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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22

'Spcc.ai 70 The Richmond Virginian. J
Harrisonhurg Va. April 2I.-wn-
liam II i;tenour twenty-seven years
old. former resident Of Harrison
bars was. accidentally shot and killed
several days ago IN the navy yard at
Washington. whore he was on guard
GatE. IN passing a gun to q com
Ianion Me weapon dropped and was
discharged. the load passing through
Hltenour's abdomen. He was son
OF Edward Ritenour and has many
relatives in this section.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22
LIQUOR AND THE GRAIN SUPPLY.

Our friend OF tho Washington Star
Writes like a real prohibitionist in
these days Of prohibition prosperity
Read what the star has to say on the
ubjsct of conserving the food supply
~ cutting out the drain on grain
caused by the distilleries:
Mr. Bryan. busy in hts advocacy
of prohibition, expresses the opinion
that the war will give impetus to that
s9sause FOR the reason that tho question
fAced by the country Will be whether
prcducts suitable for foodstuffs shall
~ used as food or converted into
la1Quor. with the effect Of essenins the
sGepaciiy of civilians and soldiers
's 1.-THE came viow is taken IN Eng.
ind as respects the prohibition cause
III that country. At several meetings
soiutions have been adopted asking
~ government to prohibit the con
4erting OF foodstuTs into alcoholic
4 Gpors during the war
cit was an old dlsIiuer who, while
NY from home. said hoast!nely Of
corn production Of his state; It's
(ormous. sir Hundreds OF millions
bushels are used by the djstINorlos
pides what In wasted making bread
esTfF III t7frB arr t1-rTrJf- - r. rrr
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22
v. c. 7. ]. APPEALS FOR
FOOD CONSERVATION
Telegram Is Sent to President, Both
Virginia Senators and Congress-
man Montague.

The Richmond w. C. IT. L. has
sent the following telegram TO the
president, the Virginia senators and
Congressman MontaGue:
To His Excellepcy, President Wood
row Wilson, Hons, Thos. s. Mar
tin and Claude A. Swanson, Sen
ators from Virginia, and Hon. a,
J. Montague, Congressman from
Richmond (Va) District:
Dear Sirs.--On behalf OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Unions
Of Richmond city, Henrico and Han
over counties comprising the BIZ
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22

The drink traffic catches it. on all
sides and from every source. Before
the war BEGAN the growth of buss-
ness. with the resultant necessity for
complicated machinery OF business,
had increased the number Of total abb
stainers TO a large figure Indulgence
was frowned upon, and operated as a
bar either to employment or 70 pro-
motion.
Since the war began the lesson has
been driven home everywhere. So
briefly must prevail on the firing line.
and shortage OF foodstufrs is making
it absolutely necessary behind the
lines Tho people can live without
liquors, but not without bread And
throughout Europe, md at last here
in America, the loaf IS threatened.
1T Will he = great point gained, not
only for tho present emergency, but
for the future, after the emergency
has passed, T this proposition about
foodstuffs carries. 1t will emphasize
the value Of putting the food prod
ucts Of the soil TO the proper use 1t
viii put tho homo table above the
barroom; and. once that change is
made. the old conditions can nowhere
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22
Decatur Church Program.

]. NJ. Way, field secretary of the
southern Methodist Sunday school
board. will speak in Decatur-Street
Methodist church this morning at II
O'Clock and again tonight at s o'clock.
:. X. Mckee, general secretary of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A.. will lecture on
the Man of Galilee." and Will illus
trate 1t with seventy stereopticon
slides. ]. f. Barton will sing the
Ninety and Nine" with illustrations.
Play In franklin school.
The Forest Hill Dramatic club Tues
day night at Sis o'clock in Franklin
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22

