposition that a mother will fol-
low her shining boy to the gallows and
pray for his peace to the very last is
held forth as an expression OF supreme
fidelity and comparison. 1t is offered in
a way to insinuate that the Christian
doctrine of future punishment is wrong
because beneath the compassion Of merely
human affection. But It is a cunning
evasion of the most fundamental truth in
the whole Christian teaching, namely.
that God not only follows the sinner to
the electric chair" but. in the person
of His Son. He sat in that chair himself
in the sinners stead.
The wise will heed.
MERSENE Z. SLOAN.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
OFFERS VETERAN GUARD.
Soldiers Home Resident Wants &c
keep Country Straight"

Editor Washington Herald: Now that
the time Is coming and is here, 1t becomes
every man in the United States to come
out in the broad, open light of the day
and show his true colors. Now II this
country is crooked I want to help make
it straight and if straight I am willing
to lay down my life to keep It so.
Therefore ] will make a suggestion:
In this home. OF which / am a mem.
ber. I believe you can find at least 10t
men able and willing 10 help guard the
city of Washington without any extra
compensation. Respectfully.
]. S. BENNETT.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
QUITS ASYLUM ON WRIT.
Retired Navy Yeoman Wins Release
from st. Elizabeth,

Robert e. L. Garcin, retired yeoman
in the United States navy, was released
yesterday from st. Elizabeth's Asylum on
a writ OF habeas corpus obtained by At
torneys Jeffords and Fuggitt from Justice
Mccoy, of the District Supreme Court,
claiming illegal detention.
Garcin was taken in charge by the au-
thorities because, 1t is alleged. that he
was suffering from hallucinatiois, which
told him he was the Messiah.
He was received at ST. Elizabeth's
through a transfer made by the Navy
Department from the Naval Home at
Philadelphia last March.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
OBJECTS TO POLICE STRIKE DUTY
Writer Can't See why Regular Tax
payers should Suffer.

Editor The Washington Herald: May
ask, through the columns of your paper
how IT Is that the tax payers OF the Dis
trict must have the police protection for
the general public lessened while $40 OF
the police force are virtually on strike
duty Ito say nothing of the cost of gaso-
line and automobiles which are also fur
nished by the tax payers OF the Dis
trict? 1t does not seem fair that the
Washington Railway and Electric Com.
pany should reap practically all the ben.
efits of the police force.
A TAX PAYER.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
EGG PEDDLER MoBBED.

Baltimore. Md. March 3.-Because he
refused to sell his eggs at 80 cents Il
dozen. Amos Martin. a farmer. was at
tackled here by a dozen women and the
eggs scattered over the street.
Martin was asking 80 cents a dozen for
the eggs. One woman. Miss Rebecca
Cohen. was arrested and is being held
in 500 bail. charged with biting Martin
on the hand. The police had to be called
to disperse the angry women.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
WOULD KNOW "BILLY's" INCOME

"Inauisitive" Asks Does Evange-
list Pay Tnx."
Editor Washington Herald: When Mr.
Sunday is asked about his income. he
tells us to mind our own business. But
here are questions that any citizen has a
right to ask! Is Mr.. Sunday subject te
an income tax. II not, why not? Does
Mr.. Sunday pay an. income tax? II no.
why not?. INQUISITIVE.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01

may" ! wonder II you or any OF your
readers can tell me who originated this
saying. My impression is that it had its
birth under the starry flag. have been
unable TO locate II in any book OF
quotations T.. g. CASWELL
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
ASKS ABOUT "HEW TO LINE"
Writer Requests Readers to Give
Source of Quotation.

Editor The Washington Herald: In an
editorial in your issue of the 18th inst;
entitled Censorship Cboth the editorial
and the fact it chronicles are truIy
admirably I note the words "hewing
to the line" Those are taken or adopted
from the well-known saying. "Hew to
the line, let the chips fall where they
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01

Australia's new daylight saving law
provides that all clocks be put forward
an hour at the end OF September and
back again at the end Of March in each
year.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
Special for Easter, Sc.

Infants dresses. long and short
for Easter. Dainty little dresses of
made with tiny yokes and Iace-
edged ruffles at bottom of skirt:
some with embroidery flounces. The
styles are too numerous for de-
scrtptfon. Be sure to visit our In
fants' department to see dresses at
prices from f2.9S to zoe,
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01
Special for Easter, Sl.O0.
Children's White
Dresses at Sc.

