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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
BASKETBALL BEGINS

The first basketball game of the sea-
son will start at the Naval Academy
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30: the mid
shipmen's opponents being the five of
Baltimore City College. Coach Lush
has practically settled four of the
positions at the start. Farwell, a
Plebe. who has shown great speed,
will be chosen from Glass, Lewis and
Tanner. Derringer will be center, and
Bolton and Waters guard
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
DAUGHTERS OF 1879

The National Society Of the Daugh-
ters of 1872 OF Maryland will have a
meeting ON December 9 at the College
Club, S21 n. Charles street, Baltimore
Mrs A. c. Arthur is corresponding
secretary. There are several Annapo-
lis Daughters of 1872
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
WHO FOUND THIS DOLL

In another column is advertised a
doll with dotted muslin dress and pink
ribbon sash. A generous reward is Of
fered for it's return.
Probably this doll was intended for
a Christmas present for some child,
and the return of it by the finder will
make some little heart glad.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
MRS. MAGGAMAN Ill

Mrs. Ennals Waggaman, wife OF
Captain Waggaman, of the u S. Army
Quartermaster's Corps, is quite i'll in
a hospital at Atlantic City. Mrs. Wag-
gaman's home is in Annapolis, but she
and her two children have been spend
ing the last several months in Wash
ington.
Captain Waggaman in now overseas
where he has been in France for the
past year or more.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
DANCE TO SERVICE MEN

Last nights dance to service men
a. the State Armory under the direc-
tion of the War Camp Community
Service. and the hostesses and chap
erons, was a great success There
were 200 sailors and marines present.
The music was good and the evening
was much enjoyed.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
4 RECORD FOR LUNCHEONs

The War Camp Community Service
has made a record for serving lunch
cons at the rooms in the State Armory
during the month of November just
ended. There were $3.50 lunche0ns
served in the State Arm0ry to men OF
the service during November.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
WHERE TO PAY WAR
FUND SUBSCRIPTION

All persons who have signed pledges
in the United War Work Campaign,
and who may desire to pay them in
whole or in part, may do so to the
treasurer of the fund, Postmaster T..
j. Linthicum, who will receive all pay
ments. and to whose order all checks
should be made out
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
1Oo,000 NAVY MEN
WILL BE DISCHARGED
Daniels Authorizes DismissaIs Az
Soon As Convenient. To Be
Taken As Units

Discharge Of 100000 men from the
navy as soon as convenient has been
authorized by Secretary Daniels.
He said the forces would be con-
sidered as units and no individuals
would be dismissed in Europe.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
100000 INFLUENZA DEATHS
IN u. S. SINCE SEPT. 18TH

Between 100000 and S5O,OOO deaths
from influenza and pneumonia have
occurred among the civilian popula-
ton of the United States since Sep
tember Is. according to estimates yes
terday of the Public Health Service.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
FIREMEN,S DANCE

On next Monday evening from to
II o'clock. midnight, the members Of
Independent Fire Company No 2. will
give dance in the City Assembly
Rooms. For particulars. see advertise
ment
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
WILL VISIT ANNAPOLIS

DR.. Joseph B. Mason, chiropodist
who visits Annapolis the second and
fourth Sundays in the month will be
here the coming Sunday to treat his
patients. DR.. Mason's Baltimore Office
is 81 West Lexington street and ap-
pointments may be made by phone or
mail. For particulars see advertise
ment in this paper.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
OYSTER MARKET DULL

There is little doing at the present
time in the oyster trade. AS usual the
oyster market has fallen OF after
Thanksgiving, but it is expected to
pick up again shortly.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
GOVERNOR APPOINTS
LOCAL COMMITTEE
Names Those To Arrange Plans To
Receive Homecoming Sol
dierS And Sailors

Governor Harrington has named the
committees for the various counties
who are to arrange plans for the re-
ception and homecoming of the SOL
diers and sailors who have served in
the world war just ended
For Annapolis and Anne Arundel
county on this committee the Cover
nor has named Judge Robert Moss,
Mr., Frank A. Munroe and Mrs. Theo-
dore W. Johnson.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
IMPORTANT NOTICE As TO
RRITAIN'S DAY

