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The Washington times., 1918-01-28
NO FRAULEN CAN WEAR
MARINE CORPS INSIGNIA

PARIS ISLAND. S. C., Jan. 2s.-No
trauleIn, or whatever 1t Is they call
a pin-feathered broiler Under den Lin.
den, will ever sport q marine corps
ornament at the end of her hat pin
IL the oath taken today by a recruit
company OF United States marines In
training here means anything. This
company designation and destIna,
ton deletsd by csnsorl, in formal con.
elaye, sUore to destroy their corps
devices and to lose their lives II
need be rather than see their honored
emblem fall into the hands of the
enemy to be worn by his women as q
token OF victory.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
SAILOR BOY WRITES
D. c. MOTHER Of HIS
CHR|STMASAT SEA

Letters with considerable joy in
them are being received almost week
ly by the mother of a Washington lad
who is somewhere in the Atlantic in
foreign service on one OF the biggest
battleships in the United States navy.
The boy Is william Charles Ryan, the
son OF Mrs. Margaret Ryan, 1927
Tenth street northwest. and grandson
Of NJ. C. Morgan. 1924 B street south
west. for forty years an employe of
the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing.
William Ryan is one OF the best
known boys in the city OF Washing
ton. He enlisted only a few months
ago. and the great life of the navy in
war time Is constant source of won
derment and delight to him. He is a
prolific writer, but when his letters
are read II is easily seen that the
source OF his Inspiration is the in
tense love the lad has for his mother.
He Is an only son.
Christmas Letters.
1t is only recently that the letters
describing the Christmas celebration
on the big ship have been received.
indicating that Sailor Ryan il a long
way on.
On the day before Christmas this
Washington sailor boy wrote an endear-
ing letter to his mother. in which he de-
scribed the Blue Jacket Christmas tree !:
The boys are having a wonderful
time" he wrote. I'VE have a Christmas
tree. One OF fthe fellows Is going to be
Santa Claus. There are going to be
many children here tomorrow. and the
boys are making things look fine. One
OF the fellows Is dressing the tree right
now. You ought TO hear the boys tall.
One fellow Just said to one OF the others.
Don't worry, you have some kinds at
home yourself. and this time next year
you will be dressing a tree for them
He said he hoped so.
I'VE all hope to be home this time
next year"
This advance description written on
Christmas Eve was thoroughly justified.
The Washington sailor boy could not
resist writing again on Christmas day
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
JAPAN URGED TO
TAKE MORE ACTIVE
PART IN THE WAR

TOKYO. Jan. 2s.-An imprisoned
denunciation OF the Terauehl mia
istry, and an eloquent plea that japan
enter more vigorously into the. was
for democracy. was delivered today m
the House Of Representatives hY'
former Minister OF Justice OzakL
He lamented the indifference TO
war" in japan, and demanded that
the nation increase aid extended The
allies, with whom he said relations
were becoming strained due to the
governments policy.
"The entente" he asserted, as light
ing for democracy, but the Japaneso
ministry represents militartsm."
Ozaki urged that Japan state her
war aims and wanted to know why
II was the British and American war
ships were at Vladivostok when Ja-
pans agreement with America was 20
protect allied interests in the Pacific.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged
NoStrils and End Head Colds.

You feel fine in a few moments.
Your cold IN head or catarrh will be
gone. Your clogged nostrils will
open. The air passages Of your
head will clear and you can breathe
freely. No more dizziness. head
aches; no hawking. snuffling, mu-
coUs discharges or dryness; no
struggling for breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want a
small bottle OF Ely's Cream Balm
Apply a little OF this fragrant, an
tiseptic cream In your nostrlls, let
II penetrate through every air pas
sage Of the head: soothe and heal
the swollen, inflamed mucous mem
brane, and relief comes instantly.
II Is just what every cold and ca
tarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay
stuffed-up and miserable.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
FOE TAKE PRISONERS
IN LANGEMARCK RAID

LONDON. Jan. 2s.-Three British
soldiers were missing after an enemy
raid on an advanced post northeast
OF LanEemarck last night. Field
Marshal HaIg reported today.
Around Leverguier stray hostile
reconnoisterinE parties were dIspers-
cd by IRE at night. Southwest of
Cambria and north OF the Lens
PassehendAeIe sector hostile artillery
was reported active,
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
WASHINGTONMECCA
FOR COMPOSERS OF
PATRIOTIC SONGS
washington is the mecca of pa

