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The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
Piece OF DISHRAG
SERVED in PUDDING
So Hospital Patient Testihes in New
York Investigation.
.cIs1 to The Wsshington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
New York, Jan. 20-Charges of un.
wholesome conditions in the Philanthropir
Hospital, Fifth avenue and 12Sth street
were made at a hearing before the State
Board of Charities by three women, two
of whom had been patients at the insti-
tuition.
Mrs Mary Richto, who had been under
treatment in the hospital two weeks,
paying s25 a week for the private room
she occupied. testified that a piece of an
old dIshcloth was served to her as part
of a rice pudding, that her bed was
walking and that the din in the hos
pital was worse than a factory"
THE nurses and other attendants
threw pans asound in the bathroom" she
said. 'I couldn't eat the food they serv-
ed me there, so my daughter had to
bring what I ate from my home. I told
the house physician about those things
but he did not seem to care about II
THE bathroom she continued. was
the most terrible place I ever saw. II
was used to keep soiled clothes. why
even the attendant who served me car.
ried tray of food in one hand and a
garbage can in the other"
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
victim FRAMES UP"
ALLEGED BLACKMAILER
Trapped by Police in Act of Receiving
81 500 Package.
Special to Tue Washington Herald.

oFeclaI 10 lhe washington Herald.
Philadelphia, Jan. 20.-John II. Cunning
ham, an alleged member of a band of
blackmailers. the majority of whom have
been rounded up after operations said TO
have extended over a greater part OF the
country, was trapped by detectives this
afternoon as he was about to receive
81 500 from William Thomas Hopper, his
victim in an alleged blacksmail scheme
The meeting between Cunningham and
Hopper was arranged after HOPPER. his
laid the matter before the police. declar-
ing he had agreed to pay Cunningham
the $500 for immunity from prosecution
on a confession obtained from him nv
Cunningham and another alleged black
mailer.
When Cunningham approached Hopper
this afternoon the detectives iunned
from their hiding place behind some
shrubbery and nabbed him before he had
chance to accept the 81, 800 which Hon
per had taken from the bank and had
wrapped in a small bundle ready to give
him
The band Of which Cunningham is said
to have been a member was recently
broken up by Federal prosecution.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
SUBMARINE SIGHTED
OFF GEORGIA COAST
May Be Deutschland. Due at New Lon
don, Conn, Today. o4r

CBy the International News SersieeD
Savannah, Ga, Jan. IA German
submarine is reported to have been
sighted off the Georgia coast late today.
The United States wireless signal opcr-
ator in the tower at Fort Screven is on
the lookout for messages relative to the
raider.
British and other allied vessels have
been confined to the harbor for several
days. A special watchman has been
hired by British representatives to guard
the vessels in port
New London, Jan. 2o-Everything was
in readiness here today for the arrival of
German merchant submarine presum-
ably the Deutschland. which sailed from
Bremen on January 2. Stevedores are
waiting. as is the cargo which the sub
Inersible will take back to Germany. Of
ficials of the Eastern Forwarding Com
pany which directs the American prep
arations for the submarines, intimated
today that the Deutschland can be ex-
peCted by Sunday night.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
A STRIKE
A. F. fl. Clerks Demand Liv-
ing Wage, or Walk-out.

The American Federation Of Labor.
which has been the leader OF scores OF
great strikes, is facing a walk-out OF its
own employees
Miss Margaret Stewart, secretary OF
the stenographers, TypSwriters, Book
keepers and Assistants Union. and one
Of the leaders in demanding a s3-a-dn
Grafton, in a statement issued last nj hit
fused q special meeting OF the union
would be called to decide whether Il
strike vote would be taken.
As the situation stands at present the
negotiations are deadlocked. The execU-
tive committee of the union has had a
series of conferences with officials of the
Federation and the demands have been
refused. The Federation has announced
that II will refer the question to the eI-
ecutive council Of the A. F Of L. =
In her statement issued last night Miss
Stewart says:
The counter-proposals made to our
union do not include a S3-a-day wage. and
they refuse other conditions demanded by
The Union. Our union instructed its o.
hcers 10 stick to the original demand, and
unless the executive council Of the Amer
ican Federation OF Labor meets our
wishes a meeting OF the union will be
called to decide whether drastic action
shall be taken.
Our demands have been indorsed b.,
the Central Labor Union here. and they
are practically Identical with similar de-
mands being made on behalf of the gov
eminent clerks by the federation oTicials
themselves. We cannot understand why
they have not been readily granted by
the federation. All the higher officers Of
the feeerstion, including numerous or
ganizersr receive good salaries and allow
ances for travel and other expenses The
clerks employed at the headquarters, how
ever, without whom the work Of the Fed
Grafton could not 20 on, are receiving
wages which the federation itself has Of
hctally declared to be less than living
wages"
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
SCORES HARVARD MEN
FOR SMALL FAMILIES
Undergraduates Told Carefree Habits
of College Life Are Responsible.

