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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
RECORD|N Travel
FROM AND TO HERE
1886, 900 Left in Nine Days
Preceding Christmas, and
256,555 Arrived.
MANY GO PERMANENTLY

Three hundred and thirty-fve
thousand people left Washington by
train in. the nine days preceding
Christmas day. and 256.555 arrived
here, leaving a net population loss of
7S,445.
Many of these, Director General Nc
Adoo says in his report, are war
workers and will not return. The
business altogether was one-third
larger than any business done by the
railroads during the same period.
ut will no doubt be many years
before the railroads are again called
upon to handle anything like the
same volume of traffic at this point"
says Mr.. McAdoo.
Ticket Office Kept Busy.
The revenue from the tickets sold
amounted to s73199S.23. There were
111.369 transactions in tickets at the
Washington Office. The total number
of persons stopping off in Washing
ton for the holidays was 223,63l.
Very little confusion, practically no
congestion and no greater delays than
under the circumstances could be ex-
pected were experienced in handling
the immense traffic, the director gen
eral. said. Summarizing the report,
Mr.. McAdoo authorized the following:
1.-The number of pieces of baggage
handled was 5000 and the number of
parcels handled in the parcel room
s7.7sO, an increase of so per cent over
a year ago. The number of meals
served at the restaurant was one-thlrd
larger than a year ago.
Many Cars Are Required.
ITO handle this large volume Of
traffic there was operated out of
Washington 2,055 sleeping cars and
1905 passenger coaches, being an in
crease over a year ago of $50 sleeping
cars and $50 coaches. The sleeping
cars, if placed end to end, would reach
thirty miles. 1t is estimated that Co.,
600 people were furnished accommo-
dations in these cars. The sleeping
car laundry work is done in Wash
ington.
"There were required 2S7,700 pillow
slips, 493, 200 towels, $4,000 sheets;
each sleeping car was equipped with
six white coats for the porters or a
total of 1880. Owing to careful prepa-
ration, practically every one who ap-
piled for sleeping car accommodations
was accommodated. Extra baggage
transfer forces were provided and
Christmas day there was no delayed
baggage left over in the station, as
has generally been the case.
THE smoothness and lack Of con-
fusion with which the business was
conducted this year is due to the fact
that it was all directed by one au-
thority, which co-ordinated the work
of all departments of all the roads
Complete information was obtainable
and there was no change in the origi-
nal plans, which is always the case
where a large number of roads and
officials are working independently of
each other, considering the interests
and needs of their own traffic, rather
than that of the entire volume of
travel.
"Such adequate cooperation and Co
ordination would have been impossible
under diversified control"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
THE. WEATHER..

District Of Columbia, generally fair
today and tomorrow: no decided tenn
perature change: gentle winds, mostly
west and southwest.
{ Maryland and Virginia. fair today
except light snow in the mountains.
Monday fair; gentle winds, mostly
west and southwest
West Virginia, cloudy today: snow
in the mountains. Monday, fair; some
what warmer.
Yesterdays Temperatures.
! Midnight. 81; 2 am. 80; 4 am, %;
noon, 90; 9 pm, "a; 4 pm, 35; PM,
3d.; pm, 81; 10 pm, 81. Highest So
lowest, 26.
Relative Humidity.
. s. am, rs; pm. SO; 8 pm, 81.
Rainfall e am. to s p.m.), trace: hours
of sunshine, so. Percent OF possipie
sunshine, .53. 49,.
Departures
accumulated excess of temperature
since January l, 1913. $40.
Excess Of temperature since Decem-
accumulated deficiency of precipita-
ton since January 1. 1913. 6.84.
Excess Of precipitation since Deem
Der I, 1913, 1.57.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, Al; lowest, 10.
Tide Tables.
compiled by United States coast and
+ geodetic survey
sToday-Low tide, 1924 am: high
tide, 4:57 am. and Sis pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1913 am. and
1912 pm; high tide, SAY am. and
sos pm.
The Sun and Moon.
-Today-Sun rose, 1895 am; sun sets,
.5Tomorrow-sun rises, 1927 am; sun
Moon rises 1902 am; sets. 2.o1 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Ta,,,poro f,1re in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
WOU[DLET ARMY
MEN0UT At ONCE
Senator Curtis to Introduce
Bill Directing Discharge Of
Five Classes.

