davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-04-07
Care for Machinery.

Repair and paint implements and
machinery.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-04-07
Work In Orchard.

Plant, prune and spray home or.
Chards.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-04-07
PAINS SHARP
AND STABbING
Woman Thought She Would
Die. Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Ogdensburg, Wis.-'I suffered from
female troubles which caused piercing
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-04-07

S nave been placed specific appropriations
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-04-07

America has GG.GG2 post offices.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
FUEL YARD ASKED
FOR D. c. MAY Be
OPEN TO PUBLIC

A Government fuel yard or yards
for the District OF Columbia may be
established by act of Congress in
the course OF the winter. Chairman
Foster OF the House Committee on
Mines and Mining has the matter IN
der consideration.
II such q yard or yards are es-
tablished they will in all probability
be opened for the public, so that in
dividuals can purchase coal there
from. Already, there is pending in
the House, on the calendar, a resolu-
ton by Chairman Foster authorizing
and directing the Secretary OF the
Interior to make an investigation and
report upon the advisability or es-
tablishing and maintaining govern
ment fuel yards-or a single yard
in the District OF Columbia.
This resolution. however, looks to
the establishment OF q government
coal supply from which the depart
ments and independent branches of
the Government can obtain coal.
It does not include provision for
supplying coal to the public.
Today. however, Congressman Fos-
ter said that when the resolution came
up In the House. as It will soon, he
would seek to have it broadened out
so that provision will be made so the
public can obtain coal at reasonable
figures.
THE resolution as 1t now stands"
said Mr.. Foster. does not contemplate
yard or yards from which the pub
lie could obtain coal l believe. how
ever. that one or more. such yards
should be established in the District in
view of the conditions. The situation
with respect to coal has changed ma
terally since / introduced the resolu-
ton last spring.
in view OF the trouble over the coal
supply here, II is my opinion that the
Government ought to have yards from
which the people OF Washington car
purchase. coal on q reasonable basis.
have no doubt a great saving would he
effected to the Government and the
public II such a system OF distribution
were provided"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
BRANCH RAILROAD |
TO INDIAN HEAD IS
PUT UP TO SENATE

Senator Swanson has introduced {
bill to provide additional freight IA.
cilities to the naval proving ground
and powder factory at Indian Head.
The bill authorizes the Secretary
OF the Navy to contract with a rail-
road company which proposes to build
a line from the vicinity OF Benning to
Indian Head, and advance It 100000
to aid IN construction. In return, the
Government will take transportation
warrants good for carriage OF freight.
The line is a part OF the old New
port News short line transportation
scheme. Frank s. Cannon, a we'll
known railroad man, has been at
work for some time trying to promote
this line
Under Senator Swanson's bill the
Government would give aid in fhe
construction OF the part OF the sys-
tenn from BenninE to Indian Head
It is proposed to use this part OF the
line for carrying heavy guns and
other naval material to the provfng
ground at Indian Head from the ma
val gun factory in this city. Secretary
Daniels is understood to be favorable
to the bill. The Government pro-
poses to spend large sums in expaH-
sion of the proving grounds at In
dian Head. --4
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
RAILS AND MINE
OPERATION BY US.
'URGEDINCONGRESS

Operation OF all railroads and coal
mines by the Government during the
continuance OF the war Is provided in
a resolution offered in the House to-
day by Congressman SABBATH OF ILL.,
nois.
The resolution charges that the
railways have deliberately failed to
make any effort to increase their IA
cilities to relieve the congestion Of
freight in this country with the pre-
meditated purpose OF forcing the In
terstate Commerce Commission to
grant further increases in freight
rates" Authority Is given for the
Commission to take over the opera
tion OF all roads.
The resolution further sets forth
that the findings OF the Federal Trade
Commission emphasize the menace OF
the coal situation and justify the OPP
GRAFTON OF coal mines by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
The Crisis in Congress

