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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-04
For Neutrals' Rights at Conference

BERN. December (by the Associated
Press).-Dr. Widmer of Wofingen intro
duced resolution in parliament today
inviting the Swiss government to imme-
diately approach other neutrals for the
purpose Of Jointly establishing the
claims and rights Of neutral nations at
the peace conference. particularly rela-
tive to q future league Of nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-04
Suffering From Bullet Wound.

Mrs. Ada Brown, 664 Irving street.
suffering from a bullet wound in her
breast, was taken to Emergency Hos
pital this morning. She had been
three years. it is stated. and had be-
come Respondent. Surgeons at Elmer
gency Hospital said her condition was
critical.
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sousa's Organization Disbauds.

CHICAGO, December 4.-The Great
Lakes Naval Training Station Band,
consisting Of LOO pieces. will be
disbanded, on orders from the bu-
reau Of. navigation Tho band. I'M
der direction, q Lieut.. John Philip
sousa, has appeared. In whole. or In
part, In all parts Of the country dur
Ing liberty loan campaigns and to
aid naval. recruiting. a new band Of
$50 pieces win replace the present or
Sanixauon.
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PRIVATE WALDMAN DIES.

Private Leonard Waldman. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Waldman, died Of
pneumonia in France October S.
He was born in Washington in 1883,
and attended the public schools here
An electrician, ne was well known in
engineering circles. His father is
proprietor of a tailoring establish
ment on 14th street. He was drafted
in June, 1918.
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French Rourse Is Quiet.

PARIS. December 4.-Trading was
quiet on the bourse today. Rentes,
81 francs 80 centimes; exchange on
London, Is francs SO centimes; per
cent loan. 81 francs 95 centimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-04

LONDON. December 4.-Money. ;
per cent. Discount rates-Short bills
and hgee-month bills, 17.32
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THE WEATHER.

The District Of Columbia-Partly
cloudy and colder tonight, tempera-
ture about freezing; tomorrow fair;
moderate west to northwest winds.
Maryland-Fair tonight. except snow
in the mountains; coloder; tomorrow
fair; moderate west to northwest
winds.
virginia-Fair, colder tonight. ex-
cept snow in extreme northwest por-
ton; tomorrow fair; moderate west
and northwest winds.
West Virginia-Fair tonight, except
sow in the mountains; colder; tomor-
row fair.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Yeste PM, So
8 pm, 48; midnight, At; today, 4 am,
AZ; 8 am, 43; IL noon, "A; 2 pm, 43.
Maximum. 81. at 3:45 pm. yesterday;
minimum, Al, at am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, Al; minimum. So.
Barometer-Yesterd PM, 1916:
8 PM, 29.72: midnight, 29.71; today.
am, 1865; s am, 1856; - noon, 29.74
2 pm, 1916.
Weather In Various Cities.
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NEW YORK, December 4.-Lard-
Firm; middle west, 26.S0a26.90. other
articles unchanged.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, December Il pm.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES No. red
winter. garlicky,,- 2ss$ ss 2.s4A; spot no.
2 red winter, 2.35& 1854; receipts, 3D.
003 bushels; exports. 85.573 bushels.
CornrReceipts, 32,479 bushels; ex-
ports, 1857 bushels. o,
Oats-Eeasier; standard white, S01s
asked; ! No; 3 white, 50 asked; - re- Re-
bushels. -,
Rye-Steady; No. 2 western export,
LIS; receipts, 1851 bushels.
Hay-Quiet and unchanged.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO, December 4 Omitted
States bureau Of markets).--Hogs-
Receipts, $4,000 head; 10c higher than
yesterday. Butchers. 17.65a17 80;
light, 17.15a17.75; packing. 16.sOa17 go;
throwouts, 16.35a16.80; pigs. good to
choice, 14.O0a15.75.
CattlA-Receipts, 10000 head: steady
to higher. Beef cattle. good, choice
prime, 975a15.75. Butcher stock: Cows
and hetfers, 6.s5a1424. Gamer and
cutters, 6.00a6.S5. Stockers and feed
ers, good. choice and fancy. 10.25a
1925; inferior, common and medium,
zooa1o.25; Veal calves. good and
Beef steers. 14.50a1s.00; cows and
heifers, 8.50a13.00.
sheep-Receipts. $4,000 head; lambs.
steady; sheep and yearl1ngs, nrm to
higher. Lambs choice and prime.
15.15a15.25; medium and good, 14.25a
15.15; culls, 9.50a12.50. Ewes, choice
and prime, 9.25a9.50; medium and good,
8. O0a9.25; culls. 3.75a6.75.
DAIRY AND PRODUCE.
CHICAGO, December 4-Butter-
Unchanged.
Eggs-Receipts, 5,34s cases; un--
changed.
Potatoes-Higher; receipts. twenty
cars Minnesota and Dakota white,
bulk; 1.60a1.60: do, sacks. 1.65a1.7O;
Wisconsin, bulk, 1.50a1.65; do, sacks.
1.70a1.75.
Poultry-Alive. lower: fowls, 17a211s;
springs. %; turkeys. "a.
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The market became stagnant during
the midsession. prices IN general tend
ing toward lower levels.
United States Steel increased its re-
action to almost two points. and rails
eased moderately with oils, but Ma
rine preferred recorded an extreme
rally of five points.
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Grain, Produce
and Live Stock.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, December Corn aver
aged higher in price today. owing
more to scarcity of offerings than 70
backs, however, resulted from re,
ports that England and France had
been given a credit of $240,0o0,O0O in
Argentine with which to acquire
NIT system had also a transient bear
ish effect. Opening prices. which
ranged from the same as yesterdays
finish to IN higher, with January
1907 and February 1.30ss to LII %,
were followed by reactions, out tnen
by new upturns.
Oats hardened with corn. After
opening unchanged to Is higher. with
January 72h to 72ss, the market
sagged and then rose again.
Strength in the hog market anu III
oorr, Lifted nrnviSinnS
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French Troops Difficulty To-
ward Last, Says Carl
StanciII.
HUNS SPEEDY IN RETREAT

