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The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
Victims Of Fuel Famine
Flock to Get Free Wood
Applicants Deliveries Made in Passenger
Autos, Trucks and Baby Carriages.

please, mister. Is this where you
get the free wood?'
This from a small boy with q
ragged rnuffler about his neck and q
thin overcoat which did not come 4
his knees. He was pulling a home.
made express. one OF these vehicles
contrived with. an old box and a SCI
Of baby carriage wheels.
You bet IL is" he was told.
Then his 'spress wagon was loaded
with chunks of dry firewood The
last seen Of Hmm. he was heading
homeward at a rapid rate.
Dozens of scenes like this are beins
enacted daily at the lumber yards Of
L. A. Clarke & Son, foot of Tenth
street wharf, which firm Is devotinf
most of its activities to the distribu.
ton of wood to poor families. VIII,
lam B. Fowler has given the wood
while Clark & Son cut 1t up without
charge.
A continuous stream of people ha,
been coming to get the precious fuel
Children and women predominates
though men also have made applica,
tion. Bags, baskets and even baby
carriages are used to carry away the
wood. The children usually utilize
express wagons and sleds, although
with the latter they usually have q
pretty hard time to keep the wood
aboard.
Service Saves Life.
In addition to the suffering relieved
II Is believed lives have been saved
by this emergency distribution OF fuel
Many families who applied for the
wood had children suffering from Be.
rious illness, such as pneumonia anc
bronchitis. In these cases the Asso.
.ciated Charities provided physicians,
nurses and suitable food. In SONS in
stances the children removed Il
hospitals.
One OLD coiored aunty. wheeling ar
antiquated baby carriage loaded with
chunks of fuel. said:
This fah wood sho' am a bIessin'
It's done saved me from freezin' nigh
to death in that thin-walled oil
shack"
During the last two days, however
a system Of deliveries has been put
into effect. many prominent local mer.
chants and other citizens contributing
the use OF automobiles, motor trucks
and wagons.
While wood will be given to those
who apply for 1t in person. it is pre-.
ferred that they leave their applica-
tions at the ONCE of Clark & Son. II
was explained that the deliveries en-.
able more wood to be given to those
needing it than II they carried the
fuel away in small quantities. Deliv-
cries are made within several hours
andin some cases within half an hour.
Donates Her own Car.
Mrs. c. B. Foster. of Stoneleigh
Court. contributed her eight cylinder
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
SERVICE CLUB GIVES
FIRST DINNER DANCE

A well-attended dinner dance was
heid Saturday evening at the Ma
uonal Service Club. This was the
first Of a series Of dances to extend
throughout the winter.
On Friday evening the club enter
famed General and Mrs. william
Crozter at a dinner. General Crozier
Is a charter member Of the club.
Major General John NJ. Biddle was
recently elected president OF the club
ana expressed his keen pleasure in
heading an organization which in-
tends to provide social diversion for
ofhcers In all branches Of the serv-
ice
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
Army Cloth SOUGHT
in CAPITALS Stores
One Concern Disposes of $1,000
Worth of Uniforms to U. S.

Army men and cloth experts during
the last week have been securing
Washington for heavy woolen uni
forms.
From one firm the government pur-
chased every heavy uniform in stock.
The transaction involved more than
$500.
No overeoats were taken. Only heavy
winter uniforms. which firms had been
selling to their military trade, were
bought at wholesale prices.
Reports indicate that the activity
of the army in securing cloth has
been carried on throughout the United
States.
The shortage of olive drab uniforms
is understood to be a reason for the
work of officials to fill the clothing
warehouses OF the army.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
Farewell at Church
To Two Enlisted Men

a farewell service for Luther B.
Wiseman and Frederick Belham, who
leave within the next few days for
Camp Sherman, was conducted at the
sunday evening services Of the Church
OF Our Redeemer, Eighth street and
Barry place northwest, by the pastor,
Rev. d. E Wiseman. A special ser
mon by Rev. Mr.. wiseman, who is
the father Of one of the boys, and
talks by Mrs. G. L. Belham, mother
OF Frederick Belham, and by Ben
jamin Gaskins were included in the
program. A banquet was given the
boys at the Belham home Immediately
after the services. Both young men
enlisted in the wireless branch Of the
Signal Corps.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
Arson Costs Road 500, 900.