The special term OF Chesterfield
county circuit court yesterday was ad-
journed by Judge b. u. White, VINO
was designated by Governor Stuart
to hold court for Judge Southall. who
underwent two operations recently.
The court will be convened on the
second Monday in May.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22

school auditorium. will present a play
entitled. Looking for Mary Jane" The
affair will be under the auspices Of
the Franklin Mothers club. Proceeds
of the show will go towards the fresh
air fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

at Zaza, were building q railroad
and driving the Turks before them.
The Jews began to see visions of the
Union Jack floating over the Holy
City.
Then came the Russian revolu-
ton, making it possible for the Zion
lists of that scountry, for the first
time in history, to make propa-
ganda for Zionism without fear of
arrest and Imprisonment. Within n
week after the downfall of the auto
cracy, the Russian Zionists had held
their first convention.
Hardly had the ink dried on the
press reports of the first Zionist con-
vention ever held in Russia, when
the first substantial token of the
early realization of the great Jewish
hope was given to the world in the
semiofficial proclamation by Gen.
Sir Archibald Murray of the inten-
ton of Great Britain to establish
Jewish Republic in Palestine.
What should we do with Pales-
tine, thus liberated from the CEN
tury-old Turkish gFip?" General
Murray asks this question and an
swers: There can be little doubt
that we should revive the Jewish
Palestine of old, and allow the Jews
to realize their dreams of Zion in
their homeland. All the Jews will
not return to Palestine, but many will
do so. The new Jewish State, under
British or French aegis, would be-
come the spiritual and cultural CEN
, ter of Jewry throughout the world.
The Jews would at least have a
homeland and a nationality of their
own. The national dream that has
sustained them for a score of cen
! turtles and more will have been full
| filed"
! Now the Yiddish daily newspapers
! in New York and Chicago broke out
/ into "poster-type" headlines. At last
a definite word had been spoken by
! one in authority to speak definitely.
| Sir Archibald Murray it was felt,
would not have uttered such mo-
mentous words unless the British
government had sanctioned them
unless the establishment of an inde-
pendent Holy Land was part of the
/ program of the Allies. This was
Quickly followed by an editorial in
! the Manchester Guardian" the or
gan of former Premier Asquith, Also
! faVoring the project. and an article
| by Sir Harry Johnston in the Lon
don Evening News Ga Northcllfte pa
| peri in the same strain.
| The greatest climax TO date in the
| Jewish drama is the announcements
| that came from Washington, hard
upon the arrival in this country OF
| Rritain's High Commission to the
T, United States. that President Wilson
and Arthur Balfour had informally
discussed this project, the realization
OF which would be the fulfillment OF
| nrophecV
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
Mother and the Soldier Bow

No woman has the right TO hold
her son back If he desires to go TO
war. 1t is the fruition of the years
in which she sought to make him a
man. 1t is the vindication of his
manhood. 1t is the disqualification of
those very. ideals which she taught
him with his prayers.
I decline to believe that there are
mothers who will not let their boys
strike back when they are attacked.
But 1t Is hard, Always the relation
between mother and son is very
close. AS the boy grows up, the
mother faces this, that he needs
more than she can give him. He is
still her world, but she is no longer
his. Life calls. work and play and
love. and sometimes battle. And the
mother cannot hold him.
Everywhere are mothers, women
who have patched small garments
and tied up little wounds. who have
built up house of life out of mil
lions of loving services, whose world
has been the four walls of home.
To such women comes the call for
their sons, who are still to them.
though men grown. but the little
boys of the stockings. and the small
wounds, and Christmas trees, and
the Fourth of July.
I do not fear for these women,
but We cannot minimize what they
do. They will send their sons. be-
cause they know that a nation is
but great home, consisting of many
small ones. Homes are the units Of
nation. as men are of an army.
And these women know that our
homes are only safe SD long as the
country is. They know. too. that
peace has fed from the earth and
cannot be brought back but by God
and the sword.-Mary Roberts Rine-
hart in THE Altar of Freedom"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20
Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore get luiSdom;
yea, tUith all thy getting get
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III.
NfAxINrs LATEST INVENTION

