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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
HEROES COMMENDED
FOR BRAVERY

Nine enlisted men of the Navy were
commended by Secretary Daniels
Tuesday for courage in volunteering
to take a boat through dense fog to
rescue IS officers and men from the
British steamship City of Vienna when
she went ashore on the Canadian
Coast last month.
The men We're: Frank L. Pease
boatswain's mate, West Hampton
Beach. n. Y; Benedict L. Knitter
coxwain, Pittsburgh; Edward J. Tee
van, seaman. Brooklyn; James G..
OgiIvie, seaman, East Haven, CT;
Walter E. Fox. seaman, South Man
chester. CT; Lincoln C. Freels, sea
man, Knoxville, Tenn; Robert z. Hill,
gunner's mate. New York City; Floyd
B. Lands, quartermaster, West More
land, H.; Raymond E. Shoup, phar-
macist's mate, Philadelphia.
Frank L. hobart, seaman, of Cam
bridge, Mass, has been commended for
courage in jumping overheard from
the U. S S. Louisiana at dark night
and rescuing a shipmate in a tide
which threatened TO carry him under
the ship.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
MARINES SHOW HOW
TO USE THE BAYONET

Fourteen marines from the marine
corps overseas training camp at Guam
tico. Va, gave an exhibition of bayo-
net fighting at Keith's theatre, Wash
ington, recently, to demonstrate how
the marines drove back the Hun at
Chateau Thierry and out of Belleau
wood.
If you don't know how, you get
killed" is the slogan drilled into the
marines, while going through this in
tensive course of bayonet fighting.
Judging from the exhibition it not
only includes the use of a bayonet on
the end of a rife, but hand-to-hand
knife fighting, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, the
best way to gouge a mans eyes out,
tear open his nose and do various
other things which will reduce him to
such a state that he can be easily dis
posed of.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
FACES TO THE FRONT
IN RURAL DISTRICTS
In Face OF Increasing American Cas-
ualfies France Offers Evidence
OF The Stauneh Hearted

Upon his return from recent visit
to Texas. Assistant Secretary Clarence
OusIey sent the following account OF
an incident TO Secretary Houston. At
the suggestion Of the Secretary it is
passed on for publication. In the face
OF increasing American casualties in
France ii offers additional evidence of
a staunch-hearted and resolnte Ameri-
canism in the rural sections.
Clarence Ousley. Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture writes:
"On a recent visit to Texas / stopped
at Marshall on my way TO College Sta
tion 10 rest on Sunday, July q, with
a friend who is the pastor of the First
Baptist Cuhreh there. / was not alto
gether surprised when he insisted that
/ should say something to his congre-
cation at the morning service, but /
was surprised to have an urgent call
from a camp meeting eighteen miles
away. to speak 1here in the afternoon,
and / was very reluctant to go. because
/ was tired, but / could not refuse a
call from a group of farmers in my
own State. asked the messenger
who brought the invitation whether il
would be proper for me to say any
thing regarding the agricultural pro-
gram as a part of the war program,
and that / would be at full liberty to
speak about it as I might see fit.
Il reached the meeting just as the
congregation had arisen for prayer.
The minister prayed with great fervor
tion and the congregation responded
with fervent amens coming from every
quarter of the tabernacle. There had
been several conversions at the morn
ing service and the air was electric
with spiritual rapture. After the usual
plea for the continuing presence of the
Holy Spirit, the minister prayed for
our army and the congregation with
earnest amens. He asked for victory
to our arms and for our righteous
cause, and he asked that our boys
might return whole in body and mind
and soul. The amens came in a great
volume of heart-swelling emotion as
the mothers and fathers thought or
their sons. Then the minister dropped
his voice and said with humility but
with adamant resolution: But, Oh
Lord, if they must fall, let them fall
with their faces to the front" There
was a moment of silence in the con-
gregation, and then there came in a
deep chorus, with a sob, Amen"
when mothers and fathers in re-
mote districts, away from the sound
of the fife and drum and the sight of
warships, airplanes and marching par
AIDES. can say amen to the courageous
death of their sons, we need have no
fear that the plain people of the Uni
ted States will fail in the resolution to
sustain our cause to the utmost"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
COMPETENT
AND MORALLY FIT