Boston. Jan. 6.-An incendiary fire,
famed by a strong wind swept into
the yards Of the Southern division
of the Boston and Maine Railroad
today destroying 10000 worth Of
rolling stock.
Tablecloths win wear longer 'if,
when ironed. they are folded in
three parts one week and in four
the next one.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
SENATE'S BUSY DAY
CHUCK FULL OF WORK

Tbe Senate has a busy day ahead OF
it. Some OF its activities will be:
Steering Committee meets to select
successor to Senator Newlands as
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Committee.
Interstate Commerce Committee
meets to discuss railway legislation.
Manufactures Committee continues
the probe into the coal situation.
Military Affairs Committee continues
to investigate the War Department.
Judiciary Committee meets to amend
enemy alien laws.
Mineral lands leasing bill will be
voted upon at o'clock.
The Commerce Committee resumes
its inquiry into the Shipping Board.
The committee having charge of the
La Toilette speech investigation will
meet tomorrow.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
LOCAL TEMPERATURES.

%; q m. -; 10 a. m, "a; II noon. 30; 3
,. M, II; p. m. 81; p m, 30; p. m, 90;
10 .. m, %. Highest. %; lowest. A. Relative
humidity-s a. m. 70; p m. 81; p. m, s.
Rainfall (8 p. m to p. MI. Trace. Hours Of
sunshine. .. Per cent Of possible sunshine, o.
Observation-Disclosures deficiency Of tenn
peraturs since January /, lsIs, LOS; deficiency
Of Temperature since January !, 1913, Los; ac-
cnmulzted deficiency Of precipitation since jam
ary ], 1913, -o.a; deficiency Of precipitation
since January !. 1918, -aa.
Telnperature same date last year-Highest, q;
lowest, 8.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
BACKS JUDGE MULLoWNY.

DR.. Simon P. Drew. pastor of the
Cosmopolitan Baptist Church N street
near Ninth northwest, yesterday
morning in his sermon indorsed Judge
Alexander Mullowny for another
term as Judge in the District Police
Court. Because of the failure of the
church's gas supply. 1t was necessary
to hold the services for the day in
DR.. Drew's study.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
COLORED BATTALION
RECRUITING PUSHED

Col. ]. A. Dapray. U. s. A., adjutant
general Of the District National
Guard. Is making efforts to form a
a meeting of recruits yesterday in
Pythian Temple, Twelfth and U
streets northwest, Post Q. NJ. Sergt.
Jacob Clay smith. U. S. A., retired.
announced that 122 names Of colored
men had been turned over to Col.
Dapray, and F. o. Williston, another
colored man, who has been active in
securing enlistments for the separate
battalion, declared that as soon as one
company of his race is formed no
trouble would be experienced in re-
cruiting the full battalion.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
International Trademark
Bureau Is Established

Creation of an international trade
mark registration bureau at Ha-
Vana by the Cuban government was
announced by Secretary McAdoo
yesterday.
This was one of the features
planned at the Pap-Amerfcan FL
nancial Congress in Washington in
May, 1915. 1t is for the protection
OF trademarks between the Ameri-
can republics.
DR.. Maria Diaz Irizar was made
director Of the bureau.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
PSYCHIST SAYS SOUL
OF MAN Is MATERIAL

A decision that the soul has sub
stance, though it cannot be detected
by the physical sense was the out
come Of a talk and discussion on
Positive Proofs OF Scientific Soul
Study" by ]. W. Nigh. a student of
psychical research, before a meeting
Of the Washington Secular League
yesterday afternoon at Pythian
Temple.
Although the speaker announced
himself materialist and declared
that There Is and can be nothing out
side Of or independent of matter he
also said that matter can exist in
such subtle states that 1t cannot be
sensed by the ordinary man. The
soul 10 made Of such matter, accord
ing to Mr.. Nigh.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

District Of Columbia: Rain and warmer Mon
day, followed By colder at night; Tuesday fair,
somewhat colder; southerly winds, increasing
and shifting to northwest Monday night.
Maryland: Rain Monday, turning to snov,
and colder west portion, colder at night; Tues
day fair, somewhat colder; southerly winds, in
Geasing and shifting to northwest Monday.
Virginia: Rain Monday, colder at night
Tuesday fair, somewhat colder; southerly winds
increasing and shifting to northwest Monday
night
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
ENSIGN F. S. SMITH HOME,

Having completed the course of
training at the Navy Aviation Student
Omcers' School, where he won a COM
mission. Ensign Frank s. Smith is
home on a ten-day furlough with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Odell 8. Smith.
1sd Sixteenth street northwest. He
entered the service in August after
practicing law here for about four
years.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
MANY RESPOND
TO NAVY, CALL
FOR GLASSES
Binoculars Belonging to Lus-
itania' $ Captain Among
Scores of Gifts.

