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The Washington times., 1918-11-17

extend and build up its service. Many
European countries want to develop
TRAPPING schools for nurses In con-
nection with their Red Cross.
In this country the Red Cross must
always be ready in case OF firs, flood
or other disaster.
Another after.the-war activity will
be the drive TO clean up and make
sanitary the great cougested dis
tricts Of American cities which, be-
cause of unhealthy living conditions,
annually MI the jails and Juvenile
court dockets. s
The Washington times., 1918-11-17
Rheumatism
a Home Cure Given by
One Who Had II

In the spring of 1898 I was attacked
BY Muscular and Inhammstory Rhe1-
natism- / suffered as only those who
have It know. for over three years. 7
tried remedy after remedy. and doctor
after doctor. but such relief as ! re-
eeived was only temporary. Finally, !
found a remedy that cured me com
pletely. and IL has never returned. J
have given Il TO a number who were
terribly afflicted and even bedridden
with Rheumatism, and IL affected q
cure in every case
want every sufferer from any form
of rheumatism trouble 10 try this mar
veious healing power. Don't send a
cent: simply mail your nan1e and ad-
dress and ] Will send q free to try.
After you have used IL and Il has
proven itself 10 be that lonR-looked-
for means Of curing your rheumatism.
you may send the price of IL, one dol
lar. but understand, 3 do not want your
money unless you are perfectly satisfied
20 send it. Isn't that fair7 why suf-
fer any longer when positive relief ia
thus offered you free7 Don't delay.
Write today.
Marx II. Jaekssn. No. BIIE Gurney
5IdH, Syracuse, -. Y.
Mr. jackson is responsible. Above
Statement true.
The Washington times., 1918-11-17
TO EXPAND
RED CROSS WORK

with the coming of peace the work
of the American Red Cross is only
Just beginning. according to Red
Cross officers mere.
Where before the Red Cross actfvi-
ties have been centered almost en-
The Washington times., 1918-11-17
Ia TOILETTE CASE
TO Be D|SPOSED.OF

The movement to expei Senator La
Toilette from the Senate because OF
the speech he made at ST. Paul about
a year ago, in which alleged disloyal
remarks were uttered. will come to
The Washington times., 1918-11-17
ONE KILLED IN WRECK.

ATLANTA. Ca. Nov. 17-Motorman
L w. Whittake-, forty. was killed
and Conductor ". d. Ethridge was
seriously injured here yesterday when
the street car manned by them turned
over I'm West E-.i. The car carrie
nc passengers. N thick mist or
drizzlinE rain Whitaker IoFt con-
troll Of the car a. II r"liei doVn Or
rTgfinr.
The Washington times., 1918-11-17
WANT INDUSTRIAL
PACT WITHFRANCE

PARIS, Nov. 1.-THE Federation
des Industries ct des commercants
Francais are, thanks to the initiative
of Paris business man. n, Maurice
Frings, interesting themselv es active
ly in the formation OF the country's
future business employees
1t is the object of the federation to
create an important group of business
men who will make themselves re-
sponsible for the placing OF young
men in industry and commerce under
a three years contract. During that
period the chiefs are to engage them
selves TO pass their pupils through all
departments. This has been ,practiced
by German houses for some time past,
and it is no doubt responsible for the
superiority in intelligence of the
cheap German clerk. .-...-
This system, II carried into prac-
tice. will certainly do material good
! to French industry. 1t Will guarantee
that young men after their term of
service are of real utility. They will
count upon themselves for getting
employment instead OF. as has been
so much the case formerly, getting
their posts through influence
Opens Business school. 80
why not add to this new scheme" :"
asks Eclair. IAN entente between this
and similar institutions in England
and America? Employees OF French.
American. and English houses could
then be exchanged, and thus would
be formed abroad the commercial
agents in which we have been lack
ing so much in the past"
The Paris chamber OF commerce.
which is fully aware OF the. shortcom-
! ings OF young Frenchmen in business
knowledge, has opened business
school, which will be run on the
lines of the institution of a similar
kind at Harvard University. Special
courses will be given to those who
have for any reason been unable to
carry on their higher commercial
training; the study of economics,
commercial law and administration
in commerce. industry or banking.
Engineers, who so often lack bust
ness and nontechnical experience.
| will be encouraged TO take a course
Of training.
Plan Moroccan Railroads.
NJ. FayoI managing director Of the
Societe CommeFry CourchambaUIt
DecazeviIle. assisted by NJ. Carlton.
as engineer of repute. is in charge
of the school. Railway matters will
be lectured upon by the chief engi-
] neer OF the Paris Orleans line. NJ.
! Richard Bloch. The point to be noted
with regard TO this new school is
that IL has been realized that theory
without practice is of little value
and for that reason men OF prac-
teal experience will lecture.
1t is said that fvc principal rail
way lines will be built as soon as
possible in Morocco. The most inn
portant will run between Fez and
/ TanGiers. Four lincS which win b.
| in western Morocco and will have q
/ mileage of 600 kilometers. will join
| up Raoat. Casablanca, with the towns
Of the interior, as Fez-Tangiers. Tho
4 NTH line viii be in the east. Start
/ ing at Fez. its 500 kiIo i:eters will
| join the Moroccan TO the Algerian sys-
TEN, thus putting Tunis into closer
commercial relations with France /.
western possession.
The Washington times., 1918-11-17

