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New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

Doubtless here is the root of the trouble
about supplying the cantonments with uni
forms and overcoats, the price of neglect
finally being assessed in human life. The
hope IS freely expressed that Of the men
who have been trusted by the government
to act for it in the matter of contracts for
army supplies few have yielded to the
temptation to mix profits with their patri-
Otism
General Crozier occupied the stand
again Monday and was patiently heard
while ne read a carefully prepared state
ment dealing with the problems of artil-
lery, machine guns, rifles, shells and am
munition generally. So far as rifles are
concerned, a full supply for all the train
ing camps will be ready for distribution
in ten days, and each soldier in camp
should have one by February. The old
controversy over the Lewis machine gun
was thrashed over, but it was brought out
that 1000 Of these guns have been or
dered for the aviation corps. The Brown
ing guns have been contracted for to the
amount of $4,000 and deliveries will be-
gin in April. When attention was called
to the shortage existing in the canton
Fments now of machine guns for training
purposes and that 1,400 Lewis guns were
already in stock that might be used, the
general replied that these were held for
emergency calls from the aviation service,
The navy also uses good many Lewis
guns in it's service. There seems no doubt in
the minds of any who heard the testimony
Of both men that there is bitter spirit
of antagonism between Lewis and Crozier
but if the Browning gun is all that its
supporters claim General Crozier may yet
stand vindicated. When he was asked
further about the statement he made at
the last hearing that he was not respon-
s.ble for the shortage of machine guns for
the training camps and that the Secretary
of War was. it developed that there was
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Guns, Overcoats and Rags

Washington, January 3.
|AY WAY of contrast with the methods
LID Of the Committee on Manufactures
the investigation of military short
@mlngs by the Committee on Military
Saalrs is notable for the absence of parti-
SaSnip and the sincere effort TO ascertain
As1ruth and to rectify abuses. According
General Sharpe's testimony, typical
army contract scandal seems to have been
Saeafthed m ync rnarrer OF profits from
Tags.
II appears that Charles Eisenman is
"e-presldent Of a committee Of the ad-
S0fy committee Of the Council of Ma
.'Aal Defence and approved this con-
>s''' and that Samuel Kaplan, one of
,"0Se brothers is financially interested in
fag'picklng contract and another
'''ler treasurer of Connecticut woollen
~'''''hahdeered by the government, is
"enoer Of the same committee; that
wy were huge profits in the contract
uaa' Its cancellation, following. the
w. w. disclosures recently made, was bit
~ resented by Eisehmau and the first
N.pan. T
!! S,.,a saese gentlemen are yet to be heard in
sjs,. a*n defence and have entered de-
| i W. w.. GENERAL Sharpe's allegations. But
u. also brought out that this commit
a,a. sa delayed in accepting an offer
s,e,s ~ April by the woollen naanufact-
Seo... o. oston, by which, according to
sl5o "no "eeks's estimate, the sum of
On saoo .'oooo was lost by the government
| b ~ s0un' OF the increased prices that had
"@ accepted later,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
nerlcaS Press Says What 1t Thinks of German Peace

"A MEETING Of Russian, German
A and Austrian delegates at Brest-
~ ritovsk the Germanic powers
!. . tentative "peace" offer in response
a's p,.sian suggestion, stipulating, how
- thst the proposal could be realized
s',.' ~ IN the event that all belligerents ad-
',s~ :. rretendcd to offer peace without
.;hie annexations and indemnities," the
'v.s .s.;on of subject nationalities that have
~ now political independence to be set
~. ''a bv each government and the peoples
'ss s.srned individually. 1t demanded, how
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Swelling the Staff

ITO ALREADY overcrowded Washington
the Civil Service Commission has given
notice that some $4,000 more government
employees may be expected in the next
three months. The housing question has
become SO acute that President Wilson
has appropriated $1,000 month to the
District Council of Defence for the work
Of registering houses. apartments and
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

Russian Baltic ports from Libau to Revel,
including Pernau and Riga.
"If the present German proposal be &C.
cepted by the Russians, who are utterly at
tho, mercy of German agents in Russian
ranks, 15o.oo0,oOo Russians will be deprived
of all outlet upon the open waters, cave on
the Arctic AMI Pacific oceans, and Russia
will be made irdustrially and economically-a
mere slave to Germany. Through her own
ports Of Danzig and Konigsberg and through
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Roosevelt to the Rescue

