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The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
1900 SENT
BACK TO U. s.
BY PERSHING
Are Teuton Subjects Who
Might Be Executed
if Captured.

seventeen thousand American SOL
diers have been sent home from the
expeditionary forces by Gen. Pershlng
because he fears that IL they were
caught they would De executed as
traitors. This statement was made
by Representative SABBATH, Of ILL
nois.
To Remedy Trouble.
A bill written by SABBATH. designed
to remedy the trouble, was reported
favorably by the House immigration
Committee. and will be pressed to
passage Immediately as a war meas
ure.
It provides tnat aliens who join
tire army or navy may be immedi-
ately naturalizei
Under prese.t laws, said SABBATH.
l50. COO unwilling-and sometimes tech
nical-subjects of the rulers of the
central powers are with the Amer
ican army and navy. They are most
ly Poles. Serbians. Croats. Alsatians.
Bohemians, etc., who have been
drafted and who are so anxious to
fight the oppressors of their fathers
that they have waived exception.
II captured, they are subject to
execution as traitors instead Of treat
ment as prisoners O. war.
Law Takes Two Years.
Neither Germany nor Austria Hun
gary recognizes that a subject can cast
OF his allegiance by declaring his in
tention to become an American citi-
zen. Present naturalization laws re-
quire two years time between the date
of declaring an intention and actual
naturalization.
The SABBATH bill. after providing safe
guards against German spies thus
gaining entry to the army and navy.
permits immediate naturalization. But
the applicant must have the favorable
recommendation of reputable citizens
and OF his superior officers All war
ring powers recognize the validity OF
full American citizenship through
naturalization.
Another section of the bill makes
similar provision for sailors of the
merchant marine. Under the La Fol-
lette law, a ship manned with Amer
ican officers may have only a certain
percentage of foreigners in its crew.
This has increased the difficulty of
raising war time crews for munitions
carrying vessels. &.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
What Do They Do with Them!

Kingston. Jamaica Island. April 10
Urgent need of cocoanut shells in
large quantities for war purposes
is expressed in an oficial cable dis
patch received here from the gov
ernment at Washington.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
Allied Offensive Likely.

With American and French re-en-
iorcements. Gen. Hais will very soon
be in a position to join a French of
fensive.
This opinion was expressed repeat
edly yesterday at the War Depart
ment and in the French and British
embassies. 1t is now certain, officers
at the War Department said. that
Gen. Haig received strong rc-enforce-
ments from the French and Ameri-
cans two or three days ago.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
Defense Has StiRened.

Since that, it is noted. his defense
has steadily and perceptibly stiffened.
Earl Reading, the British Ambas-
sador, and Gen. McLachlan, the mill
tary attache of the embassy, called
at the War Department on official
business. Both talked briefly on the
military situation.
Gen. McLachlan, military attache
Of the British Embassy, Is thorough
ly familiar with the ground over
which the Germans and Haig's forces
are now fighting. He expressed the
utmost confidence that the worst of
the danger was over
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
Early Morning Air
Trips Win Battles
News Gathered by Aviators at Dawn Is I'M
portant Factor in Direction of Military
Operations for the Day-Sixth of Series of
Fighters of the Sky"
By LIEUT.. GRANVILLE A. POLLOCK.
Lafayette Flying Corps of the French
Foreign Legion.

By sharp door awakened from sleep. "Ces
rheur called squadron cook t is little courtesy
of the early ers and not let them off
without cup of coffee.)
glanced watch Il At 4:3o / must report
the aerodrome Three pilots of Squadron No. had been picked
an early
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO LOAN STILL
LOW IN TOTAL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

finch. They stand along the Piave.
IT the foot of the Alps, in France.
not only undaunted but eager to face
an enemy whose disrespect for every
divine ard human law is known to
them
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
BRITISH LINES FIRM
UNDER HUN BLOWS
in FLANDERS BATTLE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

tillery fire before opening his attack
His losses in the infantry fighting
were equally severe."'
The Washington herald., 1918-04-20

CONTINUED Monday.)
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
MIDNIGHT HAPPENING.