Washington Is the mecca OF pa
triotic song writers.
From a stirring song, ''Uncle Sam"
introduced by Mrs. Newton d. Baker
and composed by a friend OF hers, to
song poems without music and song
music without words, almost every
conceivable form of the musicians pa
trIotic expression has been submitted
TO the entertainment committee of the
District War Service Commission.
So numerous have been the requests
for ~try-outs" OF new songs at camp
entertainments that Robert Bell, pro-
ducing manager of the commissiOn's
entertainment committee, has been
obliged to appoint a separate branch
OF his committee to pass upon the
songs to determine their merit.
Fifty Songs Submitted.
IT believe that at least fifty songs
have been submitted to me in the last
two weeks" said Mr.. Bell yesterday,
~and with the volume of work in
volved In booking, rehearsing, and
staging some twelve or fifteen shows
a week, have had little or no time to
look over the songs. I have had to
appoint some members of the commit
tee for that purpose"
Miss Elizabeth Howry, who is
chairman of the entertainment com
mittee of the District War Service
Commission, has undertaken to organ
ize q branch on music in accordance
with the suggestion.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28

In every instance we consider the indi-
vidual circumstances of the customer and
arrange for small weekly or monthly pay
merits that will suit their convenience. We
require no notes and charge no interest.
This form of helpful credit enables one
to afford the best and the most economical.
We have earned a reputation for carrying
only the most reliable goods; comparison
will show you that our prices are as low and
in many cases lower than you can find else
where; and time will prove to you that our
furniture and carpets and rugs give all the
service that could possibly be expected from
them.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
SPANISH SHIP SUNK.

MADRID. Jan. 2S.-A German sub
marine yesterday pilIaged and sank
the Spanish steamer GiraIda, Of 400
tons. The crew was saved.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28

During the past few months it has been
our pleasure to give an extra amount of
credit help to hundreds of young married
couples and to many of the people who have
lately come to Washington to enter govern
ment service. We've made the terms of
their charge accounts much easier than usual
and we'll do the same for every one of
like character
The entire furnishing of home or an
apartment entails an expense that would
prove a hardship to many without the liberal
privileges we offer in the matter of payment.
Well talk it over with you and make the
expense come within your means.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
HOOVER APPEALS
TO c. v. j. TO AID
PUBLICITY WORK

Herbert Hoover, food administrator,
has appealed 10 the students Of
George Washington University to aid
him in explaining to the public the
aims OF the food administration, the
Importance of economy. and the ne
cessity of the widest cooperation.
81 would call yodr attention to just
one of the many ways in which you
can help and help Importantly" he
says in an appeal to the student body.
issued through the medium Of the
Ratchet, weekly student publication.
at is the way to insure the abso-
lutely necessary food supply to our
selves and to our allies.
Popular View Selfish.
Especially must the matter OF the
food supply of our allies be stressed.
The vital world problem OF food Is
not generally understood. The popu-
lar view is too self-centered. too sell
fish-to use an ugly word 1t does
not look across the sea The back
wash OF Europe's misery does not
carry to our shores. We do not know
and hence cannot feel, the pangs OF
hunger and pain OF hunger weakness
that are everywhere IN Europe. They
are pains felt by our allies as we'll as
by our foes. We must make this
known to all our people, that all our
people may understand the great and
Indispensable and immediate role
they must play in this all-important
part OF the war situation. You who
can readily understand must help.
you can impress on the people
around you. and wherever you go.
the fact that the critical phase of
the world food problem is now not
the question of high or low prices.
but the question OF producing and
saving and sending enough food to
our allies to keep them alive and
strong and steadfast in war. The
critical question now in this war Is
the question Of the actual physical
strength of the lighting nations.
Asks Help From G. w. Z.
you can understand It, and you
can explain It. You can help US let
the people OF this country know that
our allies depend absolutely on US
to maintain their food supply. They
themselves simply cannot do It II
II is not done for them by us, the
end of the war Is near. and II is a
bad end, an inconceivably bad end
From every George Washington uni
yersity man the country expects the
truest devotion. the truest patriot
ism, and the highest service. and 1t
will get It. You will give It."
The Washington times., 1918-01-28


country TO adopt the plan We have in
baltimore county, II would act like
innoculation against crime. II is not
cure, but q preventive.
Start When Children.
''Seventy-five per cent OF all erin.
nails in our penal institutions today,
both in America and in England. I
have learned, started their criminal
careers while they were children"
Judge Duncan pointed out that
prison workers have asserted that 90
per cent OF these men and women
could be saved IL taken in charge
while yet children, and he declared
that he FIRMLY believed II possible.
Our court handles boys and girls
from infancy to twenty years OF age"
he said. I'VE guard against sending
them TO correctional institutions
wherever possible. and we have found
IL TO be a most satisfactory plan"
Judge Duncan said that the iu-
venile court was his hobby; that
nothing in his public life had given
him more satisfaction than in starting
these boys and girls on the right
road and watching their develop
ment.
we nave scoresof cases In this court
that would astound some OF those who
say there is no hope for the so-csIlad
bad boy and the so-called bad girl I
find that as children they merely do
the natural thing, because they do not
appreciate the real meaning OF right
and wrong. A little leniency, a little
frank talking with them, and a help
ing hand will save many OF them from
having a criminal record"
Was Once An Editor.
From 1895 to 1905. Judge Duncan
was editor and publisher of the BsIti.
more County Democrat at Towson. 1t
was during that time that he was
elected States attorney of Baltimore
county. He held that office six years.
Shortly after he severed his connec.
ton with the Democrat he was elect.
ed Judge OF the Towson circuit court.
He has three more years OF his fifteen.
year term to serve.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
JUVENILE COURT
HOBBY OF JUDGE
IN BRANDON CASE