Tho hardest Job the French troops,
and. especially the French Ambulance
Corps, had toward the last was in
keeping up with the boche.
So declares Carl Stancill Of Wash
inYton, attached to that service. in a
recent letter to his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. r. W. StancilL 2706 Ontario road
northwest. Young Stancill. who is a
member Of section 64S. witnessed
some Of the hardest fighting during
the last weeks Of the war. His let
ters home, written on successive
dates. are somewhat like fragments
Of a diary.
Close Today, Far Away Tomorrow
by the time we get our hospital set
MP and in working order" he con-
tinues, "the Germans have retreated
SO far we have to start all over again.
Today our posts will be Immediately
behind the line and the same place to-
morrow is probably twenty kilo-
meters In the rear" This was written
October IL. Ten days later he said;
1.-THE advance post. where l receive
wounded from the lines and carry
them back about five miles, where
another car takes them to hospltai.
is the most interesting, because you
are right up where things are hap
harder. especially on a dark night: as
YOU have SO much further to drive.
Consequently, we all fight for the al a.
yesterday we were only a few
kilos from the German lines. ne ne
Of ahnf during the
night they left for parts unknown
All day the French have been look
ing for them. but they are nowhere
to be found. We are on territory nelo
by the Germans since the early part
Of the war Gardens are growing and
the towns are in good condition: rev
houses have been destroyed. and the
roads are getting better, making our
work easier"
Sees Plenty Of Action.
In the next note, written four days
later. Stancill admits thatwhile avia-
ton doubtless may be the most in
teresting branch of the service, he
doesn't think any one sees as many
phases of the war as the men of his
branch do. I'VE see them all in ac-
ton infantry. artillery. cavalry,
tanks and airplanes." he explains.
November y, Two Gays before Tie
armistice, he writes: "One minute ru-
NOR. says the war Is over-the next
we will have to fight for two more
years"
~ enjoyed the clippings from The
Washington STAR" he reminds his
family. Send me more whenever you
cam"
The ambulance driver was original
1y in section SID. composed entirely of
Washington boys. When section 64S,
with the French, called for five vol
unteers a few months ago, Stancill,
together with four fellow-townsmen,
joined the latter unit to get nearer
the thick of things.
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WALL STREET MARKET
IN A WAITING MOOD