There is woman living on the Heights who is rather timid about fires. And the night was cold, and her husband was out of town, and when she retired at night she felt nervous.
 After an hour or maybe two or three, she was awakened by the sound of loud gong, beating rapidly. She sprang from her bed. The house stands close to the street, and the gong was changing in front of the house. She rushed to the window and threw it open. There were no fire en- zines visible, but street car was standing on the track, and somebody was calling Fire! Fire!"
 Don't stand there and yell fire! |" she shrieked to the street car crew, both of which were standing in the street. 'sTurn in an alarm !''
 "Go back to bed, lady," answered the motorman. ttI wasn't yellin' fire. The trolley was off and the conductor couldn't get it back on and I was yel1in' tHigher-highery r"
 And that's all there was to it.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
DOING AWAY WITH THE
 INDUSTRIAL SCRAP HEAP
RaiIroads and Manufacturers Aro Learning to Eliminate Waste, tR
 cludina Drainage of Man Power.

Confronted by the necessity of udl- izing every possible traffic facility tor war material, the railroads are going to the scrap heap for additional equip ment. They are patching up discarded locomotives and engines 25 years old have been rebuilt and made better than when they were new"
 No doubt the railroad scrap heap is the largest of all American scrap heaps and by that token the one from which most material can be salvaged. But the conditions of railroad waste and extravagance in the name of eff ficiency equally characterize all Amer ican industry, and the new railroad policy of reclamation is important as an example and precedent
 What the garbage pail Is as an fn- dex of household thriflessness the scrap heap is as monument to waste ful methods of manufacture. But the greatest of all wastes, progressive manufacturers now realize, lies in the careless manipulation of man power- Industrial Conservation, New York.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
For Women and Children


 One of them is the holding in of a slightly full skirt by loose band be- low the knees, finishing in a bow at the side.
 Another trick is the gathering in of the fullness at the side of skirt to straight, embroidered band, which is strongly reminiscent of the first hobble skirts The women in the sewing room finds delight in the fact that fullness Is not taboo. She realizes that she can have whatever material she desires in a skirt if it does not flare away from the hips or the knees.
 What the French call the "jupe ton neau" has certain popularity, and the woman who owns a skirt of this kind (with it's pannier effect at the
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
OIL IS BIG FACTOR
Asset That Makes America Inl-
 portant as War Power.
American Men, Money and
 Munitions.

WashingtOn-If America's men, money and munitions did not cOns.1- tute vital asset in the cause of the allies against Germany. America would still be a friend In need. If she could not provide ships or steel, she would still constitute 8 pillar of strength.
 The reason? Oil.
 America produces more oil than aA the rest of the world. And ships, en- zines, autos, and many other war fac tors are using oil as motive force Oil is needed as a lubricant for all tho metals used in the prosecution of war. Its uses are so varied and so vital indeed, that oil constitutes another c those commodities without which the war could not be won.
 In 1915. for which figures have been completed and issued by the Amesf- can Mining congress, the United States produced and marketed 281 ,104. .104 barrels of crude petroleum. This com prised 65.72 per cent, or almost two thirds, of the entire world production.
 Other countries follow: Russia, 1898 per cent Mexico, 7.69 per cent Dutch East Indies, 29O per cent; Roumania. PSI per cent; India, 1.92 per cent And less than 1 per cent each, Galicia. Ja- pan and Formosa. Peru, Germany, Trinidad, Argentina, Egypt, Canada and Italy.
 With this list in hand, it Is easy Co see why American oil Is so important factor in the prosecution of the war. Russian fields, if they are being work ed at all, probably are being worked for Germany's benefit. So are Rou. manian fields.
 Thus far, though prices have scared just as if there was a famine in oIl, the American fields, including the Mex ican, have sufficed to keep all the allies fairly well supplied. Students of war problems declare that America's on supply will be practically as valuable in the last analysis as American men money and munitions.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01