THE air Of the national capital is al
l. ready growing slightly electrical at
the news Of visit from Colonel Roosevelt.
Whether he was invited by Senator Smoot
and Representative Madden to come to
Washington to help in passing legislation
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

rooms for rent to government employees.
The council, in turn, has recommended
that the government build temporary bar
racks and erect buildings for restaurants
for the accommodation Of government
workers, and this will probably be done
at an early date.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

after all but slight differences between
the programme Of General Crozier and
that carried out by Secretary Baker, some
delay having been caused by the Secre-
tary's insistence that the Lewis gun should
have a fair trial.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
GENERAL PRICE FIXING
/ FOR FOOD NOT PLANNED
Mr.. Hoover Assures Producers Only
Certain Articles Needed Abroad
Are to Be Standardized.

General price-fxing on agricultural
products is not a part of the policy of
the United States Food Administration
and will not be attempted. Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover announced last
night in a statement designed to re-
assure farmers who are apprehensive
that the government might set maxi
mum prices on what they have to sell.
There appears to be a great deal OF
misinformation circulated among the
AGRICULTURAL communities as to the pol
icy and scope of the food administra-
tion with relation to price-fixing." said
Mr.. Hoover Il wish to say at once
and emphatically that the food admin
istration is not price-fixing body. ex-
cept with regard to certain commod
titles which are today dominated by
wholly abnormal overseas commercial
relations. and the surrounding factors
with regard to- which are such as to
project great dangers both against the
farming community and at the same
time the consuming community.
"The two commodities under regula-
ton are sugar and wheat. With the
further exception of cases in which il
has intervened purely friendly in
termediary between organized produc-
ers and consumers. the food admins
tration has no authority and no desire
to fix prices on the products of agri-
culture"
Evening star., 1918-02-26
SOFT COAL BY-PRODUCTS
MAY CUT COST TO HOMES
Technology Experts Set Forth Plan
of Treatment by Municipal
Gas Plant.

Offering practicable means whereby
the householder may eventually obtain
his domestic fuel supply at fraction
of what he now pays, an analysis of
the coal situation from an entirely new
viewpoint has been made by one of
the scientific bureaus of the govern
ment.
This is explained in short pamphlet
entitled Coal: The Resource and It's
Full Utilization" by Chester G.. Gill
bert and Joseph +. Pogue. just issued
by the division of mineral technology
of the United States National Museum.
under direction of the Smithsonian n
Institution.
The gist of the plan lies in the fact
that ordinary soft coal, instead of fur
nishing heat alone. can be made to
yield five products-artificial anthra-
cite, gas. ammonia, benzol and coal tar
all of commercial value. 1t is pro-
posed that the municipal gas plant
operated as a public utility, be en-
larged so as to treat all the coal ordi-
narily used by the community, with the
production of the five products men
toned. BY thus centralizing the utili-
cation of coal and employing ail the
values contained in 1t. such great
economy may be effected as to yield a
really cheap domestic fuel
limited edition of the report is
available for free distribution and
may be obtained by any interested cit
izen upon application in writing to the
United States National Museum, Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
FIGHTERS ASK
firm HAND ON SP|7IERS
New Edition of Health Rules to Be
Sent to $4,000 Homes Of
School Children.

A request for a stricter enforcement OF
the anti-spitting rules in the District of
Columbia, to be contained in new edition
of health rules to be distributed in $4,000
homes in Washington where there are
school children. was decided upon at a
meeting of the board of directors of the
Association for the Prevention of Tuber-
culosis last night at 923 H street.
Attention was called at the meeting to
the result of the recent investigations
made in New York city into ventilation
in the schools there. showing the COM
parative degrees Of susceptibility of
pupils in rooms mechanically ventilated
and those ventilated by the open-window
system
The board also discussed the 1mita-
tions now imposed on the health office
under the law by which the health de-
partment is prevented from disclosing,
even to the tuberculosis nurses of the
association. the names of patients suf-
fering from the disease. 1t was stated
at the meeting by Miss Elizabeth G.
Fox of the Instructive Visiting Nurses
hition has handicapped the work
of visitation and instruction in the
home of tuberculosis patients.
The greetings of the directors were
ordered sent to the president of the
society, Rev DIR. Van Schaick, jr.. and
its very best wishes in his important
task as acting director of civilian re-
lief work in Belgium under the Amer
lean Red Cross.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
The Bank Deposit Charge.
To the Editor Of The Star: :

