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The evening world., 1917-05-28
llViI War Acting Naval Commander
LIttIeneld Dead.

EpGARrOWN, NnFgu May Is
Aaron Littlefield. Acting Commander
IN the United States Navy during the
Ciyn War. and a retired senior captain
Of the revenue cutter service, now the
coaEt guard, died to. day aged eighty
lOur,
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STORM KILLS 240
AND MAINS 1907
IN MIDDLE WEST
Series of TornadoeS Makes
Wide Sweep Over Eight
States In Three Days.

CHICAGO. May 2s.-Revised figures
on dead and injured In tho storms
OF the last three days in Illinois. In
diana. Kansas, Kentucky. Missouri,
TennoAsee, Alabama and Kansas
show total OF 24s dead ana i.2O7
injured. The casualties are.
The evening world., 1917-05-28

CONsTANTINoPLE. May 2s. - Or.
Servet Kiamil. bacterlologlst and chief
surEeon OF the Red Cross Hospital in
Sivaa. claims TO have obtained eXtraor-
binary results with a typhus serum OBJ
tailed from goats.
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DIED..

ANILES.-At Hotel Biitmors. SIMON
AVIbHS.
Remains lying in state at THE FU-
NERAL CHURCH. Broadway, osth o..
(Campbeirs).
LOU.-At Jacksonville, Fla. CHARLIE
LOU. aged 20 years.
eervicss at THE FUNERAL CHURCH.
Broadway, Goth and 67th sts (Camp
bell Building, Monday, 1 o'clock. Lin
Sing and Chinese Merchants Assoeiat tion
invited.
sOPER.-MINERVA A. soPER.
Services at THE FUNERAL CHURCH.
Broadway and o6th st. Frank Il. Camp
bell building, Monday evening. sac.
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ITEMS FOR INVESTORS.

Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing COmpany--Year ended March 81
surplus after charges tls, ,07s. SS9 equal 20
$3.50 earned on capital stogk compared
with 1858 earned IN previous year.
The evening world., 1917-05-28

Swift a CompA ny's sales Of Reef In New
York CITY for tho weoK ending saturday,
Nav 90 aNtraEed ~ followL! Domestic
beet, le,3l eeatk per podnd,-AdNG
The evening world., 1917-05-28

Brooklyn Rapid Transit CompAny--
Regular quarterly dividend Of IL per.
cent.
The evening world., 1917-05-28

$ s Krcsge ompany--Regular quer-
terly dividend OF 80 per cent, on pre-,
ferred stock and a semi i-annu0l dividend
OF per cent. on common, both payable
July 10 stock OF record June IL.
The evening world., 1917-05-28

F.ss'Ss F1sS Ssr Ss.' S..ii Reno s.S s"sd P".n 4c
iun Min Chocolate. Price, Each
ana are perisct reuToinctiona o. the aItialss
whi.h thsy, yepreSsnt. Ibsy ere uSa % M,In tsII., tsII,
= neat eprdboard carton, We offer choice
MIX CHOCOLATE MEN OF WAR. each zoe
MILK CHOCOLATE TORPEDO BOATS,
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With Another American and a
French Aviator He Has a
Miraculous Escape.

PARIS. May 2s.-Lieutenant Will
liam Thaw OF Pittsburgh and Corporal
Harold Willis OF Boston, with Captain
Thenault, all OF the Lafayette Esca-
drille OF the French Air Service, had
a miraculous escape from death In a
fall at the front, according to word
reaching here to-day.
Their plano crashed to earth after
attaining a speed estimated at 140
miles an hour. None OF tho trio was
seriously injured, but the machine
was literally splinterod. The cause OF
tho accident In not known.
Recent dispatches from Henry
Wood, who visited the Americans in
tho Lafayette Escadrille. told OF tho
French Governments plan to furnish
this corps with French battle planes
OF tho newest and speediest type.
Tho statement that the wrecked plane
was travelling at 40 miles an hour
indicat's the party may have been
using new type. probably trying Il
out behind the lines.
The evening world., 1917-05-28

Kannccott Copper Cumpany-Quar-
terly dividend OF 81 50 share,
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LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS.

