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The Washington times., 1917-11-16

The sanitary train. which includes
the ambulance corps. has discovered
already need for a vehicle that the
patriotic people Of Baltimore may be
able to supply. This Is a derrick car,
which will be so constructed that II
will lift up any ambulance that meets
with accident or tow In any that are
broken down. The ambulances now
make trips from Meade to Washing
ton 70 the Walter Reed Hospital, and
already there has been felt the need
for such q derrick car.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
WOMAN CROSSING GUARD
EMPLOYED AT ODENTON
Pennsylvania Railroad Doubles
Watch at Dangerous Points.

CAMP MEADE, Nov. 16-As an
added precaution at the Odenton cross.
ing, where a number OF deaths have
occurred. the Pennsylvania railroad
has employed a woman as an assist
ant crossing guard. The woman en-
ployed is Sarah Wilson, colored, whose
husband. 'Iz" Wilson, has been en-
ployed as guard at 0denton cross
ing for many years.
On account OF accidents at similar
crossings where as many as FIVE
persons have been killed in one week
the company has doubled the force OF
watchers. The effort has been made
to get assistants congenial to the men
already on the job. Nobody could be
found to show real teamwork with
Wilson better than his wife. All night
long the old couple stand with their
lanterns, listening for the trains and
watching for the automobiles and the
pedestrians.
81 am getting used to II, boss" said
Sarah, when asked how she liked the
Job. 'I likes to be here with Tz' any
how. and to help him. / was always
afraid something might happen to
him or that he might have somebody
killed here. Now l am with him,
will see that nobody is hurt"
She is wearing spectacles to be sure
she misses nothing.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16

Police Chief Pritchett. who pre-.
serves lIw and order in the zone
around the camp, is popular with the
soIdiers
Hall to the chief" they say when
they see him.
His arrival at the Y. NJ. c. A. enter
tSinments wins applause. There is
nothing reminds them more OF home
than the brass buttons and the blue
coat.
A military police never makes any
body think OF his fsvorite corner back
home. A military policeman Is only a
soldier with a purple brassard on his
arm and some very burdensome duties
to perform.
a In camp there Is another kind Of
police-the kitchen police. Every sol
dIer Is supposed to have his turn at
this, but some, for various offenses,
get extra kitchen police DUTY. When
they write home and say, II am on
the kitchen police" mothers and sis
ters write back and congratulate
them. One man wrote to his home
folks complaining about this Job.
which had been inflicted upon him.
His dad wrote back:
'T don't blame you a BIT for kicking
at being a cop. 1 could have got you
a Job with the marshal II you had
stayed at home. But II you remain on
the kitchen police force, don't hurt
anybody when you have to handle
them"
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
MEADEFURLOUGHS
FOR THANKSGIVING
ATHOME PLANNED

CAMP MEADE. ADMIRAL. Nd.
Nov. 16.-Soldiers of the District ma
chine gun battalion are nursing sore
feet today after their first long hike
a ffteen-mile march to Annapolis
Junction and return. How well The
hardening process has set in was
demonstrated by the fact that only
one soldier was forced by the pace to
drop from the ranks. The. others fin-
ished strong.
Long hikes will be made part OF
the regular training program OF the
District soldiers at Camp Meade from
now On. These hikes will be inter
spersed with the trench and gun
training of the men until they are
thoroughly hardened for every task
the modern soldier has to perform.
Reviewed by General Black.
Maj. Gen. William NJ. Black. chief
Of engineers Of the army, reviewed
the 3O4th Engineer Regiment In camp
yesterday. This organization, form
ed OF volunteers and drafted men,
has within its ranks men Of high
standing in civilian engineering
work II may be one of the organi-
cations detached from Camp Meade
to be sent to France before the main
body of the division goes across.
Practically all the washington mon
at Camp Meade will be given fur
loughs to permit them to eat Thanks
giving dinner at home. Notification
of these furIoughs will be given In
time.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
CH|LEPROPOSES
NITRATE TRUST;
j. S. DISTURBED