| 10 the Edltor or Inc STAR
I have read the letter published in
The Star from Charles E. Tracewell,
complaining about the levying of tax
of so cents per month on small check
ing accounts by the District Bankers
Association. Mr.. Traceweli should un-
derstand that this charge of so cents
applies to checking accounts. and not
to savings accounts. While I am not
banker, 1 have an idea of fair deal
ing, and the people of the District of
Columbia certainly do not want the banks
to do their bookkeeping at a loss and
such a heavy expense as the banks
have been subjected TO for the past
several years.
Personally. as a depositor. | would
much prefer TO pay 80 cents per month
to the bank to keep my books and per-
nit me to pay my bills by check. rather
than pay car fare or walk around over
the city. paying my bills personally.
think it great deal cheaper for me
and much time saved by paying the
banks the small sum of 80 cents per
month than personally to go around
and pay my bills.
The banks have been subjected to a
lot OF expense, and since the war began
they have been subjected to a lot of
additional expense without any sort of
compensation. The banks should be
allowed to live and the bank clerks
should be permitted to receive fair
salaries. but how can banks be eN-
pected to pay the clerks more or better
salaries if the public must be taken
care of free. at the expense of the
banks?
The people of Washington are not
begRars on pauners and do not want
the banks to wait on them and keep
their books for nothing. but / believe
that the majority of the people will
be only too glad at least to compen-
safe the banks for this work. which
they have been doing for years at a
heavy loss. B. CESTER.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
OPTIMISTIC AS TO FOOD
SUPPLY OF UNITED STATES
Secretary Houston Says There
Should Be No Hysteria as to a
Dangerous Shortage.

Optimism concerning the food supply
of the country as a whole and ad-
monition that there should be no hys-
terra regarding a dangerous shortage
of any commodity was expressed by
Secretary Houston yesterday in ad-
dressing the House committee on agri-
culture.
Secretary Houston was called before
the committee to discuss the bill pro-
viding for extending funds to farmers
to buy seed. particularly in the north
west, where much of the late crop of
grain contained too much moisture to
make it valuable for seed this spring.
He gave no opinion on the wisdom of
the proposal
Chairman Lever said later he did not
think information given the committee
yesterday would warrant extending
financial aid to farmers for purchasing
seed. Representatives of the western
states insist it is essential, however,
and will make a fight for the legisla-
ton.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
500 WOMEN KNIT 966
GARMENTS IN 3 DAYS
Delivered Saturday Night to Engi-
neers at Camp Laurel by In !
terror Workers.

Woman employees of the Interior De-
partment to the number of about SOC
completed. on three days notice. a
total of 966 knitted garments for men
of the 23d Engineers al Camp Laurel
the garments being delivered to Col. E
N. johnson, commanding officer. Satur-
day evening.
Word was received last Wednesday
that the 500 men of the engineer regi-
ment. just arrived at Camp Laurel
were suffering because they had no
knitted wool garments of any kind
Mrs. Franklin X. Lane, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior, in charge OF
got her forces together and. working
from early morning until late ip the
evening. completed 9S6 of the gar
ments before Saturday night.
The garments. consisting of 500
sweaters. 36S pairs of socks. $50 he'll
NETS and $50 pairs of wristlets. were
loaded into an automobile and rushed
to Col. johnson at the camp at Laurel.
The central executive committee of
the Interior Department War Work
and includes Mrs. A. A. VogeIsang,
wife of the first assistant secretary
Mrs. Clay Tallman, wife of the COM
missioner of the general land office;
Mrs. r. King. wife of the chief counsel
of the reclamation service; Mrs. Edgar
B. Merritt, wife of the assistant COM
missioner of Indian affairs.
The knitting class of Miner Normal
School Community Center has an
nounced that it's members will knit
garments for soldiers, sailors or
other persons. provided the wool for
the garments is furnished. The class
meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings
at 1:30 o'clock at the school, corner of
Georgia avenue and Euclid street. The
secretary is Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
BRITISH ADVANCING
ON THE EUPHRATES

LONDON. February 26.-British forces
operating along the Euphrates river in
Mesopotamia have occupied Khana Bura-
lat, meeting with little resistance from
the Turks the war office announces. The
statement follows:
"On Wednesday our Euphrates troops
occupied Khana Burayat, fourteen
miles west of Ramadieh, and patrols
advance to within ten miles of Hit
600 miles west of Bagdad). The Turks
made little resistance. Thirty were
captured
Evening star., 1918-02-26
EIGHT-HoUR LAW SUSPENDED,
President Moves to Hasten Compile.
ton Of Building Needed.