a bill directing the Secretary Of
War to grant honorable discharges
Immediately to certain classes Of men
in the Army who apply for discharge
has been prepared for introduction
in the Senate by Senator Curtis of
Kansas. Senator Curtis has reached
the conclusion, like many other MEM
berS Of Congress, that the demobiliza-
ton of the Army, now that the war
is practically over, is going too slow
and that men who are needed in their
homes and in the industries are being
retained in the service when they
should be released Immediately.
Five Glasses Suggested.
The bill provides for the immediate
release of men in the following five
classes, upon their application for
discharge:
home who need their services or
assistance.
Q Men who desire to finish a
school or college course.
g. Men who desire to engage in
ihS OdSahSoS, ~ OhS7s''oAA' 90
industrial or other enterprise or
calling which needs their attention in
| whole or in part.
4. Men who desire to accept any
employment or place, which openings
might be lost to them in case of their
. retention in the service.
). Men who are sick, but whose
parents or relatives are able to give
the soldiers better care and attention
than they are now receiving.
Says Discharge Refused Men.
Senator Curtis said yesterday he had
had his attention called to number
of cases where men who were soreiy
needed at home were being refused
discharges. He said he had heard Of
one training camp where threats to
take away all holiday privileges and
to hold the men anyway had been
made by the officer in charge unless
the applications for discharge were
Withdrawn.
Senator Harry New of Indiana, who
took up with the War Department
recently the question of having SOL
diers who desire to finish school and
college courses discharged without
further delay, has been Informed by
the War Department that such a
course is not practicable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
WILL ACT ON BILL
I0PAY CONTRACTS
House Committee Told Firms
Face Bankruptcy Unless
Informal Orders: Stand.
MEASURE up JANUARY 2

Impressed with the statement Of Sec
and his assistant secretaries, Crowerl and
Stettinius, that bankruptcy faces<many
industrial concerns in this country uIs-
less the government settles the informal
contracts its agents made with the con-
Germs, the House ruless committee yes
terday voted to report a special rule
January providing for the immediate
Chairman Dent of the military affairs
committee validating these contracts.
Cause of Unemployment.
At a hearing yesterday Assistant
Secretary Crowell told the rules COM
mittee that inability of these con-
Germs to resume work is already ap-
parent by an increasing unemploy-
ment following the return Of dis
charged soldiers. More than $1,675,-
100000 is involved in contracts which
were made verbally or by telegraph
or telephone with manufacturers and
contractors in the United States and
thousands Of others involving mil
lions of dollars are held by manufac-
turers in France and England and in
neutral countries. The legislation de-
manded would permit the government
to fulfill its just obligations, the COM
mittee was told.
These contractors have their work.
ing capital tied up" Mr.. Crowel eX-
planned. "A resumption of their
business cannot proceed and few of
these industries have gone to work.
The department has received kilograms
from many saying that bankruptcy
proceedings would result in a week
and others say two weeks unless they
get a settlement. Banks also are
looking sheptically at these con-
tracts"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
PUBLICITY GIRLS HOSTS
. TO WOUNDED SOLDIERS
Hospital Convalescents Entertained
By Jolly Club Of Treasury
Department.

More than one hundred wounded
soldiers, convaleScentS at Walter Reed
Army General Hospital, young pa
triots who have lost an arm or leg or
have otherwise been wounded in serv-
ice overseas, were guests last night
of the Jolly Publicity Club of the bu-
reau of publicity, United States Treas
ury, in the old Business High School
building at c2S LIST street, near the
Capitol.
The third floor of the big structure
was decorated with large American
flags and buntingS furnished by the
Treasury Department, Elliott Woods,
Superintendent of the Capitol, and NJ.
G. Copeland. In the center of the ball
room a massive Christmas tree lighted
with tiny red, white and blue mean
effect.
Gifts for All.
There was a well filled stocking for
each guest, containing candies, cigar
cites and a pipe and a package of
smoking tobacco. From the tree was
also distributed a good-Sized package
wrapped in a military handkerchief
almost the size of small table cloth,
containing two pairs OF hand-knlt
wooden socks, toilet and shaving ar
ticles, writing material and 1.-The maxi
ms. In addition, tnere was an dDun-
dance Of apples, oranges and other
fruit.
In another room, seating more than
800 persons, banquet was served at
IL o'clock. Fred n. Carr Of the bureau
of publicity, presided at table. He
was assisted by Miss Kathryn Marie
Dunkle.
The Washington Railway and Elec-
trio. Company supplied a special car
to transport the guests from the hos
pital to the entertainment and take
them back at midnight.
The entertainment was opened with
the singing of 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" The address of welcome was
by Fred N. Carr. There were solos
by Miss Florence Giourd, Miss Rusher
and Alban Whalen and violin solo
by Miss Grace BalSer.
Chairmen of the committees pro-
yiding the entertainment were Fred
n. Carr, president; Miss Minnie Bard
well, vice president; Mrs. Nettie Lon
ergan, secretary; Miss kathryn Dun
kle. treasurer: musical committee.
Mrs. Emma Smith, Mrs. CleeveS; deco
rations, Mrs. Page, Mrs Cole, Mrs.
Weston; entertainment, Miss Bard
well; refreshments, Mrs. NJ. E. Doo-
Ian, Mrs. NJ. Edmonston, Mrs. w.
LyleS.
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SAYS F0cI o.K.'s ELECTIONS.
German Report as to Rhineland,
However. Denied in Paris.