.rying TO oust him. To try 20 caFt-iIirl,
night throw him into the arm4la7Eae
Democrats
The Democrats. or some of them
would gladly mane~verNt 10 land The
vote OF Senator La Fotlctts5 when Il
comes to organization of the sS3ate
next spring.
II would take a two thirds f9teotf
the Senate to unsest Senator ha hoi-
Iette.s At no time has there beeghlitf :
lihood that a two-thirds vote q, sxpel
him could be mustered.
The Washington times., 1918-11-17

Thrift stamps bought for yourself
or your children eultivate the right
spirit.
The Washington times., 1918-11-17

Tariff stamps bought for ypurseif
or your children ealtivate theSfieht
spirit. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
What Congress VIII Require.

Whatever is done will be done very
carefully. Senator fletcher and other
senators and Representatives from
practically all the states in the Union
have been in conference with Depart
ment of Agriculture officials. Congress
will be insistent that whatever is
done for the soldiers will be done SO
that they may locate back in the
states from which they were called
to war instead of being colonized Oh
cheaper or wilder lands elsewhere.
In the extra session Of Congress
which government officials and mem
bers of Congress say practically Is
misunderstanding Houston will rec
ommend a program to maintain in
some efficient way the wartime ac-
tivities on the farms. The Secretary
has indicated that there will be two
principal efforts-(D county agent
work which has been wonderfully
helpful during the war emergency.
and CD continuation andSextension OF
the police measures for control of
plant and livestock diseases, on which
great progress has been made.
Further studies of a personal credit
system will be advocated by Secre-
tary Houston, who says:
SIT seems clear that there should be
provided a system of personal-credit
unions. especially for the benefit of
stances and scale of operations make
it difficult for them to secure accom-
modations through the ordinary chan
nels.
.sThe foundation for effective work
in this direction is the successful pro-
motion of cooperative associations
-f,.n,g fa---e"s "ot c"',- for uet.vc
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RAIL ISSUE REEVES
OLD CONTROVERSIES
Some Past American Political History Throws
Light on Present Talk of
Government Ownership.
BY j. HARRY SHANNON
OF The Stnr STAR.


1920. prominence
Of
of andde
a
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MAN POWER FOR FARMS IS PROBLEM
WHICH GOVERNMENT MUST SOLVE
Anxiety Expressed Regarding Proportion OF
Demobilized Armies Likely to
Take Up Agriculture.
By WILL r. KENNEDY.
OF The Star Sta6.

when farming? That's
o Department
A/A to
" " indication of whether will
o e
important agricultural legislation keep the
o
mil
here to getm nj a
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Decisive Contests Waged at the Marne
Between A r111ies, Each Gener1.
By a Great Soldier:
Simonds, in Brilliant Surrey of Closing Year
of Terrific Conflict, Brings to an End
His Military A rticles
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
ure Newspaper Syndicate.)

dicate)
ACH year since the opening of the l have the
H of the reviewed the military operations of
the campaign. To complete the series, | shall now
make brief survey of the final campaign which won the
STRUGGLE and thus the military articles which have been
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Germans Saw Opportunity.