The American Government is keen
ly interested today in the report from
Valparaiso that Chile is planning T.
form. with government sanction.
trust to control the nitrate supply.
Farmers In the Southern States are
almost entirely dependent on Cnlle
for their nitrate supply.
A law drafted by a parliamentary
Commission proposes to oblige all nj
trSte producers to enter the trust by
doubling export duties to outsiders.
The move is the result OF the situa-
tion caused by the formation OF a
body to control the purchases OF the
allies.
This action on the part OF Chile
may hasten action by the United
states Government on the establish
ment and construction OF nitrate
plants in the agricultural districts of
this country to extract nitrates from
the air. An appropriation for the
proposed plants has already been. au-
thoriZed by Congress.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
BABY CONTEST DECIDED
AT FOOD SHOW TODAY

Henry B. F. Macfarland. chairman
Of the District branch OF the Red
Cross. and Clarence r. Wilson, Dis
trict food commissioner. will speak
at the food show at Convention Hail
tonight. Mime. Couture will sing, and
there will be other features to en-
liven the next to the last night OF
the affair.
Mr.. and Mrs. william d. Noblet are
spending part of a short honeymoon
in Philadelphia following their we'd
ding at Convention Hall last night
with the food show management
giving the bride away" When Mr..
and Mrs. Noblet return here they
will find their home well stocked
with the groceries and other neces-
stiles that were showered upon them
by the exhibitors.
One of the most interesting events
OF the show will take place this aft
ernoon, when the babies under two
years old will be Judged and the
trophies will bo awarded.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
WOMEN
ELECT OFFICERS;
END CONVENTION

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn!s Nov. 10
Delegates to the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy are today leaving
for their homes in various Southern
States following the election OF offi-
GERS last night at the closing session
OF the annual convention. Miss Mary
Poppenheim, Of Charleston, S. c., was
unanimously chosen president.
The election of Miss Poppenheim fol-
lowed the refusal OF Mrs. Josephus
Daniels, wife OF the. Secretary OF the
Navy, and Mrs. Charles L. Bryan, OF
Memphis, daughter of Admiral
Semmes, Confederate naval hero, to
permit their names to go before the
convention for president general.
One of the features of last nights
session was the reading by Mrs. Dan
iels OF Two Flags"
Miss Poppenheim, the newly elected
president general. was born In
Charleston, $. c.. her ancestors hav-
ing come to that State from Ireland
and Bavaria prior to the American
Revolution She is a graduate OF
Vassar.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16

General Nicholson walked directly
up to one Of the new enlisted men
near headquarters.
The man made no sign Of salute.
The general looked at him for few
minutes, and finally asked:
why don't you salute me!
well" said the embarrassed fei-
low, "I thought you were In the
cavalry"
The generals gold hat cord looked
the same to the rookie as the yellow
of the members OF the headquarters
troop. The new soldier had never
seen a general before.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16

The football season, which opened
up here when the 312th Machine Gun
hers played the New York gusrdsmen
then here, is now about to reach its
climax with the 313th, the Baltimore
regiment, in line for the champion
ship. On Sunday afternoon the Balti-
more regiment will play the 311th
Field Artillery. At the same time the
314th and 316th infantry regiments
will clash. Winners will come to-
gether in the finals a week later. The
The Washington times., 1917-11-16

"He has . heart that leaks. but It
must be a kind heart. and one that is
big enough to pump cheerfulnsss into
every vein"
That is the euIogy one soldier ex-
pressed for a prisoner up at the
stoekade. This mans case was a bit
peculiar. He had been told by ex-
perts that his heart was no good, and
he assumed that the draft was not for
such as he. He made 4 great mistake
In assuming instead OF marching up
and having his case handled in the
regular way. So he landed here as q
prisoner Stacker. He made friends
from the very first. The Tenth New
Yorkers tried to enlist him before
they went away. The military police
and others who are over him now re-
gard him as the finest kind OF fellow.
He is q captive, but has promised not
to 90 until he has to.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
Camp Meade

Nov. Is, 1917.
$1,000 letters were written to the folks back
home in Y. NJ c. A. buildings here last week.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
Camp Meade SideIights