PARIS, December % (Havas).-A
German wireless dispatch carries a
report that Marshal F'och has author
lied elections for the national assem-
bly, to be held in the occupied re-
gions of the Rhineland.
The Echo de Paris says this state
ment is at least premature, as Mar
shall Foch has not yet raised the
ments and therefore could not have
given a reply of any sort to an ap-
plication from the Germans for per-
mission to hold the elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29

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Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit
blowing and snufing! Ease your
throbbing head! Nothing else in
the world gives such prompt re-
lief rs "Pape's Cold Compound"
which costs only. q few cents at
any drug store. 1t acts without as
sistance, tastes nice, causes no in
convenience. Be sure you get the
genuine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
Relief comes instantly.

NSIICI CVNISS HH0k0HOys
A dose taken every two hours
until three doses are taken will
end grippe misery and break up
severe cold either in the head,
chest, body or limbs.
1t promptly opens clogged-up
n0strils and air passages in the
head. stops nasty discharge or nose
running, relieves sick headache,
dullness, feyerishness, sore throat,
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
GOLDFISH MARKET OF JAPAN
Koriyama and Tokyo Are Leading
Centers of Industry From Which
Good Returns Are Gained.

Koriyama is known throughout
Japan as the great goldfish market,
the city of Tokyo ranking next in i'm
portance, says a correspondent. The
waters around the former city seem
particularly suitable for the culture OF
the manyskinds of gold fish.
Generally speaking the gold fish lay
eggs in April, the eggs being Matched
in four or five days. No food IS given
the younglings for three days, but they
are then fed finely ground yolks OF
eggs mixed with water, the yolks be-
ing first boiled then strained through
silk cloth. This diet is later changed
to the larvae of mosquitoes
The most valuable fish is called
the Lion Head" which gets it's name
from the crests or head fins that nave
the appearance of a lions name.
Th~ree-year-old fish Of this variety COM
mand prices ranging from So to $50.
1t is the usual custom to keep the
fish in glass bowls, although the fish
cannot fully develop under such cir
cumstances. Flat boxes made OF wood
free from Iye or shallow cement ponds
are considered ideal for keeping the
fish.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Experts Perilous Task.

One of the thrilling and hazardous
duties which. sometimes falls to the
lot of game experts and wardens In
mountainous regions of the West is
to search out eagles nests, rob them
of their eggs, and perhaps take the
young captive, says Popular Mechan-
les Magazine. The perils of the task
are not all passed when, with a rope
ladder or by other precarious means,
he has assembled or descended to the
aerie, for then the intruder must face
the powerful grown birds at close
range, and often when he cannot de-
fend himself to advantage. The
searcher for the lofty nests also finds
that the young fifty or sixty days old,
can become disagreeably aggressive.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Monks and the SilkWorm.

