davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1918-02-03
FRESHMEN WIN DEBATE.
Defeat Third Year Class on Philip
pine Island Independeuce.

Speakers from the first year class of
the National University Law School
last night won the regular interclass
debate from the third year class. The
subject was. Resolved. That the Phil
lipine Islands Should Be Given Inde-
pendence." The first year speakers de-
Tended the negative.
The members Of the first year team
were G.. F. Rosenfield and John Lynch.
Representatives of the third year class
were Johnnie Cayton and o. P. Berg.
Mr.. Berg is a Filipino student at the
university.
Individual honors were given to Mr..
Rosenfield, who is a son of Judge L.
Rosenfield of Louisville. KY. and to
Mr.. Cayton. who received first honors
for debating last year. Fred Boone, a
member Of the third year class, pre-
sided, and the judges were Judge Mil
ton Strasburger of the Municipal Court
Prof, Jackson Of the National Univer-
sity law faculty. and John ]. -Cassin,
aecretary o1ase law school,
Evening star., 1918-02-03

The passion play, "On the Slopes Of
Calvary" will be presented in Washing
ton for the first time for adults at Con-
zaga Theater, 43 street northwest. at
o'clock Sunday night. February "a,
with a cast made up partly Of local tai
ent. The performance will be repeated
on the Sunday evenings OF March 3, 10,
II and "a.
Matinees for children will be given at
o'clock in the afternoon next. Sunday,
February 10. and again on Sunday aft
ernoon, February II.
Although the play Is to be presented
under auspices of the Jesuit fathers of
Gonzaga College and ST. Aloysius
Church, all Washingtonians are being
urged to see this drama, the climax of
which is the crucifixion of Christ for the
sins of the world.
The same committees which were or
ganized to solicit the 100000 school
fund for St. Aloysius Church a year ago
have been called together to dispose of
the tickets for the play.
The play is to be presented on every
Sunday evening during Lent in order to
furnish an uplifting source of diversion
for the Catholics of the city during that
period when they are expected to refrain
from customary forms of entertainment.
Record Attendance Elsewhere.
to be presented here has drawn record
attendances in other eastern cities, where
1t has been presented during the Lenten
season in recent years.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
ENTERTAINED AT BLISS SCHOOL
Members Federal Schoolmen's Club
Meet at Takoma Park.

Members of the Federal Schoolmen's
Club were entertained last night by
Prof. Louis d. Bliss at the Bliss Elec-
trical School at Takoma Park. Prof
Bliss showed how to reduce the high
cost of living by cooking eggs on ice
and making other use of electrical
phenomena. Prof. Bliss declared that
electricity is the one necessary thing
needed by householders which has de-
creased in price.
A committee to nominate officers was
selected as follows: Arthur D. Call,
Ernest l.. Thurston and DR.. William
c. Rudiger Members were invited by
Arthur Ramsey of the Fairmont Sem
mary to hold their next meeting at
that institution.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Poles Kept From Home.

About 10000 Polish troops in the
Russian army. who have maintained
their united intact in face of the Boil
shevik reorganization measures and
who had expressed a desire to return
from Russia to Poland, have been
stopped by a German objection to the
plan. Germany has absolutely refused
to permit their repatriation.
their old officers, having resisted the
bolshevik idea of reducing the officers
to the ranks and electing new ones
Members of the bolShevik peace dele
cation at Brest-Litovsk have been re-
fused permission by DR.. Won kuehl-
mann. head of the German delegation to
visit Warsaw. DR.. Won Kuehlmann,
however, allowed a member of the
Ukrainian rada. who had participated
in the peace negotiations. to go to the
Polish capital.
Evening star., 1918-02-03

The civil rights bill." designed to
free persons in the military and naval
service of the United States from
harassment and injury to their civil
rights during their term of service, was
ordered favorably reported to the SEN
ate by the Senate judiciary committee
yesterday.
were made. They are all formal and
change phraseology without chang
ing in any vital way provisions of the
measure. The bill already has passed
the House.
The general scheme of the bill con-
templates there shall be no hindrance
placed in the way of the commencement
of actions against soldiers and sailors.
But wide discretionary powers are
Evening star., 1918-02-03
TO HOLD ENCAMPMENT.
Department of Potomac, G. A R.
Meets Wednesday.

