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The Washington times., 1917-01-18
GASOLENE GOES UP
AGAIN IN CAPITAL
Price Is Advanced to Twenty
one Cents a Gallon by Most
Wholesalers.
Gasolene is ESing up again.

Gasolene Is going up again.
Announcements were made today b.
companies furnishing a large part Of
the "gas" to Washington that the
price to wholesalers has been boost
ed from 20 to 81 cents
Inadequate shipping facilities and
an increase in the cost of crude oil
are among the reasons assigned, by
the agencies here, for the raise In
price.
Dealers Meet Raise.
Washington dealers, most of whom
have been selling gasolene at cost
price have no alternative except to
boost the retail price Dealers point
ed out today that most of them did
not attempt to make a profit on gas"
preferring to sell it at cost as bust
ness producer in repair and accessory
lines.
Although Washington is in for q
higher price, there is consoling rose
with the thorn. Boston Is paying 3
cents more per gallon than District
automobile owners, while prices in
Virginia range from u to 1 q cents
higher than in Washington. North
Carolina pay a cent more, Georgia
from 1 u to 3 cents more, and Ala
bama from Ia to cents more than
the District, for gas"
OkIahoma Pays More.
In Oklahoma, according to the oil
companies announcement, the mere
fact OF propinquity to source has not
held down the price and Oklahomans
have to pay cent gallon more than
users of the product In Washington.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Sonnet.
rRROKIEG.

sonnet.
FREcKLEs:
And so the boss has tried to
cut you down =.
EDDIE:
To cut me down. I'm all cut
up about 1t.
FRECKLEs:
And so am ], old man.
1 do not doubt it.
I don't know what to do. Say, tell me
how'n
The devil can live in this here town
On fifteen per?
FRECKLEs: &c..
There's many live without 1t:
But I'm not saying that to preach, old
scout EDDIE:
Makes me 80 sore, Pm mad enough to
Those guys who sit in swivel chairs
and think
They own the earth.
FRECKLEs:
And, Gosh! 1t seems they do.
No wonder it drove Old Bill Brown
TO drink.
EDDIE:
No wonder! Say, did they cut him
down, too?
FRECKLESf
Yes, Ed But will you keep your job
eh? speak
EDDIE:
For nfteen? I can borrow that
week!
EDDIE.
-FRECKLES.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
THE NEWS IN GERMANY

The General Secretary Of the As
sociation of German Newspaper Pub
fishers" has recently issued a report
in Berlin in which it is stated that
from the middle Of last May to the
first Of October twenty-six German
daily newspapers suspended publica-
ton; this brings up the sum of daily
newspapers suspended since the war
began to the considerable number of
PAT. The report adds that during
last summer twenty-six newspapers
suspended publication temporarily,
making a total Of 313 since August
1, 1914. Of this number (either risen
from the dead or from merely sus-
pended animation) the report says
that seven newspapers have resumed
publication.
Such mortality among the German
newspapers since the war began is
the result of a combination of ad-
verse circumstances. In all countries,
even in the United States, the cost
of print paper has increased enor-
mously-practically doubled. In Ger
many this increase has been heavy,
and the increase in the price of inks
and oils has ranged from 80 to 800
per cent; cost of transportation, also,
has increased proportionately-say
go per cent. The labor cost for COM
position has remained the same, but
a wage increase of 10 per cent has
been made throughout the distribut-
ing agencies.
All this has tended to make bur
densome the lot Of the newspaper
publishers in Germany. But Ger
man efficiency would doubtless have
BEEN able to surmount all such ma
terial difficulties had not the great
staple of newspapers failed them.
Even in Germany newspapers are
supposed to publish the news. So
long as the German army was pro-
ceeding through Belgium and ad-
vancing in northern France the Ger
man newspapers had plain sailing
and fair weather. Their pages re-
verberated with heroic reports, the
glittering exploits Of the army at
Louvain, Termonde, Aerschot, and q
dozen other towns shone out from
their faithful mirrors like the fires
of Nibelheim; Germany over all;
Germany could do anything she
chose; Germany was doing it
But we all know for how many
long and dismal months the German
have been obliged to en-
list the services Of the most eminent
fiction writer's in the country in or
der to get out papers with the right
sort of talk in them. Such crumbs
of liberty as have been allowed them
by the censor have too often Of late
been of a character so offensive to
native German pride as to be almost
worse than no news at all. 1t is
small wonder that so many newspa-
pers should have given up the strug-
gle. To make bricks without straw
is always discouraging, and when an
demands that black shall
show white under lenses free from
Teutonic clouding the work is hardly
worth doing.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

their commanders into action so
handicapped. To do so is to invite a
national disaster of overwhelming
proportions which sooner or later
must fall.
1t in no way detracts from Ad-
miral Dewey's bravery or his
achievement to state the truth,
which is that Montojo's feet was less
fit for business than his. All the
country's potential enemies would
not prove SO conveniently inefficient.
Must we persist in continuing to be
a people who learn nothing and for
get everything?
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