No doubt, most people now have
forgotten Cassius NJ. Clay. Most
Americans know many other Ameri-
cans like him. He was a typical
American fighter" With his blood
up" and forced into a fight, he
fought out" and nothing stopped
him. When his blood was not up, he
could think. And as long as he was
thinking he did not like fighting. He
tried to put of crisis" But about
the year 1859 he knew that a crisis
had not only come, but had passed be-
fore most people suspected it had
come at all. So it has been said of
him that in 1859. two years before
civil war began to develop into bat
ties, he had concluded that it was
"all over but the shooting"
President Wilson has defined "cri-
sis" in different language, but he
meant crisis and nothing else when
IN closing his address to the Joint
session of Congress he said: "a su-
preme moment of history has come.
The eyes Of the people have been
opened and they see. The hand of
God has been laid upon the nations.
He will show them favor, l devout-
eddy believe, only if they rise to the
clear heights Of His own justice and
mercy"
Passing the Crisis.
This is a religious definition OF
"crisis." Those who look in the die
tionary for the word will see that
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the United States had. How many
now living can give the names Of
these Presidents without going to
reference books? All who cannot
may make up their minds that they
can trust averages of character in
this country and in Congress, repre-
senting the country.
Men Who VIII snake Good
Moreover. in the joint session there
was probably as much native ability
and as much necessary training as
were ever represented at any crisis in
American history, or that of any
other country. The Congress Of the
United States in joint session repre-
sents greater possibilities of making
good" for the bringing the best out of
the worst. than the greatest man in
or out Of their own ranks ever can
represent. They are representative
men. When President Wilson defined
the worst possible In world politics,
their prolonged applause" at every
telling point, as 1t will be bracketed
into the Congressional Record, meant
that II the worst has come to the
worst, they will make the best Of tt
even il they must "blunder into IT,"
We no longer need to study the
map of the world to understand what
the joint session meant. In detail
it means 4 declaration of war on
Austria-Hungary, as the President
recommends. 1t means that if
"alien enemies" Of Austro-Hun-
garian birth obstruct the work of
the United States the Presidents
recommendations will be carried out.
1t means that the Government OF
the United States is a unit in all
its branches, in all that belongs to
the crisis, until it is all over-in
GLIDING the shooting. 1t means
that then we will review the crisis to
ind what Justice and mercy" mean
when they are made real in Ameri-
can politics and the politics of the
world.
When the government trusts the
people, the people trust the govern
ment. Then the crisis ends with "all
eyes open" That is the message and
the meaning OF the greatest histori-
cal event OF the twentieth century
the Joint session of Congress of De
cember 4, 1917. 1t means making the
hest of the worst
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Vital Records of the District

both OF Fredericksburg. Nd. HE Few. J.
F. Bryan.
Jack Rosenberg. u. and Ethel 2. EichbsrB.
q. both OF Washington. d. c. The Rev.
Abram Simon.
LynwooA J. Jenkins =. and Mamie E. Scott.
-, both OF Washington. d. c. The Rev.
C. 8. Briggs.
job ne. Gray. Il. and Meady S. stretton. %,
both Of fredericksburg. Va The Rev. J.
F. Bryan.
J. L. Nelson, .. and MabIe Carter. IS. Ths
Rev W. A. L. Morton. -
A. Mccall. q, and Cora Murray. g. The
Rev @. n. Harris.
@. A wlndear. n, and Dorothy N. weeden.
70. The Rev. N. @. Stevenson
n. T. Dent IS. and Nancy II. Brooks, =
The Rev. d. Johnson.
7. oueenan. IS. and Emma GaskinS. A. n
Rev. J. Richardson. .rs
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up in the Paris inter-allIed councils,
but was put aside for more physical
war measures. Judging from the
reception Of President Wilson's ad.
dresS. the plan will be brought to
the fore today.
The Daily News comment today was
practically an Endorsement Of the
American repledging plan.
IF the President could have said
earlier what he said today" the edi-
torial declared, land II in Britain and
France and Italy the responsible
leaders OF these nations had made his
language their own, Russia might to-
day be driving the German armies
from her borders.
The demand for a statement Of
war aims has been repeated and in
sistent. In the light OF Mr.. Wilson's
speech q statement which will mean
wiping OF the slate OF much that
ought never to have been written on
II 10 imperative. There can be no
kinship between the spirit OF yester.
days speech and the spirit OF knock
out blows or OF economic warfare or
OF postwar boycotts."
The Daily News held the PresI-
dents speech up to more praise than
II has greeted any previous utterance
OF the American Executive, judging IL
another example OF comprehension
by which he clarified fundamental
issues OF the war"
HCOmprehends World,
at would be antectation to pretend
that the speech echoes the declsra-
lions OF allied statesmen" the edi-
torial continued. His vision COM
prehends the world: theirs only half"
The Times today still refused to
agree with the Presidents differen-
tiation between the German govern
ment and the German people.
president WILSON," the Thunderer
said. has restated the allies pur-
pose with incorporating force
With a straightforward statement of
war aims, the last hopes of the paci-
fists must founder"
AS a reafirmation OF previous war
utterances the speech is OF frst-class
Importance" asserted the Chronicle.
Clear, fsr-sighted, and statesman
like" was the Express opinion.
Practically every editorial referred
TO the Presidents AddreBs as the most
emphatic announcement OF Americas
determination TO wage war to the
limit. The Presidents recommenda-
tion that war be declared on Austria
was regarded as one further evidence
of this inhexible determination"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
Marriage Licenses.