Fiowered muslin frock that shows re-
 turn to Englisk garden fashions. lt
 is made of blue and pink muslin.
 SurpIice body ties at back, and neck
 line To finished with upstanding
 muslin ruche.
 For these frocks. which bore close kim ship to 8 softer epoch than the one In which we take our part today.
 1t is of psychological interest, this Introduction into women's apparel of kind of costumery that suggests everything we are not at this hour. There may be no reason than that of tradition for us to associate lowered muslins, big taffeta sashes with bows at the back, immense English garden hats tied under the chin, and lace-cov- cred parasols, with that part of wom- ans nature that deals in coquetry, the eternal appeal to masculine admira- Hons .helplessness, and all the accen- tuated tricks of femininity which the world thought 1t had wiped out to a certain measure.
 Yet we do connect these clothes and these traits. The world always looks upon woman who is frocked in a hgured muslin, her eyes shaded with huge hat. her arms half bare and rose at her belt, as one who is out for admiration.
 The Leopard and His Spots.
 There cannot arise a critic so fool fish in these days as to suggest that the militant woman is not capable of looking like a Vatican shepherdess if she takes it into her mind to do so. Therefore, our surprise is not that the women of the moment should appear we'll In the English garden type of clothes, with which one always asso- ciates strawberries and cream, low voices. waving hair parted in the mid- dle, and shy, almost gauche manners, but that they should elect this fowery and futile fashion at this hour.
 Yet they are doing it. Both France and America are heaping figured fab- rics upon its womankind. Lace is in- stalled again. Immense bows of taf- feta ribbon, sas1es of every kind :; flowing, elbow sleeves; surplice necks with wide handkerchiefs of colored fabrics, are shown and worn by women who have probably spent the morning. at class in nursing at a hospital and will spend the evening at a canteen.
 Isn't this a curious psychological thing? Here we have preached for two years the strengthening tendency of women to dress more and more like men in the day, and either very sim ply or in an Amazonian fashion in the evening.
 We have tried to standardize clothes, foolishly, but earnestly, throughout all channels of dress. We know that one of the most important leagues of young women in America is circulat- ing petition, signed by it's members, to the effect that they are to buy only three gowns a season, one for each division of the day, the price to be 80 apiece, and the uniforms to be of standard pattern. And yet these very girls, right on top of such an endeayor as this to conserve and
The labor standard., 1918-05-01

economize, fling themselves into flow cred voiles with pink and violet taf- feta sashes tied with deep hustle bows at the back, and huge hats of Milan straw heaped with flowers!
 It may be that the leopard cannot change his spots. but women can cer- l tainly change her type at will. She seems to shrink and grow thin, to curve out and grow full, to stand higher or lower in her boots, and to assume at will the militant or the coquettish air. In this spring of 1918 1t looks as though she were going to do all of these things at various times of the day. ...
 Chinese influence Preferred.
 There is not much feeling of satis- faction in the adoption of Japanese clothes. Once upon a time whatever came from the Little Kingdom was eagerly seized as having artistic merit of the highest order, but times and thoughts have changed. Japanese art has been so cheaply commercialized throughout America, and it's little shops outline the boardwalks of the pleasure resorts in such prolific manner, that we prefer to go to China the vast spaces around the Great Wall--for suggestions.
 The greater designers in Paris have preferred China to Japan for half dozen years, and we in America have made the kimono too much part of our eariy-morning life, at $2 per gar ment, that we may not see in this effort of the house of Cheruit an open path to beauty.
 Entire Gowns Of Jet
 The house of Callot has thrown it's influence into many channels, and the gowns of its making, which arrived in this country later than all the others, increase the respect we must pay to jet The woman who has cherished a frock of jet and wondered if the style would ever return in order that she might revive 1t into something modern, may go to the work with en- thusiasm.
 Callot is not the only designer who whirls jet around the wheel of fash lon into the top place, but she is the one designer who introduces entire gowns of it. These are coat-of-mail creations, that cling to the figure like a glittering cuirass and whiten in 8 brilliant way the skin of the neck and arms, which are left uncovered. These gowns have trains of tulle or lace, and they are costly-Ohl very, very costly
 To the average mind they may seem bit heavy for an American spring, and it is safe to say that the woman who buys costly evening gown in April of this year 1918 will expect it to do duty through the summer sea- son. Even our glittering birds of para disc, who heretofore fioated through a forest of riches showing their plum age and thinking nothing of the cares of life, have been changed heart and soul by the war and its terrors into creatures of self-sacrifice and much higher ideas.
 :. Choosing Green for Suits.
 Another thing that the house of Cal- lot has done to get us away from a conventional fashion is the exploita- ton of green for the street. It may be roughly said that there are thou sand navy blue gowns to a hundred of any other color, and, admirable as dark blue is, the world grows a bit
The labor standard., 1918-05-01

