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The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
SNEAD NAMED
TO HEAD new
COAL INQUIRY
Charges Of Discrimination
Bring Appointment for
Investigation.

With complaints coming from
many cities that consumers are be-
ing Disseminated against in the
distribution of coal. DR.. Harry A.
Garfield yesterday appointed L. A.
Snead as assistant, to make an i'm
mediate investigation.
Broad hints were given by Fuel
A administration officials that exam
pies will be made of coal dealers or
shippers who have been exacting
high prices from suffering people.
Mr.. Snead will visit various To-
calities and obtain first hand in
formation on conditions and work
out q remedy to meet the situation.
He will begin in Washington.
Right under the eyes of the Fuel
Administration. retail dealers have
forced individuals to pay $l1.50 and
$1,000 a ton for coal. This price
has not covered delivery. The con-
sumer has to pay $500 for hauling
and S1.50 for putting 1t in. II he
questions the price of coal. he is
told there are plenty of other peo-
pie ready to take It at the figure.
Residents all over the city have
been without coal. churches have
been closed, apartment houses with
thirty and forty families have been
without heat and hot water for two
days. And at the same time, accord
ing to the reports at Director Gen
eral McAdoo's Office, there have been
roundly 200 cars of coal standing load
ed in the yards. Citizens are COM
planning because their children have
had to suffer. while Conservatives
of music, hothouses and government
buildings have been super-heated.
Apartments and private homes, re-
quiring heat and hot water all day
and night. have been forced to Use
inferior quality of soft coal. while
some public buildings. half occupied
have been supplied with large guam
titles OF excellent anthracite.
Mr.. Snead does not lay the blame
entirely on transportation. He ha.
reports from other places which show
that there have been hundreds OF
cars OF coal right at the doors of
the people but undistributed. He ex-
pressed himself yesterday as being
in favor of making an example of
dealers or shippers who are lying
down on the jobs" in the emergency
Just because they can receive twice
as much money for their output with
no labor attached
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
ASKS $1,000 SALARY
AS Teachers Lowest
Hillsdale Community Association
Declares Its the Limit"

District school teachers should
receive a minimum salary of $1,000
to meet living conditions, was the
unanimous sense Of the members
Of the Hillsdale Community As
ISOLATION at a meeting in Bierny
School last night.
They also went on record as
pledging their full assistance in
boosting sales of war savings
stamps.
The secretary was instructed to
communicate with the authorities in
regard to long deferred repairs on
Nichols avenue and other streets
of the suburb.
1t was decided to ask additional
ground from the War Department
for war garden purposes.
A mass meeting in the interest of
the War Savings Stamps will be
held February 81 at the Bierny
School.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
Will file PROTEST ;
ON INCREASED RATES
Northeast Washington Citizens to
Record Opposition Today.

Evan II. Tucker. president OF the
Northeast Washington Citizens AS
sociation. today will file a protest
against the request OF the Washing
ton Gas Light Company for increas-
ed rates, at the final session of the
public hearing before the Public Util-
ities Commission.
Immediately after the gas company
made a request for raised rates be-
fore the commission, the association
decided to protest. Mr.. Tucker is
expected to be the concluding wit
ness Of the hearing.
Heretofore the hearing has been
purely technical. Masses OF figures
and statistics have been submitted
by either side. J. H. Botz and An
drew Sangster, expert accountants,
who compiled valuation figures for
the commission, and Robert o. Lu-
queer. expert practical gas man,
who compiled figures for the COM
pany designed to show the need Of
a raise in rates. concluded their tesA
timony yesterday.
Two prominent coal dealers were
brought on the stand to tell Of the
shortage Of coal during the present
winter,
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
FEEL fine! TAKE
"CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
Spend 10 Cents! Don't Stay Bill
ious, Sick. Hesdachy.
Constipated.
Can't Harm You'll Best Cathartic
for Men. Women and
Children.