A pair Of binoculars. once the
property Of Capt William T. Tur-
ner, commander of the Lusitania on
her fatal voyage. will be used by
an officer OF the United States
navy to spot a German periscope
and perhaps send her crew to the
same fate meted out to the women
and children in Germany's FIRST
demonstration of horribleness.
This is one OF the results of the
navy's appeal for marine glasses.
The Lusitania glasses were sent to
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt by Louis Sternberger. of
Pynchon & Co., Ill Broadway, n. Y,
q personal friend OF Capt. Turner's,
70 whom the captain presented the
Binoculars.
They are but one Of many offer
ed from all parts OF the country and
most of them were accompanied by
patriotic letters. Glasses have been
sent in by Swiss. Danish and even
German-A mericans 70 aid against
the submarine. Many veterans of
the United States service have turn
ed in cherished relics. One mother
sends a pair of glasses because her
son is a recruit in the United States
army and. will soon have to cross
the seas.
Sends Telescope.
W. n. G. Clark sends a telescope
used on one OF the old Black Ball"
packets which ran between New
York and Liverpool 4 generation
ago. Rev. Edwin G. witheriIl, COM
mander of a G. A. r. post at SPRING
held, Mass, sends a pair he carried
through the civil war. A woman
who signs herself "a poor little old
maid teacher" OF Albright, w. Va,
makes the glasses her only possible
contribution to the war.
A pair OF glasses taken OF the
q. s. S. Pawnee when she was cap
tured by the Thirty-second Georgia
Regiment in river back OF Charles
ton during the civil war, is sent
in by a Confederate veteran. There
is a pair that went through the
Franco-Prussian war. one that an
English officer carried through the
Crimea. a pair from Frankfort-on-
the-Main and a telescope from
Kenneth Macdonald. l2-year
old boy, of Keyser. w. Va.
Most Of the donors Indignantly
refuse to receive the 81 compensa-
ton offered by the navy.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
Russia to Paw u. S.

Payment of the interest on the Rus.
sian loan Of s50.00O.0O0, it was an
nounced by representatives OF the Rus
sian government here yesterday. will
be paid by the National City Bank OF
New York, on January 10.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07

passenger car and her chauffeur TO
help the deliveries. The first errand Of
her car took wood to q family abso-
lutely without fuel, in which there
were number of small children and
d father seriously Ill with tubercu-
losis.
Ernest NJ. Merrick contributed q
large auto truck for delivery purposes.
The Security Storage Company. though
c. A. Aspinwall, helped along with one
OF its biggest vans. John Brayshaw
and Luther L. Derrick also contributed
automobile deiisery trucks.
On his first delivery, the driver Of
the Security Storage truck reported
that at one place the entire family Of
six children had assisted him in car
rying in the wood. One 3-year-oid tot
did his bit by carrying a piece at q
time.
Many cases deserving additional help
are brought to light in connection with
requests for wood. One little lame boy
was found who will hereafter receive
proper clinical attention from the AS
| ISOLATED Charities. In another in
stance. a little girl was not attending
school because she lacked shoes. She
was promptly given a pair of new,
shiny shoes that will see her through
the winter.
Some Meritless Cases.
While the majority of those who
ask for wood really merit assistance,
there are few cases Of another type.
Miss Van Trump. in charge Of the re-
quests, said:
"we have had several cases of
large. husky men coming in here with
hard-luck stories. When we offered
them work they promptly disappeared.
There was another case of a colored
woman who appeared decidedly the
worse for liquor. We offered her
work. But she wanted wood and
nothing else. She was Joined on the
corner by four colored men. presum-
ably friends of hers"
The work will be kept up as long as
the scarcity of coal continues. 1t
offers the most effective relief for the
suffering families OF the city that has
yet been devised.
Yesterday Clark & Son sawed more
wood to meet the expected Mondays
requests. Mr.. Clark said yesterday.
In response to an inquiry whether he
had seen Billy Sunday: mo, sir.
haven't seen Billy Sunday. We've
been saving wood"
Miss Clara ]. Van Trump and Mrs.
Walter S. Ufford, of the Associated
Charities, are handling the requests.
William Washington, of the Colored
Social Settlement, also is assisting.
Fulton r. Gordon has distributed a
number of cords OF wood, cut on
ground he owns near the Fourteenth
street car barn of the Capital Trac-
ton Company. Distribution has been
made through Mr.. Gordon's office in
the Colorado Building. The wood is
not cut in stove length.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
BIRTHS REPORTED.

