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Evening star., 1917-11-04
Next Years Garden Work.

Washington's home garden work dur.
ing the season just closed was most suc-
cessful. About 5000 plots of ground
were cultivated. covering an area of 600
acres and yielding a net return of $401 IL
an acre, or total yield of nearly a
quarter of million dollars. This was
q rich return for comparatively small
amount of labor and was helpful ad
person who carried his garden work
through the season contributed to the
war strength of the country by this
enterprise.
Owing to the lapsing of the specific
organization having this garden work
generally in charge there is now no pro-
vision for the maintenance here of the
special agent of the Department of
Agriculture, whose services last sum-
mer were invaluable in keeping the gar
dens up to mark and insuring a large
yield from them. 1t is most desirable
that Mr.. Conolly should continue in this
service. The fact that the gardens have
turned out their last pound of product
for this season does not warrant a stop
ping of the work. There is much to be
done this winter The garden idea must
be kept alive. The next five months can
be well spent in instruction for next
season, and for very small sum the
District can be assured of continua-
ton of the service.
1t has been estimated that for $500
Washington can obtain the benefit Of
winter work of this character, in in
struction and guidance for the spring
preparations. It is we'll worth the
amount to keep the garden idea going
so that valuable time will not be lost
in the spring. Better work can be done
this year than during the season just
closed if a special agent of the depart
ment is kept on the job, and assuredly
Washington is willing to spend out of
its private purse $500 to insure an in
crease of the quarter of a million dollar
crop yielded by its vacant lots during
the past summer. This is one of the
best investments that the people of the
capital could possibly make.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

German naval bases. The third Is the
passage between the Danish Island Of
Zealand and Norway, called the Sound.
the narrowest part Of which presents an
opening Of less than four miles. The
neutral waters are 80 extremely narrow
that the Germans, holding the interior
position, are masters Of the way. That
they have mined every approach to the
Baltic and are constantly safeguarding
every possible line Of approach with sub
marines is assured. It is significant that
a German cruiser, according to report,
was sunk by mine in the Sound the
other day, doubtless victim Of the Ger
man precautions against a British raid.
A less hopeful enterprise than to send
the British ships into the Baltic, how
ever grave the menace against Russia,
cannot be conceived. The attempt to
run the Dardanelles at Gallipoli was q
disaster. To send the British naval
force into the Kattegat to force the
Sound and thence to reach the Baltic
would have been one Of the most fool
hardy undertakings in all the history
of the war.
1t is to be noted that Kerensky refers
to Russian public opinion" and does
not himself essay criticism Of England
for failure to send the feet to Russia's
rescue. This suggests that he realizes
full well the injustice Of the contention
that England Stacked when her ally was
menaced by the German naval forces.
A knowledge of geography even Of so
near part of the world as the Danish
Norwegian waters is evidently not gen.
eral among the Russian people, else
there would be no such agitation as the
premier now mentions.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
AROUND THE CITY.

met a colonial stateliness that the
world had outgrown and forgot. and
the somewhat saspy impression con-
yeyed by lace-rufaed shirts and like
finicky finery was accented by a scar
that scared one side of his face. Many
theories were passed around sub rosa
to account for his disfisuremsnt. till It
got to be known. as things win. that the
great lawyer had come by his misfor-
sister from flre-but no one ever gave
render one Of his decisions. Farther
back in the history of this bit Of
ground it belonged to Henry Clay, who
sold it for. a Spanish tackass-which
must have been a foolish trade even in
Unless Henry wanted the Jack like
Richard wanted the horse" the sugges-
ton came from the other man.
That's so-and when Lafayette Park
here used to be graveyard-"
Then third man Joined the couple
A woman asked a pork butcher about
the price of some brown shriveled
things on his stand. He told her. and
she bought pound. And while she was
stufing her buy in cord bag she re-
marked. with that outpouring of conf
dence which women bestow on their
clergy their doctors and their market.
men:
Nobody seems to care for these dear
old things now that we can get fresh
fruit all the year-but I'm going to
stew these for the sake OF old times
and sweeten them with brown sugar
just to see what my husband will say"
The butcher mans habit-smile sobered
into an expression of'earnest inquiry:
Excuse me. ma am. but what do you
think you are buying?"
why. dried apples. to be sure-aren't
they?"
NO ma'am, they're cracklins"
We'll! Why didn't you say SO before
I bought them? What do I want with
crakl-"
That's all right. ma'am. here's your
money"
The butcher man said it very much n
If the woman were child. though she
looked old enough to be his almost
mother.
She jerked the bundle out of the bag.
slapped it on the marble slab. started
off and then turned back. took up the
discarded purchase and gave it an ex-
perimental sniff"
Smells good. How do you cook it,"
The butchers habit-smile came back
and brought along humorous twinkle.
-Cracklins? Why, you couldn't ask for
a better breakfast these goldfish morn.
ings than cracklin corn pone and hot
coffee"
The woman restored the cracklins to
her bag-and that was all there was to
1t. except that
butcher man not to have asked his GUS
toner why she should expect to dnd
dried apples on meat stand.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
AN ANTI-DON'T DECLARATION