Monastic frock of silk jersey. It Is
 the color of banana and embroi-
 dered In | heavy design Of white
 wool, with a Thick cord around the
 waist. The vest and collar are of
 white organdIe. sides, achieved throAg umbrella folds, and It's close, narrow hemp may leave it as it is. It satisfies the appetite of fashion today.
 Short Sleeves; Low Necl<s.
 The advent of the short sleeve in frocks, blouses, Jackets and even top coats Is startling to the American mind. We invented the elbow sleeve and forced 1t upon Paris. The word invent" is, of course, bad one to use in fashions, because everything has been. and therefore, everything is merely revived"
 When the elbow sleeve was consiii- cred by Paris as an American fashion projected through the demand for con venience, 1t was looked upon by the ultra-smart French designer as part and parcel of that work-a-day cos tumery which the Americans demand ed and with which the European eie- gante would have nothing to do. We were called a working people.
 After while Europe as we'll as America adopted the short sleeve, and those In this country who were fas- tidious began to side with the French in their belief that the fashion was in elegant. For three years we wit messed streets filled with girls who wore elbow sleeves in separate white blouses, with Dutch necks, no collars no gloves, and separate skirts. That was an ugly day in costumery. Let us hope that 1t will not be revived, a1- though there is every evidence that the seeds of this evil have already been SOwn.
 But these short sleeves, which were worn in the Directoire with every kind of gown and which. were practically covered by rare old cashmere shawls, are not the only short ones, that this spring has produced. We are evident ly in for a reign of abbreviated arm GOV erings, inspiration for which has been gotten from all the centuries.
 The surpliee Movement Wins.
 0uOSACA SAiuA6C HI CAO LII OSSAoA OA fabrics across the body has been made by the French, and to follow it will re- Quire ingenious alterations on the part of the American woman. Evidently there is an idea that the fewer the buttons the better the frock. We have gone back to the time when strings held fabrics together and the cloth was cut in such a way that it remained where it was placed on the body.
 Possibly it would be more compre- hensive to put the whole thing into the statement that the more we are wrap ped across the body the better dressed we are today.
 This movement of fabric finds its most commonplace exploitation in the surplice bodice or jacket. Afternoon gowns and the most elaborate evening frocks have bodices that are merely elongated scarfs with armholes. They wrap around the figure at the waist line and the back, front or sides.
 Separate surplice bodices are not considered too ignoble to be attached to brilliant evening skirt. When the latter IS of diaphanous and frivolous fabric the bodice may be of satin, bro- cade or tissue, and when 1t finishes it's bias movement about the figure it is held at the side with great gold rose. Copyright, 191s by the Mcclure Newspa-
 per Syndicate.)
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
Of Interest to Women

British women are proving successful as veterinary sur geons.
 The original model of Barthol- dis Statue of Liberty is now in possession of Mime. Oliver Bas- con of Paris.
 New York's subway has col ored women porters who wear quite natty uniform. Mrs. Blanche Wagstaff, poet and traveller, has been appoint ed to the state charities board . by Governor Whitman of New York. ,...-
 Members of the New York woman's motor messenger corps receive first aid instructions at St. Luke's hospital.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
CLOTHES ECONOMY
 FASHION PROBLEM
Style Changes Convince American
 Women Careful Study Is : Necessary. ....
PROVES AN ABSORBING TOPIC
Short Sleeves, Narrow Skirts and Wrapped Fabrics, Are Among the
 Numerous Interesting Fea-
 lures of DreSS.

