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The Washington times., 1918-11-12
GEORGETOWNPREP
LOOK FOR BATTLES.

Georgetown Prep lads are getting
out for basketball Ted Cannon, man
ager OF the team, is seeking engage
ments with the high school teams.
Cannon recently addressed a letter
to the scholastic hves asking for
dates.
The Props will open their schedule
with Western High School on Decem-
Der 4 in the Georgetown Prep gym.
Western and Georgetown are in the
habit of starting OF their schedules
and the contest will be watched with
the usual interest at the schools.
Football received a knockout blow
at che Hilltop when many OF the can
didates went into the S. A T. c.
When the ruling went into effect
that prep school lads OF eighteen
could enjoy the benefits of the train
ing, many strong football lads went
over into the unit.
Baltimore City College is sche1-
uled to play Central High here to-
morrow afternoon in the stadium
The Baltimore lads notified Central
they would be here for the battle
tomorrow.
Watch Central and Western get
busy now. Any meeting between the
schools is apt to draw out a banner
crowd. The schools have done little
in football but can be expected to
put on a scrappy battle.
Central has practiced for the past
week and has two games scheduled
IN the event that one is called off
Western will get the date II arrange
ments can be completed.
In a short game at Satterlee Field
yesterday Western defeated St. AL
bans by A to o, making seven touch
downs and kicking five goals after
touchdown.
Western greatly outweighed the st.
Adams lads, who put up a scrappy
battle and never quit for an instant.
Wight, Read, Powell, and Birge put
up a good game for Western. The
team had not practiced since octo-
Der 2.
Mike Raedy. captain OF the Bust
ness High School team of last season
will probably be ready to play for
Maryland State shortly. Raedy was
making good when he hurt his shouI-
der.
Tech called out basketball candi-
dates yesterday and Coach Apple gave
The boys a light workout. Tech has
| lost a number Of players from last
season
Coach Battersby's Eastern team
started work on the floor. But two
lads from last season are ready for
| the campaign.
Phillip Digges. a six-foot- three inch
youngster at Western. will probably
try for the basketball team.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Reverting to patronymics, there is a
scholastic football team in Provi-
dence representing Hope High
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Bert Keyes slowed Kid Sullivan
away in the eighteenth round OF
their battle at Savannah, Ca.
Sullivan took q deal of punish
menG
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Stanley Ketchel regained mid
dleweight title honors by knock
ing out Billy Papke in the elev-
enth round OF their fight at San
Francisco. Paple took the count
as though he understood what 1t
was all about. 1t was the third
meeting between the men.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Buy War Savings stamps today -
provide for your future.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Washington and Lee defeated
Georgetown by IL to IL. The Hill
toppers lost the battle through
carelessness.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

BU WER SAVINGS Stamps today and
pEoEiAa fer yOuE future
The Washington times., 1918-11-12
TEN YEARS AGO
In SPORTS

Al Sharpe, OF Yale; Marshall, of
Harvard, and Torrey OF Penn,
were named as officials for the
Army and Navy football game.
No umpire was named, the teams
failing to agree upon an official.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

NJ. ]. Frailey won the annual
Thanksgiving Day Run at the Y.
NC. A. Z. p. Enzor was second
and ]. NJ. Cults third, A dozen
runners toed the mark and the
race was run over a five-mile
course through Potomac Park.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Lieut.. Chester Robb, COlumbia's
captain. proved once more a star in
the Union game Saturday, ripping and
tearing through the opposition at will.
He is living up to his Penn State
reputation.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Abe Attell was beaten in fifteen
rounds by Freddy Welsh. The
Englishman clearly earned the de-
cision and Attel was shy on his
usually phenomenal cIeyerness.
His blows lacked force.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Lom Longboat was considered
for an engagement over the
marathon route with DorandO
Pietrl, who defeated Johnny
Hayes in a specially arranged rae
at Madison Square Garden.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Eddie Daley, captain Of Dartmouth's ,
1910 eleven, starred for the Harvard
s. A. T. c. team Saturday against
Tufts. He has moved over from end
to tackle where he plays like a
veteran.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Browns varsity eleven has not
shown any strength this year Satur-
day the Providence team was utterly
helpless before the powerful Syra-
cusans.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Though handicapped by a small
squad and no time for practice, John
d. O'Reilly is making good as a foot
ball coach at Georgetown, judging
from the first game.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12
GRDRON GOSSIP
Pitt vs.. Georgia Tech shapes up
like the seasons classic.