OF lawn, embroidery and lace
trimmed. dainty models. Sizes 2
to IA.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-01

You will positively wonder at the
numerous and beautiful dresses we
are showing at $1.00. Dresses of
dainty lawns, beautifully trimmed
with laces and embroideries. Some
have double embroidery flounces on
skirts, others finished with tucks
and lace; the style and variety are
unlimited. Sizes to IA years.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
HALLWAY Work.

We are, none Of US, so good archt.
tects as to be able to work habitually
beneath our strength; and yet there
is not building that I know of, late
~ raised, wherein 1t is not sufficiently
evident that neither architect nor
builder has done his best. 1t is the
especial characteristic of modern
work. All old work nearly has been.
hard work. 1t may be the hard work
of children, of barbarians, of rustics;
but 1t is always their utmost. Let us.
have done with this kind of work at
once; cast off every temptation to 1t;
do not let US degrade ourselves volun-
tarily, and then mutter and mourn
over our shortcomings; let US confess
our poverty or our parsimony, but not
belle our human intellect. 1t Is not
question of doing more, but Of doing
better. Do not let us boss our roofs
with wretched, half-worked, blunt
edged rosettes; do not let us flank our
gates with rigid limitations of medieval
statuary. Such things are more in
suits to common sense, and only unfit
us for feeling the nobility of their pro-
totypes.-Ruskin.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
Gladstone 4 Hard Worker.

Gladstone WAS q hard worker, with
no breads with regard to work. says
the American Magazine.
He turned from political RESPONSE
bilit1es of the heaviest to Greek for
recreation, and lived his four-score
years and more, just as Pope Leo
XIII, turned to Latin poetry for his
relaxation from worldwide burdens,
and lived on beyond four-score and
ten. living SO hopefully that when,
at the little dinner given him on his
ninetieth birthday. one of the cardin-
ais said, in proposing a toast to him,
Here's that you may live to be a
hundred, holy father" the old pontifr
replied: "But why limit me to
hundredT
They were contemporaries of Ranke,
the German historian, who at the age
OF ninety-one proposed to write a his
tory Of the world In IL volumes, one
volume to be completed each year,
and actually lived, believe, to COM
plete nearly half of it.
These men had no breads; but they
allowed their energies to work on,
without any fear of exhausting their
vitality.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28

you remember we always did II at
homer" she added tremulonsiy.
'For the lands sake T.
"The love Of Mikel"
Excited ordinations went arOund.
shrleks 81 naif make-belleve. half zeal
terror. While the little bride stood
staring. whitesa faced. into the night MS
though she had seen ghost. "a ghost
II i3obhic. her OWE dear bairn for
whom her heart had been crying ovt
an dag long.
Then out OF the darkness snto Che
brieht llxing.rooms Hight stepped a
very flesh aud-blood little boy with
toasged. just-out-of.bed hair and small
garments put GA AMY that badly need.
ed hugtoning up.
-why. It's the poor farm's new little
crphani" somebody cried Ia relief.
-what IN the world are you doing
here, sonf''
ignoring the others. the child walked
straight up 70 Maggie Ma"Keizle.
'rm looking for my hsuth-cr," he
said. catch 10 his breath.
And with her sad face now radiant.
shining light IN her eyes, the home
sick little bride gathered him Ia her
arms and Rugged him close.
III you can't find her, won't l do
instead darllngi' she whispered no
tween kisscs.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
EARLY MAN FIGHTING ANIMAL
Ancestors Of Present People Were
Called Upon to Face Beasts That
Inhabited Plains and Rivers.

The first houses were caves. Early
man was fighting animal, and had to
contend against the huge and feroci-
GUS beasts that infested the plains and
rivers, observes a writer. His dwelling
naturally had to be place Of security
as well as q habitation. Caves were
natural and artificial, the latter being
followed out of solid rock by rude flint
instruments. Most Of them were FORM
ed In the sides of cliffs and among
high, rugged hills.
To those early ancestors Of ours, the
primeval men and women who secured,
as one would think, but scanty shelter
and protection from these stone caves
and holes in the rock, we apply the
generic term Of cliff jewellers.
They were entirely ignorant of agri-
culture, and subsfsted by hunting and
fishing and on the natural products
they found growing In wild state.
What is very remarkable, at our
very doors can still be seen the typical
houses and handiwork of those pre-his-
toric tribes in the caves Of the Lancos
river In southern Colorado. These. In
most Instances, are as well preserved
as when their ancient occupants de-
serted them-perhaps 10000 years
ago When Inhabited they were reach
ed quite frequently by notches cut in
the rock, and at other times rope lad
ders must have been used.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
RUSSIA TO RECLAIM DESERT
Good Pasture Lands Are Destroyed At
tho Rate Of One Hundred Thous-
and Acres q Year.

