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The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
Reed Knocked Sky-High.

By using smoked glasses and turning them upon
an object scntillatng little higher up than the moon
you will be able to observe gent named Reed who
has been what you may call hoist by his own petard
referring the Missouri Senator whose rigorous in
yestgation of Hoover has resulted in great personal
tr;umph-for Hoover
Reed started out to discredit the Food Admnistra-
before the country. 1t disclosed that Director
Hoover may have in particulars exercised more
znthority than Reed and his colleagues ever granted
him, and that he may have smashed some perfectly
good theories in behalf of actual practical effects
These things may smack Of lese naeste in Washing
ton, but the country at large sees feels and for
the actual results only.
Men Hoover entered upon his work, saving of
snsar and wheat for tire allies the immediate war
necessities The allies got the sugar and the wheat
1oreover, while Hoover squeezing the sugar and
wheat out of us, the re6ners and millers were not
squeezing exorbitant prices of for what sugar
and wheat could get. Instead of 30 and 49, we
ha.- paid Ia to cents for sugar, and three or
four hundred millions of dollars have been saved to
consumers Of flour, with producers of wheat getting
unusually fair prices. Mr.. Hoover has played both
ends against the middle, and for the people
Ii is enough to make Reed and his ik red hot
but these actual results stick out, and the folks
want more OF Hoover, however he does it.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
THE NEW WORLD
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
By LAURENCE BINooN
un the London CkrenieIe.l

Lmitless. teeming continent Of sur
drink again that diamond air.
thrill
To the lure OF q wonder more than
the wondrous past
And see before me ages yet again
more vast
Rising and challenging heart and
mind and will
What sailed they out to seek. who OF
old came
To that bare earth and wild. unhis-
toried coast?
Not gold nor grsnaries. nay. nor a
halcyon ease
For the weary and tempest-tost:
The unshaken soul they sought. pos
sessed In peace.
What seek We now, and hazard all on
tho aim.
In the heart Of man is the undiscov-
cred earth
whose hopes our compass; sweet
with glorious passion
or mems good will: a world to forge
and fashion
Worthy the things we have seen ana
brouSht to birth.
Taps OF the Drum! Again you have
heard them beat:
And the answer comes. a continent
arms! Dread,
Pity and Grief, there h no escape: the
call
Is the call Of the risen Dead.
Terrible year Of the nations trampling
feet!
An angel had blown his trumpet over
all
From the ends Of the earth. from East
TO uttermost West,
Because OF the soul Of man that shall
not fail.
That will not make refusal or turn
and quail.
No. nor for all calamity stay its guest.
And here. here too. is the New World.
born OF pain
In destiny-speIling hours The old
world breaks
It's mould, and life runs fierce and
fluid, a stream
That foods, dissolves, re-mskes.
Each pregnaRt moment. charged to
its extreme.
ouiekens unending future; and ais
vain
But the onward mind that dares the
on-coming years
And takes their storm. a master. Life
shall then
Trsnshgure Time with yet more mar
velous men.
Hail TO the sunrise! Hail 10 the
PioneersI
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
The Suffrage Victory.

Suffrage wins in the House. 1t is true that the
sa was so small that the result gives little opportunity
ioI cheering, but it is victory just the same.
Il IS the best days work done by the House in many
moons and it gives to the suffrage substan
tal foundation that will in good stead when it
reaches the Senate.
The closeness of the vote brings out many interest
ing details. 1t gives to Miss Jeanette Rankin, the
first to sit in Congress- the right to say that her
vote was the deciding one 1t also brings to light the
fact that two members of the House who confined
their BEDS through illness and injury made the
rTeHe sTort and succeeded in reaching the Congress
nsi chamber to give their voice for womens justice
The fact that such stunt accomplished speaks
W for The resourcefuness and energy of those women
we hzss been making the fight for the rights of other
women.
We hope that this energy will stick by them
their fight goes into the Senate and then to the States
Theirs is great cause, and it is coming surely
victory the war The time of their complete vic
tory only be measured by the broadmndedness of
the American people. The sooner realize the value
and the righteousness of suffrage the better it
will be for all concerned.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
Easy Mathematics.