I a ENCOURAGEMENT by Hudson
n Maxim that he has perfected
a device capable of rendering
all vessels using it immune TO tor
pedo attack is the beEs news rhat has
come sue Of New York for months.
That Maxim has accomplished what
he says he has is much more easily
believed than that the Naval Board
has created some marvellous machine
for the wholesale destruction of un-
derseas craft.
Maxim is a practical inventor of
worldwide renown. He was first te
make smokeless powder and is re-
sponsible for the service detonatinS
fuse for high explosive armor pier
cling projectiles and is an authority
on explosives. He is an expert on
torpedoes and has experimental
with them for many years. That he
is prepared to render the discharge
of torpedoes harmless against a
ships side is of even greater import
ance than that he should be able to
make way with an occasional U-boat,
for if by the Maxim method the sub
marine is robbed of its sting. ship
ping will be able to sail the seas I'M
harmed and Germany would have to
send her under-ocean fleet to the
scrap heap.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
Henry S. Williamson

Henry S. Williamson's sudden
death has cast great gloom Ger
this city. of which he had been
resident for more than forty years
Active in business for many years as
the head of one of the cityS largest
mercantile establishments, ne retlreu
some years ago, since which time ne
had been active in philanthroplc en-
deavors. contributing his time and
fortune to bettering conditions ana
helping others. Mr.. Williamson was
a trustee of Franklin and Marshall
College. a director of the Hamilton
Watch Company, Peoples Trust
Trust Company and the People S
National Bank, president of the Ben
ner Manufacturing Company. trustee
of the Ann G. Wilmer Home, the
Thaddeus Stevens Industrial school,
the Shippen School for Girls. the
Millersville state Normal School and
the Home for Friendless Children.
He was president of the Fernclin
Club. at Denton, on the Susque-
hanna, prominent in the membership
of the Hamilton Club, and was the
first president of the Chamber or
Commerce. and an elder in the FIRST
Presbyterian Church. He was the
donor of Williamson Park, the father
of the playground movement, ana
had recently given $4,000 for the
building of children's ward in the
General Hospital. He had contrib
uted literally to the Young Mems
and Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations, and to every worthy cause
for the uplifting of humanity. He
was a philanthropist in the truest
sense, and was devoting his time to
helping others. He was one of sew
eral Lancastrians who determined
some years ago that the garden spot
of America must have fair in keep
ing with it's great agricultural and
Industrial interests, and to his un-
firing efforts much of the success
that has attended the association Is
largely due. His palatial residence,
Upland Lawn, built upon the acres
once owned by James Buchanan, is
one of the show places of suburban
Lancaster, and has been the scene
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General C. NJ. Clement, COM
mander of the division of the Ma
tional Guard, who was here yester-
day on military matters, has been
thirty years in the Guard.
DR.. c. ]. Marshall, State veter-
marian, who is an authority on ami
mad diseases, has been at Washington
cooperating with the defense COM
mittee.
j. L. Lyon, of Greensburg, who
will accompany the body of Ambas-
sador Guthrie to Pittsburgh, was
formerly in the diplomatic service.
Col. Smedley ID. Butler, of the
marine corps, decorated for gallant
ry, comes of a Chester county Quak-
er family. 4.
William Draper Lewis, who is
prominent in transit affairs, is said
to be desired for mayor by some
Philadelphians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26

crease of our exports of every char
acter. The statement is made that
since January 1, 1915, when the dis
organization of ocean transportation
and international banking commu-
nications that followed the outbreak
of the war was fairly over, and our
expectation to Europe and to other
parts of the world began to grow, we
have sold just short of $4,000. .0O0,-
600 worth of American products for
little over $4,000, 100000 more than
we would have obtained for them at
prices which prevailed a month be-
fore the war. Expressed differently,
on a greatly increased commerce,
particularly export commerce, We
have obtained prices twenty-five per
cent. higher than our former prices.
OF course, we did business before at
q fair profit; there is no method of
determining what average profit, per-
haps fifteen or twenty-five per cent.
But whatever the gross receipts of
the former foreign selling was, war
time has added the $4,000, 0O0, ,00O."
In short, our actual increase of
profit through wartime exports has
been at least the amount of the first
United States loan of $4,000. 900, 900.
This means that our workingmen
have been steadily employed and
while the cost of living has enorIn-
ously increased. there has still been
employment for all at wages far
above those ever paid here or else
where for labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26