NEW YORK. December A.-The
Wall street market waited in such
patience as it is capable Of for the
announcement of the successor to
Secretary McAdoo. II strong man
had been named for the place in the
early hours Of the session, the indi-
cations would have been for de-
cidedly strong market with higher
prices. AS it was, the greater part
of the morning hours were largely
spent in waiting.
But there was an undercurrent OF
strength that was due to the preva-
lent belief that monetary restrictfons
will be removed and that normal
margins will be made acceptable for
trading.
Money Getting Easier Gradually.
Money is gradually working easier.
and while government withdrawals
are very large, they are for the pay
mert Of contracts that will not be
renewed and the cash will be largely
redistributed through the banks in
comparatively short order.
The railroad problem is ono Of the
propositions that Wall street wants
solved and trusts that Congress may
find a way to. relieve and restore
within comparatively short order.
While waiting. stocks moved up
slowly, steel, coppers and equip
ments. Mercantile Marine started on
with an advance and dropped back
2h points net and then turned for a
az points recovery.
Steel common gained point, motors
and feathers lost a point. Fractional
changes were in order elsewhere in
the Industrial list.
The rails moved very slowly without
important change, save u point net
advance in Southern Pacific.
About midday the market, tired Of
waiting, sagged away In a At Of dull
ness, steel reacting abruptly, Mex
lean Petroleum forfeited its 2 points
gain and the rails were practically
at standstil1. It was q waiting
market, needing some positive In
fiuence to stir It to action one way
or the other.
Persistent selling of fourth liberty
loan bonds caused a new minimum at
s6.32.
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BIG '.B||O|'|nDBUsNESS
..0|||N...tO]|cl. EXCHANGE
.nY41%A FLEMING.

Today's session Of the local stock
exchange was sfsatufed by, about the
heaviest days business in bonds that
the market has enjoyed in months.
Stocks, on the other hand. were prac-
tically neglected.
In. all $4,000 bonds, face value,
changed hands, with Washington Gas
50 selling at: 81. Capital Traction 81
at, 81, Washington Railway A. at TN
and u. General Is Of the same COM
pany at ssM; Potomac consolidated
s. at e4h and the General Is Of the
same corporation At 971z.'-
:, The r activity demonstrates that
there is plenty Of money in Washing
ton seeking investment, and that
local securities have good following.
The stock list, but for sale OF an
odd lot OF Washington Gas at 55A,
was without important change.
Personal Mention.
Mai. Guy T. Scott; vice president Of
the Continental Trust Company. is ex-
pected in the city in q few days and
service, resume his active duties with
the trust company.
Treasury Expenditures.
Government expenditures in Novem.
Der reached the new high record OF
$1,9s5,24s. 000, the Treasury Depart
ment announced. Officials attributed
these huge expenses to the fact that
the government is now paying for the
tremendous output Of war munitions
and materials reached a month or two
ago. They also expect that the ex-
pense of liquidating contracts and
paying lump sums to contractors Will
keep the monthly outlay at high fg-
ures for some time.
During November 81 SIS. 051 900 was
spent for war produ tion and other
expenses incurred by. this govern
ment, and $27s.s4s.o0o was loaned to
the allies.
Receipts from fourth liberty loan
bonds reached s3.142,442.000 in No
vember, making, the total sum paid
to the Treasury on the fourth loan
$5,439.191, 900, much moro than is ac-
tually due now. Nearly a billion dol
lars came in November from sale of
certificates Of Indebtedness.
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CONTINUED from First Page.)
while and 1T is going to take ships
to carry the food. We must supply
the world with much equipment and
raw material and that Is going to
got to keep a large army-large as
we call armies-on the other side, for
some time to come. and they will
have to be fed and furnished with
supplies.
1--WE do not know what is behind
the Russian veil. A job may need to
be done there that we dare not leave
undone-we hope not-but we must
have considerable Army abroad-not
half our present one. but still a con-
and supplied.
Plenty OF Work for Ships.
.soberly looking at 1t. think that
every ship the world has and can
get has all of it's carrying capacities
taken for the next two years to come.
Many of our ships will be used for
our growing and developing trade
with South America, because a num-
Der of our vessels are Of type which
it is not economical to send abroad
We should. therefore. have no fear
on that score.
Let me say to you with entire
frankness that We are in a certain
sense at a commercial parting of the
ways The officer of a great manu-
featuring concern has said 'democ-
racy In commerce would prompt us
to recognize the rights of our for
eign competitors and to seek the
welfare of those with whom we trade
in order that we may continue to
share in a welfare to which we con-
tribute; mutual good will must inevi-
lists war is impossible. 1t prescribes
the continual exercise of what has
been called the golden rule of busi-
ness
..Thorns in Prosperity's Path.
In conclusion. Secretary Redfield
-!-There is no doubt. humanity speak
ing, that prosperity lies ahead Of
America. but there Is yet an I'M
solved doubt as to what use America
will make of her prosperity. Do we
think of our sister nations az twenty
years ago a trust magnate thought
would like to grasp? We have out
grown that in our domestic COM
VERGE. / do not spea, of it as being
illeEal-it Is more illegal today in
Inc NlHQS Oh t1e BUSINESS men tnan
on the strtute books. but ~hen we
get beyond the three-mile limit are
we going to he as far advanced in
our thought as We ara at home? Can
we carry the spirit of American law
where the law Of America does not
prevail? If we do not we may be-
come fat and rich and possibly win
the contempt of the world in so do
inc.
will our thought be to aid. with a
spirit OF service running through all,
serving those who have served US
first? How will the world feel toward
America twenty years hence? It all
depends. If you can leave to your
sons as they go about the earth the
knowledRe that America rose to a
height Of marvellous power. financial,
military, political. Industrial and eco
romical. and she used that power to
rSr own good always and also always
4-or the good of the world. then your
:.ons can walk as no German can walk,
.~n travel the whole round orb Of
1'Ee globe. among friends knit to one
mother with bonds of esteem and az
recticn which cannot be broken"
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Money to Loan