New York.-Women are of many minds concerning clothes. Some insist that they will have everything made In the house, giving the seamstresses g chance to live; that they will study the best fashions for inspirational work in their own sewing rooms.
 Others insist that they will spend this spring altering clothes that are al most as good new, while others sa. that 1t is patriotic to spend.
 It is quite well, observes promi nent fashion writer. that there are seg ments of differing thought. The con. tinent is so full of women that thes can group themselvesfinto thousands of units, each with but a single pur- pose, and everybody will be benefited.
 The Trick of Altering Clothes. in the same way. It would be foolish to the mass. There is no doubt that several thousands of women are de batting. with intelligence and with a stimulating effort at sacrifice, this question of spring costumery; but, as far as the prophet can see into the future, business will not suffer by this discussion.
 There will be hundreds of gowns re- modelled in the sewing rooms of homes; there will be thousands of gowns bought for less than $50 by women who once paid over $1O0 for them; there will be revival of fn- dividual work on clothes, and less will be left to the shops and the dress makers; but there is enough money in this country and sufficient need and desire for spending to have everyone made easy and comfortable.
 As for the business of altering clothes at home, words of wisdom and Kindness should be said in favor of it. Much can be done to augment ward robe in this manner but there will al- ways remain the necessity for one new costume. no matter how earnest B worker the sewing woman may be.
 It will not be an easy season for her who contemplates transforming her old clothes into new ones. At first glance she may think that things have remained much as they were, but as the season advances she will find that the changes have been drastic.
 The French have subtly inserted in- to every garment, and every detail Of the garment, sufficient change from what has been to upset the calcula- tons of thousands who wanted to wear the clothes they possessed.
 Skirts Very Narrow.
 E0> lrr S1~ ~,YS S~~J,k k>,k flare at any seam makes even con- servative woman wearing such gar ment wish she had stayed at home or femodeled her gown before she went out. Fortunately. the alteration from wide to narrow silhouette is mas tered even by those who do not claim to be experts. The seams of a tail- ored skirt, for instance, are merely
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
FLOWERY CLOTHES
 IN WORLD AT WAR
Gay Apparel Seems Futile at Most Tragic Moment of
 Savage Conflict.
REVIVAL OF PIONEERED BROCK
Blight Bustie, coIored Taffeta sashes, Flowing Elbow Sleeves, and lm- mense Garden Hats, Among
 Favored Fashions.

New York.-The attempt to Dolly Fardenize our clothes began in Palm Reach in January. As soon as the French openings began in February,
 i've. over here, learned that they, over there. had begun the same trick in costumery, asserts prominent fash Ion writer.
 Organdies, printed yoiles and flow cred chiffons were the materials used
The labor standard., 1918-05-01

organdie redingote of corn color, tucked and trimmed with Val lace and worn over narrow corn satin slip. Belt of Nattier blue taffeta. { Straw hat, with crown of organdie. weary of the monotonous procession of gowns in this color which moves to and fro from France to Alaska. We cry aloud for something else. We are like the heroine of the novel, who pas sionately wished for just a thread of scarlet in her costume to make her be lieye that there was happiness and gayety in the worlI.
 Callot gives us seen to quiet our nerves. She gives uG chance to get away from navy blue and still remain demurely and soberly frocked. ....s Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure Newspaper
 Syndicate)
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
Concealed Beauty.

Silver ribbon under the chiffon or run through embroidered eyelets in the chiffon enters into the trimming scheme of certain very chick blouses, stuff is usually better looking than much embroidery of the outer yelling.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
To Brighten Wood.

Don't use soap and water on your kitchen woodwork if 1t is vanished. A solution of kerosene and water may be smelly for little while, but 1t brightens up the natural wood won- derfully.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01

SurpIiee bodice for evening. 1t belongs
 to an oriental gown, which has net
 tunic caught at one side and en-
 broidered in gold. The satin skirt Is
 edged with monkey-fur fringe. The
 scarf is of eurrant-eolored tulle. ripped upward from the bottom and taken in as continuation of the straight line from the hips.
 The hem of frocks cannot be han died in so simple way; but, fortu- nately for the economical woman. OF the one whose patriotism has made her think that she should be economi- cal in this question of apparel, the French have handed us out in gen. erous manner two of three very clev- CT tricks that will turn the old into the new.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
A Case for the Censor.

A Case for the Censor. 'sBliggins thinks he knows how the war should be conducted"
 Hope he does. Maybe they'll make him stop talking for fear he'll give away our most valuable military se- cret."
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
Those Pie Acts.

Bacon-Now they say pies are going up.
 Egbert-Weu, why shouldn't they? Look at the demand for them in the movies for hitting fellows over the head.
The labor standard., 1918-05-01
The Ego.

The ego is exceedingly strong
 Though world catastrophes appal, A simple toothache comes along,
 And makes a man forget them all.