Charles L. Prince. n. and Ellen ?. zier. -.
both OF Washington. D. C. The Rev. David
r. Covell.
Sherman Morris, Is. and Annie Ruth Green,
., both OF Richmond, Va The Rev. John
II. Jeflries.
Raymond c. Hammill, n, and MadEs L.
spinks. IS, both Of Alexandria, Va The
Rev Hugh T. Stevenson,
Ernest James PhrrInan, Is, OF Brooklyn, N.
7, and Ruth Waterman Dickinson, Is, Of
Jersey City. ". J. The Rev. U. @. B.
Pierce.
Levi Harrison. =, and Cora Pace, n. both Of
Richmond Va. The Rev. Daniel H. Martin.
Charles W. Williams. ., and Mary A Tray
Tor, IS both OF Stoney Creek, Va. The
Ross n. Pollock u. and Marian F. Butler.
a. both OF Washington, D. c. The Rev.
W. @. Davenport.
Charles Henry Hutton. Is. and Emma Butler,
s. both OF Washington, d. @. The Rev.
Hugh T. Stevenson.
H. Howard Hylton. Il. Of Floyd. Va, and
Mary E. Cummins, ., Of Tindall, Va The
Rev ]. +. Bryan.
Lawrence c. Martin. Is, and Irene Green. -.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
LONDON PRESS ENDORSES
PRESIDENTS PLAN FOR
WAR AIMS RESTATEMENT

LONDON, Dec. b.-Presidsnt VIII
sons message to Congress gave pow
erful impetus today to the American
plan for q complete, open. frank, and
Joint restAtOment OF allied war aims.
The Daily News editorial comment
practically Endorsed that plan. Other
newspapers, Joining in the general
chorus Of hearty approval of the
whole tone Of the Wilson address, In
dicated their belief in the necessity
for q rspledging Of the hosts Of
democracy.
As stated exclusively by these dis
patches q short time ago, Colonel
House is known to have presented to
British officials President Wilson's
urgent suggestion for a sorting OF
war aims, . compilation Of those to
which every ally could subscribe, a
diScardinE Of those to which all
could not pledge their force. and
finally Issuance OF q joint pledge by
the allies OF composite war aims.
The matter presumably was taken
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
By w. V. BYARS.

crisis" means judgment in the Ian
guage 1t came from in becoming
common English. So when a "cri-
SIS" has come and passed we say in
everyday English that at is all
over but the shouting" or the SHOOT
ing" as the case may be.
So when the President closed yes
terday with Justice and mercy" as
his last words the prolonged APP
plause" which followed was pune
tuated by the Rebel Yell"-as we
used to say in reporting Democratic
National Conventions back in the
Nineteenth Century. It is a punctu-
alton that always has belonged to
crises - short, shrill and saw
toothed"-"the fierce South cheering
on her sons" as the poet of Gettys-
burg defines it. Now it expresses
the spirit of every American city.
town, hamlet and farmstead from
coast to coast.
When 1t Is "All Over but the
Shooting"
The crisis defined in the joint ses-
sion of Congress came when "aver-
age Americans" decided for them
selves without putting their feelings
into words that it was "all over but
the shooting"
When once their brains begin oper-
ating in that way, they are what the
President wishes them 10 be-"a self
governing people" They will then
control the government. They will
then force their way forward against
any opposition. They will make or
break leaders" They will demand
results-force results-and nothing
but results will count with them.
That is what the joint session Of Con-
gress meant, with Supreme Court
justices, Senators and members OF
the House listening to the Presidents
address-all of which was his intro
duction to his definition of crisis as
the supreme moment in history when
the eyes OF he people have been
opened and the , see.
Men a. the Crisis.
Listening to the President, the
House and Senate in joint session
were the men of the crisis. In 1916,
the Continental Congress was not
made up of the famous Americans
every schOOlbOy is expected to re-
member now. They were merely "ay-
erage Americans" Of their generation
country lawyers, doctors, farmers,
men OF all average callings-who met
Inc pTtGNQ than So
cans will meet 1t now. They did
the best they could, and nothing but
their best-to win. Some who read
their records think they made zap
palling blunders," but il they did,
they Numbered into doing the great
est thing in the political history OF
their century and all the centuries
before II.
II they blundered, they blundered
into founding the United States.
And the average Americans of 1917,
through the best they can do and
the worst they cannot help, will
make the record now through which
that Of the average Americans of
diI6 will be made good" for the
supreme moment in history"
throughout the country there has
oeen a suppressed feeling that this
Congress may not be equal to the
crisis: 1t is a blunder to have such
feeling. Those who have it can
not remember more than one man in
eyerv twenty in the roll call of the
House and Senate. But in the Con-
tinental Congress the president of
Congress was the only President
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
Deaths.