might start don'ting, suppose.
But still / guess l won't:
For everywhere fellow goes
He runs against don't.
It's don't do that and don't do this:
The way with don'ts is fraught.
Rut hardly one worth notice Is
Excepting Don't Get Caught.
As barriers the don'ts are set
To hinder me and yon.
l never saw q don'ter yet
Who got there on the do.
Most don'ts of business or health
May well he set aside.
Few men gain greatness. fame or wealth
Through rules laid down to guide.
At all the don'ts tits best to smile,
The whole pestif'ro gang:
Just keep on doing all the while
And let the don'ts 60 hang!
Walter @. Doty. in St. Louis Globe-Democra
Evening star., 1917-11-04

Did you notice throughout the sum-
mer that the trees were unusually
green and leafy? And that the foliage
took on new beauties of coloring later
on? There's reason.
A woman picked up a leaf that was
blowing in the wind. It caught her at
tention because it was the biggest
hardest and most vigorously veined
sycamore leaf she had ever laid eyes
on. There is nothing thrilling, of course
about an everyday sycamore leaf that
has blown from a tree, except that in
other leaf on every other sycamore that
lines both sides Of the street on which
she lives.
Also it represented vindication for a
man who passed along that street early
in the spring and left devastation be-
hind him.
With him came colored laborers with
the lot of them 'amputated limbs and
gouged holes in tree trunks to fill them
with black stuff made the woman think
In that wailing place strewn with de-
capitated boughs there was one small.
far-seetng person who bided trusttngly
by the tree surgeons assurance that
the health of the trees.
So while the poor things held up stark
ly bare and sawed,off limbs to the sun.
One day threads Of green began
to sprout from denuded places. and
then came the spring rains-you re-
member how it rained and rained and
kept on raining-and after that such
arboreal splendor as that street had never
even dreamed OF before! And If you
multiply that one street by every other
street and avenue travelled by that tree
surgeon with his laborers and shears
and tarpots. you get an answer to the
why" our trees were SO shady and
green and rustly all summer. instead
of shedding leaves shriveled before
their time.
Vindica ton has no set rule for assert
ing itself 1t may demand it's innocence
matte headlines on the worlds first
page. Then again it may blow along
with the inconSeQuence of leaf in an
autumn Wind.but"
route it chooses. vindication always
comes. And that is all that counts.
Two men had paused before the Lib
erty Bell booth and one of them was
telling the other about the half-acre of
ground it stood on.
II had an office here in the old days
before they tore down the Freedman's
Bank-nobody could tell why, seeing it
was left an unsightly dump that dis
graced Washington for years! Then it
vas leveled, sowed with grass and
named Brewster Park In honor OF Ar
thurs Attorney General-the most
learned man and the best judicial mind
of that or any other administration. so
far as memory serves me, and the
most picturesque.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

Henry Ford is an example of the fact
that as times change conscientious men
must change with them. He is now az
earnest in promoting warrior ships for
the air as he once was in creating peace
ships for the ocean.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
HEARD AND SEEN.