The German was conscious of his
opportunity and had found in Luden-
dorff a leader calculated to get the
greatest possible advantage out OF
system. Ludendorff made the basis
of his strategy the fact that from
the Argonne to Ypres the Germans
occupied the interior of a. semlcircie
and could thus strike with equal ease
at any point. from a common center,
enemy would be obliged to move his
reserves to the imperiled point around
the circumference.
In addition the Germans prepared
attacks not at one but at several
points, thus persuadlnS both the
French and the British that the main
blow would fall against themselves
and constraining them to concentrate
their resources on their own fronts.
Initiative in Center.
Possessing superior numbers. the
central position and the initiative.
Ludendorff had also the Superlative
advantage of new tactic, a new Sys-
tom of attack, resting upon the les
sons Of the Cambria battle of the pre-
ceding autumn, when the element of
surprise had been restored and COM
bining with this the secret concen-
tration devised by Hutier in his Riga
campaign BY this method troops
were brought to the battle front by
night marches, the enemy totally
deceived as to the moment when the
blow would fall and thereafter mass
attack achieved it's end.
The attack of March 81 had two
clear detectives. Selecting the point
in the front where British and French
armies met and where the actual line
was thinnest. Ludendorff sought to
drive wedge between the two
armies, rolling the British back upon
and beyond armies and thus out of
touch with the French and with their
own main base at Havre he sought
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Infested With Sharks.

"The 1agoons' of the pearl islands
and the atolis are infested with
sharks, and a diver takes his life in
his hands every time he goes down
Strange to say, not a great many
tragedies occur. The divers use no
diving bells or apparatus of any KIND,
but they go down to the bottom and
bring up pearl molluskS from a depth
of fifty and seventy-five feet, and
sometimes have been known to reach
bottom at 100 feet of water. They re-
main under water sometimes 1--WE
minutes or more.
There are good pearl beds in the
waters about the New Hebrides,
Solomans and the Fiji group. The
natives used to sell their pearls for
a plug of tobacco or a string of glass
beads, but they have learned more of
their value now and drive shrewder
bargains
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Secretary Lanes Proposition.

Secretary Lanes Proposition.
Secretary Lane has unfolded beau
tiful vision of reclaimed lands as
farms for returning soldiers. The
President, the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, Congress-all are eager to see
this vision materialize in real life.
They are willing to help. to make ap-
preparations. But the boys. grown
men, are to be reckoned with.
Republicans and democrats now are
preparing for an extra session, in
which the agricultural committees of
House and Senate will consider Sc
riously the Secretary Lane plan and
the recommendations for food slim
ulation which Secretary Houston is
prepared to make. But how about the
man power for the FARMS. they ask.
because most of them are from agri-
cultural communities and they know
the actual shortage.
There is no Reconstruction prob
lem regarding American agriculture,
as there is in Germany or Russia.
Reconstruction" sounds with bad
grace, especially in connection with
agriculture, because it harks back to
the Reconstruction" days at the close
been very seriously disrupted. But
there is need for wise action in guild
ing American agriculture back to an
economic basis of production-and
before the necessary legislation is
passed there must be some estimate
Of what man power the farmers can
denend uOou
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Devastated Areas Need Fertilizers.

devastated Areas Need tertll1ZerS.
The devastated areas of Europe need
concentrated fertilizers to build them
up. especially as the killing off OF
cattle depleted their manure supplies
Therefore. as soon as the fertilizer IN
dustry, which has been seriously ham
pered by the war, gets back to norma
working conditions, it Will hnd N
unprecedented demand Tor commerce.
fertilizers, and 4 larger and easier
both in this country and from friendly
countries.
The agricultural colleges and other
agencies throughout the country are
making an intensive study of the &C
tuaI situation in the states, and ar
making recommendations to the fed
eraI department. SO that when Secre-
tary Houston lays the needs OF the
farmers before Congress and urges
cooperative legislation it viii b"
based on the best possible adV1ces re
garding the needs of each community.
the country as whole and the export
requirements.
Tribute to this assistance is paid
by Secretary Houston, who says;
THE local as well as the state anu
federal agencies are of supreme i'm
portance to the nation in all its ac-
tiyities designed to make rural life
more profitable, healthful and attrac-
tive. and therefore to secure adequate
economic production, efficient DIS
tribution and necessary conserva-
ton"
Congress is earnestly studying thus
probler-because it means 1000 -1or
tho "Sfad
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PEARL FISHERS
GET BIGPROFIT
Report That the Supply
Has Been Exhausted in
the Orient Is Denied.