The shifting sands of Astrakhan and
the measures taken by the Russian
government to deal with this problem
form the subject of q memoir By j.
G. Firstov, published In Petrograd, OBJ
serves the Scientific American. Ten
million acres Of the province In ques-
zion are covered with shifting sands
formed during the nineteenth century
and subsequently. These sands have
been spreading at the rate Of 100000
acres year. the result being the trans
formation Of good pasture land into
barren waste. The principal cause Is
over grazing; focks and herds are kept
80 long In one place as to result In the
complete destruction Of the turf. Poor
agricultural methods are also respon-
sible. About the beginning of the pres
ent century the government took meas
ures Of control and reclamation, and
between 1904 and 1909 an area of about
10000 acres was brought under cult
walton. In 1913 special service was
ordered to deal with the question.
The province was put under the charge
Of chief forestry officer and divided
into Elk districts, In each Of which q
subordinate official was appointed to
superintsnd the work. At the time of
writing good progress has been made
in planting soil binders and growing
herbaceous crops, but 1t was still prob
lematcai whether the province was
adapted to the establishment of for
ests.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
Almost the Speed Limit.

AT Chattanooga" said a veteran OF
the Civil war, zone of the men in my
company left early In the action. and
no one saw him till after the battle,
when he appeared In camp unwounded
and unabashed. Some of the boys ac-
cused him of running away, but he
wouldn't admit 1t.
II only retreated in good order he
declared.
Il heard of the matter, and a few
days later I asked him If he had any
idea how fast he had 'retreated'
well, I'll tell you, cap'n, he said.
II had been at home. and going after
the doctor, folks that see me passIn'
would have thought my wife was right
sick P"-Harper's Month";
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28

crumbs as we can flnd,' chirped some
6parrows who had been listening.
"'And 1 shall give some very hne
goats milk said the Goat.
"'Well. did eyerp exclaimed
Pinky.
"'What do you meanr asked Mr..
Rooster. Here are all you animals
Dragging about what you will do. You
have all said You would do the things
that you always do-you have not
made any good resolutions, as you call
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
as Good :
Resolutions
M' a. &

BY Mary Graham Bonner

"The Animals were talking com
menced Daddy. "They We're getting
quite excited when along came Pinky
Pig, who asked what the trouble was
all about.
THE Pigeon family said Mr.. and
Mrs. Peacock together, say that as II
is around the New Year they should
make resolutions--good resolutions.'
"'Well,' grunted Pfnky, III you'd
talk like sensible animal and not
like one of the silly Grown-Ups, per-
haps ] could get some sort of an idea
what you meant. AS 1t is. don't know
at all. What's a resolution, anyway
And are there bad ones and good ones2
That's silly word. Now good means
good, and bad means bad and what
right has that word resolution to be
both good and badr
"Dear me- CLICKED Mrs. Hen, how
irritable you are today Pinky. You
should be pleasant and try to make
good resolutions, too
"'But how can | make something l
don't underestimate" squealed Pinky.
Resolutions crowed Mr.. Rooster,
are resolves Therei That's some
thing for your And Mr.. Rooster
strutted about proudly.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
Built for Giant.

Gardner, Mass. has In one of its
parks what is believed to be the largest
chair In the world, made for actual
use. 1t is 81 feet square at the base.
and - feet in height. The seat is six
feet from the ground. so that those
who wish to sit In 1t have to literally
climb up into the chair. like children.
The chair weighs 1000 pounds. 1t was
presented to the city. and is an object
of considerable attraction to strangers.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
BurlaIs on HiIItops.