couldn't have created more Of . ssnss-
tion.
The woman smiled She was game.
Il don't know" she replied. -.
drunken one sensentiou.ly ss sna %iss srsst
conviction. HE made you ugly to iFFaeass
This is not likely to happen again IN
Washington for long. long time, b"
ieYe.
This war is due to end In throo
weeks.
Such is the prophecy that comes fsom
one of the cantonments. according 70
EeX e,:oc1, John Mock MoekridEs ,,o Of st., e; 1anss
Mockridge spoke before meeting OF
the week.
In the course Of his work at canten..
Dr. Mockridge was impressins upon
the father the necessity for long and
strenuous training for tho soldiers OF
Well. I don't see just exactly why
We should be worried about It." 0aA
the father. The war is going to b
The rector looked his astonishmsnG
How do you make thatT he asked.
Why only three weeks7'
,.tN.h We'll my my son's son selected. replied the
than three weeks in his life"
Here's another story for which DR..
Mockridse vouches. He has done q great
deal Of work during the last four months
in behalf Of the soldiers and sailers OF
Uncle Sam, bringing spiritual counsel
into places where 1t often was lacking.
| Spiritual counsel Is not all the sort OF
advice soldiers need. either. Often Al
not the ordinary questions that arise in
a day are hard to answer. and It takes
man Of some diplomacy and tact to
| answer them Alright.
| A sergeant came to DR.. Mockridge and
began to tell him his woes.
| Il have a man under mo-" he said.
who refuses to be consoled. His girl has
gone back on him. and can't cheer him
up at ALL
Sure, you can." soothed the pastor:
But he just won't cheer up. The
more I say. the worse he gets"
What did you say to him?" asked Dr..
Mockridge.
We. Well. nothing much: Just said.
now she's your nasco.'"
]
= i
| Bill Sherwood, secretary to Post
master Chance at the city post once.
has many things to do besides trying
| to keep a thousand and one visitors
from worrying the postmaster to death
every day.
| He is Chances right-hand man In
attending to the affairs OF the exeunp.
| tion board for division No. 3, OF which
Chance is chairman.
This board has had only one man re-
| turned from Camp Meade, a record not
| exceeded and scarcely eoualed by any
one of the other ten boards OF the
| city.
When Sherwood learned that the
Army physicians at Camp Meade had
| turned down that one man, however,
he grew indignant.
What do you know about that" he
said. "Just because the man stam-
| mered. There wasn't single ruling
by the provost marshal general on
which to turn a man down because
| he suffered. That was why we passed
him.
Say, do they want men to fight Ger
mans. or do they want 'em to talk 'em
| to death?"
CHARLES F. TRACEwELL.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Election Day.

EIeCtI0n UAy.
Election day was once a time
When people uttered thoughts sublime
And organized professions great,
A nations pride to celebrate.
Election day once sought to prove
Which man by eloquence could move
The hearts of other men to beat
In faith and loyalty complete.
Amid the present stress and din.
Mid fear of loss and greed to win.
Election day must still decide
The measure Of q nations pride.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

An Eternal Factor.
He has bred danger and delay,
This great worlds history through,
The man who has too much to say
And not enough to do.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

Italy is now recovering from her sur
prise. Germany is experiencing the
usual doubts whether she can hold a
position in territory she has penetrated
by desperate onslaught.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

DR.. Muck played "The Star Spangled
Banner" and then resigned. His salary
was exceptionally large, but his sense
of patriotic obligation to the country
that has paid it is evidently not SO great.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

"Unexpectedness is whut riles folks.'
said Uncle Eben. "a hoss dat kicks all
de time is treated wifi constant consid-
Grafton. De mule dat kicks once in q
while loses all de credit fob years of
patience
Evening star., 1917-11-04

A Motorists Viewpoint.
Haven't yet made up my mind" re-
piled Mr.. Chuggins, as he paused in
pumping up tire. "I'm waiting to see
whether it'll cause fewer empty whisky
bottles to be smashed in the highways,
or more of them"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

No rush for Italy during the tourist
season compares with this rush to pre-
serve the country whose traditions and
institutions are SO strong m the interest
of the civilized world
Evening star., 1917-11-04

The training camp boys at the Amer
lean University print a paper called
"The Camoufeur." At a single step
they solved the problem of show to be
clever though censored"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

New YORK has brought up the fear
that foreign language politicians are
more to be guarded against than foreign
language publications.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
SHOOTING STARS,
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
Mistakes.