Daniel A. Polling. associate president
Of the United Society OF Christian En-
deavor. writes as an EYE witness at
the front" in the current issue Of the
Outlook on questions of vital interest,
as he says, TO all Americans. and par
ticularly those who have relatives in
the Expeditionary Forces of the United
States.
Mr. Polling went abroad TO ascertain
for himself the moral character of the
American soldier lighting for democ-
racy on foreign soil and 10 learn what
the American military authorities in
France are doing to keep the soldier
physically competent and morally MT.
His report, in brief. is:
The American soldier in France is
a representative American. And he is
living on a moral plance which is
above the moral plane Of civilian life
at home"
Mr. Polling was given exceptional OPP
portunities TO observe the men in the
fighting zone. He studied every phase
of the questions, visiting and living
with the soldiers in London, Paris, in
the towns where they are bilfeted back
of the lines, and in the trenches.
Our leaders in France, he said,
have not conquered the vices society
has battled against from the first or
ganized beginnings of civilization, but
if the American Expeditionary Force
is not setting an example in moral
idealism to American civil life, then
/ have walked through France with
my eyes closed and my ears stopped.
Il would be false TO these men if,
having the evidence of their sound
ness, l. did not declare it; and / would
be false to those who gave them as a
priceless offering upon the altar of
freedom.
General Pershing and those who
are in authority with him in France
deserve, not a resolution of inquiry or
censure, but vote of confidence with
the assurance of our cooperation and
support.
THE American soldier is the worthy
inheritor of the finest traditions of
American arms "a credit to those who
bore him. an honor to the Nation he
represents, and the last and best hope
that civilization shall not fail in her
struggle to establish the might of
right"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
SCHOOLS IN
TRAINING CORPS UNITS

Eighteen additional schools were
notified yesterday of their qualifica-
ton for the establishment of students
army training corps units. They are:
College of Wooster, Ohio; Colorado
School of Mines: Catholic University.
Washington. d. c.; Knox College.
Galesburg, Ill; Wabash College, Lew
iston. Me-; Albion College, Mich;
Hamline University. St. Paul; Carl
ton College, Mortified, Mimi; Brook
Ign Polytechnic Institute. Kake For
est College, North Carolina; Washing
ton and Jefferson College. Washing
ton. Pa; Bucknell University, Lewis
burg. Pa; Franklin and Marshall Col
lege, Lancaster. Pa; Furman Uni
versity, Greenville, S. c.; South Netho-
dist University. Dallas, Texas: Emory
and Henry College, Emory, Va; Rich
mond College. Richmond. Va.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
A FIGHTING MESSAGE

King Hcnrys famous address to his
troops and Napoleon's speech to his
army in Egypt find fine parallel in
the message issued 20 the French ar
mics by General Petain, their COM
mander-in-chief:
-Four years of effort, with our
staunch allies; four years of trials
stoically endured. begin to bear fruit.
His fifth attempt in 1918 smashed,
the invader retreats. his man power
decreases and his morale wavers.
while at your side your American
brothers have no sooner landed than
they have made a baflled enemy feel
the weight Of their blows
necessarily placed in the advanced
guard OF the allied peoples, you have
prepared the triumphs of tomorrow.
Not long ago said to you: 'Abne-
cation. patience: your comrades are
arriving
To-day I say; 'Tenacity, audacity;
you shall force victory
Soldiers of France. / salute your
banners illuminated with new glory"
Who can read those words without
q thrill? We may pay homage to
France not only for doing the bravest
fighting of the war, but for furnishing
the most inspiring eloquence.
Latins. and the French particularly,
excel in the "gift of fiery speech that
rouses soldiers to superhuman effort.
We have heard comparatively little of
that during this war The French
have shown a disposition for deeds
rather than words. Their official re-
ports and public utterances have been
conspicuous for calmness and modes
~ When the silence is broken, we
are likely TO have q masterpiece.
General Petain shows a combination
OF gifts rare outside of France. He
is at once a great soldier and a great
orator. Such a speech is worth an
army.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
AN OPEN LETTER
TO ALL HOTELS
Restaurant People OF Maryland Mott
fled OF Wheat And Sugar
Condition