About the year $50 two PERSIA
monks stole furtively out of China
with scanty luggage, but ~treasuring an
ordinary bamboo Inc They set out
on foot and made their way from China
into Europe. In that cane were q null
titude of the eggs of the silkworm
moth, which the monks had stolen.
They carried them to Constantinople.
When the time came for the hatch
ing of the eggs the monks tended the
little c%aterpiIlars, fed them on the
leaves of the mulberry, took their CO.
coons when they spun, and from them
derived the first silk produced in Eu-
rope. Silk had for centuries before
been a treasure of China, and its man
%ufacture, like the insects which pro-
duced it, vas jealousy guarded. The
monks, while on a missionary enter
prise to China, had witnessed the whole
process of silkworm rearing and the
manufacture of silk.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22

10 any person uHioss
such person pur.
chases at the same time one pound OF
substitutes with every pound of wheat
flour purchased. He shall not sell to
individual residing in
towns or cities any quantity in excess
of one-eighth to one-fourth barrel, nor
to any individual in rural
or farm communities in excess of one
fourth to on,2-half barrel. In the
proclamation it also states that corn
meal, corn starch, hominy, grits, bar
ley flour, rolled oats, oatmeal, rice,
rice flour, potato flour and soya bean
flour are substitutes and may be used
in making bread, separately OF mixed,
as the housewife thinks best.
Sugar must not be sold by the
Wholesale to the retail merchant in
more than 1%,000-pound lots. The re-
taller must sell sugar to the consumer
in towns or cities in %two-pound and
five-pound packages, and five-pound
and 10-pound packages to rural con-
sumers. The price should not be in
excess of those approved by the food
administrator Of this state.
On February 9th the food admins
tration ruled that between February
II, 1918, and April 80, 1918, that
no dealer in poultry and eggs pur-
chase, sell, ship or negotiate the sale
of any live or freshly killed hens or
pullets. Every effort on the part of
the United States Food Administra-
ton is being made to increase and
conserve food supplies
A million men may be in France in
a few months. Keep the lines open
and the food moving.
Tell me what you eat and I will
tell you what you are.
Let meatless and wheatless be kick
less and whineless.
Patriot is as patriot eats.
Meatless days and wheatless days
are sure steps toward fishtfess days.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
TELLS ABOUT MERlNO SHEEP
Writer Accounts for Thick Folds IN
Fleece, Not to Be Found in Other
Popular Breeds.

Just about every so often | get to
feeling sheepish, as it We're, n have
to write something to show my famil-
iarity with those animals, says Strick-
land Gillian in Farm Life.
The other day / saw my wife cook
Ing a leg of lamb. Now and then she
would open the door of the over anu
flip some water over the meat.
Thus l learned how, when we start
to roast somebody, we may be said to
be giving him a lamb-basting.
You have often heard of sheepfolds,
haven't you? Well, if you want to see
a ~sheepfold look at any merino sheep,
which accounts for the way the folds
show on them.
When merino sheep were made, hide
was cheaper than mutton and wool
was a drug on the market. So a wee
bit of sheep was wrapped in several
sheepskins, necessitating a lot OF over
laps. 1t seems easier to shir a sheep
than to shear
There is an old rhyme which speaks
of the "folded flock" Those must
have been merinos. 1t is some nifty
stunt to de-wooi a merino and leave
on more of the hide than of the wool.
It is the only accordion plated sheep
in the solar system. If merinos had
been washed in green persimmon juice
all their lives they couldn't have been
puckereder.
Evidently their mammals didn't use
Chat kind of) SOAP
The Southdown, O%Xforddown, Shrop-
shire-down, ETC., are sheep with clean
dresses and dirty hands and faces.
The only sheep that wear bustles
are the fat rumped sheep now being
raised at the state college at Brook
ings, s. d. They carry a trailer,
something like a locomotive, only there
isn't a tender behind, except for eating
purposes.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
Fishing Village That Floats.

In the shadow of the huge Manhat-
tan bridge which connects New York
proper with Brooklyn nestles a veri-
table fishing village consisting Of nine
two-story houseboats moored side by
side so as to form a solid row and
,sheltering the fishermen and their fam
lilies, on whom New York city is de-
pendent for a good part of its fish sup
ply. But unless you are familiar with
the vagaries of fish and the localities
In which they school in certain sea-
sons you need not 60 In search Of this
village. Often it disappears from q
locality overnight. without. any fare
wells, reappearing as quietly q
few months later.-Popular Science
Monthly.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
UNITED STATES
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
BY HARPER LEIPER,
Public Information Director.
REGULATE SALE OF FOOD

On January 9th the presidents
proclamation and rules governing the
distribution of foodstuffs was pub
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22

IlSHeu III al CHo
leading papers in the
United States. 1t con-
tanned the following
requirements:
Retailers s h
not sell wheat flopr
to any person unless
such person pur.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22

Times like the present, when the
subject of supply and cost is being
discussed by everyone, it is well for
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
ELECTRIC BLANKET INVENTED.