The fftieth annual encampment of
the Department Of the Potomac, G. A.
R.. is to open Wednesday night at 7:30
o'clock. at Grand Army Hall. Com
mander A. H. Frear, presiding In
honor of Commander-in Chief Orlando
A. Somers. the department will give a
banquet Thursday night at the New
Ebbitt House.
The department is arranging for the
celebration of the 109th birthday an
niversary of Lincoln. Col John Nc
Elroy is chairman of the committee in
charge Of arrangements. The exercises
are to be held on the night Of February
IL at the First Congregational Church.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
COURSE OF FOUR LECTURES.
Benefit of the Free Demonstration

A course of four lectures on the ad-
vanced Montessori material. to be given
at the home of Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor,
1928 18th street northwest, has been ar
ranged for the benefit of the free
demonstration school of the Montessori
system at the Washington Home for
Foundlings. The lectures will start
Monday at $3.50 pm. and will be given
at the same hour for four successive
Mondays. The charge for the course of
four lectures will be one dollar.
After each lecture group of children
from the Montessori School will demon
strate the use of the material discussed
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Amendment Fixes Rates.

Tho Senate committee amendment re-
lating to the fixing of rates follows:
interest requires the President may in
itiate rates by filing the same with the
Interstate Commerce Commission. Said
rates shall be fair. reasonable and just
and shall take effect at such time and
upon such notice as he may direct; but
the Interstate Commerce Commission
shall. upon complaint, enter upon a
hearing concerning the Justice and rea-
|sonableness Of so much of any order of
any rate, fare, charge or classification
|of any carrier. under federal control,
land may CONSIDER all the facts and the
Evening star., 1918-02-03
GET 5O0,0 900, coo FRANCS
IN RUMANIAN GOLD

THE HAGUE. February 2.-The vi
emma Neue Freie Presse reports that
the amount of gold belonging to Ru-
mania that was seized by the boil
sheviki was valued at 500.OO0,0OO francs.
The newspaper adds that the authori-
ties in Vienna and Berlin attach great
Importance to the confiscation. because
the Rumanian state gold reserve is
the chief guarantee for the Rumantan
debt owed to the central powers. =
Evening star., 1918-02-03
British Armed Boarding Steamer
Torpedoed in the Eastern
Mediterranean. :
BY tho Associated preas.

By tho Associated Press,
LONDON. February 2-The British
armed boarding steamer Louvain, Lieut..
Commander M. g. Easton commanding.
was torpedoed and sunk by q German
submarine in the eastern Mediterranean
on January 21. Seven officers and 21I
men were lost
This official announcement was-mado
tonight.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
MOTHER AND CHILD HURT.
Run Down by Automobile and
Chauffeur Is Arrested,

years old. 1373h Pennsylvania avenue
southeast. and Genevieve Reese. her
daughter. twelve years old. were run
down by an automobile at Pennsylvania
avenue and 14th street yesterday after
noon. The mother received numerous
cuts and bruises. The child suffered
only from shock.
Mother and daughter were taken to
Emergency Hospital. Curtis Nebraska
Rice, tit 10th street, who was operat-
ing the automobile, was arrested by
Policeman Gibbons Of the first precinct
Charges Of colliding and operating his
automobile without a permit were pre-
ferred against him.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
Extra Session in Montana Called,

HELENA, Mont February Gov.
Stewart today called an extra session
OF the legislature for February IA to
amend the state seed grain law to aid
farmers in obtaining seed for spring
sowing and to consider the national
prohibition Amendment.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
THE REFLECTIONS OF A MAR

weaknesses or ailments which are
the seat of her trouble. DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription regulates and
promotes all the proper functions of
womanhood, enriches the blood, dis
pels aches and pains, melancholy
and nervousness, brings refreshing
sleep, and restores health and
strength. 1t cures those disorders
and arrangements incident to wom-
anhood.
A well known agent which can be
procured at all drug stores is "Pleas-
ant Pellets" made up of the May
apple, the dried juice of the leaves
of aloes and the root of jalap. First
put out by DR.. Pierce nearly fifty
years ago.
Evening star., 1918-02-03
GERMAN UPHEAVAL
AN AID TO TROTzKY
Early Peace Between Teutons
and Russians Seems
Less Probable.
SILENT STRUGGLE is ON
Cnblegrnm to The Sunday Star and
New York World. Copyright, 1918.