'By the International News Service D
Boston. Jan. 30-Harvard undergradu-
ates have been called upon TO prevent the
slump in the birth rate among Crimson
men by giving up their habits of idleness
and pleasure in college The Harvard
Crimson. the college publication. attacks
the student body for their laxity.
J. c. Phillips. a graduate finds the
Harvard birthrate has declined seriously
in recent years. The Crimson points to
the life of the undergraduates as one
of the contributory causes or race sui
eide in after life. 1t SAYS:
Mr.. Phillips mas fourd out that while
the percentage Of Harvard graduates
marrying remained nearly constant at
-, the number of children born per mar
ried graduate dropped from 313 for the
eight classes from 1853 to 1850 to 2O6 for
the 10 classes from 1881 TO 1890. The per-
centage of Childless marriages rose from
IS in the first group to 2S.4 in the last
For this second group the number of
children per graduate stands at 1.5S
with college GRADUATE stock it has been
calculated by experts that each family
not chidless must produce 81 children
on an average in order barely 10 perpetu-
ate the race. The actual number at Har-
ward graduates are the fathers of only
j6 per cent of the children necessary to
continue their stock.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
MAN Fights ROBBERS;
HIS Skull FRACTURED
Unable to Get Rings, Thugs Blackjack
Aged Victim.
shington Herald.

Special to, The Washington Herald.
Philadelphia, Jan. O.-Levi Krauskopf
80 years old, member of the Manufac-
turers' Club. was beaten almost to death
by thugs armed with blackjacks in a
hold-up at Twelfth and Oxford streets
early today He is in serious condition
at st. Joseph's Hospital, suffering from
q fractured skull 1t is feared he may
die.
The attack occurred shortly after mid
night The veteran manufacturer made
valiant efforts to figft of his assaiIants
and succeeded in saving diamond rings
valued at 1900, which he wore. He was
robbed OF several hundred dollars in cash
and OF diamond masonic charm.
The thugs, as though enraged because
unable to tear off Mr.. Krauskopfs rings
bit his fingers and blackjacked him be-
fore they fed. He was found lying un-
conscious on the street.
The police have sent out a partial de-
sCription OF the two men and hope for
their arrest before nightfalI. The at
tack was said to be the most daring In
this city in months.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
GERMANS CONTINUE
RUMANIAN SUCCESS
Won Mackensen Advances West of Sc
reth. Petrograd Admits.

The Germans continued their attacks
in Rumanis, said yesterdays oricial dis
patch from PetroErad. and were success
full in some quarters. Il was admitted
by the Russians that the enemy gained
ground west OF the Sereth and sout beast
OF Fokshani. but failed concentrated at
tacks at other points. The Russo-Ru-
manian forces were driven back toward
the Sereth. the Petrograd advices said.
On the French western front, Paris re-
ported brief artillery actions Of vio-
ience' south Of Lassigny, near the Oise
River. The Italian official report men
toned artillery engagements on the
Carso
The Berlin adviCcs told Of the taking
Of the town Of Nsnesti. on the Sereth. in
a hand-tO-hand ecoUnter in a heavy snow
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
MAGAzINE-COVER GIRL
suing FOR DIVORCE
Marion De Laire, q, Accuses Society
Writer of Misconduct.
Special to The Washington Herald.

