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Evening star., 1917-11-21
Ran on Suffrage Platforms.

How is it that Mrs. Wadsworth does
not know that the republican candi-
dates, the democratic candidates and
the social candidates. one and all, ran
on suffrage platforms at the New York
election? Does she think none of them
except the socialists had any influence
with their following?
The fact is that the election returns
are not yet all in, and no authoritative
analysis can be made at this time. But
il Mrs. Wadsworth is willing to stand
by her statement. with all it implies
well. she Is in for an interesting time
with her own peoplew
Evening star., 1917-11-21
To Entertain Catholic Women.

Visiting Catholic women and those
who have recently come to Washing
ton are to be guests at an informal
social to be given at $3.50 o'clock this
evening by the Daughters of Isabella
at Knights of Columbus Hall, sos E
street northwest. Twenty-six differ
ent Catholic women's organizations of
the District are assisting in the affair.
which is intended to bring the women
from other cities into a closer touch
with the membership of these differ
ent societies.
Evening star., 1917-11-21
Why Peter Chose Site.

Peter learned what he could in a
short time and went back to establish
western civilization in Russia. He
chose the site of his new capital much
as the United States Steel Company
chose the site of Gary, Ind.-for its
nearness to a good harbor. its easy
access to trade routes and it's fine front
view of the best commercial centers.
Peter called his city "a window to-
ward Europe"
Petrograd was a more stupendous
piece of engineering than Gary. Ind,
although the steel town is one of the
great triumphs of engineering this coun-
try can boast of. Petrograd was built
on marsh which nowhere rose above
the muddy waters of the Neva more
than two or three feet, and in most
places was partially or wholly sub
merged. That marsh never has been
completely drained.
When. in 1865, st. Isaac's Cathedral
was built to replace a small wooden
church Of Peters time, they first had
to drive more than twelve hundred huge
piles into the soft ground. OF the
40, 600 workmen who toiled under
Peters direction to create the first
Petrograd a majority died from ex-
posure and cold. and Of fevers bred in
the miasmas of the bogs.
Evening star., 1917-11-21
Little Love for Petrograd.

Catherine, who became czarina a lit
tie more than half a century later.
vastly improved the city. She enlarged
it. erecting many splendid palaces and
public buildings, and bringing in a
vast amount of western culture in the
way of Libraries. art galleries and the
aters..
The monuments of Peter and Gather
in the capital The ghosts Of Catherine
and Peter may be said to walk in every
street in Petrograd. But the Russians,
for all their admiration for their great
est monarchs. have little real love for
the city they built.
The ghost of Ivan the Terrible walks
through the streets of Moscow; never
theless. the Russians love the place as
the Mohammedans love Mecca. 1t is
one of the most beautiful cities in the
world. and one of the strangest. 1t
has hundreds of churches, SO gorged
with art treasures and with gold. sill
yer and jewels that it staggers the
mind to contemplate them.
1t has the ancient wall, foliage-hung,
that inclosed the Moscow of the thir-
teenth century. and it has the Kremlin,
or fortress. which antedates the town.
Inside the Kremlin is the old palace of
the rulers Of Russia, built. in part, CEN
turies before they became czars. The
first Kremlin palaces were built by the
dukes of Moscow in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries.
Some Of the most beautiful Of the
treasure churches of the Kremlin were
built by Ivan the Terrible in the six
teenth century. One of these. just out
side the walls. Is a gem Of such radi-
anee supreme that the half-mad Ivan
determined that 1t should never be sur
passed.
When it was finished he called the
architect to him and asked him II he
thought he could ever design a better
church. The architect, in the pride
and joy Of his achievement. modestly
said that he thought he might
You never WILL" said the terrible
Ivan, and he had the mans eyes burned
out with red-hot irons.
Evening star., 1917-11-21
QUESTION VIEWS OF
MRS. WADSW0RTH
Suffragists Take Issue With
Statement About Recent
Vote in New York.