$40 REWARD and no questions ASKED for r.
n. between 6ist y, and MadLun aV, and tsta
It. and 9th av Dreioer a Co.. Inc. $50 bth AZ.
LOsT-sundRy noon. Child's. 23 PARK
Row, ringsj suitable reward.
ia World.
LOST-Grecn pArrUs liberal reward for informa
tion coOerninE same. =. Grnhn. 20 W. esd a.
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1MERICAS JII.LED CoNTPo-
y Ey .isS:s 4;,sSs 'S:Sst.IS:sf;; 49, sSrS
hard ceSdy, and hpiDSs Of YPrlona
choppsd N0tS az lusolo1S Ilome-
y prrssNtsd = Sosi Of OXC
pleasing P6UNp TIN O4C
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CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN
MARKET.

WHEAT
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Week End Combination Packages,

Week End Combination Packages,
the which brns thoss popu
Week End Combination Packages made By house Of
Loft Every wOsk will feature brand
enston each packed in strong compact oOn'ansE wrapped
tied With twins and
carrying Monday Tuesday Wednesday present our IN
TRODUcTORY COMBINATION which contains folowlnri
IEls CESoYssNN.a SM ~ AirSSSS6 Xs AGN
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Michaelis Resigned?

Whether the nonentity Mchaehs mere stop-ga
that he is has tmorousy placed his portfolio in the
callous palms of the Kaiser is still rafting around,
amid hollow echoes, in the shoe-leather once worn
by Otto Won Bismarck, cannot at this moment tel.
with certainty.
What we can tell is that this uninterrupted, this
marionette of Kaiserdom has ceased to function i'll
any more than mechanical way as chancellor Of the
German empire. He never stood for anything more
than the bidding of royal anarch. He was the
whipping boy of the military caste. His usefulness
having expired, the strong that thrust him i'll
the chair which Bethmann-Holweg vacated has been
withdrawn; and Mchaeis is left, stark foolish,
rather ptabe unit the butt and laughing stock OF
the Reichstag which spurned him from the first.
Who will be the next Junker-puppetl Some routine
bureaucrat doubtless unwlingy dragged from OBJ
scurity. Some buffer between the military masters
Germany and the growing tide of popular discontcn
Some man, some sycophant of Ludendorff and lir
denburg to bear the brunt of the revolutionary Ter
ment That is all the overlords of Prussia want noS
They are fighting for time; they know what TIC
forging of the American thunderbot means, what til,
whitening shell-hre in Flanders and the Champagl,
MEANS what famine and desolation at home mean
The puppets will come and go; but the Junker vii
not relax his stranglegrip on the nation he has all
but destroyed until veraby the grasp becomes nerve
less, and it is torn inch by inch from the German
throat The Junkers strength is ebbing fast but not
as fast as that of his victim.
= A Germany crushed and conquered will be Ger
many in revolution, able to stamp its ruthless military
autocrats under heel; but Germany unconquered a
Germany proud, arrogant and vanglorious of its mill
tary proves, will be unable to shake off the incubus
of its oppressor.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Liberty Loan Saneti6es Americas Wealth.

Money used to save liberty to the world becomes
sacred The liberty loan is money devoted to that
great cause Constitutional liberty was born in Eng
land and was transplanted in America by our fore
fathers. Our history and Englands are the same
down to I4o years ago The abstracts of title to our
liberties run back to Wyclif, John Ball. Jack Straw,
Wat Tyler, King Alfred, John Pym, John Hampden
Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, Robert Bruce, William
Wallace and to Magma Charta and the petition OF
right.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada, the victories
of the parliamentary armies the parliamentary tr-
umphs of Pitt, Fox, Burke and Barre much our
victories as those of the people of the British Isles
The democracy built up in the British Isles is our
democracy. Our titles to liberties, the validity OF
our government is on trial in the trenches today
A hundred and forty years ago through Frances
aid we formed our own separate government for the
administration of share of this liberty Since that
time we have been engaged in the great task of de-
veoping it. and to the best of imperfect ability
perfecting it. 1t is long look from Magma Charta to
the constitutional conventions of Illinois, Massachusetts
and North Dakota, to the initiative, referendum and
recall in California but the latter the former
So the Ship-Money struggles of the British kings and
the new Tariff Board in Washington seem remote from
each other, but the is descended directly from
the other the laws of Kansas from the British
constitution.
in America We have had the greatest opportunity
vouchsafed any people to riches. We have had
freedom democracy and virgin continent at just the
time when commerce has been spreading over all the
earth by steam and electricity.
We have gained the reputation of being money
grubbers We have been called Yankee hogs. We have
been suspected of being devoted greed rather than
patriotism For three years we drew to ourselves
of wealth greater than any people received
before The rest of the world being drained dry,
starved thin and bed white; but waxed richer and
richer This has been called filthy lucre undeserved
affluence
And now arises the supreme opportunity of all our
history. We suddenly find ourselves in the position of
ef all this wealth. and in sense its owners
Destiny has been very good to America Fate has made
the richest people earh the hugest reservoir of
industrial power the planet bore The of the
world and some of us have thought that destiny meant
to let get away with all this punder but it
God knew better all the time 1t belongs liberty and
not to Britain, the mother of our liberty and
France its godmother have been sending it to US
for three years to be held in trust for their supreme
hour and for the extreme hour of democracy itself
1t must go backl To keep it would give Punic
victory, but it would kill the nations soul We are
vouchsafed the privilege of proving that 1ucre is not
filthy but holy. The liberty loan the sanctifca
ton of Americas wealth. To the great chancery of the
God of battles shall go with hands full and come
out with hands clean. Thank God for thatl
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
The Liberty Bond Button.

