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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03

Amos cAilcets lsaAtnG fruit srsves
LOT Faisfax county. whose orchards esp.
ply many spDlss aaa gsaSsa sslA n
this city. hes enlisted IN the Array
aviation service He lett yesterday fss
the training camp N San Antenios
Tex.
Chapman Fletcher ana william ewse.
nam az Tairfax. Va. have enlisted IN
1.-THE Array medical service. and have
been ordered to walter Reed Hospitai
Ter Training. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03
Reduced Postage Rate to Trinidad

Reduction Of letter postage between
the United States and the British colony
Of Trinidad is announced by the Post
Once Department Domestic. instead Of
foreign, letter rates will apply here
after, In accordance with an agreement
5uat concluded by the two governments
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03
PLANS FOR SOLDIERS
DISABLED IN THE WAR
Board Of Vocational Education Con.
sidering System for Training
Men in Useful Pursuits.

The task of preparing to re-educate
and re-employ American soldiers dis
abled in the war has been taken up by
the federal board for vocational edu-
cation.
Although Americas part in the war
has been too brief to require imme-
date need for such service. the board
is beginning its plans now so that 1t
will have a well organized system
ready to be put in operation when the
need arises.
For the present the board Is combining
Its activities to collecting data on the
trades and professions in which men
who have lost an arm or leg, or who
have been left with some other per-
sonai disa bilify. can be employed.
Government to Take Lead.
In order that the government itself
may take the lead in giving employ
ment to these heroes. the board has en-
listed the cooperation of the Civil
Service Commission and that body has
turned over to the vocational educa
ton board a full list of government
positions which come under civil sery-
ice and the physical requirements for
each Job.
1t is likely that physical barriers will
be removed from many positions under
the civil service after the war to open
the way for men partly crippled or i'm
paired.
In a letter to John A. McIlhenny,
president Of the Civil Service Commits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03
BY PAUL AYREs ROCKWELL.

Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES. Janu-
airy s.-Notwithstanding numerous re-
ports to the contrary the Lafay cite
squadron is still a unit in the French
aviation service and its members still
wear the uniform of France and ny
French aeroplanes visited the famous
squadron a day or two ago, arriving
after a six-hour ride by automobile
through a raging snowstorm at the
camp early in the afternoon. A regular
western blizzard was sweeping the
wide. bare plain. on which the aviation
field is located.
Dudley Hill, bundled UP like an arctic
explorer, was plodding from the aero
plane hangar through the deepest snow
have seen for years, and piloted US to
the flyers barracks. These we're snug
and coy. despite the fact that the
Americans had installed themselves in
them only four days previously Inside
small sleeping rooms. each accommo-
dating two men. Most of the pilots
were in the dining hall. reading or
chatting around a roaring stove. A
tanning stories of the activities of
various war hoaxes," who claim TO be
former members of the Lafayette
squadron, had arrived, and the reading
of these articles was creating amuse-
ment. not unmixed with Indignation
RaoullLufbery was Just back from an
aeroplane school, where he was sent as
an instructor, He refused to remain
there more than few hours. because
he likes tho trent and action better.
Given Tenth Citation.
Lufbery was still fretting because he
had no aeroplane to fly on the last fair
day when the French air pilots caught
numerous enemy machines in the air
and shot down three within our lines.
ton In French army orders; was deco
rated by King Nicholas of Montenegro
with a medal for bravery and was also
proposed for decoration with the Ital-
ian and Rumanian war medals: Despite
all the we'll merited honors showered
on him. Lufbery is. If possible. more
simple hammered and modest than when
l first knew him in the days when he
was unknown to fame.
William Thaw and Robert Soubiran
were organizing wood "corvee"
among the mechanics to cut fuel from
the forest. the coal supply being ex-
hausted. Both said 1t reminded them
privates In the foreign legion, only
then they had to do the wood chopping
themselves instead of ordering others
to do 1t. Thaw now has as orderly
Robert Percy, New Orleans negro.
who enlisted in the legion in 1914 and
spent almost three years in the
trenches. Thaw is proud of his service
keeps in touch with his former col
leagues there,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03

The present year marks the semi
tennial of the first introduction of the
dining car on American railroads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03
ORDNANCE BUREAU
NOW RE0RGAN|zED
Modelled on British System, on
Suggestion of Gen.
n Cr0zier.