A man may pretend to a certain in
teresting wickedness in order to cap
ture a woman. And be compelled to
practice ito escape her.
Mountain Graves.
On the hill they sleep
A multitude of dead,
Gathered in eternal rest.
They arc neighbors
To a sea of waving corn,
To wide orchards that rustic
And bend beneath the golden fruit, .
Quiet, curious cows
Raise their heavy heads
And rest them on the wall.
To gaze in silence upon the marking
stones.
They who sleep
Are neighbors to merry brook
That leaps down hill
PIayfuIIy, wildly chattering.
But they are of the hill a part,
ITnmoVing, rooted eternally,
Holding as firmly as the roots of the
mountains.
They who are like the dust of the
highway
Ara become steadfast as Time;
In life. wandering, tossed about,
In death they are riveted
To eternity.
Henry Goodman.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
WORKMAN FALLS TO DEATH.

Walter S. Anderson. 11o9 Clifton streGf
northwest. while working on a scanak
in the rear OF lbs B street southwest
yesterday fell and suffered a fractured
skull He died later at Emergency Hos
pitaL Coroner hewitt issued a certificate
of accidental death. Anderson was
twenty-nine years old, and lived With
his father, Stephen Andersen
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

Sir: Your column is always spring.
ing something calculated to lend TO
the gayety of nations-why not get
contributors TO send In the horrible
stun they dream! I pledge you my
word 1 dreamed. happily at different
times, the following:
First:-(This was years before the
present war; l dreamed I was serv-
ing in a war and attached to the com:
manding generals staff. He came into
the tent and told me to write a dis
patch, which he hoped would not get
into the hands of our enemy. l placed
my paper on a drum head and began
to write at his dictation; suddenly |
stopped and said, General, wait a
minute, I can't write that on this
drumr" "Why not" asked the gen
eraI. Because" 1 replied, lit is a
snare drum!'
Second:-CWhile railroad building
in a West Virginia town In the coal
feldsD The hogs in this town roamed
the streets at will. One day a town
sergeant was elected, and it was his
duty to impound the hogs, provided
he could catch them. l dreamed this:
THAT town sergeant should be called
the scourge."
WHY
because he is the hog collarer."
I have always been a vile punster,
but what do these dreams portend?
j. J. e.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

Reports that the ammunition which
this country was selling to Europe
would not go off, are now regarded
in the neighborhood of north Jersey
as grossly exaggerated.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Don Marquis
Column

In learning Of the foibles Of. .7omen,
the first thing to learn Is that there
ES one striking exception to the gen.
eTdl rule that oil toomen hare fOibles
And that striking exception Is the par
ttouIor DomUI ,0ho Is, at the time, tell
iH0 yoT all about the foibIas Of toousen.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

The Duke of Aosti. 1t seems. is to
be seated upon the throne Of Greece
We do not wish to discourage any
young monarch at the OFFSET Of his
career. but before we sat down heav-
lily on that throne we'd take look
about for tacks.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

american women are good looking
and clever. but not strong physically" )"
remarks a Viennese lecturer. Has
this speaker seen a suffrage parade or
noted the pickets at the White House
gate?
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
WHO THEY ARE.

Sir: I am the girl who clings to a
strap In the subway in front of two
men occupying seat-space for three.
belong to the clinging sex and I am
not pretty, and 1 really like 1t.
j. G. NJ.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

cupid enters the White House."
says a headline. Suffragists ought 20
sign up Dan, and the sentinels would
not have to wait out on the sidew
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

1t was rather unkind of Harry X.
Thaw to intervene just as the suf-
fraEists Eere starting th'ir irstpass
drix&f +
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