SPECIAL 70 The Washington Herald.
New York, Jan. CA young woman,
whose face you have seen many times
smiling up at you from the cover of a
magazine, or looking down at you from
a subway poster, has sued for a divorce
before Supreme Court Justice Giegerich.
As Marion De Laire. barely Il years
old, she eloped last June with Marvin
J. Sullivan, writer on Town Topics. Her
family did not know of the wedding until
they heard it had taken place in Phila-
delphia.
Il have never been in court before" she
said. 81 feel so bad about this My peo-
pie do not know I am trying to get a di-
vorce. I'm afraid it's going to hurt. Ny
marriage was an elopement. 1t hasn't
turned out so happily, has it?'
The girls face clOuded and her eyes
filled.
seen Mr.. Sullivan with a woman not his
wife. He did not defend the suit.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
Living COST CAUSES
MOTHERHOOD REVOLT
New York Women Organizing Birth
Strike" Declares Speaker.
sr~1.i to The Washington HcraId

SP~-i8l to The Washington Herald
New York, Jan. 2.-Revolt against
motherhood on account OF the increa sed
cost OF living has been organized by
hundreds OF women in Brownsville. &C
cOrding to Miss Helen Todd. speaking
At a meeting OF the International Child
Welfare League. Miss Todd asserted
that the women have formed a club
for their own protection and have pre-
pared for the most amazing uprising
of women ever seen in this or any other
country
They will refuse TO become mothers un-
less prices for the necessaries OF life
become lower, so that they can live and
rear their families.
The women's revolt is serious and Il is
big, according to Miss Todd. In the first
place" she said, this is the only
civilized country in the World-this rich,
proud and young America-that doesn't
do something for mothers. have talked
with mothers in the Brownsville section
and they tell me they would be glad
to have children. We love children.
nearly all have said TO me. but IL we
are to have families why do they put up
the price OF bread. milk, shoes and
everything that our children must have
if they are to Iive?'
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21

The broad shoulders heaved convulsively,
the weather beaten face quivered. and
unruly tears coursed down the brown
face Taps for the admiral of the
navy ended in quavering sob. And an
answering sob came from the silent
throng about the yawning tomb
Sleeps Among the Dead.
The Admiral of the Navy slept among
his kind last night. On the next hill
towers the broken battlemast of the
sunken warship Maine, marking the
resting place of the nineteen unidentified
dead brought to Arlington when the
Maine was raised from the bottom of
Havana Harbor. Rear Admirals Schley
away. Nearer still, Benjamin p. Lam
berton. fleet captain of the Manila Bay
fleet. and Capt. Joseph =. Coghlan, who
commanded the Raleigh, rest.
All the world Joined the nation in its
sorrow. Conspicuous among the mourn
ers throughout the ceremonies was Senor
Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, Ambassa-
dor of Spain. the nation whose overthrow
made Admiral Dewey a hero. The repre-
sentative of the enemy OF eighteen years
ago paid his tribute to the hero who de-
feated his forces. Representatives OF
both the entente and Teutonic belliger-
ents in Europe were on hand. appearing
at public occasion together for the first
time in Washington since the war began.
Before the nation took charge of its
dead, Admiral Dewey's family and his
intimates paid their personal tribute to
the hero at a simple private service at
the Dewey home.
The remains of the dead admiral Law
in the drawing room of the mouse and
thither the mourners were conducted. The
great mahogany casket with its embel-
lishments of silver. had been swathed in
the stars and stripes. and upon it rested
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
MYSTERIOUS $685.
CALL OFF CAPE RACE
Canadian Vessels Searching for Ship
Which Is Asking Help.

tBy the International News Service. }
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jan. 2o.-An un-
Identified steamship is in distress OF Cape
Race, according to wireless messages
from the Standard Oil Company tank
ship John d. Arehbold TO the Marconi
operator at the Cape Race wireless sta
ton.
The passenger vessels, Baltic and Phil
adelphia. bound fer New York and the
steamship Chicago, bound for Bordeaux,
arc the only large ships known to be in
the vicinity of Cape Race.
C. ii. Harvey, agent at Halifax for the
Department of Marine and Fisheries. to-
day dispatched government vessels in
search of the distressed ship
New York, Jan. 20-The tank ship John
d. Archbold was reported today to be off
the coast of New Foundland She sailed
from this port January IA for Kirkwall,
Copenhagen, and Stockholm
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
C.O.P.FACTI0NS
STILL AT ODDS
In 'Communique Bull Moos-
ers Attack "Old Guard
Reactionaries.
CBy the international News serviee.)