the Y. NJ. C. A. of the nation to
support in every way and especially
with money the work of this great
association In the military camps.
Only those who have served with the
army in the field are able to appre-
ciate fully the admirable work
which has been done for years by
the Y. NJ. c. A. Many a young man
outside the influence of the home
life has felt the strengthening power
and support OF this organization.
= 1t should be realized that those
behind the lines and who cannot per-
sonally shoulder gun or do other
active service must provide the
sinews of war and do their bit in
the only way which is possible un-
der the circumstances. This is a
time of sacrifice and 1t must be in
dividual sacrifice to bring home the
meaning of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
YOUR PART IN THE WAR

1 VIE CulLSu OldleS HdNlHB OelST-
mined in every way to coop
crate with France and England
and their allies in the suppression of
the German menace, it is the duty
of the people in every walk of life
to give the most earnest support to
all measures for the strengthening
of the fighting force which we shall
place side by side with the other
countries now at war against Prus-
sianism. This mobilization of a
country's strength involves NUM-
tions, clothing, food, ships, railway
materials and all the other sinews
necessary to the prosecution of a
successful war. There must. be no
lack of anything that may help to
bring to a prompt conclusion this
world struggle. 1t is no longer a
question of whether we should go to
war or not; it is now squarely and
only question of our active par
ticipation in the plans for defeating
the menace of world peace.
AS has been suggested from time
to time, the flotation of the first big
loan of $4,000, 100000 is the most
important step at this time and the
work of disposing of these bonds is
now engaging the attention of pa
triotic men all over the country. Un-
fortunately, there are still those who
don't see the necessity of buying
these bonds. They seem to think II
is matter of Indifference whether
they invest their funds in this loan,
never realizing that the first duty
of the country is to supply the sin
ews of war without a moments de-
lay.
1t must be remembered, as we &c
along, that the United States has
been greatly benefited during the
war by reason Of the enormous in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
TIME adoption of a resolution by
the Kehillah, the organization
which represents the sectarian


the Kehillah, the organization
which represents the sectarian
and educational interests of three
quarters of the 100000 Jews of
Greater New York, expressing conf
dence that the United States, to-
Sether with its Allies. will use its
best efforts toward the realization
of the hope and aspiration of a Jew
ish people for the establishment
OF a free and publicly recognized
Homeland in Palestine" is, says the
Provisional Zionist committee, in
dicative of the eagerness with which
the Jews throughout the whole
world are waiting for the word
which may come from either Wash
ington or London, or from both cap
italS simultaneously, that their twen-
ty-century long aspiration has at
last been realized. So certain and
so imminent does this appear that
every day the Zionist movement
gains new and notable converts.
Israel Zangwill, the noted English
writer, was the first of these. He had
held aloof from the movement,
doubling its practicability; then
Jacob II. Schiff Of the international
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Il Co.,
came forward in advocacy of a Jew
ish spiritual center in Palestine;
Adolph Lewisohn, the copper mag
nate came next. And every day new
names are added to the roster of
those who are prepared to work for
the upbuilding of q Jewish Repub-
lie in an Independent Holy Land,
set free by General Sir Archibald
Murray's army, which is fighting its
way through Palestine to the con-
quest of Jerusalem.
Twenty years have rolled by since
the organization of the Zionist move
ment with it's slogan the establish
ment of a publicly recognized. le-
galIy secured homeland for the Jews
in Palestine"--a movement bringing
into the realm of the practical what
for the past 1000 years, from the
very day that the overwhelming Ro-
man legions swept the Jewish Nation
off its native soil. has been pious
wish. a devout prayer. During these
two decades the movement has been
! busy esta blishing colonies, schools
libraries and other institutions of a
national character il. the Holy Land
! on Christmas Day of last year Cen
! eral Murray's army invaded Pales-
tine. Two months later Norman
! Hapgood. the gifted American jour
nalist, proposed that the United
| States establish n protectorate over
! Palestine and invite the Jews to es-
| tablish themselves there on an
autonomous basis. Hardly has the
| interest in Mr.. Hapgood's plan sub
| sided when again there came news
! from Palestine--thGt the British
army had overwhelmed the Turks
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
Patriotism in Business