Emmett L and Ethel L C1if. girl
Wm- Q. and Eugenia Kosnig, gri.
Charitnn W. and Mary Ingram, girl.
Harvey ". and Nellie Hawthorne boy.
Fzncis and Jeannetts b. Hardesy. boz.
C0LORED.
Gezgs and Mary Smith, giri.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-07
OTHER TEMPERATURES.

TIDE TABLES.
Compiled By the United States Coast and
Geodstic survey.)
Today-L0v tide. s54 a m. and 100 p m.
high tide. 2s5 m and 3a5 p N.
Automobile lamps must be lighted b. 53i .. m.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
When Nobel Cut His Finger.

The great war might be traced back
to Nobel's cut finger, r. r. Slosson
writes In the New York Independent.
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist
and pacifist. One day while work.
Ing in the laboratory he cut his finger,
as chemists are apt to do. and again
as chemists are apt to do. he dissolved
some guncotton In ether alcohol and
swabbed 1t on the wound. At this
point, however. his conduct DIVORCES
from the ordinary. for instead of stand
Ing Idle. impatiently waving his hand
In the air to dry the film as most peo-
pie, including chemists, are apt to do,
he put his mind on 1t and It occurred
to him that this sticky stun. slowly
hardening to nm elastic mass, might
be just the thing he was hunting as
an absorbent and solldIfler Of nitro
glycerin. So instead Of throwing away
the extra collodion that he had made
he mixed II with nitroglycerin and
found that 1t set to Jelly. The ''blast-
Ing gelatin" thus discovered proved to
be so insensitive to shock that It could
be safely transported or fred from a
cannon. This was the first of the
high explosives that have been the
chief factor In the great war.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
To Remodel Japanese Army.

The return Of distinguished Japan
csc officers who have been In Europe
studying the latest military tactics on
the battlefronts will be followed by
army reorganization, reports the To-
fyo Jill. Under the new system one
division will consist OF three regi-
ments instead of four. as now, and a
force composed Of two reorganized d.
visions win become the fighting unit
OF the japanese army. Increase In
the number Of regiments Is not con-
templated, but the number Of dlvi-
sions will be necessarily augmented.
Whether or not the new formation
will be seen in the forthcoming an
nunl maneuvers Is unannounced. The
military arsenal at Tokyo Is preparing
to build airplanes for army use, and
an appropriation Of $3,750,OOO will be
asked from the diet. The exact type
Of airship has not been decided.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
PATRONS ARE THE PATRIOTS
Customers of Some Hotels Profit Very
Little by New Plan Of Conserva-
tIon Of Food Supply.

The food administration Is pleased
to pieces with the New York hotels for
saving more than n thousand barrels
Of -four a week and some II tons OF
meat day by these wheatless-meat-
less occasions that are SO popular now,
writer In Golfers observes. Pro-
vision dealers report falling off In
sales, and all Is lovely and statistical.
IT'S fair picture to gaze upon. but
honor where honor is duel That pa
tlent hero, the hotel patron, ought to
come In for q few kind words, since
he pays the full price and eats the
half portion.
"Save wheat--use c0rn"-bread Is 10
cents, corn bread Is 10 cents. AS a
transient consumer, the other noon, we
paid 80 cents for slice of beef as
large as postal card, plus one table
spoonful Of creamed potatoes, plus a
bit of Yorkshire pudding about the size
Of watch. No doubt It was all that
was good for us, but the price was
more. If the widely known principles
of economics are still working, we
helped make meat and bread cheaper
and paid as much as If we were max
ing them dearer.
A patriot Is noble thing, but isn't
Il better to be one than to trim one2
The hotel keepers Of Manhattan are
playing both sides Of the game and the
food administration furnishes jazz
band Of statistical admiration for their
efforts. These bonifaces who are
shrinking the meals and swelling the
prices need something all right, but
not governmental encouragement.
Meanwhile the hotel user can feel sure
that the war has not changed his func-
ton at all-he's the paying goat now
Just as he used to be.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
HOLD WOOL IN THIS COUNTRY
War Trade Board Takes Steps to
Meet tho Requirements Of Both
the Army and Navy.