The statement of Mrs James w.
Wadsworth, wife of the senator from
New York, that woman suffrage car
ried in that state at the recent election
by the pro-German. paciflst and social
ist votes, was greeted with amusement
at national suffrage headquarters, 1926
Rhode Island avenue. Yesterday the
house Of commons of Great Britain
voted unanimously to extend the fran
chise to British women said Mrs. Maud
Wood Park. congressional chairman
for the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation. Il suppose Mrs. Wadsworth
thinks that was due to. the pro-German
sentiment in the British parliament"
But Mrs. Wadsworth is unfair to
our own great political leaders," con-
tinued Mrs. Park. president Wilson.
speaking for himself and his party,
asked the men of New York to vote for
suffrage. So did Secretary McAdoo.
Was it their influence that won pro-
German and pacifist and socialist votes
for suffrage?
Evening star., 1917-11-21

The Fort Wayne Evening Sentinel
has been purchased by the Fort Wayne
News, also an afternoon newspaper.
Lyman B. Jewell. vice president Of
Hartford, Conn, has died, aged ninety
wears
Evening star., 1917-11-21
Declaration of Soldiers.

"The soldiers votes are not yet
counted-but before the election one
entire company of New York infantry,
in a letter to Everett P. Wheeler. de-
clared it's intention, to the last man, of
voting in favor of the suffrage amend
ment. Were those pro-German and
pacifiSt votes?
"A few days after the election Chair
man Glynn of the republican state
committee publicly claimed that the
republican party was responsible for
publican leaders had given the word
all down the line. Does Mrs Wadsworth
take issue with Chairman Glynn on
this statement? Perhaps he is wrong
Senator Wadsworth, as one of the dis
tinguished republican leaders, ought
to know. But would Chairman Glynn
make the mistake Of claiming that pro-
German votes were won by the repub-
lican party SupnOrt
Evening star., 1917-11-21
Moscow Nations Idol.

In the great square in front Of the |
Kremlin still stands the high place of !,
execution where Ivan and the other |
almost as terrible czars tortured and |
still stands the wonderful golden house |
which was the home and seat of the
Romanoff boyars. and where the first
tor second) Czar of Russia was born
Moscow is the very symbol of czardom;
nevertheless the Russians love it as
their heart. Germany might send her
armies there. but they could no more
take 1t. or hold 1t, than they could
take and hold Washington.
Inside the Kremlin walls lie heaped
thousands of bronze cannons. bright
and beautiful as snakes. all decorated
with eagles and Ms and ambitious mot
there when he fled. defeated and routed
by the Russians only to be still more
soundly defeated by snow and storm
and bitter cold. Those cannon are evil,
dence indeed of the invincibility of
Germany ought to know that march
on Moscow. however easy, would result
in unifying the Russian army against
the foe. Perhaps Germany does not
know this. for she seems not to know
anything about the hearts and minds Of
any people. The mechanics of national
ity she knows and understands. The
However. I do not believe that Ger
many's present attack and partial con-
quest of the islands before Riga are a
prelude to a march on the capital or on
Moscow.
What Germany probably wants is the
splendid loot to be found in Courland
and Esthonia. Riga, which is q city of
100000 Inhabitants. is, next to Petro-
grad, the most important port on the
Baltic sea. Out from Riga go immense
exports of timber. fax and hemp. lin
seed and many cereals.
Germany Needs Riga Output.
! The country east and south Of Riga
produces these things in great quantity.
and Germany needs them in her busi-
ness just now, and needs them badly
enough to risk a few of her ships and
men to get them.
Germany is not after conquest this
| trip; she Is after food and fuel and
supplies. A little south Of Riga lie the
lgovernments Of Kovno, Wilma and Minsk
and little south and west lies Russian
| Poland, already partially in German
hands.
/ travelled through part OF that coun-
| try last summer. and watched through
the train windows vast fields Of rye and
wheat and thousands Of acres of pota-
toes. I did not see many sugar-beet
fields, but they lie somewhere in that
region-hundreds Of thousands Of acres
OF them. already harvested or waiting
to be harvested. And Germany IL hun
| cry for those harvests.
There Mxy be one more reason whv
Evening star., 1917-11-21