Cnblegrnm to The Sunday Star and
New York World. Copyright, 1913.
LONDON, February "A message
from Petrograd, under the date Of last
Thursday. says:
THE conviction IS growing in in
formed circles that Trotzky has in
formation of rapidly developing revo-
lutionary plans of the central empires
which gives him new strength to
break the negotiations. Consequently
peace in few days seems less prob
able. Trotzky's last speech that he
represents the German as well as the
Russian proletariat and declaring war
on all the bourgeois powers was really
directed at the German workers. His
position here was strong without it.
AS his words reached German ears, on
which Won Hertling''s uncompromising
speech fell harshly, the unrest is Ger
In Brest-Litovsk a titantic silent
struggle has begun and Trotzky is
holding firmly to the belief that the
German n-AuStrlan peoples are coming
to free him and Russia from any pre-
dicament arising if he just holds out.
Situation in Finland.
BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM. February 2.-According
to the latest advices from Finland the
white guard are now masters of the
country north of the line running
through Nystadt, on the west coast,
Tammerfors and Viborg. Quantities
of artillery. machine gun and rifle
ammunition have been seized by the
white guard forces.
The red guard is continuing to hold
out in the south. Fighting is continu-
ing near krava. Bolshevik reinforce
ments have arrived at Vibors from
Petrograd
Evening star., 1918-02-03
President May End Control.

The President is empowered to term
mate the federal control of the roads
at any time when he deeRs that the
public interests require such termina-
ton.
The bill has been amended so that the
President also may relinquish any car
rier from government control before
July l, 1918. After that he may relin-
quish the control of any road or roads,
but only by agreement with the car
riers. or he may relinquish control of
all the roads.
The rate making feature of the bill
is the compromise agreed upon by the
subcommittee consisting of Senator
Robinson and Senator Townsend. 1t
empowers the President to make just
and reasonable rates. 1t authorizes the
Interstate Commerce commission. upon
complaint of either roads or shippers,
to investigate business and reasonable
sideration all facts and circumstances
existing at the time Of making rates.
Short Line Amendment.
Effort was made by Senator Cum
minis to require the President to take
over all the so-called short line roads.
but it was defeated by a close vote.
The tight over this matter will be car
ried to the floor of the Senate. The
President is not required to take over
any roads, but he must decide, before
July /, what roads he is not going to
take.
The so-called revolving fund of $780,
600 900 carried in the bill remains un-
changed. The workman's compensation
feature whereby the federal en-
ployes' compensation law was made
to apply to the employees of the roads
was stricken out by the committee on
motion of Senator Robinson. This was
in accordance with the wishes of the
brotherhoods. They are left the right
to sue the carriers.
The committee also eliminated the
authorization of the President to pur-
chase or construct canals. He is au-
thorized, however, to utilize the canals.
Terms Of Bill.
The language Of the bill as ordered
reported, dealing with the ending of
the federal control. follows:
That the federal control of railroads and
transportation systems herein and here
tofore provided for shall not continue
proclamation Of peace terminating the
war in which the United States Is now
engaged. Provided, however, that the
President may, prior to July /. 1913, re-
linquish control Of all or any part Of any
railroad or system of transportation fur
deem not needful or desirable: and the
President may, at any time during the
period of federal control agree with the
owners to relinquish all any part of
any railroad or system OF transportation.
Provided further, that the President may
relinquish all railroads under fedeal con-
troll at any time he shall deem such action
needful or desirable. No right to COM
pensation shall accrue to any owner from
and after the date of REIMBURSEMENT for
property relinquished under authority OF
this section"
Evening star., 1918-02-03

The German postal authorities are or
ganizing q telephone service between
all the large cities and the army
Evening star., 1918-02-03
FEDERAL CONTROL
TQEND AFTER WAR
Senate and House Measures
Both Fix Period to Rail-
road Operation.
COMPENSATION BILL READY

