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Evening journal., 1918-07-29
MONDAY, JULY 2e, 1918.
WHY NOT BE OPTIMISTIC?

0uR French and British Allies constantly warn
" Ing us against Of optimism.
HA IS going well, but do not be too sansuIne Of
SUCCESS. they tellsus.
But why nots
Optimism Is the most pronounced American charac-
oettstio Ibnakes.our illonares builds great cities
makes us. great people-and wins
II President Lincoln had given way to the pessmists
the Union would have lost the Civil War. II Wash
nston who only won one victory, had not been
giine OF success" there would have been no United
States.
SO why mot, be optfnistio now when face to
face with Our greatest need of optlmism9
We have Just won our first great victory on the
western front. Why shouldn't cheer and throw our
hats IN the slr7
Surprising the Germans do turn about and give our
boys a lipking. VIII that dim the glory Of Chateau
7hierry. lessen the triumph Of the Marne2
VIII It diminish the glorious optimism that found
expressiondn herepy of American general who, when
told by his French superior that he could not possibly
reach the objective he had selected, said;
"The he'll we oanti Any place / ask my boys to 60
they'll gor
VIII It dsmpen the spi-it Of those Ysnks OF ours
whose only comment when seriously wounded was
'13amn the luckl Now we can't chase tho Henies any
moref'
Depression may be the mental attitude Of a British
Tommy after But not OF an American Ysnkl
The pessimist says; Germany may win the war"
The optmist replies; Germany shall not win the
warr
We would respectfully advise our Allies to follow
the American example rather than deprecate it,
Let Germany have the despOndency, the pesslmlsm,
the depression.
Optimism will win the warl
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
A SPLENDID AND SENSIBLE MESSAGE.

liC ETTLE with the Kaiser flrstw
- That was the message csbled to the striking
munition makers in Crest Britain by employees Of the
pusey and Jones Company in this city.
1t was splendid and sensible message
II the British strikers be wise, they will heed II and
other messages of kindred import that may be sent TO
them from this and other countries
Consciously or unconsciousy those strikers are play
ing the Kaisers game
The thing Of all things is to win the war. and
to do IT as quickly circumstances win permit
Every strike in Allied country only serves to en-
courage the Huns and to prolong the worlds asonyl
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

AT last the taxation shadows OF the
Ways and Means Committee seem TO be
pierced by little light. Chairman Kit
chin still itches for moro profits taxes
from prosperous industry and business
then there are profits. He still yearns
to squeeze out Of small part OF the
territory north Of Mason and Dixon
uno the great bulk OF the war revenues.
lie still Graves the notorlety Of making
sectionalsm in tax gathering bara-
mount. But he has discovered the ele-
mental truth that you cannot tax away
from corporations more than they have
to give up.
From the Treasury Department, or
from somebody, Chairman Kitchln has
learned that there Is a limit TO income
bounded simply, but very clearly, by
taxation that its possibilities are
the dimensions Of the income Itself.
From the Treasury, or from somebody
else, he even gives promise OF learning
that you cannot tax an income to death
whether IL be the income Of q man or
Of a corporation, and then go on taxing
the ghost Of that income.
From the Treasury, or from some
body, Chairman Kltchin Is on the verge
Of comphrehending that already excess
profits, like normal incomes, are be-
ginning to shrink. They are beginning
10 shrink becaus fixing prices limits
the height to which profits can climb;
because when prices are fixed, increase
OF wages every day or so, Increases Of
all costs Of operation every day or so,
haul down profits and incomes from
the sky and then speed them In the d.
rection limited by zero.
Now then, having come along, or al
most come along as far as that, Chair
man Kitchin has something else to
learn before the Treasury can be sure
Of the funds necessary TO the adequate
support Of our military forces so that
they can help to whip Germany to
standstlll. This something else is an
other essential truth easy enough for a
child TO comprehend when its brain
begins to work as God intended the
human brain to work. This Is that the
Government cannot tax ont Of cor
poration all that corporation has, out
Of an individual all he has, and then ex-
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
With The Paraoraphers