Enjoy life. Your system is filed
with an accumulation of bile anu
bowel poison, which keeps you bilious,
,headachy. dizzy, tongue-coated, breath
bad and stomach sour. Why don't you
get a 10-cent box Of Cascarets at the
drug store and feel bully? Take Cas-
carets tonight and enjoy the incest,
gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you
ever experienced. You'll wake up
with clear head, clean tongue, lively
step, rosy skin and looking and feel
ing fit. Mothers can give a whole Cas-
caret to sick, cross, bilious. feverish
child any time-they are harmless
never gripe or sicken.Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12

communication trench, six inches
deep with mud. This trench was called
Whisky street" On our way up to
the front line an occasional flare of
bursting shrapnel would light up the
sky and We could hear the fragments
slapping the ground above us on our
right and left. Then n Fritz would
traverse back and forth with his
typewriter or machine gun. The
bullets made a sharp cracking noise
overhead
The boy in front of me named Prem
tice crumpled up without a word. a
piece OF shell had gone through his
shrapnel-proof helmet. I felt sick
and weak.
In about thirty minutes we reached
the front line. 1t was dark as pitch.
Every now and then a German star
shell would pierce the blackness out
in front with its silvery light. 1 was
trembling all over. and felt very lone
ly and afraid. All orders were given
in whispers. The company We re-
lieved filed past us and disappeared
into the blackness of the communica-
ton trench leading to the rear. As
they passed us. they whispered, THE
best O. luck mates" o.
sat on the fire step of the trench
with the rest of the men. In each
traverse two of the older men had
been put on guard with their heads
sticking over the top, and with their
eyes trying to pierce the blackness in
mo Mans Land" In this trench
there were only two dugouts, and
these were used by Lewis and Vickers,
machine gunners. so 1t was the fire
step for ours. Pretty soon it started
to rain. We put on our "rlacks." but
they were not much protection. The
| rain triCkled down our backs, and ii
was not long before we were wet and
cold. How I passed that night 1 will
never know, but without any unusual
occurrence, dawn arrived.
Tho word stand down" was passed
along the line, and the sentries got
down off the fire step. Pretty soon the
| rum issue came along. and 1t was a
Godsend. 1t warmed our chilled bodies
| and put new life into US. Then from
| the communication trenches came
dixies or iron pots, filled with steam
| ing tea, which had two wooden stakes
| through their handles, and were car
| ried by two men. 1 filled my canteen
and drank the hot tea without taking
! it from my lips. 1t was not long be-
fore I was asleep in the mud on the
| fire step.
My ambition had been attained! ]
was in a front-line trench on the
Western front, and oh, how I wished
I were back in Jersey City.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
LABOR LOYAL
TO WAR PLANS,
SAYS GOMPERS
President Of American Fed
Grafton Of Labor Pledges
Fealty of Workers.

Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation Of Labor. yester-
day pledged labor's unqualified sup
port to the shipbuilding program.
Called before the Senate Commerce
Committee to tell his organizations
attitude and plans, he said:
I'VE are with the government and
with our European allies in a fight
to the finish. Nothing will suit US
but that kind of fight And II democ-
racy goes down before autocracy, let
It be in fight, and not because Of plot,
intrigue or stacking.
'T warn this committee against the
testimony of men who for years have
been trying to make organized labor
look bad"
Gompers told reasons why, he said,
shipyard labor has seemed dissatis-
hed. He charged:
Men were not given q flt place to
sleep: they were gouged for food.
clothing. transportation; working by
the piece, their rate was steadily de-
creased so that wages did not mount
when they increased the amount OF
work done; they often had to pay
"grafters" for jobs when they knew
HOEA was pASA1hNis
CriticIses Farmers.
As for farmers, Gompers said he
sympathized with them in trying to
get lust pay for their service to So
ciety, but that as employers they
were worse than corporations. They
regarded a barn as good enough
sleeping place for a laborer; and
"they want a constantly unemployed
army. a surplus Of labor from which
they can pick the best at the lowest
figures"
Senators johnson and Harding
agreed that there had been no vision
or plans to care for the housing of
labor at yards. But they promised
him a betterment at once.
Denying a shortage of labor. he
said there are 100000 persons known
TO the A. F. of L now to be unem-
pIoyed-mostly needle-workers, stone
workers. brick-layers, painters. car
penters and others whose trades had
been affected by war economics.
Admits ImperfeetIons.
Senator Harding-'Is there now a
policy in organized labor to restrict
a mans output
Gompers-''In a veyy few trades. 1t
Is regrettablc. But it is a result,
not a purpose. The men in these
trades have found that as their pro-
ductivity increased, their pay per
unit Of work decreased. So why work
harder?'
Can you say how much labor
trouble is pro-German?''
Quite a lot. The I. W. W. are
bigger than ever. I know one former
labor man. poor, who has blossomed
out as the sole owner Of a new
and agitating-paper. The head of
the Socialist party, Adolph Germer,
is a German"
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
NUMBER OF WOMEN WAGE FARMERS
GROWING LARGER

More than one-tenth of the mar
ried women of the United States
were engaged in gsinful pursuits in
1910, and over z6 per cent of all
women sixteen years old or over
were wage-earners, business women,
etc. Since the war the percentage
has greatly increased. Many of such
women are better adapted for work
in shop, factory or office than are
men, if it were not for the suffer
ings, the burdens and the weaknesses
of the sex.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
WILSON BILL REFERRED.

