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The Washington times., 1917-11-25

II was an early ball, called at 9
and over by midnight; and, being sup
PEERLESS, the guests danced for the
sheer love of dancing or OF the boys
in the ambulance corps-oh, yes. the
dance was given for the benefit OF the
District OF Columbia ambulance corps.
OF which Dr. J. Ryan DeVereux'fs the
head. OF course, any Of the ticket
holders. IL they found themselves
fair faintin, for food" could go down
to the palm room of the Willard and
order as square q meal as their purses
could buy-and many of them did.
The buds provided nothing but a
bowl OF punch for occasional refresh
ment-a punchless punch. to be sure.
For now that washington Is dry
near" drinks flourish. of one OF which
an old darky was recently heard to
say: 1T looks lax beer, an It tastes
LAX beer. but when ye gifts in in ye II
don't seem to have no authorityP'
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Life I'm waShinEtOn 3
Hard to Keep Up With.
Wanted-somethinE to take the
place of the City Directory, the tele-
phone book. and the Social Register
For things-and especially people
do move in Washington these days.
and at such a rate that It's impossible
for any such publication 10 keep
abreast OF the times. Mrs. franklin
X. Lane was speaking the other day
OF the difficulty she was experiencing
in sending out cards for the sale of
Indian novelties which is 10 be given
at the Home Club next Saturday.
"Why," she said, ats quite appall-
ing, scarcely any OF my friends are
to be found at their old addresses.
and their new addresses are nowhere
to be found" The business Of Iocat-
ing ones friends and OF keeping up
with them after they are once located
is really fraught with tremendous
difficulty: for not only Is nobody liv-
ing in his or her house. but every
body seems bent on moving once in
every two or three weeks.
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The society columns accomplish a
good deal toward keeping people
posted as to the movements of So
ciety folk, but society editors ideas
OF news are slowly changing. It's a
bit like the case OF the famous editor
who disposed OF news values In this
wise: IF a dog bites a man II isn't
news; II a man bites a dog, II is" In
Washington nowadays, II a society
leader rents her residence-sven
though II be one OF the city's hand
soonest homes-to strangers. it's
The Washington times., 1917-11-25