Concert United States SoldierI' Home Band
Orchestra, Stanley Hall. $50 D. m.
Address, The Progressive World Struggle
OF the Jews for Civil Equality. VIII This
War Help?." Prof. William Howard Taft.
before National Geographic Society," Ma
sonic Temple, $50 and S:15 p. m.
Meeting. Henry D. Cooke Home and School
Association, Henry D. Cooke School. 8 p. m.
Lecture. 'aThe vibrations Of Famous
Statesmen Past and Present." Miss
Louise Cults Powell, Hotel Portland, 5
Meeting. Federal wstchmen's Union, No.
H.ss4, Moose Hall, Seventh and G streets
northwest, l:So p: m
Meeting. Ladies' Sewing Circle Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Belgian Relief Society
woodward Building, p. m.
Meeting, Federal Employees Union, with ad-
Louis F. Post, National Rides Armory.
Meeting, II % Petworth Rose Society. at hom.
Of ]. F. DAILY. 1874 Eighth street northwest.
Address. How to save in House Planning
F. " Murphy. before Housekeepers' Al
lIance Theodorus Bailey Myers. Mason
House, 1906 Twentieth street northwest,
Musicale. Friday Morning Music Club, Raleigh
Celebration Of birthday anniversaries Of
Generals Lee and jackson - under auspices
Of Camp No. III. United Confederate
Veterans Mt. Vernon M Z. Church South.
Mssonio-RoyaI Arch Chapters-CapItaI. No
IL: Mount Pleasant. o. II, school Of In
struction.
Knights Templar Conmanderies-ColunbIa
No. ?.
Eastern Star Chapters-Martha. No. 4: As
cension No. 90 and East Gate, No. n
Odd FeIows-Central. No. 1; Metropolis, No.
1s Phoenix, No. ..
Encampmen geneu. No. 4.
Rabekah Lodges-Mariam. No. 9.
knights Of Pythians-Syracusians, No. 10.
Pvthian Sisters-Rathbone Temple, No s.
Meeting, Political Study Club, headquarters
Of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association. 1895 Rhode Island avenus
northwest. p. m
Meeting, Grade Teachers Association. Buyi-
ness High School ass .. m.
Illustrated lecture japan" L. II. Dewey,
before Petworth Home and School Associa-
ton Petworth School building, D. m.
Address Shakespeare From the Viewpoint
OF a Lawyer" Senator Thomas Sterling.
before the Shakespeare Society of America,
Cairo, p. m.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

Says an ad IN the Net1 York Tfrtes:'
Found-Half Dalmatian male dog.
Call Bide-a-wee. 40 East ssth St"
NJ: r. alleges himself to be anxious
about the other half.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

Washington at least gets on the po-
litica1 side lines with its national
committeeman.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

The leak investigation may still be
in its infancy. No one, at
the time this is written, has tried to
prove anything by a dead man.
DON MARQUI2
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Conventional BrookIy-,

Sir: Y. W. C. A. Schermerhorn and
shouts:
WOMEN MUST WEAR CLOTHES.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
Many Interesting Events Of Import
anee Are Scheduled.

Meeting. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Suffrage
Club, Public Library, p m.
Meeting, Pocahontas Memorial Association.
Hotel Bellevue, $50 .. m
Address. DR.. Willard s. Small, before Jener-
son Community Center Association, Jsner-
son School, D. m.
illustrated lecture, "Ambrfne," q newly de-
veloped treatment for burns. Miss Elsie
DeWolfe, for the benefit Of ambulancs ser
vice In European war, Playhouse, ISL ~
street northwest, afternoon.
Meeting, Junior League, Fiyun's Han, D. m.
ington Athletic Club Union Savings Bank
building, D. m.
Meeting, Real Estate Brokers' Association,
New Ebbitt. p. M
Demonstration Of memory system, Joseph
Arthur, Y. NJ c. A., p. m
Lecture. The Psychology Of Color Miss
Louise Cults Powell, Hotel Portland, p. m.
Annual meeting, Commercial Club. Of wash
ington clubhouse, Farragut Square, .. m.
Organ recital. H. H Freeman, under auspices
Of the Washington Society OF the Fine Arts.
st. Johns Church, AS p m.
Ladies' Night, Oyster Club Of the Elks'
Lodge, in Lodge rooms. p m.
Lecture, Thrift" Milton W. Harrison, be-
fore washington Chapter of the American
Institute Of Banking. Raleigh, D. m
of the birthday anniversaries of
General Robert e Lee and Lieut.. General
T. J. (StonewaID jackson, under auspices
veterans, Nj. vernon Place N. E. Church.
Meeting, Aquarium Society Of Washington,
Zoological Laboratory OF George Washing-
ton University, 2o25 G street northwest,
D. N. ~ -ffsl
Dance, Immaculate Club, In ball room,
Eighth and n streets northwest, D. m
Meeting, committee on parks and ressrva-
lions, Washington Board Of Trade, boa.d
rooms, 4:15 p. m
Day of prayer for national prohibition, Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temporancs
Union, First Congregational Church, 10 a.
m. to p. m.
forestry conference and annual
meeting OF the American Forestry Associa.
tion, tenth floor, New willard 10 O. m
Lutherans' rally In coEnmomora-
tion OF the Quadricentennial Of the refor-
nation, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Eloy-
enth and 2 streets northwest. 7:3o .. N.
Eastefn Star-Esther, No 5.
Odd FellowS-Columbta, No. 10; Covenant,
No. 13.
Rehekah Lodges-Frfendship, No. G
Knights OF Pythias-Franllin, No. 2
Pythian Slsters-Past Chiefs Association
monthly meeting.
Union-Nstional. No. 20. Mt. Yer
non, No. 49l.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