Let every patriotic business man
press sanely and resolutely forward.
Let him continue along normal
lines that the vast machinery of
American industry be not impaired.
If the American people are to re-
main prosperous and progressive and
strong they must continue to manu-
facture and buy and sell as they did
before war was declared.
The men who control the adver-
tising of the nation can do much to
counteract the "hysterical econom-
les" against which the council of ma
tional defense has issued warming
The Chicago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
IN CASE OF ZEPPELINS

a PPARENTLY Harrisburg is safe
~ from Zeppelin raids. The
wide Atlantic and various
other factors intervene to prevent
any such unwelcome visitations. But
II they ever should come and drop
bombs on this city we hope they will
confine their damage to the post
office building. Not that we have
anything against the government or
have any spite at the contractors.
Far from it. But the post office
building has been torn up so long
nobody would notice if a bomb or
two happened to explode on the
roof. A little more rubbish on the
lawn wouldn't matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

The Vegetable Garden-Ida ID. Ben
nett GA. l.. Burt Coz At a time
when the country's attention is turn
ed by national appeal from the Pres
ident to gardening, to Tightening the
burden of the country through the
means of increased production of
foodstuffs; at such a time a little
practical volume on gardening is a
real necessity. To the inexperienced,
when time used in gaining practical
experience is almost time wasted
(that is from the standpoint of re-
lieving immediate stress little vol
ume such as this is a real service to
the nation. Not only the planting OF
garden but the planning, the fertil-
izing, the hundred and one little
things which cause no end of trouble
to the unacquainted, all are clearly
explained in a language that leaves
no room for asking further questions.
Hence it's wonderful practicability.
THE Vegetable Garden" is a timely
little volume from its information
relative to the growing of food, and
will. from the standpoint of scienti-
fically and economically preparing 1T.
The volume will be AN excellent ad-
dition to the library of anyone who
desires the most from their garden
plot.
Open Boats - Alfred Noyes.
(Stokes, soc metz. SO frequently
within the past few terrible years of
war have we read of boats being
sunken by a German submarine that
it has become almost a commonplace,
thing which is treated in one or
two brief, lines in our newspapers.
But to Alfred Noyes has been opened
every avenue of knowledge regard
| ing the aftermath of sinking, those
| tragedies which have become so fire.
quent that, to quote the author, lit
| is obvious that if civilization is not
to sink beneath the contempt of the
ape, some foresight will have to be
exercised by those who are responsl-
| BILE for the maintenance of interna-
tional law, and some action ought to
be taken to bring the criminals to
! Justice
| open Boats" is a wonderfully
graphic little book in it's descriptions
| of the open boat with its load OF
humans to wrestle with the weather
| the sea, with hardship of every con-
| ceivable description. And in glow
| ing colors does it paint for us the
great plea for humanity with which
| this country goes forth into battle
open Boats is without question one
| of the real, vital war books.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26
Individual Thinking

The greatest difficulty is that men
do not think enough of themselves,
do not consider what it is that they
are sacrificing when they follow in
a herd, or when they cater for their
establishment - A man should
learn to detect and foster that CLEAN
of light which flashes across his
mind from within far more than the
luster of the whole armament with
out. Yet he dismisses without notice
his peculiar thought because it is
peculiar. The time will come when
he will postpone all acquired knowl-
edge to this spontaneous wisdom,
and will watch for this illumination
more than those who watch for the
morning.-Emerson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26

We believe that Mayor Miller will
not long endure the evidences of mu-
nicipal neglect which are to be seen
in too many sections of the city.
Streets and sidewalks Uttered with
empty boxes and other refuse. piles
of dirt long waiting removal, and a
general disregard OF the ordinary
safeguards of clean and we'll
ordered city. Instructions TO the
police department TO make a personal
inspection OF every street and alley
and a prompt report of every oftense
of this character. followed by per-
sonal direction to the offenders to cor
rect these things. would soon over
come what is now a cause of public
complaint.