many nations. including the first sub
marine. Also he established at Par
lin. N, J.. the Internationaf Smokeless
Powder Companyss plant and manu-
faetured guns and high explosive
shells.
Has Held Many
HiGh ,PsnitiSns.9
You would think. all those interests
would have Kept him busy but never
thelcss he managed 10 take an active
part In politics. He has served as
president Of the East River, Bridge
Commission: he succeeded Richard
/ Croker as leader, Of Tammany Hall,
remaining In that offee only a few
months. He has been a delegate to
the last four Democratic national con-
ventions. was chairman OF the Erie
Canal Association, member Of the
ST. Louis Worlds Fair Commission. a
delegate to the Fourth Pan-American
Conferences at Buenos Aires. and envoy
extraordinary and minister plentipo-
tentiary on special service TO repre-
sent his nation at the Chilean Cen
tenary. and has nlled dozen other
positions OF trust.
He has been the recipient'of honors
abroad. in England. Russia and Italy.
and South America. He belongs to
an endless string OF prominent eiubS
in many cities, including the Metro
poIitan and Army and Navy clubs OF
Washington. Mrs. Nixon belongs to.
the d. A. R, and the Colonial Danes.
They have one son. Stanhope Wood
Nixon, who was married to. Doris
Fletcher Ryer, of San Francisco last
January. He Is manager OF his
fathers large explosive plant In New
Jersey.
The cards which Ruth Draper was
to send out announcing the program
of monOlogues she gave at E:auscheTs
on Friday evening we're lost Py the
express company. so sh.. sl2.'Hd -
Washington entirely unEer1l.ef. Hut
the cleverness. deIicacy ANA .'r';siEal-
lty OF her work is 80 well known
here and she has so many friends
among society folk that the smaTtoJt
OF audiences turned out for the occa-
sion. 49,
And the evening was q veritable de-
light. The girl Is q born actress and
her original monologues, ranging
from grave 20 gay. show that she has
great literary talent to boot. Then
she's so pretty and her white teeth,
fash so epgngingly-how 1 wish you
could have heard her doing a tragic
French bit in costume and q moment
afterward convulslns her audience
with a take OF on an English house
party OF a girl of the Bowery. Mrs
b. II. Warder was there and the
Harry Leonards, Miss Hanan, DR.. and
Mrs. Randolph McKim, Mrs. Brinton
Stone, Assistant Attorney General and
Mrs. Charles Warren, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Brooke. Henry Adams. DR.. and
Mrs. George Draper-but II L get
started on a list of names I'll never
stop.
DR.. Draper, by the way, Is Miss
Draper's brother. They are grand
children OF the late Charles A. Dana
and their father. the late DR.. William
H. Draper. was one OF the most IA |
nous physicians in this country In
his day. d.. Draper is here on war
work. and he and Mrs. Draper have
a house In Seventeenth Street Miss
Draper, who went back to New YORK
always stays at Henry Ad-
ans home In H Street, when sne IS
In town. She has raised large fund
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have come to Washington in many
moons. Although New York Is their
home, Washington has always had a
proprietary feeling for them, as they
visit hers frequently, and are always
elaborately entertained. The Brazilian
Ambassador and Nine. da Cana usual
>ly give at least one party in their
honor; also the George T. Maryes, the
H. Campbell Graefs and others.
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The Nixons are rated as New York.
ers, but originally both of them came
from Virginia Mr.. Nixon was born
in Leesburg and is the son of COL Joel
Lewis and Mary Jane Turner Lewis.
Mrs. Nixon was Miss Sally Lewis
Wood. daughter OF Colonel Wood. Of
the army, and q direct descendant Of
Gen. Andrew Lewis, of Virginia, the
hero Of Point Pleasant and a personal
friend OF George Washington. and also
OF Col. James Wood, the founder OF
Winchester, Va.
Mr.. Nixon is said to be one of the
greatest American naval architects
and shipbuilders. After completing
the course at the .LeesburE Academy
he entered the Naval Academy, ana
was graduated at the head of the
class OF 1882. He then was chosen by
the Navy Department to. take the
course In naval architecture, ordnance
and marine engineering at the Royal
Naval College OF Great Britain the
worlds finest technical college. The
present King, then a subIieutenant,
" as q student there at that time.
While at this college 1Ir. Nixon was
orceied to visit and study shipbulld-
Ing. gun, steel arnor and explosives
manufacture in Great Britain and on
the continent. In 1851 ne was trans.
ferred to the construction corps of
our -Lavy.
Upon being ordered home at the COM
pletion Of his course at the Royal Naval
Mr.. Nixon was detailed 10 duty
in connection with the Inspection Of the
hrst vessels Of our new navy-the Chi
cago, Boston. Atlanta, and Dolphin, then
being built by famous John Roach, at
Pa Thus, since the very be-
ginning OF our present navy, no man in
the country has been more intimately
with every stage OF its up
building. nor is In a position to be OF
greater service to his country in the
present crisis.
Nixon Built First
Submarine.
He saw the passing Of the wooden
feet assisted in drawing the specifcR-
tons for new construction and the
equipment Of navy yards and served as
Inspector Of vessels under construction
In private shipyards. In 1890 Mr.. Nixon
the battleship Oregon. whose
wonderful run from the Pacific 10
Cuban waters during the Spanish-Amer-
Ican war brought her such fame; also,
the Massachusetts and the Indiana. In
that year he resigned from the navy to
accept the post Of SuperinteudinE con-
structor Of the great Cramp ship youds
at Philadelphia. while there taking po,t
IN the building OF various battleshjps,
gunboats. and cruisers, not to mention
numerous merchant vessels.
In 1895 Mr.. Nixon moved from Ihilsdel-
ohia to New York. as in that ear he
opened a shipyard OF his own at Eliza
beth. n. j., but even after he resigned
rom Cramps he was retained by them
'or a number Of years as consulting
lrchitect.
At his yards he built vessels for
both peace and war purposes and for
The Washington times., 1917-11-25

= me Lewis NiXonS. I'll have you
snow are as interesting O pair as
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
Follows Governments Lead.

E. W. Elliott of the Economy Gro
Gerry hasn't had to be Hooverized. He
IS prepared to, and will, follow Mr.
Hoover's lead in this matter of con.
serving the food supply, in that he has
secured the markets to secure anv
and everything that can be used as a
substitute for the certain foods in
which the government must econo-
mlze. The Economy shelves are fIl-
ed with substitutes for wheat fonr
with substitutes for sugar he has ali
the different varieties of long sweet.
ehlng' such as maple and Florida
syrupS, and syrups made from other
articles, and as to fats, WHY he has
every variety Of lard substitutes that
mas been invented and many of which
IN so far as health is concerned arn
iHnGh T, superior to animal fats.
The Economy has been a predictions
success ever since Mr.. Elliott took
hoId; ne was some official as secre-
'"ry OF the old Palatka board of trade
and ne has been some business man
ever since he began to make tba
economy Grocery hum to the tune Of
oW prices and fresh, clean goods
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
III South Second St. Phone 1876
VIM. A. RUSSELL, Editor.
GERMANY'S SIN.