Mistakes.
THE mistakes of the past"
That's one of the worst mistakes YOU
can make"
What's that?"
Wasting time talking about them"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

The one-cent piece has asserted new
importance as it comes into requirement
in making change to pay taxes.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

New York city is in need of live
publicity manager who will prevent
Tammany from putting up bad adver-
tising for the town.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT Is DOING

Almost every one realizes that the
mail service Of the country increases
rapidly, but few per-
Postal Ssrv;ce haps really realize
the full extent Of this
OeseAoPment. growth. It Is stated
by officials Of the Post once Depart
ment that during the past four years
free delivery Of mail by letter carriers
has been established in more than $50
additional cities. and the free delivery
territory Of other cities has been SO
greatly extended that the additional
number of patrons served is conserva-
lively estimated at 100000.
In 1912. for instance. four pounds
was the limit of weight for a single
piece Of mail Of any class, and postage
cells. The average weight of parcels
at that time was less than six ounces.
Nearly all mail in cities was delivered
by letter carriers on foot. who also
made collections from letter boxes
Vehicles were used on delivery routes
on collection routes. but no general
need for vehicles had arisen in this
service. The parcel post, which was
established In 1913. has brought about
a different condition. The average
weight Of parcels now exceeds one
pound eleven ounces. and the number
OF parcels carried in the mails annually
has increased more than fourfold since
1912. 1t Is said that approximately
one-third Of these are received for de-
livery at city carrier post offices. and
It has been necessary to provide factli-
ties at every office for delivering par
cells too large and bulky to be carried
by a man on foot. For this reason the
~ nr
has increased RAPIDLY since 1913.
In other words. during the past four
years or so the Post Office Department
has had to deal with a period of transit
tion in the employment Of vehicles at
post Offices. Therefore. while constant
equipments in use and to perfect the
procedure followed In securing them.
the department has instituted compari-
sons between the several kinds of
eoufpment and the several methods OF
rental and purchase. For the present
1t seems wisest to officials Of the de-
partment to be guided In the admin
istration Of vehicle service by the prac-
tical conditions in each city. Horse
drawn vehicles are preferred where
small and a greater expense cannot be
justified. or in sections of large cities
where traffic is congested and frequent
stops are necessary. The use OF auto
VfoDlteS IS DTe1efdDle III I'll CtHeT III
stances, and with the growth of the
service they are rapidly superseding
the horse-drawn type of equipment
Automobiles are secured In various
ways. Allowances are made to post
masters for the COMPENSATION of car
-iers who furnish motor trucks in con-
nection with their work and for hiring
machines from local garages. Com
bined contracts have been made for
the performance by automobiles of
screen-waeon service and collection
and-delivery service. In a number Of
cities government-owned machines
have been used to supersede rented
and leased equipment for carrying the
mall.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

In Berlin the chancellor problem is
growing worse than the servant prob
le:l.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Washington is growing up"

aSnlHBtOn 10 growing up.
Whether we like it or not. and right
before our own eyes. the National Capt.
tai is changing. Like q beautiful child
whom one day we call '1ittle Mary" to
find the next day that she has grown
into woman's estate and does not care
to be called little" any more. thank
you, SO Washington has become little
bit bigger. a little bit different. almost
before we realized 1t.
Most Of us are not displeased. The
city has new beauty. an added attrac-
tiveness. There is rush, roar.
crowding and a jamming to which we
are not accustomed. But we are taking
to it like ducks that know they are in
their own stream. and unless our stream
is so swollen that we are washed away
in the food until we lose ourselves, we
will remain pleased, no doubt.
Nobody before ever saw so many
strange dogs in Washington. for one
thing. There was great dane on F
street the other afternoon as big as an
OK, that took UP the whole back seat OF
an automobile. saw a Chinese chow
with a coat like silk and eyes as bright
as stars.
Those dogs came here with their mas
the National Capital.
had a friend from Indiana with me
the other day. He was one OF these
newcomers. He had admired the public
walked both up and down in the Monu-
|ment, snorted from Arlington to Rock
Creek Park in an automobile at so much
an hour. and done a few other things
like that.
At last he stood on F street to watch
the affernoOn orOmenade
It was there he spoke from his heart.
Hoosier praise can go no further.
why, it's just like Terre Haute" he
said.
Twin patriots, in the best sense OF
the word, are John L. Weaver, fuel ad-
ministrator Of the District. and Clarence
R. Wilson. District food administrator.
Weaver was appointed fuel adminis-
traitor some time ago now, whereas VIII
son was selected to watch over the des-
TIMES Of the local food supply only
lately.
Weaver read about the appointment
Of Wilson. then he sat down and wrote
him a letter.
'I am the only man in Washington
who knows how you feel this morning,
he wrote.
Il
This happened on street car, so you
can form your own judgment. Almost
anything is likely to happen on a street
car these days, 1t seems.
The car was on its way up to fashion,
able Dupont Circle. Need it be said the
car was crowded?
There was a drunken man aboard.
He was just drunk enough to talk at
random.
He had a pleasant word to pass with
all who would look at hfm-most Of those
present. with the exception of those who
were jammed in up at the other end Of the
car and couldn't turn around.
The drunken man hung onto his strap.
A woman across the aisle claimed his
attention, then.
She was a homely woman. Even she
admitted it.
The drunken man knew it. Every time
he looked at her he shuddered. His eyes
would look up and down the car, but al
ways return to the woman.
At last he spoke.
Then those in the car felt like the bot
tom of the vehicle had dropped out. II
the drunken man had exploded bomb he
Evening star., 1917-11-04