Germany is pounding SO desperately at
the defenses of Riga. Not very far
away. to the north, washed by the same
Baltic sea, lies the grand duchy OF Fin
land, the one province of the Russian
empire which has shown friendliness to
Germany.
Finland is also the one province
which has already declared its unalter-
ther to the Russian empire. Finland
wishes to set up a separate govern
ment and to be AN Independent
state. At least the mass of the people.
expressing themselves through a So
cialist majority in the local diet, has
declared for this policy.
1t would be tremendously to the adj
vantage of Germany to have the big
Russian empire split up into separate
states, and the German government has
Finnish people in their secession policy.
Finland is such mecca for German
agents, and SO many Firms are in the
pay of these agents, that the provi-
sional government has practically shut
the grand duchy off. marooned it, SO to
speak. from the rest of the empire.
Finland Detests Russia.
Finland detests Russia to such an
extent that she is apparently blind to
the danger of a friendship with Ger
many. For fifty years she has hated
and feared Russia. and she apparently
cannot get it into her head that the
thing she hated and feared has gone
forever. I have observed this state of
mind in Poles as well as Firms. They
have hated Russia SO long that they
cannot stop all at once.
A regiment of Russians marched
through the streets, bands playing.
swords clanking, feet tramping. gor-
geous sight. But the soldiers might
as well have been invisible phantoms,
for all the notice taken of them by
the Firms. They walked quietly along,
attending to their business, conversing
or chatting with their neighbors, never
looking at the Russians.
In fact, it was point of honor with
the Firms never to look at a Russian.
AS for speaking to one, knowing him,
inviting him to his house, a Finn who
did such a thing would have been os-
tracized. Even the smallest children
knew that.
This being the state of mind Of the
Firms, it is explainable in a measure
why, in order to wiring their independ-
ence from Russia now, they are will
ing to run a very great risk of being
absorbed or badly exploited by the Ger
many of after the war.
Evening star., 1917-11-21

SILK Sweaters, in
green, rose, blue.
purple, red. etc.
Sport style with
big collars, patch
pockets and girdle
belt.
Evening star., 1917-11-21

salmon, blue, etc.
Light or heavy
weight Saxony or
shetland sweaters;
wide girdles and
deep angora COL
lars and cu1s.
Evening star., 1917-11-21

Green and Gold
Wool-knit Sweat
ers, in plain or
fancy weave. Big
collar. patch pock-
ct styles, with all
around belts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
INSTRUCT 1000
MEN AS OFFICERS
ENLISTED MEN WILL BE GIVEN RANK
RANGING FROM LIEUTENANT TO
CAPTAIN-TO BE TRAINED.

SAN ANTONIO. Texas, April H.
Schools will be established throughout the
Southern department April p for the in
struction Of commissioned officers Of
the regular army who have been recon-
monded for commission. Between 1000
and 5000 men will take the course. If
found qualified they will be commissioned
a. high a. the grade Of captain for the
duration Of the war. The course Of in
struction will extend over 4 period Of three
months.
wv Orders have been received by General
PerShlng ID arrange for examination 1T
officers who vii lbe promoted ia organi-
zation of the next regular army mere
ment. One increment was formed last
year and four more are authorized, which
may be called for BY the president a. he
deems fit. An increment j. made up OF
seven infantry regiments, three field ar
tillery regiments, two cavalry regiments
and staff corps troops in proportion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
us. MUNITIONS
BOARD is NAMED
ARMY AND CIVILIAN COMMITTEE IS
u ENTRUSTED WITT TASK o. FUR
ttH HlSHihG SINFWS or WAC.

WASHINGTON. April 1l.-Creation of
d general munitions board has hern AN
nouncel by the Council ~ Matte nal De
fense. IL viii be headed by Frank A Scott,
Cleveland manufacturer, and will bc
charged with supplying the army and AMY
with muniions and equipment.
One Of the chief functions will be To de-
eide between the country's military and
industrial needs.
The board estimate puts into the hands
~ group Of army Officers and industrial
leaders virtually the same task given the
British minister III munitions
1t creates machinery for a government
department of munitions with it, head 4
cabinet minister. Active military and ma
val participation IN the conflict, many be
lieve. viii prodice that Nee, siiy.
Twenty men. II 81 them army and navy
Officers, make up the board Resides Mr..
Scott, it, civilian members are Bernard VI.
Baruch, Howard Il. Coffin. julius Rosen-
wald and Dr. Franklin Martin.
From the army there are Brigader Gen
eraI Thomas kru~e. Colonel I. q. TIodg-
son. Colonel II. Fisher. Lieutenant Colonel
j. u. IIutfer, Major y. Il. Pierce. Major
Charles Wallace and Captain A. B- Park
or. and from the navy Rear Admiral H. II.
Rousseau. Rear Admiral W. :. CappS.
Commander r. II. Leigh, Commander 4. a.
kcarncy. Dr. II. g. Holcomb, PavmaStcr
j. IT. Hancock. Lieutenant ". Il. Lemly
and i. NJ. McIIowc.
Other civilian members have had much
to DO with supplying the allies with muni-
tionS. standards I'M dmanutactnrc-.
The board will ~ expected 10 equip and
arm forces called into the service with the
least possible diSarrangemcnt Of normal
industrial conditions or interference with
shipments To the entente. IT. immediate
efforts viii be directed toward co-ordinat-
ing army and navy purchases and in -
~i~ting in requirement Of raw materials for
manufacture.
I'll j. not intended said the council an
nouncement, '1hat the new board shall
have the power ~ issue purchase orders
purchases. These things will continue u
be- done hy the respective federal depart
ments."
The Importance Of early and prompt
shipments to the allies will ~ recognized.
Experts say that IN thr ncarA three years
the war has ragged ia Europe, the United
State, through turnia hing munitions u
the allies. has put itself III position 10
continue 10 pour across the Atlantic .
great amount of explo ives and ~ the
anne time supply All the nceds of Amer-
cas- army and navy. Hundreds Of factories
have been converted into munition plants
and many new mills have spring up to till
war orders.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11