There is TO be training school for Office boys but
who will have the TO teach it?-Loulsville Post
caterpillar" with 75-horsepower is worm,
specially if it "turns.'-Memphs Commercial Appeal
wedding trip costs whatever the happy bridegroom
has left-Capper's Weekly Topeka, Kan.) ..---
When our work becomes dull It is because our wits
need sharpening-WIchita (Ksn) Beacon.
Most OF the advice we accept is in accord with our
views.-Fresno (Cal.) Herald.
What's one mans Organization" is another mans
chine"-Boston Transcript
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
GEMS OF THOUGHT

retentive memory may be good thing but the
Hubbard.
-.
Punishment is fruit that unsupported ripens with
in the flower Of the pleasure which concealed -Raph
Waldo Emerson.
%-:-.
Each year to ancient friendships adds a ring
As TO oak. and precious and more,
Without deservingness help Of ours
They grow; and silent. wider spread, each year,
Their unbought ring Of shelter or Of shade.
james Russell Lowell.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
Trucks 10 Move Bumper Wheat Crop

loaded, reaches its destination, IN most
cases. sooner than when shipped by rail.
and unloaded In this way It is handled
twice and is in better condition.
The farmer, stock man. merchant and
manufacturer is now realizing the ne
cesslty OF trucks. They are relieving
the railroads Of much Of their burden
on hauls up to and in many cases over
100 miles.
Food is going to be big factor IN
winning this war against the Hun ond
the motor truck is going TO be the real
factor in getting the food TO its destina-
tiOn,
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

folly to place upon the ballots names
Of men repugnant to any set Of indivld-
uals. There are men, a score Of them,
who can meet the requirements and
who are Of a character to get and hold
the confidence Of the people. Nominate
such a man, and Delaware -Republlcans
will send him TO the United States SEN
ate. Ruby Vale Of Milford Is one who
will meet these requirements.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
BRITISH TO DECIDE ON
DURATION OF WAR"

BY Newspaper Enterprise Association.
LONDON, July pa committee has
been appointed to report on the defln-
ltlon Of the phrase duration Of the
war" which appears in many legislative
enactments passed since 1914, and on
the expediency Of prolonging after the
war ends the existence OF laws In which
the phrase occurs.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
PACIFIST FLEES FROM
GERMANY BY AIRPLANE

BY Newspaper Enterprise Association.
COPENHAGEN, July 29-Professor
Nicolai, a German paciflst who was SEN
fenced to four months Imprisonment
for writing a paciflst book on the ''psy-
chology Of the war;" escaped into Den
mark by airplane.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
Do II NOMi

NoNTRIBUTIoNs continue to in to THE EVEN
~ ING JOURNALS Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund
Have you contributed do t7
If not give few quarters few dollars and make
happy some of the American fighters in Europe
Make those fighters feel that they have not been for
gotten by the folks back homel
Make them feel that you appreciate the sacrifices they
are making and the risks they running while they
Over There fighting your battlesl
Do not put this matter Off
Do it nowl
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
SOLDIERS AND WAR HAZARD.

IN ELATIVES OF Delaware soldiers who in Europe
~ do doubt often ask themselves what chance those
soldiers have Of returning alive All such persons should
receive by reading the following which we
take from the columns OF Financial America
Great the danger and large the losses in the
aggregate the individual soldier has plenty Of chances
Of coming out Of the war unscathed, at least not
badly injured.
Based the mortality statistics Of the Allied armies
soldiers chances are as follows;
Twenty-nne chances Of coming home to chance
Of being killed.
Forty-nine chances Of recovering from wounds to
chance Of dying from them.
One chance in 500 Of losing a limb
VIII live five years longer because OF physical train
ing. is freer from disease in the army than in civil life
and has better medical at the front than at home
In other from ten TO fifteen men died from dis
to from bullets; in this dies from
disease TO every ten from bullets.
For those Of our fighting who do not escape
scaheless the Government under the soldier and sailor
insurance law gives protection to the wounded and their
dependents and 10 the families and dependents Of those
who make the supreme sacrifice for their country.
These statements doubtless based upon fsrreach-
ing war experience carefully anayzed They show that
the calling Of soldier, while unquestonably hazardous
is not nearly hazardous many persons imagine.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29
ONE ENGLISH FAMILY
EARNS $3.50 A WEEK

LONDON, July 29.-one family all OF
whose members are employed in war
industries has a total income Of $3.50
a week, due to the increase in wages
in all industries.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