BosIey played great football for
Maryland State against Western
Maryland. Yet he didn't score a
touchdown. Gurevich getting three.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Episcopal High and Augusta Mill
taFy Academy played a scoreIess tie
the other day at Episcopal The
AIexGndrians were up against a
strong combination, and did well TO
hold the Augusta lads to a tie.
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Mike Raedy, captain OF the Bust
ness High School team Of last season,
will probably be ready to play for
Maryland State shortly. Raedy was
making good when he hurt his shoul-
dAF
The Washington times., 1918-11-12

Coach Bsttersby's Eastern team
started work on the floor. But two
lads from last season are ready for
the campaign.
Phillip Digges. a six-foot -three-inch
youngster at Western. will probably
try for the basketball team.
The Washington times., 1918-03-27
IN BATHRODESA AND
SLIPPERS, SOLDIERS
SEE VAUDEVILLE

Washington saw the gathering OF
its strangest theater audience last
night-an audience CARRIED IN bath
robes and slippers, and some Of the
spectators wheeled in on stretchers.
II was in the post exchange at Wal
ter Reed Hospital that the scene took
place. Five hundred soldiers. recov-
ering from critical illnesses. wounded
or injured. a few. of them almost hope
less cases of inyslidism. composed the
group that applauded with endless
enthusiasm the presentation OF a
vaudeville bill by the Excelsior Dra-
matte Club, William II. Bright. presi-
dent, and Fred, C. Parker, business
manager. r..
At least three times a week. the
minds OF the sufferers az Walter Reed
are diverted by entertainments of
various kinds. At the conclusion of
last nights offering. when the audi
ence shuffled or hobbled back to the
surrounding wards, officers and
nurses told the Rev. Albert A. Brook
house. assistant pastor at the Church
OF the Covenant. in charge OF the So
cial work at the institution, at was
the finest yet" '.s
"The Marble Arch" a one-aet
comedy by Mr. Brookhouse. was the
hest received piece on the bill Among
the entertainers, mostly profession
ais who gave their service gratis,
were Miss ]. H. Anderson, who
brought a big laugh with "Camou-
fiage;" Mr.. Parker. who earned sew
eral encores with "The Virginia
Judge" and the Nevin quartet in spe-
cialties.
The Washington times., 1918-03-27
SOLDIERS
TO Be GUESTSAT
PASSOVERFEAST

Probably the largest sedar service ever
held In America viii be given tonight to
the Jewish soldiers. sailors. and marines
by the Sisterhood OF the Eighth Street
Temple. Covers for Is guests wiz be
laid for the symbolic meal which marks
the beginning Of the festival OF the Pass
over. A short service at the Eighth
Street Temple begins tonight at $50 p.
Ia. followed by the seder service at Z
p. m. ~
Preparations for an even larger serv-
Ice tomorrow night are being made.
when the civilians in Washington will
unite in a community seder. DR.. Simon
will conduct this also.
The seder service Is a meal symbolic
Of the servitude OF the Jews in Egypt,
and Of their release from bondage. 1t
has been conducted In its present form
for thousands Of years.
The Washington times., 1918-03-27
WOULD Give EXTRAPAY
TOCLERK WITH CHILDREN

Senator Gallinger in the Senate today
introduced an amendment to the pro-
visions for general salary increases in
the legislative bill. whereby an additional
allowance OF 81 per annum shall be
made to each employe for each de-
pendent child below the age OF sixteen
Such further allowance Is not to be
paid to more than one person on account
NJ the same child.
The Washington times., 1918-03-27
WOMEN BOOST GARDENS.