THE Foreign Legion" is studying
English. These men need the Ian
guage as part OF their equipment for
service in France, and the Y. NJ. c. A.
has opened up classes for them. VIII.
liam F. Cochran. one OF the wealthiest
men OF Baltimore, whu- Is devOting all
his time to the association at camp.
wearing the dark green uniform sew
en- days a week, has taken up this
particular job. The first company. he
visited had twenty men eager for the
course. Other companies in the Penn
sylvania regiment, where his "Y" is
located, averaged about the same.
Many of his pupils talk German and
italian fuently. but English for them
is forbidding language. About thirty
classes will be formed.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
solder asa Sailors Endor.e Y.M.oA

Soldiers and Sailors Endorse Y.MyC.A.
Thousands OF soldiers, sailors, and
marines write such letters home as
this one lately printed in q country
paper:
one bright spot here Csomewhere in
France), Is the Y. II. c. 4 hut, close
TO the battIe-line. where we get a wei
come and refreshment when we come
from our trench training work. don't
see how we could do without them"
Send pledges or checks for the
IN. c. A fund this week TO Corcoran
Thorn, chairman, or J. B. Larner, treas.
urer, l4l5 G St n. W.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16

Meade champions may meet a team
from Camp DIX.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16
Band Concert

EY THE UNITED STATES SOLDIERS
HOME BAND. AT STANLEY HALL,
AT $50 O'CLOCK.
The Washington times., 1917-11-16

One man at Meade has given $4,000
toward the Y. NJ C. A. fund. Many
other contributions have been sent In
from here. One young man, writing
a note home, showed II to the secre-
tary. In his note he urged his dad to
give S25 for himself and &25 for some
other member of the family.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
ANSWERING GERMANY.

Passports to Americans sailing for
Europe on the ST. Louis today have not
been recalled. That foretells President
Wilson's answer. That explains the frank
ness with which senators and cabinet Off
Gals acknowledge a break is inevitable.
Some favor severing relations Immediately,
others, waiting for some overt act, which
latter will probably be the course adopted.
Meanwhile, partisans of Kaiserism are
seeking to exculpate Germanys running
amuck, because they say, the Allies refuse
to make peace and because they persist in
continuing war of starvation The Allies
have not refused to make peace. The Allies
state dtheir terms, Germany did not state
hers; and thus Gerniany's suggestion of a
conference to discuss peace fell through
because OF Germany herself
In interesting contrast with Bernstorffs
Starvation" talk is the statement by Food
INSPECTOR Batocki that ''there is less
starvation in Germany than there is in the
United States with your congested cities
and your great centers OF poverty and dis
tress. Germany acIding to this, is better
Of than New York, Chicago, San Francisco
and Pittsburg, but even the super-despera-
ton Of those cities has not driven them to
flying the biac <ilag; what excuse there
fore, can Germany offer?
But even il Germany felt justified in
breaking the laws Of war and humanity
with her adversaries, there is nothing that
can Justify her invasion Of neutral sover-
eignM That, after all, is the only ques-
ton which can concern the United States
tue rights and safety of American citizens
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
GRATUITOUS INSULT.

The purpose of a blockade is to prevent
certain supplies from reaching the enemy.
These supplies consist Of food, munitions,
gold, and such raw material as the in
vesting force may consider ot/actual or
probable assistance to belligerent opera
tlons, and designate as contraband.
Gernany's memorandum of January 81.
therefore, IS a gratuitous insult to the
United States
The sailing of regular American passen-
ger steamers may continue undisturbed
after February l." only to the port of Fal-
mouth, England, under certain regulations,
it says if the United States government
guarantees that no contraband (accofdinp
to German contraband list1 is carried by
those steamers"
Ii contraband was not carried, Germany
could have no objections to our vessels
sailing for any port of the paper block
aded' countries.
Would it not have been easier and more
natural for Germany to include the entire
coast, instead of going out of her way to
make an exception of one port? Why, then
did she give permission to the United States
to do something in way that would be a
public knuckling-under to Kaiserism, if not
to add insult to injury?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
THE SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DAsNEY.
Keep cooli