is now described as only beginning to
fight.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

Germany is still manufacturing beer,
but only the favored few can afford to
drink If.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Other Way Around.

Uthef way AfOund.
'Do you think money has spoiled Mrs.
Cumrox'"
No." replied Miss Cayenne "she
spoils money"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

trade has created a somewhat more
complex organization, in order to pro-
vide the farmers Of the surrounding
country with a good local market for
company has been organized with
paid-in capital Of $4,000. provided by
local business men. in the hope Of In
creasing the production Of live stock in
the section. No dividends are paid and
the operating expenses Of the company
are reduced to the minimum. On two
days Of each week throughout the year
the company buys live stock for cash
the equivalent Of those prevailing at
the large centralized markets, less the
cost Of sending the animals to these
markets. The immediate result of this
movement. 1t Is said, has been higher
prices paid by local butchers, and their
Willingness to pay cash for live stock.
instead OF insisting that payment be
made by extending credit to the pro-
ducer. Incidentally. the operations of
the company have shown that live stock
can be bought and shipped to the large
markets. and a number of private deal
ers have undertaken TO compete with
the company. This has naturally, stim-
ulated livestock production in the sur
rounding country.
These and similar methods are de-
signed to afford the farmer easy access
to the large outside markets. Without
them he is practically dependent on the
local butcher and the local dealer or
shipper. In selling to the butcher fre-
Quently little or no attention is paid to
market conditions. Hogs and cattle are
slaughtered on numerous farms when
the weather turns cool, with the result
that the market is glutted. This means
low prices, which the farmer must ac-
cept because the product Is perishable
To some extent, 1t is suggested by the
departments experts. a remedy for this
situation may be found in better meth
DDS of curing meat at home, and also
by taking advantage Of the refrigera-
ton facilities afforded by local ice
plants.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Teachers Pay
in Arrears.

hetween the two boards of the coun-
ellis over certain terms in the school
bill. and in consequence. according to
The Star OF November /. 1867, the
teachers went for months without pay.
They had at that time received no sal
aries whatsoever since June. The Star
said:
I'VE learn from members of the board
of trustees that it Is painful to listen
to the appeals of the teachers for re-
lief, So dubious is the prospect of the
passage of the school bill that they can
with difficulty get their salary certifi-
Gates shaved at a discount of Is or 20
Der cent In one instance, where, in
consequence of the illness of the hus-
band Of a teacher, the family were de-
pendent for support upon her small sal
ary they were reduced to absolute
want. that pittance being withheld from
them. When the husband died there
was not a cent in the house to pay
funeral expenses. and one OF the trus-
tees was obliged to so out and raise
the money requisite. on his personal
obligations -
The quarrel between the councils was
due to a difference of opinion relating
to the portion of money to be paid to
coIored schools. the dispute relating
solely to the exact amount due them
Thus because OF an inability of the
two bodies to agree upon mere ques-
ton of detail great suffering was
caused a large number of people
Evening star., 1917-11-04

The various propositions which are now
being made for the use of children in
Evening star., 1917-11-04

The known tin deposits In the Unite
States are few, but Alaska is somethin