AS many of our citizens de-
sire to attend the Celebration
Of Britain's Day in Baltimore
City on Saturday. December Z,
the celebration of the day in
Annapolis has been postponed
until Thursday. December u.
Due notice of the meeting
will be given.
ROBERT MOSS.
Chairman.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06

THE NAMES OF SEVERAL
GOOD RELIABLE BOYS ABOUT
L OR IA YEARS OF AGE. WHO
ARE WILLING TO DELIVER
The EVENING CAPITAL IN
The EVENING AFTER SCHOOL.
The PAY Is GOOD AND THE
WORK is EXCELLENT TRAIN
iNG IN a BUSINESS WAY. AP-
FLf AT THE EVENING CAPI-
TAI OFFICE.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
FOR SALEI

LARGE, SUBSTANTIAL TWO
AND HALF STORY BRICK
DWELLING AND LOT AT NO.
lif PRINCE GEORGE STREET.
ADJOINING MISS TAYLOR'S
BOARDING HOUSE; 10 ROOMS,
BATH AND BASEMENT; GAS.
ELECTRIC, HOT AND COLD
WATER EQUIPMENT. APPLY
TO L. STERN, MARKET SPACE.
OR TO l. HoHBERGER, PRINCE
GEORGE STREET.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-06
THE CAPITAL

= The Best Advertising
n.diun y In Annapolis. 1T
paTs plr To Advertise" Try
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
Spare conviet's Hands.

Now we know exactly what Justice
Darling really thinks of violin players.
lays the London Globe. One of that
tuneful craft appealed against doing
hard labor for felony because il might
spoil his hands. The court RENTED the
1ard labor and gave reasons.
Justice Darling said that II was eX-
pedient for the convict 10 have a pro-
Gession in which he could do no harm.
II his hands became hard and he could
not play the violin. he might again
take 10 practices Of the kind of which
he had been convicted.
This is quite a new view to take Of
the uses Of the violin. Playing the
violin is useful, according to his lord
ship. because IL Keeps the performer
out OF mischief. We wonder If this
applies TO all music. The vocalist who
breaks out in song. we presume, less
likely 10 break into a dwelling house.
Tie who picks the banjo will be kept
from picking pockets. And the per-
former who blows the cornet with feel.
Ing will not blow a safe with nitro
glycerin.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
= CLIPPIN = OF r.
= CAPITAL COUPONS :

A man must be an optimist who
thinks the railroad lobbyists that
have just lost their passes Will ever
pay their own fares
The people who are kicking about
the slow progress of our 10000 air
plane feet. are sometimes the same
ones who a few years ago were hor-
rifed when it was proposed toNhave
Congress buy about 100 planes
There would be no objection if the
politicians who held up the war APP
preparations last summer were sent
to the trenches with only wooden
guns to fight the Germans with.
Contrib. writes in TO ask what has
become of the old timer that used to
write those three volume treatises on
How to Avoid over Production. "
Well, last heard from he had been
down to the grocery store 10 times
after a pound of sugar
II comes quite convenient to peo-
pie who are always two weeks late
in delivering goods, to have the
freight congestion to lay it to-
The people who fused so because
sugar has been scarce, are the grand
children of the sturdy old timers who
were perfectly happy if they could
get molasses on their bread
Those 100000 defective gas masks
may not serve in the trenches, but
they will do fairly well to use when
Mother gets to cooking turnip, cab
bages, and onions in the kitchen
Most of the bolsheviki are pacifsts,
and just look at them! They believe
in fighting their friends to benefit
their enemies
Just the same. Congress ought to
pass the Chamberlain universal train
ing bill.
1t is more economical to have a
cabaret in the home and employ only
family entertainers.
A man can be humble without adj
vertising the fact.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
Advocates Bridge over South River nj
RiVerView 10 Replace Present
Ferry.
Annapolis. Md
March /, 1915