Conversing with some friends in the lobby of a
Washington hotel. Senator Henry F. Hollis, of
New Hampshire. referred to the subject of mathe-
matics, and contributed the following story:
One afternoon a man was travelling through a
country district when he observed a son of the
nearby village. Interested, the man began to
question him.
"How long, comrade," said he, have you been
hauling water from that rver?" ..
Most livery day for tin years, sor," answered
Pat, halting to give his horse a rest -Four loads
a day"
Think of itl" responded the stranger. "How
much water do you suppose you have carted away
in that timer"
"Shure, an thot's an easy wan" smiled Pat,
with wave of his hand toward the river. "All
thot yez don't. see there ow"-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
No Coal.

If the government of the District doesn't hurry some
action on the coal situation in Washington the city will
be facing pneumonia epidemic due to pure careless
ness and neihciency.
About the only thing being done now is passing the
buck between the Commissioners, the Emergency Fuel
Administration and the coal dealers
We are hearing lot of meaningless speeches from
Commissioners administrators and Dealers but we are
receiving coal Undoubtedly of the dealers OF
Washington have not acted fair with the consumers,
but the fault does not all lie with the dealers The fuel
administration of the District far has been joke
People given orders for coal very graciously-
but these orders do not produce the coal They are
sent on the rounds of dealers and to public coal
dump-but they cannot find coal What on earth is the
sense of giving order for ton of coal when the
said ton does not exist in Washington?
And now Mr.. Weaver announces that Washington
will be placed a coal card basis after the Ist OF
April Great headwork Who wants coal in April?
Surely the maj oriy of the househoders will be willing
to do without the black diamonds in April What they
want is coal now-whe the weather is at the freezing
point.
Wr Weaver also says he has no authority to bring
coal into Washington. Well, who has such authority? ?
The government departments manage to get 1.-THE
District Building manages to get it. But as the sua-
ton stands now told that cannot have coal
so make the best of whatever happens.
If the Commissioners, the Fuel Administration and
the dealers would get together and bend their energies
toward bringing coal into the city instead of fighting
among themselves, would at least be assured an
even chance with the rest of the country.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

Now is the time Of the splendour Of
Youth and Death,
The spirit Of man grows greater thar
he knew;
The unbearable burden 10 borne, the
impossible done.
Tho harder Is yet TO do.
Before this anguish end. and that be
won
We seek thro' binding battle, IN
choking BREATH
The New World. seen IN visioni Land
of lands.
Felt in the riffs Of storm and desolate
night.
In the hour Of the breaking Of heartk.
beyond our sight
You build our courage. you hold up
our hands.
Men Of America. you that march to-
day
Thro' roaring London, supple and
lean of limb,
Glimpsed in the crowd I saw you. and
in your eye
Something alert and grim
As knowing on what stern call yoL
march away
To the wrestle Of nations-saw your
heads held high,
And. that same moment, far In q
fiuttering beam
High over old and storied westmin-
ster
The stars and stripes with England's
colours clear
sisterly twined and proud on the air
astream.
Men OF America. what do you see?
Is 1t old
Towers of fame. and grandeur time
resigned?
"A frost of custom? backward-gazing
thought?
Seek closer, and you shall nnd
Miracles hour by hour in silence
wrought:
Births and awakenings; dyings never
tolled;
Invisible crumbIe and fall Of prison
bars.
o wheresoeFer his home. new or
decayed,
Man is older than all the things he
has made,
And yet the youngest spirit beneath
the stars.
I see again the fabulous city arise,
Rock-cradIed, white and soaring out
of the sea
Manhattan! Queen Of thronged and
restless bays
And Of daring ships is she.
o. lands beyond. that into the sunset
gaze,
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
GRATEFUL.