The ordnance bureau of the War De-
partment has been completely reorgan-
lied on plans suggested by Maj. Gen.
William Crozier. chief OF the bureau.
and modelled somewhat after the Brit
ish ordnance system.
The reorganization was announced In
this statement:
Heretofore the business of the ord
nance department has been conducted
by fivs separate and more or less indie
pendent organizations, under the direc-
ton Of the chief of ordnance. These
divisions win now be consolidated. The
chief of ordnance will be assisted by
an extensive administrative and advis-
Dry stan. The principal business func-
tions of the department.. as distinct
from the technical designing and other
scientific work with which it Is charged.
will be carried on by four operating di-
visions.
Duties of Four Divisions.
"(a) The procurement division will
negotiate all orders and contracts for
artillery. small arms. ammunition and
other articles heretofore purchased by
the various divisions of the ordnance
department.
"(b) The production division will have
general charge of production. 1t will
follow up supervise and stimulate the
production Of all articles contracted for
by the procurement division.
''(c) The inspection division will in
spect and accept or reject all munitions
OF war contracted for by the procure
ment division.
"(d) The supply division will receive
and distribute all ordnance and ord
nance stores. operate all storehouses
and have charge Of matters pertaining
to transportation.
1T is contemplated that this form of
organization will make it possible to
use to the fullest extent the experience
of additional men trained in civil life"
Crozier Continues as Chief.
Gen. Crozier continues as chief, and
no change is made in the assignment
Of Brig. Gen. Wheeler as acting chief
while Gen. Crowder serves on the new
war council.
Col Samuel McRoberts, formerly ex-
scutive manager of the National City
Bank of New York, is named chief of
tho procurement division, one of the
branches into which the business func-
tionS OF the bureau are divided, and the
name Of a civilian to head the produc-
ton division will be announced in a
few days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03

bodies of foot soldiers commanded by
q colonel, were first formed in France
about 1883.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-03
ARTS CLUB ANNOUNCES
PROGRAM For JANUARY
Elaborats Schedule Begins with
Dinner This 1vsnins-4ostsr
Exhibit at 4 o'cleck Today.

The program for this msnth At the
Afta Club Of washingtoa has been an
| nounced. It viii begin with club din
nsr this evening al Z o'clock with Mira ],
]. White as chairman and Mrs Allsnder
and Miss Hill al hoatesaes, Mrs h Arm
| strong Of Paris and New York 10 to speak,
The subject will be ''Art in War" An
exhibition Of French war posters and re-
ception will be held at O'Clock.
musical Is to be given Sunday even
Ing at $40 o'clock. Those who will con-
| tribute to the program includs Miss Thsl-
| ma Smith. soprano; Charles L. Frailey,
vicainist. and Paul Bleyden. accompanist.
Members Of the music committee viii
be the hosts at the club dinner to Be
given next Thursday evening at o'clock.
Miss Elizabeth Howry and the quartet
| from the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church. Claude Robeson.. director. VIII
musical Sunday evening. January II. at
$50 o'clock.
Money and Banking will form the
| topic OF discussion at a club dinner to be
Z o'clock, with Roy l. Neuhauser as chair
man. The hostessss will be Mrs. Neu-
hauser and Miss Crttcher.
Lecture on Robert Browning.
A lecture on Robert Browning in Hi.
Relation to Music'' Is to he given by Mis-.
| Pauline Jennings. staff lecturer of ths
New York city board of education, as
sisted by Miss Pauline Gates, elocutionist
Sunday evening. January 20. at 1885,
o'clock
Frederick A Delano of the federal re-
serye board Is to speak or War Savings
at the club dinner Thursday evening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Ikey Shut
Up Like
a Clam