A lingerie thief is reported in south
west Washington. Major, page the
IpoIicewoman.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

G. l. informs us that Or. N. G.
Slaughter Is a physician at Athens,
Ga.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Forty Sermons on job.

Mr.. ThOmpson's grandfather on his
mother'A side came to the United
States in 1890. walked from BaIti-
more to Pittsburgh. and there estab-
lished chain of grocery stores
which he managed with much sue
cess. One of his ancestors fought
for the colonies throughout the Revo-
lutionary war, and, even were ii so
ordered, he could not be other than
he is. and those who know him say
that in his case at least the doctrine
of predestination has been justified
OF men, at least Of the very god man
known as Huston Thompson. 1t
ought to be noted that. besides be-
ing a very capable lawyer and ef-
fective speaker on political and eco
nomic questions, Mr.. Thompson holds
the record in this community OF haV-
ing spoken for forty consecutive Sun
DAYS on the Book of Job, and with
out repeating himself or exhausting
his subject.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
French without q Struggle.

Sir: Hows this for French with
out q struggle:
From The Lay of the Last Min
strel," by Walter Scott Canto II,
verse X.:
The keystone that locked each
4 ribbed aisle
Was a heur-de-lys or a quartre-
feuiIle" H. r. G.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Here and There
In the News

An enterprising physician down
South has advertised that he makes
artificial legs that will give as good
satisfaction as any legs made; In fact,
better as they initiate nature better
than any other leg" The price is $50,
and as an inducement the doctor will
give one leg in every twenty free un-
til July, 1917"
Nature is being crowded OF the
board steadily, and will be in the posi-
tion Of othello IL this sort of thing
keeps up. A scientist out on the Pa
cific has discovered the way OF max
ing genuine life germs with or with.
out protoplasms, and a distinguishes d
Senator said the other night that IL
would be practicable at small expense
for every man with an electric plant
in his house to make all the liquor he
wanted for home consumption, and
that every forward-looking man
would prepare for the worst.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
WHIT Are Your Dreansf

Not every woman in old slippers
can manage TO look like Cinderella
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
= a1A , A1NA4CA al III
streets northwest. II
Esther, No. 5.
Columbia, No. TO-
ges-Friendship, No.
" ythias-Fnnklin, No.
ters-Past Chiefs
citing.
on-National, No. -
Amusements.
liam Gilletts, In "a
$40 D. m.
perience, !" s:15 D m.
Amusements.

NationaI-wlliam Gillette, In "A Successful
Calamity" $40 p. m.
Balasco-"Experience," s:16 D m.
Keith's-Vaudevtlle, Els and Sis D. m.
PoH'-'Little Woman" S:l5 and SIS D. n
Gayety-Burlesque, 2:15 and Sis D. m.
Loew's Columbia-Motion picturess, 1osSo ..
m. to IL p. M
Strand-Photoplays 10 a. m. to 10:so D. m.
Garden-Photoplays, 10 a- N. to 1870 p. m
The Washington times., 1917-01-18

Many man rsorries on the basis
Of "bredd dHd cheese and kisses," and
later supplements his diet from the free
Iuach counter
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
A Famous Sermon.

A Famous Sermon.
As noted. for FIVE generations Dir.
Thcmpson's paterna1 ancestors have
been Presbyterian preachers. They
were all educated at the University
of Glasgow. Three OF their number
preached in succession from the same
pulpit in Donegal. Ireland, for 155
years, and his father has been preach
ing in the United States for fifty-two
years. His father came to the United
.StatesIn 1852. was educated at Prince
ton. was attached as chaplain to the
United States sanitary commission at
Charleston in 1855. was sick Of fever
In the hospital at the Soldiers Home
in Washington the same year and
will never forget that while he was
confined to his cot in this hospital Mr..
Lincoln passed through his ward and
laid his hand upon his fevered head.
The father is still living and is really
better loking than this handsome SON.
Toward the end of the disagreement
over fifty years ago the elder Thomp-
son preached a very striking sermon
In Washington from the text: "Ye
shall hear OF wars and rumors OF
war" etc. and IL he were like some
of the present day prophets he could
claim that he saw the trouble coming
in Europe fifty years ago.
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Thompson of Colorado.