Are you wearing that little button Americas Iron
Crosse"
Are you toting fair with Uncle Sam this job to put
across?
Are you member OF, the slacker-bund who only
hope and pray"
Or are you wearing that little button that means 81
pay my way?"
This button is not an ornament it is not work of art
But 1t adverses you who wants to do his part
lis up to you to get your button, don't fritter time
away;
Are you afraid loan your country Just u cents dav
Your Uncle Sans not begging, he don't know the beg
gar's stunt,
He's offering you the privilege of helping at the front
by investing those few pennies which you squander
every day
You can't question the security, so buy bond today
Your coat may be of broadcloth and fit YOU like a
glove
But if doesn't bear the button we do not know you
The country that you live in and the land of which
you're proud
So hustle out and get your button, there's mo pocket
in shroud.
You may stylish "tailor-rnade" or humble
"hand-me-down'
But the button in the lapel makes you the bes,
dressed man in town;
So there's no excuse for any Stacker they only rock
the boat"
Todays the day of all days Get button for YOUR
coat" '
Babes and mothers meath the murdered by the
ruthless Hun;
Brothers fighting in the trenches that freedom NAV
be won,
While we're safe behind the lines and cheering to
split throat
But 'twoud look darned sight better II vou'd :,
j. G. PEPPER.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Americas War Brains.

America has its share of fgureheads of great per-
sonaGtes who typfy and symbolic for the public
and for the world the might of her war-machne
War-maEdng is great drama-the biggest show in
the world" as David Griffith calls it-and unfortu-
naely the nation at large knows only the actors the
dramatis personae without the privilege of peep be-
hind the scenes where it would the stage man.
ayers, the authors the scenepanters the infinite va
rety of labor that contributes to the finished product
The biggest problems of the war; the knottiest
puzzles to solve those of which the public literally
knows nothing Upon them it is fed only generalites
and platitudes. The difficulties of transport of get
ting our men to the fighting front, of finding the
requisite shipping, have been touched upon in high
sounding phrases; but one knows the real quality
of the work that American brains are doing on these
problems. Nor do they know what placing the in
dustries of the nation a war-basis has meant of
the amount of labor involved before thousands of
plants and factories have been synchronized and
brought into harmony in Vulcan-like chorus of
war-forging We have taken these things for granted
our eyes have been straining towards the more pic
turesque day when at last boys shall "go over the
top"
1t is business mans war;" as Northclife has said
and in the long the business man-and the busi-
ness brains, the executive brains in the War and Nayv
1epartmentS-wil come in for their share of credit
They are not getting it now. The men who are going
to win this war for America are not those running
pins and multi-colored flags over large-scale maos
IN the Army War College, studying problems of
strategy nor are they going through the largely routine
process OF whipping and welding the national arm,
INTO shape nor looking for penscopes through bnocu
lars on the decks of desroyers and chasers We would
''t withhold an hour of glory from these men, but
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Not the Only One.