CHICAGO. December 2S.-"The re-
port that the pearl fisheries of the
orient are exhausted said a man
old fisheries of the Gulf of Manar,
between Ceylon and India, have been
pretty we'll worked out, and very few
large pearls are found there today,
but the Australian fisheries are still
rich producers and there are pearling
grounds scattered among the islands
of the South seas which are practi-
cally untouched
The Antipodean was commenting
on the recently cabled information
that pearl weighing 100 grains and
valued at $4,000 had been found in
the Indian ocean off Broome, West
Australia.
Demand Has Increased,
Pearls he continued, ARE among
the worlds most valued jewels. and
the demand for them has increased
as the supply has diminished. The
Ceylon fisheries have been worked
for centuries. All the large pearls
have been gathered. If the beds We're
pearl mollusks might produce other
large pearls. But the divers are in a
hurry to get rich and rob the oysters
of small and undeveloped pearls.
The Australian beds are among the
richest now being worked. They lie
along the west coast near Broome,
and 1900 or 1000 men are employed
annually in the pearling fleets. The
catch averages pearls of fine size and
many of extraordinary size are taken.
The divers formerly were MalayS and
Japanese. but these have been de-
barring such labor, and their places
have been taken by white men.
Broome is a town where beach
combers congregate from all over the
South seas. and it is this class of men
that do the work of divers. They are
enriching themselves by bringing up
big pearl appeals to them.
Sometimes big stroke of luck in
the pearl fisheries makes new men >of
them. ] met typical beachcomber
when I visited Broome. He was bare
footed and ragged when he got his
first chance to sail with the pearllnS
fleet. When he saw the large guam
tity of pearls brought back by the
luggers he was fired With a new
ambition. He worked and saved and
finally bought d lugger of his own.
Then he sailed away on his first
fortune hunting expedition. He
brought back a catch of pearls which
sold for 100000.
"I5e embarked in the business on a
large scale, bought a fleet of luggers
and now operates among the islands
OF the Persian gulf, which is rich
ground. He is millionaire now, and
when I met him not long ago in the
Tai Nahal Hotel in Bombay there
was nothing about the well groomed
man to indicate he ever had been a
ragged beachcomber.
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LEGISLATION MAY SOLVE
THE BIG POSTWAR
PROBLEMS OF LABOR
CONTINUED from First Page.)

of women's attitude. They admit
their desire to keep their jobs. More
over. they point to the record in gov
eminent service as proof of their fit
ness Miss Mary Van kleeck of the
woman in industry service, Labor
Department, told the Richmond con-
ference:
The record made by trade union
women appointed to official positions
in the federal government is not
merely interesting in the history of
the war. It is prophetic
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The campaign of 1918 opened on
March q, when the Germans attack
ed the British front between the Olse
and the Scarpe valley and won the
greatest victory of the whole war OIL
the western front up to that hour.
At the outset of the operations the
situation from the allied camp was
confused and badly analysed. 10 the
supreme test of the four years 'ne
nations allied against Germany Went
with only dim perceptions OF the
gravity of the peril or the greatness
of the coming German blow.
Made Anxious by Russian Collapse.
1t was appreciated in London and
Paris that the Russian collapse had
enabled Germany to concentrate her
whole military power in the west.
The magnitude of this power was cor
rectly estimated at some two hunoreu
divisions, approximately forty more
than the allies had under their hands
or could concentrate within three
months, but there was little UNDER
standing of the new German tactlcS,
a futile reliance upon the OLD iaith
that lines could not be broken. an
insistence upon the enduring evil OF
divided command intensified by an
ever growing political Interference
The French army at the outset or
the struggle was in far better shape
than the British, since its losses ana
effort in 1917 had been far smaller
than that of its comrades. 1T was IN
superb condition, but Enthusiastically
weary, the strain of four years was
visible in the attitude of the troops,
gallant in resistance, but no longer
minded to indulge in those offensive
efforts which had filled the pages of
the recent years. 1t was also superb
ly commanded, and its generals were
to win new glory.
sMilked'' of Best Material.
The condition in the British army
was far less promising. The terrible
losses of the Somme in 1916 and of
Flanders in 1917 had MIXED the army
of it's best human material, and these
campaigns, splendid as they were in
the spirit of sacrifice. had not brought
the expected harvest. Between the
British politician and British gen.
eral there had come an unhappy di-
vision of opinion, and the British
soldier had been compelled to extend
his front dangerously, while the Brit
ish politician withheld the reserves
necessary to hold the new front.
The supreme command was exer-'
cised by junta. not a single gen,
eral: there was lackSof complete Co
ordination between the French and
British armies, as result, not grow
ing out of lack of loyalty or mutual
desire to support, but an inevitable
consequence of the divided system of
command.
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War Work Done by Farmers.