Restrictions governing the exporta-
ton and importation Of wool were
frightened recently by the war trade
board with view to conserving Amer
lean supplies and checking the increase
In prices, which have risen 200 per
cent.
No commodities containing wool will
be permitted in future to leave the
country, it was announced, If, In the
judgment Of the board, the wool Is
needed for the uses either Of the army
or the navy.
Importers before they can obtain IL
censes will be required to sign an
agreement that they will sell no wool
to persons other than manufacturers
and that they will give the govern
ment an option to purchase all wool
imported at price per cent less
han the price that obtained for the
same grade July 30, 1917.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
DeIIoht Of Berlin Lpfe.

One of the beauties or autocratic
government, says the Springfield
Union, is shown in the snow-removal
order Issued by the military author
tiles In Berlin, under the provisions
Of which every property owner Is re-
quired to remove the snow not only
from his sidewalk. but from the road
way as far as the center of the street,
and is authorized to call on all ten
ants between the ages of fourteen and
sixty to assist him In this work. Fall
ure to comply with the order Is punish
nble with a fine Of not more than $375
OF imprisonment for not more than a
year. and the police are authorised to
handle all such cases without the for.
nality Of trial. ~
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
BUREAUS FOR FARM
Organizations That Make County
Agents Effective.
PLAN FORSECuRING SUPPORT
Ideas Outlined In Guide Recently Pub.
lIshed by Agricultural Department
Adapted to Various condI.
tlons.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agricuiturel
The counties which have been most
active In cooperating with their cOun-
ty agents are. with rare exceptions,
the ones which are reaping the great
est benefits from their services. Ex-
perience shows that help and advice
Of the farmers themselves are neces-
saryc to the success Of county agent
work, and the support Of both rural
and urban population Is needed. The
means Of securing this local support
which has been found most effective
In the extension work In the northern
and western states, officials Of the
United States department Of agricul-
ture say, is to establish county or
ganization usually known as a "farm
bureau" In guide recently pub
lished by the department and known
as Handbook Of Farm Bureau Organi-
zation for County Agricultural
Agents." detailed suggestions are CIV
en- for forming such an organization.
The plan outlined can be adapted read
lily to the various conditions of differ
ent counties. It may be established
in counties having inefficient organiza-
lions, In counties contemplating the
employment Of an agent. and In places
where the agent Is now unsupported
by local county organization.
Functions Of Organization.
The chief functions Of county or
ganization, as outlined In the hand
book are:
/. To coordinate the efforts of ex-
listing local agricultural forces, either
organized or unorganized, and to or
ganize new lines of effort. 1t does not
supplant any existing organizations or
compete with them, but establishes a
clearing house through which all may
increase their efficiency without in any
way surrendering their individuality.
2. To bring to the agent the coun-
sci and cooperation Of the best farm
ers in the county In planning and exc
cutting an agricultural improvement
program.
3. To furnish the necessary local
machinery for easily and quickly
reaching every community in the coun-
ty with information Of value to that
community or to the county as a
whole.
4. To encourage self-help through
developing and exercising leadership
In the rural affairs Of each community.
8. To reveal to all the people Of the
county the agricultural possibilities Of
the county and how they may be real
tied.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
PROPER CARE OF MACHINERY
Farm Implements Depreeiats More In
Value From Neglect Than From
Actual Use.

Farm machinery depreciates In value
more rapidly from poor care than from
actual use. That Is. a larger part Of
the 10 per cent annual depreciation Is
caused by exposure than by use.
A 180-acre farm needs about $1,000
worth of machinery. Ten per cent
depreciation means 500 every year and
more than $50 Of this is lost through
lack of care. Sheds for this machin-
cry would cost about 5000, which at 9
per cent a year would mean $12. The
difference between $50 and $12 cannot
all be credited to prefit, for part Of
the care of machinery lies In labor and
material. Still there would be a fair
margin. Housing, repairing at the
proper time, and painting the wooden
parts are three essentials N the care
Of machinery.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-02-23
Good Team for Flowing.

ways. II the ground turns up lumpy
the large clods can be crushed by the
harrow better while damp than when
dry.
When much trash has been plowed
under the soil dries very quickly. be-
cause the refuse underneath holds up
the soil and makes air holes and pits.
The harrow will adjust the soil and
arrange the trash much more satisfac-
torily by using 1t as soon as possible
after blowing. 1t retards evaporation,
and the little pits and holes will also
all quicker and easier.