Secured by First Deed Of Trust on Real Estats
Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph I. Weller. ga F st. NV.
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Washington Stock Exchange

SALES =
Washington Gas IS. 1000 at 81. 81 900 At
"a.
Capital Traction S.. s.. 900 at o..
Washington Railway q, $1,000 at IN.
81, 600 at 71N, 1000 at 72, 81 600 at 72.
961a, So, 600 at 98h, 81, 600 at 9615, 81, 900 ut
981h, $4,000 at 965. $1,000 at 96h, 81, ZOO at
98H, 81, 600 at 961s.
Potomac Electric general IS, 81, 600 at 871z,
IS. 600 at 97ta.
After call:
Washington Gas, at 55%.
Rid and Askad pricaa
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Liberty Bond Market.

NEW YORK, December albert!
loan bonds were quoted today as follows
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COTTON MARKET.

ocotatioas furnished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10
RANDOM NOTES

MT. and Mrs. Joseph S. Nicholson have named their little son Joseph Steiner Nicholson, Jr.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Walstrom and pr. and Mrs Arnold will motor tosJackson- vile, Fla, where they visit MT. and Mrs. Walstrom's son, Harry, Jr, who is at Camp Johnson.
 Lieut. and Mrs Karl F. Kesmodel have named their daughter Lillian Monroe.
 Friends of Mrs. Sue Malone will be glad to learn that she is improving fol- lowing an operation for appendicitis at the Norwood infirmary.
 Mrs w. C. Kilgore is spending a few Hays in Montgomery with relatives. Susie Brown finders at her home in Tuscaloosa
 Mrs. Nela Pride and two children, Virginia and Margaret Pride, of Tus- caloosa, are spending few days in the city,
 The following from the Mobile Register will be of interest to Birmingham 1rlenuS, as MrS. LyonS IS d HieSe ol GCti' IL. V. Clarke, and has many friends in the city:
 Very interesting news to the family of Mr. Frank H. Lyon, and to the numer- ous friends of his wife, Lettice Clark, has been received of the arrival of a new member to their family, when a little daughter was born to them on Sunday in Washington D. C., where Mrs. Lyon was visiting her aunt, Mrs. Aline Stumpf. More good news comes in the announce ment that Mrs. Lyon and her little daughter will arrive this fall to make Mobile their home, as MT. Lyon is mov- ing his family back to the girlhood home of his wife, where she has always been great favorite. With the inherited traits of two such fine old families as the Clark and Lyon this little lady should be possessed of all those endearing young
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10
6TJHE longer I live (and sometimes l
 think I've lived longer than any

