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Evening star., 1918-02-22
u. S. WARNS FARMERS.
Tells Cotton. Growers Cold Spell Has
Not Rid South of Pest.

The Department of Agriculture has
warned cotton farmers that recent cold
weather in the south has by no means
exterminated the cotton boil weevil.
can be no doubt. the
department says. that the cold has re-
duced the number of weevils in some
sections. it is too much to expect that
they are absolutely exterminated
1T would be unfortunate if the pre-
vailing impression concerning the boil
weevil should increase the acreage of
cotton at the expense of food crops"
says department statement. AT the
present time what is most urgently
needed throughout the south is an in
creased production of food and feed
crops. There is every indication that
the normal acreage in cotton. with
proper cultivation, will give supply
of the staple sufficient for all pur-
poss&"
Evening star., 1918-02-22
BILL TRODUCED IN THE HOUSE
TO AMEND FEDERAL BANK LAWS
Banking and Currency Committee Chairman
Proposes Better Representation of Small
Institutions In Reserve Directorates.

Giving small banks better representa-
ton on federal reserve bank director
ates. a bill to amend the federal bank
laws was introduced by Chairman Glass
of the House banking and currency
committee following conferences with
the federal reserve board.
This measure also would increase
national bank privileges to a wider
scope Of fiduciary business than as ex-
ecutor and administrator. 1t aims to
clarity existing laws in other ways
One of the chief endeavors is to make
the federal reserve system attractive
to small state banks and trust COM
panies. 1t has no connection with the
twenty bills submitted by Controller
Williams for the improvement of the
national bank system. The intent of
the present law was to have one fed
eral reserve bank director from the
largest banks. one from the medium
sized banks and one from the. smaller
banks within a federal reserve district,
Evening star., 1918-02-22
OPIUM SUBSTITUTE FOUND.
New Agent From Which Medicines
Are Derived, Coal Tar Product.

NEW YORK. February 22.-Discovery
of a new agent as substitute for med
icines derived from opium was an
nounced Wednesday night by DIR. David
I. Macht of Johns Hopkins University
at the annual meeting of the Society
cine.
The substitute is coal tar derivative
and has been named benzyle benzolate.
1t has met with the approval of DR..
Brown. head of the intestinal clinic of
Johns Hopkins University Hospital. DR..
Macht said.
The new agent. DR.. Macht explained,
relaxes the muscles, giving the patient
the same beneficial effects as opium de-
rivatives without their Ill effects.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
WEATHER..

District Of Columbia and Maryland,
cloudy and warmer tonight, probably
rain or snow; tomorrow unsettled and
warmer; gentle southerly winds.
Virginia, partly cloudy and warmer to-
night and tomorrow; probably rain in
east portion tonight; gentle southerly
winds.
West Virginia, cloudy tonight and to-
morrow; probably snow in east portion
tonight; warmer.
Tide Tables.
Compiled by United States coast and
geodetic survey
Today-Low tide. 1903 Pm; high
tide. 5:36 am. and sos pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1897 am. and
1888 pm: high tide, 6:27 am. and 6:52
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose. s:52 am; sun sets.
5:52 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 6:51 am; sun
sets, 5:53 pm.
Moon rises 1904 pm.; sets. 1850 am.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the. readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Yesterd Pm. 25;
s Pm, 49, Il midnight, 81: today. am,
21; am. 10. Maximum. 26. at 4:30
pm. yesterday; minimum, 10. at am
today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum. SO; minimum. 80.
Observation-Disclosures 4 pm, 3069;
8 pm. 30.72: II midnight. 1868; today.
am, 50.62; s am, 30.55.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
o date in the war savings campaign

s30.763.11.
Students in the law department of
Georgetown University have purchased
upward of $1,000 worth of war savings
and thrift stamps. This was announced
today by Hugh J. Fegan, secretary of
the law school.
The members of the second year class
are today in the lead in stamp buying.
Collective subscriptions taken in the
school have amounted to $322.49, while
the members of the class purchased a
total of STATS worth of stamps from
outside sources.
At class meetings speakers have
urged the necessity of purchasing war
savings and thrift stamps, and COM
mittees were named to take care of the
work of the respective classes
Evening star., 1918-02-22
MOVING INTO QUARTERS
BUILT FOR WAR Use
Purchase Division, Bureau of Sup
plies and Accounts, Navy Depart
ment, Going to 9TH and B Sts.