time heen N command OF my platoon
at the training depot in England.
key answercd:
well, you blokes give me the proner
pip, and you can all bloorin' we'll 90
10 ELL and he shut up like a clam.
Hungry Foxcroft got up and silently
withdrew from our circle I, about
ten minutes he returned. followed bv
a tall. fair-haired corporal, who wore
little strip OF gold braid on Che
left sleeve Of his tunic. denotine that
he mad been once wounded, and also
wore & little blue and rcd ribbon on
the left breast of the tunic. the field
insignia Of the Distinguished Con-
duct Medal.
Hungry. in triumph. brought him
into our circle and handed him a
Tag, which he lighted in the flame
from the candle on the mess tin, and
then Hungry introduced him 20 us:
Boys. want you TO meet Corporal
French"
He SHOOK hands all around.
key got red and was irving to
ease out Of the candle light, when
Sailor Bill grabbed him by the tunic
and held him.
Then Hungry Foxcroit carried on:
French. I'm going to ask YOU
might personal question, and know
you9s answer it. How in he'll did
YOU. fit in the left arm, bring LET
tenant Newall back from that recon
NOTHING patrols
French grew little red and an
swered:
"Wcll, you see. boys. it was this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
20, 900, 900 Affected
By C,ooperatives

There are $4,000 cooperative societies
IN Russia to-day. These are, in turn.
organized into larger units and the
larger UNITS into the All-Russian So
cicty. Nv
FIFTEEN million members, each hay
ing vote in his own organization.
give strength and unity to the co0n,
eratlve activity. But counting an nv
craGe OF about five persons for each
family, it may fairly be reckoned that
100000 out of Russia's population Of
loo,O0O.Ooo arc enrolled under the CO.
operative system and share it's benofits
ney read IN its libraries, study in it's
Sehoo's' see motion pictures in its
theatres and wounded soldiers rece;ve
treatment in it's hospitals.
AS already poinsed out. New Rus.
s - mas many organizations. She has
'he Council Of Soldiers and Workmen
INC COUNCIL OF Peasants. the great
army or Socialists. But none Of these
vas .ne economic compactness in
hereht IN the cooperative system and
none other Is backed by a strsng
chain Of financial institutions. The
All Russian Congress of Co0perat;ve
Societies, composed of delegates from
all over the nation. assemblies once n
year. During the interim any impor.
tant business which may fall within
the jurisdiction Of the congress can
be attended to by its permanent coun-
Gil. which consists of thirty-one dele
gates. This council is the centre Of
influence for The cooperators. and it is
to-day, from political standpoint. a
great moving force for the stable and
responsible government along demo
cratic lines which the people of Rus
S'a arc trying to work out for them
selves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
By Temple Moore

IL one were to ask European to
name the one woman who has done the
greatest injury to the cause Of tn.
Allies he would name, nine times out
Of ten, Queen Sophia Of Greece; and
he would add that there is no other
woman in position to continue cner.
getically the worl; OF impairing tne
Allied cause. Despite the expulsion
of this Prussian princess from Greece
with her husband, King Constantine
and all her children, except Alexander
now King of the Hellencs. she is not
by any means regarded as at the end
of her career.
AS a trouble maker Sophia's name
has become household word, has in
deed passed into proverb, in most coun-
tries in Europe.
Gun altha regina Sophia" ("Shc is
a second Queen Sophia"), the Italians
say when speaking Of a woman who is
a trouble maker.
In France the Queens name is used
TOR invidious comparisons. and even in
Greece it is used slurringly An editor
in Athens has Just ended a three
months. jail sentence for referring to
some of her we'll known characteristics
broke through the Carnic Alps and
swept down into the plains Of Italy
the exiled Queen Sophia was with them.
It was announced in the Italian press
that the Greek flag had been hoisted
beside the flags Of Austria, Germany,
Bulgaria and Turkey. first in the re-
captured Austrian city of Gorilla and
then in the Italian city of Udine. SUI
prise was expressed at this use of the
Greek flag, but now it is known tina
Queen Sophia had followed the armies
into Italy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Proposed Economic
Alliance With Sweden