6OHE longer live (and sometimes l think I've lived longer than any S body in the world) the more am impressed with the fact that one of the important things in life is getting the right number.
 All of US use the slang phrase now and then, which is most expressive, I've got your number" and when hear person make this statement I instinctively say to myself:
 .The Lord be praised; I hope they've got the right number!'
 This little idea found a lodging place in my brain the other day when the ther- mometer scared up into fever heat and the few brains I've got actually stuck to my cranum. T was sleeping gently, if you please, in the afternoon, just after imbibing a large amount of buttermilk for luncheon, which is conducive to sleep, as we all know, and snoozing comforta- bly, in my bed at rest and at peace with all the world (except the Germans). l was enjoying myself in that delicious mo- ment when consciousness hangs just half way-you know-between this side of the line and that, when suddenly B-u-zzz. went the telephone. I jumped up quick as lightning rushed to the phone and answered in my sweetest and gentlest voice (although I could willingly have chewed up and spit out anybody on the over the phone on a sweltering hot sum- mer afternoon between and o'clock), and the voice at the other end said:
 ''Is this four seven one three Main?'
 "No," said I in a voice that had i'm mediately taken on savage, unculti- vated, unpleasant sound. I hardly rec ognized it myself" This is four seven one four Main.'
 Wrong number,' said the voice at the other end and then the voice rang off,"
 Something powerfully like damn sounded at my end of the line, but I'm sure it couldn't have been that, because have great respect for my family and seldom swear before them; but I'm also perfectly sure that I felt like saying a perfectly good swear word, because just frothed at the mouth and writhed, and sweltered and perspired. and went unto my downy couch once more, but not to sleep-I couldn't. I counted all the TO and 65 sheep jumping over the fence; l counted Up to 300 ten times. I did every thing I'd ever been told to do to make me go back to sleep, but I just couldn't. The only thing on my brain was Wrong number" If I could have found out whose fault thar was, that wrong num- ber," the telephone girls, the woman who looked in the book and couldn't see the figures and get mixed-whoever, whatever, the fault was, I could cheer fully have killed anybody right there on the spot!
 The wrong number; then I began to muse; the telephone isn't the only place over which we get wrong number don't we often get the wrong number"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10
News of Society and Activities iGi of Women

charms that would have made her the idoized pet of her grandmother, the late Mrs. Gaylord B. Clark, had she lived to have nursed and cherished her Her uncle Gaylord, who is now overseas serv- ing his country. will find new interest awaiting him on the occasion of his nome coming, and whose friends as well as his family hope will not be long delayed"
  Mir. and Mrs. Omer Brasher will move in the early fall to their new home at Milner Heights
 Mrs. F. w Dixon, who has spent the past few days in Michigan, is now at French Lick Springs. Before returning home she will spend sometime with rel atives in Rome, Ga.
 Mrs. J. J. Strickland, who has spent the past few weeks west has returned home.
 
 Mrs. w F. Bonhan of Tuscaloosa, who spent the past few weeks in the city with MT. Bonham, will leave with him for Montgomery, where they will spend a few days before returning to their home in Tuscaloosa.
 MT and Mrs L. A. Mosely and son are visiting friends in Anniston
 MT. and Mrs. W. O. Bass and little son, York, have returned from stay at Tate Springs, Knoxville and Chatta- nooga.
 MT. and Mrs. William Cosby left yes- terday for Columbia, S. C., where they vii; spend a few days with their son. Private William Cosby, who expects to sail soon for Europe.
 Mrs. Robert Boiling Dugger of Tus- caloosa spent few days in the city this week.
 Miss Mary Byron Frazier. left Wednes- day for Chicago to spend a few weeks with relatives.
 MT. and Mrs. Paul Ivey, who have made their home for the past few years east, have returned to Birmingham to reside.
 Mrs John Mayer and little daughter will be with Miss Lillie Napier while MT. Mayer is in training at Camp Hill, New port News, Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10

of people in just plain old. every day
 walks of life, just as we do over the
 phone?
 woman tell about how she despised and
 loathed certain other woman she
 called her 'catty," ''indscreet" pro
 miscuous," and the Lord only knows what
 else and wound up by saying: That's
 all right; I've got her number' And
 then what dye think happened? The
 number she had was "the wrong mum
 ber,' absolutely, decidedly, unequivo-
 merest little coincidence; she turned di-
 rectly around, declared the woman to
 be sweet, gentle, and very loyal, and
 had to admit that she's been wrong. Do you get the idea I'm trying hard to convey?
 ''The wrong number!" It's dangerous thing. "The wrong number!' It ap-
 plies to so many different cases; you may have your husbands number, but had you ever thought it might be 'the wrong number?" and maybe you've been making his life burden for this very reason. Look it up, and get the right number.
 Maybe you've got your childrens num- ber but suppose it is the wrong mum ber." and you are trying to bring them up along that line? Investigate it. my friend; it's worth it. Maybe you've got your sweetheart's number and it is all wrong; wouldn't the right number make things lots happier and lots sweeter and lots more pleasant for you and him Cor her)? "The wrong number" toward your i friends, What a world of difficulties
 it suggests. 'Spose you inquire again and