The purchase division of the bureau
Of supplies and accounts. Navy Depart
ment. is moving from the War, State
and Navy building to the new struc-
lures at 7th and B streets. Since out
break of war this section, under Pay
master General Samuel MCGOWAN, has
been steadily growing. Up to the pres
ent time it has been housed in a four
story building Of frame construction, in
Sanda court. one of the courtyards
within the War State and Navy build
ing.
Owing to congested conditions
brought about by the massive pur-
chases being made for ships and yards
larger quarters were necessary. At the
present time about 10000 square feet
OF hoor space has been occupied. while
the new quarters will contain over 2O,-
900 square feet of floor space.
The division will occupy the first
floors Of two wings in the new build
ing on the 1th street side, south of 3
street. There are at the present time
about $50 employees in the purchase sec
tion alone.
Room Provided for Bidders.
Ample room has been provided in
the new quarters for bidders interested
in Navy purchases. as heretofore in the
award section. under Paymaster E. A.
Cobey.
Bids will be opened in public. as has
been the Navy custom. and the same
publicity will be continued.
The purchasing officers. Paymaster
John NJ. Hancock and his assistant, Pay
master Charles L. Parsons, will con-
tfnue at the head of this division at 7th
and B streets. The director of inland
traf1c, H. p. Anewalt, will also move
with the purchase section to the new
quarters.
The of'ice of Paymaster General Nc
Gowan and requisition. fling and other
sections will remain as at present in
the War, State and Navy building. The
various sections in the purchase sec
tions. which will be located at 7th and B
streets, include the contract, award
open purchase. legal. correspondence
Navy order. schedule. mailing, printing
and stationery. mailing list. steel. chem
icals and explosives. provision. textile
metal and lumber. The priority and
fuel sections will also remain in the
Navy Department.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Ordered to Camp Custer.

Maj. Gen. Chase W. Kennedy. for
merly commanding at Camp Dix. N. J..
has been ordered to Camp Custer. Bat
tie Creek. Mich. to command the s5th
National Army Division. in training
there. He relieves Maj. Gen. James
Parker, who has reached retirement
age.
Gen. Kennedy is just back from an
trip at the front in France.
Mai. Gen. Scott. former chief of staff.
now commands at Camp Dix.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Everything at Stake.

THE community has everything at stake
in this matter of education. for upon the
quality of its citizenship its happiness and
prosperity depend: yet. except through a
school board or an occasional interested
citizen, the community is as remote from
the inside Of the schoolhouse as it is from
the steppes of 'Turkestan-
BY the cataclySm of this great war
the forces of Industrial and social life.
the intellectual activities and, .above
all, the spiritual emotions of human
society have been stirred to their ut
termost depths. Before we skated on
the surfaces of things; now we are
looking into their ulimitabie depths
And I confidently believe that the
time will come. after the hurts and
ScrrowS of this great war have been in
some measure healed, when we in the
United States will. to use Lincoln's fine
phrase, 'solemnly rejoice that by this
cataclysm we were shaken to our very
founda tions, and that out of those deep
and catastrophe national emotions
were born the supreme men and women
who, l am certain. will issue. directly
or indirectly, from this worldwide
conflict. and who will make this be-
loved nation of ours not only the lead
er. but also the great exemplar of man
kind"
List of Graduates.
The graduates follow: Bachelor of
arts-Sum Nung Au-Young, China /;
ElizaDeth Aileen Davis, District of CO.
lumbia:. Harry kryger Harring. Dis
trict Of Columbia; Margaret Helena
Harvey. District Of Columbia; Peter
Hidnert. New York: George Henry
Partridge, District of Columbia; Talma
L Smith, Texas; Eleanor Winifred
Stanton. Rhode Island: Warren Jenni-
son Willis. Minnesota. Bachelor at arts
and diploma in education-Mary Evelyn
Steger. District Of Columbia. Bachelor
Of laws-Andrew Jackson Banks, Ohio:
Ernest L Chamberlain. Kansas; Luther
H. Heist, Pennsylvania: Charles Orr
Marshall with distinction). Nebraska +;
Laura Ellen Volstead. District of Co
1umbia: Robert Clement Watson. Dis
trict Of Columbia, and mechanical en-
gineer-Ernest Dean Walen, Massachu-
sets.
Evening star., 1918-02-22