Keep cooli
1t is an i'll wind that blows no good.
Page the goldman.
1t now turns out that it wasn't
dove at all, but dachshund.
headline. An overcoat would be bet
ter.
Now that the pipes have begun to
thaw, it is evident that Washington
isn't the only place in the world that
has leaks.
'I'm perfectly wild about music ,
said Imogen, in a gush of confidence
u simply adore the Hungarian Gou-
LASH" -
The reticence of certain gentlemen
about an uncertain occurrence sug-
CESS the thought that in America q
mans leak is his castle.
Whatever else may be said of the
kaiser, he certainly displays rare
judgment in wanting place in the
sun this weather.
A New Orleans doctor paid the dol
lar poll tax on his baby boy, born
| that morning, and got a front page
story in an afternoon newspaper
which was cheap advertising.
IL
As we SILVER in our trench this
| morning, and scrape the icicles of
our Wilson machine gun, the wish
that is uppermost in our mind is that
days in June weren't quite so rare
So far the silent sentinels have
maintained stern and uncompromis-
ing dignity, but we tremble when we
contemplate the possibility of SONS
miscreant doing Charlie Chaplin
stunts in front of them.
An Illinois representative has in.
PRODUCED a resolution to investigate
Poultney Bigelow's speech, making
certain absurd charges against tn,
American consular service. No neeC
to investigate the charges; investi
gate Bigelow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
Culture of Peanuts

Now as to picking: Do not be talk
ed into buying any make of thrash
ing machine to use for your peanuts.
This has been fully tried out here
and is a flat failure. The argument
to buy one machine and use it for
your oats, wheat, velvet beans and
peanuts is very fine, indeed, and is
hard to get around, especially when
the agent tells you his company will
absolutely guarantee it to gather your
peanuts just as we'll as any regular
picker. This guarantee may appear
to protect you, but it don't, and why?
Because when you take the machine
out to your fields, with a big lot Of
hands and general expense, and find
that the machine is Smelling and
breaking your nuts, leaving the stems
on them, and turning them out not
suitable for seed at all, and worth
15c less per bushel for oil mills than
nuts gathered on picker, then what
will you do? Turn back the thrash to
the people who sold it; but where is
your crop of nuts-how are you to
gather them? Your neighbor who
owns a packer will be busy With his
own, and you VII have to wait, just
how long | don't know, but do know
there are peanuts yet in the fields in
this section today-Dec. 28th-wait-
ing to be picked. hogs and cattle eat
ing and destroying them. After a
years work and expense to make a
crop, it is poor policy MOTTO harvest
it in the very best manner and al
the proper time. have a friend
here who paid eleven hundred dollars
for thrashing outfit to gather his
peanuts, and after trailing off about
half his crop he rolled his high priced
rig in a shed and rented picker from
me to finish. There are several in
stances of such experiences here,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
Digging.

D1gglng.
When are the nuts ready to dig?
You should gather them at the time
when you have the greatest number
of mature nuts on the vines; couple
this with the appearance of the vines,
shedding of leaves, etc. The inside
of the hull of a mature nut is dark,
that Of an immature one is white.
The kernel of both may be fullsized,
but the white shelled nut will shrivel
up and result in very little weight
or worth. An ordinary year nuts will
begin to sprout next to the root be-
fore the vine dies. However, very
wet year followed by hot, dry wealth
er sometimes causes the vines to die
before the nuts do much sprouting.
This was the case in this section in
1916, and resulted in much loss.
Where the vines died the nuts came
off in the ground and were lost. This
occurrence is rare, and was caused
by the abnormal seasons of 1916. AS
before stated, ordinarily nuts viii be-
gin to sprout next to the root long
before the vines die, and you have
plenty notice that they are ready to
be gathered. An ordinary year you
viii lose nothing by two or three nuts
to the vine sprouting, as three times
this many will reach maturity out to-
ward the ends. When the inside OF
the shell is white and the kernel full
size it is largely water, which Nil
dry out; as the shell begins to turn
dark, oil replaces the water, giving
a plump nut that will not dry away
Peanuts should remain in stack foul
weeks and longer, according to the
weather, before picking. They should
be allowed to dry fully, otherwise nc
machine viii clean them from the
/ vines, in addition to which they vii
heat, mould and rot if bulked.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
State Press Comment
New Crop for Florida