Buffalo Bill Is not the only celebrity
TO be buried on hilltop. Cecil Rhodes
and Robert Louis Stevenson are both
buried on high points. The empire
builder lies on kopje in Rhodesia.
and the novelist on the highest part
of his beloved Samoa. Lord Dacre Is,
supposed to have been buried on horse
back in Saxton churchyard.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28

" You see.' he
continued. we can
resolve to be good
or we can resolve
10 he bad. And
when n New Year
is beginning II is
well 10 resolve to
be good
" That's nom
sense grunted
Pinky. Il don't
care to resolve TO
be good. Nor do
I CQra ia raeolva
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28

Msggie's checks and her eyes biased
How dared he Insinuate that one OF
Boobies precious letters was nothing
But the anger her eyes shot fell
short Of their mark~-iamle had spled
the plum pudding.
Hello" he laughed. $50 that is what
was In the box. I'd Just about given
II up. les some pudding, all right.
isn't III" he went on admiringIy.
"slnce we couIdnt have II Christmas
let's celebrate tonight-speed the part.
Ing guest Of the old year and welcome
the new. you know. But came In TO
tell you I'm going over to BlyIy's tc
take look az the brooder he wants
to sell. So II youll give me that pic
ture book Of Boobies. I'll stop ut Tho
poor farm ms l pass and leave II fol
the little chap who got there too lats
for Santa Claus. They say he's tar.
ribly lonesome and homesick, poor lit
tie Kid. aud maybe II will cheer him
up"
The set line Of Maggie's lins
twltched.
AT the time II had seemed such a
simple thing 10 propose. TO give Bob
ble's picture book, packed with her
own books by mistake, 10 the new or
phnn arrived nj the farm the begin
ming OF the week the poor 4-year-old
child whose mother had died on Christ
mas day 10 a lonely shack up In the
you can take the book another |
time" she cyaded. picking up her shut
tie and tatting ike mad. II can't /
bother about II today"
jamie looked at her. surprised. pun.
zled.
why, I can get II as well as you.
dear" he said gently. TITS On the
table In our room. Isn't III"
She threw down the tatting and
'prang up.
I'm get II myself" she said fiercely,
nd shot into the adjoining room.
When she brought him the book.
ler eyes were trimmed In great red
-ircles, but jamie. impatient to be OF.
IA not notice. or thought the redness
anne from her cold.
As the front door banged after him.
amphor bottle In hand, Maggie sank
mex Ia the nearest armchair and gave
erscif up 20 being miserable.
But jamie was gone over an hour
Inc for conscience and camphor to
FORK. and thoroughly ashamed of her
CIR, her head much clearer. she greet !
4 his return with rising spirits, which /,
ell preclpit0usly when he nonchalant-
{ Informed her he had Invited over the
iylys and Joen Thornton and his wife
nd the Hopkins girl to spend the
eening and eat plum pudding with
lem.
"oh. jamie. why did you7" she said
Il feel like anything but
'mpany tonight"
But the guests had been invited and
iere WIS nothing to do but make the 4
ST Of II.
Yet. as CALAMITY as she tried, the
'or, little bride could not shake Off
n homesick forlornness. u
II WAS fye minutes OF i2 by the
fiug-room clock when the hot choco- u
te and the plum pudding In Its blaze
glory We're brought In. and as the
- stroke OF midnight fell upon their y
TX and laughter, with lifted cups, ali d
rang to their feet and drank TO the
" year. deep and long.
An that Is. except Maggie Mac e.
nzie.
She took only hurried sip at her W
ocolate. then put down her cup and
a and opened the front door. Il
Maggie !" cried jamie. what are
a opening the door forf' III
To let In the New Year. dear" she
planned With forced galety. Don't dl
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28

to be bad. III just be natural and a
regular pig
We think It's silly for u.s. said the
Peacocks, as we're about as perfect as
can be-
You're conceited' said the Pigeons.
You should resolve not to think SO
we'll OF yourselves
but how can we help itT answer
ID tie Peacocks. We have something
o be vain about
You're hopeless said the Pigeons
"'What is every other animal re-
olvIngr asked Pinky
81 am going TO be up brighr and
)arly every morning. said Mr.. Rooster.
"'You do that anyway said Pinky.
I might as well resolve to wade In
every bit OF mud | see. OF course. In
die winter that's hard, but then l can
10 my best
"And l am going to lay lots Of
eggs said Mrs. Hen.
"I am going to give good milk said
Mrs. Cow.
~ shall protect the sheep said the
Sheep Dog.
Sand shall look after the farmers
house barked the Watch Dog.
~ have decided TO let the children
drive me- brayed the Donkey.
"'We shall pick up as many bread