CHESTER, Pa. Apr IA revised list
of fatalities in yesterdays explosion at
the Eddystone plant places the number of
dead at 120. the majority of these bcing
girls and women. Between 125 and $50
men, women and girls were injured. and
of these at least ten are burned and torn
so baby by shrapnel fragments that death
is momentariy expected. Twenty three
others are missing.
After the inspection of the plant today
officials agree that plotters were re~pon-
sible for the explosion. touching off n
bomb or using a time clock with an at
tached explosive.
The Eddystone Ammunition Corporation.
owners of the destroyed plant, i under
stood to be an Independent corporation and
is engaged in manufacturing and loading
shells for the Russian government The
company has no connection with either the
Midvale Steel Company or the Remington
Arms Company. AT the office Of the Rem
ington Company ii was stated the Eddy
stone companv was organized by the Bald
win Loconptlvei Company, but afterward
was turned, oven to Russian inerests.
Officials of the company said the dam
age to the plant was not serious. An
nouncement was hsds tbht all departments !
of the concern khllf lfe sdme operations. wi 4
the exceptisR Of the box, .pa ekiua and base
charging Ffp9A hehtsf An department !,
including these, viii renuse work on April
"a.
Basis Greenko, Russian Inspector at
the plant, who was injured, said there was
no powder in the loading room and no fire.
He said:
II was standing near one Of the tables
when from under the door of the loading
room there came a bright glare. Then in
stantly another bright light and | and ev-
erybody fell to the floor. There was no
powder in the loading room and no fire
nothing but eases of empty shells. perhaps
10 or Is carloads. There was heavy iron
door between the loading room and the bull
let room and with the first glare the door
was blown off, and then came the second
hurst of light, just as ! turned to see what
caused it,
There is an unconfirmed rumor that two
arrests have been made.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
CAMERON ISSUE
OF BONDS 0KD

AUSTIN, Texas, April 1l.-An Issue Of
100000 Of refunding bonds Of Cameron
county irrigation district No. at San
Benito was approved yesterday BY the at
torney generals department under the new
law passed hy the thirty fifth legislature
the creation of water improve
ment districts and which law also enlarges
the powers Of the state board Of water
engineers. The new district will be- known
~ the Cameron water Improvement district
No. ?. The bonds were brought here by
II. y. Foley and Alba Haywood, president
and secretary respectively Of the new dis
trict. The bonds have already been sold.
They bear per cent and mature serially.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
Great Increase in
Valley Bank Totals

Although statements from twelve Of the
twenty-five banks in the lower valley are
yet 10 report. those who have compiled
with Secretary Louis Cobolini's request
for their March bank statements, reflect
a very gratifying increase in the financial
conditions Of the Valley over the state
mcnt~ submitted eighteen months ago. The
nine banks that have ~ far reported show
4 total resources Of more than two thous-
and dollars over the entire twenty-five
banks in September Of 1915.
In 1915 the total resources of the TWEEN
ty-two banks was 1868. .S01.4l. In
March Of 1917 nine banks show, in their
reports resources Of S5.70l ,331 %. The
banks have not reported in September Of
1915 showed total resources Of $l,2I7,-
S6g. .65.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11