CBy the International News service.)
New York, Jan. 20 The day was lack
ing in action over the Bull Moose-old
Guard war within the lines of the re-
united Republican ranks, but George w.
Perkins leader, and Everett Colby, his
co-partner In the insursent movements of
the erstwhile Progressives. issued another
''communique. The daily Official start
&c on by referring to the "old Guard"
for the trouble at the recent committee
meeting, as follows:
These men evidently learn nothing
from past mistakes. They have nj vision
as to the future and are unable offer
the country sane, constructive, fG ward
looking leadership"
William r. Wilcox, chairman Of tho
Republican National Committee. caught
in the angle of fire between the insur-
gent and regular guns, still is hesitatins
regarding the much recommended idea
Of calling a general committee meeting
and having the tooth out" The an
nouncement today of Perkins and Colby
evidently was designed as further argu-
ment toward this end. 1t continued:
The real significance of what the Re-
publican Executive Committee did here
last Monday lay in the fact that by the
steps they took and the manner in which
they took them, they clearly showed their
Intention to do everything in Their power
to continue to commit the rank and file
Of the Republican party to the beliefs
Of the COterie of men who jammed Ia st
Mondays program through.
We see evidences of an attempt to
hrClOud the issue in the action of the
Republican Executive Committee seeking
TO make 1t appear the Progressives want
TO get into a squad about some offices
or party power or something of that
sort. This is perfectly ridiculous.
We are interested in what We regard
as fundamentals. principles. policies. is
sues. 1t was because of this. that at the
conventions at Chicago in June. We took
the course We did and loyalty got behind
thc man whom the Republicans nomi-
mated.
Had the PrOgressives taken any other
course it would have resulted in the over
whelminG election of Woodrow Wilson
We also did it because we believed that
Mr.. Hughes, il selected. would set his
face against the aims and desires Of
those whom We regard as reactionary in
the Republican party"
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
$4,000 BORDER
men TO RETURN
Third Of Guardsmen Ordered
Home to Facilitate Persh-
ing Withdrawal.

Orders to facilitate the withdrawal of
the Pershing punitive expedition from
Mexico were issued by the War Depart
ment yesterday.
1eh' Funston was instructed to. select
9''oo men of the militia organizations
now on duty on the border to return to
their homes. The fact that the with
drawal Of the Pershing force will
eliminate the necessity for heavy sup
porting troops on the border was as
signed as the reason for yesterdays
order.
The department declared that the selec-
ton OF the troops to be sent North would
pe ieft entirely to Gen. Funston in order
that ne may accommodate the with
drawal of The militia to the genera
military situation. 1t was stated, how
ever, That the movement of the troops
10 thelr homes would be started just as
soon as Gen. Funston selected the units
10 be relieved. 1t Is expected that the
troops for discharge will be chosen from
the militia of States which now have
the greatest representation among the
forces on the border
The withdrawal of the % 900 rniIitiamer
Will leave about 5000 State troops on the
border. This number, it was stated at
the War Department, would remain on
duty for the present. No further with
drawal orders are expected for the
militia until the Pershing expedition has
been safely brought back to American
soil. and conditions ON the border have
assumed some stable form.
The State Department is expected to
send Ambassador Henry p. Fletcher to
Mexico City within a short time, anc
with diplomatic relations once more
established between the United States
and Mexico an effort will be made tC
settle the border troubles through the
regular channels
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
EXPECTS
AWFUL CARNAGE
Wars Worst Year Starts This
Spring, Is Belief of
the Army.
BY G. F. BERTELLI.
international News Service.

tAhtcfuutfohat news SerN1ce.b
Paris, Jan. 90 With the breakdown OF
all peace suggestions at this stage an
absolute certainty, attention is turned to
the possibilities OF the final year of war
just beginning. the prospects of the en-
tente allies being discussed in the light
OF the swift overthrow of Rumania.
The one big dominating fact that
emerges from all sound considerations OF
a year Of awful slaughter in France.
A month ago peace was still a far-dls-
tant vision. Now everybody is able to
grasp the prospect as a solid and not
too remote blessing which must inevita-
bly, ensue when military men can nc
longer say that arms have not had a
fair chance to decide the issue of the
war. That time will not come until the
end OF next autumn, according to the
shrewdest opinion in France.
Most Terrible Carnage.
While 1917 is certain to be another
year of war, 1t may also be expected
to witness carnage far more terrible
than the slaughter of the User, the
massacres before Warsaw, the ghastly
sacrifices of Verdun of the hecatombs
of the Somme.
For it is a little realized fact that al
this moment something like 1900, 0OC
persons are engaged in the manufac-
ture of guns and shells, rifles and cart
ridges, bombs. air torpedoes and the
other death-dealing material of war
all of which are to be directed against
some 100000 troops. For every sol
dier in the field there is at least one
civilian working on agents for his de-
structiOn.
1t is not difficult after twenty nine
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
C0RSETs WORSE THAN BOOZE.