In order to effect the more eXpedi-
tious construction of the building in
the court of the bureau of engraving
and printing. the President has sus-
pended the provisions of the eight
hour law as applied to that work
The early completion of the proposed
structure for the use of the division
of loans and currency of the Treasury
Department in connection with war
measures creates national emergency
justifying a suspension of the eight
hour labor law.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Winchester Woman Dies at IS.

WINCHESTER. Va, February 90
Mrs. Rosalie Taylor Mccormick
eighty-five years old. wife of Marshal
Mccormick. a lawyer of Berryville
died yesterday morning in Winchester
Memorial Hospital, where she under
went a surgical operation Mrs. McCor-
mick, was a daughter of the late Law
renee Taylor. a lawyer of Alexandria
Va and was born and reared in tina,
city Surviving are her husband, sia
daughters, one of them being Mrs
Howard Smithey of Washington. d. c.
and two sons.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
PLAN TO SAVE SOFT CORN.
Mr.. Vrooman Says Prospective
Heavy Loss NAV Be AYerted.

Assistant Secretary Vrooman Of the
Department of Agriculture has cop'e to
the assistance of Food Administf fator
Hoover and Director General McAdoo
with a plan for helping to save the
billion bushels of soft corn, PROSPECT
Of the loss of which has been causing
the food administrator SO much worry.
Farmers can save their soft corn. Mr..
vrooman says. il they will salt it With
in the next two weeks. This il an
emergency remedy, he said.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Sues Railway for Damages.

Norma Winston, a minor. by her
father. Charles Winston. today filed suit
in the Distri4t Supreme Court to re-
cover $4,000 damages from the Wash
ington Railway and Electric COMPANY
for alleged Personal injury. The child
was passenger on a car August "a
last, when an electric blowout occur
red, and was pushed or fell from the
car, il is stated.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
MAIL FOR AMERICANS HELD
AS WAR PRISONERS CAN GO FREE

contain any statement. allusion or sug-
gestion Of a nature to be of assistance to
an enemy or ally Of an enemy. nor shall
any statement therein contained relate to
any commercial transactions.
All mail will be censored by the execu-
tive postal censorship committee in New
York and will then be placed n pouches
labeled to the American Bed Cross CEN
trail committee for prisoners OF war,
Bern, Switzerland.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Officers Ordered to Report Here.

Aajs. David Gutman and Willis B.
Hayes and Capt. Albert r. Wood. En-
gineer Reserve Corps. have been re-
lfeved from duty at the engineer Of
fcers' training camp at Camp Lee. Va.
and are ordered to this city for duty
tn the division of contonment construc-
tion.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Seek. $50, 900 Fund
To Rescue Small Fish

Secretary Redneld is to ask the
$4,000 from HIS emergency fund
to finance the rescue of small flsh
from overflowed lands in the
south during the spring foods.
The rescue work will be UNDER
taken to compensate for the loss
entailed i'm ab0lfshinE the closed
season this year for buffalo and
catfish, aa recommended by the
food administration In an effort
to increase the food supply.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Memorial for League of Nations

Creation OF league of nations TO
safeguard permanent peace on the ter
minatiop of the present war is pro-
posed in memorial of the general
court of the commonwealth of Massa-
ehusetts filed in the House by Rep-
resentative Tague
Evening star., 1918-02-26

Mail for American prisoners Of war
held in enemy countries is entitled to
transmission in the international mails
free Of postage, the Post Office Depart
ment announced today. Parcel post
packages not exceeding eleven pounds
in weight are included.
All mail must be plainly addressed to
the prisoner of war, giving name. desig-
nation and name of camp at which he
is held. and be marked. Prisoner OF
War Mail. via New York"
In addition, the Post Office Depart
ment states. it should bear the name
and address Of the sender. and in case of
parcel post packages the relationship
of the sender to the prisoner OF war
should be clearly stated.
Only One Package Monthly.
Parcel post packages for American
prisoners in enemy countries may not
be sent by organizations or societies,
and only one such package per month
may be sent to any one prisoner of
war. the limit of weight for each pack
age being eleven pounds.
II more are received, the one apparently
from the prisoners next of kin will be
forwarded, and the others held in New
York pending communication with the
sender, with whose consent such excess
prisoner of war who. in that particular
month, has received no package from any
source. If such consent be not given the
packages win be returned to the sender
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Assigned to St. Elizabeth.