WASHINGTON, ID. HI, Apr. 11.--Secre-
tary Of War Baker announced today the
war department plan to Immediately in
crease the regular army to it, full compile
ment Of $4,000 men instead Of 2O3, 1000,
a. was contemplated. This j. not con
nected with the proposed new army.
Democratic Leader Kitchin assured the
president today that the bond bill for
~ 100000, 900 will pass Friday.
WASHINGTON, ID. g., April Ire
ports on recruiting reaching the war de-
partment Indicate that the regular army
will soon reach it. peace strength Of 1885,
900 men, and unless the president orders
Il, regiments cannot be brought up to war
strength, nor can new units be formed.
Indications are that the administration
does not feel like ordering this until the
new army bill j. passed. Work on that
measure j. progressing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11

STEP WILL
BRING MORE

RIO JANIERO. April lit j. expect
ed in diplomatic circles here that other
South American nations will soon follow
the example Of Brazil in severing rela-
tionS with Germany. Spain will take
charge Of the German interest in Brazil.
WASHINGTON. April ll.-Much an
certainty a. 10 Latin Americas atIilnde
In war between the United States and Ger
many was cleared Tuesday nisit by def
mite, adsices that Chile anil Mexico vii
remain neutral anu increhsiLg indicsuidns
thai Brazil, Gnatemala and Peru niIl JOIN
Cuba and Panama no the side OF the
Unit n Strtes. ~
Il TIE adecison of Chile has ~.,rsed soine
lAurprise here, as II had ''een expected
that she wonld eventually hredk with tteI
many. Mexieo's decision caused no sur
prise and will have little or no eject o.
her sister republics. Reports that Carran-
"a is softening 10 distinct pro- American
attitude are not confirmed here. Neither
Is there any confirmation of reports that
Carranza himself j. preparing t. ally HIM
self with Germany. A proclamation Of
Mexico's neutrality i expected when con
eress meets in Mexico City, April 10
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
II. S. Women to
Wear Trousers
Is nti11autiOn

CHICAGO, IT., April 11.-Amercan
women will wear trousers dnrin. and af
ter the war, Miss Mary O'Reilly Of the
Woman's Trades Union league iniimatcd
at a meeting of women here. She urged
that the Women's Cooperative League Of
the United States employment and immi-
grafton service appoint a committee 70
consider the industrial condition of wom-
en- in war time.
.sNow that the war Is here we must
be prepared to meet it," Miss O'Reillv said.
"When the English women went to work
at mems Jobs, as we shall have to do.
they began to wear trousers and now they
do not take them off when they go home
but wear them on the streets"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
Number Dependents
Promises To Be MANY

CIIICAGOG, ILL.,, April ll.-With but
one Chicago regiment Of the national guard
called ont fifteen members of families are
being cared for by the Red Cross from
funds collected at the time If the border
mobilization. One family Of soldier IN
the regular army j. being cared for. Most
Of the cases of de~titution are in families
of young wives and small children. The
Red Gross l. preparing 70 handle the sit
uation when the remainder o. the Chicago
regiments are called out.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
Negro Janitor in
Mint ''Made Money!

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Apr IL
Charles +. Butler, 4 negro ianitor, EN-
ployed Al night III the United States mint
here. has been arrested by secret service
who had been tampering with coin stamp
ing machinery. Butler IN allaped To have
made enonsh money IN coin each night to
laat him through the next day. Butler has
been employed AZ the government mint for
twenty three years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-11
Progressives Hold
Confab at St. Loui;
Especial To The Herald.D

ST. LOUIS. Mo. April IA program
of business that L. calculated 10 keep them
exceedingly busy Tor several days faced
the Progressive party leaders when they
gathered IA the Planters hdtel in tins
city for their national conference.
The main purpose al the conference. a.
yet forth III the official call ISSUED by
Mathew Hale. the acting chairman, J. ~
adopt permanent working plans for the fu
turc Of the party. In this connection the
leaders will draw mp 4 list Of the legisla-
tive measures and reforms advocated by
the Progressive party. First and fore
most on the list will be 4 ringing declara- -
ton Of good Americani~m.' pledging the
members Of the party to stand behind the
government in the present crisis.
Other subjects expected TO receive at
tention will include national prohibition.
universal military training. woman sui
fragc. uniform marriage and divorce laws
naturalization of the school system, and
public ownership of public utilities.
Considerable speculation exists ~ 70
whether The conference will accomplish or
attempt anything definite IN the direction
Of carrying ont it, reported plan 10 form
4 League Of Liberals" through the coali-
tion Of the So-called progressive elements
of MI parties Present indications are
that the plan will be discussed only in q
tentative way III the present meeting and
that definite action will Ne left over until
J. future date