The overman bill granting the Pres
ident extraordinary powers to co-ordi-
nate governmental agencies was yes
terday referred by the Judiciary Com
mittee to a subcommittee. consisting
Of Senators Overman. Fletcher, Mel
son, Reed and Dillingham;.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
Norman Hapgood Will
Talk on Palestine

Norman Hapgood will address the
Washington Zionist Circle on THE
War and Its Relation to the Restor-
alton of the Jewish Homeland" at
the Collegiate Club on Wednesday
evening at Sis o'clock.
Mr.. Hapgood has just returned
from France and England. and as
he possesses an intimate knowledge
Of the attitude of these countries
on the question, his lecture will be
of unusual interest. The public is
invited.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
Wears
Well"

How much satisfaction do
you get by reading a news
paper?
Do you put Il down with
eonhdent feeling you have
learned the exact facts OF the
principal recent occurrences
th at have taken place
throughout the world1
Do you find therein some
information Of sufficient in
terest to warrant passing il
along or perhaps to cause
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read it again7
Do you consider the state
ments in q newspaper the
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The readers Of the Chris
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answer these queries afir-
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gathering true stories Of daily
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conclusion.
The Christian Science
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Sample copies will be
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The Washington herald., 1918-02-12

womanhood and herbal tonic that improves digestion eurce
the blood dpels aches and palms. melancholy and
brings refreshing sleep and restores health and strength
What's the of trying this" and trying that" when here
remedy that has its merits by nearly of
proval? In the arrangements irregularities peculiar
to internal inflammation and liberation weak back and
kindred ailments the Favorte Prescription numbers It's test
monas of by the thousand In betorm all drug
stores.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
ERROR IS NOTED.

In yesterdays Herald, in an ar
ticle telling of the life of Thomas
A. Edison, through an error Mr..
Edison's birthplace was given a.
Milan. a small canal town in
Erie, Pa"
Mr.. Edison was born in Milan,
Ohio. and the quotation should have
been, MILAN, a small canal town in
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
A Helping Hand

A helping hand to lift up weak,
tired. overtaxed women-that's wha;
you'll find in DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. 1t gives you just the
help that you need. To be had in
liquid or tablets.
It's a medicine that's made es.
pecially to build up women's strength
and to cure women's ailments-au
invigorating restorative tonic, sooth-
ing cordial and bracing nervinei
purely vegetable, nonalcoholic and
perfectly harmless. 1t regulates and
promotes the proper functidns Of
The Washington herald., 1918-02-12

-nsw:.Iom, I'm as lnnereent ., d hen born babe
: steaI;rI flaxm thera chickens, ,bue if 9euH Si'
thst bis ,ea sPr1s ,~hs III tel gen exactly h
sons an, ,iist how 1thay nsBbed nsBbed++= .ns++=
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
JUVENILE COURT WORK.

For having failed TO appear at the
session Of the court last week when ne
was summoned, a ii-yeer-old boy was
brought before Judge Prickett in Juve-
nile Court yesterday afternoon and was
fined for contempt. The boy had been
arrested on a charge OF disorderly con-
duct in having broken a window In
restaurant at Fourth and Spruce
ftreets.
Petitions were presented 10 the court
for the release OF two boys from 81.
Mary's Industrial School, Baltimore
Nd. One was i6 years old, the other
Is years old. The former was allowed
to return TO his home. the other being
allowed to go 30 Brooklyn, n. y. to
live with relatives there.
A i6-year-old boy, who had been
given a hearing four weeks ago on a
charge OF disorderly conduct together
with some other boys. and placed on
probation. had his case dismissed.
A petition for release OF a boy who
had been placed on a farm In Chris
tisna hundred with his grandmother
was refused.
A petition from a parent OF boy
who had been placed on a farm sil
months ago, 10 visit the boy, who Wi
be brought into the detention home tol
the purpose Of seeing the parent wa
allowed.
A boy. charged by his parents VIII
being incorrigible. was committed Y
the Ferris Industrial School.
The, placement Of three boys wit
had been turned over 10 The chief pro
baton officer by the court was ap
/ proyed
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
A.C.DAVIS, ARCHITECT,
DIES SUDDENLY

