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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
FERRY ACROSS THE CHANNEL
Freight Cars Are Carried for the First
Time in History From
England to France.

For the first time in the history OF
railroading a train ferry has crossed
the English channel from Newhaven,
England. to Dieppe, France, carrying
about fifty cars, says Popular Mechan-
les Magazine. Since early in the war
thousands of British railway cars have
been employed in France in transport
ing troops and supplies, but they have
all been transferred to the continent
by freighters. The inauguration of
ferry service indicates that the diff
culties created by very pronounced
tides have been overcome at last to
the mutual advantage of these two al.
lies. At Dieppe the water level varies
as much as 81 feet. To overcome this,
short bridges, attached at one end to
the dock and resting on large floats,
are employed. During loading and I'M
loading the ferry is chained to the
boat and dock pier as well. The two
smokestacks are located one at either
side of the craft, leaving space for
tracks down the center of the deck.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
NO CESSATION OF
WAR PREPARATION
American Defense Society Show I'm
mediate Necessity For War
Legislation

The immediate necessity for provid-
ing legislation for the enrolling and
training without cessation of addi-
tional men to be sent to France after
the draft becomes exhausted, and for
seeing that there is no break in con-
tinuing our war preparation was
pointed out in 4 lester written by the
American Defense Society to Senator
James NJ WadswUrtn. Jr., referring to
lis recent request drafting of men tn
nlarge our present army after sop
TENDER 18Th, in a.:'Jr..aa..e with the
Pre~iac t's adGtass i'll which he advo-
Gated C even &c SIG at five million
men. The letter which is signed by
Mr. Charles Stewart Dawson, Chair
man of the Society's Board of Trus-
ties. reads:
ION behalf of the American Defense
Society will you present in the Senate
its respectful request that legislation
be Immediately passed providing for
the enrolment without cessation of
additional men until the number in
the armies of the United States equals
total of five millions.
"In this connection we respectfully
call TO the attention of the Senate of
the United States that the President
has PUBLICLY advocated not even ceas-
ing at that figure, but that even that
figure cannot be attained in time TO be
of effective use unless the preliminary
steps inherent to preparedness be
taken steadily and persistently.
THE Presidents address if not sup
plemented by congressional action will
become empty words and the respon-
sibility will rest upon Congress
alone
According to Mr.. Dawson the cessa-
ton of the training and enrolling of
men to be sent to France would be a
serious error, as every day or weeks
delay means that same amount Of de-
/ lay in placing the men now in training
/ on the firing line nine months from
now, as according TO military figures
/ it takes about that amount Of time TO
I summon a man TO camp, train him,
send him to France and get him in
I shape TO go to the front line trenches.
The providing Of no men TO be drawn
after September 18th means time lost
at the front at is the earnest hope
of the American Defense Society"
said Mr. Dawson that the army with
out limit will not be fixed definitely
and finally at three million four hun
bred and fifty thousand men as it will
be when class One becomes exhausted
in September, and if there is no pro-
vision made for the immediate calling
of additional men"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
NO CALENDAR FOR 500 YEARS
Christians Reckone5 Time According
to Customs of Nations 10 Which
Thee Belonged.

History tells us that for 600 years
the Christians had no calendar of their
own, but reckoned the years according
10 the customs of the nations to which
they belonged. The Roman Christians
used the ammo Urbis Conditae," or
year of the founding Of Rome, 10 count
from; others counted from the reign
of DiOcletian, calling it "the Era OF
the Martyrs; :" and still others used the
calendar OF the Copts of Egypt. In the
sixth century Denis the Little, a Greek
monk living in Rome, made a calendar
counting from the Incarnation. the
date of which he fixed at 1853 A. U. c.
So we commonly say that Rome was
founded 753 B. c.
1t the beginning of the eighth cen
fury the venerable Bede pointed out
that this was an historical blunder.
Put no general notice was taken q
his criticism and the error has contin-
ued TO this day. Historic facts have
enabled modern scholars TO determine
without much possibility of doubt, the
exact year of the birth of Jesus, and
to place IL at what we call B. c.
at should be noted" says the great
French astronomer, Camille Flamma-
rion, "that the birth of the Savior &c
nained totally unperceived at the
time. No register of birth, no contem-
porary historian has bequeathed US
any sacred parchment registering the
event"
Moreover, although we are actually
approaching the year 1923 A. D., there
is little probability that our calendar
will ever be reformed TO show the fact.
The confusion of dates that would re-
suit from substitution of the more ac-
.urate designation would be too great
to make such righteousness worth
while.-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02