Eight thousand women went home
from a meeting Of a California Fed
Grafton OF woman's Clubs In san
Francisco last week. every one OF
them pledged to see that some one
particular child Joined the war gar
den army, and. more than that. TO see
that that child had a war garden OF
his own or her own. as the case may
The Washington times., 1918-03-27
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Funeral from his late residence. see PORT
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day. March IS. l9Is. at 40 D. m. thence
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The Washington times., 1918-03-27
Standardized Typewriting

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typists. Shorthand not required. New train
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
| JOCKEYS SELDOM COME BACK
Unlike Ball Player or Fighter Rider
Barely Returns to SaddIe-His
Cunning Gone.

A ball player who has been hitter
will retain his hitting eye until the
very last, and fighter who was clever
will keep his knowledge Of how to
fight when everything else is gone, but
when jOcky goes, he goes, every
which way, seems like.
He loses his judgment of pace, and
his hands, along with his seat on the
horse, and everything else. Then, like
the ball player, returns to the sticks,
the jock drifts to the bush tracks, or,
like the fighter quits altogether.
Some become trainers, like doom
and Willie Midgeley, and Maxey
Hirsch and Snapper" Garrison, and
Mickey Miles, and "Puddin'" McDan-
iel, and ankieFO'Neil, who trained in
France, and some who are not smart
enough or ambitious enough to handle
horses and who did not save their
dough when they were getting it as
riders, turn tout.
Willie Knapp, real oldtimer, who
was down on the ground for several
years and who was reinstated this
spring. is about the only genuine jock
comeback. Willie has put up some great
rides and a few bad ones, but he is 2
real comeback.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
Antiquity of Jerusalem.

The wonderful antiquity of Jerusa~
lem has only been appreciated in re-
cent years. Up TO 80 years ago, OBJ
serves the Chicago Examiner, it was
thought that Jerusalem was of little
Importance as a city until it became
the "City of David" king of Israel.
But with the discovery of the Tel-el-
Amarna tablets in Egypt new light
was shed upon the history of the sa-
cred city. There were found six letters
written by the king Of Jerusalem to
the Pharaoh Of Egypt, dating from the
fifteenth century B. G. The name Of
this king of Jerusalem was Abd-hiba.
or, as some scholars read the cunei-
form, Abd-sadak, and he writes to the
Pharaoh beseeching him to send SOL
diers, almost as the Turks must have
sent messages to Germany asking for
re-enforcements that they might save
the day.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
CHECKERING GUN ART
Pleasant PaStime to Improve Ap-
pearance of Firearm.
Amateur Will Derive Much Satisfac-
ton From Experience and Will
Be Surprised at Result of
His HandiWork.

Many SpOrtsmen find 1t an interest
ing pleasant experience to take a ia
vOrite rifle or shotgun and improve it's
appearance by checkering the stock
or forearm.
This is an art in itself and the anna
teur will find experience the best teach
err. A good plan to follow in making
the first experiment is to take block
of walnut with a polished or smooth
surface and draw two lines diagonal
to each other. The shape of the dia-
mond produced by the checkering Is
dependent upon the angle formed by
these first two lines.
A Handwriting tool with three
parallel scraping surfaces is then used.
starting on the diagonal lines. This
tracing tool simply marks the lines for
filing, after the surface of the stock
is still flat but marked with the
parallel lines, crossing each other dag
onally.
These lines serve as guides and the
stock is then filed up with a small
band triangular file cutting into the
wood to shape up the small diamonds,
and the stock is afterward gone over
finally with a file to perfect the shape
of the diamonds and raise the small
points at the top of each diamond.
After this is done a border may be
put on with small hand tool with
two parallel cutters. These serve to
give a finished appearance to the
checkering.
Ordinarily the process of checker
ing the stocks and forearms of fac
tory produced guns is all hand work
and done by skilled help. Although
of course not an unusual operation, 1t
requires ordinarily six or eight months
time to learn. Some operatives are
never successful in mastering the
trick.
The amateur will derive much sat
isfaction from the experience of check
ering his own guns, and by exercising
a little care and patience will be
agreeably surprised with the results
of his handiwork.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24