State Hotel Chairman w. H. Hager
has sent out the following open letter
to all hotels and restaurants:
Some of the hotel and restaurant
people of Maryland do not seem to
have a proper understanding of the
wheat and sugar questions.
I'VE are no longer expected to oper-
ate entirely without wheat, as many of
us agreed to do. 1t is still necessary,
however,, to follow the restrictions
placed upon us as to the use of Victory
Bread. The regulation requiring that
we serve not more than two ounces of
wheat -four per person in all forms
combined at any one meal is still in
effect, which of course includes the
sandwich rules.
The sugar certificates being allotted
for August are on the basis of two
pounds for each ninety individual
meals served instead of three pounds
as heretofore.
This figures out about one and one
third q 1-3) teaspoonfuls per person
per meal. Those of us who have been
using the open sugar bowl are going
to find it hard to make our sugar sup
ply cover the period for which it is in
tended, and the Sugar Department is
not going to be able to allow addition
al sugar on the basis of two pounds
per ninety (90) meals where the open
sugar bowl plan causes the supply to
be exhausted before the proper num-
Der of meals have been served"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
CHIInREN MIG pON,T CRY

A heart-rending picture OF wronged
childhood is given by Conigsby Daw-
son In an article in Good Housekeep-
ing. He describes a hospital. impro-
vised from old barracks. where 500
little French patients are being
treated
They are mostly refugees from the
territory long held by the Germans,
and now restored to France. All of
them have suffered the terrors Of war.
There are boys and girls OF seven who
have seen more of horror than most
old men have read about in a lifetime,
They come from villages where they
have seen the dead lying in piles amid
the wreckage OF their homes, and
where their mothers and sisters were
not spared They have seen men
hanged. shot bayonetted and flung in
10 burning houses.
The pictures of all these things
stick indelibly in their minds and
crowd out normal childhood thoughts
Their bodies are sick, but their minds
are more afflicted They have lost all
desire to play And worst of all, they
never cry Their days and nights are
passed in silent brooding
might Is the troublesome time The
children hide under their beds with
terror. The nurses have TO go the
rounds continually. II the children
would only cry. they would give warn
ing But instead they creep silently
out from between the sheets and
crouch against the floor like dumb an
imaisl That is what they are when
first they are brought in. Their most
primitive instincts for the beginnings
of cleanliness seem to have vanished.
They have been fished out of caves.
ruined dugouts. broken houses. They
are as full of skin diseases as the beg
gar who sat outside Dives gate, only
they have had no dogs to lick their
sores. They have lived on offal so
long that they have the faces of the
extremely aged. And their hatred!
Directly YOU utter the word "boche"
all the little nightgowned figures sit
up in their cots and curse"
II God ever hears curses. surely He
hears those pittiful imprecations.
wrung from the heart of blighted
childhood. What hope can there be
hereafter for the men and the nation
responsible for such Indebtedness?
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
PANTRY PATRIOTISM

Cheese-making is a very simple art.
Blueberries can be canned without
sugar.
Tomatoes fer canning must never be
overripe.
Excellent mullins can be made of
barley and hominy.
A good marmalade is made of orange
and apricots.
Quick breads can be very well made
without any wheat -four.
Raspberries can be preserved in the
sun as well as Strawberries.
Rice omelet may be made with peas
left over. The rice is best used hot.
Fruit pies economically made with
out any undercrust are most delicious.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
Catarrah Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrah is a local disease, greatly in
tluenced by constitutional conditions,
and in order to cure it you must take
an internal remedy. Halls Catarrah
Medicine is taken internally and acts
through the blood on the mucuous sur
faces of the system. Halls Catarrah
Medicine was prescribed by one OF the
best physicians in this country for
years. 1t is composed of some of the
hest tonics known, combined with
some of the best blood purifiers. The
perfect combination of the ingredients
in Halls Catarrah Medicine is what
produces such wonderful results in ca
tarrahal conditions. Send for testi-
monials, free
F ]. CHENEY, & CO., Props, Tole-
do, Ohio.
All druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
DEFENSE SOCIETY
MAKES A PROTEST
Calls Attention To Proposed Visit OF
Spanish Military Mission To
America