Harold Keats. Esq,
Executive Officer.
District War Service
Commission.
Washington, D. c.
Dear Mr.. Keats:
have often wanted 90 thank
you for the phonograpa records
which you gave our company be-
fore we sailed "over ners."
l understand that they came to
you from The Washington Her
aid or its readers and / hope
that you will tell them what a
touch OF home and memory Of
the land We are fghting for a
good Yankee record on a good
Yankee machine can give.
II people knew how our Her
aid" records have cheered us and
passed the lonely hours for us.
they would equip every company
with them.
Yours with renewed thanks
Csigned) ROY w. ATCHIsoN.
u. S. Engineers.
Somewhere in Frence."
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

hours each dayi The babies never leave the nur-
sery. Last July there were aIo there For the
youngest the mothers are allowed a ten-minute
nursing period every three hours-and the tiny
victims of wartime drink in deadly fatigue, fear,
dependency and fearful nerve-tension with their
mothers milki These women war-workers wear
no uniform. They are clad in the ragged black
of mourning for their men who have already
impeded the rush of the Hun with their warm,
living and loving bodies. clad in coarse un-
bleached cotton dresses and their faces are tired
and haggard. The experts among them work
eight hours WITHOUT pause for food or rest.
Mothers in war-world Shall it be SO in Amer
lea?
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
What French Women Pay for War.
Women in war-work!


In America the phrase conjures up pleasant
pictures of cheerful, white uniformed women roll
ing epdless miles of surgical dressing at Red Cross
headquarters, OF millions of women, young and old
knitting, knitting warm garments for the men in
trench and camp knitting beside the open fires
Of homes, in the intervals of concerts, between
the acts of plays, knitting always and everywhere
the somber yarn drawn from slken bags of every
hue and lovely richness; of other women train
ing for serious nursing vague emergency work."
of millions of comfortable women "doing war
work" by giving afternoon a week to Red
Cross activities and religiousIy observing wheat
less and meatless days.
Women IN war-workl
Women of France do their war-work, like the
men Of France, with blood and tears, casting
their souls and bodies into the fight to save their
country
"Oue munitions factory in France" says
writer in Everyweek, turns out the enormous
amount OF 1000 tons of ammunition every day
Six thousand women are employed IN this plant"
Among these women thirty babies are born each
month and cared for in the hospital and nursery
attached to the factory. Only the fewest days
necessary. and the new mothers leave their babies
and go back to their sIell-making, to handling
she white hot metal and the high explosives ten
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

TO where / was waiting and he looked
real embarrassed.
"Where-er-have you ever used
skates?" he says you know you
can't skate on slush-ice you know
frozen hard. Maybe you came from
the South or somewhere"
7 sure did" I says. "snd I wish 7
was back there. A cop told me II
would get a pair OF skates could get
along better. You see L fall down
most every step, and"
went back TO the fruit stand to
tell the cop what I thought Of Do
licemen in general. but he was gone.
I saw he had made a Joke OF me,
and 1 was duly mad.
No Use to watch.
I had always thought / was pretty
GOOD at figuring things out. and so
! determined that by observation and
deduction would Sherlock the Sc
cret from this public which wouldn't
tell me how they did IL. So stool
on q corner and watched them as
they went by. Once in a while a
hoy would go by at a stiT gallon.
like II was dry ground. But for
VIM NesNA cAA0lA 10 me naI
OF GOOD. II looked as Il they walked
just like anybody else.
So finally I went on, walking cloga
to the buildings and making a face
at every cop / passed. After a while
the 'steenth accident occurred. II
was an awful slippery place. and a
big fat man fell the same instant
did. The fat man tried to hsIp
me up, but It was all he could do
to get on his own feet. While We
were scrsmbliug up, a girl went sail
ing by like Mercury, or whoever il
II was that had wings on his f,o'
How do they DO it," says the fat
man.
Search me" ! began. and then
IL wasn't any observation or deduction
or hgurtng or anything II Just came
Ike a nash. like when the movie hero
gets an idea.
'overshoes!' Easped rapturouslv.
ike one who sees the light after
long years OF darkness.
Il believe you're right" saws Ia.
fat man; looks like somebody'd hay.
told us, don't it?'
Experience is a dear school" SAID
very wisely. I'm going to hunt nv
self a pair right now"
Me, too" says the fat man. How
many times have you fallen down."
didn't count EN-" ] saws. and
when 1 get my overshoes, well T.r,
going to stand on the corner and
watch for my feIlow-southerpcrs 10
come by and 20 down. and I wouldn't
say 'overshoes' TO save 'em Let 'ern
learn like did"
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
Sad While Learning.