Nazimova, the great Metro star, is
/ assisted by a superior cast in her ini-
tial Metro pictures. Revelation" Her
leading man is Charles Bryant, who is
seen as Paul Granville, an American
artist. Bryant has previously played
opposite the star in both the vaude-
vile and motion picture versions OF
the war play, War Brides" and in
many other productions
Frank Currier, who plays the rev.
erend Prior of the Monastery, is a
Metro favorite who has appeared with
practically every star in the Metro
constellation. Among the pictures in
which he has appeared are: out
witted," with Emily Stevens; The
Trail of the Shadow" with Emmy
Wehlen, and The Greatest Power
with Ethel Barrymore
Bigelow Cooper, who portrays
Count de Roche. is a well-known
screen player who was for years a
member of the Edison forces, appear
ing in their leading production.
Syne De Condo, who plays Duclos,
N-%N -R1NAN AOhNAs 10 q NdlCAlEu
player, who makes his American mo-
ton pictrue debut in Revelation" He
was favorite actor in his native land
and has seen service in the great
world war. Another Frenchman in
the cast is Eugene Borden, who plays
the boy, Pierre. He played George
Alden in Draft So" and George Wal
lace in THE Stacker" both patriotic
pictures produced by Metro.
The other members of this capable
cast are John MARITIME as Fra Angus
tine; Philip Sanford as Mestaire ;
Hazel Washburn as Madeline Brevort /;
Dave Turner as a German officer
True James as Monastery Gatekeeper;
Fred Radcliffe as Patin, and A. c.
Hadley as Fochard.
This excellent picture will be shown
at the Republic Theatre tomorrow.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
A NEW CHANCE TO HELP

To those who want to help, to those
who have a desire to come into con-
tact with the human side of the war,
whose aspiration TO serve goes beyond
the tasks of manual labor and produc-
ton of materials, Red Cross Home
Service offers an exceptional oppor-
tunity not only for invaluable war
service, but also for a career of great
usefulness in the years to come. 1t
offers also exceptional opportunities
to women not in position TO take the
institute courses or give all their time
as volunteer assistants.
Every Home Service Section needs,
besides its trained investigators,
large corps of Friendly Visitors. Any
woman of sense and sympathy, who
can be trusted to take an assignment
to make regular visits to family and
establish herself in its confidence as a
friend, ready to enter into its prob
lens as may be desired, to perform
those services which only friends can
render one another, or to command
other services of which the family
may be in need, may be qualified as
Friendly Visitor.
Any woman who has, besides these
qualifications, an automobile, can bring
unwonted pleasure TO the family of
many a man in service by giving the
use of her car. Or a woman with
car can offer it and her own services
as driver to the workers who have TO
go about daily on scores of errands.
The woman who can operate type
writer and do clerical work will find
nowhere in the Red Cross as her serv-
ices more welcome or richer in wages
of satisfaction than with the Home
Service Section.
The worker of the Home Service
Section of the Red Cross is already
nationally organized movement for
fulfilling the obligation resting upon
US at home to protect those whom the
man in service has left behind. 1t
contains the promise of a new era in
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
DURING THE WORLD WAR
EXCERPTS FROM FIRST ANNUAL
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDU-
CATION OF ANNE. ARUNDEL CO.