When the day of reckoning come!
for the kaiser and his advisers, no
the least of the sins charged ur
against them will be the woe they
have permitted to come to thousands
even millions, of Christian men, wo-
men and children in the Bible lands.
You saw in the Sundays dispatches
that the British are pressing on north
OF Beersheba and with the definite OBJ
ject of capturing the coast city of
GAIA?
Beersheba is in southern Palentine
and was named by Abraham or Isaac
Goes back some beyond your old Sun
day school days, don't it?
But this holy land is now overrun
with the blood-thirsty Turks and their
allies, the Germans. We have men
In Palatka who are familiar with the
ground and the present conditions.
John Mallem can tell you something
of the horrors his people are under
going.
1t is not for the Prussians to seek
to evade their blood-guit by saying
they are not RESPONSIBLE for what the
Moslem Turks do. The terrible rec
ord, smeared with the blood of the
lnnocents, cannot be explained away.
Before the war there were millions of
Armenian and Syrian Christians
throughout the Turkish possessions in
Asia Minor BY their industry. their
thrift, they were the worthiest por-
ton Of the population. The instant
Turkey was dragooned into the war by .
the Prussians, a reign of hell unmiti- .
gated began. .
Thousands upon thousands of Chris .
tlanS We're massacred The women .
and children We're driven from their j
homes and many Of the former we've I:
sold in the streets for as low as 50 :
9piece. :,
In one instance the Armenians !
were ably defending them selves when !
German army officers brought IN J
cannon and dislodged the unfortu- j.
mates Doubtless instances could be j.
multiplied, showing German pqrtici- !.
patton. >,
But even aside from this, much of !.
the guilt rests upon German should j.
ers because the servants of the kai j.
scr have had finger in every Tur- j.
kish nie. They have dominated the !.
Turkish government. i
This being the case, it is clear if the !.
Germans had wished to save the Ar ),
menians ard Svrians, they could have :.
lone so. An ordo,S or TO nut it more j.
mildly, suo9oStion, from them to !.
he Turks would hovo hpen sufficient. j.
No such hint w9s .piven. The Ger j.
mans. bTsilv enoacod in oivinn the j.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
CLASSES IN SHORTHAND

bo',5 CiasseS & are being formed in sbo..
TorHoa ToIH ana type-writing by Miss - BSitH omTrt
IoIpett' certified instructor 7I in rbo, bbenSha
rap Iaphy, graduate of John n + BP"Vaog- Stlgs
no,.,, SOn university and student :" - pet .G
normal normal school in Simmons' 9'v CoI. oI the
DoSFon Ti1l IN the Benn Pittman SUlIege' sUlt eye
riis mss CoTOett is prepared s'1 to toEo system.
BlLS 2n,,, IN the Merryday B1ocI BIZ sI TAKE np p9-
n nPpIy m between the hours of f. 2 DoO5 oO5 y. ;
soIinitoj p n Also public stenogronbic AZ ana ,,i
gont nov W is the time when the call
eed' zen @ Ior stenographers and vo o"iI Is ur-
Sncb %1J women men who have an aStitn8.m Gtng men s
oF oFcH tb calling should avail iTPbrude tbo, for
Fl, tion ,ne opportunity to recpiyn yeeinseyes ites
ing G" to now, w. The government is ,"Syrus- as
stg stano 10 the service thousand Is send
6IiaS 6fiIGinS9graphers and the %lUS gam n, OF our
t soon; the advantages and rIuSa SD, be
ed +tCiss to 81 now are PRACTICALLY T rnIip SPpor-
hand @ d DnS Ine serious student of unllmlt- UNIT
'u ana typewriting. " - snort IT
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

viIlan army is being added to daily
Stenographers and typewriters and
mechanical craftsmen for the service
generally, and what are known as
Sche7duIe clerks, index and catalogue
clerks, clerks qualified in statistics or
accounting, and clerks qualified in
business administration for the Office
OF the Ordnance Department of the
Army are in demand. ~
Inc representatives of the Federal
civil service commission at the nost
offices in all cities are receiving nn
merous inquiries from persons who
wish to be at the seat of povprnnent
az lnls time OF big events and to have
a part IN the actual administration
ol lhe Governments great business
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
School Opportunities in WASHINGTON