did was wrong. He had been assigned
to row No. 5 in the boat, and all he
heard from the coach during the after
noon was:
"Hey! No. 5, you bonehead-Don't
hold your oar like that" or mo. 8!
How many times do have to tell you
not to place your feet like that?'
The following day he was moved
down one position in the boat, but
didn't do any better, and the coach
nagged at him continually. That night
a friend asked him how he was get
ting along with his rowing.
"Well," he replied, Il had a tough
time the first day and got ,bawled out
a lot, but I did fine today. / feel
sorry for No. 4, whoever he is, be-
cause the coach rode him to beat the
band today" ..
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
RATlONING IS SYSTEM URGED
British Workingmen Demand Better
Distribution Methods for Food
Supplies.

Londop.-Resolution calling on the
government to introduce system of
rationing and asserting that a grave
crisis is approaching in many of the
working class districts were adopted
by the Workers National committee,
which includes representatives of most
of the large trades unions. Robert
Smith, president Of the Miners Fed
GRAFTON, is chairman Of the committee.
The resolutions say that in some
working class districts women are COM
PEELED to wait in front of shops and Oft
en- are unable to obtain tea, sugar,
milk. butter, bacon or margarine. A
bad system of distribution is said to be
largely responsible for this state of
affairs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24

on the woman's liberty loan committee.
and to carry the lessons of the Liberty
loan and of the war savings certiti-
Gates to the women in the far West.
"Out in California we are so far
away from the center Of things that
many of the remote communities know
the thrift campaign of the Liberty loan
only as a name. The duty of our wom-
en-, as / see it, is not only to conserve
in large way, but to save the small
amounts which the people of the West
are apt to overlook.
eve are only beginning to use cop
pers in San Francisco" said Mrs. Bald
win, s'and they are still only used in a
few of the shops. In California the
copper cent has been regarded hereto
fore as too inconsiderable trifle to be
given any consideration. The war and
its emergency measures, such as the
war savings certificates and the thrift
stamps, will change the Californian's
attitude toward the modest penny.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
IF DRUNK, TAKE CLUB TO HIM
Pennsylvania Mayor Tells Wives Thus
to Deal With Intoxicated
Husbands.

Johnstown, Pa. = Mayor Louis
FRANKIE advises wives to beat their
husbands if they get drunk. He hand
ed out this bit of advice when a man
was brought before him on a charge of
beating his wife when he came home
drunk.
81 only WISH" said Mayor FRANKIE,
chat wives who have drunken hus-
bands would get up enough gumption
to beat them up when they come home
loaded.
cit is privilege they have. We
wouldn't have so many cases In po-
lice court if the women would only
take the matter into their own hands,"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
Would Take Glass Eye Back.

Paul Gary Of Anderson, Ind, is all
American, with the exception of a
glass eye. The substitute optic is
alien.
Gary tried to enlist in the United
States marine corps at their recruiting
station in Louisville, KY, but was re-
iected when his infirmity was discov-
cred by Sergt. G. c. Wright.
Didn't you know that the loss of
an eye would prevent your enlisting?"
asked the sergeant.
81 thought it might" explained Gary,
"but this glass blinker is the only part
of me that was made in Germany, and
I want to take it back"
He was advised to mail it,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
Crop and Drug Plants.

One of the projects outlined by the
committee on botany of the national
research council is the search for wild
plants which may be used as wartime
substitutes for the more costly crop
plants. During the Civil war DR.. John
porcher, a Southerner, published a
book giving list of plants of the
South which could be substituted for
much-needed food and drug plants. II
Is suggested that information might be
obtained from hunters, trappers,
woodsmen. farmers, Indians and the
foreigners, who pick up considerable
food from the countryside. Similar in
formation is desired concerning plants
hat can be used in medicine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
SMUGGLING ON SWISS BORDER
Party of Fifty Germans Attend Mask.
ed Ball to Obtain Con-
traband.