Following four days illness, Albert
C. Davis. a years old, general man
ager Of the Lynch Conctruction Com
pany. which has charge OF the Gov
ernment housing project at Front and
Union streets, and a prominent archi-
tect OF New York. died at the Della
ware Hospital yesterday Ills home
was In Observation-Disclosures, New
York.
Mr.. Davis has been a prominent fac-
tor In shipping board work, also IL
building operations In New York CITY,
having been for eighteen years con-
nected with Hoppen and Coheh the Dig
architects OF New York City.
He IS survived by a wife and four
children. Since being stationed here
Mr.. Davis had made his home at the
Hotel dupont
The remains will be shipped 70
scarsdale this afternoon, and the fu-
neral service will be held there on Fri
day.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
GERMANS APPEAL
FOR ECONOMIC AID
Raw Materials to be Di-
verted from Britain
After the War
WILL RETALIATE,
THEY DECLARE
BY Newspaper Enterprise Association

By Newspaper Enterprise Association.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. Panic has
seized the German commercial world
with regard TO conditions after the war.
The Huns fear that whether or not
they are victorious, their business viii
never again be what Il was before i9i4.
DR.. Lohmann, president Of the Bre-
man Cotton exchange, proposes in the
government newspaper. the North Ger
man Gazette, that Germany should re-
ply 10 the allies threatened raw ma
terials war" with the following de
mands"
4. Germany shall receive from the
raw materials purchased by the BriS
ish government presumably for re-
construction purposes) a quantity suf-
flclent to supply German Industries FOR
one TO two years after the signing OF
peace.
2. Germany shall have restored to
her as much as may be left OF the ton
mage taken away from her 10 violation
OF International law or receive COM
pensatlon therefor in kind. In addi-
ton, Germany shall nave placed at hva
disposal sufficient tonnage 10 bring the
aforementioned raw materials TO her
ports.
3. Germany demands that the resolu-
tlons OF the Allies Paris economic con-
ference shall not be enforced. II they
are enforced the Germanic powers
must close their markets TO the raw
materials or manufactured products OF
the British colonies.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
RURAL MEN TO HAVE
PHYSICAL TEST

The following registrnnts have been
called BY the Rural New Castle County
Exemption Board for physical eHamins-
ilon tomorrow.
Class 1917.
Leon @. Jones. (transfer) Delaware
City.
Mansel w. Wilson. Chester Springs,
Pa.
Blaglo La Porta and Joe Ia Porta,
(transfefs) New Castle.
Leon Jacksonn Christlana.
Class OF 1918.
John Charles Brown. New Castlt.
Alfred Mccullough, Centerville.
David Emery Enfield, Cumberland
Nd.
Jesse Meldzanowsk. Porters.
William Davidson White. Edge Moor.
Herman Webster, Wilmington.
William Clarence Fryslnser, Clay
mont.
Francis E. Anderson. New Castle.
Howard Z. Krum, Brandywlne
Springs.
Francis A. Burnlte. Marshallton.
Alfred Woodland Caulk, Townsend.
William /. Ford, New Castle.
Leroy Edler, Mt. Cuba.
Frank Edward Mote. Newark
| Herbert White Handy, Wilmington
| Herbert A. Smith. Newark.
! Eugene Bardett Martin. Henry Clay.
Warren A. Manuel Marshallton.
John +. Tidwell New Castle.
/ Charles A. BOvles. Newark.
Courtland w. saxion. Delaware City
Samuel Lebarto, Newark.
Walter Toulson. Newark.
Isaac Cooper Wright, Klrkwood.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
TRUCK DRIVEWAY Is
PROVING SUCCESSFUL

''There was a time says Guy r.
Ford, OF the ovorland-WilmingtOn Com
pany, .when the motortruck manufae-
turer put his product on a freight car
and Il arrived at rs destination care
Gully packed IN paper and Grated and
was even lifted or the cars onto a
truck and delivered at the dealers store
untouched by rain or road, simply hav-
Ing gone through a preliminary test at
the factory.
"Thls age OF delivering trucks Ike
you would lewelry came TO an abrupt
end with the congestion OF freight. and
today the take home rule applies ~
a large percentage OF the trucks bought.
AT the Allentown plant Of the Beth
lehem Motor Corporation the other day
there were congregated dealers from
lBrooklyn. MlneOla and Hudson Falls,
In. Y: Hartford and Bridgeport, Conn.,
/ New Brunswick, n. j., and scranton,
lIehlghton, Pottsvllle, Lancaster and
soudertown, Pa, as well as several
other towns far and near These men
came 10 drive away their Bethlehem
lmotortrucks, thus relieving the rail-
Iroads. and what Is more important get'
ting the trucks TO their customers a.
an early date. 80
''This condition IN motortruck deliV'
erv. the Bethlehem engineers believe
will prove highly beneficial to me
moiortruck field. In 'drivaways' ex'
pert handling is given the truck In II:
initial rolling. and thus tuning II w
SO that when the customer takes u
over. Il is thoroughly adjusted In evers
respect.
"There IS hardly a day now passes
according 10 the records OF the Bethle
hem Corporation OF Allentown, Pa ina
one or two or a dozen dealers don
drive away their quota OF the Greer
Trucks as The Bethlehem motors ar
called. This new line has recently un
dereone considerable addition and nov
includes ~, 2ik and 3i5 ton trucks
Ian Of which are equipped with armore'
radiators, internal gear nickel steel reo
axle. wormless drive and Gray DaVi
lliehtlng and starting system. This las
Improvement being unique with IN
Bethlehem line as far as motortruek
are concerned"
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
E. r. FARRA QUITS
AS PROBATION COP