Sad While Learning.
long to get accustomed to #, and
they can soon walk along casually
en- the very coldest days. plying
their fellow countryment, as they
spot 'em shivering their way along
the street. But it's awfully sad
while they're learning.
When one who has lived in the
frozen north transplants himself to
a hotter cline, all he has to do is
to sit around and take IL easy. But
when one from the balmy South
jumps right square into the middle
Of these Washington freezes, well.
il you live, you've sure got 70
learn.
First, you've got to learn how TO
walk. You may think you master
ed that art many years ago, along
with talking, masticating your
food and other rudiments of civili-
zation. But you didn't. Walking In
Alabama or Arizona Is one thing,
and walking in Washington is-a
sort of skating.
She Asks How to Walk.
Ny first thrilling experience WAS
right in the middle OF Pennsylvania
avenue. The man that helped me
up was awful nice. and so l thought
1 would ask him how the people in
Washington managed to walk
without slipping down every few
steps.
How do they do IL? / said.
"Why-er-walk right close to
the ground" he said, and disap-
peared. j could never figure out
whether he meant that for sarcasm
or whether there really was some
thing in It.
Well 1 watched the other people.
They didn't seem to have a bit OF
trouble, only just once in a while
/ could see someone fall as fat as
pancake, and knew at once they
were from the South, just like me.
After 1 had had about half a dozen
falls, including a couple of double
somersaults and other minor ca
prices. I determined / was going
to get some inside information
from the oldest inhabitants 1 could
find. Pretty soon I came to a cop
and so went up to him and says,
How do they do it?'
"Do what" says the cop.
"How do they get around. I don't
seem to understand ii somehow or
other. Fall down every few steps"
81 guess you better get a pair OF
skates" answered the cop and picked
up an apple from a fruitstand which
he commenced eating. and he never
said another word.
Cop Didn't Know.
Well. / thought surely the cop
would know what / had better do
about it, so / went in a department
store and told 'em / wanted some
skates. The man fitted a pair. and
tnen 1 asked him II could go out on
the street and try em' out.
"Say-"then he scratched his head
and called another man and they
whispered together sorta mysterious,
and finally the salesman came back
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

low Peril is probably more imagi-
nation than reality.
! Japan's big problem is China
and it will be decades before a uni
fed policy is evolved. there to deal
with IT. Just now there are four
parties struggling for supremacy
the foreign office, the militarists,
the political stragglers or unor-
ganized party. and finally the grow
{ ing force which comprises the now
rising industrial leaders of the
! kingdom.
| One of these elements does not
contain enough power to generate
/ strength for the kingdom. 1t can
not master the nation and thus
evince a settled. spirited policy to-
ward China. Nor can a combina-
tion of any two of the parties win
out They are hopelessly split.
And until years of education are
gone through to solidify them and
unite them around greater under
standing of their real problem they
will not be able to make great
progress in any f-the-country
move. japan is content to remain
where she is. If she can raise her
self up through the barriers of
smoke which are continually en-
lcirCling her she will do well-and
if she can peep through that cloud
now and then to keep sharp watch
of what the slumbering giant on
the other side of her is doing, she
will be well satisfied to let the rest
of the world remain where it is.
While we are settling down to a
discussion of peace we might as
well make peace with the ogre of
effacement which some of our lead
ers for years have been trying to
line up against US across the Pa
cific.
The very common talk in the ma
tion at large is that Mr.. McAdoo
will be a presidential candidate in
1920 to succeed his father-in-l law.
The people persist in talking about
it. too, so hundreds of reports have
it here. Apparently, the very ac-
tivity of this man McAdoo is taken
to mean that he wants the highest
gift the American people can be-
stow upon him.
OF course, Mr.. McAdoo doesn't
want to be President. He isn't
working toward such an end. He
hasn't it in mind. He is only en-
deavoring to do what he can to
help out in the enormous conflict
on our hands at the present time.
He wants no reward, he expects
none. The doing" of these vast
feats which they are so eagerly
attributing as means by which he
can gain popular favor, is enough
reward. McAdoo might be caught,
after hard race and forced by the
Democratic party to take the Presi-
Dental nomination, but as far as
walking forward to have it hand
ed to him, or even standing still
while the Democrats approached
him and forced it upon him, there
is not even a remote chance.
Besides, the one man who will
name the next Presidential candi-
date IL not the President-elect will
be President Wilson. And he is not
going to name his own son-in-law.
Please cut this out and place 1t
in your almanac for the latter part
of June, 1920. 1t will make inter-
esting reading then.
THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
Soldiers Thank Friends.