The conversation at social affair turned to the
cast-down appearance of the rejected lover, when
Representative Clarence B. Miller of Minnesota said
the lover in question could have been as wise as
certain in Western city.
The Western lover had proposed to beautiful
girl something like dozen times, and each time the
answer had been negative STILL he persevered
and one mellow moonlight night, with the soft wind
blowing caressingy, he again started to tell her of
his wondrous love
Bessie, DEAR" he said throwing away his cigarette
to give his eloquence fuller play there is something
l must tell you before we return. You have heard it
before, but"
Look here, Jimmy" mpatiently interrupted the
beautiful girl, how many more times you going
ask me to marry you?"
Not many, Bessie dear" answered the young man
with great frankness. One of the other three girls
that am proposing to is beginning to show signs of
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.
BY John Kendrick Bangs.
HEART ACTION.

HEART ACTION.
The sages frown, and wag their SOL
emn pates
When men yield judgment to the
hearts dictates.
And say how much more wisdom
they'd have shown
Had they but left the hearts behests
alone.
Well, let them jeer The fairest thing
in life.
The thing of all the things that soften
strife
Is Love. wherein mans logic plays no
part.
Has naught to do with mind. and all
with heart.
And IL the heart doth err. at least we
know
Down in the depths of the resultant
Its error sprang from kindness and
goodwill
And therefore holds a need of right
ness still.
Copyright. lsT)
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
"Oyer the Ton"

Since the carly days Of the republic Virginia and
her have given evidence of their loyalty and
patriotism of and money This State of glorious
traditions has always given literally and with charac-
teristic modesty
Quite by accident yesterday The Herald learned
that B. Estes Vaughn president of chain of banks
in Virginia had subscribed $4,000 for each of his
banks and then added $4,000 his personal account
If every bank president having equal power and
equal facilities would follow this splendid example the
Kaiser would have in Americas answer one that he
would never forget-even at ST. Helena.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

A.hy were OoveruOra.
The contention that members Of the
lawmaking side Of the government
have had no executive problems put
up to them. and therefore are in
clined to dash madly into many kinds
OF legislation, was made recently
when two lawmakers were discussing
''the SHORTCOMINGS Of the government
La general"
'If those men knew the executive
side Of government they wouldn't do
some things they have done-snd they
would do some things they have not
DONE" said the Western solon with
hnality.
well. Il may surprise you, but we
have sitting in there this moment
twsnty-three members who nave been
governors Of States. and three men
who have held Cabinet positions. Then
there are three other men who have
been gubernatorial timber and who
ran unsuccessfully for the high State
POSITION" said the other lawmaker.
"What-I don't realize t. Who are
theyT" his friend said with amaze
ment.
'T'n prove it-let's start with Robin
son, OF Arkansas. He was governor
Of his State, and a good one, too.
Then there's HI Johnson. OF Cali
fornia. who was promoted from that
position to the Senate. shafroth. OF
Colorado. who was also Secretary Of
the Interior under Cleveland: Brady.
Of Idaho, Cummins. of Iowa: Beck
ham. OF Kentucky; Fernald. Of Maine:
Smith. Of Maryland; Nelson. OF Min
nesota; Vardaman. Of Mississippi:
Chamberlain. of Oregon; Tillman. OF
South Carolina; Culberson, Of Texas
both OF the Vermont Senators. Diiling-
ham and Page; Lafollette. of wiscon-
sin, and both Warren and Kendrick.
Of Wyoming. Then both Pomerene
and Harding, Of Iowa, were lieutenant
governors an6 both had opportunities
OF serving N the chief positions while
the heads were out OF the State
Kirby, of Arkansas. was defeated for
the governorship. but was strong
candidate and would have made good
Hollis occupied a similar position In
New Hampshire. And men Of all par
ties in the Senate are proud OF Philan-
der Knox. who was both Secretary of
State and Attorney General in Repub-
lican Presidents Cabinets.
In addition Senator Goff was in the
Cabinet once, too. among the other
things that he has done. And J. Ham
ilton Lewis. Democratic lash. was a
candidate for governor and probably
would have been elected had not some
one else wanted the position and had
not the people wanted the other fel-
low for the position" concluded the
man who started out to show his coll
league that he knew whereof he
spoke.
The other admitted his error In not
giving the matter some thought. too
and they finally compromised by de-
daring that probably the men in Con-
gress, session in and session out, do
about as good work as could be ex-
pected- The record Is never quite per-
feet and IT must necessarily always
be the rope which both parties grab
between them for their qUadrennial
tugs-of-war, these men decided, bu:
just now they do not readily see how
change could come which would
still bring about the same amount of
Independence and thorough democracy
that is found on the hill
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Switch Engine Kills
Two in Terminal Yards