TowsoN, Nd, Jan. 2S-JudEt
Frank I. Duncan, of the Towson cir
cult court has Just made public ng
ures OF a report OF the operation OF
the Juvenile court OF Baltimore
county for the three years OF its op
Grafton.
More than 500 cases have been
handled in that period and 400 of the
delinquents were paroIed.
"of that entire 4OO," Judge Duncan
told The Times representative, "onIy
twelve have failed to make good. We
still have hopes for the twelve that
were sent back to US.
Il consider juvenile courts one of
our greatest Institutions. II we could
only get the higher courts all over the
country TO adopt the plan we have in
baltimore county, II would act like
innoculation against crime. 1t is not
cure, but a preventive.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28

swift 4 COmpany's sales Of beef IN WASH
ington ID. c.. for the week ending Saturday,
January Is, 1918, averaged as follows: Dofnes-
tic beef. 1911 cents per pound--Advt-
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
Credit Is the
Greatest Home-Maker

1t brings you comfort and happiness enables you buy
the best qualities and pay in such way that you
afford them Your credit is of the greatest value here
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
SiLken Words
lFrom Tho Tillaqer.


rT~HOSE among Mr.. Wilson's peace condi-
l. tons to which Germany has definitely
agreed are the very points which have won
nothing like unanimous assent from the AL
lies or even from the American people
Germany is with Mr.. Wilson on free seas,
a league of nations, reduction of armaments,
open diplomacy, free trade everything that
can be promised, but the Allies have shown
themselves lukewarm to most of these pro-
posals On the other hand, Germany is
obviously going to attempt to diplomatize
about the evacuation of Russia, Rumania
Serbia, Belgium and France, including AL
SAGE Lorraine, and these points are not Mr..
Wilson's particular suggestion but have
been part of the Allied programme through
out
What Germany is endeavoring to do is
clear enough; the press to-day is full of
it; every plain man is instnctively appre-
hensive lest the five points, Mr.. Wilson's
own points, the points on which he has
staked his reputation as the initiator of
the new world order, will prove wedge
which the enemy will drive between our
selves and the Allies. Germany sees Mr..
Wilson's ambition as the weak spot in our
armor; she now bangles before him the
prospect of being the presiding genius OF
the conference; she admits that an armistice
is matter for military advisers to settle,
yet she slips in that last silken word-she
trusts" Mr.. Wilson will "approve of no de-
mand" which would infringe the honor of
the German people" and which would not
insure peace with justice" peace be-
tween equals, a peace without victory
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Blinded Serbs

The Permanent Blind Relief War Fund
for Soldiers and Sailors Of the Allies, whose
headquarters are at $50 Fifth Avenue, New
York, has undertaken the charge of all Ser
bian soldiers who have been and may be
blinded, and has arranged for their rehabil-
tation in a trade training school at Bizerta,
the great French naval port in Tunis, where
the Serbian army authorities are arranging
to send all those in North Africa and at
Salonica.
Miss Margaret Mctie, who is in charge of
the workshops, writes as follows:
The Serb Is rule learner. ycry quick
and industrious and with his fingers also
very docile have not IN them. either the terrible
ENCOURAGEMENT which our have fight
them should have very satisfactory results.
The blinded men at Bizerta now number
thirty, and Miss McFie expects this number
to be largely augmented when the Serbian
authorities able to assemble them from
the mountain Businesses which are the scene
of the fighting in the Balkans. At the Per-
manent Blind Relief War Funds Braille
printing establishment in Paris, which was
founded and is under the direction Of Miss
Alice Gerry, formerly of Chicago, a book in
Serbian characters is being made for the
use of the men.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29