The American farmer did a great
war work-the work of two men-by
speeding up on the ordinary processes.
With the marketing Of the 1918 wheat
crop, all government patronage over
the farmer will cease. He must get
back to 4 pre-war system of produce
ton sufficient to meet the market de-
mand. There is to be no big shift in
crops or farm methods-no readjust-
ment as in the industries, no con-
version, no discoveries of new sources
of raw material.
The farmer will seek the production
level-to grow at profit and to gov
err production by what is needed.
In 1917 and 1915 the farmer took
chances on labor. He plunged patri-
otically to meet the war need for in
creased production. He trusted in
God and the government to find the
labor. He is not inclined to plunge
again on his paintings until he can
feel a little more certain as to his
labor. He is not going to "break his
own back quite as much. Many re-
tired farmers, who farmed as never
before, have worked off their fervor
and profits cannot eutice them as did
patriotism.
How many boys who left the farms
will go back to them depends on the
demand for other labor in the indus
tries. More boys went from the farms
into the munitions factories and other
war plants than went into the mill
tary forces. They like the jingle OF
big wages in their trousers pockets.
They like the regular hours of fac
tory life and the dress-up evenings
enjoyments in the cities. Many are
not eager to go back to the farm as
long as the good wages continue in
the manufacturing plants.
Something like two million boys
have been putting up with the hard
ships in the trenches and camps,
getting along on small pay. They
are impatient to get some of the high
wages they have heard about being
paid in the factories and want to see
something of the good times i'll the
cities.
How many of these boys will go to
live on a farm and work it, whether
the government gives it to them or
sells it to them cheap on longtime
payment play? Congress is trying TO
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Policy of the Government.

fOl1cy OF the government.
The government departments and
Congress have noted the experiences
of colonization schemes as operated
by railroads and land companies. They
GO not intend to put a lot of men on
farms who will be disconnected and
soon drift back to the cities knock
ing the farming community into
which they could not fit. The govern
ment wants to put on these farms for
soldiers only those who really want
to farm and bring up their families
in the great out-of-doors-men who
will produce.
Before the government goes into
the business of developing more farm
lands it wants to know if it is going
to have the manpower to work them.
Land sharks are sitting on every hill
overlooking the barren places through
out the states. literally licking their
chops and waiting for a chance to p.ch
up .'for a song the farms the govern
ment plots out for the returning SOL
diers These land sharks are going TO
be disappointed.
The soldiers and men from the indus
tries will not he driven to the farm
,, lands in 1ocks and droves; they will 60
there only because they are shown that
there is a good profit awaiting them.
and because they decide for them
selves that there is a Detter ana nap
pier life for them and their families
in the country than in the city. Cheap
| land and longtime credit alone will
not induce them. Those in Congress
who are preparing to frame the nee
essary legislation and to approve a
definite agricultural program realize
this and are studying the situation
under this light.
Incidentally those in closest touch
with the situation do not expect that
enough men from the military forces
or the factories will enlist in the
back-to-the-farm army. at any terms
the government can offer, to mate
rally increase the. food productions
of the United States for some years
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