p, washington, D. c., Nov. :, 1917
10 me young man or woman who
seeks to obtain college degree and
IlVeIlhood at the same time, no ritv
IN the country offers an opportpnit,.
more attractive than that to be fonnJ
IN the national capital. The severai
universities at Washington nrovijo
evening classes with hours arranaoJ ,"J
conveniently for Government emnIov
e9es', who ordinarily complete P55i tbcir
gay work at half past four and o al
rI5orameS, including the Library Of Of
CoIgFeSs' are open at night
for years thousands of vounr M,
PIE have entered the civil se,1tG;oaP G Pe'-
a;g Washington with the main idea Of de-
voting three or four years to eGnin 40 f
ping themselves for professional 1G'p ar
- SyIe Illic career while sunnortinn
themselves. i;l Many of the youn@ me5 S
i've at f2tremity houses, coonor,+ino '|[''
y conducted, thereby lessenfnG tho I;,,
lhg expenses ard also securin% = s"n r,oao Nv,
" 'Irie Tm llev can entertain their friends
IN addition to the nriyornit, .r,.as. .
courses the Young Mems Cbristionn Cbii,n
ass JASS4oclahon and private schools con ,r%'
@ uuct evening classes in technics or Iom
EuageS: accountarcy, stenogrqnbv " ond
tE,peWrltino. and the nsrgI i"' hiI Gnp
school strdies, " Eu"I nigh .
i+,T,5 ,NT,o5t,wsiht.hF.st2ndfng with. the drafts for mil.
Va 1S%,I y service practically all schools IN
,,,t show an ircreased 'oD,S oDroI m
@ ment thiS year This is dne ta'Q.l- ta OIL
81 great influx incident to the wa war TO T rne
oE Twelve thouSard rpw cIerl. @ as1
:, oener EMPLOYEES have been annoir+og +og
:" '"e 'epartments and this Great ''r" 81
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

Americen casualties are coming in
from the war this week and are wax
ing the country up to the serious
ress Of the war situation On Sat
urdav German raiding party swept
over the p2raret Of a trench occunied
by an American company and, after
a brief hand to hand encounter, re-
tired to their own earthworks with
u prisoners. Three other Ameri-
cans were killed and five wounded. Or
Monday the American patrol boat AL
cedo, was sunk in the war zone by
German submarine +orpedo and 21
men are missing. The daily papers
have published the names Of the kill
ed and missing. of whom several are
from the south, but none from Flori-
do. Prepare for more bad news; it is
bound to come before we achieve vic
tory over the German monster.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
FEEDING
OUR ALLIES.

Many Americans are puzzled ever,
time Food Controller Hoover issues
statement urging us to cut out al
waste. People are apt to think will
the bountiful crops this year we shoulC
have an abundance.
But-one of the vital needs of the
time is that America should provis-
ion France and England. Even in
normal times England does not raise
enough food to feed herself. And
these are far from normal times. And
a large part of the food growing
country of France has been tempo
rarily taken away or has been render
ed desolate.
France and England need food and
we must furnish it, Their men are
too much occupied just now with the
work of holding back the German
horde. And we can furnish it if we
will use our supplies here at home
with reasonable prudence.
Why is it our imperative duty to
feed our allies? Because our allies
are holding the lines in France and
Flanders while we make ready to take
I'D the fight for civilization and for
liberty. Only by their work can we
have the necessary time to prepare.
Every battle they fight is battle for
America.
We are giving them all the money
they need to supply their armies. We
must also rive them the food to feed
both the armies and the folk back
home
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

On Saturday, December 8th. at !
n m "t the court house in Pa1atta
there will be held meetinr Of farn,
erS, cattlemen and business mon fo,,
me nnrnose Of organizing a Putnam
County Live Stock Association.
The purrose of the association will
be the Improvement of live stock in
I'll lines and the prevention end Grad
ication of diseases.
This is something that every conn
tv ought to have and every man who
is interested either on A large or
small scale should attend this meetioo
end ioin the association and help to
make it a success. ~
The meetin" will he held under the
erection of Dr. I. T. Chipman, eu-
nerviSir" veterinorv insnnc4or for
this d'stri"t II s. nerartmon+ of
Agriculture, bureau of enimaI indus.
try. '''''''
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
MARKETING HOES

Beats hurvin0 them. Stove Hoover
Mt. Ple"s9nt, lowe. writes "Co1,
"'enced feeding NV hord or 9hop+ Inn
hogs r. A. Thomas Hoo Powder oro,.
two months 900: Fiftv were aicl; and
off feed. Nearby herds he'd choIero
7 did not lose one-thev are we'll nd
GROWING fast"
ECONOMY GROCERY COMPANY
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
| SMOKE DREAMS BRING
MEMORIES Of HOME
Chief YeOman Jas. l.. Creek
man Writes Interest
ingly.
u. S. S. NEBRASKA,
Somewhere"
October 27Sh, 1917.