gallon of gas. or 1.3Ss.sSs gallons,
which at 25 cents would make $347,222
TWO "pleasure-carless days would
double this war savings stamps invest
ment, and the saving on luncheons. din
ners. etc, would bring the aggregate to
nearly million dollars
Evening star., 1918-02-22

our complex educational systems come
to realize that they must make themselves
really efficient by using their plants to
capacity. by supervising the whole train
ing of the child. in school and out: by
making use Of the immense educative
power both of real work and of real play ::
by teaching those who are to be the
fathers and mothers of the future how
to make homes and how to fulfill their
obligations to society: by developing
children into self-respecting citizens, not
only by training them for democratic citi-
zenship. but by carefully helping them to
make for themselves a real place in the
social and economic world.
More than this. education in the United
States after the war will utilize, | be-
lieve, to degree far beyond present eX-
perience numerous aids and forces out
side the school, The home is far more in
terested in educating the child than is the
school: yet at scarcely single point do
these chief elements in the upbringing of
the boy and girl come into cooperation
or even into contact.
Evening star., 1918-02-22

Before the war the Germans con-
sumsd more fat per head than any
other European nation. To meet the
housewife has been ordered TO hand
over.to the authefities all the dripping
AbA, MAJ. bARAA .-,--.----,.- .->.-..-..---
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Situation Called Critical.

The economic ramifcations of this
Whoie delay in the movement of the
national harvest are almost countless.
and they present the most critical of
but continued expansion of the eff
forts of the railway administration in
the movement of foodstufYs in every
direction. to the exclusion of much
other commerce of the country. Con-
siderable progress has been made in
in the price of cereal commodities and
the failure to secure sufficient surplus
over immediate domestic consumption
to feed the allies are evidence that
there is still deficiency in food cars
and that they need be still further in
creased.
Comparisons of the movement from
day to day during the last few DAYS
with movements of similar periods last
year reflect the efforts being made by
however. long accumulation to be
got over within the next sixty days
The situation calls for every cooper
alton Of the public-through the quick
loading of cars, loading them to capac-
ity and discharging them quickly, and
in every way reducing the tax on the
railways. Cooperation can be given by
reduction in consumption and consump-
tion of home and local stores. to the
exclusion. SO far as may be, of trans
ported articles. If every interest CO.
operates We shall supply the allies and
remedy the distribution of cur abun-
dant domestic supplies, for our farms
are full of foodstuffs.
mo effort is being spared to move
allied food as fast as it can be accu-
mulated in the interior. and today the
railway directorate is arranging special
trains to carry meat and packing house
products from Chicago to load the wait
ing ships"
Evening star., 1918-02-22

A silver shell-shaped reIiQuary con-
tanning lock Of the hair of Milton. to-
gether with a lock Of hair of Elizabeth
barrett Browning. sold at auotien in
Londoa recently foeA4AoA
Evening star., 1918-02-22

1t pays to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds Of situations are
dIled through theH
Evening star., 1918-02-22
$1,000 Club Numbers Sixty.

Charles ]. Bell. president of the $1,000
Club, reported that the membership of
this club now amounts to sixty. This
means 100000 added to the Districts s
quota, and the club is expected to reach
500 members in the near future.
Samuel Hart. chairman of district IL,
reported that up to and including the
week of February l the mail carriers
in his district had sold $3.7S6.17 in
stamps and the agencies $2.l6337. Mr..
Hart, who is manager of Lansburgh &
Bros department store. has organized
a war savings and thrift stamp club
among the employees. This club has at
present $50 members. each taking a
certain number of stamps each week.
Gilbert H Grosvenor. chairman of
district 9. reported that there are now
$50 members in his district belonging
to the s100 Club. and that the Ma
tional Geographic Society agency has
sold to date total in stamps of $9,219.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Praises Real Estate Men.