Uncle Samuel, ever on the lookout
for new things to cultivate for profit,
announces to Florida growers that he
has discovered, in the cultivation OF
lemon grass, a new source of revenue
for Florida farmers.
1t seems that the department Of
agriculture has been making some
experiments in the growing of this
particular plant, a plant from which
valuable oil much in demand is
extracted, and the result of the ex-
pertinent is to say to Florida grow
ers that the high, dry pine lands of
the state are well adapted to the
growing of this plant.
The department estimates that the
income from an acre of ground aris-
ing from the raising of the plant
and the extraction of the volatile oil
which makes it valuable, viii be at
| least twenty eight dollars. There is
some expense in connection with the
plant for extracting the oil, and the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03
AGONY OF KNOWING.

hink Of the night that was spent by
thousands OF spectators and security
holders waiting for the dawn Of their finan-
eial ruin
Wealthy at lunch time, happy, endowed
with a suliciency Of this worlds goods, a
few minutes after they had closed their
offices on the afternoon Of Wednesday. the
3lSt day OF January, one thousand, nine
hundred and seventeen, Ammo Domini, the
newsboys were shrieking the German
frightfulness that was to make a pauper of
them
Theirs was the agony of the "Pit and
the Pendulum" theirs was the agony you
mayhap have experienced in dreams. of
being unable to avoid an impending blow
but it was night that had no awakening
it was pendulum that was not arrested.
Cotton dropped SIC bale, the greatest
overnight loss in history With each quo
tation it swung lower, like some stricken
monarch Of the air, until it touched a loss
of $25 a bale. The stock market went
berserk From 112, United States Steel
fell BELOW par. International Mercantile
Marine was off IL points Bethlehem Steel
was of % points. Wheat broke Is cents,
other grain in proportion Picture to your
self the frenzy Of fortune being wiped out
with every shout Imagine the roar of
the great poverty factory The suicide light
in the eyes The women in the visitors
galleries, as on the walls of some beleag-
uered town Of old, watching their cham
pions' desperate fight, seeing them crushed
by the terrible odds, unable to help or com
fort F!
Subsequently the markets steadied, but
too late for those whose margins had been
wiped out Provisions in war time are
bullish-they fell off because of the wild
scramble to raise funds to protect the cot
ton trades. Securities, some of them in
munition plants, suffered for the same
reason, as did the commercial securities.
They will, of course, recover. Cotton
too is good buy if one has but sufficient
capital to protect the paper losses, but shoe
string operators face certain ruin.
The business of the United States has not
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03

Not for two and a half years has there
been a death in the receiving home and
considering that 1900 children have been
handled during that time, the record is truly
remarkable one. Sixty-three thousand
men, women and children of Florida, or
one out of eight of the white population,
contributed to the $31 900 fund with which
the Children's Home was able to prosecute
its rescue work The people are eager, to
contribute For instance last Christmas
the society invested about thousand dol
lars in letters of appeal, and "at the end of
fifteen days writes Superintendent Fagg,
I'VE had our money back in the bank and
had netted not less than $50 per cent. .
Sometimes 600 per cent is netted, and never
has less than 80 per cent been netted.
Attaining school for dependent older girls
and a special home for boarding children,
are being planned When these depart
ments are added, Eve will be pretty well
equipped to fill our field of usefulness, ,"
writes Superintendent Fagg. rodestly,
which will make F1orida's debt of gratitude
all the heavier AS F1orida's children are
its greatest asset, so F1orida's greatest
charity is Florida's greatest constructive
| force
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-03

department therefore recommends
that the lemon grass be raised N
connection with other volatile oil
plants.
When once planted the lemon grass
produces, the first year, two crops.
and every year thereafter, three
crops can be gathered. 1t can be
raised on any we'll drained land in
localities where the temperature does
not fall below twenty-five degrees.
The oil from this plant is now inn
ported from the East Indies, and a
hundred thousand pounds are used
in this country every year in the
manufacture of soaps and perfumes
1t might be profitable crop in
connection with others of a similar
nature, and the information here
given is submitted to enterpr. sing
Dade county growers.-Miami Her
aid.