The visiting of the American from
in France by military experts of an!
nation other than an Ally of the Uni
ted States was earnestly proteste,
against by the American Defense So
ciety. in the following telegram sen
today TO President Wilson. and which
is signed by Mr.. Charles Stewart Davi
son, Chairman of the Society's BoarI
of Trustees:
Noticing an express statement
in the public press that a Spanish
Military Mission including ex-
perts in all arms purpose visiting
the American Front, we respect
fully protest against the visiting
on the American front in France
by Military experts of any nation
other than an ally of the United
States"
THE sole purpose of the Ameri-
can Defense Society in calling the
attention of the Administration to
the proposed visit of the Spanish
Military Mission to the American
front is to safeguard by every pos
sible means all information re-
garding the organization of Ameri-
can troops on the field of battle"
said Mr.. Dawson. The protest
against the Spanish Military Mis-
sion is not to be taken as an ex-
preston of feeling against that
particular nation. We favor the
exclusion of military experts of all
the neutral powers.
There are, of course, certain
neutral nations which can hardly
be classed as unfriendly to Ger
many To prevent the sending or
any military missions by such
benevolently neutral powers is, of
course, an all important question,
and a precedent we believe should
be established at once; otherwise,
it might be hard to estimate
American losses il life directly due
to information open to enemy
agents in these neutral countries.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
- CAPITAL COUPONS :
- G L Up P / N GS 0 f :

Now that the sugar growers have
risen to object to recent action by
the Government in limiting prices it
might be said they are trying to
sweeten their purses.
A movement has been started to
conserve time of physicians. Never
knew they had any time to conserve.
Battle cries OF freedom: "Lusita-
MIA" "Kamerad."
Every time the Kaiser looks at the
Crown Prince he ought TO feel square
with the world
Costly clothes are luxuries," says
news item. Just what we thought
Looks as if Germany will be a real
"No Mans Land" after the war.
With the Germans running like rab-
bits the Australians ought to feel at
home
No doubt a lotta married men will
welcome the draft Probably have
been held back up to now because
they couldn't be expected to fight in
two places at once.
Slogan at Wilhelm's Great Head
quarters has been changed from Fool
the Allies" to Fool the German peo-
pie"
Any one know whether the proper
arrangements have been made at St
Helena to give the Kaiser fitting re-
ception?
Don't doubt for minute that it will
be hot enough for the Kaiser when the
war is over to make him believe he
has won a place in the sun"
NAS sues HusbdnU because ne play
ed "A Fool There Was" for five hours
on the family photograph. This proves
something, but leave it to you to name
it.
X
Another schooner sunk by U-boat
miles east of Cape Hatteras.
Still catching minnows with a bent
pin.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15

Ii was hardly necessary for the
British minister of munitions to ex-
plain that our Government has exert
ed no pressure upon Great Britain to
make her call older men for army
service. Britain has for some time
been using men in their forties, and
she stopped the last German drive in
Picardy with boys of 10. If we APP
piled the British draft system, we
should have an army of 5000 men
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
EFFORT TO LOCATE
AMERICAN SEAMAN
Department of Commerce EndeayOr-
ing 70 Find Harry Nj.
Reachy

The Department of Commerce is en-
deavoring to locate Harry M. Beachy
an American seaman who has been
silver medal in recognition of the part
which he had in saving the crew of
the British schooner Busy Bee. Mr.
Beachy was born December %, 1894,
either at Baltimore or at Grantsville,
Maryland.
Every effort to locate Beachy has
been made but so far without success.
The medal is now being held in the De-
partment of Commerce in the hope
that some trace of Beachy may be
found
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
TWO KINDS OF INITIATIVE

German ingenuity in self-deception
is improving. Imaginary victories
loom bigger as the real thing recedes
in the distance. Victorious retreats"
OF a short time ago have given place
to an even cleverer strategy. At least
that is the impression the reader re-
ceives from a statement in the Rhein-
isch-Westfaelische Zeitung.
That paper explains the present
German offensive" thus:
ITO have the initiative does not con-
sist in attacking, but also in letting
oneself be attacked at the proper mo-
ment." Apparently the writer of that
statement agrees with General Forch
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15

that this is the proper moment At
any rate. he shows no encouragement
al the fact that German initiative has
reached that second stage,
As for the rest of US. We are quite
willing to lei the German army retain
this initiative" all the way TO Berlin,
while our armies stick to the older
form and continue their successful at
lacking.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
WHY is THIS?