Samuel T. Scott. = yrs. 1907 5th st. NV.
Charles HaIlOek. 50 yrs. John Dickson Honas
Elijah B 0randin. n yrs., Isis n. H ave.
Bridget Triebler. 81 yrs, Smiley Hos. s...
James T. Moulden. - yrs, 7il Morton ST. nv.
Mary oLSary. 70 yrs. Providence Hes. ,
Philip W. BargSCt. 6 yrs. MA washington
Barracks.
William NJ Coleman, 50 yrs. LII II st. NV
Darius B. whitssen. z yrs. Walter Rssd
Hospital.
John g MeKsnna. 81 yrs. Georgetown Hos
Charles c. Rogers, 81 yrs. Providence Hos.
Infant Of Nixon and Maude Piummer, hrs
Sibley Hos. -
Maggie Simons. 30 yrs, Nat. Homeo. Hos
George Butler. IS. Freedmen's Hos.
John Brooks. % yrs. as Harris CT. sw.
George Washington. ~ yrs. FreedmenS Hos.
LAvinia Redmond. s. yrs. 2sT Olive ave. NV.
James Brooks, 81 yrs, 1910 18th 81. NV. -
Eliza Henson 50 yrs. 3rd and II SITS. ne.
William A Brown, 30 yrs, 1851 P St NV. =
Marcus Moore rs yrs. Wash. Asy. Hos
Edna C. Forest. mos, 1873 Marion 81. s.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
Births.

Lawrence Z. and Vera B. white. boy.
Joseph and Henrietta Street. girl.
Porter r. and GLADYS J. Patrick. girl.
]. E. and Elsie McGeorEe. girl
James l. and Annie Miles. boy and girl twins.
Paul H. and Viola N. Knapp, girl.
Thomas 8. and Annie N. HigEs, boy.
Willis II. and Lillian L. Fride, boy!
Abraham and Sophia FutroUsky. cir.
Lars NJ. and Georgia Eidness, boy.
George d. and Julie n Carroll, girl.
Carl II. and Helen Z. Bsal, boy.
James z. and Mary z. Bronson, girl.
Eugene and Efhe Rose. girl.
William and Edith OdrickB, girl.
John r. and Gertrude Lyle, girl.
John and Empsis jackson, girl.
Lloyd and Annie Genus, boy.
Raymond and Grace Brent, boy.
Joseph T. and Henrietta Blount, girl.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
100000 ASKED
/. OF CONGRESS FOR
D. c. CLERKS HOMES

Government-owned residences for
Government employees in Washington
will be provided II a bill by Congress
man McKeown of Oklahoma is
enacted.
Mr.. McKeown has put in the bill
with the object of solving the housing
problem in the District
II would authorize the Secretary
OF the Treasury to spend $4,000, 900
for the construction OF apartment
houses to be rented by Cover ment
employees at a price to bring an an
nual income OF per cent, plus cost
OF care and maintenance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
FIRE IN COAL BUNKERS
OF DOCKED ARMS ship

AN ATLANTIC PORT. Dec. 5.-Fire
broke out today in coal bunkers OF
an ammunition ship in dock here.
The ammunition is stored in the
aft part OF the vessel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
Want $50 100000 or More.