Indianapolis, Jan. aO-Mrs Anna
Hoeltke. the woman who will ask the leg
islature to pass & law abolishing corsets
in Indiana, today declared that "the cor
set has killed more women and children
than whisky. tobacco. war and famine -
This barbarous CUSTOM" said she. .of
deforming the waists of girls and women
is far more injurious than the savage
custom of fatteaing the head or the
Chinese custom of binding feet"
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
BERLIN ASKED
FOR NEWS OF
u. s. SAILORS
State Department Cables AM
bassador for Report on
Raider Prisoners.
WERE TAKEN TO GERMANY
Crews of Merchantmen Regarded a,
Captives. but Release Is
Expected Here.

A report on the American citizen.
among the prisoners taken BY the Ger
man commerce raiders in the Atlantic
was demanded Of Ambassador G.r,-s
at Berlin yesterday by the State Depart
ment
The Ambassador was requested 10
ascertain the status Of any Americans
smong the prisoners sent TO Germany by
the raider. aboard the British captured
vessel YsrrowdaIe. These Americans ar.
held as prisoners Of war, but il is e1-
pected that a demand from the United
states viii bring their prompt release.
Germany made her contention that
armed merchantmen are auxiliary war
ships, maintains that the captured crews
ol such vessels are properly prisoners OF
war II Is Known that several Americans
In this status were among the survivors
taken into Pernambuco by the captured
ST Theodore, I'm charge OF a German
prize crew from the vessel believed TO be
, the raider MOewe. State Department Of
fcials said yesterday that they expected
10 difficulty in securing the release OF
these Americans II was also stated that
there is little likelihood Of the situation
developing an acute recurrence Of the
armed merchantmen controversy between
this country and Germany.
Diplomatic circles here last night were
confident that the German raiders ere
now either on their way to German ports,
or have already arrived there. They have
accomplished their mission in the At
iantic, having conducted an eNtraordi-
narily successful raid and have aroused
the avenginE cruisers OF the allies In
less they make their escape promptly, Il
Is practically certain that they will be
caught in the entente dra Enet which Is
sweeping the sea. A dozen fast French
CONTINUED on PAGE SIX.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
BANK ROBBERS SHOOT
MOTHER and TWO SONS
Escape with $1,000 After Cutting All
Wires to Town.
CBy the international News serxi

CBy the International News Serviceo
KanapOlis, Kans., Jan. 20-Five bank
robbers, surprised while leaving the Ex-
change State Bank here with 5000 to-
day, shot and slightly wounded Mrs.
James Cowie, wife of the president, and
her two sons, James, jr.. and Richard,
who had accompanied the elder Cowie to
the bank after being awakened by the
explosions which wrecked the vault
James Cowie, jr., assistant cashier of
the bank, was wounded in the body, and
his mother, rushing to his side received
bullet through the arm. The robbers,
fleeing, turned and fired parting volley,
bringing down Richard, a high school
student.
The robbers cut all wires into the
town, preventing other towns from toin-
ing the local posse in pursuit of them.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
Preacher Demands Light
On Sex Problems Of Race

Denver. Colo. Jan. 2O-An unusual plea
for birth control propaganda is made by
the Rev. David II. Fouse, pastor OF the
First Reformed Church, OF Denver. He
says:
THE sexual life OF the race has always
been a matter OF secrecy. 1t has lived
in the dark, where, amid the grossest ig-
norance. il has bred all manner OF eN-
cesses until It has become the occasion
Of the most damninE sins that curse
humanity.
THE conception OF child has always
been n matter TO be concealed and hush
ed. while his death is given. the widest
publicity"
The Washington herald., 1917-01-21
Laziness Cause of Vice.
Probation Officer Saws

Chicago, Jan. cot is from II , ranks
Of the lazy girls that the wor below
the social level recruits its rank,
This is the conclusion of Mr., Grace
Greeneich, probation officer of the
Morals Court after an exhaustive inves-
tgation. And for the most part they
come from the rural districts, driven to
the city by the monOtony of their en-
vironments
They want pretty clothes and easv
times and they deliberately choose this
method of getting them" saws Mr..
Greeneich. Il believe that Iaziness is
the principal contributing cause. ;,