Why is it that life insurance compa
mics exclude:
"a Retail liquor dealers;
(2) Wholesale liquor dealers;
CD Employees in distilleries;
(D Grocers having bars;
60 Saloonkeepers and bartenders;
CD Restaurant keepers?
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
TELL MOTHER"
Always First Words OF A Wounded
Soldier

Tell Mother!"
These are always the first words of
the wounded U. S. Marines, those devil
dog fighters who routed the pick of the
German forces in the recent battle on
the Marine, when they are brought into
hospitals at Paris, France.
One Marine, just a boy, said: I've
been a sort of wanderer for the past
six years. l guess the folks back
home thought / was good for nothing,
But now l wish you would write Moth
er for me and just tell her l made
good"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF 1918

The undersigned, Collector and
Treasurer of the City of Annapolis.
Maryland, hereby gives notice that the
1918 city taxes viii be payable on and
after August 81. 1918. at his Office, Mu-
nicipal Building, Gloucester street.
All taxes paid before the 18th day Of
September, 1918, no interest viii be
charged. On and after September Is.
1918, however. interest will be charged.
at the rate of six per cent. per an
mum, beginning from the said 18th day
of September.
Office hourse 9 A. NJ. to P. NJ
JNO. b. WELLS,
L. d. Collector and Treasurer
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15

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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
MONEY 10 LOAN.

MONEY TO L0AN-Money to loan on
mortgage. Apply TO WinsOn G. Gott
Annapolis, Md. jy1S-tf
MONEY TO L0AN-0n mortgage in sums
to suit on reasonable terms. Partial
payment allowed. James NJ, Munroe At
torney. jy1S- If
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15
FOR SIC

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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-15

Another schooner sunk by a U-boat
miles east of Cape Hatteras.
Still catching minnows with bent
pin.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-24
IN BATTLE: FIFTY DAYS;
HAS 8 HONOR MEDALS
Major Sheridan and Other Heroes
RSturn From France on the
Icclandia.
TWO ARE SOUTHERN MEN
Former Professor of Georgetown
University Was Only Chaplain to
Lead Charge and Win DiStin-
guiShcd Service Cross.

NEWPORT NEWS. VA. December -.
Among the wounded who landed here
yesterday from the transport; Zee
landia are !. number OF men who. Il few
weeks ago, We're conspicuous in news
dispatches from tho battle front in
France.
one o. them. Major Charles l.. Shcr-
idau, OF Bozeman Mont. whose bat
talon OF the ono Iiur.drcd and
rwcnty-cigh;h Infantry Thirty second
Division. actually was in battle llfty
days aud acting as supper, under fire
the last zoo DAYS OF the fighting
times. but as he received TWO each ON
as many occasions, he wears only three
wound stripes.
In addition to having been recon-
OF Honor. Major SheridaN has been
awarded the DISTINGUISHED service
Groin, de Guerre. II is said she is the
fourth man thus far to hc recon-
mendcd for the Congressional Medal.
His battalion participated in the
lighting AT .Aisacc. Chateau Thierry.
Nezilly, Fismes. Chcmin- dcs Danes.
JuviGny and half a dozen other places.
who fought in many OF the battles
with Major Sheridan. wears two wound
stripes and NroiN de Guctre
Chaplain oReilly. Thirty eighth Di-.
chaplain who led a charge. was wound
ed when she'll exploded under his
horse. killing the animal lie has been
recommended for Il Distinguished Ser
vice Cross. His home is in New York.
but for number OF years he was a
professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, u. G.
Others OF the wounded officers who
have been decorated or cited for brav-
cry include: Major Carroll. Ozark. Ala.
Rainbow Division; Major Staur;
Cramer, Charlotte. y c.. who
commanded the First American
Tank Battalion: Major Thomas Bar
rett. Augusta, Ga. said TO hc the
youngest major in the American cN-
peditionary force; Captain Shelton Pit
ncy, Boston. son of Associate Justice
Fltncy, United states supreme Court.