What is likely to be done is to pro-
vide that the Government shall make
loans amounting to $4,000, 900 or
more to farmers and stock men. The
machinery used would probably be
the farm loan machinery. The loans
would have to be made on the security
OF live stock, crops, and the like.
One OF the reasons urged for max
Ing such loans is to enable farmers
20 buy seed for next years crops.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
DEATHS

ERB-ASSA. daughter Of the late Adam and
Fredericka Erb and sister OF Mrs. H. J
Eis,ubeiss, Mrs. Frank Hewston, and VII
liam X. ETb.
FUNERAL from her late residence Thurs
day December 9, at $50 p. m. $50 Pennsyl-
yania avenue southeast. Friends and reiL-
lives invited to attend. Interment private.
ls5
Monday. December ,. 1917. at
7.96 D. m. at Garfield Hospital. SETH
SHEPARD Chief Justice OF the Court OF
Appeals OF the District OF Columbia
FUNERAL services at st. Johns Church,
sixteenth and II streets northwest, at D.
m Thursday, December 6. Interment at
Rock Creek Cemetery. IS
Monday. December J, 1917, at
SO a M, at George Washington I'niyer-
sity Hospital. NJ. JANETTE MESSER.
Funeral at Lees Chapel. az Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, Thursday. December 6, at
Il.a0 a. m. lnterment private.
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Text Of Resolution.
The revolution follows:

ne IGAOA0lAOn LOlAO"b-
Where's the Imperial and Royal
Austro-HungarIGn Government has
shown its hostility TO the Government
GAd the people Of the United States by
Bsvering diplomatic relations and has
formally adhered to the ruthless pol
ley Of Submarine warfare adopted by
itS ally. the Imperial German Govern
Msnt, with which the United States is
at war, and has given to its ally ev-
cry support and aid on both land and
sea in the prosecution OF war against
the Government and people of the
United States OF America: Therefore
be I s..... ~,
House Of Representatives. OF the
United States OF America in Con-
EreSa assembled, That q state of war.
be ana IL hereby declared to exist
and to have existed since noon Of
the Attn day Of December, 1917, be-
tween the United States Of America
and the imperial and royal Austro-
Hungarian government; and the
President be. and is hereby author
ized and directed to employ the en-
tire naval and military forces OF the
United States and the resources Of
the Government to carry on war
aRainst the imperial and royal Aus
tro-Hungarian government, and to
bring the conflict to a successful ter
minRtion all the resources Of the
country are hereby pledged by the
Congress of the United States"
DeeIarnSioa Expected at Once.
Chairman Flood of the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, introduced
the resolution. It will be approved
by the committee in formal session
this afternoon and by practically the
entire membership OF the House prob
ably tomorrow. The Senate will re-
ceiYe the resolution when II recon
venes tomorrow. Passage through
Congress 10 certain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
TODAY NOON
TIME NAMED
AS BEGINNING
OFHOSTILIT|ES

The Administration's resolution de-
clarinE a state OF war to exist be-
tween the United States and Austria
from noon December 8, 1917. was in
troducsd in the House OF Representa-
tives this afternoon.
As In the declaration against Ger
many, President Wilson is empowered
TO employ "the entire naval and mill
tGry forces OF the United States and
the resources OF the Government to
carry on war against the Imperial
AID Royal Austro-HunEarIan govern
ment, and to bring the conflict to
successful termination all the re-
sources OF the country are hereby
pledged by the Congress sof the United
gtAtSG"
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ofncIaIE Favor Plan.

In the interest OF increased food
production the food administration
and the Department Of Agriculture
are expected to favor It.
Those who have studied the sub
ject say that some plan whereby farm
ers and stockmen can obtain loans
on easy terms to promote agriculture
and stockrsising IL imperative. Other
wise, the country will, before the war
is another year older. find itself worse
off for food than ever. as for lack OF
sufficient feed and high prices for
feed, breeding animals are being sac
rihced- This means injury to the live
stock industry
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-05
larng War Austria introduced in House Representatives
WHEAT PRODUCTION
MAY Be INCREASED
BY FEDERAL LOANS

Before this session OF Congress IS
far advanced It will in all likelihood
take action to make 1t possible to
loan Government money TO farmers
and stockmen in order to enable farm
ers without adequate capital to put
in crops and develop land, and to en-
able those having stock to provide
feed and not be forced to throw them
on the market prematurely.
The subject has recently been called
to the attention OF the President by
President Townley, OF the National
Nonpartisan League. Moreover, Con-
gress is being flooded with letters on
the subject