Advocates Bridge Over South River ut
RiverView to Replace Present
Ferry.
Mr. Editor:-In the hope of influ-
encing favorably the deliberations on
the pending bill TO authorize an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for a bridge
over South River at Riverview TO re
place the present ferry, I am submit
ting TO you our personal needs in the
matter, in themselves trivial, perhaps,
but serving to indicate general condi-
tions, with a request for publication.
We located at Riverview four years
ago and started in the poultry bust
ness. the section in many respects be-
ing ideal near enough TO New York
ii command the high nearby prices
and yet with the advantage of Mary
lands milder weather apologies for
the present season.. AS to the per-
fectly apparent disadvantage of the
ferry system we considered ourselves
safe in assuming that it would GER
tainly be discarded shortly for a
bridge By the investment of a nomi-
nal sum, an expensive, Anticipated, I'M
safe method of crossing the river could
be discarded for a bridge maintainable
at less cost, doubly useful on ac-
count of its reliability and giving
constant instead of intermittent serv-
ice in return for the money and at
tention expended. In addition it
would serve to develop a section of
farm and river front property which,
though far from a railroad, is asking,
not for fine roads to make hauling
easier. in return for the high taxes
assessed. but merely for a thorough
fare that would make communication
with a market possible at all in any
sort of unfavorable conditions. Dur
ing the past winter the ferry has been
discontinued for months while the
expense went on. an utter waste Of
no benefit to anyone; and in previous
milder winters and even in summer
il has been necessary to ascertain in
advance whether il was running, for
the least thing would throw it out of
commission. One could not even be
sure OF making the return trip when
successful in going over, to say moth
ing Of the constant feeling of its not
being perfectly safe. Often the
springing up of a fresh west wind
would cause the ferryman to an
nOunce that he would only take you
across at your own risk.
Altogether it was only a question of
how long it would take political
body to adopt an adequate substitute
for the ferry advisable even in the
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
Soldiers, Little Joke.

The Paris police authorities have
decided in the future to arrest all SOL
dierS on leave who perpetrate the
hoax that they are carrying danger
Gus hand grenades or other high eX-
ploSiveS in the underground railways
or tram cars, thus soaring other pas
Sengers to get out.
1t has been a common practice for
soldiers weighted down with a steel
helmet. knapsack, blanket roll and
canteen to squeeze into crowded
car and then warn the other passen-
gers:
Don't tostle or crowd me or my gre
nadeS may blow up"
This usually caused many fellow
passengers TO leave the car ut the next
station. thus giving the soldiers plenty
of room and seats.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04

Local Fuel Administrator Explains
Fuel COnditions-That Fear is One
of the Greatest Evils of the Human
Race.
Mr.. Editor:-My attention, as Coun-
" Fuel Administrator, has been call
ed to a prominent publication that APP
peared in your valuable paper on the
9th ultimo, and wherein you state
that the local Fuel Administrator has
not worked out any plan to supply An
napolis homes with fuel during the
coal year beginning April 1st." This
statement is utterly false, and it looks
to me TO be like a piece of pro-Ger-
man propaganda, for the purpose of
developing a local pessimistic fear
At this time it is premature to publish
the future plans of the Fuel Admins
tration, and what is more-they may
be largely altered before the first Of
April.
1t is a scientific and an admitted
fact that fear" is one of the great
evils of the human race. 1t can be
the cause of disease, sickness and
death; and. as applied TO such things
as food and fuel, it is the cause of
a further evil and develops into a sys-
tenn of unnecessary and illegal hoard
ing. For it must be admitted that as
we have no surplus of either food or
fuel-the moment one person COM
mences to hoard another person has
to go short Thus, one of the duties
s,f no I,,,f let iG
to insist upon proportional distribu-
ton. and to prevent discrimination
and favoritism being practiced by the
retail dealers. And therefore the
Administrator duty is tow-fOld-to
help the dealer and to protect the
consumer
The National Retail Coal Dealers
Association may claim that IF there
had been no fuel administration there
would have been more ceal," and for
the simple reason that there would
have been more coal miners at work
whose average wages would have been
$4,000 or more a day, and whose pro-
duct would have advanced in price to
$4,000 or $4,000 a ton at retail Thus
II
ed profteering in coal in America, al
though poor war-torn France is pay
ing $4,000 per ton at the present
moment.
If this terrible and bloody war is to
be won by America and her Allies,
then food and coal are to be the most
important factors in winning it. For
food and coal energy are behind every
important factOr-behind transporta-
ton, behind munitions, and behind
the man behind the gun. Germany
fully realized these incontrovertable
facts when she seized the rich coal
mines of France and Belgium three
and a half years ago, and which is the
real cause of America having under
taken TO supply her Allies with one
hundred million extra tons of coal
coal during this year.
Is it not ten thousand times ten
thousand better for US all to suffer
for a few months and bear inconven-
fences than to lose the war, TO lose
democracy, TO lose our property, and
TO be made slaves to the greatest au-
tocratic power on the face of the
earth?
WALTER H. HART.
Fuel Administrator for A. A. Co.
Annapolis, Md,
March /, 1918.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
Letters to the Editor