Huston Thompson is one of At
torney General Gregory's most ca
pable assistants. He came here from
Colorado, although not a native of
that State. He was educated at
Princeton and is one of the Presi-
dents most loyal friends. He has
made good in his work before the
courts. and as q spellbinder he was
ace high In the recent campaign.
When he was in college he made a
great record in the football field
without falling behind in his class
standing for excellent attainments. 1t
could not have been otherwise, as
scholastic blood is in his veins, COM
ing as he does from ancient Celtic
stock of high degree, from five gen.
arations of Presbyterian ministers on
his fathers side, and OF equally de-
yout folk on his maternal side, his
mother having been OF the McIlwaines:
50 that II will be seen that he could
not have helped 1.-THE distinctions
that have come to him, the places Of
responsibility he has filled with H.
deity, the hold he has on his friends
as II was all "foreordained before
the foundation of the world" 1t must
be admitted, however, that he might
have been very different II II had not
been for himself; that Is to say, IL he
could have helped that. To think
otherwise would be to admit his free
agency, and that would be heterodoxy.
Just here the water lis getting rather
deep, and II would be better to swim
for the shore where Thompson has
placed his feet on solid ground
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
A etrateEieal MoHe.

Much has been said In these mill.
taristic times about matters of
strategy; but no finer example of pure
strategy has been given in recent
years than the course adopted by the
military company, which, when it ap-
peared that 1t might be called upon
to go to the frontier, promptly dis
banded, and that was the end of that.
A story Is told of an older strategical
movement by a somewhat famous or
ganization In West Virginia "endurin'
of the wah, sah." The Yankees had
appeared in rather surprising strength
near by, and the colonel, or whatever
his rank, 1t doesn't matter, called his
aide and said: 81 hear the Yankees
are coming, and that they are right
over there beyond that hill. You go
over there and count 'em, and ef we
can't lick 'em wen jine 'em-"
The Washington times., 1917-01-18
Many Poultry Fans.

Over the end OF the room in which
pigeons were kept. was strung a huge
banner. 1t proclaimed in letters three
feet high that America should pre-
pare-and when the visitor expected
to see SOME plan for compulsory mill
tary training in the United States
he was surprised to read that hom-
ing pigeons are nearly indispensable
in time of war.
Arizona republican., 1917-09-26
PLEDGE CARDS
 SOON WILL GO
 TOHOUSEW|VES

The pledge card drive in the food administration of this state will be be- gun immediately on the arrival of T. A. Riordan, director of food admins tration for Arizona. An office has been fitted up for Mir. Riordan in one of the senate committee rooms adjac- ent to the offices of the State Council of Defense and a part of the senate chamber in front of that room will be fenced off for a working room.
 The first drive will be with the womens cards which will be distrib- uted among the women of the state through the agency of the school chill dren. They will be sent to the teach CTS, by whom they will be given out to the children to be presented for signature. They will then be mailed back to the food director and will be sent by him to MT. Hoover. Later the mems pledge cards will be distributed in the same manner
 This work was begun by the State Counsel of Defense and a list of 5000 names was secured. This list will be turned over to MT. Riordan with other data that will be useful to him. When the cards were returned to the coun- cil they had to bear the usual one cent stamp They will come back to the food director unstamped in the way of federal official business.
Arizona republican., 1917-09-26
BE \ SOLDIER bi PROXY
 BY BECOMING SAMMY HACKER

Here is a chance for men who are beyond military age to perform an active service on the front, the western front, the Italian front, the Mesopo- tamian front or the Russian front, wherever the "Sammies" may be sent. Be Sammy Backer" To become a Sammy Backer" it is only necessary to undertake to become a correspond him encouragement and news from home; to send him magazines, news papers, and such other gifts as sug- gest themselves.
 It will not be long before the Arizona boys will be on the way. When they are landed at the front, to many of them there will come a feeling of hav- ing been cut off from their former lives. That will be bad for them; they will be the better soldiers for feeling that they are the personal representa- tives of some one living at home.
 Many of the "Sammies'' will really have no one to represent except their country and while at that it is a pretty good representation there will be some thing vague and indefinite about it. Each "Sammie'' would rather know that he is fighting for something more tangible; for some person.
 The Republican proposes to organize a Sammy Backer' contingent. It is not the originator of the idea but it takes this method of endorsing it. Who will respond? This appeal is ad- dressed to men. The roll is open for enlistment in the Sammy Backers."