nation of an adult mind.
One of the most serious thoughts
that comes TO an American father or
mother who is acquainted with the
European situation, is the possibility
that this wave of Juvenile crime may
reach our shores and that our chill
dren may be left TO the mercy of an
uneducated populace of juvenile Grim
inals.
Il am not going to blame these peo-
pie" says Samuel Gompers, "assum-
ing that they were right in entering
upon the experience ON which they
have entered. Perhaps there was
nothing else for them TO do, except
10 grind up the seed corn, but I want
TO protest at this Raoment before il is
too late that we see to il that the
children of our country are secured
or kept within the safety line, and
that first of all we shall see that they
get enough of an educational founda-
ton so that they Will be able to par
ticipate in all that we mean when we
talk of the duties and possibilities of
American citizenship"
The educational standards of today
are the capital of the present genera
ton. Shall we squander this capital
that we have been so long accumulat-
/ ing or shall we economic elsewhere
and preserve this blessing TO our
1 posterity?
1 DR.. P. p Claxton in his speech be-
/ fore the Women's Civic League in Bal
I timore last fall included the follow
/ ing well-chosen remarks:
The most fundamental enterprise
/ in democracy is the education of chill
dren. Everything in democracy waits
on the education of the children-in-
dustrial advance, social purity, politi-
cal righteousness and whatever else
goes to make up the social order. For
| this reason all children should attend
school when it is in session, except
/ for a good excuse and if the money
appropriated for the purpose of hold
| ing schools is not used, l advise get
ting out an injunction There is
waste in employing a teacher to in
struct 80 children when only 20 chill
dren attend. And an injustice involv-
ed when the children who attend regu-
larly are kept back by the laggards
who come only now and then. The
children in a democracy have the right
! to an education which will prepare
them for the duties of citizenship, and
to make an honest living, They have
right to be developed into we'll
rounded human beings, and if there
are parents avaricious enough to wish
to make their chilren into slaves,
someone must protect the rights of
the child. The sentiment must be
made so that a man will hide his head
| as if for crime if he does not send
his child to school when he can, and
thus take away the child's opportun-
ity for acquiring what will fit him for
the best kind of citizenship and for
intelligent living, for the sake of a
little profit"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
Tragedy Of French Trees.

Broken homes, ruined factories,
shattered churches, violated graves, it
had seemed to me we had rung all the
changes on the destruction of war. But
there remained one-the tragedy of
the trees-says a writer in McClure's
Magazine. You can rebuild houses,
churches, towns even-for that takes
only money. But you can't rebuild or
chards of fruit trees and avenues of
great shade trees-for that takes time.
We were seeing them everywhere now
orchards with trees that were but
faded, shriveled branches of brown
leaves lying on their sides; orchards,
where these had been cleared away,
that showed nothing but white-tOpped
stumps. They say that when the
warm spring came, some of these or
chard trees, lying on their sides but
not wholly severed. leafed gently and
then-just before they died-bloomed
once again for France.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
AT THE COLONIAL TONIGHT

One OF the noteworthy events of the
season in the motion picture world is
the showing at the Colonial Theatre
this evening of The Italian Battle
Front" showing in intimate perspec-
tive the ferocious battling which fol-
lowed the Austrian offensive several
weeks ago. and which constituted the
greatest Allied triumph of the war.
II shows the retreat of the Austrians
and the pursuit Of the Italians. The
ferocity of fighting high up in the
mountain peaks. and various methods
of warfare, even TO improvised battl-
ing above the clouds are seen in this
picture
Only by seeing this picture can
Americans learn the true story of the
Austrian offensive that proved more
offensive TO the Austrians than to the
Italians. The camera men. daring. to
get into the thick OF the fighting, man
aged TO produce on the films a COM
prehensive conception of the relative
values of stragetic moves which was
one OF the significant turns in the tide
OF the great war. The spectator is
shown desperate infantry and artil-
lery duels, aerial warfare above the
mountain tops, through the ravines
and canyons, and along the borders of
the flooded Piave, through dense artil-
lery barrages and hazy mists. Out of
IL all emerge the hordes of fighting
men at death grip in the struggle for
world freedom.
These ofiiciau pitures, of the Italian
Battle Front" newly released, gives
in intimate perspective the strategy
that turned the Hun hordes back from
the Piave. The brilliant story of that
glorious victory is told graphically by
the greatest of all war films. This
picture as regards historical value is
unsurpassed.
Here is the one big opportunity to
understand the full import of the
great events that took place along
The Italian Battle Front"
Ben Chaplin, in THE Son of Democ-
racy' entitled Native State,'' will also
be shown. This is a great show this
evening. Don't miss it.
Also Pathe Jews.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02