Real estate men have served useful
purpose here and elsewhere said Sena-
tor William H. King of Utah. The sena-
tor spoke of the war and declared the
people of this country would have been
towards if the nation had not gone to
war. War calls for sacrifices and ii
will call for more" he said. ut matters
not how many men are called from this
country to fight in this great war, We
are going to send them
He stated that his son is about to be
sent over to France to fight, and he only
wished he had hundred sons to send
over. Il have twenty-one nephews and
they are all going to fight for tins
country he continued. 1T is an honor
to die for such country as this. VINO
wants to live in a country which is not
free We are going to advance, gong
to fight and fight on until the imperial
government of Germany is crushed, and
thus make the world safe for democ-
racy."
Charles w. Fairfax. president OF the
association, was toastmaster. In open
ing the banquet Mr.. Fairfax called at
tention to the title of the dinner pull
Together" and said it was not taken
at random. but it was selected be
cause it indicates the attitude OF the
members of the association toward each
other, which, he said. means more
rapid development of the National
Capital
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Your Money

No fake or questionable ad-
vertising is allowed in The Star.
Millions of dollars are saved
by people who have been wise
enough to consult banker be-
fore investing in worthless Sc.
curities. You should do like.
wise.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Reviewed Association.

The POSTMASTER gave history of the
association and praised the work OF the
former presidents. He declared the real
estate men have succeeded in keeping
down rentals to normal basis in more
than 90 per cent of the cases and that
he felt they will continue in their ef-
forts along this line. He said he had
no fear that any legislation will pass
Congress that will work an injury or
injustice to the real estate men or to
their patriotic landlords. He said that
if the members of Congress and the
Real Estate Association pull together
the entire population of nearly half
million souls in the National Capital
will realize great benefit.
Il hope ] will be in Congress long
enough to see the residents of Wash
ington have representation in the halls
of Congress-" said Senator James Reed
of Missouri. II don't see why You
should not have a voice up there"
The senator said he felt there had
been some profiteering in rentals in
this city but that it was not done by
the real estate brokers. He praised
the residents of Washington who have
opened their homes and taken in young
girls and young men from various parts
of the country, that they might live
here while working to help the gov
ernment in the war.
of Colorado and James A. Frear of Wis
consin and Commissioner Louis Brown
low also made brief addresses.
Evening star., 1918-02-22

AN ANNUITY IN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
Company will give certain income for life, guar
anteed BY over six hundred and thirty three
million dollars. Applications received by
THOMAS p. MORGAN MANAGE.
Rooms 423429 Southern Building
Evening star., 1918-02-22
BIGGEST FOOD CRISIS OF WAR,
SAYS HOOVER, DUE IN 60 DAYS
Nation Will Be on Short Rations, Admin
istrator Declares, Because Railroads
Have Failed in transportation Crisis.

least amount of grain that must be
loaded for the next sixty days is 5000
900 bushels per day-and we have not
yet attained that. Less than this will
solve neither the allied nor our domes-
tic situation.
I'VE had about 900 carloads of po-
tatoes on November l which should
have been moved from the principal
producing centers, and up to the lst
of February we had moved about 2S.-
600 carloads, while we should have
moved more than $4,000 in this period.
The result is that potatoes are piled up
the consuming centers have only been
supplied by virtue of the summer gar
dens and other stores carried over from
last year. There is great deal of
livestock which has been ready for the
market for some time. but is still held
in the farmers hands through inability
to secure transportation. These cattle
are eating their heads off without in
creasing their meat value and are only
adding to the costs of the farmer and
consuming the grain.
Effect Of Delayed Movement.
The effect of this delayed movement
has been many fold:
"First-To jeopardize the safety of a
great deal of the soft corn and perish
ableS, such as potatoes.
Second-The structure in flow of dis
tribution has entirely disturbed the
price conditions in the country by
practically suspending the law of sup
ply and demand. The margins between
the farmer and the consumer in many
commodities were never wider than
they are today, because the consuming
trades are undersupplied and the farm
ers compete for transportation. Prices
of the coarse grains have reached un-
heard of levels, while the limited
transportation has diminished the
farmers returns.
"Third-The cost of grains for feed
ing livestock has SO increased to the
feeders of finished cattle that they face
serious losses. The costs of the dairy
ing industries have necessarily greatly
increa sed.
"Fourth-Through the large consum-
ing areas we have been living off re-
serves through the period of scant sup
plies. These reserves are in many sec
tions approaching exhaustion.
'Fifth-We have been unable to
transport to seaboard the necessary
foodstuffs for the allies. This has not
been due so much to the actual inabil-
lty of the railways giving priority to
foodstuffs for allied shipping as it has
been to bringing products from the
farms to the terminal markets, where
they can be aggregated, prepared and
purchased By the allies.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Sales BY Colored Workers.