Berne.-Smuggling of foodstuffs in.
to Germany is still practiced in inge-
NOUS and unexpected ways. The 9TH
er night party of about fifty persons
crossed the frontier to take part in a
masked ball in a little Swiss town.
Toward midnight they returned in au-
tomobiles, which were warned to stop
at the frontier. -..
No notice being taken Of the warn
ing the sentinels fired and brought the
cars to standstill. The OCCUPANTS.
most of whom were discovered to be
German soldiers, succeeded in making
their escape, but the cars, in which
were hidden large quantities of SOAP.
chocolate, butter, leather and fats.
we're seized by the authorities.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
LEARN USE OF PENNY
War Introduces 1t Into California
for First Time.
Heretofore Regarded as Too Insight.
ficant to Bear Value in Relation
to Business.

San FranciscO.-The war is intro
ducing the humble penny into Califor-
MIA. For the first time in the history
of the state it will be used in COM
merce. Heretofore this fraction Of
currency has been regarded as too In
significant TO bear any value in its re-
Iation to business.
The value of the copper cent is one
of the lessons in thrift which Mrs. A.
S. Baldwin of San Francisco will take
back to the women of California. Mrs.
Baldwin is one of the most prominent
clubwomen of San Francisco and she
was recently called to Washington by
the secretary of the treasury to serve
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-01-24
old BLOCK PRINTS
Invention Is Credited to the Chi
neSe in Year 592.
Books Not In Competition With Manu-
scripts Until the Middle OF the
Tenth Century.

Printing from blocks is said to nave
been invented In China In 592 A. u,
during the enlightened reign OF YanK
Chen, the founder of the progressive
but short-lived Sui dynasty. Printed
books, however, asserts writer In the
Oriental News and Comment, did NOT
| compete with manuscripts until the
middle of the tenth century. From that
| time block printing developed very rap
idly, resulting in a great cheapenlng
and wide diffusion Of books ana the
consequent rapid decline of the copy
lists trade. No doubt the rapid dis
semination of learning this entaileu
had much to do with tie great intel
lectual progress made in China during
the Sung dynasty, from $50 to l2SO A.
D., which has been called the PRO
tracted Augustan age Of Chinese litera-
ture."
Disregarding the manuscript works
Of the great Tang dynasty (61S-9OT A.
d., which were doubtless tenfold more
numerous and more important than the
contemperaneous literary works OF the
whole western world, the printed books
of the Sung Yuan and the early part
Of the Ming dynasties up to the middle
Of the fifteenth century have no coun-
terpart at all in Europe. They existed
in countless thousands Of volumes. In
1406 the Imperial Ming library con-
tanned printed works to the extent OF
more than 100000 chuan (books) and
more than twice as many manuscripts,
and already many printed works OF the
Sung dynasty had been lost during the
disorders incident to the protracted
wars with the Mongols. Undoubtedly
more books were printed in China than
in all the rest of the world up to the
middle of the seventeenth or the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century.
The great bulk Of Chinese works,
aside from the Confucian classics, Is
historical or literary, the latter being
mostly essays, short poems, or cri-
tiques. There exists also vast Bud
dhistic literature and very. many Tao
list works.
| Novels are not even classed as lit
erature, dltnOugn famous ones eXlSC
and some of them have been translated
into European languages. There are
also many famous dramas, some dating
from the Yuan dynasty, but these, too,
are excluded from literature proper by
Chinese photographers. The historical
records Of the Chinese are of vast bulk
and represent a conscientious and
painstaking record of the political and
sociological experiences Of the oldest
civilized nation on earth. In close con-
nection with these records proper we
should consider the vast number Of
geographic treatises and especially the
so-called gazetteers. These latter are
official publications issued by the en-
pire, province, district, or even town.
ship, and treat not only geography and
topography proper, but also the an-
Equities, natural and manufactured
products, and even the biographies of
famous men, population, taxes, astrol'
Ogy, marvellous happenings, etc.