While there has long been through
the country a general recognition of
the necessity of readjusting public
school practice TO fit children more
adequately to meet the economic and
civic demands of modern social life,
il is but natural that the importance
of a well-trained and efficient citizen
ship should be more fully appreciated
in great national crisis As the New
Republic so well expressed ii edi-
torially few months ago, the chill
dren are in a real sense the second
line of defense" for the county Amer
lea must. for its future safety alone
il for no other reason, see that its flu
ture citizens are guaranteed not only
the right, but the necessary educa-
tional equipment 10 obtain and enjoy
full measure of the life, liberty. and
pursuit of happiness" for which our
Republic was established, and through
which only it can endure.
The rapid increase in Juvenile crime
in England due to the losing of con-
troll of children whose parents are en-
engaged in was pursuits is appalling
The breaking down of control over
children rather than increasing the
powers that control these young peo-
pie has worked an irreparable injury
on the coming generations.
When the crisis came we found our
selves lapsing into the same state of
mind that European nations are in. A
cry went up TO set aside at once the
Compulsory Education and Child La
Dor Laws. There was a serious at
tempt to saddle the responsibilities
of the adult American nation on the
children. l am glad to say that in our
State this movement was met fairly
and squarely by the patriotic women
of Maryland.
People ordinarily think the great
war is a war in which the lives of
men are being sacrificed, but the chill
dren are being sacrificed also.
Lord Ashley, the Seventh Earl of
Shaftesbury, began a hundred years
! ago, TO agitate for child labor laws in
England, and for a century they have
been building up laws to protect the
/ little children of that country Now,
under the stress of war the structure
/ is being torn down. The same is true
in France and Austria and Italy and
1 Germany.
This attempt to saddle part of the
worlds greatest war on children has
4 been one of Europe's greatest mis-
takes.
A child of u or Is years of age has
not had the experience in meeting
life's problems, nor has he developed
the habit of self-control that the Gre
ator who planned q year of infancy
intended he should have, hence, when
he suddenly finds that he is compell-
ed to assume the responsibilities of an
adult he breaks down under the
strain. Suddenly supplied with money
and liberty he becomes a savage and
libertine of the worst type, capable of
committing crimes beyond the imagi-
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02

The further We delve into the Ques-
ton of school attendance in its rela-
ton to the length of the school term
the more evident it becomes that We
need an aroused public opinion for
the better school attendance and a
more rigid and effective enforcement
of compulsory attendance law. not
alone for the betterment of the chill
dren themselves. but as a matter of
simple Justice TO the taxpayers. 1t is
unjust 10 tax A to pay for teaching
BIS children when the authorities that
levy and collect the tax from A allow
B TO keep his children out of school
whether il be from Indifference, ignor-
ance or selfishness. Furthermore. il
is a crime against BIS children to let
him keep them out of school. Whether
poor attendance of pupils comes from
indifference of parents, a sleeping
public opinion, a lax enforcement of
the compulsory attendance laws-or
from all of these things combined. the
penalty falls hardest and most direct
ly upon the children in their lost OPP
portunity for an education, though
society must pay a heavy toll in the
end for its own SHINING against such
children.
We must not allow our children to
grow up in ignorance, a lawless band
of Juvenile criminals such as the coun-
tries of Europe have on their hands
today. We must demand that they be
prepared to fill intelligently the places
of the patriotic citizens who will be
sacrificed in this, the worlds greatest
war
We can do this only by giving 20
our schools both our moral and
financial support, and by demanding
that all the children of all the people.
those whose parents care and those
whose parents do not care, be given
an equal opportunity in this, the
wealthiest nation in the world today.
As has been shown, one-half of our
white children leave school before
they complete the fifth grade, and two
thirds leave before they reach the
seventh grade. Are these people with
fourth, fifth or sixth grade educa
ton qualified to fill the important
places as the citizens of a 1917 world
that they will soon be called upon to
take? In the words of Thomas Alex
ander:
THE necessity of action is upon us,
necessity from without, and necessity
from within. The education of patri-
otto, self-sacrificing, capable citizens
is the only thing which can solve the
problems which are near at hand. In
defniteness and lack of purpose means
loss of leadership in every field of en-
deavor.
THE golden dreams of being the IA
vored of God will end in horrible
nightmare unless the youth of Amer
lea is taught to know the meaning of
/ true liberty, of the exercise of the
rights of citizenship, of the value of
industry, of courage and of character"
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
CLANS by the Square Mile.