The administration railroad bill, fix
g compensation for railroads during
government control and providing for
upkeep and development during that
period. as finally drafted by the Senate
interstate commerce committee. will be
reported favorably to the Senate to-
morrow by Senator Smith of South
Carolina, chairman. Minority reports
viii be filed by Senator Cummins and
S-nator La Toilette.
House Bill Nearly Ready.
The House committee on interstate
and foreign commerce also is expected
early this week. Efforts will be made
in both houses to expedite the passage
of the bill.
AS agreed to by the Senate committee
yesterday the bill retains the COM
promise by which the federal control is
to end definitely at eighteen months
after peace is declared. The President
is to fix rates subject to review by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
The House committee, late yesterday
afternoon. by vote of Is to 6, amended
the bill SO that the federal control will
end two years after peace has been de-
clared.
The compensation feature of the bill
as drafted by the Senate committee re-
mains practically unchanged, being,
based upon the earnings of the roads
for the three years prior to July l.,
last. The roads. however, will be al
lowed just compensation upon the
money which they may have invested
in their properties from July l up to
the time of the taking over of the roads
by the government in December.
Amendment was adopted which for
bids the increase of compensation based
on earnings or surplus accruing dur
ing the federal control of the roads and
put into the property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10
INFORMATION FOR ALI READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

Each reader of the State Journal is Of
formation bureau III the world.
This Service Bureau Is located in the ma
tional capital. where 1t is in immediate
touch with all the great resources of the
United States government.
1t can answer practically any question
you want to ask, butt cannot give ad-
vice. nor make exhaustive research.
The war has forced so many changes In
the daily life of the American people that
the services Of this information bureau
will be~invaluable to all who use it.
Keep in touch with your government
during these trying times. 1t can help
you in a thousand ways If your wants are
only made known
The State Journal pays for this splepiid
service in order that every one of its read
are welcome to use it as often as you like.
Write your request briefly, sign your
name and address plainly, enclose a Scent
stamp for return postage. and address the
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFORMA-
TION BUREAU,
Frederic J. Easkins, Director, Washing
ton. d. C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH
Tbe River BIackwater.

No river of Ireland-unless 1t be
the Shannon-can show the Traveller
the same aspect of wild beauty. ana
rugged picturesqueness as the Black
water From the source of the wind
ing stream in the Galtee mountains
to it's mouth at Younghall. melan-
cho1y ruins, Uncovered, relics or the
Irish Golden Age, soften the stern
outlines of the scenery.
The first ruin approached in a jour-
ney up from Younghall is that OF
Rincrew, which stands upon an emin-.
ence over the river This is said to
have belonged to the order of Knights
Templars. What was left of the cas-
tie came into the hands of Sir Walter
Raleigh, together with the lands of
Strancal1y and Ballynatra. About
mile north of Rincrew the remains of
the castle of Temple Michael, at pre-
sent collection of heavy stones ris-
ing in tbwer formation about fifteen
feet from the ground. According to
legend. the Temple Michael was
founded in the sixth century by Saipt
Molanfide, as home for Gaelic
doctors of canon law. 1t is reputed
to be the burial place of Raymond lie
Gros, companion of Strongbow. the
Norman -adventurer. A distance above
the town of Convamore the Black
water is Joined by the River Awbeg.
and on the ground between the con-
lux OF the TWO streams are Ine re-
mains of the Bridgetown Abbey, de-
molished by the soldiers of Oliver
Cromwell.
The RIackwater derived its name
from the Irish Alvin dubh, meaning
black river, and was so-called, per-
haps, because of the dark forests
which shadow it a few miles from
the mouth, the banks of the river be-
come very close together, and
superb ash trees and beech trees dip
form a verdant arch above it thru
which the sunlight filters to the water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10