Capt. George B. Coon. Medical Reserve
Corps. has been ordered by the War
Department to report at the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane, this city.
for duty.
Evening star., 1918-02-26
Only One Package Monthly.
Articles Which May Be Sent.

Only the following articles may be in
clu1ed in packages sent to American pris-
oners of war:
Belts (not made of, leather), brushes
Chair. hand. tooth. shaving and shoe),
buttons, candy (hard), cigars, cigarettes,
comb. crackers or biscuits. gloves (not
made of leatheD, handkerchiefs. knife
tpockeD. needles and thread. pencils,
pens, penholders, pins, pipes, safety razors
cream; scarf, shirts. shoe laces (not made
Of leather), smoking or chewing tobacco.
soap toilet). socks. sweaters. tooth pow
der (paste or liquid mouth wash).. towels.
underwear. personal photographs, period
icals published prior to beginning of the
war.
No communication will be permitted to
Evening star., 1918-02-26

Chicago holds primary election today
for the nomination Of candidates for the
board of aldermen
Evening star., 1918-02-26
SAYS PACKERS SOUGHT
TOPLACE FRIENDS"
F. P. Heney Charges Combine Want
ed Employees Appointed Under
Food Administration.

CHICAGO. February 26.-That Chi
cago packers had advance information
on the appointment of Herbert c.
Hoover as food administrator and that
they used their influence in Washington
to obtain places for employees and
friends" on the food administration
was charged yesterday before Joseph E.
Davies, chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission. in the governments in
vestigation of the packing industry.
To substantiate the charges. Francis
J. Heney. special counsel for the COM
mission. read into the records a collec-
ton of private letters to and from
Louis F. Swift. head of Swift & Co.; Ar
thur Meeker of Armour & Co, Ihomas
f. Wilson of Wilson & Co., and other
the raid on the correspondence files OF
the packers directed by Mr.. Heney.
Says Letters Prove Charge.
Mr.. Heney said that the letters
proved that the packers knew of the
appointment of Mr.. Hoover before the
public did: that they had "inside" in
formation that Joseph +. Cotton. A New
York attorney, would be appointed head
of the meat and live stock section OF
the food administration bureau even be-
fore official Washington was advised OF
1t, ana that they hau cOnudentlal III =
formation on the attitude of the food
administration before it was announced
to the public. and acted accordingly.
The packers were informed, accord
ing to the letters, of Hoover's appoint
ment four days before the announce
ment was made public. The packers
information was contained in letter
from Thomas F. Logan of Washington.
on May Is. They also were advised OF
a. private night conference between
President Wilson and Mr.. Hoover, dur
inR which Mr.. Hoover was offered the
post a few hours after the conference
was held.
Quotes Louis P. Swift.
Attorney Heney attempted to show
duplicity on the part of the packers to
the government food regulations. Pub
lie statements by Louis p. Swift were
read containing his approval of the
governments plan to establish maxi
mum prices on food commodities, and
then his private correspondence was
read to show him apparently opposed to
the plan.
He declared the letters to be the
foundation for case in which he Will
attempt to prove that the packers have
set out not only to control the work
ings of the food administration in its
relation to the packing concerns. but
also to get control of certain commodl-
ties.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-29
PLAN VICTORY GARDENS
Richmond Committee to Meet nj BELLE
we School This Afternoon
to Discuss Plans.

The Richmond Garden Committee
VIII hold meeting this afternoon az
o'clock mt Bellevue school. Church
Hin. at which plans for growing vic
tory gardens" will he discussed The
meeting, which Is one of n series to
be held IN different parts Of the city,
Will be under the direction OF Mrs. Mail
vern G. Patterson, chairman OF the com
mittce, assisted by Mrs. Parke Taylor,
consulting gardener for the cities of
Virginia. and the work OF preparing
the soil. planting the garden and car
ing for It will be explained. The meet
ing Is open to the public. and every
one interested in starting back.
yard garden Is urged TO attend. Mrs.
Sam Cowardin will be in charge OF
the Church Hill unit Of the commit
tee again this year.