One Of the latest electrical inven-
tons is an electric blanket which is
designed especially for outdoor sleep
ers. The blanket is said to have a
heating area of four by six feet and
can be regulated to an even tempera-
ture from 80 to 112 degrees by a
switch placed near the head Of tn
sleeper.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
LIKE ONE or THE FAMILY.

MY daughter tells me that when
she came here to your Office yesterday
you kissed her.
But, my dear sir, no disrespeet
INTENDED. Why, if it had been my
own wife or mother I should prob
ABLY have done the same thing
Judge.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
No. 4521
No. 1921
Report of the condition of the
First National Bank

at Tupelo, in the State of Mississippi, at the
close of business, March 4th, 1918.
RESOURCES
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
UNITED STATES
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
BY HARPER LEIPER,
Public Information Director.
COMPARISON OF PRICES

Times like the present, when the
discussed by everyone, it is we'll for
- us to look back into
Me&%&sM history a few years
MNEGNM and see what prices
M RGTwnM have been charged
8&kA h24%1 for like commodi-
VA1EH1AW ties in this country
NSMSgNgW during other val Pc
RODS.
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams,
the second president of the United
States, in a letter to her husband,
quoted these prices: Meat, 81 to 50
per pound; corn, $25 per bushel; rye,
$50 per bushel; potatoes, $40 per bush
ell; molasses, $12 per gallon; flour, SIS
per hundredweight; cider, $40 per bar
rel; cheese, 81 per pound; butterine,
So per pound; sugar, So per pound.
In 1879 sugar rose to 81 per pound
and tea the same. In 1880 butter sold
for $12 per pound and tea for $40.
Such were the prices in revolution
airy times, when we were only trying
to carry on a war and feed ourselves
at the same time.
Now, however, u task is greater,
for we must not only fight and feed
ourselves at the same time, but we
must furnish most of the food for the
allies, if we are to win this war.
Whom mpot naoEQrc ond hoto1 an,
boast of meat saved on meatless Tues
day it is time for every private citi.
g to tally his pounds.
Little bits of bacon,
Little grains Of wheat,
Civ the soldiers body
Energy and heat
s@sss
The food situation among the allies
Is grave, yet in America there is food
enough and to spare.
Germany is short of fats. Let the
American pig lick the kaiser of the
Huns. =
To be a slave to appetite now is to
line up as one of the kaiser's allies.
ass~
Are you producing Quaker coal or
clinkers?
Cook the kaisex's goose on your own
cook stove.
Spread butter thin; there's a war to
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
THE REAL CAUSE.

"Was it your going SO fast which
hurt you in the collision"
mo, madam it was the stopping
$50 quick"
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22

us to look back into
history a few years
and see what prices
have been charged
for like commodi-
ties in this country
during other war Pc
RODS.
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
DUBIOUS.

"Did the artist do the handsome
thing about Jones' ~portrait?"
"Well, there are some ugly rumors
about it."
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
ITS NATURE.

81 believe that witness told the
naked truth"
CHATS what l call a bare infer
The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
A STRONG

care you going to that plymouth
Rock church entertainment"
No: | don't care for these ole
hen parties"
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-02-22
Spor Slom / 5ululono.

Gurbar, 9tatnl, ben t0oe 6ebr.:
GSoriinfet). Wtinoit 90 Guroppere
IapneS og ct irort INITIAL Snbieote
or ontagelig orfommet Ion 6eIgc
al en- pololom SIoru / llmuolo'i
Sufferoiitrift / 3ululnio. Gn for
i9rNelig Hegnitorm f~refltalotc Ell
pllloIelig SIom / lllnpoloiiilo6en.
Tan6et fom io5Ien6e ncooper hs;t
lont cit SGg og ouerflommeoc CIT
bel 9anosbp ! SitfferoiItriftet i
0albunben.
en- itor @ro ober Slo0en zoe
logbeS, Sernboicitatiorcn og SO.
teuet repeS bort al SIomnren, Sun.
oreoer al S~nOfsoteS ,Sptter soc.
lagoes oJ leIagrai. % Seleion.
lin1crne afbre0e2.
6lommcn bar Iagt ltorc Sin,
oringer / @eier for Geonirgsor.
beibet. Wo1,ge az De operlepen6c
er ~irrunoebe oppe paa Sogct al en-
itor Sllfferiabrif. Ena apiten or
Der o8ian anrettct flor Sfaoe.