Norway. like Dcnmark. is IN favor
OF the cause of the Allies. Queen Vic
torla points out TO her ARM friends
that an alliance with Germany win 70
suit in forcing back NORWAY under III.
swedish crown. Finland she promises
10 Sweden. on the part OF the Kaiser
There is no good, at least for the mo-
ment, she tells her followers. OF active
military cooperation b. Sweden. All
that IS asked is an economic allianc,..
WIN Germany, the supplying of the
latter country with her requirements
IN the way OF foodstuffs and Of mn.
'erial Tor war supplies.
The consequence of the policy she
nas preached is that the Allies have
hlackllsted Sweden. The diplomats o.
sweden abroad and some even of the
MINISTERIAL bureaus at home had been
lending themselves to the cause Of IT,
SPY system and secret commrn;ca.
tors OF Germany. Swedish agents on
the American continent had been CO.
operating with German officials in ser
vices which led to the ruthless sinking
Of neutral ships and to the destruc
ton of neutral property.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
BY Marie de Perrot, B. es l..

ME glorious Russian Revolution
had its birth in the trump, Of
an idca-the enlightenment Of
the ignorant. so that they might under
stand the meaning OF the word liberty
and ali the advantages it implied for
them. Unlike other nations, where the
upper and more educated classes are
separated By caste prejudice from their
humble and ignorant fellow country
men, it was chiefly from among the
Russian aristocracy that those great
men and women sprang, whose lives
were long martyrdom, endured 20 Sc
cure for others the dawn Of happier
days. They were indeed Socialists in
the noblest sense of the word, and their
creed was the loftiest of all: the love
Of the oppressed.
Enthusiasm, the passionate devotion
to cause, the burning love which has
ever been the handspring Of strong
movements. a passion which is more
developed in woman than in man, and
which explains why she has always
been the motor power. when no. the
direct actor, in al ltne great deeds
which till the pages Of histo1y-t:lis
enthusiasm filled Sophie Percy snaya s
eoul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Give Death Signal
For Alexander II

On March II, 1881. close to II.
Winter Palace, the consptrators' -,
tempt on the life Of Alexand.r II
succeeded. 1t was Ri.ecov who th,..,
the bomb, but Sophie Perovskaya vho
gaze the signal. They gained moth.
ing. The long demanded corsti.nt;n,
had been drawn up and was awaitin1
the signature OF the Gar on the far
1ul morning. Autocracy, with Aley.
ander III at its head, began its nov
reign of horrors.
All had been in vain. "sonian ,.a
tod Prince Kropotkine in davs tbs.
were past: We have only begun a
great thing. Two generations perh.ns
VIII succunlb IN the task" Yet. st;'l
believe that She had hoped for imm inc.
date results from Alexander IFS death
hoped that tyranny would hide in fear
end trem ding before newborn liberty
Ever fearless, she refused 70 leave
Kussla and preferred TO await events,
Far from seeking concealment she
moved about freely, disregardinr all
warnings and cntreaties to fee.
A weel; afterward she was se;z.d
Simple, brave. pure-rlirded as Sonia"
vas, thus she appeared before her
judges. But neither youth, beauty nor
pure motives could avail. She was
reglclde and condemned TO death. All
she asked was TO share her comrades
fate ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Sophia of Greece-Royal Meddler

The diplomacy of the Allies in
Athens vas conspicuous failure. The
eSpedient was tried of sending special
envoys to the Greek capital. One after
the other they returned home, usually
with q loss Of prestige. Queen Sophia
had outwitted them. Excuses of all
kinds were offered to account for the
failure. The favorite one was that
Russia was behind King Constantine
that Greece being an Orthodox Greek
country by religion. the Car. the hcao
and patron of Orthodox Greeks ana
Constantine the son of Russian prin
cess. Russia could not afford to permi>
harsh measures being adopted against
him.
One envoy came back and told the
truth. This was Mr.. Denys Cochin.
the French Cabinet Minister who, after
q visit to Greece. declared that Queen
Sophia singlehanded was match for
all the ENJOYS representing the other
side in Greece. He had met the King.
but had excused himself from meeting
the Queen. Frankly, he admitted, that
he was afraid she would turn some
trick on him, as she had done on 80
many Others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Russia's Women Martyrs
Sophie Perovskaya, Who Gave Death Signal
for Alexander Ii