ME passing Of Ludendorff is some
thing more than were the exits
of the younger Moltke and Falk-
enhayn. Like them, he failed to bring
OFT the great decision, and, like them, he
was doomed, as all unsuccessful gem
erals must be doomed by their own
failures. But Ludendorff was more
than an unsuccessful general he was
symbol, he was the final hope of Ger
man miitarism, and it staked all upon
him. When he failed the military au-
tocracy fell Sedan blew the last YES
tiges of the tinseI glory of the Napo-
leonic tradition out of French magma
ton. On the morrow of Sedan France
remained, but the evil Napoleonic sham
was gone forever.
When Ludendorff undertook his great
gamble last spring Germany was i'll the
position Of Napoleon in 1918. When
he had won the victory of March II
Ludendorff was in the situation of the
great Emperor after Dresden. The mo-
ment had come to make peace while
the prestige of victory still remained,
but when the chance of supreme triumph
had already gone glimmering. The mas
terry Of the world was no longer to be
won, but the retention of great con-
quests and assured position at home and
abroad was still unchallenged.
Like Napoleon, Ludendorff chose to
stake all, risk all, win or lose all in the
i
incarnation of the German autocratic
ambition to repeat the achievement of
the Caesars and rule, not alone the Euro
pean Continent, but the Asatic and the
African. Mtteleuropa was still the
goal. Profitable peace, peace necessary
for the suffering German Empire and the
exhausted allies of Germany, was put out
of the calculation; as Napoleon went to
Leipsic, Ludendorff marched to the
Second Marne.
After the Second Marne Ludendorff's
position was always desperate. He
could and did execute a brilliantly sue
cessful retreat out of the Marne salient.
But any further retreat would be an
advertisements 10 Jnp herman people
that the German military autocracy had
lost the war. On the military side a
swift and wide retreat was unavoida-
bic. On the political side such re-
treat would at once prove to the enemy
that Germany was beaten and to the
German people that they had not merely
lost the war, but would have to pay the
costs. 1t was not Foch Ludendorff was
most afraid Of in August, it was the
German people.
AS result Ludendorff fingered in the
Somme lines and brought upon himself
the defeats of August, which compelled
a retreat to the Hindenburg line, with
such losses as made the defence of this
line beyond his resources. Yet he lin
gered there again, with the political con-
slderations overwhelming the military.
he was concerned, not primarily with
saving Germany, but with saving the
military autocracy, of which he was the
head and front. Every retreat lowered
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Democracy Offended

Colonel Roosevelt's Carnegie Hall
speech last night will stand as the most
terrific arraignment of a President by
an eX-President in all the literature of
American politics. 1t would be a de-
plorable incident under any conditions.
In war time it partakes of the nature
of a national humiliation A week ago
we could not have imagined it; but
neither could we have imagined the
provocation by which it is justified. The
President invited it, His friends and
supporters may protest as they will.
Such challenge as Mr.. Wilson offered
to the Republican party was not likely
to go unanswered, nor to be answered
in any other way.
Possibly the President expected it; he
may even have counted upon it. But he
could not have been prepared for the
extremely unfavorable nature of the
popular reaction to his appeal for the
support of the Democratic candidates on
the grounds, first, that for the sake of
the nation divided counsels must be
avoided; and second, that the Republi
cans in Congress, although they were
'pro-war," had been "anti- -Administra
ton"
In making this appeal, which partook
of the character of demand, he Of
Tended democracy to its quick. What
ne himself could not endure, and de-
nounced, was the implication of the Re-
publican party leaders that he could not
be trusted to conduct the war and con-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
clude peace without critical counsel
and suggestion.

clude peace without critical counsel
and suggestion.
But in calling upon his fellow coun-
trymen to support him with undivided
minds" and spare him the embarrass-
ment of contrary counsels, he was say
ing, in effect, almost in SO many words,
to the people: "You cannot be trusted
to act for yourselves in these weighty
matters. Leave everything to me, with
an obedient Congress. And this was
consistent with his Liberty Loan appeal,
in which he said II earnestly request
every patriotic American to leave to
the governments of the United States
and the Allies the momentous discus
sons initiated by Germany, and to re-
member that for each man his duty is
to strengthen the hands of these gov
ernments."
Never had this democracy been
spoken to in that way before. And
greatly to the credit Of American news
papers be it said that this remarkable
utterance was allowed at the time TO
pass in siIence--for the sake of the
Liberty Loan.
"The momentous discussions initiated
by Germany were peace discussions.
And the American people were enjoined
by the President to leave them to ''the
governments"
The governmental is the people
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
The Marx of the Beast
% the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is nauseatng in the extreme to
hear the talk at the present time of deal
ing mercifully with our enemies. The
huns are not our personal enemies; thew
are the enemies of God and humanity
When Cain cried to the Lord with whine
Am I my brothers keeper?" the Lord
answered him "The voice of thy brothers
blood crieth unto me from the ground"
And surely the voice of the blood of Rel
glans, English, French and Americans cries
to the Lord now from the ground Of
devastated France and Belgium-the vo;ca
OF ravished women, of crucified men. OF
mutilated children.
When Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord he went as q fugitive and
vagabond, and God put mark on him that
all might know him as the murderer Of b;s
brother. The mark of the beast ought 70
be put on the Kaiser and his lk for 81,
time.
ONE OF THE TRIBUNE READERS.
Washington, Penn, Oct Is, 1918.