important in these days, and the gov
eminent fisheries bureau is greatly de-
lighted at the discovery of the vast
and hitherto unknown beds Of clans
off the coast Of central Alaska, not
far from Cordova. One bed is 60
miles long and from three to five miles
wide.
The clans are quite different from
those common in our Eastern mar
kets. They are ''razor clams"-a kind
OF bivalve that derives its name, APP
propfiately descriptive. from its like
Jess in shape TO a razor.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
Years of Experience.

Years of experience and preparation
are necessary for the accomplishment
Of certain kinds of results, for partici-
patton in certain lines of activity.
This was never more true than today.
Business men, professional men, the
well-equipped man in the average
walks of life, are being called upon to
show and TO give all that is best In
them. The very years the passing OF
which they may have regretted have
equipped thousands of men and wom-
en- to do excellantly well important
tasks which have arisen out of the
emergencies Of the nations peril
The Three Partners.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
Simple Menu.

'You don't appear to object to these
food restrictions"
II don't see any restrictions worth
mentioning" replied Mr.. Cdmrox. Il
have been for years wishing / could
sit down in the best restaurants and
order cornbread and cabbage and pota-
toes right out loud"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
No Worms in a Healthy Child

All children troubled with worms
have an unhealthy color, which indi-
Gates poor blood, and as "a rule, there
is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC
given regularly for two or three weeks
viii enrich the blood, improve the di-
gestion, and act as General
Strengthening Tonic to the whole
system. Nature will then throw of
or dispel the worms, and the Child
will be in perfect health. Pleasant to
take Coo. per bottle.
WHEN IN NEED OF PRINTING
GET IN TOUCH WITH THE BUSI-
NESS OFFICE OF THE CAPITAL.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
1rANE MAsmINGToN

~ ~ ~ 5000 1908. 100 A. NJ, l2.05,
.- -ug 300 $50, 500 80. 800,
tu- 1U5. au5. ll.tj. i. NJ; l2.Oo A. Nj.
-u.Hv except sunday.
III Annapolis Junction with the Il. 4 o.
...arG,fs 40 Odeuton with T.. X. Il.
.I.... Annapolis % Baltimore.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-02
GEO. w. JONES
Circulating Library

The following books were added TO the
Library week ending Apri g. 1915:
Tie Dwelling Place Of Light by Win
sfuu Churchill.
.THe Inevitable Balance Sheet" by Ka-
faua Trash.
a circuit Riders Wife" by Cora Har-
rs
Long Live The King by Mary Rob-
etf- EIutbITt,
-ugcr The Top" by Arthur Guy Empey.
.EltrloaunE obadiah" by Joseph C..
Lincoln.
Kenny by Leun0ra Dalryimple.
MY -Four Years In Germany" by J. w.
Gerard
where Your Treasurer Is" by Holman
pHy.
.rhe CTue In The Air" by Isabel os-
t-auder.
TERMS; New Books. PC. per. day.
Old Books. ic. per day.
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LEAVE ANNAPoLIs
Do H.HHwm

s $50 90 x q 20 o. - . 80 go 40 20
ts-l a--0 $50. 200, SO, 100,
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L - state House station Biadeh
M college AVE. seven i' minutes
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IT,yE BALTIMORE

.- -- ..5 $50 1898 11-35. A. NJ.
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AK 40 $50. ll.3j, +. NJ, l2-35
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Dor ....ts aud information apply at
r.r ..,. lakct ofhos West Street Station,
-f.f. House station. College Avenue and
MAIDEN streets. Caryel Han, Maryland
r.tr OW.p a. s. y. A., for officers, mid
sltumru. etc., connected with the Naval
Academy.
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social service in America. Also, and
perhaps this is the greatest of all, 1t
opens wide the door of opportunity
for larger usefulness, greater under
standing, to the women of today.