The Want Ads VIII help those looking
for a partnership in business. They
favor the exchange OF household gooos.
the selling OF large mercantile busi-
nesses and the renting OF stores and
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

Germany might have got few pointers from Spain
about the fighting quality Of American soldiers. Twenty
years ago Spanish soldier speaking Of the Americans
exclaimed "They tried TO catch us with their hands r.
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

Taft says peace terms should be dictated on German
soil And that's where Williams head is level. Talk
peace business TO the Kaiser the Ksisers doorstep
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

The rain the rain the beautiful rain-when shall we
feel your drops again?
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

with the disappearance of penny papers" here, comes
the advent OF paper pennies in Belgium
Evening journal., 1918-07-29

OuR French and British Allies are constantly warn
~ Ing us against an excess OF optimism.
HAli Is going well, but do not be too sangulne Of
srr,cess Ssfhev teiIsts
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
CHRISTMAS MUSIC AT
EASTPORT M. E. CHURCH

In several of the non-ritual churches
Christmas music will be sung on Sun
day. This is true of the Eastport
Methodist Episcopal church, the Rev
John L. Walsh, ID. d., pastor. At the
morning service tomorrow at eleven
O'Clock, the pastor will preach on the
theme '"The Song of the Angels" and
at 7.30 p. m, on Gifts, with and
without God" At both services
Christmas music will be sung.
On Christmas morning at this
church there will be praise service
at six o'clock.
At Edwards Chapel, which is in
cluded in the Eastport circuit, DR..
Walsh will preach at three o'clock to-
morrow afternoon on "The Song of the
Angels
The Sunday school Christmas enter
tainment will be held on Thursday
night at Edwards Chapel at eight
o'clock.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
SHORT LINE EMPLOYEES
GET STOCKING FILLED
Company Raises Pay OF Trainmen,
Dating Increase From July
%. This Year

Annapolis Short Line employees
have already had an official visit from
Santa Claus and are being congratu-
lated upon finding nice little raise in
pay in their Christmas stockings.
A recent order by the company pro-
videde for an increase in pay of all
trainmen, the increase running from
fifteen per cent to very nearly fifty per
cent in number of cases. The in
crease dates from July 22, the date
upon which employees made formal
demand for the increase. The back
pay from July % forms considerable
sum in the aggregate and has made
very acceptable Christmas gift, en-
ployes say.
About forty trainmen are affected by
the order which provides for payment
of $3.50 day for them, or 46c an hour
based upon a ten-hour day.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
TRUCK HITS BUILDING,
TWO MEN BADLY HURT
Sailor And Negro Injured When
Heavy Truck Pins Them To
Advertiser Building
FAST DRIVING CHARGED

A sailor and a negro are in the
Emergency hospital suffering from in
juries the extent of which cannot be
ascertained at this time, as the result
of coming into contact with a heavy
truck, driven crashing into the Office
of the Advertiser at three o'clock this
afternoon.
The names of the sailor and negro
could not be learned. The driver of
the truck escaped injury.
witnesses to the accident state
that the driver of the truck lost con-
troll of his engine. or. at least did not
have it under control. The truck, ac-
cording to the witness, struck the
curbing on the west side of Church
Circle and DETECTED directly across the
street to the Evening Advertiser Office,
where it crashed into the front part of
the building.
A negro had a cart backed up to the
curb and was engaged upon loading
ashes into from the cellar in the Ad-
vertiser office. He evidently had just
emerged from the basement when the
truck hit him. The sailor seems to
have been passing at the time and was
caught fairly between the heavy truck
and the building. Both men were bad
ly injured but neither was unconscious
and made their way to waiting auto
mobiles with little assistance and were
taken to Emergency hospital.
The driver of the truck was young
man who showed a chauffeur's license
bearing the name of Albert Bond and
the truck was apparently owned by a
Baltimore construction company.
Witnesses to the accident and those
who saw the driver after its occurrence
declared him to have been badly ine
toxicated. He was put under arrest
and held for investigation by city of
ficials.
One witness to the accident declares
the driver was going at the rate of a
mile minute and that an accident
was so much to be expected that the
witness watched the driving for that
purpose.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
CHRISTMAS TREAT
FOR ALL SERVICE
MEN IN CITY PLAN
Hospitality of Annapolis Homes And
Annapolis People Shown In
Christmas Plans