j. October 27Sh, 1917.
+ Editor Palatlla News:
+ Today l received a copy of The
j. News from home, and | read with in
j. terest the Honor Roll of Putnam
+ county boys in the navy.
i There are few mistakes, which
i please allow me to correct: First, you
+ have left out George Ireland, chief
+ quartermaster, and William Bailey,
j. seaman. Second: most of the ratings
j. OF the boys are wrong. |. R. Stclts
!. is coxswain instead of an appren-
J. tlce seaman. Curtis Dupont is an
+ electrician, second class (G) Fred
+ Garrett is hospital apprentice, now
l. studying at the Naval Hospital school
+ at Newport, R. L.; Chas. Garrett is
+ an electrician, third class (G.)
+ L am sorry to say that | do not
|. know the other boys, therefore | am
!. unable to inform you of their pres
+ ent ratings. Marshall Ramsaur has
. been left off the Putnam county roll
. Also read with a feeling Of shame
. for my home paper the article copied
. from Dixie, cigarettes for Soldiers"
. May ask, Mr.. Russell, do you know
the degree of comfort and compan-
lonship which can be extracted from
a good smoke?
DO you know that more vivid men,
orles of home, the kind that keeps
men straight, are conjured in smoke
dreams? On a lonely evening when
the days work is finished, and for
few hours you are free to dwell in
the past, and live over again and
again the happy memories of home,
good pipe, cigar or cigarette lends
mellow touch to your reminiscense,
which makes you feel, that although
far away, home is real and YOUR
memories form "The Tie That Binds"
keeps fresh your mind that there are
those who care, End eives you some
thing to live for, look forward and re-
turn to.
| am not odvocatinq tobacco for
boys, for | believe that no boy should
smoke before he has reached his
eighteenth wear. But for men who
are Somewhere" doing their bit.
GOOD smoke, especially if it comes :
from home, is not only y greqt en-
loyment. but it shows that you are
not forgotten. that the home folks
still remember. and think of vour &c
comfort. for tobacco is comfort Is
Three cheers for the man who thinks III
onou"h Of Uncle Sans bows to rofso Sc
Tobacco Fund for them. SC
| am sorrv that the censorship an
'ePuIations will not permit my writ Su
NO Of what we are doing, evroct TO WI
10. or where we are. mi
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
The War Department has an

The War Department has amende i
Its recent ruling not to allow other
social activities in the various can
tonments than that provided by the
Y NJ. c. A. and the Knights of Co.
lQmbus. Woodmen of the World
MaSonS, Odd Fellows, knights of Pv-
thlaS, The Elks, Moose and Others
VIII now be permitted to erect club
houses, but not to hold secret meet
lngs or limitations. The department
i,eaIlzed that the establishment of
these fraternal societies in the camps
would afford pleasure and benefit to
the soldiers, and so ordered that thev
be allowed to enter. '''e'
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

New York state has given a maiori-
ty Of approximately 10000 in favor of
allowing women to vote. The ladies,
God bless EN-, are hilarious.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

Down at Miami the people are eat.
ing shark steaks. That's all right
and shows that those clever Miamians
are not going to be outwitted by food
manipulators and the high cost of or
dlnary human articles of diet. But
aiIsame they have nothing on the peo-
pie in the north central portions of the
State who have been eating "hot
dog and store sausage for some
time.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

Women are finding in this d
an opportunity to do their
very practical way.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

Yes, this is erich mans war;
The rich fathers are sending their
sons to the front and are investing
their money in liberty bonds for the
prosecution of the war and the hur-
rylng on of peace. 1t is poor mans
war, too, for the poor men are send
ing their sons to the front and is con-
tTlbuting with his strength his full
share Of foodstuffs and patriotism. 1t
IS a war to bring enduring peace to
the nations of the earth which can
only be done by forever doing away
with the idea of the divine right Of
few to rule.-Ocala Banner.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

The Carranza administration in
Mexico seems unable to check the
raids of Villa. That bandit attack
ed Mexican Central passenger train
at Armanderiz station last Sunday
and robbed the passengers of their
personal belongings, including most
OF their clothing. A messenger car
rying some 100000 in silver bullion
to an American company in Mexico.
is missing-so is the bullion. One
hundred and twenty-five soldiers and
passengers were killed. There were
no Americans on the train.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09
THEPALATkA:NEws
and Advertiser.

Entered at the Palatka possoffice as
mailable matter of the second class.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

Woit for the Great Hoover Sale n
the Econon'v Grocery November 10
24-one solid week. Watch this na-
ner for rrice list next week
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-09

Published at Palatka, Florida, on
Fridays by
RUSSELL & VICKERS.
$1.00 Per Year in Advance
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