Dawn's courage had been marvellous
and her spirit felt greatly rejoiced.
She had done a small bit in the great
fight.
No one in her big circle of friends
knew why Dawn stopped wearing the
lovely gowns that revealed her satiny
arms and no one knew that sCapt.
Harry Barrington's recovery was en-
tirely due to the skin taken from those
same arms.
When the hero was out of hospital
and able to attend it big dinner was
there and her eyes were steady and
the old light in them when she and
Darlington again clasped hands.
Dawn, Dawn" was all Darlington
said. His eyes told her that life had
meant nothing to him without her and
finally his lips said that he had been
wrong, all wrong in demanding so
much of her.
Dawns smile was radiant. She had
won the kind of love she had always
dreamed of and she could look Bar
rington squarely in the eyes and tell
him she had never wavered from his
love. ~
Back in the studio after the din
ner, Darlington took Dawn swiftly
into his arms. Afterward, when a
suggestion of calm reached him. Bar
rington traiied his fingers down over
Dawn's arm.
''Why are my satiny, precious arms
hidden by the chiffony thing? And
why are Dawn Connors shoulders SO
modestly under Govern"
Dawn shrank and the color stained
her cheeks. Darlington had never
seen her shrink from his touch.
Its just a little scar or two" she
said swiftly, 'they will all vanish some
day."
harrington looked hard at her
Loves eyes are overkeen and loves
brain intuitive. Her sleeve was swiftly
rolled back and Barrington's heart
thumped mad1y.
He trembled with her in his arms
| as he had not trembled when the great
shell sprang at him on the battle field
but couldn't have any other per
| sons. skin on your arms" she -sai6
| finally with a little trembling laugh
.It would have worried me-all the
! time"
'sDawn-my own wonderful Dawn
was all Darlington said.
| Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10
HOLD YOUR BONDS.

The floating of paper, more or less
worthless in character, has reached
such proportions as to call for ac-
ton on the part of the government
and hereafter stocks and bonds must
have federal sanction before being
placed on the market. The sale of
these so-called securities, not only is
calculated to interfere with the flota-
ton of the approaching liberty loan,
but promoters are inducing the peo-
pie to part with the liberty bonds they
already have. Nobody should dispose
of a liberty bond, for any reason,
without first consulting a responsible
banker.
The trading of liberty bonds for
other securities is merely trading
money. You gain nothing unless you
gain in dividends. And rest assured
you are in no way positive that you
will gain in dividends. Nothing in
America is secure unless the govern
ment be secure. Government bonds
are what make the government Sc
cure. Pause to consider that the
agent who offers his security for your
| liberty bond realizes the stable value
of your liberty bond. Is it not likely,
also, that the least secure of these
so-called securities are likely to be
the ones that are oftenest found on
the market and the most likely to be
traded for liberty bonds?
| Subscribing for liberty loan bonds
is assisting the government and the
soldiers. But a still greater help the
| subscriber can give is to see to it
that he keeps these bonds for which
| he subscribes, thereby making them
| worth their full value to the country
which issues them and to the cause
for which they are issued.
Trading a liberty bond for an
other security, even tho the other
security may promise greater returns,
or for merchandise is an act which
cancels the patriotic cooperation of
subscribing and, as such, should have
no place in the true Americans bust
ness program. Such transaction
tends to hamper war; financing and
reacts against the all-important task
of winning the war for freedom and
democracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10

Some day the war which is now 60
ing on will end; but how? That Ger
many-is beaten must be apparent to
everybody in the world including the
Germans themselves. But how can
they set about obtaining peace? 1t is
almost unthinkable that the kaiser
should throw up his hands and face
his people, acknowledging. defeat. 1t
would mean to him loss of both pres
tige and power. There appear then
to be but two roads open to peace.
Either the kaiser must abdicate or
there must be q revolution in Ger
many in which the war lord and his
progeny will be cast out. This of
course, cannot be accomplished with
out the aid of the army. Hence, there
seems to be no chance for peace until
the Hun soldiers, war weary, shall re-
fuse longer to fight. Recent reports
indicate that this time is approach
ing. A German republic probably
could obtain much better peace terms
from the conquerors than could a
German autocracy. The German peo-
pie may come to a realization of this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-10

it. The rest will get all the education
they can stand under rigid military
discipline.
The exact nature OF the courses to
be offered is now being determined
by committee of educators and army
officers. The first purpose of the cur
riculum, of course, will be to fit the
men for place in the war machine.
But the war machine needs all kinds
of trained men, and the American
IDEAL of an officer is man of liberal
education. Academic courses, such as
English, economics and modern Ian
guages will therefore be retained, al
tho they will probably bear a smaller
proportion than formerly to the tech
meal and professional courses.