The local chapter of the Red Cross
is preparing a Christmas treat for all
the service men here. There will be
a spread at the State armory from
$50 to Z o'clock Christmas eve night,
and the men who cannot be reached
then will be given a treat on Christ
mas morning.
1t is the desire of the Red Cross and
the War Camp Community Service
to reach and entertain all the men at
the Rife Range, of the Reina Mer-
cedes, and those attached to duty at
the Naval Academy
An effort will be made to have as
many of the service men invited to
the homes in the city and county to
Christmas dinner, and people are
asked to extend the invitation at the
Community Christmas tree service, or
at church tomorrow, or to notify the
secretary of the War Camp Commun-
ity Service at the armory.
There will be a dance for service
men on Christmas night instead of on
Thursday night next week, at the
State armory
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
TREASURY ORDER
AFFECTS LOCAL
MERCHANT MARINE

Collector of the Port of Annapolis,
Samuel Davis, this morning received
from Secretary of the Treasury Glass,
the following notice of especial inter
est to mariners:
"The Secretary of the Treasury has
this day issued notice announcing
that he no longer requires owners of
American merchant vessels to insure
their officers and crews in cases of
vessels sailing after December 20,
1918"
The notice is of peculiar interest TO
the local merchant marine as it re-
leases them from the insurance ban
placed upon them as war measure.
Collector of the Port Davis. has no.
titled the local shipping interests of
the Secretary Of the Treasury no
tice
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
1T. TILGHMAN TREATED
AT ELEVEN HOSPITALS

Lieut.. George ID. Tilghman, T. S.
Army, who was wounded in the army
while in France and is now at the
Walter Reed hospital, Washington,
has been visited within the past few
days by his mother, Mrs. Ogle Thigh
man, and his sister. Miss Anna Thigh
man. The arm is being treated cleo
trically at Walter Reed hospital, but
Lieut.. Tilghman will shortly be re-
moved to the Army hospital near
Alexandria, Va. 1t will be the eleventh
hospital at which he has been treated,
eight of them being in France.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Special Christmas service will be
held at nine thirty o'clock on Wednes-
day morning in the First Presbyterian
church. the Rev. Maurice S. White.
pastor. The congregation invites all
friends and visitors to worship at this
service with them.
Tomorrow's service at this church
will consist of the usual eleven o'clock
sermon of which the theme will be
Salvation as announced in the five
Christmas hymns" There will be spe-
cial Christmas music.
AT the evening service at eight
o'clock the pastors theme will be The
Pocket Testament League"
A copy of the Gospel of John will
be given to every service man present
at the service, to which they are es-
pecially invited A solo, Holy Night, "
viii be sung by Miss Lucille Thomas,
and There Were Shepherds
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
BEAUTIFUL SERVICE
AT OLD ST. ANNE's
ON CHRISTMAS EVE

Perhaps the most solemn and i'm
pressive of the services of the year in
old st. Anne's church, is the Christ
mas Eve service, which will be held
on Tuesday evening at 1880 o'clock.
The service is short one, but is
full of significance. After the singing
of Hymn IS, and reading Psalms SO,
110 a nd 1872. the Gloria in Excelsis
will be sung, Magnificat. Nune Dimit-
tbs, chanted, and the choir will sing
the anthem, Graded All Lowly."
The music will be led by st. Cecilia's s
Guild, who will sing, 1T Came Upon
The Midnight Clear" as an offertory
anthem. The words of hymn No. SO,
and the following verse will be sung:
yet with the woes of SIN and strife
The world has suffered long,
Beneath the angel strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong,
And men at war with men,
Hear not the love song which they
bring
o, hush the noise, We men of strife,
And hear the angels sing"
The service, which all ST. Anne's
parishioners love, will close with sing
inging, while kneeling. Silent Night. "
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
LOCAL MEN FORM
CLASS FOR STUDY
GREEK TESTAMENT

In an effort to organize a class for
the study of the Greek testament, a
number of Annapolis gentlemen have
had a get-together meeting and hope
to organize. No one is eligible for
membership who does not understand
the construction of the Greek language
and has noh some Familiarity with
same.
1t is proposed by the class to meet
periodically, once or twice a month,
and to take up the reading of the Greek
testament. Dr. Samuel Garner is the
promoter of the class. which includes
among its members DR.. Fell, presi-
dent of st. Johns college; the Rev.
James l.. Smiley, and the Rev Maur-
ice S. White. pastor of the Presbyter-
ian church.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
SPECIAL SERVICES AT
THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH

Special Christmas exercises will
characterize all the services at First
Methodist Episcopal church, State
Circle tomorrow AT 10 a. m, the pas
tor Rev. II. W. Burgan, will address
the mems Bible class on the subject,
is Lukes story of the Birth of
Christ irrue?' AT the same hour the
Sunday school and Bible class for
candidates will be held At IL H. m,
the subject ofthessermon will be, 1.-The
Worldwide uuest--then and now" At
7l5 p. m. special Christmas service in
the Epworth league in charge of Miss
Edith Child's Sunday school class. AT
p. m. the pastor will preach on
The lost star" The program of spe-
ca music at the public services fol-
lows
oh. Little Town of Bethlehem.
.........-,.,....... H. w. Petrie
20 Night of Holy Memory. ......
ACCOMMODATIONS. Il. Wilson
There We're Shepherd" ...
................... .E. L. Ashford
Glory be to God" 1850. .E. S. Lorenz
Gloria" from Twelfth Mass. Mozart
"Hark, What Mean Those Holy /.
Noices%' '.............Ve Verdi SuddG
oh, Holy Night"
"Hark, The Holy Angels Sing"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
TURKEY BUYERS
CAUTION AGAINST
ALLEGED SWINDLE
Claimed That Thanksgiving Buyers OF
National Bird Paid Por Head
And Feet

Alleging that purchasers of Thanks
giving turkeys brought to town from
the country and sold at sixty cents per
pound with the feet and heads IN
side, were yictimized, complaint has
been made TO the local food admin
istration board, who are making in
vestigation.
The matter is given publicity at
this time in order that purchasers of
Christmas turkeys may take note The
head and feet of turkey of average
size, weighs about half pound, and
the purchasers paid thirty cents for
nothing
As the man and woman from the
country alleged to have been guilty of
selling these turkeys had so fowls, they
are said to have cleared SIS on heads
and feet One of the ladies who bought
one of these turkeys calls it swim
die" When cold storage turkeys
Are bought it is expected the head and
feet will be inside to increase the
weight, but this is not expected when
fresh turkeys are brought in from the
country and put on sale at the high
price of sixty cents pc rpound.
The local food administration has
set about to Investigate, and it is
hoped all buyers of Christmas turkeys
will look inside before paying for
weight of head and feet.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
BOY SCOUTS. INTENTION.

All Boy Scouts who want to aid the
Red Cross, and who are in position
to do so, are urgently requested TO
meet Mrs. George A. Moss, of special
committee in the Council of Defense
chamber in the Court of Appeals
building, adjoining the Methodist
church, at two o'clock tomorrow (Sun-
day afternoon) in order to make the
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call through
Annapolis
This isf the last call of the Red
Cross for active service in making this
Roll Call, and it is hoped that the Boy
Scouts will make every effort to rally
for this and keep up the splendid work
they have been doing.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
WORKING ON PLANS FOR
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

On January 7, the National Service
commission and Board of Church erec-
tion of the Presbyterian church will
send committees here to look over the
ground for the proposed new church
and consider the needs of such a
house of worship as proposed by the
Presbyterians in this community.
For several days the pastor, Rev.
Maurice s. White, has been in New
York, where he has been in consulta-
ton with men of affairs along this
particular line.
After an investigation of the site on
which it is proposed to build the new
church, supper table conference will
be held with the committee and trus-
tees and other officials of the local
church.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-21
GREAT ABUNDANCE OF
CHRISTMAS TREES

Christmas greens are being brought
to town in great abundance. Never
was there greater supply of cedar
and pine trees. holly, running cedar
and crows foot than there is this year
Every automobile returns to town
loaded with Christmas greens, and
wagon loads are being brought to
market each morning and find ready
sale.
Quantities of green are being bought
this year, as the real Christmas spirit
is extant because of the real Peace
and Good Will to Men"
st. Anne's ladies are busy making
garlands and wreaths for the church
decorations, and each day busy hands
are weaving garlands to decorate the
old church at Christmas season