After serving for more than seven
years as chief probation officer OF the
Juvenile Court. E. Ross Forra has ten
dered his resignation 10 take effect on
August i5. Mr.. Farra has taken the
position OF chief labor inspector OF the
Compulsory Work Bureau OF the State
Council OF National Defense. No men
ton has been made Of his successor.
Mr.. Farra Is a member OF the Ma
tional Probation Association and The
director OF that organization for the
state Of Delaware He was one OF the
founders OF the Chlldren's Bureau OF
Delaware and Is treasurer Of the Social
Workers Club, which Is composed OF
the paid social workers OF Wilmington
and vicinity. lie Is greatly Interested
in all phases OF child welfare work In
the State.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01

ter. 50 cents: chickens. % cents; pota-
toes, $50
Gettysburg. Pa, which is in the ra-
dius OF New York and Philadelphia az
well as Washington and baltimore
Eggs 90 cents; butter, 40 cents; roast
ing chickens. p 10 q cents; frying 30
10 "a cents: potatoes. $3.50.
Nottingham. Pa, Ton the same routel
-Fegs. 81 10 g cents; butter 40 cents (;
chickens. 30 20 35 cents.
Rising sun. Pa.-Eggs, 3S cents but
ter. IS cents; chickens, - cents; po-
tataoes, $50.
Fort Loudon. Ps-Bgss. 70 cents
butter. 32 cents; roasting chickens, =
TO 26 cents: frying 80 TO - cents.
Honeybrook. Pa.-Eggs. 3s cents
butter. A5 cents; chickens, 2s to 3
cents.
Summervllle, N. Figs. 80 cents
butter. 50 cents; roasting chickens. d
cents; frying 60 ~ cents; potatoes
$50.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01

handle the American forces OF one
army, and It will be easier to give pro
motions 70 those who deserve them. II
a National Guard ofllcer. for instance
were 10 be treated as belonging to
certain state command. and not TO De
removed from that command, he could
only be promoted as vacancies occurred
in his particular unit Under the new
system a captain OF Pennsylvania
National Guard regiment may be ap-
pointed 10 a majority and assigned to a
battalion in a division made M OF
troops from any part Of the United
States.
All enlistments in the Regular Army
are for the duration Of the war. just
as the drafted men are called to the
colors for the entire period OF hostili-
ties. so Il has been an easy matter 10
ioin all the various classes together as
one force.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
Just Apply This Paste
and the Hairs Will Vanish
tBoudoir secrets)

The udclous use OF a delatone paste
insnres any woman clear hairless
skin. To prepare the paste, mix little
OF the powdered delstone with some
water. then apply 70 the Objectionable
hairs for 2 or 3 minutes. When the
paste IS removed, and the skin washed,
every trace Of hair win have vanished.
No pain attends the use OF the delatone
and 70 will not mar the most sensitive
skin. but % insure results, see that you
get real delatone.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01
HoI-sFHOLD NOTES.

When you tLin out the row OF beets'
boil the tiny ones that you pun out Tor
greens.
Do not plant small seeds too deep.
They should be slightly covered win
earth.
The rule OF the cleared ice box IL as
important as that Of the plate.
AL larticles 10 be fried should be
thoroughly dried and slightly warm.
Evening journal., 1918-08-01

William Arthur Gilbert, Marshallton.
Irving Taylor. winterthur.
Thomas r. Congo. Newark.
NJ. w. Hanson, Claymont.
Wilbur c. Simmons. New Castle.
Harry Reed, Wilmington.
Elmer Parson, New Castle
4. II. Naylor. Jr.. New Castle.