Stepping from behind a long line of
freight cars into the path of a swiftly
moving switch engine, Hugh Gala
han, aged 80, of NJ street northeast.
and Robert Roy Gurns. aged SO, Of
46 K street northeast, were both in
stantly killed yesterday morning in
the yards Of the Washington Termi-
nal Company.
Coroner hewitt investigated the case
and ordered that Gurns' body be
taken to the District morgue, where
he will hold an inquest this after
noon at o'clock. The body of Gala
han was removed to an undertaking
establishment.
Callahan was chief signal inspec-
tor of the Washington Terminal and
Gurns was his assistant.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

we would call the public mind more and more to the
sustaining brains behind the man-behind-thegun; to
the men who are both the cerebral-centers and the
nerve-centers of war-making.
One of the great British heroes of the war-per-
haps her greatest hero-is Sir Eric Geddes, minister
of munitions He is genius of an executive. And
perhaps the ultimate American hero will be some
lean, sharpeyed square-jawed business man in Wash
ington some wizard of organization at present with
out press agent and without spotlight. Who knows
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Another German Plot
Found in Restaurants

Another German plot has been un-
covered. Witness the following let
ter from California hotel mems food
conservation committee to the Food
Administration:
Since writing you Wednesday a
committee Of restaurant men called
on US and informed me that large
pro-German element in San Francisco
who patronize their places of busi-
ness are insisting on having beef
served to them on beefless Tuesdays,
threatening that If they do not serve
beef to them they will cease to have
meals In their restaurants"
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Moses Employees Take 5000.

The employees Of W. B. Moses held
a liberty loan rally yesterday and
as result in less than twenty min
utes had subscribed for over $500
in the new Second Liberty Loan.
This is indeed good showing and
the employees are to be commended
foT their generous display Of pa
trietism
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26
Live stock Problems.

Livestock men Of the West, South
west and Central West are going
about the solution Of their problems
in all earnestness. Moreover, they
are exhibiting an encouragingly pa
triotic spirit, according to official re-
ports gathered from those sections.
They are exhibiting the same spirit
they showed when they met here and
outlined their side OF the food prob
lem to Mr.. Hoover. In the end the
hope is that prices can be maintained
on a fair level, and that while costs
to the consumer may not be reduced
to any astonishingly low degree, they
will permit people to buy to a large
extent, and at the same time will per-
nit the stockraisers TO keep theiS
herds up for years to come.
This is the big problem. in fact,
which the stockmen feel they have to
meet The stockmen's viewpoint, as
expressed by Senator Kendrick. OF
Wyoming, is the same viewpoint as
the stock gathering took when the
conference was had with Mr.. Hoover.
Says Senator kendrick with regard to
this phase Of the problem:
I'VE suggest to those who must
bear the heavy burden of responsi-
bility that, while liquidation OF live
stock can take place very rapidly, as
shown by the experience of the past
year, the re-establishment of the
herds and hocks Is a matter Of years
II, therefore, 1t seems desirable to
hasten an increase in our livestock
production, definite policies looking
to that end should be adopted and
,,oda Epown at the earliest nossihie
date. Even with normal conditions.
the production and feeding Of live
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

Just at the time the world had concluded the
Russians had utterly lost the fighting spirit they de-
liver a smothering blow the Riga front and an
nounce that two German Dreadnaughts were sunk be-
fore the Island of Oesel was captured.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

We heard of last night willing to bet $50
that Washington saloons would be open for business
November I. We tried to find his trail but it seemed
to point in the direction of the Eastern Branch over
to St. Elizabeth's.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

Any person who bit off than he can
chew realizes in small measure how Bill Hohenzol-
lern feels.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

By treating freshly made cheese
with alternating currents of cleo
tricity for twenty-four hours a
Dutch electrician has found he can
give it all the properties of age.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

There is splendid variety of dope" being used
in Washington at the present time but the man who
declared the British need shells easily has the most
vivid variety.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

Welcome, Clarence R. Wilson, as food adminstra-
tor. Don't be afraid to be a dctator-yea, even a
brutal dictator-if need be. Washington awaits your
pleasure.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

Ban Johnson wants to win another world ser
ies-thats all That's why he's going to get into tn,
army somewhere.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

Give your sweetheart Christmas gft-gve your
wife present she will appreciate-subscribe for the
Liberty Loan
The Washington herald., 1917-10-26

A failure of the debutante crop is reported re
sugar.