.ions agains. those who vera |.
f1ierGing TIE people increased: ho'..
and girls OF twelve and fourteen 49,:
Tor the least word said. Tor = row.
which escaped them, were sent m E;
IBERIA; hundreds were weekly tbros.-
INTO prison. The Schiusselpury ~.
Fortress Of 81. Peter and II pa. s"e
real Bastil,es of iriquity. were ~. uI
with thousands Of victims. Th;r,~
seven Provinces IS go:crnmss.
manifesto declared in 1874. yo-. on
tested By the Sociaiistic con,ss,a M
and would be dealt with accordinelr =,
In 1875 the movement which H.
hitherto been peaceful grew vjolsns
The two monster trials, that Of On
Fifty which WIS made public !, ="
der 20 brighten the people, bat vs;.s
in reality made them look upon -.
rcvoiutioraries as so many saints W..
followed by that Of "the 1881 w. ~.
lasted four years. Sophie Pcrov.t.s.
was implicated in the latter. A.
Quilted, but not released, she escansd
and returned to Petrograd.
II was the year when Terro,;,u
brandished its red torch. ali ON ON
means having failed. Enthus;as.;va.
ardent, imbued with lofty Gomez
ton OF her duties, beloved BY ~.
peasants as we'll as by every membs.
Of the party, al able organizer :.
master IN the art Of convincing 90
gaining new adopts to the caase' p,; ,t
her keen. penetrating brain. Sonh;.
became the founder Of the mork;n.
mems Terrorist society. the raboe;ai.
drugina, OF which Micailoy and Pr.
COY were members. and asserted her
self rs born leader In all the To-
rorist attempts which Characterize ~.
three following years she was II. II.
head, the others only following h..
instructions. "sf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Russia's One Real Power
The Cooperative Congress That Unites In
Auence of 100000

strikes that took place and how the
railroads, the postal service and the
telegraph were tied up il order to
secure governmental pledges of reform.
The Car called meeting o! Gov
crnors in st. Petersburg. While they
were at the capital the train crews
walked out Of the railroad cars and
the Governors could not get back to
their provinces. When the Gar be-
came aware of the difficulty Count
Witte experienced in getting back and
forth between the capital and the
Cars palace, twenty miles away. he
sensed mis- danger. and this incident
moved him to sign the first Russian
constitution. This was Oh October Il,
1905.
1t gave TO Russia parliament Of the
people called the Duma. Progressive
Russians placed great hope in this con-
stitution, but it became evident after
the converting of the third Duma that,
owing to the changed election system.
it did not represent the great body of
the people. but the vested interests,
agrarian and industrial. The govern
mental power lay in the hands of the
bureaucrats, just as before
But in measure as the bureaucracy
waXed powerful as did the cooperative
h
peasants and other classes Of workers
1t should be remembered that between
so and 80 per cent Of the Russian peo-
pie even to-day are peasants.
far-ot Siberia responded to the ever
widening movement of the cooperative
system. and the great Siberian Cream
cry Society was formed Northern
Russia caught the spirit of cooperation,
and the Flax Growers Cooperative So
Getty came into existence. The native
tribes of Siberia formed small coopera-
tive societies; those Of Turkestan did
likewise; Mahometans, Tartars and
kirghis all became affiliated under the
cooperative system, until there were
more societies than postal telegraph
stations in Russia. Moreover, this par
tlcular form OF organization taught
concerted effort along lines of harmony
and mutual good will. 1t gave to Rus
sla a convincing ideal Of union for the
say that the membership of the CO.
operative societies came to include not
only the forward looking. the intelli-
gent and the idealists, but that the
substantial and sober-minded citizen
ship of the empire was for the most
part to be found within it.
When the Great War burst over Rus
STA the bureaucrats began to make
every selfish use Of their vast power.
1t soon became known that no govern
ment contracts could be secured with
out the payment OF heavy brides. To
counteract this, or as protest against
it, new era of organization set in:
Al classes began to organize, not only
the factory workers and industrials.
but city employees, professional men,
and even the soldiers Thev n1cc+od
delegates in order to cement public
opinion. Finally, the revolution burst
out, revolution against Russian bu-
reaucracy.
In this sublime hour Of Russia's ma
tional life the cooperative societies be-
came powerful political factor. Over
night. as it were, the potentiality of
their organization and their numbers
gathered itself together and sprang
into the arena. where the struggle for
democracy was taking place.