name OF pure economy. l can under
stand the attitude of the present adj
ministration in not wishing to make
needless appropriations in the face of
war time expenses, but TO furnish and
improve the means for the farmers 10
reach markets is the most legitimate
way TO stimulate production without
adopting any revolutionary methods
on inflicting hardships on the consum-
ing public with guaranteed prices.
We, in our business, have reached
the point where We must expand or
quit AT present our Matching and
brOoding machinery is idle even
though an egg famine threatens. We
cannot finance another winter with
the present impossible hauling con-
ditions. Our difficulties are the diff
culties of others. There is a test to
apply to the bridge proposition, will
it help win the war" and the answer
is YES" in the most efficient way,
by increasing production and at no
expense that will not be returned to
the county many times over after
peace is attained in development, pro-
ductiveness, augmented tax returns
through increased valuations, in the
general progress of the county.
Respectfully yours,
CHARLES j. WILSON.
Riverview, A. A. Co, Nd,
March /, 1918.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04

This Correspondent Says If Vice
Turks i'm Our Borders Let the Probe
be Deep and Place the Blame Where
it Belongs.
Mr. Editor:-I have read with much
interest the article in Fridays issue
of The Capital from the Home Jour
nal. entitled THE Girl and the Man
in Uniform" and | am hoping it may
help some of your readers understand
why groups of women in every city
near cantOnments, who are interest
ed in the welfare of the girls and men
alike, have inaugurated dances and
other forms of amusement through
which a meeting and mingling of the
two under proper conditions and
chaperonage may be made possible.
The article states: 1T is perfectly
right that our girls should have the
opportunity to satisfy their desire to
see and meet the boys in uniform, but
not on the street or in the moving
picture place." etc. The boy in uni
form wants to meet the girl, too, and
he should"
less a person than the editor of the
Home Journal. and heartily endorsed
by the men in the soldiers and sail
ors recreation commissions, it becomes
the patriotic duty of the people living
near military camps to make this
possible.
1t is not necessary to say that the
Man in uniform is no novelty to An
napolis, nor to add that the Annapo-
lis girl has ample opportunity to see
and meet men of the service under ap-
proved conditions.
Therefore, it may be inferred that
in arranging and taking part in the
dances and other forms of entertain
ment provided for service men, in this
locality, the women and girls have
been actuated by patriotic motives,
and that they have assumed this duty
as one thing more that they might do
for their country, by keeping up the
morale and heartening the men for
the work which lies before them.
May I take this opportunity 10
thank the two gentlemen. the adopted
sons Of Annapolis, for coming 10 the
defence of our dear old town. when
her native-bOTn sons. two, by hasty
action, and one in haste for copy,
placed hire before the State and Ma
ton. through the columns Of a widely
circulated press. as a vice-ridden city,
and one needing Federal investigation.
These two gentlemen voiced the in
dignation and resentment which many
felt
IL. indeed vice turks within our
borders, let the investigation proceed,
and let the probe be deep, as we are
promised it will be, but let us have
the courage and the fairness to place
the blame where is belongs.
MRS. ROBERT MOSS.
Annapolis, Md,
March ,, 1918.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04

Maryland has very little on the
Bolsheyiki rule in Russia when the
fact that our Legislature is under the
iron control of an outside Lobby, un-
elected and unrepresentative, and that
no bills have any right of way unless
by permission of the selected Cars
who preside in the corridors and gal
leries. This is the history of Russia
Unauthorized anarchists assumed rule
and began the depreciation of legis-
Iative representation so that finally
into the saddle climbed total incom-
petence and radical bigotry. The re-
suit we see in both sections.-Hagers-
town Mail.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
Repartee of a Bishop.