Many of the Kansas soldiers to
whom Governor Capper sent his
Christmas card have made their ac-
acknowledgements by telegram or letter.
The soldiers seem very appreciative
Of all their Christmas remembrances.
Every woman who sent a package
through the Red Cross or otherwise to
a soldier has had a letter or postal
card thanking her for the attention.
Occasionally there is one that reads
like some Of the "Tommie" letters
published In the English papers
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
An Everett True at SaIina

W. H Cook, a Salina citizen, has
been fined S1s for spanking his neigh
bors wife, which seems cheap, Tor
the spanking was done with a niece OF
pine board. II appears the lady Dor
rowed Cooks horse. and he charges.
mistreated It. so he did the Everett
True act.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.
THE RORRowERs

THE BORROWERS.
4 lot of good people l meet on my way
Rely on tomorrow to help out today.
They squandsr the present and dream
that somehow
Tomorrow will settle the debt OF the
NOW.
An easy old method to pay of a debt,
Yet he is a person less prey prey to
regret
Who out of the future refuses to bor-
row
And makes his today meet the needs of
Tomorrow.
Copyright, 1881
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

In the name of loveliness Rah! for the Duchess of
Marlborough, who's giving her jewels for war relief
work Women bound and weighted with Jewels never
did appeal to us.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
Here's a Pleasant Job,
Teach Her How to Walk
By NELL FREEMAN.

Never before perhaps has Washington had horde Of i'm
migrants from the sunny South You can spot EN- the
you'll watch especially you're of them yourself
hunched they peeved everything and
body their faces screwed painful gmaces they
wear
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

They have barred silk underwear at United
States army camps First thing you know a
soldier won't be allowed to keep valet.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

During November. the United
States mints coined 100000 PEN
nies, 100000 dimes and 100000
nickels to meet the holiday trade
demand
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

Telling your Congressman NOW that your favor
Federal suffrage for women will do more good than
voting defeat him next November for opposing the
vote amendment.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

If some less efficient Congressman we could
mention would follow the example of patriotic Royal
c. Johnson and join the army, the war ought to
speed up.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

Wonder who is responsible for the coal short
age in Washington? This passing the buck is
growing monotonous.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

About the only thing Congress has not seen fit
to investigate is its action in exempting Con-
gressional salaries from the war income tax.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

President Wilson played golf during the worst
glaze Storm in the history of Washington. Can't
beat our President for surefootedness-and that's
joke, either.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

Hotels Can Sell Drinks on Sunday" headline
from yesterdays paper No, it was not local
paper.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

These days are sad ones for the panhandler
with everyone looking for workmen.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

We are steadily making toward a
better understanding of Japan, ac-
cording to the statements of sew
eral members of Congress who
have been studying the situation.
And as we learn more about the
Oriental kingdom we are bound to
appreciate the fact that the "Yel-
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"a many cases drive before them in
neadlong rout that famous infantry.
Imagination, as Napoleon said, plays
a great part in war, and the presence
of these new and gallant troops from
the United States and the conscious
ness that thousands more were COM
ing must have infused fresh spirit
throughout the long line of fighting
men and renewed the vigor and con-
fidence of our brave and sorely tried
allies.
But we must not misconceive the
character of the victory, great as it
has been and the determination ex-
hibited by the passage of the new
draft bill shows that we do not mis-
conceive it. 1t was victory of de-
tense. 1t was victory of arrest p
as it is well defined by Mr.. Frank
Simonds in an admirable article
which appeared on the 18th of Au-
gust. The offensive has apparently
passed into our hands, but the VIC
tory of attack, although begun, is
still to be won. We shall win it, but
it will be no easy task, and the Amer
lean people mean to carry it through
to the bitter end and to an entire
completeness. 1t therefore is of inn
portance that we should have in our
minds clear definition of what THAT
completeness and that end must be.
We must face facts and strive for a
complete veracity of mind. We must
know just what we mean to do, for
knowing what we mean to do is half
the battle