At recent meeting of the colored
war savings stamp committee at Freed
mems Hospital, Rev. D. Z. W1seman
and DR.. w. A Warfield reported that
during "war savings week" total OF
S6S44.S6 in stamps was sold among
the colored people of the city; 10000,
homes were visited by members of the
committee and 100 speeches were de-
livered in churches, theaters and asso-
cia ation halls.
Members of the committee that made
the house-to-house canvass were Mrs
Elvinia Hill, Mrs. Cora Wilkinson, Mrs.
Frace Waters, Miss Alice v. Williams.
Miss Taylor, Mrs. Mary Butler, Mrs. A
j. Webster, Mrs Pride. Mrs. Sarah Min
kins, Mrs. Mayne Jones. Miss Mary
Wilson. Sadie Tyler, Mrs. Hettie Powell,
Miss Craig, Mrs. Rosetta Lawson, MIS-
Susie Fountain, Mrs. Frances Lewis.
Mrs. Briggs. Mrs. Helen q. Alexander
Mrs c. ]. Webster Mrs. Francis Lewis,
Mrs Julia Hayes, Mrs Medora Moxley,
Alice V. Williams, Emma Smith, MISS
Hill, Anna Thompson. Mrs. Gasklns.
Mrs. Stewart, Martha Liggons, Julia
Hall, Mrs. Mary Dent and Hannah
Morris.
At the weekly meeting of the execu-
tive committee yesterday afternoon the
first reports were made since the war
savings week" drive. The largest report
made was that of Supt. Ernest L.
Thurston, covering the public schools
of the city. The total sales in the
airy Is, were S71.250.S2. The sales of
the week of February 5 were the larg-
est of any week since the beginning OF
the campaign. totaling s15,19246 The
total of pledges to date among the
school children is s2o,1s5.
Evening star., 1918-02-22
BUYING OF BABY BONDS
RATED PATRIOTIC DUTY
Meetings Held Today in Interest OF
War Savings and Thrift
Stamps.

A big boost in the sale of war saw
ings and thrift stamps is expected to-
day. owing to the many patriotic gath
erines. Postmen and policemen will
be in evidence wherever there is
meeting today to aid in the sale OF the
baby bonds"
Stamps were sold at the celebration
in the Sunday Tabernacle this morning.
Director D. ]. Callahan addressed the
meeting of the Association of Oldest IN
habitants at the old engine house, lstn
and H streets northwest. at noon POST
men were on hand, as well as ponce
men. and sold many stamps TO those IN
attendance. Pledge cards were dis
tributed, so that every one could have
an opportunity to start on the road to
thrift by aiding the government at the
same time.
Evening star., 1918-02-22

~ .loee years the pnySlcaI and mental
health. the character. the aims and
practically the life career of the indi-
Stdual are for all time determined Yet
q large proportion Of those precious
twenfy-one years are now thrown away
because OF the ignorance Of parents as
70 what education means. because of
the adherence Of schools to traditions
which have meant nothing since me
dieva1 days. because Of our fear of
teaching Immediately practical and
useful things. because of our queer
notions that work is a curse and that
play has no training value. because We
create vast educational plants and then
use them to one-fifth Of their capacity.
because. in short. We do not take a hu-
man being seriously until he becomes a
man. until the precious period in which
he might. have been made a real man
and an effective citizen has irrevocably
yassed-
The first lesson that education Itself
must learn is mat it is a serious business
serious. because it deals with the prime
asset Of mankind: a business because IL
has a certain definite task to do. and a
limited time in which to do it. and should
conserve every minute and every resource
Of that short training period. Most cur.
rent education cannot presume to call it.
0elf. however, either serious or hDsness.
like. for il leaves four-ffths Of its tash
10 be performed haphazard. on the streets
and u by-ways: because it still regard.
into Its stereotyped machinery: not as q
human intellect and soul to be individua1ly
9sveloped; becanse II sublimely ignores al
he experience and teaching Of other busi.
1ssses: because. while spending grea,
yeuportion Of the national revenue, Il fell
no Obligation to render any specific re-
eufnD for thOoe expenditure and naakel
NO. study ~ the s6sciency Of the Output
1he war VIII almca hsva hsel voeth
y-42D3to 6SthHnngb, The 1870, r Uf1S 4nn&h
Evening star., 1918-02-22
Fears Loss in Soft Corn.

Furthermore. this year we have the
largest percentage of soft corn in many
years, and though we have a record
crop of corn. considerable portion of
the soft corn will be lost by spelling
unless it can be moved in the next sixty
days to the drying terminals. The