A good story of Canon Adderley
concerns Wherefore. Bishop of Ok
ford, whose official designation was
samuel Oxon." made up of his bap-
tismal name, followed by the Latin
name for his see.
Wilberforce was one day addressing
a meeting-writeS Mr.. Adderley-and
1 suppose he coughed or cleared his
throat in the midst Of his speech.
TRY ThorIey's food for cattle" said
a voice.
Thank YOU" said the bishop. lit
may be good for asses. for IL does
not suit samuel Oxon."
on another occasion his audience
Missed. said Wllberforce. Remember.
gentlemen, that is not an excessively
human utterance."
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
PLAN YorR GARDEN NOW.

II there was any reason for work
ing a war garden last year, surely
there is a greater reason for doing
so this year The whole country was
aroused last year by the authorities
and urged to plant gardens TO help to
increase the food supply. In response
to this the people started in and
every available space-backyards,
sideyards and front lawns was used
for gardens so as to assist in prevent
ing food shortage. And in some Of
the large cities many gardens were
made upon roofs of houses.
Notwithstanding all these noble
efforts the end OF 1917 showed an
enormous shortage, the call comes to
us again this year. and the outlook
is that there will not only be another
shortage this year but it will prob
ably greatly exceed that of last year
We all know that the present world
war is mainly responsible for these
alarming and unhappy conditions and
we must do our bit TO help. 1t is diff
ficult for many of us to realize the
present conditions because we get
plenty TO eat and to wear and have
pretty good health and so we are apt
to pass others by. However, 1t is not
for ourselves alone that we are call
cd upon to assist. II is for those
a. Ia, hn oil
stricken lands, we must help.
The call of the National War Garden
Commission is to get ready early, be-
gin to plan now. get the necessary
seeds-which are scarce-and ar
range for fertilizer, so that when the
weather becomes favorable real gar
dening can commence.
More than evel will war gardens
help win the war this year. Every
ounce of food added to the scant world
supply is vitality needed. Each man
with his own garden will mean re-
leasing of many thousands of farm
laborers for agricultural or other war
work.
Vegetables taken out of your back
yard eliminates necessity of trans
porting them-and the transportation
problem is one of the greatest.
Thousands of freight cars will be for
war freight.
The war gardener should now be
diagraming the layout of his garden.
TO determine the necessary amounts
and variety of each vegetable to be
raised. 1T is surprising" the Com
mission says. how much food can be
raised on a tiny plot Some OF the re-
suits obtained last year were as
tonishing Men. women. boys and
girls. who had never titled a foot Of
ground. raised large supplies of
vegetables in their little gardens.
often enough to keep the home table
furnished with nice. fresh vegetables
all summer-with a surplus for can
ming and drying for winter use"
Let everybody get busy and help out
in this serious and important prob
lem. Last year when war gardens
were started our country had not en-
tered the war Since then. however.
we have and our duty has been in
creased manifold.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
@THE BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND

While the English Tommies at the
front have shown preference for strict
" modern music hall ballads when the
spirit moves them TO sing, the Scotch
soldiers cling TO the old ballads Of
their fathers. and one of their favor
ties is The Blue Bells of Scotland"
This charming song was written by a
woman. Annie McVicar Grants who
was born in Glasgow. 16S years ago,
She was the daughter of a British Off
Ger who fought in the American
Revolution. Annie and her mother
followed TO America, and lived in
Albany, n. Y. from her third to her
thirteenth year, Her parents then re-
turned TO Scotland. and Annie became
the bride of an army chaplain. She
had written many verses but none
were published until she was advanc-
ed in years. widow with eight chill
dren, when she collected her verses
and successfully published them by
subscription.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04

Please be brief. AS rule we
cannot allow space for over 300
words. More than this the edi-
tor reserves the right 10 blue
pencil With each cOmmunica-
ton your name and address must
be disclosed - not for publica-
ton unless you wish but TO
show good faith
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04

his privilege, is to meet the requests
of those called into authority, any
thing less than this is un-American,
and no one should desires to be placed
in that class.